Manny Rivera (El Tigre)

Manuel Pablo Gutierrez O'Brien Equihua Rivera is a fictional character, protagonist and one main character of the Nickelodeon animated television series El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera. In the series, El Tigre must decide between using his powers for good as did his heroic father Rodolfo, who is also the brave superhero White Pantera, or for evil and selfish reasons as did his grandfather Granpapi, the evil Supervillain Puma Loco. Manny is voiced by Alanna Ubach.

Personality

Most of the time, Manny is a good Mexican immortal boy with the energy and spirit of a hero. Many episodes show that Manny has a strong sense of justice and a desire to do the right thing. However, Manny also has serious potential as a Supervillain. He likes to cause trouble and get into trouble. Manny uses his powers for good more often than not, either saving innocent people in danger or defeating a villain. But sometimes Manny uses his powers for evil. Despite this, Manny does not use his powers for reasons truly evil, just for playing pranks and mischief-making. In addition, whenever Manny does something wrong, he always compensates with an act of kindness to correct what he did.

Appearance

Manny's basic appearance is black chocolate curly hair, brown eyebrows, and brown eyes. He has a noticeable scar on his left eye that originated from the first time he got his Tigre belt. He wears an orange and yellow striped shirt with a black jacket that has a yellow line go down the arm parts and a small red star on the left part of the jacket. In between that and his blue tights, is where his El Tigre belt stays. And he has brown shoes.

Pre-Series

Manny before the series was revealed only by the creator himself and only slightly in the series. He was born to Rodolfo and Maria in Miracle City, Mexico until Maria left due to the overwhelming stress of Rodolfo's crime fighting career. After that, he was taken care of only by his father and maybe Grandpapi. In preschool, he was once friends with Zoe Aves (Black Cuervo). That friendship continued until he met FRIDA in detention in Kindergarten, who became his best friend. The scar on his left eye is from the first time he used his belt and El Tigre powers.

Powers and Abilities

Manny's magical belt buckle possesses the powers of The Ancient Tiger Spirit, a magical belt that gives Manny INCredible superhuman powers and endows him with the spirit of the tiger. To transform himself into El Tigre, Manny touches his belt buckle and spins it. It usually comes with his trademark roar. The belt gives Manny the following skills:

• Claws: The gloves of Manny's costume possess retractable claws that can slice through nearly anything, including substances as durable as most metals, wood, and some varieties of stone. In some episodes, he can shoot them like darts

• The Amazing Chain Claw: El Tigre extends his claws and launches his hand on a chain coming out of his wrist and uses it as grappling hook. El Tigre usually uses his hooks as a method of transport. In "The Good, The Bad and the Tigre", he cut off his hand during a battle with Django of the Dead, but he had a spare one.

• Superhuman strength: El Tigre has Superhuman levels of strength that lets him lift things that several times his own weight.

• Super jump: El Tigre has the ability to jump over incredibly long distances. El Tigre also uses his ability to super jump as a method of transport.

• Power of the Ancient Tiger Spirit: El Tigre has the power to convene the Ancient Tiger Spirit, creating a field of green tiger-shaped energy AbOUT himself that mimics his movements. This ability is seen in the episode The Grave Escape.

Interactions With Other Characters

Rodolfo Rivera/White Pantera

Prince Manny greatly admires his immortal father Rodolfo and aspires to someday be a great superhero like him. Rodolfo wants Manny to be a hero like him and use his powers for good. Every time Manny does something bad, Rodolfo tends to shout his full name and punish him to teach him a lesson. Several times, El Tigre and White Pantera have come together to fight a villain.

Little Mule and Señor Chapi

The pets of the Riveras and also best friends. Chapi rudely hates Manny for throwing his fake girlfriend (a green feather duster) out the window. In the episode Animales, in the building in front of them, a goat and a rooster have their favorite toy and they have to retrieve it. They used a robot destroyer of Puma Loco to recover their toy with a picture of them and the Riveras.

Granpapi Rivera/Puma Loco

Manny is very close to his immortal grandfather. Granpapi wants Manny is a villain like him and use his powers for evil. Granpapi encourages Manny to do bad things like stealing. However, on occasion, Puma Loco has joined El Tigre to defeat a villain because he cares about his family (or the villain is stealing something he was going to steal).

Frida Suárez

Frida Suárez is a 12-year-old stupid mortal best friend and lazy lackey of Manny. Manny is exactly annoyed by his lackey's dumb personality and always put themselves in trouble. She even supports when Manny is doing something bad (like when Manny wanted a laser manufacturer of tattoos and stole the money from his father, who was for the purchase of guacamole for sale and Frida always supported it). This turns out to be another problem for her father, Police Chief Emiliano Suárez, who wrongfully despises Manny because he always puts Frida in danger. For a short time, Frida became the imposter superheroine, La Tigresa, when she stole Manny's El Tigre belt. There are certain cases where Frida has been kidnapped by a villain and El Tigre has to rescue her. She is highly loyal to her principle master, but her work rarely pleases Prince Manny.

Maria Plata- Rivera/Plata Peligrosa

Manuel's mother, Maria. Manny is extremely protective when danger calls around his mother and will defend in a moments notice. Maria fears whenever Manny is fighting and has a panic attack with hyperventilation because she can't stand to see her son in--173.66.119.10 (talk) 00:14, 17 June 2009 (UTC) danger, but she accepts Manny's duty to protect the town. Manny discovered that Maria was a superhero too after a party in college where they had magical items, named Plata Peligrosa but she renounced the metal glove that endowed her with her powers because she couldn't handle the power and had the tendency to be more destructive than heroic and attacking everyone she saw, even herself.

Relatives

Manny's ancestors (heroes and villains alike) are revealed in the episode The Grave Escape:

• Dark Leopard: The first Rivera supervillain who seemed to have been around during the Mesoamerican times.
• Golden Leon: The first Rivera superhero dressed as a conquistador. He is the son of Dark Leopard, father of the Mighty Cheetar, grandfather of Justice Jaguar, great-grandfather of Puma Loco, great-great grandfather of White Panthera, and Manny's great-great-great grandfather.
• The Mighty Cheetar: Grandpapi's grandfather, The Justice Jaguar's father, Rodolfo's great-grandfather, and Manny's great-great grandfather who was also the Scourge of the Seven Seas and talks like a pirate.
• Justice Jaguar: Manny's great-grandfather, Rodolfo's grandfather, Puma Loco's father who seemed to have been around during the Wild West times. In the episode Grave Escape it is shown that he has a shaky father-son relationship with his son Puma Loco, probably disappointed at the fact he chose to be a villain.
• El Tigre I: Like Manny, he couldn't decide if he should be a hero or a villain which resulted in a split personality.

Enemies

Santana of the Dead

Santana of the Dead was the greatest enemy of El Tigre. Sartana has tried to conquer City Miracle several times but El Tigre has always defeated her. El Tigre has faced Sartana more times than any other villain. Every time he faced her, El Tigre had to overcome Sartana by destroying her mystic guitar, the source of her power.

Sergio/Señor Siniestro

One of the greatest enemies of El Tigre is Sergio/Señor Siniestro. Manny involuntarily Sergio humbled in his first day at the Leone School, and since that day, Sergio swore revenge on Manny and all of Miracle City. As Señor Siniestro, Sergio uses a robotic suit, 10 feet tall and speaks with a Texas accent.

Zoe Aves/Black Cuervo

One notable enemy of El Tigre is Zoe Aves/Black Cuervo. In her first appearance, El Tigre fell in love with her, but Black Cuervo was using it only to reap her revenge on Frida, her archenemy. After discovering her true intentions, El Tigre lost interest in her, but then she fell in love with him at the end of the episode before she's hit by El Tigre's special move "The Spinning Armadillo," a special motion that took him years to dominate. Cuervo swore revenge on El Tigre, as much as Voltura (her immortal mother) and (her immortal grandmother) Grandmami Aves/Lady Gobbler vowed revenge on White Pantera and Puma Loco, respectively.

Diego/Dr. Chipotle Jr.

Diego/Dr. Chipotle Jr. is one of the enemies of El Tigre. Chipotle hates El Tigre because when he was 7 years old, El Tigre jailed his father, Dr. Chipotle Sr., and he vowed he would exact his revenge one day. He uses monsters made of guacamole as his primary weapon. He gets angry when Manny pronounces his name wrong or totally wrong, such as "Dr. Habanera", "Dr. Paprika", "Dr. Chimpanzee", "Dr. Jalapeno". He yells, "CHIPOTLE!".

El Oso

El Tigre also has faced El Oso several times. El Oso tends to cause problems in Miracle City and El Tigre always stops and goes to jail.

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