El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera: Difference between revisions

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Unsure of whether he's destined to be a hero like his father, White Pantera, or whether crime is his true calling, like his grandfather Puma Loco, Manny refuses to pick one side over the other. He alternately contributes to and opposes the seedy goings-on of his town, Miracle City (described in the opening sequence as "a [[Wretched Hive|spicy cesspool of crime and villainy]]") with the aid and companionship of his best friend, Frida Suarez.

 

Although Manny is mainly good to appeal to young viewers, he frequently disobeys his honest and heroic father and partakes in "bad" acts (e.g. buying the tattoo maker, kicking the crutch that kept Casa De Adios up and thus demolishing it).

 

 

* [[Action Mom]]: Well, Maria with her Plata Peligrosa powers, anyway.

* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: A bunch of reccuring girls that Manny keeps trying to impress (he fails most of the time.)

* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Played straight in "Mustache Love" when the ugly Sophia loses her unibrow and is suddenly beautiful (though she still sounds and acts the same). Subverted with Manny who looks pretty much the same without the mustache, but Sophia finds him repulsive.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Do not call a Rivera a coward. Bad, bad idea.

** Also ''never'' ''' ''ever'' ''' harm Manny around his mother. Just don't.

** Never call the Golden Eagle Twins' Zeppelin a blimp.

** If you hurt Frida when Chief Suarez is around, pray for mercy.

* [[Between My Legs]]: Of Maria in the episode "A Mother's Glove".

** Also of El Oso in "Sole of a Hero" and El Tigre in "Fistful of Collars"

* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: Every time a villain snatches his belt, Manny is helpless.

** This happens to all the Rivera men in 'No Belt, No Boots, No Bero', due to court order. The alternative was time in an onion mine.

* [[Bumbling Dad]]: Rodolfo is a good father, but he's a bit of a dork sometimes. Especially in the presence of his lady love, Maria.

** As a crime-fighting maverick, on the other hand, he's the real deal.

** And so on for pretty much every other hero/villain with an alter ego.

* [[Cardboard Prison]]: A [[Running Gag]], which is frequently lampshaded by El Oso. This is also a plot point in one episode, where Manny's mother decides that the revolving door on the prison is ineffective and tries to rehabilitate criminals instead.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Every villain on the show, especially Puma Loco.

* [[Catch Phrase]]

* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]: Rodolfo frequently does this to Manny.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Grandpapi

* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: Manny's entire family gets their super powers from articles of clothing or accessories:

** Manny's El Tigre belt buckle.

* [[Disaster Dominoes]]: Pretty much every time Manny goes El Tigre in the school library.

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: La Tigressa {{spoiler|Frida Suarez.}}

** Also, pretty much every character on the show, if you have any understanding of Spanish.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Puma Loco draws the line at hurting your own family. Also, Don Baffi doesn't mess with true love.

** All of the super villains present were horrified when El Tigre gave Dr. Chipotle Sr. a wet willy.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Every villain, of course. And for a hero, Plata Peligrosa has a pretty good evil laugh.

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: All the time. Generally, it's a way for Manny to have evil episodes but still not seem too bad.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: Sketches of El Tigre's third season, which never did exist, can be found on deviantArt.

* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: Both parents have done it, though White Pantera's was interrupted by almost drowning.

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Dr. Chipotle Sr. and Dr. Chipotle Jr.

* [[Heroic RROD]]: Maria's Glove which makes her particularly [[Ax Crazy]] the longer she wears it.

* [[Henshin Hero]]: Manny uses a special belt to transform from his secret identity to his superhero form. He also only possesses his super powers while in his superhero form.

* [[Hot Librarian]]: Maria.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Maria Rivera, again, plus Voltura (Zoe Aves/Black Cuervo´s mom) and Carmela Suarez (Frida Suarez´s mom).

** Also parodied with Frieda and bubble-wrap.

* [[I Can See My House From Here]]: As Manny and Frida dangle from The Golden Eagle Twin's blimp([[Insistent Terminology|Zeppelin!]])

* [[Idiosyncratic Wipes]]: On one memorable occasion the shot of Manny shatters and falls away to reveal the next scene.

* [[If I Can't Have You]]: This is both Sergio's and Diego's response to realizing that Frida could never be with one of them.

* [[I Taste Delicious]]: Dr. Chipoltle Jr.'s guacamole monster apparently likes to eat itself. With nachos.

* [[Just Eat Him]]: In one episode Sartana creates a huge bone monster that eats the Riveras and Frida, but they manage to bust their way out using the [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|Caliente Catapult of Carnage]]. In another, a gigantic creature called the Dragonworm devours Manny (who happens to be the last ingredient that will make the Dragonworm "invincible"), but Rodolfo beats the tar out of it, believing it to be fake until he rescues Manny, and finds he's covered with real dragon spit. In another, Manny intentionally jumps into the gullet of Dr. Chipotle Jr.'s guacamole monster in order to destroy it from within using some kind of all-powerful guacamole.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: The Golden Eagle Twins. Two twins who take advantage of their superhero fame to scam the locals into getting whatever they want. Despite Manny and Frida beating em in a fight and destroying their zeppelin ("IT'S NOT A BLIMP"). The city still supported then none the wiser to their true natures. What more Manny ended up getting imprisoned for a statue of them that was the destroyed in the fight.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]] "It's like you kicked a puppy... a lost, unemployed puppy... with a cold."

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]

* [[Longing Look]]

* [[Look Behind You!]]: Parodied.

'''Frida''': Where? (''Turns around, then realizes Chipotle ran away'') Aw, man! }}

* [[Love Cannot Overcome]]: Maria is unable to see her husband Rodolfo constantly in mortal danger... this is a little strange considering that {{spoiler|she herself used to be a superheroine.}}

* [[Prehensile Hair]]: Manny's sentient mustache Raul, as well as Sophia's sentient monobrow.

** The Mustache Mafia too, of course.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: All the villains on the show. Including the child villains.

* [[Rocket Punch]]: El Tigre thankfully never combined with the [[Wolverine Claws]].

*** The name Super Macho Fighters II should make that clear enough.

** Frida's puppet show: "So then the rabbit said to the hunter, 'No, I'm a duck.'"

*** Later in the same episode, Manny and Frida try to lure a group of bears to follow them with a picnic basket. It works.

** Sartana of the Dead's first name sounds suspiciously similar to that of another latin guitarist.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Several of the villains, but ''especially'' the Titanium Titan, who rarely doesn't have his face stretched into a jagged, toothy, creepy grin.

* [[Spaghetti Western]]: Invoked. Manny's school, Leone, is named after [[Sergio Leone]], director of the [[Dollars Trilogy]]. Likewise, Django and Sartana of the Death are named after two protagonists from the genre.

* [[Stock Sound Effects]]: There's a few that you're bound to hear at least once an episode, including certain anime-style slashing sounds, an [[Audible Sharpness]] sound that's often used before something explodes, and a couple of commonly-used fart sounds that accompany everything from a garbage truck dumping out shredded trash goop, to a robot dog farting out a battery.

** There's also a "warping" sound effect used for laser and the like which got a lot of memorable use in the old [[Fantastic Four]] animated show. In the sixties.

** Puma Loco: PUMAAAA LOCO!

* [[Tsundere]]: Zoe Aves/Black Cuervo pretty much sums it up.

** Her entire family is like this. Zoe likes/hates Manny, her mother likes/hates Rodolfo and her grandmother likes/hates Grandpapi.

*** Zoe's mother hates being reminded that Rodolfo is the one who broke up with her.

* [[Two-Teacher School]]

* [[Verbal Tic]]: El Oso does this a lot, mang.

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: At the end of Season 2 Manny and Frida kiss each other romantically.

* [[Villainesses Want Heroes]]: Black Cuervo and Voltura, for Manny and Rodolfo respectively.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]

* [[We Will Meet Again]]

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: White Pantera calls out his favorite [[Super Team]] for using his son as bait. Instead of feeling guilty and apologizing, they wanted (rather, begged) White Pantera to join them for destroying the monster, realizing they were wrong about him.

** Also, he's mortified when he learns that Manny pretended to like Black Cuervo to get intel on the Flock of Fury's plans.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: The first El Tigre and Plata Peligrosa.

* [[World of Ham]]: Oh yes.

** Those must be some ''interesting'' people...

* [[Yandere]]: Sofia

 

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