History YMMV / TheNewDay

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Their response to the reinstatement of Wrestling/HulkHogan includes some paragraphs about racism, how it affects people of the affected race... and the proper reaction to it, as EasilyForgiven doesn't always apply on RealLife. (Eventually, during Wrestling/WrestleMania 35 weekend, Big E confirmed that Hogan had apologized to them for how he handled his reinstatement and this time, he was forgiven.)

** Their Wrestlemania 32 entrance where they emerged from a giant box of Booty-Os cereal while dressed in [[{{Anime/DragonBallZ}} Saiyan armor]].

** Then Survivor Series 2017 had them feud against ''The Shield''. So the optimistic unicorn-horns, flapjack eating group against the badass military anti-heroes? Everyone wins!

** Big E and Xavier Woods's Tag Team Gauntlet Match at the end of March 2019 with the ending of all three members crying in the middle of the ring.

* HolyShitQuotient:
** ''Everything'' about The New Day's Road to [=WrestleMania=] 35. Kofi became a last-minute replacement for an injured Wrestling/MustafaAli in a Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Championship at ''Elimination Chamber 2019'', and as such participated in a gauntlet match on the ''[=SmackDown=]'' go-home show to determine who would enter last in the Elimination Chamber match; Kofi proceeded to pin WWE Champion Daniel Bryan and last over an hour before being eliminated, and then at Elimination Chamber, Kofi was the last wrestler Bryan had to beat to retain the title. As such, Kofi has been getting a chance to have a WWE Championship match at [=WrestleMania=], but he's had to go through a gauntlet match to make it in. Kofi wins the gauntlet match, but Wrestling/VinceMcMahon then forced him to also wrestle Bryan, who defeated an exhausted Kofi. The next week, after being confronted by The New Day, Vince has Big E and Xavier Woods go through a gauntlet match of their own so that Kofi would in fact receive the championship match. Cue Xavier and Big-E going through every tag team in the [=SmackDown=] roster, ending it with Big E flipping the announcer's table to get Erick Rowan eliminated by count-out.
** Extreme Rules 2019 ups this: with Kofi defending his championship against ''Samoa Joe'', Big E and Xavier Woods win the WWE Tag Team Championships making The New Day six-time tag team champions. Holy shit indeed.

* [[YMMV/XavierWoods the YMMV page for Xavier Woods]]

** Their Wrestlemania 32 entrance where they emerged from a giant box of Booty-Os cereal while dressed as Super Saiyans.

** Big E and Xavier Woods's Tag Team Gauntlet Match in mid March 2019.

* HolyShitQuotient: ''Everything'' about The New Day's Road to [=WrestleMania=] 35. Kofi became a last-minute replacement for an injured Wrestling/MustafaAli in a Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Championship at ''Elimination Chamber 2019'', and as such participated in a gauntlet match on the ''[=SmackDown=]'' go-home show to determine who would enter last in the Elimination Chamber match; Kofi proceeded to pin WWE Champion Daniel Bryan and last over an hour before being eliminated, and then at Elimination Chamber, Kofi was the last wrestler Bryan had to beat to retain the title. As such, Kofi has been getting a chance to have a WWE Championship match at [=WrestleMania=], but he's had to go through a gauntlet match to make it in. Kofi wins the gauntlet match, but Wrestling/VinceMcMahon then forced him to also wrestle Bryan, who defeated an exhausted Kofi. The next week, after being confronted by The New Day, Vince has Big E and Xavier Woods go through a gauntlet match of their own so that Kofi would in fact receive the championship match. Cue Xavier and Big-E going through every tag team in the [=SmackDown=] roster, ending it with Big E flipping the announcer's table to get Erick Rowan eliminated by count-out.

** Big E and Xavier Wood's Tag Team Gauntlet Match in mid March 2019.

** Big E and Xavier Wood's Tag Team Gauntlet Match in mid March.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Back in 2018, in the wake of their fifth tag team championship, Wrestling/BookerT appeared to bless the team in a segment that ended with them doing the spinaroonie. The only one who didn't join? Big E, who required assistance from his teammates. Cut to the celebrations after Kofi won the WWE Championship from Daniel Bryan, and Big E did a leg split in the following episode of Raw! Too bad that it came at the cost of suffering a torn meniscus, forcing the team to disband in the wake of the 2019 Superstar Shakeup.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Their response to the reinstatement of Wrestling/HulkHogan includes some paragraphs about racism, how it affects people of the affected race... and the proper reaction to it, as EasilyForgiven doesn't always apply on RealLife.

* HilariousInHindsight: The Time Machine might really work, considering [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAaoJCsoVKQ they appear in 1920's South Dakota]] in Series/AdamRuinsEverything.
* HolyShitQuotient: ''Everything'' about The New Day's Road to Wrestlemania 35. For reference, Kofi has been getting a chance to go to Wrestlemania but he's had to go through a gauntlet match to make it in. But just one week later, Vince has Big E and Xavier Woods go through a gauntlet match of their own to ''ensure'' it. Cue Xavier and Big-E going through every tag team in the Smackdown roster, ending it with Big E flipping the announcer's table to get Erick Rowan eliminated by count-out.

** Their current status as the new dominant tag team in the tag team division able to beat down established stars has drawn heat. Many fans think that they are simply too goofy and little serious to fit the image of a dominant, menacing stable which goes against established stars, and that they should stick to having fun and compete in the tag division. Others believe that their QuirkyMinibossSquad role is funny and refreshing when compared with the classic serious stables -- and it certainly helps that the people who like them see them as the successor to [[Wrestling/ThreeMB 3MB]] rather than Wrestling/TheShield.

-> ''"On a personal level, when someone makes racist and hateful comments about any race or group of people, especially to the degree that Hogan made about our people, we find it difficult to simply forget, regardless of how long ago it was, or the situation in which those comments were made. But we also do not respond with more feelings of hate. Instead, we just do not associate with the people who convey or have conveyed this negative and hurtful mindset. This instance will be no different. Perhaps if we see him make a genuine effort to change, then maybe our opinion will change with him. Time will tell.\\
Through the course of our lives, people have used racist comments towards us and it doesn't feel good. But if we stopped moving forward everytime we were met with prejudicial hatred, then we would have never achieved our current accomplishments.\\
We know we are worth it, we know our kids are worth it, and most importantly, we know that people that look like us are worth it and always have been. There isn't a person on this planet who will ever be able to say anything to make us think otherwise because we believe in ourselves as a people and don't need anyone's approval on that, regardless of who they are."''

-> ''On a personal level, when someone makes racist and hateful comments about any race or group of people, especially to the degree that Hogan made about our people, we find it difficult to simply forget, regardless of how long ago it was, or the situation in which those comments were made. But we also do not respond with more feelings of hate. Instead, we just do not associate with the people who convey or have conveyed this negative and hurtful mindset. This instance will be no different. Perhaps if we see him make a genuine effort to change, then maybe our opinion will change with him. Time will tell.\\

We know we are worth it, we know our kids are worth it, and most importantly, we know that people that look like us are worth it and always have been. There isn't a person on this planet who will ever be able to say anything to make us think otherwise because we believe in ourselves as a people and don't need anyone's approval on that, regardless of who they are.''

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The faction that defends their title under the "Freebird Rule" got to induct [[Characters/WCWCrockett The Fabulous Freebirds]] into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The faction that defends their title under the "Freebird Rule" got to induct [[Characters/WCWCrockett The Fabulous Freebirds]] into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016.
* {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s:

** Although they have eventually gotten over thanks to their sheer charisma, back in the starts of the group there were complaints by fans that The New Day's gimmick was too vague and unspecific, sometimes bordering on InformedAbility with respect to their gospel theme.
** While some rejoiced at seeing Kingston receiving something close to a push, others think that his FaceHeelTurn and the New Day altogether are wasting him as a wrestler. The same feeling has fallen over Woods and Big E in some degree.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: New Day took what was originally going to be another racist gimmick (Black preachers) and turned it into an exceptional heel gimmick by simply playing the traits fans previously found annoying UpToEleven to the point that it became amusing. It also helps that all three men are considered criminally underused in WWE prior to becoming the New Day.

* OneOfUs: Xavier Woods is a huge gamer, a pop culture fan, and just a geek/nerd in general. He also has his own YouTube channel dedicated to gaming content where he usually holds tournaments with ''WWE'' superstars, etc. At one point in time, they dressed up in ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' Saiyan armor during interviews/matches.

** Didn't New Day's unicorn horns [[TheMerch sell out]] in, like, 5 minutes?
** Many viewers consider them (as a collective) one of the only good parts of the show during the latter half of 2015. The similarities to two other recent Ensemble Darkhorses, [[Wrestling/ThreeMB 3MB]] and Wrestling/BoDallas, certainly helped.
** According to reports, The New Day were the top merchandise sellers during [=WrestleMania=] 32 weekend.
* FridgeBrilliance:
** Unicorn gimmick plus trombone? Unicorns have horns!
** During their time travel segment, Kofi temporarily goes back to his original Jamaican gimmick, complete with theme music, and screams out "2009 was my best year!" when pulled back by Xavier. 2009 was the year of what was arguably Kofi's biggest push as a singles competitor with his feud against Randy Orton and Boom Dropping him in Madison Square Garden. It was also the year he would slightly tweak his Jamaican persona by ditching the accent (which Wrestling/TripleH noticed) and retooling it into a homage to Jamaican culture.

* NarmCharm: Who else could make a '''''[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer funeral for a trombone]]''''' a legitimate TearJerker?
* OneOfUs: Xavier Woods is a huge gamer, a pop culture fan, and just a geek/nerd in general. He also has his own YouTube channel dedicated to gaming content where he usually holds tournaments with WWE superstars, etc. At one point in time, they dressed up in ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' Saiyan armor during interviews/matches.

** Then Survivor Series 2017 had them feud against ''The Shield''. So the optimistic unicorn-horns, flapjack eating group against the badass military anti-heroes? Everyone wins!

* OneOfUs: Xavier Woods is a huge gamer, a pop culture fan, and just a geek/nerd in general. He also has his own YouTube channel dedicated to gaming content where he usually holds tournaments with WWE superstars, etc. At one point in time, they dressed up in DragonBallZ Saiyan armor during interviews/matches.

** In June 2016, they were teased into a feud with The Wyatt Family. Super-positive, trombone-playing faction against doom-saying, goat mask-wearing faction? WWE fans can't lose...right?

** In June 2016, they were teased into a feud with The Wyatt Family. Super-positive, trombone-playing faction against doom-saying, goat mask-wearing faction? WWE fans can't lose...right?
* NarmCharm: Who else could make a '''''[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer funeral for a trombone]]''''' a legitimate TearJerker?
* OneOfUs: Xavier Woods is a huge gamer, a pop culture fan, and just a geek/nerd in general. He also has his own YouTube channel dedicated to gaming content where he usually holds tournaments with WWE superstars, etc. At one point in time, they dressed up in DragonBallZ Saiyan armor during interviews/matches.