Bruno Cortez

Hector Juan Julio "Bruno" Cortez is the main protagonist of the Bruno cartoon series and The Little Adventures of Bruno cartoon series.

About
Bruno is a young teenage boy who is always seen with nails in his mouth. He wears orange suspenders, a green striped shirt, brown pants and brown sneakers. Out of uniform, he has dark skin, sports a Mexican brown poncho, wears a red shirt, jeans and wears sandals opposed to his sneakers.

Nationality
Bruno is Mexican American revealing that his parents were natives from Tangamandapio (Upsidedowntown/Knob Haven). Revealing in the third movie of the Bruno series, he is also of Brazillian descent.

History
As a baby, he was abandoned in an eighth apartment door and lived by himself for twelve years controlling his hunger and feeding from other's sympathy. He worked as a cobbler in an old sweat shop when he was around 5. As he grew older, he became a street performer; donning on white makeup which he never took off excpet on special occasions, and wearing nails in his mouth (based on Tack the Cobbler from The Thief and the Cobbler) to symbolize his workmanship. Because of his mime talents, he can make any imaginary and/or invisible objects he mimes into reality (example, he mimes making a skateboard and an actual skateboard appears after he was done building). His main weapon is the Mimepault, which involves grabbing one of his tacks and flings it at the exact target with an invisible slingshot (or rubberband), although the tack flies out of nowhere, the tack appears back on Bruno's mouth with no explination.

He always have a craving for ham tortas (ham sandwich), a popular kind of sandwich in Mexico, even so much as singing the Jamon Bailar (Ham Dance) which is based on the Karubidon Dance from Kinnikuman Nisei (Ultimate Muscle). He also adores souvlakia, chocolate cake, empanadas and chicken soup. For a weird reason, he dislikes pork despite ham tortas being made from pork. In the final season, he loses the tacks in his mouth and ditches the "street performer" gimic allowing him to speak correctly and to have more action. Although in the spinoff, he gained the nails and makeup back and spoke correctly but lost the street performer gig.

At one point, he found a mystical coin at Knob Haven High and transformed into a half-human/half-elf like superhero with the number 25 bulded on his chest (containing a crystal that glows when someone is in trouble) named Íþrottaálfurinn (Icelandic: Sports Elf/Sportacus), an athletic elf wearing an orange hat, a 10 blue T-shirt, green pants and elf shoes who is able to do twenty five high gymnastics and acrobatic skills and other exercising skills. His design was later changed in future episodes to look more like Magnus Scheving's character Sportacus from children's TV show, LazyTown. His name is pronounced as hazar-ring instead of the true Icelandic pronounciation and is known as The Sports Elf in the English dub. Also, in the English dub version, he is more displayed as a human superhero than an elf. In the Japanese version, his catchphrase is "Hai hai hai", opposed to the Spanish version where it's "Eso, eso, eso" (of El Chavo fame) and the English version where it's "Yeah Yeah Yeah". He can speak English, Spanish and Portruguese. He learned some Japanese and sang Kyu Sakamoto's Sukiyaki in one episode.

During the courses of Bruno in Spain and the episodes of the third season, he has adapted an anti-hero bad boy rebel persona named Louie Rocko with a bad attitude in John Travolta attire in Japanese style. Louie Rocko's main appearance was in "Rebel without a Nail" (basing off the movie "Reben without a Cause"). Senor Hurtado is the only person alongside Ami and Jhack who knows that Bruno is both Íþrottaálfurinn and Louie Rocko.

He was 11 at the start of the Bruno series, 12 at the middle of the Bruno series and beginning of the spinoff and currently 13 during the spin off.

Voice actors
Jesus Guzman voiced Bruno for all projects in the original Spanish dub. In the Spanish version, he is more talkative. He was known as Chavito in that version.

Jules de Jongh voiced Bruno in the English pilot episode for the series. He was replaced by Mona Marshall for the rest of the English projects. In the English and Japanese version, he speaks less but makes wise-cracking remarks in later scenes until the second season. He spoke normally in the spin off.

Ari Orikasa played Bruno in the Japanese dub.

It is unknown who played Bruno in the Icelandic dub, possibly Magnus Scheving.

Trivia

 * He hates pork despite loving ham.
 * He originally had three nails but it was edited so he could speak clearly. The edit was permanently changed with the spinoff.