El Chapulín Colorado

Overview

Recurrent characters besides the protagonist

Heroes

• Súper Sam : Played by Ramón Valdés. He is a superhero that hails from somewhere in the U.S. whose appearance is very similar to that of Uncle Sam, but his suit is similar to Superman's. Half of the things Súper Sam says are in English, considering his inadequate skills with Spanish. Súper Sam's primary weapon is a bag full of dollars that he says were "few, but very powerful"; it is usually used to beat on the head of the wrongdoers or Chapulín, as both don't get along very well. Every time he uses his weapon, the ringing of a cash register chimes in the show's audio. His catchphrase is "Time is Money, oh yeah!" and when present, most people say that "they don't want imported superheroes", much to Súper Sam's annoyance. According to Florinda Meza's character, Super Sam is "just like Chapulín, but with a bank account."

  Villains

The Mob

• Tripaseca : Played by Ramón Valdés. He is one of the most frequently recurring villains on the show. He is a very dangerous gangster who is part of a mafia gang composed of Cuajináis, Chory, Botija and Minina. He is considered the archenemy of Chapulín, always scheming along with the rest of his gang to kill the hero to commit all the robberies he wants. In an episode in which he pretends to be dead to fool the local police force, Chapulín states that he had known Tripaseca since the two of them were children.
• Cuajináis : Played by Carlos Villagrán. He is a deadly gangster characterized by the huge scar on his right cheek. Although he is an ally of Tripaseca, sometimes he attempts to score certain crimes on his own.
• El Chori : Played by Rubén Aguirre. He is a vicious mobster characterized by his high stature and coldness. El Shory often gives trouble to Chapulín in combat because of his superior strength and endurance. In some chapters, this character is nicknamed "El Nene ". His name has double meaning; it is the Spanish abbreviation of the word "chorizo", and is also based on the English word shorty, a sarcastic reference on Rubén Aguirre's height of.
• Minina : Played by Florinda Meza. A woman who accompanies the mafia in their schemes and is characterized by constant smoking and her low intellectual capacity.
• Pocas Trancas : Played by Rubén Aguirre. He is a madman who escaped from the asylum. People believe that Pocas Trancas was deaf but a detective clarified that he couldn't speak because he didn't wash his tongue and that he couldn't listen because he didn't wash his ears. What he lacked in intelligence he made up for in raw strength, according to the same detective. Súper Sam and Chapulín usually have to team up to fight him.

  The Gunmen

• Matafácil : Played by José Luiz Fernández. Making his first and only appearance in El Matafácil, he is a terrible and violent bandit, who made the entire town run away when he went to the village. Only Ramón Valdez's character decided to face the bandit, with the help of Chapulín Colorado. After a huge fight and losing his wig, Matafácil was defeated, breaking the wall when he was thrown.
• El Pistolero Veloz : Played by Ramón Valdés. He is a villain, gunman and robber who claims to be the fastest triggerman in the entire Old West, and had his only appearance in the episode El pistolero veloz.
• Rascabuches : Played by Ramón Valdés. He is a fiery gunslinger whose mere presence makes all the inhabitants of any village flee in terror. He faced Chapulín many times and was always defeated by him. The Rascabuches has a young daughter named Rosa.
• Matonsísimo Kid : Played by Carlos Villagrán or Rubén Aguirre. A dangerous gunman who constantly plagues small towns of the old American West, he is an ally of Rascabuches and Rosa la Rumorosa. Although claimed to be the fastest gunman of the Old West, Chapulín always managed to overcome him.
• Rosa la Rumorosa : Played by Florinda Meza. She is the only daughter of Rascabuches, one of the most feared gunmen of the Old West. Despite being an accomplice to her father, she sometimes laments the fact that no one proposes marriage to her because of the notoriety of her father.
• Buffalo Bill : Played by Ramón Valdés. Making his first and only appearance in A Buffalo Bill le decían búfalo porque era bastante animal. Lo del apellido sí es mera coincidencia, he is a dangerous hunter from the Old West who is hired by the army to kill buffalo and Indians. Afterwards, he is forced to face Chapulín, knowing that the latter was forced to defend the Indians from his terrible slaughter.

  Extraterrestrials

• Bebé júpiteriano : Played by Arturo García Tenorio in the 1974 and 1982 versions, or by Carlos Villagrán in the 1977 version. He is an extraterrestrial baby sent to Earth in an alien spaceship where he appeared small, but then grew and grew until he became giant. Then, Chapulín Colorado tried to fight the baby, but the child hit him. After that, the hero discovered that it was just a dream, and that the spaceship was a toy.

  The Pirates

• Alma Negra : Played by Ramón Valdés. He is the captain of the pirates, and as he said, the chief of all the pirates of the seven seas. Captain Alma Negra is evil but sometimes clumsy as well. He is characterized by his malevolent laughter and his tendency to endanger the life of his own crew and of Chapulín or any girl that doesn't want to marry him. According to himself, he killed the Dead Sea and therefore there are no longer seven seas, only six. At some point, he died but his ghost continued to curse the seas.
• Matalote : Played by Rubén Aguirre. He is Alma Negra's right-hand man, the tallest of the pirates, and surely the most cruel after Alma Negra. El Matalote is known for being quite strong and ruthless.
• Sabandija : Played by Carlos Villagrán. He is a clumsy pirate that has a left wooden leg and a right glass eye, the former lost in one of the many battles fought under Alma Negra's command and the latter lost after peeking through a keyhole. He and Panza Loca are the only ones in the crew who rebel against the master pirate alongside Chapulín.
• Panza Loca : Played by Édgar Vivar. He is the fattest of the pirates, has a little intimidating voice and apparently was not a very good pirate. He is as cowardly as Sabandija and often suffers through life-threatening situations because of the whims of Captain Alma Negra.
• Ajonjolí : Played by Horacio Gómez Bolaños. He is a pirate who is sincere with his friends and takes the place of Panza Loca by force of Alma Negra, while this other pirate went to buy cigarettes. He made his first and only appearance in the second part of Los antiguos piratas del Caribe sólo de vez en cuando desviaban a Cuba.
• Flor Marina : Played by Florinda Meza. She is the pirate tavern keeper on Alma Negra's ship, and is one of the members who rebel against the master pirate alongside Chapulín. On another occasion, she was imprisoned for refusing to marry Alma Negra.

  Japanese Dome

• Sugatito Orinawa : Played by Ramón Valdés in the 1971, 1973 and 1976 versions, by Édgar Vivar in the 1980 version, or by Rubén Aguirre in the 1988 version. He is the geisha's father who forces her to marry a karateka.
• Silbato Yamazaki : Played by Rubén Aguirre in 1971, 1976 and 1980 versions, and by Édgar Vivar in the 1973 and 1988 versions. He is a great karateka who once fought with Chapolin Colorado so that the geisha could get out of her marriage with that same karateka.

  Other villains

• Conde "Vittorio" Terranova : Played by David Povall in the 1972 version, by Rubén Aguirre in the 1977, 1982 and 1986 versions, and by Ramón Valdés in the 1978 version. He is a greedy, swindling count who does everything he can to deceive wealthy families in order to take possession of their valuable objects. In the 1972 version, the count was supposed to marry Ramón Valdez's daughter, but suspicious of the Count's honesty, Ramón called Chapulín Colorado, who proved that the Count was a fraud. In the 1977 version, Chapulín Colorado is summoned to help a couple so that her father accepts their relationship, since he suspects that his daughter's boyfriend, Count Terranova, only wants her for his money. And to do so, he decides to tell them the story of the famous pianist Frederic Chopin.
• Doctor Panchostein : Played by Ramón Valdés in the 1971 version, by Carlos Villagrán in the 1974 and 1977 versions, and by Édgar Vivar in the 1990 version. In these same versions, he is the cousin of Dr. Frankenstein, who was born in Pirapora. An evil genius, Panchostein created a creature that needed blood to stay alive. In his laboratory hidden in the cemetery, Panchostein kept the creature. He kidnapped a peasant woman and decided to take her blood to feed his creature, who turned against him. Chapulín Colorado started a fight against the monster, who succumbed because he had not fed on blood. After this fight, Panchostein was never seen again.
• Bruja Baratuja : Played by María Antonieta de las Nieves in the 1971 and 1976 versions. She is a witch who appears in these versions of Cuento de brujas, and lives in the middle of the forest, along with her son, who is an ogre. She wanted to turn a peasant woman into a soccer referee, that is, to make her blind, if she did not let her son marry her. The peasant woman-with-a-noble-heart-who-goes-to-the-forest-every-day-to-collect-firewood did not accept, and the witch turned her into a tree. It's up to Chapulín to face them, but he has difficulty pronouncing the cabalistic word.
• La Reina : Played by María Antonieta de las Nieves. She made her first and only appearance as the main antagonist of the three-part saga Blancanieves y los siete Churi Churín Fun Flais, which is based on the fairy tale Snow White. In it, she has a magic mirror, which every day asks who is the fairest of them all. But one day, after discovering that Snow White is the fairest of them all, the queen became furious and hired a huntsman to kill her. After the huntsman failed, she became even more furious and decided to kill her herself, in the form of an evil witch and using a poisoned apple. After this barbarity, the witch was informed by her magic mirror that a man dressed in red will be the only one to undo this spell on Snow White, in addition to this same witch undergoing a strange and unexpected transformation into a beautiful woman.
• Espejo mágico : Played by Ramón Valdés. As the name suggests, he is a magic mirror that always tells the truth to the Evil Queen and shows the possible events that happen in the world, making his first and only appearance as a minor antagonist of the three-part saga Blancanieves y los siete Churi Churín Fun Flais. He is also known for taking breaks for commercials for beer, cigarettes and the "Bosque Lobo Feroz" financial condominium by two merchants. After the queen poisons Snow White with a poisoned apple, this same magic mirror informs her that a man dressed in red would be the only one to undo the spell on the poor cursed princess, in addition to that this same witch would undergo a strange and unexpected transformation into a beautiful woman.