History Characters / DragonGate

* KickTheSonOfABitch: He was kicked out of [=VerserK=] the same day it became an official stable, but in 2017 they let him back in.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[KickTheSonOfABitch Kicked]] [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine out]] of [=VerserK=] once they disbanded Monster Express, much like Mad Blankey did to Akira Tozawa.

* DropTheHammer: K-ness has a mallet painted in the same scheme as his ring gear.

* IncrediblyLamePun: His catchphrase being modified to fit with the Jimmy theme of his stable. H.A.Gee.Mee. [[DontExplainTheJoke It sounds like H-A-Jimmy]].

* GutturalGrowler: Has an ''extremely'' raspy voice, to the point where his stablemates and other wrestlers have to really try to hear him.

* {{Juggalo}}: His main trait. He has worked in the Music/InsaneClownPosse promotion Juggalo Championship Wrestling.

* AnythingThatMoves: Also part of his gimmick.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: As part of his character.

* NamesTheSame: In-universe. He sometimes gets laughed at for sharing name with Takashi Okamura from the popular {{Manzai}} duo Ninety-nine.

* WeaponOfChoice: During an 8-man tag team match between Team Dragon Gate[[note]]Susumu, CIMA, Masaaki Mochizuki, and Akira Tozawa[[/note]] and Team Dosanko[[note]][=BxB=] Hulk, T-Hawk, Kzy, and Super Shisa[[/note]], the members of Team Dragon Gate all brought weapons to the ring. Susumu's weapon was... [[ImprobableWeaponUser a crab leg.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: [=M2K=]'s blue box.

* UrExample: For pretty much his entire career, he was considered the greatest llave technician. Llave was the then-obscure Mexican submission style, Ultimo Dragon made it a point to train the Toryumon 2000 Project wrestlers in Llave and Milano was the head of the [=T2P=] class. Unlike the other successful [=T2P=] wrestler, Milano stuck to the llave style for his entire career. It wouldn't be until Angelico adopted the style after injuries forced him to dial back his high flying and became part of AllEliteWrestling in 2019 that there would be another mainstream wrestler who specialized in llave.

* BadassDecay: Experienced a severe case of it during 2012. This wasn't just a normal depush, as his fellow wrestlers invoked it against him, mocking him for forgetting how to wrestle. At the nadir of this he had to cut promos apologizing to the fans and other wrestlers for being awful. He started recovering in mid-2013, when he re-joined MAD BLANKEY, but it took him until early 2017 to get back to the level he was at (Dream Gate contender) before the decay set in.

* TheUnintelligible[=/=]SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: A little after 2014 started, he's taken to yelling at his opponents in gibberish.
** [[http://youtu.be/jUJbLJHABZY Here's an example, skip to 30 seconds.]]

* {{Determinator}}: Even although his Italian Connection had became just YOSSINO and the improvised recruit Mori (who were both part-timers, as the former was also teaming up with K-ness and the latter already was a part of Pos-Hearts) , Milano only disbanded the faction at leaving DG himself.

* EvilVersusEvil: During the feud between Toryumon Japan and Toryumon 2000 Project, both his Italian Connection stable and Crazy MAX used heeltactics against each other.

* AscendedExtra: Really, no one expected his tag team with Kenichiro Arai to catch on like it did. However, he and Arai had chemistry in loads, and ended up being a cornerstone of the then-new Twin Gate division until Iwasa's injury.

!!!Susumu Yokosuka (Susumu Mochizuki)

* OneSteveLimit: After a couple years of having two unrelated Mochizukis on the roster, Susumu lost a match for rights to the surname to Masaaki and had to change his surname to his home city, Yokosuka.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To Lupin Matsutani. Both of their gimmicks were heavily inspired by anime series and both wore garish costumes to make them better resemble the animated characters. However, Shimizu abandoned his anime gimmick after about a year, and unfortunately Matsutani suffered a career ending injury before he had a chance.

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Akira Hokuto was originally adamantly opposed to the whole angle and gimmick, thinking that it would ruin Sasaki's legacy. Instead it revitalized his career, and she decided the Florida Bros routine was ActuallyPrettyFunny - she could often be seen at ringside first {{corpsing}} and then looking irritated at herself.

* WouldHitAGirl: Yep, he sure would. Of course, Stalker's himself, and the girl he hit was ''[[AmazonianBeauty Akira Hokuto]]'', so it went [[CurbStompBattle pretty badly]] for Stalker.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Very much like Fujii or Cyber Kong, Kishiwada is fairly small compared to the long tradition of Japanese heavyweights (and it can be argued that after his weight loss he is not a heavyweight anymore), but has an insane amount of strenght and is able to do easily elevated powerbombs and drivers.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Yamato's wrestling style, a much slower moving MMA based one, makes him stand out amongst his peers in a good way.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: After becoming serious, he adopted "a [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling Strong-Style]] approach" and donned an Antonio Inoki-esque black outfit, mixing his Mexican grappling mastery with classic strong-style moves. The result was quite impressive.

* {{Bishonen}}: In a fed full of them he still stands out (when working face, that is).

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Really early on in his career, before he grew his famous mohawk, he had his hair died blue.

* {{Bishonen}}: If it's possible for a real human being to be a trope codifier...

!!!Bokutimo Dragon (fka Big R Shimizu and Ryotsu Shimizu)

* {{Expy}}: When he debuted his new look, his name, outfit and hair was very similar to that of pre-New Day Wrestling/BigELangston.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Many of his wrestling moves are quite intricanted to do. However, it's the fact that he is able to perform them which explains Susumu's nicknames.

* BadassDecay[=/=]TookALevelInBadass: One of his character traits is that he swings between jobber-to-the-stars and upper midcarder on a semi-regular basis. Back in the Toryumon days his upwards swings were tied to the Holy Season; now they just kind of happen and it's openly acknowledged in-universe that he's inconsistent.
** As Horiguchi gets older, the pushes are less frequent and not as big when they happen, so he's practically a jobber-to-the-stars by now. Nonetheless, one way to fire him up and get him to win some matches via backslide is to call him on it.

!!!K-Ness
* BoringButPractical: His Hikari no Wa flash pin move. Once he hits it, victory is almost guaranteed.
* DarkIsEvil: As Darkness Dragon. And according to Mad Blankey, they induced his 2014 heel turn by awakening the dormant dark evil within him.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Although in the beginning he very much was evil, he's played a face for the majority of his career.
* DropTheHammer: K-ness has a mallet painted in the same scheme as his ring gear.
* EvilCounterpart: This was a long time ago, but K-Ness started as Darkness Dragon, an evil counterpart to Ultimo Dragon and Dragon Kid.
* [[FaceDeathWithDignity Face Unmasking With Dignity]]: After losing the mask vs mask match to Dragon Kid, rather than allow Dragon Kid to remove the mask, he booted him, removed his own mask and walked around the ring to make sure the fans all saw his face. ''Then'' he handed the mask to Dragon Kid and hugged him.
* GameBreakingInjury: Averted. He [[DramaticDislocation somehow dislocated his elbow]] while delivering a Darkness Driver to Masato Yoshino in a Brave Gate title match, but he popped the elbow back into place and finished the match.
* GlassCannon: In a sort of meta way. K-Ness is one of the best workers on the roster and in the early and mid 2000s was very popular to boot, but he's also extremely injury prone, which makes actually pushing him a risk.
* HornedHumanoid: K-ness's mask has the effect anyway.
* OddFriendship: In mid 2013 started teaming with Dragon Kid. Although their feud ended almost a decade ago, K-Ness was at one time an evil counterpart of Dragon Kid and it's a bit odd to see them happily teaming together.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Before he became Darkness Dragon he played a vampire character named MAKOTO, who vanished after losing a Loser Leaves Match with TARU. He was recognized by the commentaros as MAKOTO after losing the Darkness Dragon mask to Dragon Kid.
* RedBaron: "Aoki Hikari" ("Blue Light"), "Ankoku Ryu" ("The Shadow Dragon") and "Brain Project".
* ThemeNaming: K-Ness developed a move specifically to counter Dragon Kid's Christo, calling it the Judah. Later, he created a move to counter Masato Yoshino's Sol Naciente ("Rising sun") calling the Sol Noches El (roughly "Setting Sun"; see Translation Train Wreck below).
* TranslationTrainWreck: Spanish example of {{Engrish}} with the Sol Noches El, as the name makes no sense in that language (it literally would be something like "Sun-Nights-The"). It is believed to be a mistranslation of "Sol de Anochecer" ("Twilight Sun").
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A rare comedic moment for the normally straight laced K-Ness. In a trios tag against the Florida Bros and Kensuke Sasake, K-Ness tagged in and, as though it were a real match not a comedy match, hit Sasaki with a barrage of strikes. Sasake [[NoSell looked at him in confusion]]. K-Ness looked Sasake up and down, and politely returned to his designated spot on the ring apron.
* WorthyOpponent: He and Masato Yoshino have a worthy opponent based rivalry.

* TheArtifact: Johnson debuted when Taku "Michael" Iwasa and Raimu "Daniel" Mishima were doing the Florida Brothers gimmick. The Florida Brothers proper ended in April 2006. Johnson stuck around and occasionally worked with Jackson, but Jackson was phased out of the cards by 2011. Johnson still shows up every once in a blue moon.

* BaldOfEvil: As a heel. His nickname was literally "Bald of Evil". Keeping in mind that he used BaldOfAwesome for PopularityPower, part of his heel turn involved him ''daring'' to use hair extensions.

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Americans Love Genki Horiguchi]]: A lower midcarder in Japan, he's not one of the most recognized and most popular DG wrestlers in the USA, but has actually been [[{{invoked}} billed]] in America for his popularity... in America. This is at least partly because American promoters had to vigorously promote him and his BaldOfAwesome gimmick so that his "H-A-G-E!" chant would not be LostInTranslation.

* BaldOfAwesome: '''''H-A-G-E!''''' A CrowdChant started when fans took notice of his receding hairline, which was then [[{{ascendedmeme}} made official]].

* BaldOfAwesome: Shaved his head around 2003ish and never looked back.

* CreepyCoolCrosses: On his forehead and usually his pants.

* BadassBeard: Reappeared with one in October 2015 while still recovering from his knee injury and shaved most of it by the time he returned to the ring.