Cardinal

Cardinal from The Nut Job 3

Cardinal is a tertiary antagonist of The Nut Job.

Official Profile

Appearance

Cardinal has red feathers, black tips on the tail fathers, a large yellow beak, and black beady eyes.

Biography

Early Life

Before joining the ranks of Racoon's evil park coalition, the Cardinal has humble origins. He comes from an egg hatched from a mommy Cardinal. Racoon and him met animal control after getting caught for minor animal aggravation. They quickly became friends and shared over their common birth method (Racoon was also from a mommy cardinal egg).

Relationships

Raccoon

Cardinal and Raccoon have a very close relationship. Despite Raccoon's selfishness, he does care deeply for his pet Cardinal. Cardinal does whatever he can to help Raccoon in his evil plans, as they are very similar in personality. Raccoon dislikes it when someone harms Cardinal. For example, when Surly defeated Cardinal by flinging him into a cat house, this made Raccoon horrified and enraged, and this made Raccoon want to kill Surly even more.

Mole

Cardinal and Mole were initially allies, as Raccoon hired him to sabotage Surly's plan to keep the nut heist from succeeding. But they became enemies when Raccoon double-crossed Mole, and this made him leave Raccoon's side and join Surly's.

Surly

Cardinal and Surly are enemies. Due to Surly being Raccoon's nemesis, Cardinal feels the same contempt for Surly. They both have a strong dislike for each other, and Cardinal was know for constantly attacking Surly. However Surly did manage to defeat Cardinal, which only enraged Raccoon.

Precious

Cardinal and Precious are also enemies, because she is on Surly's side.

Gallery

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Trivia

• Since he didn't appear in the post-credits scene of The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature when Raccoon decides to swim to the city to have his revenge it's possible that he flied away or that he at least that he tried and got eaten by one of the sharks. The second theory seems more likely.
• He does not have a single voice line. This is because Cardinals are not known to speak English. In the Nut Job 3, however, Cardinal is fluent in German due to where the raft ended up at the conclusion of the original Nut Job.
• Despite rumors of being killed, Cardinal is shown to be invincible. The Nut Job shows Cardinal getting hit by a car and recovering instantly which shows that he cannot be hurt that's why Cardinal is not dead.