History Characters / REC

* DropTheHammer: He uses a fireman's sledgehammer to hit door and infected alike. [[spoiler:And keeps using it after being zombified.]]

* DropTheHammer: Wields a claw hammer and uses it as a weapon.

* ThrowItIn: Her bump into the camera (which momentarily glitches the sound), and her panicked search for the correct key to enter one of the apartments while the infected are rushing, were not scripted.

* CastTheExpert[=/=]CastingGag[=/=]DescendedCreator: Pablo Rosso is the real cinematographer of the ''[REC]'' films and a real cameraman. His part in the first film is his first acting credit.

* TheDanza: Shares first name with the actor.

* TheOtherDarrin: Played by an uncredited extra in ''[REC]2'', where Pablo plays the GEI Rosso.

* LethallyStupid: For all he's helpful in other moments, it was pretty stupid to tell Álex to stay behind with Mrs. Izquierdo after she bit a police officer in the neck by surprise. And at the end he chooses to stay out of the apartment and in the dark, instead of using the apartment's door as a barrier with the infected. However, this can be excused if it's assumed that he was [[ZombieInfectee already infected]], knew, and wanted to protect Ángela and Pablo from himself.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: A lot of viewers get irate when he kicks the bucket.

* ThrowItIn: His ankle injury was not scripted.

* BadCopIncompetentCop[=/=]PoliceAreUseless: Let's say... he screws up a lot during the fateful night.

* OldCopYoungCop: Young cop to Vicente's old cop. He even gets credited as such (with Vicente being bizarrely credited as "adult" cop).

* TheDanza: Shares first name with his actor.

* OldCopYoungCop: Old cop to Sergio's young cop.

* ThrowItIn: The running gag with the woman randomly sweeping in the background was included because the actress would randomly sweep the scene between takes, even after she was told not to.

* AnAesop: Non-fluent immigrants are people too, scary situations are scary and dangerous to them as well, and they shouldn't be escapegoated when they happen.

* InferredHolocaust: Neither their child nor the woman's father have a good survival prospect with both of them zombified.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Shouldn't be surprising but the actors are fluent in Spanish in real life.

* TheOtherDarrin: One of the few actors playing residents that didn't return for ''[REC]2''.

* DeathByRacism: The moment he starts making racist comments about the Asian family, you know he isn't going to last long. Although, he does outlast a lot of people, to be fair. [[spoiler: Asian family included.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: One of the most remembered tenants despite his small role.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Argentinians adore him. It helps that the Spanish stereotype of an arrogant, larger-than-life Argentinian is [[ValuesResonance identical]] to the Argentinian stereotype of an arrogant, larger-than-life ''Porteño'' (which Lasarte is).
* MommasBoy: He shared the apartment "with Mom" until she died.

* ActorInspiredElement: Velásquez is Colombian in reality.
* BeamMeUpScotty: It is very common to assume that she's [[EthnicMenialLabor the cleaning lady]] also mentioned by Guillem shortly after he mentions her, or that she worked for Mrs. Izquierdo, but there is no proof of either within the movie.
* DescendedCreator: Velásquez is the casting director of all movies in the ''[REC]'' series.

* LeanAndMean[=/=]NoodlePeople: She's freakishly tall and emaciated.

* SeriesMascot: The only character that can be said to have appeared in all four movies, and one of the most remembered.

* OnlySaneMan: Just as Manu in the first movie, José makes sure the three teens and Jennifer's Dad keeps their cool inside the building

* BitchSlap: Gives one to Tito after he refuses to leave the building.