Wrestler In All Of Us / Video Games

• In Alien vs. Predator (Capcom), aside from the characters being able to perform wrestling moves on the titular aliens, it's possible to get backdropped by a freaking power loader.
• In Aquapazza, Tamaki's moveset is a combination of devastating grapples, chokes, and throws. Her primary special attack is a German Suplex. Half of her Splash Art is something right out of Alex's playbook.
• Arcana Heart:
  • All of Kira's specials employ various wrestling moves like piledrivers and backbreakers. Maybe the kid watches pro wrestling when she's not working on a project or trying to Take Over the World?
  • Konoha also joins the list of Ninja who use the Izuna Drop piledriver.
• Assassin's Creed:
  • Ezio of Assassin's Creed II apparently invented the chokeslam.
  • In Brotherhood, The Executioner kills targets from behind by pulling off a standing version of an Inverted Death Valley Driver/Burning Hammer, while the Blacksmith uses a backbreaker to kill targets facing him.
  • In Assassin's Creed III, Connor can pull off moves such as a dropkick, a suplex or even a DDT in combat, and his "noisy" stealth kill while unarmed is a bodyslam. Heck, even his father Haytham and grandfather Edward bust out the same kind of moves.
• Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden has the party Combat Medic Cyberdwarf doing suplexes and body slams for his basic attacks.
• In the Batman: Arkham Series, Batman's moveset is full of wrestling moves. Some of his strikes include clotheslines and double axe handles, his Silent Takedowns include John Cena's STF and Mick Foley's Mandible Claw, he will occasionally DDT, Scorpion Death Drop or German Suplex his opponents when performing a noisy Takedown, and one of his double counters is a northern lights suplex. He also uses the ankle lock as a Special Combo Takedown. Catwoman and Nightwing use wresting moves quite liberally as well, such as Hurricanranas, Cross Armbars and off-the-railing elbow drops.
• Bayonetta is shown being able to suplex A TWIN HEADED DRAGON and TEAR ITS HEADS OFF EASILY. And it's awesome. And even out-rivals Sabin from Final Fantasy VI in absurdity in this regard. And the kicker? She does this when she hasn't even gotten HER FULL POWERS BACK AT ALL. She also German suplexes what, 14 angels all at once in the opening movie? Yes, it's as ridiculously over the top as it sounds. It's also par for the course for her.
• BlazBlue:
  • Iron Tager demonstrates moves of this sort. For example, one of his grabs is undeniably a German Suplex.
  • Taokaka, yes our resident Cloudcuckoolander vigilante, has a bulldog suplex as a back-throw. And yes, you can preform it on the aforementioned Tager!
• In Blitz: The League (after Midway lost the NFL license), there will rarely be a play where someone isn't being back body dropped, German suplexed, belly to back suplexed, hip tossed, or just plain suplexed. While not necessarily common, the first three entries under Real Life show that this is, to a degree, Truth in Television.
• Kirin in Cannon Dancer can apply a non-spinning Izuna Drop to most human-height enemies in his game, including some bosses.
• Hoover/Baby Head from Captain Commando can make his Mini-Mecha perform piledrivers and drop kicks as part of his arsenal.
• Chrono Cross had a boss whose moves were all given professional wrestling names. With no attention to what the moves actually were. His move "powerbomb", for example, is more of a frog splash that hits the entire party. It also has Greco, an ex-pro wrestler priest based off of the real life Fray Tormenta.
• In Conan for PS3, the Cimmerian can learn grapple attacks such as the Piledriver and the 'Warrior Suplex'.
• In the Dead or Alive series, Tina Armstrong, her tag team partner Lisa, her father Bass, and as of 5, superfan Mila, all use a heavy amount of wrestling holds and strikes. Tina and Bass are pro wrestlers, while Mila is merely a fan. Her fighting style is listed as MMA. The Updated Re-release of 5 debuts Rachel whose fighting style includes some grappling moves like a suplex and a leg bar.
• Frank West from Dead Rising uses wrestling moves on zombies. Surprisingly effective when cornered and you've got nothing else to use as a weapon.
• Nero from Devil May Cry 4 pays Homage to Zangief with his Devil Triggered Buster against the Alto Angelos.
  • In general, Nero's devil arm attacks see him employing several wrestling moves against various demons. This reaches its natural conclusion in Devil May Cry 5, where Nero can suplex his own father, Vergil, in the final boss fight.
• The Catsaber of the Disgaea series has its "Bell Volcano" special, which is a combo of wrestling moves that includes a suplex, piledriver, and backbreaker.
• In Dwarf Fortress, unarmed combat tends to involve a lot of wrestling, as a lot of moves are covered by the wrestling skill (unlike punches, kicks, and bites that all get their own skills). In this case it's mostly a lot of pankration rather than pro wrestling. Though with the addition of jumping and climbing, you can now use jumping for some vicious bodyslams on anyone you knocked down.
• In Dynasty Warriors 7, Huang Gai's Musou attacks consist of wrestling grapples, including a back drop (misnamed as Piledriver), and a backbreaker (complete with cheering), Deng Ai has an arm bar as one of his Musou and Zhang Fei can pull off a Giant Swing. Anyone who wears a gauntlet (like Ding Feng or Meng Huo) also has a Frankensteiner in addition of a weaker version of the aforementioned Giant Swing. Ling Tong also has a hurricanrana as his special. Lu Bu has a chokeslam as his EX attack. In 8, Huang Gai even adds up Zangief's Spinning Lariat into his repertoire as a Shout-Out.
• In Elden Ring, Godfrey the First Elden Lord plays a lot like a typical Soulsborne Boss as a Mighty Glacier; in this form, he already hits like a truck with a combination of axe swings and a devastating Shockwave Stomp. Bring him down to 50% health, and he'll ditch the axe, kill his Power Limiter lion, and shed his cuirass and pauldrons to gain extra speed, becoming Horah Loux. In this form, he'll assault the unprepared Tarnished with a number of wrestling moves that include Power Bombs, Chokeslams, and Axe Kicks.
• Some of the unarmed finishers in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim include a chokeslam, a German Suplex, a modified Samoan Drop and a Tiger Sleeper.
• Marstorius in Fighter's History is a pro wrestler, and his moveset includes a German suplex and a more powerful "Double German".
• In the Sega Genesis game Fighting Masters, all characters have some sort of move in their arsenals, such as: A throw, a grapple. a suplex, a powerbomb, a pile driver, etc; apparently this is the main core of gameplay, given how normal attacks do barely noticeable damage, while grapple moves deal massive amounts of damage.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy VI takes the gold for most absurd example, however. Sabin Rene Figaro uses a peculiar mixture of karate and pro-wrestling moves, which allows him to (among other things) SUPLEX AN ENTIRE TRAIN WHILE IT'S ROLLING AT FULL STEAM. Or as the Memetic Mutation puts it, "MOTHERFUCKER SUPLEXED A TRAIN."
    • He can also suplex himself.
  • Final Fantasy VII's Tifa's Limit Breaks include giving the enemy a Brainbuster. Her Limit Break attacks even lets her do a piledriver attack on a giant evil wall. It's every bit as awesome as it sounds.
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake:
    • Beck's Badasses eventually pick up a member only known as Grungy Bandit, who uses Leg Drop and powerbomb techniques as well as generally doing pro wrestling-style motion acting. He even has long oiled hair that flies out when he moves.
    • After Corneo's goons recognise Aerith as being 'from the Colosseum', she beats him by bashing him over the head with a folding metal chair in a flashy, wrestler-ish style. With a manic grin on her face the whole time.
    • Rude uses pro-wrestling moves to attack Cloud, like suplexes and powerbombs.
  • Final Fantasy VIII: Sometimes, in the overworld, you'll meet a Wendigo, who'll quite happily powerbomb your characters, given the chance. He also uses back drops and clotheslines.
  • Although it's not actually seen, because it's a sprite-based game, the Mad Trees in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest have Full Nelsons as one of their basic attacks.
• In Ghost Squad (2004), at one point after passing a hand-to-hand combat test you perform a suplex on a terrorist, after punching him in the crotch. You also high-five the President in this game.
• Gene from God Hand busts out a suplex or two here and there (which can be escaped in rapid succession by both Gene and the enemy, leading them quickly swapping places repeatedly until one of them gets suplexed), though considering the ridiculous breadth of fighting styles (drunken boxing!) and special moves (celestial baseball bat!) available to him, it's not that out of place.
• Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee has the series Kaiju perform various wrestling movies like dropkicks. One of Orga's throws is a choke-slam that combos into a elbow drop onto its unfortunate opponent.
• In Gundam Breaker 2, Claw-type melee attacks can be chained into various holds and slams (including the back drop, piledriver, brain buster and Frankensteiner) that deal massive damage to a single enemy.
• The player character in Hybrid Heaven can learn a wide variety of attacks, including throws, slams, and clinches— by allowing enemies to perform them on him.
• Mask de Smith in Killer7 was a luchadore before becoming an assassin, and still breaks out wrestling moves on occasion. In one scene, he does a suplex to a pile of rubble and even has the ability to headbutt a bullet all in the same cutscene!
• Killer Instinct has Tusk, whose throw is a German Suplex.
• In The King of Fighters 2001/2002, Angel's entire moveset was designed as a tribute to The Rock.
• King of the Monsters is weird about this trope. The original plays very much like a 16-bit-era wrestling game with the skin of Kaiju Expys on it. Kaijus combat with fistfights, grappling, and super moves isn't that unusual, but it's rare that they're so overtly based on identifiable wrestling moves—you end up with a situation where you have essentially have Godzilla very obviously suplexing King Kong. The sequel is less wrestling-happy and more of a Beat 'em Up, though Atomic Guy busts out the back suplex every so often.
• Kirby games with Bugzzy in them. If Bugzzy is absorbed then all of Kirby's moves become wrestling slams. These are the basis for Kirby's throws in the Super Smash Bros. games, though one is replaced by Ninja Kirby's Spinning Piledriver. Worthy of note is that bosses are immune to throw moves, even those that don't have the excuse of being too large to grab, but the stars, debris, and Mooks they sometimes make or call aren't. Hitting a boss with a thrown object, or even Kirby himself (by means of taking advantage of the brief invincibility given during the move), is actually one of the most damaging attacks you have. Provided you learn the proper timing, you can make short work of everything in your path. To cement the wrestling aspects, the suplex ability portrait in Kirby Super Star Ultra is even Kirby/Bugzzy in the ring holding the champ’s belt. Later on, the ability hat, a blue headband would have the champion belt added.
  • Come Kirby Fighters 2, and Suplex is evolved into full-on Wrestler down to the luchador mask. It even comes with an unlockable alternate sumo wrestler costume complete with some killer eyebrows.
• Left 4 Dead 2:
  • The Charger will hit you with a sort of short chokeslam if it catches you. Then it will do it again...and again...and again...
  • The Hunter's pounce isn't all that far from a spear tackle. Though professional wrestlers don't often try to tear their opponents flesh off once they have them pinned.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, you can catch charging goats and Gorons by grabbing them and throwing them off to the side. There's also a sumo match minigame, but unfortunately you can only play it twice. Once as practice, a second time going up against a Goron.
• LEGO Adaptation Game:
  • In LEGO Indiana Jones, the title character can hit back body drops, dropkicks, and sweep the leg during attack combos, and even can lock the "enemies" in a full nelson before throwing them aside.
  • In LEGO Batman, Bane and Killer Croc both have military presses as their grapple positions, and Croc can drop his into a sitout Tombstone Piledriver.
  • Starting from when they were introduced in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, a common form that the Shockwave Stomp for big-figs take is an elbow drop.
• LISA: The Painful RPG features a ton of this, likely due to creator Austin Joergensen being a huge fan of pro wrestling:
  • The main character, Brad Armstrong, uses something called "Armstrong Style", which is a blend of martial arts punches and kicks and wrestling moves.
  • Several recruitable party members, such as Sonny and Shocklord, feature this as their main moveset as well as being wrestling-themed, given that recruiting them involves the in-universe WWF expy.
• In Mad Max (2015), the titular character can perform German suplexes, sidewalk slams, Death Valley drivers, clotheslines and cross armbars when Fury Mode is activated.
• Jack from MadWorld can performs the Muscle Buster on mook opponents. Using it as a finisher will cause the mook to split vertically in half. In Anarchy Reigns his grapples include a Powerbomb and a German Suplex. Douglas can pull off a Giant Swing on two people at once.
• Sei Satou (Rosa Gigantea from Maria Watches Over Us) appears in the doujin Fighting Game Maribato! as a playable character. Sei incorporates some grappling moves in her moveset, most of them from Zangief's book: She has, for example, a Spinning Piledriver, a double suplex, her aerial grab is an Izuna drop, and one of her supers is a Final Atomic Buster variant.
• Half of solo developer MDickie's games are professional wrestling sims, and half are novel genre excursions - a time traveling military game, for example, or a convict simulator, or an ancient Judaean meditation rpg. But to save time and money, Dickie builds them all on top of the same wrestling simulator engine. The result is prisoners performing wrassling throws on one another, or your avatar accidentally smashing Jesus over the head with a plank of wood when you're just trying to give him a hug.
• Metal Gear:
  • The Close Quarters Combat style created and used by The Boss and Big Boss has been called 'fancy military wrestling'.
  • Taken to new heights in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots in the battle between REX and RAY, leading to a Godzilla-esque battle. This is explained by Otacon how back during REX's development, he and a bunch of the other scientists decided on a whim to add wrestling software (he actually explicitly referred to this software as a "street fighter" program) into REX's programming. As you could guess, the military didn't approve of this and it was never fully developed, but Otacon installed the software anyways.
• In Metal Wolf Chaos, President Michael Wilson finishes off a tank set to destroy the Statue of Liberty by grabbing it from the front and performing a Giant Swing.
• In Mole Mania, you play as a mole, who, among other things, can perform suplexes, not on his enemies, but on steel balls, cabbages, and barrels. Crazy? Yes. Awesome? Hell yes!
• Thanks to the Turf War system in Monster Hunter: World, we get to see just how powerful Deviljho is by watching him grab monsters smaller than himself, and ragdoll them around the entire area. This is especially notable in his Turf War versus the Diablos, when he grabs the charging monster by the horn, and introduces his face to the floor.
• Mortal Kombat has Jax's signature Backbreaker, and Sonya's leg slam. Also, Kitana and Mileena pulling off German suplexes in the second game. Jade later does this, but with her staff in Ultimate and Trilogy. Deadly Alliance introduces Hsu Hao who has wrestling as one of his fighting styles. In MK9, the first part of Smoke's X-Ray move has him German suplexing his opponent.
• In Mutant Football League, elbow drops are standard for attacking a downed player in your efforts to kill them faster. One brutal and flashy way of putting a stop to the ball carrier is for the tackler to lift them over their head and piledrive them into the turf— often performed by larger races like Bruiserbots and Orcs.
• In NFL Blitz, oftentimes after the whistle, you'll see players doing Hulk Hogan-style leg drops and German suplexes on other players.
• Even though Jake Hunter from Night Slashers is The Big Guy of the team, and a wrestler, it is Christopher Smith, who is a martial artist, that displays greater knowledge of pro wrestling. His moveset includes a drop kick, an elbow drop and a DDT. Furthermore wrestling type moves like elbow drops and drop kicks are common among enemies, who are horror creatures, like werewolves and zombies. Some level bosses also are adept at wrestling. The first level boss, who is a Frankenstein's Monster lookalike uses a suplex, and the fifth level boss, a mummified pharaoh, can perform a suplex, a clothesline and a Sean Waltman-like spin kick. The fourth level bosses who are Maian/Aztec-like Deities/Demons can be described as a regular tag team, using double-teams, assisted moonsaults, takedowns, and enzuigiri-like jump kicks.
• Ryu Hayabusa from the Xbox remake series of Ninja Gaiden can pull off a Guillotine Throw, which is basically an air-to-ground "judo" throw. He also has the Izuna Drop spinning piledriver, which when used at the end of an air combo is a certain kill against launchable enemies even on the highest of the Harder Than Hard difficulties. These moves have reappeared in his Dead or Alive appearances.
• Ninja from The Ninja Warriors Again is The Big Guy of the team and he uses backbreakers and giant swings to devastating effect. In contrast, his team-mates just have simple throws despite also having superhuman strength.
• It pretty much goes without saying that Travis Touchdown would not only use a Beam katana but also wrestling maneuvers in No More Heroes. And by finding wrestling masks lying around, he learns new ones. Travis is a pro wrestling fan, and noted to be an old pro wrestler himself, as the masks have letters that help him remember various moves from his days of wrestling in Calgary (apparently). He also buys videotapes of famous matches (obsessively watching cool things on tape is pretty much how Travis learned to do everything cool to begin with) that he learns new moves from (incidentally, said letters are signed MS...)
• The piledriver also appeared as a counterattack in Ōkami.
• Miu's Mini-Mecha in Panzer Bandit can pile drive enemies into the ground, strong enough to generate a Shockwave Stomp.
• Persona 3 and Persona 4 have enemy Hulk Hogan clones whom attack with his lariat finisher in Japan, the Axe Bomber.
  • As for party members, Chie in Persona 4 can perform a follow up attack which has her superkick a normal enemy so hard that they die instantly.
• Pit-Fighter has ex-professional wrestler Buzz, whose special moves include the body slam and the piledriver.
• Pizza Tower: Peppino has a pretty nasty spinning piledriver when he throws an enemy downwards; he even finishes off Pizzahead, the Final Boss with a spinning piledriver into the Tower's roof so devastating it nails him head-deep into the rock.
• Pokémon:
  • In the PokéWalker, if two Pokémon have a friendly battle, the journal sometimes mentions that said battle was turned into a wrestling match.
  • Hawlucha, a Flying/Fighting-type from Pokémon X and Y is clearly based on a masked luchador.
  • Incineroar, the final form of the Fire starter in Pokémon Sun and Moon, is explicitly based on a Heel wrestler. Its signature move is "Darkest Lariat", and its Z-Move is "Malicious Moonsault".
    • Additionally, even more references to such moves appear in his move set for Super Smash Bros., such as his side special, where he throws his opponent into a set of ring ropes and then on rebound can perform either a backbody drop, a lariat, or simply crash into his opponent depending on the timing; and his down smash, which is a simple body splash. However, this is especially shown off in his throws. His up-throw is an Argentine Backbreaker, his forward-throw is a giant swing, and his back-throw is a German Suplex.
• In Project × Zone, Kogoro, along with Mii, finish their Limit Break with this while in mid-air.
• Alex Mercer of [PROTOTYPE] can pull various wrestling moves including a jumping triple powerbomb off the top of a building, a chokeslam, and running up the side of a building to do a multi-story elbow drop. The Super-Soldier enemy unit also uses wrestling moves including the Alabama Slam and a backbreaker. Its spiritual ancestor The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction allowed the Hulk to perform elbow drops (in the same way as Alex; that is, from the sides of buildings), chokeslams, piledrivers, and powerbombs. For even more fun, you can chain piledrivers into powerbombs and vice versa.
• Resident Evil:
  • In Resident Evil 4, Leon's ability to shoot an enemy in the knee, then run up to them and perform a Northern Lights Suplex on them is great. In fact, many players used little else while fighting enemies that could be dispatched in this way.^note Suplexing enemies also tends to stop plagas from spawning. Through a glitch in the GameCube version, even Ashley can suplex enemies.
  • In Resident Evil 5, Sheva and Jill are either wrestling fans or they were trained by Cammy. Both use the hurricarana leg scissors, though only Sheva does it properly. Jill performs it ala Shawn Michaels. "Mercenaries: Reunion" mode adds the ability to play as Josh Stone, who plays a little like Leon from the Mercenaries minigame in Resident Evil 4 except for, you know, his ability to chokeslam Majini and bust out head-exploding elbow drops.
  • In Resident Evil 6, it gets kicked up more than a few notches. Every single main character has a wrestling move as a contextual melee attack, ranging from the staple suplex to bulldogs, facebusters, DDTs and much more.
  • In the Resident Evil 7 DLC "End of Zoe", a fight with the Swamp Man Recurring Boss allows Joe the chance to perform a powerbomb on them. And during the final battle against them, Joe talks about how he once clotheslined Jack (the Swamp Man) into the swamp.
• SaGa Frontier: Learning specific moves unlocks the "DSC", a random series of throws, kicks, and suplexes that can do damage in the tens of thousands. Shingrow Palace even has a "martial arts" tournament where participants are required to wear masks.
• Saints Row:
  • The main character from Saints Row 2 can learn moves like the Death Valley Driver and Rock Bottom during the course of the Brotherhood missions, and the Sons of Samedi melee set includes a hurricanrana.
  • Saints Row: The Third continues this tradition with a gang of Mexican wrestlers called the Luchadores. Not to mention one of your homies is Angel de la Muerte, a former pro wrestler (voiced by Hulk Hogan!) and rival of the head of the Luchadores, Eddie "Killbane" Pryor. Also, The Boss' melee moves now fit into two categories: over-the-top wrestling moves and Groin Attacks.
• This shows up in (of all places) Samurai Warriors. Takeda Shingen busts out a giant swing(grabbing the opponent by the legs and spinning rapidly in place). He also has a devastating dropkick that can scatter several enemies. Hojo Ujiyasu has a diving elbow drop. There's probably a few more in there.
• In the Sengoku Basara series, Toyotomi Hideyoshi fights primarily by grabbing hold of an unfortunate foe, then smashing them into the ground repeatedly with power bombs, choke slams, and spinning piledrivers among other things, all of which are packing enough force to send anyone in the near vicinity flying. He can even chain his grapples so he follows up powerbombs with piledrivers and so on and so forth.
• Shadow Hearts: Covenant features a pro-wrestling superhero vampire! He even receives training from legendary real-life wrestler the Great Gama, although the real Gama didn't indulge in so much Ho Yay.
• Soul Series:
  • Soulcalibur features Astaroth, who hits a mean giant-axe-assisted powerbomb, and Nightmare, who can hit a dropkick, despite wearing a full suit of armor.
  • One of Darth Vader's moves in Soulcalibur IV is a Gorilla Press Slam.
  • One of Nightmare's side-throws is an Inverted DDT, albeit one accomplished by a huge leap into the air.
  • Taki's back throw is a modified Inverted Death Valley Driver, with her lifting the victim up slightly above her shoulders before dropping him down on his head. One of her possession stance throws is a northern lights suplex and her second possession throw is a jumping boston crab drop.
• Spider-Man:
  • In Spider-Man: The Movie, one of the moves you can perform on a Mook is an inverted suplex, that because Peter can do whatever a spider can, Ol' Web-Head will apply the facelock while sitting on the guy's shoulders.
  • In Spider-Man 2, Spidey can powerbomb a Mook OFF THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING.
  • In a lot of his games such as Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and Spider-Man (2018), Spider-Man will break out moves like dropkicks, Frankensteiners, and head scissor takedowns.
• In Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order one of the Security Droids unblockable "red attacks” is a one-handed chokeslam, ala Sycho/Sid Vicious/Justice.
• Street Fighter:
  • Played straight with Zangief and Darun Mister, both of whom are celebrated wrestlers in canon, and both 360˚ grapples do a massive chunk of damage to your life points.
  • R. Mika has moves typical of a Japanese female pro wrestler and a fanciful costume◊ not different from the likes of Mima Shimoda◊ and Manami Toyota◊. In Street Fighter V, she gains the ability to call on her tag team partner for assist moves, such as drop kicks or body slams, as well as adding a Stone Cold Stunner to her movelist.
  • Cammy also used an aforementioned Hurricanrana, and a German Suplex as her throws in most of her appearances. Her Cammy Quick Combination in Street Fighter IV basically ends a series of grabs with a crotch face smother. If you're facing her, you can't think of a better way to lose a match. That is until she twists your head and you hear your neck snap. Originally, Cammy used a variant on the Frankensteiner, itself a modified version of the Hurricanrana, in Super Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, and Street Fighter Alpha 3. The move was more high impact and was not even a complete version of the move, as she would drop opponents straight down after only getting halfway through the flip instead of ending up on top of them in a true Hurricanrana.
  • Mike Haggar from Final Fight and later Saturday Night Slam Masters, where he's an actual wrestler. After being transplanted to the Street Fighter series it's established that Haggar and Zangief are friendly rivals who try to top each other with over-the-top wrestling moves.
  • Street Fighter III brings us Alex and Hugo, the latter being (alongside his base character, the Andore family from Final Fight) based off of wrestling legend André the Giant. Every move. And yes, Andre used to throw Drop Kicks in his more agile days. Alex on the other hand, had a resemblance to a younger Hulk Hogan.
  • Abigail from Final Fight as well.
  • Guile and Charlie do that devastating mid-air Backbreaker throw, and their grab move is a German Suplex while Guile's is changed a Dragon suplex in 5 and Charlie gets a sleeper hold as his reverse throw.
  • Vega/Balrog does the Izuna Drop and the Super Rolling Izuna Drop.
  • Guy does a flying powerbomb as a grab variation of the Bushin Izuna Otoshi. He also does a spinning Izuna Drop as a command air grab as well as the ending to his Ultra 1.
  • Street Fighter IV brings us El Fuerte, a Mexican luchador. Clearly from the tecnico side of the fence, he fights with fancy throws and agile movements not unlike Rey Mysterio.
  • There are various iterations of Chun-Li with a side slam/uranage (i.e. rock bottom) as her grab move.
• Axel, Blaze, and Adam from Streets of Rage list their fighting styles as kickboxing, martial arts, and judo yet their rear throws consist of German suplexes and overhead belly-to-belly suplexes. Max from Streets of Rage II is an actual wrestler, so his use of the German suplex makes a modicum of sense. And since he's twice as big as most of the bog-standard enemies, any question of them resisting is rendered moot. By III, Axel has more or less completely transformed into a full grappler. In IV, this is lampshaded in Max's file, which says he wants to "teach his friends what a real German Suplex is".
• The Rat King in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters has a powerbomb ("Rat Bomber") and a suplex ("Rodent Suplex") in his moveset.
• Tekken:
  • The series has King and Armor King and their succesors, who are wrestlers, and Craig Marduk, who is a Vale Tudo fighter. But that doesn't explain Heihachi Mishima, a karate master, busting out powerbombs, or kickboxer Bryan Fury's tornado DDT, or even (Kenpo and Xing Yi practitioners) Michelle and Julia Chang's range of suplexes. The reason? Wrestling moves are cool. Both even becomes wrestlers in Tag 2 the former via cameo though.
  • In Tekken: Blood Vengeance, Heihachi takes it up a notch by adding a German Suplex to his movelist, as Jin Kazama can bear witness.
  • Jun Kazama's a mixed martial artist, we can accept that. Her moves stem from akido, judo, and karate, we can accept that. But she's also a Japanese mixed martial artist, so you shouldn't be too surprised by the pro wrestling moves in this case.
  • Christine Monterio performs a floatover DDT, a rolling half Boston crab, and a tilt-a-whirl armdrag.
  • Tag Tournament 2 takes it up a notch, some default tag throws are: a Double DDT, a German Suplex with a kick to the face for added leverage and a face buster/cutter combo.
  • Julia Chang and her mother Michelle always had a lot of suplexes and other wrestling moves as throws. By TTT2, Julia has taken this all the way to become a masked luchadora.
  • Nina Williams chain grappling moves include a Crippler Crossface, a Rings of Saturn, and a Lasso from El Paso.
  • Alex the Raptor and Roger Jr. the Kangaroo borrowed several moves from Armor King (it's explained that he was hired to train them), including the rolling arm lock, two different types of pile drivers, a DDT and even a giant swing.
  • The Jack series robots have had piledrivers, backbreakers, and body slams as part of their signature attacks since the beginning.
• Tenchu can get very wrestler-ish in some of the Stealth Kill animations, with Ayame being specially guilty of using overly-complex maneuvers. Tatsumaru was given the Izuna Drop as his strongest special attack in Tenchu 3. Unfortunately, it was removed from his playable form in Co-Op. Not that he needed it, anyway.
• In Time Crisis 4, one of the bosses engages into a fist fight with your ally. At one point in the fight the boss starts beating up the hapless ally with wrestling moves including a Clothesline, Body Slam and what is practically John Cena's finisher. Your Mission Control, apparently a huge pro wrestling fan, starts naming the moves as done by the boss. (She calls the last move "F", though.)
• Tokimeki Memorial has Yumi Saotome, a High School girl who's such a fan of Pro Wrestling, she has developed a personal wrestling move, the "Yumi Bomber", a lariat/grappling-type move. She honed the move on her Butt-Monkey brother Yoshio and even on the Main Protagonist in one of the Verse's storylines.
• The little oni Suika of the Touhou Project series has her "Massacre on Mt. Ooe" super move, where she grabs an opponent and delivers a devastating triple power bomb on her. She also has an alternate special move, Kidnapping Oni, where she grabs an opponent and does a single power bomb on her - after pulling her in for the grab with a black hole.
• Total War: Warhammer II has the Jabberslythe from the Beastmen roster, gigantic slobbering hideous monsters whose attack animations have them lungeing and bounding all over. One of said attack animations is The People's Elbow.
• Total War: Warhammer III has some of the matched animation fights between two Greater Daemons involve wrestling moves.
• ULTRAKILL: Superboss Minos Prime mostly uses martial arts to wreck V1, but can also perform both diving kicks and an explosively powerful dropkick.
  "JUDGEMENT!"
• Undertale has this as fluff text in one boss fight. The boss in question uses spears, so god only knows why wrestling moves even enter into the equation.
  "Undyne suplexes a boulder, just because she can."
• Most of the characters in Urban Reign have signature pro wrestling moves amongst their grappling sets: suplexes, DDT's, facelock jawbreakers, and powerbombs abound. In addition, there are team-up grapples that are obvious tributes to a number of famous tag teams. The Japanese gangsters even get Masahiro Chono style Yakuza Kicks (in fact, two of the gangster mooks are named Masa and Hiro).
• Hawk from Vendetta (1991) is an obvious Hulk Hogan clone, so obviously some of his techniques look like wrestling moves.
• Virtua Fighter:
  • Several characters, such as Sarah, Jacky, and Jeffry play this completely straight.
  • Inverted with Wolf Hawkfield and El Blaze: in addition to wrestling and lucha libre throws, respectively, they have a fair amount of martial arts and boxing in their movelists.
• In Wario World, Wario is capable of a few wrestling moves, such as a Spinning Piledriver or Giant Spin.
• Alongside their Nuclear Powered Great Sword and Arm Cannon, WildStar Warriors use "1980's Wrestling Moves."
• World Heroes: Muscle Power. Lots of super powerful grapples, plus clotheslines and drop kicks to get in to grabbing range. He is a Hulk Hogan rip-off, after all.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 1: Melia's Starlight Kick attack is basically Keiji Mutoh/Great Muta's Shining Wizard
• Xenogears: Rico, being a former champ in his own right tends to use a lariat, suplex and powerbomb in his arsenal.

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