Line #8 YMMV/TerryFunk

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1	* AmericansHateTingle: Loathed in Puerto Rico, even after he took to garbage wrestling, which usually gets over big there.
2	* BadassDecay: By the time Terry arrived in [=WCW=] for what was his final run as a full time wrestler before spending the next fifteen plus years as "semi-retired", his best days were well and truly behind him. Decades of injuries had completely destroyed his knees, meaning he could only walk in a slow, bow legged waddle and he couldn't really hit actual moves anymore, relying almost exclusively on weapons. It didn't help that he was pitted against much younger and mobile opponents who in reality could wrestle circles around him.
3	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Oh, boy, do the Japanese love this guy.
4	* MemeticMutation:
5	** "FOREVER!....FOREVER!"
6	** The sheer number of times that he's "retired" and then come back soon after is probably one of the oldest running jokes among wrestling fans.
7	** "Should've taken the money!"[[note]]His confession in the ''Forever Hardcore'' documentary that he regretted not doing WWE's 2005 "One Night Stand" PPV (and its paycheck) in favor of the independent "Hardcore Homecoming" show has become a memetic phrase, particularly with the WebVideo/OSWReview hosts.[[/note]]
8	* NightmareFuel: His Barbed Wire Rope Match against Wrestling/{{Sabu}} at Wrestling/{{ECW}}'s ''Born to be Wired'' event, even though Sabu's [[{{Squick}} gash-in-the-arm]] was more notable than what Terry suffered. Wrestling/PaulHeyman didn't want anybody in ECW trying another Barbed Wire Rope match because he didn't think it could be topped and didn't want to see anybody else ''try'', but Wrestling/ShaneDouglas booked a Barbed Wire Three-Way-Dance between Sabu, Funk, and himself for ''Hardcore Homecoming'' - and it was just as disturbingly brilliant as the original.
9	* TearJerker:
10	** His ''first'' retirement in 1983 in Japan. "FOREVER! FOREVER!" Even with the subversion of this trope with future "retirements", some fans do get teary when seeing that moment replayed.
11	** On his shoot interview with Wrestling/JimCornette, he mentions being uneasy with breaking {{Kayfabe}} even after all these years. Jim remarks, "That horse has left the barn though, Terry." Funk responds with, "I'd love to go out and rope him and bring it back."

Context YMMV / TerryFunk