Nigel (Rio)

Cocks Cockatoo, also known as Nigel and Bob the Bird, is a character from the Rio series.
==Charactah Account==
Nigel is a sadistic sulphur-crested cockatoo who used to be a TV star, but was replaced by a Parakeet, causing him to have a strong hatred for "pretty birds."
Nigel exhibited highly anti-social behavior. He is very violent, constantly seen using physical force to injure or terrorize other characters. For instance, he threatened to give Mauro and his subordinates "flying lessons" in order to coerce the marmosets into helping him find Blu and Jewel. After the battle in the samba club, Nigel arrived at the scene and terrorized Tiny into telling him where the blue macaws went, by threatening to "pop" or "crack" her head. He has also pinned various characters, including Blu and Jewel. At the end of the first film, he pinned down Blu. Jewel told him to let him go but instead, Nigel shoved Jewel over and a cage landed on her wing. Nigel said, "Oh, pity. Now we have two useless flightless birds." He laughed.
Nigel also liked to capture birds for smugglers, once he strangled Jewel and Marcel told him to bring her back alive. He also tried to capture Blu and Jewel after their escape, he succeeded the first time but then Blu sent him out to the plane's propellers which probably explains why he wants so much revenge on Blu. 
==Appearance==
===Literature===
*Rio: Snakes Alive!
===Movies===
*Rio
*Rio 2
===Video Games===
*Angry Birds Rio
*Rio Multiplayer Party Game!
*Rio Video Game
*Rio: Match 3 Party
==Trivia==
*Nigel is the overall main antagonist of the Rio franchise, on account of being Blu's archenemy. In Rio 2, even though Big Boss was the bigger threat (since he planned to destroy the entire rainforest), Nigel served as The Heavy because his quest for revenge on Blu drove the plot.
*When Nigel sees Blu in Rio 2, he makes the same reaction that Scrat did in Ice Age: The Meltdown when a piranha took his acorn.
*Nigel is often thought to be the secondary antagonist of Rio, with Marcel being the main antagonist. This is not true since one could argue that, while Marcel kickstarted the plot by being the reason why the film takes place and he’s the owner and "master" of he’s pet bird also the two dim-witted smugglers. Besides, Nigel has more screen time and influences by having far more scenes than any other villain and make monkeys work for him also he mostly did the most of the film’s action.
*His career ended probably somewhere between 1982 and 1983.
*His full name is Cocks "Nigel" Cockatoo. It should be noted that "Cock" means a rooster, or male chicken, and has nothing to do with a cockatoo.
**However, Cock is the first four letters of cockatoo, which might have got his name.
*Although people think Sulfur-crested Cockatoo's diet consists almost entirely of insects or plants, Nigel was seen eating a chicken leg in the film, showing that birds are also omnivores (but in real life, a cockatoo would get sick for eating an entire chicken leg, so it should be given in moderation). It is mistakenly said by Tipa to be cannibalism; (though Tipa himself is not very intelligent), but it isn't because cannibalism is defined as eating flesh from the same species (which was a chicken and not a cockatoo). Despite this, it still rather unusual for a cockatoo to be fed chicken from most owners (but on the occasion, they need a little protein).
*When Nigel was a television star, he starred in TV shows called Fly Hard, All My Flock, and As the Cage Turns, and participated in the Carnival parade. He was also once popular all across South America.
*The extended version of the song "Pretty Bird" mentions that when Nigel was pushed out of fame, he was replaced by a Parakeet from Paraguay called Petricious. This is the reason he was drawn to criminal activities. However, in both the long version and the shortened version, it also mentions that "they got a pretty parakeet to fill [his] shoes."
*He is the only bird to be plucked of nearly all his feathers.
**However, in the second film, he grows back most of his wing feathers, but is unable to fly.
*Like Blu, Nigel was a pet and unable to fly. However, although he was a pet like Blu, he was trained to do a certain task (smuggling birds), unlike Blu. Blu just does his daily routine (before he moved to Rio) and helps Linda with other tasks at their library. Additionally differently than Blu, Nigel was able to fly before his accident while Blu never learned to fly before the first film.
*Surprisingly enough, he is somehow damaged by the Mighty Eagle's earthquake in Angry Birds Rio, which is unusual being that he is never even close to the ground in levels when you fight him.
*In the first film he was more evil and threatening while in the second film he's more comical and also sympathetic like when he completely forgot about having his revenge on Blue when he got the opportunity to be a star again at the festival which the heroes were preparing for Carnival.
*Nigel was the only character who pretended to be sick just to fool his enemies.
*He likes to torture or terrorize exotic birds (mainly Macaws and Parakeets).
*He is the only villain to be a bird.
*For Rio, in the McDonalds Happy Meals toy, there was a toy of him with keys in one of his wings.
*In Rio 2, Nigel wears a bird-sized vest to hide a large patch of missing feathers on his chest.
*When Nigel grabs a bird, he tends to grasp his talons around its neck, as he did when he captured Jewel and tried to kill Blu on the smugglers' plane in Rio.
*According to Blue Sky Studio's Q&A on Twitter, Nigel was originally going to be in a circus in Rio 2, and his minions included a jaguar and an ostrich, along with Gabi and Charlie.
*According to Carlos Saldanha in an interview, Nigel is his favorite character.
*In the early design stages of Rio, Nigel had a metal claw on his left talon.
*Nigel has four different names in the international versions of the films in the Rio franchise. The names are "Pepillo" (Latin America), "Hector" (France), "Miguel" (Italy) and "Anatole" (Canadian French).
**Miguel Ferrer was also the first name of the voice in Big Boss.
*Nigel mocked Blu for being a "useless flightless bird". And near the end of Rio, he calls Jewel and Blu "Two useless flightless birds". Ironically, at the end of the first film, he became a "useless flightless bird" himself.
**Also, when Blu and Jewel were introduced to a group of toucan kids, one of them rips out Blu's feathers. This foreshadows Nigel's fate at the end of the first film.
==Gallery==
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==External Links==
*Nigel at Rio Wiki
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Category:Males
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