History Characters / WCWBischoff

* XtremeKoolLetterz: In 2000 he joined The Filthy Animals and changed his name to 'Disqo' as a play on 'Sisqo', who's 'Thong Song' was popular at the time.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/TheNastyBoys, Kevin Sullivan, Diamond Dallas Page

* FriendToAllLivingThings: As Dave, he carried around a rabbit he named "Ralph."

* UnrelatedBrothers: With Wrestling/KevinSullivan

!!! "Fit" Finlay (David John Finlay, Jr.)

* FragileSpeedster: Against heavyweights. Against wrestlers his own size he was nearly a LightningBruiser - had a great powerbomb and a lariat.

See his [[Wrestling/{{Sabu}} dedicateed character page]] for his list of tropes.

* PowerStable: The Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom and [[Wrestling/{{Raven}} Raven's Flock]]

* TheFightingNarcissist: In 1999

* {{Jerkass}}[=/=]HoistByHisOwnPetard[=/=]RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Canned for deliberately no-selling and sandbagging Alex Wright during their match at ''[=SuperBrawl=] V'', to the point that Roma actually ''kicked out'' of Wright's fluke schoolboy rollup pin attempt, but the ref counted to three anyway.

* SmallNameBigEgo

* AccidentalMisnaming: His name was initially mistranslated as ''The Ultimate Dragon''.

* LightningBruiser: A cruiserweight, but his kicks put him well into the Bruiser category.

!!! [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Avalanche[=/=]The Shark (John Tenta)]] 1994-1997

!!! Wrestling/ChrisBenoit (1995-2000)

!!! Wrestling/BookerT (Booker Tio Huffman, 1993-2001)

!!! [[Wrestling/BigBossman The Boss / The Guardian Angel / Big Bubba Rogers]] (Raymond Walter "Ray" Traylor, Jr., 1985-1987, 1993-1998)

!!! Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan (James Edward Duggan, 1994-2001)

!!! [[Wrestling/TheBigShow The Giant]] (Paul Wight, 1995-1999)

!!! Wrestling/{{Glacier}} (Ray Lloyd, 1996-1999)

!!! Wrestling/EddieGuerrero (1995-2000)

!!! Hollywood Wrestling/HulkHogan (Terry Gene Bollea, 1994-2000)

* FinishingMove: Train Wreck (Powerslam)

!!! Wrestling/JeffJarrett (1996-1997, 1999-2001)

!!! [[Wrestling/{{Kamala}} Kamala the Ugandan Giant]] (James Harper Harris) 1995

!!! [[{{Wrestling/Kanyon}} Chris Kanyon]] (a.k.a Mortis, Chris "Champagne" Kanyon and "Positively" Kanyon) (Christopher Klucsaritis, 1995-2001)

!!! Wrestling/{{Konnan}} (Carlos Santiago Espada Moises, 1990, 1996-2001)

!!! Wrestling/DeanMalenko (Shelly Dean Simon, 1995-2000)

!!! Wrestling/{{Meng}} (Tonga 'Uli'uli Fifita, 1994-2001)

!!! [[Wrestling/JerryLynn Mr. JL]] (Jerry Lynn, 1995-1997)

!!! [[Wrestling/HughMorrus Hugh Morrus / General Hugh G. Rection (William Charles "Bill" [=DeMott=] II]], 1995-2001)

!!! Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr. (Oscar Gutierrez, 1996-2001)

!!! Wrestling/TheNastyBoys - Jerry Sags (Jerome Saganovich 1990, 1993-1997), Brian Knobbs (Brian Yandrisovitz 1990, 1993-1997, 1999-2001)

!!! [[Wrestling/DelWilkes The Patriot (Del Wilkes)]] 1994-1995

!!! Wrestling/MaxxPayne (Daryl Peterson, 1993-1994)

!!! "Rowdy" Wrestling/RoddyPiper (Roderick "Roddy" George Toombs, 1996-2000)

!!! [[Wrestling/{{TPE}} The Public Enemy- Johnny Grunge and "Flyboy" Rocco Rock (Michael Durham and Theodore James "Ted" Petty, 1996-1998, 1999)]]

!!! [[Wrestling/WilliamRegal Steven Regal]] (Darren Kenneth Matthews, 1992-1998, 1999-2000)

* CaptainErsatz: For the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior, as Hulk would show videos of him acting very much like Warrior with the apparent intention of making people believe UW actually was coming in to WCW at the time.

!!! Wrestling/{{Sabu}} 1995.

!!! Wrestling/RandySavage (Randall Mario Poffo, 1994-2000)

* HeManWomanHater: Notoriously quit WCW for a short period rather than allow Jacqueline a run-in and bodyslam in one of his matches. He changed his mind and ended up agreeing to lose an entire match to her.
** WouldntHitAGirl: Did nothing but arm drags and drop toe holds all match. Nearly won anyway by rolling through a cross body block.

!!! Hugh Morrus / General Hugh G. Rection (William Charles "Bill" [=DeMott=] II, 1995-2001)
* {{Acrofatic}}: He had a nice moonsault
* ColonelBadass: As the General
* EvilLaugh: As Hugh Morrus
* PowerStable: A member of the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom and Leader of the Misfits in Action.
* PunnyName: Both names. In the case of Hugh Morrus, Tony Schiavone would drive it into the ground by pronouncing it "humorous".

* AloofBigBrother [[BigBrotherBully Bully]]: During his time in the [=nWo=] against Booker T.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: As a heel (except when he became Berlyn).

* DavidVsGoliath: Juventud Guerrera defeated him at ''The Great American Bash 98'' with a [=huracanrana=] after ex-Flock member Van Hammer hit Reese with a chairshot to the back.
* TheGiant

!!! [[Wrestling/{{TPE}} The Public Enemy- Johnny Grunge and "Flyboy" Rocco Rock (Michael Durham and Theodore James "Ted" Petty, 1996-1998, 1999]]

!!! Wrestling/BookerT (Booker Tio Huffman, 1993-2001)7

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: His name was initially mistranslated as ''The Ultimate Dragon''.

!!! Wrestling/BookerT (Booker Tio Huffman, 1993-2001)

!!! [[Wrestling/{{Kamala}} Kamala the Ugandan Giant]]) (James Harper Harris) 1995

* BlessedWithSuck

* BlessedWithSuck

* AscendedExtra: His push out of the Cruiserweight division.
* CanonDiscontinuity: His one day reign as World Heavyweight Champion, which ended when he jumped ship to the WWF.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Dean Malenko
* KeepTheReward: Again, Benoit won the World Title but left the company anyway.
* PowerStable: Both The FourHorsemen and The Revolution.
* RealitySubtext: He once feuded with Kevin Sullivan over an in-character affair with Sullivan's wife, Nancy. This spilled out into real life and Nancy eventually married Benoit. Suffice to say some of the Benoit/Sullivan matches after that were stiff as hell.
** Which in turn, becomes a very cringe inducing FunnyAneurysmMoment.
* RedBaron: "The Canadian Crippler", "The Rabid Wolverine"

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: During his Main Event push, some criticized him for becoming one of these of [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]].
** The fact that he adopted The Rock's finisher (the Rock Bottom) and renamed it the Book End did not help matters any.
* AngryBlackMan
* ArchEnemy: Either Wrestling/JeffJarrett or Wrestling/ScottSteiner.
* BreakupBreakout: Booker went from tag-teaming with Stevie Ray as Harlem Heat to becoming a multiple time heavyweight champion.
* BoisterousBruiser
* CatchPhrase: "Don't hate the player, hate the game!" was used as his during his World Title runs, to the extent of being a soundbyte at the start of his entrance music. It never really got over.
* {{Determinator}}
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning

* AlliterativeName: Big Bubba
* BadassBeard
* BadassInANiceSuit: As Big Bubba, pre-nWo.
* BadassLongcoat: In the nWo.
* CoolShades: In the nWo.
* DirtyCop: As the Boss, but it was so similar to when he was the Big Bossman at the WWF (WWE), WCW scrapped the gimmick.
** PoliceBrutality
** RealLifeWritesThePlot: He was a former [[{{Prison}} Prison Guard]].
* {{Mook}}: In the nWo.
* RedBaron: 'The Man Who Stands for Law and Order' and 'Big' Bubba.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: First as a wrestling cop (The Boss), then a wrestling safety officer (Guardian Angel), then a wrestling bodyguard (Big Bubba).

* AllAmericanFace
* BadassBeard
* BadassGrandpa
* CatchPhrase: "Hooo!" and "U-S-A!"
* [[DemotedToExtra Demoted To Janitor]]: By the Powers That Be (Wrestling/VinceRusso doing a [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Dr. Claw]] impression) in late 1999 because he wasn't "marketable."
* GrailInTheGarbage: Found the WCW TV title in the trash after Scott Hall threw it out. He declared himself the champion and started defending the belt.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: His three-point stance into a tackle.
* TheQuisling: Went {{Heel}} and joined Wrestling/LanceStorm and Team Canada.
* RedBaron: 'Hacksaw'
* VerbalTic: See Catchphrase
* WeaponOfChoice: A 2 x 4
** CarryABigStick
* TheWorfEffect: After he lost the U.S. title to Vader.

* TheBrute
* {{Expy}}: Of AndreTheGiant, who it was originally claimed was his father.
* TheGiant: Obviously.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* MightyGlacier: Most of his offense consisted of hitting people. On the very rare occasions he climbed the turnbuckle it still took him about a minute to get up there.
* PowerStable: He was introduced as a member of the Dungeon of Doom, and went on to join the New World Order.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Beat My Father in a Wrestling Match and Destroyed His Career]]: His original motivation for going after Hulk Hogan.

* AwesomeButImpractical: His incredible entrance cost nearly half a million dollars to put together, including $35,000 on the faux-armor he wore to the ring alone.
* CaptainErsatz: [[Franchise/MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]? Who's that?
* IcyBlueEyes: Subverted, they were contacts.
* IKnowKarate: The whole basis of his gimmick was that he was a martial artist who trained for years under the finest masters in Japan. Try to find a wrestler these days who doesn't integrate at least a little martial arts into their wrestling style.
** Perry Saturn would call attention to that during a mini-feud in 1998, where he mocked the claim that Glacier invented his FinishingMove the Cryonic Kick (actually just a standard Standing Side Kick).
* AnIcePerson: Glacier had an impressive entrance centered around an ice-and-snow motif, as befits his name.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Glacier's feud with Mortis, Wrath and Vandenburg started when they stole the helmet that went with his elaborate entrance armor. Supposedly it was given to him by his late sensei and was his most treasured possession. Instead of triumphantly regaining it, he gradually forgot about it.

* DirtyCoward: As a heel.
* {{Homage}}/FinishingMove: The Frogsplash became Eddie's signature move, but it was his partner Art Barr who originally used the move; when Barr died, Eddie started using the move in tribute to his partner.
* KickTheDog: His claiming to have been robbed by one of the [[MaskedLuchador masked wrestlers]] and forcing them all to unmask.
* PowerStable: Eddie was the leader of the Latino World Order, and a member of The Filthy Animals.
* StartMyOwn: The lWo.
* WorkedShoot: The lWo angle was born out of legit problems between Eddie and Eric Bischoff.
* WrestlingFamily

* AlliterativeName
* AllAmericanFace: Before he became Hollywood.
* BadassBeard: Being able to grow one (or at least some wicked stubble) overnight cemented the famous heel turn described below.
* BigBad: As leader of the New World Order
* BoringInvincibleHero: It was the very staleness of his act that led to his infamous turn.
** InvincibleVillain
* CatchPhrase: Several
* DirtyCoward: As Hollywood, he hid behind the nWo whenever possible.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: He switched out his famous yellow trunks and boots for black-and-white tights with a lightning design airbrushed on when he joined the nWo.
* FaceHeelTurn: One of the most famous in ProfessionalWrestling history, turning a beloved, clean-cut AllAmericanFace into the rugged, ruthless leader of the New World Order ([=nWo=]).
* FingerpokeOfDoom: He delivered the TropeNamer.
* FiveMovesOfDoom
* NoSell
* SleevesAreForWimps
* WritingAroundTrademarks: Part of the reason he became Hollywood, rather than [[TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], was the avoid legal issues with MarvelComics.
* VerbalTic: He uses the word 'brother' as punctuation.

* AlliterativeName
* TheArtifact: His guitar, a remnant of his 'Country Singer' gimmick from [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} the WWF]]
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* CheapHeat: In a promo during the 10/1/2000 edition of WCW Monday Nitro, held in Buffalo, New York, Jarrett wore a Tennessee Titans jersey and proclaimed: "I ain't no Buffalo Bill, and I ain't a damn LOSER!". He also went through a period where he'd come down to the ring with several attractive ladies, then send them to the back so the fans couldn't see them.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He seemed to turn on almost everyone at one point or another.
* KickTheDog: He returned to WCW in 1999 by smashing a guitar over interviewer Mike Tenay's head.
* RedBaron: "The Chosen One"
* WeaponOfChoice: The old Acoustic Equaliser.

* BaldOfEvil
* BeardOfEvil

* UsefulNotes/{{Uganda}}

!!! [[{{Wrestling/Kanyon}} Chris Kanyon]] (a.k.a Mortis, Chris "Champagne" Kanyon and "Positively" Kanyon) (Christopher Klucsaritis, 1995-2001)
* CatchPhrase: "Who's better than Kanyon?" Of course, the crowd would respond "Everybody!" rather than the "Nobody!" he was looking for.
* CoolMask: He wore one when he first debuted, under the name "Mortis."
* EvilKnockoff: "Positively" Kanyon was this to DDP.
* {{Joisey}}: During his stint as a Triad member, although he was actually from Queens.
* PowerStable: He was a member of both The Flock and the Jersey Triad.
* RedBaron: "The Innovator of Offence". He was also briefly known as Chris "Champagne" Kanyon and "Positively" Kanyon.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Had this kind of relationship with both Wrestling/{{Raven}} and DDP, at different times.


!!! Wrestling/{{Konnan}} (Carlos Santiago Espada Moises, 1990, 1996-2001)
* {{Acrofatic}}: More pudgy than fat, but he could hang with the smaller wrestlers in skill. Towards the end of his WCW career he got lazy and started relying on his catchphrases and a few signature spots, it's startling to watch his older matches.
* CatchPhrase: "Yo, yo, yo, lemme speak on this.... Orale! Arriba la raza!"
* CoolShades
* ForeignWrestlingHeel: As a heel.
* NiceHat
* PowerStable: The [=nWo=] and The Filthy Animals
* RedBaron: "K-Dogg"

!!! Jushin Liger (山田恵一 Yamada Keiichi, 1991-1999)
* CostumePorn
* CoolMask
* {{Face}}: In early WCW, Liger actually started out as the heel when feuding with Brian Pillman, but he was such a natural face that the fans started cheering for him.
* RedBaron: 'Thunder'
* ShoutOut: His whole persona is this to the anime ''Jushin Liger''
* {{Superhero}}

!!! Loch Ness (Martin Ruane) 1996
* BritishTeeth
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Was in line for a push but had to return home to England due to health issues. He ultimately died of cancer in 1998.
* FatBastard
* FinishingMove: Elbow Drop
* TheGiant
* MightyGlacier
* PowerStable: The Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom

* ArchEnemy: Chris Jericho.
* {{Badass}}
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Chris Benoit
* PowerStable: Malenko was a member of both The FourHorsemen and The Revolution.
* RedBaron: 'The Iceman' and 'The Man of 1000 Holds'.

* AfroAsskicker
* {{Badass}}: Widely considered to be one of the biggest RealLife badasses in the business.
** One of the most famous {{Badass}} wrestling stories that has been told involves him biting someone's nose off. He would later confirm it.
* BadassInANiceSuit: During his time as Col. Parker's bodyguard.
* BreakupBreakout: Compare to his tag partner in The Faces of Fear, The Barbarian. Slightly subverted in that Meng was always acknowledged as the superior half of the tag team.
* TheBrute: When he was working as a heel, which was most of the time.
* HardHead
* PartsUnknown: During his Dungeon of Doom days, he was billed from "Some Unknown Part of the Planet."
* PowerStable: A member of the Stud Stable, the Dungeon of Doom and the First Family.
* RedBaron: During his Dungeon of Doom days, he was called ''[[AwesomeMcCoolName The Face Of Terror]]''.
* WhosOnFirst: He's a Tongan named Tonga.
* [[WildSamoan Wild Tongan]]
* TheWorfEffect: Against Goldberg. He and Goldberg would actually Worf Effect for each other. Whereas Goldberg usually squashed wrestlers with little effort, Meng battered him all over the ring. Then, when Meng would apply the Tongan Death Grip, Goldberg would rally back, spear, jackhammer, win.

* ArchEnemy: Either Psicosis or Eddy Guererro. His feud with Eddy was more vitriolic, his feud with Psicosis was longer lasting.

* {{Determinator}}: If Rey got beaten down, he'd just drag himself back to his feet. In a Cruiserweight Title defense against Ultimo Dragon, Dragon was on offense for about 12 minutes of a 15 minute match. It took that much for Dragon to put him away.
* ExecutiveMeddling: He lost his match because Eric Bischoff didn't think masked wrestlers were marketable.
* {{Face}}: A close second to Ricky Steamboat in face-titude. He had a short heel run in the Filthy Animals, but even then he came across more like a "going along with it 'cause that's what all my friends are doing" tweener. Other than that, face his entire career.
* FragileSpeedster
* InstitutionalApparel: After being unmasked, he wore a prison jumpsuit.
* LegacyCharacter: He has an uncle (Rey Misterio, Sr.) and a cousin (El Hijo del Rey Misterio).
* MaskedLuchador: The most well-known example in all of professional wrestling.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Wrestling/KevinNash throwing him like a lawn dart. Ultimo Dragon defeating him for the WCW Cruiserweight Title.
* PintSizedPowerhouse
* PowerStable: The Filthy Animals
* WrestlingFamily


!!! Wrestling/TheNastyBoys - Jerry Sags (Jerome Saganovich 1990, 1993-1997), Brian Knobbs (Brian Yandrisovitz 1990, 1993-1997, 1999-2001)
* BreakupBreakout: Knobbs, mainly due to the fact that Sags suffered a neck injury and had to retire.
* EightiesHair
* {{Garbage Wrestler}}s: One of wrestling's biggest examples.
* {{Jerkass}}es: As heels and faces.
* TheQuincyPunk

!!! "Rowdy" Wrestling/RoddyPiper (Roderick "Roddy" George Toombs, 1996-2000)
* AxCrazy
* CoolOldGuy
* DeadpanSnarker
* FakeNationality: Billed from Scotland, actually from Saskatchewan.
* HotBlooded
* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Wrestler]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Face
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Heel
* MagnificentBastard: Widely acknowledged in-universe to be possibly ''the'' premiere Magnificent Bastard in pro wrestling.
-->"Just when you think you have the answer, I change the question!"
* ManInAKilt
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: He was supposed to be Scottish after all, whilst speaking with a recognizable Canadian accent.
* ViolentGlaswegian
* WrestlingFamily: Cousin of the Hart family.

!!! Psicosis (Dionicio Castellanos Torres, 1996-2000)
* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr. From the time they both debuted in wrestling until Psicosis got fired from WWE.
* AxCrazy: One of his signature moves was diving straight over the top rope, head first.
* TheChewToy: Mr. Torres got ''way'' more than his share of bad breaks. Cancelled push after cancelled push, being forced to lose a title he never won ''twice''.
* CoolMask

* BreakupBreakout: He regularly teamed with Dave Taylor. Taylor was near-equal to Regal in skill, but had far less charisma, so the bookers tended to put Regal back in the team with Taylor when they weren't giving him a singles push.
* CombatPragmatist
* EvilBrit: Arguably the biggest example in pro-wrestling. The trope (at least the wrestling version) could be renamed in favor of him.
* RedBaron: 'Lord' Steven.
* PowerStable: The Bluebloods.
* PreppyName
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman
* SmugSnake
* TheSouthpaw
* StiffUpperLip
* TagTeam: With Eaton and Taylor in the Bluebloods.

* BadassBeard
* CatchPhrase: "Oh, YEAH!"
* CelebrityEndorsement: "Snap into a Slim Jim!"
* CoolShades
* LargeHam
* RedBaron: 'The Macho Man'
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Hogan, both in and out of the nWo.

!!! [[Wrestling/{{Kamala}} Kamala the Ugandan Giant) (James Harper Harris) 1995

* [=Jerkass=]es: As heels and faces.

* [[JerkAss Jerkasses]]: As heels and faces.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Hooo!" and "U-S-A!"

* WrestlingDoesntPay: Became the WCW janitor for a short time.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Yo, yo, yo, lemme speak on this.... Orale! Arriba la raza!"

* PowerStable: A member of the Dungeon of Doom and Leader of the Misfits in Action.

* [[GarbageWrestler Garbage Wrestlers]]: One of wrestling's biggest examples.