* AssPull: Jeff's FaceHeelTurn in TNA. The ''only'' Face–Heel Turn of Jeff's career, in fact, done with no foreshadowing and on a wrestler that everyone likes, even the smarks. While his video promos and the nasty treacherous in-ring style he developed afterwards were credited with getting him heat even if half the crowd still cheers him, that still doesn't obscure the fact that it came out of nowhere.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: His solo entrance theme from towards the end of his first WWE run, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TqF-34TkM No More Words]]" by Endeverafter. Jeff agreed too, to the point that it was reported that he actually made it part of his contract negotiations with WWE during his second run to get back the theme (he had reverted back to the Hardy Boyz theme). He finally got to use it back starting from the July 19, 2021 episode of ''Raw'', more than ''13 years'' after its debut.
* BrokenBase: For as legendary as a career Jeff Hardy has, it's not without some debated topics.
** His main event status combined with his known drug usage. He's a hot debate source for Smarks.
** His 2021 release from WWE. Jeff Hardy essentially admitted going into business for himself, by leaving a match during a house show and acting weird, to get out of his WWE contract so that he may leave. Some figured WWE was owed no good will because of their actions during the pandemic era and that Jeff's unhappiness is what matters. Some feel that Jeff Hardy was extremely selfish as anyone doing this is marked for unprofessionalism, and what he did was essentially that.
* DracoInLeatherPants: For all the complaints you will see online about Jeff Hardy, both regarding his in ring career and offset legal troubles, he has little trouble getting cheered for in most venues. Even his harshest detractors have to relent that he is one of the greatest baby {{face}}s of all time.
* EstrogenBrigade: He's wildly popular with teenage girls (and women in general).
* SexyVillainsChasteHeroes: Maybe its the aggressiveness, or maybe it's just the black, but he looked really, ''really'' good as a heel.
* FanNickname:
** Meth Hardy, for his well-known drug problems.
** His redesign of the TNA World Heavyweight Title is the Aztec Sun belt.
* FashionVictimVillain: His self designed version of the TNA World Heavyweight Title Belt, which is his own asymmetrically painted silver face on a purple strap.
* FoeYayShipping: With Wrestling/CMPunk, which led to the rise of the [[PortmanteauCoupleName Junk]] pairing that retains a minor following to this day. Their entire feud reads as Punk being intensely attracted to Jeff and hating him for it, and Jeff reluctantly being attracted to Punk in turn but still despising him for all his heinous actions.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2KP1M8j9MQ "Congratulations, brother!"]] - said from Wrestling/HulkHogan to him in presence of Wrestling/RicFlair in a 2002 segment. Several years later, the three would fall in disgrace: Jeff and his drug problem, Hogan being banned from the WWE after the Gawker fiasco, and Flair's lifestyle problems. And then there's [[PowerStable Immortal]] and its effect on [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]].
** His iconic feud with Wrestling/CMPunk became this after Jeff's addiction problems became more prominent as the years passed by. For all that Punk was the heel in this feud, he was right about Jeff and his issues, something that more than one fan has come to sadly note over the years.
* HilariousInHindsight: After his famous Ladder Match with the Undertaker, he boasts that the Deadman hasn't broken him yet. More than a decade later, his ''brother'' would break him.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Hooo, boy...just go online and find that he's been shipped with ''everyone'' male and female alike.
* MemeticMutation:
** His drunken TakeThat rant on Wrestling/CMPunk seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6GcrIBhBWA here]].
** "THAT'S MAH PAINTING MAAAAN!" from when [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Nitro]] knocked down a painting he was working on.
** "{{Wrestling/Austin|Aries}}, [[GroinAttack my nuts hurt.]]"
** "[[MadnessMantra I'LL FADE AWAY AND CLASSIFY MYSELF AS OBSOLETE!]]"
* NeverLiveItDown
** The Victory Road 2011 main event match. The only way he will live it down is if it's generally attributed to TNA's overall incompetence and not just Hardy, but knowing Jeff's lifestyle this is unlikely.
*** Despite [[WinBackTheCrowd winning back the crowd]] with his redemption story, he's still never gonna fully live it down—not only does his record keeps him from being able to attend overseas tours, but his checkered past (both real and storyline, the latter being pretty rare) can easily be used as a plot point against his character as [[Wrestling/NickAldis Magnus]] did expertly at ''Impact: Final Resolution'' 2013.
** Among Japanese fans, it was Jeff Hardy defending TNA World Heavyweight title against Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito at the 2011 Wrestle Kingdom while high. Considering that it took place shortly before the Victory Road fiasco, many see it as real-life {{Foreshadowing}}.
** While he didn't exactly "live it down", Jeff's EpicFail did get overshadowed later that year when his older brother Wrestling/MattHardy faked a suicide note via Website/YouTube video. In fact, it was so overshadowed that Jeff is now considered to be the more responsible Hardy brother, especially after he took responsibility for his actions and stayed clean, and it's quite likely that Matt wouldn't have lived it down had he not reinvented himself with the "Broken" gimmick.
** His June 2022 DUI is rapidly heading in this direction, especially as more and more of the nastier details come to light[[note]]such as driving with a suspended license and his vehicle lacking the interlock device it was ''court-ordered'' to have[[/note]]. It didn't help that it came off the heels of his controversial firing from WWE and a few months after his AEW debut, which was supposed to kick off the last run for the Hardy Boyz. It's this event, more than anything else, that has convinced even his most ardent fans that he's not going to get better, nor that he wants to get better, and that they don't want to see him anymore if he's going to put others in danger for the sake of his vices, particularly after Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch had been arrested for ''killing'' an elderly man in a car crash that she'd caused while as intoxicated as Jeff had been[[note]] more than 3 times over the legal limit[[/note]] only a few months earlier. Some AEW fans also resented that this had happened after AEW had pushed Jeff ''hard'' following his debut, including over younger men (notably beating top young AEW original Wrestling/DarbyAllin in the Wrestling/OwenHart Memorial Tournament), resulting in the company looking foolish for taking a chance on him, and felt sorry for ''Matt'' who had presumably vouched for his brother to AEW management.
* PeripheryDemographic: Jeff Hardy is a proven draw amongst teenage girls and young women who wouldn't otherwise be interested in professional wrestling. Nowhere was this more obvious than in his Ring of Honor appearance, where a couple hundred teenage girls showed up to cheer him while the [=RoHbots=] booed and mocked him.
* TheScrappy: For whatever reason, there is a large part of the internet community, even among those who generally like Jeff Hardy, that ''hate'' Willow The Wisp. There was a lot of hype on Highspots.com for the Hardyboyz vs Briscoe Brothers DVD but a lot of negative comments were made solely because Willow was in it.
* {{Squick}}: Any of the spots that involve the holes [[EarAche the holes in his ear lobes.]] To wit, Randy Orton pulls on them really hard. In a later match, he jams a screwdriver and ''twists''. Sami Zayn handcuffs his ear to a ladder.
* WinBackTheCrowd: Jeff Hardy's return to the company has him making a public apology to the crowd, apologizing for his unprofessional behavior causing the PPV to be ruined. About a year later, he won the 2012 Bound For Glory Series at No Surrender and he won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship from Austin Aries at Bound For Glory a month later. Of course, the fact he has -by all accounts and records- stayed clean since the incident does help a lot.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Jeff briefly appeared as Brother Nero during Matt's "Ultimate Deletion" match with Wrestling/BrayWyatt while he was still out with an injury. The character never showed up again and was only given a passing reference when Bray called Jeff "Brother Nero" upon his return from his injury.
* XPacHeat
** His first appearance for ROH did not go well. Despite being told by the fans not to come back however, "Brother Nero"'s eventual return was taken as well as anyone could hope for. He's tolerated while everyone focuses on Matt.
** The Internet was not forgiving after the disaster that was Victory Road. It just didn't show since the Impact Zone, aside from a couple of regulars and plants, was mainly made of tourists who wandered inside. Even years later, Jeff has yet to completely live it down -- though it was overshadowed by his brother's even dumber exploits later that year.