History Main / MaskedLuchador

* Lucha Jack of ''Website/{{Bogleech}}'' is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold homunculus created by [[MadScientist Dr. Caligari]]. His adventures include chopping a yeti to bits with his [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], battling his arch-nemesis, [[MalevolentMaskedMen Enemigo]], and defeating an [[EldritchAbomination interdimensional rainbow owl named Morpheus]] who spreads his comfort by humping AnythingThatMoves.

* King and Armor King from the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' series.

** However, King I, King II and Armor King I follow the more conventional wrestling style. Armor King II has some luchador-based moves, but not all. Then in ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'', there's a female luchador named 'Jaycee'. [[spoiler:Who's actually Julia Chang]].

* Masked Wrestlers and UnderGroundMonkey variants called ___ Gigas are common foes in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''.

** Despite the mask and attitude, Japanese wrestler Rainbow Mika from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' is a subversion. Her and her fighting style are actually based off ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puroresu#Female_wrestling puroresu,]]'' a type of women's pro wrestling that originated in Japan. She's often mistaken as a straight example of a Masked Luchador thanks to ''puroresu'' being relatively unknown outside of Japan, and the fact that El Fuerte happens to be a huge fan of hers doesn't help matters.

* A bull themed android wearing a luchador mask appeared late into the story of ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger''. He called himself Jubeef, a clue to his real identity as [[spoiler:Champ/Ouishi Black, Kyuranger's missing member]]. Noone was any [[PaperThinDisguise particularly]] [[DullSurprise suprised]].

In ''lucha libre'', or Mexican ProfessionalWrestling, it is common for wrestlers to wear masks,
never revealing their true identities to the public, much like comic-book {{superhero}}es and villains. To be unmasked by a rival wrestler, or indeed anyone at all, is considered an irredeemable dishonor.

The stock characterization for a ''luchador'' is a kindly GentleGiant [[FriendToAllChildren who loves kids]]. This is from the story of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray_Tormenta Fray Tormenta]] (Friar Storm), a Catholic priest who started wrestling to earn money for his orphanage. Villainous ''luchadores'' are pretty rare. Outside Mexico, though, where ''luchadores'' attract considerably less reverence, they're much more common - big burly dudes with concealed faces are scary, after all, and it's a good way to give your {{Malevolent Masked M|en}}an some exotic flair.

*** Tiger Mask shows traits of the good luchador even before his HeelFaceTurn, and in particular he's a FriendToAllChildren: when the son of a wrestler he mauled attacks him, Tiger Mask just takes his attack and tells him to come back when he's stronger than his father (immediately after an adult tries to kill Tiger Mask with a knife, and the wrestler promptly slaps him into submission and declares that if any ''adult'' tries to emulate the child this is what will happen); he breaks Tiger's Cave mandate to give them half of his money because he needs the money to pay the debt of the orphanage he grew up into before joining Tiger's Cave, and when given one last chance to pay Tiger's Cave he wastes it because the orphanage's debts happened to be higher than they thought; and he pulls his HeelFaceTurn because his childhood friend Ruriko, who is now running the orphanage and has guessed his real identity, asks him to show to one of the orphanage's children a better way than his current one - and he does this in a fight with a Tiger's Cave wrestler who is trying to ''kill him''. He would later do anything in his power to help children, and orphans in particular, even temporarily returning a heel and walking into a tournament held by Tiger's Cave where all other competitors would try and murder him on the ring because otherwise he wouldn't be able to pay for the surgery to restore the eyes of a blind girl.

* "Ringside" from ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Fever'' involves a masked wrestler answering interview questions and posing for the cameras after a big match. Notably, he doesn't seem to be actually ''listening'' to the questions - both the English and Japanese versions [[BlahBlahBlah have the questions as gibberish]], to which he responses with "Yeah", flexing or posing for the cameras.

* ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' now has one of these in one Francesco Drake, "El Dragón". He's got the added benefit of [[ArtificialLimbs cybernetic arms]] and the ability to [[ManOnFire light himself on fire]]- [[IncendiaryExponent to his enemies' detriment.]]
* The Sacred Heart faith in ''VideoGame/AfterTheEndAPostApocalypticAmerica'' counts Wrestling/ElSanto among its patron deities. Followers of El Santo can become ''luchadores'' themselves, and face each other in wrestling matches - unlike in El Santo's day, they [[ProWrestlingIsReal fight for real]]. The Sacred Heart also has a holy order of luchador knights, ''La Orden de la Mascara'' (The Order of the Mask).

* In ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'', Ayumu goes to eat at "[[BlandNameProduct MaskDonald]]", a burger joint where the staff are all dressed as luchadores, complete with masks. Masks are also included in the meal, and during a conversation scene, a high school girl can be seen in the background putting on her mask and doing wrestling poses.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts 2'' features this in Joachim Valentine, who first appears as the masked Grand Papillion. One of his special abilities is that every now and then he'll don the mask in a fight and receive a massive stat boost.

* Masks are not as common on the Caribbean scene as Mexico but still are very common. The Broncos of The Dominican Republic and La Atilleria Pesada(Thunder Y Lightning) of Puerto Rico being some of the regional icons. Outside of the Caribbean, Zeuxis is Puerto Rico's most famous masked luchadora.

* In ''Film/{{Hellboy|2019}}, Hellboy's first mission that the audience sees in the film is him going into a Lucha Libre arena to locate a BRPD agent who was supposed to take out a vampire cult. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, the agent has been turned into a vampire himself, which is revealed when Hellboy rips off his mask, and ends up ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice in short order]].

* Pretty much every Mexican character from Creator/{{SNK}} is a wrestler of some description. ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''[='=] Ramon fits the FragileSpeedster archetype, while Tizoc[=/=]Griffon Mask from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' is very much the Fray Tormenta type (minus the priest part). Angel actually fights more like an American wrestler (complete with [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Peoples' Elbow]]). ''King of Fighers XIV'' puts all three of them together as the Mexico Team, though Tizoc has undergone a FaceHeelTurn and rebranded himself as the [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs King of Dinosaurs]].

* ''{{VideoGame/Guacamelee}}'' is the videogame TropeCodifier.

* El Toro Fuerte[[labelnote:translation]]The Strong Bull[[/labelnote]] from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''. Like Tohru, he was kind of a bad guy at first before becoming a steadfast ally of Jackie, as well as a good guy and a GentleGiant.

* The sport of ''Truxican'' Wrestling is mentioned occasionally in the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series. Assuming Truxicans are [[SpaceJews Space Mexicans]] as their name implies, it probably involves masked luchadores.
** The character Krieg has an unlockable 'Truxican' wrestler mask under the name DOUBLE SUPLEX TIME!

* A bull themed android wearing a luchador mask appeared late into the story of ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger''. He called himself Jubeef, a clue to his real identity as [[spoiler: Champ/Ouishi Black, Kyuranger's missing member]]. Noone was any [[PaperThinDisguise particularly]] [[DullSurprise suprised]].

* The cover of the Jesus Jones album, ''Perverse'' shows a [[https://image.ibb.co/kVfAEU/jesusjones.jpg big, masked]], Luchador face.

* In the video for "Warrior" by Music/{{Kimbra}}, [[Music/FosterThePeople Mark Foster]], and A-Trak, Mark and A-Trak are forced to don luchador's masks and fight other people in masks. [[spoiler: It later turns out their opponents are forced to fight as well.]]

* Dr. [=McLuchador=] from ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcninja'', who was exiled from Cumberland for his extreme, wrestling-based methods. And his extreme methods in general, really. [[spoiler: t turns out that the real [=McLuchador=] died years ago in obscurity. The one who appears is [=McNinja=] himself (who faked his death thanks to the events of the last plot arc), using the persona to infiltrate [[BigBad King Radical]]'s organization.]]

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has Great Asia, "a Japanese wrestler who has mastered the techniques of the Mexican Lucha Libre champ, El Rudo."

-->-- '''Rikochet''', ''[[WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha ¡Mucha Lucha!]]''

* In ''Film/Hellboy2019'', Hellboy's first mission that the audience sees in the film is him going into a Lucha Libre arena to locate a BRPD agent who was supposed to take out a vampire cult. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, the agent has been turned into a vampire himself, which is revealed when Hellboy rips off his mask, and ends up ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice in short order]].

* ''{{Franchise/Extrapower}}'': Features Sharkungo, a [[ProWrestlingIsReal Star Lore Superstar]] always seen in his star-faced red mask.

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** In ''Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus'', it's mentioned that, in the 50's, Mexican director Eduardo Fernandez created somewhere between nine and twelve low-budget films about Lobster Johnson, portraying him as a luchador hero. In fact, these were the source of the name "Lobster Johnson." Previously, all the fictional portrayals just referred to him as "The Lobster."

* In the Swedish comic ''De Äventyrslystna Karlakarlarna'' - "The Adventuresome He-men" - one of the eponymous BashBrothers is the ([[McNinja appearently Swedish]]) luchador [[GeniusBruiser El Fjongo.]][[note]]Which by the way is fake-Spanish formed from a Swedish expression: in English it would probably be something like Captain Cocked.[[/note]]
* Examples from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Latin crimeboss El Sombrero in ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman''. Oddly, though, we never see him do any actual wrestling
** ComicBook/{{Bane}} is partly luchador-inspired, though his mask and fighting movies may or may not closely resemble a luchador's DependingOnTheArtist, and he hails from a fictional Caribbean BananaRepublic rather than Mexico. ''ComicBook/Batman66'' took this and ran with it.
* ''Comicbook/{{Spiderman}}'' was partially inspired by a famous luchador known as The Blue Demon, and Spider-man first reveals his powers to the public in a wrestling match against Crusher Hogan.

* ''ComicBook/ElMarvo'' is a cryogenically-frozen masked Luchador who wakes up in a [[AfterTheEnd Post-Apocalyptic Earth, which is now known as "Muck"]], and becomes a hero intent on freeing the people from the reign of [[BigBad Sokrates]].

* El Santo is a character in ''3 Dev Adam'' ("Film/ThreeBigMen"), a.k.a. ''Turkish ComicBook/SpiderMan'' or ''Turkish ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' (Spider-Man is actually the ''villain'' of the movie.)

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* Dr. [=McLuchador=] from ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcninja'', who was exiled from Cumberland for his extreme, wrestling-based methods. And his extreme methods in general, really. [[spoiler: It turns out that the real [=McLuchador=] died years ago in obscurity. The one who appears is [=McNinja=] himself (who faked his death thanks to the events of the last plot arc), using the persona to infiltrate [[BigBad King Radical]]'s organisation.]]

* Pantha, a female Brazilian luchadora from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.

* In ''Film/{{Mutafukaz}}'', professional wrestlers are actually Earth's protectors, have lived for centuries and used to be Aztec warriors. All that choreographed wrestling? Training. And to stave off existential boredom.

* ''VideoGame/RenownedExplorers'' has a luchador named Dolores Garcia as one of the avilable explorers, specializing in Athletics and Quick Wits. Her perosnal story card involves her encouraging the other two explorers in the party to form a wrestling team which gives you additional income in between expeditions due to them participating in wrestling matches during the downtime.

** MASK de Smith, a character in ''VideoGame/Killer7''. Easily the most powerful character in the game.

* The Sacred Heart faith in ''VideoGame/AfterTheEndACrusaderKingsIIMod'' counts Wrestling/ElSanto among its patron deities. Followers of El Santo can become ''luchadores'' themselves, and face each other in wrestling matches - unlike in El Santo's day, they [[ProWrestlingIsReal fight for real]]. The Sacred Heart also has a holy order of luchador knights, ''La Orden de la Mascara'' (The Order of the Mask).

* This is the outfit that Muko wears in the Act 1 cover of ''Webcomic/FurryFightChronicles' as her Combagal theme. She finds the CoolMask of it in Chapter 30 but has yet to buy it.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen example: Creator/HideoKojima's first draft for the war-based game he was told to design was a game called ''Lost Warld'', starring [[CrazyAwesome a masked luchadora]] (a female luchador). However, the draft got canned, and thus ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' was born.