Mercedes Jones is a major character on Glee. Mercedes was the first student to audition for New Directions. At the beginning of the series, she develops a close friendship with Kurt Hummel and a strong rivalry with Rachel Berry. At the end of Season Three, she reveals that she accepted a recording contract at an indie label and moves to Los Angeles where she attends classes at UCLA. She occasionally returns to McKinley to mentor the younger students as a vocal coach. In Season Five, she moves to New York to work on her album and rekindles her relationship with Sam Evans. However, she and Sam break up again because their lives are going in different directions. Currently, Mercedes is on a mall tour with Brittany and Santana, promoting her album. Mercedes later comes back in the last season of the series to help Kurt and Rachel recruit new glee club members, accepts Sam's new relationship with Rachel, reveals she's dating a rock star with whom she shares her celibacy vows, and attends Brittany's, Santana's, Kurt's and Blaine's double wedding.
Mercedes is a main character from the beginning until Season Four. She was once demoted to a recurring character in Season Five, but was promoted again in Season Six. She is portrayed by Amber Riley.
Mercedes auditions for the Glee club with the song, Respect, and is one of the original Gleeks. Right after the auditions, Mercedes, with Rachel, Artie, Kurt and Tina, sing Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat but they are disappointed because of the lack of a strong lead solo. Later on, when the Glee club recruited a new male member, she "divas out" and says that she "is Beyoncé and ain't no Kelly Rowland!" after singing back-up in You're the One That I Want. However, she began singing in an again and admitted they were actually starting to sound good. She goes to see Vocal Adrenaline with the rest of the Glee club and is shocked at how talented they are when they sang Rehab.
After Will Schuester decides to quit directing the Glee club because his wife is pregnant, Mercedes is given the job of providing her fellow Glee club members with stylish clothing when they sing, Don't Stop Believin'. To their surprise, Will decides to direct Glee club again after a talk from Emma Pillsbury. Mercedes is filled with joy.
During rehearsals, Mercedes argues with Rachel after she almost kicks her and complains in Will's choice of song. Later on, she gets into a dispute with Kurt Hummel when he tells her that she looks like a "technicolor zebra." Afterwards, she performs a solo in Gold Digger. She is seen doing back-up in Push It and Take a Bow.
Mercedes is worried that she won't ever get a boyfriend so she starts hanging out with Kurt. Mercedes hopes that it will eventually lead to a relationship. Mercedes thinks that Kurt returns her feelings and they link arms while going to see Vocal Adrenaline to hire their choreographer. Fellow Glee club members Tina Cohen-Chang and Rachel Berry have a "gayvention" telling Mercedes that they didn't want her to get hurt by feelings that Kurt couldn't return, Mercedes stood up for him saying that just because he dressed nice didn't mean he was gay (they said that he was too 'lady' beautiful).
During the Glee club car wash, Mercedes asked Kurt to make it official, but he told her that he was in love with someone else and looked at Finn, but Mercedes thought he was looking at Rachel so she smashed the front window of his new car, and then sung Bust Your Windows. Mercedes and Kurt both apologized to each other for the incident before Kurt told her that he was gay, making her the first person he ever told.
Mercedes shows encouragement to Tina Cohen-Chang when she gets a solo over Rachel. Through the rest of the episode she is seen to be in the background.
When April Rhodes is attempts to win the Glee Club's respect, she teaches Mercedes and Tina how to shoplift. They come to Mr. Schuester with new clothes and accessories saying that they love April. She performs backing vocals in Last Name and has a short solo at the end of Somebody to Love.
Sue wants Mercedes in her group and refers to her as Aretha. When everyone else is nervous, she say that she is excited because she saw Sue's Corner last night and saw her give a speech about how much she loves minorities. Sue gives Mercedes the lead in Hate on Me. She sings Ride wit Me along with the rest of the group, but then says that they need to go and meet Sue. After Sue and Will get into a huge fight in front of all the kids, Mercedes and the rest of them storm out. Mercedes sings back-up vocals inKeep Holding On.
Mercedes dodges a slushie facial. Meanwhile, she mocks Mr. Schuester's choice of song Bust a Movebecause it is so old. After Kurt hits himself with a slushie, Mercedes takes him to the washroom to clean his face.
Mercedes had auditioned for the Cheerios, she sings "McKinley, hey!," but she was rejected by Sue. After Will decides they should sing Defying Gravity at Sectionals, Mercedes thinks they should sing something more black, Will says that they will find something for her. When her best friend Kurt competes with Rachel, she is supportive of him and winces sympathetically at him when he intentionally messes up a high F. Mercedes later sings lead with Artie and Tina in Proud Mary.
Mercedes is partnered up with Puck for the ballad they need to perform. She talks to Tina on the phone about how everyone is so rattled up about Quinn and Finn's baby that they can't express any emotions of their own in the ballads. So they all decide to perform one ballad for Quinn and Finn. She tells Puck about their idea and he is upset. When Mercedes asks what his problem is, Puck tells her that Finn is not the father, he is. Mercedes tells him that he should forget about it because Quinn chose Finn and he had no business screwing up her life more than he already had. She went to get Kurt and Finn and took them to the choir room. Mercedes performed lead vocals in Lean on Me along with Artie.
Mercedes and Artie perform the leads in the hairography number Hair/Crazy in Love performing with wigs. When they hear the deaf school perform Imagine, Mercedes starts to sing with them, then Artie joins in, then the rest of the Glee club. She performs back-up vocals in True Colors.
Mercedes and the rest of Glee club don't want their picture in the yearbook, however Rachel ensures that two of them get a picture so Mercedes votes for Rachel to be one of the two people. When Rachel asks her to be the second person, she lies about celebrating Kwanzaa. Then, Rachel gets them all cast in a mattress commercial. Mercedes says that she won't talk to any of them after she gets her record deal and becomes famous. She performs Jump in the commercial. After Quinn gets all of the Glee club a picture in the yearbook, while the pictures are taken Mercedes sings Smile along with Rachel and Finn.
Rachel decides to volunteer to sing at Sectionals. Mercedes is fed up with Rachel always having to be the "star." Therefore, she demands her right to be heard, leading her to sing And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going, which causes a standing ovation from all the others, even Rachel, who says Mercedes should indeed sing the ballad. Meanwhile, it's discovered that despite promising otherwise to Puck, Mercedes has told all the other Glee kids that Puck is the real father of Quinn's baby. The only one not told is Rachel, who everyone is afraid will tell Finn the truth (which she does, upon figuring it out herself).
Upon reaching Sectionals, it's discovered that the opposing schools have stolen their set lists, which Sue Sylvester has passed on in order to destroy the group. Rachel takes command and asks Mercedes to choose a different ballad to sing. Mercedes concedes to not having prepared another song and asks that Rachel perform instead. With Finn back as well, the group comes together to win Sectionals and get Will back.
After Sectionals, Mercedes along with the rest of the Glee feel elated at their victory, and think that their social status would be elevated. This fantasy is quickly dashed, however, as she, Rachel and Kurt all receive slushies to the face. At Glee rehearsal, the group is given the assignment of singing songs involving the word "Hello." When the group later discovers that Rachel is dating the male lead of their rivals Vocal Adrenaline,Jesse St. James, it is Mercedes, Kurt, Tina and Artie who confront her on it, with Mercedes trying to tactfully explain that Rachel should not date the enemy.
When Will grows concerned about how the boys are treating the girls, he suggests that all of them perform Madonna numbers to promote strength the girl's sense of self-worth. Kurt is ecstatic along with the girls to perform Madonna's iconic works, and asks to be allowed to do a multimedia project with Mercedes in honor of Madonna. While working on their project, they both witness Sue Sylvester insulting Will's hair again, and are surprised to see Will effortlessly make a comeback. Feeling bad for her, Kurt and Mercedes go and offer their make-over services to her, and in-exchange will b
Kurt and Mercedes, "Vogue"
e allowed to borrow the male Cheerios for their Madonna Project.
Sue agrees, and together the three of them recreate Madonna's Voguemusic video under the direction of Artie. Despite the new looks they offer Sue, she decides in the end she's better being herself, and that rather than change herself, she changes everyone else. Starting with Kurt and Mercedes. She then extends an invitation to them to join the Cheerios, doing musical performances to the cheerleading routines. Seeing as neither Kurt nor Mercedes have gotten solos under Will's Glee guidance, they accept and decide to do both Glee and Cheerios. Will is not pleased but accepts, and as if to make it up to them, gives them solos in Like a Prayer.
Sue admonishes Mercedes, telling her that she must lose ten pounds and wear the female Cheerios uniform, though Mercedes tries to explain that it "doesn't fit her right," and she'd rather wear the pants. Kurt pushes Mercedes to lose the weight, though he originally says that her body is fine the way that it is
In the cafeteria, Mercedes leaves her lunch and gets mad at Artie and Tina for trying to get her to eat. She starts to hallucinate by seeing them, Rachel, and Jesse as food, and faints. The nurse tells her she has low blood pressure. Once she leaves, Quinn walks over to Mercedes and assures her that she went through the same thing. Mercedes is surprised at her kindness, and tells her how she is embarrassed at who she has let herself become. At the end of the episode, during a pep rally, Mercedes sings Beautiful, and most of the Cheerios and Glee Club members join her, thus proving to everyone that Mercedes is proud of herself.
Mercedes has meeting with Kurt, Artie, and Tina along with Brittany (only because she stayed), because they were angry that they were not on the Glist (except for Brittany, who was only fourth). They all try to get in trouble so they can be on the Glist. Mercedes dances with Artie, Kurt, Tina and Brittany in the library, which was Kurt's plan of how to get a bad reputation. They performU Can't Touch This, which is ultimately ineffective because the librarian enjoyed their dance and asked them to perform for her church.
Puck feels he is at the bottom of the social heap and get's his eye on Mercedes who has all of the popularity. He decides to woo her and they have a duet of Lady Is a Tramp. Mercedes has a brief fling with Puck that doesn't set well with Santana and they angrily sing The Boy Is Mine. She quits the Cheerios and breaks up with Puck after realizing she needs to be true to herself.
Mercedes try to give a new style to Tina. She looks very excited with the assignment of the week, Lady Gaga. With Rachel and Quinn spy Vocal Adrenaline, and Rachel discovers that Shelby Corcoran is her mother. She has a solo during Bad Romance. She with the girls, Kurt and Will are cheering the ND Boys performance and Puck'ssolo. At the end, she helps Finn with the Glee Club to defend Kurt for David Karofsky and Azimio.
Mercedes makes fun of Quinn when their assignment is to come up with a funk number. Quinn proves her wrong and shows her funky side. Meanwhile, Mercedes performs Good Vibrations alongside Finn and Puck and realizes that Quinn does feel the same as she has. Quinn apologizes to Mercedes, saying that Quinn will only be called names for nine months while Mercedes has had to deal with it her whole life. Mercedes replies, saying that Quinn is not angry, just hurt after being kicked out of her parents and Finn's house. Mercedes also offers for Quinn to come live with her as they have got a spare room after Mercedes' brother is at college. The entire glee club shows their rivals, Vocal Adrenaline, just what they've got ready for them at Regionals by performing Give up the Funk.
At Regionals, the New Directions perform a Journey medley at Regionals then Quinn's water breaks. The entire group (except Rachel) rush to the hospital. Quinn insists on Mercedes being in the delivery room and she bravely accepts, showing how much their relationship has developed. After losing, Mercedes and the rest of the glee club confess to Will how glee club has changed them and perform To Sir, With Love. They then celebrate and listen to Will and Puck perform Over The Rainbow after they learn they have got one more year of glee.
Personality
Mercedes is a self-described "diva." She is confident, outspoken, headstrong, and very loyal to her friends. However, despite her strong personality, she is also known to be very sensitive and strives to find someone to love and be loved. Furthermore, Mercedes is extremely supportive and sympathetic to her friends, such as when she let a pregnant Quinn live with her after she was kicked out of her house and helped Santana's record ambition come true at the possible expense of her own. While Mercedes is a reasonably clever girl, she has been known to make dumb comments such as mistaking broccoli for a toilet brush or believing she can get HIV/AIDS from cucumbers.
Mercedes is a strong Christian and plans to wait until she married to have sex. Although her friends come from different backgrounds, she still prays for them to show support.
Relationships
In Acafellas, Mercedes develops a crush on Kurt, despite him being obviously gay. However, after she is rejected, she angrily breaks the windshield of his car, but later apologizes to him. Kurt then reveals that he is gay and they become close friends.
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