History Wrestling / DonCallis

* BigBadEnsemble: After betraying Kenny Omega during his match against Jon Moxley in May 2023, Don Callis has been serving as one of AEW's largest villains alongside the likes of Wrestling/{{MJF}} and [[Wrestling/{{Christian}} Christian Cage]], while not directly crossing paths with them. Callis regulary recruits other wrestlers to form the Don Callis Family, focused on brutally tormenting his enemies and willing to cross any line to have his faction rise to the top.

* GeniusBruiser: He has a degree in Political Science and an [=MBA=].

* BigBadEnsemble: After betraying Kenny Omega during his match against Jon Moxley in May 2023, Don Callis has been serving as one of AEW's largest villains alongside the likes of Wrestling/{{MJF}} and [[Wrestling/{{Christian}} Christian Cage]], while not directly crossing paths with them. Callis regulary other wrestlers to form the Don Callis Family, focused on brutally tormenting his enemis and willing to cross any line to have his faction rise to the top.

* DroneOfDread: The Callis Family doesn't have entrance music, just a single deep, droning, sonorous note that plays continuously over their entrance, in part to accomodate the thunderous boos.

* BigBadEnsemble: After betraying Kenny Omega during his match against Jon Moxley in May 2023, Callis has been serving as one of AEW's largest villains, recruiting other wrestlers to form the Don Callis Family, and willing to cross any line to have his faction rise to the top.

* BigBadEnsemble: Since helping Kenny Omega winning the AEW World Championship, Callis serves as the second BigBad of AEW, alongside Omega. Callis will continue to help Omega to ensure his victories by interfering his matches and further strengthening the Elite by using his connections with Impact Wrestling to get the Good Brothers to help Omega as well.
* BookEnds: Callis' alliance with Omega from 2020 to 2023 begins and ends with Callis interfering with Omega's match with Jon Moxley, helping him in the former and turning against him in the latter.

** (in AEW): Wrestling/TheElite.

* {{Heel}}: Always, without exception.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Callis is beaten up by the Blackpool Combat Club on March 29, 2023, episode of ''Dynamite'' to the point he bleeds. Remember, Callis has been trash-talking everyone since he first appeared on AEW, caused Mox the AEW World Championship, and insulted everyone the Elite feuded with, especially Hangman and got away with it without suffering any karma other than a seeing Omega losing to Hangman. Seeing him being beaten to a pulp is a long time coming, despite him being a face at the time.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Callis The Other Wiki]].

** His run as Kenny Omega's manager had him claim that he was the "invisible hand" that guided Omega into his sucess in New Japan, and along the way Omega's run as the BigBad AEW World Champion.

** His run as Kenny Omega's manager had him claim that he was the "invisible hand" that guided Omega into becoming The Cleaner, and along the way Omega's run as the BigBad AEW World Champion.

* CoolShades

** (in WWE): The Truth Commission, with the Interrogator, Recon and Sniper (Luc [=Poirier=])
** The Oddities, with Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Golga]], Wrestling/GiantSilva and Wrestling/LunaVachon

Donald Callis (born October 13, 1963) is a retired UsefulNotes/{{Canad|a}}ian {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and manager best known for his time in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 1997-1998 as '''The Jackyl''' and in Wrestling/{{ECW}} as '''Cyrus'''. He debuted in his native Winnipeg in 1989 as '''Don Casablancas''' and also competed around the world. He arrived in WWE in 1997 as the Jackyl, the new manager of the Truth Commission, replacing the Commandant. The group was mixed into the "Gang Wars" feud involving Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination (led by Wrestling/RonSimmons aka Faarooq), the Disciples of Apocalypse (led by Crush) and Los Boricuas (led by Savio Vega), until the Jackyl and the Interrogator (renamed Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}) broke off on their own. He disappeared for a few months until he returned on the May 25th (taped May 19th) ''Raw'' as the leader of Wrestling/TheOddities. This lasted until the group was turned {{face}} and he was replaced by Wrestling/{{Sable}}. (See ChuckCunninghamSyndrome below.) As Cyrus in ECW, his role was as the face of [=TNN=], who was supposedly trying to bury ECW and get them thrown off of the actual network. His last role was in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] in 2003 as a "Management Consultant" who feuded with Director of Authority Erik Watts over control and went out of his way to make things difficult for Wrestling/JerryLynn. He left in 2004 and retired for a career in international trade. Near the start of 2017 he came out of retirement as a colour commentator for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, and then near the end of the same year he became an executive vice-president and colour commentator for the-now Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.

At the end of 2020, he began a cross-company run as Wrestling/KennyOmega's manager after helping him win the [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW World Championship]], with the goal of helping Kenny win as many belts from as many promotions as possible, including his home promotion of Impact.

* [[GreaterScopeVillain Bigger Bad]][=/=][[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]]: Was initially planned to be this of the Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness, but when that fell through he went to ECW and became this of the Network instead.

* ChekhovsGunman: He made his AEW debut as a seemingly one-off guest commentator for Kenny Omega's match at ''Full Gear 2020''. The full importance of his and Omega's friendship wouldn't become fully apparent until he helped him win the World Championship at ''Winter is Coming''.
** If you want to go back even further (and get a little speculative), the first seeds of what would be Callis' involvement in AEW could have been planted before AEW was even a thing, when he was instrumental in setting up the "Alpha vs Omega" match between Kenny and Wrestling/ChrisJericho at ''[[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling Wrestle Kingdom 12]]'', Jericho's first big match outside the WWE in 15 years.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Disappeared in November 1998 after being seen talking to [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield Bradshaw]] on the November 1st ''[[{{BShow}} Sunday Night Heat]]'', after [[Wrestling/WilliamRegal Steve Regal]] had pinned Bradshaw in a mere '''1:38'''. This encounter led to the debut of Bradshaw and [[Wrestling/RonSimmons Faarooq]] as the Acolytes. He was ultimately PutOnABus, never to return, that dropped him off in [=ECW=], as "Cyrus" of the Network.

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* NonActionGuy: From his arrival in WWE until he retired.

* RedBaron: "The Natural"

Donald Callis (born October 13, 1963) is a retired UsefulNotes/{{Canad|a}}ian {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and manager best known for his time in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 1997-1998 as '''The Jackyl''' and in Wrestling/{{ECW}} as '''Cyrus'''. He debuted in his native Winnipeg in 1989 as '''Don Casablancas''' and also competed around the world. He arrived in WWE in 1997 as the Jackyl, the new manager of the Truth Commission, replacing the Commandant. The group was mixed into the "Gang Wars" feud involving Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination (led by Wrestling/RonSimmons aka Faarooq), the Disciples of Apocalypse (led by Crush) and Los Boricuas (led by Savio Vega), until the Jackyl and the Interrogator (renamed Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}) broke off on their own. He disappeared for a few months until he returned on the May 25th (taped May 19th) ''Raw'' as the leader of Wrestling/TheOddities. This lasted until the group was turned {{face}} and he was replaced by Wrestling/{{Sable}}. (See ChuckCunninghamSyndrome below.) As Cyrus in ECW, his role was as the face of [=TNN=], who was supposedly trying to bury ECW and get them thrown off of the actual network. His last role was in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] in 2003 as a "Management Consultant" who feuded with Director of Authority Erik Watts over control and went out of his way to make things difficult for Wrestling/JerryLynn. He left in 2004 and retired for a career in international trade. As for his in-ring achievements, he was a 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/canada/mb/wfwa/wfwa-h.html WFWA (Winnipeg) Canadian Heavyweight Champion]], a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/canada/mb/wfwa/mb-iwa-h.html IWA (Winnipeg) Heavyweight Champion]], and a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/canada/on/bcw/bcw-t.html BCW (Windsor) Can-Am Tag Team Champion]] with Terry Taylor.

* BiggerBad[=/=][[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]]: Was initially planned to be this of the Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness, but when that fell through he went to ECW and became this of the Network instead.

** (in ECW): The Network, with Steve Corino, Wrestling/{{Rh|yno}}ino, Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri, Jack Victory, Justin Credible, Wrestling/{{Francine}}, Scotty Anton and [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Lou E. Dangerously (Sign Guy Dudley)]].