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* ThisMeansWarpaint: When the fight is truly serious, Santana & Ortiz will show up decked in a black-and-white facepaint.
* WeaponOfChoice: Ortiz often wields a loaded sock (i.e a sock full of hard marbles or baseballs or something) in the ring.

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* SockItToThem: Ortiz often wields a loaded sock (i.e a sock full of hard marbles or baseballs or something) in the ring.
* ThisMeansWarpaint: When the fight is truly serious, Santana & Ortiz will show up decked in a black-and-white facepaint. \n* WeaponOfChoice: Ortiz often wields a loaded sock (i.e a sock full of hard marbles or baseballs or something) in the ring.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Became Faces after MJF turned on the Inner Circle.

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* HeelFaceTurn: Became Faces faces after MJF turned on the Inner Circle.
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[[caption-width-right:350: THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST![[note]]Left: Santana. Right: Ortiz[[/note]]]]
->''"Being proud makes you powerful. That's what's all about."''

'''Santana''' (born February 4, 1991) and '''Ortiz''' (born September 27, 1991) are a pair of proud (and powerful) "Nuyoricans"[[note]]NYC residents of Puerto Rican descent[[/note]] and one of the most notable tag-teams of the 2010s.

After some years in the indies, the team first drew attention as crucial moving pieces of LAX (Latin American X-change), a implacable alliance of latin-american wrestlers united by their shared latin culture all the way from places like Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico. There, Santana and Ortiz where showed a natural [[HotBlooded intensity]], [[BloodKnight talent for violence]] and love for their ancestral homeland of Puerto Rico. In the promotion, they became four-time tag-team world champions.

In 2019, they joined Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling where they became a crucial componennt of top heel faction Wrestling/InnerCircle and a terror in AEW's nascent tag-team division. And they are still Proud and Powerful.

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!!Proud And Powerful Tropes:
* AntiHero: Even as Faces, they're still extremely brutal and ruthless individuals.
* ArchEnemy: They do not get along with [[Wrestling/TheRevival FTR]] and have been on a deadly feud with them across 2021.
* BigApplesauce: Both billed from New York City.
* BloodKnight: A pair of them. They actively stated they're not going after the tag belts yet because they haven't taken the title of "best tag team" from the Young Bucks by facing them. And they're gonna keep beating up on them until they get their chance to do it.
-->'''Santana:''' Every time we see you, it's on SIGHT. EVERY CITY. EVERY STATE. EVERY ARENA. BECAUSE THIS SHIT DON'T END HERE!
* BrooklynRage: Of the Puerto Rican variety.
* CatchPhrase: Ortiz is very fond of screaming "THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST!" to refer to either himself or his allies.
* CoveredInGunge: Also victims of Orange Cassidy's orange juice assault.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Santana mentions a pretty grim and sad past in the rough side of the Bronx including his father going blind from a disease.
* FinishingMove: "Street Sweeper" (Powerbomb/Blockbuster combo).
* GreenEyedMonster: They clearly envy the Young Bucks's fame and reputation and thus vow to bring them down.
* HeelFaceTurn: Became Faces after MJF turned on the Inner Circle.
* HotBlooded: They're a very intense pair. Ortiz moreso than Santana, however.
* ILied: One particularly priceless moment came in Episode 181 of ''WebVideo/BeingTheElite'' (appropiately named "We Lied") after they were passing through backstage and appeared to be causing no problem.
-->'''Ortiz:''' Hey, Brandon![[note]]Brandon Cutler, BTE's cameraman[[/note]] Guess what? WE LIED!
-->''(Santana and Ortiz proceed to beat up Brandon Cutler and everyone else)''
* NixonMask: Showed up in a pair of them on their first night in AEW.
* NoticingTheFourthWall: While trying to drown Matt Hardy during the Studio Stampede match at Double or Nothing 2020, a splash screen appears to the right of them showing off "[=MATTer=] of Facts" about him. They notice it and Ortiz even checks his watch to see if one of the facts is true.
* RedBaron: "The Proud and Powerful" doubles as a moniker for the two of them, with Santana being known as "The Proud" and Ortiz as "The Powerful".
* RedOniBlueOni: They are [[DownplayedTrope both very hot-blooded]], but between them Santana tends to be more collected while Ortiz is pretty much always raving and ranting.
* ThisMeansWarpaint: When the fight is truly serious, Santana & Ortiz will show up decked in a black-and-white facepaint.
* WeaponOfChoice: Ortiz often wields a loaded sock (i.e a sock full of hard marbles or baseballs or something) in the ring.

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