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Lists the various promoters and occasional wrestlers belonging to the McMahon Family in WWEs history. This includes the RAW, SmackDown brands, and the now defunct ECW brand. Please limit associated tropes to that wrestler's time in WWE.
Roderick "Jess" McMahon
- Big Applesauce: He was the booker for the Coney Island and Brooklyn Sports Stadiums and committed to the city.
- Family Business
- It Runs in the Family
- Non-Action Guy: He was not a wrestler himself.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: He was a matchmaker for Madison Square Garden
- Ur-Example: He and Toots Mondt created the Capitol Wrestling Corporation, which later became WWE.
- Wrestling Family: The founder of said family.
Vince McMahon, Sr. (Vincent James McMahon)
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: Inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996.
- Family Business: Wrestling is definitely in the blood. Vince is the second generation of McMahon wrestling promoters.
- Generation Xerox: As an American professional wrestling promoter, just like his father before him.
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: Believed that wrestling promoters should be this and thus did not make any appearances in public. This is a far cry from his son, who's infamously a Non-Idle Rich who would let himself get beaten up on television by his own employees during the Monday Night Wars.
- It Runs in the Family: His dad was a wrestling promoter, and to this day his descendants are involved in the business.
- Non-Action Guy: He was not a wrestler himself and firmly believed that wrestling promoters should stay out of the ring.
- Ur-Example: He created the WWWF, without him, there'd be no WWF / WWE.
- Wrestling Family: The father of the current patriarch.
Vince McMahon (Vincent Kennedy McMahon, Jr.) 1971-2022, 2023-2024
Linda McMahon (Linda Marie Edwards-McMahon)
- Beware the Nice Ones: Arguably the sanest and most cool-headed of the McMahons, should you betray her (*cough* Vince and Stephanie), she will use all her power as CEO to make your life miserable.
- In fact, Jim Ross didn't even see it coming when Linda both fired and kicked him in the balls in late 2005.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She has a Bachelor's of Science degree in Education, after all, not to mention running the business side of WWE for nearly 25 years. In 2010, she ran for Senate.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Linda doesn't appreciate Vince cheating on her, but she often finds clever ways to get back at him. In some cases, she enlists whichever women Vince is lusting after to help in her revenge schemes.
- Da Chief
- Enemy Mine: Linda obviously gets angry whenever Vince tries to cheat on her with one of the female wrestlers, but she's allied with them to get back at Vince. One such scheme involved using Torrie Wilson as a Honey Trap so Linda could literally catch Vince with his pants down.
- High-School Sweethearts: With Vince in Real Life.
- Long Bus Trip: All the time. Entire years go by where no one remembers she even exists or is the CEO. The longest bus trip is probably just starting, considering her Real Life resignation from WWE to make a bid for one of Connecticut's Senate seats in 2010, which she lost. She then ran for the other Senate seat in 2012, and lost that one too. Then she was appointed to be the Administrator of the Small Business Administration by Donald Trump, so she almost certainly won't be seen anywhere in WWE for the foreseeable future.
- Missing Mom: Linda is very rarely seen on television these days-and indeed never appeared much at all compared to Vince or their kids.
- Non-Action Girl: Linda's never competed in the ring, unlike Vince or their children.
- Only Sane Employee: Babysit a bunch of muscular, not-entirely level-headed wrestlers, keep the company in financial order, and make sure her family (
Vince in particular) doesn't screw it up. It really kind of sucks to be Linda sometimes. - Only Sane Woman: Linda comes across as this compared to the rest of the family, given that she's never been beaten with kendo sticks, showered with manure or jumped off the Titantron.
- Out of Focus: Linda doesn't appear on WWE shows nearly as much as Vince or their children. She's also the only one who's never competed in a match.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: Her first political campaign was half of the reason why WWE went "PG".
- Straight Man
Shane McMahon (Shane Brandon McMahon) 1990, 1998-2009, 2016-2022, 2023
Marissa Mazzola-McMahon (Marissa Ann Mazzola-McMahon) 1998-2000
- Alliterative Name
- The Cameo: She was a bird merchant in The Scorpion King, a film co-produced by WWE Films and stars The Rock.
- She also hosted the 2000 VHS release WWF Divas: Postcard from the Caribbean
- Genki Girl: When she co-hosted WWF Livewire with Michael Cole.
- High-School Sweethearts: With Shane.
- It Runs in the Family
- Non-Action Girl
