El Luchador

**El Luchador**, also referred to as **The Luchador**, is a recurring villain in *Hamster & Gretel*. As his name indicates, he is a lucha libre-themed supervillain who had participated in many wrestling matches. He's ruthless in the ring and will do anything it takes to win his belts, as indicated by his signature move, the Acute Angle Tangle. This move has been illegalized due to it dislocating the target's arm by bending it at a 42° angle, causing major injuries.

## Physical appearance

El Luchador is a large, muscular man with an olive skin complexion and a 2-pack. He wears a blue and yellow luchador mask, a belt with a "L" on it, blue shorts, and blue and yellow boots and gauntlets.

*Click here to view a full list of outfits and designs for **El Luchador** throughout the series.*

## Personality

El Luchador will stop at nothing to get what he wants, believing he rightfully owns it; this can be evidenced in "Recipe for Disaster", when Gretel orders the last dish of ropa vieja at Casa Ropa Vieja, and El Luchador demands he gets it instead. This can be further evidenced when he desires to win his wrestling belts back in "The Litigator vs. The Luchador", as aside from breaking out of prison, El Luchador is willing to hurt another wrestler in order to disguise as him and take his place, and is willing to break the rules of professional wrestling and use illegal moves against his opponents.

## Skills and abilities

El Luchador is a strong wrestler that fights in the lucha libre style. He's willing to use illegal moves, as can be evidenced by his signature move: the Acute Angle Tangle. This attack has El Luchador pin down an opponent with their belly on their floor and pull down their arm to the point that it gets dislocated, painfully bending it and forcing it to get stuck at a 42° angle; a major injury that requires immediate medical attention, hence why the Acute Angle Tangle has been banned by the Professional League of Wrestling.

El Luchador can also whistle, although he pretended to be unable to when he breaks out of prison.

## History

### Background

El Luchador has won championship belts at the Professional League of Wrestling, all of which having been confiscated at one point, possibly due to his frequent usage of illegal wrestling moves.

### Season 1

El Luchador first appears in the *Hamster & Gretel* episode "Recipe for Disaster". He shows up in Casa Ropa Vieja to demand the last order of ropa vieja after Hamster and Gretel found the perfect version that could compete with her mother's recipe. After his overly long, metafictional introduction and disclaimer, Gretel objects his demand, and claims that she gets the ropa vieja for her family dinner, but El Luchador does not budge as the two sides engage in a wrestling duel.

During the match, Kevin calls up Gretel to stop, as he realizes the he and Gretel should've made their own ropa vieja, since that's what makes their family dinner night special. As such, Hamster and Gretel abandon their fight against El Luchador, who has been thoroughly beaten during the call.

"The Litigator vs. The Luchador" opens with El Luchador in prison, escaping it after lying to a guard that he cannot whistle, and promptly beating him up using his Acute Angle Tangle and taking his clothes. He has left a variety of clues that indicates here he's going; these being several flyers for the Professional League of Wrestling Tag Team Championship match that will occur later that day, and a map of the city, with many arrows drawn on it that point towards the location of the arena where said wrestling match will be held. Despite these clues, no one at Action News, let alone reporter Veronica Hill, knows where El Luchador could be. Hamster, Gretel and Kevin, however, correctly deduce that El Luchador wants to intervene the PLOW championship match and take the belt for himself, desiring to win all of his belts back.

At some point, he has intercepted and injured one of the wrestlers who would be fighting in the match, The Skobeloff Sorcerer, who is seen being carried away by a gurney when Hamster, Gretel and Kevin arrive. Through him, they learn that El Luchador has taken his signature, skobeloff-colored masked, and is currently posing as him, although they do not learn the name of the injured wrestler until they see on TV that El Luchador, as the Skobeloff Sorcerer, is injuring the Sorcerer's tag team partner (a fish-themed wrestler), as he claims he needs no partners and will win both belts by himself, one for each of his arms. He then gets challenged by The Litigator, who, to the surprise of Hamster, Gretel and Kevin, is actually their aunt Melissa. The two quickly arrive at the ring, with the disguised Gretel entering herself in to be Melissa's tag team partner as The Bearded Stranger.

As the fight of The Litigator against El Luchador continues, he performs the Acute Angle Tangle against her, to which he then removes the stolen skobeloff mask and reveals his true identity. After Melissa has been recovered thanks to her sister Carolina, she tags in again and uses a fold chair to smack El Luchador. Melissa and Gretel keep tagging in and out, with Gretel taking full advantage of being able to use furniture, and defeat El Luchador, ending on a pile-driver.

## List of appearances

### Season 1

* "Recipe for Disaster" (First appearance)
* "The Litigator vs. The Luchador"