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"I don't [party] for the popularity. I do it to spread positivity with all of my friends!"
―Salvador Martinez

Salvador Andres Martinez Lopez, better known by his nickname San Salvador is a main recurring character in Sibling Rivalries.

He is a good friend of Angel Chacon and Tony Gonzales, and is a popular Salvadoran teenager living in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Description[]

Salvador was born in San Salvador, El Salvador sometime in 1997, and moved to the United States of America on July 8, 2002, when he was just 5 years old. He would later give him the nickname "San Salvador" in honor of the country that he came from.

Some time after moving in Green Bay, Salvador would meet Tony Gonzales. Tony was pretty shy but Salvador became his best friend, which increased his confidence. Salvador would go on to grow a group of friends for them to share, including Angel Chacon and other kids of Green Bay. As he had many friends that saw him as a role model, Salvador would become pretty popular. In fact, he would become so popular that he was initially described as a bit of a celebrity; Packie was already familiar with him before meeting him in "San Salvador's Story".

Personality[]

San Salvador was portrayed as a very popular character from the start, enjoying parties and hanging out with friends. He is also a ladies' man and enjoys trying to impress them, from telling them he is on the varsity football team or showing his muscles.

Salvador's defining trait is the fact that he is very loyal towards good people, as he ends his friendship with Giovanni after siding with the McRearys. Salvador likes people who are positive, and does not party just to show off his popularity, but because he just wants to spread happiness to his friends. In the comic "Joyride", after Giovanni mocks him for being disloyal, Salvador defends himself by saying he dislikes Giovanni since they only spread negativity, and chooses to race him just to show how loyal he is to the McReary siblings.

San Salvador is religious, shown more after Season 6 when he always appears with a cross necklace. In "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" (a non-canon comic, however) he wears a shirt that says "JESUS" and has a cross. Before racing Giovanni in "Joyride", he was praying that he and Tony would win. He confirmed to be Catholic in "Journey to the Bottom of the Pool", being one of a few confirmed religious characters besides the McReary siblings (confirmed to be Catholic in the same episode) until "Christmas In July" establishes more of other characters' beliefs.

Salvador is strongly against the use of drugs or alcohol, known when on a party invitation when he specifically tells people to avoid bringing these items in the comic "Pack To The Future".

Age[]

The series has a rule where every character never ages past their 2013 ages (despite years going by in real-life time), with San Salvador following that rule for seven seasons. He was always 15 years old (born in 1998), and a freshman in high school. However, as of the last Season 7 comic, San Salvador (along with Giovanni Ancelotti)'s age was retconned. Now, he is 16 years old (date of birth pushed back to 1997) and now a sophomore instead, as well as possessing a drivers' license.

The reason for this change was because San Salvador was always the oldest of the McRearys' friends, and GTA Nerd wanted one of their friends to be able to drive them around without having to bring in a new character. This can also give San Salvador a new role in the series, since the character was always more or less underused. No other characters will receive unnecessary age changes.

Trivia[]

  • Salvador is a high school student, yet he accidentally appeared as a student at Wisconsin Elementary School in both "The Football Faker" and "Menace at Work". Although, both of these appearances were during lunch time so he may have simply been visiting (which is still strange because he should have been at his own school).
  • He is the oldest of all of Packie and the siblings' friends.
  • Up until "Meet The Robots!", as a running gag, whenever somebody mentions San Salvador in front of Salvador Rosales, he gets confused and says "San WHO?".
  • San Salvador joked that he did not like Salvador Ventura due to having the same name, but Salvador took it personally and now hates San Salvador for the rest of the series, which San Salvador has played along with. The two even get hostile and engage in a fight in "Straight Outta Green Bay".
    • As of recent seasons, the two barely have any interactions. It may be possible they still don't like each other as Rosales was absent from Martinez' party in "Journey to the Bottom of the Pool". In "Rock n' Roll, Bro!", Rosales watches Martinez' garage band perform and is shown to be annoyed at Martinez talking.
      • However, in "Pack To The Future" Ventura is present at Martinez' party and shown to be happy, indicating they might have became friends.
  • San Salvador may be popular throughout North America, as someone in Canada mentions him in Sibling Rivalries: Salvador V's Adventures circa 2012, although he lives in Wisconsin circa 2013. Also, it is said that he is Packie's idol, which means he may have known him before the series even started.
  • San Salvador seems to be proud of his Salvadoran roots, which may be why he have himself the nickname, "San Salvador", in honor of the town he was born in.
  • He is the only character in the entire franchise to not have a trademark outfit; in all of his appearances, he wears something different. As mentioned, all outfits from Season 6 onward have him wearing a cross outfit as well.
  • He has an older brother named Cristino Martinez that is curently at a college in El Salvador working to earn his master's degree. ("Wouldn't It Be Nice?")
  • Beginning with Season 7, San Salvador was drawn with pimples as to distinguish him from Francis who also received a slight redesign.
  • San Salvador appears to love the real-life Green Bay radio stations WAPL 105.7, which plays rock, and La Mas Grande 92.7 (call sign WAUN-FM) which plays regional Mexican. When he is driving around his car in the comic "Joyride", both of these stations appear on his screen at different times; he rocks out to "Highway Star" by Deep Purple and "China Grove" by The Doobie Brothers (both of which would match the genre of WAPL), and his radio is tuned into WAUN-FM during the entirety of his race with Giovanni. Salvador also seems to like the pop station WIXX 101.1 as he wears a shirt with the station logo in "Home Sweet Home".
  • San Salvador's love for rock music is reaffirmed in "The 100th Comic Spectacular!" when he is excited to meet Alice Cooper and reveals that he loves Alice's radio show. And of course, this led to the comic "Rock n' Roll, Bro!" being about him forming a classic rock garage band with Oliver Madison and a girl named Lizzy Liz.
  • In "Joyride", more details are revealed about him from his drivers' license aside from his full name: he weighs 152 pounds, is 5'8" tall, lives on the fictional 600 West Bellic Road in Green Bay, and (despite the comics not having color), he has brown hair and brown eyes.
  • Despite having a 13 feet deep pool, he is very afraid of deep water, enough to make him start freaking out as his only weakness ("Journey to the Bottom of the Pool").
  • Him and his brother may have been born out of wedlock, as in "Like Father, Like Sons (And Daughter)" he mentions that he attended his parents' wedding.
  • Before Season 7, San Salvador was strangely portrayed as being quite weak. In Season 3 comic "Like Father, Like Sons (And Daughter)", he lets his nose get broken while fighting the Warriors, and in Season 6 comic "Get Rec'd!", Salvador punches Joel, but Joel manages to hit him back harder and knock him out. By the Second Revival Era, Salvador is the toughest of the McReary siblings' friends and the Warriors are afraid.
  • He is one of only a few characters with known middle names. Others include Jason Parker and Giovanni Ancelotti III.

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