¡Mucha Lucha! (subtitled Gigante during its third and final season) is a Mexican-American animated television series that aired on the Kids' WB block on The WB from August 17, 2002, to February 26, 2005. It was created by Eddie Mort and Lili Chin and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It is the first animated television series intended for children created with Macromedia Flash, a program which became widely used as a medium for animation in the following years.
The show is set in Luchaville, a fictional town in Southern California centered on lucha libre, a Mexican style of wrestling, where nearly everyone wears a costume (they are never seen without their mask) and has a well-known wrestling move. These wrestling moves being capable of transforming the character in relation to the naming of the move. The series mainly centres on three friends, Rikochet, Buena Girl, and the Flea, as they struggle through the Foremost World-Renowned International School of Lucha, where they study to become Luchadores.
