History Characters / WWERockNWrestling

* XPacHeat: It was originally Bossman Heat, but was changed [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead out of respect for Ray Traylor the man after he passed]].

* GorgeousGeorge: Not the first but believed by many to set the standard for everyone who followed.

* BadAss

* XPacHeat: It was originally Bossman Heat, but was changed [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead out of respect for the Ray Traylor the man after he passed]].

* GorgeousGeorge

* BaldOfEvil

* Ur Example: He and Tony Atlas were the first black tag team champions, defeating the Wild Samoans.

* 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.

* ForTheEvulz: What both of his acts of {{Complete Monster}}dom were done for.

!!! Ted [=DiBiase=] (Theodore Marvin "Ted" [=DiBiase=], Sr.)

* 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
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* 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)

* AnimatedAdaptation: Had his own Saturday morning cartoon show ''Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N Wrestling''.
* BadassBeard
* 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.
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* 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
* TedBaxter

* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Does this on Wrestlemania VII. During his Mr. America gimmick in 2003, he wore the American flag as a Wrestling attire.
* VerbalTic: "BROTHER!"

!!! 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.

!!! Nikolai Volkoff (Josip Nikolai Peruzović)
* BaldOfEvil
* BearHug
* DirtyCommunists
* EvilForeigner
* FakeNationality: Although billed as being from Russia, Nikolai Volkoff was actually from Yugoslavia
* GratuitousRussian
* HuskyRusskie
* ThoseTwoGuys: With the Iron Sheik.
* UnderwearOfPower

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

!!! RandySavage (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.

* 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]].

* VerbalTic: "OOHH YEAH..."
** "Dig it!"
** (as parodied by Macho Libre) "Sayin' everything twice... Sayin'. Everything. TWICE!"
** A smaller "yeah" at the end of every sentence.
* {{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
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* 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!!!'''

!!! 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?)
* CoolShades
* DrillSergeantNasty

* 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
* FacialMarkings
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* 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

!!! Ricky Steamboat (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, which is almost unheard of in ProfessionalWrestling.
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* IHaveTheHighGround
* IKnowKungFu
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* LightningBruiser
* TheMaster
* RetiredBadass (In 2009, ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And How]]''!)
* UnderwearOfPower: Before switching to long tights in the mid-1980's.

!!! 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.]]
* [[IconicCharacters Iconic Wrestler]]
* MagnificentBastard
* MoralEventHorizon: [[WouldHitAGirl 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.
* RedBaron: "The Snake"
* SmugSnake: Hence the name, and complete with [[RightHandCat Right Hand Snake]]

!!! 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)

* DemotedToExtra
* FoeYay: With Rick Martel.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: Late in his carrer, he became "El Matador".

!!! Rick "The Model" Martel (Richard Vigneault)
* CanadaEh

* 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]]"

!!! Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake (Edward Harrison Leslie)
* AlliterativeName
* NotInTheFace: A stipulation added to all his matches [[JustifiedTrope after his parasailing accident]].

* 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 first]].

!!! "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.

!!! 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.

* DirtyCop: His gimmick during his original heel run. Subverted when he had his HeelFaceTurn; after he recovered the Million Dollar Belt from Jake "The Snake" Roberts, he discovered that his manager, Slick, had taken a bounty from [=Ted DiBiase=] to recover the belt, and promptly broke ways with him, saying that he "will not be bought!"
* 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: Nominally a wrestling prison guard (which was Traylor's prior occupation in RealLife), he often seemed more like a wrestling police officer, especially with his talk of "bringing law and order to the World Wrestling Federation!"
* XPacHeat: It was originally Bossman Heat, but was changed [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead out of respect for the Ray Traylor the man after he passed]].

!!! "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

!!! George "The Animal" Steele (William James Myers)
* CarpetOfVirility
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* RedBaron
* TheUnintelligible: All his promos.
* WalkingShirtlessScene
* WildMan

!!! Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka (James William Reiher)
* BadassGrandpa
* LoinCloth
* NobleSavage
* RedBaron: "[[EarWorm Super-Super-Superfly]]"
* RingOldies: 66 and still wrestling.
* WildSamoan

!!! '''Big John Studd (John William Minton)'''
* BadassBeard
* BadassLonghair
* TheBrute
* TheGiant
* RedBaron
* TraumaticHaircut: Gave one to André The Giant,

!!! '''Don Muraco (Donald Muraco)'''
* RedBaron: First "The Rock" (no [[DwayneJohnson not him]]) then "The Magnificant"
* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They Changed Him Now He Sucks]]: Muraco was long successful as a bad guy, after his HeelFaceTurn, not so much.

* UrExample: The First winner of the King of the Ring.

!!! '''Greg "The Hammer" Valentine (John Wisniski, Jr.)''
* BadassLonghair
* FourIsDeath: His finisher, the Figure-Four Leglock.
* RedBaron
* WrestlingFamily: The son of Johnny Valentine and Brother-In-Law to Brian Knobbs.

!!! '''Harley Race (Harley Leland Race)'''
* AwesomeMcCoolname: He gets extra points for that being his real name.
* BadassGrandpa
* RedBaron: "King" or "Handsome"
* SuplexFinisher

!!! '''Junkyard Dog (Sylvester Ritter)'''
* AssKicksYou
* BadassBeard
* ChainedByFashion
* GentleGiant: He loved to dance with the kids.
* HardHead

!!! "Cowboy" Bob Orton (Robert Keith Orton)
* RedBaron
* RingOldies
* SuplexFinisher
* [[Main/{{Ptitle79rdan6v}} Wrestling Doesn't Pay]]: A wrestling cowboy, not that's ever in short supply in WWE.
* WrestlingFamily: With his father, Bob, Sr., brother Barry and son [[RandyOrton Randy]].

!!! "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff (Paul Parlette Orndorff, Jr.)
* BlondGuysAreEvil: (If he's a Heel)
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* RedBaron
* UnderwearOfPower

!!! Dusty Rhodes (Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr.)
* {{Acrofatic}}
* AllAmericanFace
* AwesomeDearBoy: The reason Dusty loves the "American Dream" gimmick even though some fans though it was demeaning.
* HamAndCheese: His sons have this ability as well.
* LeotardOfPower: With polka dots
* RedBaron: "The American Dream" and "Common Man"
* RingOldies: In his 60s and still wrestling from time to time.
* WrestlingFamily: His sons are Dustin and Cody Runnels, Goldust and "Dashing" Cody Rhodes respectively.

!!! Rocky Johnson (Wayde Douglas Bowles)
* [[BadassFamily Badass]] WrestlingFamily: Son-in-law to Peter Maivia, a member of the Samoan wrestling family and his son is [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]].

* HotDad
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* RedBaron: "The Soulman"
* Ur Example: He and Rocky Johnson were the first black tag team champions, defeating the Wild Samoans.

!!! Kerry Von Erich (Kerry Gene Adkisson)
* BadassLonghair
* HandicappedBadass: [[RealLife Wrestled with an amputated right foot and managed to hide it his entire run]].
* RedBaron: "The Texas Tornado"
* UnderwearOfPower
* TheVonTropeFamily: [[WrestlingFamily His family]].

!!! Koko B. Ware (James Ware)
* CoolPet: Frankie the Macaw

* FunPersonified: Kids loved him.
* IdentityImpersonator: Did this twice, once while teaming with the Killer Bees and once when he was trying to help prove his former Tag Team partner, wasn't the Blue Blazer (he was). Neither time worked because he was an African American replacing Caucasian males.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial
* RedBaron: "Birdman"

!!! "Mad Dog" Vachon (Maurice Vachon)
* BaldOfAwesome

* CarpetOfVirility
* HeelFaceTurn: After [[strike: years]] decades of being a {{Heel}} he was a {{Face}} for his short run with the company before he retired.
* RedBaron
* RingOldies: Was still wrestling at 55.
* WrestlingFamily: Brother of wrestlers Paul and Vivian Vachon, and the uncle of wrestler Luna Vachon.

* RedBaron: "Birdman"

!!! Bob Backlund (Robert Lee "Bob" Backlund)
* AlliterativeName
* AntiquatedLinguistics
* EverythingsBetterWithBob
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness
* SquashMatch: Lost the WWF title to Diesel in eight seconds.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: After applying his Crossface Chickenwing finisher on opponents in 1994.
* UnderwearOfPower
* UnstoppableRage

* WrestlingFamily: His sons are Dustin and Cody Runnels, Goldust and "Dashing" Cody Rhodes respectively.

* UngratefulBastard: To Hulk Hogan

* HardHead

* AwesomeMcCoolname

* Awesome McCoolname

!!! [[BadNewsAllen Bad News Brown]] (Allen James Coage)

!!! {{Ted Di Biase}} (Theodore Marvin "Ted" [=DiBiase=], Sr.)

!!! [[IronSheik The Iron Sheik]] (Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri)

!!! RowdyRoddyPiper (Roderick George Toombs)

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

!!! [[SgtSlaughter Sgt. Slaughter]] (Robert Remus)

!!! RickySteamboat (Richard Henry Blood, Sr.)

!!! [[JakeRoberts Jake The Snake Roberts]] (Aurelian Smith, Jr.)

!!! BobBacklund (Robert Lee "Bob" Backlund)

!!! [[HonkyTonkMan The Honky Tonk Man]] (Roy Wayne Farris)

* RedBaron: [[EarWorm Super-Super-Superfly]]

* WildSamoan

* WildMan

* TheWorfEffect: For Hulk Hogan

* {{Face}}: Spent his ''entire career'' as a good guy.

* MoralEventHorizon: Slapping Miss Elizabeth, absolutely unheard of at the time.

* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling barber [[{{Ptitleh6h2ojyu}} at fist]].