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| “ | Hello, pretty bird. What is the matter? Cockatoo got your throat? | „ |
| ~ Nigel's first lines as he pins Jewel down and also his most famous quote. |
| “ | That blue bird caused my misery! | „ |
| ~ Nigel upon spotting Blu and remembering how much pain and suffering he caused him. |
| “ | Instead of chasing that bird all over the jungle. We let him come to us, at the Carnaval show. I will mesmerize them from the stage. And you, my little Gabi. You will be my petite weapon of mass destruction. It will be a performance to die for [laughs evilly]. | „ |
| ~ Nigel explains his new plan to Gabi and Charlie of killing Blu. |
Nigel, also sometimes known as Nigel the Cockatoo, is the main antagonist of the 2011 20th Century Fox•Blue Sky's 6th full-length animated-computer feature film Rio, and one of the two main antagonists (alongside The Big Boss) of its 2014 sequel Rio 2. He is also the main antagonist of the spin-off game Angry Birds: Rio.
He is a sulfur-crested cockatoo and Blu's arch-enemy. He is also Marcel's former pet, Charlie's former boss and Gabi's boyfriend.
He was voiced by Jemaine Clement, who also played Boris the Animal from Men in Black 3, Fleshlumpeater from Roald Dahl's The BFG and Tamatoa from Walt Disney's Moana.
Personality[]
When he makes his debut appearance, Nigel is arrogant, greedy, and treacherous. He is an intelligent, manipulative, malevolent, cunning, and vengeful cockatoo who exhibited highly antisocial behavior. He almost breaks the fourth wall as he enjoys the fact that he is a villain and states it when he topples over and outranks Big Boss as he says "No one steals MY scene!"
He is very violent, dangerous, and destructive, constantly seen using physical force to injure or terrorize other characters, including those who he believes can help out in his plans. For instance, Nigel threatened to give Mauro and his subordinates "flying lessons" to coerce the monkeys into helping him find Blu and Jewel. After the battle in the samba club, Nigel arrived at the scene and terrorized another bird into telling him where the blue macaws went by threatening to "pop" or "crack" her head.
He is also extremely cruel, sadistic, and egotistical, often taking great joy and pleasure in others' suffering. For example, he was shown in the smugglers' lair to terrorize the captured birds, and he later ridiculed Jewel when her wing was injured. In both situations, he laughed maniacally in response to seeing his victims' fear and injury.
He is also very unsympathetic and ruthless; he shows no pity or mercy to his victims and enemies and holds little or no remorse for his evil deeds.
However, in the second film, he is more comedic and more focused on acting and his performance. When he gets to the island, he doesn't even acknowledge Blu's presence when he walks near and he doesn't interact with Blu until the last-minute fight.
Appearance[]
Nigel is a large Sulphur-crested cockatoo, mostly over one-foot-two in height. As such, he is covered in white plumage, bearing a black beak and yellow crest feathers. He also has pale red bags under his eyes.
In Rio 2, Nigel wears a green and yellow bird-sized vest of Elizabethan design. He now has a large bald spot on his chest (which was made when Nigel ends up being shredded by the propellers), which is covered up by the vest.
Biography[]
Beginnings[]
Nigel was once the popular star of many animal Television shows. He was suave, handsome, intellectual, and ambitious, albeit a bit selfish and arrogant. However, Nigel was later meanly kicked out of fame and replaced by a green parakeet called Petricious. Since then, Nigel despised all "pretty birds" and became evil, bitter, hideous, vituperative and mean-spirited. He was later adopted by Marcel, and assisted him in his schemes of capturing birds.
Rio[]
Nigel is first seen as a "patient" at Tulio's aviary. He was claimed to have been found and recovered by smugglers. However, his sickness is quickly revealed to be an act; that night, he tricks a guard into picking him up by pretending to be injured, then knocks him out with a chloroform-soaked rag and steals his keys. He then lets Fernando in and he steals Blu and Jewel and brings them to Marcel's hideout.
When Jewel tries to escape, Nigel pins her down and starts choking her, taunting her by asking, "What's the matter? Cockatoo got your throat?". However, Marcel orders him to bring her back alive, so the cockatoo returns her to the cage. After Blu and Jewel are locked up, Nigel comes to them and explains the motivation of his evil nature through the song "Pretty Bird," saying that he plans on making them "ugly" as well. He then bids them sweet nightmares and flies off, laughing evilly.
Later, Nigel hears the macaws trying to escape and tries to stop them. The chase leads into the slums of Rio de Janeiro, where Nigel collides with an electrical transformer, botching his attempt to catch the birds and blacking out the whole city of Rio in the process including a stadium which held a soccer game that Armando and Tipa were watching. After recovering, Nigel heads back to the smugglers' hideout.
Nigel is sent by Marcel to retrieve Blu and Jewel, while Marcel and the other smugglers (Armando and Tipa) plan to use the Carnival show to hide the smuggling of the birds to get to the nearest airport.
Nigel hires a group of mischievous marmosets to help him catch Blu and Jewel, in doing so, he abuses their leader Mauro, and threatens to give them "flying lessons" if they do not find them by the end of the day.
Mauro and his henchmen manage to find Blu and Jewel, but they get into a battle with the Samba Club birds and they fail to capture them. When Nigel arrives at the place where the battle had been he finds a green bird and asks her a question on the whereabouts of the Blue Macaws. Nigel then abuses Mauro for his failure, then goes after Blu and Jewel himself. He eventually captures Jewel and uses her as bait to lure in Blu and his best friends. The plan works and he locks them all in cages.
After the captives are loaded into the smugglers' plane, the plane takes off. But, Blu later manages to free himself and all the other birds, letting them escape out of the plane. However, as Blu tries to get over his fear of flying, Nigel attacks Blu, pins him and attempts to strangle him. Jewel tries to help, but Nigel throws her aside, causing a cage to fall on Jewel's wing, injuring it. Nigel darkly mocks the macaws, but an angered Blu manages to hook a fire extinguisher onto the cockatoo's foot and sets it off. Nigel is blasted out of the plane and manages to get the extinguisher off. However, a propeller flies at him, seemingly killing him and eventually causing the plane to fall. Blu finally learns how to fly, and escapes the crashing plane with Jewel. Marcel and the smugglers escape the plane as well.
Sometime later, Nigel is revealed to have survived, but not without losing most of his feathers and getting humiliated by a "photo finish" by (presumably) Mauro as payback for his abuse against him and the other marmosets earlier.
Rio 2[]
A few years after the events from first film, Nigel, who suffered the most undignified of indignities (defeated by what he calls "the pretty birds" and losing his feathers in the process), is back. However, he now flies like a chicken and wears an Elizabethan vest (which hides a large bald patch on his chest) due to his previous accident. Shortly after the plane crash at the end of the first film, he was found by humans, taken into a veterinary surgery and operated on. The head surgeon commented that "he will live, but he will never fly again". After that, Nigel began working as a fortune-teller's assistant at a third-rate street fair. Nigel is at the lowest point in his life and he is not happy about it at all.
When Nigel sees Blu and his family passing by, he remembers how Blu caused him so much misery and he decides to get revenge against him, he follows them to the Amazon and is now hungry for payback. Along the way, he liberates a poison dart frog named Gabi and a big mute anteater called Charlie from the street-fair. He enlists them as his minions and together they track Blu and Jewel to the Amazon and plan Nigel's revenge.
Nigel's predominant passions are Shakespeare, alliteration, attention, evil, and revenge. For Nigel, revenge is a dish best served cold, and with lots of blood-stained feathers.
Nigel's dreams of show business glory take flight in a particularly telling moment. As he prepares to deal with Blu once and for all, Nigel ends up taking center stage, in disguise, at the auditions overseen by Nico, Pedro, and Rafael. Nigel comes up with an act, on the fly, which sparks his inner artist. He goes under the name of Bob the bird to avoid the suspicion of Nico, Pedro, and Rafael as they point out that he looked familiar to them.
He uses his newfound attention to his advantage as he wins the audition, and plots to kill Blu with a poisonous dart, using a porcupine quill as a dart, Gabi's venom for poison and Charlie's long snout to fire the dart.
His performance is canceled, as the loggers attack the jungle to get their wood and a battle ensues between the loggers and the jungle animals. During the battle, Nigel attempts to shoot Blu with the poisoned dart but fails. When Blu removes a strap of lit TNT from a site of designated trees to be demolished, Nigel prevents Big Boss, the head logger, from stopping him, wanting Blu for himself. As Blu flies the TNT upwards into the air, Nigel grabs on and attacks him, revealing himself to Blu just as the TNT blows up. However, both Nigel and Blu survive the explosion and end up tangled in vines, upside-down and unconscious. When they both regain consciousnesses, Nigel attacks Blu and they have a feather fight. Gabi and Charlie try to help Nigel by shooting Blu with another poison dart, but it accidentally hits Nigel. Nigel, thinking that he is about to die, gives an Elizabethan death speech, then seemingly dies and falls off his branch to the ground below. Gabi, thinking that she killed Nigel and unwilling to live without him, drinks a drop of her poison and presumably dies. However, it is revealed that Gabi is not poisonous at all, but was convinced that she was as a child. Nigel, still alive, tries to attack Blu and Jewel one last time, but Gabi drags Nigel away and showers him with affection against his will as he tries to escape her grasp.
Nigel and Gabi are later captured by Tulio, and taken back to Rio to be observed.
What happened to Nigel after the events of the film is currently unknown, but he could have escaped from Gabi, Linda and Tulio or he could want revenge on Blu and Jewel and make a plan for escaping from the same observatory where Blu and Jewel met each other and just like Jewel did in the first film. He could also remain imprisoned in the observatory or he could have been released by Linda and Tulio once the observation was over otherwise. However, the second theory is more possible. If Rio 3 will actually be made, Nigel's ultimate fate would probably be revealed.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Physical Strength: Nigel is significantly stronger than most other bird characters in terms of physical strength, given his size and sharp claws. He knows his physical advantage and uses it for his purposes and goals throughout the franchise.
- High Speed: Nigel's level of speed is incredible for a cockatoo; almost like that of a bird of prey.
- Great Stamina: Nigel also has a great stamina, which has proven to be able to survive extreme electric shock. His stamina was also high enough to survive a plane crash, though he lost most of his feathers and was crippled from natural flight permanently. He also survived an explosion with only minor burns.
- Flight: His flight abilities were great in the first film, but after his accident, his flight abilities were ruined, leaving him unable to lift himself more than a few inches off the ground. Despite this, Nigel is still very fast.
- Singing and Acting Skills: Nigel also has shown incredible singing and acting skills as evidenced by his songs 'Pretty Bird' and 'I Will Survive'. He acquired these talents during his former role as a television star, until he was replaced.
- High Intelligence: Besides his physical superiority, Nigel's intelligence is very high; he is smarter than the smugglers and most other characters. His wits are only tested by his nemesis, Blu. Nigel is sneakier than the average bird, sometimes allowing him to outsmart even humans. For example, he used a chloroform-soaked rag to faint Sylvio at Tulio's Aviary in order to escape and capture Blu and Jewel. He is also a skilled trickster, perfectly able to trick Tulio and his employees into thinking he was sick and injured.
Relationships[]
Friends/Allies[]
- Marcel- Former Boss and Owner.
- Mauro and the Marmosets- Former Minions.
- Gabi - Assistant and Love Interest on Gabi's Side.
- Charlie- Former Henchmen and Sideckick.
Enemies/Foes[]
- Blu - Arch-Enemy and Attempted Victim.
- Jewel - Arch-Enemy and Attempted Victim.
- Rafael
- Nico and Pedro
- Bia, Carla and Thiago
- Eduardo
- Roberto
- Linda Gunderson
- Tulio Monteiro
- Exotic Birds
- Big Boss
- Petricious - Substitute in his show.
Relationships[]
Friends/Allies[]
- Gabi- Minion and Love Interest on Gabi's side.
- Charlie- Former minion & sideckick.
- Mauro & the Marmosets- Former minions.
- Marcel- Former Owner.
Enemies[]
- Blu- Arch-nemesis and Attempted victim.
- Jewel- Archenemy and Attempted victim.
- Rafael
- Nico & Pedro
- Bia, Carla and Thiago
- Eduardo
- Roberto
- Linda Gunderson
- Tulio Monteiro
- Exotic Birds
- Big Boss
- Petricious- Substitute in his show.
Quotes[]
Rio[]
| “ | Oh, I know I'm not a pretty birdie but I used to be quite a looker. A star. | „ |
| ~ Nigel talks to Blu and Jewel about his past. |
| “ | Sweet nightmares! [chuckles evilly] | „ |
| ~ Nigel leaves after his song. |
| “ | Hello, boys. Seems like you've had a busy day. (Mauro: What? This? This is just some stuff we... found.) I'm not interested in your nicked knick-knacks. Your burgled baubles bore me. There are two blue macaws out there and I need your multitude of eyes to help me find them. (Mauro: Oh, yeah? What's in it for us?) "Well, that's a fair question. [Nigel flies with Mauro] Let's discuss it. [lets go of Mauro] I certainly see your point, but what can I possibly do for you in return? (Mauro: Save me! Save me!) Oh, well, that's a thought, yeah. But is it enough? I don't wanna feel like I'm cheating you. (stops Maro) Alright, you've twisted my wing. Deal. Now then. Any more questions? No? Good. You will spread out and you will find these macaws by the end of the day. Or it's FLYING LESSONS FOR EVERYONE! Go! Go do your monkey business. | „ |
| ~ Nigel threatens the marmosets to find Blu and Jewel. |
| “ | What happened? (Mauro: Papa?) WHAT HAPPENED?! [Nigel pounces on Tiny] Stop your chirping and talk to me! Hmmm. When I bite down on your head will it go 'pop' or will it go 'crack'? Where are the cerulean birds? That means blue, by the way. (Tiny: They escaped! Went to Luiz!) Anything else?" (Tiny: They said you were very nice.) Hmm.. did they? Liar! (Tiny: And... handsome, too?) [Nigel throws Tiny at Mauro] Never send a monkey to do a bird's job. | „ |
| ~ Nigel sees that the marmosets failed to capture Blu and jewel and threatens Tiny for their whereabouts. |
| “ | Going somewhere, pretty bird? (Jewel: Oh, yeah. I was just on my way to CLAW YOUR EYES OUT!) [Jewel breaks out of her captor's grip and they fight. Pedro and Nico notice this and their eyes widen with terror. Nigel snatches Jewel's legs in his talons.] Temper, temper. Now come along, my dear. We're going to a parade. And EVERYBODY loves a parade. [He laughs maniacally, dragging the struggling Jewel with him.] (Jewel: Let GO of me!) (Pedro: Hey! Get back here! Ain't nobody mess with a friend of Pedro! I ain't havin' it! It's on!) [he starts punching the air] (Nico: What are you on? Did you see the talons on that guy?) (Pedro: Talons? Maybe it's on next time.) (they turn and fly away) Ralfieeee!) (Nico: Blu! Help!) (Pedro: Help!) | „ |
| ~ Nigel bird-napping Jewel. |
| “ | Oh, I don't need to find him. He'll find you. | „ |
| ~ Nigel knows Blu will find him and Jewel. |
| “ | Oh, pity. Now we have two useless, flightless birds! | „ |
| ~ Nigel's last words before Blu launches him. |
Rio 2[]
| “ | To be, or not to be? | „ |
| ~ Nigel's first line in the sequel. |
| “ | We are not here to snack! We're here to avenge! Once these pesky passengers fall asleep, we'll show our blue friends some love. Some poisonous love. We attack at midnight hour...Cause it's more evil. Stay alert! | „ |
| ~ Nigel explains his plan to Gabi and Charlie. |
| “ | Charlie! You were supposed to wake me! | „ |
| ~ Nigel berating Charlie for the latter not waking him up. |
| “ | Stop! That one is mine. | „ |
| ~ Nigel tells Gabi that he will kill Blu. |
| “ | Twinkle twinkle little Blu, how I wondered where were you? Up above the world, so high - are you ready to die? | „ |
| ~ Nigel makes an attempt to kill Blu. |
| “ | Even in sleep you mock me! | „ |
| ~ Nigel unable to kill Blu. |
| “ | Ugh, river hogs! | „ |
| ~ Nigel yells at the boat where The Big Boss was in. |
| “ | De ja vu, Blu. | „ |
| ~ Nigel unmasks himself that he was Bob. |
| “ | We are not dead? | „ |
| ~ Nigel surprised that Bia said Gabi was not poisonous. |
| “ | I'm sorry, I'll be nicer. No! no. Charlie! Charlie!!! [screaming with fright] THIS IS UNNATURAL!!! | „ |
| ~ Nigel's last words when Gabi keeps on hugging him. |
Trivia[]
- His true first name is Cocks. It should be noted that "Cock" means a rooster or male chicken and has nothing to do with a cockatoo.
- Although a sulfur-crested cockatoos' diet consists almost entirely of insects or plants, Nigel was seen eating a chicken leg in the first film. It is mistakenly said by Tipa to be cannibalism.
- When he was a telenovela star, he starred in TV shows titled Fly Hard, All My Flock, and As the Cage Turns and participated in the Carnival parade. It was also mentioned that he was once popular all across South America.
- Like Blu, Nigel was a pet. Despite this, he was trained to do a certain task (smuggling birds) and Blu was not.
- Surprisingly enough, he is somehow damaged by the Mighty Eagle's earthquake in Angry Birds Rio, which is unusual, being that he is never even close to the ground in levels when fought against.
- He was noticeably stronger than most other birds in terms of physical strength, considering both his size and sharp talons.
- When Nigel sees Blu in Rio 2, he makes the same reaction that Scrat did in Ice Age: The Meltdown when a piranha took his acorn.
- In the Italian dub, Nigel is renamed Miguel. In the French Dub, he is named Hector. And in the Latin America he is named Pepillo.
External links[]
- Nigel on the 20th Century Fox Wiki
- Nigel on the Blue Sky Studios Wiki
- Nigel on the Rio Wiki
- Nigel on the Near Pure Evil Wiki
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