History WebVideo / MovieTriviaSchmoedown

** After Bonnie Sommerville suffers a loss against Brett Sheridan, bringing her record down to 0-3, manager Shannon Barney initially seems sympathetic, only to quickly turn around and trade Sommerville to the Burning Droogs for rookie Claudia Dolph, stating that she had no tolerance for losers.

* JerkJock: As evidenced by their [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague team]] [[Creator/TomBrady name]], the Patriots have this persona and their early entrances involve them tossing a football around with Sneider spiking it.

** Dewberry is currently one for Korruption. His discomfort being in the faction and being partnered with [[Cloudcuckoolander Marc Edward Heuck]] is palpable in their first match.
** [[Series/GLOW Britney Young]] is currently one for the Dungeon. In her promo for her Singles debut, Kaiser chastises her for congratulating her opponent for making his debut and asks if she could practice hitting Macuga with a folding chair.

* DarkIsEvil: Wearing black (especially leather) is paramount for joining Korruption. During Final Exam vs The Experiment, Harloff and Ellis point out the white shirt [[BewareTheSillyOnes Dewberry]] is wearing in contrast to the rest of the faction's dark colors, further solidifying how out of place he is in the faction.

* DarkIsEvil: Wearing black (especially leather) is paramount for joining Korruption.

* PositiveFriendInfluence: Subverted with the Nerd's Watch. When Napzok begins going towards the dark side, Cushing attempts to bring him back to the light, which Napzok seems receptive to, only to reveal that he was playing her for a fool and happily joins the Lion's Den.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Brendan "The Kid" Meyer is unfailingly kindhearted and friendly towards everyone and has been referred to as pure on multiple occasions, usually be Ellis.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Ghai (pre-HeelFaceTurn) and Kalinowski (post-FaceHeelTurn) embody this trope to a T. Finstock has also often been accused of this, particularly when Napzok discovered that he wanted to trade Sneider after the Patriots lost the Teams belts, leading to the dissolution of the Lion's Den.

* KarmaHoudini: Harloff views Ghai as one after Bateman insists that Ghai not be banned from the league for tackling him and acting up at the 2018 Awards, but Harloff relents and only bans Ghai for a month.

* LifeOfTheParty: The Wildberries are the embodiment of this trope, though the Movie Guys and Tuff Beats (particularly with their entrances) also qualify.

** Team Action had a RunningGag of calling Jenn Sterger "Jessica" prior to their individual Heel-Face Turns and Roxy once called her "Jessie" while she was temporarily aligned with Ghai.

* MoralityPet: Reilly becomes one for Bateman and Dagnino during the Anarchy tournament, working hard (initially in vain) to keep them in line, but the fruits of his efforts begin to show at the end of the season after Bateman resolves to stay with Reilly at the cost of reuniting with Ghai and the Who's the Boss trio stay together. Bateman and Dagnino eventually turn fully by the beginning of the next season when Bateman calls Ghai out at the Brooklyn event.

** Downplayed with the Barbarian and Jackass BC, as their real names are generally known and sometimes referenced to on aftershows, but they're exclusively referred to by their nicknames on the show.

* SilentPartner: Adam "The Silent Assassin" Gertler fills this role as a part of DC Movie News with Mike Kalinowski, though he would speak during matches when he needed to answer a question out loud. Downplayed with Chance Ellison as part of Korruption, as he started out very quiet whereas Kalinowski and Napzok would do most of the talking, but he has begun speaking more during matches and promos since his debut.

* TechnicianVsPerformer: Some matchups will involve one competitor who is more renowned for their trivia knowledge and gameplay whereas their competitor more so for their character and smack talk, such as Murrell (the technician) vs Ghai (the performer). However, this is often downplayed, as many of the best competitors on the show also have well-defined characters and perform as them very well, so they often aren't as lopsided as to which aspect they're stronger in.

** As part of the Action Civil War, Bateman and Dagnino anticipated facing Ghai and RMB in a Teams match, but Ghai sneakily swapped out RMB for [=McWeeny=] with Emma Fyffe prior to the match, leading to a nasty surprise for Bateman and Dagnino the day of. All things considered, the match is shockingly close, ending with a score of 35-30 in favor of the Family.

** Kevin Smets is widely considered one of the greatest IG players of all time and is legendary for his intense study methods, but he only scored one point in the third Free-4-All before getting eliminated. However, he otherwise is not interested in competing in Singles or Teams, so this doesn't negatively impact him in any other scenario.

** Paul Oyama had an impressive 6-0 starting record in his rookie season and became only the fourth Singles champion to ever successfully defend the belt, but succumbed to a KO loss against Ben Bateman on his second defense.

* EmbarrassingNickname: '''Defied''' by Ben "The Bandit" Goddard prior to his debut, as he was originally referred to by everyone as "Bagel Boy" with fans even chanting it at the 2019 Brooklyn Live Event. However, he protested the nickname and he and everyone else has settled on "The Bandit."

** Dagnino previously had the sock mask that would distinguish himself from the "Finstock" persona, but RMB burned it at the end of Season 5.

** Pre-Face-Heel Turn Mike Kalinowski would point his finger, flash his EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth, and wink at the camera. After Team Action beat DC Movie News, Ghai mockingly imitated this move and, in the postgame interview after turning heel, Kalinowki subverted his own move and flipped his hand around to give the middle finger, a move he'd use several times throughout the rest of the season.

* ParentalAbandonment: Played for laughs when Ghai tries to [[EnforcedTrope enforce]] this storyline during the back half of Season 4 by claiming that [[SitcomArchNemesis Rocha]] is his DisappearedDad. The storyline doesn't go very far and Harloff expresses during their Singles match that he never liked the development.

'''Warning: Unmarked spoilers for all previous matches below. Tropes related to live events or Patreon releases will not be added until those matches are made publicly available on [=YouTube=].'''

* BadFuture: [[{{InUniverse}} In-Universe]], a future version of Bibbs, complete with an eyepatch and sword, travels back in time to Sneider's postgame interview after he defeats Rocha to tell him that they (Bibbs and Sneider) have to face off against each other in a number one contender's match, or else [[KillEmAll everyone in the Schmoedown will die]], which Sneider readily accepts. Outside of kayfabe, [[MundaneMadeAwesome this was Bibbs' way of cashing in the contender's match he earned for being that year's Free-4-All MVP.]]

* BreakupBreakout: In-Universe. After Ken Napzok betrayed his Nerd's Watch partner Rachel Cushing to join the Lion's Den, Cushing teamed up with Clarke Wolfe to form the Shirewolves and they claimed the Teams belts, becoming the first women in the show's history to ever win a championship. Cushing would also go on to win the Innergeekdom championship, becoming the second person to ever be double-belted and the first woman to do so. Meanwhile, Napzok lost the Star Wars belt on his first defense and hasn't won a match in any division since, including suffering a loss to the Shirewolves with Tom Dagnino in a Teams match. Aside from a couple of Star Wars matches, he has since stuck with managing, though he has been forced to step down from it and will begin competing again in Season 7.

* CreatorsPet: In-universe, after losing to Kalinowski in their first Singles match against each other, Chandler accuses him of being one in her postgame interview and that he's being constantly shoved down everyone's throats.

* BadFuture: In-universe, a future version of Bibbs, complete with an eyepatch and sword, travels back in time to Sneider's postgame interview after he defeats Rocha to tell him that they (Bibbs and Sneider) have to face off against each other in a number one contender's match, or else [[KillEmAll everyone in the Schmoedown will die]], which Sneider readily accepts. Outside of kayfabe, [[MundaneMadeAwesome this was Bibbs' way of cashing in the contender's match he earned for being that year's Free-4-All MVP.]]

* BreakupBreakout: In-universe. After Ken Napzok betrayed his Nerd's Watch partner Rachel Cushing to join the Lion's Den, Cushing teamed up with Clarke Wolfe to form the Shirewolves and they claimed the Teams belts, becoming the first women in the show's history to ever win a championship. Cushing would also go on to win the Innergeekdom championship, becoming the second person to ever be double-belted and the first woman to do so. Meanwhile, Napzok lost the Star Wars belt on his first defense and hasn't won a match in any division since, including suffering a loss to the Shirewolves with Tom Dagnino in a Teams match. Aside from a couple of Star Wars matches, he has since stuck with managing, though he has been forced to step down from it and will begin competing again in Season 7.

* EvilIsPetty: In-universe. Dagnino locks Fyffe in a closet prior to the inaugural Collision just to have Grace Hancock act as the postgame interviewer. Harloff eventually finds out and penalizes them for it.

-->'''Ellis:''' "In the category of Comedy, [[SignatureLaugh ha ha ha ha]].

''[Audience [[ContagiousLaughter laughs along with him]].]''
-->'''Ellis:''' "Your next category is Animated. These movies are drawn by hand or on a computer."

* EmbarrassingNickname: Eric Zipper gave Sean Gerber the nickname "Baby Food" in the Patreon MCU Exhibition Match.
** '''Defied''' by Ben "The Bandit" Goddard prior to his debut, as he was originally referred to by everyone as "Bagel Boy" with fans even chanting it at the 2019 Brooklyn Live Event. However, he protested the nickname and settled on "The Bandit."

** Downplayed with the Barbarian and Jackass BC, as their real names are generally known and sometimes referenced to, but they're exclusively referred to by their nicknames on the show.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Jeannine the Machine is never referred to with her last name.
* The Warfather also qualifies.
** Downplayed with the Barbarian and Jackass BC, as their real names are generally known, but they're exclusively referred to by their nicknames on the show.

** Downplayed with the Barbarian, as his name is generally known, but he's exclusively referred to as "The Barbarian" on the show.
*** Also downplayed with Jackass BC for the same reasons.

* LaResistance: Subverted by Chandler, who [[BlatantLies convinces Thadd that numerous competitors won't show up to Spectacular III until he begins standing up to Kalinowski. She also tells Fyffe and Dagnino that the other each agreed to this.]] No formal resistance actually forms, but the ploy works: Fyffe and Dagnino each agree that they and their teams won't show up unless Thadd grows a spine and Thadd rejects Kalinowski's next demand.

* LaResistance: Subverted by Chandler, who convinces Thadd that numerous competitors won't show up to Spectacular III until he begins standing up to Kalinowski and tells Fyffe and Dagnino that the other each agreed to this. No formal resistance actually formed, but the ploy works: Fyffe and Dagnino each sign the document stating they and their teams won't show up and Thadd rejects Kalinowski's next demand.