Murdoc Niccals

"Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a sooty classist way. I mean because I'm better than everyone else. I don't give a s--t about good manners."

- Murdoc Niccals

Murdoc Alphonce Niccals is the fictional founder and bass guitarist of the popular British Virtual band Gorillaz.

He was voiced by Phil Cornwell, and was created by Damon Albarn and James Hewlett.

Childhood
He was born on June 6th 1966 and was left on the doorstep of his father's house soon after his mother gave birth to him. Murdoc then suffered a very abusive childhood which is most likely the reason for his behaviour as an adult as well as his spiteful, always drunk father who regularly verbally abused Murdoc and his brothers. He was educated at Sodsworth Comprehensive School where he gained quite the reputation for his pranks, poor personal hygiene, terrible behaviour and all around ugliness. His rival at school was a bully named Tony Chopper of whom constantly bullied Murdoc, the latter got revenge on Chopper however by calling him several offensive, rude names when right afterwards Tony punched him in the face giving Murdoc his signature wonky broken nose. Murdoc dreamt of becoming a musician ever since his father forced him to participate in talent contests in order to win drinking money.

Leaving Home and Meeting 2D
Once Murdoc left his home town he became a Satanist and made a deal with the devil being that if he were to become a famous rockstar then Satan could take his soul. Upon making the deal he was given Satan's base guitar El Diablo. Murdoc played in countless bands before Gorillaz all of which went nowhere and faded into obscurity, one evening in 1997 he and a gang of criminals were on a vicious crime spree and stole a Vauxhall Astra. The gang and Murdoc were going to next invade Uncle Norm's Organ Emporium where 2D (known as Stuart Pot) was working. Murdoc crashed the car into the shop and hit Stewart directly in the face putting Stuart in a coma and giving him severe 8-ball fractures to one of his eyes. As punishment for the crash Murdoc was forced to do 30,000 hours of community service by taking care of the injured Stuart, however one night when skidding his car in a Tesco Car Park in Nottingham Stuart flew straight through the windshield and his other eye suffered an 8-ball fracture giving him his signature look. Impressed by Stuart's appearance when he stood up Murdoc named him 2D and later hired Russell to join the band. They later received Noodle through a Fed-Ex package containing her.

Gorillaz
The band formed and gained a lot of success and popularity, especially with breakout songs such as Clint Eastwood and Feel Good Inc. this helped 6 shorts get created about the band known as Gorillaz Bites in these shorts Murdoc is shown to be very villainous and antagonizes his band mates and several for example in one short entitled The Eel 2D is attempting to kill an Eel for Russell to cook when Murdoc walks into the kitchen screaming at 2D to stop banging, 2D explains himself and how he can't kill the eel and Murdoc grabs the and melts it's face on the stove, traumatising 2D. In later videos for the Escape To Plastic Beach album such as Stylo and Melancholy Hill, Murdoc, 2D and Cyborg Noodle are being chased by a force known as Boogieman and the three narrowly escape their attacks. Later in the Do Ya Thing video the band is living together and a run down flat and Murdoc is seen once again bullying 2D. In 2016 Murdoc escaped from Plastic Beach and took Cyborg Noodle with him. He is currently looking for the real Noodle along with 2D.

In 2017 Murdoc and 2D found Noodle and even Russell returned prompting a new era for the band, they released their new album "Humanz" and had a close encounter with aliens in Saturnz Barz, Murdoc himself however was unaffected by the creatures. Sometime after the release of this album however Murdoc was imprisoned and the band hired Ace of the Gangreen Gang from the hit Cartoon Network 1999 series the Powerpuff Girls as his stand in.

Appearance
Murdoc is a green-skinned, medium length black-haired 50-year-old man with long unclean fingernails and a wonky nose due to getting punched in the face quite frequently as a child. He is 5 ft. 9 inches tall and has a rather skinny body. He always wears a golden reversed cross necklace (the symbol for the anti Christ) and his attire usually consists of simple jeans, brown shoes and a black shirt; however he does change his attire from time to time in some music videos. His tongue is long and pointed and his teeth are uneven, dirty and spiked.

Personality
Murdoc is extremely short tempered, arrogant, grouchy, and rude. He doesn't get along well with his bandmates that much often and particularly likes to pick on 2D the most. As seen in the Do Ya Thing video, Murdoc is extremely lazy and even uses a chair lift to go down the stairs in his, 2D, Russell and Noodle's flat despite being perfectly capable of walking normally without assistance. During the video, he is also shown to be even more grouchy in mornings as evident from his behavior towards 2D (i.e. growling at him for no apparent reason and whacking him over the head with a shoe).

Quotes
"Well, we went through a lot of names but seeing as musically I wanted to swing through the jungle baring my arse I thought Gorillaz was a perfect name."

- Murdoc on why he named the band Gorillaz.

"He don't feel too good, he feel eel."

- Murdoc to Russel after melting the eel's face.

"I'll tell you what I've seen quite a few episodes of MTV Cribs and EVERY house is the same. What's all that about? The first thing these peasants do when they get their hands on some money is buy some tacky show home, and fill it up with all this s--t. They call it culture. They wouldn't know what culture was if jumped up and bit them you know, an' took em on holiday. Peasants, slag, scumbags."

- Murdoc in the Gorillaz: MTV cribs short.

"THE BATH!"

- One of Murdoc's lines in Saturnz Barz (which has now became a popular meme).

Trivia

 * During Phase 1, Murdoc is shown to have heterochromia, as his left eye iris is light red and is then darkened during Phase 2. He no longer has it in later phases.
 * His voice changed drastically during the transition from Phase 1 to Phase 3. Initially, Murdoc's voice was higher-pitched and nasally but in later phases, his voice is lowered in octaves and became a mix between nasally and raspy.
 * Murdoc has his own Twitter account. Formerly, the account was inactive since 2012, but later became active years later following his imprisonment in 2018.
 * He is the only mixed member of the band due to his mother being Romani.
 * Murdoc has a brother named Hannibal. Nothing else is known him except that he is older than Murdoc.
 * One of Murdoc's many nose breaks was caused by Russell after he caught Murdoc having an affair with 2D's ex girlfriend i the Kong Studios toilets, a furious Russell punched him in the face, breaking his nose in 5 places.
 * A line Murdoc said in Saturnz Barz (The Bath) has now become a popular meme. He is aware of the meme's existence and remarks about it occasionally in interviews.