History Heartwarming / BryanDanielson

* On the 4/7/2014 Raw, while doing a promo after winning the championship at Wrestlemania, the crowd began a "You deserve it" chant.

** At Wrestlemania XXX, Connor was in the front row as Bryan won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. The first thing that Bryan does after winning the belts is climb out of the ring and give Connor a hug while thanking him for all of his support and urging him to keep fighting.

** At Wrestlemania XXX, Connor sat front row as Bryan won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. The first thing that Bryan does after winning the belts is climb out of the ring and give Connor a hug while thanking him for all of his support and urging him to keep fighting.

* DBD recently visited a child with brain cancer and let the little guy put him in the No Lock. In the fine tradition of WWE Make-A-Wish visits, this one really struck this troper as adorable, because DBD is still in his full arrogant semi-heel character, tapping out to a 7 year-old.

* After ''finally'' prevailing over the Authority at Wrestlemania 30 and winning the WWE World Heavyweight championship back, Bryan's sister and niece come out to the ring to celebrate with him.

* After ''finally'' prevailing over the Authority at Wrestlemania 30 and winning the WWE Worldheavyweight championship back, Bryan's sister and niece come out to the ring to celebrate with him.

* Even thought it was obviously a work, it was still difficult not to be smiling when dozens of Daniel Bryan's fans swarmed the ring on March 10th and refuse to leave until Daniel Bryan gets the chance at the Wrestlemania main event he deserves. The sheer amount of support Bryan received over the past four years is staggering.

** Worth noting is that the show took place on one of [=WWE's=] rare trips to Seattle, which is a stone's throw away from Bryan's billed hometown. He has also earlier in the show got a [[CheapHeat Cheap Pop]] by cheering on the Seattle Seahawks, who were at the time in the playoffs during their best season in franchise history. A rabid fanbase proceeded to make Seahawks-related chants for the next half hour and the end result was a perfect storm where Bryan's popularity somehow peaked from massively over to cult-like devotion for the remainder of the show.

* On the December 9th episode of Raw, Bryan is down in the ring with about twenty other former WWE Champions and World Heavyweight Champions to be a part of the ascension ceremony to build up towards the TLC 2013 match between John Cena and Randy Orton for the Undisputed Championship. Triple H is about to begin his speech to build up the [=PPV's=] main event, when the crowd starts chanting for Daniel Bryan, who, bear in mind, is in the ring as a background character with no involvement in the current segment. The crowd cheers for him so loudly that the segment is completely disrupted and Triple H has to stay quiet with visible annoyance until the crowd dies down, which doesn't happen for several minutes (he knows full well he can't tell the crowd to quiet down; that's just [[ReversePsychology asking for trouble]] ). This ring has people like CM Punk, Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, Triple H, Mick Foley, Big Show, and Rey Mysterio, a who's who of wrestling greats both past and present, and the crowd only has eyes for Daniel Bryan. The other part to this scene is Daniel Bryan's reaction. [[{{Corpsing}} He gets the biggest smile on his face and starts laughing.]] He looked like he was having the time of his life up there. Even some of the people standing in the ring seem to be enjoying it. Mark Henry is shown smiling and even raises Bryan's hand, and The Miz briefly starts laughing, despite the fact that he is supposed to be a heel.

* On the December 9th episode of Raw, Bryan is down in the ring with about 20 other former WWE Champions and World Heavyweight Champions to be a part of the Ascension ceremony for the TLC 2013 match between John Cena and Randy Orton for the Undisputed Championship. Triple H is about to begin his speech, when the crowd starts chanting Daniel Bryan. They begin chanting so loudly, that Triple H is forced to stop his speech for over a whole minute because the crowd wont quiet down. This ring has people like CM Punk, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Mick Foley, Big Show, and Rey Mysterio and the crowd only chants Daniel Bryan's name to show him support, similar to how they did so for the 18 second loss at Wrestlemania. The other part to this scene is Daniel Bryan's reaction. [[{{Corpsing}} He gets the biggest smile on his face and starts laughing.]] He looked like he was having the time of his life up there. Even some of the people standing in the ring seem to be enjoying it. Mark Henry is shown smiling and even raises Bryan's hand, and The Miz briefly starts laughing, despite the fact that he is supposed to be a heel.

* On the December 9th episode of Raw, Bryan is down in the ring with about 20 other former WWE Champions and World Heavyweight Champions to be a part of the Ascension ceremony for the TLC 2013 match between John Cena and Randy Orton for the Undisputed Championship. Triple H is about to begin his speech, when the crowd starts chanting Daniel Bryan. They begin chanting so loudly, that Triple H is forced to stop his speech for over a whole minute because the crowd wont quiet down. This ring has people like CM Punk, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Mick Foley, Big Show, and Rey Mysterio and the crowd only chants Daniel Bryan's name to show him support, similar to how they did so for the 18 second loss at Wrestlemania.
** The other part to this scene is Daniel Bryan's reaction. [[{{Corpsing}} He gets the biggest smile on his face and starts laughing.]] He looked like he was having the time of his life up there. Even some of the people standing in the ring seem to be enjoying it. Mark Henry is shown smiling, and The Miz briefly starts laughing, despite the fact that he is supposed to be a heal.

** Also, according to [=NoDQ.com=], after Summerslam went off the air fans started chanting "NO!" and "BUILLSHIT" in response to Bryan losing the title. That really says something about the popularity of a wrestler when [[spoiler: losing the title makes the crowd turn on Wrestling/RandyOrton.]]

* When Daniel Bryan won the WWE Championship from Wrestling/JohnCena, he did via pinfall rather than submission. The move that he used to keep Cena down long enough for the 3-count? A jumping variant of the Knee Trembler, the [[FinishingMove finisher]] of his mentor [[WilliamRegal William Regal]].

** When WWE returned to Pittsburgh some months later, Bryan made a point to seek out his new friend who was in the crowd that night.

** Also, according to [=NoDQ.com=], after Summerslam went off the air fans started chanting "NO!" and "BUILLSHIT" in response to Bryan losing the title. That really says something about the popularity of a wrestler when spoiler: losing the title makes the crowd turn on Wrestling/RandyOrton.

** Also, according to [=NoDQ.com=], after Summerslam went off the air fans started chanting "NO!" and "BUILLSHIT"]] in response to Bryan losing the title. That really says something about the popularity of a wrestler when spoiler: losing the title makes the crowd turn on Wrestling/RandyOrton.

* [[spoiler: When Daniel Bryan won the WWE Championship from [[JohnCena John Cena]], he did via pinfall rather than submission. The move that he used to keep Cena down long enough for the 3-count? A jumping variant of the Knee Trembler, the [[FinishingMove finisher]] of his mentor [[WilliamRegal William Regal]].]]
** Also, according to [=NoDQ.com=], after Summerslam went off the air fans started chanting [[spoiler: "NO!"]] and [[spoiler: "BUILLSHIT"]] in response to [[spoiler: Bryan losing the title]]. That really says something about the popularity of a wrestler when [[spoiler: losing the title makes the crowd turn on [[RandyOrton Randy Orton]]]].

** Also, according to NoDQ.com, after Summerslam went off the air fans started chanting [[spoiler: "NO!"]] and [[spoiler: "BUILLSHIT"]] in response to [[spoiler: Bryan losing the title]]. That really says something about the popularity of a wrestler when [[spoiler: losing the title makes the crowd turn on [[RandyOrton Randy Orton]]]].

* [[spoiler: When Daniel Bryan won the WWE Championship from [[JohnCena John Cena]], he did via pinfall rather than submission. The move that he used to keep Cena down long enough for the 3-count? A jumping variant of the Knee Trembler, the [[FinishingMove finisher]] of his mentor [[WilliamRegal William Regal]].]]

* [[spoiler: When Daniel Bryan won the WWE Championship from [[JohnCena John Cena]], he did via pinfall rather than submission. The move that he used to keep Cena down long enough for the 3-count? A jumping variant of the Knee Trembler, the [[FinishingMove finisher]] of his mentor [[WilliamRegal William Regal]].]]]]

* [[YMMV [[spoiler: When Daniel Bryan won the WWE Championship from [[JohnCena John Cena]], he did via pinfall rather than submission. The move that he used to keep Cena down long enough for the 3-count? A jumping variant of the Knee Trembler, the [[FinishingMove finisher]] of his mentor [[WilliamRegal William Regal]].]]]]

* DBD recently visited a child with brain cancer and let the little guy put him in the No Lock. In the fine tradition of WWE Make-A-Wish visits, this one really struck this troper as adorable, because DBD is still in his full arrogant semi-heel character, tapping out to a 7 year-old.

* Even if it'll probably turn out to be some kind of ploy, it's hard to deny D-Bry proposing to [[ChickBusters AJ]] on the Raw after Money In The Bank was pretty damn sweet. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9a0EQA1cAY See it here]].

* How did Miami react to Bryan's [[spoiler: 18-second [=WrestleMania=] 28 loss]]? By chanting his name and YES! throughout the rest of the first hour and for nearly every segment and match on the following RAW. Daniel Bryan thanked the crowd after the show and joked that they convinced WWE to make a YES! shirt. By week's end, WWE had indeed released a shirt that read YES! YES! YES!

* How did Miami react to Bryan's [[18-second [=WrestleMania=] 28 loss]]? By chanting his name and YES! throughout the rest of the first hour and for nearly every segment and match on the following RAW. Daniel Bryan thanked the crowd after the show and joked that they convinced WWE to make a YES! shirt. By week's end, WWE had indeed released a shirt that read YES! YES! YES!