Characters that appear in Guacamelee! and its sequel, Guacamelee! 2.
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Protagonists
Juan Aguacate
Juan as he appears in Guacamelee! 2
Formerly an agave farmer with the dream of being a Luchador, Juan was killed by Calaca on his way to the nearby town of Pueblucho. He was restored back to life by a mystical mask and began his adventure to save El Presidente's Daughter and defeat Calaca. Juan is the "default" luchador the player starts out with, but can switch to Tostada by changing costumes.
- Acrofatic: During his brief appearance as out-of-shape Juan in 2, age and weight did nothing to slow down his natural mobility, except he can't dodge roll.
- Action Dad: In 2 he and Lupita have two kids, and he will do anything to protect them.
- Came Back Strong: He's killed at the beginning of the game by Calaca in a Curbstomp Battle, but finds the mystical mask and is brought back to life as a powerful luchadore.
- Forced Transformation: Calaca turns him into a chicken but this later is fixed. It later becomes Voluntary Shapeshifting, where he can turn into a chicken at will. Also, in 2, he can even fight as one.
- Formerly Fit: The sequel justifies having a Bag of Spilling by showing Juan as having gotten quite fat in the seven years since the first game ended, and is thus out of practice. When he regains his mask, he instantly becomes fit again, but he still has to re-learn everything.
- Extremity Extremist: Downplayed. Most of Juan's Stamina Attacks will have him use his fists, but most of his throws has him kicking the enemy away.
- Heroic Build: Just look at him!
- Heroic Mime: Juan is never shown talking, but the dialog of other characters seem to indicate that he is indeed communicating with them.
- Masked Luchador: Juan doesn't begin the game as one, but quickly comes across a mystical mask and becomes one.
- Morality Chain: To Jaguar Javier in the sequel, due to being the only Juan that survived fighting Calaca the main timeline Javier is the only one not to work for Salvador.
- Religious Bruiser: Juan regularly helps out at the local church and actually has the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Heart#:~:text=The%20Sacred%20Heart%20is%20often,hands%20pointing%20at%20the%20heart
. Sacred Heart]] tattooed on his chest, implying he's a religious man. After getting powered up, he's a very capable fighter and powerhouse. - Voluntary Shapeshifter: After Juan cures his Forced Transformation status, he gains the ability to switch back and forth between human and chicken at will, which functions as his equivalent to the Morph Ball, letting him fit through tiny passages. In the sequel, the chicken form gets a massive upgrade and can now beat up Mooks almost as good as a human, complete with its own special moves (and corresponding enemy shields to go with them).
La Tostada
La Tostada as she appears in Guacamelee! 2
Click here to see Tostada as she appears in 1 and STCE.
The spirit of the Lucha mask that brought Juan back to life, she aids Juan on his adventure. By default she's Player 2 but Player 1 can be her by changing costumes.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Tostada's skin is blue which is meaningful since she's not alive, but isn't a skeleton like most of the population in the world of the dead.
- Bandage Mummy: Her default outfit in 1 and STCE. Changes to a more standard luchador outfit in 2.
- Badass Cape: Some of Tostada's alternate outfit in 1 and STCE will give Tostada this. Her default outfit in 2 has this.
- The Faceless: La Tostada wears her luchador mask all the time, even when she's wearing a dress.
- Famed In-Story: Added in STCE, she's hailed in the town of Canal de las Flores as a legendary heroine who gave her life saving the people from erupting volcano.
- Kick Chick: La Tostada's Stamina Attacks use kicks instead of punches like Juan.
- Meaningful Name: May overlap with Punny Name, Tostada can mean "burnt" in Spanish and her backstory in Canal of de las Flores heavily implies she died helping people evacuate an area affected by an erupting volcano.
- Moveset Clone: She functionally plays the same way as Juan with the biggest difference being her voice and animations.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: She packs as much punch as Juan does.
- My Greatest Failure: In 2 Tostada from the alternate timeline, Darkest, deeply regrets her failure to defeat Calaca and let Juan die and vows to not let in happen again against Salvador.
- Not So Above It All: Tostada may come across as a very wise and calm adviser, but she often make snarky remarks mostly aimed at the biggest weirdness she comes across.
Lupita
El Presidente's daughter and Juan's lifelong friend and love interest, though they haven't seen each other for years. Calaca captures her because she was born on a day of a special eclipse which made her the perfect sacrifice and bride.
- Damsel in Distress: Rescuing her is the goal of the first game.
- Happily Married: In 2, she and Juan are married with two children.
- Named in the Sequel: The first game only ever calls her "El Presidente's daughter". It isn't until the second that she gets an actual name.
- Virgin Sacrifice: Calaca's plan for kidnapping her. When he explains it to her, her reaction is something along the lines of "Uh, about that..." Despite this, it works anyway, although she gets brought back to life in the Golden Ending.
Uay Chivo
Uay Chivo, the Goat Hermit and self-proclaimed "lord of all goat-men", is cantankerous old man with mystic powers and (previous) owner of several "Choozo" statues. He teaches Juan and Tostada new moves whenever they bust up one his statues, typically named after animals (with a few exceptions).
- Alliance of Alternates: In the sequel he has contact with many versions of himself from alternate timelines.
- Animal Motifs: Goats, if it wasn't made clear enough. His playable version in 2 even has battle shouts that sounds like goat bleats.
- Dirty Old Man: He likes to ask about Juan's mother a couple of times and asks if she likes "baaaaaaaad" boys
- Expy: Of Cranky Kong, being an hunched over old man with an attitude and a big walking stick.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: Defying this trope is what drove Jaguar Javier into villainy in the first game. And in the sequel while he doesn't die he gets stuck in the alternate timeline after Juan prevents all of them from collapsing.
- Retired Badass: He's a retired luchador and now (usually) mentors other ones and teaches powerful new techniques to Juan and Tostada after they break their Choozo statues. In 2 you can play as him as an alternate costume.
- Promoted to Playable: Becomes a playable character in Guacamelee! 2.
- Tranquil Fury: Upon learning that Javier became a villain to protect him from Calaca, the Hermit quietly asks Juan to sock the latter across the face for him.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: He's a Huay Chivo, a Mayan sorcerer who can transform into a goat (among other things) and attack livestock. It's why he wears Mayan clothing.
- You Can't Go Home Again: He ends the sequel stuck in the Darkest Timeline for good... because he forgot he isn't from that timeline until just after the portal to El Otromundo closed.
Antagonists
Carlos Calaca
- And Now You Must Marry Me: He plans to make El Presidente's daughter his undead queen after sacrificing her to merge the worlds of the living and the dead.
- Attention Whore: His whole reason for seeking godhood is so that he can make the entire world bow to him and acknowledge his perceived greatness, as he feels he was robbed of his fame in life due to the Devil dragging him to Hell.
- Barrier Change Boss: Constantly changes his vulnerability to certain types of attacks during his boss fight.
- Big Bad: He is the main villain of the first game.
- Big "NO!": As he realizes his One-Winged Angel form is falling apart, he lets out an echoing 'NO!' before exploding.
- Bullfight Boss: Fittingly for his toreador theme you fight him like this, dodging his attacks and striking sparsely, but surely, instead of trying to chain several hits at once.
- Dastardly Whiplash: A Mexican variant of the type, but appearance-wise, he fits the trope like a glove, with his meticulous fashion sense and thin moustache.
- Deal with the Devil: He broke his arm on the verge of winning the fame he craved and sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for it being healed. Unfortunately for him, the Devil decided to cash in their deal right as he was about the claim his prize and dragged him to Hell.
- Death Cry Echo: His Big "NO!" echos for several seconds after he explodes when Juan finally brings him down.
- Dragged Off to Hell: The Devil decided to cash in their deal right as he was about to get his prize and dragged him to Hell. Calaca is very bitter about this.
- Freudian Excuse: Carlos Calaca's turn to villainy came when, on the eve of the Charreada, he broke his arm and thus made a Deal with the Devil to mend it. But before he could claim his prize, the Devil dragged him down to Hell. A vengeful Carlos plotted to overthrow the Devil, and then merge the worlds of the living and the dead just so he could get the praise that was owed to him.
- Glass Cannon: In his first phase of his fight, he hits like a truck but can't take as much of a beating as some of his subordinates, which is made up for by the fact that you can really only get one hit on him at a time due to his Teleportation Spam.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Carlos' undead skeleton form has intense, burning red eyes.
- Godhood Seeker: He wishes to merge the worlds of living and dead and rule it as an omnipotent god.
- Hell Has New Management: He overthrew the Devil, turned him into a chicken, and took over Hell.
- Lightning Bruiser: He's very fast and his attacks are devastating, his health, while lower than usual for boss standards, is nothing to scoff at either.
- Motive Decay: He initially only wanted to invade the world of the living so that he could finally get the praise he felt he was owed for his talents as a charro. Somewhere along the line, the realization of how much power he'd get from merging the worlds of the living and dead turned him into a full-blown Godhood Seeker.
- One-Winged Angel: Upon completing the ritual, he transforms into a gigantic red demon.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: His black charro outfit, along with his reddish features (eyes, mustaches, and eyebrows), invokes this image.
- Teleportation Spam: During the first phase of his fight, his basic pattern involves teleporting in to get an attack off before immediately teleporting away. Coupled with him being a Barrier Change Boss, and you can only really get one hit off on him at a time.
- Throat Light: As he's dying after his fight with Juan, light pours out of his mouth and eyes.
- Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: The guy is an all-around unpleasant jerk when he isn't being an ominous threat. Barring one or two asides, he's far less comedic when compared to his underlings.
- Villainous Breakdown: While he remains composed even after losing the first round of his rematch because his plan has succeeded, he's left watching his One Winged Form begin to fall apart when Juan finally defeats him. His last moments are pathetically spent crawling towards Juan with a look of disbelief on his face before letting out a Big "NO!" as he explodes.
- The Worf Effect: In the sequel, Salvador's threat level is highlighted by the fact that in an alternate timeline, Salvador was the one to defeat Calaca, not Juan.
Salvador
- Ambition Is Evil: Salvador's descent to darkness started when he forcibly took the Mask of Power to become the greatest luchador ever, despite his mentor/parent figure's warning that he was not ready.
- Animal Motifs: Snakes. He is referred to as "Salvador the Snake", his hideout is the Temple of the Snake, and his mask gives him the power to summon a pair of giant snakes and several ethereal snake familiars.
- Barrier Change Boss: Like the previous Big Bad he has a barrier that requires a specific special move to break, but he also has the "perfect" defense which no man can break.
- Battle Aura: He gains reddish glow once he eats Sacred Guacamole to cure his illness. His final form ditches this in favor of the snake familiars that support him, however.
- Big Bad: In the sequel.
- Bishōnen Line: After his first two summons are defeated he jumps into action by himself and is as dangerous, if not even more, than the two giant snakes you previously fought.
- Blatant Lies: He insists that he isn't actually sick, coming up with various unconvincing excuses every time he coughs. One such excuse ends up being his last words.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Unlike Carlos Calaca, he's a luchador, making him a straightforward Evil Counterpart to Juan. His seriousness is also much more of a façade, and he often breaks it when he doesn't think anybody is listening or when he's trying to unconvincingly hide his Incurable Cough of Death.
- Drunk with Power: His former parent figure states that he is consumed by the power of the mask.
- Evil Counterpart: Like Juan, he aspired to be a luchador and wears a magic mask, but didn't have the same strong sense of justice Juan had, and the power of the mask (according to his parental figure) corrupted him.
- Evil Gloating: A Running Gag is him trying to do this, only to be interrupted.
- Evil Is Bigger: Despite being a normal human he's positively huge compared to Juan.
- Fallen Hero: He saved the Darkest Timeline from Calaca, but became evil afterwards.
- Find the Cure!: His actual plan.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: His backstory is that he was orphaned and taken in by a priest. He would eventually go on to almost destroy the Mexiverse.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Has glowing eyes, which is likely due to the power of his mask as they return to normal when it gets destroyed.
- Heel: Is basically the rudo to Juan's técnico.
- Incurable Cough of Death: Curing it is his motivation for his villainous deeds. Not that he'll ever admit to having it in the first place.
- Mask of Power: Just like Juan, Salvador gained great powers through the mask he wears.
- Meaningful Name: "Salvador" means "saviour", and he was the hero who saved his timeline. Not so much anymore, though.
- No Man of Woman Born: He starts the second phase of the fight by using a shield that, as he points out, no human can break. Good thing Juan isn't always human. This is made even more ironic after he tells Juan 'Don't be a chicken.'.
- Non-Indicative Name: Again, his name means "saviour", and while he lived up to it in the past, he's definitely the complete opposite of it now. The only person he currently cares about saving is himself.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Compares himself to Juan in that they both started from nothing to become great Luchadores, however he believes Juan wasted his potential.
- Pet the Dog: Asks himself at one point if he was being too harsh on Muñeco after snapping at him for constantly interrupting him, showing that he does care for his underlings to an extent.
- Power Degeneration: His sickness is due to his body being unable to handle the power of the mask.
- Time Master: A side effect of his plan, if collecting the relics hasn't made him one already the cure probably will.
- Villainous RROD: He became terminally ill trying to become the greatest luchador ever, and his plan is to find a cure for his condition.
Flame Face
- Affably Evil: Violent psychopath that he may be, he can also be laid back and easygoing. He holds a bit of a grudge with Juan in the sequel but just challenges him to get better at performing combos.
- The Alcoholic: If Flame Face doesn't have his guns drawn, he's usually got a bottle of tequila in one hand and a glass in the other. Oddly, he usually finishes off a drink by swallowing the glass itself.
- Combat Pragmatist: He's the only character to use guns, and prefers to stay at range, shooting while throwing minions at Juan.
- Combos: In 2, his skill tree focuses on building and extending combos.
- Cursed with Awesome: In life, Flame Face used to set people on fire, thinking it would curry favor with the Devil. Upon death, the Devil instead cursed him with an eternally flaming head. When you meet him in the sequel he explains that he survived because the "eternally" part was literal.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He starts firing wildly while yelling at Poncho when the latter attacks Juan in a conversation. He may be a ruthless gunslinger/arsonist, but he won't see the rules of hospitality violated.Flame Face: PONCHO! IT IS ILLEGAL TO ATTACK SOMEONE DURING A CONVERSATION!
- Flunky Boss: In the first game he loves to summon minions to fight you while he shoots you from far away. The problem? He summons Elite Mooks instead of the usual cannon fodder, and in Hard Mode he will summon Giant and Hammertime enemies to fight you.
- The Gunslinger: He is the only character who uses guns and dresses up like a cowboy. He's genuinely perplexed everyone else seems to prefer fighting in melee and is left in disbelief when his 'guns lose to Juan's fists.'
- Heel–Face Turn: Goes from a boss character to a trainer in Guacamelee! 2.
- The Hyena: Flame Face likes to laugh hysterically while rapidly firing his guns at the ground. This is usually followed by him trying to shoot Juan... only to find that he is now out of bullets.
- Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight: He is very confused no one else uses guns and people like Juan are running around punching people. He's left in disbelief when Juan actually beats him.
- Pyromaniac: Appears to be this, if his desire to roast El Presidente's daughter is anything to go by.
- This Cannot Be!: He's left in disbelief that, despite using guns, he was beaten by the unarmed Juan.Flame Face: How could my guns lose to your fists?! I can't believe it!
X'tabay
- Femme Fatale: Initially tries to invoke this, by acting seductive and speaking Double Entendre when she meets Juan.
- High-Heel–Face Turn: After being defeated, she helps out the heroes by granting them the power to cross the two dimensions at will.
- Me's a Crowd: Can create a duplicate of herself to fight alongside her.
- Promoted to Playable: She's a playable character in the Gaucamelee! 1 DLC, and in the Guacamelee! 2 base game.
Jaguar Javier
- Barrier Change Boss: He has all types of shields at his disposal, including the irritating white-layered one, which makes the fight against him incredibly tough.
- Climax Boss: He's the final opponent the player must face before storming the Great Temple, where Calaca plans to finish his ritual.
- Cowardly Lion: A recurring problem for him and his alternates, Javier may be a badass, but he is very easily intimidated and loses hope when it looks like the bad guys are winning, making it really easy to talk him into a Face–Heel Turn.
- Demoted to Extra: In the sequel. He's not even a mandatory boss fight nor has a unique boss theme.
- The Dragon: He is the strongest of the Quirky Miniboss Squad and the second-to-last of the bosses.
- Duel Boss: Jaguar Javier fights you alone in the first game and STCE.
- Fatal Flaw: Fatalism. See also Cowardly Lion above. It's the reason why he follows Calaca and bows to Salvador in the sequel. In the first it's heavily implied Calaca killed someone Jaguar held dear to make sure he was serious, and threatened to kill Jaguar's master as well. In the sequel it was Juan dying by Calaca's hand in the Darkest Timeline that drove Jaguar into villainy.
- Final-Exam Boss: There are no tricks, gimmicks, or enemies in the fight against him in the first game and STCE. The boss fight forces the players to learn how to use every shield-breaking move and be very good at dodging and reacting to his fast attacks and counters.
- Heel–Face Turn: The epilogue shows that after the events of game, he became friends with Juan, same goes for the his alternates in the sequel.
- Karma Houdini: In the sequel, if you don't go for the key pieces, Darkest Timeline Javier can potentially get away with betraying Juan. It's subverted if you do decide to go hunting for them, as it leads to a boss fight with him and two other Alternate Javiers.
- Lightning Bruiser: Holy balls. He's fast enough to feel like he's teleporting, hits like a speeding truck and has shields and a lot of health on top of that. In the first game, especially on Hard Mode, he's easily one of, if not the hardest boss of the first game. In the sequel he's severely toned down, but that doesn't help much when you have to fight three Jaguars at once.
- Mirror Boss: He fights using moves similar to the players.
- Noble Demon: He admires your fighting spirit and refusal to bow.Played with the Alternate Javiers, while they do regain hope after seeing Juan in action they're willing to gang up on him in a boss fight.
- Optional Boss: In the sequel, he isn't a mandatory fight unless you're looking for the key pieces.
- A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: He was the former apprentice of the Goat Hermit. As it turns out, he serves Calaca in order to protect his mentor, his alternates in the sequel however don't even need the threat of a hostage to be intimidated into serving Salvador.
- Wolfpack Boss: In the sequel, he summons two more alternates of himself during the boss fight.
El Trio De La Muerte
- Demoted to Extra: In the sequel they show up only in a separate timeline that is not mandatory to beat the game and are fought in a non-standard, RPG-esque, sequence.
- Flunky Boss: During their first phase they'll often summon their skeleton minions while they pelt you from afar with their projectiles.
- Freudian Excuse: They want to find their long-lost band member.
- Multiple Head Case: They're three undead mariachi members who share a body.
- Musical Assassin: They use music notes as projectiles and even as a Wave-Motion Gun on their second form.
- Obliviously Evil: In the sequel, they do not realize that practicing their music near the volcano is causing it to erupt and thus have to be stopped by Juan.
- Remember the New Guy?: Ultimately subverted, but lightly poked fun at in STCE. Their first appearance is just after Juan is killed by Calaca, with one of them asking if they missed anything as the scene fades to black.
- Take That!: They're essentially a spoof of failed crowdfunding projects, trying to pitch their flawed prototype soldiers to Calaca with expected results.
- Terrible Trio: They are Mexican mariachi version of this. In fact, their reason for helping Calaca is to revive their fourth band member and get out of this status.
- Turns Red: in SCTE they "remix" themselves and become some sort of totem pole to fight Juan and Tostada.
Uay Pek
- Boss-Arena Idiocy: Inverted. The arena works against you protecting Uay Pek while she summons her minion and blasts you with her magic.
- Combat Pragmatist: As soon as it becomes clear she can't beat you in direct combat she uses her arena to hide and try to blast you while her minions wear you down. After that doesn't work either she becomes giant and try to eat you alive, though this backfires horribly on her.
- The Computer Shall Taunt You: She's invincible during her final phase and knows it, she will constantly taunt you if you attack her (saying how embarrassing she feels for you) or even if you don't (wondering if you simply gave up).
- The Dragon: She's the member of Salvador's gang who sticks around the longest.
- Evil Counterpart: To Uay Chivo. Just as Chivo helps guide the heroes to defeat evil, Pek helps Salvador achieve his evil ambition. She and Uay Chivo also dated previously.
- Evil Laugh: Uay Pek has a distinct witch-like cackle.
- Final-Exam Boss: Downplayed. While Uay Pek is obviously not the final challenge of the game her boss battle will test the player's fighting ability against many types of enemies, including very dangerous ones, like Exploders, Giants and Piñata-Heads (and on Hard Mode against Gigantic Pounders), all while she constantly changes the layout of the arena, something that will test some of the player's platforming skills and how they deal with enemies in enclosed spaces.
- Flunky Boss: While other antagonists summon mooks in their boss fights, she stands out as defeating all the mooks she summons is mandatory as part of her boss battle.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In the final phase of her boss fight, she transforms into an invincible abomination and proceeds to eat Juan, which allows him to defeat her by punching out her heart.
- King Mook: Design-wise she is this to the Shamans, although unlike them she cannot buff other enemies and opts instead to blast you with offensive magic while you're distracted by her mooks.
- Level in Boss Clothing: You end up fighting more the arena and mooks Uay Pek throw at you than the boss herself.
- Losing Your Head: All that's left of her after her boss fight is her skull.
- Our Liches Are Different: An undead skeleton dog-woman who "command[s] the darkest canine sorceries".
- Teleport Spam: She's very fond of teleporting around and everywhere.
- Wave-Motion Gun: One of her most common attacks. Unlike other beams in the game hers can be dodged away as long as you you're at least jumping away from it.
- Zero-Effort Boss: After her initial boss fight she has her skull put onto a Giant's body and challenges you to a rematch right before you fight Salvador. She goes down in one hit.Uay Pek: "Become a Giant, Uay Pek! It'll be great!" That's the last time I listen to Muñeco.
Zope y Cactuardo
Zope (the bird) and Cactuardo.
- Alas, Poor Villain: In the ending montage they attend Salvador's funeral.
- Attack Its Weak Point: To damage Cactuardo you need to knock Zope off his head first.
- Barrier Change Boss: Zope, like most late game bosses, will have colored shields that must be broken using one of the Stamina attacks. Cactuardo, however, doesn't have this.
- Brains and Brawn: Zope serves as the brain while Cactuardo provides the muscle.
- Cores-and-Turrets Boss: You must knock Zope off Cactuardo's head in order to make him vulnerable, but the problem is that Zope will act as some sort of "turret" and attack you while Cactuardo is vulnerable.
- Dual Boss: Though they mostly take turns. But Cactuardo is the one that must be defeated to end the boss, Zope will simply get back on his feet after you thrash him.
- Flunky Boss: Chupacabras of all variants (normal, tiny and void) will show up. Since these enemies also shoot projectiles the fight can become quite hectic with Zope trying to either shot you or blitzing you with his own Pollo Slide.
- Fragile Speedster: Zope. He flies like crazy using copies of your Pollo Slide and Pollo Shot and occasionally shooting you as well, but goes down relatively quick.
- Mighty Glacier: Cactuardo. His attacks are ridiculously telegraphed, but will hurt like a mother if they connect.
- Mirror Boss: Zope is one for the chicken form as he can use the Pollo Shot and Pollo Slide, although he can also fly and throw knives.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Zope doesn't really care about Salvador's goals, he just hates the chickens, and since Salvador's plan involves stealing their relic, he's in.
- Sequential Boss: When you defeat Cactuardo the first time Zope boasts they're only beginning... This is ultimately subverted as Cactuardo crumbles on Zope squashing him and ending the battle for good.
- Shielded Core Boss: Until Zope is knocked off Cactuardo's head he will have spikes making any sort of attack against him useless.
- The Unintelligible: Cactuardo, with Zope acting as a translator.
El Muñeco
El Muñeco and his chickens.
- Ambiguously Gay: He certainly is very flamboyant (although that most likely has more to do with his profession than his sexuality), and his entire goal is to become Salvador's "best friend", but nothing is explicitly stated.
- Animal Companion: He has several chickens that act as assistants during his magic shows, and in combat he uses them as projectiles as a "pull a rabbit out of my hat" trick. He also summons his chickens en masse whenever he goes into the background.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Don't be fooled by his tacky clothes and pompous attitude, this guy mean business and that sword on his picture? It's not there just for show.
- Boss-Arena Idiocy: There two spiked pillars that spring up when the pressure plates on the ground are pressed. These can be used to knock Muñeco out of his tornado attack and to block his chicken barrage attack. However the spike pillars can very much act against you if you're not careful with your footing.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite his kooky personality he's quite competent as a supervillain. After you defeat him he reveals that he was just stalling you while his chickens stole the Jade Relic (although it turned out to be a decoy), and when he and Salvador arrive at the Obsidian Temple his first reaction is to suggest distracting you so Salvador can sneak attack you.
- Circling Birdies: What happens when you smack him around during his boss fight.
- Early-Bird Boss: In Hard Mode you fight El Muñeco with at most 2 to 3 health upgrades and things like the spike traps in his arena can easily eat a third of your health. While he's still not fiendishly difficult he's here to make sure that you can't just tank hits and win fights like in Normal Mode.
- Enemy Posturing: El Muñeco loves to laugh during his boss battle. It's your cue to Rooster Uppercut him out of the air.
- Evil Laugh: Does this all the time. In the boss fight, this tends to provide Juan with the opportunity to reach and hit him. Curiously his laughter sounds almost like chicken clucks.
- Expressive Mask: His theatre mask will change expression to reflect his emotions.
- Fragile Speedster: He's fast and uses a lot of teleportation to move around the arena, but is the only boss who will get stunned if you hit him or prematurely end his tornado attack.
- Game Face: Reveals a much threatening face with pointy ears when he jumps on the background and throw his flock of chickens at you.
- Homing Projectile: When in his second background phase, his chickens will home in on the player(s).
- I Just Want to Have Friends: His entire motivation for serving Salvador is to become his best friend forever.
- Magicians Are Wizards: He's a stage magician and uses magic tricks in combat.
- Malevolent Masked Men: Wears a theatre mask with a beauty mark.
- Spectacular Spinning: His masked tornado attack.
- Teleport Spam: He's very fond of teleporting across the arena in order to trick you.
