Rigby

Rigby is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## **BIOGRAPHY**

Rigby is best friends with Mordecai since they were babies. He also have a younger brother, Don but they always mistaken Don as the older brother including Mordecai. This caused Rigby to be envious with his taller younger brother. Not only that, he is neglected by his parents especially by his father who always ignored Rigby or blamed him for anything bad happened.

As he was in high school, he is constantly making trouble by making a rucass in school and with the principal. His notable action is playing a saxophone during a state volleyball competition which distracted his own school team into losing the finals. This enraged his own team and especially the coach, Mr Ross who plotted his revenge against Rigby. Rigby also failing in his academic and instead playing around in high school which cause disappointment in his parents. He and Mordecai are constantly bullied by Jablonski, a volleyball player during high school times.

As high school comes to an end for Mordecai and Rigby, both of them have to complete a science project in order to pass their science subject. Mr Ross, who is also the science teacher, offered the both plutonium to build a time machine which is secretly used to plot revenge against Rigby. Later, he founded out that he is rejected from College U due to his low academic score and many bad records. This devastated Rigby as he was leaving Mordecai forever when Mordecai goes to College U. This caused Rigby to go to Mordecai's mailbox to edit his admission to College U into rejection so he can keep his friendship. Soon, Mordecai and Rigby created the time machine given by Mr Ross but it exploded, destroying the science lab and creating a Timenado which causes a grim future. Mordecai and Rigby is expelled from high school and Mr Ross is arrested for hoarding plutonium.

Outside of The Park, he is also a member of The New Action Squad. But he still has a lot to learn about maturity.

## **APPEARANCE**

Rigby is a short, anthropomorphic raccoon with short, spiky hair. He has dark brown circles around his eyes which is apparently a facial mask, like a normal raccoon would usually have. His body and hair are brown with small, darker brown lines to show the thickness of the fur. The underside of his snout, chest, and stomach, are grey. He also has a long tail with six dark brown stripes on it. He also has three pointed toes on both of his feet. He was 23 when the series began and 29 when it ended.

He is 3'5", making him 2'5" shorter than Mordecai and around 35 pounds. Rigby once played "Punchies" with Skips and lost (like he always does when playing Punchies), which resulted in a damaged butt cheek that required surgery. The result was that it looked like Rigby only had one butt cheek, instead of two. And as a result, his friends call him "The One Cheek Wonder".

During the time montage and the Park's 25 year reunion, Rigby was shown with a thick, brown mustache and thick black eyebrows, wrinkles near his eyes, and wearing an aqua green jacket over a white shirt.

In the episode "Don", it was shown that when Rigby was 6 years old he had a single front tooth that stuck out of his mouth. When Rigby was 12, he had dark brown hair and tiny hairs on his upper lip, as seen in a flashback in "Lunch Break". In High School, Rigby had bleached-blonde hair that he wore under a Fist Pump trucker style hat, with a green jacket and black t-shirt, as seen in "A Skips in Time and "Regular Show: The Movie". In "Rigby in the Sky With Burrito", high school Rigby was seen with his blonde hair under a black and white cap, and wore a teal t-shirt with a white-beaded necklace.

## **PERSONALITY**

Rigby can be best described as a "wild adult", even though he is past his teenage years. He becomes frustrated, frightened, confused or sad very easily, making his behavior very predictable. Rigby is also very arrogant, impulsive, impatient and immature at times, giving him the personality of a child. Thus, he can be considered the opposite of Mordecai, who demonstrates far more responsibility and maturity than him (in most conditions). He even changed his name to *Trash Boat* one time because he thought it would sound cool and edgy.

However, Rigby cares about his friends, as he tried to help Pops with his fear of giving speeches, saved Muscle Man from drowning, saved everyone from a pack of evil hot dogs, and got angry at Pops when he was taking wrestling too far and hurting Mordecai. He also felt bad for Benson after he said he was going to lose his job.

Rigby is afraid of horror movies as seen in "Ello Gov'nor" but is fine in "Grave Sights". Due to his somewhat immature nature, Rigby is prone to overly dramatic reactions to the simplest of events. Often, these reactions are characterized by his "Shark Face" expression, in which he raises both arms above his head, and turns his nose upwards, causing his eyes to appear to move to either side of his head, somewhat resembling a shark; and his signature "*STOP TALKING!!!*" or "*SHUT UP!!!*" whenever somebody tries to correct or lecture him. Between him and Mordecai, he is the most irresponsible, and he often tries to skip work and disobey Benson's orders. Rigby never finished high school, as revealed in "More Smarter", though he resorted to working hard at earning his diploma in "The Eileen Plan".

Rigby became somewhat more responsible and thoughtful to his friends as the series progressed, tending to complain less about work and sometimes even accomplishing difficult tasks, such as taking on Skips' chores in "Fists of Justice" and cleaning up the park ballroom for Margaret's party in "TGI Tuesday." However, he still often caused chaos by taking shortcuts or engaging in irresponsible behavior, such as using a machine to pump up in "One Pull Up" instead of trusting Eileen's training to get the job done. These efforts usually resulted in bigger problems than the ones Rigby was trying to avoid in the first place, along with the occasional near-destruction of the entire park.

## **TRIVIA**

* As shown in "Death Punchies", people used to call him "The One Cheek Wonder" due to seriously damaging one of his butt cheeks during a game of "Punchies" against Skips.
* Despite being a raccoon he looks more like a South American coati.
* Rigby is so far the only main character to die more than once in the series.
	+ In Over the Top, Skips accidentally killed Rigby by slamming him through a table.
	+ In It's Time, Mordecai accidentally killed Rigby after shoving him off of a microwave and into a portal.
	+ In Terror Tales of the Park II, Rigby was killed after the tow truck crashed.
	+ In Terror Tales of the Park (In the House), Rigby was drowned by the giant egg. However, this was just a story told by Rigby.
* In "Don", it's revealed that he and Mordecai have known each other since they were children, and in "This Is My Jam", it is revealed they went to Junior High together and high school.
* In "Ello Gov'nor", Rigby isn't able to watch horror movies due to them causing him nightmares. At one point, he even had to be walked to the bathroom for a week, according to Mordecai. He also had to stop eating pancakes for a while because he was scared of the movie *Death for Breakfast.* ("Death Bear")
* Like most raccoons, he runs on all four limbs. However, he usually walks upright like everyone else on the show.
* Throughout the series, Rigby is shown to be disturbingly weak, judging from the episodes where Mordecai punches or hurts Rigby leading to him hitting the ground or moaning in pain, although it could be that Mordecai is actually very strong. However, Rigby is strong enough to carry Muscle Man in "Muscle Mentor". He seems to have gotten a little stronger in fights ever since "Muscle Mentor" and  "The Best VHS In The World", when he was able to hit Mordecai and he felt it. Surprisingly, it isn't known how strong Hi Five Ghost is, so Rigby might not be the weakest in the series.