History WesternAnimation / VictorAndValentino

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** The unhinged [[BalefulPolymorph TV executive-turned-coyote]] from "On Nagual Hill" resembles the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} screwball]] [[ScrewballSquirrel version]] of WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, right down to being voiced by Creator/DeeBradleyBaker, who voiced the character multiple times, and even uses the same voice.

* {{Expy}}: The unhinged [[BalefulPolymorph TV executive-turned-coyote]] from "On Nagual Hill" resembles the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} screwball]] [[ScrewballSquirrel version]] of WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, right down to being voiced by Creator/DeeBradleyBaker, who voiced the character multiple times, and even uses the same voice.

''Victor and Valentino'' is a Creator/CartoonNetwork animated series created by Diego Molano. The show follows the adventures of Mexican half-brothers, Victor and Valentino, after they are sent to live with their seemingly supernatural grandmother in the strange and quirky town of Monte Macabre for the summer, finding mystical and crazy things at every turn.

The original pilot was released on November 2, 2016 as a "Cartoon Network Minisode" and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkGPIPSHyUk here]]. The series was originally slated for a late 2018 debut, but was later pushed to a March 30th, 2019 premiere in both the United States and Latin America. A [[https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/cartoon-network-greenlights-the-fungies-craig-s3-victor-and-valentino-s2/ second season]] was announced as being in production on July 15, 2019. After a year hiatus, the third season aired in August 2021.

** Chata's friend Sal appears to be just an eccentric CoolOldGuy, but in "Go With The Flow", a mysterious wind follows him wherever he goes. When he's [[spoiler:flying along with the boys, who are wearing his magic headband]], he casts the shadow of a [[spoiler:feathered serpent]]. "Follow the North Star" reveals that he is actually [[spoiler:Quetzalcoatl]].
** A lot more blatant with Tez, who we do learn is a real sorcerer as his debut episode goes on, but his eyes also turn catlike towards the end of it. [[spoiler:He also mentions having fought a feathered serpent who ate his foot... or was it a crocodile?]]

* AllPartOfTheShow: In the SeriesFinale "Fall of the Fifth Sun", a tourist assumes that all the bizarre events happening, including [[spoiler:Tez and Sal fighting as Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca]] is just special effects for the celebration.
* ArtInitiatesLife: In "Balloon Boys", the boys go with Sal to visit the Nazca Lines, which legend has it make anything drawn on the ground come to life. Victor and Valentino test this by making their own lines; first Victor gives himself [[MyBrainIsBig a bigger brain]], then Valentino turns Vic into a monkey, then Vic turns Val into a (literal) big crybaby. When they are stranded on the ground, Victor draws a giant dragon to scare away a pack of vicious alpacas, which backfires when the dragon then comes after them, and they have to erase the drawing to save themselves.

* BedsheetGhost: While pretending to be El Pintor, Pineapple dresses up like one to scare Victor, Valentino and Charlene in "The Lonely Haunts Club".
** In "El Silbón", Victor does the same as Pineapple in the former episode, except backwards and has the arm holes cut out, for his Haunted Corn Maze to scare the twins, but no surprise it didn't turn out as he hoped as they're not scared at all. Too bad they put Victor's bedsheet ghost costume forwards.
* BellyScrapingFlight: Victor steals Sal's headband, which sends both brothers flying uncontrollably. Taking it off makes them plummet, and they kick up spray from the surface of the sea when donning the headband again pulls them out of their death-dive.

* BrokenAesop: "Plandemonium" has Valentino make a plan for a day with Isabella, only to have a miserable time because things went awry. The episode ends with an Aesop of "go with the flow and don't be too meticulous", however the issue isn't with plans itself but more that Valentino was inflexible, assumed everything would go smoothly and didn't prepare contingencies.
* CanonDiscontinuity: In "Welcome to the Underworld", it's demonstrated that the events of the pilot are non-canon as Victor, Valentino, Mic, and Hun don't recognize each other. It's not known how the duo know Achi, however, as their first meeting also took place during the pilot.

* CerebusRetcon: While it was implied to be important in its debut episode, the temple from "Decoding Valentino" becomes even more sinister upon the reveal [[spoiler:that Isabella is a Mega Tzitzimime using magic to communicate with the other Star-beings]].
* ChickenPoxEpisode: "La Planchada", in which Victor catches chicken pox from Valentino, but brags that he's "faster than germs" and is in denial. After infecting all his friends in a game of tag, he summons La Planchada, a spirit that heals chicken pox ''if'' you are worthy. When La Planchada comes that night, she cures Val but not Vic, unless he makes amends to all the kids he infected, [[spoiler:and threatens to flatten him with her iron if he doesn't.]]
* ChildishToothGap: Victor and Charlene both have a gap in the middle of their teeth. Victor's highlights his immaturity and rowdiness, while Charlene's is actually wider, accenting her CreepyChild demeanor.
* {{Chupacabra}}: Valentino goes out looking for one to photograph in "The Dark Room", using Victor disguised as a goat as bait. The Chupacabra appears and takes Victor to his lair, where Valentino discovers that [[spoiler:it's actually a vegetarian that loves animals; the sucked out remains people find are actually his sculptures of them.]]
* CordonBleughChef: Valentino is usually a good cook, but in "Go With The Flow", he makes a bad-tasting meal on purpose to try to make Sal leave. Sal not only ''likes'' it, he also mentions never leaving if he continues to cook like that.

* CrazyPrepared: In "Folk Art Friends", the boys free Hue Hue so he can help them get back his minions. Hue Hue refuses, and when they try to trap him again, he breaks the alebrije... but the boys have made dozens of spares. Next he tries to close their mouths so they can't say "Estas atrapado!" three times, but Victor had a tape recorder with a recording of the phrase.

** In "A New Don", the boys prank Don Jalapeño to see if they can make him so mad the veins on his forehead pop out. He finally does after [[spoiler:seeing the mess they made in the store after fighting the star creature possessing him, especially when Valentino [[SeriousBusiness moved his bookmark.]]]]

:: :Ironically, Valentino says this to Don Jalapeño when he tries to get a refund on the foosball machine to get his coin back.

* DeathByAdaptation: While the real Rey Mysterio Sr. is stil alive, In the world of Victor and Valentino he's dead.

* DoWrongRight: [=HueHue=] corrects Victor's bad spelling of "Esdas Etripado" to "¡Estás atrapado!" that sends him back to his alebrije, and then when he boasts and says it properly, he gets trapped inside the alebrije.
* DualWorldGameplay: A rare non-video game example. The enchanted luchador masks that Victor and Valentino have allow them to see and interact with the spirit world on the mortal plane, but only as long as they wear them. Victor exploits this by taking his mask off to bypass walls in the spirit world.

* EmptyNest: The reason La Llorona cries in "Lonely Haunts Club 3 La Llorona" is because she's lonely as a result of her 20 kids growing up and leaving.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Victor's the foolish, always looking for shortcuts and prone to goofing off; Valentino's the responsible, always doing his chores and being cautious, sometimes to a fault.
* FourFingeredHands: Averted for the human characters. In the ''[[WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork Villainous]]'' {{crossover}}, Val concludes that Flug and Demencia are from another dimension because they both have four fingers, which he considers too anomalous to happen twice in close proximity.

* GroundhogDayLoop: In "Forever Ever", Victor and Valentino are cleaning out Maria Teresa's attic when they accidentally activate a strange statue that controls time. After spending hours cleaning, the statue resets time and they have to start over again. Once they realize what's happening, Victor uses this to do whatever he wants with no repercussions. Eventually, they discover the statue and Victor [[spoiler:breaks it, which rather than fixing time, now makes it go ''backwards''. Fortunately, they get to the point when the statue activated and Victor is able to stop it, setting things back to normal.]]
* TheHermit: The TV executive-turned-coyote from "On Nagual Hill" has become one of the hostile variant, living in a pile of garbage that he is insanely possessive of. It’s implied that this behavior is due to him going insane from being trapped as a coyote.
* HoldUpYourScore: In "Dance, Reynaldo, Dance!", a dance contest is judged by Sal, Don Jalapeno and Maria Teresa. While the latter two give most of the acts bad scores, Sal gives everyone a ten.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: In "Lonely Haunts Club", El Pintor's ghost mentions that he doesn't like to spend each Día de los Amantes by himself, and just wants some company.

* LampshadeHanging: In "It Grows" after Vic's moustache grows out of control and begins to attack people, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Val panics and says that he is just a kid and can't keep dealing with stuff like that every week.]]
* {{Letterbox}}: "Fistful of Balloons" makes heavy use of this in order to give the episode a more cinematic feel, as part of its spoof of {{Spaghetti Western}}s.
* LazyBum: The Lechuza's "children" Hoot, Caw and Talon. They are perfectly content being fed predigested food and wearing diapers that are regularly changed if it means not having to work. He may have been willing to fake an injury to get out of working, [[EveryoneHasStandards but Victor isn't OK with living that way]].

* LovePotion: Charlene attempts to make one in "Charlene Mania". It fails to work on Victor (all it does is make him lose his hair), but it makes everyone else in town become obsessed with her
* ManEatingPlant: The plants on the left side of Don Jalapeño's hidden plant dimension could destroy the town, as seen with the two headed monstrosity fueled by Victor and Valentino's squabbling.
* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: "Oneiric Vic" has no spoken dialogue, the entire story told in pantomime.

* NeverMyFault: Victor, almost constantly. In "Suerte" he gets captured into the card game for attempting to cheat, and isn't freed until he admits it.

* PeoplePuppets: In "A New Don", Don Jalapeño talks about creatures from the stars who come to Earth to make people do strange things against their will. [[spoiler:He ends up possessed by one who is after his scrapbook of paranormal phenomena for some reason.]]

* PocketProtector: In "The Fog", [[spoiler:a "Sal's Your Pal" button pin that Sal gave him saves Victor from getting stung by Tez as a giant scorpion.]]

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "Folk Art Foes" shows Victor being bad at spelling, something [=HueHue=] is annoyed by and corrects. Victor uses this so [=HueHue=] will correct him and say "¡Estás atrapado!" for a third time, allowing Victor to trap him back into the alebrije.

** In "The Lonely Haunts Club", Charlene and Pineapple dare Victor and Valentino to explore a haunted mansion with them Charlene urges Vic to pick a bouquet of flowers to put in her hair, so she can supposedly resemble his Amante. She then urges Vic to read some love poems out loud to summon El Pintor's ghost. Meanwhile, Valentino discovers that Pineapple has a checklist written by Charlene which ends with her getting a kiss from on Día de los Amantes. When Vic and Charlene see a table set up, they decide to dine together and summon the ghost. Just when Charlene is about to trick Vic into sharing some of her "ghost shield potion" on his lips by kissing her, Val comes in and tells her that the whole experience has been a trick to get Vic to go on a date with Charlene. As soon as Vic realizes that everything on Día de los Amantes resembled a date, the ghost of El Pintor appears, telling them that he was just lonely from spending each Día de los Amantes all by himself, and just wanted some company. Afterwards, Vic admits the Día de los Amantes isn't such a bad holiday, and when Charlene tells Vic she didn't think he was good boyfriend material, Vic says that he could be if he wanted to which makes her smile as she walks away.

* SlipperySwimsuit: In "Hurricane Chata", Valentino loses his swimsuit [[spoiler:trying to save one last Coco Frio; the swimsuit serves as a DeadGuyHatShot.]] Later, he's seen covering himself up with a duck floatie.
* SmartBall: Victor in "Love at First Bite". While he usually has to be saved by Valentino after his antics get him in trouble, here the roles are reversed as Valentino is in love with a mysterious girl whom Victor finds suspicious. When the girl turns out to be [[spoiler:a man-eating snake monster]], Victor is the one who comes to the rescue.
* SpotTheImposter: In "The Other Don", the boys find two Don Jalapenos fighting each other. Victor is able to expose the impostor by pulling out a potato bug; since it was established earlier that the real Don is afraid of bugs, the fake Don is the one who doesn't freak out.

** Ultimately how Victor regains his living body in "Para-Vic". He pranks Ximena, the ghost inhabiting it through a variety of shenanigans to get her out of his body. What does the trick? The classic BananaPeel prank down a flight of stairs… a prank which actually can be fatal in real life.

* TransformationHorror: In "Tree Buds", [[spoiler:Victor slowly transforms, his legs turning wooden before he becomes a small tree rooted into the ground. Also, most of the child characters are quickly pulled into a tree and the treehouse built in its branches, becoming a part of them. Everyone is aware of their transformations the entire time and able to complain]].

** "The Other Don" ends with TheReveal that [[spoiler:Isabella is really the Mega Tzitzimime]].

--->'''Tez''': [[spoiler:I know they are just children, but they are more unpredictable than ''we'' anticipated. Now if [[GreaterScopeVillain you]] want me to get rid of the brats, I need ''stronger poison''.]]

'''[[spoiler:Mega Tzitzimime]]:''' Haven't you figured it out? [[spoiler:I ''am'' the real Isabela!]]
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Monte Macabre is implied to be somewhere in Mexico, but one episode has the characters visit the Nazca Lines in Peru by hot-air balloon, the round trip implied to take place in the course of a single day.

* YourTomcatIsPregnant: [[spoiler:In "Pobrecito Pete", Valentino thinks he made the horse Pete sick by feeding it rotten guavas, but at the end it turns out that Pete was pregnant and was giving birth.]]

** Chata's friend Sal appears to be just an eccentric CoolOldGuy, but in "Go With The Flow", a mysterious wind follows him wherever he goes. When he's [[spoiler:flying along with the boys, who are wearing his magic headband]], he casts the shadow of a [[spoiler:feathered serpent]].

* AffectionateParody: "Lonely Haunts Club 3:La Llorona" is a homage to ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', complete with Found Footage and multiple instances that parody the latter's [[SignatureScene Signature Scenes]].

* SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome:

** "The Other Don" ends with TheReveal that [[spoiler:Isabela is really the Mega Tzitzimime]].

** Ultimately how Victor regains his living body in "Para-Vic". He pranks Ximena, the ghost inhabiting it through a variety of shenanigans to get her out of his body. What died the trick? The classic BananaPeel prank down a flight of stairs… a prank which actually can be fatal in real life.

[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise: [[MoodSwinger Grandma Chata]], [[FunnyAnimal Achi]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Victor]], and [[MoralityPet Valentino]]. Missing: [[PerkyGoth Charlene]], [[TheSilentBob Pineapple]], [[TheRival Maria Teresa]], [[FatIdiot Don Jalapeño]], [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Xochi]], and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a lot of other characters]].]]

* WhamEpisode: "Sal’s Our Pal" ends with [[spoiler:[[BigBad Tez]] being elected mayor of Monte Macabre, much to Vic and Val’s distress.]]
* WhamLine: In the ending of "Tez Breaks Bread":
-->'''Tez''': [[spoiler:I know they are just children, but they are more unpredictable than ''we'' anticipated. Now if [[GreaterScopeVillain you]] want me to get rid of the brats, I need ''stronger poison''.]]

* BodyHorror: In "Tree Buds", [[spoiler:Victor slowly transforms, his legs turning wooden before he becomes a small tree rooted into the ground. Also, most of the child characters are quickly pulled into a tree and the treehouse built in its branches, becoming a part of them. Everyone is aware of their transformations the entire time and able to complain]].

* TheBadGuyWins: In "Sal Our Pal" despite all the hell Vic, Val and Sal go through to prevent Tez from essentially becoming mayor of Monte Macabre? [[spoiler: He ends up winning anyway due to a misunderstanding about stopping the votes for him.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: In the world of Victor and Valentino Rey Mysterio Sr. is dead.

* FourFingeredHands: Averted for the human characters. In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous}}'' {{crossover}}, Val concludes that Flug and Demencia are from another dimension because they both have four fingers, which he considers too anomalous to happen twice in close proximity.

* Main/{{Crossover}}: "Villainy In Monte Macabre" is a crossover with ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous}}'' .

* SharedUniverse: With ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', which reveals that Mr. Gar is from Monte Macabre. By extension, this also means ''Victor and Valentino'' shares its universe with ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' (or at least ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool''), ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'', and some iteration of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''.

The original pilot was released on November 2, 2016 as a "Cartoon Network Minisode" and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkGPIPSHyUk here]]. The series was originally slated for a late 2018 debut, but was later pushed to a March 30th, 2019 premiere in both the United States and Latin America. A [[https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/cartoon-network-greenlights-the-fungies-craig-s3-victor-and-valentino-s2/ second season]] was announced as being in production on July 15, 2019.

* LovePotion: Charlene attempts to make one in "Charlene Mania". It fails to work on Victor (all it does is make him lose his hair), but it makes everyone else in town become obssessed with her

* OminousFog: In "The Fog", Vic and Val try to leave Monte Macabre, but keep running into a mysterious fog that maagically returns them back. They realize it was created by Tez to keep the people trapped inside the town.

* WhamEpisode: "Sal’s Our PAL" ends with [[spoiler:[[BigBad Tez]] being elected mayor of Monte Macabre, much to Vic and Val’s distress.]]

* DontFearTheReaper: Mic and Hun might be the lords of the Underworld, but they're generally cheerful and upbeat.

%%* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "The Babysitter", "Legend of the Hidden Skate Park", “Boss for a Day”, "Churro Kings", "Fistful of Balloons", "Guillermo's Gathering", "The Great Bongo Heist" and "Dance, Reynaldo, Dance!" are the only episodes so far with no supernatural elements.

* WhamEpisode: "Tez Breaks Bread" reveals [[spoiler:[[BigBad Tez]] is being helped by another entity who may or may not be the GreaterScopeVillain of the series.]]

* RealityEnsues: In "It Grows", Valentino almost jumps through a broken window to reach his brother, but he gets worried about the broken glass and goes through the door instead.

* WhamEpisode: "Tez Breaks Bread" reveals [[spoiler:[[BigBad Tez]] is being helped by another entity who may or may not be the GreaterScopeVillain of the series.]]