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2 [[caption-width-right:350:"Animo!" "Cero Miedo!"]]
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4The Lucha Brothers are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of real life brothers [[Wrestling/PentagonJr Pentagon Jr/Penta el Zero M/Penta Oscuro]] and (Rey) Wrestling/{{Fenix}} from Mexico City, Mexico. They are most known for their appearances (as both a tag team and singles competitors) in Wrestling/{{AAA}}, Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, Wrestling/ImpactWrestling, Wrestling/{{MLW}} and are currently signed with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling. In recent years for their singles careers, Fenix is a one-time AAA Mega Champion and AEW International Champion and his brother Pentagon Jr. is a former Impact World Champion, while both were Lucha Underground Champion at one point.
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6As of 5th of September 2021, they achieved the virtually-unheard-of feat of becoming dual tag-team champions across two major promotions in two different countries: holding both the Wrestling/{{AAA}} tag-team titles and the [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]] tag-team titles simultaneously. They also have the longest single AAA Tag Team Championship title reign of all time by a ''massive'' margin, holding them for ''853'' consecutive days before finally losing them to [[Wrestling/TheRevival FTR]].
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8One of these brothers wrestles like he's unfamiliar with the concept of gravity. The other wrestles like he's hostile to the concept of fear. Whether individually or collectively, these two are hailed amongst the greatest luchadores of the post-WCW generation.
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11!!"LUCHA TROPES, MEXIKINGS! CERO MIEDO, MEET THEM IN THE RING":
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13* TheAce: As simultaneously the longest-reigning AAA Tag Team Champions of all time by a ''long'' way and one-time Tag Team Champions of AEW (the company considered to have the single strongest and most competitive tag division in the entire world), the Lucha Bros make a strong case for being THE best tag team of this generation. Arguably their only rivals (in AEW at least) are Wrestling/TheYoungBucks and Wrestling/{{FTR}}.
14* ArchEnemy: No tag-team has faced them more often and more bitterly than the Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. As of September 2021, they have faced each other a grand total of 9 times across both the US and Mexico, and each battle has been more intense than the last. As of this writing, the Lucha Bros are technically ahead in the rivalry, having won 6 out of those 9 meetings.
15* BadassCreed: "Cero! Miedo!" started out as Pentagón's catchphrase but it became the creed of both their brothers to signify their lack of fear against anyone or anything. Fenix has his own "Animo!" (a word relating to life and movement, referring to his insane motion capabilities) but it's used less often.
16* BashBrothers: Both brothers by blood fighting side-by-side.
17* BigBrotherInstinct: Pentagón, who's otherwise known for being an amoral and sadistic competitor, occasionally shows his care for his younger brother. Memorably, during a steel cage match with the Young Bucks, Pentagón used ''his own face'' as a human shield to protect Fenix from being hit with the spiked boots of the Young Bucks.
18* BigBrotherMentor: Penta's older by five years and he was one of Fenix's main tutors in the wrestling business.
19* BraggingThemeTune: Their first theme in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWj58lyWuf4 All-Elite Wrestling]] is a very braggadocios rap tune daring their opponents to "meet [us] in the ring". Their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coMRDLZFpjk second]] was similarly braggadocious.
20* CatchPhrase: Aside from their creeds ("Zero Miedo" and "Animo"), there's their translator over at AEW Alex Abrahantes who coined "Penta says..." as he's ([[TactfulTranslation somewhat]]) translating whatever Penta is saying. It gets to the point every time Penta is about to say something, the crowd will often chant "PENTA SAYS!".
21* CombinationAttack: One of their signature moves is setting up a opponent in the middle of the ring and then running up to him with two simultaneous superkicks on opposite sides of his head to put him out of commission.
22* CrowdChant: "CERO MI-EDO!" (''clap-clap-clap'') is the usual chant in support of the Lucha Brothers.
23* DarkIsNotEvil: Penta is not a face or a heel but more like a tweener with gray area when he's with his brother. Kind of a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] really, since he was ''supposed'' to be DarkIsEvil (his gimmick was originally the EvilCounterpart of face wrestler Octagon Jr. and LegacyCharacter to Pentagon, a similar EvilCounterpart to the original Octagon), but he just [[DracoInLeatherPants got so over with the fans that trying to get them to boo him consistently proved to be futile]]. (To wit, assaulting and injuring an innocent non-combatant woman became literally the only thing that could get Pentagón booed at all, and repeating that ''ad nauseam'' would be more likely to get a show canceled than anything else.) Fénix meanwhile is sort of a reverse where he can follow his brother into dark areas aesthetically and in personality, but is otherwise more of a Face.
24* DarkReprise: Their theme song underwent this after they started teaming with [[Wrestling/AdrianNeville PAC]].
25* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The brothers first started to gain mainstream attention outside of Mexico in ''Lucha Underground'' where they were two of the breakout stars- despite their fraternal relationship never being acknowledged at all and they never teamed together (or really had much to do with each other at all).
26* ForceAndFinesse: Pentagón is more based on brute strength and violence, while Fenix is a airborne legend of grace and finnesse.
27* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Their booking in AEW is often subject to this, often going face or heel depending on who they're aligned with and/or feuding against. This is in contrast to both their prior run in Impact Wrestling as well as their home promotion AAA down in Mexico, where they would consistently be faces when teaming together.
28* MaskedLuchador: Both wear masks. Penta wears a mask with skeletal facepaint, while Fénix sticks to just the mask.
29* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Their true identities and names are unknown.
30* PowerTrio: With PAC as Death Triangle.
31* RedBaron: They are called the "Mexikings".
32* RedOniBlueOni: Pentagón is the more hot-blooded and unstable of the two, with Fénix being more calm and level-headed.
33* SiblingYinYang: Penta tends to be the heel while Fenix leans more towards face. Either way, they're still united as a team.
34* TactfulTranslation: Alex Abrahantes at AEW would often have to tone down whatever [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed thing Penta said in spanish]].
35* TakingTheBullet: During the brutal steel cage match between the Bros and the Young Bucks at ''All Out 2021'', the Bucks got their hands on their secret weapon, a sneaker with thumbtacks stuck all over the bottom, intending to use it on Fenix. Penta [[BigBrotherInstinct threw himself in front of his little brother]], taking the spiked kick to the face instead.
36* ToxicFriendInfluence:
37** Right before PAC's shocking return on the Dynamite following Full Gear 2020 derailed his attempt, Eddie Kingston was clearly trying to throw in his lot with Pentagon during and following Penta's climactic match with his brother Fenix, Kingston literally kicking Fenix to the curb as he tried to butter up Pentagon into splitting from Rey and aligning solely with Eddie himself.
38** PAC himself tried to influence the brothers into more heelish, cheating ways while they were wrestling as Death Triangle, with Fenix in particular resisting on the grounds that the three of them were good enough that they didn't ''need'' to cheat. He was eventually forced to give in during the Trios Championship match against Wrestling/TheElite at ''Full Gear 2022'' when he found himself in the unenviable position of being perched on the shoulders of Wrestling/KennyOmega, about to receive the [[OneHitKill One-Winged Angel]], with his only recourse being to clonk Omega in the head with the ring bell hammer he'd taken off PAC and roll through into the pin. PAC congratulated Fenix afterwards for his pragmatism.
39* TagTeam: The best tag team in the universe.
40* TranslatorBuddy: Alex Abrahantes acts as their translator over at AEW.
41* UndyingLoyalty: Due to their nature as blood brothers, they are very loyal to one another.

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