Angelino

""Yesterday I was just a normal f**king dude minding my business and today I'm a goddamn terrorist?""

- ~ Angelino (film)

Angelino Diaz, often simply called Lino, is the protagonist of Mutafukaz. He lives in Rios Rosas , Dark Meat City in Hotel Santa Teresa with his best friend and roommate, Vinz. As the son of a Macho father and a human mother, he inherited super-human abilities, a fact to which he is initially oblivious. The awakening of his powers attracts the attention of the Machos and kickstarts the plot of the series.

Appearance
Angelino is a short 22-year-old young man with a spherical, disproportionately large head, oversized eyes and tiny, pitch black pupils. His onyx-like skin is often rendered with bright highlights, making it appear sleek and shiny. A large scar cuts horizontally across his belly and left side.

In the film adaptation, the color of his skin is made slightly lighter. His facial expressions are softer and less wrinkled, and his hands have five fingers, as opposed to four.

While Lino sports a variety of different outfits throughout the series, they’re typically some sort of unremarkable urban attire. Most often, they consist of large, baggy trousers and a light colored shirt which contrasts with his dark skin tone.

Personality
Angelino is a self-described loser: most of the time, his main goal in life is to simply survive. To that end, he is meek and non-confrontational, keeping his head low and trying not to attract attention.

Despite feeling frustrated with life and having low hopes for the future, Lino is notably less cynical than Vinz. He often searches for a silver lining in the shitty situations he finds himself in, and tries to get his partner to look on the bright side. Occasionally, he's shown to be caring and trusting; he feeds the cockroaches in his apartment and is fairly tolerant towards Willy.

His encounter and instant infatuation with Luna also reveals a somewhat naïve, romantic side to his character.

Lino’s typical passivity is undermined by his nature as half-Macho. In the face of danger, he reacts with uncharacteristic strength, speed and brutality. Discovering the origin of this power as well as its uncontrollable destructive potential makes him reluctant to use it.

History
Angelino was born in Great Falls, Montana. Being born as a Macho/Human hybrid, he was hunted down from infancy by Bruce and his henchmen in order to eliminate him or indoctrinate him. This led to his family being chased to Dark Meat City, New California. Here, in an effort to protect her son from the Machos and Bruce, Angela abandoned him in a dumpster, only for him to be found by a wounded Taz.

By the age of 22, Angelino lives in Dark Meat City as a pizza delivery man. While on the job Angelino is distracted by the look of a beautiful lady, Luna, and becomes involved in a head to head collision with a van that hardly had any breaks. Angelino survives the ordeal but suffers symptoms of a brain injury afterwards. He begins to hallucinate people's shadows as demons with tentacles.

Métamuta
The following section contains heavy spoilers for the entirety of Métamuta:

Angelino, when Vinz is "killed" by Bruce, vows to take Vinz's place. Angelino is killed and flashes back to the car chase, with major differences in events. Instead of the chase continuing, they lost the tail, crashing because Angelino lost focus and almost hit a dog. Vinz is ejected from the car, disappearing into the Black Hole. Angelino, assuming Vinz is dead, eventually picks up the Black Hole puts it in his shoe.

He goes on the run, lamenting about Vinz and wanting to save the world with him. He suffers from hallucinations, punching a hamburger for insulting him.

A mysterious kid gives him pictures of his mother. Angelino decides he needs a gun and sets off to find one. He finds one in a pawn shop, demanding that the pawnshop granny give it to him so he could save the world. He shows off the black hole, shoving his head inside and is trapped by the granny moments later. The granny lets him go after he apologies and she gives him the gun, telling him to go save the world.

There is a flash back to the day Angelino is abandoned. Angela tells him to sit quietly on a chair until she comes back. Later, Taz -in his dog form- enters the room, biting Angelino and tossing him on his back.

The scene jumps to present day, where Angelino lays in some garbage, looking at photos of his mother. "Vinz" reappears as a skull to insult him and Angelino kicks it away, lamenting about his "death".

He tries to get a free ride from a taxi, claiming to be the Chosen One. His mental state declines further as he runs off to save the world.

Then, he meets Luna in a grocery store. Angelino is instantly enamoured by her and she uses this to take his gun from him, shooting him a few times, turning it into a game of cat and mouse. She reveals that she is a Macho and the game continues.

The scene changes to Taz, Angela and Angelino fleeing from the Men in Black. Angela leaves Angelino in a dumpster, telling him she loves him.

Angelino's dream shifts again, to a fight with a boxer. He confesses that his love for Luna is uncontrollable. The wrestler tells him to hold back, to not show all his cards to her. Then he proceeds to knock him out of their dream, into another.

Waking up with a nosebleed, Angelino finds himself naked, under covers, with Luna, who is also naked.

He tells her that he's not playing anymore and she pins him, causing him to lose some control. The scene changes to Angelino and Luna getting dressed. Luna has Angelino dress up in an alien costume. They go out on the town, taking a Macho controlled taxi to Ninth and Broadway Building.

Luna tells Angelino to not look through the building. She leaves, letting Angelino keep his gun. Angelino promptly explores the building, finding a couple Machos and the boy that gave him the pictures of his mother overdosing in a hallway. Angelino tries to get the boy help while the Machos laugh at them.

The dream changes, Angelino lamenting about being so full of love and feelings, needing someone who would appreciate him for that. He wonders if he's dying.

The dream shifts again, to when Angelino was a child, finding a box with a skull in it. The skull lights up and Angelino plays with it.

Back to present day, Angelino is taking a bath when the Machos break into the building, shooting up the place in an attempt to kill Luna. A Macho throws a grenade, blowing up the room Angelino is in, dropping his gun and cornering him.

Luna charges into the room, distracting the Macho that was going to kill Angelino. Angelino gets his gun and he and Luna try to kill the Macho. Angelino is shoved out of the building and Luna leaps after him. Angelino's shoe flies off, the black hole opening, revealing Vinz, who catches Angelino's gun and shoots Luna, much to Angelino's dismay. Vinz disappears into the hole again. Angelino and Luna embrace as they fall into a bunch of balloons.

Puta Madre
Angelino makes a brief appearance in Puta Madre, appearing in one of Jesus "El Diablo's" dreams after Jesus hits his imaginary frenemy Spooky to make the entity leave him alone. Spooky sheds his skin, leaving a young Angelino in his place.

Angelino wakes up in the orphanage screaming, complaining about a man hitting him on the head in his dream.

Loba Loca
Angelino appears in one panel of Loba Loca. He is driving an RV, being overtaken by Tigre and Guadalupe in their own car. In the upcoming comic sequel, Mutafukaz 2, the same scene plays out from Lino and Vinz's perspectives.

Trivia

 * Angelino means "Little Angel" in Italian. Inhabitants of Los Angeles are called Angelenos, which is the city Dark Meat is based on.
 * RUN has said on Twitter that Angelino's name was also inspired by Lino Ventura, a 60s-70s French actor and wrestler. According to RUN, Ventura reminds him of his father.
 * Angelino and Vinz are sometimes drawn blinking by narrowing their pupils horizontally instead of closing their eyelids.
 * According to a comment RUN left on one of his Instagram posts, Angelino has trouble tying his shoelaces.