Line #13 YMMV/SidEudy


1	* DracoInLeatherPants: Oh, so much. For all his laziness in the ring and his countless bad matches, he has an undeniable charisma that people respond to in spite of everything.
2	** He got a huge cheer when he eliminated Hulk Hogan in the 1992 Royal Rumble, despite Hogan being the biggest wrestling face in the world at the time.
3	* FanNickname: Despite using them in two separate companies, most people will combine his two most popular ring names together into "Sycho Sid Vicious" for the sake of clarity. It has the added benefit of helping to differentiate him from Music/SidVicious of the Music/SexPistols in things such as search engine algorithms.
4	* MemeticMutation: "Kevin Nash, you may be half the man that I am, and I may have half the brain that you do..."
5	** 22!? OH MAN! WHY ME!? WHY ME!?[[note]]This was the number he drew in the 1992 Royal Rumble match.[[/note]]
6	** Sid's crossface being one of the most powerful submissions in wrestling history due to tapping out both Tank Abbott and Kevin Nash with it.
7	* MisaimedFandom: Even though he was a heel in his match with Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} at ''WCW Mayhem 1999'', the Canadian fans (who are more fond of WWE) cheered him due to Sid's WWE past and the belief that Goldberg was a Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin ripoff.[[note]]Ex-WCW guys have never really gotten over in Canada, unless they're actually from Canada, probably because WCW itself was never really popular up north thanks to a lack of TV and probably just loyalty to the WWF (WCW only ran 2 [=PPVs=] in Canada, both while WCW was already in the freefall that killed the promotion, and didn't run any shows up there ''at all'' until 1998). And for the record, Goldberg was a ripoff of ''Ken Shamrock'', not Steve Austin, the bald head and black trunks (not exactly uncommon in wrestling) was just a coincidence.[[/note]]
8	* MisBlamed: Sid often gets blamed for the downfall of WCW, as his return to the company and the mega push (at the expense of the entire undercard) helped create a lot of internal dissent within the undercard and led to many fan favorites who were shunned in favor of pushing Sid, to quit in 1999/early 2000. While Sid didn't make Nitro more watchable, longstanding internal issues ultimately led to WCW's downfall with Sid more or less being a symptom but not the cause of the rot that killed WCW.
9	* TheScrappy: Though hugely popular in the late 80s and early 90s, changing taste in wrestling, especially the poularity of cruiserweight wrestling and more shades of grey type wrestlers with more realistic, relatable personalities, caused Sid's stock to plumit among fans. His return to WCW in 1999 as a foil for Goldberg and later, Hulk Hogan, were widely reviled and many felt that Sid's push should have gone to homegrown talent like Chris Jericho, Eddie Gurerro, or Chris Benoit instead. Especially since Sid's character never changed and his character highly protected at the expense of the entire undercard. Adding to this, thanks to the rise of the internet and Scott Keith's "History of WCW circa 1993" essay piece (which for years was one of the most detailed accounts of that period in the company's history), a lot of behind the scenes stuff about Sid became public knowledge (such as the squeegee incident and the "scissors" incident with Arn Anderson, which even got incorporated into an episode of Nitro, with Eric Bischoff referencing it to mock Sid[[note]]And Sid no-selling it (either because he didn't get the joke or was trying to make Bischoff look like a jackass), causing Bischoff to repeat "I '''said''' did you '''forget''' your '''scissors'''?!?" and Sid still not biting[[/note]]), along with Sid's passion for softball and his habit of no-showing companies to play softball.
10	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: His return to ''Raw'' in 2012 to [[SquashMatch flatten]] Heath Slater. The guy was 51 years old. It was his first appearance in WWE in ''15 years.'' And he still looked ''amazingly'' good for his age.
11	** There was also a brief stretch of time during 1996 to 1997, in the middle of the New Generation Era, when everything clicked for Sid, giving his best effort and having surprisingly great matches (In particular, his title matches with Shawn Michaels at the 1996 Survivor Series and the 1997 Royal Rumble)
12	* {{Narm}}: Despite being a muscular powerhouse with buckets of charisma, whenever Sid opened his mouth or tried to act out, it often ended in this, no thanks to his voice and mannerisms.
13	* NeverLiveItDown:
14	** Wrestling/BrianPillman kicking his ass in a bar fight and Sid going out to look for a weapon and coming back with a ''squeegee''.
15	** The scissors debacle with Arn.[[note]]According to Wrestling/JimCornette he's the one that came up with the "Sycho Sid" nickname while trying to talk Vince [=McMahon=] out of hiring Sid. "You know he's a psycho, right? He tried to kill Arn Anderson!" Obviously Cornette's pleas fell on deaf ears.[[/note]]
16	** The "I have half the brain that you do" promo.
17	** His leg injury.
18	** Completely flubbing a promo and asking if they can start over, only to be told that they're going out live.
19	* {{Squick}}: There's footage of him snapping his leg coming off of the middle rope at the ''Sin'' pay-per-view.[[note]]For those that missed the show (which was most people if the abysmal 0.17 buyrate is any indication) they made sure to replay it a couple dozen times the next night on ''Nitro'', complete with alternate camera angles not shown on the PPV broadcast.[[/note]]
20	* TookTheBadFilmSeriously:
21	** After [[Wrestling/FredOttman The Shockmaster's]] infamous entrance, while everyone else was [[{{Corpsing}} doubled up in laughter]], Sid sold the threat like a pro, acting in rage, keeping in character.

Context YMMV / SidEudy