Nigel (Rio)

## Villain Description

### Goals

Find worthy birds and assist Marcel by selling them and abusing them on the way (partially succeeded, yet it ultimately backfired)
Get his revenge on Blu and Jewel for destroying his flying ability and kill them and their family and friends(failed)

### Powers

Flight
Strength

### Skills

Agression
Deception
Intelligence

### Type of Villain

Sadistic Enforcer

Nigel is the main antagonist of the *Rio* franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the film *Rio,* and its video games and one of the two main antagonists (alongside Big Boss) of Rio 2.

He is a mischievous and sadistic sulphur-crested cockatoo who becomes Blue's arch-nemesis. He formerly worked for Marcel, the leader of the local smugglers.

He is voiced by Jemaine Clement.

## History

### Past

He was once a role modle for all birds and a star. However, a pretty parakeet "took his shoes" and replaced him in the show, much to his dissapointment. Nigel since that day became a ruthless bird who personally serves Marcel, the leader of the smugglers. He became second in command of the crew, and vowed to abuse the birds before they were taken away to another country.

### *Rio*

He pretended to be a sick bird at Tulio's aviary, just so he could gather information about the other birds and help Marcel with kidnapping them and becoming rich. He eventually goes to the owner of the aviary, and pretends to suffer from his disease, but as the owner comes closer to him, he knocks him out and steals the keys. Fernando manages to invade and capture both Blue and Jewel. Nigel encounters the two bird protagonists at the smuggler's secret den. They attempt to escape Marcel, but Nigel catches them and puts them into cages. He vows to make Jewel ugly, and sings to the other birds a sadistic lullaby. He then finds out that Blue and Jewel are escaping, and he tries to catch them with Armando and Tipa's help, but he fails to do so. Marcel scolds at Armando and Tipa, and he puts Nigel as his second in command as he now blames the latter for loosing two rare looking birds. Nigel is then sent by Marcel to recapture them. Marcel in the meanwhile goes to the carnival together with his enforcers, as they disguise themselves and secretly hold a cage for the two lost birds. Nigel then forces the king of thieves Mauro to help him find Blue and Jewel, as he also threatened to give him "flying lessons" if he fails by the end of the day.

Mauro does fail, and Nigel goes to do the dirty work by himself. He eventually captures Blue and Jewel, and after he locked them in the cage, Marcel congragulated him.

Nigel then accompanies Marcel, who runs with the cage to the airport, and loads all the cages onto a plane. He is now tasked with guarding the birds and making sure that they won't escape. Blue and Jewel free the other birds, and Marcel opens the door for Nigel and orders him to stop the maccaws from escaping. Nigel then catches Blue and chokes him, but Blue strangles his leg with the fire extinguisher, thus causing Nigel to move out of the plane, and crash into the propelor. Nigel is then hospitalized.

### *Rio 2*

Two months after the events of the first film, Nigel lost his ability to fly after being heavily injured in the airplane crash and now wears an Elizabethian jilet to cover his bald zone on the body. He developed a passion and admiration for Shakespeare and now works as an indovino bird in a Carneval where he met and became friend of a female poisonous frog named Gabi, that is secretly in love with him, and a mute dancing ant eater named Charlie.

When he sees Blu and his family flying right before him, he remembers when Blu destroyed his flying ability by sending him to the propeller of a plane, he decides to take revenge and escapes from the Carnival beating up his abusive new master and freeing Gabi and Charlie taking them as his new henchmen and start to chase Blu and his family towards Amazon.

Nigel, Gabi and Charlie try to kill Blu and the others while they sleep but due to Charlie's stupidity they wake up the humans that kicks them out of the ship even though they survive.

After arriving to the Amazon, Nigel apparently finds Blu and uses Charlie's tongue as a catapult but he soon discovers that it was just another blue Macao and he finds himself in an audition for the Carnival Show made by Nico, Pedro and Rafael and he disguises himself as "Bob the Bird" performing I Will Survive and winning the audition becoming the star of the show. However, Nigel hasn't forgot about his revenge and plans to use this as a diversion to kill Blu with a dart covered with Gabi's poison.

Unluckily his performance gets cancelled when the smugglers arrives, so Nigel decides to try to kill Blu again. He almost dies during an explosion while reuniting with Blu.

While he and Blu starts fighting, Gabi shots the dart trying to kill Blu but it hits Nigel instead. Convicted that he's dying, Nigel performs Shakespeare and apparently dies with Gabi apparently killing herself since she can't live without him revealing her love for him.

However, Bia reveals that Gabi isn't poisonous and that she's just a tree frog. Still alive, Gabi is delighted that she can be with Nigel without killing him and starts kissing him.

Nigel pulls himself up and tries to attack Blu, Jewel and their kids until he falls. He turns his head and discovers that Gabi is dragging him away with her to shower him with love as she promises to never let him go. Nigel tries to escape her grasp without any success and asks Charlie to help him but he just sarcastically wishes them good luck as a couple with gestures. Nigel unsuccessfully tries to make Gabi understand that this is unnatural (a frog with a bird) but she continues to drag him in the jungle with her romantically and marries him off-screen against his will.

Nigel and Gabi are later found by Linda and Tulio that are affascinated by their apparent romance and puts them in a cage off-screen. Then they decide to take them to Rio to continue the observation.

Nigel appears to be mad about this but Gabi climbs in his face and she's excited to have an honeymoon at Rio. Nigel makes a sound of dismay and Gabi hugs him. Angry that he will have to stand her clingy and talkative nature for a long time and that he's stuck in a strange romance thanks to Bia, Nigel is then taken back to Rio.

It's currently unknown what happened to him after this but he could have escaped to have his revenge on Blu and Jewel