History Wrestling / DrewMcIntyre

* StartOfDarkness: Losing to Wrestling/RomanReigns and the Bloodline at ''[=CATC2022=]'' sent Drew into a downward spiral. He had hoped to finally win a world championship in front a live crowd (in his own nation no less) after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic had prevented him from doing so before, only to lose through Roman's machinations. Ever since Drew has lost almost every major match he went into and grew increasingly bitter about it. This culminates when Jey Uso joins the RAW roster after defecting from the Bloodline and is treated as a hero by the fans and failing to win another world title, this time against Seth Rollins, and Drew decides to say "screw it" and turns to the dark side.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Seth Rollins accuses him of being one in the lead-up to their World Championship title match at Wrestlemania XL. For all Drew's talk about Seth being obsessed with the Bloodline and unable to move on, he himself is obsessed with CM Punk and can't resist every opportunity to rub injuring Punk to the degree he had to miss Wrestlemania to his face. The reason? Punk eliminated him at the Royal Rumble. Additionally, Seth calls out Drew not wanting the Bloodline to interfere in their match and "taint" his victory, but it's pointed out that his victories over Cody Rhodes only came about because the Bloodline interfered, meaning Drew has little issue with interference as long as it benefits ''him''. Karma catches up to [=McIntyre=] in spectacular fashion Wrestlemania XL, where although he wins the World Heavyweight title off of Seth Rollins, he once again takes the opportunity to rub it in CM Punk's face, sparking Punk [[TheDogBitesBack to attack him]] and leaving him to a cash-in by Damian Priest, tarnishing what should have been his moment of triumph.

** Wrestling/TheUndertaker in his prime, in several ways. He is a tall, imposing man who is surprisingly agile for his size and can have a great match with any style of wrestler. This makes a lot of sense when you consider that he's talked about The Deadman practically being his mentor during his WWE days. His howling taunt on the turnbuckle since returning to WWE partially {{invoke|dTrope}}s Undertaker's post-victory kneeling pose, especially on ''Raw'' in 2018 when the lights turn full glowing blue. He has also taken Undertaker's mantle of being a WrestlingMonster with uniquely-styled and powerful theme music who eventually becomes TheConscience of WWE as a top-level face, all without deviating from his own personality -- which arguably makes him a truer heir to Undertaker's legacy than any supernatural wrestler that followed The Deadman.

* GutturalGrowler: Not as noticeable when speaking normally but when he raises his voice, he often slips into this.

* LightningBruiser: Drew's most obvious strength is, well, [[JustForPun his strength]]. Being 6'5 and 265 pounds (120 kilos and just shy of 19 stone for European tropers), Drew has incredible power, able to lift guys like Wrestling/BigShow, and his strikes hit like a truck. But he is also deceivingly agile for a man of his size. He's able to do kip ups, and can dive over the top rope with a somersault plancha!

* ManlyTears: Completely contrasting the winners of the last six or so years, especially Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura's manic dancing and Wrestling/SethRollins' wide-eyed disbelief, Drew's surprisingly humble, heartfelt reaction to winning the titular match of ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2020'' was to drop to his knees with tears in his eyes. He had a very similar reaction, and even [[BreakingTheFourthWall broke the fourth wall]] to acknowledge his supporters by giving a "Thank you" gesture to the camera, after winning the WWE Championship at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 36''.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: After getting fired from WWE after a wasted potential run, building himself up again in the indies, then getting rehired by WWE and then clawing his way to the top, Drew finally won the WWE Championship at ''[[Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} WrestleMania 36]]''.

* LightningBruiser: Drew's most obvious strength is, well, [[JustForPun his strength]]. Being 6'5 and 265 pounds (120 kilos and just shy of 19 stone for European tropers), Drew has incredible power, able to lift guys like Wrestling/TheBigShow, and his strikes hit like a truck. But he is also deceivingly agile for a man of his size. He's able to do kip ups, and can dive over the top rope with a somersault plancha!

* ManlyTears: Completely contrasting the winners of the last six or so years, especially Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura's manic dancing and Wrestling/SethRollins' wide-eyed disbelief, Drew's surprisingly humble, heartfelt reaction to winning the titular match of ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2020'' was to drop to his knees with tears in his eyes. He had a very similar reaction, and even [[BreakingTheFourthWall broke the fourth wall]] to acknowledge his supporters by giving a "Thank you" gesture to the camera, after winning the WWE Championship at ''[[Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} WrestleMania 36]]''.

** In TNA he had the Rising with Eli Drake (Shaun Ricker) and Mica ([[Wrestling/{{Meng}} King Haku]]'s son Tevita, formerly known as Camacho in WWE), who fought with him in his war with MVP's Beat Down Clan until they lost a match to the BDC and were forced to disband.

* StartOfDarkness: Losing to Roman Reigns and the Bloodline at ''[=CATC2022=]'' sent Drew into a downward spiral. He had hoped to finally win a world championship in front a live crowd (in his own nation no less) after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic had prevented him from doing so before, only to lose through Roman's machinations. Ever since Drew has lost almost every major match he went into and grew increasingly bitter about it. This culminates when Jey Uso joins the RAW roster after defecting from the Bloodline and is treated as a hero by the fans and failing to win another world title, this time against Seth Rollins, and Drew decides to say "screw it" and turns to the dark side.

** The Dogs of War, the short-lived association of his tag team with Dolph Ziggler with Braun Strowman.
* UrExample: By winning the WWE Championship at ''[[Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} WrestleMania 36]]'', he became not only the first-ever Scottish-born world champion in WWE history but also the first-ever Scottish-born Wrestling/TripleCrownChampion in a major promotion ''in wrestling history''.

* FaceHeelTurn: After turning his back on his fellow face wrestlers two consecutive times the past few weeks, Drew officially turned heel on 10/2/23, declaring to the audience that he was done looking out for the rest of the locker room and was focusing only on himself going forward. He then claims that he's not resorting to the usual heel tactics of backstage ambushes, after-match assaults, or weaseling out of fights... only for him to remove a turnbuckle pad and throw Wrestling/TheMiz into it. On the 13 November episode of Raw, [=McIntyre=] helped Wrestling/TheJudgmentDay (Wrestling/FinnBalor and Damian Priest) retain the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship against Wrestling/CodyRhodes and [[Wrestling/TheUsos Jey Uso]] after attacking Uso with a claymore, fully turning heel for the first time since January 2020. After the match, [=McIntyre=] shook hands with Judgment Day member, Wrestling/RheaRipley, seemingly joining the group and cementing his heel turn.

* FaceHeelTurn: After turning his back on his fellow face wrestlers two consecutive times the past few weeks, Drew officially turned heel on 10/2/23, declaring to the audience that he was done looking out for the rest of the locker room and was focusing only on himself going forward. He then claims that he's not resorting to the usual heel tactics of backstage ambushes, after-match assaults, or weaseling out of fights... only for him to remove a turnbuckle pad and throw Wrestling/TheMiz into it.