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The Main Trio
Rikochet
Voiced in English by: Carlos Alazraqui (Seasons 1 & 2); Jason Marsden (Season 3)
Voiced in Latin American Spanish: Héctor Emmanuel Gómez
Voiced in Japanese by: Takeshi Kusao
Rikochet is an ambitious student who wants to be the greatest luchador of all time.- Boring, but Practical: One episode centered on him learning the value of fundamentals, the kind of Boring, but Practical beginner stuff that lays the groundwork for more advanced stuff. He later uses said fundamentals to great effect.
- Bouncing Battler: When he uses his "Pulverizing Pinball" move.
- Catchphrase: "Ay, basura!"note
- Chick Magnet: On two occasions, Rikochet receives kisses from Penny Plutonium and La Flamencita.
- The Kirk: He's the leader of his trio of junior luchadors.
- Signature Move: The "Pulverizing Pinball", in which he turns into a giant pinball following a brief and melodramatic routine, and the "Spinning Top" in which he transforms into a giant top.
- Spectacular Spinning: His "Spinning Top" move.
- To Be a Master: He wants to be a veteran luchador like his dad, and even more in later seasons, where he aims to be "Luchador Supreme."
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: His costume invokes either the American or Texas flag (Maybe both?). It may or may not be a straight example, though, since the location of the show isn't specified.
Buena Girl
Voiced in English by: Kimberly Brooks
Voiced in Latin American Spanish: Karla Falcón
Voiced in Japanese by: Sachiko Kojima
Of the three, Buena Girl is the most knowledgeable on The Code of Masked Wrestling, which she uses as guidelines for the trio's actions and behavior.
- Berserk Button: Since she's such a fanatical follower of the Code of Masked Wrestling, she'll go completely ballistic if she sees anyone going against it whether deliberately or accidentally, this was exemplified when Ricochet lost his mask, he tried to hide his face and broach the subject (in a "I have this friend" way) to Buena Girl only for her to recite the code, scream "It's not right!" at the top of her lungs, and then tell Ricochet that if she sees this so-called "friend" that she'll pummel them into the dirt!
- Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: In "Tooth or Dare".
- Butt-Monkey: She suffers quite a bit of bad luck in the first season.
- Catchphrase: "It's not buena!" and "It's not right!"
- Heroic BSoD: In "Not So Buena Girl".
- Lawful Stupid: She's fanatically loyal to the Code of Masked Wrestling, even if it means becoming a problem for her friends.
- Leotard of Power: Her costume seems to be this, though in one episode it was shown that it's actually a two piece costume with skin colored leggings.
- Rules Lawyer: Frequently recites the Code of Masked Wrestling for life advice.
- Signature Move: The "Buena Bulldozer Of Truth", where she transforms into a bulldozer.
- The Spock: She serves as the wisest of the trio and the entire luchador academy, though she tends to have oblivious moments due to assuming everybody else is as much a stickler for the rules as she.
The Flea
Voiced by: Candi Milo
Voiced in Latin American Spanish: Víctor Ugarte
Voiced in Japanese by: Chika Sakamoto
The Flea is quite the opposite of Buena Girl. He avoids personal hygiene and usually has no problem with breaking the rules.
- Accidental Murder: It's shown in a flashback that he ate the previous Luchador Supreme thinking it's a type of hotdog.
- Extreme Omnivore: He will sometimes eat garbage out of the can. Whether or not the items in the can are actually thrown-out food doesn't matter to him either.
- Fartillery: It's implied he uses farts while fighting consantly.
- Gasshole: And how! Farts more than else one almost constantly belches at times too.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A lot more selfish than the other protagonists, but still willing to do the right thing when his friends are in danger.
- Ow, My Body Part!:
- "Aye, the Flea's spleen!"
- Also: "The Flea cannot feel his ___! Oh wait, here it is, right next to the Flea."
- The Pig-Pen: So dirty, his naturally white suit looks brown!
- Signature Move: His trademark signature move is never seen during the show, but it was hinted (as well as shown in the opening sequence) that he turns into a green cloud of stench so potent that he could smash certain objects.
- Third-Person Person: The Flea constantly likes to talk about The Flea in third person! The Flea's parents also do it a lot.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Donuts, which is a given since his family owns a donut shop. He's also fond of churros.
Other Students
Megawatt
Voiced by: Michael Donovan
A wrestler whose mask is in the likeness of a lightbulb. He can execute electric attacks, but is also very clumsy.
- Cowardly Lion: He is shown to be quite timid and almost scared of everything but when his friends are in need of aid, he's willing to step up.
- Shock and Awe: When you have a name like Megawatt, it's pretty obvious what he could do.
- Simpleton Voice: In the later half of the show's run.
Penny Plutonium
Voiced by: Tabitha St. Germain
A blonde genius who often conducts scientific experiments, which tend to backfire. She has a secret crush on Rikochet.
- Butt-Monkey: In the entire run of the show, she loses practically every match she participates in.
- Dumb Blonde: Inverted very hard. Her signature move is even called "Brain Buster".
- Girlish Pigtails: She sports two blonde pigtails.
Potato Potata Jr.
Voiced by: Cusse Mankuma
- The Bully: His first appearance has him as the school bully Ricochet must defeat. Other appearances tone down his jerkassery.
- Graceful Loser: When he and Ricochet compete in a tournament in Getting Ahead, Ricochet wins on accident and is sad that his prize is a lot of Doughnuts rather than the 2nd place prize of a mask he really wanted. Jr. finds him after the match and happily offers to trade, as he wanted the doughnuts and Ricochet wanted the mask.
El Haystack Grande
Voiced by: Garry Chalk
- Scary Scarecrows: His outfit invokes this. It's also the theme of many of his moves.
Sonic Sumo
Voiced by: Brian Drummond
A masked sumo wrestler with high-tech gear.
- Genius Bruiser: He's a huge sumo and smart in gadgets.
Snow Pea
Voiced by: Kimberly Brooks
A small, baby-like mascarita who is the least violent student in the school. His signature move is simply a friendly hug, and he can only say his own name (and, in "Virtual Luchadores", "Rutabaga"). His costume resembles a pea pod, with a zipper that he uses to hide himself when frightened.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He maybe timid and sweet but make no mistake. If you push him too far, Snow Pea will kick your butt.
- Butt-Monkey: Most if probably not all episodes had Snow Pea being subjected to painful and/or humiliating circumstances.
- Hidden Depths: Snowpea is actually a veteran gamer.
- Pokémon Speak: His only word that he uses is his own name. "Virtual Luchardores"
La Flamencita
A masked Flamenco dancer who communicates by clacking her castanets and tapping her feet.- Dance Battler: She fights with flamenco dancing.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Being a Flamenco dancer, she wears a frilly red flamenco dress and Combat Stilettos.
- The Voiceless: Much like French Twist and Coco Demento, she doesn't speak and only uses her castanets and her dancing to do the talking for her.
French Twist
This student looks and acts like a mime, and as such, is usually The Voiceless.
- Motor Mouth: What he turns into in "French Twisted".
- Suddenly Voiced: By Lee Tockar in "French Twisted".
Cindy Slam
A violent little mascarita who hates just about everything and gets angry very easily. Her signature move is to turn her hands into brick walls and crush her opponent.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: It really seems like anything will set her off into Unstoppable Rage, but thankfully, it's actually not that bad, as Tsundere below shows.
- Tsundere: As evidenced in "The Anger of Cindy Slam" when the Main Trio try to return her diary, she seems like she's going to rip them apart on the mistaken belief that they might have read it, only to whiplash as she cheerfully says the diary isn't hers.
Zero Kelvin
An ice-themed wrestler dresses in a light blue hoodie and pants and white vest.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Pierre Del Fuego.
Pierre Del Fuego
A fire-themed wrestler.
- Fiery Redhead: Almost literally, his hair is shaped like flames.
- Playing with Fire: His attacks involve setting himself or his opponent on fire.
Protozoa
Voiced by: Gary Chalk
A single-cell based wrestler who is talented at evaporation. Voiced by GUTSMAN! *da-na*
El Oscuro Invasor
Introduced as a student in the bad guy class, his costumes resembles that of Darth Vader.- Flat Character: Never got a focus episode around him.
- Living Prop: Never got a speaking line during the entire series.
Tibor the Terrible
Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui (Seasons 1 & 2); Dee Bradley Baker (Season 3)
"He called me a pirate! Plundering, scavenging, downloading MP3s!"
A mascarita in a pirate costume (or "a pirate in a boy suit", as Flea once described him), introduced as a student in the bad guy class. He wants to be a real pirate.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: He talks a big game about being a pirate, but he never actually steals anything. It's probably part of his Kayfabe.
El Gundamo
A student from the bad guy class, inspired by Japanese wrestler Jushin "Thunder" Liger. He aims to be the monster warden of Little Tokyo, and takes lessons from his sensei, a pink bunny named Kyoto.- Art Evolution: A minor one. In his first appearance, his eyes were black, which fits the bad guy motif. Later appearances gave him normal eyes.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He's quite fascinated with technology and in one episode engineers a robot... which quickly becomes self-aware and takes over the school.
- Kaiju: His costume is based on some kind of monster.
Coco Demento
A student from the bad guy class, a clown who seems to enjoy getting laughs out of people more than fighting.- Monster Clown Scary Clown: His theme. He's meant to be a send-up to Doink the Clown.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In the past, Coco threw a large pie at an orphanage leaving everyone that lived in it homeless. Ever since, Coco has been left with nothing but guilt.
- The Voiceless: Communicates by honking his clown nose.
Double Ninja Ninja
A ninja-based masked wrestler.
- Doppelgänger Attack: His signature move.
- Ninja: His main theme, with a kuroko gi and special moves based on ninjutsu.
The Faculty
The Founder
The school's founder. He's revered as the one who defined lucha libre as a sport by defeating El Custodio, who wanted it to be a fad and make money off it. He wrote the masked wrestling code.- Hammerspace: He somehow made the school appear from either his pockets or out of nowhere.
- Signature Move: The Foundation. No, really. In fact, he defeated El Custodio by founding the school and smashing him with it.
The Headmistress
Voiced by: Candi Milo
The principal of the school of lucha libre that the Mascaritas attend. Headmistress is extremely strict and intolerant of any behavior that goes against the code of masked wrestling, often expelling students at the slightest infraction.
- Berserk Button: People going against the Code of Masked Wrestling. When Ricochet ends up at school without his mask the headmistress doesn't even need to spot it to see it's not there and she goes right on the warpath until she gets to Ricochet.
- The Comically Serious: Often used in this fashion. Particularly obvious in the intro, where an unamused Headmistress is standing still next to a happily dancing Sr. Hasbeena. He even smacks his butt against her.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone calls her by her title.
- Hair-Trigger Temper : This was especially bad in 'Timmy of 1000 Masks' as she once expelled Mr. Midcarda (another faculty member!) when she thought he was questioning her authority as things became progressively worse over the episode.
- Honor Before Reason: When she's challenged by Maestro del Mundo for headship of the school, she's bound by the Code of Masked Wrestling to accept—even verifying it with Buena Girl.
- Large Ham: It's rarer for her to use a more indoor voice as she's that strict.
- Mood-Swinger: In the very first episode she goes from describing a devastating punishment that she gave another wrestler to laughing cheerfully about it as if it was one big joke. She then goes on to say that Ricochet has 2 strikes already and if he gets one more he is OUT but then after winning his match with Potato Potata Jr. she congratulates him and says she's wiping his slate clean.
- My Brain Is Big: Invoked. It's not, but she uses this aesthetic. Her mask is fashioned in a way that makes it look as if her brain is large and bulging out of her head, but the episode "Field of Screams" reveals she actually just stuffs her hair under the mask.
- Not So Above It All: In "Buena On Wheels", she's against Roller Lucha, but eventually likes it following the main trio participating in it old-fashioned Lucha style.
- Tsundere: An extreme non-romantic version, She's tough as nails and very Tsun to nearly all students but when it comes to Buena Girl who follows the code of masked wrestling to a T she shows her Dere side and comes off as a Reasonable Authority Figure
Señor Hasbeena
Voiced by: Scott McNeil
A teacher who has lots of nostalgia for the 1970s. He used to be a professional wrestler named Señor Couldbea, but lost his World Championship title in the 70s and never won it again, an incident that continues to haunt him for years.
- Disco Dan: Look no further than his signature move, where he turns into a luminous disco ball.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His defeat at the World Championship? It's literally his own fault, as the flash that blinded him came from his future self using his signature move.
- Large Ham: Overlaps with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness when he tells the Main Trio that they'll have to wrestle him if they want to stop him from changing the past. Except, this ended up being what actually happened, as You Already Changed The Past shows.
- Light 'em Up: His signature move turns him into a disco ball that blinds his opponents and stuns them. Even he isn't immune if he's not the one doing it, as this was how he lost his World Championship match back in the day.
- Meaningful Name: A has-been who has retired from wrestling and instead teaches at the school.
- You Already Changed the Past: When he finds a way to Time Travel back to the 70s, he goes back to the day he lost the World Championship to prevent the flash that blinded him and cost him the match. It turns out, he himself was the one who did the flash, when he used his signature move against the Main Trio, who had followed him to the past to stop him as time travel is against the Code Of Masked Wrestling.
Mr. Midcarda
Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui (Seasons 1 & 2); Jason Marsden (Season 3).
The physical education teacher who organizes lucha libre matches between students and acts as the referee. His name is derived from the professional wrestling term "midcarder", which refers to a wrestler who performs between the undercard and the main event.
- Combat Referee : Is in charge of reffing every wrestling match that goes down in the school and is typically right in the thick of things when it happens.
- Honor Before Reason: When Maestro del Mundo has the Headmistress pinned for their match over command of the school, Midcarda very slightly drags on the three-count, but still does so and reluctantly declares the villain as winner of the match.
- Large Ham: Very much so, mostly when refereeing a match. The first shot of the intro is him screaming the show's title at the top of his lungs.
Family members, pets, and paraphernalia
Lonestar and Mama Maniaca
Voiced by: Benito Martinez (Lonestar) and Candi Milo (Mama Maniaca)
- Disappeared Dad: Lonestar travels a lot. But we do see him occasionally when he sees his family.
Abuelito / Estrella de Fuego ("Star of Fire")
- Cool Old Guy: Having had a near legendary wrestling career, he's always got a cool story to tell Rikochet to help him with his troubles.
Masked Dog
Rikochet's dog who wears a mask.
- Phrase Catcher: "He's cool".
El Rey
Rikochet's living action figure who acts like a mentor figure to him.- Catchphrase: "IT'S A DISGRACE!"
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Has this attitude whenever he tries to coach Rikochet on something. More than once, the moral of an episode would be that he needs to lighten up and let Rikochet grow at his own pace, only to be forgotten, sometimes comedically quickly.
- Real Men Wear Pink: He's surprisingly good at flamenco dancing.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: Whenever he's scared of upset he lets out an icredibly shrill scream.
Buena Mom and Buena Dad
Buena Girl's excessively cheery parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Flea
The Flea's parents who run Slammin' Donuts.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Their dancing embarrasses the Flea in the opening intro.
- Beehive Hairdo: Mrs. Flea. It's half as tall as the rest of her.
- Third-Person Person: All of them. The Flea seems to have gotten this habit from his parents.
Pulgita
The Flea's baby sister.
- Badass Adorable: One episode where The Flea ineptly fails to babysit her shows that she's more than capable of taking care of herself, despite being an infant. She's actually stronger than her older brother, having developed a signature move before she could talk.
Recurring Antagonists
Primadonna Hodges, Carlton Cold Jones, and Heavy Traffic
Three bullies from Hairy Knuckles Academy, a rival wrestling school. They appeared to be based on American professional wrestlers, who are generally larger than Mexican luchadores.
- Catchphrase: Primadonna's Attitude Era-style character made her calling everyone "jabroni" a necessity.
The Masked Toilet
An evil luchador toilet, who is the worst enemy of the Flea.
- Arch-Enemy: To the Flea
Calavera Muerto
A young boy that Ricochet offers hospitality to during Dia de los Muertos. But he finds living in the real world to be more enjoyable and tries to stay there. Permanently.
- Creepy Child: Seems fairly amicable when introduced, but gets creepy when he refuses to return to the underworld. Also, he's an undead child with a painted skull for a head. Finding out it's NOT just a mask weirds everyone out.
- Death Glare:Calavera: I don't wanna leave, ever.
Ricochet: Ever?
Calavera: (flaming eyes) EVER! - Graceful Loser: He takes his defeat and impending return to the Land of the Dead pretty well, simply asking Ricochet to finish the last level of the game they were playing together for him.
- Meaningful Name: "Calavera" means "skull" in Spanish and Muerto means "Dead" (Though Calavera is a femenine object, making his name gramatically incorrect).
- Undead Child: Seems to be about Rikochet's age. Also, he escaped the underworld and doesn't want to go back.
Misterioso Grande
A demon who rules over the Dream Realm. It's said that if he steals your mask in your dreams, then you lose it in real life.
- Captain Ersatz: Of Freddy Krueger.
- Green and Mean: He has lime green skin and enjoys terrorizing children.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His defeats are often related to his own dream nature.
- In his debut, Ricochet realizes that he can change forms since he's in the Dream Realm, so he changes himself multiple times to defeat Misterioso.
- In the second round, the trio conjure "their greatest fears that they haven't had yet" to wipe out the existing nightmares and Misterioso Grande himself.
- I Know What You Fear: In his second appearance, he summons the greatest fears of the luchador students and teachers to scare them into surrendering their masks.
- Reality Warper: As the ruler of the Dream Realm, he can warp the environment to his advantage. In his second appearance, he's able to warp the Waking World.
El Malefico
Voiced by: Tim Curry
- Big Bad: Of The Movie.
- Casting a Shadow: Has a lot of darkness based powers.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Considered eating El Silver Mask Junior before deciding to just absorb him like everyone else since he didn't look tasty.
- Large Ham: He's voiced by Tim Curry, this is a given. "Overacting" is an understatement.
- One-Winged Angel: After he's beaten in the first fight, he transforms into a towering giant to continue the fight.
- Playing with Fire: The powers he has that aren't based on darkness are fire based.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Was imprisoned in the core of the Earth for 100,000 years. He used Flea to trick Rikochet into freeing him by reading a passage from the Code of Masked Wrestling backwards. At the end, he's defeated and sealed back up again.
- When the Planets Align: Can only be set free when this happens. If he's not put back by the time they come out of alignment, he becomes unstoppable.
