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Rio/Characters


Animals

Heroes

Blu the Blue Macaw (Full name: Tyler Blu Gunderson) (Voiced by: Jesse Eisenberg)

Jewel the Blue Macaw (Voiced by: Anne Hathaway)

Rafael the Toco Toucan (Voiced by: George Lopez)

Pedro the Red-Crested Cardinal (Voiced by: will.i.am)

Nico the Canary (Voiced by: Jamie Foxx)

Villains

Nigel the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo (Voiced by: Jermaine Clement)

  • Ax Crazy
  • Berserk Button: "That bluebird caused my misery."
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He relishes the fact he's a sadistic, evil and monstrous. And he's one of the few characters that can manage both this and being absolutely terrifying.
  • Carnivores Are Mean: Justified, however, in that he uses his taste in bird meat to torment the birds his owner has captured.
  • Catch Phrase: PRETTY BIRD.
  • Dangerously Genre Savvy: Has shades of this. Smart enough to realize that his captives might escape and decides to dump the marmosets after their first failure. Shows more during the final part of the film where he successfully captures all the heroes singlehandedly and is smart enough to realize how Blu and Jewel escaped the first time, using a real lock the second time to make sure it didn't happen again. Really his only mistakes were either his owners' fault or things he couldn't have seen coming. Might be justified by the fact he used to be a show bird himself.
  • The Dragon: Subverted that he's actually more competent and menacing than his master, making him a Dragon-in-Chief.
  • Evil Brit: Actually an evil New Zealander.
  • Evil Laugh
  • Evilly Affable: He's rather polite and calm in his speech...even when choking someone or dropping someone from several hundred feet to "convince" them to be his Mook.
  • Family-Unfriendly Death: Subverted. He flies into a plane propeller and is implied to have been Killed Off for Real, but he turns out to be Not Quite Dead at the end.
  • Feathered Fiend
  • Freudian Excuse: Explains it in song:

Nigel: "I had it all; a tv show, women too. I was tall, over one foot two. Then they got a pretty parakeet to fill my shoes! That's why I'm evil, why I do what I do!"

  • Giggling Villain
  • Green-Eyed Monster: He became this after his former life as a TV star, when he got replaced by a prettier bird. Now he wants to take out his bitterness on all the pretty birds in the world.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: In one scene, he is seen eating a chicken drumstick. While this is actually common in Real Life Cockatoos, he uses it to terrorize other birds for sadistic pleasure.
  • "I Am" Song: "Pretty Bird". Also serves as his Villain Song.
  • I Was Quite a Looker: Says this before he begins his Villain Song. Judging from the poster, he wasn't lying.
  • Large Ham: Justified, as he used to be a superstar with his own television show and appeared in movies.
  • Made of Iron: Survives flying face first into a power transformer (which causes nearly all of Rio to lose electricity) with only some burnt feathers. At the end of the movie, he survives being hit by a plane propeller, but lost most of his feathers.
  • Bird in White Feathers: Considering he's a cockatoo, it's not like he has a choice...
  • Not Quite Dead: At the end of the film, he flies into an air plane propeller and lives, though with most of his feathers gone.
  • Oh Crap: He gets a good one before getting hit by the plane's propeller in the climax. Also gets one earlier when he flies into an electrical transformer.
  • Smug Snake
  • Surrounded by Idiots: His attitude after learning that the marmosets failed to capture Blu and Jewel.
  • Villain Song: See the "I Am" Song example above.

The Marmosets (Led by Mauro, who is voiced by Brian Baumgartner)

Allies

Luís the Bulldog (Voiced by: Tracy Morgan)


Humans

Allies

Linda Gunderson (Voiced by: Leslie Mann)

"Squawk squawkity squawk squawk! [beat] I'm sorry, I didn't mean to curse!"

Túlio Monteiro (Voiced by: Rodrigo Santoro)

Villains

Fernando (Voiced by: Jake T. Austin)

Marcel (Voiced by: Carlos Ponce)

Marcel's Assistants, Tipa and Armando (Tipa voiced by Jeff Garcia, Armando voiced by Davi Vieira)

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