History Wrestling / Raven

* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: He recorded a rap song in 2008. He's got mad skills.

* ShoutOut: To [[{{Creator/EdgarAllanPoe}} Edgar Allan Poe]]

* RuleBreakerRuleNamer: During his time in WCW, Raven would wrestle his matches under "Raven's Rules", basically meaning "no rules" (i.e., hardcore rules).

'''Wrestler/{{Raven}}''' (real name Scott Levy, born in 1964) is a professional wrestler who is best known for his time in virtually every mainstream ProfessionalWrestling promotion (Wrestling/{{WWE}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{TNA}}, and Wrestling/RingOfHonor). His career started in 1988.

* ArchEnemy: Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman in ECW, Abyss in TNA, CMPunk in RingOfHonor, and "Diamond" Dallas Page in WCW.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Quote the Raven, nevermore."

* HeyItsThatGuy: Johnny Polo, is that you?

* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: He recorded a rap song in 2008. He's got mad skils.

* OldShame: His "Scotty Flamingo" and "Johnny Polo" gimmicks. This was even joked about in some of Raven's indy appearances, where chants of "Johnny Polo" from fans -- spurred on by Mick Foley! -- started driving him insane.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In a shoot interview, Raven talked about his hardcore match at ''WrestleMania 17'' with Wrestling/{{Kane}} and Wrestling/TheBigShow. Raven had devised a spot where he would try to escape on a golf cart and Big Show would jump on and attack Raven and/or hijack the cart, with Kane following in his own. The chase was supposed to happen around the entire arena, but five seconds in, Raven's cart hits a chain link fence[[note]]One of the main power sources for the entire arena was behind this fence, and Raven later learned he came close to knocking out power for the entire arena[[/note]] and stops, ending the spot. The potential debacle is at partially saved when Kane runs over a downed Raven with his own golf cart.

!!'''Tropes associated with Raven include:'''

After brief runs in WCW and WWF as "Scotty Flamingo" and "Johnny Polo", Levy rose to fame in ECW as Raven, a brooding sociopath with a penchant for manipulating the weak-willed into doing his bidding. Raven's ECW run was marked by two long, brutal, and sometimes controversial feuds -- with Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman -- and two ECW World Championship reigns. He's credited with popularizing the wearing of street clothes during matches (his typical outfit being a pair of cut-off jeans, a flannel shirt, and a leather jacket -- the popular {{grunge}} look). His promos were dark and nihilistic, and he was followed by a stable of wrestlers known as "Raven's Nest", which at different points included such wrestlers as the Pitbulls, members of the Dudley family, longtime lackey Stevie Richards, and even [[MickFoley Cactus Jack]].

** Raven's Flock {{WCW}}

* OppositesAttract: His flirtation with MollyHolly in 2001 had shades of this.

'''Wrestler/{{Raven}}''' (real name Scott Levy, born in 1964) is a professional wrestler who is best known for his time in virtually every mainstream ProfessionalWrestling promotion (Wrestling/{{WWE}}, {{WCW}}, {{ECW}}, {{TNA}}, and RingOfHonor). His career started in 1988.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: His WCW theme was one of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Come As You Are".

* SkippyRules: During his time in WCW, Raven would wrestle his matches under "Raven's Rules", basically meaning "no rules" (i.e., hardcore rules).

* ThemeSong: "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Seperated)" by TheOffspring (ECW/TNA)

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: His WCW theme was one of {{Nirvana}}'s "Come As You Are".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In a shoot interview, Raven talked about his hardcore match at ''WrestleMania 17'' with Wrestler/{{Kane}} and TheBigShow. Raven had devised a spot where he would try to escape on a golf cart and Big Show would jump on and attack Raven and/or hijack the cart, with Kane following in his own. The chase was supposed to happen around the entire arena, but five seconds in, Raven's cart hits a chain link fence[[note]]One of the main power sources for the entire arena was behind this fence, and Raven later learned he came close to knocking out power for the entire arena[[/note]] and stops, ending the spot. The potential debacle is at partially saved when Kane runs over a downed Raven with his own golf cart.

*** The Heir Apparent: Perry Saturn was originally in this spot, but when he turned on the stable, Horace was given the spot. Towards the end of the stable's run, Horace was demoted and Chris Kanyon got the spot.

* HoYay:
** In early 1998, Bruce Mitchell, a columnist for the wrestling newsletter ''The Pro Wrestling Torch'' held nothing back in his analysis of what he saw as the gay elements of Raven's Flock, saying that the group should be called "Raven's Rough Trade." He referenced what he saw as Raven and Stevie Richards' "butch/fem abusive relationship," Perry Saturn's ''Biker Boyz Magazine'' look, Van Hammer's "peep shows" look and fishnet, Lodi's "college gay bar" look, Billy Kidman's "bus station runaway" look, and Raven's wanting to "recruit" Scotty Riggs (which Raven did, after giving Riggs an eye-injury with his trademark drop-toehold into a steel chair on the October 27 Nitro. Interestingly, after Raven had hit the move, Kidman came in and told Raven to lay off of Riggs. Raven defeated Riggs in a rematch at the World War 3 1997 PPV on November 23, followed by Van Hammer carrying Riggs to the back. The next night on Nitro, Riggs, now wearing an eyepatch, climbed the guardrail to join Raven's Flock.)
** In this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSC2inxFn5Y bizarre promo]], Chris Kanyon (the first openly gay prowrestler - although he didn't come out until years after this promo was shot) visits Raven at his swanky mansion. He and Raven go out for a night on the town, which mostly consists of shopping for Versace. They return to Raven's home dressed to the nines, but the scene cuts, and the next thing we see is Kanyon running down stairs to greet Raven's mom, while frantically trying to pull his pants back on (!). Raven follows after him, also dressed in his old grungey clothes. The surely unintentional subtext is that Raven took Kanyon out on a date, and they were getting hot and heavy upstairs before Raven's mom rudely interrupted them.

* MemeticMutation: "What about me?! WHAT ABOUT RAVEN?!?!"

* {{Wangst}}: In WCW, Raven's nihilistic attitude was revealed to be a result of his incredibly wealthy family being annoying rather than due to depression.
** The "I was secretly rich" backstory was officially declared CanonDiscontinuity by {{ECW}}, and Raven has not mentioned the angle since it happened -- which sucks on some level, since it could easily tie every single one of his characters together.

* HoYay: In this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSC2inxFn5Y bizarre promo]], Chris Kanyon (the first openly gay prowrestler - although he didn't come out until years after this promo was shot) visits Raven at his swanky mansion. He and Raven go out for a night on the town, which mostly consists of shopping for Versace. They return to Raven's home dressed to the nines, but the scene cuts, and the next thing we see is Kanyon running down stairs to greet Raven's mom, while frantically trying to pull his pants back on (!). Raven follows after him, also dressed in his old grungey clothes. The surely unintentional subtext is that Raven took Kanyon out on a date, and they were getting hot and heavy upstairs before Raven's mom rudely interrupted them.

'''{{Wrestler/Raven}}''' (real name Scott Levy, born in 1964) is a professional wrestler who is best known for his time in virtually every mainstream ProfessionalWrestling promotion ({{WWE}}, {{WCW}}, {{ECW}}, {{TNA}}, and RingOfHonor). His career started in 1988.

* DrugsAreBad: Raven's battle with drugs over the years are well known, and were one of the factors in his misuse in {{WCW}} and {{WWE}}. There's even a persistent rumour that he once accidentally snorted sheet rock after mistaking it for a rock he found in a dealers house. Luckily he has by all accounts since cleaned himself up.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In a shoot interview, Raven talked about his hardcore match at ''WrestleMania 17'' with {{Wrestler/Kane}} and TheBigShow. Raven had devised a spot where he would try to escape on a golf cart and Big Show would jump on and attack Raven and/or hijack the cart, with Kane following in his own. The chase was supposed to happen around the entire arena, but five seconds in, Raven's cart hits a chain link fence[[hottip:*:One of the main power sources for the entire arena was behind this fence, and Raven later learned he came close to knocking out power for the entire arena]] and stops, ending the spot. The potential debacle is at partially saved when Kane runs over a downed Raven with his own golf cart.

* TheJimmyHartVersion: His WCW theme was one of {{Nirvana}}'s "Come As You Are".

Raven returned to ECW in 1999, then joined the WWF in 2000. He would win the WWE Hardcore Championship 27 times, but never achieve anything approaching the success he found in ECW -- and due to a lawsuit over WWE's classification of wrestlers as "independent contractors", Raven (and the other wrestlers involved in the lawsuit) became ''persona non grata'' in WWE. Following his departure from WWE, Raven spent the next seven years performing on-and-off in TNA and ROH -- and even managed to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in this time period.

* GarbageWrestler

Raven returned to ECW in 1999, then joined WWE after ECW's demise in 2001. He would win the WWE Hardcore Championship 27 times, but never achieve anything approaching the success he found in ECW -- and due to a lawsuit over WWE's classification of wrestlers as "independent contractors", Raven (and the other wrestlers involved in the lawsuit) became ''persona non grata'' in WWE. Following his departure from WWE, Raven spent the next seven years performing on-and-off in TNA and ROH -- and even managed to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in this time period.

* HoYay: In this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSC2inxFn5Y bizarre promo]], Chris Kanyon (the first openly gay prowrestler) visits Raven at his swanky mansion. He and Raven go out for a night on the town, which mostly consists of shopping for Versace. They return to Raven's home dressed to the nines, but the scene cuts, and the next thing we see is Kanyon running down stairs to greet Raven's mom, while frantically trying to pull his pants back on (!). Raven follows after him, also dressed in his old grungey clothes. The surely unintentional subtext is that Raven took Kanyon out on a date, and they were getting hot and heavy upstairs before Raven's mom rudely interrupted them.

** Another during his WWF/E run: "What about me? "What about Raven?"

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu?: Gave Dr. Death Steve Williams his first loss in a decade.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu: Gave Dr. Death Steve Williams his first loss in a decade.

* GeniusBruiser: Raven has an IQ of 143 and is a registered member of MENSA.