Matilda



"♫Mashed vegetables, feel it in your beak.♪""

- Matilda, Angry Birds Comics (2016) #6

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.

Appearance
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 recieved 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
Matilda is a very considerate, caring woman, with a great adoration for peace, and a great dislike for violence and destruction. With a maternal-like figure, she educates people with a reprehensible behavior, most notably Chuck and the Blues. Sometime ago, she also gave "anger management classes", to calm down unstable people. However, she is also very firm, and can be somewhat bossy.

In addition, Matilda has a notable respect for nature and animals, talking to the latter and ignoring other people while doing so. She spends most of her time taking care of her garden and watering her plants and vegetables, an activity that she finds calming. She is also a great fan of water gardens, and has wanted one for a long time.

"[...] And that's so wonderful because I love my flowers so much and if something were to happen to them... I would get mad. So very, very mad. Incredibly, horribly mad. I would be transformed into a vast storm cloud of all-consuming fury and wrath."

- Matilda explaning Bomb what would happen if she finds her garden destroyed, Angry Birds: Flight School #1

Despite her peace-seeking persona, Matilda is very short-tempered, which is why other people respect and fear her. Whenever she is mocked, disobeyed, or someone does something she finds dislikeable, she will burst into anger, completely losing her peaceful mindset, and proceeding to fight them. This does not mean that Matilda is a hypocrite, but that she cannot control herself when she is angry. When she realizes that her anger has hurt one of her friends, which is against her normal persona, she will revert to her peaceful demeanor and find a way to apologize said person. Whenever she sees her own garden being destroyed, she is greatly hurt, leading her to cry or act incredibly furious. She is also very sensitive, bursting into tears when other people tell her, for example, that her food tastes awful.

Powers and abilities
Perhaps Matilda's signature ability is her being able to lie 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.

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.

Friends/allies

 * Angry Birds
 * Bomb
 * Bubbles
 * Chuck
 * Hal
 * Jake
 * Jay
 * Jim
 * Red
 * Stella
 * Terence (husband)
 * Blu
 * Jewel
 * Tony (cousin by marriage)
 * 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

 * Originally, Matilda's body would shrivel up once an explosive egg was released; however, this feature was removed in newer versions of the original Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons (though the latter is due to a glitch).
 * In Angry Birds Classic's files, Matilda's sprites has the filenames of "BIRD_GREEN", supposing that, in prototype versions of the game, she was green-colored before being changed to white.
 * Birds are impervious to Matilda's eggs. If the player drops an egg on a corpse or a bird waiting their turn on the slingshot, the egg will bounce off.
 * In the original Angry Birds ' s PC release, Matilda has a sound file where she drops the egg and then grunts. However, this was removed in the final game.
 * Originally, Matilda right cheek became purple when she hit something to look like a black eye. However, it was redesigned to look normal yellow.
 * Matilda was the only bird of the original flock to not be featured as a playable bird in the free version, although she can be seen in the cutscenes.