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    Sofía Herrera 
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"Everything would be easier if we stopped keeping secrets. If we everyone told the truth".
Played by: Ana Valeria Becerril
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: She falls in love with Raul, spoiler:who is revealed to be the hacker, at which point she is immediately turned off. Post-season 1 episodes expect Sofia to keep her distance from him, but as much as she tries to deny and help it, she still finds herself attracted to Raul despite the many bad deeds he's done to the students.
  • All of the Other Reindeer: Sofia mostly keeps to herself, viewed as a freak or "psycho" because of her mental health issues by most students. However, it doesn't seem to affect her much, and she still cares about the students' welfare (even those who are cruel to her). Some of those who previously put her down realize they were wrong to as a result. The rest however appear unmoved.
  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Sofia is a very pale-skinned brunette who's also reserved and shows little emotion at first. However, she's of average height and doesn't really care about her appearance.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Played straight. Sofía wishes that the world was a better place if everyone just stopped pretending to live fake lives and keeping things to themselves; in short: a world without lies and secrets. Granted by courtesy of Raúl, a.k.a., the hacker, who had seen that his friends are all a bunch of phonies, but whose actions led to a lot of violent fights, broken friendships, Luis's death and her father getting imprisoned after his faked death is exposed.
  • Brainy Brunette: Sofia is bookish, analytical and very intelligent, while also being black-haired.
  • Bungled Suicide: Sofia tried to kill herself over the stress of her father turning out to be alive, but failed.
  • Calling Parents by Their Name: Sofia calls her mom "Nora" half the time. Her mom doesn't seem to care.
  • Cassandra Truth:
    • In 2.04, Sofía tries to warns Javier, who accuses her of jealousy, that Natalia is using him as an escape from her money issues, although her devastated reaction implies that she did truly love him and this move was out desperation from being to spare her from the drug dealers. Lampshaded by Javier in 2.08.
    • In 2.07, Rosita ignores Sofía's concerns for her safety when she tells her that the Avenger intends on targeting her. She defies Sofía by leaving the school premises to hang out with Darío and Ernesto at a restaurant. It isn't until the Avenger tampers with Sofía's pills that Rosita lampshades this in 2.08 after the former is hospitalized, although it is later revealed that Sofía actually didn't take the pills and she had staged her accident.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Sofia lost her father to a fire in her childhood. It caused her severe trauma, and she's still dealing with it. She doesn't like to talk about it, and cuts herself to cope.
  • Emotionless Girl: Sofia acts very emotionless initially, though it's really hiding her deep-seated trauma.
  • Engineered Public Confession: Sofia tricks the hacker into confessing, while this is being recorded, and then plays it for everyone.
  • Enemy Mine: Despite initially not wanting to have anything to do with him, Sofía is forced to team up with Raúl to locate Gerry (and the avenger as well), with even Sofía pointing out to the distrustful Javier that he might be useful in the investigation. In addition, she is still attracted to Raúl post-hacker. Subverted in 2.07, after finding out that Raúl had kept a secret the affair between Quintanilla and Susana so that he wouldn't get expelled from the school, leading Sofía to team up again with Javier to carry on with the investigation.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Sofía does whatever it takes to unmask the hacker. However, in 1.06, she becomes disgusted at Gerry after he swore to kill the hacker himself, rethorically asking him if he hadn't owned up to his previous actions.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Sofia in the second season. It's clear that she doesn't take it very well that Javier is romantically involved with Natalia as she seems upset and even jealous as well over the latter's good looks.
  • Heroic BSoD: Sofía undergoes two big ones. First, she finds out that her father had faked his own death and uses self-harm as a way of coping. The other is when she witnesses her house being repossessed now that the secret about her father has finally come out.
  • Honey Trap: Sofia uses the hacker's feelings for her in the end to provoke a confession.
  • Hyper-Awareness: Sofia has this, picking up many clues just due to keen observation of people and her surroundings.
  • Hypocrite:
    • Sofia said to Raul that life would be easier without lies as she said Raul and his friends' lives are fake, but she's a Consummate Liar herself especially with her mother, particularly hiding from her the fact that her father is still alive.
    • Sofia said to Javier that she would never forget what Raul did to the school, yet she is still hanging out with him, even having the nerve to admit for the first time that she likes him.
  • Ironic Echo: Sofía questions Quintanilla for allowing Raúl back into the school, but he blatantly refuses to answer saying that this doesn't concern her. Sofía then throws those words back to his face when Quintanilla asks her about where she's heading upon noticing her angry over some family stuff that her mother intends to get rid of, also adding that he isn't her father.
  • Love Triangle: Both Javier and Raul are attracted by Sofia and she returns this to each of them.
  • Nice Girl: Sofia is pretty aloof starting out due to her trauma issues, but also genuinely kind and concerned with other people's welfare, while almost alone in the student body for showing compassion toward the outcasts whom most pick on. Of course, as she's a bit of an outcast herself to start with, it's not surprising.
  • Only Sane Wo Man: Mostly Sofía when it comes to protecting her classmates from both the hacker and the avenger.
  • The Quiet One: Sofia is very comfortable with long silences, and when she talks it's never of the more petty stuff that other kids chat about. It's always serious or thoughtful.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Sofia has this look, with pale skin and black hair. Two different guys fall for her (she's quite pretty).
  • Self-Harm: Sofia cut herself regularly in the past. Her arms are literally crisscrossed with old scars.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Sofía, with her observant skills, is willing to investigate and unmask the hacker and save her fellow students, even though Quintanilla keeps on telling her to stay out of trouble.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: Sofia is beautiful, but mostly doesn't comb her hair or dress in flattering clothes. When she does both for a party, her look really shines.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: Sofia is clearly suffering trauma due to her father dying and then turning up alive. In the past, she attempted suicide, while also cutting herself as a means of coping.
  • Sherlock Scan: Sofia does several of these to detect clues other people would miss.
  • The Stoic: Sofia has little emotional expression most of the time, ignoring people's insults toward her and largely unfazed even by the danger facing them. However, it doesn't mean she's uncaring-she works hard to bring down the hacker tormenting them. It's all just a hard outer shell that she puts up-inside, she's tormented by her past, and cuts herself as a coping mechanism. As she grows closer to people, we see more emotion from her as Sofia opens up.
  • Their First Time: Sofia impulsively throws herself at Raúl after becoming close with him, and they have sex. It's possibly her first time overall.
  • Unkempt Beauty: Sofia rarely seems to comb her hair nor otherwise care about her appearance. Nonetheless, she's very beautiful.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It turns out that Sofia actually gave the hacker the idea for exposing everyone's secrets with a comment she'd made.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: After Pablo spreads the news about Raúl and allegedly Sofía's roles in harboring Gerry from the police, the majority of the students are quick to turn on her, including Alex who calls Sofía out, not only for this, but also because of her closeness to Raúl who has had a bad reputation due to his previous actions as the hacker. Quintanilla even questions Sofía about this when she temporarily crashes with him, asking her if she has forgotten what he did before.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Sofía is afraid of fire. Her father supposedly died in a fire, but had actually faked his own death, an incident that has traumatized and marked Sofía ever since. Later in season 2, Sofía and Javier investigate Luis' house and the avenger coincidentally sets the house on fire through a molotov cocktail to try and kill his mother. As the fire expands, Sofía is forced to relive that fateful day before she snaps back to reality, having to confront her fears in order for her and Javier to escape safe and sound.
  • Will They or Won't They?: Sofia and Javier as the story progresses. They start as friends, but it's obvious there is a mutual attraction between them. However with Raul coming in the mix and the past of Javier revealed, things become more complicated. Even more in Season 2 as Sofia is still attracted by Raul post-secret identity reveal and Javier sickened by this, developing feelings for Natalia. Despite them reconciling at the end of the season, it's hard to say if they will become a couple or not.
  • You Have to Believe Me!: In 2.01 and 2.06, Sofía invokes this twice. When Nora scolds Sofia for lying about her father's death and Susana accuses her of being an accomplice to Raul's scheme in harboring Gerry from the police for Luis's murder, she truthfully assures that she has no idea where they are, and that she had nothing to do with the latter. However, both of them outright refuse to believe her. Alex also doesn't believe Sofia about the Gerry situation, believing that she had taken advantage of her guilt. Subverted for Alex in 2.07 as she seems to quickly forget about it as if it never happened.
  • You Need to Get Laid: Lampshaded in 1.01. Isabela and Natalia think that the new kid, Javier Williams, is way out of Sofía's league due to her being a "freak" when they sit together for an assembly. María, however, takes pity on her, suggesting that it'd be something for her to flirt with someone as she is always alone, only for her friends to dismiss this opinion as "nonsense". Later on, Sofía does get laid, not once but twice, although with Raúl instead of Javier himself.

    Javier Williams 
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Played by: Michael Ronda

  • Beware the Nice Ones: Javier is a nice guy, but as the first season progresses, he's already showing signs of aggression when his football trauma resurfaces.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Lampshaded in 1.06 about Javier's dark past.
    Football player: Look, Javier plays the good guy and everybody buys it. But deep down he's a bully.
  • Big "SHUT UP!": Javier in 2.08 as he threatens Raúl into giving up his money to save Natalia from the drug dealers by holding him at gunpoint.
  • Cassandra Truth: Sofía tries to warns Javier, who accuses her of jealousy, that Natalia is using him as an escape from her money issues, although her devastated reaction implies that she did truly love him and this move was out desperation from being to spare her from the drug dealers.
  • Chick Magnet: Most of the female students, including Maria and Rosita at one point, are immediately attracted to Javier the minute he arrives at the school. Even after he survives an accidental gunshot wound, courtesy of Gerry, his popularity among them is boosted through this circumstance, although Javier doesn't have the knack to show this off (for example, Valeria and Regina inviting Javier to study with them and them being gently rejected). Even Sofia and Natalia were into him.
  • Honor Before Reason: Javier refuses to let Raul have his stolen money back and threatens him at gunpoint into giving it up as a means to negotiate Natalia's release with the drug dealers.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: Javier in Season 2 becomes kind of hysterical every time Sofia is around Raul.
  • Drives Like Crazy

    Raúl León 
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"You wanted a new world, right? Where everyone was f—cking honest for once. Well, I gave it to you.
Played by: Yankel Estevan

  • Abusive Parents: Raúl's father is a corrupt politician and blamed his son, to the point of punching him in the face, for the exposure of his shady dealings.
  • Accomplice by Inaction: Raúl, aka the hacker, in the murder of Luis as he had set up the fight between him and Gerry in the first place but did not do anything to intervene when it quickly escalated, aside from only desperately pleading with Gerry to stop, to no avail.
  • Betty and Veronica: Helpful Javier is the Betty to troubled Raul's Veronica for Sofia's Archie.
  • Big Bad: In the first season.
  • Blackmail: The hacker blackmails people to do things with the threat of exposing their secrets, though later they're exposed anyway.
  • Defiant to the End: Raúl still insults Pablo even when he demands that he tell him where Gerry is (despite having no idea where he is) and admit who is the Avenger, leading Pablo to beat him up.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Raúl's actions as the hacker came from a comment Sofía made to him about everything being easier if everyone just told the truth to each other and stopped pretending to live fake lives. However, in doing so, Raúl had never imagined that all of this would result in fights, broken friendships and Gerry's murderous rampage that resulted in Luis's death, which was also the catalyst of events that incited the Avenger to come about in the first place. In season 2, his argument with Sofía after allowing Gerry to escape clearly says it all.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Raúl revealed everyone's secrets claiming they deserved this. Their "crimes" range from being bullies, to mildly rude and just keeping secrets period. Meanwhile the hackings cause even worse harm, all this including one person's death.
  • Enemy Mine: Despite initially not wanting to have anything to do with him, Sofía is forced to team up with Raúl to locate Gerry (and the avenger as well), with even Sofía pointing out to the distrustful Javier that he might be useful in the investigation. In addition, she is still attracted to Raúl post-hacker. Subverted in 2.07, after finding out that Raúl had kept a secret the affair between Quintanilla and Susana so that he wouldn't get expelled from the school, leading Sofía to team up again with Javier to carry on with the investigation.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: In 2.02, when Raúl admits to having followed Sofía to the graveyard where Darío and Ernesto were buried alive and he violently attacked Javier before escaping (basically the first if not only brutal crime he commits, although out of personal gain), he truthfully denies being the Avenger. Sofía is quick to accept this as the truth, saying that while he is still a stalker, he isn't a murderer.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Raúl is quite a good liar hiding his anonymous identity as the hacker...until Sofía figured it out.
  • Frame-Up: Raúl frames Javier for the hackings, throwing off suspicion from himself.
  • Gone Horribly Right: Raúl, unmasked as the hacker, succeeds in leaking the students' secrets, wanting to give Sofía a world without secrets and lies. However, his actions resulted in massive fights, broken friendships and Luis's death.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Raul's interest towards Sofia is obvious, while his passive insults against Javier reflect his jealousy towards their relationship.
  • Hypocrite:
    • Raul promised Sofia not to lie to her anymore. However, it does not change the fact that he had chosen to keep the affair between Quintanilla and Susana a secret from Sofia, despite being fully aware that he was dating her mom, using the information against both of them so that he wouldn't get expelled. Sofia is, of course, understandably upset that Raul had broken his promise.
    • Alex threatens both Gerry and Raul after she is revealed as the avenger. When Raul tells her that getting justice for Luis is not up to her, she angrily snaps at him for trying to give her a "moral lecture", having not forgotten his crime against the school.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Raúl had every right to refuse to give up his money, even if someone (Natalia) was kidnapped, to people who aren't even his friends, let alone when it was stolen from him. His points are valid because a) his parents were arrested due to their corruption and b) without that money, he would've been unable to fend for himself.
  • Karma Houdini: As both Quintanilla and Susana were unable to expel Raúl, due to him using their affair against both of them, he didn't get any kind of proper punishment for his actions of the hacker, allowing to return to the school like nothing happened.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: During the NONA party, Raúl is unmasked as the hacker, resulting in most of the students verbally and physically attacking him at the beginning of Season 2 when he returns to the school like if nothing happened.
  • Love Triangle: Both Javier and Raul are attracted by Sofia and she returns this to each of them.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In 1.08, Sofia had deduced that Raúl has been the hacker all along due to some leads she had found during their time together: her stolen necklace, the same words said by the hacker while she was kidnapped, the mask under Raúl's bed and the password to his computer being the name of a dog Raúl owned.
  • Not Me This Time: Raúl truthfully denies being the avenger to Sofía and Javier. While Sofía herself is quick to accept this as the truth, Javier, on the other hand, is still suspicious of him.
  • Oh, Crap!: Raúl also has one when Pablo shows up at his house to beat the crap out of him. Again.

     Isabela de la Fuente 
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"You don't understand how I feel. You have no f—king clue how I feel. It wasn't just the surgery, I had to move to another city. I left my friends behind, my whole life so I could start over. And when I finally have something, they take it away. You can give a little speech, but don't say you understand how I feel because you have no idea. [Beat] Your stupidity is f—king staggering!
Played by: Zión Moreno

  • Alpha Bitch: Isabela was considered as "the queen of the school" as Alex said. However she lost this status once she'd been revealed as transgender.
  • Berserk Button: After being outed as trans by the hacker, she loses her popularity and most of the students ostracize her. Isabela gets offended very easily if they make inappropiate comments about her transition or being called a "boy". Furthermore, you DON'T tell a transgender person that you understand their pain, unless you have gone through the same experience as her, which is evidently lampshaded by Isabela herself while calling Quintanilla out on this.
  • Bilingual Bonus: For those who know English, even if you're watching a Spanish Mexican series, you'll find that Isabela is very fluent speaking the language, and even more so when her actress Zión Moreno is American of Mexican descent. However, for the English dubbing, Moreno is the only one out of the original actors of the main cast to dub her in said language. Even her iconic lines in English stay the same.
  • The Dog Bites Back: After Pablo betrayed her and realizing that Raúl, Gerry and Natalia were to blame for her secret being leaked, Isabela turns on them by accepting the hacker's request to leak their secrets as revenge.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": Like most transgender people, Isabela hates to be called by her birth name (or dead name, in trans parlance), which people do often when she's outed.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Isabela rebuffs Alex, a lesbian student, who intervened to defend her from some female bullies, who inappropriately tell her to change restrooms, about her gender identity. Subverted when Isabela later on apologizes to Alex for being so harsh on her and ends up befriending her, although Alex asserts that Isabela was right because at some point she had to stand up for herself. Guess what? She did.
  • Dude Magnet: Pre-secret revealed, Isabela definitely attracted a lot of boys the first time she enrolled at the school, later entering the relationship with Pablo. Even Dario and Ernesto, the least popular of the clique with Gerry also had crushes on her.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: Isabela gets this after learning that her best friend María is the Honey Bunny who has been sleeping with Pablo, sarcastically telling both of them that they deserve each other.
    Pablo: [to María] Did you tell her you're the Honey Bunny?!
    [Isabela turns to María with a shocked face]
    Pablo: We've been fucking a lot and you didn't even know!
    Isabela: Keep going, then. You two deserve each other, "friend".
  • Everyone Has Standards: Lampshaded by Isabela in 1.02 when she confronted Natalia for being an accomplice to the hacker in the leaking of her secret by stealing her cellphone, which led to the video of her as a boy being uploaded. Despite Isabela being an Alpha Bitch to everyone at school and being just as self-absorbed as her friends, she would've never done such things to save her own skin. Even if Natalia didn't give in to the hacker's orders, it wouldn't have mattered, as everyone's secrets were leaked after their identity was exposed.
    Natalia: Isabela, what would you have done if it were your secret?
    Isabela: I would never do that to my best friend.
  • Forced Out of the Closet: Isabela is outed as transgender in the first episode.
  • Gendered Insult: Isabela is called a guy by most people after it's revealed she's transgender.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Isabela gets angry at Alex for defending her from the girls who were grossed out by her gender identity and wouldn't quit harassing her, telling her that she can fight her own battles herself. Although Isabela apologizes for being so harsh, Alex nonetheless admits that she was right.
  • Nice Mean And In Between: Maria, Natalia and Isabela fit this. Maria (nice) is sympathetic with other students, Natalia (mean) is prone to insult and Isabela (in-between) is snobbish but has a friendly side.
  • Oh, Crap!: Isabela's reaction when her secret of being a trans girl is leaked.
  • Only Sane Woman: Isabela shows a softer side once she's outed as trans and calls out her friends for betraying her, thus breaking her frienship with all of them for their previous actions.
  • Out of the Closet, Into the Fire: After she's outed as transgender, Isabela gets bullied, insulted and ostracized (including losing most of her friends).
  • Put on a Bus: Due to her actress having already committed to another series, Isabela didn't return in Season 2, although she is briefly mentioned during Raúl's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Pablo. In-Universe, her absence is justified by María saying that Isabela, following the exposure of the hacker, had left Colegio Nacional on such short notice.
  • Red Herring: Isabela suspected Natalia to be the Honey Bunny because she had earlier sold her out to the hacker who texted Isabela "The Honey Bunny is really close to you". Subverted in both 1.04 and 1.06. We find out that María is the Honey Bunny and Natalia denies Isabela's accusation, stating that she isn't a 'slut'. María can't bring herself to tell Isabela beforehand.
  • Seven Deadly Sins: Less emphasized but Isabela (Pride) was seen by all students as the queen of school. Being the Alpha Bitch made her arrogant, snobbish and look down upon the unpopular students as Sofia. Once her secret is revealed however she lost her status.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Immediately after the epic fight between Gerry and Luis (and the students with each other) begins, Isabela simply gives a sarcastic look and walks away from the scene.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Isabela after her secret is revealed and her popularity drops shows a friendlier side with social outcasts like Alex and Sofia whom she ignored before.
  • Trans Relationship Troubles: Isabela is dumped immediately by Pablo once she's outed. He tries to get back together with her later, but she angrily refuses over his past behavior.
  • Trans Tribulations: After she's outed, Isabela's boyfriend dumps her and many of her friends disown her. She gets insulted, bullied, asked very inappropriate questions about her anatomy and called by male pronouns, a guy or her birth name. Isabela also mentions her family moved to a different city after she transitioned, and she'd lost all her old friends for doing this. No wonder she didn't come out before.
  • We Used to Be Friends: Isabela holds this attitude towards Natalia and María after learning that both of them betrayed her; Natalia for selling her out to the hacker in a bid to keep her own secret safe and María because she had been sleeping with her boyfriend Pablo behind her back, although the latter mostly feels genuine guilt for it.

    Luis Navarro 
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"Mom, if you're watching this, it's because something happened to me during the fight. And I just want to say that...I didn't have anything to do with the hacking. But... but I didn't know...what to do. I wanted to leave school and I didn't know how. I just knew I couldn't stay there anymore. Gerry...and the others...are bullying me all the time".
Played by: Luis Curiel

  • Affectionate Nickname: Gerry calls him "Luisito" or "Luisillo, even before their hatred of each other.
  • All of the Other Reindeer: Just like Sofía, Luis is an outcast due to spending most of his time on his drawings.
  • Bury Your Gays: He's revealed to be gay at the end of the first season, after he's brutally killed by Gerry, who is ironically gay as well. A funeral and school ceremony are held for him.
  • Death by Falling Over: Luis is knocked out by Gerry after hitting his head on the edge of a sidewalk during a fight, and is knocked unconscious, later dying of his injury.
  • Didn't Think This Through: He falsely admitted to being the hacker in a futile attempt to stop Gerry, Darío and Ernesto from bullying him ever again. However, he never considered that Gerry, assuming this lie to be true, would go after him to misguidedly exact revenge and even the hacker worsening the whole ordeal by arranging a public fight between them.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: Rosita used to call him "Luiser", which is similar to the word "loser".
  • Nice Guy: He's very kind yet shy and soft-spoken.
  • The Scapegoat: Luis falsely admits to being the hacker so Gerry, Darío and Ernesto won't keep bullying him.
  • Too Good for This Sinful Earth The poor guy who only wanted to be left alone and keep up his good work at school winded up being murdered by his bully, and love interest, Gerry.

    Alex 
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"At least I'm not ashamed of my sexuality".
Played by: Samantha Acuña

  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She doesn't show emotion for the most of the time, but her soft side is shown when she befriends Isabela.
  • All of the Other Reindeer: Like Sofia, Alex, an openly lesbian girl, is also seen as an outcast by the entire student body, but to a lesser extent than Sofia, who is always met with insults because of her self-harm issues. She also wears dark clothes.
  • Anti-Villain: Despite being the Big Bad of the second season, Alex isn't truly evil per se, but Luis' murder committed by Gerry is what pushes her to become the avenger in the first place and use his violent fantasies as bloody ways to get back at those people who have supposedly wronged him. Most fans were disappointed about this reveal since Alex's profile did not actually match that of the mysterious perpetrator and even her scared face clearly says it all. No wonder why Alex made Gerry jump off the school's roof and Sofía told her that she wasn't capable of killing anyone.
  • Berserk Button: Given that she is in a relationship with her teacher Gaby and makes efforts in keeping it a secret, Alex got very defensive when Gerry attempted to snatch her phone after she evaded his question on whether or not she was dating someone of her same gender, only for Javier to rush up to her defense and get Gerry to back off.
  • Big Bad: In the second season.
  • Butch Lesbian: Alex is a mild example, with short hair and fairly masculine clothing a lot of the time. She's not averse to wearing more feminine clothes though, and is otherwise not stereotypically butch. Alex is secretly dating another woman.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: She always wear dark clothes, but she is one of the few sane characters of the show. Well, at least in season 2 this is briefly deconstructed.
  • Face–Heel Turn: She didn't take Luis' death well, so much that this motivated her into becoming the Avenger and targeting the people she believes are responsible for the crime, especially Gerry. In truth, none of the students are actually to blame, and the true culprits are Gerry, who committed the atrocity, and Raul, who was the instigator.
  • Kill It with Fire: The avenger attempts to murder Luis's mother using a fire bomb (Molotov cocktail) in Season 2.
  • Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Alex has a slightly masculine look. Her girlfriend is more feminine.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Alex is horrified that one innocuous act she did led to Luis's death inadvertently. That's what motivates her to pursue revenge on his behalf, acting out Luis's violent fantasies.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In 2.08, thanks to a mistake the avenger made "out of love", as echoed previously by her father, Sofia learns that Alex is the perpetrator since she had stolen Raúl's money so she could start a new life with Gaby and initially considered abandoning her revenge plans. Most of the victims were inspired through Luis's drawings of violent fantasies, save for Gerry and Raúl. However, after Gaby left for Spain without her, Alex was heartbroken to the point of still going through with the act.
  • Only Sane Woman: Alex completely resents the school's toxic small-minded environment (just as she lampshaded to Isabela in 1.06, with it being the main reason why she doesn't interact with anyone her own age).
  • The Reveal: Alex is the avenger in Season 2. She even tied herself up to look like a victim.
  • Secret Relationship: Alex and Gabi kept their relationship a secret due to the fact the latter is a teacher.
  • Sex Montage: In "New Pleasures", we see seven characters having sex interspersed. Sofia and Raúl have sex a second time. Alex is shown having sex with Gabi. Gerry has his first time with a man, Pipe. Rosita is shown during her threeway with Ernesto and Dario (while in the latter case he can't actually perform).
  • Teacher/Student Romance: Alex is desperate to keep her lover's identity secret. This turns out to be because her lover's a teacher.
  • Unkempt Beauty: Despite her tomboyish appearance, Alex's beauty cannot be hidden nevertheless.
  • Villainous BSoD: Alex undergoes one in the second season finale when Sofía finds out that she is the avenger, convincing her to abandon her plans because none of the things she did would bring Luis back. Alex starts sobbing remorsefully and apologizes to Sofía.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Alex gives this to Sofía for still trusting Raúl after Pablo breaks the news about his and allegedly Sofía's roles in harboring Gerry from the police, also believing that she had taken advantage of her guilt.

    Natalia Alexander 
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"It's Gucci!"
Played by: Macarena García Romero
  • Alpha Bitch: Downplayed with Natalia, she acts like this even more than Isabela but being one of her best friends and hanging out with the popular clique to stay popular makes her more of a Beta Bitch. Though after her secret was revealed, she lost her popularity like Isabela.
  • Blatant Lies: When Natalia says she wants to see "the asshole" who accused her of theft beaten up, Regina, who walks past her, is quick to call her bluff.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments throwing snarky comments at her classmates, especially when butting heads with Sofia, Raul and Rosita, which makes her an iconic and entertainig character to watch.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: She correctly denies Isabela's accusation of her being the Honey Bunny when she is informed about it by María, the actual Honey Bunny because she is not a slut.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: María tells Natalia off for failing to appreciate everything she does for her, and brings up avoiding Isabela because of the beef between them regarding her complicity with the hacker. But Natalia is certainly right in reminding María that she never forced her to do that. Even Isabela herself assures María that she appreciates the loyalty to Natalia and that there are no hard feelings between them.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Becomes less selfish and more caring, even repairing her relationship with María and falling in love with Javier.
  • Ungrateful Bitch: Even though María is very loyal to Natalia, however, she always disregards all the things she does for her and taking her sister for granted. María even lampshades this while calling out Natalia for her behavior.

    María Alexander 
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Played by: Fiona Palomo
  • Beware the Nice Ones: She finally snaps at Natalia for her unfair mistreatment towards her, causing a temporary rift between the two, and later defends Isabela from Pablo by punching him when he attempts to rape her before he spitefully outs her as the Honey Bunny.
  • Break the Cutie: The events of Susana's death left María completely traumatized in the third season and goes through a phase of depression, to the point of eventually killing herself by drowning.
  • Driven to Suicide: In season 3, the guilt of Susana's death ended up eating her alive, which ultimately led her to this.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Claudia has a close friendship with Maria, which evolves into a romantic attraction to her. Too bad she dies in season 3 before they could ever become official.
  • Morality Pet: To her sister, Natalia.
  • Nice Girl: Probably the nicest from her group of friends, aside from Isabela.
  • Only Sane Woman: She's shown to disapprove of Natalia's ways to steal money and resorting to drug dealing.
  • Put on a Bus: She, Natalia and their parents move away from the city in light of Natalia's kidnapping, before María eventually commits suicide via drowning.
  • Token Good Teammate: Is this alongside Isabela out of all the members of the popular clique.
  • When She Smiles: She is often very reserved and quiet, yet her smile is quite endearing and beautiful.

    Pablo García 
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Played by: Andrés Baida

  • Anguished Declaration of Love: Pablo passionately tells Isabela he really does love her in the last episode. She rejects him though, given his past actions.
  • Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch: Nearly all of the people within the popular clique backstabbed Isabela in different ways before and/or after she was outed as transgender. For example, he betrayed Isabela by publicly breaking up with her pretending not to know she is trans.
  • Berserk Button: In season 2, whenever he sees Raúl, Pablo does nothing more than violently beating him up for ruining his life and doesn't mind if the fights take place in public places such as the school, Rosita's house and a nightclub.
  • Betty and Veronica: The Bisexual Love Triangle involving María as the Archie with her new best friend Claudia as the Betty and Jerkass ex-fuckbuddy Pablo being the Veronica as the two fight over her. However, while Claudia and Pablo manage to put their differences aside to help María rescue her kidnapped sister, neither of them get to be with her as María commits suicide out of guilt for her part in Susana's death.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: With the avenger for the second season.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pablo seems to be a nice, charming popular student, but once the hacker leaks Isabela's secret and María breaks the news to him that she's got pregnant, he completely sheds this facade, retoring to more violent tendencies once the hacker's identity is exposed.
  • Boisterous Bruiser:
  • Enemy Mine: Pablo and Claudia clearly hate each other, but in the finale they team up to help Maria after learning that Natalia was kidnapped, with Claudia initially thinking that Pablo made her cry, when it was the other way around.
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Pablo has a touching relationship with his mother, even back when he was an asshole.
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • Pablo was forced by Gerry, Darío and Ernesto to drive them over to Luis's house and get revenge on him after he had falsely admitted to being the hacker in a bid to free himself from their extreme bullying. He seemed to be completely reluctant to follow suit and asked Gerry not to do anything stupid. After Luis got hospitalized by Gerry, Pablo was quick to blame Darío and Ernesto for their friend's actions, despite them suggesting otherwise that the hard blow did not happen until the end. He even stops Gerry from picking a fight at Raúl's party after he calmly told him to leave since nobody wanted to see or talk to him after what he did to Luis. Downplayed in season 2 after Raúl was publicly exposed as the hacker.
    • When Pablo found out Alex was the avenger. While he did want revenge against Raúl for his actions as the hacker, he said would've never done the same things the attacker did, such as burying him alive or setting his home on fire.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Pablo reacts indifferently to Maria announcing that she's pregnant with his child to the point that he dumps her to get back with his girl, and even though she feels genuine remorse for it, he adds salt to the wound by claiming that Maria is no better than him for sleeping with her best friend's ex-boyfriend behind her back.
  • Eviler than Thou: Downplayed with Pablo the Jerkass and the avenger, Alex. While Alex is the main Big Bad of the second season, however, she doesn't really show signs of personal maliciousness once she is revealed as the perpetrator by the end of the second season. Pablo, on the other hand, is more unsympathetic and vengeful than Alex is, as Raúl's actions as the hacker brought out his darker side: beating his former friend up almost everyday, prioritizing his own needs over María's and behaving like a GreenEyedMonster towards Claudia, whom he views as a threat.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Pablo progressively starts losing his cool after being exposed as both a complete jerk and an unfaithful boyfriend to Isabela, causing him to become more violent, vengeful and less sympathetic by the second season, wishing for nothing more than getting revenge on Raúl for his actions as the hacker that brought out his darker side.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Pablo in the second season when it came to María being close friends with Claudia, who supported her through her abortion process after Isabela ended her friendship with her.
  • Heel–Face Turn: As of the end of season 2, thanks to Raúl's "The Reason You Suck" Speech and when he helped Maria and Claudia rescue Natalia who was kidnapped by the drug dealers. He is shown to have fully reformed in season 3, and has a close friendship with Claudia.
  • Hypocrite: Pablo repeatedly attempts to make amends with María for not supporting her when she got pregnant but she is always rejecting him for said valid reasons.
  • It's All About Me:
    • María calls Pablo out on this when he continually insists that she keep the baby and firmly makes it clear that it is her body and that, despite Pablo being the father, it doesn't mean that the decision is up to him.
    María: You don't get it. It's not about you. It's my body, I won't have it. Just leave me alone, please.
    • Pablo goes on vigilante mode to locate Gerry and turn him over to the police for murdering Luis, after finding out Raúl has been hiding him, although his motives are clearly far from being altruistic.
    • This is brought up again by María in 2.08, still assuming that Pablo is giving the same excuses, when he actually came to properly own up to his actions following Raúl's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him.
  • Jerkass: Pablo is very sexist, controlling and unsympathetic and he only gets worse as the series progresses.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Pablo is worried when Isabela tells him that she intends to tell Natalia and María about her gender identity, arguing that if one knows then the whole school will. Later on, when the hacker leaks Isabela's secret before she herself has a chance to do, Pablo pushes Isabela away and publicly breaks up with her feigning ignorance about knowing her secret all along. He also does the same to María, who turns out to be the Honey Bunny, after breaking the news to him that she's pregnant and that the baby is his. In response, he cruelly ditches her and tells her that she's far from being a saint for "stealing" him from Isabela. In addition, he willingly admits to being an "asshole" after being called this by María.
  • Karma Houdini: Aside from a suspension, Pablo never gets punished for beating Raúl up.
  • Lack of Empathy: Pablo didn't care enough about Isabela and Maria's friendship, something that was his own fault for going after Maria while dating Isabela, even turning on Maria after informing him that she's pregnant with his child and spitefully spilling the beans about their affair to Isabela.
  • Love Triangle: Pablo, Isabela and Maria before the beginning of the series because Pablo cheated on Isabela frequently with Maria. He somewhat pursues the two girls at the same time during the first season.
  • Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Pablo and María get busy in the school janitor's closet.
  • Moral Myopia: Pablo rages at Raúl in season 2 for ruining his relationship with Isabela through his hacking schemes, clearly failing to recognize he did this to himself for being a lame boyfriend to her, both by cheating on her with her best friend María and publicly breaking up with her and make the students think he had no idea that Isabela was trans.
  • Mr. Fanservice: Pablo has a muscular figure and a naked pic of him (post-secret leaked) reveals this when the hacker leaks his secret that exposes him as an unfaithful boyfriend to Isabela.
  • Never My Fault: Pablo's violent rampages and controlling attitude towards María were a product of Raúl, a.k.a the hacker, as he had leaked Isabela and the latter's secrets, resulting in him losing both girls; Isabela, whose secret was leaked and he publicly broke up with her, and María, who broke the news about her pregnancy but Pablo reacted indifferently. By the second season, Pablo is taking his frustrations out on Raúl to the point of viewer exhaustion, completely refusing to recognize that he had brought this miseries on himself as he had been secretly seeing María while he was dating Isabela. Furthermore, it is obvious that Pablo is trying to be in a serious relationship with María to fill the void of Isabela's departure and jealously views Claudia as a threat. All of this is lampshaded by Raúl during his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Pablo.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In 2.06, Pablo broke the news about Raúl and, allegedly, Sofía's parts in harboring Gerry from the police, which had caused most of the students to accuse the latter of being a "traitor. However, with the incriminating evidence being out of context and Pablo's suspension from the school for beating Raúl up, they are no longer trash-talking Sofía by the next episode, thus leaving Pablo unable to fully explain his supposed side of the story. He did not even consider the fact of Raúl hiding Gerry at his house. Because of this, he had unwittingly cleared Sofía's name, supported by Raúl's absence from the school and Rosita telling everyone about Sofía's "accident".
  • Overly Long Gag: Apart from vandalizing his house with some classmates, Pablo beating Raúl up whenever and wherever after his return to the school in season 2.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Pablo mistakenly assumes that Sofía is an accomplice to Raúl's scheme in harboring Gerry from the police after seeing the three together at a nightclub, then leading him to show the out-of-context evidence to the student body, who are quick to outright accuse Sofía of being a "traitor". Susana doesn't even let Sofía explain her side of the story, stating how disappointed she is that Sofía "changed". Sofía says the same about Susana, given that she now knows about her affair with Quintanilla. However, Susana is left clueless at the hint.
  • Red Herring: The audience, even Raúl himself, suspected Pablo to be the avenger because of his violent outbursts and finding out that Raúl has been harboring Gerry from the police for Luis's murder, although Pablo was ''technically'' seeking justice for himself. Alex turns out to be the avenger as she had stolen Raúl's money to start a new life with Gaby. Foreshadowed in 2.07 when Pablo denied committing said theft and Gaby left for Spain without Alex. Surprisingly enough, none of the other main characters, including Sofía, ever suspected Pablo to be the avenger despite witnessing his fights with Raúl and being one of the few students who wasn't a victim of the anonymous perpetrator.
  • Seven Deadly Sins: Pablo (Lust) is very sexually active and even sex-obsessed despite having a girlfriend. Consequently, he cheats on her with Maria but continues their relationship. Later he sends naked photos of himself to Maria and refers to her as "Bunny". It's clear he considers her as a sexual object by the way he treated her having discovered he got her pregnant a few minutes before trying to get back with Isabela again in despair.
  • Straw Misogynist: Pablo is heavily implied to be this towards Isabela and María once the hacker exposes his secret, something that displayed many of his worst traits in season 2.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Pablo when he is seeking revenge against Raúl.
  • Trans Equals Gay: After Isabela is outed as transgender, her boyfriend's friends ask whether this means that he's gay.
  • Trans Relationship Troubles: Pablo dumps Isabela immediately after she's outed. He tries to get back together with her later, but she angrily refuses over his past behavior.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Alongside most of the students whose secrets were leaked by the hacker. The only time him and Sofía ever interacted with each other was when he saw her with Raúl and Gerry, mistakenly assuming that she was helping Raúl harbor him from the police for murdering Luis. This is how he repays Sofía: violently shoving her to the ground, ignoring her pleas to stop from going after the two of them.
  • Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Most of the school, including her boyfriend, are appalled when Isabela's revealed to be transgender. He dumps her, most of the girls shun Isabela, she's labeled male, questioned about her genitals and generally mocked or bullied. However, they are shown to be clearly in the wrong, and it's why Isabela wasn't open about her identity with them. However, it turns out that Pablo knew all along and actually feigned ignorance in front of his friends out of shame.
  • Villainous Breakdown: When Pablo finds out that Raúl has been harboring Gerry from the police for murdering Luis, he violently starts beating him up while cursing him on this.
    Pablo: MOTHERF—KER!!! YOU'VE BEEN HARBORING THAT F—KING MURDERER!!!
  • We Used to Be Friends: Pablo to Raúl, although he coped with it through violent outbursts. After Raúl was exposed as the hacker, Pablo did nothing more than constantly beating the crap out of him since Raúl's previous actions had brought out the worst in him.
  • We Will Meet Again: At the beginning of season 2, while Raúl leaves on his motorcycle, post-hacker exposure, Pablo gives him a vengeful menacing stare implying this.

    Gerardo "Gerry" Granda 
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Played by: Patricio Gallardo
  • Book Dumb: Sofia mentioned his school expedient was pretty tainted due to poor grades and large amount of absences.
  • The Bully: Gerry and his buddies never leave Luis be, picking on him brutally every day.
  • Dirty Coward: Gerry is too afraid to turn himself in to the police over his role in Luis'murder that he is indirectly allowing the Avenger to keep on torturing the students who supposedly messed with him in the past. Subverted after he is caught on his lie by Pipe.
  • Dude Magnet: A male-inverted example with Gerry, as he is quite good-looking and catches the eye of Luis, Pipe and Bernardo.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Gerry becomes this in the eyes of his friends and classmates after violently beating Luis up and leaving him in a coma. Pablo even tries to peacefully have him leave Raúl's party when he arrives out of fear for how he'll react. Subverted after he atones for his actions and the group sort-of forgives him.
  • Gone Horribly Right: Because of the hacker, Gerry fought off and punched Luis very hard. Not only he did he get him hospitalized, but the severity of the injuries would later result in Luis's death, all because of a wrong choice Luis made to free himself from the school's extreme bullying.
  • Has a Type: He had two dork-like brunette guys for love interests: Luis and inmate Bernardo.
  • Hypocrite: Gerry told Sofía to behave herself unless she didn't want to get in trouble, and look who's talking: the one who actually does not behave with his extreme bullying towards Luis and others who think they deserve. This is also lampshaded by Sofía, who points out that he'll statistically do worse than her due to his poor grades and large amount of absences at the school.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Gerry slowly goes through one when he genuinely regrets his mistreatment of Luis and comes to terms with his guilt in having murdered him, at which point he decided that the best course of action is to turn himself in as a way to pay his debt.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: For as much of a detestable bully he is, Gerry isn't wrong in pointing out to Quintanilla, who scolds him for wanting to publicly fight Luis as revenge, that he wasn't and is not doing anything useful to stop the school's hacking, which he is supposed to do as his job as a principal demands it.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Gerry progresses to this by the second season, coming to genuinely regret his mistreatment and murder of Luis, even visiting his tomb and leaving in it his dog tags as a way to apologize for hurting him, even refusing to help Raúl locate the avenger if he brings a gun, as he doesn't want more people to get hurt because of him. Try and imagine the Gerry from season 1 rejecting such suggestion.

    Darío & Ernesto 

Played by: Darío Aragón y Xabiani Ponce de León

    Rosa "Rosita" Restrepo 
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Babe, you do know that in some countries you get your arms chopped off for stealing, don't you?

Played by: Patricia Maqueo

  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: She was in a relationship with Gerry, The Bully, until she broke up with him after the hacker outed him as gay.
  • Amicable Exes: Season 3 shows that she's still on good terms with Gerry, and they even take a selfie together at Raul's party and run into each other while he's hanging out with Bernardo.
  • Blatant Lies:
    • When Maria and Natalia are searching for Natalia's lost bag in the computer lab, Rosita is present when Maria finds a condom left behind, which was Gerry's, as they previously had sex there. But Rosita feigns disgust and ignorance about the condom when Maria complains about who would do such thing.
    • Rosita assured Natalia that she would tell everyone to stop ignoring her. However, Natalia reaches her breaking point after it is revealed that Rosita had actually done the opposite through a dare (Freeze Natalia) in which anyone seen talking to her would be banned from attending the NONA party.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Even though Gerry keeps on denying that he is gay (post-secret revealed by the hacker), his girlfriend Rosita, nevertheless, amicably breaks up with him so that he can find true love through this sexual orientation. By the second season, he starts progressively embracing his attraction to men.
  • Lovable Alpha Bitch: After the downfall of the popular clique after their secrets being revealed, Rosita became more popular as the new Student President and NONA's organizer replacing Natalia using even her new influence to annoy her with for example the Natalia Freeze Challenge, in which anyone seen talking to her would be banned from attending. Despite this, she still treats other students like before.
  • No Sympathy: Rosita didn't pay much attention to Maria feeling unwell due to the poisoned vodka botlle, and simply told her to use the bathroom thinking she wanted to throw up, all just to go back to enjoying her birthday party. She didn't even bother to come check on her friend after she got hospitalized. So much for true friends, huh?
  • Out of Focus: Aside from her iconic confrontations with Natalia and gossiping about other students, she mostly stays on the background and doesn't have a major role.
  • Red Herring: Rosita is talkative and prone to gossip, but she's not the hacker.
  • Saying Too Much: Does she ever? Well, she's Rosita and loves gossip.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: And hell is she really good at this.
  • Status Quo Is God: Season 3 shows she hasn't really changed her gossipy attitude at all, even after she showed concern for Sofía getting hospitalized, although to be fair, she didn't know she staged this to mislead the avenger.
  • Ungrateful Bitch: Rosita misinterprets Sofía's warnings about the avenger spiking a vodka bottle as excuses for her to try to ruin her birthday party when she notices María feeling unwell.

    Valeria & Regina 

Played by: Karina Castro and Ariana Saavedra

  • Advertised Extra: Valeria and Regina are featured in the final credits alongside the other main characters, but serve more as extras rather than pivotal characters whatsoever.
  • Kick the Dog: Valeria and Regina, along with the other girls, shun and make fun of Isabela for being trans.
  • Those Two Girls: They're the only girls who aren't part of the clique per se, but are popular themselves.

    Claudia 

Played by: Ana Sofia Gatica

  • Ascended Extra: She was already a main character in season 2, but Claudia plays a much major role in the third season than she did when first introduced, now prepared to team up with her classmates to go to extreme lengths to cover up their involvement in Susana's death to ensure their futures. She is also on good terms with Pablo and finds a career in acting.
  • Betty and Veronica: The Bisexual Love Triangle involving María as the Archie with her new best friend Claudia as the Betty and Jerkass ex-fuckbuddy Pablo being the Veronica as the two fight over her. However, while Claudia and Pablo manage to put their differences aside to help María rescue her kidnapped sister, neither of them get to be with her as María commits suicide out of guilt for her part in Susana's death.
  • Groin Attack: Claudia does this to Pablo when he tries to grab her.
  • Hidden Depths
  • Horrible Judge of Character
  • Never My Fault
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Season 3 makes her grow into this virtually for no reason at all other than saving her own skin and moving on with her life after getting involved in Susana's death.

Adults

    Miguel Quintanilla 
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Played by: Rodrigo Cachero
  • Accomplice by Inaction: Quintanilla in Luis' murder, even lampshaded by Luis's mother. When Quintanilla found out about the fight, he locked Gerry up, only for him to be released by Alex on the hacker's orders, so Quintanilla handled the situation very poorly.
  • Adults Are Useless: Quintanilla, the school principal, doesn't do almost anything useful to track down the hacker, although he keeps on telling Sofía to back out when she offers to assist.
  • Big "NO!": Quintanilla gives one out as Gerry punches Luis and he falls unconscious.
  • Demoted to Extra
  • Dude, Not Funny!: Played straight. Quintanilla is attacked and humilliated by the avenger at his own farewell party, locked up in the men's restroom and stung by bees. Shortly after he is released and shows up before the gaze of the students gathered there, Darío jokingly remarks that "it must have been a good poop", at which point they burst out laughing. Quintanilla lampshades this to Darío asking "You think you're so funny?", as he is visibly offended by the joke right before launching his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to them and outright making an angry Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
  • Hypocrite: Quintanilla usually (even in anger) rejects Sofía's assistance in the investigation of the hacker, but his own methods to locate the anonymous character prove to be less than helpful, something that is questioned by both the students and the school's council. Does he really want to ensure the students' safety or just make everything worse than it already is? In addition, while he is dating Sofía's mom, who rejects his marriage proposal for her daughter's sake, Quintanilla not only cheats on her with Susana, a married teacher, but also has the nerve to start avoiding her instead of taking responsibility for his own mistakes. If it that weren't enough, even after Raúl is unmasked as the hacker and made clear that he's not welcome, Quintanilla can't expel him as the former still uses this move against him (just like when Quintanilla was blackmailed into expelling Javier), which he still doesn't tell Nora about, until she had to find out herself through Susana's angered husband, thus effectively breaking their already official engagement.
  • Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Susana and Miguel had sex in a chair inside an empty classroom and are briefly seen by Raul.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After being stung by bees as another cruel act from the Avenger and therefore released, all of the students start laughing at and recording Quintanilla. Having had enough, Quintanilla, the school's former principal, gives this to the students by recounting the sacrifices he has made to keep the school afloat and how all of them refuse to acknowledge this due to their egotistical attitudes and laughter, citing that they deserve everything that's been happening lately.
    Quintanilla: You think you're so funny? I gave my everything to this school, hmm? And I made a lot of sacrifices for you, for you, for you, for you, for all of you, huh?
    Darío: Relax, bro.
    Quintanilla: No, don't "bro" me or tell me to relax. I locked Gerry up! I never meant for anything to happen to Luis or any of you. But with these attitudes, with your idiotic little laughters, sometimes...I think you deserve what's been happening.
    Susana: Look, tensions are running high. Please, everyone go home.
    Quintanilla: Yeah, go home or go to hell. I don't care.
    Susana: Please, you're a teacher.
    Quintanilla: No, I'm not anymore. I'm nothing, Principal.
  • Secret Relationship: Miguel and Susana were in one due to her having a husband.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Quintanilla was removed as principal of National School by decision of the school council as he hadn't properly done his job to investigate and put an end to the schemes of both the hacker and the avenger, most of the time implementing questionable measures and rejecting Sofía's assistance. The repercussions of both the previous events and Quintanilla's poor handling with trying to deal with the avenger clearly prove this point. Susana, who was far more experienced, was the perfect candidate to succeed Quintanilla, this time with even more controversial measures.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Quintanilla resigns from National School out of anger and humiliation while giving the students his "The Reason You Suck" Speech after his farewell party gone awry due to the Avenger locking him up in a restroom to be stung by bees.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Quintanilla questions Sofía about Raúl when she temporarily crashes with him, asking her if she has forgotten what he did before.

    Nora 

    Bruno 
Played by: Mauro Sánchez Navarro
  • Big Bad: In the third season. He takes over Raúl's hacker account to intimidate and blackmail Sofía & co. who were responsible for Susana's death, also using some of the school's students as pawns to create an army.
  • The Man Behind the Man: He turns out to be the one who taught Raúl how to hack into other people's phones, making him the mastermind behind the hacker account.
  • Put on a Prison Bus: Bruno was imprisoned sometime during the second season for his involvement with Raúl in the hackings.
  • Villain Has a Point: HE calls out the actions of Sofía and her friends over their involvement in Susana's death by pointing out that when rich people like Raúl commit crimes, they tend to always get away with it by paying off larger sums of money to save their own asses and allow nobodies like Bruno to rot in jail for the rest of their life for something they didn't even do. In the end, while giving out her graduation speech, Sofía publicly admits the truth behind Susana's death, as well as the complicity of Damián in the crime. As a result, while Damián is imprisoned, Sofía, Javier, Raúl, Gerry, Pablo, Alex and Claudia are only given a community service sentence.

    Gabriela 
Played by: Lidia San José
  • Affectionate Nickname: Alex calls her "Gabi".
  • Demoted to Extra: After getting fired from the school, she is only has scenes with Alex throughout the second season before she leaves for Spain. In the third season she is still in Spain and has videocalls with her.
  • Put on a Bus: Gabriela leaves for Spain after accepting a job offer there since she was fired from the school after her relationship with Alex comes out, thus pointing out to the latter that, without a job, she was unable to fend for the two of them. Alex wanted to come with her, but Gabriela ended up going by herself. "Alex, you're a kid. This wasn't going to work in Spain", Gabriela sadly replies as she is about to board her flight.
  • Teacher/Student Romance: Between her and Alex, a lesbian student.

    Susana 

Played by: Thanya López
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  • Death by Falling Over: She is killed by being pushed off the roof accidentally while in a struggle over a bagful of money in the Season 2 finale. Season 3 reveals that the one who actually pushed her was María.
  • Disappointed in You: Still suspicious about Sofia, who still truthfully claims she had nothing to do with hiding Gerry, Susana tells her how disappointed she is that she "changed a lot". Sofia says the same about her, implying her affair with Quintanilla, but Susana doesn't get the hint.
  • Stern Teacher: Susana usually acts like this to Sofía and her classmates. Then, in season 2 she becomes the principal and implements extreme measures.
  • Threat Backfire: Susana threatens to have both Sofia and Raul expelled and turned over to the police when she accuses them of harboring Gerry, but he manages to get themselves off the hook through his blackmailing skills, which he had previously used on Susana over her affair with Quintanilla.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass

    Lulú 
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Played by: Renata del Castillo
  • Abhorrent Admirer: Lulu becomes this to Pablo after his secret is leaked, particularly the fact that he has a large penis. She even gives Pablo a flirtatious stare as he enters Quintanilla's office and has somehow gotten his number.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Lulú, compliments whoever did Isabela's sex reassignment surgery, remarking "you can't even tell" and then proceeding to misgender her.

    Rogelio Herrera/Fernando 
Played by: Arturo Barba

    Güero 
Played by: Cristian Santin

    Martha 
Played by: Sandra Burgos

    Felipe "Pipe" 
Played by: Pierre Louis
  • Et Tu, Brute?: His reaction to learning that Gerry lied about his name and is wanted by the police for murder. Pipe kicks him out of his house as a result.
  • Morality Pet: Downplayed, Pipe is this to Gerry, but he's unaware that he murdered Luis.
  • Put on a Bus: His last appearance is on the sixth episode of Season 2.
  • Twofer Token Minority: He's brown and gay.

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