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

* [[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.

** Puma Loco's Golden Sombrero of Chaos.

** Maria's Plata Peligrosa glove.

** ...[[Brain Bleach|Oh God.]]

*** ...then you don't wanna know what she did in ''[[Hung]]''...

* [[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).

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]

* [[Longing Look]]

{{quote| '''Dr. Chipotle, Jr.''': Look, a thing!<br />

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

** The Mustache Mafia too, of course.

* [[Raised By Wolves]]: Parodied and subverted with El Oso. He ''was,'' technically, raised by bears, in that his whole life he followed around a family of bears that wanted nothing to do with him and tried with extreme failure to copy them. This included trying punching a beehive open to get the honey inside (and getting stung for his trouble), trying punching water in order to catch fish (and getting attacked by a fish for his trouble), and ''[[Epic Fail|trying to scratch his back on a tree like the others by punching a twig]]'' (and getting smashed by a fallen tree... inexplicably). The bears, incidentally, spend the whole time trying to get rid of him.

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

* [[Running Gag]]: Manny's desire for a jetpack and Maria hyperventilating when faced with something stressful. One episode also treated Sartana capturing Frida as one of these.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Puma Loco bribing the football referee.

* [[Secret Identity]]: Sergio/Senor Siniestro, Diego/Dr. Chipotle Jr., and Zoe Aves/Black Cuervo all have separate civilian and villain forms. Diego is the only one whose villain form is his default, as we only see his disguise in one episode.

** Someone on production must be a [[Street Fighter]] fan, because a few characters from the games can be seen as background students at Manny's school in some episodes. This troper managed to spot Chun-Li, Cammy and Remy (from Third Strike).

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

* [[Stuffed Into a Locker]]: A recurring nerdy kid who always gets picked on by the bullies, ''and'' the goodies too.

* [[Superhero]]

** Also the episode that reveals Maria was once a superhero.

* [[Theme Naming]]: The superpowered characters who do not have a Spanish word in their names and/or aren't named after an animal can be counted on one hand. All of the Rivera men we've seen so far (good, neutral, or evil) are named after a big cat of some kind.

* [[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.