Characters / Mortadelo y Filemón

Main characters:

In general

• Bash Brothers: They always team up together.
• Berserk Button: Don't tell the duo that they have to work with Bacterio, or that they have to test his new invention. They pretty much hate the guy, and they have seen too many of his inventions backfiring to ever trust them. When they are forced to work with him, they relucantly follow the Supervisor's orders, but only because the Super threatens the duo into executing them or something worse.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Filemón actively tries to be the blue oni, being the most professional, cultured and cold-headed, but he rarely gets it right. If anything, being also the most motivated and short-tempered, he ends up being the red most of the time.
• Ultimate Job Security: Despite their incompetence and their tendency to infuriate the Super, the protagonists are never fired from the TIA, no matter how bad they screw up things. Explained in-story with the duo being apparently the most competent agents that T.I.A. has, or even the bravest ones. One story has the Super fed up with the duo's refusal to accept a mission, so he asks for a volunteer agent to replace them. The building is nearly evacuated within seconds, as every other agent runs away in panic.

Mortadelo

Mortadelo

Voiced by: Víctor Ramírez (1969 series); Enric Cusí (1994 series), Karra Elejalde (2014 movie)

Played by: Benito Pocino (2003 movie), Edu Soto (2008 sequel)

• Adaptational Personality Change: The 2003 film makes him significantly less expressive and lively than his comic self, giving him a bit of a stone-faced visage. The sequel portrays him closer to the original, but still more subdued.
• Almighty Janitor: In a sense. His disguise skills border Reality Warper field and he has occasionally shown to be a very efficient agent when getting serious, but he is still a low ranked TIA agent with a painfully low payment. Justified because the rest of the time he is a bumbling moron.
• Baldness Angst: He isn't quite happy about being prematurely bald.
• Berserk Button:
  • For starters, Mortadelo's baldness. Do not try to mock it, if you know what is good for you. Expect Bacterio to be beaten when he mocks Mortadelo's baldness, as his defective hair growth formula is the reason why he is prematurely bald.
  • Also, whenever some other Master of Disguise appears, Mortadelo will go into full-fledged disguise mode to prove that he is the one and only.
• Blind Without 'Em: While it doesn't happen too often, when he loses his glasses he can barely distinguish what's going on around him.
• Captain Oblivious: For the sake of a mission, Mortadelo will sometimes leave his boss to take the brunt of criminals' wrath while he escapes with their objective, believing Filemón to be perfectly able to handle it himself. At least once he was perfectly fine with the concept of leving a kidnapped Filemón to his own devices rather than rescuing him, until the Super forced him otherwise.
• Characterization Marches On: In the series's beginnings, he carried an umbrella and wore a bowler hat that served as a Hammerspace, and also had perpetually squinted eyes and his mouth always hidden by his shirt's neck. He dropped all of those traits pretty fast.
• Creepy Mortician: People often mistake him for one, because his attire is similar to a classical Spanish undertaker uniform. In fact, whenever he really disguises himself as one, his clothing barely changes.
• Gag Nose: His is bigger than average even in the series's drawing style.
• Genius Ditz: While certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer, he can be an actually competent agent when getting serious, and he's far more likely than Filemón to come up with ideas and abilities to save the day.
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: He used to had a prideful hair and was known as Mortadelo el meneludo until he tested a hair growing formula from Bacterio.
• Hillbilly Horrors: He was born in a deep country village, apparently in Valladolid, Castilla y León, which is portrayed this way.
• Impossible Thief: Although this trope is used very often in the series, Mortadelo is the one who does it the most frequently, switching a valuable item, a MacGuffin or himself for something completely useless. However, this also has an unfortunate tendency to backfire when he accidentally does the switch in reverse or fails to do it altogether.
• Kibbles and Bits: A human example: his disguises usually feature his white shirt collar, even whenever their forms are not humanoid or technically wearing anything. In fact, barring a few times that would qualify as Early-Installment Weirdness, Mortadelo himself keeps the collar on himself even when barechested or entirely nude.
• Latex Perfection: Sometimes uses latex masks in his disguises.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: When chance calls for it, he can be surprisingly cunning and skillful, not to talk about his shapeshifting abilities.
• Limited Wardrobe: Always wears a black suit with matching shoes and frock coat. Some chapters have revealed his entire wardrobe is full of identical suits.
• Manchild: While more or less all the main cast qualifies for this, he is possibly the biggest example, being also a bit of a Cloudcuckoolander.
• Master Actor: Zig-zagged, depending on what the script demands. While he does sometimes accomplish perfectly the tasks of his disguises, other times he only has the basic knowledge on how to keep up the deception and this ends up causing some major disaster.
• Master of Disguise: Zig-zagged again. He is an expert on disguises, but how efficient they are is heavily mandated by the needs of the plot. He sometimes uses Wig, Dress, Accent or very amateur-looking party suits, which get his cover blown up quickly, but most of the time he dons disguises of animals, objects, vehicles and other things that amount to literally turning into them, making him virtually indistinguishable (and giving him the traits and abilities of the real thing). The only flaw is that he is usually keeping his face and or white collar, but even this is rarely noticed in-universe.
• Master of Unlocking: Another of his most useful skills, to help when trying to open a door or a safe, is lockpicking. However, for the sake of jokes, his favorite method is using a "Master Key" that is simply a giant key to use as a makeshift battering ram.
• No Sense of Direction: Whenever he's tasked with driving a car, a boat or flying a plane, chances are he'll arrive at the wrong location, if he even manages to get anywhere without crashing the vehicle.
• Outdated Outfit: His signature black frock coat, which was already out of style when he was first introduced in The '50s.
• Satchel Switcheroo: He often pulls this off when Filemón is being carried away by guards or thugs, snatching him from them and leaving something else in his place without them noticing until it is too late.
• Shapeshifting Failure: Subverted. His disguises usually show his shirt collar and the shape of his face, but this is rarely noticed, which suggests it is more of an artistic resource for the reader's convenience than an in-universe feature.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: His grandmother is identical to him, only with a larger chin. In another instance, he's also shown (in a flashback to his childhood) as having a grandfather who was identical to him save for a white mustache and beard, so whether this is a case of Negative Continuity or both grandparents are canon is unknown.
• Undying Loyalty: To Filemón, whom he calls his "boss" even although he isn't really. Not matter how much Filemón berates or mistreats Mortadelo, he doesn't resent him beyond of sporadic fights that never stick.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He rarely makes a good use of it due to his dim-witted nature, but having the skill to turn into anything without limits is an asset that few antagonists can match.
• Vague Age: The comic's original script said he and Filemón were technically middle-aged, but they were later portrayed as men in their 30s and it sticked until today.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: His disguise ability equals to it. He can turn into pretty much anything, including massive objects and abstract concepts.

Filemón

Filemón Pi

Voiced by: José Martínez Blanco (1969 series), Xavier Martín (1994 series), Janfri Topera (2014 movie), Ramón Langa (2014 movie, imaginary self)

Played by: Pepe Viyuela

• Adaptational Jerkass: The first live action film highlights mostly his worst qualities, as it makes him much more unpleasant, arrogant and frustrated. He resembles more his comic version by the second.
• Almighty Janitor: Another justified example. Promotional materials state he could be an unambiguously excellent agent if he dedicated as much brainpower to his job as he dedicates to chasing Mortadelo for his failures.
• Born Unlucky: Has possibly the worst luck of all the cast, and unlike them, he does not have shapeshifting powers or a high rank to compensate it.
• Butt-Monkey: He is constantly suffering all sorts of accidents and mishaps, often but not always caused by himself (and more than often caused by Mortadelo).
• Characterization Marches On: He was hit the hardest at it. In the comic's beginnings, he smoke on a pipe, wore a hat and a jacket, and his nose was slightly larger and curvier. He was also a Perpetual Frowner, and his surname was Gutiérrez, not Pi. He dropped those traits quickly except by the jacket, which he retained for a comparatively longer time.
• Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Only initially. During The '90s it was occasionally shown to smoke regular cigars, and he still has the penchant to steal the Supervisor's Cuban ones.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Usually quite justified.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Whenever he chases Mortadelo, he often wields giant weapons of several kinds he gets out of thin air. A tie-in book claims that he would be a better agent than James Bond if he bothered using them against actual enemies.
• Hypocrite: Claims to be an ideal worker, but he steals the Supervisor's expensive wine and cigars and talks behind the people's backs (and is punished for it).
• Iron Butt Monkey: It doesn't matter if he is burned, blown up or given a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, he will usually completely recover in one or two panels.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is uptight, very hot-tempered and also a bit pedantic, but not a bad guy overall, and he cares deeply for Mortadelo even if he would die before admitting it.
• Limited Wardrobe: White shirt, black bow tie, red pants (very rarely blue) and brown shoes. He also wore a red jacket in his beginnings.
• Only One Name: Inverted; he is the only with an official, established surname, even if it is rarely mentioned. The rest of the cast either lack it or have it only informed in promotional materials.
• Sherlock Homage: Started as this, as said in Characterization Marches On above. He even got once to wear a hunting coat and hat as Holmes is often portrayed.
• Tsundere: A type B male example towards Mortadelo.
• Vague Age: Like Mortadelo, he was supposed to be middle-aged, but later chapters went for a 30-something portrayal.

TIA:

In general

• Badass Crew: Subverted, parodied and played with this all the time. The company has an agent who is basically a Reality Warper, a Mad Scientist that can invent anything and a woman with Super-Strength, as well as other agents with unique skills, but they almost invariably only screw things up every time they are called in.
• Defective Detective: Almost all their members are seriously quirky.
• Fictional Counterpart: They're seemingly a stand-in for the real-life Centro Nacional de Intelligencia, Spain's official intelligence agency.
• Interservice Rivalry: Subverted. Some stories show the TIA officially collaborates with regular police forces, but Mortadelo and Filemón oftem get in trouble with cops and other civile servants.
• State Sec: They have military-level hardware, though they rarely use it.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Bacterio and Mortadelo hate each other, as the former made the latter lose all his hair and Mortadelo often tries to get revenge for it, but are forced to work together.

The Supervisor

Supervisor Vicente Ruínez, "The Super"

Voiced by: Miguel Ángel Jenner (1994 series), Mariano Venancio (2014 movie)

Played by: Mariano Venancio

• Adaptational Personality Change: In the first film adaptation he is a bit of a pervert, while in the original he is generally above that kind of thing. More shocking, however, is that Ofelia of all people is his usual object of lust in the movie, as in the comics he's just like every other male character in their opinion towards her utter lack of attractiveness.
• Bad Boss: He is despotic, intransigent and quite short-tempered, even a bit sociopathic, and it is sometimes hinted he is embezzling the TIA's money for his personal luxuries. Also, he has no qualms about sending Mortadelo and Filemón to suicide and/or impossible missions without even hiding it, while also barely making any effort to hide how lowly he thinks of them.
• Bastard Bastard: A promotional material revealed he is the son of his family's butane gas man.
• Characterization Marches On: Believe it or not, in the earliest stories he was genuinely rewarding Mortadelo and Filemon whenever they succeeded their mission. Unfortunately, said reward was usually linked to a series of Amusing Injuries received by Mortadelo, Filemon or both during said mission (for example, whisky on the rocks after going to the North Pole) and they retaliated by beating the crap out the Super. Take La caja de los diez cerrojos as an example of this Running Gag.
• Da Chief: As Mortadelo and Filemón's immediate superior, he is the one giving them their missions (and chewing them out whenever they fail). Bonus points for having some of the archetype's traits, like the magnificent moustache and occasionally the big cigars.
• Deadpan Snarker: Especially towards the titular agents. Most of the time, it is used to show his skepticism towards their promised success.
• Embarrassing Last Name: His pseudo-canonical surname, Ruínez, can be translated to English as "Ruinson".
• Everyone Has Standards: Occassionally can be appalled and angry towards how callous and uncaring Mortadelo and Filemón can get over each other's safety and integrity, even if he's just as able of overlooking their wellbeing.
• Fat Bastard: He is wide-waisted and easy to get angry.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Like Filemón, with good reasons.
• Hypocrite: He enjoys a hefty paycheck while the rest of the TIA is heavily under-budgeted, and brushes it off when it is pointed out.
• It's All About Me: A good number of the earlier stories where he sends the title characters searching for a MacGuffin, which turns out to be for a very petty reason (getting back an insignificant item, covering up an embarrassing secret...). He even acts confused and shocked by his agents' justified anger.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Even although he has a nasty personality and treats his subordinates like dirt, it has been shown that deep down he really cares for Mortadelo and Filemón and sees them as a sort of mischievous sons.
• Large and in Charge: In weight more than in height, although this depends on the scene; he is sometimes shorter than Filemón and sometimes of the same height. However, in Dibújalos tú solito, an instruction manual on how to draw the characters, Ibáñez says himself that El Súper is in fact taller than Filemón, making him the second tallest character in the TIA and probably the heaviest.
• Limited Wardrobe: A blue suit with a black neck tie.
• Mr. Exposition: He briefs the title duo about their missions, only bringing in Dr. Bacterio whenever it is a science-related affair.
• Only One Name: In the comics themselves, he is just known as Vicente. His surname was officially revealed later (and with some controversy, as a source claims his surname is Patente, while another apparently higher says it is Ruinez).
• Pointy-Haired Boss: Downplayed. He is not an example of excellence himself, but he compares favorably to the title agents, and it is implied he is overall a good executive when he does not have to directly interact with subordinates or manage their resources.
• Running Gag: It is common for Mortadelo and Filemón to misunderstand comically his briefing of the mission, if not ignore it completely because they have their attention put in another thing, or even snark at him if the topic of the mission is particularly boring or unpleasant. In any of those cases, he reacts violently against them, generally hitting or strangling them.
• Team Dad: Age wise, he frequently acts as a father figure to Mortadelo and Filemón, sometimes to his chagrin.
• The Scrooge: He has a lot of flaws, but he is exceptionally stingy and barely pays his subordinates. For starters, Mortadelo and Filemon will always have to use an antiquated vehicle or weapon, if not cost their own travel expenses. Even worse, it is heavily implied that the Super is embezzling the TIA money for himself.
• You Have Failed Me: He's absolutely not above threatening with executing agents if they refuse to obey him, and it is occasionally implied he keeps his word.

Dr. Bacterio

Dr./Prof. Bacterio

Voiced by: Emilio Freixas (1994 series), Enrique Villén (2014 movie)

Played by: Janfri Topera

• Absent-Minded Professor: Mostly averted, although he can fall on it from time to time, especially when the plot calls for one of his inventions to be stolen or lost.
• Adaptational Personality Change: In the 2003 film, he lacks most of his usual gravitas from the comics, being instead very fast-talking and nervous.
• Almighty Janitor: Bacterio is undoubtedly an extraordinary inventor, as while his gadgets and serums often turn out either Gone Horribly Wrong and Gone Horribly Right, they still have amazing effects that could be harnessed with adequate testing and used in mankind's benefit. However, he is confined to work in a shady secret service instead of gaining millions with his patents, and is almost bizarrely okay with it.
• Bungling Inventor: Probably the biggest example in Spanish pop culture. Even whenever his inventions do actually work as as expected, they tend to worsen things.
• Butt-Monkey: He is constantly beaten up by Mortadelo and Filemon (and sometimes the Super and Ofelia) whenever they become victims of his last inventions, which happens all the time.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has his moments, which can turn into Snark-to-Snark Combat with Mortadelo due to their personal enmity.
• Expy: Apparently, Ibáñez based his appearance and role on Professor Zwart from Spirou & Fantasio. He has also some elements from Professor Calculus from Tintin, mainly related to its featured plots.
• For Science!: Many of the missions given to the titular duo are testing Bacterio's creations.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Is able to create machines that do almost everything, although whether they work as expected or not is another thing.
• Limited Wardrobe: A green suit, sometimes with a black neck tie.
• Mad Scientist: Mortadelo considers him one, and it is not inaccurate given that Bacterio checks many of the points (he often builds things without blueprints, uses obviously forced experiment subjects, does self-experimentation, is a bit of a sadist, etc). However, he works for the good guys and has never shown to be anything other than a dutiful government agent.
• Meaningful Name: Bacterio, as in "bacterium".
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He is addressed as both "doctor" and "professor", but he tends to be officially billed as the former.
• Mr. Exposition: Although most of the time it devolves into Techno Babble that get his audience slept or dizzy.
• Nice Guy: Downplayed. He is the most even-tempered of the main cast, as he spends most of his time minding his own business and is usually very polite and approachable whenever he's not following orders. Still, as mentioned in the Mad Scientist entry, Bacterio has no problem using his own colleagues (especially Mortadelo and Filemon) or himself as guinea pigs.
• Non-Action Guy: He is almost never seen wielding weapons or engaging in fighting, as he is not a field agent.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Subverted. Initially, he was simply billed as a biologist and only produced serums and drugs, but over time he became a generic scientist who navigated all the fields of expertise needed by the plot.
• Parody: Of Q.
• The Professor: Sometimes parodied, although sometimes played straight as well.
• Professor Guinea Pig: Got turned into a midget in his very introductory chapter after testing a new growing serum on himself.
• Shorter Means Smarter: Dibújalos tú solito, a promotional album for drawing the characters, reveal that he is the shortest of the main cast. This is pretty much an Informed Attribute, as most scenes portray him as roughly similar to Filemón and El Súper in height.
• The Smart Guy: He is in task of all intellectual and/or scientific matters.
• Vague Age: He's implied to be the oldest of the main cast, being occasionally the target of senior-related humor, but it's unclear by how much margin, given that his beard is still fully black and he's not much more fragile than any other character.

Ofelia

Ms. Ofelia

Voiced by: Rosa Pastó (1994 series), Berta Ojea (2014 movie)

Played by: Berta Ojea

• Abhorrent Admirer: She is attracted to Mortadelo and sometimes to Filemón, but they are both repulsed by her ugliness and fatness.
• Berserk Button: Being called fat either directly or indirectly. Damaging her clothing, makeup or any of her beauty projects is another safe way to get her angry.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Although she is round plump, there are characters who find her attractive, especially those who are overweight and/or obese like her. She has used this to play a Heroic Seductress role as a last resource.
• The Big Girl: Not by job, as she is just a secretary, but when circumstances call for it, she is one of the most dangerous in the company thanks to her superhuman strength.
• Butt-Monkey: Absolutely no one ever shows her any modicum of respect, and even characters she has often hurt physically are never afraid of downright insulting her to her face, even when she's trying to be kind. She's also not above being portrayed as the target of accidental physical punishment either.
• Dreadful Musician: She cannot absolutely sing.
• Hidden Depths: Normally acts as if she believed herself to be Scarlett Johansson, but characterization over the years has hinted that Ofelia is actually aware of her obesity and a bit insecure about it.
• Kevlard: Once deflected a Death Ray back to its origin through her ample breasts.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is a woman with violent, materialistic and petty tendencies, but when she thought Mortadelo and Filemón were dead, she was reduced to a crying mess. Moreover, she is also usually nice whenever her buttons are not pushed.
• Lethal Chef: Her food often turns out toxic and/or disgusting.
• Limited Wardrobe: A red minidress with black kneeboots, although she can don a great variety of attires if the story needs it.
• Parody: Of Miss Moneypenny.
• Plucky Girl: Despite being very easy to upset, she's always cheery again.
• Sexy Secretary: She believes herself to be it (although recent chapters have hinted she is at least somewhat aware of her excess of weight), while the reality is quite the opposite.
• Stout Strength: Despite or because her obesity, Ofelia is a physical powerhouse to Super-Strength levels.
• Torpedo Tits: She is capable of knocking out Mortadelo with one of her breasts.

Irma

Ms. Irma

Voiced by: Alicia Laorden (1994 series), Athenea Mata (2014 movie)

• Adapted Out: She doesn't appear in the live-action films.
• Alpha Bitch: A non-school example, as she was an ideal worker in all senses who in turn mistreated her less popular colleagues if she had the chance.
• Characterization Marches On: Initially she and Ofelia were antagonistic to each other, but later became friends.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Ibáñez made her disappear three years after her debut in order not to overshadow the rest of the cast.
• Foil: She was a blonde secretary, just like Ofelia, but unlike her, Irma was beautiful and sexy and had Mortadelo and Filemón chasing her. They had a bitter enmity as a result.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Mortadelo and Filemón were rendered catatonic every time she entered the room.
• Heroic Seductress: Her feminine wiles were exploited rather often, but she was on the side of the heroes.
• Jerkass: While usually professional and worldly, Irma also showed pretty clear that she considered both the title characters and Ofelia to be quite underneath her.
• Ms. Fanservice: To the point she was officially introduced in the series to show Mortadelo and Filemón weren't homosexual.
• Sexy Secretary: A straight example, unlike Ofelia. Actually, in her first appearance, Irma was the chief of the TIA's counter-terrorism section; she was only demoted to secretary after a failure caused by the titular duo.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: She rarely wore the same clothing, alternating between minidresses and combinations of shirts/blouses and pants.
• The Vamp: The Supervisor sometimes resorted to her feminine wiles to get Mortadelo and Filemón to do anything against their will.

Bestiájez

Agent Bestiájez

Voiced by: Rafael Calvo (1994 series)

• Adapted Out: He's absent from all but one of the comic's adaptations.
• Ascended Extra: He's a regular character in the Animated Adaptation, as opposed to his status as a tertiary in the comics (from which he was long gone by the time the animated series premiered). This is a stark contrast to every other adaptation from the comic, in which he isn't featured at all.
• Bald of Evil: Bald like most male characters, and this time in a much nastier light.
• The Brute: For the Supervisor, who used him to chase and capture Mortadelo and Filemón whenever they ran away during the mission's briefing.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Bestiájez only appeared as a full-fledged character during The '70s and The '80s, after which Ibáñez would use a random Suspiciously Similar Substitute to fulfill his role. However, his surname would be sporadically used over the years in what could be considered re-designed versions of him.
• Composite Character: In the animated series, he fulfilled the roles of many one-off characters in the comics, probably so that the staff could reuse his design and voice actor.
• Identical Stranger: 2011 saw an appearance by a character named Telesforo Bestiájez whose design was identical to the existent agent, only with a different role.
• Limited Wardrobe: Mostly a brown suit, although it could change color.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Bestiájez" is a fictitious surname created out of the colloquial Spanish word bestiajo, which translates literally as "big beast" and idiomatically as "brutish" or "rude". The surname could be accurately translated to English as "Bruteson".
• Put on a Bus: Subverted. He was mentioned to have been fired by the Supervisor in a chapter, although by the next he seemed to be in the organization again. Conversely, when he did disappear from the series, he did it without any indication.
• Running Gag: Every time he appeared, he would announce from another room that he had finally found Mortadelo and Filemón, though giving an ambiguous clue about where had they run away to. This would be followed by the Supervisor making a believable assumption about it, only for Bestiájez to enter the room dragging them behind him and revealing he meant a much, much far away place (as in other countries or even planets). This gag was inherited by Bestiájez's sucessors.

The Chairman

The TIA Chairman

Voiced by: Joaquín Muñoz (1994 series)

• Ambiguous Situation: His portrayal as a bespectacled, mustachioed gentleman only started in 1991. Before that, the TIA chairman had a different design in every appearance. It is unknown if this means they were different people on the job or just a huge case of Early Installment Character-Design Difference.
• Bad Boss: Downplayed. While he has proved to be almost as vengeful and abusive as the Supervisor if pressed enough, he is clearly a much more reasonable individual and it takes more for him to get angry.
• Informed Attribute: Some chapters state he is from the Canary Islands, mostly to make some Pun behind his back. However, this is a pretty random piece of info that is never shown on page; the Chairman doesn't even resemble any humorous stereotype of Canarian people as it could be natural to expect.

Other characters:

Rompetechos

Rompetechos

Played by: Emilio Gavira

Voiced by: Emilio Gavira

• Adapted Out: His cameos were erased in the 1994 animated series. Though a character resembling him does appear in adapation of Los cachorros majaretas.
• Blind Without 'Em: And with 'em, too! Pretty much all the gags around him are caused by his incredibly bad sight and his inability to accept this problem.
• Canon Immigrant: He is actually a character from his own series, also done by Ibáñez, but he does cameos in Mortadelo y Filemón from time to time. The films also gave him somewhat of an Ascended Extra status.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He's liable to explode in rage over a minor issue or slightly sarcastic comment.
• Ironic Name: Rompetechos means "ceiling-breaker", i.e. someone so tall that his head breaks through the ceiling; he's actually about half the height of most other characters.
• Never My Fault: His unwillingness to accept his vision problems and his easily punctured pride cause him plenty of trouble, which he always blames everyone else for.

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