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{{Character
|name = El Barto
|image = [[File:Wanted El Barto.jpg|200px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = 
|age = 
|status = Fictional
|alias = [[Bart Simpson]]
|job = Graffiti tagger
|relatives = 
|appearance = "[[Homer's Odyssey]]"
|voiced by = [[Nancy Cartwright]]
}}

'''El Barto''' is [[Bart Simpson]]'s graffiti-tagging alter-ego, and is one of the most infamous outlaws in [[Springfield]]. 

== History ==
El Barto's signature can be seen in a number of different places around town, especially on state buildings. To this day, El Barto's true identity remains a mystery to the vast majority of the people of Springfield.

However, Bart told [[Principal Skinner]] that he was El Barto when he and Skinner fell into a vat of Peanut Shrimp.<ref>"[[Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em]]"</ref> [[Homer]] also seems to know who El Barto is, as he said "If Bart can be El Barto..."<ref name="[[Large Marge]]">"[[Large Marge]]"</ref>

How Homer found out isn't known, but it's possible that Bart told him as well. However, Homer did once say that he suspected that [[Milhouse]] was El Barto, even though at the time he was looking at a graffiti tag that showed Bart as Zorro.<ref>"[[The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly]]"</ref>

El Barto's notoriety extends even to [[Springfield Elementary School]]. [[Seymour Skinner]] once said that "Bart is the second most wanted student after the mysterious El Barto."<ref>"[[Pranks and Greens]]"</ref>

El Barto's tag has also been seen at [[East Springfield Elementary School]].<ref name="BSS">''[[¡Bart Speaks Spanish!]]''</ref>

=== Variations / Uses by other characters ===
Homer once tried to adopt "[[El Homo]]" as his graffiti tag alias, similar to "El Barto". However, he quickly gave up on the idea because his alias was misinterpreted by a [[Gay Latino man]] as a declaration that Homer was [[LGBT characters|homosexual]], rather than Homer's intended meaning of it being a Mexicanized version of his name.<ref name="[[Large Marge]]">"[[Large Marge]]"</ref>

After beating Bart in a skateboarding race, [[Barb Simpkins]] added insult to injury by tagging Bart's skateboard with "El Barbo".<ref>''[[The Rebooting!]]''</ref>

{{Noncanon}}
When [[Maggie]] and Bart clashed over what to watch on TV, Maggie spray-painted the "El Barto" tag on the wall to get Bart in trouble so she could watch what she wanted.<ref>''[[Maggie's Crib 29]]''</ref>

A severe blow to the head left Bart able to speak only Spanish and he went to a [[Meester Espock and Capitan Kirko|Lucha Libre bout]] with [[Pepi]] and [[Bumblebee Man]]. When one wrestler cheated (he was about to hit his opponent with a chair), Bart moved the bandages on his head over his face to make a mask, said he was El Barto, and leapt into the ring to attack the cheater. The intervention was unsuccessul, however, as Bart ended up being hit in the head with the chair, and this second blow left him able to speak only Klingon.<ref name="BSS"/>

The cover artwork of the comic story collection ''[[Bart Simpson: Big Shot!]]'' prominently features a large statue of Bart with the words "[[Eat My Shorts!]]" chisled into the pedestal. On the rear cover, the statue's pedestal has been spray-painted with the graffito "Bart is a wiener!" and signed with the tag "El Principalo". A spray paint can is on the ground near the base of the statue, and [[Principal Skinner]] is running away from the scene.<ref>''[[Bart Simpson: Big Shot!]]''</ref>

A monster was seen spray-painting "El Muerto" (Spanish for "The Dead One") on a wall near [[742 Evergreen Terrace|the Simpson home]].<ref name="THOH XXIV">"[[Treehouse of Horror XXIV]]"</ref>

=== The Simpsons Tapped Out ===
When a friend spray paints on a number of buildings there is a tag "El Barto" left in red spray can.

This Includes:
*[[Moe's Tavern]]
*[[Springfield Town Hall]]
*[[Springfield Police Station]]

== Appearances ==
{{Incomplete}}
{{scroll|
*{{ep|Homer's Odyssey|(painted on City Hall)}}
*{{ep|Homer's Night Out|(written on the front of Springfield Elementrary)}}
*{{ep|Simpson and Delilah|(written on [[Moe's Tavern]] wall)}}
*{{ep|Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish|(written)}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Thanksgiving|(written on the sewer)}}
*{{ep|Principal Charming|(written on the front of Springfield Elementrary)}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Substitute|(written on the front of Springfield Elementrary)}}
*{{ep|Like Father, Like Clown|(written on [[Old Springfield Library]])}}
*{{ep|*{{ep|Separate Vocations|(written on [[Old Springfield Library]])}}
*{{ep|Homer the Vigilante}}
*{{ep|Large Marge|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|The Strong Arms of the Ma}}
*{{ep|The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly}}
*{{ep|Pranks and Greens|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Homer the Whopper|(Couch Gag)}}
*{{ep|The Bob Next Door}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIV|(variant, opening sequence)}}
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
*{{ep|The Princess Guide}}
*{{ep|Barthood}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX|(Intrusion of the Pod-Y Switchers)}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|D'oh Canada|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Livin La Pura Vida|(mentioned)}}
*{{bon|Bring Me the Head of El Barto}}
*{{bon|Where Stalks... The Penalizer!}}
*{{bon|Chief Wiggum's Pre-Code Crime Comics: The End of El Barto}}
*{{bon|Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind}}
*{{bon|The Immigration of the Body Snatchers}}
*{{bon|A Chair of One's Own|(mentioned)}}
*{{bon|Bart Like Me}}
*{{bon|Maggie's Crib 29}}
*{{bon|¡Bart Speaks Spanish!}}
*{{bon|The Rebooting!}}
*{{bk|Chief Wiggum's Book of Crime and Punishment}}
*{{bk|Bart Simpson: Big Shot!|(variant, rear cover)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Hit & Run}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
}}

== See also ==
*[[Bart Simpson]]
*[[El Homo]]

== References ==
{{Images|El Barto}}
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{{Simpsons characters}}

[[Category:Criminals]]
[[Category:Recurring characters]]
[[Category:Characters introduced in season 1]]
[[Category:Characters voiced by Nancy Cartwright]]
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