To me, the main similarity between these two characters is that they both kind of like violence. Tybalt is always ready to fight. His first words and his last words in the play are about fighting. He has to be restrained from going after Romeo at the ball. Mercutio also is kind of hot headed. In the scene where he dies, he cannot wait to get at Tybalt and fight him.
The difference between them (at least so far as we can see in their words) is that Tybalt has no thoughts except violent ones. By contrast, Mercutio is funny -- as in how he makes fun of the Nurse in Act II, Scene 4. He also talks all kinds of silly stuff in his "Queen Mab" speech in Act I, Scene 4.
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