History Wrestling / NewWorldOrder

** The nWo eventually resulted in Wrestling/{{Sting}} undergoing this himself, turning his bleached-blonde, multicolor-facepaint, happy-go-lucky "Surfer" persona into his jet-back hair, black-and-white facepaint, silent [[Film/TheCrow "Crow"]] persona to go up against them.

The [=nWo=] [[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas should not be confused]] with the infamous conspiracy theory, the comic book ''ComicBook/SquadronSupremeNewWorldOrder'', or the music that plays in ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' upon hearing an important revelation.

The original run of the nWo ended in 1999. A reunion, nWo 2000, with Wrestling/BretHart as leader, was formed in December of that year; however, Hart left the group in January 2000 after suffering what ended up being a CareerEndingInjury, after which the new group slowly disbanded. In February 2002, almost a year after WCW closed down, the original trio resurfaced in WWE, but Hogan would turn face again at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania X8'' and get kicked out of the group. A small shuffle of members ensued, during which Hall was fired and Nash would suffer a legitimate quadriceps tear that put him out of action for nearly a year, after which the group was officially disbanded in July. After Hogan returned to WWE in 2014, the original trio would make sporadic appearances (in a non-match capacity), and in December 2019, it was announced that the nWo would be inducted into the 2020 Wrestling/WWEHallOfFame, with Hogan, Hall, Nash, and Sean Waltman as the inducted members.

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* CavalryBetrayal: Hogan's heel turn at ''Bash at the Beach'' '96. He clears the ring of Nash and Hall, and then pauses for a few seconds. It looks like Hogan is soaking up the cheers, knowing that he won't hear them again for a long, long time. And then he drops the leg on Wrestling/RandySavage, revealing himself as the third man. It was so shocking that for a moment there was absolutely nothing from the audience, seemingly in StunnedSilence. Hogan seemed to notice this and so he did it again, and that's when it started to sink in that he was turning bad. In the span of 120 seconds, the crowd went from cheering Hulk Hogan's surprise arrival to booing and hurling garbage at him. At one point, a fan (definitely not a plant) charged into the ring and got dropped by Hall and Nash.
* CelebrityStar: Actors, musicians, athletes and various other personalities that have joined the [=nWo=], even if it was just for one promo or "Paid Announcement". These include NASCAR racer Kyle Petty and actors Creator/GraceJones and Creator/RobertVaughn in WCW, various baseball players, cyclists, motorcyclists, musicians, two soccer players, a sumo wrestler and an announcer for [=nWo=] Japan in NJPW, and the infamous Bubba the Love Sponge (in TNA) when he briefly joined "The Band", but the most notorious back in WCW was pro basketball player Dennis Rodman. Obviously he wasn't essential, but from a PR standpoint, Rodman was famous back in 1996-1998 and having him join the nWo gave it some mainstream exposure.

* MemeticHandGesture: The nWo "2 sweet sign" was The Kliq's symbol. You can see Shawn Michaels, X-Pac, Nash and Hall doing it in 1994. Nash and Hall re-introduced it into WCW.

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** To the Kliq. Not everyone remembers that the Wolfpac consisted of ex-Kliq members (Nash, Hall, and Waltman). In theory, Shawn Michaels was the main inspiration for The Outsiders once they crossed over to WWE. He was the leader of The Kliq and would even sometimes give the "nWo 2 sweet" sign. (See: his entrance at [=WM13=]).
** After Bischoff and other WCW executives had the Wrestling/{{SMW}} invasion [[CutShort cut off]] before it could get going, they decided they liked the idea of an "invasion" anyway, and started their own version based on the successful NJPW storyline.
** Wrestling/TheNexus was the nWo, but updated for the reality of there not really being any competition anymore. They didn't want to take over the company, they just wanted to get revenge on WWE for humiliating them in ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'', and what better way than taking out the face of the company, Wrestling/JohnCena?
** Wrestling/BulletClub. The nWo was a New Japan ripoff, so maybe they prefer to think of it as New Japan taking back what's theirs.
** While they lack the invading aspect, The Bloodline can be perceived as sort of a new age nWo, with Wrestling/RomanReigns as the Hogan-like leader, Wrestling/PaulHeyman in the Bischoff role and Wrestling/TheUsos as Hall & Nash. Like the group, they too employ TheBadGuyWins & InvincibleVillain, and are the top merch sellers of their company. In fact, the Bloodline's storyline of having perennial mid-carder Wrestling/SamiZayn try to join their ranks before finally being accepted as a "Honorary Uce" looks remarkably similar to the nWo's storyline of having perennial WCW midcarder [[Wrestling/GlennGilbertti Disco Inferno]] try to join the ranks of the nWo Wolfpack before finally being accepted the night of the infamous Fingerpoke of Doom.

The main event of ''Bash at the Beach'' pitted the duo against three opponents, since their "third man" had yet to arrive. Late in the match, Wrestling/HulkHogan (who had signed with WCW two years earlier) came down the ramp, set on rescuing the WCW mainstays. However, in one of the biggest swerves in wrestling history, Hogan delivered a leg drop to one of The Outsiders' opponents, a downed Randy Savage, becoming the villainous "Hollywood" Hogan in one of professional wrestling's most infamous [[FaceHeelTurn Face-Heel Turns]].

The [=nWo=] [[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas should not be confused]] with [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories the infamous conspiracy theory]], the comic book ''ComicBook/SquadronSupremeNewWorldOrder'', or the music that plays in ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' upon hearing an important revelation.

The original run of the nWo ended in 1999. A reunion, nWo 2000, with Wrestling/BretHart as leader, was formed in December of that year; however, Hart left the group in January 2000 after suffering what ended up being a career-ending injury, after which the new group slowly disbanded. In February 2002, almost a year after WCW closed down, the original trio resurfaced in WWE, but Hogan would turn face again at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania X8'' and get kicked out of the group. A small shuffle of members ensued, during which Hall was fired and Nash would suffer a legitimate quadriceps tear that put him out of action for nearly a year, after which the group was officially disbanded in July. After Hogan returned to WWE in 2014, the original trio would make sporadic appearances (in a non-match capacity), and in December 2019, it was announced that the nWo would be inducted into the 2020 Wrestling/WWEHallOfFame, with Hogan, Hall, Nash, and Sean Waltman as the inducted members.

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** While they lack the invading aspect, The Bloodline can be perceived as sort of a new age nWo, with Wrestling/RomanReigns as the Hogan-like leader, Wrestling/PaulHeyman in the Bischoff role and Wrestling/TheUsos as Hall & Nash. Like the group, they too employ TheBadGuyWins & InvincibleVillain, and are the top merch sellers of their company. In fact, the Bloodline's storyline of having perennial mid-carder Wrestling/SamiZayn try to join their ranks before finally being accepted as a "Honorary Uce" looks remarkably similar to the nWo's storyline of having perennial WCW midcarder [[Wrestling/GlennGilberti Disco Inferno]] try to join the ranks of the nWo Wolfpack before finally being accepted the night of the infamous Fingerpoke of Doom.

** While they lack the invading aspect, The Bloodline can be perceived as sort of a new age nWo, with Wrestling/RomanReigns as the Hogan-like leader, Wrestling/PaulHeyman in the Bischoff role and Wrestling/TheUsos as Hall & Nash. Like the group, they too employ TheBadGuyWins & InvincibleVillain, and are the top merch sellers of their company.

* RenegadeSplinterFaction: Inverted with the nWo Wolfpac, who were good guys that split off from Hogan and Bischoff.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Hulk Hogan made an example out of his nephew Horace Hogan to [[Wrestling/UltimateWarrior Warrior]] by beating the former senseless and later hitting him with a steel chair, the nWo members accompanying Hogan ([[Wrestling/BigShow The Giant]], [[Wrestling/{{Virgil}} Vincent]] and Scott Norton) were all shown to be horrified by this, given Hogan's earlier promise of recruiting Horace into the nWo and even briefly argue with their leader before Warrior shows up.

* PowerTrio: The very first line up.

''The [=nWo=] [[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas should not be confused]] with [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories the infamous conspiracy theory]] (though it would make reading ''whale.to'' much more exciting), the comic book ''ComicBook/SquadronSupremeNewWorldOrder'', or the music that plays in ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' upon hearing an important revelation.''

** nWo Hollywood vs. nWo Wolfpac. With their motivation amounting to disliking nWo Hollywood because they had different-colored shirts, there was really little use for the Wolfpac except for selling ''their'' different-colored shirts. Their presence in most episodes of ''Nitro'' consisted of hitting the theme, taking two minutes to get into the ring, passing the stick around so everybody could say their catchphrase (and little else), cue music, leave. Having them join back up, only to fizzle out a month later, was an admission that Creative didn't really know what to do with the nWo. Plus, they never truly "went to war" with each other.