Matilda

To see images of Matilda, please go to her gallery.

"Drop it like it's hot!"

Matilda is a character in the Angry Birds series of games created by Rovio Entertainment. She was introduced in 2009, as part of the original 5 birds of the flock. After her first appearance in Poached Eggs, Matilda has become a very prominent character in the installments that followed.

Personality
Matilda's Description in the Angry Birds Movie

HIPPIE OF THE FLOCK

''Matilda is the leader of the anger management class on Bird Island. She is a former angry bird herself, but has since learned the error of her ways. Now she makes it her business to keep the good vibes going at all times.''

Matilda has been shown to be a very considerate, caring character, often taking on a mother-like personality in the flock. While she does bear these qualities, she is additionally a very fierce bird, who is shown to have the capability of being very angry as the other birds. These features of her are consistently shown all throughout the series, along with the movie.

Matilda has an adoration for peace, often being considered a "hippy" in many animations. She also grows her own plants, from flowers to vegetables. She is also shown to be a very skilled saxophone player.

Matilda loves cooking, but isn't very good at it. Thus, it is especially hurtful when the other birds do not like her food, as they all try to dispose of it in some way.

In the movie, it is shown that Matilda has her own anger management class, which is how she meets many flock members, Red, Chuck, Bomb, Terence, and Hal and Bubbles, who worked for her in the background.

Angry Birds
Matilda makes her first appearance in the original Angry Birds game, as the last bird introduced in Poached Eggs. (in the level Poached Eggs 2-14) She is the final bird of the original flock, along with the biggest. (at that time)

After her debut, Matilda will appear and be a playable character in various levels in all themes, excluding The Big Setup, as the episode solely focused on Hal and Terence as playable characters. She also appears in multiple games and installments of the Angry Birds series as a main character, and has become very prominent in the Angry Birds universe.

Like all the other characters of the game, Matilda received a newer animation, getting her "Chrome" design, as all the characters' new designs had originally come from the "Angry Birds Chrome" game.

Gameplay
Despite being one of the largest of the birds, Matilda is weak in physical strength. The egg bombs she deploys have decent power but suffer from a short blast radius and tend to be overestimated in their effect on the structure.

Once the egg is dropped, Matilda's corpse then flies up and explodes to the right. Additional damage can be done to the fortresses if the egg is dropped in such a way that it launches the corpse into the structure. This can be used purposely in multiple levels, and the speed that she is launched at will allow her to become a bit stronger.

Matilda's corpse used to be a deflated, shriveled version of her once she launched the egg, but as of the newest version of Angry Birds, she will revert to her regular corpse sprite.

Angry Birds Seasons
Matilda appears from the very start of the game, when it was once known as Angry Birds Halloween. After her first appearance in Trick or Treat, she will be a playable character in all of the episodes that follow.

Unlike the other installments of the Angry Birds Series, Angry Birds Seasons does not update Matilda's design to her new one, and stays true to the original.

There was also a version of Matilda in Hogs and Kisses unofficially named "Female White Bird", as she had never been given an official name. She is shown to be significantly smaller than the Female Red Bird in some photos, who was the same size as the regular Red Bird. However, in others she was just as big as the regular Matilda. It was shown that the Female White Bird and Matilda were in a romantic relationship, however this had been before official genders were given to the birds and has not been counted as actual canon.

Gameplay
Matilda bears the same ability in the original game in this one, along with her battle cries and launch sounds. There are no changes to her size, strength, or speed.

In Piglantis, Matilda's ability will go along with water. If the water is deep enough, then Matilda's explosive egg will be able to burst out of the surface, and hit possible structures above it. If Matilda is slung into the water, she will sink and then resurface.

Angry Birds Rio
Matilda appears very early in Angry Birds Rio, first appearing in Jungle Escape. She was strangely introduced before Bomb, even though she had been introduced after Bomb in the original game. She first appears in Jungle Escape Level 6. After this, she appears in all the following episodes as a playable character.

In the Rio 2 segment, she receives a redesign using her animation from Toons like other characters, who were first introduced in their Chrome designs and then into their animation designs. This featured a more prominently feminine Matilda, as fans had been initially very confused about her gender. (though at this point it had been confirmed that she was clearly a female)

Matilda is one of the few characters that are actually included in both the animations and the gameplay trailers for the game.

Gameplay
Matilda's ability is the same as the previous 2 installments of Angry Birds. However, it is very notable that she and her egg bomb are notably more powerful, and can make much more damage, which was very pleasing to fans as they complained that her ability had been extremely weak.

If she lays a egg on Luiz during Beach Volley, Luiz will fly in the air; which is actually quite useful, as Luis is very strong and can destroy many bricks. (along with destroying even more if beach balls are laid out afterwards)

If used right, Matilda can be a very versatile and powerful character to have during bossfights. Matilda's egg bomb is very harmful towards bosses, taking a very major hit. (as you usually will need 2-4 of them to defeat the boss) It is recommended that if possible, fire Matilda very close to the boss and lay the egg bomb on him, causing Matilda to fly off, where she will hopefully hit TNT or a weakly supported structure.

Appearances

 * Angry Birds
 * Angry Birds Rio
 * Angry Birds Seasons
 * Angry Birds Facebook
 * Angry Birds Star Wars (as C-3PO)
 * Angry Birds Chrome
 * Angry Birds Google+
 * Angry Birds Volcano
 * Angry Birds Magic
 * Angry Birds in The Hunt For The Golden Pistachio
 * Angry Birds Vuela Tazos
 * Angry Birds Winter Wonderland
 * Angry Birds Fuji TV
 * Angry Birds GO!
 * Angry Birds Epic
 * Angry Birds 2
 * Angry Birds POP!
 * Angry Birds Blast!

Other

 * Angry Birds Trilogy

Animation

 * Angry Birds Toons
 * The Angry Birds Movie

Trivia

 * Matilda's physical appearance seems to be based on an egg shape, due to the egg it encases inside her body.
 * Matilda and Bubbles are the only birds to have two different corpses.
 * Matilda is the second largest playable bird in the game, next to Terence.
 * Matilda is also the only bird to have projectiles.
 * Birds and corpses are impervious to eggs. If the player drops an egg on a corpse or a bird waiting their turn on the slingshot, the egg will bounce off.
 * Matilda is possibly based upon the Snow Bunting or a Chicken.
 * Originally, Matilda had a nervous expression. However, she was redesigned in later versions to appear angrier. She still keeps this original appearance in the original game and Seasons.
 * Matilda, as well as Hal and Bubbles, are the only plush toys with openable beaks.
 * In the Summer Pignic animated short when Matilda is on the slingshot, Hal accidentally trips and knocks over the slingshot causing her to fling in a different direction. But strangely when she reaches the ground, instead of releasing her explosive egg like she does in every other game she stars in, she explodes right on the spot thus, leaving a small but noticeable crater.
 * In the Mighty Eagle poster, Matilda is a chicken. However in her case, she drops explosive eggs rather than laying natural eggs.
 * Originally, one of Matilda's cheeks became purple when she became a corpse (to look like a black eye). However, it was redesigned to look normal yellow.
 * Matilda, Hal, and Stella are the only birds that don't have a role in Angry Birds Space.
 * Matilda can make Hal's launch noises in Angry Birds Facebook.
 * Matilda appears to become more feminine in Angry Birds Toons, as she now has visible eyelashes and pink cheeks.
 * It has been revealed that Matilda can cause thunderstorms when she's really enraged. That could only be seen in some Angry Birds Toons episodes, like Cordon Bleugh!, Green Pig Soup, Bird Flu, Epic Sax-Off, and her character video in Angry Birds 2. She nearly caused it in Operation Opera
 * Matilda enjoys painting.
 * According to the second Angry Birds Magazine, Matilda wonders if Bomb likes her 4% of the time.
 * Matilda is the first female bird to simply have black eyes, followed by Silver  from Angry Birds 2, as five out of the six birds in Angry Birds Stella are female birds with actual eye colors.
 * Matilda's gender was decided late as she was originally made as a male; this can be identified by here masculine grunting.
 * It was later decided for Matilda to be a female as on the contradictory fact that she can lay eggs.
 * Matilda can play the saxophone, as seen in the Angry Birds 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.
 * In the Angry Birds Interactive Annual 2014, it's revealed that she does Nest Shui (and herbal tea).