Character Research Blog: Mordecai and Rigby (Toontubers)

"The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences." - Shigeru Miyamoto

Regular Show is, without a doubt, one of the best cartoons of all time. It has everything you could wish for: fun humor, memorable characters, and an amazing ending that ties things up nicely. But today we aren't covering the show you all know, since we are going back to when Cartoon Network attempted to appeal to gamers by creating a webshow dedicated to Mordecai and Rigby playing various games, such as Bendy, FNAF, and Baldi. And this is all official, btw. While not canon, it was very popular in South America, so why not have a bit of fun and see how insane we can get with the scaling?

Before We Start…
This is a bit of a weird one since Toontubers is part of Regular Show by name only; the time where it takes place is different, the story is different, and even the way some characters act is different. So it's safe to assume this is some kind of alternative universe, so we won't use any kind of Regular Show content here, and While Toontubers had a few games of their own, they are canonically fiction in the Toontubers universe so they won't be used either. We will focus primarily on the Toontubers videos posted by Cartoon Network Brasil and LA, The Toontuber Express minisodes and some Regular Show clips that are directly shown in the context of Toontubers only. Anything else won't be used. There is also one episode of Toontubers who is fully lost, the Jump Force one, so sadly we won't be able to cover every single episode, but we were able to find everything else. There's no need to cover anything after The Pokemon video, as CN completely replaced Mordecai and Rigby for other CN Characters.

Used:
  • Toontubers Brasil 
  • Toontubers LA 
  • Toontubers Express 
  • Regular Show Clips used in videos 
  • Ads & Bumpers 
Not Used:
  • Regular Show and any kind of other material related to it
  • ToonTubers: StreamTubers 
  • Glitch.TV
Background
"GAMERS NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP"
Tired of working on the park, Mordecai and Rigby decided to open a channel dedicated to gameplays as a side hobby, which resulted in both of them slacking even more than previously. It started relatively slow, doing 3 to 2 minutes gameplays, but as the channel grew, they started to play and record bigger games. Benson would eventually be alerted of their channel and threatened to fire them if they didn't finish all the tasks they have been procrastinating on. An entire month passed, and they kept procrastinating, all while Benson secretly watched their videos, growing a fascination with them. Along the week, Mordecai and Rigby would drive him more and more mad. Until he eventually gave up and gave their channel back. Things were back to normal. Until one day two clones from another dimension fell in the park; they searched to destroy the multiverse and absolutely destroyed Mordecai and Rigby in Dragon Ball FighterZ until they used a secret technique and successfully escaped. Now that problem was solved for now; there was a bigger threat coming. The narrator had plans to break up this already fragile friendship even more by creating conflict between the two so that he could own the channel. 

In order to stop it from happening, Mordecai and Rigby put their differences aside and requested help from their future selves, who trained them until they could reach the peak of gaming skill. It was the perfect timing since Black Rigby was back. Using the training they acquired, they were able to defeat Black Mordecai, who had returned. However, Black Rigby was still too strong, and after being failed by his partner, Black Rigby killed him and escaped in order to train. When he did return, he easily defeated Mordecai and Rigby; even Black Mordecai, who had returned from death, was not enough. Until the saviors of the multiverse appeared: Ultra Mordecai and Ultra Rigby, who were able to stop Black from destroying the multiverse. But before they could take him in, Black challenged Mordecai's gaming skills, talking about how truly weak he was. His ego could not take it, and he freed Black, who easily humiliated him after absorbing Black Mordecai. 

This defeat launched Mordecai into an endless depression, constantly paranoid of when Black Rigby would attack. It didn't help that their next game was Among Us, which made Mordecai even more paranoid, unknown to them. Black Rigby was in the server, and after yet another humiliating defeat, Mordecai went missing. After a quick visit from the Cosmic Toontubers, Rigby learned to travel through the Multiverse in search of his Mordecai, and so, Rigby traveled through the cosmos, meeting multiple different Mordecais and Rigbys along the way until he finally reached the Gamer Citadel, where Mordecai was located, but he was quickly stopped by Ultra Mordecai, who believed Rigby didn't know his place as Player 2 due to his maturity growing along his travels, as in the eyes of the Toontubers' society, Rigbys were born to be eternal Player 2s and simple support for their Mordecais.

 But Rigby knew better; he knew he was his own person as he talked down to Ultra Mordecai. Black Rigby broke into the citadel in order to put an end to the Cosmic Toontubers. Although the Cosmics attempted to stop him, it was not enough until Rigby stepped up and, after a long fight, defeated him. However, this was not the end, as Black Rigby revealed his true intentions were to stop the potential of the Rigbys from being kept down by the higher-up Mordecais and Rigbys who focused on maintaining their status. And as it turns out, The Cosmics were the ones kidnapping various Mordecais from other universes who were classified as threats after Black Rigby's visit to their universe, which made them incapable of being Player 1 due to being humiliated in their own channel. The Cosmic Toontubers agreed to free Mordecai if Rigby could pass one last test, and after he won, before getting Mordecai and leaving, Rigby started going off about how harmful the Cosmic rules really were to the universe. And, after Mordecai was finally freed from his rehabilitation, it was all finally over. Black Rigby was defeated. The Cosmics no longer abided by those rules; all that was left was to sit and watch the sunset back in their dimension. Sadly, in the end things ended up a bit bittersweet, as during the time Mordecai and Rigby were out, the narrator bought the channel and pretty much got full control over it. But after so long, as so many difficulties were faced, maybe all this channel needed was a new face...or not, considering it got cancelled soon after.

Experience And Skill 
Stamina
Multilingualism
Rigby can annoy people into telling him things just so he can stop talking; most people who have interacted with him have been shown to get annoyed extremely easily by his nonsense.

Hacking
After Rigby cut Hagazo's (or Skips, depending on the version you're watching) internet, he was able to hack into Mordecai's call, going inside it and displaying Beast Boy instead of the usual game background.

Law Degree
Mordecai participated in a small online course hosted by none other than The Narrator, who also happens to be a lawyer; he learned a few things about the law here and there and even apparently got a degree. I feel like there's a really easy reference to make here, but I'm just not sure what it is...

Delivery Boy and Business Management Experience
Rigby has stated that he started his own food delivery company; it actually seems decently successful, and he's surprisingly good at it.

Equipment
Gamer Code
Rigby carries this large book around. it is volume 1 of a list of gamer codes you shall not break. With one of them being the code of the controller in movement. If you suck ass and lose at the game, you shall give the controller to your pal. This is a rule all gamers must follow. This thing is heavy as hell and can also be used to give a good smack at the back of someone's head.

Rigby's Notebook
Rigby's personal notebook, where he notes his important stuff so he doesn't forget; he also uses it to come up with ideas for his solo career and to make rude drawings of Mordecai and stickers of dead Narrators. This isn't used much, only appearing in a couple of scenes, but him keeping a photo of Eileen is a nice gesture at the very least.

Flashlight
During their FNAF gameplays, they frequently use this; with it being a core part of the FNAF series, it has many functions. It can be used to shine on doors and corridors, temporarily stun animatronics, stop Withered Foxy from jumpscaring the player, temporarily stop Phantoms and even scare off Freddles.

Freddy Fazbear Mask
This is commonly used in FNAF 2 in order to fool animatronics into thinking you are one of them; it doesn't seem to work on Foxy, however. Maybe he's too smart to fall for it.

Axe
Henry Stein's main weapon in Bendy and the Ink Machine. So Mordecai and Rigby used it in their Bendy gameplays obviously. it's sharp, and it's effective. I mean, it's just a normal axe; what more do you want me to say?

Gent Pipe
Henry's second most iconic weapon, it works in a similar way to an axe, being used as a way of self-defense except it's a blunt weapon instead of a sharp weapon.

Scouter
It works basically the same way as Dragon Ball; it is used to measure other people's power levels and their strength. They don't seem to be as advanced as Black Rigby's Scouter, however.

Bensoncopter
Mordecai used this helicopter in order to follow KO in his rampage and give out information for Rigby; we never see the outside of it. The Helicopter also appeared in League of Legends.

Exclusive Toontubers Jigsaw
Rigby won this in a gameshow hosted by…himself? in hopes of getting an exit from Joey Drew Studio instead. Hey, at least you can die having fun, right?

Computer

Robodecai456
a sassy, poorly programmed Mordecai look-alike Rigby created when he removed the original from the channel; it is built to specifically glaze Rigbty, I mean...Rigby, and talk about how great he is at the game, but after it accidentally insulted Beast Boy, it began to grow self-awareness, and it didn't take much time for it to want to abandon Rigby too for a solo career before it was thrown away through a window by Rigby.

The Lost Tape
an old tape of Mordecai and Rigby's first-ever gameplay; it's never exactly explained what happened, but whoever watches it is sucked to the inside of the tape, forced to play through various arcade games and kill the final boss in order to escape. It's very confusing since it didn't seem to have any signs of being cursed at first, but that's pretty much just how Regular Show works ig.

Time Machine
A Cheap Time Machine Rigby Bought on the internet, it doesn't work very well since it sends you to random points in time instead of where you actually want to go, but it does still do what was advertised: it travels through time. Doing things in the past doesn't seem to affect the future, however. It comes with other additions besides space-time travel; it has speakers, it can show videos and play music, and of course, it can run the snake game.

Lip Balm 5000
Lip balm but futuristic, how advanced.

Coffee
Mordecai drank over 17 liters of coffee in order to beat Streamtubers; this made him hyperactive, speaking rapidly, and even able to activate Sugar Rush Rigby Mode. As soon as he did beat it, he immediately fainted on the ground. Watch your caffeine, kids.

Smoothie Machine
Bike
a normal bike, specifically from Trials Rising, it goes fast. There's not much to be said about it outside of injuries being very likely to happen while piloting this.

Van
a Van Mordecai and Rigby used in order to promote their channel's gameplays being broadcasted on television.

Golf Cart
This is pretty iconic in Regular Show, but we barely see it in Toontubers outside of a few clips and a single bumper, which is admittedly kind of weird.

Pranking Equipment
We can't show guns on live television, so this will have to do, except when they play games that, you know, actually have guns.

Cartoon Network Control Room
During Toontubers League, Mordecai and Rigby spent most of their time in this room. It can be used to commentate during the actual league and to control the schedule of Cartoon Network. Mordecai and Rigby also used this room in order to broadcast a marathon of their videos on TV in certain events.

Remote Control
During the intros of Toontubers Express, Rigby is seen using a remote control in order to fast-forward through the regular Toontubers intro. He's just like Click Guy from Click, the best movie of all time.

Minecraft Items
Yeah, I'm not covering every single item here, but they do have access to it. Be it swords, potions, armors, blocks, torches, or pickaxes. Even though they haven't used all of them, there's no reason to assume they can't craft them, find them, or just grab them on creative mode in seconds. Here's a list of every single item in Minecraft; there are over 1,600 of them. We would be here until the next year if I listed them all on my own.

Hello Neighbor Alpha 2 & 3 Items
Hello Neighbor is weirdly prevalent in Toontubers, which is surprising considering how bad that game is; they have never played the full game but should still have access to items from Alphas.
Baldi's Basics Items
Similarly to Hello Neighbor, Baldi is another very frequent franchise in Toontubers, except, you know, the game is actually good this time. They did 3 of these, but only the first one could be argued to have happened; more on that before the verdict.
Arcade Items
Upon being sucked into The Lost Tape, Mordecai and Rigby took the places of the main characters of each game and used certain items used by those characters.

Streets of Rage:
Rare Weed
This weed started to make fun of Rigby, so he decided eating it would be a great idea (it was not). After he and Mordecai ate it, a strong stomachache started forming. And in only a couple hours, both were tripping balls.

Empty Bacon Soup Can
This is commonly used in Chapter 4 of Bendy and the Ink Machine in order to distract enemies by throwing them. Mordecai and Rigby use it in pretty much the same way in their second episode of Bendy.

Beast Boy Army
The Beast Boy Saga is by far where this whole show peaked, as Rigby grew his collection of collectible Beast Boy toy-i mean...figures. his obsession with winning grew. Using their power in order to become a dictator. Rigby has hundreds of these at his disposal; he even possesses other versions of Beast Boy with different attacks. We won't type out every figure due to lack of information in wikis and such, but you can check out the army in action right here. All types of figures in Mini Titans have a very small chance of dodging, working in a similar way to Pokemon, where it's mostly random. These chances can be increased with luck, which you can get from Tofu! And a few other abilities, Luck also allows you to get critical hits.

Misc. Figures
Besides Rigby's Army, there's a bunch of other figures that were collected with time, with most of them belonging to Mordecai, as he focuses on variety way more than Rigby's raw Beast Boy power. Once again, due to being pulled from app stores and Wikis being lacking to say the least, not much information unless you play and collect all figures which takes very long, but you can see Mordecai figures in action here.

Drip
Stylin' like a real supervillain!

Drip (Again)
🥶🥶🥶

Powers and Abilities
Nonexistent Physiology
Mordecai and Rigby do not exist in a conventional sense; they are simple fiction, written, voice-acted, and animated. That may sound obvious since they are, well, fiction, but The Sims Part 3 Brings attention to it in a weirdly meta ending, as Rigby starts questioning his existence, staff start surrounding the computer and working on the episode, and then it cuts to another staff in a higher layer of reality who sees that as fiction, and then again and again and again. as he gets more and more panicked, the very lines he's saying at that exact moment are being written down and recorded. This ultimately ends with Mordecai and Rigby questioning their place in reality and their existence. Even during the ending they talked about themselves, but then switched to the real them, and how they are listening for future requests to make episodes; their very reality is nothing more than fiction in an already fictional setting where staff are able to interact with cartoon characters.

Sugar Rush Mode
During their first night playing FNAF, they got bored quickly. So in order to make the night pass quicker, Rigby sped up the clip with Sugar Rush Mode, resulting in an entire FNAF night ending in seconds (even though Sister Location Nights don't work like that.) This ability has also been shown in Attack the Light, having 3 different levels to it. Fast, Ultra Fast, and Sugar Rush. Rigby constantly uses this mode to skip tutorials, fights and cutscenes. Black Rigby used a similar technique to blitz Mordecai. Another use for this is Dimensional Travel, as Rigby is capable of moving so fast to the point he travels to other universes.

Explosion of Comments
a technique that traps the opponent in a temporal cycle of comment reading; this goes on for weeks and even months! It can be used as a way to make a quick escape since it's not really a "forever" thing. And the comments do run out eventually. 

Pause
Both Mordecai and Rigby can freely pause the gameplay, even online games for some reason and games that are "real," which means it likely works more like a time stop technically, but it doesn't seem to work on everyone, since the Narrator is just fine even in the pause. This Pause ability also extends to being able to pause higher planes of reality, including the real world, which sees the very cosmology of Toontubers as simple fiction.

Respawn
There's a bunch of games that include respawning as a mechanic, and this seems to be somewhat recognized in Toontubers, as in their first FNAF video, Mordecai and Rigby canonically died and had a funeral, only to pop back like nothing happened seconds later. In games like Minecraft, they acknowledge dying and losing their items and so on and so on.

Youtube Strikes 
By saying "Justice League," Rigby can cause a strike to happen due to Cartoon not owning the property (ignore how their whole series is about playing other properties); it's described as a cold, dark state where you can't see anything, where the very world around them is gone. By coming up with another name for the League, the Strike is removed. 

First
By commenting first on a random video, one is able to travel through the Toontuberverse, being transported to random universes each time it is typed. Rigby learned this skill from Ultra Mordecai and Ultra Rigby when his Mordecai went missing.

The Credits
The Credits are a real place that Rigby can freely access when the episode ends, probably due to being the one who always closes the episode with the hashtags. Mordecai didn't seem aware that it was even a real thing until the comment-reading special.

Tornado Manipulation
Rock Manipulation
Pain Tolerance and Regeneration
During their Trials Rising gameplay, Mordecai and Rigby suffered multiple injuries, even breaking multiple of their own bones, despite that all they did was scream in pain for a few seconds and appear like normal seconds later. Mordecai and Rigby's bones being broken also didn't seem to have any lasting effect even though they were…y'know, broken.

Immersion
Mordecai can seemingly interact with fictional games, inserting himself in them and being able to make calls in them as if he were a character inside it. This could also explain how sometimes Mordecai and Rigby act as if they were inside games rather than just playing them.

Creative Mode
This is used in any non-Survivor Map. Creative Mode allows one to instantly destroy any block in a single hit, fly around, and grab anything from the menu without having the risk of the blocks ever ending, not to mention being completely invulnerable to any kind of damage. 

4th Wall Awareness
Mordecai and Rigby are fully aware of Cartoon Network as a company, including being able to call them, they also follow them on social media and are even able to contact their real-life editors for help (See Support). They also always take suggestions from the audience in the real world, or at least they used to. They know about the fact they are fictional beings and directly acknowledge the narrator multiple times.

Forms
Fused
This scene is used so often to the point that it gets annoying, but yeah, I don't exactly remember the original context for this in Regular Show, but in Toontubers, this enhances Mordecai and Rigby's gaming abilities to an extreme level, making them able to easily beat bosses and win levels that are, kind of easy, like Omega Flowey. Even though they act like it's some big challenge, this should tell you how great they are at games lmao. This does have a few more phases to enhance their abilities even more, but they aren't as important.

Animatronics
After countless jumpscares from various animatronics, Mordecai and Rigby turned into…whatever these things are. I'm not sure if I hate or love these designs, but they exist.

Emocai
Not really a form; I just wanted to include this in the blog because it's really fucking funny.

Untitled Goose
During the Untitled Goose Game episode, Rigby controls and becomes the Untitled Goose. Not much to be said about it; it's a goose.

Resistances




Support
Unnecessary Sports Narrator
In some videos, the Unnecessary Sports Narrator manifests in order to unnecessarily narrate the match in excruciating detail. He spends most of the time shit-talking Mordecai and especially Rigby, being snarky and just making fun of their awful gaming abilities or sometimes rarely glazing Mordecai as a decent player. He seems to have a lot of close ties with a bunch of other narrators and also Baldi for some reason, speaking of other narrators, if the Sports Narrator ever tried to introduce himself to a new narrator, he will end up glitching into an infinite introduction loop.

Pop-Up Creation: During his first appearance in Overwatch, the Narrator creates multiple error pop-ups after Mei freezes Mordecai (Snowgrave reference), making him unable to see anything.

Replay: The narrator can replay clips, which…probably makes sense considering his profession.

Supernatural Presence: During Minecraft RTX, The Narrator was able to haunt Mordecai and Rigby, making lights flicker, summoning water from the roof, and disappearing as soon as he's seen.


Ragebait: That's kinda his whole thing.

The Editors
The People responsible for editing most videos. They are also the ones responsible for playing the games, and making Mordecai and Rigby's decisions for them, while Mordecai and Rigby are aware of the editors, even working with them and having the editors constantly helping them, they don't seem to know how far this control goes as every thought they ever had was controlled by these real people in the real world.






Hacking: In the last episode of Benson Month, Benson's PC started breaking down and showcasing random clips. This at first seemed to have been the work of Mordecai and Rigby, but it couldn't be them since they weren't in the room to begin with. This drove Benson to such paranoia that he started to think Mordecai and Rigby were capable of performing hauntings. Considering we receive a little note from the editors during the ending, this was likely their work.

The Remake Tape: By letting the Remake Tape out, the entire way Toontubers is written changes due to the inevitable useless changes every remake makes, which includes changing the actors of characters and also their personalities.

Money, Baby!: Editors can use real-world money in order to advance Mordecai and Rigby's progress in pay-to-win games such as World of Warcraft. They are so rich they don't even need to go through the whole process of, you know, buying it. they just throw money at the monitor and it somehow works.

Cartoon Network™
The Big Boss itself. The Cartoon Network Company has been directly involved in Toontubers by pulling the classic corporation tricks you all know and love, most notably removing Marceline from the championship by making up rules and putting some money in order to bribe the score to a tie, not to mention being the one in charge of most things Toontubers-related due to, well, quite literally owning them. Cartoon usually plays it safe, not liking to take responsibility for Mordecai and Rigby being dumb. Mordecai and Rigby seem to like to make fun of their company too, which is pretty based.

Clash Royale Cards
During the Clash Royale episodes, Mordecai and Rigby command various troops into battle. Ever Since they made the episode, various others were added into the game, so we will just cover the ones we saw in their decks.
Feats
Overall
  • Became Sucessful Youtubers
  • Got their channel back after it got stolen
  • Got first and second place in a videogame league
  • Traveled the Multiverse, meeting various versions of themselves
  • Stopped Black Rigby and the destruction of the multiverse
  • Met Gumball, Finn & Jake, Black Hat, Among others
  • Is Unironically Peak
Attack Potency
Scaling
Videogames
While not every video game they have interacted with is real, we have seen a couple here and there, some implied and some very much obvious when it comes to their scaling. We have a little Before the Verdict soon about what's legit, and we won't cover every game here, but we will cover a few minor feats Mordecai and Rigby should scale to due to taking the place of the character in the game.
Before the Verdict
What Types of Scaling are Valid?  
Toontubers has a very...weird canon, not that it's hard to keep track of what's happening, on the contrary. But due to the whole series revolving around Mordecai and Rigby playing games, it's kind of hard to find out what scaling is valid and what is just them making a video. They always state they are playing a game, but there's sometimes little context as to why they are playing those games. Besides, every single game in the final season of Toontubers is very much real, as the entire plot revolves around dimension hopping. They also seem to be as fictional as the games they play, but that's something for later; for now, I have prepared a small sheet detailing what should and shouldn't be used for direct scaling. This isn't objective but here's what is technically really happening and what is just a game, at least from what I could gather.

Real:

  • Five Nights at Freddy's (Episode 1 and 2): Although stated game, Rigby's Toonbook page shows his location at Freddy's Pizzaria, they state multiple times to have gotten a job at Freddy's, and Mordecai remembers eating popcorn.
  • Teeny Titans (Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4): The Beast Boy army directly interacts with the park, taking complete control over it and beating the residents of it into submission. During Part 2, Beast Boy directly speaks to Rigby, influencing him to try to take control. In episode 3, during the Black Friday scene, Mordecai could buy items as if they were real, and in episode 4, he was stated to actually have been trapped in the "in-game" prison.
  • Hello Neighbor (Episodes 1 and 2): Although stated to be a game, Mordecai and Rigby were able to call other CN characters inside the game, and in the second episode Benson was revealed to have been the neighbor in disguise the whole time.
  • Minecraft (Episodes 1 and 2 Brazil and LA): Although stated to be a game, there is also evidence for Minecraft being a separate dimension, as Mordecai and Rigby dimension-hopped into another map by using "The Fourth Dimension of a Black Hole." They have also been shown struggling with labor in-game as if it were real.
  • Clash Royale (Episodes 1 and 2) Mordecai owns a kingdom; Benson is directly stated to be the king in Clash Royale, even interacting with them.
  • OKKO Lakewood Turbo (Episodes 1 and 2): Mordecai and Rigby create a news station that covers KO's crimes, even following him with a helicopter. Rigby eats a plant in the game as if it was real.

  • League of Legends: The Bensoncopter was used in League, as Mordecai recorded their own defeat from the helicopter for the news station.

  • Bendy and the Ink Machine (Episodes 1 and 2): the first episode of Bendy has a "haunted creepypasta" plot to it, where Benson creates a haunted copy of Bendy to give Mordecai and Rigby, with even Mordecai and Rigby questioning if any of that really happened in the ending. The second episode comes after they were sucked inside a computer, which means they are literally inside the game.

  • Benson Month (Episodes 1, 2, 3, and 4): This one is easy because it directly takes place inside the park, with Benson watching and reacting to Toontubers clips for all 4 episodes.

  • Arcade: This is an obvious one. Mordecai and Rigby got sucked inside the game; they bring attention to being in the game, therefore they are in the game.

  • World of Warcraft: Legion: the plot once again revolves around Mordecai and Rigby being sucked inside the game; therefore, they should be able to do anything in it. 
  • Comment Special: Due to there being no game in the video and it mostly taking place inside the park, the videos 100% happened.

  • Bladi's Basics in Education and Learning: Yup, they got sucked inside a game once again, and they scale to what's in it. Once again.
  • Ultimate Custom Night: Directly takes place in the Regular Show Universe after Black Hat kidnapped Mordecai and Rigby.
  • Tenny Titans 2 (Episodes 1, 2 and 3): is a direct sequel to the Beast Boy arc, which means all of the arguments for it being real from the first game can likely apply here.

  • Dark Deception: we directly see Mordecai and Rigby traveling to the hotel Benson booked, and everything that happens after is really happening in real life.
  • Trials Rising: even though it was stated to be a game, Rigby and Mordecai suffer real injuries like they were really piloting a bike, and in the beginning of the episode, they went to some other place that wasn't the park, which could be where Trials Rising takes place.

  • Toontubers Ultimato: no real game is played; instead, the whole video revolves around Rigby travelling through time and visiting the best moments of Toontubers.

  • Minecraft RTX: Mordecai and Rigby sign up for a house reform TV Show, Most of the video is centered around them trying to find a house inside Minecraft, which leads us to believe it's real; Mordecai gets wet by the in-game water.

  • Secret Neighbor: we see Rigby stepping out of the portal, into the game, besides this, he directly interacts with the games enviroment as if it was real. Kid Mordecai and Rigby felt cold upon going outside.

  • Untitled Goose Game: even though it was stated to be a video, Rigby acts as if he was really transformed into a goose, Mordecai calls Rigby through a radio inside the game, and Rigby travels through a house that was a portal to the next dimension.

  • TABS: One of the most obvious examples of an episode being real. King Mordecai has an actual kingdom and an actual army, and Rigby faces actual battles against actual people. Besides this, Rigby was trapped inside the dungeons, which are directly stated to be a real thing multiple times. And once again, Rigby travels through an actual portal even though it is a "game."

  • Gang Beasts (Episode 2): unlike its first episode, this seems to be real for many of the same reasons as the rest of the multiverse saga; Rigby feels actual pain from the "game," and the train that ran him over actually transported him to the gamer citadel.

Not Real:
  • Ski Safari: Their first ever game, they directly refer to it as a game, and there's no reason to believe they are actually inside it.
  • Epic Adventure of Finn and Jake: The whole plot revolves around Rigby wanting a controller to play. It's a game.
  • Card Wars: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given.
  • Game Wizard: Stated to be a game, no real reason why scaling should be given.
  • Up to Snow Good: Stated to be a game, no real reason why scaling should be given.
  • Sweet Ooodyseey: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given.
  • Overwatch (Episode 1): Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given.
  • Attack the Light: Stated to be a game, no real reason why scaling should be given. But it is important to note Pearl's lance seems to have somehow gotten into the real world, as we see it in other videos that are real.

  • Undertale (Episode 1 and 2): stated to be a game MULTIPLE times, being by far the most requested one, with no real signs of it being real besides Rigby getting kind of scared. In Episode 2, The computer was directly shown, and so was the game icon.

  • The Sims (Episode 1, April Fools, and Episode 2): Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given.

  • Sonic Generations: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given.

  • Copa Toon (Episodes 1, 2, and 3): Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. Things such as controllers are mentioned multiple times in videos.

  • Heroes of the Storm: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Overcooked: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Keep talking and Nobody Explodes: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Rocket Leage: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Octodad/I Am Bread: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Roblox (Episodes 1 and 2): Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Garden Warfare 2: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Geometry Dash/Ben 10: Up to Speed: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Cuphead: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Gang Beasts (Episode 1): Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Fortnite (Episodes 1 and 2): Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ (Episodes 1, 2 and 3): Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Nidhogg/Stick Fight: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Ori and the Blind Forest: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Minecraft: Adventure Time Add-on (Episodes 1 and 2): unlike its original version, the Adventure Time add-on shows no signs of being another dimension; in fact, we can see them downloading the game.
  • Spider-Man PS4: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Overcooked 2: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Baldi Field Trip: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Subnautica: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • WWE: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Heartstone: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Injustice 2: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Toontubers League: it's a league of games, so Mordecai and Rigby obviously aren't inside Overwatch; however, at the beginning and the end, the Mordecai and Rigby segments are 100% real.

  • Gloud: The entire episode is stated and shown to be Mordecai and Rigby testing out a game platform.

  • Brawl Starts: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Crash Team Racing: Directly stated to be a game, with the console running it even being shown
  • Baldi Birthday Bash: At the very beginning of the episode, it is shown to be nothing more than a story Mordecai made up.

  • FNAF: Help Wanted: Shown to be a game Mordecai and Rigby are playing on a VR headset multiple times
  • Free CN Games: In the beginning of the episode, Rigby states he has a few extra games he and Mordecai can play, which are the CN Games shown in the video.
  • Streamtubers: In this episode, Mordecai and Rigby specifically play a game made by the Narrator.
  • Among us: Directly stated to be a game by the Toontubers and Black Rigby

  • Free Fire: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Glitch.TV: Rigby is forced to take a test in a simulation, with said simulation being the Glitch.TV game; due to it being a simulation, it's obviously not real.

  • Ultimate Chicken Horse: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Quantum League: This episode is about Rigby playing yet another simulation, this one being a final test in order to free Mordecai, so it's not real.
  • Brawlhalla: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Super Mario Maker 2: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 
  • Pokemon Sword & Shield: Stated and shown to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Multiversus: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

  • Every Single Toontubers Express Minisode: Stated to be a game, with no real reason why scaling should be given. 

Okay, I think that should be it mostly. It's a very complicated thing to figure out, but we have covered everything we could. Now that's settled, let's move on to something even more batshit crazy.

The Toontubers Cosmology
The Universe
The Regular Universe of Regular Show, where Mordecai and Rigby come from, not much to be said about it. We won't scale it to the cosmology of Regular Show here if it wasn't obvious by now.

Minecraft
This was the first clear sign of a cosmology in Toontubers, as their first Minecraft episode houses a Fourth Dimension connected to a Black Hole and 4 different maps that the Black Hole can transport you to: a Regular Show map, a Steven Universe map, a Gumball map, and a survival map. In their second episode, they get transported to a Hide & Seek map in the Brazilian version and another survival map in the LA version. We will be taking both into consideration since it kind of only happened because they wanted to collab with different YouTubers for different dubs.

So Minecraft has a total of 6 different universes, all connected by a fourth-dimensional black hole. But we are not done, adding both The End (which appeared in Episode 2 of the Latin American version) and The Nether, who, while not shown should likely exist, gives us a total of 8 Universes.

The Multiverse
Across the Multiverse, exists a large number of Mordecais and Rigbys, all with their own channels. Though we don't know how big it is, we can assume it is immensely large due to the sheer amount of Mordecais and Rigbys we have seen in their constant travels across dimensions, from superheroes to bloodthirsty Saiyans. The multiverse is a vast place where anything can happen.

The Real World
The place where the editors, voice actors, narrators, writers, and Cartoon Network itself reside. This is pretty much our world, with no real changes. It sees the entire cosmology as simple fiction, controlling and bending it to their every whim. While still being able to interact with it. As we have seen in The Sims Part 3, there are higher layers of reality who see those interactions as fictional also; we see 5 layers in total who are working on the episode, there's a scene of the team working on the episode. then it cuts to the same team working on the scene of the team working on the episode and then again and again. No one really scales to it. However, Mordecai and Rigby do have help from people who do, so take that as you will. 

TL;DR: This should be pretty simple; Toontubers operates on a pretty obvious multiverse, but due to the real world having 5 extra layers of R > F transcendence, the people in there should be 9D and complex multiversal. Mordecai and Rigby obviously don't scale to it, so they should only be around the multiversal range.

Weakness
To put it simply, Mordecai and Rigby are very flanderized here, which means both are usually dumber than their original counterparts, Rigby especially, who under the tiniest bit of pressure panics. His emotional control is extremely low, and his emotions usually get the best of him. School Material has also been stated to be effective against Rigbys, dealing an extreme ammout of damage due to their idiocy. Mordecai, on the other hand, is extremely overconfident and cocky, which results in him taking things less seriously and getting extremely mad and aggressive when he does lose or gets insulted.

Conclusion

Attack Potency/Durability: Multiversal, Complex Multiversal with Support

Speed: Inaccessible

Abilities:
  • Nonexistent Physiology
  • Statistics Amplification
  • Dimensional Travel
  • Sealing
  • Time Stop
  • Immortality
  • Existence Erasure
  • Tornado Manipulation
  • Rock Manipulation
  • Pain Tolerance 
  • Regeneration
  • Immersion
  • Flight
  • Hammerspace
  • 4th Wall Awareness
Resistances:
  • Pain
  • Extreme Heat
  • Corruption/Mind Manipulation
  • Existence Erasure
Possible Matchups
The Second Coming
 

  • Determined yet naive, Main Characters from Meta, Fourth-Wall Breaking, Reality Hopping, Web Series who constantly Reference other games, with various Items from them being used very often. They hold a special power, going trough different universes and fighting Powerful Foes and even people who are their very mirror.

  • Both series started somewhat small, but as time passed and more episodes were released, the scope of their storyline grew, even introducing alternate realities into the plot.
  • Although both seemed to have a troubled relationship with a person who lived in the real world (The Narrator and Alan Becker) with a higher position of power (The Narrator owns Mordecai and Rigby's channel, and Alan Becker created TSC), they eventually became accustomed to their presence.

  • Both are fully aware of their status as fictional beings, even going as far as working together with the real people in the real world who created them (the editors and Alan Becker).

  • Both have met Sorrowful Kings who have lost most of what they held dear, These Kings antagonized them initially, but would eventually redeem themselves.

  • Both have met Dark, Vengeful Figures with a deep connection to them, sharing many similar traits and being a mirror of themselves (Black Mordecai/Rigby and The Victim), who had their lives ruined by figures in higher power (The Cosmics and Alan Becker), which resulted in them turning evil and causing chaos across many different worlds. Though they would eventually befriend them (only Black Mordecai and Black Rigby kind of just stayed evil).
  • At the climax of their journey, Rigby and TSC would awaken a power that allowed them to rival reality-threatening menaces after being treated as ordinary nobodies for so long.
  • Both have traveled into similar worlds/videogames (Minecraft, League of Legends, and Pokemon) and have used many of the abilities and items at their disposal in these worlds.
Yea, this is the only Toontubers matchup I could find, and by find I mean…I made it up, BUT HEY, HEY! I'd say I did a pretty good job overall. Not one of my best matchups, but it gets the job done. It's like not really as thematically rich as some TSC matchups, and it doesn't have the endless fight potential TSC matchups are known to have either, but when it comes to a Toontubers matchup, which is kind of a joke series that's unironically good, that's probably as good as it gets. Happy 2026, everyone.

Psst, If you want to Help me with any future Matchup, just reach me on Discord. _hallownest__93103 or reddit






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