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* GutturalGrowler: Richard Quinn (He 'is' played by Creator/ChristianSlater, after all).
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Chana and his grandchildren's hostility towards Dr. Quinn could have been avoided if the man hadn't been so vague with his intentions of wanting Chupa.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Chana Chava and his grandchildren's hostility towards Dr. Quinn could have been avoided if the man hadn't been so vague with his intentions of wanting Chupa.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Chana and his grandchildren's hostility towards Dr. Quinn could have been avoided if the man hadn't been so vague with his intentions of wanting Chupa.
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: If Dr. Quinn actually succeeded in capturing Chupa, he would have had the little creature saving all of humanity with his blood at the cost of separating the cub from his family forever.
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--> ''Just remember, that wherever you are, I will always be by your side''
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** Chupa's family come in to attack Quinn's car, giving Chava a chance to force him to let Chupa go.
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** Chupa's family come in to attack Quinn's car, giving Chava a chance to force him to make let Chupa go.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Chava gives one to Alex during their wrestling match in order to get him to accept his father's death. It later becomes a NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech
--> Every time your dad gets bought up, you retreat and hide in that stupid game of yours. Face your pain, face your fears and your sorrow. You have to feel the pain of sadness.
--> Every time your dad gets bought up, you retreat and hide in that stupid game of yours. Face your pain, face your fears and your sorrow. You have to feel the pain of sadness.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Chava gives one to Alex during their wrestling match in order to get him to accept his father's death. It later becomes a NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech
--> EveryNoMoreHoldingBackSpeech.
-->"Every time your dad gets bought up, you retreat and hide in that stupid game of yours. Face your pain, face your fears and your sorrow. You have to feel the pain of sadness."
--> Every
-->"Every time your dad gets bought up, you retreat and hide in that stupid game of yours. Face your pain, face your fears and your sorrow. You have to feel the pain of sadness."
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* ThemeMusicPowerUp / TriumphantReprise: A heroic version of the films main theme plays when [[spoiler: Chupa saves Alex from falling to his death]].
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*ThemeMusicPowerUp / TriumphantReprise: A heroic version of the films main theme plays when [[spoiler: Chupa saves Alex from falling to his death]].
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* UncertainDoom / [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to Doctor Quinn?]]:: It is not shown what happens to Quinn after [[spoiler: Chava knocks him out with a suplex]], whether or not he was arrested for breaking and entering or spent the rest of his life in destitution for failing to bring Chupa to the government is left as an exercise for the viewer.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: Who need Alex's schoolmate who tries to take his GameBoy?
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: Who need Alex's schoolmate who tries WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's not shown what happens to take Quinn after [[spoiler:Chava knocks him out with a suplex]]. Whether he was arrested for breaking and entering or spent the rest of his GameBoy?
life in destitution for failing his task is left as an exercise for the viewer.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Chava gives one to Alex during their wrestling match in order to get him to accept his father's death. It later becomes a NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech
--> Every time your dad gets bought up, you retreat and hide in that stupid game of yours. Face your pain, face your fears and your sorrow. You have to feel the pain of sadness.
--> Every time your dad gets bought up, you retreat and hide in that stupid game of yours. Face your pain, face your fears and your sorrow. You have to feel the pain of sadness.
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** Chupa has a brief moment of this when he realises he's about to lose his grip while trying to save Alex from falling off the collapsing pipe.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Quinn, while he is trying to capture Chupa, is only doing so to use his blood for medicinal purposes. [[spoiler:He later falls into NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist when it's implied he also wants to capture the creature to prove its existence).
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Quinn, while he is trying to capture Chupa, is only doing so to use his blood for medicinal purposes. [[spoiler:He later falls into NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist when it's implied he also wants to capture the creature to prove its existence).existence]].
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* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Despite the Mexican government being the overarching threat in the film, the family's main rivalry is with Quinn since he's the one trying to capture Chupa.
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* AlwaysWithYou: Alex says this to Chupa at the end when [[ButNowIMustGo they part ways with each other]].
--> ''Just remember, that wherever you are, I will always be by your side''
--> ''Just remember, that wherever you are, I will always be by your side''
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* ThemeMusicPowerUp / TriumphantReprise: A heroic version of the films main theme plays when [[spoiler: Chupa saves Alex from falling to his death]].
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* CurseCutShort: Quinn, when chasing the adult chupacabra at the start.
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--> ''Son of a...''
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* CassandraTruth: A police officer Quinn calls to help doesn't believe Quinn when he tells him he's looking for a chupacabra.
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* LittleNo: Alex gives a few the second time Chupa is captured by Quinn.
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** Alex, Luna and Memo all have one when Chupa is captured by Quinn.
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** Alex, Luna and Memo all have one when they hear Chupa in the barn and realise something is captured by Quinn.wrong.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: Who need Alex's schoolmate who tries to take his GameBoy?
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* UncertainDoom: It is not shown what happens to Quinn after [[spoiler: Chava knocks him out with a suplex]], although it can be assumed he was arrested for his crimes.
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* UncertainDoom: UncertainDoom / [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to Doctor Quinn?]]:: It is not shown what happens to Quinn after [[spoiler: Chava knocks him out with a suplex]], although it can be assumed whether or not he was arrested for breaking and entering or spent the rest of his crimes.life in destitution for failing to bring Chupa to the government is left as an exercise for the viewer.
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The film opens in a disused mine, where agents of the Mexican government are seeking the rumored chupacabra. They come across a chupacabra cub and its angry mother, who grabs her cub and escapes, sustaining fatal injuries in the process. Knowing she will die soon, she leaves the cub in a bush and sacrifices herself to lure the agents away.
A country away, the teenager Alejandro struggles with other kids' racism and the recent death of his father. He isn't enthusiastic about his upcoming trip to Mexico, but when he crosses paths with an orphaned chupacabra cub, he finds that the country- and the world- is more wondrous than he thought. Unfortunately, Alejandro's family are not the only people interested in the cub...
A country away, the teenager Alejandro struggles with other kids' racism and the recent death of his father. He isn't enthusiastic about his upcoming trip to Mexico, but when he crosses paths with an orphaned chupacabra cub, he finds that the country- and the world- is more wondrous than he thought. Unfortunately, Alejandro's family are not the only people interested in the cub...
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The film opens in a disused mine, where agents of the Mexican government are seeking the rumored chupacabra. They come across a chupacabra cub and its angry mother, who grabs her cub and escapes, sustaining fatal injuries getting badly injured in the process. Knowing she will die soon, Desperate to save her cub, she leaves the cub him in a bush and sacrifices herself to lure the agents away.
A country away, the teenager Alejandro struggles with other kids' racism and the recent death of his father. He isn't enthusiastic about his upcoming trip to Mexico, but when he crosses paths withan orphaned a lone chupacabra cub, he finds that the country- and the world- is more wondrous than he thought. Unfortunately, Alejandro's family are not the only people interested in the cub...
A country away, the teenager Alejandro struggles with other kids' racism and the recent death of his father. He isn't enthusiastic about his upcoming trip to Mexico, but when he crosses paths with
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* ButNowIMustGo: Subverted then played straight. Chupa leaves to go to his family, but comes back when he realises Alex is in trouble. He leaves for real afterwards after being saved from Quinn.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Chava, while he may be a polite old man, is also a retire luchador.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Chava, while he may be a polite old man, is also a retire luchador.
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* ButNowIMustGo: Subverted Subverted, then played straight. Chupa leaves to go to his family, but comes back when he realises Alex is in trouble. He leaves for real afterwards after being saved from Quinn.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Chava, while he may be a polite old man, is also aretire retired luchador.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Chava, while he may be a polite old man, is also a
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* CharacterTitle: The films title comes from the name Alex gives to the young chupacabra cub he finds and befriends.
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* CharacterTitle: The films film's title comes from the name Alex gives to the young chupacabra cub he finds and befriends.
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** Chupa's flying ability comes in very handy when he's rescuing alex from falling to his death.
** Chava's skills as a retired Luchador also help him rescue Chupa from Quinn.
* {{Chupacabra}}: Chupa and his family are all chupacabras (and are probably one of the few heroic depictions in media).
** Chava's skills as a retired Luchador also help him rescue Chupa from Quinn.
* {{Chupacabra}}: Chupa and his family are all chupacabras (and are probably one of the few heroic depictions in media).
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** Chupa's flying ability comes in very handy when he's rescuing alex Alex from falling to his death.
** Chava's skills as a retiredLuchador also luchador help him rescue Chupa from Quinn.
* {{Chupacabra}}: Chupa and his family are all chupacabras (andare probably one of the few heroic depictions examples in media).
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* {{Chupacabra}}: Chupa and his family are all chupacabras (and
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* DecoyProtagonist: Chupa may be the title character, but the film primarily centers around Alex and his family
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* DecoyProtagonist: Chupa may be the title character, but the film primarily centers around Alex and his familyfamily.
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* ForScience: Quinn's motive for capturing Chupa is to find out if he blood really ''does'' have medicinal properties, and also to prove the creature's existence.
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* ForScience: Quinn's motive for capturing Chupa is to find out if he his blood really ''does'' have has medicinal properties, and also to prove the creature's species' existence.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Chupa's mother pulls one at the start to save her cub, leading Quinn's men away after hiding her cub in some vegetation. [[spoiler: Subverted at the end when it's revealed she survived]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: Chupa's mother pulls one at the start to save her cub, leading Quinn's men away after hiding her cub in some vegetation. [[spoiler: Subverted at the end when Subverted; it's revealed at the end that she survived]].
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Alex's family has soft music box theme that plays throughout the film.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Alex's family has a soft music box theme that plays throughout the film.
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* NonMaliciousMonster: Chupa and his family, while they may be a family of chupacabras kill livestock (albeit mostly offscreen), they're just wild predators trying to survive in their environment and are shown to cause harm to humans (except in the defence of either themselves or their young).
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: A seller at the market says this of the Chupacabras when Alex picks up a figurine of one. As it turns out, he's right.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: A seller at the market says this of the Chupacabras when Alex picks up a figurine of one. As it turns out, he's right.
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* NonMaliciousMonster: Chupa and his family, while they may be a family of chupacabras kill livestock (albeit mostly offscreen), livestock, but they're just wild predators trying to survive in their environment and are shown to cause harm to environment. They never attack humans (except except in the defence of either themselves or their young).
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* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: A seller at the market says thisof the Chupacabras about chupacabras when Alex picks up a figurine of one. As it turns out, he's right.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: A seller at the market says this
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** Alex gets one when a mountain lion tries to attack him, and then another one a few minutes after when the pipe he is walking on to get away from the cougar starts collapsing beneath him. Chupa himself also gets one in the same scene when he realises Alex is in danger.
** Quinn has one towards the end when his car gets attacked by three fully grown chupacabras.
** Quinn has one towards the end when his car gets attacked by three fully grown chupacabras.
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** Alex gets one when a mountain lion tries to attack him, and then another one a few minutes after when the pipe he is walking on to get away from the cougar escape it starts collapsing beneath him. Chupa himself also gets one in the same scene when he realises Alex is in danger.
** Quinn has one towards theend end, when his car gets is attacked by three fully grown chupacabras.
** Quinn has one towards the
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* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Chupa, when rescuing Alex from falling to his death, finally learns how to fly and uses this to get the both of them up to the top of the cliff]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Chupa, when rescuing Alex from falling to his death, finally learns how to fly and uses this to get the both of them up to the top of the cliff]].
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Quinn, while he is trying to capture Chupa, is only doing so to use his blood for medicinal purposes. [[spoiler: he later falls into NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist when it's implied he also wants to capture the creature to prove its existence).
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Quinn, while he is trying to capture Chupa, is only doing so to use his blood for medicinal purposes. [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:He later falls into NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist when it's implied he also wants to capture the creature to prove its existence).