Line #25 YMMV/SurvivorSeries


1	* FanNickname: 2019's event has been dubbed "NXT Takeover: Survivor Series" due to NXT being involved in the Pay-Per-View for the first time.
2	* HilariousInHindsight: [[Wrestling/CurtHennig Mr. Perfect]] [[HeelFaceTurn turned face]] to team with Wrestling/RandySavage against Wrestling/RicFlair and [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] at ''Survivor Series '92.'' By the time ''Survivor Series '93'' rolled around, Perfect had retired, Razor was a face, and Savage was on Razor's team as the replacement for Mr. Perfect.
3	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: The ending of the 2015 event was basically a rehash of ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2013''. While this was probably the main reason why the angle was badly received, it didn't help that the guy who cashed in ([[spoiler:Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}]]) had been regarded as irrelevant for months, while the guy he cashed in on ([[spoiler:Wrestling/RomanReigns]]) didn't have even close to the level of popularity that [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] had (he was popular enough for people to feel bad for him, certainly, but not enough to get behind him all the way), and even less than the other finalist ([[spoiler:[[Wrestling/JonMoxley Dean Ambrose]]]]) had, and many feel he's better off being a heel anyway.
4	* OvershadowedByControversy: The 1997 event is forever known as the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob.
5	* SeasonalRot: The core concept of ''Survivor Series'' has become completely irrelevant over the years as it has shifted from being clashes between teams of wrestlers who have a beef with each other, to ''RAW'' competing against ''[=SmackDown=]'' in "brand warfare" for nothing more than bragging rights, with teams made up of faces and heels from each brand being thrown together to fight for the pride of the show, irrespective of their own stories. This was undermined even more by the regular WWE Draft, and reached a nadir in 2021 when all four (two men's and two women's) teams were literally announced wholesale on Twitter a mere three weeks after the last draft, leading to people pointing out that the ''entire RAW'' men's team was made up of wrestlers ''who'd been on [=SmackDown=] less than a month earlier,'' now talking about how they have to win for the pride of ''RAW.'' Even more ridiculously, authority figure Adam Pearce appeared on ''RAW'' talking about how essential it is that ''RAW'' wins for brand pride... despite the fact that he's the authority on both ''RAW'' '''and''' ''[=SmackDown=]''. At this point, the matches could well be very entertaining, but it's impossible to ''care'' about them any more.
6	* SignatureScene:
7	** 1990: The debut of Wrestling/TheUndertaker.
8	** 1991: Wrestling/TheUndertaker winning his first WWF title.
9	** 1992: Wrestling/BretHart vs. Wrestling/ShawnMichaels
10	** 1994: Wrestling/BobBacklund winning the WWF title.
11	** 1995: Wrestling/BretHart ending [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]]'s one year run as WWF Champion.
12	** 1996: The debut of [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] (then known as Rocky Maivia) or Wrestling/{{Stone Cold\|SteveAustin}} vs Wrestling/BretHart.
13	** 1997: The Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob.
14	** 1998: [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] winning his first WWF championship.
15	** 1999: Wrestling/{{Stone Cold\|SteveAustin}} being ran over by a car.
16	** 2000: Wrestling/{{Stone Cold\|SteveAustin}} vs. Wrestling/TripleH, especially in the end where Austin uses a forklift to drop down the car with Triple H in it.
17	** 2001: Team WWF defeating the Alliance to end Wrestling/TheInvasionAngle.
18	** 2002: The inaugural Wrestling/EliminationChamber.
19	** 2003: Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} retaining his first title or Wrestling/TheUndertaker being buried by Wrestling/{{Kane}}.
20	** 2004: Team Wrestling/EddieGuerrero defeating Team Wrestling/KurtAngle or Wrestling/RandyOrton becoming the SoleSurvivor of his team for the second straight year.
21	** 2005: Wrestling/TheUndertaker returning to interrupt [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown Team SmackDown]][=/=]Wrestling/RandyOrton's celebration. (Orton was the sole survivor for the third straight year)
22	** 2006: [[Wrestling/ShawnMichaels All]] [[Wrestling/TripleH five]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy members]] [[Wrestling/JeffHardy of]] [[Wrestling/CMPunk Team]] [[Wrestling/DGenerationX DX]] surviving their match. Michaels took out Mike Knox in ''seconds'' right off the bat.
23	** 2007: Wrestling/{{Edge\|Wrestler}}'s surprise return during Wrestling/{{Batista}} and Wrestling/TheUndertaker's Wrestling/HellInACell World Heavyweight Championship match.
24	** 2008: Wrestling/JohnCena winning his first World Heavyweight championship (his fourth World Title overall).
25	** 2009: Wrestling/{{Christian}} rapping about his status for being his team's TokenWhite.
26	** 2010: Wrestling/JohnCena being (temporarily) fired from WWE for helping Wrestling/RandyOrton retain the WWE Championship against [[Wrestling/TheNexus Nexus]] leader Wrestling/WadeBarrett.
27	** 2011: Either [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]]'s first match in nearly 8 years or the beginning of Wrestling/CMPunk's 434-day title reign.
28	** 2012: The debut of Wrestling/TheShield.
29	** 2013: [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] and Wrestling/CMPunk teaming-up to take on Wrestling/TheWyattFamily.
30	** 2014: The debut of Wrestling/{{Sting}} or the (temporary) firing of Wrestling/TheAuthority (thanks to Sting's assistance to Team Cena's last man standing Wrestling/DolphZiggler).
31	** 2015: Wrestling/RomanReigns winning the title only for Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} to cash in his Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank briefcase and win the title for himself, and the livid crowd's reaction.
32	** 2016: Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} '''squashing''' Wrestling/BrockLesnar in less than two minutes.
33	** 2017: Either Wrestling/BrockLesnar vs. Wrestling/AJStyles, or Wrestling/TheShield vs. Wrestling/TheNewDay, in the former's first PPV match since reuniting.
34	** 2018: Either Wrestling/CharlotteFlair giving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Wrestling/RondaRousey, or Wrestling/DrakeMaverick wetting his pants during the tag team match.
35	** 2019: Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio\|Jr}} and [[Wrestling/DominikMysterio his son]] double teaming (read: ''Stereo 619ing'') Wrestling/BrockLesnar.
36	** 2020: Wrestling/TheUndertaker's final farewell, as well as Wrestling/RomanReigns vs. Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre.
37	** 2021: Wrestling/BeckyLynch vs. Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, mainly due to the real life heat between the two at the time.
38	** 2022: [[Wrestling/TheUsos Jey Uso]] hugging Wrestling/SamiZayn during the [=WarGames=] match, after months of animosity.
39	** 2023: The [[CueTheFlyingPigs return of]] Wrestling/CMPunk.
40	* SignatureSong: "[[Music/FloRida Good Feeling]]", the 2011 theme. If that is disqualified due to SoundtrackDissonance, then the title goes to "[[Music/PuddleOfMudd Control]]", the 2001 theme, or "Always", the 2002 theme.
41	** Music/BlackSabbath's "War Pigs" is becoming one in recent years, having been used for both the 2022 and 2023 iterations of the show, each of which centered around a pair of War Games matches.
42	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
43	** The ending of the 2015 event. Sure, a heel turn would have been predictable, but [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools that isn't a bad thing]] -- in fact, it would've been interesting and would have refreshed the main product of the company, more so than putting it on a guy who had been booked into oblivion throughout 2015 and had already won multiple world titles such as Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}, yet failed to get over enough to justify any one of them. The fans, knowing this and seeing that the company would rather play it safe and keep churning out the same stale programming rather than try something new and invigorating, made it blatantly clear that they weren't having any of it and started leaving in droves. It probably didn’t help that the title had been on an [[Wrestling/TheAuthority Authority]]-associated superstar (Wrestling/SethRollins, who'd been forced to vacate the title after blowing out his knee at a house show in Dublin) for months and the fans wanted a change.
44	** The two Survivor Series elimination matches that were on the 2015 card (well, one was on the pre-show) were quite clearly hastily thrown together just so the name of the PPV wouldn't be a misnomer and had practically no build-up. Directly after this PPV, at least three four-man stables formed and started feuding amongst themselves and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily (who at ''Survivor Series'' itself had been relegated to lose to the Brothers of Destruction (Wrestling/TheUndertaker and Wrestling/{{Kane}}) in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Undertaker's WWE career) -- '''a perfect set up for''' '''''Survivor Series'''''. This was mercilessly {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d to no end by what seemed to be every [[SmartMark smark]] on the Internet.
45	** Some have even noted that the company seems capable of setting up a traditional Survivor Series match for every PPV ''except'' for ''Survivor Series''. Especially notable for the two years that the ''Bragging Rights'' PPV was around. It aired the month before ''Survivor Series'' and featured matches that would have been right at home on the event.
46	** The 2017 men's 5-on-5 had two matchups that the fans were ''salivating'' to see: Raw's [[Wrestling/FergalDevitt Finn Balor]] against his old NXT rival, Smackdown's Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura, and Raw's Wrestling/TripleH versus Smackdown's Wrestling/BobbyRoode for the first time ''ever''. Balor and Nakamura did a few callbacks to their NXT headgames and New Japan feuds, with the fans screaming like crazy for it, but Nakamura was eliminated by Braun Strowman in a squash about six seconds later. Triple H vs Roode has been an internet dream match for a long time, with Roode during his TNA years being compared to Hunter in his prime, and not only was the crowd amped as hell, Balor and Wrestling/SamoaJoe were on the ring apron visibly marking out. Yet again, there was only a short back-and-forth before Cena and Strowman tagged in.
47	*** The end of said match had Strowman, fed up with Triple H's showboating in the finish of the match, pinning The Game in the corner of the ring in a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech with tones of borderline ''murder'' in his voice. This would be just about the last time two would interact on-screen period before Triple H's 2022 retirement with no semblance of a follow up feud to this show-closing interaction.
48	* ToughActToFollow: The 2019 event was absolutely covered from top to bottom with amazing matches, with the Women's Championship Triple Threat Match commented as not living up to the hype that included a Women's Survivor Match, [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt The Fiend]] vs. [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], Pete Dunne vs. Wrestling/AdamCole, and Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio\|Jr}} vs. Wrestling/BrockLesnar.
49	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Sgt. Slaughter's Iraqi heel act at ''Survivor Series 1990'' is very dated today, though Sarge did a good job on his promo and getting the drama across.

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