Matilda

* Classic
* Toons
* Movie

### Relative(s)

Terence(husband; films)Tony (cousin-in-law)Zoe (daughter; films)Unnamed three daughters (films)Hilda (cousin, authenticity unknown)

### Nickname(s)

* Malinda[1]
* Melinda[1]
* Michaela[1]
* White Bird

## Physical description

### Feathers

* White, pink, black
* White, yellow, black (formerly)

### Eyes

* Green (films)
* Black
* Teal (*Slingshot Stories*)

## Alignment and character traits

### Likes

* Peace
* Playing
* Nature[1]
* Animals[1]
* Taking care of the eggs
* Her family
* Biology[3]
* Gardening[3][4]
* Playing the saxophone[5]
* Cooking[6]
* Gardening[6]
* Opera[7]
* Going on vacation[8]
* Pig hockey[9]

### Dislikes

* Fighting[6]
* Violence
* Destruction
* Damaging or defiling nature[3]
* Being disrespected
* Her garden being destroyed
* The eggs being stolen
* People disliking her food[10][11]
* Being mean to creatures or vegetables[6]

## Powers and abilities

### Skills

* Laying explosive eggs
* Healing skills
* Magic skills
* Saxophone skills[5]

*"♫Mashed vegetables, feel it in your beak.♪""*
— Matilda, *Angry Birds Comics* (2016) #6
**Matilda** is a character that appears in the *Angry Birds* series. She is a chicken who can lay explosive eggs.

Originally, Matilda lived on Bird Island, where she gave "anger management classes", a series of classes made to pacify birds with an unstable anger. Among those birds were Red, Chuck, Bomb, and Terence, the latter of whom eventually married Matilda and now has four children with her. Currently, Matilda lives on Piggy Island, taking care of the eggs she and her friends found there.

## Apperance

*Main article: Matilda/History and appearances*

Originally, Matilda is an egg-shaped bird who was covered in white feathers. She has a large, oval beak, two small eyes, yellow spots on her cheeks, and three short, black feathers on her head and on her tail. This design was common until 2013, and it has become rare since then.

First seen in the *Angry Birds Coca-Cola* short, Matilda received a different design. While she keeps the white, egg-shaped body and the large beak from her previous design, her eyes are larger and completely round, and have small eyelashes on them. Her crest and tail feathers were modified as well, being black feathers with pink, round ends. In addition, she now has two feathers on her tail instead of three. The yellow spots on her cheeks were replaced with pink spots, which were implied to be make-up.

In *The Angry Birds Movie*, Matilda was redesigned once again to be given an anthropomorphic body. Now, her torso is connected to her cone-shaped head without a neck. She now has four larger, more detailed feathers on her crest, and three ones on her tail. In addition, her tail also has three long, curled hair-like feathers. Other minor changes include her eyes being colored green instead of black, and her beak being smaller and with a different shape.

## Personality

Originally, Matilda is an egg-shaped bird who was covered in white feathers. She has a large, oval beak, two small eyes, yellow spots on her cheeks, and three short, black feathers on her head and on her tail. This design was common until 2013, and it has become rare since then.

First seen in the *Angry Birds Coca-Cola* short, Matilda received a different design. While she keeps the white, egg-shaped body and the large beak from her previous design, her eyes are larger and completely round, and have small eyelashes on them. Her crest and tail feathers were modified as well, being black feathers with pink, round ends. In addition, she now has two feathers on her tail instead of three. The yellow spots on her cheeks were replaced with pink spots, which were implied to be make-up.

In *The Angry Birds Movie*, Matilda was redesigned once again to be given an anthropomorphic body. Now, her torso is connected to her cone-shaped head without a neck. She now has four larger, more detailed feathers on her crest, and three ones on her tail. In addition, her tail also has three long, curled hair-like feathers. Other minor changes include her eyes being colored green instead of black, and her beak being smaller and with a different shape.

## Powers and abilities

Perhaps Matilda's signature ability is her being able to lay explosive eggs, which she can use to deal significant damage to structures and knock down enemies. The cause of this remains unknown. She is also known for her knowledge of magic and healing skills, which she can use to cure her allies and curse her enemies. Matilda can also play the saxophone quite well. However, in the movie, she shoots violet fireballs instead of explosive eggs.

**Strength:** The eggs Matilda deploys deal great damage to glass and wood and medium damage to stone. Matilda herself, when corpsed after launching the egg, can cause additional damage to structures.

**Weakness:** The eggs only deal good damage if it hits the base of a building - if it impacts the top, it will only destroy that area. Also, if the egg isn't launched, then Matilda deals poor (but not Blues-poor as it can break 1 block of wood) damage.

## Relationships

### Matilda

The Blues see Matilda as a mother figure, as she constantly scolds them for doing wrong things, as exampled in the *Angry Birds Toons* episode Do As I Say!. The Blues don't like it when Matilda bosses them around and are usually scolded for the things that they do. The Blues also are very aware of her temper and care for her, as exampled in Shrub It In where they don't want to tell her about her rose bush to hurt her feelings.

While the Blues dislike Matilda's cooking, they are aware of her sensitivity and try not to hurt her feelings, however they are unsuccessful.

### Matilda

Bomb is one of Matilda's closest friends. In *The Angry Birds Movie*, the two first met when Bomb was forced by law to attend Matilda's anger management classes. However, Bomb has admitted that he completely forgot about her classes. Currently, Bomb has a mutual respect for Matilda. In addition, it was shown a few times that the he is in love of her; for example, in the map of the Piggy Tower from the newest versions of *Angry Birds Friends*, Bomb is seen looking at Matilda with a happy expression and with hearts popping out of his head. In *Angry Birds Summer Madness*, Bomb has a crush on Matilda.

### Terence

In *The Angry Birds Movie 2* and *Angry Birds Reloaded*, Terence is Matilda's husband. The two first met when the large bird was forced by law to attend the white bird's anger management classes. At some point, Terence fell in love with Matilda, even confessing her that he loved her through a painting of his. As this made her feel uncomfortable, Matilda left, leaving aside a saddened Terence. However, after she was saved by him, Matilda also fell in love with him, eventually getting married (though in a low-cost wedding) and having four daughters together. Because of how close she is to him, Matilda is one of the very few people who do not fear Terence.

### Friends/allies

* Angry Birds
	+ Bomb
	+ Bubbles
	+ Chuck
	+ Hal
	+ Jake
	+ Jay
	+ Jim
	+ Red
	+ Stella
	+ Terence (husband in films and Reloaded)
* Blu
* Jewel
* Tony
* Unnamed female white bird (former girlfriend)

### Neutral

* Leonard
* Prince Porky

### Enemies

* Piggy kingdom
	+ Chef Pig
	+ Corporal Pig
	+ Foreman Pig
	+ King Pig
	+ Minion Pigs
		- Common Pigs
		- Knights
		- Ninjas
		- Pirates
		- Wildboars
* Nigel
* Marmosets
	+ Mauro

## Trivia

* Matilda, Hal, Silver, and Stella are the only birds to not have any form of Space counterpart for Angry Birds Space
* She is the first confirmed female character of the franchise.
* An early version of Matilda's Kombo look from the Mighty Eagle wallpaper made her look exactly like a chicken. In Summer Pignic, this is changed to a have a more similar appearance to the classic games.
* Originally, one of Matilda's cheeks became purple when she became a corpse in the slingshot games (to look like a black eye). However, it was redesigned to look normal yellow.
* Matilda can play the saxophone, as seen in the Toons episode Epic Sax-Off. This makes her the 6th bird known to play an instrument, the others being Hal, Willow, Poppy, Dahlia, and Luca, in that order. She is followed by Red.
* Matilda is one out of 2 birds that have abilities that involve an explosion, the other is Bomb.