History Characters / WWE

Lists the various wrestlers throughout WWWF, WWF, and {{WWE}}. This includes the [[WWERaw Raw]] and [[WWESmackdown Smackdown]] brands, and the now defunct ECW brand. Please limit associated tropes to that wrestler's time in the WWE.

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Lists the various wrestlers throughout WWWF, WWF, and {{WWE}}. This includes the [[WWERaw Raw]], [[WWESmackdown Smackdown]], and new ECW brands. Please limit associated tropes to that wrestler's time in the WWE.

Lists the various wrestlers throughout WWWF, WWF, and {{WWE}}. This includes the RAW, [=SmackDown=], and new ECW brands. Please limit associated tropes to that wrestler's time in the WWE.

* [[Characters/WWEBrandExtension The Brand Extension Era]] (2002-Present)

* [[Characters/WWEDivas Female Wrestlers/Divas]]

* [[Characters/WWETagTeams Notable Tag Team Wrestlers]]

* [[Characters/WWEWorldWideWrestlingFederation The WWWF Era (1963-1984)]]
* [[Characters/WWERockNWrestling The Rock 'N' Wrestling Era (1984-1993)]]
* [[Characters/WWENewGeneration The New Generation Era (1993-1997)]]
* [[Characters/WWEAttitude The Attitude Era (1997-2001)]]
* [[Characters/WWEInVasion In Vasion (2001)]]
* [[Characters/WWEBrandExtension The Brand Extension Era (2002-Present)]]

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* Characters/WWWFEra (1963 - 1984)
* Characters/RockNWrestlingEra (1984 - 1993)

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[[folder: The [=McMahon=] Family]]

!!! [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_J._McMahon Vince McMahon, Sr.]] (Vincent James [=McMahon=])
!!! [[VinceMcMahon Vince McMahon, Jr.]] (Vincent Kennedy [=McMahon=], Jr.)
* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]]: Vince both exemplifies and is on the receiving end of this trope. In his "Mr. [=McMahon=]" persona, he acts the role. In RealLife, Vince has mentioned that his stepfather beat him, and if the man weren't dead already, he'd kill him himself.
* ActionSurvivor
* AGodAmI
* BadassGrandpa
* BigBad: More or less. If there was to be a single BigBad for the entire WWF/E's history, it would be him. He is subject to a HeelFaceTurn like anyone else, of course.
* [[AmericansHateTingle Canadian Wrestling Fans Hate Vincent Kennedy McMahon]]: So Much after the MontrealScrewjob.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulEvil as heel, LawfulGood as face.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* ControlFreak
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DaddyDNATest: The subject of an ongoing storyline as to which [=WWE=] superstar was Vince's illegitimate child. It was [[WallBanger revealed]] to be [[spoiler: Hornswoggle]].
** ...and then later un-revealed as it was determined that [[spoiler: Finlay]] was [[spoiler:Hornswoggle's]] father. At this point, this is an officially unsolved mystery.
* DirtyOldMan
* EvilOverlord
* ExecutiveMeddling
* FamilyBusiness: Wrestling is definitely in the blood. Vince is the third generation of [=McMahon=] wrestling promoters.
* HighSchoolSweetHearts: With Linda in RealLife.
* HumiliationConga: DX's favorite revenge on him. A CMOF is the parade of female ''and'' male Superstars who came out during the "[=McMahon=] family portrait" segment of the 15th anniversary show of Raw in response to having slept with Vince.
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* IWasQuiteALooker
* LargeHam: So, ''so'' much. Particularly his CatchPhrase, '''"YOU'RRRRRE FIIIIIIIIIIRRRRREDDD!!!!"'''
* ManipulativeBastard
* NoIndoorVoice
* OldShame: The hilariously bad performance of "Stand Back" at the 1986 Slammys. Most recently seen in the segment where TripleH and ShawnMichaels parodied Vince and Shane.
* [[RichBitch Rich Bastard]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem
* SmugSnake
* TedBaxter
* WrestlingFamily
!!! [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_mcmahon Linda McMahon]] (Linda Marie Edwards-[=McMahon=])
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Arguably the sanest and most cool-headed of the [=McMahons=], should you betray her (* cough* Vince and Stephanie), she will use all her power as CEO to make your life miserable.
** In fact, Jim Ross didn't even see it coming when Linda both fired and kicked him in the balls in late 2005.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She has a Bachelor's of Science degree in Education, after all, not to mention running the business side of [=WWE=] for nearly 25 years. In 2010, she's running for Senate.
* DaChief
* HighSchoolSweetHearts: With Vince in RealLife.
* LizLemonJob: Babysit a bunch of [[TheBrute muscular]], [[DisproportionateRetribution not-entirely]] [[BerserkButton level-headed]] wrestlers, keep the company in financial order, and make sure her [[BigScrewedUpFamily family]] ([[ExecutiveMeddling Vince]] [[DirtyOldMan in particular]]) doesn't screw it up. It really kind of [[DysfunctionJunction sucks to be Linda sometimes]].
* LongBusTrip: All the time. Entire years go by where no one remembers she even exists or is the [=CEO=]. The longest bus trip is probably just starting, considering her RealLife resignation from [=WWE=] to make a bid one of Connecticut's senate seats.
* MissingMom: Linda is very rarely seen on television.
* OnlySaneMan
* StraightMan
!!! [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_McMahon Shane McMahon]] (Shane Brandon [=McMahon=])
* BrotherSisterTeam: As owner of WCW during the Alliance storyline.
* CallingTheOldManOut: To Vince if they're not on the same side
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: When he's a heel.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Surprisingly, considering he's a [=McMahon=]. The guy gets cheers and chants even when he's just showing up for his father's off the air birthday celebration.
** Must have something to do with SiblingYinYang..
*** It has more to do with his willingness to be thrown through glass and jump off Titantrons.
*** Or ''Both''.
* FamilyBusiness
* GeniusBruiser
* HolyShitQuotient: Any time Shane O'Mac steps into a ring for a No DQ/Hardcore/Street Fight-type match, the HSQ goes through the roof. Like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbC_3fXTlnQ the time]] he dropped an elbow from the top of the ''fifty foot high'' Titantron.
* HotDad
* IHaveTheHighGround: Ranging from a simple turnbuckle to the top of the big-ass screen used as WWE's set, the Titantron. Jumping off high places is Shane's [[PlanetOfHats hat]].
* ImprovisedWeapon: Uses a trash can for his Coast-to-Coast Van Terminator.
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* LongBusTrip: Resigned from WWE to "pursue other interests" (possibly helping his mother out with her Senate campaign), his absence hasn't been explained on television.
* MoneySong
* OnlySaneMan: As a face, usually toward Vince.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: When he's a heel.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: When he's a heel.
* SiblingYinYang: Generally, Shane is the more level-headed businessman to Stephanie's spotlight-loving {{Yandere}}.
* [[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter Singapore Canes Are Even Better]]
* SpanishAnnouncersTable: His elbow-drop from the top turnbuckle onto a prone Test on the table has become synonymous with the Spanish Announcers Table bump, and one of the most infamous examples.
!!! [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_McMahon Stephanie McMahon]] (Stephanie Marie [=McMahon=]-Levesque)
* ActionSurvivor
* BecomingTheMask: She and Triple H fell in love with each other during their storyline.
* BoobsOfSteel: Not so much in her first few years on air, but she had breast augmentation surgery after hooking up with Triple H.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Played it in her 20's, but played it straight.
* BrotherSisterTeam: As owner of ECW during the Alliance storyline.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulEvil as heel, LawfulGood as face.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Towards Triple H during her Heel run in the early 2000s.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* ExecutiveMeddling
* FamilyBusiness
* [[MurderTheHypotenuse Fire The Hypotenuse]]: What she did to Chyna in 2001.
** To be fair, Chyna's ego had been getting way out of control at that point.
* GagBoobs: Went from being flat-as-a-board to a D-cup almost over night. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Hilariously]] lampshaded by Chris Jericho when she got her first boob job (she's had at least two more since then).
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* HotMom
* LargeHam
* RichBitch
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem
* SiblingYinYang: Stephanie likes the spotlight, Shane plays it cooler.
* SmugSnake
* {{Yandere}}: If she's a Heel
!!! TripleH (Paul Levesque)
* AlliterativeName: His full name is Hunter Hearst Helmsley, hence the nickname "Triple H".
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard: Although he shaved it a few times in the past.
* BadassLonghair
* BecomingTheMask: He and Stephanie fell in love with each other during their storyline.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: As a heel.
* BloodBrothers: With the Kliq, but especially Shawn Michaels. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge God help you]] if you mess with Shawn Michaels and Triple H is around to witness it.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: One of the most infamous examples in wrestling history, he's one of the four wrestlers who publicly said buh-bye to {{Kayfabe}} with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kliq#Curtain_Call:_The_MSG_Incident Curtain Call]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[{{Motorhead}} "ITS TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!]] [[EvilLaugh RAHEHEHE!]]"
* {{Delinquents}}: DX ''loves'' this trope, mainly because it has a basis in Shawn and Hunter's RealLife antics.
* DemBones and CreepyCoolCrosses: His logos and merchandises have these, especially during his "King Of Kings" gimmick.
* {{Determinator}}: The man wrestled through a full quad tear. ''Twice''.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Half the TropeNamer. Seriously, do ''not'' call him Paul.
* DracoInLeatherPants
* DropTheHammer: His trademark WeaponOfChoice.
* EvilIsCool
* EvilOverlord: When he's the top heel.
* ExecutiveMeddling
* FanNickname
** Triple Haitch (William Regal's pronunciation of the name).
** The Nose of Noses, in reference to one of his in-canon nicknames, "The King of Kings", and his rather prominent schnozzola.
** His FinishingMove, the Pedigree, is called "The Burial" [[ExecutiveMeddling for certain reasons]].
* FourthWallObserver
* FunWithAcronyms
* GeniusBruiser
* GenreSavvy: All the time. Especially the time he gave an entire lesson/LampshadeHanging on how to properly cut a promo and how the heel has to wait until the face has their back to the ramp before they jump him.
* GreenEyedMonster
* GodModeSue
** VillainSue: Especially during his 2002-2005 heel runs.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Not that we don't wonder about the "heterosexual" tag, but Triple H and Shawn Michaels are, in the words of Jim Ross, "closer than a lot of brothers" in RealLife as well as in-character.
** He also calls Shawn the best wrestler he's ''ever'' faced in his "I Believe" promo on the March 1st, 2010 Raw.
* HotDad
* HoYay: Has boatloads of it with Shawn Michaels, with or without DX, and once famously quipped "I'm bi- a lot of things. Lingual isn't one of them." Subverts it with Randy Orton and Edge - "you want to do ''what'' to my ass?"
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]: [[InternetBackdraft Debated]]. While he does have legit talent, [[FanHater haters]] doubt him for using backstage politics to get, and remain, in the spotlight.
* InSeriesNickname: "The Game," "King of Kings," or most awesomely of all, "[[GeniusBruiser The Cerebral Assassin]]."
* LargeHam
* LawfulEvil: Pretty much regardless of {{Face}} or {{Heel}} status. To quote the man himself, "I am ''not'' a good person. I have never ''been'' a good person!"
** ChaoticNeutral in DX.
* LoveableRogue: As part of DX.
* [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent]] and ManipulativeBastard
* {{Nakama}}: The Kliq. Mess with one, and the rest will make your life a living hell.
* NeverLiveItDown: The typical SmartMark reaction towards a Triple H win is "OMG TRIPPPLE H BERRIED HIM, LULZ!"
* NoFourthWall: All the freaking time.
** ''It's like, 11:08, guys, we're off the air!''
* PrecisionFStrike
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: First the Kliq and then the [=McMahons=].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: During the [=McMahon=]-Helmsley Era. Also many feel he does this is RealLife.
* SharpDressedMan: When he was with Evolution. Any other time, he looks like he lives in jeans and tee shirts.
* SmugSnake
* SpotlightStealingSquad
* TedBaxter: During his 2003 fueds with {{Goldberg}} and ScottSteiner.
* UnderwearOfPower: He became a 13 time World Champion when he started wearing one.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Heel or face, only Hunter's allowed to kick Shawn Michaels's ass and mock his receding hairline.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two Words]]: D-Generation X.
* {{Wallbanger}}: The infamous Katie Vick arc, which he was reported to have loved at the time but now claims that he hated.
* WeaponOfChoice: [[DropTheHammer The Sledgehammer]].
* XanatosGambit: One of the masters of it. First he had to read Orton well enough to know he wouldn't be willing to fight him in a sledgehammer vs. sledgehammer fight and would want both of them to drop their weapons. Then he had to be completely sure that Orton wouldn't ambush him right then and there. [[CrazyPrepared And then he had to be completely sure that no one would notice the spare sticking out in his jacket.]]
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[[folder: New Generation Era (1993 - 1997)]]
!!! [[BretHart Bret "Hitman" Hart]] (Bret Sergeant Hart)
* TheAce
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To a Heel Owen Hart.
* [[AmericansHateTingle Americans Are Ambivalent Over Bret Hart]]: Even as a face Bret was never as popular as his predecessors.
* BadassFamily
* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Canadian Wrestling Fans Love Bret Hart]]: Oh so much, It is the reason why the title was given to him instead of Tito Santana.
* CoolShades
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Him and Shawn Michaels burying the hatchet over the MontrealScrewjob after ''twelve years'' and embracing.
* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Younger Brother]]: Owen Hart
* FiveMovesOfDoom
* HitmanWithAHeart ([[IncrediblyLamePun And a Hart]] too.)
* HoistByHisOwnPetard or [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By Vince/Shawn/Earl Hebner]]: Depending on which side of the [[InternetBackdraft "debate"]] you're on.
* HotDad
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* LawfulGood: Until his FaceHeelTurn, when he is NeutralEvil. Currently, he's NeutralGood.
* RealMenWearPink
!!! ShawnMichaels (Michael Shawn Hickenbottom)
* TheAce
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Surprisingly, it gets worse as he gets older. He was focused - if juvenily-focused - when he was younger. In the 2006 revival of DX, he was lucky if he could go an entire promo or 3-minute segment without either getting distracted or running around like a three-year-old.
* [[{{Bishounen}} Biseinen]]
* BloodBrothers: The entire Kliq, but especially Triple H.
* BookEnds: [[TearJerker ''Ladies and gentlemen, the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, has left the building.'']]
* BreakupBreakout: Famously, from The Rockers, which makes Marty Jannetty his [[{{Garfunkel}} Garfunkel]].
** To stress how important the Rockers' breakup was, not only has his [[FaceHeelTurn superkick to Marty Janetty]] become an iconic image, Marty Janetty himself has become synonymous with [[{{Garfunkel}} the less-talented person of a broken-up partnership]].
** In fact, this is such a huge example, the originally planned name for BreakupBreakout was "The Janetty".
* BreakingTheFourthWall: One of the most infamous examples in wrestling history, he's one of the four wrestlers who publicly said buh-bye to {{Kayfabe}} with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kliq#Curtain_Call:_The_MSG_Incident Curtain Call]].
* [[AmericansHateTingle Canadian Wrestling Fans Hate Shawn Michaels]]: So, so much after the MontrealScrewjob. But around 2006, things started to look better.
** Shawn even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] it in an off-the-air promo the night he was finally cheered in Montreal (as a part of uber-face tag team DX): ''"And because, for one night, Montreal forgave me . . ."''
* {{Casanova}}
* ChaoticNeutral
* ChivalrousPervert
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Lampshaded many, many times during his feuds with Triple H, going back to [[BreakupBreakout his superkick of Marty Janetty]], to Diesel, to Austin, to John Cena, etc.
* CoolOldGuy
* CoolHat: His cowboy hats during his entrance after 2005.
* CreepyCoolCrosses: His merchandise starting from his 2002 return.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: It would be shorter to list wrestling-related CMOA's that Shawn Michaels ''isn't'' a part of, especially at Wrestlemania.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Him and Bret Hart burying the hatchet over the MontrealScrewjob after ''twelve years'' and embracing.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: During his entrance since returning in 2002.
* {{Delinquents}}: DX ''loves'' this trope. Also had elements of it in RealLife, since the DX concept was based off Michaels' and Triple H's behind the scenes friendship and juvenile sense of humor.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune
* DracoInLeatherPants
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: [[strike:In his early career]] Always. Especially with the chaps.
* EvilForeigner: To the Canadians.
* GimmickMatches: He participated in many firsts, most notably the first Ladder Match (with Razor Ramon at Wrestlemania 10) and the first Hell in a Cell (with the Undertaker at In Your House '97).
* HandsomeLech
* HeroicBSOD: After Triple H's [[GameBreakingInjury second quad tear]] at New Year's Revolution '07, Shawn is getting beat down by Rated-RKO (Randy Orton and Edge), who are trash-talking DX while they do it. Shawn rolls out the ring, picks up Hunter's [[WeaponOfChoice sledgehammer]] and stares at it for a good minute or two. Cue the RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
** He's also had a series of them in 2010, from losing the Royal Rumble onwards.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Not that we don't wonder about the "heterosexual" tag, but Triple H and Shawn Michaels are, in the words of Jim Ross, "closer than a lot of brothers" in RealLife as well as in-character.
** In his book, Shawn calls Hunter "one of the best men I've ever known" and admits he wouldn't have survived 1996-2000 without Hunter.
* HolyShitQuotient
* HotDad
* HoYay: Triple H (including the time Shawn [[FanService kissed him]] on live television), Chris Jericho, John Cena, Marty Janetty, even some FoeYay with Bret Hart.
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]] (One of his {{Red Baron}}s in fact.)
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Doesn't outright break it as much as Triple H, but he has his moments.
** ''"Man, there's something familiar about that kid but I can't quite put my finger on it!"'' (Taps Triple H's shoulder)
* LoveableRogue
* LoveableSexManiac
* MagnificentBastard: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODA4lyd7LSg "Who's your Daddy, Montreal?"]]
* MilitaryBrat
* {{Nakama}}: The Kliq. Mess with one, and the rest will make your life a living hell.
* NeverLiveItDown: Go ahead, ask a Canadian their opinion on Shawn Michaels. We'll wait until the "YOU SCREWED BRET" chants die down.
* NiceHat: Shawn wears a cowboy as part of his entrance attire nowadays.
* PermaStubble (Late in his career.)
* RedBaron: Heart Break Kid, HBK, The Showstopper, The Main Event, The Icon, Mr. Wrestlemania
* SpotlightStealingSquad: The Kliq and DX kind of live for this trope.
* TearJerker: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elBGHdvlYgk His original retirement]], his final match against TheUndertaker, and his farewell on the following Raw.
** Not to mention [[RicFlair "I'm sorry. I love you."]]
* TedBaxter
* TheFundamentalist: In real life, from 2001-present. Tones it down for his career, though there have been many, many [[LampshadeHanging mentions]] of his religion by Triple H.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Doesn't pick on Hunter as much as Hunter picks on him, but he has his moments of mockery and asskicking.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two words]]: D-Generation X.
!!! TheUndertaker (Mark William Calaway)
* TheAce
* AGodAmI (During his Ministry days)
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of Death. But then, maybe it's all mind games...
* BackFromTheDead (Several Times)
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BadassBiker: During his Big Evil persona, to the point of riding a giant freaking Harley-Davidson to the ring.
* BadassLongcoat
* BadassLonghair
* BlackCloak: During the Ministry days.
* CainAndAbel: With [[MeaningfulName Kane]].
* CoolOldGuy
* CoolShades: During his Big Evil persona.
* CreepyCoolCrosses: One of his logos during the Ministry days. He also uses it to "[[CrucifiedHeroShot crucify]]" his opponents for his "sacrifice".
* DarkMessiah: During the Ministry/Corporate Ministry/Higher Power days.
* DarkIsNotEvil: No matter if he's a face or a heel.
* DeadManWalking: Literally. Also one of his [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]]
* DeathIsCheap: ''Seriously''.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Averted ''hard'', with his unprecedented 18-0 winning streak at ''{{Wrestlemania}}''. Every year, someone swears they're going to end the streak. Every year, the Undertaker stays undefeated.
* DemBones: Interestingly, he had them in his logos and merchandise when he was in his Big Evil persona.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Why [[HeelFaceTurn WWE decided to turn him face]] back in 1991.
* DyeHard: Naturally a redhead.
* EnsembleDarkhorse
* EpicFlail: His [[WeaponOfChoice Biker chain]] during his Big Evil persona.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies
* EvilOverlord: During the Ministry days.
* FingerlessGloves
* ForDoomTheBellTolls
* GeniusBruiser
* TheGiant
* GimmickMatches: He innovated plenty of these, but he's best known for the Hell in a Cell, Casket, and Buried Alive matches.
* TheGrimReaper: All gimmicks except his Big Evil persona.
* HesJustHiding
* HolyShitQuotient: Just try and keep your jaw off the floor when Taker does his over the top rope suicide plancha. The man can ''fly''.
* HotDad
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* LightningBruiser
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* NiceHat: A bowler in during his early years, and a wide-brimmed hat after his 2004 "revival."
* NightmareFuel: All gimmicks except his Big Evil persona.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat
* NoSell: What he does after the PunchPunchPunchUhOh before the OhCrap.
* ObviouslyEvil
* OminousFog
* OurZombiesAreDifferent
* OutOfTheInferno
* PaleSkinnedBrunette
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: His opponent has just hit an amazing move, knocking the Undertaker down and supposedly out cold, and now he's celebrating. Just don't turn around, because [[OhCrap Taker's just sat up]].
* RomanceOnTheSet: Had been seeing Michelle [=McCool=] for several years, before finally getting married.
* ShockAndAwe: All gimmicks except his Big Evil persona.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: [[{{Botchamania}} "Some people talk too much!"]]
* TrueNeutral: With slight shades of ChaoticNeutral
* UglyGuyHotWife: Recently got remarried to Michelle [=McCool=]; subverted in his previous marriage to Sara Callaway.
** YMMV, he was pretty hot when [[IWasQuiteALooker he was younger]]. At least the YaoiFangirls think so.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome
!!! {{Yokozuna}} (Rodney Agatupu Anoa'i)
* BadassFamily
* EvilForeigner (Even though he was [[strike:Hawaiian]] Samoan)
* FakeNationality: Subverted as even though his gimmick was that of a sumo wrestler that trained in Japan and carried their flag, he was never billed as being from anywhere other than Polynesian Islands.
** Played straight later in his career when he was billed from Japan. The "Polynesian Islands" thing only lasted about a year or so.
* GeniusBruiser
* TheGiant (In the girth department)
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* MeaningfulName: Yokozuna is the highest title in sumo wrestling.
!!! [[KevinNash Diesel]] (Kevin Scott Nash)
* BadassBeard
* TheBigGuy (Face)
* BodyguardBetrayal: Inverted, as HBK turned on him for overshadowing him. Diesel would eventually return the favor in March 1996.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: One of the most infamous examples in wrestling history, he's one of the four wrestlers who publicly said buh-bye to {{Kayfabe}} with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kliq#Curtain_Call:_The_MSG_Incident Curtain Call]].
* TheBrute: When he's a Heel.
* GeniusBruiser
* TheGiant
* HeterosexualLifePartners (and HoYay): He and Scott Hall are some of wrestling's longest running HLP's. There have been quite a number of eyebrows raised by the comment Kevin made that he'd have no problem doing a gay angle if it was with Scott.
* HotDad
* {{Nakama}}: The Kliq. Mess with one, and the rest will make your life a living hell.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Kevin Nash is a walking, talking SSS. the nWo, the Wolfpac, the Main Event Mafia...
* TallDarkAndSnarky: And when he's blond, Tall, Blond, and Snarky.
* TedBaxter
* TrueNeutral
!!! [[SidEudy Sid]] (Sidney Raymond "Sid" Eudy)
* AlliterativeName (Sycho Sid)
* AxCrazy
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* BodyguardBetrayal
* TheBrute
* MeaningfulTitles: His rotating surnames of "Vicious" and "Justice", and his occasional prefix of "Sycho", depending on heel/face status.
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! LexLuger (Lawrence Wendell Pfohl)
* AllAmericanFace
* AlliterativeName
* TheBigGuy
* CaptainErsatz: Of Hulk Hogan
* TheFightingNarcissist: As "The Narcissist" until after the 1993 King of the Ring.
* ReplacementScrappy: After Hulk Hogan left, Luger was plugged right into Hogan's AllAmericanFace gimmick, his main event spot, and even his feud with Yokozuna. The fans didn't take it well.
* UnderwearOfPower
* [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Wearing A Flag As A Wrestling Attire]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was originally supposed to defeat Yokozuna for the World title in the first round at WrestleMania X, and then lose it to Bret Hart in the main event. However, the finish was leaked by the Post, so instead he was squashed by Yokozuna, who went on to lose to Hart.
!!! [[ScottHall Razor Ramon]] (Scott Oliver Hall)
* AlliterativeName
* BreakingTheFourthWall: One of the most infamous examples in wrestling history, he's one of the four wrestlers who publicly said buh-bye to {{Kayfabe}} with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kliq#Curtain_Call:_The_MSG_Incident Curtain Call]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Used to flip his shit when someone broke his ''toothpick''.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Just ask Goldust.
* FakeNationality: Billed from Cuba. He's not.
* HeterosexualLifePartners (and HoYay): With Kevin Nash, for something like ''seventeen years''.
* {{Nakama}}: The Kliq. Mess with one, and the rest will make your life a living hell.
* OffTheWagon: Perpetually. His battles with alcohol (and various other controlled substances) are well known.
* OralFixationFixation: Toothpicks
* PermaStubble
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* SpotlightStealingSquad
* TedBaxter
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! BamBamBigelow (Scott Charles Bigelow)
* {{Acrofatic}}: ''Seriously''. Name another big man who could not only splash off the top, but ''moonsault''.
** Vader?
* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy
* BloodKnight
* TheBrute
* BountyHunter: He once was in RealLife.
* GeniusBruiser
* HolyShitQuotient
* HotBlooded
* IHaveTheHighGround
* LargeHam
* LightningBruiser
!!! OwenHart (Owen James Hart)
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Bret if he's a Heel
* BadassFamily
* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Canadian Wrestling Fans Love Owen Hart]]: As for all Harts.
* CoolMask: As the Blue Blazer
* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Younger Brother]]: To Bret and his other older siblings...
* DeathFromAbove: Literally..
* DracoInLeatherPants: He often got louder cheers then his opponents especially during his 1994 run as the top heel.
* DrivenToVillainy: His one-sided feud with DX eventually drove him to join the heel group [[PowerStable The Nation]]. Lampshaded in his theme music:
-->"I tried to be a nice guy..." "I was a victim! I snapped!"
* FatalMethodActing: Died during a PPV.
* GreenEyedMonster: To Bret.
* HotDad
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Considering what he's been through in his feud with DX, [[FaceHeelTurn turning Heel]] on Ken Shamrock and joining The Nation could be seen as this.
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* IsntItSad: Not just his death, but the CharacterDerailment he had before it.
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* LightningBruiser
* RealMenWearPink
* TooCoolToLive
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was supposed to win the WWF Title in 1994, but the McMahons decided to put on Diesel. After his death, the WWF actually released promotional shots of him with the championship belt.
!!! British Bulldog (David "Davey" Boy Smith)
* AlliterativeName
* TheBigGuy (Face)
* BoisterousBruiser
* TheBrute (Heel)
* DemotedToExtra: During his final stints in both WCW and WWF.
* EvilBrit (If he's a Heel)
* GeniusBruiser
* HotDad
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* TooCoolToLive
* UnderwearOfPower: And by extension, [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Wearing A Flag As A Wrestling Attire]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was supposed to retain the European Title against Shawn Michaels in England. He even publicly dedicated the match to his dying sister. Instead, Shawn [[ExecutiveMeddling vetoed]] that, in favor of him beating Smith for the European championship.
!!! Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart (James Henry "Jim" Neidhart)
* BoisterousBruiser
* DemotedToExtra: During his stint in WCW.
* EvilLaugh
* GeniusBruiser
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* RealMenWearPink
* [[UglyGuysHotDaughter Tough-Looking Guy With Hot Daughter]]: In RealLife
!!! Ahmed Johnson (Anthony Norris)
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy (Face)
* BoisterousBruiser
* TheBrute (Heel)
* GeniusBruiser
* PutOnABus: Because he kept getting injured since August 1996 and couldn't stay healthy.
* SuplexFinisher
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! Mr. Perfect (Curtis Michael "Curt" Hennig)
* BlondGuysAreEvil (Heel)
* CallingYourAttacks: "Now, you're going to see a Perfect-Plex!"
* HotDad
* JerkAss (Heel)
* JerkJock (Heel)
* MassiveMultiplayerScam: With Triple H against Marc Mero.
* OralFixationFixation: Gum
* TedBaxter
* TooCoolToLive
!!! The Big Boss Man (Raymond Walter "Ray" Traylor, Jr.)
* CompleteMonster: Handcuffing Hulk Hogan to a guardrail and beating him down repeatedly with his nightsick on the Brother Love Show; killing Al Snow's dog and then feeding it to him; tormenting the Big Show over the [[{{Kayfabe}} death]] of his father.
* CoolShades
* FoeYay: With Hulk Hogan.
* ForTheEvulz: What both of his acts of {{Complete Monster}}dom were done for.
* HoYay: With Akeem the African Dream, formerly known as the One Man Gang.
* LawfulEvil
* PoliceBrutality (Heel)
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: He was a former [[{{Prison}} Prison Guard]].
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling police officer.
* XPacHeat: It was originally Bossman Heat, but was changed [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead out of respect for the Ray Traylor the man after he passed]].
!!! Thurman "Sparky" Plugg/Bob "Hardcore" Holly (Robert "Bob" Howard)
* DrillSergeantNasty: On the second season of ToughEnough.
* FanNickname: Bobcore Holly
* GroinAttack: As Hardcore Holly.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Holly has a reputation for working stiff in matches and sandbagging his opponents, this worked out until he decided to sandbag [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Brock Lesnar]] during a powerbomb, the result? Holly gets a broken neck.
* JerkAss: Both Face and Heel.
* TrueNeutrala: As Hardcore Holly.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling race car driver (As Sparky Plugg)
!!! Rick "The Model" Martel (Richard Vigneault)
* CanadaEh
* CoolShades
* TheFightingNarcissist
* FoeYay: With Tito Santana and Shawn Michaels.
* GorgeousGeorge
* RealMenWearPink
* ImprobableWeaponUser: His cologne called "Arrogance" which caused TemporaryBlindness.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was planned to have one last run in the WWF as part of a tag-team called "The Super Models" with Don Callis (later known as "The Jackyl", and then "Cyrus the Virus" in ECW), which would have resulted in Martel turning face for the first time since WrestleMania V, but it never panned out.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: "[[LampshadeHanging Yes, I am a Model]]"
!!! Papa Shango/Kama/The Godfather (Charles Wright)
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Pimpin ain't easy!" (As The Godfather)
* CulturePolice: When The Godfather did a FaceHeelTurn and joined Right To Censor, becoming The Goodfather
* FacialMarkings (As Papa Shango)
* HollywoodVoodoo (As Papa Shango)
* NiceHat (Both)
* NightmareFuel (As Papa Shango)
* PimpDuds (As The Godfather)
* PitGirls: The Godfather's "Hos", subverted by "The Hardcore Ho", who won the WWF Hardcore title and "The Head Ho", who would later become Victoria/[[{{TNA}} Tara]].
* PrimalFear (As Papa Shango)
* ReligionIsMagic (As Papa Shango)
* TheScrappy: Shango is considered one of the all-time worst anythings related to wrestling.
* SimpleStaff: The Godfather's pimp cane.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling pimp (The Godfather)
!!! Goldust (Dustin Patrick Runnels)
* AmbiguouslyGay
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of movies when the Goldust gimmick started.
* AwardBaitSong
* [[TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX The Artist Formally Known As Goldust]]: In 1998
* FacialMarkings
* FashionVictimVillain: As The Artist Formally Known As Goldust.
* GenreSavvy: Of Pro-Wrestling and Film
* GorgeousGeorge
* GroinAttack: "Shattered Dreams"
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Him and Yoshi Tatsu are superpals.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor / RealLifeWritesThePlot: Dustin got tired of being Goldust at one point and tried to be a born-again Christain wrestler. The gimmick sadly didn't take, in part [[ScrewedByTheNetwork because the WWE]] [[TheyJustDidntCare didn't care]] and in part because it was just him in a t-shirt and blue jeans just preaching before matches. Even when Dustin went to WCW and TNA, he never (or they never let him) tried the gimmick again.
* TourettesShitcockSyndrome: After getting "[[{{Kayfabe}} electrocuted]]", thankfully it died down and went away permanitly later on.
* WrestlingFamily: Son to "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, older brother to Cody Rhodes (though [[UnrelatedBrothers this isn't ever acknowledged]]) and ex-husband to Terri Runnels/Marlena.
!!! Doink The Clown (Matt Osborne, Steve Keirn, Steve Lombardi, Dusty Wolfe, John Maloof, Ray Liccachelli, Jeff Jarrett, Chris Irvine, Nick Dinsmore)
* CommutingOnABus: Has came back a couple times after his best run in the company was over.
* CostumeCopycat: Including Dink, four of them.
* FacialMarkings
* LaughablyEvil: As a {{Heel}}
* LegacyCharacter: The UrExample of ProfessionalWrestling.
* LoveItOrHateIt: Mainly as a Heel, as a {{Face}}, he was more hated than loved.
* MonsterClown
* TheOtherDarrin: Have you seen all the names in the parentheses?
* PsychoSidekick: Dink
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: His theme song was "Entry of the Gladiators" (you know that song they use for circuses?)
** At least as a face. As a heel, it started with the first few notes, then [[NightmareFuel shifted into a dirge with a high-pitched evil laugh in the background]].
* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They Changed Him Now He Sucks]]: His HeelFaceTurn
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]
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[[folder: Attitude Era (1997 - 2001)]]
!!! StoneColdSteveAustin (Steven Austin FKA Steven James Anderson and Steve James Williams)
* TheAlcoholic
* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Listen to how loud the crowd pops any time his entrance plays.
* AntiHero
* AxCrazy
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BadassDriver
* BaldOfAwesome
* BestBeerEver
* BottleFairy: A Male example.
* CatchPhrase: Perhaps the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome most awesome line in Wrestling history]]! You can talk about your Psalms, talk about your John 3:16... [[RuleOfCool Austin 3:16 says]] ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome I Just Whupped Your Ass]]!''
* [[BecauseISaidSo 'Cause Stone Cold Said So!]]
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralEvil --> ChaoticNeutral
* {{Delinquents}}
* DemBones: His merchandises and logo have these.
* {{Determinator}}: Who can forget his match with Bret Hart at WM 13, when he lost consciousness, blood running down his face, rather than submit to the Sharpshooter?
* DracoInLeatherPants
* DrivesLikeCrazy: If you see him driving trucks, pickups, [=ATV=]s, bulldozers, or anything at all, JUST. RUN. AWAY.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: In RealLife, too. He asked Vince [=McMahon=] in early 1996 if he could get more "Stone Cold" merchandise on the shelves, and Vince told him it would never happen, he'd never outsell Marc Mero. Barely two weeks later, after the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Austin 3:16" promo]]? Austin's merchandise was outselling Mero's ''250 to 1''.
* FlippingTheBird: The Stone Cold Salute
* HotBlooded
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* LoveableRogue
* PrecisionFStrike
* ThirdPersonPerson: "Austin 3:16 says I just whupped your ass!" and "And that's the bottom line, [[BecauseISaidSo 'cause Stone Cold says so]]..!"
* UnderwearOfPower
* [[BigWhat WHAT!?]]
!!! [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]] (Dwayne Douglas Johnson)
* BadassFamily
* ButNotTooForeign: He is of Samoan and Canadian heritage born in the [=USA=].
* CharacterAlignment:
** LawfulGood as Rocky Maivia.
** NeutralEvil after joining the Nation.
** ChaoticNeutral post Corporation.
** ChaoticGood starting in 2000.
** TrueNeutral around 2001.
** NeutralEvil during 2003 FaceHeelTurn.
** NeutralGood during his final WWE run in 2004.
* CoolShades
* CovertPervert
* [[Funny/ProfessionalWrestling Crowning Moment of Funny]]: If the Rock is on your television screen, it's guaranteed to contain at least one, if not several, of these.
* {{Determinator}}
* DracoInLeatherPants
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* FanNickname: The Dwayne, since he left the WWE to pursue a full-time acting career.
* FascinatingEyeBrow: Pretty much the incarnation of the trope.
* HandsomeLech: Especially towards Lillian.
* HotDad
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* {{Keet}}: He electrifies scenes with just his ''mere presence''.
* LeastCommonSkinTone
* MemeticMutation: The Rock could probably make an entire 5 minute-long promo out of JUST his [[CatchPhrase Catch Phrases]].
* PrecisionFStrike
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: One of, if not, ''the'' most impressive example.
* RockBottom: His FinishingMove.
* SchmuckBait: "What's your name?" "Jobber Num-" "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!"
* TheStarscream: To Farooq during the Nation era.
* SpiritBomb: ''[[FinishingMove The People's Elbow]]'' is used this way according to fans. Huh!?
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* ThirdPersonPerson: So, so much.
* TedBaxter
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! MickFoley (Michael Francis Foley)
* AdultChild: Mankind
* AlterEgoActing: The "Three Faces of Foley".
* AscendedFanboy: In RealLife.
* AxCrazy: Mankind and Cactus Jack.
* {{Badass}}: Cactus Jack.
* BadassAdorable: Mankind.
* BadassBeard
* BatterUp: Cactus Jack's WeaponOfChoice.
* CatchPhrase: "Have a nice day." (as Mankind) "Ow! Have mercy!" (as Dude Love), and "Bang Bang!" (as Cactus Jack)
* CharacterAlignment: Cactus Jack (ChaoticNeutral), Dude Love (NeutralEvil) and Mankind (ChaoticEvil --> ChaoticNeutral --> ChaoticGood)
* CheapHeat: Famous for it, as well as {{Lampshading}} when he uses the inverse Cheap Pops.
* ChivalrousPervert (Dude Love)
* CloudCuckooLander (Mankind)
* CombatPragmist
* CoolMask (Mankind)
* CoolShades (Dude Love)
* {{Delinquents}} (Cactus Jack)
* GarbageWrestler: And a Legend at that!
* GeniusBruiser: He's a writer, but he can [[CombatPragmist definitely]] kick ass.
* HolyShitQuotient
* ICallItVera: Mankind uses a sock puppet named "Mr. Socko." Cactus Jack uses a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that he calls "Barbie".
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Mankind uses a ''Dirty sock'' as a weapon.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold (Cactus Jack)
* KillItWithFire: Cactus Jack often lights Barbie on fire, for that extra punch.
* LoveableRogue (Cactus Jack)
* LoveableSexManiac (Dude Love)
* MadeOfIron: Seriously, watch the Hell In A Cell match between him and the Undertaker; [[HolyShitQuotient Holy...]]
* NewAgeRetroHippie (Dude Love)
* PsychopathicManchild (Mankind)
* SplitPersonality
** SplitPersonalityMerge: When he's fighting as himself.
* ToothyIssue
* UglyCute
* {{Yangire}} (Mankind)
!!! Wrestler/{{Kane}} (Glenn Thomas Jacobs)
* AxCrazy
* BaldOfEvil
* BoisterousBruiser: After losing the mask.
* CainAndAbel: With Undertaker.
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticEvil.
* CharacterDerailment: After removing his mask, he goes on plenty of these.
* CompleteMonster
* CoolMask (Discards it)
* CrossingTheLineTwice: Fought TheUndertaker at {{Wrestlemania}} twice and lost both times.
* [[spoiler: DepravedDentist: First came to the WWE as the wrestling dentist, Issac Yankem DDS.]]
* DisContinuity: Katie Vick? Who's Katie Vick?
** Averted. They acknowledged it a couple years ago when Kane and Triple H were on the same team with Kane calling Trips out on it. His response? "My bad."
* DracoInLeatherPants
* EvilLaugh
* GeniusBruiser: Won a special WWF episode of ''The Weakest Link''.
** Also a [[BunnyEarsLawyer Bunny Ears Teacher]].
* TheGiant
* {{Hellfire}}
* HeroicSociopath
* HesJustHiding (Several Times already)
* IsntItSad
* KillItWithFire: He attempted to do this to Jim Ross back in 2003.
** Are you kidding? It's part of his entrance pyro that the four turnbuckles go up in 20-foot-high flames.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority
* MagnificentBastard: Revealed himself to be this after using both [[VitriolicBestBuds the feuds and times he teamed up]] with TheUndertaker for over a decade as a way to exploit his weaknesses and then playing the role of the avenging brother in 2010 all the way to the World Heavyweight Championship.
* MismatchedEyes
* NameOfCain
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast (Well... [[BadassDecay Used to be...]])
* NightmareFuel
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat
* [[spoiler: TheOtherDarrin: As Diesel II.]]
* OurDemonsAreDifferent
* OutOfTheInferno
* PlayingWithFire
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* [[strike:ThirteenIsUnlucky]] Thirteen Is Lucky: Thirteen years later after his debut as Kane, He not only wins the Money in the bank match, but he also wins the World Heavyweight Championship and defeats the Undertaker.
* TokenEvilTeammate: So many times.
** His subversion of this in a 2002 tag-team match with [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]] and HulkHogan was a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* TheVoiceless: In his early career.
* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks He Changed, Now He Sucks]]: Many fans site the loss of Kane's mask as the start of his BadAssDecay, forgetting that the removal of the mask was part of reviving the monster in Kane.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsIsntSymbolic: 13 years later he finally gets the big win over TheUndertaker.
!!! TheBigShow (Paul Randall Wight Jr.)
* BadassBeard
* BadassLonghair: Until it was shaved off by Kurt Angle in late 2004.
* BaldOfAwesome / BaldOfEvil: Currently. It varies depending on his face / heel status.
* BiggerIsBetter
* TheBigGuy (Face)
* BoisterousBruiser
* TheBrute (Heel)
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood if he's face, NeutralEvil if he's heel and TrueNeutral if he's a tweener.
* DeathFromAbove: Dear God do NOT let him do a missile dropkick.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Half the TropeNamer. Seriously, do ''not'' call him Paul.
* DumbMuscle: Sometimes, depending on the booking.
* GeniusBruiser: If he wants to be.
* GentleGiant: As a Face.
* TheGiant: Literally. In fact, it ''was'' what they called him in {{WCW}}.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* HeroicBastard: Part of his past storylines.
* LightningBruiser: During his days in WCW.
* MightyGlacier
!!! KurtAngle (Kurt Steven Angle)
* TheAce: ''Oh it's true''! It's ''damn'' true!
* AllAmericanFace: Played straight when he's a face; inverted when he's a heel, as he becomes the personification of American arrogance.
* BaldOfAwesome / BaldOfEvil: Depending on his face / heel status starting in 2002.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulEvil <--> LawfulGood --> NeutralGood
* {{Determinator}} (If he's a Face)
* DracoInLeatherPants: Thanks to his legit talent.
* DirtyCoward (If he's a Heel)
* HotDad
* JerkJock (Heel)
* TheMario
* SmallNameBigEgo: After his defection to {{TNA}}
* SuplexFinisher
* TedBaxter
* UnstoppableRage: His finisher, the Ankle Lock, pretty much consists of Angle screaming his head off and legitimately trying to break someone's ankle. Frequently, he has to be pulled off his defeated opponent when the match is over.
** [[Memes/{{ProfessionalWrestling}} TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP! TAP! TAP! TAP!]]
* [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Wearing A Flag As A Wrestling Attire]]
* YouSuck: The audience loves chanting this during his entrance.
!!! ChrisJericho (Christopher Keith Irvine)
* [[AGodAmI A Saint Am I]]: Also, [[TheMessiah A Savior Am I]]
* [[{{Bishounen}} Biseinen]]
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralEvil <--> NeutralGood (Depends on his heel / face status)
* CrucifiedHeroShot: During his entrance.
* DracoInLeatherPants
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* ImportantHaircut: Maybe just as important as his UnderwearOfPower...
* TheHero: Of his RealLife FiveManBand Fozzy
* HotDad
* JerkAss (Heel)
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold (Face)
* LargeHam
* MemeticMutation: Introduced the term "assclown" to the common lexicon.
** [[OverlyLongGag #148, Armbar!]]
* TheMessiah
* NotSoHarmless: He may be a petulant, whiny JerkAss, but as he likes to remind us, he ''is'' the guy who beat both The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin for the Undisputed Championship on the same night.
* OverlyLongGag: Also, a CrowningMomentOfFunny - "#1, Armdrag! #2, [=ArmBar=]! #3, The Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Grendunzel! #4, Armbar!..."
** Along with "The Rock, Stone Cold, The Undertaker (who I've beaten [[LargeHam]] TWICE [[Beat]] Villano 1, Villano 2....Kevin Nash..."
* SmugSnake (If he's Heel)
* TedBaxter
* TheLongList: His 1004 holds.
* UnderwearOfPower: Heck, he won the World Heavyweight title three more times, broke his record of winning the most Intercontinental title (for the ''9th'' time), became a Unified tag team champion and won the 2008 Superstar of the Year when he started wearing one!
!!! ChrisBenoit (Christopher Michael Benoit)
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulEvil <--> LawfulGood: Depends on his heel / face status.
* {{Determinator}}: As a {{face}}, he was the guy that never gives up and pushes himself beyond all limits. As a {{heel}}, he was the pitbull that clamps on to your leg and never lets go no matter what you do to try to get away.
* DisContinuity: What WWE are doing to him after his incident - literally acting as though he never existed.
* FallenHero : Many considered and treated him as such in RealLife.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: AND HOW!
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko, calling themselves "the Three Amigos".
* MoralEventHorizon
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He spent many of the last hours of his life researching a bible story in which a boy was returned to life.
* PaterFamilicide
* SanitySlippage: Which started when he returned from his year-long neck injury.
* TheScottishTrope
* SuplexFinisher
* ToBeAMaster: Wrestlemania XX: "Chris Benoit's 18-year odyssey has come to an end tonight!"
* {{Unperson}}: Again, after his incident.
* {{Whatever}}: His theme music by Our Lady Peace.
* YourMileageMayVary: Either you see him as one of, if not, ''the best'' technical wrestlers that ''ever lived'' who only became a victim of steroids and constant physical abuse, or as a CompleteMonster who killed his family and later himself.
!!! EddieGuerrero (Eduardo Gori Guerrero Llanes)
* BadassFamily
* BadassSpaniard
* BigBrotherMentor: To his nephew Chavo, Rey Mysterio, and John Cena.
* {{Casanova}}
* ChaoticNeutral
* CoolCar: His Low Riders
* [[LukeIAmYourFather Dominic I Am Your Father]]: A [[SoBadItsHorrible very unpopular storyline]] with Rey Mysterio back in 2005.
* DracoInLeatherPants
* EvilIsCool: He's proud of lying, cheating and stealing.
* FunnyForeigner
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With his other two amigos, Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko, as well as his nephew, Chavo.
* HotBlooded: Why do you think he's called Latino Heat?
* HotDad
* IHaveTheHighGround
* ILied, [[VerbalTic holmes!]]
* IllBoy ([[TearJerker It killed him sadly]])
* ItRunsInTheFamily: His father and brothers were all wrestlers, his nephew and widow still currently work for [=WWE=].
* LovableCoward
* LoveableRogue: He lied, He cheated and He stole victories, ''and '' our hearts.
* MoralMyopia: Played for laughs.
* {{Narm}}: "Dominic... ''[[LargeHam I'm your papi]]''!" Made even worse once it appeared on his T-shirt.
* [[PosthumousCharacter Posthumous Wrestler]]: Unfortunately, the WWE still used him as part of storylines and promos immediately after his death. It lasted about more than a year or so, and [[ItGotWorse it involved his family]].
* ReallyDeadMontage: WWE made two for him, one is ''Hurt'' by Johnny Cash, and the other is called ''Here Without You'' by 3 Doors Down.
* ThreeAmigos: His SuplexFinisher.
* TooCoolToLive
* VerbalTic: Holmes, Esse
* WildCard: The poster boy.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: The incarnation of the trope - who can forget Eddie bringing a chair in the ring, throwing the chair for his opponent to catch, screaming bloody murder, then dropping to the canvas while the ref sees his opponent with a chair?
!!! John "Bradshaw" Layfield (John Charles Layfield)
* [[AGodAmI A Wrestling God Am I]]: Just ask him. He'll tell you, repeatedly.
* TheAlcoholic: During his [=APA=] days.
* BadAss: YourMileageMayVary
* BadassBoast: During his [=JBL=] gimmick.
* BestBeerEver: During his [=APA=] days.
* BloodKnight: During his [=APA=] days.
* BottleFairy: Male versiion during his [=APA=] days.
* BreakupBreakout: From the [=APA=] (Ron "Faarooq" Simmons is arguably his {{Garfunkel}}).
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticNeutral --> NeutralEvil
* CoolCar: During his [=JBL=] gimmick.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Had a ''ton'' of them in the APA. Layfield and Simmons had some of the best chemistry in WWE history.
* DirtyCoward: During his [=JBL=] gimmick.
* GeniusBruiser
* HiredGuns: Acolyte Protection Agency(APA)
* HoYay: Lots with Farooq. They even joked that [=APA=] stands for "Ass Poundin' Agency".
** [[{{Squick}} EW.]]
* JerkAss: During his [=JBL=] gimmick.
* NiceHat: During his early career. Reused in his [=JBL=] gimmick.
* [[RichBitch Rich Bastard]]: During his [=JBL=] gimmick.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* SmokingIsCool: Subverted during his [=JBL=] gimmick.
* SmugSnake: During his [=JBL=] gimmick.
* TedBaxter: During his [=JBL=] gimmick.
* UnderwearOfPower: During his early career. Reused in his [=JBL=] gimmick.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: During his [=JBL=] gimmick. Or so he claims.
!!! {{Edge}} (Adam Joseph Coepland)
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Just ask Lita and Vickie Guerrero.
* AscendedFanboy: in RealLife.
* AxCrazy (During his recent heel run)
* {{Badass}}
* BadassLongcoat
* BadassLonghair
* BashBrothers: With Christian back in their days as a tag team.
* BlondGuysAreEvil (If he's a heel)
* {{Casanova}} (Rated-R Superstar gimmick)
* CatchPhraseSpoutingDuo: During his [=E&C=] days with Christian - ''"for the benefit of those with flash photography"'', ''"reeks of awesome!"''.
* CoolShades (Sports them in his early career)
* {{Delinquents}} (Rated-R Superstar gimmick)
* {{Determinator}} (Standard version if he's a face. Violent version if he's a heel.)
* DirtyCoward (If he's a Heel)
* DracoInLeatherPants: All the time, but especially with his return at the 2010 Royal Rumble.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* EvilIsCool
* HandsomeLech (Rated-R Superstar gimmick)
* HilariousInHindsight (A picture in his autobiography is captioned, "A good way to get heat from the fans is to spear Lita")
* HolyShitQuotient
* JerkAss (If he's a Heel)
* MagnificentBastard (He ''is'' the Ultimate Opportunist)
* ManipulativeBastard (During his recent heel run) aka [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Master Manipulator]]
* {{Narm}}: The faces he makes when "psyching himself up" before hitting his Spear.
* NeutralEvil (So, so much during his recent heel run.)
* NeverMyFault: Blamed [[ThoseTwoGuys Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder]] for losing his World Heavyweight Title to CM Punk in June 2008.
* OminousFog: His entrance duirng his early career.
* PermaStubble
* RammingAlwaysWorks: [[FinishingMove SPEAR!!!]]
* SmugSnake (If things don't come out as planned..)
* TedBaxter
!!! Christian (William Jason Reso)
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Just ask Trish.
* AscendedFanboy: in RealLife.
* BareYourMidriff: [[http://fast1.onesite.com/fans.wwe.com/user/theinstantclassic2009/profile.jpg A rather unusual case.]]
* BashBrothers: With Edge back in their days as a tag team.
* BlondGuysAreEvil (If he's a heel)
* TheBumblebee
* CatchPhraseSpoutingDuo: During his [=E&C=] days with Edge - ''"for the benefit of those with flash photography"'', ''"reeks of awesome!"'', ''"extreme heinousity"''.
* {{Determinator}} (If he's a face.)
* DirtyCoward (If he's a Heel)
* DracoInLeatherPants
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* EvilForeigner: As part of the [=UnAmericans=]. "America Sucks," indeed.
* EvilIsCool
* GreenEyedMonster: The reason he turned on Edge back in 2001.
* HijackedByGanon: What he did to {{ECW}} upon his 2009 return.
* HolyShitQuotient
* ImportantHairCut: After winning his second IC Title.
* InTheHood
* JerkAss (If he's a Heel)
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold (If he's a Face)
* PermaStubble
* TedBaxter
* TookALevelInBadass: Upon his return from {{TNA}}
* {{Wangst}}: Used for comedy.
!!! Matt Hardy (Matthew Moore Hardy)
* AscendedFanboy: In RealLife.
* BadassLongcoat: Sports one starting 2009.
* BashBrothers: He and Jeff in a literal sense.
* BigBrotherMentor: To Jeff in RealLife and in his persona.
* [[HoYay Bro Yay]]: Lots with Jeff
* TheBumblebee
* CainAndAbel: With Jeff if they're on opposite sides.
* CrazyAwesome
* {{Determinator}}: [[CatchPhrase Matt Hardy will not die indeed]]..
* DirtyCoward: As a Heel in 2002-2004 and 2009.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Back in the days.
* GreenEyedMonster: The reason for his FaceHeelTurn in 2009. He got better in August that same year.
* HollywoodPudgy: [[FanNickname Fat Hardy, Matt Fatty]]
* HolyShitQuotient
* IHaveTheHighGround
* LargeHam: "VEE-ONEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~.."
* [[WomanScorned Man Scorned]]: SO, SO much in 2005.
* NeverSayDie: One of his [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]].
* TedBaxter: Again, as a Heel in 2002-2004.
* TheMaster: Of Mattitude.
* TemptingFate: And Twisting it is his FinishingMove.
!!! JeffHardy (Jeffrey Nero Hardy)
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The reason for Matt's FaceHeelTurn in 2009.
* AscendedFanboy: In RealLife.
* BadassLonghair
* BashBrothers: He and Matt in a literal sense.
* [[HoYay Bro Yay]]: Lots with Matt.
* TheBumblebee
* CainAndAbel: With Matt if they're on opposite sides.
* ChaoticGood
* CloudCuckooLander: Though less so than in RealLife; the writers keep his stranger personality traits in check.
* CrazyAwesome
* {{Determinator}}
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* FacialMarkings
* HolyShitQuotient
* IHaveTheHighGround
* MemeticMutation: Thanks to Tony Chimel pronouncing a "j" as a "ch", giving rise to CHEFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF HARDY
** And let's not forget "Jeff Harvey", as Mike Adamle famously called him.
* TemptingFate: And Twisting it is his FinishingMove.
* TookALevelInBadass: Jeff was always a good wrestler, but until his Ladder Match with the Undertaker - which he just ''narrowly'' lost? No one would have thought of him as a main-eventer.
!!! Ken Shamrock (Kenneth Wayne Shamrock, born Kenneth Wayne Kilpatrick)
* {{Badass}}
* TheBigGuy
* BoisterousBruiser
* GeniusBruiser
* FingerlessGloves
* HotBlooded
* [[IKnowKarate I Know MMA]]
* KnightTemplarBigBrother
* PermaStubble
* ScreamingWarrior
* UnderwearOfPower
* UnstoppableRage
!!! Mark Henry (Mark Jerrold Henry)
* TheBigGuy (Face)
* TheBrute (Heel)
* CakeEater: With [[{{Squick}} Mae Young]].
* CharlesAtlasSuperPower: In RealLife. Dude lifted a Hummer.
* DisContinuity: Storyline with Mae Young and a pregnancy? What are you talking about?
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Apparently.
* MightyGlacier
* ScaryBlackMan
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Technically, he is TheUndertaker's 13th [[strike:opponent]] victim in {{Wrestlemania}} (At the time, Undertaker had fought Kane twice).
* WorldsStrongestMan: The TropeNamer
!!! X-Pac (Sean Michael Waltman)
* TheBumbleBee
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Just ask Razor Ramon and Kane.
* FlatCharacter
* {{Nakama}}: Everyone forgets that he was a part of the Kliq, too.
* OlderThanTheyThink: A lot of people didn't realize (at the time) that Pac used to be the 1-2-3 Kid, and was actually a pretty popular face back in the early 90s, basically being the Rey Mysterio of his day.
* TagAlongKid: His role in the FiveManBand of the Kliq. His nickname is even "Kid" (from his former ring name of "The 1-2-3 Kid").
* XPacHeat: The TropeNamer.
!!! Test (Andrew Martin)
* TheBigGuy: (Face)
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* TheBrute: (Heel)
* DomesticAbuser
* EvilForeigner: As part of the [=UnAmericans=]. "America Sucks," indeed.
* ImportantHaircut
* IsntItSad
* UnderwearOfPower
* UngratefulBastard: Kayfabe-wise, Stacy attempted to help his career. [[DomesticAbuser And how is she rewarded?]]
!!! Crash Holly (Michael Lockwood)
* BlatantLies: Considers himself a Superheavyweight! Really!
* TheBumblebee
* ButtMonkey
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Kayfabe since Hardcore and Molly Holly aren't his real cousins.
* TedBaxter
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! Val Venis (Sean Allen Morley)
* AlliterativeName
* AManIsNotAVirgin
* {{Casanova}}
* {{Catchphrase}}: [[{{Hello}} Hello Ladies]]
* DemotedToExtra: After his Chief Morley gimmick, he became Val again, but lost his hair, his charm and rarely was allowed to use the mic. He was buried as a result.
* DoubleEntendre: So many during his porn star gimmick.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* KavorkaMan: He wasn't a bad looking guy, but he wasn't a pretty boy either.
* LoveableSexManiac
* ParallelPornTitles: From ''SavingPrivateRyan'' to ''Saving Ryan's Privates'' (i.e. Ryan was a woman in his movie).
* {{Sexophone}}
* SomethingElseAlsoRises
* UnderwearOfPower
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling porn star.
!!! Gangrel (David Heath)
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* CoolShades
* DarkMessiah
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire
* {{Garfunkel}}: To Edge and Christian, as well as both Hardys.
* NeutralEvil
* OurVampiresAreDifferent
[[/folder]]

[[folder: [=InVasion=] (2001)]]
!!! RobVanDam (Robert "Rob" Alexander Szatkowski)
* AscendedFanboy: Not only has he been into wrestling since he was a kid, he's also written a few comic books.
* TheBumblebee
* CombatPragmist
* CrazyAwesome
* DeadpanSnarker: He had his moments.
* EnsembleDarkhorse
* ExtremityExtremist: While it's a stupid epithet ([[SarcasmMode thank you]], [[ButtMonkey Michael Cole]]), RVD is known for his extremely flexible legs and "educated feet".
* FoeYay: His feud with Kane was alternately this trope and HeadTiltinglyKinky.
* FingerlessGloves
* FunWithAcronyms
* HolyShitQuotient
* HoYay: With Sabu in both incarnations of ECW, and then Jeff Hardy, Shane [=McMahon=], and Rey Mysterio in WWE.
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* IHaveTheHighGround
* IKnowKungFu
* ImprovisedWeapon [[WeaponOfChoice Of Choice]]: He uses steel chairs to execute the ''Van Daminator'' and ''Van Terminator''.
* LightningBruiser
* TheStoner: Name-drops "420" and "getting high" in promos, never mind his goofy surfer-dude accent.
** "Nobody gets higher than Rob Van Dam!"
* [[NamesTheSame Surname's The Same]]: He's not related to Jean Claude Van Damme in any way, despite the resemblance.
!!! Booker T (Booker Tio Huffman)
* AngryBlackMan
* BoisterousBruiser
* DirtyCoward (Heel)
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: The Spin-A-Roonie.
* HotBlooded
* IsntItSad
* LargeHam
* {{Narm}}: A lot occured during his King Booker gimmick in 2006.
** NarmCharm: But then there were the times when he would break character.
* TedBaxter
* UnderwearOfPower
* UpperClassTwit (As King Booker)
!!! Tazz (Peter Senerchia)
* BadassBeard
* CaptainObvious: Used by Tazz to refer to his broadcast partner - either Michael Cole or Joey Styles - when they said something blindingly obvious.
* CoolShades
* DeadpanSnarker: Nearly always.
* {{Delinquents}}
* TheDogBitesBack: When the Alliance started to lose faith in Austin, Tazz (Who at this point has been his personal [[TheUnfavorite Unfavorite]]) tells him exactly what he thinks of him. Although he gets his ass beat for it, the rest (who would've normally joined in on the beat down) simply left).
* [[IKnowKungFu I Know Judo]]
* JerkAss [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold With A Heart Of Gold]]
* NamesTheSame: With the LooneyTunes character. The extra Z was added on by WWE to try to avoid any lawsuits from Time Warner, which owned [[{{WCW}} their biggest rival]]
* TheNapoleon
* [[PutOnABus Put On The Commentator's Table]]
* SuplexFinisher
* ThirteenIsUnlucky
* UnstoppableRage: His finisher, the Tazzmission, banks on this.
** "Who can stop the path of rage?!"
!!! Tommy Dreamer (Thomas James "Tom" Laughlin)
* GarbageWrestler
* HotDad
* IsntItSad
* TheJimmyHartVersion: During his stint in [[FanNickname WW]][[{{Revival}} ECW]], his theme song was a Jimmy Hart Version of "Man In The Box" by Alice In Chains, the theme song he had in the original {{ECW}}.
* LastOfHisKind: As of 2008, he is the only ECW original in the [[FanNickname WWECW/ECWWE]] brand.
** As of his retirement in December 2009, he was the final ECW original.
* OldMaster
* [[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter Singapore Canes Are Even Better]]: His trademark WeaponOfChoice.
* {{Tearjerker}}: His retirement speech to the fans - whom he called his family - and his final walk up the ramp with his twin five-year-old daughters.
!!! Chavo Guerrero (Salvador Chavito Guerrero III)
* BadassFamily
* ButtMonkey
* CharacterDerailment
* CoolMask
* FunnyForeigner
* IHaveTheHighGround
* IsntItSad
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* LovableCoward
* LoveableRogue
* MoralMyopia: Played for laughs.
* OldShame: Once denounced his Latino heritage, became a [=WASP=] and changed his name to Kerwin White.
* SuplexFinisher: Done in tribute to his uncle Eddie.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: As part of Los Guerreros
!!! The Hurricane (Gregory "Sugar Shane" Helms)
* {{Determinator}}: Seeing his doctor after having trouble doing push ups it was determined Helms had a broken neck and had been that way for at least a week!
* {{Keet}}
* SecretIdentity: Sort of. The fans all know who he is but go along with it anyway and boo every Rudo who doesn't.
* SuperStrength: Hurricane can halt any charge with the rise of his elbow, no man is too big to be chokeslamed!
* TheRival: His civilian guise has been on and off with Matt Hardy since childhood.
* WeaksauceWeakness: The Hurricane fears clones, identical twins and broccoli, [[AllThereInTheManual according to WWE magazine.]]
!!! Tajiri (田尻 義博, Tajiri Yoshihiro)
* BattleButler: When serving William Regal.
* ChaoticNeutral
* CrazyAwesome
* FragileSpeedster
* FunnyForeigner
* GlassCannon
* HolyShitQuotient
* [[IKnowKarate I Know Kickboxing]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[AHandfulForAnEye His mist spray]] usually green, but black caused ({{Kayfabe}}) TemporaryBlindness
* PsychopathicManchild
* TheUnintelligible: Only other Japanese wrestlers and Torrie Wilson could understand him.
!!! Lance Storm (Lance Evers)
* CanadaEh
* CatchPhrase: "If I can be serious for a moment..."
* DracoInLeatherPants: Due to his legit talent.
* EvilForeigner: As part of the [=UnAmericans=]. "America Sucks," indeed.
* OneOfUs: As seen on his blog after his retirement, Lance Storm is a smark of the highest order.
* UnderwearOfPower
* TheUnfunny
* [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Wearing A Flag On Your Tights]]: Before switching to the aforementioned UnderwearOfPower, his tights were in red and white Canadian colors.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Brand Extension Era (2002 - Present)]]
!!! Brock Lesnar (Brock Edward Lesnar)
* TheAce
* AxCrazy (Heel)
* {{Badass}}
* BaseBreaker: In his first 12 months he won the King Of the Ring, becomes the youngest WWE champion winning the Undisputed Championship, the Royal Rumble and highlights and wins at Wrestlemania.
* TheBigGuy (Face)
* BlondGuysAreEvil (Heel)
* BoisterousBruiser
* TheBrute (Heel)
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticEvil --> NeutralGood --> NeutralEvil
* CharlesAtlasSuperPower: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome My]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome God]]..
* CompleteMonster (Heel)
* {{Determinator}}
* DracoInLeatherPants ([[EpicFail Until WrestleMania XX]] that is...)
* FarmBoy: He was in RealLife.
* GeniusBruiser
* HolyShitQuotient
* HotDad
* JerkAss
* JerkJock
* LightningBruiser
* TheMario
* MightyGlacier
* SuplexFinisher
* UnderwearOfPower
* UngratefulBastard
!!! {{Goldberg}} (William Scott "Bill" Goldberg)
* TheAce
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy
* BoisterousBruiser
* ChaoticNeutral
* CharlesAtlasSuperPower: Maybe he's not as strong as he used to be during his {{WCW}} days but he's still impressive.
* GeniusBruiser
* FingerlessGloves
* HotBlooded
* TheJimmyHartVersion ([[CrowningMusicOfAwesome ''Invasion'']], Goldberg's entrance theme from the WCW, was owned by Turner Broadcasting. Rather than buy it, the WWE chose to copy it, though their version is significantly less badass.
* LargeHam
* MightyGlacier
* RammingAlwaysWorks: [[FinishingMove SPEAR!!!]]
* SayMyName / CrowdSong: During his entrance the crowd chants... "Gooooldberg... Gooooldberg... Gooooldberg..."
* ShowyInvincibleHero
* ScreamingWarrior
* SuplexFinisher
* UnderwearOfPower
* UnstoppableRage
!!! {{Batista}} (David Michael Bautista, Jr.)
* BadassDecay: While he can still be considered as one, he's not as {{Badass}} as he once was during Evolution. At least, until his recent FaceHeelTurn where he regained his badass status in a big way.
* BadassGrandpa: In RealLife. No Really!
* BodyguardBetrayal
* BoisterousBruiser: Especially in his "enforcer" role with Evolution
* TheBigGuy (Face)
* TheBrute (Heel)
* ButNotTooForeign (He is of Filipino-Greek heritage. [[ShoutOut He even had a tattoo of both countries' flags in his left shoulder]].)
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulEvil --> ChaoticGood --> ChaoticNeutral
* {{Determinator}}
* DisContinuity: Batista was once a deacon for Reverend D-Von? I find that hard to believe.
* DracoInLeatherPants: During his time in Evolution back in 2004-2005.
* DumbMuscle: When he made his WWE debut as D-Von Dudley's sidekick.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Wrestlemania 21 was supposed to be HHH vs. Orton for the World Heavyweight title, but Batista's popularity at the time was unexpectedly [[UpToEleven increasing rapidly]]. So much that they put him in the main event instead.
* GeniusBruiser
* GenreSavvy
** DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* GentleGiant (If he's a Face)
* HotBlooded: During his early career with Evolution.
* HotDad and [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave Grandpa What Massive Hotness You Have]]: In RealLife. Justified that he had a child at 21, and his daughter became a teenage mom. [[WordOfGod He said in one interview]] that he's happy, yet he can't believe he's already a grandfather before 40.
* LastNameBasis
* [[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} Memetic Mutation]]: Batista's very much Photoshop fodder.
-->"That's my title, and coming this Sunday, I'll be taking it back!"
-->"Basketballs don't hold grudges!"
* MightyGlacier
* MoralEventHorizon: Wrestling fans can forgive many things, but beating up on BretHart? Not one of them.
* PermaStubble
* PrecisionFStrike
* RealMenWearPink: Batista's fashion sense is... special.
* SharpDressedMan: [[FanNickname They used to call him]] "Dapper Dave" for a reason.
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Tatooed Flags On His Left Shoulder]]: See ButNotTooForeign.
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! JohnCena (John Felix Anthony Cena, Jr.)
* AscendedFanboy: Both in RealLife and in his persona.
* BadassDecay: So, so much after dropping his Dr. Of Thuganomics gimmick. He's been saddled with a massive inferiority complex, even though part of his charm as the DOT was that he rarely doubted himself, if at all. There was also the softening of his edginess when the 'E began to mold him into a "friendlier" hero, for lack of a better term. "[[EpicFail JBL is poopy]]," anyone?
* BoringInvincibleHero (2005-present)
* ChainedByFashion: [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Used to be]].
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralEvil --> ChaoticNeutral --> ChaoticGood --> NeutralGood --> LawfulGood
* CharacterDerailment: After he dropped the "Dr. of Thuganomics" persona, he got considerably less entertaining.
* {{Delinquents}}: Mostly during his initial "Dr. of Thuganomics" run, but lapses back into it when he's around DX.
* {{Determinator}}: It must be stressed how much of a Determinator he is in RealLife. If he's injured and the doctors predict he'll be sidelined for a year, he'll come back within six months. If they predict he'll need six months, he'll show up at the arena the day after surgery.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune
* DracoInLeatherPants: Got some of it during his heel run, but now he's pretty much morphed into RonTheDeathEater.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: What he did to the actual belts for the US and WWE titles.
* EvilIsCool: The Dr. of Thuganomics, a reason why most fans still hope he'd go back to basics [[strike:[[IncrediblyLamePun thuganomics]]]].
* FiveMovesOfDoom
* FoeYay: With most of his rivals, but his promo against Batista during Summerslam 2008 stands out: "[[{{Squick}} For six years I've been watching you]]." Not to mention Randy Orton.
* HoYay: With Shawn Michaels, most notably.
* ImprovisedWeapon [[WeaponOfChoice Of Choice]]: His chain with a large padlock during his Dr. Of Thuganomics gimmick.
* IUsedToBeKindOfCoolOnce
* JerkAss: When he's a heel, during his Dr. Of Thuganomics gimmick.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Face run of his Dr. Of Thuganomics gimmick.
* LoveableRogue: Face run of his Dr. Of Thuganomics gimmick.
* [[NiceHat Nice Cap]]
* PeripheryHatedom ''and'' TheScrappy (2005-present)
* PowerFist: He used brass knuckles during his Dr. Of Thuganomics gimmick, as well as [[WeaponOfChoice his trademark chain with padlock]] by [[ImprovisedWeapon wrapping it to his fist]]. Finally, his Five Knuckle Shuffle move is a whole lotta showmanship with a PowerFist to the face ending.
* PrecisionFStrike
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: During his Dr. Of Thuganomics days.
* TakeThat: {{Kayfabe}} example. During his feud with Brock Lesnar in early 2003, he named his version of the Death Valley Driver "The F-U" as a dig at Lesnar, whose finishing move was "The F-5."
* TedBaxter (During his Dr. Of Thuganomics days)
* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They Changed Him Now He Sucks]]
* WeWantOurJerkBack
!!! RandyOrton (Randal "Randy" Keith Orton)
* AFatherToHisMen: Alternated between this and TheNeidermeyer when he led Legacy.
* AntiHero
* AxCrazy (If he's a Heel)
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralEvil --> ChaoticGood --> LawfulGood--> NeutralEvil--> ChaoticEvil --> ChaoticNeutral
* CompleteMonster (If he's a Heel)
* {{Determinator}}
* DirtyCoward (If he's a Heel)
* DracoInLeatherPants: Triple H was handcuffed to the ropes; Orton was forcing him to watch as he beat his surrogate family (the [=McMahon=]s) mercilessly -- the crowd was going absolutely wild for him!
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* EvilIsCool
* EvilIsSexy: Just ask his fangirls.
* FiveMovesOfDoom: Garvin Stomp, Elevated DDT, Powerslam, Twisting Backbreaker, RKO.
* FoeYay: Randy has a rather... ''intense''... wrestling style, and a promo style to match.
* FunWithAcronyms: His FinishingMove (RKO) is derived from the first letters of his full name.
* HearingVoices: His current theme.
* HeroKiller
* HeroicSociopath: His latest face turn has made him one.
* HotDad
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* JerkAss (If he's a Heel)
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk (If he's a Face)
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: His second finisher, the punt.
* TheNeidermeyer: Alternated between this and being AFatherToHisMen when he led Legacy.
* PrecisionFStrike
* SmugSnake: His current Heel run, hence ''[[RedBaron The Viper']]'.
* TheStarscream
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* TedBaxter
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Guess who TheUndertaker beat to extend his undefeated {{Wrestlemania}} record 13-0 back in 2005?
* UnderwearOfPower
* VillainProtagonist
!!! ReyMysterioJr (Oscar Gutierrez)
* BadassSpaniard
* TheBumbleBee
* CoolMask
* {{Determinator}}
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: If you can name one semi-regular tag partner he's ever had that didn't snuggle, kiss, and hug him at every available chance, I'd love to hear it.
* FragileSpeedster
* HotDad
* IHaveTheHighGround
* LawfulGood
* LegacyCharacter
* LocationThemeNaming: The ''West Coast Pop'' is obviously named from the West Coast of the US, while the ''619'' is the area code of San Diego, CA (which ''is'' part of the West Coast), Rey's hometown.
* MaskedLuchador: DUH!
* OlderThanTheyLook
* {{Omniglot}}: Maybe not in real life, but he seems to be able to easily converse with everyone else on the roster, up to and including a mute leprechaun and a giant who can barely even speak his ''own'' language.
* PintSizedPowerhouse
!!! Bobby Lashley (Franklin Roberto "Bobby" Lashley)
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy
* CaptainErsatz and CompositeCharacter: Arguably of both Brock Lesnar and Goldberg. See FanNickname below.
* CharlesAtlasSuperPower: The only one, so far, who can match Brock Lesnar.
* {{Determinator}}
* EnsembleDarkhorse
* EverythingsBetterWithBob
* FanNickname: Blackberg ("Black Goldberg") and Blesnar ("Black Lesnar"), due to his being nearly identical in physique other than skin color.
* GeniusBruiser
* HotDad
* LightningBruiser
* MightyGlacier
* MilitaryBrat
* {{Narm}}: My God. His fighting skills are the ''exact'' opposite of his talking skills.
* NeutralGood
* PutOnABus: Got beaten down by Mr. Kennedy, and was never seen or mentioned on WWE TV again... ever!
* TheQuietOne
* RammingAlwaysWorks: Can perform the spear.
* SuplexFinisher
* UnderwearOfPower: Wore white at first, then settled with black.
!!! CMPunk (Phillip Jack Brooks)
* BloodKnight: "My only addiction is competition."
* TheBumblebee: Until his FaceHeelTurn
* DarkMessiah: In his Straight Edge Savior heel gimmick.
* DrugsAreBad: His Heel gimmick consists of him pointing this out, repeatedly, to the audience.
* TheFundamentalist: Heel, regarding his Straight Edge beliefs - Have you ever taken drugs? Smoked a cigarette? Drunk alcohol? Doubled up on a prescription medication? If so, he's '''[[CatchPhrase better than you!]]'''
* [[IKnowKungFu I Know Muay Thai]]
* SmugStraightEdge
* StraightEdgeEvil
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* TookALevelInJerkAss
* UnderwearOfPower
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In his Straight Edge Savior gimmick, his goal is to save people from self-destructive addictions. His methods and his definition of "addictions", however, leave something to be desired.
!!! The Great Khali (Dalip Singh Rana)
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In India, Khali is being presented as a Face despite being Heel in the USA.
* BadassDecay: So much after losing the World Heavyweight title.
* {{Bollywood}}
* EvilForeigner
* FunnyForeigner (After his HeelFaceTurn)
* TheGiant
* GentleGiant
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: More popular in India than in the US by several magnitudes.
* IsntItSad
* TheQuietOne / TheUnintelligible
!!! Sheamus (Stephen Farrelly)
* AxCrazy
* BadassBeard
* BadassDecay: Oh god yes, he started out as an uber heel that murdered everyone, beat JohnCena for the {{WWE}} Championship, [[TenMinuteRetirement "retired"]] TripleH and dominated most people he's been up against, as soon as he won the championship a second time he's really started to loose all the badass cred, RandyOrton punked him, he runs like a bitch from TheNexus, hell, ''TheMiz'' kicked his ass.
* TheBerserker
* BoisterousBruiser
* ButNotTooWhite
* [[CreepyCoolCrosses Creepy Celtic Crosses]]: From his High Cross powerbomb to the loads of crucifixes on his merch, Sheamus has a lot of these.
* EvilForeigner
* EvilRedhead
* HolyShitQuotient
* ImprobableHairStyle: He wrestles while sporting...AnimeHair?
* [[ThisIndexIsCursed Irish Curse]]: One of his signature moves.
* {{Jerkass}}
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[LosingYourHead He's ashamed for they lost your head!]]
* MilesGloriosus: Talks a big game about how much of a BadAss he is, and with his LightningBruiser style he certainly ''could'' live up to his own hype. However, he has proven himself a cringing coward when pitted against an equal opponent.
* {{Oireland}}: Though he does come by the nationality honestly - he was born and raised in Dublin.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: He did not want to be another funny drunk Irishmen, instead playing up the warrior culture of Ireland, YourMileageMayVary on whether he's still a stereoype.
* UnderwearOfPower
* VerbalTic: He ends his sentences with fella, fella.
!!! JohnMorrison (John Randall Hennigan)
* BadassBeard: He's started growing one.
* BadassLongcoat: A befeathered, occasionally animal-print longcoat.
* BadassLonghair
* {{Bishounen}}
* BlondGuysAreEvil: If he's a Heel, and his name is Johnny Nitro.
* BreakupBreakout: From [[TwoGuysAndAGirl MNM]], which makes Joey Mercury his {{Garfunkel}}. On the other hand, he and his second notable tag partner, TheMiz, have both attained similar levels of success thusfar.
* CatchPhrase: "We don't allow (X) at the Palace of Wisdom", and "I'm John Morrison and (some random bit of trivia that probably isn't true.)"
* CaptainErsatz: [[WrestlingDoesntPay A wrestling]] [[TheDoors Jim Morrison]] impersonator?
* {{Casanova}}
* ChivalrousPervert
* CloudCuckooLander: Has a very...eccentric promo style.
* CoolShades
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: John showed that he was a pretty decent guy by catching his [[TheRival rival]] [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Ted DiBiase]]'s goldigger of a girlfriend, [[TheLibby Maryse]], who isn't too [[FrenchJerk nice]] herself, and setting her down, putting off revenge and winning the Money in the Bank Ladder match just to do the right thing? It's good to see a face do something nice beyond [[CheapHeat praising the audience]] or looking better than the other guy.
* DanceBattler: Uses some Capoeira inspired moves, especially noticeable when he flairs before a leg drop.
* DirtyCoward: Heel.
* DracoInLeatherPants
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Those abs.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Oh, [[StupidSexyFlanders those abs]].
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Well his pants, coat, shades and abs are anyway.
* EvilIsSexy:
* ExtremityExtremist: Almost always uses his legs, when he isn't jumping on people or throwing around the compulsory punches and clothelines.
* FurAndLoathing
* [[GaussianGirl Gaussian Guy]]: His entrance is even in slow motion.
* [[PrettyInMink Handsome In Mink]]
* HandsomeLech
* HolyShitQuotient: Top rope moonsault with a ladder? Holy shit...
* HoYay: He and tag-team partner Mike "The Miz" Mizanin.
* IHaveTheHighGround
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As a face he mocks his enemies for their speech impediments, nationalities, and other uncontrollable things.
* LeParkour: Which has been played up by the comentators a lot.
* TheLibby: Mocks those less attractive then himself (a.k.a everybody else).
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* MessianicArchetype: For a while he was feuding with CMPunk because while Punk was preaching about the importance of the material world, John promised a paradise.
* NeutralEvil: When a Heel.
* NoShirtLongJacket
* RedBaron: The Shaman of Sexy, and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim he's]] [[EstrogenBrigadeBait earned]] [[WalkingShirtlessScene it]].
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Rambles like hell on his promos.
* StupidSexyFlanders
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TallDarkAndSnarky (Heel)
* TedBaxter
* WarriorPoet
* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: When he smiles he looks even more {{Bishonen}} and around ten years younger.
* WouldntHitAGirl
!!! Jack Swagger (Jacob "Jake" Hager)
* BadassBoast
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* BoisterousBruiser
* DirtyCoward
* {{Expy}}: [[KurtAngle Where have we seen this before]]? An [[JerkJock arrogant but talented wrestler]] who brags about his accomplishments in amateur wrestling while wearing the traditional wrestling singlet and using an ''ankle lock'' as a finisher? [[SarcasmMode Never seen that before in WWE.]]
* HolyShitQuotient
* JackAttack
* JerkAss
* JerkJock
* LightningBruiser
* NeutralEvil
* SpeechImpediment: Hith notitheable lithp is mocked by hith opponents.
* TedBaxter: WHO AM I?
* TookALevelInBadass: Jack Swagger . . . [[WTHCastingAgency World Heavyweight Champion]]?!
* WellDoneSonGuy: Several of his promos during his World Heavyweight Champion reign made it clear that his dad held him to extremely high standards and always expected him to become a champion.
!!! Finlay (David Finlay)
* BadassGrandpa
* BloodKnight
* CoolOldGuy
* HolyShitQuotient: At least one per match. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFJyHS-M5Vc&feature=related Literally.]]
* HotBlooded
* MarcAnthonyAndPussyfoot: To Hornswoggle.
* {{Oireland}}
* SimpleStaff
!!! Shelton Benjamin
* BaldOfAwesome: but only after...
* BaldOfEvil
* BlackBestFriend: To Charlie Haas in RealLife.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Hugely popular with the IWC but didn't get over with the casual fans.
* JerkJock
* HairOfGold Because he's the gold standard, and didn't have to share bald with Bobby Lashley.
* HolyShitQuotient: In almost all of his matches, regardless of whether it's on a PPV.
* LeParkour
* MommasBoy: [[NotNowKiddo "Quiet Shelton!]] Grown people are talking!"
* [[DishingOutDirt Pay Dirt]]: He hits it, match ends.
* TheMario: All American Collegian Folk style Wrestler, All American Track And Field, good brawler, a world title's just a matter of time
* SmugSnake: As the Gold Standard
* UnderwearOfPower
* UnknownRival: After the 2008 Olympics some tabloid referred to Michael Phelps as the gold standard, Shelton was not pleased.
!!!Charlie Haas
* BreakupBreakOut: He and Benjamin were part of the "Self Proclaimed World's Greatest Tag Team" Then they were forced apart. Shelton is doing better (for now).
* DemotedToExtra
* DittoFighter: Mimics the styles of other wrestlers and public domain characters. Even Great Khali, despite being two feet shorter!
* [[PunnyName Haas Of Pain]]: His finisher
* HotDad
* ItRunsInTheFamily: His younger brother Russ died in 2001, but he's still motivated to be a world tag team champion.
* JerkJock
!!! Carlito (Carlos Edwin "Carly" Colon, Jr.)
* AfroAsskicker
* AlliterativeName: Carlito "Carribbean" Cool. And if you want to go further, his real name is Carlos "Carly" Colon.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: And we're not just talking about his FinishingMove!
* DirtyCoward
* FunnyAfro
* HolyShitQuotient
* HowDoYouLikeThemApples: Spits them in the face of people who don't wanna be cool!
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* JerkAss
* TheNapoleon
* NeutralEvil
* RuleOfCool: And if you're not, he'll spit in your face. Literally.
* TedBaxter
* ThirdPersonPerson
* TrademarkFavouriteFood (Apples of course)
* UnderwearOfPower (At first. Wears pants later on)
!!! Ken Kennedy (Ken Anderson)
* AbortedArc: During the "Who's Vince's kid?" angle, it was Kennedy who was originally slated for the spot. Then he failed a drug test, and they gave the angle to [[spoiler: [[WallBanger Hornswoggle]]]].
* AlliterativeName (Ken Kennedy, Kamikaze Ken)
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* {{Curse}}: Both Eddie Guerrero and Umaga had their last fights with Kennedy before dying.
** Umaga's last match was against CMPunk, not Kennedy.
** His last match in the WWE was against Punk. But his last match ever was against Kennedy on the Hulkamania Tour in Australia.
* DracoInLeatherPants
* IHaveTheHighGround
* JerkAss (Heel)
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold (Face)
* LargeHam: '''MMMIIIISSSSTERRR KKKKKEEEEENNNNNNEEEEEDDDDYYY!'''
* PutOnABus or [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By Randy Orton]] depends on which side are you on.
* SayMyName: See LargeHam.
* TedBaxter
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! Umaga (Edward "Eddie" Solofa Fatu)
* AxCrazy
* BadassFamily
* TheBrute
* DisContinuity: Umaga used to be part of 3-Minute Warning? Seriously?
* EvilForeigner
* FacialMarkings
* GeniusBruiser
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* LightningBruiser
* NoIndoorVoice
* UnstoppableRage
* WildSamoan: Also, the {{Trope Namer}}s are his uncles.
!!! Kofi Kingston (Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah)
* AlliterativeName
* BewareTheNiceOnes: One of the WWE's most triumphant examples.
* [[BangBangBang Boom Boom BOOM!]]
* TheBumblebee
* FakeNationality: Was billed as being from Jamaica, but it was revealed he's from Ghana, [[ShapedLikeItself West Africa.]]
* FragileSpeedster
* {{Keet}}
* LeParkour
* OneOfUs: In an issue with NintendoPower, he said he wanted a [[PunchOut pink hoodie]].
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! Montel Vontavious Porter (Alvin Burke, Jr.)
* AscendedMeme: For a long time, the WrestleCrap message board would routinely insist that what WWE needed was a character based on obnoxious football prima donna Terrell Owens. That wish was finally granted with MVP.
* FanNickname: [[PowerRangers The Power Ranger]], thanks to his rather unorthodox outfit (which he wears to cover up a Malcolm X tattoo).
* FunWithAcronyms: MVP.
* JerkAss (Heel)
* JerkJock (Heel)
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold (Face)
* LatexSpaceSuit
* TheNapoleon (Heel)
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: His Inferno Match with Kane. My God, who'd have thought MVP had that kind of a match in him?
* TedBaxter
!!! TheMiz (Michael "Mike" Mizanin)
* AlliterativeName: '''M'''ike "The '''M'''iz" '''M'''izanin anyone?
* BadassLongcoat: Didn't last long though.
* CatchPhrase: "Cause I'm the Miz...and I'm...AWESOME!" and "And this is your ChickMagnet, the Miz" on the Dirt Sheet, he's also added "Really? Really?" When he interrupts people.
* ChickMagnet: So says he.
* CoolMask: As Calgary Kid
* FailPolish: When he started he wasn't the best looking guy around, now its quite different, compare [[http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/upload/miz.jpg this]] to [[http://www.wrestlingvalley.org/wp-content/uploads//5942/5942.jpg th]][[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rUOnT-66hGU/SO0JYgHRdVI/AAAAAAAAIaE/8evCbOLlZ9A/s320/x0gp3w0t%5B1%5D.jpg at]].
* FatalFlaw: His inability to shut up.
* IHaveManyNames: He lists about five or six trying to pick up a girl in a WWE.com video.
* ItsAllAboutMe: One of the largest egos ever.
* JerkAss
* LargeHam: Because he's ''the Miz'', and he's ''AWESOME''!
* TheLeisureSuitLarry: Almost painfully so.
* TheMario: And not in a good balanced way, one of his major non-{{Kayfabe}} flaws as a wrestler his lack of specialization, he isn't a high flier, he isn't a power wrestler, he isn't a submission expert and he isn't a technical guy either, he's just...there. And he is getting better.
* TheNapoleon
* NotSoHarmless: One of the most awesome things he's done in a while was imitating R-Truth's opening and performing a BoastfulRap. R-Truth laughed, so the Miz brained him with the mic and went to town on him, and performed a brutal looking armbar-thing on him. He ended it with a CreepyMonotone version of his catchphrase.
** He's also beaten the living daylights out of Sheamus after being dismissed as a loser.
* NiceHat: Used to be part of his entrance attire.
* NoShirtLongJacket: While not being a BadassLongcoat, his leather jacket is pretty cool.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Subverted, when he dropped the scarf he started kicking way more ass.
* SmugSnake: Even if he's a face, he's smug.
* StrawFan: Vince used him to "show" why anti-Cenites are wrong. [[TookALevelInBadass It didn't quite work.]]
* TedBaxter
* TookALevelInBadass: And ''how''. Who would have pegged that kid from ''The Real World'' with the annoying gimmick would turn into a multi-time Tag Team Champion and hilarious host of "The Dirt Sheet"? Pro Wrestling Illustrated even gave him the most improved award ''twice''.
* UnderwearOfPower: After returning.
* WrestlingPsychology: He's damn good at selling, his pirouette after getting cold clocked by TheBigShow was spectacular.
!!! Primo Colon
* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Annoying Older Sibling]]: How he views his brother Carlito
* PhenotypeStereotype: He is surprised to see Zack Ryder can speak Spanish assuming he was Canadian.(As it turned out Zack Ryder didn't speak Spanish, but was not Canadian)
* SiblingTeam: Despite annoying him, teaming with his brother was a dream of Primo's and they were the first Unified Tag Team Champions
* SiblingTriangle: He and Carlito to Bree Bella
!!! Zach Gowen
* HandicappedBadAss: Actually, a lot of people didn't think so but that's [[InformedAbility how he was booked]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Prosthetic Leg?
* TheLoad
!!! Muhammad Hassan (Mark Copani)
* ButNotTooForeign: Was portrayed as an Arab American.
* CharacterDerailment: Originally was sick of being stereotyped as a terrorist. Then the Daivari/Undertaker match happened...
* EvilForeigner: Subverted ([[CharacterDerailment At first]]). But that didn't stop the "USA" chants.
* FakeNationality: He's half Italian with some traces of Jordanian-Palestinian.
* MistakenForTerrorist
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: After the Smackdown controversy, his match with the Undertaker at the Great American Bash was used to write out his character in order to change his gimmick.
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By UPN]]: After the infamous Underatker/Daivari match, UPN demanded Hassan to be removed from Smackdown.
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was originally set to defeat Undertaker in a number one contender's match and eventually face then-Champion Batista in a title match at [=SummerSlam=] 2005.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter/[[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Plot]] - His original gimmick had the potential to make him into one of the biggest [[TheWoobie woobies]] in the WWE. Sadly they went with the other direction (see above).
!!! David Otunga
* BeardOfEvil
* FaceHeelTurn: Made quite the impression as guest host of Raw by putting himself in a tag match with John Cena (to give Cena a chance to win after former partner Batista screwed him over) - and then does the same thing Batista did, letting Cena get beaten down by [=ShowMiz=].
* HeyItsThatGuy - You might remember him as "Punk" from a show called ''I Love New York.''
* HotDad
* JerkAss
* TheNexus: Surprisingly, he hasn't been as much of a factor as previously thought. He seems to have fallen into the role of Enforcer, leaving the leadership to Wade Barrett.
* RedBaron: "The Kanye West of the WWE", "The A-Lister"
* TedBaxter
!!! R-Truth (Ronald "Ron" Killings)
* CatchPhrase: What's Up?
* DisContinuity: He wrestled in WWE before? As K-Kwik? Seriously?
* LightningBruiser: Is he a fast power wrestler or a strong high flyer?
* LivingLieDetector: JustForPun.
!!! Zack Ryder (Matthew Cardona)
* CatchPhrase: "Woo woo woo!"
** You know it.
* EarWorm: "Ooooooooh Radio."
* FashionVictimVillain: [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dkElNxw_9j4/SwPoN33aHCI/AAAAAAAAAYs/IPteT3uN5oA/s1600/Zack+Ryder+challenges+Shelton+Benjamin.jpg And how.]]
* MemeticMutation: ''Ohhhh radioooo, tell me everything you know''.
* NarmCharm: He should not be able to be convincing as a wrestler.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Curt Hawkins, when they were associated with Edge.
!!! Dolph Ziggler (Nick Nemeth)
* BoringButPractical: His finishing move, the Sleeper Hold is a very effective and pretty simple move, but it just doesn't look that cool. In a WWE Magazine letter column, he defends this by saying it's much more versatile than some of his previous finishers.
* CakeEater
* CatchPhrase: "Hi, I'm Dolph Ziggler."
* DisContinuity: You mean this guy used to be Chavo "Kerwin White" Guerrero's caddy? And they don't bring up his time in the Spirit Squad either.
* DyeHard: See below.
* EvilIsSexy: Good enough for Vickie Guerrero.
* {{Expy}}: Of Mr. Perfect. Oh, if only he could do the Perfect Plex.
* TheFightingNarcissist: "[[{{Leitmotif}} I am perfection!]]".
* HiddenDepths: Fluent in American Sign Language.
* HotBlooded: Which really bites him in the ass in matches, his FatalFlaw is the ease he gets frustrated by failure.
* OldShame: Used to be a member of Spirit Squad, and Chavo Guerrero's caddy.
* ScreamingWarrior
* WeakButSkilled: Is a smaller wrestler that relies a lot more on his [[FragileSpeedster speed]] and legit talent then throwing people around.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Dyed, but still.
!!! Wade Barrett (Stu Bennett)
* AFatherToHisMen: Seems to genuinely care about the welfare of the other Nexus members, risking his own contract and title shot to secure contracts for them.
* DragonAscendant: It was revealed that he'd been working for VinceMcMahon for the first part of the Nexus storyline, but he and Nexus turned on [=McMahon=] and beat him down too.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Feels completely justified doing what he did to get himself and the rest of the rookies contracts.
* EvilBrit
* MagnificentBastard: Probably too early to tell, but his huge charisma, intelligence, and skill at implementing his plans put him on the road to being one.
* TheNexus: Their leader.
* NobleDemon: He's even apologized for attacking JohnCena and BretHart.
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* SmugSnake
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Despite being portrayed as villains, the rookies do have legitimate complaints against {{WWE}} management.
!!! Alberto Del Rio (Dos Caras, Jr.)
* TheBully[=/=]KickTheDog: He seems to be obsessed with ambushing people (even people he's not feuding with) and doing whatever he can to ''break their arms''.
* CatchPhrase:
--> "[[MemeticMutation My name is Alberto Del Rio]]! [[TedBaxter But you already knew that]]."
* CardCarryingVillain: He once said he wants to beat ReyMysterioJr so he can see children crying in the audience.
* CoolCar: His entrance involves him driving a Bentley.
* {{Expy}}: He's basically a Mexican JBL.
** {{FanNickname}}: Juan Bradshaw Layfield
* JerkAss
* LightningBruiser: A six foot five, two hundred and forty pounder that has a bevy of aerial moves and can pull off an enzuigiri as well as a multitude of suplexes.
* MythologyGag[=/=]ViewersAreGeniuses: Matt Striker said that he has two faces, the smiling, virtue spewing gentleman and that vicious arrogant wrestler, his Lucha name translates as ''Two Faces''.
* RoyalBlood: He's [[{{Kayfabe}} apparently]] descended from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, yes, the ones in the 15th century.
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TedBaxter: The dude's a self righteous braggart.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity
* WickedCultured: He's a finely dressed, wine drinking sophisticate.
!!! DanielBryan (Bryan Danielson)
* AndTheFandomRejoiced
* ButNotTooWhite
* TheEveryman: His current gimmick, he's a laidback normal looking technical wrestler surrounded by a pack of crazy people.
* {{Expy}}: He started as one of ChrisBenoit and Dynamite Kid.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Considering that he's won the most outstanding wrestler of the decade.
* [[GranolaGirl Granola Guy]]: a vegan socialist.
* {{HSQ}}: Him showing up on {{WWE}} television gets Holy Shit chants.
* HypeBacklash: Not everyone "gets" the love for Daniel Bryan.
* PermaStubble
* RedBaron: On the indies, he was known as "the American Dragon." Although it has not been used on WWE TV yet, WWE ''did'' secure a trademark on the name.
* UnderwearOfPower
* WeakButSkilled
!!! Kaval (Brandon Silvestry)
* BadassBaritone
* BaldOfAwesome
* BoastfulRap: He did one as a promo, where he dissed his opponents on NXT and mentioned {{TNA}}.
--> "Call me a rookie, find out what I'm packing, cause I'm the only reason for some Total Nonstop Action."
* FinishingStomp: His FinishingMove is a diving double foot stomp.
* FragileSpeedster: Though he can go to LightingBruiser or GlassCannon depending on how he's booked. Always fast, the power of his strikes vary, at their peak he can bring SamoaJoe and TheBigShow to their knees.
* HonorBeforeReason
* HiddenDepths: Both in and out of character, Mr. Silvestry is supposed to be a very serious wrestler, Kaval is also a focused and proud badass, pairing him with the LaughablyEvil duo [=LayCool=] would seem to be a big mistake, instead you get some legitimately humorus moments that have helped all three of them get over.
* {{HSQ}}
* LawfulGood
* MythologyGag: Kaval has been described both by Matt Striker and himself as a "low-key" character, referencing his old name in the indies, Low Ki. In his one words, he's the only reason for some [[{{TNA}} Total Non-Stop Action]].
* NarmCharm: His entrance consists of him stalking out to the ring in a manner similar to {{Goldberg}}, except he's around half Bill's size.
* TheNapoleon: A minor case, but he didn't take kindly to being called small by TheBigShow.
* TheOneGuy: With Lay-Cool.
* PintSizedPowerhouse
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Seriously, if you translated his voice and attitude to a Klingon, it would totally fit.
* SeriousBusiness: He has a very old school attitude towards {{Kayfabe}}.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: He stands out a lot, not only for having a martial arts based wrestling style, but also his look, size, attitude and persona.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Lay-Cool are villains, he's being played as a {{Face}}, they get on pretty well though, probably because Lay-Cool are {{Harmless Villain}}s.
* TheUnfunny: To his NXT mentors Lay-Cool, who more or less treat him like a purse-dog.
* VocalDissonance
* WarriorMonk: He's a practicing Taoist and has the discipline of a soldier.
* WhatAnIdiot: Accepted a match for his spot on Team Smackdown at Bragging Rights against Tyler Reks ''right after'' lasting five minutes against The Big Show. [[CurbStompBattle Guess how that ended...]]
!!! CodyRhodes
* BreakoutCharacter: When he was in Legacy, most fans were sure that he would be the less successful teammate when the group inevitably split. Instead, he broke out of Legacy with his "Dashing" Cody Rhodes narcissist character, and has been a huge part of Smackdown since.
* ContinuityNod: Cody's moveset includes several moves picked up from his former partners, such as Hardcore Holly's Alabama Slam.
* TheDandy
* EarWorm: "WOOOOOOOAH-OH! YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS!"
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* TheFightingNarcissist
* InTheBlood: Dusty Rhodes seems to have charisma in his genes, judging by his sons...
* NotInTheFace: Almost a catchphrase for him.
!!! Drew [=McIntyre=] (Drew Galloway)
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui_VvlUVx_8 Broken Dreams]]," a dark and brooding song in contrast to his peers' more energetic songs.
* CombatPragmatist: Drew cheats at least once every match.
* ManInAKilt: On the indies. Sadly, he gave up the kilt for WWE so that he could be another guy in trunks.
* RedBaron: "The Sinister Scotsman"
* WeaponOfChoice: The ring itself.
* TheWesley: Invoked. His initial push to the Intercontinental Title involved WWE getting him over as a heel by giving him Wesley-ish traits (ShillingTheWesley courtesy of VinceMcMahon himself, being talked up by the commentators as a breakout star, and generally playing a BoringInvincibleVillain).

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Notable Tag Team Wrestlers]]

!!! The Steiner Brothers - Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner (Robert Rechsteiner, Scott Carl Rechsteiner)
* BadassFamily
* BadassLonghair: Scott, until late 1997.
* BashBrothers
* [[NiceHat Nice Headgear]]: Rick.
* WrestlingFamily
!!! The New Age Outlaws - The Road Dogg, Billy Gunn (Brian Gerard "B.G." James, Monty "Kip" Sopp)
* BadassCrew
* CatchPhrase: "YOUR ASS BETTER CAAAAAAAAALLLL SOMEBODY!"
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: James received a legitimate larynx injury that was going to prevent him for several weeks from talking louder than a whisper. Given that he always did the intro, this was a problem, as evidenced when in their first post-injury match Sopp tried to give the "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls" spiel, but kept blowing the lines because he'd never said them before. On that week's ''SmackDown'', they went to the ring with James carrying several pieces of posterboard under his arm. He proceeded to kneel by the ropes and toss them aside one at a time, cue card style, and Sopp gave a flawless rendition of their intro.
* DifferentAsNightAndDay: One was a showman-esque wrestler and member of an illustrious wrestling family who wore street cloths to the ring and had a voice of velvet. The other had an [[UnrelatedBrothers unrelated brother]] who is a power wrestler who wore just wrestling shorts and boots and had average mic skills. Together [[strike: TheyFightCrime]] they win tag team titles.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: "Oh, you didn't know?"
* MoralEventHorizon: When they tossed [[MickFoley Cactus Jack]] and Chainsaw Charlie off the stage in a dumpster.
* NiceHat: Both of them, when Billy was in the Smoking Gunns, and when Dogg was "The Real Double J" Jesse James.
* UnderwearOfPower: Billy Gunn.
* WrestlingFamily: Road Dogg.
!!! The Dudley Boyz - Bubba Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley (Mark S. [=LoMonaco=], Devon E. Hughes)
* BadassFamily: Moreso in the original ECW.
* DisContinuity: Reverend D-Von? Nope. Never heard of him.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: "D-VON, GET THE TABLES!!!"
* NonIdenticalTwins
* SaltAndPepper
* TagTeamTwins
* UnrelatedBrothers
* WrestlingFamily
* XtremeKoolLetterz
!!! The Headbangers - Mosh, Thrasher (Charles Warrington, Glenn Ruth)
* BaldOfAwesome: (Face)
* BaldOfEvil: (Heel)
* FacialMarkings
* FreakyIsCool
* {{Grunge}}: Their gimmick
* [[RealMenWearPink Real Men Wear Skirts]]
* ThoseTwoGuys
!!! La Resistance - Rene Dupree, Sylvain Grenier, Rob Conway (Rene Goguen, Sylvain Grenier, Robert Thomas Conway)
* EvilForeigner: Dupree and Grenier were, Conway was an American liaison.
* FakeNationality: None of them are even from France, Conway [[SarcasmMode surprisingly]] is American and Dupree and Grenier are [[CanadaEh Canadian]], French-Canadian, but still.
* MisplacedNationalism
* NiceHat: Their Berets
* PatrioticFervor
* ThePeteBest: Rene Dupree
!!! Dynamite Kid (Thomas "Tom" Billington) of The British Bulldogs
* BoisterousBruiser
* DomesticAbuse: In RealLife to his first wife Michelle (the sister of Bret Hart's ex-wife Julie).
* GeniusBruiser
* HandicappedBadass
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* UnderwearOfPower: And by extension, [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Wearing A Flag As A Wrestling Attire]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen
!!! Marty Jannetty (Frederick Marty Jannetty) of The Rockers
* TheBusCameBack: Every year and a half or so after WCW folded. He's usually on the wrong end of a match involving someone with a grudge against Shawn Michaels or a young superstar with a push or winning streak.
* {{Garfunkel}}: To Shawn Michaels, and one of the most famous wrestling examples of the trope.
* DemotedToExtra: In WCW.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He could have been as popular as HBK, but he sabotaged his own career with his actions.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Female Wrestlers/Divas]]


!!! Mae Young (Johnnie Mae Young)
* DirtyOldWoman: So, ''so'' much.
* [[BadassGrandpa Badass Grandma]]: How many ''80-year old women'' do you know that are not only willing, but eager to be put through tables?
** Not only did she ''want'' to go through the table, but when Bubba Ray Dudley tried to soften her landing and lessen the force he used on the throw, she walked up to him, ''slapped him across the face'', and told him "throw me through the table, asshole".
* WallBanger: The epitome of what her pregnancy storyline with Mark Henry was.
!!! Miss Elizabeth (Elizabeth Hulette)
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Diva]]: ''The'' greatest valet '''ever'''.
!!! Alundra Blayze/Madusa (Debra Ann Miceli)
* DarkActionGirl, strangely mixed with AllAmericanFace
* TakeThat: She did this to WWE when she threw the Women's title belt on a trash can during a live broadcast on {{WCW}} Nitro during the Monday Night Wars.
!!! Bull Nakano (Nakano Keiko)
* CuteMonsterGirl
* EvilForeigner
* ImprobableHairstyle
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was originally going to hold the women's championship longer and fight Bertha Faye but got busted for cocaine.
!!! Bertha Faye (Rhonda Singh f.k.a. "Monster Ripper")
* CuteBruiser
* PluckyComicRelief: When not beating up other wrestlers.
* StoutStrength
* TheGiant: She was not any taller than Alundra Blayze or Bull Nakano but was much heavier and very difficult to move.
!!! Sable (Rena Mero Lesnar, born Rena Greek)
* BadAss: Constantly faced men (usually Marc Mero) and Sable Bombed them.
* BlondesAreEvil (If she's Heel)
* FetishFuelStationAttendant
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Diva]]
* LadyOfWar
* LesYay: With Jacqueline in 1998 and Torrie Wilson in 2003.
* MsFanservice: She was the first diva to pose in {{Playboy}}
* SmallNameBigEgo
* TedBaxter
* TheVamp
!!! Jacqueline Moore (l.k.a. Ms. Tennessee)
* ActionGirl
* BiggerIsBetter: Averted, the fans still liked Sable more.
* [[IKnowKarate I know Taekwondo]]
* GagBoobs: Al Snow: "Don't bounce around too much, you'll get a black eye."
* HiredGuns: With the APA
* EasilyDistractedReferee: averted
* GlassJawReferee: also averted
* LesYay: With Sable.
* SassyBlackWoman
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Manager, Wrestler, Body Guard, Referee, Road Agent...
!!! Chyna (Joan Marie Laurer)
* BodyguardCrush: Towards Triple H back in the days.
* BoobsOfSteel
* ContinuityNod: Chyna was billed as "The Ninth Wonder of the World", in respect to Andre the Giant, who was the "Eighth".
* CharlesAtlasSuperPower: One of the very few female examples.
* CuteBruiser
* DarkActionGirl
* FailPolish: [[http://www.sportsgalore.net/wp-content/uploads/Chyna-The-9th-Wonder-of-the-World1.jpg Chyna when she debuted in 1997]]. Compare that to [[http://z.about.com/d/prowrestling/1/0/j/9/-/-/chyna12.jpg Chyna now, after the plastic surgery]].
* GroinAttack: Her infamous ''Low Blows''
* HotAmazon
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Diva]]
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By Stephanie McMahon]]
* SmallNameBigEgo
* WomanInBlack
* WomanScorned: To Triple H in RealLife. And how!
!!! Ivory (Lisa Moretti)
* ActionGirl
* BoobsOfSteel
* CoolTeacher: As a trainer on the show Tough Enough
* DressCode: Everyone in Right To Censor wore a white suit with black pants and a tie
* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Wasn't first hired until she was in her late thirties (as opposed to the early twenties of most Divas), and is unbelievably turning 50!
* MoralGuardian: In Right To Censor
* UniversalPoison: Her finishing move, Poison Ivory
!!! Lita (Amy Christine Dumas)
* ActionGirl (Face)
* BoobsOfSteel
* CuteBruiser
* DarkActionGirl (Heel)
* EvilRedHead (Heel)
* FieryRedHead
* [[TheHero The Heroine]]: Of her RealLife FiveManBand the Luchagores.
* HolyShitQuotient
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Diva]]
* IHaveTheHighGround
* TheLadette: When she was with Team Xtreme.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Both the Edge/Hardy feud and her eventualy retirement.
* TemptingFate: And Twisting it is her FinishingMove.
* YokoOhNo: When Lita and Edge's RealLife affair was revealed, guess who got the majority of the heat from the fans?
* TheWoobie: Ended up leaving the promotion because of the amount of harassment she got from fans, even in real life.
!!! TrishStratus (Patricia Anne Stratigias)
* ActionGirl
* BlondesAreEvil (If she's Heel)
* BoobsOfSteel
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Diva]]
* KickChick: In a humorous twisting of the trope, one of her finishers was the "Chick Kick".
* LadyOfWar
* MsFanservice: She also gets [[BoundAndGagged Bound and Gagged]] once by Melina so she could get a shot at Trish's title
* NiceHat
* TedBaxter (Heel)
* TookALevelInBadass: Multiple times, and very probably the iconic example for women's wrestlers. Starting out as a manager/valet, she ended up as a '''seven time''' Womens's Champion.
!!! Molly Holly (Nora Kristina Greenwald)
* BaldOfEvil: When she got shaved bald by Victoria at Wrestlemania XX. She eventually grew her back a year later.
* CoolBike: The Hurri-cycle
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: For a swimsuit contest against Trish Stratus, she disrobed and was revealed to be wearing... a [[TheFifties '50's-style]] one-piece, complete with a swimming cap!
* GirlNextDoor
* HollywoodPudgy: Good God, to a ridiculous extent. Every single match, ''someone'' had to call her fat and/or make fun of her ass, despite the fact that she wasn't anywhere near overweight and her ass was ''smaller'' than some of the Divas' that were mocking her.
** Not "smaller", just not as toned as Trish.
* IHaveTheHighGround
* ItRunsInTheFamily: {{Kayfabe}} since Hardcore and Crash Holly aren't her real cousins.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Her role as Spike Dudley's girlfriend got him over with a lot of [[{{WWE}} WWF]] fans who hadn't followed his career in ECW.
* PerkyFemaleMinion: In her "Mighty Molly" persona. Though it's hard to be perkier than [[{{Keet}} the Hurricane]].
!!! Stacy Keibler (Stacy Ann Keibler)
* BadassDecay
* BlondesAreEvil (If she's Heel)
* FetishFuelStationAttendant
* MsFanservice
* {{Pettanko}}: A B-cup at the absolute most, probably the "flattest" girl they've ever employed.
* ShowSomeLeg: ''42''-inch-long ones, to be exact.
* [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Tall Blond And Bishoujo]]
!!! Torrie Wilson (Torrie Anne Wilson)
* BlondesAreEvil (If she's Heel, and teaming with Candice Michelle and Victoria)
* BuxomIsBetter
* FetishFuelStationAttendant
* MsFanservice
* [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Tall Blond And Bishoujo]]
!!! Victoria (Lisa Marie Varon)
* BadassDecay: Started losing all her coolness when she started jobbing left and right to anything that's not nailed down or on fire.
* BoobsOfSteel
* CrazyAwesome
* CuteBruiser
* DarkActionGirl
* HearingVoices: Her first theme by TATU, "All the Things She Said".
* HotAmazon
* TheOphelia: Dark version, in her early career.
* ScreamingWoman
* TallDarkAndBishoujo
* {{Yandere}}
* {{Yangire}}
!!! Jazz
* BoobsOfSteel: Averted. Fans argued whether or not Jazz was stronger than Victoria but she manhandled every other woman she faced.
* DemotedToExtra: And it was sad.
* KickTheDog: Jazz liked to attack people who had just had a match and were too tired to fight back.
* SassyBlackWoman: Back in the old ECW.
* TedBaxter
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: The elevated double chicken wing became the bitch clamp and that was just the start.
!!! Gail Kim
* ActionGirl (Face)
* BadassDecay: Compare her early career and time in {{TNA}} with the caliber of work she's doing now. Big difference.
* BadassLongcoat: In her early career, she sports one.
* BoobsOfSteel: Averted. She actually had one of her implants rupture during a match.
* CoolShades: In her early career, she sports them.
* CuteBruiser
* DarkActionGirl (Heel)
* DemotedToExtra: On NXT season 3, AJ has ocassionally used a submission Gail Kim ''introduced'' to the WWE. Michael Cole insists AJ modified it from the octopus hold.
* ShoutOut: Her attire and titantron during her early career made several references to TheMatrix.
!!! Melina (Melina Nava Perez)
* ActionGirl (Face)
* BadassDecay: set at the begging of her face turn after being repeatedly brushed aside by Beth Phoenix... till she returned more badass than ever and took Beth's championship at the Royal Rumble!
* FetishFuelStationAttendant
* FurAndLoathing
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Turned violent over hair contact and nail damage in the early Smackdown days.
* MsFanservice: Dear god, her [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4Vz2vFhkk ring entrance]]. She's so ''bendy''.
* PrettyInMink
* ScreamingWarrior: She always screams before hitting her FinishingMove.
* TookALevelInBadass (Following Trish's footsteps, she started as a manager/valet and ultimately became a wrestler)
!!! Mickie James (Alexis Laree)
* ActionGirl
* [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]] (Her first storyline with Trish)
* BadassDecay: Considered by fans as a Trish Stratus clone.
* BoobsOfSteel
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When she kissed Trish under the mistletoe, gaining an Earth-shattering pop from the audience.
* CuteBruiser
* DarkActionGirl (Heel)
* {{Gainaxing}}: Have you ''seen'' her entrance?
* GenkiGirl: This troper is convinced her blood is made of caffeine. Have you ''seen'' her entrance?
* HollywoodPudgy: Following in the footsteps of Molly Holly...
* LoonyFan (To Trish after her FaceHeelTurn)
* PsychoLesbian (To Trish after her FaceHeelTurn)
* StalkerWithACrush (To Trish after her FaceHeelTurn)
* {{Yandere}} (To Trish after her FaceHeelTurn)
!!! BethPhoenix (Elizabeth Kocanski Carolan)
* AbortedArc: In 2006, there were plans to reveal the history between the Glamazon and Mickie James, but they were cancelled when Beth broke her jaw in a match with Victoria.
* BlondesAreEvil
* BoobsOfSteel
* CharlesAtlasSuperPower: Most notable female example since Chyna.
* CuteBruiser
* DarkActionGirl
* [[HotAmazon Hot]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Glamazon]]
* LadyOfWar
* SomethingCompletelyDiferent: A very serious, brutal and powerful wrestler in a division characterized by everything but.
!!! Michelle [=McCool=] (Michelle Leigh [=McCool=]-[[TheUndertaker Callaway]])
* ActionGirl (Face)
* AlliterativeName
* AwesomeMcCoolName
* BlondesAreEvil (Heel)
* DarkActionGirl (Heel)
* TheFundamentalist
* HotTeacher and HotForStudent (Her past gimmick)
* JerkAss (Heel)
* LightIsNotGood (Many of her moves have a religious connatation, she does not live up to those standards.)
* {{Meganekko}} (See Hot For Student above)
* RomanceOnTheSet: Has been quietly seeing TheUndertaker for several years, and were recently married.
* [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Tall Blonde And Bishoujo]]: She's one of the tallest women's wrestlers they have.
* TedBaxter (Heel)
!!! Maryse (Maryse Ouellet)
* ActionGirl
* BadassLongrobe
* BlondesAreEvil
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Though it is a tan.
* DirtyCoward
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench
* TedBaxter
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: It's a very platinum blonde.
* ZettaiRyouiki
!!! Natalya (Natalie "Nattie" Katherine Neidhart)
* ActionGirl
* AlliterativeName: Her real name is Natalie Neidhart.
* {{Badass}}
* BadassFamily: She's the daughter of Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart and niece to the Hart Family.
* BlondesAreEvil
* BoobsOfSteel
* CuteBruiser: Considering that her FinishingMove for a while was a Powerbomb, this is very true.
* EvilRedHead: In the summer of 2008, because there were too many blonde divas in WWE.
* GutturalGrowler: Has a very raspy voice.
* HotAmazon
* ItRunsInTheFamily: See BadassFamily.
* JerkAss
* LanternLawOfJustice
* TedBaxter
!!! Jillian Hall (Jillian Faye Fletcher)
* BlondesAreEvil
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: During her run as JBL's "image consultant".
* DumbBlonde
* DreadfulMusician: And ''how''. Ironically enough, her in-character album has outsold the album of the singer her character is based on (Brooke Hogan, [[TakeThat Hulk Hogan's daughter]]).
* GagBoobs: One of her moves is to [[MarshmallowHell jam an opponent's face into her clevage]].
* SquashMatch: Shortest reigning Diva's champion on record, a record that probably won't be broken.
* TedBaxter
!!! Maria (Maria Louise Kanellis)
* CloudCuckoolander
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Seriously. Girl can't remember who the President is, but she can spout of a stream of perfect legalese during the Bischoff Trial arc in a fabulous TakeThat to everyone who was stereotyping her as a DumbBlonde.
* CuteBruiser
* DumbBlonde: Both exemplifies and subverts the trope.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: She's always been extremely popular, and was voted 2009 Diva of the Year.
* FieryRedhead: When she dyed her hair.
* InTheHood: Subverted - she's adorable and cute and blows kisses when she takes her hood off.
* PerkyFemaleMinion: When she was Santino Marella's valet.
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By WWE Execs]]: Released by {{WWE}} at what appears to be a really head-scratch-inducing time; just as she's getting national television exposure on ''The Apprentice''. Rumor has it that the {{WWE}} brass didn't want her pulling a Stacy Keibler and leaving wrestling once she got famous.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Managers]]

!!! Paul Bearer (William Alvin "Bill" Moody)
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* FatBastard
* IWasQuiteALooker: So says he.
* {{Narm}}
* NightmareFuel
* NonActionGuy: This was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] on the May 10, 1999 episode of Raw is War when he was forced by Shawn Michaels to wrestle the Big Show.
* PaleSkinnedBrunette
* PunnyName
* SharpDressedMan
* [[{{ptitle79rdan6v}} Wrestling Doesn't Pay]]: Inverted, as he is actually a certified mortician in real-life, and currently operates a funeral home in Mobile, Alabama.
!!! Bobby "The Brain" Heenan (Raymond Louis Heenan)
* EverythingsBetterWithBob
* IllBoy: In RealLife
* NonActionGuy: Although he did wrestle a few times, such as at both WrestleMania IV and V, and the 1989 Survivor Series.
* TheSmartGuy ([[RedBaron Duh]]!)
!!! Mr. Fuji (Harry Fujiwara)
* ActionSurvivor
* AHandfulForAnEye (salt in the eyes was a favorite trick)
* BaldOfEvil
* EvilForeigner
* NiceHat
!!! Jimmy Hart (Jimmy Ray Hart)
* AmbiguouslyGay
* CoolShades
* Main/{{Crossdresser}}: When he dressed up as the Honky Tonk Man's valet, Peggy Sue.
* TheJimmyHartVersion: The TropeNamer
* LargeHam
* NonActionGuy
!!! Yamaguchi-San
* EvilForeigner
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Threatened to neuter Val Venis with one.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Announcers]]

!!! Howard "The Fink" Finkel
* LargeHam (The winner of the bout... and '''''NEW!!!''''' World Wrestling Federation Champion!)
* NonActionGuy
!!! Lilian Garcia
* IdolSinger (In RealLife)
* [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Tall Blond And Bishoujo]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Commentators/General Managers]]

!! Commentary/Backstage Personalities
!!! MichaelCole
* AmbiguouslyGay
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[http://pottymouthcole.ytmnd.com/ THIS... Just, this!]]
* {{Buttmonkey}}: With original-flavor DX, with Tazz, with the Rock ''so, so much'' - with pretty much any heel wrestler/team/stable who wants to pick on someone convenient.
* CaptainObvious: As Tazz often pointed out.
* CatchPhrase: "Vintage [X]" is starting to become one as of late.
* JonasQuinn: Seems to have turned himself into a clone of JR since becoming Raw's lead announcer. When he was on Smackdown, he had his own play-by-play style; now he's one black Stetson and one "BAH GAWD! STONE COLD!" away from a Jim Ross {{Expy}}. With his recent on-screen love for The Miz, he appears to have found an object of admiration that can compare to JR's love for Stone Cold.
* {{Hatedom}}: If a Rookie on "NXT" has a huge internet following, expect him to be one towards him (As with [[BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] and now seemingly [[strike:Lo-Ki [[{{TNA}} Senshi]]]] Kaval).
* NonActionGuy
* PetTheDog: Him admitting that Kaval's promo in the [=NXT=] season 2 finale was pretty good as well as congratulating him winning qualifies, given his usual attitude towards the "internet darlings."
* ReplacementScrappy: Been this at various points of his career, usually when replacing Jim Ross.
* TheScrappy
* TookALevelInJerkAss: At least when it comes to [[strike:DanielBryan]] anyone with a large internet following. He seems to be doing a ''very'' gradual heel turn, commentating as a full-fledged heel in favor of The Miz while trashing the babyface Daniel Bryan and complaining about R-Truth's raps.
** FridgeBrilliance: It's his way of getting back at the [[SmartMark Smarks]] (who see Bryan Danielson as an Indy legend) for his Scrappy status. His current fanboying of The Miz can also be seen as a TakeThat towards Daniel Bryan.
!!! Mean Gene Okerlund
* NonActionGuy: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3cYHHISZgE A series of vignettes]] with HulkHogan highlighted this, as Hogan had to train Gene to participate in a wrestling match against Mr. Fuji and George "The Animal" Steele at a house show in Minneapolis in 1984. For his part, Gene was more interested in cigars and sleeping in than training, prayers, and vitamins.
* TakeThat: A fairly impressive one to Eric Bischoff on the 10th anniversary show of Raw: "Eric, maybe if you'd have shut up and learned how to run your company, we'd be celebrating the 10th anniversary of [[{{WCW}} Nitro]]."
!!! MikeAdamle
* AcceptableTargets: Even his broadcast partners (Tazz and Jerry Lawler) openly mocked his terrible commentary skills.
* {{Did Not Do the Research}}
* EpicFail
* NonActionGuy
* ReplacementScrappy: When he replaced Joey Styles at the broadcast table, the fans were [[UnderStatement less than happy]].
* TheLoad
* WTHCastingAgency
!!! JimRoss
* ActionSurvivor
* BigOMG
* CatchPhrase: "IT'S A SLOBBER KNOCKER".
** "BUSINESS JUST PICKED UP!"
** "HE'S GETTING WHUPPED LIKE A GOVERNMENT MULE!"
** "HE'S STOMPING A MUDHOLE IN HIM AND WALKING IT DRY!"
** "AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, HE'S BROKEN IN HALF!"
** "This is going to be Bowling Shoe Ugly."
* CoolOldGuy
* LampshadeHanging: Just check the main entry.
* {{Megane}}
* NiceHat
* SayMyName: "STONE COLD! STONE COLD! STONE COLD!"
!!! Jerry Lawler
* BadassDecay
* {{Casanova}}
* ChivalrousPervert
* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyCoward (Heel)
* DirtyOldMan
* DoNotCallMePaul: Hates being called "Burger King".
* FoeYay: With Andy Kaufman and BretHart.
* HandsomeLech
* HoYay: With Jim Ross.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
!!! Joey Styles
* AndTheFandomRejoiced: [=WWE=]'s revamp of ECW was looking downright [[CrazyAwesome awesome]] when it was announced that Joey would be heading up the announcing team for it. Shame about [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks what it became]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The nerdy-looking, [[{{Meganekko}} glasses-wearing]] journalist/commentator? Once legitimately [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punched]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome out]] John Bradshaw Layfield.
* BigOMG: His CatchPhrase.
* CatchPhrase: "OH MY GOD!". Also, [[CatFight "CATFIIIIIIIGHT!"]].
* CoolOldGuy
* DramaticPause: Actually invoked by name a few times.
* KickedUpstairs: Currently runs WWE's website.
* {{Megane}}
* NonActionGuy
* OnlySaneMan: Frequently. Especially when Paul Heyman is around.
* WorkedShoot: One of the most infamous examples, when he "quit" his commentary position and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1MJBO6k3a0 proceeded to take Vince McMahon and the entire professional wrestling industry to task]]. Note - skip to 5:54 in the overly-long clip.
!!!Jonathan Coachman
* ActionSurvivor
* BaldOfEvil: Post-Heel turn.
* ButtMonkey: Mostly for the Rock and DX.
* CoolShades
* [[EvilMinions Evil Minion]]: To Eric Bischoff
* NiceHat: Briefly wore a white cowboy hat during his feud with JR.
* WhosLaughingNow: Austin nixing him from the Raw announce team with a stunner when JR came back pushed him to side with Bischoff.
!!!Sho Funaki (Shoichi Funaki)
* DarkhorseVictory: Few expected him to become number one contender to the cruiser weight championship. Fewer expected him to win it yet he did and held on to it.
* GratuitousEnglish: He got better
* {{Jobber}}: One of the more well known examples, has lost to the lowest of the low. All his wins were shockers.
* IKnowKungFu
* LaughablyEvil: As part of Kaentai.
* [[CueTheSun Rising Sun]]: One of his finishing moves.
!!! Matt Striker
* BadassDecay: Used to be an actual wrestler, now...well.
* BaseBreaker: Half of the IWC loves him for being a {{smark}} and mentioning things from wrestler's indy days, the other half thinks he's the most annoying commentator alive and needs to shut the hell up.
* FridgeBrilliance: Matt was an indepedent wrestler for five years, of course he knows this stuff.
* HollywoodNerd
* HotTeacher: Before he started his wrestling career, he taught.
* {{Smark}}: He is very internet friendly, loves Kaval and BryanDanielson, and knows a lot about the business, well, he says he does.
* ShoutOut: Has referenced a bevy of nerdy things, wrestling and non-wrestling.
** Calling Kaval "low key", Brandon Silvestry's name on the indies was Low Ki.
** Saying Kofi Kingston a Ghanaian, was sent by [[RingOfHonor Prince Nana]] of Ghana.
** Calling Alberto Del Rio two faced, his mexican ring name was Dos Caras (Two Faces) Jr.
** Saying a spinning side slam by [[TheNexus Wade Barrett]] was similar to [[{{TNA}} Abyss's]] Black Hole Slam.
** Saying DanielBryan should go for the [[FinishingMove Cattle Mutilation]].
* TheSmartGuy: Always informs the audience the history of a move and how it effects your body.
* YouSuck: He may be a grade A {{Smark}}, but he apparently doesn't have a girlfriend, his sister watches Smackdown for Drew [=McIntyire=] and CodyRhodes, and nobody respects him.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Even when in his pseudo-heel persona, he's never really mean to anybody, he's just over the top in praising everyone that he comes off as creepy and toady.
!!! Josh Matthews
* ButtMonkey
* HeyItsThatGuy - He was on Tough Enough.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg - CM Punk gave him this treatment on one episode of NXT. "I'm CM Punk, you can join me and Michael Cole next week. Shut up Josh."
* NonActionGuy
* OneOfUs - He's admitted to being a die hard wrestling fan, which was visible when he did color commentary for Velocity early in his career.
* VitriolicBestBuds - With Michael Cole on NXT seemingly.

!!General Managers
!!! Eric Bischoff
* ActionSurvivor
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Three Words]] - Hot Lesbian Action.
* HolyShitQuotient: His entrance as the new General Manager of Raw in 2002. Even the ''wrestlers'' were shocked.
* IKnowKarate
* JerkAss
* LawfulEvil
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem
* SmugSnake
* TedBaxter
* TheRival: To Vince [=McMahon=], in RealLife as well as storyline.
!!! Paul Heyman
* ActionSurvivor
* AscendedFanboy: And he employed them, too.
* BaldOfEvil: Though he used to have BadassLonghair back in WCW.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DrinkingTheKoolAid: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] the trope in-character as the explanation for [=ECW=]'s popularity; also used to refer to Heyman and the rest of the [=ECW=] wrestlers' cultlike mentality and loyalty.
* HotBlooded
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Even when he performed in [=WWE=], Heyman still remained loyal to [=ECW=], and kept promoting it.
* LargeHam: Probably one of the only people capable of upstaging ''Vince [=McMahon=]''.
* LawfulEvil: Generally, though he sometimes skits into ChaoticEvil during his run as Smackdown's General Manager.
* ManipulativeBastard
* NiceHat: Once he started going bald.
* RunningTheAsylum: While he mainly embodied this in [=ECW=], he also put this into practice as GM.
* SandInMyEyes: ''"I want you all to know I'm not crying. My eyes are red because I was in the back smoking a joint with Van Dam!"''
* SayMyName: One of [=ECW=]'s [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]] is the crowd chanting "THANK YOU PAUL" for five minutes straight during One Night Stand '05.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem
* SmugSnake
* WorkedShoot: Heyman's signature style of promo, not to mention multiple [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]] for him. Pick a Heyman [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vswZ73WETpc shoot]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_xzLijve40 promo]]. ''Any'' Heyman [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XnzZXpVHMs shoot promo]].
!!!Theodore Long
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He ''is'' the General Manager of Smackdown!
* BaldOfAwesome
* BaldOfEvil: Heel, dating back to his days as a manager in NWA and WCW.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He threw shoes at people
* LawfulGood: Recently however...
* {{Megane}}
* NonActionGuy
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Recently however..
* VerbalTic: "Playa'", "Holla'" or "Believe that!"
* TheWoobie: The man has taken a lot of crap lately.
!!! Vickie Guerrero
* ActionSurvivor
* {{BBW}}: No matter what WWE may say about it, this is what she is.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Her frog splash at WrestleMania 26, not only paying tribute to her husband, but doing it despite looking abjectly terrified at being a good fifteen feet in the air.
* DirtyOldWoman: While not really that old, she has a necklace with Cougar on it, and since she's now hitting on Dolph Ziggler, and previously to that, {{Edge}}.
* EvilCripple
* HollywoodPudgy
* HotMom: Look, I'm sorry Eddie died. Truly, I am. But ''damn!!''
* LawfulEvil
* MostAnnoyingSound: "[[CatchPhrase EXCUSE ME]]!!!"
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem
* TyrantTakesTheHelm
* XPacHeat: Started out getting this, now, her heel heat is pretty much legitimate.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Rock 'N' Wrestling Era (1984 - 1993)]]
!!! [[BadNewsAllen Bad News Brown]] (Allen James Coage)
* AngryBlackMan: Somewhat implied in his interviews, though never expressed outright.
* BadAss
* BadassBeard
* BaldOfEvil
* CatchPhrase: "Lemme tell you beer-bellied share-croppers one thing..."
* ChaoticNeutral: Had no problem beating up [[{{Face}} faces]] or [[{{Heel}} heels]].
* IWorkAlone
* JiveTurkey
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Earned the [[RedBaron nickname]] Bad News in judo before he started wrestling.
* ScaryBlackMan: And how!
* ShoutOut: Used the enzuigiri as a finisher in honor of his wrestling mentor Antonio Inoki.
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! {{Ted Di Biase}} (Theodore Marvin "Ted" [=DiBiase=], Sr.)
* BadassBeard
* BattleButler: Virgil, [=DiBiase's=] bodyguard, fits the trope to a T.
* CatchPhrase: "Everybody's got a price."
* DirtyCoward
* DressedToKill: Was almost always in a tux or suit when out of the ring.
* EarWorm: ''The Million Dollar Rap'' (His entrance theme)
* EvilLaugh
* {{Fiction 500}}
* GreenEyedMonster

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Both backwards and forwards.
* LargeHam
* [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent]] and ManipulativeBastard
* [[strike:Money]] [[strike:Money]] [[strike:Money]] [[strike:Money]] MoneySong [[strike:[[EvilLaugh GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA]]!]]
* NeutralEvil
* RedBaron: "The Million Dollar Man"
* [[RichBitch Rich Bastard]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* SmugSnake
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! HulkHogan (Terry Gene Bollea)
* AllAmericanFace (Right down to his entrance theme)
* AlliterativeName
* AnimatedAdaptation: Had his own Saturday morning cartoon show ''Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N Wrestling''.

* BerserkButton: Used to be real touchy about his balding hair. He has lightened up quite a bit in recent years.
* BoringInvincibleHero
* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: When Vince [=McMahon=] banned him from {{WWE}}, "Mr. America" showed up to carry on his legacy. As Mr. America himself said, "I'm not Hulk Hogan, BROTHER!"
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Inverted. Hulk has Chronic Getting-Backstabbed Disorder; he never had a friend that didn't betray him and try to take him out.
* CoolMask: As Hulk Machine and Mr. America.
* DorkAge: The fist helmet. My god, the fist helmet.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Upon his return as part of the nWo in 2002.
* ExecutiveMeddling: [=WrestleMania IX=] is probably his most well-known offense ([[FingerPokeOfDoom in the WWF/E, at least]]).
* FiveMovesOfDoom: [[NoSell No-sell]] offense, punch, Irish Whip, boot to the face, legdrop. Lather, rinse, repeat for over ''thirty years''.
* GodModeSue
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite his [[LawfulGood squeaky-clean]] image, he would choke, scratch, eye gouge, and use weapons as much as his opponents, sometimes more.

* LargeHam
* LawfulGood: So, so much in the 80s, although he is ChaoticEvil upon his return as part of the {{nWo}}.
* [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope Marvel Owns This Name]]: The name Hulk was owned by [[MarvelComics Marvel]] [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Comics]]. For one-shot appearances, Hulk would be referred to as "Hollywood Hogan" to get around the trademark.
* RedBaron: "The Incredible," "The Immortal," "Hollywood"
* SpotlightStealingSquad

* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Does this on Wrestlemania VII. During his Mr. America gimmick in 2003, he wore the American flag as a Wrestling attire.
* VerbalTic: "BROTHER!"
!!! [[IronSheik The Iron Sheik]] (Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri)
* BaldOfEvil
* EvilForeigner
* MemeticMutation: His shoot interviews have given rise to a lot of this; in particular, "FAAAAAACKING BULLSHEHHHHHT!"
-->"...break his back, fuck him in the ass, and make him humble!"
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Nikolai Volkoff.

!!! RowdyRoddyPiper (Roderick George Toombs)
* AxCrazy
* CoolMask: As Piper Machine.
* FakeNationality (billed from Scotland, actually from Saskatchewan)
* HotBlooded
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* JerkAss (Heel)
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold (Face)
* ManInAKilt

* ViolentGlaswegian
!!! [[RandySavage Randy Savage]] (Randall Mario Poffo)

* CoolShades: At least cool by 1980's standards.
* CrazySurvivalist: Bordering on WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity at times.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: His marriage to Elizabeth ({{Kayfabe}}, since they'd already been married for years) at [=SummerSlam=].
** Arguably, their reunion at WrestleMania three months earlier.
* [[{{ptitlews9vjxau4x1j}} Hey, It's That Voice!]]: By that I mean his voiceover work and not his rap CD.
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]

* NiceHat: When he started wearing a cowboy hat as part of his entrance attire from 1990 to 1996.
* RedBaron: "Macho Man"
* SanitySlippage: Back in the 1980's, he would just [[LoveMakesYouCrazy get violently upset if he thought someone was making moves on Elizabeth]]. [[ItGotWorse It went downhill from there]].
* TedBaxter
* UnderwearOfPower
* VerbalTic: "OOHH YEAH..."
** "Dig it!"
** (as parodied by Macho Libre) "Sayin' everything twice... Sayin'. Everything. TWICE!"
* {{Yandere}}
!!! RicFlair (Richard Morgan Fliehr)
* [[ArmorPiercingSlap Armor Piercing Chop]]: [[MemeticMutation WOOOOO!]]
* BadassGrandpa
* BadassLongrobe
* BlondGuysAreEvil (If he's a Heel)
* {{Casanova}}
* ChaoticNeutral
* ChivalrousPervert
* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyOldMan: But we love him anyway.
* DirtyCoward: Made a career out of using this gimmick even when he was a face; one of his [[RedBaron Red Barons]] is "The Dirtiest Player in the Game".
* DracoInLeatherPants (Oh dear..)
* {{Expy}}: His "Nature Boy" nickname and persona was lovingly ripped off of "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers.
* FourIsDeath: His finisher, the Figure-Four Leglock. Aside from that, he was part of four men [[PowerStable stables]] such as the Four Horsemen and Evolution.
* [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave Grandpa What Massive Hotness You Have]]
* [[PrettyInMink Handsome In Mink]]
* HandsomeLech

* IfYouKnowWhatIMean: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two Words]]: "Space Mountain".
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Triple H and Shawn Michaels, most notably.
* LoveableSexManiac
* MagnificentBastard
* MemeticMutation: His signature "WOOOO!" after the chops? Was actually started by Shane Douglas as a TakeThat to Flair, who he thought was making a simple chop [[ArmorPiercingSlap too powerful]]. Flair eventually adopted it himself because the fans wouldn't stop interjecting it into every match.
* RedBaron: "Nature Boy," "The dirtiest player in the game"
* SharpDressedMan: Probably the Ur-Example. There is a reason one of his nicknames is "Slick Ric".
* TheMentor: In his later years.
* TedBaxter

* VerbalTic: '''WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!'''
!!! [[SgtSlaughter Sgt. Slaughter]] (Robert Remus)
* BaldOfEvil (If he's a Heel)
* CelebrityToons/[[{{ptitlews9vjxau4x1j}} Hey, It's That Voice!]] (Did you know he was a member of GIJoe?)

* DrillSergeantNasty
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* LargeHam
* LawfulEvil (Heel)
* LawfulNeutral (Face)
* MilitaryMaverick
* NiceHat
* OneManArmy (If he's a Face)
* TheQuisling (One of, if not, his most memorable Heel role)
* SergeantRock
!!! [[UltimateWarrior The Ultimate Warrior]] (Warrior FKA James Brian Hellwig)
* BecomingTheMask: In RealLife
* BoringInvincibleHero
* CloudCuckooLander

* LargeHam
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He's also a university professor, which means his official title is Professor Warrior.
* PartsUnknown: This is where he is billed from.
* ScreamingWarrior
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: ''Seriously''. Just try and decipher a Warrior promo.
* SmallNameBigEgo

* UngratefulBastard
!!! RickySteamboat (Richard Henry Blood, Sr.)
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: His match with Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 25. "HE'S STILL GOT IT! (clap clap clap clap) HE'S STILL GOT IT!"
* TheDragon: His RedBaron
* {{Face}}: Spent his ''entire career'' as a good guy.

* IHaveTheHighGround
* IKnowKungFu

* LightningBruiser
* TheMaster
* RetiredBadass (In 2009, ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And How]]''!)
* UnderwearOfPower: Before switching to long tights in the mid-1980's.
!!! [[JakeRoberts Jake The Snake Roberts]] (Aurelian Smith, Jr.)
* AxCrazy
* BadAss
* BadassDecay: During the mid 1990's.
* CompleteMonster: His unprovoked attack on Randy Savage & Miss Elizabeth's wedding reception, followed by him attempting to attack Elizabeth with a chair.
* FallenHero: The documentary ''Beyond the Mat'' shows how much he has fallen from grace, [[spoiler: and how much his own daughter hates him.]]

* MagnificentBastard
* MoralEventHorizon: Slapping Miss Elizabeth, absolutely unheard of at the time.
* ParentalIncest: Sadly, the product thereof, the trauma of which caused many of his substance abuse problems.
* SmugSnake: Hence the name, and complete with [[RightHandCat Right Hand Snake]]
!!! [[HonkyTonkMan The Honky Tonk Man]] (Roy Wayne Farris)
* CaptainErsatz: [[ElvisPresley Do You Still Have To Ask]]?
* DirtyCoward
* [[FakeBand Fake Singer]]
* [[InstrumentOfMurder Instrument Of Destruction]]: His guitar.
* [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Screw The Rules, I Have A Title!]]: AKA the "Honky Tonk Finish".
* VillainSong: ''I'm cool, I'm cocky I'm bad.''
* WrestlingDoesntPay: He's a wrestling ElvisImpersonator.
!!! Tito Santana (Merced Solis)
* BadassLonghair
* DemotedToExtra
* FoeYay: With Rick Martel.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: Late in his carrer, he became "El Matador".
!!! Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake (Edward Harrison Leslie)
* AlliterativeName
* NotInTheFace: A stipulation added to all his matches [[JustifiedTrope after his parasailing accident]].
* RedBaron
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Because he was Hulk Hogan's close friend, this is [[strike: alledgedly]] why he found work in the 1980's and why he had a talk show segment after his parasailing accident in the summer of 1990.
* TalkShowWithFists: "The Barbershop"
* TraumaticHaircut
* WeaponOfChoice: Hedgeclippers
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling barber [[{{Ptitleh6h2ojyu}} at fist]].
!!! "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan (James Stuart Duggan)
* AllAmericanFace
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Hooo!" and "U-S-A!"
* RingOldies: 54 and still wrestling, too bad it's as a {{Jobber}}.
* VerbalTic: See Catchphrase
* WeaponOfChoice: A 2 x 4
* TheWorfEffect: For Hulk Hogan
!!! "Ravishing" Rick Rude (Richard Erwin Rood)
* AlliterativeName: Both his wrestling and real names have ''RR'' initials. Even his RedBaron starts with the letter ''R''
* BadassLongcoat: It fits his gimmick.
* BadassMustache
* CatchPhrase: "What I'd like to have right now is for all you..." "Keep the noise down, while I take my robe off..."
* DressedToKill: In DX.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: A steel briefcase in DX.
* NarmCharm
!!! Irwin R. Schyster (Lawrence Michael Rotunda)
* DressedToKill
* FunWithAcronyms: Wow, if you take the three initials in his name, it spells IRS.
* HoYay: With Barry Windham (both in the ring and RealLife).
* ImprobableWeaponUser: A breifcase.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: His whole damn gimmick.
* MeaningfulName
* NarmCharm
* PunnyName
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: For some odd reason, before the IRS gimmick he went by Mike Rotund'''o''' instead of Mike Rotund'''a''', his real last name.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero
* [[SoBadItsGood So Bad It's Good]]: His theme music.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling IRS agent.
** He was also a wrestling boat captain in WCW.
!!! The Mountie (Jacques Rougeau Jr.)
* AlwaysGetsHisMan
* CanadaEh
* CivvieSpandex: Wrestles in his mountie gear.
* CoolShades
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Wrestling in WCW under his given name, he became one of the few people ''in wrestling history'' to get a CLEAN win over '''HulkHogan'''.
* DirtyCop
* DreadfulMusician: Sings in both his Mountie and Quebeccers themes... off-key.
* EvilForeigner
* NiceHat
* SiblingTeam: With his older brother Raymond as the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers.
* StunGuns
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling mountie.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: New Generation Era (1993 - 1997)]]
!!! [[BretHart Bret "Hitman" Hart]] (Bret Sergeant Hart)
* TheAce
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To a Heel Owen Hart.
* [[AmericansHateTingle Americans Are Ambivalent Over Bret Hart]]: Even as a face Bret was never as popular as his predecessors.
* BadassFamily
* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Canadian Wrestling Fans Love Bret Hart]]: Oh so much, It is the reason why the title was given to him instead of Tito Santana.
* CoolShades
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Him and Shawn Michaels burying the hatchet over the MontrealScrewjob after ''twelve years'' and embracing.
* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Younger Brother]]: Owen Hart
* FiveMovesOfDoom
* HitmanWithAHeart ([[IncrediblyLamePun And a Hart]] too.)
* HoistByHisOwnPetard or [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By Vince/Shawn/Earl Hebner]]: Depending on which side of the [[InternetBackdraft "debate"]] you're on.
* HotDad
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* LawfulGood: Until his FaceHeelTurn, when he is NeutralEvil. Currently, he's NeutralGood.
* RealMenWearPink
!!! ShawnMichaels (Michael Shawn Hickenbottom)
* TheAce
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Surprisingly, it gets worse as he gets older. He was focused - if juvenily-focused - when he was younger. In the 2006 revival of DX, he was lucky if he could go an entire promo or 3-minute segment without either getting distracted or running around like a three-year-old.
* [[{{Bishounen}} Biseinen]]
* BloodBrothers: The entire Kliq, but especially Triple H.
* BookEnds: [[TearJerker ''Ladies and gentlemen, the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, has left the building.'']]
* BreakupBreakout: Famously, from The Rockers, which makes Marty Jannetty his [[{{Garfunkel}} Garfunkel]].
** To stress how important the Rockers' breakup was, not only has his [[FaceHeelTurn superkick to Marty Janetty]] become an iconic image, Marty Janetty himself has become synonymous with [[{{Garfunkel}} the less-talented person of a broken-up partnership]].
** In fact, this is such a huge example, the originally planned name for BreakupBreakout was "The Janetty".
* BreakingTheFourthWall: One of the most infamous examples in wrestling history, he's one of the four wrestlers who publicly said buh-bye to {{Kayfabe}} with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kliq#Curtain_Call:_The_MSG_Incident Curtain Call]].
* [[AmericansHateTingle Canadian Wrestling Fans Hate Shawn Michaels]]: So, so much after the MontrealScrewjob. But around 2006, things started to look better.
** Shawn even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] it in an off-the-air promo the night he was finally cheered in Montreal (as a part of uber-face tag team DX): ''"And because, for one night, Montreal forgave me . . ."''
* {{Casanova}}
* ChaoticNeutral
* ChivalrousPervert
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Lampshaded many, many times during his feuds with Triple H, going back to [[BreakupBreakout his superkick of Marty Janetty]], to Diesel, to Austin, to John Cena, etc.
* CoolOldGuy
* CoolHat: His cowboy hats during his entrance after 2005.
* CreepyCoolCrosses: His merchandise starting from his 2002 return.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: It would be shorter to list wrestling-related CMOA's that Shawn Michaels ''isn't'' a part of, especially at Wrestlemania.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Him and Bret Hart burying the hatchet over the MontrealScrewjob after ''twelve years'' and embracing.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: During his entrance since returning in 2002.
* {{Delinquents}}: DX ''loves'' this trope. Also had elements of it in RealLife, since the DX concept was based off Michaels' and Triple H's behind the scenes friendship and juvenile sense of humor.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune

* EstrogenBrigadeBait: [[strike:In his early career]] Always. Especially with the chaps.
* EvilForeigner: To the Canadians.
* GimmickMatches: He participated in many firsts, most notably the first Ladder Match (with Razor Ramon at Wrestlemania 10) and the first Hell in a Cell (with the Undertaker at In Your House '97).
* HandsomeLech
* HeroicBSOD: After Triple H's [[GameBreakingInjury second quad tear]] at New Year's Revolution '07, Shawn is getting beat down by Rated-RKO (Randy Orton and Edge), who are trash-talking DX while they do it. Shawn rolls out the ring, picks up Hunter's [[WeaponOfChoice sledgehammer]] and stares at it for a good minute or two. Cue the RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
** He's also had a series of them in 2010, from losing the Royal Rumble onwards.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Not that we don't wonder about the "heterosexual" tag, but Triple H and Shawn Michaels are, in the words of Jim Ross, "closer than a lot of brothers" in RealLife as well as in-character.
** In his book, Shawn calls Hunter "one of the best men I've ever known" and admits he wouldn't have survived 1996-2000 without Hunter.
* HolyShitQuotient
* HotDad
* HoYay: Triple H (including the time Shawn [[FanService kissed him]] on live television), Chris Jericho, John Cena, Marty Janetty, even some FoeYay with Bret Hart.
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]] (One of his {{Red Baron}}s in fact.)
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Doesn't outright break it as much as Triple H, but he has his moments.
** ''"Man, there's something familiar about that kid but I can't quite put my finger on it!"'' (Taps Triple H's shoulder)
* LoveableRogue
* LoveableSexManiac
* MagnificentBastard: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODA4lyd7LSg "Who's your Daddy, Montreal?"]]
* MilitaryBrat
* {{Nakama}}: The Kliq. Mess with one, and the rest will make your life a living hell.
* NeverLiveItDown: Go ahead, ask a Canadian their opinion on Shawn Michaels. We'll wait until the "YOU SCREWED BRET" chants die down.
* NiceHat: Shawn wears a cowboy as part of his entrance attire nowadays.
* PermaStubble (Late in his career.)
* RedBaron: Heart Break Kid, HBK, The Showstopper, The Main Event, The Icon, Mr. Wrestlemania
* SpotlightStealingSquad: The Kliq and DX kind of live for this trope.
* TearJerker: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elBGHdvlYgk His original retirement]], his final match against TheUndertaker, and his farewell on the following Raw.
** Not to mention [[RicFlair "I'm sorry. I love you."]]
* TedBaxter
* TheFundamentalist: In real life, from 2001-present. Tones it down for his career, though there have been many, many [[LampshadeHanging mentions]] of his religion by Triple H.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Doesn't pick on Hunter as much as Hunter picks on him, but he has his moments of mockery and asskicking.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two words]]: D-Generation X.
!!! TheUndertaker (Mark William Calaway)
* TheAce
* AGodAmI (During his Ministry days)
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of Death. But then, maybe it's all mind games...
* BackFromTheDead (Several Times)
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BadassBiker: During his Big Evil persona, to the point of riding a giant freaking Harley-Davidson to the ring.
* BadassLongcoat
* BadassLonghair
* BlackCloak: During the Ministry days.
* CainAndAbel: With [[MeaningfulName Kane]].
* CoolOldGuy
* CoolShades: During his Big Evil persona.
* CreepyCoolCrosses: One of his logos during the Ministry days. He also uses it to "[[CrucifiedHeroShot crucify]]" his opponents for his "sacrifice".
* DarkMessiah: During the Ministry/Corporate Ministry/Higher Power days.
* DarkIsNotEvil: No matter if he's a face or a heel.
* DeadManWalking: Literally. Also one of his [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]]
* DeathIsCheap: ''Seriously''.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Averted ''hard'', with his unprecedented 18-0 winning streak at ''{{Wrestlemania}}''. Every year, someone swears they're going to end the streak. Every year, the Undertaker stays undefeated.
* DemBones: Interestingly, he had them in his logos and merchandise when he was in his Big Evil persona.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Why [[HeelFaceTurn WWE decided to turn him face]] back in 1991.
* DyeHard: Naturally a redhead.
* EnsembleDarkhorse
* EpicFlail: His [[WeaponOfChoice Biker chain]] during his Big Evil persona.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies
* EvilOverlord: During the Ministry days.
* FingerlessGloves
* ForDoomTheBellTolls
* GeniusBruiser

* GimmickMatches: He innovated plenty of these, but he's best known for the Hell in a Cell, Casket, and Buried Alive matches.
* TheGrimReaper: All gimmicks except his Big Evil persona.
* HesJustHiding
* HolyShitQuotient: Just try and keep your jaw off the floor when Taker does his over the top rope suicide plancha. The man can ''fly''.
* HotDad
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* LightningBruiser
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* NiceHat: A bowler in during his early years, and a wide-brimmed hat after his 2004 "revival."
* NightmareFuel: All gimmicks except his Big Evil persona.

* NoSell: What he does after the PunchPunchPunchUhOh before the OhCrap.
* ObviouslyEvil
* OminousFog
* OurZombiesAreDifferent

* PaleSkinnedBrunette
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: His opponent has just hit an amazing move, knocking the Undertaker down and supposedly out cold, and now he's celebrating. Just don't turn around, because [[OhCrap Taker's just sat up]].
* RomanceOnTheSet: Had been seeing Michelle [=McCool=] for several years, before finally getting married.
* ShockAndAwe: All gimmicks except his Big Evil persona.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: [[{{Botchamania}} "Some people talk too much!"]]
* TrueNeutral: With slight shades of ChaoticNeutral
* UglyGuyHotWife: Recently got remarried to Michelle [=McCool=]; subverted in his previous marriage to Sara Callaway.
** YMMV, he was pretty hot when [[IWasQuiteALooker he was younger]]. At least the YaoiFangirls think so.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome
!!! {{Yokozuna}} (Rodney Agatupu Anoa'i)
* BadassFamily
* EvilForeigner (Even though he was [[strike:Hawaiian]] Samoan)
* FakeNationality: Subverted as even though his gimmick was that of a sumo wrestler that trained in Japan and carried their flag, he was never billed as being from anywhere other than Polynesian Islands.
** Played straight later in his career when he was billed from Japan. The "Polynesian Islands" thing only lasted about a year or so.
* GeniusBruiser
* TheGiant (In the girth department)
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* MeaningfulName: Yokozuna is the highest title in sumo wrestling.
!!! [[KevinNash Diesel]] (Kevin Scott Nash)

* BodyguardBetrayal: Inverted, as HBK turned on him for overshadowing him. Diesel would eventually return the favor in March 1996.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: One of the most infamous examples in wrestling history, he's one of the four wrestlers who publicly said buh-bye to {{Kayfabe}} with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kliq#Curtain_Call:_The_MSG_Incident Curtain Call]].
* TheBrute: When he's a Heel.
* GeniusBruiser
* TheGiant
* HeterosexualLifePartners (and HoYay): He and Scott Hall are some of wrestling's longest running HLP's. There have been quite a number of eyebrows raised by the comment Kevin made that he'd have no problem doing a gay angle if it was with Scott.

* {{Nakama}}: The Kliq. Mess with one, and the rest will make your life a living hell.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Kevin Nash is a walking, talking SSS. the nWo, the Wolfpac, the Main Event Mafia...
* TallDarkAndSnarky: And when he's blond, Tall, Blond, and Snarky.

* TrueNeutral
!!! [[SidEudy Sid]] (Sidney Raymond "Sid" Eudy)
* AlliterativeName (Sycho Sid)
* AxCrazy
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* BodyguardBetrayal
* TheBrute
* MeaningfulTitles: His rotating surnames of "Vicious" and "Justice", and his occasional prefix of "Sycho", depending on heel/face status.
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! LexLuger (Lawrence Wendell Pfohl)
* AllAmericanFace
* AlliterativeName
* TheBigGuy
* CaptainErsatz: Of Hulk Hogan
* TheFightingNarcissist: As "The Narcissist" until after the 1993 King of the Ring.
* ReplacementScrappy: After Hulk Hogan left, Luger was plugged right into Hogan's AllAmericanFace gimmick, his main event spot, and even his feud with Yokozuna. The fans didn't take it well.
* UnderwearOfPower

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was originally supposed to defeat Yokozuna for the World title in the first round at WrestleMania X, and then lose it to Bret Hart in the main event. However, the finish was leaked by the Post, so instead he was squashed by Yokozuna, who went on to lose to Hart.
!!! [[ScottHall Razor Ramon]] (Scott Oliver Hall)
* AlliterativeName
* BreakingTheFourthWall: One of the most infamous examples in wrestling history, he's one of the four wrestlers who publicly said buh-bye to {{Kayfabe}} with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kliq#Curtain_Call:_The_MSG_Incident Curtain Call]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Used to flip his shit when someone broke his ''toothpick''.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Just ask Goldust.
* FakeNationality: Billed from Cuba. He's not.
* HeterosexualLifePartners (and HoYay): With Kevin Nash, for something like ''seventeen years''.
* {{Nakama}}: The Kliq. Mess with one, and the rest will make your life a living hell.
* OffTheWagon: Perpetually. His battles with alcohol (and various other controlled substances) are well known.
* OralFixationFixation: Toothpicks
* PermaStubble
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* SpotlightStealingSquad

* UnderwearOfPower
!!! BamBamBigelow (Scott Charles Bigelow)
* {{Acrofatic}}: ''Seriously''. Name another big man who could not only splash off the top, but ''moonsault''.
** Vader?
* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy
* BloodKnight
* TheBrute
* BountyHunter: He once was in RealLife.
* GeniusBruiser
* HolyShitQuotient
* HotBlooded
* IHaveTheHighGround
* LargeHam
* LightningBruiser
!!! OwenHart (Owen James Hart)
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Bret if he's a Heel

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Canadian Wrestling Fans Love Owen Hart]]: As for all Harts.
* CoolMask: As the Blue Blazer
* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Younger Brother]]: To Bret and his other older siblings...
* DeathFromAbove: Literally..
* DracoInLeatherPants: He often got louder cheers then his opponents especially during his 1994 run as the top heel.
* DrivenToVillainy: His one-sided feud with DX eventually drove him to join the heel group [[PowerStable The Nation]]. Lampshaded in his theme music:
-->"I tried to be a nice guy..." "I was a victim! I snapped!"
* FatalMethodActing: Died during a PPV.
* GreenEyedMonster: To Bret.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Considering what he's been through in his feud with DX, [[FaceHeelTurn turning Heel]] on Ken Shamrock and joining The Nation could be seen as this.
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* IsntItSad: Not just his death, but the CharacterDerailment he had before it.
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* LightningBruiser
* RealMenWearPink

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was supposed to win the WWF Title in 1994, but the McMahons decided to put on Diesel. After his death, the WWF actually released promotional shots of him with the championship belt.
!!! British Bulldog (David "Davey" Boy Smith)
* AlliterativeName
* TheBigGuy (Face)
* BoisterousBruiser
* TheBrute (Heel)
* DemotedToExtra: During his final stints in both WCW and WWF.
* EvilBrit (If he's a Heel)

* HotDad
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* TooCoolToLive
* UnderwearOfPower: And by extension, [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Wearing A Flag As A Wrestling Attire]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was supposed to retain the European Title against Shawn Michaels in England. He even publicly dedicated the match to his dying sister. Instead, Shawn [[ExecutiveMeddling vetoed]] that, in favor of him beating Smith for the European championship.
!!! Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart (James Henry "Jim" Neidhart)
* BoisterousBruiser
* DemotedToExtra: During his stint in WCW.
* EvilLaugh
* GeniusBruiser
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* RealMenWearPink
* [[UglyGuysHotDaughter Tough-Looking Guy With Hot Daughter]]: In RealLife
!!! Ahmed Johnson (Anthony Norris)
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy (Face)
* BoisterousBruiser
* TheBrute (Heel)
* GeniusBruiser
* PutOnABus: Because he kept getting injured since August 1996 and couldn't stay healthy.
* SuplexFinisher
* UnderwearOfPower
!!! Mr. Perfect (Curtis Michael "Curt" Hennig)
* BlondGuysAreEvil (Heel)
* CallingYourAttacks: "Now, you're going to see a Perfect-Plex!"
* HotDad
* JerkAss (Heel)
* JerkJock (Heel)
* MassiveMultiplayerScam: With Triple H against Marc Mero.
* OralFixationFixation: Gum

* TooCoolToLive
!!! The Big Boss Man (Raymond Walter "Ray" Traylor, Jr.)
* CompleteMonster: Handcuffing Hulk Hogan to a guardrail and beating him down repeatedly with his nightsick on the Brother Love Show; killing Al Snow's dog and then feeding it to him; tormenting the Big Show over the [[{{Kayfabe}} death]] of his father.
* CoolShades
* FoeYay: With Hulk Hogan.
* ForTheEvulz: What both of his acts of {{Complete Monster}}dom were done for.
* HoYay: With Akeem the African Dream, formerly known as the One Man Gang.
* LawfulEvil
* PoliceBrutality (Heel)
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: He was a former [[{{Prison}} Prison Guard]].
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling police officer.
* XPacHeat: It was originally Bossman Heat, but was changed [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead out of respect for the Ray Traylor the man after he passed]].
!!! Thurman "Sparky" Plugg/Bob "Hardcore" Holly (Robert "Bob" Howard)
* DrillSergeantNasty: On the second season of ToughEnough.
* FanNickname: Bobcore Holly
* GroinAttack: As Hardcore Holly.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Holly has a reputation for working stiff in matches and sandbagging his opponents, this worked out until he decided to sandbag [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Brock Lesnar]] during a powerbomb, the result? Holly gets a broken neck.
* JerkAss: Both Face and Heel.
* TrueNeutrala: As Hardcore Holly.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling race car driver (As Sparky Plugg)
!!! Rick "The Model" Martel (Richard Vigneault)
* CanadaEh
* CoolShades
* TheFightingNarcissist
* FoeYay: With Tito Santana and Shawn Michaels.
* GorgeousGeorge
* RealMenWearPink
* ImprobableWeaponUser: His cologne called "Arrogance" which caused TemporaryBlindness.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was planned to have one last run in the WWF as part of a tag-team called "The Super Models" with Don Callis (later known as "The Jackyl", and then "Cyrus the Virus" in ECW), which would have resulted in Martel turning face for the first time since WrestleMania V, but it never panned out.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: "[[LampshadeHanging Yes, I am a Model]]"
!!! Papa Shango/Kama/The Godfather (Charles Wright)
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Pimpin ain't easy!" (As The Godfather)
* CulturePolice: When The Godfather did a FaceHeelTurn and joined Right To Censor, becoming The Goodfather
* FacialMarkings (As Papa Shango)
* HollywoodVoodoo (As Papa Shango)
* NiceHat (Both)
* NightmareFuel (As Papa Shango)
* PimpDuds (As The Godfather)
* PitGirls: The Godfather's "Hos", subverted by "The Hardcore Ho", who won the WWF Hardcore title and "The Head Ho", who would later become Victoria/[[{{TNA}} Tara]].
* PrimalFear (As Papa Shango)
* ReligionIsMagic (As Papa Shango)
* TheScrappy: Shango is considered one of the all-time worst anythings related to wrestling.
* SimpleStaff: The Godfather's pimp cane.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling pimp (The Godfather)
!!! Goldust (Dustin Patrick Runnels)
* AmbiguouslyGay
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of movies when the Goldust gimmick started.
* AwardBaitSong
* [[TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX The Artist Formally Known As Goldust]]: In 1998
* FacialMarkings
* FashionVictimVillain: As The Artist Formally Known As Goldust.
* GenreSavvy: Of Pro-Wrestling and Film
* GorgeousGeorge
* GroinAttack: "Shattered Dreams"
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Him and Yoshi Tatsu are superpals.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor / RealLifeWritesThePlot: Dustin got tired of being Goldust at one point and tried to be a born-again Christain wrestler. The gimmick sadly didn't take, in part [[ScrewedByTheNetwork because the WWE]] [[TheyJustDidntCare didn't care]] and in part because it was just him in a t-shirt and blue jeans just preaching before matches. Even when Dustin went to WCW and TNA, he never (or they never let him) tried the gimmick again.
* TourettesShitcockSyndrome: After getting "[[{{Kayfabe}} electrocuted]]", thankfully it died down and went away permanitly later on.
* WrestlingFamily: Son to "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, older brother to Cody Rhodes (though [[UnrelatedBrothers this isn't ever acknowledged]]) and ex-husband to Terri Runnels/Marlena.
!!! Doink The Clown (Matt Osborne, Steve Keirn, Steve Lombardi, Dusty Wolfe, John Maloof, Ray Liccachelli, Jeff Jarrett, Chris Irvine, Nick Dinsmore)
* CommutingOnABus: Has came back a couple times after his best run in the company was over.
* CostumeCopycat: Including Dink, four of them.
* FacialMarkings
* LaughablyEvil: As a {{Heel}}
* LegacyCharacter: The UrExample of ProfessionalWrestling.
* LoveItOrHateIt: Mainly as a Heel, as a {{Face}}, he was more hated than loved.
* MonsterClown
* TheOtherDarrin: Have you seen all the names in the parentheses?
* PsychoSidekick: Dink
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: His theme song was "Entry of the Gladiators" (you know that song they use for circuses?)
** At least as a face. As a heel, it started with the first few notes, then [[NightmareFuel shifted into a dirge with a high-pitched evil laugh in the background]].
* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They Changed Him Now He Sucks]]: His HeelFaceTurn
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]
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[[folder: Attitude Era (1997 - 2001)]]
!!! StoneColdSteveAustin (Steven Austin FKA Steven James Anderson and Steve James Williams)
* TheAlcoholic
* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Listen to how loud the crowd pops any time his entrance plays.
* AntiHero
* AxCrazy
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BadassDriver
* BaldOfAwesome
* BestBeerEver
* BottleFairy: A Male example.
* CatchPhrase: Perhaps the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome most awesome line in Wrestling history]]! You can talk about your Psalms, talk about your John 3:16... [[RuleOfCool Austin 3:16 says]] ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome I Just Whupped Your Ass]]!''
* [[BecauseISaidSo 'Cause Stone Cold Said So!]]
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralEvil --> ChaoticNeutral
* {{Delinquents}}
* DemBones: His merchandises and logo have these.
* {{Determinator}}: Who can forget his match with Bret Hart at WM 13, when he lost consciousness, blood running down his face, rather than submit to the Sharpshooter?

* DrivesLikeCrazy: If you see him driving trucks, pickups, [=ATV=]s, bulldozers, or anything at all, JUST. RUN. AWAY.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: In RealLife, too. He asked Vince [=McMahon=] in early 1996 if he could get more "Stone Cold" merchandise on the shelves, and Vince told him it would never happen, he'd never outsell Marc Mero. Barely two weeks later, after the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Austin 3:16" promo]]? Austin's merchandise was outselling Mero's ''250 to 1''.
* FlippingTheBird: The Stone Cold Salute
* HotBlooded
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* LoveableRogue
* PrecisionFStrike
* ThirdPersonPerson: "Austin 3:16 says I just whupped your ass!" and "And that's the bottom line, [[BecauseISaidSo 'cause Stone Cold says so]]..!"
* UnderwearOfPower
* [[BigWhat WHAT!?]]
!!! [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]] (Dwayne Douglas Johnson)
* BadassFamily
* ButNotTooForeign: He is of Samoan and Canadian heritage born in the [=USA=].
* CharacterAlignment:
** LawfulGood as Rocky Maivia.
** NeutralEvil after joining the Nation.
** ChaoticNeutral post Corporation.
** ChaoticGood starting in 2000.
** TrueNeutral around 2001.
** NeutralEvil during 2003 FaceHeelTurn.
** NeutralGood during his final WWE run in 2004.
* CoolShades
* CovertPervert
* [[Funny/ProfessionalWrestling Crowning Moment of Funny]]: If the Rock is on your television screen, it's guaranteed to contain at least one, if not several, of these.
* {{Determinator}}
* DracoInLeatherPants

* FanNickname: The Dwayne, since he left the WWE to pursue a full-time acting career.
* FascinatingEyeBrow: Pretty much the incarnation of the trope.
* HandsomeLech: Especially towards Lillian.
* HotDad
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* {{Keet}}: He electrifies scenes with just his ''mere presence''.
* LeastCommonSkinTone
* MemeticMutation: The Rock could probably make an entire 5 minute-long promo out of JUST his [[CatchPhrase Catch Phrases]].
* PrecisionFStrike
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: One of, if not, ''the'' most impressive example.
* RockBottom: His FinishingMove.
* SchmuckBait: "What's your name?" "Jobber Num-" "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!"
* TheStarscream: To Farooq during the Nation era.
* SpiritBomb: ''[[FinishingMove The People's Elbow]]'' is used this way according to fans. Huh!?
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* ThirdPersonPerson: So, so much.

* UnderwearOfPower
!!! MickFoley (Michael Francis Foley)
* AdultChild: Mankind
* AlterEgoActing: The "Three Faces of Foley".

* AxCrazy: Mankind and Cactus Jack.
* {{Badass}}: Cactus Jack.
* BadassAdorable: Mankind.
* BadassBeard
* BatterUp: Cactus Jack's WeaponOfChoice.
* CatchPhrase: "Have a nice day." (as Mankind) "Ow! Have mercy!" (as Dude Love), and "Bang Bang!" (as Cactus Jack)
* CharacterAlignment: Cactus Jack (ChaoticNeutral), Dude Love (NeutralEvil) and Mankind (ChaoticEvil --> ChaoticNeutral --> ChaoticGood)
* CheapHeat: Famous for it, as well as {{Lampshading}} when he uses the inverse Cheap Pops.
* ChivalrousPervert (Dude Love)
* CloudCuckooLander (Mankind)
* CombatPragmist
* CoolMask (Mankind)
* CoolShades (Dude Love)
* {{Delinquents}} (Cactus Jack)
* GarbageWrestler: And a Legend at that!
* GeniusBruiser: He's a writer, but he can [[CombatPragmist definitely]] kick ass.

* ICallItVera: Mankind uses a sock puppet named "Mr. Socko." Cactus Jack uses a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that he calls "Barbie".
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Mankind uses a ''Dirty sock'' as a weapon.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold (Cactus Jack)
* KillItWithFire: Cactus Jack often lights Barbie on fire, for that extra punch.
* LoveableRogue (Cactus Jack)
* LoveableSexManiac (Dude Love)
* MadeOfIron: Seriously, watch the Hell In A Cell match between him and the Undertaker; [[HolyShitQuotient Holy...]]
* NewAgeRetroHippie (Dude Love)
* PsychopathicManchild (Mankind)
* SplitPersonality
** SplitPersonalityMerge: When he's fighting as himself.
* ToothyIssue
* UglyCute
* {{Yangire}} (Mankind)
!!! Wrestler/{{Kane}} (Glenn Thomas Jacobs)
* AxCrazy
* BaldOfEvil
* BoisterousBruiser: After losing the mask.
* CainAndAbel: With Undertaker.
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticEvil.
* CharacterDerailment: After removing his mask, he goes on plenty of these.
* CompleteMonster
* CoolMask (Discards it)
* CrossingTheLineTwice: Fought TheUndertaker at {{Wrestlemania}} twice and lost both times.
* [[spoiler: DepravedDentist: First came to the WWE as the wrestling dentist, Issac Yankem DDS.]]
* DisContinuity: Katie Vick? Who's Katie Vick?
** Averted. They acknowledged it a couple years ago when Kane and Triple H were on the same team with Kane calling Trips out on it. His response? "My bad."
* DracoInLeatherPants
* EvilLaugh
* GeniusBruiser: Won a special WWF episode of ''The Weakest Link''.
** Also a [[BunnyEarsLawyer Bunny Ears Teacher]].
* TheGiant
* {{Hellfire}}
* HeroicSociopath
* HesJustHiding (Several Times already)
* IsntItSad
* KillItWithFire: He attempted to do this to Jim Ross back in 2003.
** Are you kidding? It's part of his entrance pyro that the four turnbuckles go up in 20-foot-high flames.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority
* MagnificentBastard: Revealed himself to be this after using both [[VitriolicBestBuds the feuds and times he teamed up]] with TheUndertaker for over a decade as a way to exploit his weaknesses and then playing the role of the avenging brother in 2010 all the way to the World Heavyweight Championship.
* MismatchedEyes
* NameOfCain
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast (Well... [[BadassDecay Used to be...]])
* NightmareFuel
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat
* [[spoiler: TheOtherDarrin: As Diesel II.]]
* OurDemonsAreDifferent
* OutOfTheInferno
* PlayingWithFire
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* [[strike:ThirteenIsUnlucky]] Thirteen Is Lucky: Thirteen years later after his debut as Kane, He not only wins the Money in the bank match, but he also wins the World Heavyweight Championship and defeats the Undertaker.
* TokenEvilTeammate: So many times.
** His subversion of this in a 2002 tag-team match with [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]] and HulkHogan was a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* TheVoiceless: In his early career.
* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks He Changed, Now He Sucks]]: Many fans site the loss of Kane's mask as the start of his BadAssDecay, forgetting that the removal of the mask was part of reviving the monster in Kane.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsIsntSymbolic: 13 years later he finally gets the big win over TheUndertaker.
!!! TheBigShow (Paul Randall Wight Jr.)
* BadassBeard
* BadassLonghair: Until it was shaved off by Kurt Angle in late 2004.
* BaldOfAwesome / BaldOfEvil: Currently. It varies depending on his face / heel status.
* BiggerIsBetter
* TheBigGuy (Face)