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Villain Overview

Not to brag, but life has given me plenty. Enough to give away whatever I am asked for. So... what do people want? power, money, luxuries laugh Nonsense! What's the use? We're all dying anyway. And we won't take anything with us. Right, pal?
~ El Charro Negro explaining the subject of human greed.

El Charro Negro is the main antagonist of the Las Leyendas film series. He is the same demonic figure based on the classic folkloric legend of Mexico.

He rides with his ghostly black horse in search of unfortunate souls who wander through the deserts, seeking help with scarce resources or favors to satisfy their desired needs, in exchange for dragging them into the underworld and condemn for life.

In his first appearance he was voice by Blas García, later in the fifth film his voice was made by Humberto Solórzano and finally his voice was by Erick Elías in the homonym film.

Description

Teodora: In other words, if you make a deal with the Charro Negro, do you fulfill any wish?
Evaristo: Yes, but I change your immortal soul.
Teodora: Yes, yes aha but it is fulfilled or not?
Evaristo: Yes, but you will be left without your immortal soul.
~ Teodora and Evaristo talking about to El Charro Negro

Personality

At some point, the personality of this being is completely mysterious, but the elemental in its deceptive nature, is to tempt those who dare to be helped by this in exchange for charging them with their souls, posing as someone gentlemanly and affable. Most of what it offers is a portion of gold coins, if someone accepts them without fear, the Charro catches them with his fiery whip so that they can not escape and thus take them to the underworld.

He is speculated that before his future as the fifth of the guild, he chose to be by his own volition, contacting the world of darkness or accepting the new life that awaited him. Persevere in its goal even if it takes several years, but sooner or later it gets what it looks for, such was the case in persuading Leo to give Rupertino his Buckeye, implacably taking the soul of his daughter, in turn, to attract the prodigal boy of his coveted power, to his trap for making a deal with the one that could not be saved. He also likes to woo the ladies or behave himself with them, without going ahead by personal decision involving itself wants to give, being susceptible to self-denials.

More in-depth, this Charro, unlike the others, has great initiatives that entail even more ominous goals, supported by his unwavering spirit protruding further from the cycle of "marking by the darkness". As it is in his approach, El Charro Negro is undoubtedly discarded, versatile, fickle, unmerciful and he delights in the suffering of his adversaries.

Appearance

He looks like a shady man, dressed like a formal black-suited rancher. In skin is swart with features on her face such as having a thick texture on her cheeks, marked cheekbones, protruding chin, high nose on the back. The hair is black including the sideburns, the eyebrows, and his clipped mustache. The style of her hairdo is not completely discovered but it is necessary to know that it is neat, with its wick in front, somewhat common in itself. It is not to be expected, since the suit he has almost always worn is black, except for the top reaches the ribs because at there a buttoned rosy brown shirt, same hue brings it in his belt only that the brooch is more saddle brown and there is a skull, various white drawings like bones skeletons, a red bow is placed on the neck and the heels golden spurs (stand out for being the brightest accessories), the sides of the hat are completely tan with rhombuses whose red circle goes inside each one. Despite characterizing that illustration, the most symbolic thing that makes clear his guardianship to incarnate an evil spirit are his fiery red eyes and dark hands full of veins.

When it takes the form of a shadow, its skin turns dark gray and a reddish flash ashes forms around his body. Its ears become pointed. The fingers lengthen into sharp claws. An incandescent glow turns to its eyes next to its mouth and her legs totally disappear to the point of being a thick mist. After his transformation, the only thing that is seen of his clothes is his hat with bright red circles and his torn shirt.

It has also been shown to take the form of a demon with skin made of ashes and reddened cracks. His face becomes completely monstrous emanating a red glow in his eyes and mouth, which is full of sharp fangs. His nose disappears and is replaced with two wide openings instead. In the head his ears become pointed, two small horns appear on his forehead and two more on the sides of his head.

His most imminent form is a gigantic but terrifying version of himself, having a body composed of black ashes wrapped in orange and yellow flames. It can see that his arms are longer and with long hands as well as his clawed fingers, giving him a more tetric tone. Its neck is longer, the ears are pointed, the jaw of its mouth extends a lot and sharp fangs protrude in its mouth covered with fire as well as its eyes, thus showing a more eerie impression. It should be noted that despite the fact that his suit is part of his body, some details of it remained and have changed drastically, such as his hat that is twice as large and the embroidered bones that became zigzagged lines, now having squared spirals.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

  • Pyrokinesis: This is the main element that dominates since most of its powers are composed of fire. Has been shown to create a tornado made of fire and ignite his own whip.
  • Shapeshifting: Has the power to change shapes at will such as impersonating a poor old man and entering different monstrous phases; a shadow and an ash demon.
  • Teleporting: Can be quickly transported from one place to another by turning a flash of light. He can also create fire portals of different sizes if desires.
  • Dark magic / Invocation: Clearly, being a demon, he has evil powers linked to the forces of darkness. One of his most common powers is to appear objects and summon his stallion with a whistle. Thanks to his magic, he can grant any wish with the person who has made a deal, be it love, wealth, power, cure of illness, among other things that can make reality and change the life of someone ambitious or desperate.
  • Total control over The Underworld: He is in absolute control of his dimension and can modify his atmosphere as he pleases. He can also appear illusions of tangible scenarios and individuals with their own mind and capable of reasoning.
  • Environment warping: The place he interacts with can alter his surroundings and this has been demonstrated in the time he visited Rupertino's caravan, causing a dark liquid to appear on the walls of a house.
  • Superhuman strength: Apparently, being a demon, he has great strength, and he has shown it by throwing Rupertino away with a blow (when turned into a shadow).
  • Telekinesis: He can lift people and objects in the air without feeling the need to touch them. It could be seen that he was able to immobilize Rupertino without approaching him and keep Leo floating by tying him with his whip.
  • Somnipathy: Has the power to make people in a deep sleep and thus capture them with ease, like the time in which Beatríz slept by stealing her soul.
  • Immortality: Is obvious that being a demon he cannot age or die by natural causes.
  • Soul absorption / Necromancy: He proved to have dominion over the souls of his debtors eternally once they are withdrawn. The souls can be held in his hands and transported to a distiller that turns them into liquid and be enclosed in bottles.
  • Dream premonition: It could be said that he enters the dreams of his victims and announces future events that they will have when they meet him.
  • Body's possession: It is well known that he can possess the body of an individual just as he did with Leo San Juan, although this is due to having made a pact with him.
  • See ghosts and cross spiritual worlds: After he left Leo's body, he acquired his abilities such as the gift of seeing ghosts and the sacred stone that allows him to travel through spiritual worlds, turning him into a gigantic elemental being after obtaining those powers.

Abilities

  • Intelligence and persuation: In his favor he has a great intelligence to carry out his plans that were going on, tricking Leo into stealing Rupertino's Buckeye and charging him with his daughter's soul, persuading Leo San Juan to make a deal with him and enter in The Underworld where he falls into his trap, and lock up most of the ghost-hunting team after learning of his intentions with Leo and preventing them from intervening.
  • Rider mastery: Having been a landowner in his past life, he is quite skilled in the art of "charreria" (rider and herding cattle on horseback), knowing how to gallop on his stallion with great tenacity and handling his whip very well when using it as a rope to tie his victims (even at very far distances).
  • Whip: He has great dexterity in knowing how to use his whip as a weapon or to catch those who try to flee from him.
  • Guitar skills: It is seen that he plays the guitar very well and has a very good command of the instrument.

Weaknesses

  • Buckeye: This amulet causes his presence to be repelled and he cannot approach the debtor who avoids paying him, unless by some means he takes it away.
  • Light of Ethereal Purity: This energy counteracts his powers and possibly infringe him by taking damage from this.

Biography

Past

Charro and enrique

It is not known with certainty about how his life as a mortal would have been, but from how he dresses, speaks and acts, it can be deduced that he was a fond of charreria before he became an insatiable demon. A day has come when he may have been interested in contacting the other side, or invoke with forces of darkness, reason for which a "life line" was formed in the arm and be chosen as the next successor of the previous charro.

The instant the dark forces transferred demonic powers to this individual, he would become the new soul collector for many centuries. Not only has he gained supernatural abilities, but he would also be the owner of the underworld granted for his mandate, so the landscape would become like that of a hacienda «environment that would reflect its essence».

Deals with their Victims

In the teasers they revealed, before the events of the movies, they presented 3 of their victims who had a pact with him: the first was a woman and she wanted to inherit the fortune of her late husband, the second was a formal nobleman named Enrique Manuel Vásquez who dreamed with the hand of a perfect woman, and the third was a cowardly soldier called Vicente Bravo Anaya who dreamed of having the power to lead the army of New Spain and become a general of greater rank. But none of them managed to escape the debt they owed, which was inevitable.

Years later, a swindler salesman offered his soul to Charro to cure a terrible disease his newborn daughter, sealing the pact on the condition that he would come one day. With the idea of not wanting to be dragged to the underworld; Rupertino got a Buckeye to drive away the disastrous devil.

Charro in old manor

El Charro watching Leo entering in the Old Manor.

Seeking Leo

It has been revealed that El Charro Negro had known of Leo San Juan's supernatural abilities before his first adventure in the Old Manor, when he was still a scared boy.

Without anyone noticing, El Charro Negro witnessed how Leo had gone to rescue his brother Nando inside the Old Manor and following him in the mirror's hall where La Nahuala had been reflected.

Amazed at how Leo San Juan had the courage to defeat La Nahuala and his ability to see ghosts, he continued to observe him (going unnoticed) in the following adventures.

When Leo and his Ghost-hunters team set out for Xochimilco in Fray Godofredo's balloon, El Charro watches over them by showing himself in the full moon bright.

At the moment when the team was setting course towards in Xochimilco city, among the clouds, El Charro Negro appears and sees how Leo falls into the river due to the strong storm, caused by La Llorona.

Making a presence on Island of the Dolls, El Charro Negro approaches when the dolls come to life and detach themselves from the trees to attack the invaders.

On the roof of a house appears El Charro Negro during Leo and Kika's escape through La Llorona in the canals.

Destroyed stombstone

The tombstone from Ollin and Tonatiuh destroyed by El Charro Negro.

Inside the crypt, a piece of Ollin and Tonatiuh's tomb is broken by El Charro Negro, who is responsible for it being hidden and no one could find it easily.

I was waiting for you.
~ El Charro meeting Leo San Juan.
Charro negro mummies

El Charro Negro meeting for the first time with Leo San Juan in the loneliness.

On the journey to the terrified city of Guanajuato, Leo and his team are chased by the Mummies while El Charro Negro watches them from behind an alley.

El Charro makes it to the mine cavern where he sees Rousseau attempting to revive Denisse at Mictlantecuhtli's altar, and then follows him when he faints a soldier on the bridge.

Passing the post credits, Leo wakes up in the middle of the night and a crow flies in front of hersfel, realizes that he is alone in the cart without anyone but the coachman who turns out to be El Charro Negro.

Wake up son... wake up. You're dream... (terrific growl)
~ El Charro Negro speech in Leo's nightmare.

Just at the end of where everything had ended in the previous installment, Leo meets El Charro and tells him that he is dreaming to later become a monster. Leo is awakened from his nightmare by one of the men with whom he travels in the cart.

Charro negro chupacabras final

El Charro Negro watching in the distance Leo and his friends camping in a forest.

At the entrance of the parish, he approaches El Chupacabras family inside his prison, in the full arrest of the insurgents and Leo.

After the credits, seen Leo, Nando and Teodora camping in the middle of the forest. In the distance, on a hill, the mysterious charro from Leo's nightmare observes them.

La Leyenda del Charro Negro

First Manifestations

In the prologue of the story, El Charro, had kidnapped Xochitl Ahuactzin and taken her as his prisoner. He carried her on his horse to send her to work towards a dark cellar, claiming that Leo San Juan is in danger of being caught by the oscure demon.

At night, Leo and Nando meet a gypsy named Ana in the middle of the road, who is trying to change the wheel of her cart. Nando offers her help in exchange for her taking them to Puebla, but she refuses. Nando leaves angry, but Leo unconditionally offers the gypsy help. She appreciates the gesture, and as a thank you she reads Leo's hand for free. Seeing her hand, she tells him that there is something very dark inside him, an evil that runs through her veins, also warns him that she must not cross to the underworld again and advises him not to stop until he reaches the her house. The veins in Leo's hand begin to turn dark and deep.

An unpublished scene that did not appear in the film, Don Andrés was chased incessantly by El Charro Negro, since somehow he found out what he wants from Leo. He looked for if luckily he would find some of his friends to notify them of the news, ended up in a cornfield where the two Alebrijes were found. The three of them made him fall into a circular portal to the underworld, leaving only Las Calaveritas alone and scared, who left to tell Teodora what they heard.

Pending Debt

While San Juan brothers fight, an "old man" appears in the middle of the darkness telling them that the most important thing in the world is family, and convinces them that he is an old man alone from whom a swindler named Rupertino stole his only property: a Buckeye. Leo decides to go find Rupertino to return the old man's eye, to Nando's disbelief that the story is true.

In the caravan, Leo and Nando arrive to tell him that he is a thief and to return what he stole. Beatriz goes out to defend her father and hits the brothers with a broom. In the midst of the confusion, Leo snatches Rupertino's Buckeye without him noticing and they leave the place. Rupertino realizes that his Buckeye is missing and immediately runs after Leo, but it is too late, as Leo has already returned it to the old man. The old man then tells Rupertino to remember what happened twelve years ago, and it is at that moment when he becomes the Charro Negro, who used Leo to remove Rupertino's eye protection and be able to collect the treatment from him. El Charro tells Rupertino that the rules of the deal have changed and that he will take the soul of his daughter to get paid. El Charro then seizes the girl's soul and leaves her weakened on the ground, in addition to opening a portal to the underworld from which her horse emerges. Leo offers the Charro a deal in exchange for returning the girl's soul, but he tells him to go to his house to take the soul for him. Leo accepts, but is aware of the gypsy's words about crossing to the underworld. The gypsy woman appears, and tells Rupertino that Beatriz is safe for a short time because her soul begins to leave her body little by little.

Fighting for the Soul

Charro scheme

El Charro Negro anxious about the arrival of Leo, caused by her "Evil Gloating"

In the underworld, Leo is reunited with Nando and Teodora, followed by Rupertino. Rupertino tells them that they must hurry to go for the soul of his daughter, which the group accepts.

Leo, Rupertino, Nando and Teodora finally arrive at the Hacienda del Charro Negro where they are received by Resendo, who does not let them enter and tells them to leave, but is stopped by El Charro Negro. At that moment El Charro shows up and invites them to come to his house. Inside the hacienda, the Charro Negro tells the group that human beings are never happy with their lives, and that they only ask for useless things like power, money, and luxuries, which make no sense knowing that everyone has to die one day. Also, he tells Leo that he knows that he wants something and that at some point he is going to ask for it. While he says all this, he places Beatriz's soul in a still, to process her soul and put it in a bottle. The Black Charro prevents Rupertino from reaching her, and when Leo asks what they should do to save her, the Black Charro tells them that they must help him recover four objects, which are: "Miquiztli's Medallion", a "piece from the tomb of Ollin and Tonatiuh", one of the "Sacred Stones" and the "Iyari". These objects are in their fair, and the group has until before the rooster crows to recover them and be able to save Beatriz.

In Rupertino's caravan, Ana the gypsy noting the proximity of El Charro who plays his guitar, with a heartbreaking tune, talking that Beatriz does not have much time left to live. He verifies that he does not depend on doing this work to trap souls, and only fulfills the great power that has been favored him, because the ambitious people chose to fall into their pretensions. Removing the hand from his face, Ana made the Charro end up leaving in a trail of black liquid.

Escaping from their prisons, Leo's friends look for him very worried that El Charro Negro uses his gift (The White Glass that was inside it from the trip to Guanajuato) to cross into spiritual worlds, and spread their evils. They were more than willing to remove it, with all their abilities that have interposed there (even the see ghosts), just like that, El Charro will no longer have it in his power.

Fair's Showdown

At the Black Fair, Leo only has to get the last memory, the piece of the tomb of Ollin and Tonatiuh, which is supposedly inside The House of Mirrors. The Charro Negro appears at the entrance and congratulates the group in a sarcastic way and invites the young man to end it. When Leo enters, his friends follow him, but the Charro intervenes between them, evaporating the three memories they already had; that's when the group realizes that it was all a trap. From one moment to another, the entire fair fades, the sky turns a reddish color and the place where Leo entered becomes the dome of the Hacienda del Charro Negro. At that moment Xóchitl and the others arrive, warning that it is a trap, but it is too late because Leo has already entered. The group tries desperately to enter the place without success.

Inside, Leo finds himself in a dark room with a bright white mirror in the background. Touching the mirror, Leo is reflected in an evil way, which tries to get out of it while the real him is stunned and confused. Meanwhile outside, the rooster manages to sing for which Beatriz loses her soul and dies, El Charro has won.

Leo reappears in the dome of the hacienda and finds the bottle of Beatriz's distilled soul. El Charro Negro makes himself present, telling Leo that they are both equal and belong to the same lineage: that of those who can see the living and the dead alike, a lineage that is present through the dark veins of his arm. In addition to that, he appears in a portrait hanging on the wall, as the following Charro Negro. El Charro then tells her that he cannot escape his destiny to be his successor, and that he will become a great Charro Negro who will spread his evil throughout the region. Leo, not wanting that fate, tries to escape with the bottle with Beatriz's soul, then El Charro Negro takes Leo by the feet with his whip, then elevates him to air (making him break Beatriz's bottle) and once he is trapped enters his body to possess him completely.

Saving Leo

El charro negro villainous breakdown

El Charro Negro roaring in fury when confronted by the "Ghost Hunting Team" that intends to stop the phase of their next plan and villainous breakdown.

Almost, on the point of a duel, the contest between "the ghost-hunting team" and "the villains" is stopped when Leo San Juan leaves the ranch to be finally possessed by El Charro Negro, heading outside and disappearing the illusions of past enemies. Now with the gift of being able to see ghosts and travel between dimensions, El Charro Negro, inside Leo's body, would call his hellish stallion and at the same time a portal to earth would open, ready to finish the next phase of his plan. The ghost-hunting team, horrified, had no choice but to prevent El Charro Negro from contacting him further afield and for this they had to take away his abilities from Leo, implying that he could not see his great friend again. On the other hand Rupertino cries when entering at the empty hacienda and finding the broken bottle that contained the soul of his daughter. Nando slyly called Leo's attention with the intention of taking his hand and tricking him that they were going to make a deal, holding him back so that others could act and take away his powers, which resulted in a furious Leo who had no compassion in attacking his brother. El Charro's anger manifested in Leo made his friends hold him while the skulls shot him the "light of ethereal purity", weakening him as if to render immobile. With the support of Rupertino and Chuy, little by little the ghost hunting team takes out the white crystal from inside Leo (which serves as a portal to transit through spiritual worlds), expelling the Charro Negro inside his body. When everything seemed to be calm, some cracks smoked a dark energy and turned into black clouds that formed a giant shadow, emerging, among the rubble of the hacienda, a powerful elemental form of El Charro Negro. With the portal still open, Rupertino takes Leo to earth and Nando accompanies them, leaving Xóchitl and the others in the underworld so El Charro Negro rushes towards them and confront in one last battle.

In the end Rupertino was able to return Beatriz's soul to her body and save her, while Leo and his brother managed to escape from the clutches of El Charro Negro with the certainty of never seeing him again, returning home in peace. Despite not revealing if El Charro had survived in the fight, the crow, that foreshadowed his arrival, could still be seen, observing Puebla at the night before the credits.

Returning

At the end of the film La Leyenda de los Chaneques, it is revealed to us that the black charro is still alive, and Leo San Juan has already recovered his ability to be in the world of the dead, so he is going to go for him.

Other Appearances

Teaser Trailer - La Leyenda del Charro Negro

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Jafar says: Read my lips and come to grips with the reality!

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Developing

For the "Charro Negro" figure, the filmmakers have considered including him in the franchise for a while. Rodríguez called the figure a "very powerful and seductive character", making the character "dangerous". "It's interesting how Leo San Juan, our main character, is going to deal with this dark and powerful force," said Rodríguez. The filmmakers wanted to give the figure a more 'Mexican' taste to match the national cinema's 'golden age' by giving him an attractive personality and arming him with golden spurs. "It's a historical character," said Rodríguez. "We have it in the psyche of the Mexican". We have it very present.

Among the newcomers is Erick Elías as the voice of Charro Negro. Elías shared his experience on working in the film, stating that he's satisfied with the work, despite some difficulties in developing a matching tone for the character. "t is a pride that I have been invited to be part of this made by Mexicans, for Mexicans I feel identified with everything that happens with this Leyenda," he said. "I faced great difficulties because I had to give him that personality only with his voice," he said. "We had an arduous table job with the director, finding the "norteño" tone with that serious accent. To achieve it was a very fun and complicated process, but in the end I liked the experience.

Relationships

Allies

Enemies

  • The "Widdow" Díaz (debtor, victim)
  • Enrique Manuel Vásquez (debtor, victim)
  • Vicente Bravo Anaya (debtor, victim)
  • Juan Ramírez (debtor, victim)
  • Dozens of people who made a deal with him (debtors, victims)
  • Rupertino (debtor, attempted victim)
  • Beatriz (victim when he stoled her soul, although it is later recovered)
  • Ana the gypsy
  • Leo San Juan (archenemy, puppet used to obtain his gifts and cross other spiritual worlds)
  • Nando San Juan
  • Teodora Villavicencio
  • Xóchitl Ahuactzin
  • Finado and Moribunda
  • Alebrije
  • Don Andrés
  • Evaristo
  • Chuy (possibly victim)

Quotes

Leo: I was looking for you.
El Charro Negro: For he who seeks, finds.
Leo: I want to make a deal with you.
El Charro Negro: Forget it, I do not deal with children
Leo: I'm not a child!
El Charro Negro: Oh no?
~ El Charro Negro when he encountered Leo in the official teaser.
Rupertino: That buckeye is mine! And I don't know this man!.
Old Man: You don't? Do you remember twelve years ago? When you came to me... begging for help.
Rupertino: No, It can not be!
Old Man:
wicked laugh You fool. creepy laugh
Charro Negro: Did you really think that you could hide from Charro Negro? Time to pay up.
Rupertino:It was a long time ago and...
Beatriz: You made a deal with Charro Negro?
Charro Negro: Yes, he did. The coward thought he'd be protected from me... if he wore the buckeye. So... you are little Beatriz, his daughter.
Rupertino: Take my soul.
Charro Negro: No, it's fine, I don't want it anymore.
Rupertino: Really? Thanks a lot!
Charro Negro: I'll settle for your daughter's soul.

Rupertino: No! I made the deal.
Charro Negro: A deal whose rules changed the moment you didn't keep your end of the bargain. You're a coward. THis will teach you to honor your oaths.
evil laugh'
~ El Charro Negro returning to charge an settle pendant with Rupertino
Charro Negro: When Beatriz's soul is distilled in this bottle, it will be too late for yours.
Leo: What is there to do?
Charro Negro: Well, there are four that it hurts me to have lost, and that only you, can you help me to recover them.
Leo: Where?
Charro Negro: Ah, well at "my fair".
Leo: There is no fair.
Charro Negro: Ah of course!
snapping
They have even before the rooster crows.
Rupertino: Come on!
Teodora: And my cellphone?
Charro Negro: ¡Remember! Until before the cock crows, not a minute more
evil laugh
~ Leo and his team in a proposal with El Charro Negro to recover Beatriz's soul
Don Andrés: Let's try again, before Charro Negro come back.
Alebrije: Oh Don Andrés, you just don't get it. El Charro Negro doesn't want us, he want Leo.
Don Andrés: Huh, are you sure?
Alebrije: Obviously, Leo can see both the living and the dead. That's what Charro Negro wants.
Don Andrés: More the reason to get out of here, lizard.
Alebrije: Moreover, we need to take away whatever it is that makes him see beyond anybody else can see.
~ Don Andrés and Alebrije referring the true machination of El Charro Negro
Everyone in this life wants something. It's the nature, we suffer so much because he is never happy... with the cards we're dealt.
~ El Charro Negro talking to the heroes about the lives he has known.
To see boys what defines the human being?; their essence, their soul? what it is, the will, the purity, that's what it's worth, not the dirty money
~ El Charro speaking with the adventurers about the importance of the enriching kind spirit.

(The Charro Negro begins to play a gloomy melody, and when he finishes, he approaches to talk with Ana) Ana: What are you doing here?
Charro Negro: I came here to see if you needed anything, it's so desolate out here.
Ana: Go away, you're not welcome! There's nothing for you here .
Charro Negro: We don't know that yet, gypsy. Though we'll soon find out.
Ana: I won't let you take her.
Charro Negro: It isn't up to you or me, is it? I only came to collect the debt of the ambitious.
Ana: Or of the desperate who didn't have a choice?.
(El Charro Negro tries to bring his hand close to Ana's face and she pushes it away)
Charro Negro: Angry noises There's always another choice, gypsy, always.
(The Charro Negro proceeds to retreat becoming a black puddle that sinks into ground)

~ El Charro Negro arguing with Ana that it will be in vain to save Beatríz and it will not do any good to prevent his soul from leaving the earthly world
El Charro Negro: What went wrong, Leo? You failed Beatriz.
Leo: Save her, please.
El Charro Negro: See? You finally you want something from me. I told you so. Don't worry, Leo, we must fulfill what was already written.
Leo: I don't get it.
El Charro Negro: Do you know what this is? it's what happens to people who play with the living and the dead. You and me are alike.
Leo: No, we're not.
El Charro Negro:
sinister laugh You still don't get it, fo you?
Leo: No.
El Charro Negro: Of course you do. you had to come here of your own free will. And you did.
~ El Charro Negro trying to enter reason Leo to lose hope and accept his true destiny.
You can't evade your destiny, Leo. We belong to a long bloodline. You'll be my successor.
~ El Charro Negro tying Leo San Juan with his whip before entering his body.
Your time has come, Leo San Juan.
~ El Charro Negro first words on his return swearing possible revenge on Leo.

Trivia

  • Despite all the tradition of the movies is to tell their legends, but in this case his is never related in the whole plot leaving unknown who he was before and how he became El Charro Negro.
  • El Charro Negro is one of the two entities, along with El Chupacabras, in which Fray Godofredo has no knowledge of its existence and therefore, he did not assign them as missions for the Ghost-Hunting Team.
    • However, El Chupacabras was not such a big threat because in the end it was Merolick who turned out to be the real antagonist.
  • He is the only main antagonist who had no interest in assassinating Leo San Juan because of his abilities, that of seeing ghosts and that of traveling through spiritual worlds.
  • El Charro Negro was considered to appear as the main antagonist from the second movie, but it was decided to leave him as an overarching villain that was involved in the entire movie saga for being an interesting and mysterious, finally being the main villain in the fifth installment.
    • The author of the saga Ricardo Arnaiz had planned at the beginning of the production of the fifth film that Leo San Juan would be kidnapped by El Charro Negro and left in a labyrinth full of brambles and wait to be rescued by his brother Nando, reversing the roles in the one where one brother rescues the other.
    • In the original script it was also planned that El Charro Negro would have a son and that he would search for him as a ghost lost in the labyrinth.
  • El Charro Negro is the most serious and sinister villain of the saga, since he does not show any trait of kindness and does not intend to redeem himself at any time. The other main antagonists without any good qualities would be La Nahuala, Rousseau, Inmate Mummies, Merolick and Moira.
    • In a way Rousseau would also count. Although his goal was to revive his girlfriend, it is clear that he did not care in the least about upsetting the balance between life and death.
  • After Zaina, El Charro Negro becomes the second villain in a Mexican animated film to proclaim revenge at the end of La Leyenda de los Chaneques.
    • This was because it was never clear whether he had been completely defeated.

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Moira's Faction
Moira | Pascual | Deveriux | Chuletl | Chuletl' Alebrije | Deveriux' Tar Dweller

Underworld
El Charro Negro | Resendo | Hellish Stallion | Ghostly Crow | Chuy | Magdalena | Watermelon Critters | Apache Archer | The Devil | Grim Reaper | Globe Giant | Shaman

Royalist Army
General Torreblanca | Soldier Larios | Soldier Licona | Hurtado & Aguilar | Viceroy Villegas

Army of Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl | Baba Yaga | Nu Gui | Horrorosos | Chilan | Chilan Disciples | Jersey Devil | Vodnik

The Brotherhood
Gerald Upton | Coyolxāuhqui | Brother Grace | Brother MacGuffin | Cinnamon Bling | Mayor Renfield | Brotherhood Recruits | Churel

Legends and Foes
La Nahuala | Santos Machorro | Creature of Evil | Nahuala's Fiends | Villavicencio Family | La Llorona | Pecas | Dolls Henchmen | Tiro & Pujo | Haunted House | Willy | Rousseau | Inmate Mummies | Mictlantecuhtli | Citizen Mummies | Merolick | El Chupacabras | Cacomixtle | Desert Bandits | Witchs of México | Vampire from the Tree | Bridge Fireflies | Smiley Flowers | Chaneques | Cenobio | Jungle Lumberjacks
Medusa | Kaiju Monster | Mister Madera | Golem | Terracotta Warriors | Nicht Mart | Cabin Possesions | Fenrir | Mrs. Wisp | Bactus | Ittan Momen | Cave Trolls | Emperor of China | Basan | Mother Leeds | Ronald | Powrie | Efrit | Fire Mummies | Tepe Tree | Caipora | Rainforest Animals | Wendigos (Dave and Rick) | El Coco | Gargouille | Evaristo | Anansi | Aswang

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