[2] The Spy Kids and Machete film series depict different versions of the character, and Rodriguez has stated that their continuities are not connected.

Machete refuses to go after Gregorio, as they are estranged, but allows his niece and nephew to stay with him, and shows them a one-passenger jet that could get them to Floop's castle.

In Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Machete has built Carmen and Juni a high-tech treehouse after they have become secret agents.

Machete appears near the end of Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, when he helps battle the Toymaker's video-game robots.

In a deleted scene, while Cecil and Rebecca are running from two OSS agents, they end up in his laboratory, managing to ruin several experiments.

There, he is paid $150,000 by businessman Michael Booth (Jeff Fahey) to assassinate the anti-illegal immigration politician John McLaughlin (Robert De Niro).

The perpetrator is initially thought to be Mendez (Demián Bichir), a crazed revolutionary planning to missile-bomb the Congressional Palace.

Sharon Knolle of Moviefone called Machete the Mexican equivalent of fictional British spy James Bond.

[2] In February 2015, Snickers' Super Bowl XLIX commercial featured a parody of a scene from an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "The Subject Was Noses".

When the parents give Machete a Snickers bar, he reverts into Marcia before an irate Jan (played by Steve Buscemi) rants upstairs and walks away.

Trejo jokingly stated that it's "what Uncle Machete does when he's not taking care of the kids",[12] while Rodriguez said in a Reddit AMA that they are alternate universes.