History Wrestling / GiantSilva

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->''"I have brought a wrestler able to bring you hustlers down. Tell your boys to get ready. [[BadassBoast Any number of them."]]''

* RedBaron: "The Largest Man in the World", "The South American Soldier" and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Paulao"]].

* TheBrute: First for Masahiro Chono, later for Pierroth Jr. and finally for Generalissimo Takada.

Paulo César da Silva (born July 21, 1963 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter, better known as Giant Silva. He debuted in 1981 and signed with Wrestling/WorldWrestlingEntertainment, where he was put in Wrestling/TheOddities stable along Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Golga]] and other characters. After the group's demise, Silva was fired to make room for Wrestling/TheBigShow. He moved to Mexico for the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he became incredibly popular as an athletic face giant. He then was recruited by Wrestling/AntonioInoki and left for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, joining Giant Singh (afterwards known as Wrestling/TheGreatKhali) to form the team Club 7, Wrestling/MasahiroChono's giant bodyguards. The two titans eventually turned on each other and both left NJPW, with Silva landing in Dream Stage Entertainment. He gained popularity after starting a rather unfortunate MMA career and simultaneously competed in Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE, where he served as [[Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada Generalissimo Takada]]'s main enforcer. After the fall of HUSTLE, Silva kept wrestling in the American wrestling circuit before fading into the darkness. He is apparently retired, and according to rumors, works as a bouncer.

* {{Acrofatic}}: More "big" than "fat" example, but valid nonetheless. Despite his enormous size, Silva could maneuver like none other giant in pro wrestling. He could perform sunset flips, slingshots, top rope attacks and even hurricanranas (those with some assistence, that is).

** In HUSTLE, Wrestling/{{Akebono}}, the only name in puroresu who could top him in size. They even had a MMA fight in PRIDE, with Silva coming victorious. In real life, however, they were close friends.

* BarbarianHero: Even when playing as a técnico or babyface in CMLL, he was still a giant dude with long hair who roared and bruted his way across the ring.

* BigGood: Silva used to be appointed the babyface team's captain in his relevos matches in México, as he was naturally the most difficult wrestler to eliminate.

* BoisterousBruiser. In México. He lacked the loudness, but otherwise qualified at being a huge, funny guy who loved to fight.

* CurbstompBattle: The majory of his wins. Silva has wrestled more handicap matches than single ones, but he has [[TheJuggernaut never allowed it to bother him.]]

* DeusExitMachina: Before a match between Oddities and Too Much in 1999, Droz came and challenged Silva, who promptly slingshotted his way out the ring and went after him. It turned out that it was a ruse concocted to keep Silva away from the ring and impede him to aid his partners. The Oddities lost the match via interference from Disciples of Apocalypse while the giant was attacked by Droz InTheBack with a chair.

** A legitimate badass like Heath Herring spent most of Silva's PRIDE debut circling away and running away from him. It was only when opponents learned that Silva was not as dangerous in close quarters as he seemed that he started to be in the receiving end.
* DumbMuscle: He was not portrayed as unintelligent whenever he was allowed to develop a character, most notably in CMLL, where he was surprisingly eloquent for a wrestler of his kind. Played straight in HUSTLE, as he received a more generic, even comical "all brawn, no brains"-like monster gimmick there (though he was still far from being the most stupid of Takada's cronies).

** He also echoes Wrestling/GiantGonzalez, who was a basketball player and had South American nationality like him.

* GiantEqualsInvincible: Justified in México, as the quick grapples and flying attacks that are trademark to lucha libre were ineffective against a guy able to avoid any takedown and power out from just anything. Japanese wrestlers hadn't much better luck, as Silva was also large enough to absorb puroresu strikes as if nothing.

* HeroicSacrifice: In his tag team matches in México, he sometimes performed a multiple variation of Wrestling/MickFoley's Cactus Clothesline to take opponents with him outside of the ring and allow Silva's allies to finish the ones who were still on the mat.

* IncompletelyTrained: Barely had MMA training when he stepped in the ring. He only had a crash course in Brazilian jiu-jitsu with the Gracie family and never learned proper striking, which would have been his strong point thanks to his abnormally long reach (see Semmy Schilt and Choi Hong-man as examples).

* NoSell: In pro wrestling, he usually absorbed every strike his opponents threw at him, even if they came from several men. On the other hand, nobody could no-sell his own hits.

-->"The size of the person doesn't matter. The size of the heart does."
* OnlySaneMan: Among all the Oddities, he was the only who did not wear outrageously, had no particular quirks and was not a mentally insane person of any kind. In addition, he was the scariest and the one who turned serious the fastest when it was needed. He did play along their antics most of the time, though.

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Paulo César da Silva (born July 21, 1963) is a UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter, better known as Giant Silva. He debuted in 1981 and signed with Wrestling/WorldWrestlingEntertainment, where he was put in Wrestling/TheOddities stable along Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Golga]] and other characters. After the group's demise, Silva was fired to make room for Wrestling/TheBigShow. He moved to Mexico for the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he became incredibly popular as an athletic face giant. He then was recruited by Wrestling/AntonioInoki and left for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, joining Giant Singh (afterwards known as Wrestling/TheGreatKhali) to form the team Club 7, Wrestling/MasahiroChono's giant bodyguards. The two titans eventually turned on each other and both left NJPW, with Silva landing in Dream Stage Entertainment. He gained popularity after starting a rather unfortunate MMA career and simultaneously competed in Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE, where he served as [[Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada Generalissimo Takada]]'s main enforcer. After the fall of HUSTLE, Silva kept wrestling in the American wrestling circuit before fading into the darkness. He is apparently retired, and according to rumors, works as a bouncer.

Paulo César da Silva (born July 21, 1963) is a UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter, better known as Giant Silva. He debuted in 1981 and signed with Wrestling/WorldWrestlingEntertainment, where he was put in Wrestling/TheOddities stable along Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Golga]] and other characters. After the group's demise, Silva was fired to make room for Wrestling/TheBigShow. He moved to Mexico for the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he became incredibly popular as an athletic face giant. He then was recruited by Wrestling/AntonioInoki and left for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, joining Giant Singh (after known as Great Khali) to form the team Club 7, Wrestling/MasahiroChono's giant bodyguards. The two titans eventually turned on each other and both left NJPW, with Silva landing in Dream Stage Entertainment. He gained popularity after starting a rather unfortunate MMA career and simultaneously competed in Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE, where he served as [[Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada Generalissimo Takada]]'s main enforcer. After the fall of HUSTLE, Silva kept wrestling in the American wrestling circuit before fading into the darkness. He is apparently retired, and according to rumors, works as a bouncer.

** In NJPW, he did not have a clear cut one at first, but Wrestling/ManabuNakanishi was possibly the only opponent who made it personal for Silva. Later, after their breakup, Giant Singh became a more classical sworn enemy to him.

Paulo César da Silva (born July 21, 1963) is a UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter, better known as Giant Silva. He debuted in 1981 and signed with Wrestling/WorldWrestlingEntertainment, where he was put in Wrestling/TheOddities stable along Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Golga]] and other characters. After the group's demise, Silva was fired to make room for Wrestling/TheBigShow. He moved to Mexico for the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he became incredibly popular as an athletic face giant. He then was recruited by Wrestling/AntonioInoki and left for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, joining Giant Singh (after known as Great Khali) to form the team Club 7, Wrestling/MasahiroChono's giant bodyguards. The two titans eventually turned on each other and both left NJPW, with Silva landing in Dream Stage Entertainment. He gained popularity after starting a rather unfortunate MMA career and simultaneously competed in Wrestling/{{HUSTLE}}, where he served as [[Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada Generalissimo Takada]]'s main enforcer. After the fall of HUSTLE, Silva kept wrestling in the American wrestling circuit before fading into the darkness. He is apparently retired, and according to rumors, works as a bouncer.

** In pro wrestling, naturally for a giant like him, his legs and his comparative slowness of reaction were his main weak spots. If the opponents managed to get him on one knee, they could gang up on him and land many cheapshots before he brushed them aside. His stature itself had another very obvious shortcoming: he was so tall that his gravity center was above the third rope, so he was more prone to fall off the ring if pinned against the ropes than smaller wrestlers.
** In MMA, his main weakness was his lack of mobility and training. Even if Silva was pretty fast for a guy his size, his movements were like slow motion for his much smaller opponents, which could outmaneuver him on the ground and strike him without danger while he was busy trying to reposition.

* AlmightyJanitor: The way he was booked in México, Giant Silva would have been virtually undefeatable in singles matches, so he could have taken all the promotion's titles had he wanted. However, he was more content with being a humble ally to any babyface who needed a help against some bunch of rudos.

** In CMLL, Los Capos, especially their bruiser Gigante Kurgan.

* AssKicksYou: One of his old spots was cornering the entire enemy team against the turnbuckle and bumping them hip-first.
* AtArmsLength: Used this technique in MMA, [[RealityIsUnrealistic seriously]]. His arms and legs were so long that he could easily fend his attacker away from him; his height also made inviable the strategy of hitting ground and pound through his guard, as they didn't reach to his head. Opponents eventually realized this and started capitalizing on his slowness to bypass this defense around him.
* BarbarianHero: Even when playing as a técnico or babyface in México, he was still a giant dude with long hair who roared and bruted his way across the ring.

** In CMLL, with Brazo de Plata, the only other superheavyweight in the promotion (and pretty much in the entire México).
** In NJPW, with Masahiro Chono, and also with Giant Singh until their falling out.
** In HUSTLE, with any other mook of the Takada Monster Army, but specially with Giant Vabo.

* BigGood: Silva used to be appointed the babyface team's captain in relevos matches in México, as he was naturally the most difficult to eliminate in any way.

** In the Oddities. Granted, ALL of the three main male Oddities, Golga, Kurrgan and Silva were huge, but he was the tallest and the least experienced when he entered in WWE.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A given as part of the Oddities, even although he was ironically the least weird of its members. This surfaced briefly in HUSTLE, usually when combined with other, more comedical wrestlers.
* CircusOfFear: His gimmick as part of the Oddities.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Started wearing black after the jolly Oddities disappeared, and it became his usual wear color, both as face and heel.

* DavidVersusGoliath: It's easy to see why.

* DemotedToExtra: The team match against Kaientai was the one which saw most of Giant Silva in the WWF, as he was relegated to a cornerman to the main team of the Oddities (Golga and Kurrgan) and he was barely tagged in at all in their trios matches, often only to finish an opponent.
* DeusExitMachina: Before a match between Oddities and Too Much in 1999, Droz came and challenged Silva, who promptly slingshotted his way out the ring and went after him. It turned out that it was a ruse concocted to keep Silva away from the ring and impede him to aid his partners, who lost the match via interference from Disciples of Apocalypse while the giant was attacked by Droz InTheBack with a chair.

* DumbMuscle: Subverted. He was not portrayed as unintelligent whenever he was allowed to develop a character, most notably in CMLL, where he was surprisingly eloquent for a wrestler of his kind. Played straight in HUSTLE, where he received a more generic, even comical monster gimmick, although he was still far from being the most stupid of Takada's cronies.

* [[ItAmusedMe For The Lulz]]: When he pretended to be angry with Mexican interviewer Heliodoro Hinojosa and tossed him onto a pool.

* GiantEqualsInvincible: Justified in México, as the quick grapples and flying attacks which are trademark to lucha libre were ineffective against a guy able to power out from just anything and very difficult to take down. Japanese wrestlers hadn't much better luck, as Silva was also large enough to absorb the puroresu strikes as if nothing.

* HeroicSacrifice: Towards the end of tag team matches in México, he sometimes performed a multiple variation of Wrestling/MickFoley's Cactus Clothesline to take opponents with him outside of the ring and allow Silva's allies to finish the ones who were still on the mat.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Lost a match against [[Wrestling/{{Rikishi}} HUSTLE Rikishi]] when Silva picked up a TV monitor to bludgeon him and Rikishi kicked it right on his face.

* IncompletelyTrained: Barely had MMA training when he stepped in the ring. He only had a crash course in Brazilian jiu-jitsu with the Gracie family and never learn proper striking, which would have been his strong point thanks to his abnormally long reach (watch Semmy Schilt and Choi Hong-man as examples).
* TheJuggernaut: In Mexico and Japan. He took entire teams of wrestlers by himself, and it were needed copious amounts of willpower and teamwork only to slow him down.
* LightningBruiser: Stood among the CMLL luchadores not only for his gigantic size (of course), but also his incredible aerial capability. The rudos who opposed him characteristiclly freaked out whenever he came from the top rope against them.
* MightyGlacier: In WWE he didn't used any high-flying offensive, being more of a traditional giant which was slow but enormously big and strong.
* NoSell: In pro wrestling, he usually absorbed every strike his opponents threw at him, even if they were several men trying to dropkick him down. On the other hand, nobody could no-sell his own hits.

-->"The size of the person doesn't matter. It does the size of the heart."
* OnlySaneMan: Among all the Oddities, he was the only who did not wear outrageously, had no particular quirks and was not a mentally insane person of any kind. In addition, he was the one who turned serious the fastest when it was needed. He did play along their antics most of the time, though.

** Whenever against other superheavyweights, like Vic Grimes, Viscera, Gigante Kurgan, Giant Singh, HUSTLE Titus and Akebono.

** Has this tendency towards fellow giants. Despite having defeated Giant Singh in a singles match, Silva was mostly beaten up by him when they met again in a team match in Mexico, which was amusingly won by Silva's team anyways. Years after he had another fluke with HUSTLE Titus, being outclassed (but again winning the match).

* WorldsStrongestMan: In this case, The Largest Man in the World.
* WrestlingMonster

* ThereIsNotKillLikeOverkill: Hit El Pantera, a cruiserweight wrestler, with a ''third'' rope Giant Press. The poor Pantera was rendered explicitly KO with the impact.

** He also echoes Wrestling/GiantSilva, who was a basketball player and had South American nationality like him.

Paulo César da Silva (born July 21, 1963) is a UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter, better known as Giant Silva. He debuted in 1981 and signed with Wrestling/WorldWrestlingEntertainment, where he was put in the Oddities stable along Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Golga]] and other characters. After the group's demise, Silva was fired to make place to Wrestling/TheBigShow. He moved to Mexico for the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he became incredibly popular as an athletic face giant. He then was recruited by Wrestling/AntonioInoki and left for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, joining Giant Singh (after known as Great Khali) to form the team Club 7, Wrestling/MasahiroChono's giant bodyguards. The two titans eventually turned on each other and both left NJPW, with Silva landing in Dream Stage Entertainment. He gained popularity after starting a rather unfortunate MMA career and simultaneously competed in Wrestling/{{HUSTLE}}, where he served as [[Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada Generalissimo Takada]]'s main enforcer. After the fall of HUSTLE, Silva kept wrestling in the American wrestling circuit before fading into the darkness. He is apparently retired, and according to rumors, works as a bouncer.

** He also echoes Giant González, who was a basketball player and had South American nationality like him.

* ForTheLulz: When he pretended to be angry with Mexican interviewer Heliodoro Hinojosa and tossed him onto a pool.

* BreakupBreakout: Subverted. Giant Singh went to became the most famous of Club 7, as he moved to Wrestling/{{WWE}} and became The Great Khali. Silva nonetheless is the better remembered and liked of the two in Japan (thanks to his career in PRIDE and Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE) and México (for his previous tenure in CMLL).

!!! "Giant Tropes":

Paulo César da Silva (b. 1963) is a UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter, better known as Giant Silva. He debuted in 1981 and signed with Wrestling/WorldWrestlingEntertainment, where he was put in the Oddities stable along Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Golga]] and other characters. After the group's demise, Silva was fired to make place to Wrestling/TheBigShow. He moved to Mexico for the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he became incredibly popular as an athletic face giant. He then was recruited by Wrestling/AntonioInoki and left for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, joining Giant Singh (after known as Great Khali) to form the team Club 7, Wrestling/MasahiroChono's giant bodyguards. The two titans eventually turned on each other and both left NJPW, with Silva landing in Dream Stage Entertainment. He gained popularity after starting a rather unfortunate MMA career and simultaneously competed in Wrestling/{{HUSTLE}}, where he served as [[Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada Generalissimo Takada]]'s main enforcer. After the fall of HUSTLE, Silva kept wrestling in the American wrestling circuit before fading into the darkness. He is apparently retired, and according to rumors, works as a bouncer.

** In CMLL, Los Capos.

* TheBrute: First for Masahiro Chono and later for Generalissimo Takada.

* CelebrityResemblance: With his long hair, he looks very like Carles Pujol, which was noted by European fans.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A given as part of the Oddities, although he was ironically the most normal of its members. This surfaced briefly in HUSTLE, usually when combined with other, more comedical wrestlers.

* CurbstompBattle: The majory of his wins. He has wrestled more handicap matches than single ones, but he has [[TheJuggernaut never allowed it to bother him.]]

* DemotedToExtra: The team match against Kaientai was the one which saw most of Giant Silva in the WWF, as he was relegated to a cornerman to the main team of the Oddities (Golga and Kurrgan) and he was barely tagged in at all in their trios matches, often only to finish an opponent and dance afterwards.

** In México, CMLL briefly brought Kurrgan to have another giant wrestler to feud with Silva, who was a solid babyface. They had some clashes before Kurrgan disappeared from Mexican TV.

* FoeTossingCharge: When crouched down and surrounded by enemies, he would simply stand up casting his arms aside, which was enough to make all the gang fly around if they were lighter enough.

* GentleGiant: In real life.
* TheGiant: [[CaptainObvious Well, duh]].

* MightyGlacier: In WWE he didn't used his high-flying offensive, being more of a traditional giant which was slow but enormously big and strong.

* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: Met Akebono in which was probably the heaviest MMA matchup ever. Silva won, though whether he was the unstoppable force or the immovable object is a more difficult question.

** Has this tendency towards fellow giants. Despite having defeated Giant Singh in a singles match, Silva was mostly beaten up by him when they met again in a team match in Mexico, which was amusingly won by Silva's team anyways. Years after he had another fluke with HUSTLE Titus (but again winning the match).

* TheDreaded: A legitimate badass like Heath Herring spent most of Silva's PRIDE debut circling away and running away from him. It was only when opponents learned that Silva was not as dangerous in close quarters as he seemed that he started to be in the receiving end.
* DumbMuscle: Subverted. He was not portrayed as unintelligent whenever he was allowed to develop a character, most notably in CMLL, where he was surprisingly eloquent for a wrestler of his kind. Played straight in HUSTLE, however, as there he played a more generic character.

** In MMA, his main weakness was his lack of mobility. Even if Silva was pretty fast for a guy his size, his movements were like slow motion for his much smaller opponents, which could outmaneuver him on the ground and strike him without danger while he was busy trying to reposition.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/{{Akebono}}, the only name in puroresu who could top him in size. They even had a MMA fight in PRIDE, with Silva coming victorious. In real life, however, they were close friends.

-->"Did you see, Dr. Wagner? Here on the field I am the king, and on the ring, same. So I want to invite you to a match against us, either here or there. Bring in your most valuable players."

* TheBigGuy: As a face.
** He also had this role in the Oddities. Granted, ALL of the three main male Oddities, Golga, Kurrgan and Silva were huge, but he was the tallest and the least experienced when he entered in WWE.

* BreakupBreakout: Among the Club 7 tag team, Giant Singh went to became the most worldwide famous of the duo, as he moved to Wrestling/{{WWE}} and became The Great Khali, so he was the one who broke out. Silva nonetheless is the most famous and remembered in Japan thanks to his career in PRIDE and Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE, but American fans barely remember or even know him.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Started wearing black after the jolly Oddities disappeared, and it became his usual wear color.

* TheJuggernaut: In Mexico and Japan. He took entire teams of wrestlers by himself, and it were needed copious amounts of willpoer and teamwork only to slow him down.

* ThrowTheMookAtThem: A specialty of his was military press an opponent and toss him onto his cronies. It specially memorable in WWF Summerslam 98, when he grabbed Wrestling/TAKAMichinoku and threw him outside onto the entire Kaientai.

* TheVoiceless: He had zero lines during his WWE tenure (albeit he once made the chorus for a singing Kurrgan). He was quite the opposite in Mexico, though.
* TheWorfEffect: Has this tendency towards fellow giants. Despite having defeated Giant Singh in a singles match, Silva was mostly beaten up by him when they met again in a team match in Mexico, which amusingly was won by Silva's team. Years after he had another fluke with HUSTLE Titus (but again winning the match).

* WorldsStrongestMan: The Largest Man in the World

Paulo César da Silva (b. 1963) is a UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter, better known as Giant Silva. He debuted in 1981 and signed with Wrestling/WorldWrestlingEntertainment, where he was put in the Oddities stable along Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Golga]] and other characters. After the group's demise, Silva was fired to make place to Wrestling/TheBigShow. He moved to Mexico for the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he became incredibly popular as an athletic face giant. He then was recruited by Wrestling/AntonioInoki and left for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, joining Giant Singh (after known as Great Khali) to form the team Club 7, Masahiro Chono's giant bodyguards. The two titans eventually turned on each other and both left NJPW, with Silva landing in Dream Stage Entertainment. He gained popularity after starting a rather unfortunate MMA career and simultaneously competed in Wrestling/{{HUSTLE}}, where he served as [[Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada Generalissimo Takada]]'s main enforcer. After the fall of HUSTLE, Silva kept wrestling in the American wrestling circuit before fading into the darkness. He is apparently retired, and according to rumors, works as a bouncer.

* TheBrute[=/=]EvilIsBigger: As a heel.

-->"Did you see, Dr. Wagner? Here on the field I am the king. The king! And on the ring, same. So I want to invite you to a match against us, here or there. Bring in your most valuable players."

* HeroKiller: Silva and Singh basically dedicated their NJPW careers to destroy established veterans like Yutaka Yoshie, Wataru Inoue and Hiroshi Tanahashi, among others.

** He couldn't do lucha libre matwork (though he ''could'' do lucha lire high-flying), but he was strong enough to counter any move like a grounup playing wrestling with his son.

* TheVoiceless: He had absolutely no spoken lines during his WWE tenure (although he once made the chorus for a singing Kurrgan). His stay in HUSTLE was the time who saw Silva speak the most.

* TheDreadedOne: A legitimate badass like Heath Herring spent most of Silva's PRIDE debut circling away and running away from him. It was only when opponents learned that Silva was not as dangerous in close quarters as he seemed that he started to be in the receiving end.

* AchillesHeel: In MMA, his main weakness was his lack of mobility. Even if Silva was pretty fast for a guy his size, his movements were like slow motion for his much smaller opponents, which could outmaneuver him on the ground and strike him without danger while he was busy trying to reposition.

* BarbarianLonghair: After the WWF.
* BashBrothers: With Giant Singh until their falling out. Also with Brazo de Plata in CMLL and Giant Vabo in HUSTLE.

* DeathFromAbove: The Giant Press, a diving splash performed generally from the second rope and sometimes from the ''top rope''.

* EvilCounterpart: He had a short career in Memphis Wrestling as [[EvilIsBigger "Giant King"]], an enforcer brought by Randy Hales to defeat [[Wrestling/JerryLawler Jerry "The King" Lawler]].
** In México, CMLL briefly brought Kurrgan to have another giant wrestler to feud with Silva, who was a solid face. They had some clashes before Kurrgan disappeared from Mexican TV.

* TheJuggernaut: In Mexico and Japan. It used to take entire teams of wrestlers and/or copious amounts of HeroicWillpower only to take him down.
* LightningBruiser: Stood among the CMLL luchadores for his gigantic size (of course) and his incredible aerial capability. The rudos who opposed him freaked out whenever he came from the top rope against them.

* UnskilledButStrong: Pundits used to note that Silva's signature striking in MMA was just like he did in pro wrestling: clubbering hammerfists and bear slaps to the top of the head instead of real punches. However, he did rock Heath Herring in one of the few occasions he actually landed, because when a guy the size of Silva hits you, it's guaranteed to hurt even if he doesn't know how to strike.

* ArchEnemy: Akebono, the only name in puroresu who could top him in size. They even had a MMA fight in PRIDE, with Silva coming victorious. In real life, however, they were close friends.

!! "Giant Tropes":

* AtArmsLength: Used this technique in MMA, [[RealityIsUnrealistic seriously]]. His arms and legs were so long that he could fend his attacker away from him even when mounted, at least for a time.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Always wore in black.

* DemotedToExtra: The team match against Kaientai was the one which saw most of Giant Silva in the WWF, as he was relegated to a cornerman to the main team of the Oddities (Golga and Kurrgan) and he was barely tagged in if all in their trios matches, often only to finish an opponent and dance afterwards.
* DeusExitMachina: Before a match between Oddities and Too Much in 1999, Droz came and challenged Silva, who promptly slingshotted his way out the ring and went after him. It turned out that it was a ruse concocted to keep Silva away from the ring and impede him to aid his partners, who lost the match via interference from Disciples of Apocalypse while the giant was attacked by Droz InTheBack

* FinishingMove: In WWF, he used the chokeslam and the powerbomb. He later added the Giant Press (a diving splash from the second or top rope).

* GiantMook: As heel.

%%* MightyGlacier: In WWE, where he didn't used his high-flying offensive. Also in MMA, where his size, age and relative lack of training made him look like he was fighting in slow-motion against more athletic and skilled opponents.