History Wrestling / AcesAndEightsWrestlers

* CrossThrough: Technically a part of River City Wrestling and The American Pro Wrestling Alliance too but was never mentioned by TNA on screen.

* TheMole: [[UpToEleven Stable Edition]]. The only exceptions were Knux and DOC (not in TNA beforehand), Anderson (recruited late in the game), and possibly Brooke Tessmacher (depending on how long her secret relationship with Bully Ray had been going).

Meanwhile, the Aces & Eights' plans continued to progress. The key members of the club would eventually be unmasked, revealing themselves to be Mike Knox (soon rechristened "Knux"), the former Luke Gallows (now known as "DOC", short for "Director of Chaos), Garett Bischoff and Wes Brisco (manipulating Wrestling/KurtAngle as his protégés for several months), and wrestler-turned-road-agent D'Lo Brown as the group's VP. They also had local models convince Mr. Anderson to join the club, and color commentator Taz reveal his status in the gang to lead a gang ambush from them during Bully and Brooke's wedding.

* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Though they are in reference to a ''different'' club

* BaldOfEvil: D'lo, Doc, Devon

** FridgeBrilliance: Also usually covered every inch of his skin so his color wouldn't give him away.

* DeadMansHand: Ironically, the cards are associated with a ''hero'' to many in the Northern and Western USA, Wild Bill Hickok. Then again TNA ''is'' a Southern Promotion. For more irony, he was shot while holding that hand, which is why its called...

* TheBusCameBack: Mesías helped bring Ivelisse Vélez back to TNA, inadvertently giving Aces And Eights a temporary solution to their "we don't have a Knockout" problem. They still did their usual run out and attack the opposing wrestler thing but needed ''someone'' to put up the pretense of a match first, so they could maybe wins some points in TNA's world cup.
* CanonDiscontinuity / ThreeMonthRule: During the takeover phase, the Dudleys poked into this trope and played it to perfection. Shortly after Devon was revealed as the Sgt. at Arms, Bully confronted him about it. Devon claimed it was because the Aces & Eights picked him back up when Wrestling/HulkHogan carelessly let his contract run out and did nothing to resign him, but Bully insisted Devon did it because of their issues from Bully's betrayal two years prior over the retirement match against the Motor City Machineguns. Bully claimed that the real reason he'd turned on Devon was because Bully felt he'd let the fans down only for Devon to say something along the lines of "We're rich and successful, screw the fans," which Devon was suddenly all too happy to corroborate. For fans who actually remembered that feud, it seemed as though Bully expected us to believe that Devon saying some cocky BS in the locker room warranted [[FaceHeelTurn stabbing him in the back]], [[SmallNameBigEgo trying to verbally bury his credibility and worth to the team]], [[DisproportionateRetribution and]] [[WouldHurtAChild attacking his teenage sons]].\\

* TheBusCameBack: Mesías helped bring Ivelisse Vélez back to TNA, inadvertently giving Aces And Eights a temporary solution to their Team USA problem, who had Wrestling/MickieJames problem. They still did their usual run out and attack the opposing wrestler thing but needed ''someone'' to put up the pretense of a match first, so they could maybe wins some points in TNA's world cup.

\\ But then Bully revealed himself as the BigBad [[EvilAllAlong All Along]] five months later when he became the TNA World Heavyweight Champion thanks to Devon's hammer, then explained his plan through a series of ArcWelding EvilGloating vignettes. When he got to the part involving Devon's role in it, he cited how Hogan "turned his back" on Devon — proving that Devon was telling the truth regarding his own motives and that the "Devon dissed the fans" angle was revisionist history designed to enhance Bully's cover as TheHero.

* TrueCompanions: Say whatever you want about them, they certainly felt like this. Too bad the boss turned out to be the lone exception.

* {{Mooks}}: Given they were a masked group for most of their existence, this was pretty easy to pull off

* TheBusCameBack: Mesías helped bring Ivelisse Vélez back to TNA, inadvertently giving Aces And Eights a temporary equalizer against Wrestling/MickieJames, who was on Team USA. Once Mickie was no longer their problem there was no more need for Vélez.

* AllBikersAreHellsAngels

* BaldOfEvil

* DeadMansHand

* {{Mooks}}

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Very, very much so.

* DeceptiveDisciple: Wes and Garret was this to Kurt Angle.

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Being part of the club did this temporarily for [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Team 3D]].

* ArcFatigue: Due to several factors (SpotlightStealingSquad of roster fillers being the main one), most people got sick of Aces and Eights by mid-2013 at the latest.

Some emotional knife twisting for the Hogans and ArcWelding to explain each element of his master plan later, Bully and his crew asserted their dominance over the TNA roster, attacking wrestlers more brazenly than ever. However, Hogan, Sting, and the roster's desire for revenge became the driving force behind the challenges to Bully's title, namely coming from Jeff Hardy and Sting. Following his failure to win the championship, Sting decided to recreate the Main Event Mafia to counteract the Aces & Eights. The Mafia was able to neutralize the Aces & Eights and help Chris Sabin, who traded in his X-Division title for a shot at the World Champion, defeat Bully for the title. Taking back the championship a few weeks later, Bully revealed that he'd enlisted the aid of MMA fighter Tito Ortiz as his enforcer, as well as entered a secret tryst with Brooke…[[OneSteveLimit Tessmacher]], who was then added to the club.

* TheMole: [[UpToEleven Stable Edition]]. The only exceptions were Knux and DOC (not in TNA beforehand), Anderson and Tito (recruited late in the game), and possibly Brooke Tessmacher (depending on how long her secret relationship with Bully Ray had been going).

* [[ItsAllAboutMe It's all about me and Brooke Tessmacher]]: Bully's attitude late in the piece which caused dissent among the rest of the in-ring crew. Due to being TrueCompanions though, it didn't really amount to anything.

* TheMole: Stable Edition. The only exceptions were Knux and DOC (not in TNA beforehand) and Anderson (was recruited late in the game).

Come ''Lockdown'', Brooke convinced Hogan to award Bully Ray the #1 contender's spot ahead of eight competitors who auditioned for the role in a series of matches, while Sting commanded a team of wrestlers wronged by the Aces & Eights to fight them at Lethal Lockdown and Kurt Angle fought Wes Brisco. Brown helped Brisco beat Angle, however the rest of the Aces came out on the losing end of Lethal Lockdown. Still they returned for the world title main event, cornering both Bully Ray and World Champion Wrestling/JeffHardy…only for Devon to toss Bully Ray his ballpeen hammer, which Bully then used to attack Hardy, stealing the World Heavyweight Championship and revealing himself to be the [[BigBad President]] [[MoleInCharge of the [[EvilAllAlong Club]].

On the first night of the 2012 ''Bound for Glory'' series, recently inducted TNA Hall of Famer Wrestling/{{Sting}} was jumped during his ''Impact'' acceptance speech by a group of masked thugs. Shortly thereafter, then-current General Manager Wrestling/HulkHogan was sent a package with a DeadMansHand inside and a note promising that they would see him soon. The group backed up that promise, attacking both Hogan and Sting the week after sending it; the attack on Hogan in particular caused him to be put out for a few weeks, during which the gang would wreak havoc on both {{face}}s and {{heel}}s, resulting in the TNA roster in general forming an EnemyMine to take them down.

Despite this, the gang would continue on their assaults, first taking out D'Angelo Dinero backstage and effectively [[PutOnABus putting him on a bus]], then interfering in a four-way tables match that was part of the series that same night, before later finally breaking the arm of then-reigning World Heavyweight Champion Wrestling/AustinAries. Eventually the gang was able, via kidnapping, to get Hogan and Sting to give them a match at Bound for Glory, with the stipulation being they would either get unfettered access to the Impact Zone or be forced to leave forever. [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Bully Ray]] volunteered his services to aid Hogan and Sting in their struggle, but while Sting agreed that they needed a big bad bully, Hogan never trusted him, instead choosing Mr. Anderson—that is, until the gang decided to take him out, leaving Hogan with no other choice but to trust Bully.

With Devon, identified as the group's Sgt. at Arms, becoming their main on-air spokesperson, the Aces & Eights continued to run amok over TNA.

(to be continued)

[[quoteright:284:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/acesandeights_9083.jpg]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: That hammer which was used frequently to gain dominance in matches and backstage? It was used twice against Bully due to misthrows into the ring - Sabin beat him to win the Heavyweight championship and Anderson used it to beat him and end the faction.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: That hammer which was used frequently to gain dominance in matches and backstage? The two defeats Bully experienced in singles competition were due to the hammer being used against him due to wayward throws into the ring.