Frida Suárez is the deuteragonist of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera series. She is Manny's best friend and the third daughter of police chief Emiliano Suárez and judge Carmela Suárez. She tends to have a crazy and random attitude to several situations, even when it's serious.
Description
"Frida is the best friend a guy could have...but she's not always the best influence on Manny. She's always got his back when he's in trouble, but it's usually Frida who leads him down questionable and dangerous paths that he might otherwise (barely) avoid to begin with. Frida is up for just about anything and isn't phased at all by the superhero/supervillain stuff. When she's not causing mischief with Manny, Frida can be found focusing on her band, the Atomic Sombreros."
Appearance
Frida is a short, Latina-White girl with light-yellow skin and rosy blushed cheeks. She has a big forehead with a short, pastel blue hair, a large pair of, retro-like, red goggles with black retainer that is placed on her head, and blue-colored eyes. She wears a sleeveless white shirt, a red overall dress, black bracelets with small, white spikes, white socks with red stripes, and gray boots with black belts with silver buckles as well as black soles.
In "La Tigresa", La Tigresa has the similar appearance of El Tigre, but with some of the few differences of its costume. She wears a brown costume with the El Tigre Belt buckle worn around her red skirt, a red bandana on her neck, and brown boots. She also has dark-brown gloves with red star and grey sharp claws, a brown mask with a "T" symbol on her forehead, and a tiger tail. It is unknown if she has ears like El Tigre or if it's under her goggles.
Personality
Normally, Frida shows up as a wild child; bordering the stereotype of an aspiring rock girl. She is also tomboyish, given the acts that she and Manny are prone to commit. However, Frida can also show other sides of her personality at times: She has the lack of thinking ideas or improvising in a flash (such as her Sartana Ballad in "Ballad of Frida Suarez"). Her most caring side of her personality is saved for Manny, puppies, small animals or Chui. She is also capable of expressing great anger in many situations, normally driving her to revenge. Her anger usually gets her to want revenge; nevertheless, most of her anger and vengeful intentions target Zoe Aves for previous reasons. Lastly, Frida also has a kind of romantic side, such as the very end of "Oso Solo Mio", where she exclaims sighing: "Isn't love lovely?" in a girly manner reminiscing to a girl with a crush.
Background
Past Life
Frida's past has been shown at times in flashbacks within the show or mentioned by the creator of the series, Jorge Gutierrez. Frida first met Manny during detention in kindergarten and have since been best friends. In her past is also her hate for Zoe, which first came along when the latter pulled a prank on Frida by making her look like a slime monster in class and making her cry. Her iconic red goggles she wears all the time come from her grandmother, who in her younger years wore the goggles herself and was known as the Blue Bandit.
"The Good, The Bad, and the Tigre"
Frida is brought out of the Volcano by Manny (and is the only one he saves) in the evil ending of "The Good, The Bad, And El Tigre" in which they become the unquestioned rulers of the earth, and both Manny and Frida are seen as they grew into teenagers, adults and eventually an old man and woman. It’s revealed that they got married during the time. When Sartana and Django return from the moon after 60 years, Frida has a giant robotic battle suit in which the episode ends before any abilities it has could be shown.
Relationships
Manny Rivera
Manny Rivera is Frida's best friend. They were friends since kindergarten (they first met in detention) and Frida is almost always with Manny when he is fighting a villain, though usually Frida does never help that much, except for a few exceptions such as "Eye Caramba"). Frida has showed some romantic feelings towards Manny in some episodes. In "The Mustache Kid", Frida got jealous when Manny was driving in the car with girls, and "Oso Solo Mio" had Frida saying "Isn't love lovely?" and sliding closer to Manny in a pretty, humor-related way, and in the end of "No Boots, No Belt, No Brero", it reveals that Frida kissing Manny intentionally done by her.
Powers and Abilities
Frida doesn't have any superpowers but she's intelligent enough to use goggles to deflect Black Cuervo's laser as shown in Enter the Cuervo, as well as being able to craft skating equipments from trash and coming out of cacti with just minor injuries after skating through them as shown in Fistful of Collars.
Frida's Robot
- The Spectacular Guitar-merang: Frida throws her guitar at her enemies like if it was a boomerang.
- Guitar Smash Frida uses her guitar to smash her foes, then sends them in the air.
- Guitar Shot: Frida plays her guitar, which makes a soundwave.
- Lyrical Smackdown: Frida plays her guitar so hard, her music blows her foes away.
- Vocal Whirlwind: Frida sings that makes a whirlwind that takes out her enemies.
- Jumping Guitar of Doom: Frida and her quitar rocket across in a spinning attack.
Sightings
Gallery
Click here to visit Frida Suárez's Gallery!
Trivia
- Besides the Rivera Family, Frida is the only member of the family to say, "This, I swear!" phrase.
- During the interview with Jorge R. Gutiérrez, Gutiérrez mentions that Frida is based on the co-creator and his wife, Sandra Equihua and her personal life and experiences.[1]
- It has been mentioned in an interview that Sandra was raised in a family of doctors and lawyers while she was the only artist in the family. In "Stinking Badges!", Frida's family are all members of the law: Emiliano as the chief of police, Carmela as a judge and her older sisters as police cadets while Frida dreams of being a rockstar.
- Frida's appearance was originally based on the punk-rock cultures, which is mostly showcased in her primordial, beta design. As she looked more into the punkish style, up to the point of having a skull on her shirt.
- Frida appears in every episode of the series with the exception of "Animales!"
- Frida made a small cameo in Gutierrez's first directorial, animated film, The Book of Life.
- Frida along with Zoe makes a cameo in Rejected Video Games segment from Cartoon Network's MAD.
- Additionally, Gutierrez revealed that Frida's full name is Frida Suárez Mondragon due to her being the great-granddaughter of Joaquin Mondragon from The Book of Life.[2]
- In "The Curse of the Albino Burrito", her goggles are revealed to be "prescription".
- Her name is a reference to a famous, Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo.[3]
- Her surname is a nod to Gabe Swarr. a storyboard artist and director of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera.[3]
- During the development of the series, Frida had different designs and last names with her first name remaining.
- Before the series was in development, Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua originally designed Frida with her last changed name to "Frida Lopez".
- In the pitch bible, Frida was originally named Frida Swarr, meaning she had a different last name, but her name was kept in the series.
- Gutiérrez reveals that Manny and Frida are still friends in the future, even if they both have attended high school together.[4] In high school, both Frida and Manny only just hung out with each other due to them dating other people but eventually ended up staying together.[5]
- Frida was originally planned to become the next Plata Peligrosa for the following season, but it was never made due to the show's cancellation.[6]
- When she was a kid, she wore braces.
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