Mercutio
Mercutio is Romeo’s best friend. Mercutio likes to have a good laugh; he is loyal and is known to love wordplay. When Romeo is depressed because of his unrequited love for Rosaline, it is Mercutio that suggests they should all gate-crash the Capulet party. Which leads to Romeo first seeing Juliet. He can be easily aggravated and hates people who are pretentious or obsessed with the latest fashions.
Quotes
Act 1 Scene 4 A reference to Mercutio being a realist, and not believing in anything else: ‘True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy’
Act 2 Scene 1 A reference to love always being sexual and relating to how Mercutio believes Romeo wanted to see Juliet for that reason: ‘O Romeo, that she were, O, that she were an open-arse, thou a poperin pear!’
Act 3 Scene 1 Another reference to Mercutio not believing in the supernatural: ‘A plague o’ both your houses’