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El Tigre

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“ This I swear! „
~ The Rivera catchphrase
“ Enough! You think I’m just some kid that you can boss around? I’m not on your side, and I’m not on your side. I’m on my side. And if you don’t want to get hurt... stay out of my way. „
~ Manny to White Pandera and Puma Loco

Background

Manuel Pablo Gutierrez O'Brian Equihua Rivera, commonly called "Manny" for short, is the main character and protagonist of the series El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera.

Manny Rivera is the civilian identity of El Tigre. Besides being a student at Miracle City's school and living in the roof rooms of an apartment building with his dad Rodolfo Rivera and Grandpapi, he is known for having the super powers of his alter ego El Tigre every time he spins his El Tigre Belt's Buckle. His best friend Frida is commonly with him and is often a part of Manny's antics, whether it be good or bad.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Manny Rivera’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Manny's history was revealed only by the creator himself and only slightly in the series. He was once taken care of by both Maria and Rodolfo until the former left since she could not cope with her husband ending up hurt with every battle. Afterwords, his Grandpapi moved in and Manny was taken care of by him and his father.

It was during this time that in pre-school, he was once friends with Zoe Aves. Their friendship continued until he met Frida in detention, who quickly became his best friend, thus beginning the feud between Frida and Zoe. When Frida first got kidnapped by Sartana, Manny used his El Tigre powers for the first time to save her. Unfortunately, he didn't watch what he was doing and accidentally scratched himself in the face, resulting in a scar on his face. Rodolfo warned Manny that this should be a lesson to him that his powers can hurt anyone, even himself.

Since then, Manny began to use his El Tigre powers, either for helping others or just for his own benefit. This also would take him to new experiences.

In a future confirmed by the creator, Jorge Gutierrez, Manny continues his life as known through the series. When he gets to high school, he dates Zoe Aves for a time but later breaks up with her after an unknown length and unknown circumstances. After high school, he goes to college, where he becomes an artist for his career without abandoning his superhero/supervillain persona of El Tigre. When reuniting with Frida, Manny falls in love with her and decides to take his relationship with Frida further, in which they eventually end up marrying. It was also stated by Jorge that Manny and Frida would have triplets; one a hero, one a villain, and one undecided.

Also mentioned by the creator, Manny would finally choose the side between good or evil, but there is no information on which side he picks or when it all occurs. Although, Nickelodeon let viewers decide Manny’s fate, whether good or bad. It was revealed on the last episode and good was chosen.

General Information

Name: Manuel Pablo Gutierrez O'Brian Equihua Rivera, Manny (His nickname), El Tigre (His superhero persona)

Origin: El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera

Sex: Male

Age: 13

Classification: Superhero, Supervillain, Ambiguously In the Middle of Good and Evil

Species: Human

Occupation: None

Status: Alive

Alignment: True Neutral (Manny's entire morality is undecided. With him constantly doing acts of heroism and villany, when stepping across the official hero-villain scanner, the scanner could not choose either side and self-destructed, he has also on constant occasion mentioned he's undecided on which side he wants to be)

Codex Statistics

Key: Manny Rivera | El Tigre

Tier: Varies with Cartoon Physics | Varies with Cartoon Physics

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Can harm those that can harm him[1]. Members of the Rivera family screamed so loud it caused all of the stars in the sky to fall) | Varies with Cartoon Physics (Punched El Mal Verde around the entire planet, which reaches these results[2]. Has defeated building sized opponents and enemies[3])

Durability: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Tanked the destruction of his house.[4] Survived several destruction and dangerous carnival activities that made others hospitalized and in a cast[5]) | Varies with Cartoon Physics (Has taken hits from Sartana's guitar which she used the same guitar to blast a face into the moon with)

Striking Strength: Varies with Cartoon Physics | Varies with Cartoon Physics

Lifting Strength: Varies with Cartoon Physics | Varies with Cartoon Physics (Can casually lift a giant ball of gold. Can casually lift a car and throw it.[6] Lifted a giant gem[7])

Travel Speed: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Can outrun a truck[8]) | Varies with Cartoon Physics (Ran from Mexico to the Andes and back in eleven seconds[9])

Combat Speed: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Can tag Frida Suárez, reacted to a laser that could bounce off her goggles and was heat based[10]) | Varies with Cartoon Physics

Reaction Speed: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Has consistently avoided lasers in both his base and Tigre form[11]) | Varies with Cartoon Physics (Has avoided several lasers while disoriented. Has avoided double lasers)

Stamina: Above Average | Superhuman+ (Had to make guacamole with no rest for an entire year.[12] Screamed for several hours without needing to take a breath[13])

Range: Standard Melee Range, Several Meters through extending his hand chain and projectiles, Cross-Universal with Dimensional Travel (Like the original El Tigre, he can summon the Ancient Tiger Spirit to open a portal and travel back to the living[14])

Intelligence: At least Gifted (Despite his lower showings and naive personality, Manny is a great hand-to-hand fighter when he confronts an enemy, being capable of dealing with several enemies and using his speed and agility to avoid their attacks. Could rewire and power a robot's engine in order to fix their rockets.[15] In an alternate ending, if Manny chooses to become evil, he rules the world with Sartana of the Dead and Jango of the Dead, and secretly plots behind their back and pulls a betrayal on both of them, ruling the world together with Frida. Tricked the Mustache Mafia.[16] Learned from his grandpapi how to easedrop on people)

Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Acrobatics (Can do acrobatic flips[17]), Multilingualism (Manny can speak english, spanish, and understand Raul who speaks sign language[18]), Preparation (Prepared an entire city wide spike of fudge to cause havoc across the entire city[19]), Stealth Mastery (Snuck around Sartana's palace to steal her mystical guitar.[20] Stole all of the villains treasures without them noticing), Social Influencing (Manny can kiss random monsters and make them fall in love with him[21]), Vehicular Mastery (Land Vehicles; Can ride a state of the art lux scooter.[22] Can drive race vehicles), Cartoon Physics (Mid Potency; Has consistently shown to defy logic, such as when his family screamed loud enough to make the stars fall from the sky), Transformation & Biological Manipulation (Through spinning his belt buckle, he uses the mystical energy[23] of the ancient tiger spirit[24]. His transformation also does damage to surrounding areas.[25] The transformation also transforms his biology, turning his arm into claw like projectiles[26]), Shockwave Generation (When Manny transforms into El Tigre he creates a massive shockwave that pushes back opponents[27]), Fire Manipulation (The transformation causes a massive fire aura around him that burns things nearby[28]), Regeneration (High-Low. Can regenerate broken bones, through just breaking his cast[29]), Limited Immortality (Reliance [On Memory]; Even upon death, as long as Manny is remembered he will still exist in the land of the dead, in which he can leave through summoning the ancient tiger spirit and summoning a portal[30]).


Resistance to Heats (For the entire episode, resists the heats of the desert with no real effects on his body such as sweat.[31] Withstood heats that caused pigeons to explode from it[32])

All previous powers and abilities, Acrobatics (El Tigre has excellent reflexes and agility when he's moving or fighting. This makes him very fast even for some enemies. Can do multiple flips casually), Martial Arts (Can wrestle against other skilled wrestlers[33]), Body Control (Can control his tail to use for attacks. Manny can extend his arm with a claw like feature that's apart of his body[34]), Accelerated Development (Battle; Physical Stats. Manny battling Black Cuervo during museum heist has him grow stronger. Able to fight enemies[35] he originally viewed as unbeatable[36]), Elasticity (Manny can be stretched with his body with no effects done[37]), Transformation (Manny de-transformed himself with a thought[38]), Aura & Fire Manipulation (Due to the ancient tiger spirit within his belt[39], Manny is able to summon a giant green fire aura around him), Surface Scaling (Can easily flip and stick on surfaces. Can run up surfaces[40]), Afterimage Creation (Can move so fast he leaves behind afterimages), Enhanced Regeneration (At least High-Low. Manny can regenerate from an atomic explosion[41]. Frida notes Manny can heal from injuries.[42]), Non-Standard Interaction & Soul Manipulation (Manny can harm souls[43]), Energy Projection (Can shoot out projectiles from his claw attacks), Durability Negation (Through summoning the Ancient Tiger Spirit, he can go within a being and attack them from inside with his tiger spirit, this can even affect undead beings[44]), Psuedo-Resurrection, Portal Creation, & Dimensional Travel (Like the original El Tigre, he can summon the Ancient Tiger Spirit to open a portal and travel back to the living[45]), Mimicry (Power Mimicry & Technique Mimicry; Copied Black Cuervo's special attack after seeing her do it, despite never showing him how to do it[46]).
Resistance to Pain (Can take extensive amounts of damage. Could have his tail bitten by an alligator with no real reaction.[47] Cut off his own hand and shook off the pain extremely fast to keep fighting an enemy[48]), Acid Manipulation (Could stay inside of the stomach acid of a monster for a brief period of time[49]), Mind Manipulation (Manny resists the hypnosis of a hypnosis watch[50])

Social Influencing (With Manny wearing the mustache, he was able to use Raul to convince everyone he was an adult[54]), Elasticity (Raul can stretch himself far[55]), Shapeshifting (Raul can shapeshift into various objects to help Manny during combat or daily life[56], he can even turn into Manny[57]), Flight (Raul as shown at the end of his wedding, was able to fly into the sky[58])

Equipment

  • El Tigre Belt: While the initial conception of the mystic El Tigre Belt remains a mystery, it is clear that it has been around far longer than earlIer Mexican civilizations. The difference of the belt from the other objects of power, is that the belt buckle needs to be spun to be activated, unlike the boots which give power by merely wearing them, and the sombrero, which can be used on mental command. It is also quite obvious that the belt is far more powerful and harbors a much more powerful spirit inside of it, the Ancient Tiger Spirit. The fact that the belt must be worn and the buckle must be spun is likely the only way of holding back the power of the belt. The only other wearer of the belt was around far before any of the other Rivera's, seen as the first Rivera, dating back before/during the Meso-american era, so it is safe to assume the belt was conceived around this time.

Optional Equipment

  • Bronze Boots of Truth: The Bronze Boots of Truth are the mystic items of White Pantera. With it, the person gains super speed and can force someone to tell the truth if the boots touch their face.
  • Golden Sombrero of Chaos: The Golden Sombrero of Chaos is the mystic item of Puma Loco. The Golden Sombrero of Chaos transforms into a mech-suit that carries and is controlled by the user. The suit has giant claws that can be turned into other weapons such as missiles that fire from slots on the arms. The claws can also be used as throwing projectiles, since they can fly individually. The suit can fly at a very high speed.
  • Raul: Raul is a mustache that can move itself, similar to the members of the Mustache Mafia. He was created by Dr. Chipotle Jr., only to get his hands on the El Tigre Belt. With Raul, Manny essentially has a second fighter protecting his face who can shapeshift and stretch.

Notable Techniques

  • Super Strength: Manny has superhuman strength, even in his base form. He can lift heavy objects like rocks, cars, giant monsters, and robot hands.
  • Jumping abilities: Manny can perform huge jumps from any surface. He can travel several kilometers just by jumping. He is able to use his jumping with his surface scale abilities to quickly climb up buildings.
  • Coordination: El Tigre has excellent reflexes and agility when he's moving or fighting. This makes him very fast even for some enemies.
  • Combat skills: Manny is a great hand-to-hand fighter when he confronts an enemy, he has also shown skill in wrestling, being capable of easily defeating enemies in it.
  • Retractable sharp claws: El Tigre has sharp retractable metal claws in each hand. He can pull them out and hide them like a real feline. The claws can cut through almost anything; like flesh, wood and metal.
  • Grappling hook hand: El Tigre's hands are attached to chains, which he can shoot like a grappling hook and using his claws he can reach high places like mountains and buildings. In the episode "The Good, The Bad, and The Tigre" its revealed that the chain is part of El Tigre's body and can feel pain if he cuts it.
  • The Spinning Armadillo: A powerful move El Tigre learns from Black Cuervo. He runs up a wall, jumps, spins with his claws to make the shape of an armadillo, dives, does some poses and then kicks his opponent. He only uses this move in Enter the Cuervo.
  • Claw Shot: El Tigre shoots his claws like guns and can be shot from 2 to 4 at a time.
  • Spin Cyclone: El Tigre spins with his razor sharp claws to make a shredding tornado.
  • Vicious Uppercut: El Tigre does multiple punches that send his enemies flying.
  • Pounce Kick: El Tigre jumps, then does an air kick for a few seconds.
  • The Amazing Chain Claw: El Tigre launches his claw around him.
  • The Sensational Bowler: El Tigre spins into a ball and runs into his enemies.
  • Super Swipe: El Tigre uses his claws to make a wave which causes an earthquake.
  • Radical Ricochet: El Tigre bounces around and knocks out all his foes around him.
  • Tijuana Tornado: El Tigre spins around in a tornado and runs into his foes.
  • Savage Slash: El Tigre slashes the air, then slashes his enemies.
  • Mega Quake: El Tigre pounds the ground to make a earthquake that sends his enemies flying.
  • Atomic Slam: El Tigre jumps into the air, then body slams into a foe.
  • Ancient Tiger Spirit: During the events of the episode "The Grave Escape", El Tigre learns how to summon and control the Ancient Tiger Spirit. When using this power, Tigre is wrapped in a field of a glowing green tiger-shaped energy. In this shape, he becomes nearly invincible, as he can defeat many opponents with just one move.

Other

Standard Tactics: In his base state his immedieate reaction to an enemy is to transform into El Tigre. As El Tigre he will attempt to impress his opponent during their fight, using various moves on them and claw strikes.

Weaknesses: Manny is extremely gullible to the point that very simple tricks can catch him. Will do anything if one questions the Rivera's honor, regardless of how dangerous[66].

Note: El Tigre is a very inconsistent series with various showings, where higher feats such as Sartana's moon face feat exist but also much lower feats, such as how almost every episode consistently treats buildings falling on the characters as a legitimate threat and in some episodes they can either tank it with minor to major damages or be completely hospitalized. Along with those, the scaling in the show is immensely inconsistent, Manny can at times fight El Oso by himself and then other times need his entire family to fight El Oso and even then sometimes the combined might can't beat him. El Mal Verde was treated as the strongest villain in the show, and was easily defeated by Sartana. Along with this, at the end of the series, El Mal Verde was defeated by El Tigre, White Pantera, and Puma Loco with a single punch.

Trivia

  • Manny's name may be based on the name of Tony Montana's best friend Manny Ribera from the Brian de Palma movie Scarface.
    • His full name (Manuel Pablo Gutierrez O'Brien Equihua Rivera) is related to the surnames of the creators of the series, for example: the last name of Gutierrez in the name of the character belongs to Jorge R. Gutiérrez and while Equihua belongs to Sandra Equihua.
  • Manny/El Tigre has some similarities with Peter Parker/Spider Man, as both are teenagers with superpowers based on animals, and also both have to deal with family and school problems.
    • Also, his relationship with Frida is similar to Peter Parker's and Mary Jane Watson's relationship and his relationship with Black Cuervo is similar to Spider Man's and Black Cat's relationship.
  • Manny's ancestor, El Tigre I went insane due to his inability to choose between being good or evil. It is unknown if it was part of his personality to be paranoid or if it's possible that Manny might turn out the same.
  • Manny has a noticeable crush on Zoe Aves as seen in the episode The Cuervo Project, but no feelings for Black Cuervo since Enter the Cuervo.
  • Manny is shown to have a strong fondness for jetpacks as shown in "The Cuervo Project".
  • When he vows to defeat an enemy or avenge himself or a friend, he would say "This I swear!".
  • He made a small cameo in the movie The Book of Life, which is Jorge R. Gutierrez' first feature-length film.
  • His first kiss was his best friend Frida Suárez in the final episode.
  • His name translates from Spanish to "The Tiger".
  • El Tigre powers are similar to Cheetah's, Wonder Woman's archenemy. He's also similar to Sabretooth and Tigra from the Marvel Comics.

Gallery

  • Puma Tigre

    Puma Tigre

Battle Records

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References

  1. ↑ Episode 26 "No Boots, No Belt, No Brero"
  2. ↑ Episode 26 "No Boots, No Belt, No Brero"
  3. ↑ Episode 5 "The Mother of All Tigres"
  4. ↑ Episode 18 "A Fistful of Nickels"
  5. ↑ Episode 4 "Adios Amigos"
  6. ↑ Episode 23 "Silver Wolf"
  7. ↑ Episode 9 "Yellow Pantera"
  8. ↑ Episode 3 "Fool's Goal"
  9. ↑ Episode 1 "Night of the Living Guacamole"
  10. ↑ Episode 2 "Enter the Cuervo"
  11. ↑ Episode 6 "The Late Manny Rivera"
  12. ↑ Episode 1 "Night of the Living Guacamole"
  13. ↑ Season 1 Episode 12 "Bride of Puma Loco"
  14. ↑ Episode 14 "The Grave Escape"
  15. ↑ Episode 20 "Mech Daddy"
  16. ↑ Episode 12 "Miracle City Undercover"
  17. ↑ Episode 25 "Mustache Love"
  18. ↑ Episode 7 "The Mustache Kid"
  19. ↑ Episode 12 "Miracle City Undercover"
  20. ↑ Episode 4 "Zebra Donkey"
  21. ↑ Episode 15 "Burrito's Little Helper"
  22. ↑ Episode 2 "Fistful of Collars"
  23. ↑ Episode 7 "The Mustache Kid"
  24. ↑ Episode 14 "The Grave Escape"
  25. ↑ Episode 3 "El Tigre, El Jefe"
  26. ↑ Episode 4 "Adios Amigos"
  27. ↑ Episode 25 "Mustache Love"
  28. ↑ Episode 8 "Miracle City Worker"
  29. ↑ Episode 2 "Enter the Cuervo"
  30. ↑ Episode 14 "The Grave Escape"
  31. ↑ Episode 2 "Fistful of Collars"
  32. ↑ Episode 6 "Party Monsters"
  33. ↑ Episode 4 "Adios Amigos"
  34. ↑ Episode 4 "Adios Amigos"
  35. ↑ Episode 17 "The Good, the Bad, and the Tigre"
  36. ↑ Episode 9 "Yellow Pantera"
  37. ↑ Episode 15 "Burrito's Little Helper"
  38. ↑ Episode 13 "Clash of the Titan"
  39. ↑ Episode 14 "The Grave Escape"
  40. ↑ Episode 2 "Enter the Cuervo"
  41. ↑ Episode 15 "Burrito's Little Helper"
  42. ↑ Episode 15 "Burrito's Little Helper"
  43. ↑ Episode 14 "The Grave Escape"
  44. ↑ Episode 14 "The Grave Escape"
  45. ↑ Episode 14 "The Grave Escape"
  46. ↑ Episode 2 "Enter the Cuervo"
  47. ↑ Episode 2 "Fistful of Collars"
  48. ↑ Episode 17 "The Good, the Bad, and the Tigre"
  49. ↑ Episode 1 "Night of the Living Guacamole"
  50. ↑ Episode 15 "Burrito's Little Helper"
  51. ↑ Episode 1 "Night of the Living Guacamole"
  52. ↑ Episode 7 "The Mustache Kid"
  53. ↑ Episode 15 "Burrito's Little Helper"
  54. ↑ Episode 7 "The Mustache Kid"
  55. ↑ Episode 7 "The Mustache Kid"
  56. ↑ Episode 7 "The Mustache Kid"
  57. ↑ Episode 12 "Miracle City Undercover"
  58. ↑ Episode 25 "Mustache Love"
  59. ↑ Episode 1 "Sole of a Hero"
  60. ↑ Episode 1 "Sole of a Hero"
  61. ↑ Episode 1 "Sole of a Hero"
  62. ↑ Episode 4 "Zebra Donkey"
  63. ↑ Episode 4 "Zebra Donkey"
  64. ↑ Episode 4 "Zebra Donkey"
  65. ↑ Episode 4 "Zebra Donkey"
  66. ↑ Episode 13 "Eye Caramba"
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