History ComicBook / Superlopez

After this reboot, but still in the early days of the character, Superlopez was member and leader of the team known as ''El Supergrupo'' (''The Supergroup'' or ''Superteam''). Team members included ''El Mago'' (''The Wizard'', a parody of Dr. Strange); ''Capitan Hispania'' (''Captain Spain'', a parody of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica); ''Latas'' (''Tin-guy'', a parody of ComicBook/IronMan); ''Bruto'' (''The Brute'', a parody of [[Franchise/FantasticFour The Thing]]); and la ''Chica Increíble'' (''Unbelievable Girl'', a parody of the token generic superheroine). These spent more time fighting one another over the leadership of the Supergrupo than fighting evil.

* AuthorAvatar: Author Juan López sometimes draws himself, usually as a background character. Not to mention that the titular character is called, well, Juan López. That doubles as a FridgeBrilliance because Juan López is a pretty common name. If he was called José; Pérez, it'd have been in theory the same.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: This is how Superlópez's powers worked at the very beginning, when it was a weekly comic strip. Eventually this was rebooted, but still appeared in the storyline ''Los Alienígenas'', where he was powerless without his supersuit.

* MediumAwareness: Some characters drop quotes of this kind every now and then:

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: While the enemies is ''La caja de Pandora'' are all based on gods from different ancient mythologies ([[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek]], [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Egyptian]], [[Myth/HinduMythology Hindu]] and [[Myth/AztecMythology Aztec]]), it's stated they are actually aliens coming from a planet that was once located where the asteroid belt is now, and was destroyed due to wars between the different factions. The whole story revolves around a box that supposedly contains an evil able to kill all humankind; when it's revealed that [[spoiler:the box has always been empty, and it was all a lie started by Zeus because he was bored, Zeus proclaims "as if I were a god!"]].

* AuthorAvatar: Author Juan López sometimes draws himself, usually as a background character. Not to mention that the titular character is called, well, Juan López.
** That doubles as a FridgeBrilliance because Juan López is a pretty common name. If he was called José Pérez, it'd have been in theory the same.

* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Since Barcelona is where López lives, that's where aliens will land, giant mechas will attack and dastardly supervillains will have their secret lair.

* CarpetRolledCorpse: In "Nosotros los Papino", once Giorgio Papino escapes from prison, he enrolls his daughter's boyfriend, Jaime, into the gang. As an initiation test he must kill his friend Hamed. Jaime tells the chauffeur Katiusko to wait for him outside the room, then shooting noises are heard and Jaime brings out a carpet with a pair of shoes sticking out and blood flowing out. [[spoiler:It's actually a subversion: Jaime used Hamed's carpets, a large pillow and the content a bottle of ketchup to trick the Papinos into believing he had actually killed Hamed, who is still very much alive and hidden in the cellar of Villa Papino.]]

* TheDoorSlamsYou: Superlópez once hit Captain Hispania by accident when he was [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to watch through the spyhole]].
** Done on purpose by Monina Papino to knock out Katiusko on ''El caserón fantasma''.

* GeniusBruiser: Bruto is physically the second strongest member of the Supergroup, after "Supes", but he's also the second smartest after el Mago. Superlopez is also supposed to be pretty smart himself.

* {{Gamebooks}}: The adventure ''Los Petisos Carambanales'' is this in comic book form.

* PunnyName: Tontecarlo golf champion Bast Honazo (playing with "bastonazo", Spanish word that describes hitting something with a cane or a stick).

* SceneryPorn / ShownTheirWork: the comic's cartoony style is combined with an astoundingly realistic attention to detail: if you want to know what a typical Spanish city looked like during TheEighties, you need only look at a Superlopez story of the period.

** Okay, he actually was fired once in ''Los alienígenas''. That's pretty much it.

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* ClarkKenting: Being a ComicBook/{{Superman}} parody, it's a given. However, as the series went on, he stopped wearing glasses when he's in civilian clothes, elevating the trope UpToEleven, since there's literally no physical difference whatsoever between the two personas and ''people still don't recognize him''.

* FiveManBand: The Supergrupo.
** TheHero: Superlopez.
** TheLancer: Capitan Hispania (or El Mago).
** TheBigGuy: The Brute.
** TheSmartGuy: El Mago (or Latas)
** TheChick: Chica Increible.
** SixthRanger: Latas.

* BadassMustache: Inverted. López's mustache is pretty commonplace among everyman Spaniards from older generations. So, at least to Spanish readers, it's a distinctly un-heroic, even old-fashioned trait.

A [[LiveActionAdaptation live-action film]] starring Dani Rovira as Superlópez was released on November 2018.

* ClarkKenting: Being a {{Superman}} parody, it's a given. However, as the series went on, he stopped wearing glasses when he's in civilian clothes, elevating the trope UpToEleven, since there's literally no physical difference whatsoever between the two personas and ''people still don't recognize him''.

A LiveActionAdaptation starring Dani Rovira was released on November 2018.

Superlopez is a Spanish comic book character created by Jan in 1973, a parody of {{Superman}}.

* TroubledProduction: ''Tronak el Karbaro'' from "La gran superproducción" becomes an in-universe example as the story progresses. The company's initial plan was to produce a film about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_Aragon King James I of Aragon]], but thanks to a fumble with the scripts and the folders, ends up producing López's script. The mishap has consequences as midway through the production they are accused by associates [[BrandX Carner Bros. Tinctures]] and the General Board of Cinema of having presented a false script to obtain the production money, therefore losing a massive chunk of the budget. Once director [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Cecilio Bemille]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere resigns upon learning the news]], it's up to Superlópez to finish the movie on a measly 300-peseta budget (for American tropers, that's roughly $2).

* ActionGirl: Chica Increible, Martha Holmez.

* ApatheticCitizens.

* BaldOfEvil: The look sported by recurring villains Escariano Avieso, Refuller D'Abastos, Al Trapone (who hides his under a hat most of the time) and Giorgio Papino, aside from one-time villain Luminous Light, who actually exploited it (see BlindedByTheLight below).
* [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Barcelona Is the Center of the Universe:]] since that's where López lives, that's where aliens will land, giant mechas will attack and dastardly supervillains will have their secret lair.

* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: in the final chapter of ''Lord of the Pacifiers'', Superlopez takes an escape pod out of a Moon base, then [[SpaceFriction gets stranded in space when the pod runs out of fuel]]. The narrator even [[BreakingTheFourthWall warns him]] that he's "stopped in front of a [[AsteroidThicket meteor storm"]].