Muscle Man

Muscle Man is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## **BIOGRAPHY**

Muscle Man is one of the groundskeepers of the Park. He is a green, strong, and obese humanoid, who is often seen with his best friend, Hi Five Ghost. He is 25 at the beginning of the series and 31 at the end. Muscle Man made his first debut as a cameo character in the Pilot. He made his first official appearance in "Just Set Up the Chairs". Muscle Man is voiced by Sam Marin.

Outside of The Park, he is also a member of The New Action Squad.

## **APPEARANCE**

Muscle Man is a green man with shoulder-length, greenish-brown hair. He is also fat and has large breasts. He wears a long-sleeved grayish-blue shirt, dark gray pants, and black shoes. In ""Under the Hood"," it is shown that he wears socks, but the pants cover them. In "Trucker Hall of Fame", when he was a kid, he still looked the same, but with freckles. As a teenager, he was tall, and had zits, and his hair was slicked back and in a ponytail, with the sides of it being shaved. It is unknown how he acquired his green complexion. He is 5'8" as shown in the book of the park workers and their jobs that appeared in "Exit 9B", although this may be a mistake, as he appears to be about 4'10", considering most of the other characters are taller than him.

In "Power Tower," it is revealed that he was in fact very muscular in his youth, but let himself go as years went by (Mordecai and Rigby admit they assumed the name "Muscle Man" was ironic).  However, while he is extremely out of shape, it is shown that he still possesses excellent bodybuilder posing technique, including the ability to pull off the deadly pose "The Shredder." In addition to this, Muscle Man also still maintains his superhuman strength.

## **PERSONALITY**

Muscle Man is a human that works in the park along with Mordecai and Rigby. He is also quite unhygienic, reeking of body odor as evidenced in "The Night Owl". As of the episode "Gut Model", he has worked for the park for 5 years. Benson considers him to be hard-working, and indeed, Muscle Man (along with Hi Five Ghost) has been revealed to do more work than Mordecai and Rigby, the fact is all four of them are slackers. In fact, in "Muscle Woman", they tend to slack off more than Mordecai and Rigby. In "My Mom", it's shown that he has a lot of friends, most in which love his constant "My Mom!" jokes, which everyone else at the park gets annoyed with.

He's best friends with Hi Five Ghost, who loves his jokes. Ignorant yet clever when it comes to pranks, he's always either insulting Mordecai or Rigby, or trying to prank them (ex. "My Mom", "See You There"). But he does care about his mom as shown in "My Mom" when he got very angry when Mordecai and Rigby made fun of his mom. In response, he brought his brother, John, to give Mordecai and Rigby a punishment for ridiculing their mother. Their punishment was them to say sorry to their mom, (which was Muscle Man's butt squished together to look like a woman's face) kiss the photo and eat it.

Despite being obese and lazy, there is a story behind Muscle Man's nickname (as revealed in "Peeps"). In the episode, he said that he is losing muscle mass from the stress Peeps put on him, so he may have muscle mass. In "Power Tower", it was revealed that as a child, Muscle Man was a bodybuilder, and won many competitions at the Power Tower, where he earned his nickname "Muscle Man". Eventually, he quit the bodybuilding competition after winning so many times. He also loves to mess around with Mordecai and Rigby.

## **TRIVIA**

* In the episode "Muscle Woman," his real name is revealed to be Mitch Sorrenstein.
* Muscle Man's "my mom" jokes are similar to "your mom" jokes, but Muscle Man words the jokes so they insult himself rather than others, which is the intention of his "my mom" jokes.
* Muscle Man is 25 years old since the show started, so he was born in 1984. His voice actor, Sam Marin also born in 1984.
* In the Pilot, Muscle Man's appearance looks different from the series. He has a dark curly hair instead of olive drab messy hair. He also looks short as Rigby and his skin is darker.
* Muscle Man's voice tone turned lower after "Caffeinated Concert Tickets." However, in "Rigby's Body," he speaks with a slight southern accent.
* Muscle Man's catchphrase for getting hurt or when something bad happens is "Oh no, bro", which is seen in "Death Punchies", "Rage Against the TV", "Slam Dunk", and "Exit 9B", as well as "Guy's Night", "Caveman", and other episodes.
* Whenever seen in a cart, Muscle Man is almost always doing donuts.
* In "Over the Top", Muscle Man lasted the longest in the arm wrestling match with Skips.
* Muscle Man often goes berserk when he is injured/hurt, as seen in "See You There", "Over the Top", "Trucker Hall of Fame", "Karaoke Video", "Crash Pit", and "Death Punchies." While in distress, he often squeals like a pig.
* Even though Muscle Man was fired in "Don," he still works at the park in the next episode.
	+ Additionally, Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost were fired in "Under the Hood" because Mordecai and Rigby thought that he did the graffiti; of course, the former group had been rehired due to the true culprit being caught.