Jackie and the Dark Hand are in Mexico searching for the Ox Talisman. However, to their surprise, the talisman has disappeared from the temple it's supposedly in. The search leads them to a superstar lucha libre wrestler known as El Toro Fuerte.
This episode provides examples of:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Finn clearly enjoys introducing El Toro to Tohru.
- Bilingual Bonus: When Jackie ends up wrestling El Toro Fuerte, the emcee introduces him as "El Pollo Enmascarado", or "The Masked Chicken".
- Broken Pedestal: Paco is heartbroken when he realizes that El Toro Fuerte was using the Ox Talisman to give him super-strength.
- Rebuilt Pedestal: Paco accepts El Toro again after he decides to fight without the talisman.
- Catchphrase: Both for El Toro Fuerte.
- "El Toro Fuerte never removes his mask!"
- "Sorry."
- Brought Down to Badass: Zig-zagged. When El Toro grapples with Tohru aboard the Dark Hand's plane, he holds his own without wielding the Ox Talisman. But when he and Jackie are back in the village, Tohru immediately beats them both.
- Call-Back: When Jade tries to tell El Toro Fuerte to stop the Dark Hand, she tells him "the wise seek power within themselves, the foolish seek it within others", which was something Jackie taught her in the previous episode.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Jackie ends up in the ring with El Toro and ends up getting slammed against the turnbuckle, thrown to the mat, and body-slammed.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- While on the plane, Jade knocks out one of the Dark Hand thugs. She's initially proud of herself...before she realizes he was the plane's pilot.
- Jackie challenges El Toro Fuerte to a wrestling match, hoping to win so that El Toro would have to remove his mask and thus, the Ox talisman. However, he didn't plan for how to overcome the power of the talisman itself (granted, he didn't know it gave El Toro Super-Strength, but he still should have taken into account the fact that his opponent possessed a talisman).
- Double-Meaning Title: The "mask" represents Toru's luchador mask which he swears to never take off, and also his "mask" of being strong when it's just the talisman's use.
- Foreshadowing: One of the new guys accompanying the Dark Hand enforcers suggests that they wait for Jackie to retrieve the talisman on his own and then relieve him of the talisman once he emerges. Finn points out that they don't know what the talisman can do, meaning Jackie could bust out of the temple fifty-feet tall and with laser-eyes; the new guy freaks out at the notion of laser eyes. Ironically, laser-eyes is exactly the power of the pig talisman, which would appear later.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: After his devastating loss, El Toro Fuerte is completely demoralized. Jade struggles for some time to get him back in a fighting mood, but eventually succeeds when she demands to know if he'll let her go to fight the Dark Hand all by herself.
- Heroic Rematch: After he is unmasked, El Toro joins Jade in her infiltration of the Dark Hand's plane and grapples with Tohru. While there is no clear winner immediately, El Toro is able to hold Tohru at bay long enough for Jade to move about the plane and properly rescue Jackie.
- Honor Before Reason: For the final fight, El Toro elects to fight without the Ox Talisman. Tohru ends up clobbering him and Jackie.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: While unconscious from his devastating loss, Jackie has a vision of Uncle, which suggests the power of the ox talisman and chastises Jackie for his devastating loss. It's never actually shown that Uncle was reaching out to Jackie in his unconsciousness or that he had knowledge of the wrestling match.
- My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad: Paco's and Jade's longstanding argument about whether Jackie or El Toro would win in the wrestling fight starts here.
- Oh, Crap!: After infiltrating the Dark Hand's plane, Jade successfully drops one of Valmont's employees with a single kick—unfortunately, she dropped the pilot.
- Overly Long Gag: When El Toro is confronted by the Dark Hand, Finn goes back and forth introducing Tohru and El Toro with "Tohru, Toro. Toro, Tohru.", until Tohru shoves Finn aside.
- Pro Wrestling Episode: The Ox Talisman is possessed by Mexican wrestler El Toro Fuerte, who has adorned it to his lucha libre mask. Jackie ends up getting into the ring with him in order to get the talisman.
- Pro Wrestling Is Real: When Paco invites Jade to the wrestling show, she dismisses it as fake. When Jackie gets in the ring with El Toro, the beating he takes is very much real.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: After seeing El Toro lift Tohru and throw him, the new guy to the Dark Hand's group declares that he quits.
- Shout-Out: To Popeye. When Jade first sees El Toro unleash his super strength, she comments that El Toro's been eating his spinach.
- Simple Solution Won't Work: At the start of the episode, the new guy suggets letting Jackie do all the hard work in getting the talisman and then steal it from him. Finn counters that they have no idea what sort of powers the talisman could give Jackie, so it's safer to get it before he does.
- Super-Strength: The power of the ox talisman, which El Toro Fuerte has been making use of for some time.
- Who Is Driving?: While fighting on the plane, Jackie and the Dark Hand see the pilot out cold, making them wonder who's flying. They're shocked to find out it's Jade struggling with the controls by herself.
- The Worf Effect: When Tohru tries to take the Ox Talisman, El Toro tosses him onto the roof of a nearby taxi.
