Trivia / Survivor Series

• Billing Displacement: Survivor Series 2003 featured Team Angle^note Kurt Angle/Chris Benoit/Hardcore Holly/Bradshaw/John Cena vs. Team Lesnar^note Brock Lesnar/Big Show/A-Train (Albert/Tensai)/Nathan Jones/Matt Morgan, Team Austin^note Shawn Michaels/Booker T/Rob Van Dam/The Dudley Boys vs. Team Bischoff^note Chris Jericho/Christian/Scott Steiner/Randy Orton/Mark Henry, and Goldberg vs. Triple H. Featured on the poster and the DVD box? Shane McMahon!
• Corpsing: At the 2007 event, during the Divas match, Melina slipped and fell off the apron as she was doing the splits. She was a Heel at the time but immediately broke character to burst out laughing.
• Creator Backlash: Paige went on record to disown the match she was in at the 2014 event - namely the decision to have all the faces survive. The crowd sided with her as a result, despite being the heel, because she was the Sole Survivor.
• Deleted Scene: The British Bulldogs' elimination from the Team Strike Force^note SF (Rick Martel/Tito Santana)/The Young Stallions (Paul Roma and Jim Powers)/The Rougeau Brothers (Jacques and Raymond)/The Killer Bees (B. Brian Blair and "Jumping" Jim Brunzell)/The British Bulldogs (The Dynamite Kid and Davey Boy Smith)-Team Hart Foundation^note HF (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart)/The Islanders (Haku and Tama)/Demolition (Ax and Smash)/The Bolsheviks (Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zhukov)/The New Dream Team (Greg Valentine and Dino Bravo) match at Survivor Series 1987 was not included on the VHS release. For the record, Haku pinned Dynamite after a kick to the head after Dynamite had missed a diving headbutt.
• Long-Runners: It's been around since 1987.
• Shout-Out: In the 2019 event, Corey Graves said that the Fiend looked like something out of Tom Savini's worst fears. Appropriate, since Bray Wyatt had the mask created by Savini's students at his workshop.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The pay-per-view itself was in the chopping block and planned to be revamped as a new PPV in 2010 (speculated to have been the long requested WarGames PPV).
  • Over the years, there have been a ton of substitutions for the elimination matches:
    • 1987:
    • Billy Graham was originally advertised to be on Hulk Hogan's team, but had to pull out due to a hip injury and was replaced by Don Muraco.
    • 1988:
    • Jim Brunzell replaced Don Muraco on the Ultimate Warrior's team.
    • Scott Casey replaced B. Brian Blair, who had originally replaced the Junkyard Dog, on Jake Roberts' team.
    • 1989:
    • Bad News Brown replaced Akeem on the Big Bossman's team, the Enforcers, due to Akeem being injured.
    • Earthquake replaced Barry Windham on Randy Savage's team, the King's Court, as Windham left the WWF to return to WCW.
    • Bobby Heenan replaced Tully Blanchard on André the Giant's team, the Heenan Family, because Blanchard had failed a drug test on the morning of the PPV and was fired from the WWF.
    • 1990:
    • Haku replaced Rick Rude on Earthquake's team, the Natural Disasters, as Rude had left the WWF after a money dispute.
    • Boris Zhukov replaced Akeem on Sgt. Slaughter's team, the Mercenaries, due to Akeem leaving for WCW.
    • 1991:
    • Sgt. Slaughter and Tito Santana respectively replaced Jim Neidhart and Ricky Steamboat on Jim Duggan's team, due to Neidhart being Kayfabe injured by Ric Flair and the Beverly Brothers, and Steamboat leaving the WWF to go back to WCW.
    • Hercules replaced Big Bully Busick on Col. Mustafa's team, due to Busick being released from his contract the morning of the PPV.
    • 1993:
    • Randy Savage replaced Mr. Perfect on Razor Ramon's team, as Perfect had suffered a back injury prior to the PPV.
    • Shawn Michaels replaced Jerry Lawler in the Family Feud against the Hart Brothers (Bret, Owen, Bruce, & Keith), due to Lawler being charged with rape towards a teenage girl (who later admitted to making up the story).
    • The Masked Knights in the Family Feud were originally going to be played by Terry Funk (Red Knight), Jimmy Snuka (Black Knight), and Glenn Jacobs (Blue Knight), and would've been unmasked after their eliminations. However, after a night out drinking with Bret, Funk left both his costume and a note saying "My horse is sick. I think she's going to die. I think I better go." outside Bret's hotel room before catching a plane back to Amarillo, Texas, while Snuka was let go, and Jacobs was considered too green. As a result, the Knights ended up being played by Barry Horowitz (Red Knight), Jeff Gaylord (Black Knight), and Greg Valentine (Blue Knight).
    • For the main event, The Undertaker replaced Tatanka on Lex Luger's team, the All-Americans, while Crush replaced Quebecer Pierre on Yokozuna's team, the Foreign Fanatics, as Tatanka and Pierre were (kayfabe) injured respectively by Yokozuna and Luger.
    • 1995: Bob Holly replaced Avatar on Marty Jannetty's team, the Underdogs, while The 1-2-3 Kid replaced Jean-Pierre LaFitte on Skip's team, the Bodydonnas.
    • 2006: Faarooq replaced Roddy Piper on Ric Flair's team due to Piper being diagnosed with lymphoma cancer.
  • For the 1992 event, the main event tag match was going to be the Ultimate Maniacs ("Macho Man" Randy Savage and The Ultimate Warrior) taking on Ric Flair and Razor Ramon, while "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith was scheduled to defend the WWF Intercontinental Championship against The Mountie. But, Warrior and Bulldog were both fired for having purchased human growth hormone from a pharmacy in the United Kingdom, while Mountie straight-up quit. As a result, Savage ended up teaming with Mr. Perfect, while Bulldog dropped the IC Title to Shawn Michaels on Saturday Night's Main Event.
  • Seth Rollins was supposed to defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against former teammate Roman Reigns at the 2015 event, but an injury at a live event in Dublin, Ireland forced him to vacate the title and a tournament took place to crown a new champion instead, with the semi-finals and finals taking place at the actual event. When the tournament brackets showed that Reigns and his former teammate/current best friend Dean Ambrose were in opposite blocks, it became fairly obvious which match the company was going for as a replacement. Reigns would win the match, only for Sheamus to cash-in and win the title off him.
  • NXT was planned to be a part of 2020's event based off the success of their participation the year before, but a series of COVID-19 outbreaks at the Performance Center among trainees and NXT talents meant that this was scrapped.