History Wrestling / ChrisJericho

* BoringButPractical: His post-WWE finishing move, The Judas Effect, is... a spinning back elbow. While a lot of fans have criticised it as a dull, implausible finisher (especially as many wrestlers use the move just as a transitional move), a well-aimed back elbow is in fact one of the more genuinely legit MMA moves used in wrestling despite its lack of flashiness, capable of genuinely knocking an opponent out like they were hit by a pointy bone sledgehammer. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1NfwyeWWU As seen here at the 1:06 mark.]]

** While appearing on FOX Sports Live in 2015, he got a chance to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJD2i4_dFDc revisit his famous 'Man of 1004 Holds' promo]].

* BaitAndSwitchComparison: One of Jericho's burns against Stephanie [=McMahon=] came during the buildup to his match with Rhyno at Wrestling/SummerSlam 2001, with Steph acting as Rhyno's valet in her role as the owner of ECW.
-->'''Jericho''': I'm gonna take care of that smelly, nasty animal. And I'm gonna get you, too, Rhyno!

** His theme song, "Break the Walls Down", references not just the above album (which is itself inspired by a story in the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] Book of Joshua), but the rock bands Music/{{ACDC}} and Music/JudasPriest and the William Butler Yeats poem "The Second Coming."

In the two decades since, Jericho has accomplished a lot - in addition to holding the Intercontinental Championship a record nine times, he's also a multiple-time world champion, a multiple-time tag team champion, and he was the first man to hold the WWE's Undisputed Championship (the unification of the WWE Championship and the WCW World Title Belt), which he accomplished by beating The Rock '''and''' Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin in back-to-back matches. He hosted [[Series/Downfall2010 a short-lived game show on ABC]] and was multi-champ hottie Cheryl Burke's partner on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars''. (He did surprisingly well, lasting until week six.) He also competed in Wrestling/GenichiroTenryu's [=WAR=] (Wrestle Association R) promotion, Wrestling/{{FMW}}, Wrestling/{{SMW}}, Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, the [=CWA=] (Catch Wrestling Association) in UsefulNotes/{{Austria}}[=/=]UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}, Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{AAA}}, Stampede Wrestling, Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and other promotions in Mexico and Canada. In early 2019 he made waves by being one of the first wrestling megastar names to sign with the nascent promotion Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, becoming their first World Champion in August of that year. In 2022 he won the Wrestling/RingOfHonor World Championship for the first time. He also stars in a web series called ''WebVideo/ButImChrisJericho''.

** On the December 4, 2019 episode of ''AEW Dynamite'', he started an AlternateCompanyEquivalent—The Lexicon of ''Le Champion''. This list included opponents he refused to wrestle "ever again" in 2019—such as Wrestling/CodyRhodes, [[Wrestling/DeanAmbrose Jon Moxley]], Wrestling/TheYoungBucks, Music/BuckOwens, Wrestling/KennyOmega, "[[Characters/SouthParkTheBoys Kenny]] from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''", [[Wrestling/AJStyles Allen Jones]], and [[Music/DefLeppard Rick Allen]], just to name a few. Moxley was the "armbar" of The Lexicon.

* OnceAnEpisode: During his prime in WCW, he'd tie his hair in increasingly bizarre ways and quote popular rock songs, including Music/CheapTrick's "I Want You To Want Me" and Music/TheOffspring's "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)."

* KillItWithFire: On the April 27, 2022 episode of ''Dynamite'', after an in-ring sit-down between his Jericho Appreciation Society on one side and Wrestling/EddieKingston and former Inner Circle members Wrestling/SantanaAndOrtiz on the other, the JAS attacked them backstage, laying out Santana and Ortiz and isolating Kingston. With the rest of the JAS holding Kingston, Jericho threw a fireball in his face. He has since began calling himself a wizard.

** Started a new list on the September 19, 2016 episode of ''Raw'', where the List of Jericho started as a list of grievances against current General Manager Wrestling/MickFoley for perceived slights against both him and the Universal Champion, his best buddy [[Wrestling/KevinSteen Kevin Owens]]. By the end of the segment, the list had grown to include [[Wrestling/BulletClub Gallows and Anderson]], Wrestling/EnzoAndCass, and Wrestling/TheNewDay.

* WhamLine: During the "Festival of Friendship" between him and Wrestling/KevinSteen on RAW, Kevin got Jericho a replacement The List, with Chris citing the old one has become beaten up and shoddy. But then he looks at the first page...

--->'''Jericho:''' As far as [[Wrestling/TripleH your husband]] goes, he's been gone for ''such'' a long time, and I ''know'' how lonely you must be. I mean, I know you've been forced to form a "[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow private alliance]]" of your own with three-quarters of the superstars in that locker room. ''And'' the lighting crew, ''and'' the camera crew, ''and'' the sound technicians, [[ReallyGetsAround and the stagehands]], and the prop guys, [[OverlyLongGag and the merchandise-sellers]], [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and the popcorn vendor in the fifteenth-row!]] Congratulations, Louie!

* RedBaron: The Lionheart, [=Y2J=], The Ayatollah of Rock-And-Rolla, Your Hero, Role Model and Paragon of Virtue, the Man of 1004 Holds, the King of the Loopholes, the Larger Than Life Living Legend, the King of the World, the Highlight of the Night, the King of Bling-Bling, the Alpha, the Painmaker, ''[[GratuitousFrench Le Champion]]'', the Demo God, the Influencer, the Wizard; Seriously, for sheer numbers, his only rival is Wrestling/TheUndertaker.

* AlliterativeList: On the January 1, 2001, ''Raw'', he called the trio of Wrestling/{{Christian}}, Wrestling/KurtAngle and Wrestling/{{Edge}}, "'''J'''unior, '''J'''erky and '''J'''ackass."

* VillainTeamUp: With Wrestling/{{Edge}} in 2009, to win the WWE Unified Tag Team Championships. And again with Wrestling/TheBigShow when Wrestling/{{Edge}} got injured and had to be replaced.

* ActionDad: Chris has three children, one son and twin daughters.

In the two decades since, Jericho has accomplished a lot - in addition to holding the Intercontinental Championship a record nine times, he's also a multiple-time world champion, a multiple-time tag team champion, and he was the first man to hold the WWE's Undisputed Championship (the unification of the WWE Championship and the WCW World Title Belt), which he accomplished by beating The Rock '''and''' Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin in back-to-back matches. He hosted [[Series/Downfall2010 a short-lived game show on ABC]] and was multi-champ hottie Cheryl Burke's partner on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars''. (He did surprisingly well, lasting until week six.) He also competed in Wrestling/GenichiroTenryu's [=WAR=] (Wrestle Association R) promotion, Wrestling/{{FMW}}, Wrestling/{{SMW}}, Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, the [=CWA=] (Catch Wrestling Association) in UsefulNotes/{{Austria}}[=/=]UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}, Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{AAA}}, Stampede Wrestling, Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and other promotions in Mexico and Canada. In early 2019 he made waves by being one of the first wrestling megastar names to sign with the nascent promotion Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, becoming their first World Champion in August of that year. He also stars in a web series called ''WebVideo/ButImChrisJericho''.

** As Undisputed champion, he cranked it UpToEleven, doing elaborate poses with both belts as he made his way to the ring.

** UpToEleven in his 2016-2017 run. Inanimate objects like scarves, potted plants, and legal pads have gotten more over than some wrestlers just by ''association'' with Chris Jericho.

* IHaveTheHighGround: The finisher of Sudden Impact/Thrillseekers, which was both Lance Storm and Chris Jericho doing a missile dropkick ''off of the same turnbuckle.''

->''"Welcome to Wiki/TVTropes IS JERICHO!"''

->''Wiki/TVTropes! You know what happens when you create a trope page about Chris Jericho?'' ''(clicks pen)'' '''''YOU JUST MADE THE LIST!'''''\\

** In his first appearance in New Japan, Chris Jericho stated that he is the best of the business because he is still in it after all this time. He also called out others who claimed they were the best (i.e Shawn Michaels, Edge, and CM Punk), but are all out for the count. Despite how rude and dickish it is, he does have a point. All of have been gone for God knows how long, while Chris is still in the wrestling world even at age 50.[[note]]Although Edge came out of retirement in 2020, and so did Punk in 2021. [[Horrible/{{WWE}} We don't talk about Michaels' one-off return to the ring...]][[/note]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: Even though he's been around seemingly ''forever'' to the longtime wrestling fan, it's still easy to forget sometimes that he just turned ''fifty''.

** Currently he has "I'm the best in the world at what I do!" which sounds suspiciously like the catchphrase of a certain fellow Canadian and [[ComicBook/XMen mutant]] [[{{Wolverine}} badass]].

** In AEW he formed a new stable around himself called the Wrestling/InnerCircle.

* HeroKiller: In NJPW as The Painmaker. So far he has defeated Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito, Wrestling/{{EVIL|Wrestling}} and Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi. Or in AEW where he defeated Wrestling/KennyOmega, Hangman, and Wrestling/CodyRhodes as champion, before Wrestling/JonMoxley ultimately dethroned him.

* HeroKiller: In NJPW as The Painmaker. So far he has defeated Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito, Wrestling/{{EVIL}} and Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi. Or in AEW where he defeated Wrestling/KennyOmega, Hangman, and Wrestling/CodyRhodes as champion, before Wrestling/JonMoxley ultimately dethroned him.

** More recently, in {{kayfabe}}, CM Punk. Prior to Punk's walk out and retirement from wrestling, Chris was ''never'' able to beat Punk one-on-one since after the end of his second WWE run and subsequent return. When he asked Wrestling/PaulHeyman for the match with Punk at ''Payback'' 2013, he outright admitted he ''needed'' to beat Punk, having tapped out to him at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' the year prior and pinned in a Chicago Street Fight the month afterwards. He got it -- and then failed to beat Punk ''again''. At which point Chris stopped trying completely, more-or-less conceding that Punk was simply better than him.

* RedBaron: The Lionheart, [=Y2J=], The Ayatollah of Rock-And-Rolla, Your Hero, Role Model and Paragon of Virtue, the Man of 1004 Holds, the King of the Loopholes, the Larger Than Life Living Legend, the King of the World, the Highlight of the Night, the King of Bling-Bling, the Alpha, the Painmaker, ''[[GratuitousFrench Le Champion]]'', the Demo God. Seriously, for sheer numbers, his only rival is Wrestling/TheUndertaker.

** Wrestling/CMPunk for the first half of 2012.

-->Wrestling/JimRoss: "[[Wrestling/RobVanDam RVD]] Is thinking about retaining the title, Jericho is [[FreudianSlip thinking]] of Stephanie."

* KillItWithFire: On the April 27, 2022 episode of ''Dynamite'', after an in-ring sit-down between his Jericho Appreciation Society on one side and Wrestling/EddieKingston and former Inner Circle members Wrestling/SantanaAndOrtiz on the other, the JAS attacked them backstage, laying out Santana and Ortiz and isolating Kingston. With the rest of the JAS holding Kingston, Jericho threw a fireball in his face.

* KillItWithFire: On the April 27, 2022 episode of ''Dynamite'', after an in-ring sit-down between his Jericho Appreciation Society on one side and Wrestling/EddieKingston and former Inner Circle members Wrestling/SantanaAndOrtiz, the JAS attacked them backstage, laying out Santana and Ortiz and isolating Kingston. With the rest of the JAS holding Kingston, Jericho threw a fireball in his face.