Characters / Cun-Cun & Santi

A page for describing the characters in *Cun-Cun & Santi*.

## As a group

* **Badass Adorable:** Each in their own way.
* **Color-Coded Characters**
	+ Cun-Cun: Blue
	+ Santi: Red
	+ Tigre: Orange
	+ Lotto: Yellow

* **The Friends Who Never Hang: Justified**, as Tigre and Lotto are basically lifeless toys without Cun-Cun and Santi´s presence.
* **Four-Temperament Ensemble:**
	+ Cun-Cun: Melancholic (somewhat)
	+ Santi: Choleric
	+ Tigre: Sanguine
	+ Lotto: Phlegmatic (again, somewhat)

* **Living Toys: Played with.** Tigre and Lotto come to life only when Cun-Cun and Santi are with them. Though they are lifeless objects when they aren´t near.
* **Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane:** The true nature of them and their adventures is much to the player´s interpretation.
* **Nice, Mean and In-Between:** Lotto is Nice, Santi is Mean, and Cun-Cun and Tigre are In-Between.
* **Primary-Color Champion:** Each of them.
	+ Cun-Cun and Santi wear red and blue.
	+ Tigre has a white belly with black stripes.
	+ Lotto is red, blue, and yellow.

## Cun-Cun

The main playable character of the game. A somewhat lazy guy but with a hearth of adventure when it comes the time. Santi´s big brother. He can roll and use his pogo stick to reach high areas or items.

* **Adventure Duo:** With Santi, of course.
* **The All-Solving Hammer:** Cun-Cun´s primary weapon is a stone hammer.
* **Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other**: Despite their griping, he loves his little brother Santi, he also cares for Tigre and Lotto despite their jokes and sometimes annoying ways.
* **Badass Normal:** While Santi can use his spiky sneakers to walk in dangerous areas, Tigre can use his claws to attack, and Lotto has a variety of magic powers, Cun-Cun doesn't really do anything spectacular, and his main abillities are simply rolling and using a pogo stick.
* **Batter Up!:** One of his unlockable moves in *Cun-Cun & Santi 2* is smashing a baseball bat.
* **Big Brother Instinct:** For Santi.
* **Big Eater:** Loves eating cookies, wich are his **Health Meter**.
* **Big Guy, Little Guy:** The Big Guy to Santi´s Little Guy.
* **Brilliant, But Lazy:** While he will do anything for his friends, he's mostly just slacking around, eating or playing video games.
* **Comedic Sociopathy:** One of their **Idle Animations** consist of him and Santi comically picking on each other.
* **Does Not Like Shoes:** He is barefoot in the anime adaptation.
* **Drop The Hammer:** He primarily attacks by throwing stone hammers.
* **The Load:** Most will think that Santi would be this since Cun-Cun always has to watch for him and stuff...but it's actually Cun-Cun!, Cun-Cun not only is much slower than Santi but also very lacking without him, Santi can run faster, travel through steep slopes and dangerous surfaces all while carrying Cun-Cun on his back.
* **Nice Guy:** He is a timid, nice fellow, if with a bit of a temper with his **brother**'s mishaps.
* **Nice Hat:** Wears a blue baseball cap.
* **Not A Morning Person:** He is lazy and doesn't like getting up early.
* **Repetitive Name:** *Cun*-*Cun*.
* **Sleepyhead:** Yeah he´s a bit lazy, he even yawns on one of his Idle Animations.
* **Spring Coil:** When he finds his Pogo Pad, he can use his pogo stick to reach high areas or items.
* **Spring Jump:** With his pogo stick.
* **Only Sane Man**: In a cast of colorful stuffed animals, **Living Toys** and monsters with troublesome and deranged personalities, he comes off as this.
* **The Pig-Pen:** A downplayed example, but there is NPC dialogue that implies he´s a little unattending with the hygiene and his bedroom is a little messy with food crumbs and clothes all over the floor and in his bed. One NPC even refers to Cun-Cun as "Smelly Boy".
* **Signature Laugh: "**Guh-Huh!"
* **Trademark Favorite Food:** The chocolate cookies he always eats.
* **Unskilled, but Strong:** Cun-Cun doesn't have nearly as much abillities as the other characters but is the taller and larger of them and usually the strongest.
* **Vocal Evolution:** His noises in the first game and in *Super Racing DX* have a very high falsetto voice. In the second, his tone got deeper He also sounds a lot less goofy when he performs actions from the previous game, or when taking damage.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair:** His hair has a more bluish tone in *Cun-Cun & Santi 2*, however this is only in-game, the box art still depicts him with the same fully black hair from the first game.

## Santi

The cheerful but bratty little brother of Cun-Cun. A young child who loves to explore and dance. He can use the spiky soles of his sneakers to walk up steep slopes or travel through dangerous surfaces.

* **Adventure Duo:** With Cun-Cun, of course.
* **Annoying Younger Sibling:** Cun-Cun certainly thinks this of him sometimes.
* **Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other**: He can occasionally annoy Cun-Cun and act bratty, but he loves his big brother.
* **Big Guy, Little Guy:** The Little Guy to Cun-Cun´s Big Guy.
* **Boring, But Practical:** One of his most used moves is his Spiky Shoe Trot. It's a speed buff that lasts for as long as you hold the button Z, can scale steep cliffs, walk through dangerous surfaces like thorn bushes or slippery ice and also make the characters move more uniformly.
* **Bratty Half-Pint:** He can act very roughly and is prone to tantrums when things are not going his way.
* **Cheerful Child:** When he's not being a Bratty-Half Pint.
* **Comedic Sociopathy:** See above. Also worth noting is that Santi is the one who starts picking on Cun-Cun.
* **Deadpan Snarker:** See above. Can also be this to Tigre or Lotto or even Cun-Cun when they ask stupid questions or do something wrong.
* **Deuteragonist:** His name comes second and is the secondary character after Cun-Cun.
* **Fourth Wall Observer:** Loves to question the often bizarre logic of the game.
* **Fragile Speedster:** Is faster than Cun-Cun and can walk up slopes but is weaker against enemies and has no way of attacking them.
* **Hypercompetent Sidekick:** Is much faster and agile than Cun-Cun and even more cleverdespite his young age.
* **I Got Bigger:** He is visibly taller in *Cun-Cun & Santi 2,* almost reaching Cun-Cun's neck. When they were invited as guest racers in *Earthcraft All Stars,* Santi was almost as tall as Cun-Cun.
* **Improvised Parachute:** In *Cun-Cun & Santi 2*, he can learn to use his vest to glide to reach far places or to slow his descent.
* **Jerk With a Hearth of Gold:** He can be bratty and abrassive sometimes but his hearth is in the right place.
* **Nice Shoes:** His red spiked sole sneakers. They are used as an abillitiy to scale steep slopes and walk through harmful surfaces and also improve running speed. It can even be upgraded to climb certain walls in *Cun-Cun & Santi 2*.
* **Not Allowed To Grow Up: Averted.** In the first game, he is much smaller than Cun-Cun, in the second, he now almost reaches up to his neck, and in *Earthcraft All-Stars*, he was as tall as him.
* **Older Than They Look:** He is roughly 8 years old in *Cun-Cun & Santi 2* but still uses the same model from the first game when he was 5, albeit taller and with slighlty shorter hair.
* **Platforming Pocket Pal:** He along with Tigre and Lotto act as this to Cun-Cun, though in tight spaces they tend to get closer.
* **Stronger Than They Look:** Despite beign a five-year-old, he is able to carry his adult older brother around on his back.
* **Talon Trot:** He can learn to travel steep slopes with his spikes shoes. It also helps to run faster and walk through hazardous surfaces.
* **Trademark Favorite Food:** White caramel cookies.
* **Wall Crawl:** One of his new unlockable abillities in the second game is climbing up certain types of walls.
* **Weak, But Skilled:** See above.

## Tigre

A stuffed tiger toy. Tigre is quite self-centered and loves to get in his friends´s nerves, but a good hearth and with his claws he will help out on the journey.

* **Adventure Duo:** With Lotto.
* **Animal Stereotypes:** He's a stuffed tiger and acts vainy and cocky.
* **Badass Normal:** While Lotto has a variety of magic powers and spells, Tigre just uses his claws.
* **Berserk Button:** Do NOT call him a bad singer.
* **Big Eater:** Likes eating a lot, particularly cloth (He's a stuffed animal toy).
* **Big Guy, Little Guy:** The Big Guy to Lotto´s Little Guy.
* **Cats Are Mean: Played with**. Tigre is somewhat snarky or obnoxiuous, and likes getting on his friends's nerves, but is a loyal friend and cares for his mates.
* **Cats Are Snarkers:** He is a tiger and also a **Deadpan Snarker**.
* **Cats Are Superior:** Is very vainy and says he's better than Lotto beacuse he has claws and a tail.
* **Comedic Sociopathy:** One of their Idle Animation is trying to jokingly scratch Lotto with his claws.
* **Deadpan Snarker:** *Big time.*
* **A Dog Named "Dog":** His name means "tiger" in Spanish.
* **Enemy Scan:** One of his unlockable abillities in *Cun-Cun & Santi 2* is sniffing to tell some enemies´s weaknesses.
* **The Gadfly:** Never misses an opportunity to get in his friends's nerves to his amusement.
* **Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal:** On the winters calendar entrance, he has a vest similar to Santi's but nothing else.
* **Intellectual Animal:** He's shown to be occasionally smart behind his cocky personality.
* **Invisible To Normals:** Only Cun-Cun and Santi can talk to him, as well as the other toys.
* **May Be Magic, May Be Mundane:** It isn't clear how much he, Lotto and all the other Living Toys are a product of Cun-Cun and Santi's imagination.
* **Meaningful Name:** His name means "tiger" in Spanish.
* **Not-So Imaginary Friend:** Again, it isn't that much clear.
* **Not a Morning Person:** Like Cun-Cun, he sleeps a lot.
* **Nice Guy:** When he's not beign selfish.
* **Panthera Awesome:** As a tiger, he's the epitome of grace, power, and beauty—according to himself, at least.
* **Platforming Pocket Pal:**  He along with Santi and Lotto act as this to Cun-Cun, though in tight spaces they tend to get closer.
* **Power Fist:** His primal attack is swiping his claws.
* **Trademark Favorite Food:** Cloth (stuffed animals and toys can eat cloth in this universe).

## Lotto

A magical red bat. Lotto is a **Witch Doctor** and can perform many magic spells and use his horn to smash the ground and activate switches or break golden chests.

* **Absurdly Sharp Blade:** For a plastic toy, his horn surely seem to have no trouble breaking through things like rock or metal.
* **Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal:** Had a sticker on his horn on some artworks.
* **Adventure Duo:** With Tigre.
* **Amazing Technicolor Wildlife:** A red bat.
* **Ambiguous Robots:** Has some mechanical-looking parts on his body like the screen on his belly and bolts on his backside, but isn´t referred to or treated as a robot. Then again, he *is* a toy.
* **Big Guy, Little Guy:** The Little Guy to Tigre´s Big Guy.
* **Cartoon Creature:** Is supposedly a bat but looks nothing like one. He has a square body, a *screen* on the center of his stomach, and a large horn wich he uses to perform his **Ground Pound** and magic spells.
* **Charged Attack:** An unlockable abillity in *Cun-Cun & Santi 2* let him throw a big energy ball by keep pressing the button C. The longer the button is pressed, the bigger the ball will be.
* **Cloudcuckoolanders Minder:** To Tigre.
* **Fairy Companion:** Somewhat resembles one of these.
* **Floating Mask:** He´s essentially this, he is shown floating around in cutscenes.
* **Gag Nose:** Though his artwork pictured above lacks it for some reason.
* **Ground Pound:** He performs one when pressing X + Z. It can even be upgraded to a drill in the second game.
* **Horn Attack:** He uses his horn to do his magic powers, and also uses it to perform his Ground Pound.
* **Informed Species:** Supposedly a bat but looks like a floating TV with wings and a horn.
* **National Stereotypes:** His sounds have a somewhat African twag to them and performs magic spells and is **The Medic**.
* **May Be Magic, May Be Mundane:** It isn't clear how much he, Tigre and all the other Living Toys are a product of Cun-Cun and Santi's imagination.
* **No Mouth:** He doesn't have a mouth.
* **Non-Action Guy:** Subverted. He spends most of the game in Cun-Cun's pocket until his moves are called upon, however, his Ground Pound and magical abilities are used *very* often, so he does a lot in the adventure.
* **Not-So Imaginary Friend:** Again, it isn't that much clear.
* **Invisible To Normals:** Only Cun-Cun and Santi can talk to him, as well as the other toys.
* **Invincibility Power-Up:** He acts as a shield to the team when pressing Z + Q, though it consumes his Lotto Tokens and he needs those tokens to use this.
* **Platforming Pocket Pal:**  A more literal example as he spends most of the adventure in Cun-Cun´s pocket, only coming out when needed.
* **Trademark Favorite Food:** Like Tigre, greatly enjoys eating cloth and apparently the only thing toys can eat.
* **Use Your Head:** His horn is on his head and does pretty much all of his abilities with it.
* **Witch Doctor:** He uses magic spells and is an invincibility power up to the team.
* **What The Hell Is That Accent?:** It kinda sounds British when he speaks.

## Morado

A friendly but cowardly purple toy. He can give you advice on teaching the moves you use.

* **Adorkable:** A cute, scaredy and clumsy little purple toy.
* **The Artifact:** Is replaced by Trowdor in the second game as the abillity-teaching character.
* **Character Tics:** Looking around and scratch his belly in his **Idle Animation**.
* **Disproportionate Retribution:** He tries to erase your game pak after you ask for help five times when you say that you know the moves, but Cun-Cun convinces him not to. In his defense it *is* only the beginning of the game.
* **Expy:** Of **Grimace**. He actually was supposed to be a toy of him, but this concept was scrapped likely due to legal reasons.
* **Meaningful Name:** He´s purple and is named Morado, wich means purple in spanish.
* **Mr. Exposition:** Explains all of the moves in the game that he can teach the team, as well as tell them how many Ña-Ñas they had collected.
* **Lovable Coward:** He is a bit scaredy but nonetheless friendly.

## Buho

A toy owl who´s hidden is some parts of the house. He´ll teach you **Cheat Codes**.

* **Abnormal Limb Rotation Range:** Justified since he´s an owl.
* **Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal:** Wears a red bowtie.
* **A Dog Named "Dog":** He´s an owl named Buho, wich means owl in Spanish.
* **Expy:** Hes very similar-looking to **Rowlet**.
* **The Owl-Knowing One:** A toy owl who teaches **Cheat Codes**.

## Panza

A stuffed dog who can be found bouncing up and down sitting on his box in the levels and hub. Acts as a free energy source if you break his box to earn cookies.

* **Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal:** He only wears a tie-scarf thingy around his neck.
* **Amoral Attorney:** He basically sells Cun-Cun´s health.
* **Animal Stereotypes:** He´s a raccoon-dog thing, and he is always sneaking around trying to "sell" you cookies.
* **Character Tics:** Bouncing up and down when not attacked.
* **Disproportionate Retribution:** He sells health cookies but Cun-Cun just decides to break his box and take them.
* **Jerkass:** He´s very selfish and **according to the manual** he always says he´s better than other salesman and spreads false rumors about them.
* **Meaningful Name:** His name means "belly" in Spanish and is quite fat.
* **Off-Screen Teleportation:** A possible explanation for how there appear to be multiple Panzans in the levels when he is supposed to be one single character.
* **Red Eyes, Take Warning:** In later levels of ***Cun-Cun & Santi 2***, he´ll have angry red eyes and if you come too close to him this time he will begin to chase you, dealing damage.
* **What The Hell, Hero?:** He "sells" *healing* cookies wich are Cun-Cun´s health bar, but instead of buying them, Cun-Cun just decides to break down his box and take them. Granted, Panza is a Jerkass who doesn´t like to share.
* **You ALL Look Familiar:** An interesting case in wich he is actually supposed to be one character. there´s multiple Panzas in each level and sometimes in the same level or lobby.
* **Harmless Villain:** The only "enemy" that doesn´t attack or harm Cun-Cun on contact. Though in later levels, he will be guarded by Felipe, and if you destroy his box this time, Felipe will begin to chase after you, dealing damage on contact. Additionally, in *Cun-Cun & Santi 2*´s later levels he actually chases and damages the player if they come too close or try to break his box this time. This likely seem to replace Felipe-guarded Panzas from the first game.
* **Have We Met?:** There are multiple Panzas in each level but he is supposed to be a single character.

## Felipe

Panza´s bodyguard who appears in later levels. If the player destroys Panza´s box when he´s guarding him, he´ll began to chase after the player dealing damage on contact.

* **The Berserker:** Break Panza´s box and he´ll began to chase after you with his stick.
* **Improbable Weapon User:** A wooden stick.
* **Invincible Minor Minion:** Felipe is unaffected by any basic attack, the only way to defeat him is outrunning him with Santi, or killing him with the Lotto Shield.
* **Shout-Out:** To **Chucky**.

## Nico

A runner who can be found in ArcadeLand Swamp. If you accept his challenge and beat him, he will give you a Jigsaw Piece.

* **Acrofatic:** He is a little pudgy but runs very fast and you need to use Santi to beat him.
* **Expy:** Of **Koopa The Quick**.
* **Token Human:** The only human NPC and the only one apart from Cun-Cun and Santi.

## Menacor

An evil wizard who destroyed his lair in an accident and now transforms Cun-Cun and Santi´s house in his own new lair.

* **Bad Boss:** Constantly yells at his henchmen and generally treats them very poorly.
* **Badass Boast:** With a bit of **Rhymes on A Dime**.
* **Charlie Brown Baldness:** He has three stringy strands of hair on his head.
* **Deflector Shields**: His last trick in the game. Cun-Cun and Santi can't pierce it, and have to rely on the help of the Ña-Ñas to hurt him.
* **Dem Bones:** In *Cun-Cun & Santi 2* he is reduced to a skeleton due to **beign under his dried chemicals for five years**.
* **Evil Laugh:** And a very annoying one, too...
* **Evil Overlooker:** In the original *Cun-Cun & Santi* cover art.
* **Fat Bastard:** Is quite fat and also a jerk.
* **Final Boss:** Of course.
* **Final-Exam Boss**: He can only be defeated by applying several of the moves learned through the adventure.
* **Fingore:** He appears to be missing the upper half of his ring finger in *Cun-Cun & Santi 2.*
* **Jerkass:** A mean old wizard who treats nobody with decency, **even his own henchmen**.
* **Magical Accessory:** That yellow collar-thing around his neck is the primary source of his powers.
* **Rhymes on a Dime**: Almost *all of his dialogue* consists of rhymes.
* **Vain Sorcerer:** He is quite proud of himself and has a cocky personality.
* **Wizard Classic:** Of the "evil wizard" class.

## Trowdor

A toy similar to Morado who dresses like a sargeant and teaches the new moves for *Cun-Cun & Santi 2*.

* **An Arm And A Leg:** He is missing his right arm. **Santi and Tigre never miss a shot on bugging him about it.**
* **Drill Sargeant Nasty:** Can be tough in teaching his lessons.
* **Expy:** Guess of who...
* **Glasses Pull:** He does this at the end of the game.
* **Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal:** Doesn´t seem to wear pants but does wear a military shirt, boots and hat.
* **Jerk With a Hearth Of Gold:** He's a tough military drill sergeant, but he cares about his family and Cun-Cun and Santi.
* **Mr. Exposition:** Fills in the role for Morado in *Cun-Cun & Santi 2*.
* **Noodle Incident:** Says he lost his arm in a "epic military battle".

## Laberinti

A jigsaw piece who opens the entrances of the levels in the game for a certain amount of Jigsaw Pieces.

* **Bilingual Bonus:** His name is Spanish for ‘’labyrinth‘’ or ‘’puzzle‘’, but can also be understood in English.
* **Cash Gate:** His purpose is opening the levels for a certain amount of **Plot Coupon** Jigsaws.
* **Punny Name:** ‘’Laberinti‘’, as in ‘’maze‘’ in Spanish.
* **White Gloves:** Appears wearing these.

## Uriel

A runner in Bash-A-Ton Battlefort who challenges Cun-Cun and Santi to a race. If they win, he gives them a Jigsaw Piece.

* **The Cameo:** Used as an incorrect option for Morado´s name in the first game.
* **Suspiciously Similar Substitute:** Of Nico from the first game.
* **Go-Karting With Bowser:** He says he used to work for Menacor but quitted.
* **Nice Hat:** Sports a red cap.
* **Totally Radical:** Talks like this.

## Nuc-Nuc and Tansi

Two troublemakers that first appear in the level Buttock Circus as reflections and later in Bash-A-Ton Battlefort when they challenge Cun-Cun and Santi to a obstacle course.

* **Ambiguously Related:** It´s unknown if they are also brothers like Cun-Cun and Santi are.
* **Anti-Role Model:** Both of them.
* **Beard Of Evil:** Nuc-Nuc has a goatee, still counts.
* **Big Guy, Little Guy:** Nuc-Nuc is the Big Guy and Tansi´s the Little Guy.
* **Color Contrast:** Their shirt and pants (and other accessories) are colored opposite to Cun-Cun and Santi´s.
* **Death Course:** They challenge the team to one in their second encounter.
* **Delinquents:** Are enemies and their appearance certainly fits this trope.
* **Delinquent Hair:** Tansi has punky **Spiky Hair**.
* **Evil Counterpart:** Of Cun-Cun and Santi respectively.
* **Expy:** Of **Wario and Waluigi**.
* **Gold Tooth:** Nuc-Nuc appears to have one.
* **The Man In The Mirror Talks Back:** They are first fought as reflections of the titular characters in the mirror room.
* **Mirror Boss:** Quite literal. They copy Cun-Cun and Santi´s moves and are fought through a mirror in their boss battle.
* **Sleeves Are For Wimps:** Nuc-Nuc wears a sleeveless shirt.
* **Spikes Of Villainy:** Nuc-Nuc wears spiky wristbands and Tansi wears a spiked leather vest.