Roddy Piper / YMMV

Awesome Ego: Piper would always piss off Vince by calling him "Junior." He had previously worked for Vince Sr., and had little good to say about his heir. Zero fucks.
Ham and Cheese: Piper was a brash loudmouth no matter what storyline he was in.
Harsher in Hindsight: During a 2003 interview which took place at around the same time he returned to WWE, Piper predicted that he was "not going to make 65" due to his poor health. He ended up dying at the age of 61.
Humor Dissonance: His, let's say, unusual choice of attire for his WrestleMania VI match with Bad News Brown.
- Not helped by André the Giant allegedly deciding to switch out the solution to get that stuff off Piper with water after the match, leaving Piper to go through customs looking like that. This was meant to be funny, but many didn't see it that way.
Love to Hate: Man was he a great heel.
Memetic Badass: In Saints Row IV. Just how badass can you be when Keith David, another Memetic Badass in the game that everyone respects, respects you? (That said, it's clearly a Shout-Out to David and Piper working together in They Live!. Speaking of which…)
Memetic Mutation: The famous Chew Bubblegum line from They Live! has been endlessly regurgitated for decades. Frequently reversed.
- THAT'S NOT MY DAD!!◊
Most Wonderful Sound: When you hear the bagpipes blaring, some serious shit is about to go down.
Protection from Editors: Piper rarely did a job, and Hulk Hogan made no secret of his displeasure at never getting to get that decisive win during their feud. Interestingly, Piper did take a (now famous) pinfall loss at WrestleMania VIII to Bret Hart.
Signature Scene: The Piper's Pit segment where he smashed a coconut over the head of "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka, sending him tumbling into the set behind him.
- Second place goes to spraying Morton Downey Jr. with a fire extinguisher after he told him not to smoke in his Pit.
- Another oft-repeated moment was when Frank Williams, the wrestler Piper was interviewing, was just dying on the mic. Piper eventually just beat the crap out of him and then infamously said, "Just when they think they have the answers, I change the questions!".
Values Dissonance:
- Some things Piper did in the mid-80s would get the WWE kicked off the air nowadays. Part of Piper's Heel schtick was that he wasn't just obnoxious, but bigoted, with some notably racist diatribes at Mr. T and one occasion where he angrily used an ethnic slur^note against the Italian-born Bruno Sammartino. Then there was the infamous Piper's Pit segment with Jimmy Snuka, undoubtedly Piper's crowning achievement in politically incorrect villainy. There, he condescendingly talked down to (and over) Snuka the whole time and made a huge amount of racist jabs toward him all the while, culminating in smashing a coconut over his head, forcibly stuffing a banana in his mouth, and then taking off his belt and whipping Snuka over the back with it.
- And then there was WrestleMania VI, where he painted himself half-black, in a spectacularly ill-thought-out attempt to avoid the potential racist or white supremacist implications of defeating the "Angry Black Man" Stereotype "Bad News" Brown that fell straight into them.

YMMV / Roddy Piper

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