History Characters / WCW

* Manipulative Bastard

!!! BookerT (Booker Tio Huffman, 1993-2001)
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: During his Main Event push, some criticised him for becoming one of these of [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]].
* AngryBlackMan
* ArchEnemy: Either JeffJarrett or ScottSteiner.
* 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

* RedBaron: "The Great" Muta

* AllAmericanFace His default Face persona.

* TagalongKid: When he was claiming to be a member of the nWo Wolfpac

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!!! Raven (Scott Anthony Levy, 1992–1993, 1997-1999)

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

!!! Arn Anderson (Martin Anthony Lunde, 1985-1988, 1989-2001)

* TheBrute: For the The FourHorsemen.

!!! Ole Anderson (Alan Robert Rogowski,

!!! "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (Roderick "Roddy" George Toombs, 1996-2000)

!!! Hugh Morrus / General Rection (William Charles "Bill" [=DeMott=] II, 1995-2001)

!!! Ultimo Dragon (Yoshihiro Asai, 1996-1998)

!!! Steve Austin (1991-1995)

* UrExample: WCW's first Asian World Champion.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Most fans these days know him better as Farooq, or as the guy who shows up occasionally on {{WWE}} TV to say 'DAMN!'

* PunnyName

[[folder: Debuted in the Bischoff Era (1993-1996)]]

!!! Hugh Morrus / General Rection (William Charles "Bill" DeMott II, 1995-2001)

[[folder: Debuted in the nWo Invasion Era (1996-1999)]]

[[folder: Debuted in the Final Years (1999-2001)]]

!!! Johnny B. Badd (Marc Mero, 1990-1996)

* CombatPragmatist

* CutShot: Magnum T.A. was one of the most popular stars in the NWA until a car accident ended his career.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He named himself Magnum T.A. after his slight resemblance to actor TomSelleck's television character, [[MagnumPI Thomas Magnum, P.I]].

!!! Wahoo McDaniel (Edward McDaniel, 1982-1986, 1993)

!!! Magnum T.A. (Terry Wayne Allen, 1984-1986)

[[folder: Debuted in the Crockett Era (1982-1988)]]

[[folder: Debuted in the NWA-WCW Era (1988-1993)]]
!!! Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Charles Bigelow, 1988, 1998-2001)
* {{Acrofatic}}: Another large man capable of a moonsault, among other high-flying feats.
* AlliterativeName
* BadassBeard
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy
* TheBrute
* DemotedToExtra: Went from fueding with {{Goldberg}} to messing around in the Hardcore division.
* {{Joisey}}
* LightningBruiser: Much quicker than most men his size.
* PowerStable: Was a member of the Jersey Triad, along with Kanyon and DDP.

!!! Konnan (Carlos Santiago Espada Moises, 1990, 1996-2001)
* {{Acrofatic}}: More pudgy than fat, but he could hang with the smaller wrestlers in skill.
* [[BadassSpaniard Badass Latino]]
* BaldOfAwesome / BaldOfEvil
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Yo, yo, yo, lemme speak on this.... Orale! Arriba la raza!"

* EvilForeigner: As a heel.
* NiceHat
* PowerStable: The [=nWo=] and The Filthy Animals
* RedBaron: "K-Dogg"

!!! Masahiro Chono (蝶野 正洋, Chono Masahiro, 1991-1992, 1995-2000)
* BadassLongcoat
* CoolShades

!!! The Nasty Boys - Jerry Sags (Jerome Saganovich 1990, 1993-1997), Brian Knobbs (Brian Yandrisovitz 1990, 1993-1997, 1999-2001)
* BreakupBreakout: Knobbs, mainly due to the fact that Sags suffered a neck injury and had to retire.
* EightiesHair
* [[GarbageWrestler Garbage Wrestlers]]
* [[JerkAss Jerkasses]]: As heels and faces
* TheQuincyPunk

!!! RandySavage (Randall Mario Poffo, 1994-2000)
* BadassBeard
* CatchPhrase: "Oh, YEAH!"
* CelebrityEndorsement: "Snap into a Slim Jim!"

!!! Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Charles Bigelow, 1998-2001)
* {{Acrofatic}}: Another large man capable of a moonsault, among other high-flying feats.
* AlliterativeName
* BadassBeard
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy
* TheBrute
* DemotedToExtra: Went from fueding with {{Goldberg}} to messing around in the Hardcore division.
* {{Joisey}}
* LightningBruiser: Much quicker than most men his size.
* PowerStable: Was a member of the Jersey Triad, along with Kanyon and DDP.

!!! Ron Garvin (Roger Barnes, 1986-1988)

!!! {{Wrestler/Sting}} (Steve Borden, 1987-2001)
* AchillesInHisTent: He spent almost all of 1997 in the rafters.
* AllAmericanFace: In his original 'Surfer' persona.

!!! Rick Steiner (Robert Rechsteiner, 1988-1992, 1996-2001)

* CainAndAbel: After they split as a team, he and Scott fought a lot.
* CatchPhrase: "You want some? Come get some! Don't like me? Bite me!"
* TheJannetty: Scott was, and is, a much bigger name. Strangely before the two split, they were "Rick Steiner and his less interesting brother". However, Scott reinvented himself as the Big Bad Booty Daddy, and Rick floundered in the midcard and then turned heel. As a heel he was a complete heat vacuum.
* LeotardOfPower
* LightningBruiser: In his prime
* RedBaron: 'The Dog Faced Gremlin'

!!! Ricky Steamboat (Richard Henry Blood, 1989, 1991-1994)
* ArchEnemy: RicFlair
* {{Face}}: Possibly the most constant good guy ever.
* FanNickname: Armdragon, cause well, see below.
* FinishingMove: A Diving Crossbody or Superplex.
* HotDad
* IHaveTheHighGround
* InTheBlood: His son, Richie Steamboat, is also a great wrestler.
* LightningBruiser
* NiceGuy: His gimmick, basically Ricky is a squeaky clean family man good guy that never does anything bad.
* RedBaron: 'The Dragon'
* SignatureMove: Armdrags.

!!! Ron Simmons (1989-1994)
* {{Badass}}
* HeyItsThatGuy: Most fans these days know him better as Farooq, or as the guy who shows up occasionally on {{WWE}} TV to say 'DAMN!'
* MightyGlacier
* ScaryBlackMan

!!! ScottHall (Scott Oliver Hall, 1989-1992, 1996-2000)
* TheAlcoholic
* CatchPhrase: "Hey Yo!"
* TheDragon: He and KevinNash served as Hogan's in the nWo.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: After the breakup of the nWo.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With KevinNash.
* PermaStubble
* 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.

!!! ScottSteiner (Scott Carl Rechsteiner, 1989-1992, 1996-2001)
* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard

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[[folder: Debuted in the Bischoff Era (1993-1996)]]
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[[folder: Debuted in the nWo Invasion Era (1996-1999)]]
!!! Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Charles Bigelow, 1998-2001)
* {{Acrofatic}}: Another large man capable of a moonsault, among other high-flying feats.

* BaldOfAwesome

* DemotedToExtra: Went from fueding with {{Goldberg}} to messing around in the Hardcore division.
* {{Joisey}}
* LightningBruiser: Much quicker than most men his size.
* PowerStable: Was a member of the Jersey Triad, along with Kanyon and DDP.

[[folder: Debuted in the Final Years (1999-2001)]]

[[folder: Notable Female Talent and The Nitro Girls]]

!! Non-Wrestlers
!!! Eric Bischoff (Eric Aaron Bischoff, 1991-1999, 2000, 2001)
WCW Executive Producer and later the company's President.
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Of VinceMcMahon, both as an announcer and as the "Evil Boss" he went on to become. Though they played different types of "Evil Boss".
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The guy is a legit martial artist and held a couple of titles.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: His on-screen persona during the late 90's, a la {{WWE}} Chairman VinceMcMahon.
* FanNickname: Sleazy-E.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: He apparently had a threesome with his rather attractive wife and a stripper.
* HandsomeLech

!!! Jimmy Hart (Jimmy Ray Hart, 1994-2001)
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.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: His megaphone was used to knock out the opponents of wrestlers he managed.
* TheJimmyHartVersion: The Trope Namer.

!!! Mike Tenay (1994-2001)
An interviewer and announcer
* TheSmartGuy: They don't call him "The Professor" for nothing.

!!! Tony Schiavone (1995-2001)
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He infamously said that MickFoley as WWF Champion would 'put a lot of butts in seats' sarcastically, leading to millions of fans switching over to watch Foley win the belt on Raw.
* ItsTheBestTropeEver: He proclaimed almost everything to be 'The greatest in the history of our great sport!'

!! The Wrestlers

!!! Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Charles Bigelow, 1998-2001)
* {{Acrofatic}}: Another large man capable of a moonsault, among other high-flying feats.
* AlliterativeName
* BadassBeard
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy
* TheBrute
* DemotedToExtra: Went from fueding with {{Goldberg}} to messing around in the Hardcore division.
* {{Joisey}}
* LightningBruiser: Much quicker than most men his size.
* PowerStable: Was a member of the Jersey Triad, along with Kanyon and DDP.

!!! Big Van {{Vader}} (Leon Allen White, 1990-1995)
* {{Acrofatic}}: A 450 pound guy, who ''innovated'' the moonsault.
* TheBigGuy: Depending on if he was a face or a heel.
* TheBrute: Depending on if he was a face or a heel.
* CatchPhrase: "It's Time... It's Time... It's {{Vader}} Time!"
* CoolMask: His most famous mask counts, but especially his Mastodon mask that he sometimes wore to the ring before matches, which among other things, blew fog out. [[http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/475/644/vader_display_image.jpg?1288468386 Just check it out.]] Sadly, that mask, along with the name "Big Van Vader", was found to be the intellectual property of New Japan Pro Wrestling, so in his later days in North America, he had to make do with his leather mask and just the name "Vader".
* {{Determinator}}: Considering he once wrestled a match where he had a detached retina of all things and simply popped it back in and finished his match, this trope seems fitting.
* LightningBruiser: Especially so in his younger days when he was a bit leaner, though he was still a large fellow. He was able to pull moonsaults and other types of high-flying attacks while also being able to powerbomb and chokeslam with the best of them.

* UnstoppableRage

!!! Billy Kidman (Peter Allen Grunner, 1996-2001)
* FragileSpeedster
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: While he was in The Flock, he essentially played a heroin addict, even naming his finisher “The Seven Year Itch”
* IHaveTheHighGround
* LastNameBasis: During, and for a while after, his tenure in The Flock.
* LimitedWardrobe: For much of his run he seemed to constantly wear the same wifebeater and jean shorts.
* PowerStable: Was a member of both The Flock and The Filthy Animals
* SchmuckBait: One of his signature moves was countering a powerbomb with a facebuster – even against opponents who never usually went for powerbombs!
** [[MemeticMutation YOU CAN'T POWERBOMB KIDMAN!]]

!!! BookerT (Booker Tio Huffman, 1993-2001)
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: During his Main Event push, some criticised him for becoming one of these of [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]].
* AngryBlackMan
* ArchEnemy: Either JeffJarrett or ScottSteiner.
* 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

!!! BretHart (1997-2000)
* BadassBoast: His constant claim to be 'The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be'.
* CanadaEh
* CoolShades
* DemotedToExtra: Bafflingly, during most of his run despite the huge popularity he had from the WWF.
* FiveMovesOfDoom: The TropeNamer
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He turned an awful lot during the little over two years he was with the company.
* MemeticMutation: "Who are you to doubt El Dandy?"
* PowerStable: He was, briefly, the leader of the {{nWo}} 2000.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Concussion will do that.
* RealMenWearPink
* RedBaron: 'The Hitman', 'The Excellence of Execution'.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: His title reign and run as leader of the NewWorldOrder.
* WrestlingFamily: He's from one of the most famous.

!!! Buff Bagwell (Marcus Alexander Bagwell, 1991-2001)
* 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.
* BadassBeard
* CatchPhrase: "Buff is the stuff!"
* CoolShades
* GorgeousGeorge: After a fashion
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: After he left the nWo he turned a lot.
* MommasBoy
* PaintedOnPants
* TedBaxter: "I'm simply delicious"

!!! ChrisBenoit (1995-2000)
* AscendedExtra: His push out of the Cruiserweight division.
* CanonDiscontinuity: His one day reign as World Heavyweight Champion, which ended when he jumped ship to the WWF.
* TheDeterminator.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Dean Malenko
* KeepTheReward: Again, Benoit won the World Title but left the company anyway.
* PowerStable: Both The FourHorsemen and The Revolution.
* RealitySubtext: He once fueded with Kevin Sullivan over an in-character affair with Sullivan's wife, Nancy. This spilled out into real life and Nancy eventually married Benoit. Suffice to say some of the Benoit/Sullivan matches after that were stiff as hell.
** Which in turn, becomes a very cringe inducing FunnyAneurysmMoment.
* RedBaron: "The Canadian Crippler".

!!! ChrisJericho (Christopher Keith Irvine, 1996-1999)
* DirtyCoward
* JackOfAllStats
* TheJimmyHartVersion: His entrance theme was a knock-off of 'Even Flow' by Pearl Jam.

* TheLongList: He once listed 1004 holds he knew, to parody rival Dean Malenko. Every other hold was '''ARM-BAR!'.
* TheNicknamer
* OverlyLongGag: His list of 1004 holds.
* {{Parody}}: Of Goldberg's entrance, complete with two overweight security guards and getting lost on the way to the ring.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His fued with Goldberg followed a backstage altercation between the two.
* RedBaron: 'The Lionheart'.
* ShoutOut: His ring-name comes from a Music/{{Helloween}} album.
* SmallNameBigEgo: In character, that is.

!!! Chris Kanyon (a.k.a Mortis, Chris "Champagne" Kanyon and "Positively" Kanyon) (Christopher Klucsarits, 1995-2001)
* CatchPhrase: "Who's better than Kanyon?" Of course, the crowd would respond "Everybody!" rather than the "Nobody!" he was looking for.
* CoolMask: He wore one when he first debuted, under the name "Mortis."
* EvilKnockoff: "Positively" Kanyon was this to DDP.
* {{Joisey}}: During his stint as a Triad member, although he was actually from Queens.
* PowerStable: He was a member of both The Flock and the Jersey Triad.
* RedBaron: "The Innovator of Offence". He was also briefly known as Chris "Champagne" Kanyon and "Positively" Kanyon.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Had this kind of relationship with both {{Wrestler/Raven}} and DDP, at different times.

!!! David Flair (David Richard Fliehr, 1998-2001)
* AntagonisticOffspring: To his father Ric Flair.
* AxCrazy
* BlondesAreEvil
* CallingTheOldManOut
* ChickMagnet: Dated Torrie Wilson, Stacy Kiebler (in RealLife too) and Daffney.
* CrowbarCombatant: At least until he met Crowbar (a person), the he wielded one.
* FourIsDeath: His finisher, the Figure-Four Leglock.
* SmugSnake
* WrestlingFamily

!!! Dean Malenko (Dean Simon, 1995-2000)

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Chris Benoit
* PowerStable: Malenko was a member of both The FourHorsemen and The Revolution.
* RedBaron: 'The Iceman' and 'The Man of 1000 Holds'.

!!! DiamondDallasPage (Page Joseph Falkinburg, Jr., 1991-2001)
* 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.
* 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}}: Even though he's made Florida his home for a long time.
* LargeHam
* 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.

!!! Disco Inferno (Glenn Gilbertti, 1995-2001)
* DiscoStu
* JokeCharacter
* {{Parody}}: For a while one of his signature moves was [[DwayneJohnson The Village People's Elbow]].
* PowerStable: The [=nWo=] and The Filthy Animals
* TagalongKid: When he was claiming to be a member of the nWo Wolfpac
* XtremeKoolLetterz: In 2000 he joined The Filthy Animals and changed his name to 'Disqo' as a play on 'Sisqo', who's 'Thong Song' was popular at the time.

!!! Dusty Rhodes (Virgil Riley Runnels Jr., 1968-1989, 1991-1998, 2001)
* AffablyEvil: In the [=nWo=].
* AllAmericanFace
* ArchEnemy: RicFlair
* MightyGlacier
* RedBaron: 'The American Dream'.
* VerbalTic: 'If you weeelll.'
** Always made references to wrestlers going "to the paywindah!"
** "Dey be clubberin', Tony!"
* WorkingClassHero

!!! EddieGuerrero (1995-2000)
* [[BadassSpaniard BadassLatino]]
* DirtyCoward: As a heel.
* {{Homage}}/FinishingMove: The Frogsplash became Eddie's signature move, but it was his partner Art Barr who originally used the move; when Barr died, Eddie started using the move in tribute to his partner.
* KickTheDog: His claiming to have been robbed by one of the [[MaskedLuchador masked wrestlers]] and forcing them all to unmask.
* PowerStable: Eddie was the leader of the Latino World Order, and a member of The Filthy Animals.
* StartMyOwn: The lWo.
* WorkedShoot: The lWo angle was born out of legit problems between Eddie and Eric Bischoff.
* WrestlingFamily

!!! [[TheBigShow The Giant]] (Paul Wight, 1995-1999)

* {{Expy}}: Of AndreTheGiant, who it was originally claimed was his father.
* TheGiant: Obviously.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* MightyGlacier: Most of his offense consisted of hitting people. On the very rare occasions he climbed the turnbuckle it still took him about a minute to get up there.
* PowerStable: He was introduced as a member of the Dungeon of Doom, and went on to join the New World Order.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Beat My Father in a Wrestling Match and Destroyed His Career]]: His original motivation for going after Hulk Hogan.

!!! Glacier (Ray Lloyd, 1996-1999)
* AnIcePerson: Glacier had an impressive entrance centered around an ice-and-snow motif, as befits his name.
* AwesomeButImpractical: His incredible entrance cost nearly half a million dollars to put together, including $35,000 on the faux-armor he wore to the ring alone.
* CaptainErsatz: [[MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]? Who's that?
* IcyBlueEyes: Subverted, they were contacts.
* IKnowKarate: The whole basis of his gimmick was that he was a martial artist who trained for years under the finest masters in Japan. Try to find a wrestler these days who doesn't integrate at least a little martial arts into their wrestling style.
** Perry Saturn would call attention to that during a mini-feud in 1998, where he mocked the claim that Glacier invented his FinishingMove the Cryonic Kick (actually just a standard Standing Side Kick).
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Glacier's feud with Mortis, Wrath and Vandenburg started when they stole the helmet that went with his elaborate entrance armor. Supposedly it was given to him by his late sensei and was his most treasured possession. Instead of triumphantly regaining it, he gradually forgot about it.

!!! {{Goldberg}} (William Scott "Bill" Goldberg, 1997-2001)
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy
* CatchPhrase: "Who's next?"
* ImplacableMan
* LastNameBasis
* NoSell
* ScreamingWarrior
* SleevesAreForWimps
* ShowyInvincibleHero
* SquashMatch: Most of 'The Streak' was made up of these.
* UnstoppableRage

!!! Hollywood HulkHogan (Terry Gene Bollea, 1994-2000)
* AlliterativeName
* 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.
** InvincibleVillain
* 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
* SleevesAreForWimps
* 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.

!!! JeffJarrett (1996-1997, 1999-2001)
* AlliterativeName
* TheArtifact: His guitar, a remnant of his 'Country Singer' gimmick from [[{{WWE}} the WWF]]
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* CheapHeat: In a promo during the 10/1/2000 edition of WCW Monday Nitro, held in Buffalo, New York, Jarrett wore a Tennessee Titans jersey and proclaimed: "I ain't no Buffalo Bill, and I ain't a damn LOSER!". He also went through a period where he'd come down to the ring with several attractive ladies, then send them to the back so the fans couldn't see them.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He seemed to turn on almost everyone at one point or another.
* KickTheDog: He returned to WCW in 1999 by smashing a guitar over interviewer Mike Tenay's head.
* RedBaron: "The Chosen One"
* WeaponOfChoice: The old Acoustic Equaliser.

!!! Johnny B. Badd (Marc Mero, 1990-1996)
* {{Expy}}: Of LittleRichard.
* GorgeousGeorge: A rare {{Face}} example.
* PunnyName

!!! KevinNash (Kevin Scott Nash, 1990-1993, 1996-2001)
* TheBigGuy
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: His victory over the previously undefeated Goldberg at Starrcade '98.
* TheDragon: He and Hall shared this role in the nWo.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Again, his win over Goldberg.
* FanNickname: "Big Poochie.", Big Lazy.
* FingerpokeOfDoom: He was on the receiving end of the original.
* FiveMovesOfDoom: They actually made a running joke of the fact that Nash only knew three moves, to the extent that when he busted out a chokeslam Mark Madden yelled, excitedly, 'He's got FOUR moves!'
* GeniusBruiser
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With ScottHall
* OldShame: His runs as Oz, Vinne Vegas and one half of the Master Blasters.
* RedBaron: "Big Sexy"
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Due to his backstage pull.
* TheStarscream: He turned against Hogan, leading to the nWo splitting into two factions.

!!! Konnan (Carlos Santiago Espada Moises, 1990, 1996-2001)
* {{Acrofatic}}: More pudgy than fat, but he could hang with the smaller wrestlers in skill.
* [[BadassSpaniard Badass Latino]]
* BaldOfAwesome / BaldOfEvil
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Yo, yo, yo, lemme speak on this.... Orale! Arriba la raza!"
* CoolShades
* EvilForeigner: As a heel.
* NiceHat
* PowerStable: The [=nWo=] and The Filthy Animals
* RedBaron: "K-Dogg"

!!! LanceStorm (Lance Evers, 2000-2001)
* TheAce: The first and only man to hold three WCW championships simultaneously.
* CanadaEh
* CatchPhrase: "If I can be serious for a minute...", "All rise for the playing of the Canadian National Anthem!".
* CheapHeat: His constant running down of America, and his renaming of the various belts he won.
* TheComicallySerious
* EvilForeigner
* FunWithAcronyms: When he won the WCW Hardcore Championship, he renamed it the 'Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title'.
* JackOfAllStats: Storm's biggest strength as a wrestler was that, although he wasn't the best at any one style, he was good enough at so many different styles he could always do more things better than his opponent, than his opponent could do better than him.
* PowerStable: Team Canada.

!!! Lex Luger (Lawrence Wendell Pfohl, 1987-1992, 1995-2001)
* AllAmericanFace His default Face persona.
* TheFightingNarcissist: As a heel
* GorgeousGeorge: As a heel
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* PecFlex
* RedBaron: 'The Total Package'. He dropped the 'Lex Luger' name entirely in around the turn of the millenium.
* SleevesAreForWimps
* ThatManIsDead: He said this about 'Lex Luger', when he was being pushed simply as 'The Total Package'.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With {{Wrestler/Sting}}

!!! Mike Awesome (Michael Lee Alfonso, 2000-2001)
* TheBrute
* CanadaEh: Not really, but he did turn heel and join Lance Storm's Team Canada stable.
* DiscoStu: He was briefly repackaged as "That '70's Guy", wearing polyester suits, driving a PartridgeFamily bus and hosting "The Lava Lamp Lounge".
* EightiesHair: His mullet.
* LightningBruiser: Scott Hudson loved to describe him as 'the heavyweight that flies like a cruiserweight'.
* RedBaron: "That '70's Guy", "The Fat Chick Thrilla". Both as awful as they sound.

!!! Paul Orndorff (Paul Parlette Orndorff, Jr., 1990, 1992-2000)
* DemotedToExtra: As a WCW road agent trainer from 1995-2000.
* TheFightingNarcissist: As a heel
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with him and his tag team partner 'Pretty' Paul Roma in "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Pretty Wonderful]]"
* RedBaron: 'Mr. Wonderful'
* ReluctantRetiree: He had to do this several times due to his recurring injuries he sustained in the {{WWE}}.
* TedBaxter: As a heel

!!! Psicosis (Dionicio Castellanos Torres, 1996-2000)
* ArchEnemy: ReyMysterioJr. From the time they both debuted in wrestling until Psicosis got fired from WWE.
* AxeCrazy: One of his signature moves was diving straight over the top rope, head first.
* CoolMask
* MaskedLuchador
* FragileSpeedster: Against heavyweights. Against wrestlers his own size he was nearly a LightningBruiser - had a great powerbomb and a lariat.
* SpikesOfVillainy: His wristguards and shoulderpads had (decorative) spikes on them.
* TheChewToy: Mr. Torres got ''way'' more than his share of bad breaks. Cancelled push after cancelled push, being forced to lose a title he never won ''twice''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: His short lived one-man-rage against Raven's Flock when former enemy Ultimo Dragon helped him fend off the stable. Only the WCW bookers lost interest in the angle, buried him to Perry Saturn 2 weeks later. And his Cruiserweight Title run, which was supposed to be lengthy until VinceRusso decided to start deliberately having the titles change hands continually.
* WhatTheHellHero: He was forcibly unmasked by the Filthy Animals. Who were a face stable. And two of whom, Konnan and Rey Jr., were luchadors themselves.

!!! RandySavage (Randall Mario Poffo, 1994-2000)
* BadassBeard
* CatchPhrase: "Oh, YEAH!"
* CelebrityEndorsement: "Snap into a Slim Jim!"
* CoolShades
* LargeHam
* RedBaron: 'The Macho Man'
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Hogan, both in and out of the nWo.

!!! ReyMysterioJr. (Oscar Gutierrez, 1996-2001)
* [[BadassSpaniard Badass Latino]]
* CoolMask
* TheDeterminator
* ExecutiveMeddling: He lost his match because Eric Bischoff didn't think masked wrestlers were marketable.
* {{Face}}: A close second to Ricky Steamboat in face-titude. He had a short heel run in the Filthy Animals, but even then he came across more like a "going along with it cos that's what all my friends are doing" tweener. Other than that, face his entire career.
* FragileSpeedster
* IHaveTheHighGround
* InstitutionalApparel: After being unmasked, he wore a prison jumpsuit.
* LegacyCharacter
* MaskedLuchador
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: KevinNash throwing him like a lawn dart.
* PintSizedPowerhouse
* PowerStable: The Filthy Animals
* WrestlingFamily

!!! RicFlair (Richard Morgan Fliehr, 1974-1991, 1993-2001)
* 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.
** AuthorsSavingThrow: Was originally not meant to be the Black Scorpion, but was put into the role at the last minute after WCW ran out of ideas.
* HotDad: "Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it's still got the longest line!"
* LargeHam
* 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 FourHorsemen, arguably the Trope Codifier.
* RedBaron: 'The Nature Boy'. Also 'Slick Ric', and 'The Dirtiest Player in the Game'.
* SharpDressedMan
* SignatureMove: The Knife-Edge Chop, always followed with "WOOOOOO", also the GroinAttack.

!!! Rick Rude (Richard Erwin Rood, 1986-1987, 1991-1994, 1997-1998)
* AlliterativeName: Both his wrestling and real names have RR initials. Even his Red Baron starts with the letter R.
* BadassInANiceSuit: In the [=nWo=].
* TheFightingNarcissist
* BadassMustache
* PowerStable: He led The Dangerous Alliance.
* RedBaron: "Ravishing"
* SharpDressedMan

!!! Rick Steiner (Robert Rechsteiner, 1988-1992, 1996-2001)
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* CainAndAbel: After they split as a team, he and Scott fought a lot.
* CatchPhrase: "You want some? Come get some! Don't like me? Bite me!"
* TheJannetty: Scott was, and is, a much bigger name. Strangely before the two split, they were "Rick Steiner and his less interesting brother". However, Scott reinvented himself as the Big Bad Booty Daddy, and Rick floundered in the midcard and then turned heel. As a heel he was a complete heat vacuum.
* LeotardOfPower
* LightningBruiser: In his prime
* RedBaron: 'The Dog Faced Gremlin'

!!! Ricky Steamboat (Richard Henry Blood, 1989, 1991-1994)
* ArchEnemy: RicFlair
* {{Face}}: Possibly the most constant good guy ever.
* FanNickname: Armdragon, cause well, see below.
* FinishingMove: A Diving Crossbody or Superplex.
* HotDad
* IHaveTheHighGround
* InTheBlood: His son, Richie Steamboat, is also a great wrestler.
* LightningBruiser
* NiceGuy: His gimmick, basically Ricky is a squeaky clean family man good guy that never does anything bad.
* RedBaron: 'The Dragon'
* SignatureMove: Armdrags.

!!! Ron Simmons (1989-1994)
* {{Badass}}
* HeyItsThatGuy: Most fans these days know him better as Farooq, or as the guy who shows up occasionally on {{WWE}} TV to say 'DAMN!'
* MightyGlacier
* ScaryBlackMan

!!! ScottHall (Scott Oliver Hall, 1989-1992, 1996-2000)
* TheAlcoholic
* CatchPhrase: "Hey Yo!"
* TheDragon: He and KevinNash served as Hogan's in the nWo.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: After the breakup of the nWo.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With KevinNash.
* PermaStubble
* 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.

!!! ScottSteiner (Scott Carl Rechsteiner, 1989-1992, 1996-2001)
* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BreakupBreakout: Scott and Rick Steiner, or the Steiner Brothers, were a successful tag team. Scott would become WCW Heavyweight Champion. Rick was not so successful as a singles competitor.
* CainAndAbel: After they split as a team, he and Rick fought a lot.
* CatchPhrase: Had a bunch of them, but the main one as usually "Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, holler if you hear me!"
* HeroKiller: During his World Title run, he put most every main event face in the company out of action.
* HotBlooded: He was described as 'The Man with the Largest Arms, and the Shortest Fuse, in WCW'.
* ICallHimMrHappy: He called his "The Big Dipper" after the constellation.
* InsistentTerminology: He refered to the various women he had around, exclusively, as 'his freaks'.
* LeotardOfPower: When he was still teaming with Rick.
* LightningBruiser: In his prime.
* RedBaron: "Big Poppa Pump"
* SleevesAreForWimps
* UnstoppableRage

!!! Sid Vicious (Sid Eudy, 1989-1991, 1993, 1999-2001)
* AxCrazy
* TheBigGuy
* BlondGuysAreEvil: As a heel
* TheBrute
* MeaningfulName
* NamesTheSame: As the bassist from The Sex Pistols.
* RedBaron: 'The Millenium Man'
* UnstoppableRage

!!! Stevie Ray (Lane Huffman, 1993-2001)
* AloofBigBrother [[BigBrotherBully Bully]]: During his time in the [=nWo=] against Booker T.
* AngryBlackMan
* BoisterousBruiser
* CatchPhrase: Calling his opponents "Fruit Booties".
* DemotedToExtra: When WCW folded, he was doing colour commentary on Thunder.
* TheJannetty: BookerT is a much bigger name.
* ScaryBlackMan
* WeaponOfChoice: The Slapjack

!!! {{Wrestler/Sting}} (Steve Borden, 1987-2001)
* AchillesInHisTent: He spent almost all of 1997 in the rafters.
* AllAmericanFace: In his original 'Surfer' persona.
* {{Badass}}
* 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.
** GenreSavvy: He got it right at least once. During a feud with Lex Luger, he had Elizabeth in his corner. She betrayed him and sprayed him in the face with mace - but he'd replaced the mace with silly string.
* 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."]]
* NoSell
** An amusing meta-example was his FaceHeelTurn. The fans ''completely'' no-sold it and continued to cheer him as loud as ever. They even booed other faces who consistently got good reactions when they faced him.
* 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.

!!! Terry Funk (1989-1994, 2000-2001)
* ArchEnemy: Ric Flair
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: His stint as Commissioner of WCW in 2000.
* BadassGrandpa
* CoolOldGuy
* GarbageWrestler: He arguably became this during his 2000-2001 run, in which he mostly competed in the Hardcore Division.
* RedBaron: The Funker
* RingOldies

!!! Ultimo Dragon (Yoshihiro Asai, 1996-1998)
* ArchEnemy: First Psicosis, then anyone who was being managed by Sonny Onoo.
* CoolMask
* LightningBruiser: A cruiserweight, but his kicks put him well into the Bruiser category.
* EvilForeigner: At first
* HeelFaceTurn: He debuted in WCW as a heel under Sonny Onoo's management, then split with Onoo and turned face. He's been a face ever since.
* IHaveTheHighGround: His turnbuckle handstand. Also, he innovated the Asai Moonsault.
* MaskedLuchador: He was Japanese, but because of the brutality of the Japanese training system he trained to wrestle in Mexico.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: His name was initially mistranslated as ''The Ultimate Dragon''.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Delivered one to ReyMysterioJr. On PPV. En route to winning the Cruiserweight Title.

!! [[TagTeam Tag Teams]]
!!! The Nasty Boys - Jerry Sags (Jerome Saganovich 1990, 1993-1997), Brian Knobbs (Brian Yandrisovitz 1990, 1993-1997, 1999-2001)
* BreakupBreakout: Knobbs, mainly due to the fact that Sags suffered a neck injury and had to retire.
* EightiesHair
* [[GarbageWrestler Garbage Wrestlers]]
* [[JerkAss Jerkasses]]: As heels and faces
* TheQuincyPunk