Red

## Red J. Bird

* Classic
* Toons
* Movie

**Red J. Bird** is the Main Character From Angry Birds series Created by Rovio Enternaiament. He is a desert cardinal where in the classic series, he currently lives on Piggy Island with some of his closest friends and takes care of the eggs. In the film series, he currently is a native to Bird Island, born as an orphan, was later accepted by the rest of the Birds and is currently praised as a hero. In the Summer Madness series, he seems to have parents.

## Apperance

*Main Article:Red/History and Apperances*

Red is a cardinal with red feathers that cover most of his body, hence his name. In most of his game appearances, Red had a spherical body without showing any limbs at all, however, he has little stubby wings as seen in Egg's Day Out. He has a tuft of two red feathers on his head, and on his tail, there are three short black feathers with square ends. The feathers on his belly are peach-colored, and he has three small crimson spots ordered in a horizontal line across his face. In the Wreck the Halls short in late 2011, his design was slightly modified to make him more expressive. This design was not used very often until *Angry Birds Toons* in 2013, and has become the most common design since then.

In his appearances in the animated trailers by Kombo, his body is oval in shape, with three feathers on his head instead of two, visible feather texture on his sides, and three rounded black feathers similar to Stella's.

After the release of *The Angry Birds Movie*, he received an anthropomorphic, pill-shaped body with his head directly connected to his torso without a neck. His crest and tail feathers are also much longer and detailed than before. In addition, his irises were tinted brown. Future releases would occasionally switch between Red's new body and his old one.

In *Angry Birds Dream Blast*, Red was re-designed again to resemble a hatchling. In this game, he is much shorter, with a round body and small limbs. *Angry Birds Journey* uses a similar design for its trailers and promotional artwork, although it was somehow more simplified. In the levels of said game, he uses his design from *Angry Birds Toons*, though modified to have him with a small beak, large eyes, and brown irises.

## Personality

Red is a short-tempered person. The angriest of all the birds, he is not above using violence when someone annoys him. He is someone who takes his duties very seriously, not willing at all to leave them aside. However, he also likes to discover new things when he is in a day off.

*"Hey, Red! How are 'ya?""Oh! I'm horrible!"*
— Early Bird and Red, *The Angry Birds Movie*
During the events of the films, Red was an antisocial person who was rejected by the other birds. With an unstable anger (despite him trying to state otherwise), he had always hated being disrespected and made fun of, as he took jokes very seriously. This would result in him getting enraged and/or sad. As he grew up, he also became someone who could get frustrated by anything, acting rude in front of other people not matter how friendly they were towards him. However, after he stopped Leonard from cooking the eggs from Bird Island, Red became much more outgoing and was approved by the rest of the birds, which allowed him to control his anger issues much more than before. Nevertheless, even after these incidents, it was shown that Red could still get angry at anything, sometimes cursing himself for his actions, and showing an open hatred for ridiculous holidays. He himself has admitted that he still suffered from anger issues from time to time. However, he is not ungrateful and appreciates the effort others make for him.

Since he moved to Piggy Island, Red has been very fond of the three eggs he sometime ago found there. As he believes that they will be very important for his species' survival, he takes good care of them and is not willing to leave them alone; once, he was shown spending entire seasons only looking after them. Whenever he is left alone with them, he softly strokes them and tells them bedtime stories, being one of the rare moments where he shows a soft side. Similarly, he spends hours in the morning cleaning and polishing his properties, specially the slingshot, and constantly checks that its band is perfectly elastic. However, he can easily lose his temper whenever something, such as an insect or a leaf, touches either the eggs or the slingshot. He also returns to his usual serious self when others come in.

Ever since the first time he met them, Red has had a mutual dislike for the pigs, being skeptical about them during their stay on Bird Island. After he and his friends moved to Piggy Island, his hatred for them was just aggravated. As a result of all the times they tried to steal the eggs, Red has become even more determined to keep them safe, which has bordered him on schizophrenia when he is not near them; a notable example of this was shown when, while he was having a forced vacation, Red started to have hallucinations where he saw all surrounding objects as eggs. A similar case was when he saw everything round as pigs, though this was due to his rage after he defeated a group of them. This also made him very paranoid, interpreting small things as a declaration of war, such as imagining the sound of the wind as a battle cry of the pigs. Despite his friends' best attempts of making him forget about them for a while, he never managed to take them out of his mind. He even is enraged by the smallest sight of green due to this.

*"Huh? Me? Lonely? **Never.**"*
— Red, *Angry Birds Comics* (2016) #1
While serious and hostile, Red likes being with other people, and appreciates their company. He is afraid of losing his friends and being ignored by others, just like in his childhood and adolescence, though he keeps this fact a secret to everyone. It has been confirmed that Red never managed to get rid of this trauma; a notable example of this was when Chuck asked him if he feared something. While Red said that he was not scared of anything, he had some flashbacks of him being left alone by others. Another example was when his friends were preparing him a surprise party for his birthday. Unaware of this, Red thought that his friends had died during an incident, or that they had abandoned him. However, when he realized that they were completely fine, he was so happy to see them that he shedded a tear. Despite him sometimes treating his friends badly, Red respects and trusts them, and is not above leaving aside his duties to visit them, such as when he wanted to go to Rio de Janeiro to visit Blu and Jewel.

## Powers and Abilities

Despite not having undergone any notable training, Red is a very skilled and powerful fighter, having been able to break though Pig City on his own many times with no wounds or scratches. His strength is one of his most notable abilities; though most of the time he cannot break stone or wooden blocks, Red is strong enough to pick up and launch pigs with ease, and has even been capable of breaking through many different walls and a metal wall within a few seconds with no additional equipment. In addition, his speed has let him run though entire mountains and onto water with no problem at all.

Red has demonstrated to have a great durability and resistance against attacks. He has been able to survive massive explosions and falls from high heights, and even withstood atmospheric entry once.

Strength and speed aside, in the movies, Red is able to hide all his limbs to turn himself into a ball akin to his classic design, though this ability has only been used once.

## Realitionships

### Chuck

Red's best friend is Chuck. The two first met when they assisted Matilda's anger management classes. While Red was initially annoyed by the yellow bird's quick-paced personality, which often made him feel uncomfortable, they quickly became friends. Though Red can still be annoyed by Chuck's arrogant personality, he acts as a parental figure towards him and respects and trusts him. In addition, when Chuck was seemingly crushed by the slingshot, Red regretted his friend's "loss", only to immediately afterwards find out that he was indeed alive and perfectly fine, confusing him.

### Bomb

Other of Red's friends is Bomb. The two first met when they were forced to assist Matilda's anger management classes. While they did not get along very well at first, they quickly became friends as they investigated about Leonard and the pigs' hostage on Bird Island. Red acts as a parental figure towards Bomb and respects and trusts him, though he can be annoyed by his stupidity.

### The Blues

Red is good friends with Jay, Jake and Jim. Before the Blues were born, Red saved the egg containing them from the claws of Leonard and his minions. Despite the brothers' irresponsibility and disobedience, Red still tolerates them and acts as a parental figure towards them. Also, whenever the triplets save the eggs from the pigs, Red likes spending a while playing with them as a reward.

## Allies

* The Blues
* Jay
* Jake
* Jim
* Chuck (best friend)
* Bomb (best friend)
* Hal
* Terence (Brother)
* Bubbles
* Stella (Love Interest:
* Silver
* Melody
* Ice Cube
* Ruby
* Poppy
* Luca
* Willow (love interest:galaxy of heroes)
* Dahlia

## Neutral

* Leonard (twin rivals)
* Garry
* Countney
* Ella
* Pinky

## Enemies

* Minion Pigs
* King Pig (Twin Rivals)
* Corporal Pig
* Foreman Pig
* Professor Pig
* Chef Pig
* Chronicler Pig

## Trivia

* An officially licensed t-shirt entitled “**Nerdy Birdy**” showed Red with glasses and a bow tie. The image was so popular that a plush version was created. It should be noted that the Nerdy Birdy is not a new character, just Red wearing a bow tie and eyeglasses.
* Two versions of Red wearing aviation-related headgear were created for the Angry Birds Asian Challenge completion.
* Red and Silver are the only birds to be named after a color.
	+ He is also the only male bird named after a color.
* Red in the games is one of the more younger characters in the franchise, as in Toons he is almost the same height at them.
* As of 2016, Red is the official United Nations (UN) Ambassador of Climate Change.
* Red is the 1st bird known to play an instrument. He is seen bouncing on a drum in the video, "Thank You: Angry Birds Year of the Dragon Lantern!". The other birds known to play an instrument are The Blues, Hal, Willow, Poppy, Dahlia, Luca, Bomb, and Matilda, in that order.
* Red has been featured in 2 ads for one of Rovio's games called "Small Town Murders", where one his body frame is seen through a brick wall with feathers in the air and the other is a chalk sketch of his body with feathers and yellow cartridges scattered on the ground.
* Red is the only character to have appeared in every single game, except in Angry Birds Stella, but he does makes a cameo as a game console.
* Red was the only member of his flock to not have any powers, however Red's Mighty Feathers was the first episode/game where Red has a permanent power, which would later be followed up in Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds Journey.
* Red is **indirectly** similar to some video game and TV show characters:
	+ Donald Duck since they are both birds with short tempers, and Red's relationship with the Blues is similar to Donald's relationship to his nephews.
	+ Mario from the Super Mario franchise since they are the main protagonists for their respective series’, they have the color red and they're males.
	+ Knuckles from the *Sonic* franchise since they are aggressive members of their teams, overprotective, have a few bones to pick with their respective speedsters, and both are colored red.
* The *Angry Birds Zero Gravity* episode "Stamp Collector" revealed that Red is a philatelist.
* On cards, Red's *girlfriend* (From Angry Birds Seasons) is named Girl Bird.
* The King Bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius) looks like Red a bit.
* Red's birdday (his birthday) is on August, as seen in the episode "All The Way To The Top" from *Angry Birds MakerSpace*.
* Red's name was originally going to be **George**.
* On Bird Coins, Red's face is on them.
* There is an evidence that Red is actually considered Bisexual. Official TikTok @angrybirds has actually made a video playing Smash or Pass of both male and female game characters.
* Red will usually be the first character to obtain a hat fron the Tower of Fortune in Angry Birds 2, since the player starts off with him in the game.

## Quotes

*"Keep calm and help me find the bad pig. Otherwise I might get angry!"*
— Red, *Angry Birds Code*
*"Help me! Let's smash some piggies. They've taken my Radox 12hr Scent Touch Body Wash!"*
— Red, *Angry Birds Radox*
*"Pluck my life."*
— Red, *The Angry Birds Movie*
*"I need some angry flocking birds!"*
— Red, *The Angry Birds Movie*
*"All right, guys, do not worry. We got this. Red here has got your back. And your front and your sides"*
— Red, *The Angry Birds Movie 2*