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  • Ho Yay: Played for Laughs between El Santos and Corporal Valdivia, especially in the film.
  • Memetic Mutation: ¡CHICHIS POWER!note 
  • More Popular Spin-Off: The strip first appeared as a small feature in the author's previous work La Croqueta.
  • Nausea Fuel: Let's say it's not recommended reading the comic book and the film after eating, okay?
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: This is one of the widely-held opinions that really hurt the movie as a whole: despite being a comedy, practically everyone is an asshole, a wacko, or a pervert in some degree and most of the Toilet Humor is used for the hell of it rather to have some sense in the plot of the film. The only sympathetic character is Corporal Valdivia and he's the designated Butt-Monkey. Another fact that alienated the Mexican audience is the not-so-implied message the so-called heroes and the audience watching the film are not so different. This is somewhat intended by Word of God, as Trino was trying to show almost every single negative stereotype the Mexicans have about themselves and raised up to eleven.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?:
    • Despise the over-the-top tone of the comic book (and also the movie), both Trino and Jis always cram some kind of political and social criticism in their stories, while avoiding reaching Rius-like level of criticism and always doing that with a sense of humor, no matter how crass it can be.
    • In fact, barring a very few exceptions, the whole comic book 'avoids the whole Blame-anything-on-the-U.S. cliche really hard (which is prevalent in both Mexican culture as well as media), since many of the few American characters that appear in the comic are just as moronic, crude and jerkass-like as their Mexican peers.
    • The whole movie can be interpreted as a giant Take That against the entire country of Mexico.

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