Manny Rivera quotes from El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera

Maria

[to her mijo] You were right, mijo. People can't change.

What are you talking about? You were right! People can change! El Cucharon saved the day!

I don't know what you are, but hero is definitely not the word for it! Now please leave before you… CAUSE A SCENE!

The Hero-Meter is never wrong.

You should have spent less time grooming yourself and more time grooming your successor.

Uh, well, who cares what those stupid heroes think?

I... don't care at all. And if they won't let you in, I'm not going.

No, Dad, you should go get your award. Don't miss it because of me.

I couldn't possibly.

I want you to. Someone has to show those laughing hyenas that Rivera men don't back down. Right?

Manny

Oh, I hate this. There's gotta be some way I can make it up to him.

Breaking News: We interrupt the Celebration of Heroes to take you to the Celebration of Heroes. Sartana of the Dead is attacking the convention center.

[along with the other heroes, all facing her] Forget it, Sartana. You'll never get in!

I don't have to. Because you'll never get out! [cackles and strums her mystic guitar, creating an unbreakable force field around the convention center and trapping all the heroes]

Grandpapi

They all stuck in there? Is time for the list! [takes out his list of robberies] "Places I hasn't robbed yet. Numero #1, the place that only sells light bulbs." Have fun, children!

Frida

Superheroes, cops, fire fighters. Every hero in the city is out of commission!

Manny

No. There's still... [spins his belt and changes into…] El Tigre!

Frida

Uh, I hate to puke in your piñata, but didn't that Hero-meter thing-y say you're not a hero?

Time to prove it wrong.

[after taking down five criminals] That's five down.

Frida

Two-million to go.

Soon, Quetzalcoatl's Stone will be mine! Combined with my mystic guitar… I WILL RULE THE WORLD! [enters the Hall of Gems and climbs up the steps of her banditos] At last, I will have the power I need to… [gasps as she finds the stone being replaced by a rubber duck]

This what you're looking for? [spinning the stone with the tip of his finger]

Impudent boy, that stone is mine! Banditos, END THEM!

Sartana, I challenge you to a game. If you win, I'll give you the stone. If I win, I get your guitar.

Oh, I love this game! Set 'em up.

The stone, where will she land? [hides the stone in one of the cups and shuffles them] So, is it somewhere there? Is it somewhere where? [pan up to reveal that he has hidden the stone in his nose]

[points to the cup in the middle] Ah-ha. There!

[lifts up the cup, revealing the stone is not there, to Sartana's shock] Oh, too bad.

[surprised] Incredible! Where could it have gone?

Fool! Did you really think I would give you my mystic guitar? Listen well to the music of your DOOM! [strums her "mystic guitar," which is soon revealed that Frida swapped it with a broomstick]

Frida

You gotta keep an eye on your stuff when there's no cops around.

We know that your father is a coward!

Manny

[changes into El Tigre and hangs the three bullies up on the chandelier; angrily] It's not nice to spit lies about my father!

It's no lie. We heard the man at the bodega say White Pantera once ran away from a fight with... El Mal Verde.

My father is no coward! LIAR!

Maria

[off-screen] Manuel Pablo Gutierrez O'Brian Equihua Rivera!

Librarian! [they all escape from the hallway]

Maria

Put down those unsanitary boys and come here, right now. [gestures to Frida as she's about to walk away] You too, Frida.

[as Manny grumpily puts him and his friends down on the floor; smugly] Lucky your mom showed up.

Manny

Those jerks insulted the Rivera family name! They made up some crazy story about Dad running away from a guy called, El Mal Verde.

Maria

[gasps in horrified shock] El Mal Verde.

Frida

Who is this guy? He sounds like bad salsa.

Maria

El Mal Verde is the biggest, meanest, most vicious bandito of all time! Every 10 years, he comes down from the peak of Mount Tortura and attacks Miracle City. Once, some superheroes went to stop him, but they… [starts to hyperventilate] Then your father, he went up, too, and…

Manny

And? AND?!

Maria

[gasping and panting] And… you should talk to him about it!

Manny

Oh, I understand. I understand that my father… is a coward!

Rodolfo

[incredibly outraged with a fiery background] COWARD?! [Manny, Grandpapi, Señor Chapi, and Little Mule all gasp in shock; insulted] If that is what you think of me… [calmly] then, there is nothing left to say.

Maria

Oh. You spoke to your father?

Manny

[grumpily] Huh, you mean the coward?!

Maria

[having to hear that; sharped] Manny!

Frida

Harsh.

Manny

It's true! He ran from a fight! He tarnished our family name, Mom!

There's only one way I can save the Rivera name from disgrace. [walks towards the window] I must defeat El Mal Verde myself!

Maria

You will do no such thing!

Frida

That dude is way dangerous!

It's been 10 years. So El Mal Verde's due to attack Miracle City again. And if the coward that is my father won't stop him, it's up to me. [opens the window and heads over to Mount Tortura]

Maria

[worried] Manny, come back!

Frida

[calling out] Want me to stay behind and protect your mom, okay.

[panting while climbing up to the mountain's peak] Why'd they have to put the mountain's peak all the way at the top? [makes it to the top and enters the cave] I'll show this guy with the Riveras are really made of!

El Mal Verde

[off-screen] I hope it's chocolate. [zoom out to reveal Manny standing on top of his eyes] Hi. [Manny screams and dashes out of the mountain's peak and runs down; sniffs] You have the stench of the only hero who ever got away from me. What was his name? White Panties? I didn't get to him, but you'll do fine.

Capitán Águila's Helmet of Power. Loba Roja's heat ray. Dude needs to floss.

[voice-over] I would do anything for my family! Any…[grunts]. Any…[grunts]. Any…[grunts].

[remorsefully as he knows the truth] Dad didn't run away 'cause he was scared to fight. He ran away 'cause he was scared of leaving me and Mom alone! Papa! [sticks out of Mal Verde's mouth, calling out to his father] I'm sorry! I know you're no coward. You can beat him! I believe in you, Dad!

Dad, I'm sorry I doubted you. You're no coward. You ran away for us.

I had to make sure I was around to raise a heroic son like you, no?

Maria

And you did a good job.

You're super macho, Dad.

Thank you, mijo. But we beat that bandito together.