YMMV / Jay White

• Awesome Ego: Ooh boy. He won't let you forget that he is the guy who single handedly sold out MSG, the last rock and rolla, and that this is still HIS new era.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Questions started being asked in the early goings of his run as Switchblade. Is he an intriguing character and a talented wrestler with loads of potential to become a star, or a bland personality whose disaffected Emo Teen appearance makes him harder to take seriously? How much did his loss at Wrestle Kingdom 12 against an injured Tanahashi affect his potential? Should he have joined Bullet Club? Was joining CHAOS instead a good move? Would he have fit better with Suzuki-gun or LIJ? Should he have even joined a stable at all? There's a myriad of opinions on all of these questions, and that's not taking into account how the questions will look when his plot develops further. His win of the IWGP United States Championship didn't help this, as for some winning a championship by beating established star Kenny Omega was seen as one hell of an endorsement for White's talent, while for others the win was treated more as a fluke and a plot device to get Omega kicked out of the Bullet Club rather than any endorsement of White's own talent.
  • Just try and bring up Kenny Omega in a conversation about Jay—or vice versa. Kenny's run on top of Bullet Club directly preceded Jay's, and they both initially rose to prominence in NJPW with a mad gothic aesthetic. Despite these similarities, they have evolved into completely different wrestlers, and the Golden/Elite and Cutthroat/Real eras of Bullet Club are so completely distant it seems they would fit more as two enemy groups rather than two separate runs of the same faction. Is Jay a cheap replacement of Kenny who doesn't match up as a wrestler to Omega's athletic and striking moveset, or does his absolute psychology and dedication to being a heel make him ideal for BC and NJPW in ways Kenny never was? Was The Elite's star power and branching out into social media a good thing for Bullet Club and Jay's back-to-basics run killed what was left of BC's stardom, or is Jay the man who restored The Club's united threat factor and credibility which seemed in pieces by the end of Kenny and company's self-created fractures?
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Four words: Bullet Club for life. In particular, fans who preferred the pure heel covenant Bullet Club that preceded Omega vs. Okada over its more divided and brand-focused state from 2017-18 have for the most part been thrilled with Jay White's run.
• Love to Hate: By summer 2018, NJPW crowds have been largely booing everything Jay White says and does, yet they hang on his every word when he speaks into a microphone. Aside from the Bullet Club Periphery Demographic, everybody hates him in the proper sense of a heel.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • WHERE'S MY CHAIR?!
    • Isu. Okudasai. Mainichi! ^lit. Chair. Please. Everyday!
  • His Beard also gets some laugh from fans.