History YMMV / ScottSteiner

* GeniusBonus: As much as it sounded like a bunch of ridiculous rambling as per usual from the man, Scott's math in his infamous TNA calculation on his odds at Sacrifice have been shown to be fairly mathematically sound in terms of the individual equations the formula is made up of...sorta. The issue is more that he used all the right numbers but applied them incorrectly. As many have pointed out, he didn't actually win at Sacrifice despite his estimate 141% chance of victory, though people (semi-jokingly) pointed out that it all originally hinged on Kurt Angle being there, which he wasn't[[labelnote:*]][[Wrestling/FrankieKazarian Kaz]] replaced him for the match due to Angle suffering a legitimate neck injury while wrestling overseas[[/labelnote]], thus we'll never know if it was true. Still, for someone just throwing out numbers on the fly, it's impressive that it was consistent.

* FoeRomanceSubtext:
** The Steiner Recliner looks unfortunate as it is, but the time he said he was going to put Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} in it and whisper in his ear "Size does matter, BITCH!" really pushes it into PrisonRape-level creepy.
** A similar level of creepiness was reached in a handicap match in WCW, which ended with Scott putting four cruiserweights in the Steiner Recliner at once.

* UnexpectedCharacter: While his career was without a doubt Hall of Fame worthy, few expected Scott to be inducted into the Wrestling/WWEHallOFFame (at least while he was still living) due to his vocal grudge against WWE, Triple H and the [=McMahons=], and having trashed the Hall of Fame in interviews. Of course, he was inducted with Rick as the Steiner brothers, so it's yet to be known if he'll get a solo induction.

* FountainOfMemes: Thanks to his promos, tenuous grasp of physics, mathematics, or even basic sentence strucure, and general unhingedness. Not to mention that he's hungry.

* UnexpectedCharacter: While his career was without a doubt Hall of Fame worthy, few expected Scott to be inducted into the Wrestling/WWEHallOFFame (at least while he was still living) due to his vocal grudge against WWE, Triple H and the [=McMahons=], and having trashed the Hall of Fame in interviews. Of course, he was inducted with Rick as the Steiner brothers, so it's yet to be known of he'll get a solo induction.

* UnexpectedCharacter: While his career was without a doubt Hall of Fame worthy, few expected Scott to be inducted into the Wrestling/WWEHallOFFame (at least while still living) due to his vocal grudge against WWE, Triple H and the [=McMahons=], and having trashed the Hall of Fame in interviews. Of course, he was inducted with Rick as the Steiner brothers, so it's yet to be known of he'll get a solo induction.

* UnexpectedCharacter: While few will argue that his career wasn't Hall of Fame worthy, few expected Scott Steiner to be inducted into the Wrestling/WWEHallOFFame (at least while still living) due to his vocal grudge against WWE, Triple H and the [=McMahons=], and having trashed the Hall of Fame in interviews. Of course, he was inducted with Rick as the Steiner brothers, so it's yet to be known of he'll get a solo induction.

* SoBadItsGood: Basically all of his promos.

* FoeYay:

* {{Narm}}: That voice, oh lordy that voice...

** The Steiner Recliner looks unfortunate as it is, but the time he said he was going to put Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} in it and whisper in his ear "Size does matter, BITCH!" really pushes it into prison rape level creepy.

* GeniusBonus: As much as it sounded like a bunch of ridiculous rambling as per usual from the man, Scott's math in his infamous TNA calculation on his odds at Sacrifice have been shown to be fairly mathematically sound in terms of the individual equations the formula is made up of...sorta. The issue is more that he used all the right numbers but applied them incorrectly. As many have pointed out, he didn't actually win at Sacrifice despite his estimate 141% chance of victory, though people (semi-jokingly) pointed out that it all originally hinged on Kurt Angle being there, which he wasn't, thus we'll never know if it was true. Still, for someone just throwing out numbers on the fly, it's impressive that it was consistent.

* AdamWesting: So much so that towards the end of his TNA tenure, he seemed to focus on just acting insane, and him being brought to ''NWA Power'' was clearly banking on his insane promos. It's depressing though, when you consider how he HAD been an excellent technical wrestler when he and Rick started teaming back in 1989.

* DesignatedHero: As [[WebVideo/WrestlingWithWregret Brian Zane]] pointed out in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ1SPtbDY3o video]] covering Big Poppa Pump's ill-fated run in the WWE, Steiner was a ''huge'' textbook example of this. Despite being presented as a face upon his debut his actual persona was more or less unchanged from his time as a heel, meaning he came across as a crass, misogynistic, Iraq War-supporting brute with few traits that separated him from the current heels. Was it any wonder fans turned on him during his feud with Triple H?

* AdamWesting: So much so that towards the end of his TNA tenure, he seemed to focus on just acting insane. It was arguably his best run post-steroids.
** It's depressing though, when you consider how he HAD been an excellent technical wrestler when he and Rick started teaming back in 1989.
* BadassDecay: In his younger days (back when he sported his long, wavy hair) Scott probably would've been able to hold his own against Wrestling/KurtAngle in a legit technical, mat wrestling contest. By the late nineties, however, age and the ridiculous amount of muscle mass he'd built up had slowed him down considerably. A life threatening injury that he sustained in a match in Puerto Rico in 2008 and the surgery that followed will have limited him even further afterwards.

* DesignatedHero: As [[WebVideo/WrestlingWithWregret Brian Zane]] pointed out in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ1SPtbDY3o video]] covering Big Poppa Pumps ill fated run in the WWE, Steiner was a ''huge'' textbook example of this. Despite being presented as a face upon his debut his actual persona was more or less unchanged from his time as a heel. Meaning he came across as a crass, misogynistic, Iraq War supporting brute with few traits that separated him from the current heels. Was it any wonder fans turned on him during his feud with Triple H?

* FoeYay: The Steiner Recliner looks unfortunate as it is, but the time he said he was going to put Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} in it and whisper in his ear "Size does matter, BITCH!" really pushes it into prison rape level creepy.

* FountainOfMemes: Thanks to his promos, tenuous grasp of physics, mathematics, or even basic sentence strucure, and general unhingedness.
** Not to mention that he's hungry.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Back in the early 1990's, before Big Poppa Pump came to existence, Scott was reportedly offered [[BreakupBreakout solo pushes]] in both WCW and WWF. He declined each time, because Rick's job would have been on the chopping block then. When Scott got his solo push around 1998/1999-2000, Rick was still kept on. Long story short, while Scott may be wonderfully, hilariously insane, he looks out for his loved ones. Unfortunately for him, by the time he got his singles push in 1998, he was utterly broken down and couldn't actually wrestle anymore.
** If rumors that his big push coming from the booking committee's fear are true, Rick might have been saved by Scott shouting "What about my brother?!"

* HilariousInHindsight: Funny how Scott would be in Test's position during his promo in Against All Odds 2007. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUNkaYlMLOo&feature=g-vrec&context=G2423a23RVAAAAAAAAAg enjoy]]

** One of the Steiner Brothers' entrance songs (can't remember if it was WWF or WCW) had the line "They don't use drugs and they're always on top."

* MemeticMutation: If Wrestling/{{Batista}} is the poster child for [[Memes/ProfessionalWrestling wrestling memes]], then Steiner is a close second.
** In all honestly, it's only because Batista operates on a larger stage that Scott gets upstaged.

* SoBadItsGood: Basically all of his promos.
* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: He claimed to have suffered an unspecified and debilitating back injury which required him to miss a single taping of Nitro, specifically the taping where they would be doing steroids tests backstage.

* GeniusBonus: As much as it sounded like a bunch of ridiculous rambling as per usual from the man, Scott's math in his infamous TNA calculation on his odds at Sacrifice have been shown to be fairly mathematically sound in terms of the individual equations the formula is made up of...sorta. The issue is more that he used all the right numbers but applied them incorrectly. As many have pointed out, he didn't actually win at Sacrifice despite his estimate 141% chance of victory, though people (semi-jokingly) pointed out that it all originally hinged on Kurt Angle being there, which he wasn't, thus we'll never know if it was true.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Back in the early 1990's, before Big Poppa Pump came to existence, Scott was reportedly offered [[BreakupBreakout solo pushes]] in both WCW and WWF. He declined each time, because Rick's job would have been on the chopping block then. When Scott got his solo push around 1998/1999-2000, Rick was still kept on. Long story short, while Scott may be wonderfully, hilariously insane, he looks out for his loved ones.

* SuspiciouslyUnverifiableCoverStory: He claimed to have suffered an unspecified and debilitating back injury which required him to miss a single taping of Nitro, specifically the taping where they would be doing steroids tests backstage.

* SoBadItsGood: Basically all of his promos.

** Steiner, Wrestling/BookerT, and Buff Bagwell, while under contract to Wrestling/{{WCW}}, guest starred on ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' as wrestling demons. Steiner and Booker's characters were pinned down to hell by Prue and Phoebe at the end of the episode. Since WCW died, Bagwell only sparingly made TV appearances, whereas Steiner and Booker both had decent-length Wrestling/{{WWE}} runs, headed to Wrestling/{{TNA}}, and became members of a PowerStable of legends called the Main Event Mafia - during which they became tag team champions together.

* [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming]]: Back in the early 1990's, before Big Poppa Pump came to existence, Scott was reportedly offered [[BreakupBreakout solo pushes]] in both WCW and WWF. He declined each time, because Rick's job would have been on the chopping block then. When Scott got his solo push around 1998/1999-2000, Rick was still kept on. Long story short, while Scott may be wonderfully, hilariously insane, he looks out for his loved ones.
** If rumors that his big push coming from the booking committee's fear are true, Rick might have been saved by Scott shouting "What about my brother?!"
** When Scott almost died of a staph infection in Puerto Rico, an uncharacteristically humble Scott graciously thanked the doctors and nurses who saved his life in his first promo back and put over the health care system there.

* FoeYay[=/=]HoYay: The Steiner Recliner looks unfortunate as it is, but the time he said he was going to put Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} in it and whisper in his ear "Size does matter, BITCH!" really pushes it into prison rape level creepy.

* DesignatedHero: As Bryan Zane pointed out in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ1SPtbDY3o video]] covering Big Poppa Pumps ill fated run in the WWE, Steiner was a ''huge'' textbook example of this. Despite being presented as a face upon his debut his actual persona was more or less unchanged from his time as a heel. Meaning he came across as a crass, misogynistic, Iraq War supporting brute with few traits that separated him from the current heels. Was it any wonder fans turned on him during his feud with Triple H?

* DesignatedHero: As Bryan Zane pointed out in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ1SPtbDY3o video]] covering Big Poppa Pumps ill fated run in the WWE, Steiner was a ''huge'' textbook example of this. Despite being presented as a face upon his debut his actual persona was more or less unchanged from his time as a heel. Meaning he came across as a crass, misogynistic, Iraq War supporting brute with few traits to that separated him from the current heels. Was it any wonder fans turned on him during his feud with Triple H?

* [[MeanCharacterNiceActor Mean Character... Nice Actor?]]: He is legitimately every bit as insane in real life as in kayfabe, but at the same time, he comes across as a legitimate good person (his response to [[Creator/HulkHogan Hulk Hogan's]] racist outburst was ''straight-up UnstoppableRage'' and he's pretty appreciative of his fans).
** When news came out that Steiner was a witness to an attempted murder in process of opening the Shoney's as mentioned under Funny, [[https://youtu.be/BXqcEg5tyWU?t=54 the following news interview]] portrayed him as... [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness soft-spoken, regular small business owner]].