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Our hero is Tony Farms, an American archeologist who is quickly discovered by Vadinho, an Aztec priest of the space-gods. The hulking holy man becomes Tony's mentor by hurling him out a window, chasing him around a university, and breaking into his apartment to aggressively push his belief system and fashion accessories. Tony is understandably reluctant to get involved in all this, but after mind-controlled love interest Jane Dobson is used to lure him into a trap, Tony finally accepts his heroic destiny and a magical Aztec belt, transforming into the mighty Puma Man!
Now firmly allied with Vadinho, Tony sets about mastering his puma-derived superpowers to get the sacred mask out of Kobras' hands. He can see in the dark, sense danger, "leap" great distances, teleport, and feign death quite convincingly - you know, standard puma stuff. Oh, and super-strength, which Vadinho belatedly remembers to mention in the middle of a major battle. Anyway, with these skills in hand, Tony heroically attacks Kobras' mansion stronghold, is ''soundly'' defeated, retreats, loses his superpowers, is nearly [[Driven to Suicide]] by Kobras' [[Mind Screw|mind games]], and heroically plays dead until the villain's minions go away.
Vadinho then leads his ''own'' assault against Kobras, using a suicide belt to bluff his way inside. The Aztec resists the villain's hypnotism and demolishes his command center, removing Kobras' mental control over Tony. Pumaman quickly teleports to the rescue and hops around in the background while the Aztec takes down wave after wave of mooks, prompting Kobras to make a run for it. In the end, Tony is ''barely'' able to overcome an elderly bald man and cause Kobras' helicopter to crash, the golden mask is recovered, Vadinho gets beamed up by the alien-god-things, and Tony and Jane join the Quarter-[[Mile-High Club]].
It was the featured film in [[Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S09
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* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: Traveling in space bathyspheres.
* [[Animal-Themed Superbeing]]: Averted. Vadinho refers once or twice to "The Great God Puma," meaning that Puma Man was named after the ''god.'' ''Really'' could have been specified better, though...
{{quote|'''Mike:''' I don't mean to be picky, but pumas aren't really known for flying...}}
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* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: In a scene deleted from the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] version, Vadinho lifts up Tony's car off the ground to stop him from escaping, and once locked inside, tears the car apart to escape.
* [[Chest Insignia]]: If Tony ever forgets what the [[MacGuffin]] looks like, he can just look at his shirt.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Tony, allegedly. But everyone knows the ''real'' hero of the story is Vadinho.
* [[Chroma Key]]: Badly, badly done.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Take a good hard look at that poster up above. No go watch the movie. Now laugh derisively.
* [[Destination Defenestration]]: Remember, the best way to spot your local Pumaman is to chuck people out of windows until one of them survives.
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* [[Heroic Willpower]]: {{spoiler|Vadinho, naturally has the willpower to resist the mind-control device. Even ''Jane'' is able to overcome it and smash it instead of shooting the Pumaman.}} But our "hero," Tony? Nope.
* [[High Altitude Interrogation]]: Puma Man grabs one of Kobras's mooks and flies him up high in the air and repeatedly drops him to lower heights until Puma Man in satisfied with the information he receives.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Jane Dobson. Yes, really, Jane is supposed to be an archaeologist.
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Vadinho has no superpowers but does most of the heroics that theoretically should be performed by our hero. Plainly, the movie should've just been about him in the first place.
* [[Idiot Hero]]: We're probably not supposed to come to this conclusion, but Tony is clearly not a bright man.
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* [[The Load]]: Tony. {{spoiler|Though, to his credit, he figured out a way to find Kobras' mansion and even killed Kobras at the end.}}
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Mask. Doubles as a [[Mind Control Device]].
* [[Magical Native American]]: Vadinho uses a ritual to heal himself after taking a beating, is strong enough to tear apart a car barehanded, and has the gods on speed-dial.
* [[Mayincatec]]: Do the filmmakers know ''anything'' about the Aztecs?
* {{spoiler|[[Mile-High Club]]}}: With Tony And Jane at the end.
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* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: Those starfaring Aztec god-aliens.
* [[Superhero]]: We use the trope here loosely
* [[Super-Hero Origin]]: His dad was secretly a Pumaman, then one day an Aztec introduced him to defenestration.
* [[Survival Mantra]]: "Each man is a god...each man is free...each man is a god..." {{spoiler|it helps Vadinho resist the mask's mind controlling power.}}
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: One of Puma Man's many powers.
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