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  • Alas, Poor Scrappy: Has kind of become a Running Gag with WrestleCrap Radio's TNA Correspondents (always just sound effects or Blade/RD doing a fake voice) who are introduced, annoy RD, Blade, and the fans to no end, and then are mourned and missed when they're killed off, even Nathaniel.
  • Bizarro Episode: The April Fools' episodes. One was a faux "first episode", one was nothing but dreams among others and they do get referenced later on from time to time.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Happens a lot on WrestleCrap Radio, starting with Blade "Breakstown's" Bill Collector nemesis John Thomas in the early years. Later characters, such as Gay Popeye, Mike Check, Angry Jim Ross and Don........Don Mason, were even more popular, despite the fact that the first three were just Blade and/or RD doing a silly fake voice and the last is a friend of Blade about whom Blade spins tales.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Reading through the Archives, whenever Ashley Massaro is brought up, their treatment of her is very harsh (even including transphobic references, which doesn't make sense even in context). It would be uncomfortable if applied to anyone else, but it's downright horrifying when Ashley is the target, given her suicide in 2019. It becomes even harsher given the news that broke after her death about WWE covering up a rape case during a military tour. Not helping matters is the fact that her nonexistent in-ring ability - a frequent target of scorn - wasn't her fault (she was enthusiastic about learning to wrestle, but WWE just didn't train her beyond the two moves she would need to do that night).
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • Almost all of the (forced) wrestling memes were born on their message board (Lex Luger, Dennis Stamp, etc.)
    • Basically, their message board is one of the pro wrestling equivalents of 4chan, the other one being 420chan's /wooo/. Batista was (and likely still is) their Photoshop poster child.
  • Replacement Scrappy: To some, Triple Kelly for RD. And then RD for Triple Kelly when she quit. And then Art0Donnel when he stepped up. Basically, whenever someone new takes over as main writer, a portion of the WrestleCrap fandom whines that the old induction writer was much better and that the new one sucks.
  • The Scrappy:
    • The dragon to RD's Don Quixote, Todd Pettingill, was the root motivation behind launching WrestleCrap.
    • Many of the TNA Impact! correspondents, particularly Nathaniel.
  • Squick: Some of Blade's Don........Don Mason stories. See Second-Hand Storytelling.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some fans never got over Triple Kelly replacing RD as the main induction writer.

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