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'''''El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera''''' (2007-2008) is a popular animated series on [[Nickelodeon]] created by a husband and wife team, Jorge Guitirrez and Sandra Equihua. It is about a 13-year-old Mexican boy, Manny Rivera, who has a magical belt that turns him into costumed superhero El Tigre ([[Gratuitous Spanish|Spanish]] for '[[Captain Obvious|The Tiger]]'<ref>Or just "tiger"; Spanish is more liberal when it comes to definite articles than English</ref>).
 
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).
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=== This series contains examples of: ===
 
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* [[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.)
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* [[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'' tell a zombie they cannot dance.
** 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.
* [[Better as Friends]]: Much to Rodolfo's chagrin, his ex-wife Maria keeps insisting that they should remain [[Just Friends]].
* [[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"
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* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]: Rodolfo frequently does this to Manny.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Grandpapi
* [[Clothes Make the Maniac]]: Maria's Plata Peligrosa glove which gives her an exponentially increasing danger mania (coupled with desire to not remove the glove) the longer she wears it.
* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: Manny's entire family gets their super powers from articles of clothing or accessories:
** Manny's El Tigre belt buckle.
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* [[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.
* [[Expressive Hair]]: Manny's white tufts as El Tigre react to his moods. It spikes up when he's angry, and droops when he's sad.
* [[The Family for the Whole Family]]: The Mustache Mafia
* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: Both parents have done it, though White Pantera's was interrupted by almost drowning.
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* [[Hot Librarian]]: Maria.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Maria Rivera, again, plus Voltura (Zoe Aves/Black Cuervo´s mom) and Carmela Suarez (Frida Suarez´s mom).
* [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]]: Maria with the Glove of Power. A flashback even shows she first got it when mystic items of power were getting passed around at a college party and she decided to experiment.
** 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!]])
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* [[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 Just Want to Be Special]]: Frida.
* [[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.
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* [[We Can Rule Together]]
* [[We Will Meet Again]]
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: El Cucharon's spoon telekinesis powers. Subverted when he [[Took a Level Inin Badass|takes a level in badass]] and [[Heel Face Turn|uses them for good]].
* [[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.
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* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: The first El Tigre and Plata Peligrosa.
* [[World of Ham]]: Oh yes.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Manny and Frida are apparently based off the creators' personalities.
** Those must be some ''interesting'' people...
* [[Yandere]]: Sofia
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[[Category:Western Animation]]
[[Category:ElWestern TigreAnimation of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Nickelodeon]]
[[Category:Animal Title Index]]
[[Category:The Full Name Adventures]]