History Wrestling / TheAscension

* {{Badass Bea|rd}}[[BeardOfEvil rds of Evil]]: Viktor's stands out a bit more, though.
* BlasphemousBoast / CheapHeat: Their claims to be the only good tag team ever, even disrespecting great teams of the past including [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead teams with deceased members]], definitely count as this.

** Shortly after winning the NXT tag team titles, Konnor and Viktor would explain in a WWE.com article interview that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome they're not demons or supernatural creatures]], just guys with a certain philosophical understanding of what it takes to dominate in the ring. Their gimmick wound up transitioning from ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' meets Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness to ''Film/MadMax'' meets TheIlluminati.

** Shortly after winning the NXT tag team titles, Konnor and Viktor would explain in a WWE.com article interview that [[RealityEnsues they're not demons or supernatural creatures]], just guys with a certain philosophical understanding of what it takes to dominate in the ring. Their gimmick wound up transitioning from ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' meets Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness to ''Film/MadMax'' meets TheIlluminati.

* DarkIsEvil {{Expy}}: They've been said to resemble a self-formed Wrestling/{{Ministry of Darkness}} [[ScreamingWarrior with screaming]]. They [[RealityEnsues openly admit they're not demons]], though. Nowadays, they've become one of Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors, for better or worse.

** WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: [[Wrestling/{{Kane}] Doomsday (Kane)]] was billed from there in the USWA.

Like Kenneth before him, Conor continued on with the Ascension gimmick as he ran solo until fellow developmental star Rick Victor, long inactive due to injuries of his own, resurfaced and joined with Conor as his partner in 2013. The Ascension quickly captured the NXT tag team championships and had the longest reign in the title's history to date, having their ring names shortened and tweaked to Konnor and Viktor respectively. They were quickly promoted to the main roster afterwards, grabbing a new gimmick calling back on the ''Film/MadMax''-inspired teams of the 1980s like the Wrestling/RoadWarriors and Wrestling/{{Demolition}}.

* ArchEnemy: The Usos, for the Connor and Kenneth incarnation.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: They may be low on the Main Roster totem pole and otherwise quite weird, they are still in the records for longest reigning and most dangerous tag-team in NXT history. It just hasn't translated well in the Main Roster.

** Nowadays, they've become a sort of parody of themselves: Their dark image is more TheComicallySerious and they're more like HarmlessVillains or MinionWithAnFInEvil, as well as playing TheStraightMan to the somehow odder Wrestling/{{Breezango}}.

Video packages introduced The Ascension with a dark gimmick similar to Wrestling/TheUndertaker's Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness. Unfortunately, the group was short-lived, as O'Brian was injured, Colon was called up to team with his cousin on the main roster, Diaz became Queen of FCW, and Rodriguez was preoccupied with his association with Del Rio. Cameron would maintain the Ascension gimmick by himself heading into 2012, until O'Brian returned to reform the union as a tag team just in time for the transition from FCW to NXT. Despite quickly gaining momentum on the remodeled developmental brand, the team's run was abruptly interrupted as Kenneth got in trouble with the law and soon found himself back on the indies.

Like Kenneth before him, Conor continued on with the Ascension gimmick as he ran solo until fellow developmental star Rick Victor, long inactive due to injuries of his own, resurfaced and joined with Conor as his partner in 2013. The Ascension quickly capturing the NXT tag team championships and having the longest reign in the title's history to date, having their ring names shortened and tweaked to Konnor and Viktor respectively. They were quickly promoted to the main roster afterwards, grabbing a new gimmick calling back on the ''Film/MadMax''-inspired teams of the 1980s like the Wrestling/RoadWarriors and Wrestling/{{Demolition}}.

* BoringButPractical: Their offensive style. They just punch, kick, stomp, slam, smack you around until you either can't take anymore (or you turn the tables).
* ButtMonkey: They are at the absolute ''bottom'' of the totem pole when it comes to the main roster. So much so that when Viktor joined a jobber stable, the Social Outcasts (taking the place of the suspended Wrestling/AdamRose) in the wake of Konnor's Wellness Vacation, it was considered a '''promotion'''.

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome... to the Wasteland.[[note]]"The Wasteland" for them being [[BadassDecay the WWE main roster...]][[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome... to the Wasteland.]]

** The symbolism is all over Konnor and Viktor's titantron video to the point where half the comments you see online about the main roster Ascension will be regarding this. The other half will be about them being Road Warrior [[CaptainErsatz Captains Ersatz]].

* NonIndicativeName: The ''Ascension'' was a far more fitting name for them on NXT than on the main roster, where all they've done since being a month in was ''de''scend.

** Konnor and Viktor are led by [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Stardust]] as one of these, known as either the Cosmic Wasteland or the Astral Alliance.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to the Wasteland.]]

** "We…will…rise."

* XtremeKoolLetterz: Konnor and Viktor. They weren't always this way: it was a recent development after they got the tag titles.

** Conor O'Brian went from a guy with a rather comical affinity for rats (based on his face looking similar to them) to something more akin to a rat-humanoid demon warrior under the Ascension gimmick.
** The Ascension stable themselves underwent this about a month or two into the team's formation at FCW. Originally they were clients of Ricardo Rodriguez's father's talent agency (Ricardo would claim that Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio was this as well), before ditching Rodriguez and being repackaged into pseudo-demons.
** The members themselves all changed in the process of joining the group. Konnor was better known from his time as a protege of Alberto Del Rio in the NXT competition as a guy with a rather comical affinity for rats based on his face looking similar to them. Raquel, both before and after her brief Ascension stint, was best known as [[Wrestling/EddieGuerrero Eddie]] and Wrestling/VickieGuerrero's ambitious and/or vain daughter. Tito was a MaskedLuchador under the Epico name, and Kenneth was a generic fresh-faced Brit. Viktor was a slightly arrogant and calculating guy best known as the last graduate of Stu Hart's Dungeon, though his darkness was growing incrementally before he even linked up with Konnor.

** The members themselves all changed in the process of joining the group. Konnor was better known as a guy with a rather comical affinity for rats based on his face looking similar to them. Raquel, both before and after her brief Ascension stint, was best known as [[Wrestling/EddieGuerrero Eddie]] and Wrestling/VickieGuerrero's ambitious and/or vain daughter. Tito was a MaskedLuchador under the Epico name, and Kenneth was a generic fresh-faced Brit. Viktor was a slightly arrogant and calculating guy best known as the last graduate of Stu Hart's Dungeon, though his darkness was growing incrementally before he even linked up with Konnor.

** The members themselves all changed in the process of joining the group. Konnor was better known as a guy with a rather comical affinity for rats based on his face looking similar to them. Raquel, both before and after her brief Ascension stint, was best known as Wrestling/VickieGuerrero's ambitious and/or vain daughter. Tito was a MaskedLuchador under the Epico name, and Kenneth was a generic fresh-faced Brit. Viktor was a slightly arrogant and calculating guy best known as the last graduate of Stu Hart's Dungeon, though his darkness was growing incrementally before he even linked up with Konnor.

* FourIsDeath: Once upon a time the Ascension was a stable with Conor O'Brian, [[EvilBrit Kenneth Cameron]] (now Bram in TNA), Tito Colon (now Epico), and Raquel Diaz (also known as Wrestling/{{Eddie|Guerrero}} and Wrestling/{{Vickie|Guerrero}}'s daughter Shaul Guerrero). Then injuries and call-ups happened and the Ascension materialized as a tag team, first with Conor and Kenneth, then with Konnor and Viktor. This is the iteration you now see on TV.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "We are The Ascension! Welcome to the wasteland."

** The members themselves all changed in the process of joining the group. Konnor was better known as a guy with a rather comical affinity for rats based on his face looking similar to them. Raquel, both before and after her brief Ascension stint, was best known as Wrestling/VickieGuerero's ambitious and/or vain daughter. Tito was a MaskedLuchador under the Epico name, and Kenneth was a generic fresh-faced Brit. Viktor was a slightly arrogant and calculating guy best known as the last graduate of Stu Hart's Dungeon, though his darkness was growing incrementally before he even linked up with Konnor.

Video packages introduced The Ascension with a dark gimmick similar to Wrestling/TheUndertaker's Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness. Unfortunately, the group was short-lived, as O'Brian was injured, Colon was called up to team with his cousin on the main roster, Diaz became Queen of FCW, and Rodriguez was preoccupied with his association with Del Rio.

The Ascension tag team was introduced in 2012, quickly capturing the NXT tag team championships and having the longest reign in the title's history to date. They were quickly promoted to the main roster afterwards, grabbing a new gimmick calling back on the ''Film/MadMax''-inspired teams of the 1980s like the Wrestling/RoadWarriors and Wrestling/{{Demolition}}.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: See YouLookFamiliar below for Konnor. And Viktor. But especially Konnor.

* EvilDuo: Hands down.

* TheIlluminati: The symbolism is all over their titantron video to the point where half the comments you see online about the Ascension will be regarding this. The other half will be about them being Road Warrior [[CaptainErsatz Captains Ersatz]].

* XtremeKoolLetterz: Konnor and Viktor. They weren't always this way: see YouLookFamiliar below.

'''The Ascension''' is a professional wrestling tag team (formerly stable) signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}}. It consists of Eric '''Viktor''' Thompson and Ryan '''Konnor''' Parmeter.