* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Quite a bit, courtesy of Music/LosLobos, Music/DireStraits, and Tito & Tarantula. The most notable are the main theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wtJuqyKko Cancion del Mariachi]], played during the opening credits, [[Music/DireStraitsAlbum "Six Blade Knife"]], which plays during the opening sequence with Creator/SteveBuscemi, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhogrgMyIRM Back To The House That Love Built]], which plays during multiple times throughout the film.
* MemeticMutation:
** Aside from [[{{Expy}} modeling several characters]] after El Mariachi, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Japan]] really likes Quino's [[http://imageshack.com/a/img542/9152/et0e.jpg rocket launcher pose]].
** "Lord, forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me."[[labelnote:Explanation]]Recreations of the film poster using characters from other (often child-friendly) works of media, paired with this caption, as a way of making fun of overly-edgy internet users.[[/labelnote]]
* OneSceneWonder: Creator/QuentinTarantino, with his "bar bet" joke. [[DownplayedTrope He technically stays in the film for]] a ''tiny'' bit longer, though.
* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Campa and Quino, El Mariachi's bandmates]].
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