History WesternAnimation / ElTigre

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-->'''"Miracle City...[[WretchedHive a spicy cesspool of crime and villainy!]] This is the story of Manny Rivera! Better known as'' '''''El Tigre!''''' ''Son of the legendary superhero,'' '''''White Pantera!''''' ''Grandson of the legendary super villain,'' '''''Puma Loco!"''''' -OpeningNarration

''El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera'' (2007-2008) is an animated series on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} created by a husband and wife team, Jorge Guitirrez and Sandra Equihua. It is about a 13-year-old Mexican boy, Manny Rivera, who has a magical belt that turns him into costumed superhero El Tigre ([[GratuitousSpanish Spanish]] for '[[CaptainObvious The Tiger]]'[[labelnote:*]]Or just "tiger"; Spanish is more liberal when it comes to definite articles than English[[/labelnote]]). It is the 23rd entry in the Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} franchise.

Unsure of whether he's destined to be a hero like his father, White Pantera, or whether crime is his true calling, like his grandfather Puma Loco, Manny [[WildCard refuses to pick one side over the other]]. He alternately contributes to and opposes the seedy goings-on of his town, Miracle City (described in the opening sequence as "a [[WretchedHive spicy cesspool of crime and villainy]]") with the aid and companionship of his best friend, Frida Suarez.

Although Manny is mainly good to appeal to young viewers, he frequently disobeys his honest and heroic father and partakes in "bad" acts (e.g. buying the tattoo maker, kicking the crutch that kept Casa De Adios up and thus demolishing it).

Sadly, despite predominantly positive feedback ''(even winning several Annie and Emmy awards)'', the show only lasted 26 episodes before it was cancelled. Fortunately, you can watch the episodes [[http://nicktoons.nick.com/videos/el-tigre-videos here]] for free, not to mention Gutiérrez made ''the entire series'' available for safe and free downloading on his [[https://twitter.com/mexopolis/status/641281717722939392 Twitter account.]]

Now has a CharacterSheet, which is in mucho need of WikiMagic.

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!!This series contains examples of:

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* AbnormalAmmo: EL Tigre has been seen shooting out straightened versions of his claws as projectile ammunition.
** In another, once mentioned example, the Flock of Fury's goose cannon.
* ActionMom: Well, Maria with her Plata Peligrosa powers, anyway. Also, Voltura.
* ActionSurvivor: Frida, who's been captured enough times by Sartana that she has her "usual" cell in Sartana's hideout, but has [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass moments of cunning]] like jamming Sartana's mystic guitar with a potato so that the backed-up energy causes it to explode.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal : Plata Peligrosa, Senior Siniestro, Justice Jaguar, Titanium Titan, Silver Sombrero.
* AdultFear: Your impulsive and wreckless kid is a superhero. Cool, huh? Now let's see him deal with all of the evil forces on earth out to get him from giant monsters, all-powerful beings, and BadassNormal and possibly AxCrazy criminals. But don't worry, he's got his powerless, and equally impulsive, wreckless and death-defying friend by his side, what could go wrong?
* AffablyEvil: Puma Loco. Other villains tend towards a [[FauxAffablyEvil less sincere]] version of this trope.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Manny keeps trying to impress a bunch of reoccurring girls (he usually fails.)
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Zebra Donkey, the school's mascot. Yes, believe it or not, there really is such a thing as a zebra-donkey hybrid. They're commonly referred to as "zedonks" or "zonkeys". And just like Zebra Donkey, [[http://impressivemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/zonkey-zebra-donkey-mix-zedonk-7.jpg they are really, really cute!]]
* [[AmbiguouslyEvil Ambiguously Amoral]]: In one episode Manny steps through a portal designed to tell if someone is a hero or villain. It ''explodes!''
* AmusingInjuries: Manny and Rodolfo frequently suffer these, including comically broken appendages, missing teeth, and eyes going the wrong directions.
* AnimalThemeNaming:
** Rivera family:
*** Undecided: El Tigre I and II
*** Superheroes: White Pantera, Justice Jaguar, and Golden Leon
*** Supervillains: Puma Loco, Mighty Cheetar, and Dark Leopard
** Aves family: Lady Gobbler, Voltura, and Black Cuervo.
** El Oso, Silver Wolf, [[MeaningfulName Albino Buritto]], the list goes on.
* AntiHero / AntiVillain: Manny can shade between either sides.
* AnticipatoryBreathSpray
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: El Mal Verde, Monsterzuma, Sartana's giant undead monstrosities, [[HumongousMecha Giant Robot Sanchez]]... the list just goes on.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny!: Frida suffers from this constantly.
* AudibleGleam
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He may be in a wheelchair, but Don Baffi, the leader of the Moustache Mafia, has the deadliest 'stache of them all.
** And there is DaChief Emiliano Suarez, the only useful cop in Miracle City and once beat the above and the rest of the mafia for eight hours straight.
* '''AxCrazy''': About 99.9% of the cast at some point, but notable examples are the Titanium Titan and Platna Pelgrosa.
* BadassAdorable: El Tigre in his CatBoy get up can probably apply here, along with some of the child villains such as Black Cuervo.
* BadassBystander: The three geeky kids from "Party Monsters" might be asthmatic {{LARP}}ers, but they had the guts to stand up to TheMafia.
* BadassFamily: His grandfather, father, and his mother at some point have all shown impressive superpowers. In 'A Grave Escape' it seems superpowers are mandatory in the Rivera family.
** Point of fact it appears that the Rivera family has alternating generations of heroes and villains. Puma Loco (villain)'s father was Justice Jaguar (hero), whose father was the Mighty Cheetar (villain) and so on and so forth back to the first El Tigre who went insane trying to decide whether to be good or bad.
** Actually, almost all of the super villains in this series have villainous family members. The Aves family, the Chipotle scientists, Sartana and Django, General Chapuza and Che, etc. Sergio and El Oso are first generation villains, but it seems traditional for the younger villains to be the successors of their parents. Note that El Oso has a little bear "brother" as well.
* BadassMustache: Raul the mustache is ''literally'' this, and the Mustache Mafia [[PrehensileHair use theirs as weapons]].
** Also, Rodolfo, under his mask.
* {{Bandito}}: Puma Loco, and a number of smaller-time villains.
* BearsAreBadNews: El Oso.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Played around with in "Mustache Love". When Sophia (already considered pretty cute/hot) loses her unibrow/Browsia, she becomes even more gorgeous while still sounding and acting the same. Subverted with Manny who looks pretty much the same with and without Raul, but Sophia finds him repulsive (though the gross googly face he made at Sophia sure didn't help his case).
* BeeAfraid: In "Oso Sole Mio," El Oso and Frida are both stung by bees at different points.
* BerserkButton: A whole lot of them.
** Do not call a Rivera anything that is the equivalent of the word "coward". Bad, ''bad'' idea.
*** Along with this, never do/say anything to question or tarnish a Rivera's honor/pride in general.
** Also ''never'' tell a zombie they cannot dance.
** Also ''never'' ''' ''ever'' ''' harm Manny around his mother. Just don't.
*** Or lie to her like Dr. Chipotle, Sr. did. She will ''flip her shit.''
*** It should be noted that Maria's more bark than bite when compared to the rest... but still, don't make her angry.
** Never call the Golden Eagle Twins' Zeppelin a blimp (Carlito especially).
** If you hurt Frida when Chief Suarez is around, pray for mercy but you're still screwed.
** Sartana doesn't like it when people steal from her.
** And don't mess up Dr. Habanero's nam-
*** CHI-POT-LE!!!
* BetterAsFriends: PlayedWith. Much to Rodolfo's chagrin, his ex-wife Maria keeps insisting that they should remain JustFriends. She divorced him because she couldn't endure seeing him get hurt as a superhero; she has also shown to be jealous when another woman is interested in him and flirtatious when in her hero form, Plata Peligrosa. [[spoiler: Subverted in the end, where she remarries him after he retires from heroing]]
* BetweenMyLegs: Of Maria in the episode "A Mother's Glove".
** Also of El Oso in "Sole of a Hero" and El Tigre in "Fistful of Collars"
* BigBad: Sartana of the Dead. There are countless villains in [[WretchedHive Miracle City]], but Sartana is TheHeavy in the long-term on the show.
* BigFancyHouse: Most of the 'casas' on the show, but especially the house Maria built for her weekends with Manny.
* BigNever: Puma Loco says this in "Puma Licito" when Rodolfo commands him to take the stolen police station back.
-->'''Rodolfo''': Papi, take it back now!
-->'''Puma Loco''': NEVER!!
** Manny does this too on occasion.
* BigNo: In a lot of episodes, mostly done by Manny/El Tigre.
** Manny actually managed to do this for a few hours straight until everyone got tired and went to bed (according to Frida). He also managed to make even ''an astronaut'' hear him a few times.
* BilingualBonus: El Mal Verde? In Spanish, Mal and Verde mean "green" and "evil" -- so literally, his name is The Green and Evil One.
* BlackComedy: A few instances here and there.
* BloodKnight: Plata Peligrosa, out of control.
* BrickJoke / ChekhovsGun: During "Miracle City Worker", Dr. Chipotle, Sr. offhandedly confesses he is allergic to churros. We see Frida utilize this during the climatic fight throughout Maria's mansion; then during the heartwarming (somewhat sappy) ending, Dr. Chipotle comments [[TemptingFate he is going to be sick]], and cue Frida stuffing his piehole with a churro, causing an allergic reaction not unlike Rodolfo's in "Fool's Goal."
* BrokenPedestal: The League of Alliance Society to Rodolfo at the end of "Crouching Tigre, Hidden Dragon" after they used his son as bait for a giant monster called the Dragon Worm.
** Played with in Yellow Pantera. Manny learns his father ran away from a fight ten years previously and assumes it was due to cowardice. Only after attempting to fight El Mal Verde himself does he realize his father had noble reasons for running.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Every time a villain snatches his belt, Manny is completely helpless.
** This happens to all the Rivera men in 'No Belt, No Boots, No Brero', due to a court order. The alternative was time in an onion mine.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: The letter T on the El Tigre belt.
* BumblingDad: Rodolfo is a good father, but he's a bit of a dork sometimes. Especially in the presence of his lady love, Maria.
** As a crime-fighting maverick, on the other hand, he's the real deal.
* ButtMonkey: Some days, Rodolfo just cannot catch a break. Usually, though, he will break out of this trope before the end of the episode.
* BusFullOfInnocents: Spoofed; "Mrs. Chequita! Pushing a baby carriage! ''Pulling a box full of kittens!''"
* BurpingContest: One between Manny and Zebra Donkey (in fact, this example provides the page quote) and once between Manny and Frida, who tried to pass their belches off as "a study on alternative gas sources" [[ForScience for science class]].
* ByTheBookCop: Frida's father, Police Chief Suarez.
* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: "EL TIGRE!!!"
** And so on for pretty much every other hero/villain with an alter ego.
* CallBack: In "El Tigre, El Jefe," White Pantera rebuilds the city dump's old ramshackle office into a shiny new recycling center after Siniestro destroys it. It reappears whenever the dump is shown after that, until Maria accidentally kicks a Giant Robot Sanchez into it in "The Return of Plata Peligrosa."
* CardboardPrison: A RunningGag, which is frequently lampshaded by El Oso. This is also a plot point in one episode, where Manny's mother decides that the revolving door on the prison is ineffective and tries to rehabilitate criminals instead.
--> '''El Oso''': "Can we speed this up, I want to break out in time for dinner!"
* CallingCard: Puma Loco has one. It's a red-hot brand that says "Viva Puma Loco!" that he burns into his crime scenes.
* TheCameo: A whole host of them in "No Belt, No Boots, No Brero," which ends with the Riveras defeating every villain they've ever faced (including several who had nothing to do with the episode's plot [[VillainsOutShopping and were just minding their business]]) with one attack, while being cheered on by a crowd of oneshot characters from across the series.
* CardCarryingVillain: Every villain on the show, especially Puma Loco.
* CatGirl: Frida when she was La Tigressa. Manny/El Tigre and the other Rivera hero/villains are male examples.
* CatchPhrase
** "It's a fact!" "Vendetta!" "SWIIIINE!"
** White Pantera's "Okay, be good!" Which, almost always provokes Manny to do the opposite.
*** Also: "UNCLEAN!"
** Let's not forget, "THIS, I SWEAR!"
** Carmelita Aves/Voltura often insists that she broke up with Rodolfo/White Pantera. When reminded that he broke up with her, she cries out "AS IF I COULD FORGET"
* CharlesAtlasSuperPower : Being RaisedByWolves (or bears), or at least, attempting to keep up with them, El Oso became so strong and tough he is the series' strongest BadAssNormal, capable of trading punches with super strong heroes like White Pantera.
* TheChewToy: Manny. Not an episode goes by that he goes through some slew of AmusingInjuries, sometimes impossibly over-the-top amusing injuries, and the universe seems to enjoy putting him through the wringer for humor's sake. If the episode calls for someone to go through extreme bad luck, you can be it will be Manny (and in fact several episodes almost entirely deal with hilariously bad things happening to him over and over). Frida sometimes gets it merely through being around him as well.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: WordOfGod states that Manny and Frida become this sometime after high school.
* CityOfAdventure: Miracle City.
* ClarkKenting: Parodied. When not superheroing, Rodolfo wears a "disguise" of a unassuming brown suit, fedora and glasses that he doesn't need, just like Clark Kent. Despite everyone in the city knowing who he is, and that he's the superhero White Pantera. Also, note that he does so ''while wearing his superhero mask underneath the glasses.''
* ComesGreatResponsibility: Rodolfo frequently does this to Manny.
* CoolHat: Puma Loco's Sombrero of Chaos along with his ancestors' sombreros, which all turn into powerful mechas. Other characters also posses weaponized hats.
* CoolOldGuy: Grandpapi
* ClothesMakeTheManiac: Maria's Plata Peligrosa glove which gives her an exponentially increasing danger mania (coupled with desire to not remove the glove) the longer she wears it.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Manny's entire family gets their super powers from articles of clothing or accessories:
** Manny's El Tigre belt buckle.
** Rodolfo's Bronze Boots of Justice.
** Puma Loco's Golden Sombrero of Chaos.
** Maria's Plata Peligrosa glove.
* CreepyChild: Most of the kids display shades of this, Manny and Frida included.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight : Albino Burrito's weaponry; all of it is based on Mexican games, toys and dances, and apparently useless, plus activating them makes him seem like a complete dork... but every single time, in the end, they prove to be extremely powerful OneHitKill weapons.
* {{Cyborg}}: The Chipotles each have a [[ArtificialLimbs metal left arm and an electronic right eye]], so they might count.
* DanceBattler: In "Dia De Los Padres" it's revealed that White Pantera invented "Pantera Bando", which has the fighter dancing ''The Nutcracker'' in order to best an enemy. El Tigre winds up having to perform it in order to save him, [[RealMenWearPink pink tutu/headband and all.]]
* DarkActionGirl: The Flock of Fury are an entire family of them.
* DatingCatwoman: Puma Loco with Lady Gobbler, then Rodolfo with Carmelita/Voltura, and then Manny with Zoe Aves/Black Cuervo... it seems to be genetic.
** For added humor, Lady Gobbler is Voltura's mother, who is Zoe's mother, paralel to Puma Loco, White Pantera and Manny.
*** And for even ''more'' humor, it's the cat-themed protagonist Rivera family dating the bird-themed antagonist Aves'.
** Also, Puma Loco and Sartana. Despite both being villains, Loco has mellowed out with age while Sartana remains a very dangerous and competent BigBad who wants to kill his family.
** Weirder than any of them, the woman who Puma Loco married and had White Pantera with? She was the '''[[DaChief Chief of Police]]'''!
* TheDeadCanDance: The Zombies of Zombietown are excellent dancers, and it is a great insult to tell them otherwise.
* DeFaceOfTheMoon: Sartana does this with her mystic guitar in "The Good, The Bad and The Tigre" to carve her own face.
* DeflectorShields
* DevilInPlainSight: The Golden Eagle Twins.
* [[HalloweenEpisode Dia de Los Muertos Episode]]: ''The Grave Escape''.
* DisasterDominoes: Pretty much every time Manny goes El Tigre in the school library.
* DisembodiedEyebrows:
** Browsia, of course
** But also Manny and Rodolfo when their expressions call for it.
* DistaffCounterpart: La Tigresa, when Frida stole Manny's belt.
* DivorceIsTemporary: Rodolfo is still madly in love with his ex-wife Maria, who left him because she can't handle seeing him endangered as White Pantera. It turns out that way when Maria remarries him.
* DramaticDrop: Maria drops her beautiful "One Week Without Evil" cake when she discovers there was a supervillain throwdown in her house while she was out getting it.
* DrunkOnMilk: Manny, in despair of being unable to grow a moustache, drinks multiple milkshakes in a bar-like setting.
* EatingTheEnemy:
** In the episode ''Night of the Living Guacamole'', Manny's father and grandpa [[FaceMonsterTurn turn into Guacamole Monsters]] after he gives them tainted guacamole he was given by Chipotle Jr. in disguise. He then has to literally run all the way to South America to buy the authentic guacamole that he was supposed to get in the first place. When he opens the jar [[LightEmUp it releases a light so bright]] the guacamole is blasted off them. But then it accumulates to form [[FoodEatsYou the Guacamole Monster.]] The monster grabs his dad and grandpa and is about to eat them. Manny tries to fry it again, but it's skin is too tough. He then [[EatMe jumps into the monster's gut]] to blast it from the inside.
** Manny has another run-in with Chipotle Jr. and his Guacamole Monster in ''Mustache Kid'' where Chipotle Jr. secretly creates a mustache for Manny that's [[PrehensileHair capable of acting on its own]]. Just as Manny had bonded with it, Jr. has it steal his belt and he gives the belt to his Guacamole Monster to help him conduct his next heist. But with help from Frita, he's able to get the mustache back on his side and with it he creates a giant tortilla ship and throws it into the Guacamole Monster which then proceeds [[{{Autocannibalism}} to eat itself.]]
** El Mar Verde is a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever MASSIVE]] green bandit who is a [[TheDreaded feared]] as a HeroKiller. His most grievous trait is his penchant for eating foes.
** In ''A Fistful of Nickels'', Sartanna storms into Riverra's home, [[BerserkButton enraged over Manny stealing from her]]. In the ensuing fight, she has her minions combine to form a giant [[DemBones Bone Zombie beast]] that quickly eats the Riverras and Frita in one bite. But they're able to break out and defeat Sartanna with the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Caliente Catapult of Carnage]].
** In another, a gigantic creature called the Dragonworm devours Manny (who happens to be the last ingredient that will make the Dragonworm "invincible"), but Rodolfo beats the tar out of it, believing it to be fake until he rescues Manny, and finds he's covered with real dragon spit.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The villains among the Rivera line still consider their heroic counterparts (and in-laws, presumably) to be family, and fight other villains who threaten their families. Outside of them, the Aves family evidently love each other, as do other villainous families.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Puma Loco draws the line at hurting your own family. Also, Don Baffi doesn't mess with true love.
** All of the super villains present were horrified when El Tigre gave Dr. Chipotle Sr. a wet willy.
** More along the lines of being jerks then outright evil, Frida's DrillSergeantNasty twin sisters, much like their father Chief Suarez, draw the line at anyone who tries to hurt their little sister.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Rodolfo is so well groomed that his clean shaven jaw sparkles. He also wins the "Best Groomed Hero" award and sparkles whenever his grooming is mentioned.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Zombietown, and particularly the occasion where Frida begins to succumb to the zombie on her head.
* EvilerThanThou: Sartana to the other villains in Miracle City, especially in "The Good, The Bad and The Tigre".
* EvilLaugh: Every villain, of course. And for a hero, Plata Peligrosa has a pretty good evil laugh.
* EvilVersusEvil: All the time. Generally, it's a way for Manny to have evil episodes but still not seem too bad.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Sartana of the Dead. Take a guess at what her theme is.
* ExpressiveHair: Manny's white tufts as El Tigre react to his moods. It spikes up when he's angry, and droops when he's sad.
* EyeColorChange: When Manny turns into El Tigre, his eyes shift from [[BrownEyes chocolate brown]] to an [[GreenEyes emerald green]] color.
* EyeScream: Nothing graphic, but Lady Gobbler sometimes removes her glass eye with the socket visible and one of the Golden Eagle Twins signed El Oso's eyeballs (all while Manny was freaking out on screen while the audio could be heard).
* FanBoy: The Albino Burrito is this for El Tigre, complete with the stereotypical get up, the constant stalking, and ''really'' wanting to become El Tigre's side kick.
* FallenHero: Titanium Titan was White Pantera's sidekick before he turned evil.
* FastballSpecial: This has been utilized by El Tigre and his family on occasion with the epic results, notably the "Caliente Catapult of Carnage" and the "Super Macho Blitz." However, Manny does tend to have trouble with stopping, one time almost falling into the volcano if he hadn't crashed into Sr. Chapi.
* FeatheredFiend: The Flock of Fury, a group of bird-themed villainesses.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: The Mustache Mafia
* FlyingBrick : Plata Peligrosa.
* FullNameUltimatum: Both parents have done it plenty of times, though on one occasion White Pantera's was interrupted by almost drowning.
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* GadgeteerGenius: Dr. Chipotle Sr. and Dr. Chipotle Jr.
* GenkiGirl: Frida. In fact, viewers in Asia are labeling her the "Latina LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya".
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Now has its own page.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[DemBones Sartana, Django and the rest of the undead skeleton army]].
* GogglesDoSomething: Frida's come into handy during the Rivera-Flock of Fury fight in "Eye Caramba", as she slingshots them into a satellite, knocking it off its hinges and trapping the Flock...[[ThisIsGonnaSuck just as one of Gobbler's egg bombs comes loose]].
** An earlier example in "Enter the Cuervo" when she uses them to reflect a Black Cuervo laser blast meant for Manny.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Manny has a big scar over his left eye, [[spoiler: cause by himself on accident during his first fight/first uses of his powers]].
** So... good or evil?
** The trope page mentions that scars of that type can go both ways. Much like Manny.
* GratuitousSpanish: Or possibly TranslationConvention. Stills sounds odd.
** They sometimes throw in GratuitousItalian when Sergio speaks as well.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything : Maria carries or [[HammerSpace summons]] any book she needs to make a point about practically any topic, making herself a walking GreatBigLibraryOfEverything.
-->'''Frida:''' DO you have a book about guitars?\\
'''Maria:''' Yes.\\
'''Frida:''' Do you have a book about churros?\\
'''Maria:''' Yes.\\
'''Frida:''' Do you have a book about exploding things?\\
'''Maria:''' Yes.\\
'''Frida:''' Aha! [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs But do you have a book about eating churros while playing an exploding guitar?]]\\
'''Maria:''' Yes.\\
'''Frida:''' ''(Eyes tear up)'' This is the greatest place EVER!
* GreenEyes: Manny gets these when in costume as El Tigre. Also can be seen on the original El Tigre. Possibly a reference to the Ancient Tiger spirit employed by both El Tigres, which itself emits light of the same shade of green.
* GrindBoots: Utilized by many characters (hero and villain) during fights, or in everyday situations. Taken at a literal level by El Tigre and White Pantera, whose alter egos utilize actual, spurred Western style boots to do this, and while they fight. Like White Pantera, Justice Jaguar
* HairpinLockpick: Throughout the series, multiple items including El Tigre's claws, Frida's spike bracelets, and a [[MacGyvering bird's beak]] have been used to open locks.
* HandicappedBadass: Don Baffi is confined to a wheelchair, but woe betide anyone who gets in a fight with him.
* HartmanHips: Carmelita/Voltura, Maria (especially as Plata Peligrosa)...
* HeartSymbol: Rodolfo when his undying love for Maria is especially close to the surface.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: El Cucharon was regularly mocked for his power of spoon-based telepathy and turned to villainy. When Maria bolsters his spirits by reminding him of how special he is, he's the only one out of himself, El Oso and Dr. Chipotle, Sr. to make a ''true'' HeelFaceTurn, not only rescuing El Tigre and Frida, but stopping El Oso and Chipotle's robbery attempt by burying them ''with every spoon in Miracle City.''
* [[{{Ephebophile}} Hebephile]]: Senor Siniestro seems to be one of these to those who don't know he's really the thirteen-year-old Sergio. That includes ([[AnimationAgeGhetto or consists entirely of]]) the audience.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Manny could've been the poster boy of this trope.
* {{Heroic RROD}}: Maria's Glove which makes her particularly AxCrazy the longer she wears it.
* HeroKiller: El Mal Verde ''eats'' any hero who tries to stop him. White Pantera was the only one who ever got away from him, until the Riveras finally defeated him ten years later.
* HenshinHero: Manny uses a special belt to transform from his secret identity to his superhero form. He also only possesses his super powers while in his superhero form.
* HeroicSacrifice: Manny has come pretty close to pulling this on a few occasions, and so has Frida in "The Ballad of Frida Suarez". Implied to have been played straight with Justice Jaguar who died performing the Blitz, then subverted with [[HeroicSuicide Zebra Donkey]] (who was brought back to life...again) and Chui (if that actually was Chui and not an offspring).
* HiddenDepths: Not shown in the series, but WordOfGod said that Manny would have become an artist when he grows up. Makes sense, given Manny is based off Jorge himself.
* HighDiveHijinks: In "The Good, The Bad, and The Tigre", one of the events in the tournament of evil, there's a high dive into a pool of lava. White Pantera (pretending to be evil as Black Pantera), treats it like an ordinary high dive, right down to putting on a swim cap.
* HotLibrarian: Maria.
* ICallItVera: When Manny gets an animated, sentient moustache through the power of MadScience, he names it Raul. Raul eventually leaves to live a life of his own, including becoming a crimefighter in his own right.
* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Maria with the Glove of Power. A flashback even shows she first got it when mystic items of power were getting passed around at a college party and she decided to experiment.
** Also parodied with Frieda and bubble-wrap.
* ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere: As Manny and Frida dangle from The Golden Eagle Twin's blimp([[InsistentTerminology Zeppelin!]])
-->'''Frida:''' AHHHHH! Hey, i can see my house from here. AHHHH!
* ILied: In "Miracle City Worker".
-->'''Maria''': You said you wanted to change.
-->'''Dr. Chipotle Sr.''': We lied. Dr. Chipotle Sr. advises you to deal with it.
-->'''Maria''': '''''DEAL WITH IT!!!!'''''
* IdiosyncraticWipes: On one memorable occasion the shot of Manny shatters and falls away to reveal the next scene.
* IfICantHaveYou: This is both Sergio's and Diego's response to realizing that Frida could never be with one of them.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Frida, frequently.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: When Raul the moustache is turned to evil by Dr. Chipotle Jr., Manny is willing to die at its "hands", but Frida sings a song called "Remember the Good Times, Raul". It's only partly successful.
* InsultBackfire: Manny tells the mayor of the zombie town that he smells like bad cheese made from goat vomit. The Zombie mayor reacts as if this were the sweetest and most kind compliment.
* ITasteDelicious: Dr. Chipoltle Jr.'s guacamole monster apparently likes to eat itself. With nachos.
* JustAStupidAccent: Despite ostensibly taking place in Mexico, all the characters speak English with Mexican accents.
* KangarooCourt: As part of a gag super villain El Oso falls into a court room through the roof, and the first person to speak is the judge, who immediately says guilty. El Oso for some reason says "Well at least I got a fair trail man."
** He is supposed to be in jail. Merely being there means he must have broke out, which is a crime.
* KarmaHoudini: The Golden Eagle Twins, brother and sister who take advantage of their superhero fame to scam the locals into getting whatever they want. Despite Manny and Frida beating them in a fight and destroying their zeppelin ("IT'S NOT A BLIMP"). The city still supported them, none the wiser to their true natures. Worse, Manny ended up getting hospitalized ''and arrested'' for destroying a statue of them.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: White Pantera rather adorably fanboys over the Seventh Samurai.
* KryptoniteFactor : The zombies are vulnerable to Dark/Black Water, a substance that can only be found at the fountain right in the middle of their own hometown. When El Tigre uses it against pretty much every zombie in the city, General Chapuza, right before getting destroyed, questions the wisdom of the zombies making their residence right around their only weakness; some FridgeBrilliance here, actually, since anyone trying to get the zombies' weakness would need to face them all first.
* LamarckWasRight: The families of the setting, Rivera and otherwise, keep a lot of traits within the family.
* LampshadeHanging "It's like you kicked a puppy... a lost, unemployed puppy... with a cold."
* LaserGuidedKarma: Played for laughs. Even if they realize their mistake and try to make up for it later, if one of the main characters does something nasty they will typically suffer some horribly exaggerated ([[AmusingInjuries but hilarious]]) punishment for it as the punchline of the episode. Lampshaded in "The Ballad of Frida Suarez," after Frida's AcquiredSituationalNarcissism nearly get everyone killed by Sartana. She learns her lesson and saves the day but still makes it through mostly unscathed while Manny gets AmusingInjuries, until...
--> Frida: (realizes her goggles were broken in the fight) "[[BigNo NOOOO!]] Haven't I paid enough for my rock star jerkiness?!"
--> Manny: [[SarcasmMode "Uh... no?"]] (Frida promptly gets hit in the head with her guitar, then a bowl of fruit, and is then swarmed by rats) "That'll do it!"
* {{Leitmotif}}: A few beyond general themes - Manny has the main theme, naturally.
** Grandpapi has a theme from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' that generally plays when a scene is about him.
** Black Cuervo episodes begin with a particular tune that indicates the episode will be about her and Manny.
* LegacyCharacter: El Tigre I and the rest of the Rivera ancestors function as this.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: One of the more prominent elements is a rather pronounced recurring parent-child contrast within the Rivera family.
** Puma Loco is a EvilGenius supervillain who primarily uses technology and his TransformingMecha. His son White Pantera is a superhero who is a physical fighter who uses magical boots to aid him. This setup is actually a recurring theme that seems to skip generations. [[{{Mayincatec}} Dark Leopard]] and [[{{Pirate}} Mighty Cheetar]] are villains with mech-suits similar to Grandpapi, while [[KnightInShiningArmor Golden Leon]] and [[TheWildWest Justice Jaguar]] are heroes, with boots similar to those of White Pantera. Bearers of the El Tigre belt, meanwhile, [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor seem to have a hard time picking a side]]. Despite these differences in alignment, every member of the Rivera family has a deep familial love and respect for one another.
** Outside of the Rivera family there is Frida Suarez. Frida is a troublemaker who in more than one occasion is the one who encourages Manny to partake in more bad acts. Frida's father is the ever strict no nonsense law-abiding Chief of Police of Miracle City and Frida's mother from what little was shown of her, pretty much shares her husband's police viewpoints. Despite the contrast, hurting Frida is enough to set at least her father's BerserkButton off.
* LimitedWardrobe: Taken to extremes in the Bad Ending, where Manny and Frida pretty much wear the ''exact same clothes'' well into old age.
* LivingLieDetector : White Pantera's Bronze Boots of Truth, besides giving him SuperStrength and SuperSpeed, also forces anyone in direct contact with them to tell the truth. However, since direct contact is necessary for this power to work, White Pantera can still be fooled/tricked if the liar doesn't touch the boots.
* LogicBomb: Maria hits El Oso with one of these in ''Mother of All Tigres'', making him so confused that Manny is able to catch up to him.
* LongingLook
* LookBehindYou: Parodied.
-->'''Dr. Chipotle, Jr.''': Look, a thing!
-->'''Frida''': Where? (''Turns around, then realizes Chipotle ran away'') Aw, man!
** Also, in "The Return of Plata Peligrosa"
-->'''Rodolfo''': Look, a danger!
-->'''Maria''': Where?
* LovesMyAlterEgo: Played straight and Inverted. With Maria Rivera, she loves Rodolfo, but cannot stand seeing him hurt as long as he is White Pantera, which is why she left him and restrains her feelings. WordOfGod says they remarry when Rodolfo fully retires.
* LoveCannotOvercome: PlayedWith. Maria did not mind being married to superhero White Pantera (Rodolfo) and according to Manny, found it cool; she then saw him seriously hurt for the first time and seeing him consistently get hurt ultimately made her leave him, unable to see him like this. This is a little strange considering that [[spoiler:she herself used to be a superheroine (though the item she used also drove her increasingly erratic). WordOfGod says she remarries him when he retires from superheroing.]]
* LoveHungry: Can count for both Diego and Sergio, as they are both seen as willing to go to EXTREME lengths to try and gain Frida's affection. Sergio even once says straight out (to her face, no less) that he is thankful for her BREATHING in his direction.
* MadeOfIron: Frida...how else could you explain her getting pummeled by the Titanium Titan, getting crushed by ''Giant Robot Sanchez'' and surviving a high-velocity launch into the side of the Miracle City Volcano without so much as a scratch?!
** Honestly, this could apply to the ''entire population'' of Miracle City. Kicked UpToEleven with [[ChewToy Manny]].
* MagicSkirt: Frida, even when being flat out hunt upside-down.
* MagnificentMustachesOfMexico: ''Oh yes.'' For starters there is the Mustache Mafia, Manny once nearly goes into a BSOD in fear of not having a mustache which leads to Raul's creation, and pretty much every adult male character sports a mustache.
* MamaBear: Maria.
* MaskedLuchador: Several characters wear outfits somewhat reminiscent of this, including El Tigre and especially White Pantera.
* {{Mayincatec}}: Dark Leopard was a villain in a stone mech-suit who clearly lived in Mesoamerican times.
* MeaningfulName: "Aves" means "poultry/bird" in Spanish. Need I explain?
** "Albino Burrito" at first doesn't seem to make sense with Davi's get up to Non-Spanish speakers, but burrito actually translates to "little donkey" (donkey=burro).
** Manny's name was chosen because it has the word "man" in it, highlighting the machismo he's trying to live up to along with the very human dilemma of facing good vs. evil decisions.
*** Fun fact: "Manuel" also translates to "God is with us".
*** Two of his middle names are the creators' last names.
** Manny and Frida's names were actually based off of Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera; both Manny and Frida ultimately take up the arts as their career paths (Manny an artist and Frida a songwriter/rock star).
*** IronicName: While most likely a coincidence (or not?), "Frida" actually translates to "peace" and some derivatives also translate to "good counselor"...Frida Suarez is usually anything but those meanings.
* MoodMotif:
** [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Feeble]] {{Fanfare}} plays whenever an awesome thing is revealed in pathetic condition.
** There's always rocked-out Mexican versions of "La Cucaracha" or "Mexican Hat Dance" with electric guitar whenever Frida and Manny are having or imagining making mayhem.
** The Strings of Suspense play when it looks like Manny must choose between joining Sartana and Django of the Dead or saving his family.
** There's a Romantic Strings riff of the last phrase of the El Tigre theme song as Black Cuervo admits she's not ''entirely'' over her crush on El Tigre.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: In the episode "Love and War" when Sergio (Senior Siniestro) and Diego (Dr. Chipotle Jr.) team up to try and destroy Manny, because they think that he and Frida are so close, they'll never have a chance while he's in the way.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Frequently used by Sartana during "The Good, The Bad and The Tigre".
-->Villains of Miracle City! ...and White Panthera.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Manny never seemed to get Dr. Chipotle Jr's last name right, much to the latter's chagrin.
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[[folder: N-Z]]
* {{Necromancer}}: Sartana of the Dead, who is a skeleton herself. In fact, anyone who manages to get her mystic guitar can raise the dead, as shown in 'Zebra Donkey'.
* NeverSayDie: Sometimes the word "kill" will be used in passive tense, but it is never used directly ("Are you sure this isn't some sinister plot to destroy me?").
* NobleDemon: Grandpapi.
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: A Rivera trait.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In "Tigre + Cuervo Forever", when Zoe/Cuervo finds out that Manny only dated her to get the lowdown on the Flock's heists, she's heartbroken and completely ticked off. When he tries to make it up to her by ''[[TooDumbToLive saying he'll let her win their fight]]'', she absolutely ''demolishes'' him, kicking him ''through'' three yachts and capping it off with a three-person {{BFG}} blast that scorches Tigre and Pantera and sinks the President's golden yacht. Do '''NOT''' mess with Cuervo's feelings.
** Other characters will sometimes manage this, a couple of examples being Emiliano beating the crap out of the Mustache Mafia and El Tigre going bat-shit crazy with the Cactus Kid's cacti army.
* NotSoDifferent: Manny and Django, to the point that some fans have theorized Django being Manny in an earlier life.
** As it turns out, this might not be so much of a coincidence: [[spoiler: According to a picture on the creator's DA account (and some comments), Manny and Django might possibly be ''half-cousins!'']]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain : Cactus Kid; at first, it seems his only power is [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway making little cacti to dance]] until both Manny and Puma Loco make him so angry he accidentally triggers his full potential, now being capable of summoning huge cacti, with blade-sharp thorns, that he can control at will, even making them shoot the thorns at his enemies.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Sometimes. Whether or not Frida has a Mexican accent varies line by line: sometimes Grey [=DeLisle=] gives her one, most times she doesn't bother.
* OpeningNarration: "Miracle City! A spicy cesspool of crime and villainy..."
* OpposedMentors: Manny had his dad, the hero White Pantera, and his grandfather, the villain Puma Loco.
* OverlyLongName: Manuel Pablo Gutierrez O'Brian Equihua Rivera.
* PantheraAwesome: All the Riveras are named after one big cat or another. [[GratuitousSpanish But in Spanish]]!
** Kicked UpToEleven when the Ancient Tiger Spirit was used.
* PapaWolf: Most of White Pantera and Puma Loco's most badass moments stem from the need to protect Manny.
** Chief Emiliano Suarez, Frida's dad, too. When the Mustache Mafia went after her, he [[CurbstompBattle curb-stomped]] them...''for eight hours''...''AND HE WAS GOING EASY ON THEM!''
* PeekABangs: Zoe
* PieEyed: A rare modern example being played straight and not as an homage to 30's cartoons.
* {{Pirate}}: Mighty Cheetar, the "Scourge of the Seven Seas".
* PowerGlows: El Tigre I and Manny summoning the Ancient Tiger Spirit. Also whenever El Tigre's been flung into the air at a high speed (turning him into a green human fireball).
* PoliceAreUseless: For a long time it seemed like Chief Suarez was this. Villains were constantly [[CardboardPrison busting out of jail]] and Manny or Rodolfo had to put them back. Then the [[GangOfHats Mustache Mafia]] [[BerserkButton threatened his daughter]] and he proceeds to spend several hours beating the shit out of them.
** The rest of the force, however, play this straight.
* ThePowerOfLove: Played with at the end of "Zebra Donkey" - the titular creature is brought BackFromTheDead for a second time this way through a combination of Sartana's mystical guitar and the love of children.
-->'''Frida:''' It must have been the guitar string!\\
'''Man:''' And the love of you children!\\
'''Frida:''' ...but mostly the guitar string.
* PreInsanityReveal: The several-generations-back original holder of the belt buckle started out sane, but slowly lost his mind from trying to decide whether to be good or evil. We finally meet him in the Day of the Dead episode. Because he's been dead and without he belt buckle for so long, he's mostly lucid, but the insanity is still lurking under the surface.
* PrehensileHair: Manny's sentient mustache Raul, as well as Sophia's sentient monobrow.
** The Mustache Mafia too, of course.
* {{Pride}}: As seen in the BerserkButton section, do ''not'' let one of the Rivera men hear you questioning his pride/name or call him anything equivalent to the word "coward". It will end ''very'' bad for you.
* PuppyLove: At the end of Season 2 Frida kisses Manny romantically.
* PstandardPsychicPstance: El Cucharon has the telekinetic ability to control spoons, and he must make the gesture to do so.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: The [[NotGoodWithRejection Aves family]] towards the Rivera family.
* TheQuisling: Apparently, Dark Leopard betrayed his people and sided with Cortez' invading forces, later marrying a conquistador woman -- hence why his heroic son Golden Leon is dressed in conquistador garb.
* RaisedByWolves: Parodied and subverted with El Oso. He ''was,'' technically, raised by bears, in that his whole life he followed around a family of bears that wanted nothing to do with him and tried with extreme failure to copy them. This included trying punching a beehive open to get the honey inside (and getting stung for his trouble), trying punching water in order to catch fish (and getting attacked by a fish for his trouble), and ''[[EpicFail trying to scratch his back on a tree like the others by punching a twig]]'' (and getting smashed by a fallen tree... inexplicably). The bears, incidentally, spend the whole time trying to get rid of him.
* RealityEnsues: In 'Fistful of Nickels' Frida defeats one of Sartana's skeletons by asking how it's able to stand without any muscles, causing it to immediately fall to pieces.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: All the villains on the show. Including the child villains.
* RocketPunch: El Tigre thankfully never combined with the WolverineClaws.
* RunningGag: Manny's desire for a jetpack and Maria hyperventilating when faced with something stressful. One episode also treated Sartana capturing Frida as one of these.
** "Curse you, Dr. Eugene L. Butterman!"
** A specific store called Manuel's Jewelry ''always'' getting robbed whenever there's a crime spree, and often when there isn't as well. The gigantic diamond display on the top of the store will also invariably be destroyed somehow.
** Manny ''really'' needs that T-Belt... because his pants fall down at the slightest provocation, revealing GoofyPrintUnderwear.
** Raul the World's Greatest Mustache ending every episode he's in by ripping off of Manny's face in the most painful way possible. Lampshaded by Frida in his last appearance.
** "CHI-PUT-LAAAAAAAY!!!!"
** "Okay, didn't see that'a coming."
* SadistTeacher: Vice principal Jacal
* {{Samurai}}: The Seventh Samurai.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Some of the men of the series manages this on occasion. Manny is a notable example (even better given his English VA's a woman).
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Puma Loco bribing the football referee.
* SecretIdentity: Sergio/Senor Siniestro, Diego/Dr. Chipotle Jr., and Zoe Aves/Black Cuervo all have separate civilian and villain forms. Diego is the only one whose villain form is his default, as we only see his disguise in one episode.
* ShoutOut: Just in case you didn't know, Frida and Manny's names are based on real-life Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and hubbie Diego Rivera.
** Jorge Gutierrez seems to be a big {{Street Fighter}} fan, because a few characters from the games can be seen as [[http://img02.deviantart.net/48ab/i/2010/011/7/a/boys_in_manny__s_school_2_by_mexopolis.jpg background]] [[http://img04.deviantart.net/bf5e/i/2010/011/1/c/boys_in_manny__s_school_by_mexopolis.jpg students]] at Manny's school in some episodes, such as Blanka (Blanko), Guile (Guillermo), Alex (Alejandro), E. Honda (Onda), Balrog (Mikey), Sagat (Sega), Ryu (Rio), and Remy.
*** The name Super Macho Fighters II should make that clear enough.
** Frida's puppet show: [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "So then the rabbit said to the hunter, 'No, I'm a duck.'"]]
** Manny uses his belt to transform into El Tigre. [[Franchise/KamenRider Shotaro Ishinomori would be proud...]]
** One episode has Manny and Frida visit El Oso's lair, where his twin brother is watching "tv" - really a rock with a crude picture of WesternAnimation/YogiBear drawn on it.
*** Later in the same episode, Manny and Frida try to lure a group of bears to follow them with a picnic basket. It works.
** Sartana of the Dead's first name sounds suspiciously similar to that of [[{{Music/Santana}} another latin guitarist]].
** The Silver Sombrero is an homage to Mexican wrestler ElSanto .
** The episode in which Raul, the world's greatest mustache first appears has Manny enjoying the adult life, including working at [[Film/OfficeSpace stapling some very important TPS reports]].
** The Seventh Samurai's name is a reference to the film ''Film/SevenSamurai'' and, by proxy, ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''.
* ShutUpKirk: The Silver Sombrero angry at the monster that ate Manny for not letting him finish his speech.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Sergio (Senior Sinestro) and Diego (Dr. Chipotle, Jr.) develop this for Frida. It's especially apparent in "Wrong and Dance", where the bad girls whom Manny tried to ask to the dance end up falling for Sergio, only for Sergio to rebuff them, calling them "not-Frida girlies."
* SkeletalMusician: Sartana of the Dead has a guitar with mystical powers.
** Ditto for her grandson, Django.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: None of the characters avoid getting hurt for the sake of funny, least of all Frida who gets AmusingInjuries almost as often as Manny himself. There's even an episode dedicated to it.
* SlasherSmile: Several of the villains, but ''especially'' the Titanium Titan, who rarely doesn't have his face stretched into a jagged, toothy, creepy grin.
** El Tigre himself on occasion.
* {{Sleepwalking}}: In Puma Loco's case, he believes he's been "sleepgooding" when his evil reputation has seemingly done a complete 180, unknowingly thanks to Manny and Frida.
* SpaghettiWestern: Invoked. Manny's school, Leone, is named after Creator/SergioLeone, director of the Film/DollarsTrilogy (which also gets a pair of episode-title refernces: "A Fistful of Collars" and "A Fistful of Nickles". Likewise, Django and Sartana of the Dead are named after two protagonists from the genre.
** Let's not forget the most obvious one: "Sergio" is the name of the cowboy-themed super-villain. The ''Italian'' cowboy-themed super-villain.
* SpitTake: Puma Loco, on seeing headlines indicating he has become a great hero, loved by everyone in Miracle City.
* SpiritualPredecessor: To ''Film/TheBookOfLife''
* SplitPersonality: This seems to have been a side effect of the original El Tigre's indecision, complete with him TalkingToHimself.
* StalkerWithACrush: Rodolfo's former sidekick, Titanium Titan, is completely obsessed with Rodolfo.
** StalkerShrine: The Titan actually has a small table with pictures of Rodolfo in his lair...above that is a hate shrine to "honor" Manny.
* StaticCharacter: Despite all of the good vs. evil choices Manny never really develops outside of his initial character throughout the course of the series. The same could be said for Frida.
** They actually take this to the logical extreme in the evil ending of "The Good, the Bad, and El Tigre" where Manny and Frida were said to retain their childish, trouble-making antics for ''70 years'', complete with not even changing their outfits!
* StockSoundEffects: There's a few that you're bound to hear at least once an episode, including certain anime-style slashing sounds, an AudibleSharpness sound that's often used before something explodes, and a couple of commonly-used fart sounds that accompany everything from a garbage truck dumping out shredded trash goop, to a robot dog farting out a battery.
** There's also a "warping" sound effect used for laser and the like which got a lot of memorable use in the old ''WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour1967'' animated show.
** Sartana's mystic guitar being played makes the exact same sound as [[WesternAnimation/QuickdrawMcGraw El Kabong]]'s guitar.
** Zoe Aves' communicator makes the exact same sound as the ones in the James Coburn movies ''Film/OurManFlint'' and ''Film/InLikeFlint''.
* StuffedIntoALocker: A recurring nerdy kid who always gets picked on by the bullies, ''and'' the goodies too.
* SuperHero
* SuperHeroOrigin: 'Mother of All Tigres'.
** Also the episode that reveals Maria was once a superhero.
* TalkingtheMonstertoDeath: At one point, Frida manages to make a skeleton bandido fall apart, just by reminding it that it has no flesh or muscles, or anything at all to even keep it upright.
* TheLastStraw: In "Fool Speed Ahead", when Tigre and Puma Loco land on the roof, the roof creaks rather ominously
-->'''Manny''': This roof doesn't look too sturdy.
-->'''Grandpapi''': Ah, watchu' talking about? It's fine.
-->A butterfly lands on Tigre's ear, and the entire roof collapses beneath them.
* ThemeNaming: The superpowered characters who do not have a Spanish word in their names and/or aren't named after an animal can be counted on one hand. All of the Rivera men we've seen so far (good, neutral, or evil) are named after a big cat of some kind.
* TooDumbToLive: With some of the stunts they've pulled (one of them being using newspaper as parachutes), it's a wonder Manny and Frida aren't dead yet.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Frida is often goading Manny into doing bad things. Her dad thinks it's the other way round.
* ThirdPersonPerson - The Chipotles.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Manny is 13, and he is a prime target of bad luck, AmusingInjuries, and on ''a lot'' of people's hit lists. Heck, Frida sometimes gets hurt just by being near him!
* TrademarkFavoriteFood - Churros to Frida.
** Rodolfo has been seen with mass amounts of grapefruit on more than one occasion.
* TransformationNameAnnouncement: Pretty much everyone.
** Manny/Tigre: EEEEL TIGRE!
** Rodolfo/White Pantera: WHIIIITE PANTERA!
** Puma Loco: PUMAAAA LOCO!
* {{Tsundere}}: Zoe Aves/Black Cuervo pretty much sums it up.
---> ''Black Cuervo: You're so stupid. I hate you! How come you never call me?''
** Her entire family is like this. Zoe [=likes/hates=] Manny, her mother [=likes/hates=] Rodolfo and her grandmother [=likes/hates=] Grandpapi.
*** Zoe's mother hates being reminded that Rodolfo is the one who broke up with her.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Sergio, Diego/Dr. Chipotle Jr., and Frida. A whole episode was dedicated to this.
* TwoTeacherSchool
* TheUndead: Sartana and her skeletal {{Bandito}} minions.
* UnholyMatrimony: Lady Gobbler came ''this'' close to marrying Puma Loco, only for him to leave her at the altar. Later, he would try this with Sartana of the Dead, but it became clear their views on his family were too disparate and he called the wedding off.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Sergio seemed to be fairly nice, albeit childish and naïve, before being unintentionally but severely humiliated by Manny. After that is when he swore vengeance and created his Señor Siniestro alter-ego.
** This also might be the case with Toshiro, given he went from super nice and polite to violent and revenge-hungry when he found out Manny and Frida tricked him.
* VanityLicensePlate: The plate on Grandpapi's racecar reads SPR MCHO
* VariableLengthChain: El Tigre's clawed hands become attached via chains that allows him to fight from a distance or use them as grappling hooks. The length of the chains depends on the plot.
* VerbalTic: El Oso does this a lot, mang.
* VillainProtagonist: Grandpapi/Puma Loco.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Golden Eagle Twins.
** Spoofed by the Cactus Kid; he has such good publicity in his hometown precisely ''because'' he's a villain.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Black Cuervo and Voltura, for Manny and Rodolfo respectively.
* VitriolicBestFriends : Sergio/Señor Siniestro and Diego/Doctor Chipotle Jr; they are in love with Frida, and will often fight over her, but, this detail aside, they're the best of friends, to the point Diego is the only person who knows Señor Siniestro's secret identity.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld
* WaxOnWaxOff: Trying to get out of doing chores, Manny tricked wannabe hero Albino Burrito into doing them thinking it was hero training. Then all he learned during the chores was indeed useful to defeat a rampaging robot built by Puma Loco.
* WeCanRuleTogether
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Played with in "El Tigre, El Jefe" when Manny decides to help kids at school after Rodolfo catches him tee-peeing the school and tries to convince him that GoodFeelsGood. When Manny is unsuccessful in helping a kid with his homework, he proceeds to use El Tigre to ''threaten the kid's life'' in order to make the kid get a gold star. Manny then proceeds to harass the other kids into doing things such as only eating dry crackers when wearing white shirts, playing banjos instead of playing yo-yos, and not allowing anyone to wear high heels. This continues to the point that Manny has the kids building staues of him and hanging up propaganda posters in his name, but then Senior Siniestro finally takes him down...in order for ''him'' to force the kids into building a gigantic robot horse that he was planning on wreaking havoc with.
* WeWillMeetAgain
* WeUsedToBeFriends: The Titanium Titan to Rodolfo. And the Aves girls to the Riveras with romantic overtones.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: El Cucharon's spoon telekinesis powers. Subverted when he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] and [[HeelFaceTurn uses them for good]].
* WhatTheHellHero: White Pantera calls out his favorite SuperTeam (who thinks White Pantera is pathetic) for using his son as bait. Instead of feeling guilty and apologizing for what they did, they wanted (rather, begged) White Pantera to join them for destroying the monster, realizing they were wrong about him.
** Also, he's mortified when he learns that Manny pretended to like Black Cuervo to get intel on the Flock of Fury's plans.
-->'''White Pantera:''' You took advantage of a lady's feelings? ''UNCLEAN!''
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Lampshaded at one point. Dr Chipotle Jr is using a remote to control the latest MonsterOfTheWeek and it's kicking Manny's butt in a straight fight. Frida, who is standing right next to Chipotle, eventually decides to "do this the lazy man's way" and just knocks the remote out of Chipotle's hand.
* WildCard: Manny/El Tigre
* WithFriendsLikeThese : Frida often acts as Manny's [[GoodAngelBadAngel mischievous conscience]] , convincing him to do the 'funny thing' that, more often than not, isn't the right thing to do; her reckless behavior and low attention deficit also gets him into many problems. On the other hand, Manny, unwittingly, many times gets Frida injured since, after all, she's a normal human trying to keep up with a superhero's adventures.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The first El Tigre and Plata Peligrosa. Can possibly happen to Manny in the future too.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Señor Siniestro.
* WorldOfHam: Oh yes...
* WouldHurtAChild: Many of the villain are not above this.
* WretchedHive: Miracle City is this in spades along with Calavera.
* {{Yandere}}: Sofia
** The Titanium Titan too.
** Sergio and Diego reach this level in "Love and War"
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Golden Leon speaks like this. One could say he's simply speaking in old-fashioned Spanish, but even so.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Frida and her unseen grandmother. Chief Suarez has blue hair too (as seen in his youth) but he dyes it black.
** A lot of the background characters also have unnatural hair colors.
* YouNeedABreathMint: Played for laughs by Grandpapi, who says this before he and Rodolfo are (seemingly) about to be eaten by a giant monster.
* YourCheatingHeart: Puma Loco was no doubt having an affair (with most likely the woman who would become Rodolfo's mother) when he dumped Lady Gobbler at the altar. He also most likely did the same with Sartana when he first dated her, but also maybe not.
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* EyeColorChange: When Manny turns into El Tigre, his eyes shift from [[BrownEyes chocolate brown]] to an [[GreenEyes emerald green]] color.

Sadly, despite predominantly positive feedback ''(even winning several Annie and Emmy awards)'', the show only lasted 26 episodes before it was cancelled. Fortunately, you can watch the episodes [[http://nicktoons.nick.com/videos/el-tigre-videos here]] for free, not to mention Gutiérrez made ''the entire series'' available for safe and free downloading on his [[https://twitter.com/mexopolis Twitter account.]]

** Someone on production must be a {{Street Fighter}} fan, because a few characters from the games can be seen as background students at Manny's school in some episodes, such as Chun-Li, Cammy and Remy (from Third Strike).

* Pride: As seen in the BerserkButton section, do ''not'' let one of the Rivera men hear you questioning his pride/name or call him anything equivalent to the word "coward". It will end ''very'' bad for you.