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->''Everybody's got a price''\\
''Everybody's gonna pay''\\
''Cuz the Million Dollar Man''\\
'''''Always''' gets his way! [[EvilLaugh DYAHAHAHAHAHAHA]]!''

"The Million Dollar Man" '''Ted [=DiBiase=]''' was one of the premier {{Heel}}s in the "federation years" of the WWE. Now retired, he was inducted into WWE's Hall of Fame in 2010, and has since been keeping a watchful eye over his son Ted [=DiBiase=] Jr. in his WWE run. He is a 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]] with Irwin R. Schyster (Mike Rotunda) as Money Inc, a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-na-h.html WWF North American Heavyweight Champion]], a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF World Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/StanHansen and 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/aj-t.html All Japan Pro Wrestling World Tag Team Champion]] also with Hansen, and held various territorial titles in the late 1970s and through most of the 1980s before arriving in Wrestling/{{WWE}} in 1987.

As usual, ThatOtherWiki has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_DiBiase a more detailed run-down of his career.]]
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!!Tropes associated with him include:
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He once attempted to purchase the WWF Championship off of Wrestling/HulkHogan. One [[AlternateHistory "Rewriting the Book"]] article on Website/{{WrestleCrap}} explores WhatCouldHaveBeen if Hogan had taken the deal.
** Ironically, he actually inverted this earlier in his career. While competing for "Cowboy" Bill Watts' Universal Wrestling Federation in 1986, [=DiBiase=] competed in, and was eliminated from, the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midsouth/uwf/uwf-h.html UWF World Heavyweight Title]] Tournament on May 30. ([=DiBiase=] d. [[Wrestling/UltimateWarrior Blade Runner Rock]] in the First Round and Terry Gordy d. him in a Quarter-Final Match.) [=DiBiase=]'s former manager, [[ForeignWrestlingHeel Gen. Skandor Akbar]] of Devastation Inc., offered him $25,000 to interfere and cost his friend [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]] his semi-final match against Akbar's charge Wrestling/{{Kamala}} the Ugandan [[TheGiant Giant]]. [=DiBiase=] said, "Make it $50,000." Akbar agreed, [=DiBiase=] put on his infamous black glove, and nailed KAMALA, giving Duggan the win and sending him into the finals against Gordy. (Duggan lost, but that's another story.)
* AuthorAvatar: Ted [=DiBiase=]'s Million Dollar Man character was based on the type of wrestler WWE boss Wrestling/VinceMcMahon wanted to be, so he arguably could be considered this. This was years before Vince himself would [[FaceHeelTurn turn heel]] following the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob and become the BigBad we know today.
* BashBrothers: With [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]], "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, Virgil, IRS, Wrestling/StanHansen
* BeardOfEvil
* CatchPhrase: "Everybody's got a price for the Million Dollar Man!"
* DirtyCoward
* TheDogBitesBack: From his "servant," Virgil.
* EvilLaugh: And a damn good one, at that.
* {{Expy}}: Claimed in his [[{{Biography}} autobiography]] ''Every Man His His Price'' that [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] described the "Million-Dollar Man" [[TheGimmick gimmick]] to him as a wrestling version of DonaldTrump.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* [[{{Fiction500}} Fiction 500]]
* FinishingMove: The Million Dollar Dream submission hold.
** He also used the Cobra Clutch combined with a Russian Legsweep, a top rope backwards elbow drop, and a Spinning Toe Hold at different phases of his career.
* TheFundamentalist: Sort of. After he retired, he became a minister and frequently worked with Nikita Koloff on combined Christian/wrestling events.
* {{Heel}}: Probably one of the best-known characters of this archetype.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: His father was also a wrestler, and his son, is also a wrestler.
** All three sons, actually (Ted Jr., Brett and Mike II).
* KickTheDog: The Million Dollar Man would usually offer rewards to audience members for doing some task, but they could never pull them off. He once offered $500 to a very small child to dribble a basketball 15 times without missing. The boy did surprisingly well... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwoQ2b3k8Uo only for Ted to kick the ball out from under him at the fourteenth bounce.]]
** PetTheDog: The boy was later invited backstage, however, where he was given the $500 and got to meet the wrestlers.
** Funnily, his kicking of Cody Rhodes got him a {{face}} pop.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He bought the #30 spot in the Royal Rumble from Akeem in order to have the best chance at winning. Along with that, he tried to buy off Big John Studd so he could win the whole thing. Studd didn't bite, making the Million Dollar Man the last man eliminated. In the subsequent Rumble matches he participated in, [=DiBiase=] drew #1 in 1991, #2 in 1992, and #3 in 1993.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* MoneySong: His theme, obviously, which is also an EarWorm.
* PowerStable: The Million Dollar Corporation.
* PowerTrio: (in "Cowboy" Bill Watts' Mid-South/UWF): The Rat Pack, with [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]] and "Dr. Death" Steve Williams
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: ''Inverted,'' in that The Gimmick Writes Real Life: when Ted started working as the Million Dollar Man, the WWF needed him to play the role to the hilt to protect kayfabe, so it gave him a bankroll many guys probably would have killed to have just so he could do things like travel by private jet, ride around in limos, and stay in high-class hotels.
* RedBaron: "The Million Dollar Man"!
* RichBastard
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: His son is turning into this.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Do we ''really'' have to explain this one?
** Creating his own championship, for a start.
** Averted in 1988. [=DiBiase=] paid Wrestling/AndreTheGiant to win the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWF Championship]] from Wrestling/HulkHogan for him, and detained referee Dave Hebner backstage while Dave's EvilTwin brother Earl impersonated him to help Andre win the title; Andre tried to surrender the belt to [=DiBiase=], but the WWF refused to acknowledge Ted as the champion, and the title was declared vacant. (Andre's brief reign is still the shortest recognized WWE Championship reign in history.)
* SharpDressedMan: His entrance attire was a tux, for crying out loud!
* StartMyOwn: Since Ted literally couldn't buy a WWF Championship reign, he went out and had the "Million Dollar Championship" - a custom belt made of gold and diamonds - created just to prove he was the best.
** He awarded the belt to Steve Austin in 1996, and eventually, to Ted Jr. in 2010. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse The belt subsequently disappeared not long after that.]]
* TagTeam: Money Inc., with IRS.
* TakeThat: Following victories, [=DiBiase=] would stuff $100 bills into his opponents' mouths.
** This is the kayfabe distinction between the Cobra Clutch and the Million Dollar Dream (they're the same hold, otherwise).
* TricksterMentor: To his son, maybe.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [=DiBiase=] was actually scheduled to win the tournament and the title at Wrestlemania IV. During the buildup to the show, RandySavage was scheduled to win the Intercontinental Title from The Honky Tonk Man, but Honky pulled a power play threatening to leave WWE as champion. WWE caved to Honky's demands and gave Savage the world title at Wrestlemania as one hell of a consolation prize. [=DiBiase=] never did become a world champion.
** He was actually billed as WWF champion at a couple of house shows after Andre "sold" the WWF Championship to him. He even ''defended'' the belt against BamBamBigelow. For whatever reason, this was scrapped, and the title was announced as vacant.
* WrestlingFamily: Ted's mother Helen Nevins-DiBiase was a wrestler (as Helen Hilde), as was his adoptive father "Iron" Mike [[=DiBiase=]], and his sons Mike, Ted Jr. and Brett have all become wrestlers, with Ted Jr. currently being signed to WWE.
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->''Some might cost a little''\\
''Some might cost a lot''\\
''But I'm the Million Dollar Man''\\
''And you '''will''' be bought! [[EvilLaugh DYAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]''
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