History Trivia / Chikara

* OldShame
** The pre-2004 shows, which most everyone on the CHIKARA roster have referred to as varying degrees of 'bad'. Icarus in particular has said that he'll do everything he can to keep the match in which he lost the Ichabod Slayne mask from seeing the light of day. Only five pre-2004 shows (The Renaissance Dawns, Live From the Factory 2, Aniversario, night one of the 2003 Tag World Grand Prix, and The International Invasion of the International Invaders) are available to watch on [=CHIKARATopia=] as a result.
** Jigsaw's brief unmasked run in Ring of Honor is treated as such.

** Cloudy: Music/GwenStefani's "[=Hollaback=] Girl," The Audition's "Oh How Clich&eacute"

** Nytehawk and Sylverhawk were Boomer Hatfield and Wheeler YUTA; the former of which was a temporary gimmick given to Boomer to help get in ring experience until he was ready to take a leading role as Dasher Hatfield's son Boomer. The later was retired when Wheeler YUTA quit Chikara, due to him not liking having to wrestle while wearing a mask.

** Averted by Obariyon and Kodama of The Batiri. Obariyon stuck around a little longer into 2017 after Kodama was fired, finally leaving after getting squashed by Merlok, leading to Ashley Vox channeling the darkness inside herself to become Oceanea. Played straight by Kobald, who outlasted his former partners.

** Jervis Cottonbelly was originally played by wrestler TJ Cain until he disappeared OutOfFocus for years. While the character had a more recent comeback people noticed that Kevin Condron's leave and Jervis's absence being around the same time has heavily implied to have been Jervis Cottonbelly from at least 2015 onward.
** The biggest example though being for years it was rumored Soldier Ant and Drew Gulak were the same guy. Especially given how often wherever Gulak went in the states Soldier Ant popped up too. In late 2016 Soldier Ant suffered a "career ending injury" on the same show that Drew Gulak left due to being signed full time by WWE. Naturally, none was fooled.

** Had Chikara not been shut down, the company would have gone out of it's way to shed most of the goofiest and supernatural elements of previous years going forward. In particular, it would be explicitly established that there was ZERO supernatural explanation for Dasher Hatfield turning evil (as opposed to previous storylines where top babyfaces went heel and it was explained away that they were under supernatural control) and position him as the person responsible for these changes in the company's direction. Using Sidney Bakabella as his henchman, Dasher would begin seizing control over Chikara from Mike Quackenbush in a hostile takeover with help from the Crucible (which Dasher would revive and take control over) and use the fact that Quackenbush was struggling to keep the company afloat in a post-Covid, post-AEW world to reduce Quackenbush into a subservient figure and change Chikara into a more serious and generic indie company. Molly Mccoy, who would begin to believe Dasher was being controlled by outside demonic influences like several other major Chikara stars were, would eventually leave Dasher over this push, as she eventually realizes Dasher simply went evil and that there was no outside force corrupting him into villainy that could be defeated to reset Dasher back to his old good guy self. Boomer and most of the new guard would try and stop Dasher and the Crucible recruits Dasher would be training for what was planned to be an open war arc with Boomer, Molly, and the others struggling to keep the spirit of old Chikara alive while Dasher and his proteges would seek to turn the company into Ring of Honor-lite.

** Darkness Crabtree: Music/IronButterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"

** Lince Dorado: Music/{{Survivor}}'s "Eye of the Tiger"

** Gran Akuma: [[Anime/BubblegumCrisis "Akuma To Tenshi No Kiss"]], Music/{{Disturbed}}'s "Hell", Music/{{Nightwish}}'s "She Is My Sin"