Why Didnt Mordecai Shoot Ivy? - Lackadaisy Pilot

Comic-reader here: Atlas took Mordecai in and basically raised him. He gave Mordecai a home, a father figure, and a start in the business due to his... unique talents. Atlas was basically his dad. Ivy Pepper is Atlas' Goddaughter. She is basically family to him. Because of his love for Atlas, he will absolutely flinch at killing either Mitzi or Ivy... and they are the only people Mordecai would hesitate at killing. Except maybe Viktor, potentially, since he considers Victor a close friend. If Atlas was still alive, they wouldn't have even been on opposite sides.

Basically he's still loyal to his old boss, and is trying to figure out who killed him and why because somthing about it didn't add up. And he also has two or three sisters, one about Ivy's age so that might be his subconscious telling him NO.

I've only known about this show for a couple weeks and have already grown attached to it. I personally love Rocky, Freckle, Ivy, and Mordecai.

Mordecai is a very interesting and complicated character. He's a sociopath who began his career at an early age and atlas was almost like a father/mentor to him. While atlas wasn't the kindest boss, especially to Mordecai, he showed Mordecai a new path when he was lost. He respects him even in death. Piper reminded him of the old days and she acts almost like a monument to what lackadaisy was and to destroy that meant to harm Atlas' work

He got sentimental about old times.

For those who haven’t read the comic I’d highly recommend it. The pilot was good, don’t get me wrong, but the comics have so much charm and in my opinion do the characters and their personalities more justice (especially Rocky and Freckle)

No wonder. I wasn't familiar with the characters because I never read the comic before seeing the pilot episode. Makes sense that he wouldn't want to kill his old friend's goddaughter, it kind of makes his character a lot deeper.

Um actually Ivy going to college isn’t a false pretense, it’s just wildly played up. She purposely makes it so that she has to stay in St. Louis (specifically over the summer), but she is actually going to college.

Lackadaisy is basically Fast and Furious with cats in the 20s if you've only seen the pilot.

He respects Victor and Atlas too much to do it. Whereas he has no qualms with shooting rocky before they got to the quarry, and actually shoots Freckle in the head. She is the only one he refuses to harm.

This is very helpful for new fans of Lackadaisy👍🏽

So based on the new Lackadaisy short that came out, Mordecai knew Ivy since she was a child; I think when Ivy looked back Mordecai recognized her and just couldn’t bring himself to do it.

I'd read the comics prior to the pilot, but even if I didn't, I would've suspected that Mordecai either recognized Ivy (and had some sort of connection with her from back in the day), he had a conscience about not shooting girls, or she reminded him of someone he knew from way back then (thus getting "sentimental about old times"). Either way, it leaves it open-ended for when the series finally comes out.

Perhaps Mordecai spared Ivy because he is still loyal to his old boss who died, and Ivy was his goddaughter.

Pretty much figured the same, as well as he probably still feels somewhat endowed to Atlas even after death

I was also quite confused with the scene at first, but now I understand a little bit about Lackadaisy's insanely deep lore (pun intended) and all the good stuff.

I always assumed it was because Ivy looked like his sisters, but this makes sense too

The new short vid showed that they knew each other when ivy was a kid

Cold as Mordecai is, the comics showed he at least cared about his mother and sisters. So he might have qualms about killing young women. Especially ones he's seen grow up, like Ivy.

He also only had 2 bullets left(2 shot at Rocky and 2 shot at Freckle). So even if he was willing to shoot Ivy he wouldn't because he would only have 1 bullet for either Rocky and Freckle afterwards.