History Characters / WCW

* GaryStu: An accusation lobbied at him, since he was Eric Bischoff's friend in real life. So ''of course'' he would be the one GenreSavvy face around, and the only guy to look good against the nWo on most nights.

* WorkedShoot: The lWo angle was born out of legit problems between Eddie adn Eric Bischoff

* MightyGlacier

* TheLongList: He once listed 1004 holds he knew, to parody rival Dean Malenko. Several of them were 'ARMBAR!'.

* FragileSpeedster

* {{Unfunny}}

!!! Kevin Nash (Kevin Scott Nash, 1990-1993, 1996-2001)

!!! Bret Hart (1997-2000)

* Parody: For a while one of his signature moves was [[TheRock The Village People's Elbow]].

* Expy: Of AndreTheGiant, who it was originally claimed was his father.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: During his Main Event push, some criticised him for becoming one of these of The Rock.

* MasterLuchador

!!! Eric Bischoff (Eric Aaron Bischoff)

!!! Jimmy Hart (Jimmy Ray Hart)
A long serving manager, who jumped from the [[WWE WWF]] with HulkHogan. As WCW music composer, he was notorious for ripping off popular songs for the wrestlers to use as theme music.

!!! Tony Schiavone

!!! Hollywood HulkHogan (Terry Gene Bollea)

* AllAmericanFace: Before he became Hollywood.
* BadassBeard: Being able to grow one (or at least some wicked stubble) overnight cemented the famous heel turn described below.
* BigBad: As leader of the New World Order
* BoringInvincibleHero: It was the very staleness of his act that led to his infamous turn.
* CatchPhrase: Several
* DirtyCoward: As Hollywood, he hid behind the nWo whenever possible.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: He switched out his famous yellow trunks and boots for black-and-white tights with a lightning design airbrushed on when he joined the nWo.
* FaceHeelTurn: One of the most famous in {{professional wrestling}} history, turning a beloved, clean-cut AllAmericanFace into the rugged, ruthless leader of the New World Order ([=nWo=]).
* FingerpokeOfDoom: He delivered the {{trope namer}}.
* FiveMovesOfDoom
* NoSell
* WritingAroundTrademarks: Part of the reason he became Hollywood, rather than [[TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], was the avoid legal issues with MarvelComics.
* VerbalTic: He uses the word 'brother' as punctuation.

!!! Wrestler/{{Sting}} (Steve Borden)
* AchillesInHisTent: He spent almost all of 1997 in the rafters.
* AllAmericanFace: In his original 'Surfer' persona.

* BadassLongcoat: After his reinvention as 'Crow Sting'.
* BatterUp: His WeaponOfChoice.
* CaptainErsatz: Of TheCrow.
* CatchPhrase: It's Showtime, Folks!
* DarkIsNotEvil: In 1997, Sting started wearing a lot of black and replaced his colourful facepaint with black and white, yet her remaind a good guy.
* GenreBlindness: To a truly epic degree. See below.
* GoodIsDumb: He got turned on by a lot of partners, but never saw it coming. This led to [[FanNickname fans nicknaming him "The Dumbest Man In Wrestling."]]

* RetCon: During his ill-advised FaceHeelTurn in 1999, a video running constantly on Nitro and Thunder suggested that the fake nWo Sting was a 'creation of the real Sting himself'. This idea had never been mentioned before, and hasn't been mentioned since.
* TheVoiceless: He was silent throughout most of '97.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Lex Luger.

!!! Diamond Dallas Page (Page Joseph Falkinburg, Jr.)
* CoolOldGuy: He started his wrestling career at about 35.
* {{Determinator}}: The guy legitimately trained his ass off to become one of the better wrestlers WCW had.
* GaryStu: An accusation lobbied at him, since he was Eric Bischoff's friend in real life. So ''of course'' he would be the one GenreSavvy face around, and the only guy to look good against the nWo on most nights.
* TheJimmyHartVersion: His theme music, "Self High-Five," essentially an instrumental of {{Nirvana}}'s "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with a few notes and chords reversed.
* {{Joisey}}
* OneHitKill: You could beat him up all day, but all he had to do was hit the [[FinishingMove Diamond Cutter]] and he'd come out on top and he could hit the Diamond Cutter at a moment's notice, from 52 different positions.
* UglyGuyHotWife: A particularly epic RealLife case, with his Playboy model/fitness goddess wife Kimberly, and Page himself being an ugly, older, hairy, flabby guy with "big green mess"-style tattoos from head to toe.

!!! RicFlair (Richard Morgan Fliehr)
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority / AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He was the President of WCW for a while, having won the job in a match.
* BadassGrandpa: After his return to WCW in 1998, he was pretty much this for the next decade.
* BigBad: He was WCW's top heel throughout the '80s and early '90s.
* CatchPhrase: "To be the man, you gotta beat the man!", "Stylin' and profilin', "limousine-ridin', jet-flyin', kiss-stealin', wheelin'-dealin' son of a gun!" and of course "Woo!"
* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyOldMan: Oh God the [[strike:trauma]] memories.
* FaceFault: It's known, in wrestling, as the 'Flair Flop, and with good reason.
* FightingDirty: One of his many nicknames is 'The Dirtiest Player in the Game'.
* FlungClothing: Became a trademark in the final years of WCW, with Ric stripping of his jacket (and on a few occasions to his underwear), and then dropping elbows on it.
* HijackedByGanon: He was revealed to be the Black Scorpion.
* LargeHam
* MagnificentBastard
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: Could have been his motto.
* PopularityPower: WCW audiences proved how much this trope works via their sabotaging the main event of The Great American Bash 1991; the crowd chanted "We want Flair!" practically non-stop during the match, in protest of Flair being fired from WCW.
* PowerStable: He led The Four Horsemen, arguably the Trope Codifier.
* RedBaron: 'The Nature Boy'. Also 'Slick Ric', and 'The Dirtiest Player in the Game'.
* SharpDressedMan
* WallBanger: The aforementioned reveal of Flair as the Black Scorpion. Also, his (kayfabe) stint in an insane asylum.

!!! [[{{Goldberg}} Bill Goldberg]] (William Scott "Bill" Goldberg)
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy
* CatchPhrase: "Who's next?"
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Either his demolish of Raven and his Flock for the US Title, or his demolish of Hulk Hogan and his nWo for the WCW World Title. His no-selling of Ron Reis' stop sign to the head is particularly epic.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: His entrance theme was pretty epic.
* DethroningMomentOfSuck: Both his title loss to Kevin Nash, and his screwing up of a kick and legitimately ending the career of Bret Hart.
* ImplacableMan
* LastNameBasis
* MightyGlacier
* NoSell

!!! Scott Hall (Scott Oliver Hall)
* TheAlcoholic
* CatchPhrase: "Hey Yo!"
* TheDragon: He and Kevin Nash served as Hogan's in the nWo.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: After the breakup of the nWo.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Kevin Nash.
* PopularityPower: After he left the company, there would quite often be signs demanding his return and 'We Want Hall!' chants. On one occasion, a framed photo of him got the biggest pop of the night during an episode of Nitro.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His real life issues with alcoholism and other vices inserted themselves into the storylines. Since they were on-going issues, it was particularly hard to watch.


!!! Booker T (Booker Tio Huffman)
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: During his Main Event push, some criticised him for becoming one of these of The Rock.
* AngryBlackMan
* ArchEnemy: Either Jeff Jarrett or Scott Steiner.
* BreakupBreakout: Booker went from tag-teaming with Stevie Ray as the Harlem Heat to becoming a multiple time heavyweight champion.
* BoisterousBruiser
* CatchPhrase: "Don't hate the player, hate the game!" was used as his during his World Title runs, to the extent of being a soundbyte at the start of his entrance music. It never really got over.
* TheDeterminator
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning
* MemeticMutation: "HULK HOGAN, WE COMIN' FO' YOU, NIGGA!"
* WallBanger: He once had a match over the right to the letter 'T'. He lost.

!!! Kevin Nash (Kevin Scott Nash)

!!! Rick Steiner (Robert Rechsteiner)
* {{Badass}}

!!! ScottSteiner (Scott Carl Rechsteiner)
* AlliterativeName

!!! Ron Simmons
* {{Badass}}
* MightyGlacier
* ScaryBlackMan

!!! Big Van Vader (Leon Allen White)
* {{Acrofatic}}: A 450 pound guy, who ''innovated'' the moonsault.

* CatchPhrase: "It's Time... It's Time... It's Vader Time!"
* MightyGlacier
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Vader also innovated the powerbomb, which went on to become a generic 'big guy' move.

!!! Buff Bagwell (Marcus Alexander Bagwell)
* AlliterativeName
* BreakupBreakout: He was originally part of a tag team called the 'American Males', after he turned on his parter, Scotty Riggs, the latter mostly toiled in obscurity while Buff got the push.
* CatchPhrase: "Buff is the stuff!"
* GorgeousGeorge: After a fashion
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: After he left the nWo he turned a lot.
* PaintedOnPants
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: His top hat with a picture of his own face on it.

!!! RandySavage (Randall Mario Poffo)
* BadassBeard
* CatchPhrase: "Oh, YEAH!"
* CoolShades
* LargeHam
* RedBaron: 'The Macho Man'
* VitrolicBestBuds: With Hogan, both in and out of the nWo.

!!! Sid Vicious (Sid Eudy)
* AxCrazy
* TheBigGuy
* BlondGuysAreEvil: As a heel
* TheBrute
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "Kevin Nash, you may be half the man that I am, and I may have half the brain that you do..."
* MeaningfulName
* NamesTheSame: As the bassist from The Sex Pistols.
* RedDragon: 'The Millenium Man'
* {{Squick}}: There's footage of him ''literally'' snapping his leg coming off of the middle rope at the Sin Pay Per View.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Of Vince McMahon, both as an announcer and as the "Evil Boss" he went on to become.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He was the President of WCW for a while, having won the job in a match.

* InsistantTerminology: He refered to the various women he had around, exclusively, as 'his freaks'.

* Squick: There's footage of him ''literally'' snapping his leg coming off of the middle rope at the Sin Pay Per View.

As WCW music composer, he was notorious for ripping off popular songs for the wrestlers to use as theme music. {{Trope namer}} for TheJimmyHartVersion.

* ScaryBlackMan

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: His victory over the previously undefeated Goldberg at Starrcade '98.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskiking: He was the President of WCW for a while, having won the job in a match.

* ManOfWeathAndTaste

!!! Scott Hall (Scott Oliver Hall

* PopoularityPower: After he left the company, there would quite often be signs demanding his return and 'We Want Hall!' chants. On one occasion, a framed photo of him got the biggest pop of the night during an episode of Nitro.

!!! Scott Hall (Scott Oliver Hall)

!!! Booker T (Booker Tio Huffman, FKA G.I. Bro, Kole, King Booker)
* BreakupBreakout: Booker went from tag-teaming with Stevie Ray as the Harlem Heat to becoming a multiple time heavyweight champion in WCW as well as other wrestling companies.

This is a Character Sheets for the various wrestlers, managers and assorted other personalities that appeared in {{WCW}}.

Character sheets for the various wrestlers/managers/General Managers of {{WCW}}.

WCW Executive Producer and later the company's President.

* FingerpokeOfDoom: {{Trope namer}}.

* GoodIsDumb: Led to [[FanNickname fans nicknaming him "The Dumbest Man In Wrestling."]]

* OneHitKill: You could beat him up all day, but all he had to do was hit the [[FinishingMove Diamond Cutter]] and he'd come out on top — and he could hit the Diamond Cutter at a moment's notice, from 52 different positions.