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

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.

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.

Manny

Why do we have to get all gussied up for dinner?

Maria

Grandpapi has something important to tell us.

Rodolfo

[excitedly] Perhaps he's finally getting me that pony he promised me for my 10th birthday!

A pony? [opens his birthday present, which is revealed to be a cactus pot, gets poked by its thorns while hopping on it, and screams in pain]

Rodolfo

I did say perhaps.

ARE YOU ALL NUTS?! This is Sartana of the Dead, our most dangerous enemy! We have to stop this!

Maria

It is Grandpapi's decision. We must respect it, no matter how unsafe, demented, and revolting it is.

Grandpapi

Thank you.

Manny, I hope that one day you will call me, Grandmami.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…!!! [continues screaming as time goes by and stops] Whoa, how long have I been screaming?

Frida

Eh, a couple hours. We tried to stop you for while, but everyone got tired and went to bed.

Sartana's up to something. This is all a plan to destroy Grandpapi. We will drive a wedge between them and stop the wedding. This I swear!

[bursting into the church, and crashing the wedding] WHERE IS JEWEL?!

Maria

[to Manny; sternly] Manny, did you do something?

Manny

I stole Monsterzuma's jewel so he'd wake up and track it down and destroy the wedding. Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Maria

[holding the struggling glove] No! I swore I will never put you on again!

Manny

Mom, what's going on?

Maria

[knocks the glove off hanging from her earring; confessing] There's something you don't know about me. Something shocking.

Manny

Ah, nothing shocks me.

Maria

I was once… a superhero.

Manny

[babbling in shock] Guh-bluh huzzle floygin?! [inside his head, his brain shatters into pieces]

Maria

I was in college. [Flashback begins to her college years; voice-over] I went to this party, and someone brought some mystical objects of power, and I… tried one on. Things were crazy back then. It was a different time. [puts the glove on and turns into her superhero identity] I was known as: Plata Peligrosa. At first, it was fun. Saving people, thwarting evil. But then… Then… [starts panting and hyperventilating as the flashback ends]

Frida

Here we go. [takes a sandwich out of a paper bag and gives the bag to Maria]

Manny

Mom, this is great! We can do stuff together, use our powers for good… or evil. Whatever, I'm easy.

Maria

[blows the paper bag too hard, popping the bottom] No, Manny. Never! I gave up my powers because I couldn't handle the danger. Now, lock that glove back up and let us never speak of it again!

This is nuts! I thought you quit superheroing because you couldn't handle the danger!

I couldn't handle how much I loved the danger. I was afraid it would become an obsession, but now I know that I am PERFECTLY IN CONTROL! [cackles in derangement]

El Oso

For a hero, she gots a good evil laugh, man.

Mom, this has to stop!

You've been spending too much time with that evil Grandpapi of yours. Your father would never back down from a fight with villains!

He also wouldn't have busted them out of jail.

You're… you're right, mijo. I've got it all wrong.

Stop hitting my mom… Mom!

Only a villain would help a villain like me! I will make you PAY!

Frida

[spits out popcorn, having to have heard that] She's doing what now?!

No, Mom, you don't mean it! That's the glove talking!

Manny, RUN!

Mom, are you okay? [points to the glove] Get your hand off my mom!

Maria

Manny, it's not what you think.

Maria, you said the glove was destroyed in the jaws of the Robasura.

Maria

I thought it was. [Flashback to the events of "A Mother's Glove", when the glove lands in the Robasura and gets crushed by its jaws after its battle with Manny; voice-over] But a few days later, it showed up on my doorstep, hurt and scared. I just couldn't turn it away. As I nursed it back to health, I realized the glove was good inside. Tests in my home lab showed that if I wore the glove for only one hour at a time, I could control the danger mania. Even a few seconds more, and I become… unstable. So, the glove and I made a deal. [Flashback ends] I will use my Plata Peligrosa powers to help those in need, but when my watch alarm sounds, it must get off my hand. Right, "Glovey?"

That's great, Mom.

Frida

You have a home lab?

Maria

Now, I can help my boys out in a crisis.

[gazing dreamily at her] You called me handsome.

Maria

Rodolfo, don't listen to what I say when I'm wearing the glove. I'm not myself. [Rodolfo puckers up his lips to kiss her; puts her hand on his mouth] You and I always be just friends.

Of course. I understand completely. [Maria walks off] She called me handsome!

Frida

Wow, your mom and dad, a crime-fighting team. Maybe they'll get back together. [imitates kissing while rubbing Señor Chapi's head] Oh, Rodolfo, you're so handsome.

[touched while blushing] Ah, viva pantalones.

Manny

Cut it out, Frida. We both know my parents are better off apart.

Frida

Yeah, but does your dad know?

Manny

Sure he does. Probably. Down deep. Anyway, as long as he keeps his mind off beautifying the city.

What's that noise?

Wind.

Frida

Elephants.

Airplane.

Frida

Thingy-thing.

[looks up and gasps] Maria! [Maria's eyes light up in flames and she suddenly goes completely insane with danger and beats up the monsters, violently; utterly shocked] I have never seen so much grotesque grotesquely. That's not like Maria. It's not love!

[grabs Rodolfo by the collar] You and I belong together, White Pantera! Come on. Spend your life with me, crushing evil, and laughing in danger, and never taking this glove off! [laughs wickedly insane]