FIGHTS: Meet The ZombieBloodFights.com Tex-Mex Superheroes

THREE SUPERHEROES PROTECT CITIES AND FIGHT CRIME IN SOUTH TEXAS
by
Bowie V. Ibarra

ZombieBloodFights.com has been on quite a superhero kick lately.  With its broad range of potential with stories and characters, you can bet ZBF.com is going to have some fun writing about them.  But you, the reader, will be the one that benefits.

Below is a list of the three main superheroes that will be the lynchpins of the ZombieBloodFights.com library superheroes.

(currently available in Kindle)

LA LECHUSA

Real Name:  Paula Belle Luna
Place of Birth:  San Uvalde, Texas
Alignment:  Chaotic Good
Powers:  Elevated Strength, Superior Fighting Skills
Weapons Proficiencies:  Bowie Knife, throwing knives, Compound bow and arrow
Magic:  Has a cursed owl necklace that, when broken, can conjure a true Lechusa
Allies:  Reverend Hugo Farkas of the East Side Baptist Church, Celestina (the curandera)
Base of operations:  San Uvalde, Texas
Arch Enemy:  N/A

BACKGROUND

Paula Belle Luna is a single mother living in a trailer home in San Uvalde Estates with her mother, Emma, and her daughter, Mariana.  During the day, Paula works as the receptionist for Vasquez Construction.  But at night, she's an operative for a secret government organization.

Paula discovered her powers in her teenage years when she was violated by her then boyfriend.  Discovering her new elevated strengths, she was encouraged to join the military, where her super strength and fighting skill earned her a spot on the clandestine military team, Five Points.  After getting pregnant, she left the organization by faking her death, but remained as an operative for the organization afterwards.

Though Paula has superior hand-to-hand skill, knife proficiency, and elevated strength, she is not invulnerable.

Her neighbor is Sra Irma Celestina, and old woman who is also a curandera.  Sra. Celestina gives Paula and her daughter necklaces to wear with magical powers.  When broken, the necklace conjures the supernatural force called 'La Lechusa'.

Her contact in San Uvalde is Reverend Hugo Farkas.  He is an ex-military man who provides all the orders for Paula as well as her gear.  He operates under the East Side Baptist Church.

For now, La Lechusa is San Uvalde's greatest defender.

Here's one of her original book trailers.

 

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THE VIOLET SPECTRE / KATARXENA

Real Name:  Lorraine Blacksmith
Place of Birth:  San Antonio, Texas
Alignment:  Lawful Good
Powers:  (Available when Bracelets of Katarxena are activated) Flight, Super Strength, Mayan Fighting Arts
Weapons:  (Available when Bracelets of Katarxena are activated) Spiritual Rod that can shift into a whip, a macuhuitl, etc.
Magic:  (Available when Bracelets of Katarxena are activated) Spell Casting
Allies:  Gerardo, finance manager at McNulty Museum
Base of Operations:  McNulty Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Arch Enemy:  N/A

BACKGROUND

Lorraine Blacksmith was tapped to be the curator of the McNulty Museum in San Antonio, Texas, when the founder, Sara McNulty, passed away.  Unbeknownst to Lorraine, a large collection of magical relics lay in hiding under the museum in Room 26.  Lorraine discovers that McNulty not only hid these relics, but wielded an ancient Mayan power through the Bracelets of Katarxena.  When activated, her body is possessed by the spirit of the ancient Mayan high priestess, Katarxena.

When she is possessed by the spirit of Katarxena, she has elevated strength and is partially invulnerable, as the spirit takes over her body.  But the longer she is in a conflict, the weaker she becomes.  When the spirit leaves her body, Lorraine's is left exhausted, and she needs to sleep for long periods of time to recover, depending on the energy spent.

Lorraine not only helps to run the museum, but now has a responsibility to protect not only the relics in the museum and any power they might wield, but the city of San Antonio as The Violet Specter.  She is called that because witnesses who first saw her noticed that her form was ghost-like and purple in appearance.

Here's one of the trailers.

 

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TEJANO STAR

Real Name:  Unknown
Place of Birth:  Del Rio, Texas
Alignment:  Neutral Good
Powers:  (When Star Power Necklace is activated) Flight, Sonic Attack (The 'Grito'), elevated strength
Weapons:  N/A
Magic:  N/A
Allies:  Lane, the band manager of Tejano Star y Los Caballeros
Base of Operations:  Del Rio, Texas
Arch Enemy:  Chaplain Skull

Tejano Star is not only one of south Texas and Northern Mexico's superheroes, but he's also the lead singer of one of the best Tejano bands in Texas: Tejano Star y Los Caballeros.  Traveling around the state of Texas, Tejano Star not only sings to sold out dance halls, but fights crime in the cities he sings in.

Tejano Star gets his powers from an extra-terrestrial charm that he wears around his neck.  He calls it 'La Estrella de la Noche', translated to 'The Night Star'.  He activates the power of the star with the words, 'Estrella de la Noche, dame el poder!'  This translates to, "Night Star, give me the power!"

When he has activated the Star, Tejano Star can fly, has elevated strength, and his greatest power, which is a Sonic Attack he calls 'El Grito'.  This shout can incapacitate foes and knock down barriers.  But its use saps him of his energy, and he loses strength each time he uses it.

Here's the trailer.

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Do yourself a favor.  If you enjoy fun superhero stories, pick either of these three for some good fun today, courtesy of ZombieBloodFights.com.

BOWIE V. IBARRA is the author of the 'Down the Road' zombie horror series from Permuted Press and Simon and Schuster.  Bowie earned a BFA in Acting and MA in Theatre History from Texas State University. 

Network with Bowie for updates and news at his official website, ZombieBloodFights.com.

FIGHTS: 9 Reasons to find and watch 'The Battle: Cinco de Mayo'

HISTORY, MEXICAN NATIONALISM LACE STORY OF PIT FIGHTING GLORY
By
Bowie V. Ibarra

 

 

Every so often, you can find some little pieces of gold in the $5 DVD bin at Wal-Mart.  ZombieBloodFights.com found this little pit fighting-themed nugget some time back, and it was a fun and ridiculous little movie with a Latino empowerment theme.  Fun, ridiculous, Latino empowerment?  I'm all for it.

 

Here are reasons why you should check out this movie when you have a chance.

 

1.  THE STORY - The story itself is alright.  It's about a Latino kid who is smart and has ambitions in his life, including going to college.  He gets a scholarship, but loses it when he sticks up for a female student at school.

 

Needing money, he ends up learning the fighting art of lucha libre from an old lucha coach, and ends up fighting as the masked luchador, 'Tequila Power', a new force in underground money fights.  He eventually earns the right to fight the king of the southern California money fight scene, the Frenchamn Eiffel Tower, in the big finish.

2.  MEXICAN HISTORY AS A PLOT DEVICE - Everyone knows that Cinco de Mayo is a holiday that Mexican's the world over celebrate in honor of the Mexican victory over France at the Battle of Puebla  That's the battle where the ragtag Mexican Army led by General Zaragoza beat Napoleon the III's forces at the Battle of Puebla.

Not really.  Diez-y-seis is a bigger holiday in Mexico, and Cinco is really an American-style holiday that Mexican-American's use as an excuse to drink beer.  But it was cool to have this historic event used as the big angle for the final fight between Tequila Power (Mexico) vs. The Eiffel Tower (France) in the steel cage of an underground money fight. 

Cinco de Mayo fight to show Mexicans can still give it all they've got, its symbolic, to show world what Latino's can be.

3.  NON-STEREOTYPED POTENTIAL FOR HISPANICS - It was cool to see Juan's grandmother want more from his grandson, outside of the stereotypical 'cholo' family seen in mainstream entertainment.  His mom died at childbirth, his father did 'underground money fights', and his grandmother made tamales to sell at the pulga, his grandmother did not want Juan to be 'just another Latino in America'.  She filled Juan with the motivation to put himself in a better place through education, an education he had to literally fight for.

Now if that's not a message every Latino or Hispanic needs to hear TODAY, TOMORROW, AND FOREVER.

4.  DON BENITO

After sticking up for an old man in a back alley, Juan discovers the dude he saved is a former lucha libre coach.  Don Benito takes Juan under his wing and instills pride and the history of lucha libre in him. 

Yes, you heard that right.  He trains Juan to be a money fighter, takes him to his first money fight, and helps him discover what his mask will represent after telling him the history of lucha libre.
He said Mexican wrestlers were heroes to the Mexican people.  Then he goes off on the legends of the sport and what their masks represented:
 - Blue Demon - Integrity
-Santo - Honor
- He said 'Tecnico' live by the tenants of honor, strength, integrity.  They become the person the mask represents.
- El Toro - perserverance. 
- Do not be unmasked.  If you were, you were forever humbled to your foe. 

When he had a mask custom made at the pulga, the Tequila Power mask, the maker said, 'Strike a bolt for Latinos everywhere.'  Andale!

5.  THE DIALOGUE - Because its ridiculous, but it still works.

Here's a favorite:
Juan - Is there a move to counter the tilt-a-whirl backbreaker?
Don Benito - Yes, but it is very dangerous.

Or this one:
Juan - I'm Tequila Power.  I puts the 'can' in Mexican.

Or this:
Girlfriend - Get him out of the ring, he's going to get killed.
Don Benito - No, no. He's following his heart.

6.  THE TRAINING OF DON BENITO

If this is how El Santo and Blue Demon trained, I'll be goddamned.  If you thought Nacho's training was ridiculous, here's Don Benito's training regimen.
-- Keep the Dog from biting you - Don Benito put a dog in the ring and told Tequila Power not to get bit by the dog. 
Funny side story:  When I ever so briefly trained in pro-wrestling, it was in a ring in a wrestlers back yard.  While doing agility drills, the family dog jumped in the ring and bit one of my trainers.  True story.
-- Ford Fiesta move - Move a Ford Fiesta.  Yup.
-- Insult the Thug cook at a Taco Stand - Don Benito tells the Thug Cook that Juan won't pay and insulted his mother.  A wacky chase begins.
--  Lipstick Challenge at the Biker Bar - Don Benito takes Juan to a biker bar and challenges him to put a mark of lipstick on ten bikers.

The best part is when he eventually masters all these drills.  Classic.

7. SEX SCENE IN THE BOXING RING TO 80s STYLE MUSIC
Yeah, I kind of threw up a little in my mouth, too. 
Nothing turns me on more than the idea of banging out the girl I love on the canvas of a ring laced with the accumulated slobber, sweat, and blood of any number of fights.  A true fantasy that is disgusting in reality.

8.  THE GHOST OF HIS GRANDMOTHER
Every fight movie cliché has the protagonist down and almost out when his final bit of inspiration gives him his second wind.  In this one, its the ghost of his mom, who appears to tell him she doesn't hate seeing him fight, he hates seeing him lose.  'You're a Mexican', she says, "And Mexican's don't give up."

9.   A LATINO WHO ENDS UP GOING TO COLLEGE AT THE END

In the end, Juan honors his father and grandmother.  He used his fists and fighting skill inherited from his father to earn his way into 'Political Science' College.  And that was the actual name of the college, 'Political Science'.

All in all, you've got to find it and watch it.  The execution is alright, the performances are okay, but the story and the heart behind it are as good as gold.  Look for it in your Wal-Mart bargain bin today.

If money fights and Latino pride are your cup of tea, you'll love both 'Pit Fighters: Baptism by Fire' and 'Pit Fighters: Double Cross'.  Both are combat sports-themed books that features fights from the early days of MMA, and features a lucha libre superstar who crosses over into underground money fights.  You've got to check them out, and they're available on Kindle or paperback today.

 

BOWIE V. IBARRA is the author of the 'Down the Road' zombie horror series from Permuted Press and Simon and Schuster.  His latest story, 'Tejano Star and the Vengeance of Chaplain Skull' is a Tex-Mexploitation superhero story in the tradition of 'Machete' and 'Black Dynamite'.  Get it in paperback or Kindle today.

Bowie earned a BFA in Acting and MA in Theatre History from Texas State University.  Network with Bowie for updates and news at his official website, ZombieBloodFights.com.