History Wrestling / Fortune

* {{Badass}}es: In theory, they should have been presented as such before Fourtune's formation, being largely made up of "TNA" originals. Of course, being forced to the side is what caused them to pull together anyway.

* FourIsDeath: The concept of the stable was [[{{Expy}} inspired by]] [[CaptainObvious Flair's former Four Horsemen stable]]. The first four members referred to themselves as the "core" four members. Even after the members list became more than four, they continued to invoke the trope, what with the logo with two 4s and the theme song saying "Fortune Four". Oh, and there were eight actual members total in the history of Fortune (8 = 2 x 4).

** For the stable's first few months, the name was spelled "Fourtune" in honor of the Four Horsemen. However, since more and more people pointed out that the stable has ''[[WritersCannotDoMath six]]''[[WritersCannotDoMath [= =]people in it (seven if including Flair)]] after including Morgan and Williams, it was switched to "Fortune".

->''"Got it guys? It's not the Four Horsemen. It's the [[{{Expy}} same fingers]], but it's [[SpiritualSuccessor Fourtune]]! It's Wrestling/{{TNA}}, and it's time for a change!"''

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Flair first came to TNA on January 4, 2010 as part of the massive influx of name value talent courtesy of Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/EricBischoff coming in, and didn't take too long before striking up an alliance with then-World Heavyweight Champion (and face of the company) AJ Styles, with Flair being AJ's manager and mentor. AJ would adopt Flair's lifestyle, cheating ways, sequined entrance robe (albeit with a hood), and even a couple of his moves as tribute, while Flair kept AJ on top until he lost the world title three months later to Wrestling/RobVanDam. Shortly thereafter, recently-returned former X-Division Champion Kazarian came into the picture, and he and AJ started fighting over being Flair's top guy to the point they couldn't work together long enough to beat Wrestling/JayLethal—until Flair introduced the solution: take AJ, Kaz, and fellow Team Flair allies [[Wrestling/JamesStorm Beer]] [[Wrestling/BobbyRoode Money]] [[BashBrothers Inc.]] and Desmond Wolfe, and give them the chance to come together under the modified Horsemen banner of Fourtune.

Flair first came to TNA on January 4, 2010 as part of the massive influx of name value talent courtesy of Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/EricBischoff coming in, and didn't take too long before striking up an alliance with then-World Heavyweight Champion (and face of the company) AJ Styles, with Flair being AJ's manager and mentor. AJ would adopt Flair's lifestyle, cheating ways, sequined entrance robe (albeit with a hood), and even a couple of his moves as tribute, while Flair kept AJ on top until he lost the world title three months later to Wrestling/RobVanDam. Shortly thereafter, recently-returned former X-Division Champion Kazarian came into the picture, and he and AJ started fighting over being Flair's top guy to the point they couldn't work together long enough to beat Jay Lethal—until Flair introduced the solution: take AJ, Kaz, and fellow Team Flair allies [[Wrestling/JamesStorm Beer]] [[Wrestling/BobbyRoode Money]] [[BashBrothers Inc.]] and Desmond Wolfe, and give them the chance to come together under the modified Horsemen banner of Fourtune.

* TheAlcoholic / BestBeerEver: Storm.

* {{Badass}}es
** BadassLongrobe: Flair. He also had AJ donning these during the beginning of their partnership.
** BadassInANiceSuit: Especially AJ, who on several occasions had led suit-clad beatdowns on Flair and Fortune's enemies prior to their face turn.

* BerserkButton / DudeWheresMyRespect: Their hatred for both [=EV2=] and Immortal pretty much boils down to they got tired of being overlooked by big name outsiders exploiting the company they built.

* ConspiracyRedemption HeelFaceTurn

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: For the stable's first few months, the name was spelled "Fourtune" in honor of the Four Horsemen. However, since more and more people pointed out that the stable has ''[[WritersCannotDoMath six]]''[[WritersCannotDoMath [= =]people in it (seven if including Flair)]] after including Morgan and Williams, it was switched to "Fortune".

* SpiritualSuccessor: Flair intended Fortune to be this to the Four Horsemen, with AJ being his own successor. Didn't quite work out that way.

* [[IAmSong "We Are" Song]]: Fortune 4!

* PowerStable

** An offshoot of AJ's tradition with his theme being a straightforward IAmSong, one version of which had the same drum/cymbal beat as the Fortune theme—showing subtly that he was the shot-caller of the group among the active wrestlers.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: One of the ideas that was thrown around for the Fortune concept was for their style to be an upgraded/"new age" version of the Horsemen/rich guy style, wearing more modern-day cool clothes and driving sports cars, as well as for such segments as even coming out of a plane called the Flair Force One and a spoof of ''Film/TheHangover'' with James Storm being the hangover prank victim.

** An offshoot of AJ's tradition with his theme being a straightforward IAmSong, one version of which had the same drum/cymbal beat as the Fortune theme—showing subtly that he was the shot-caller of the group among the active wrestlers.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Their hatred for both [=EV2=] and Immortal pretty much boils down to they got tired of being overlooked by big name outsiders exploiting the company they built.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: For the stable's first few months, the name was spelled "Fourtune" in honor of the Four Horsemen. However, since more and more people pointed out that the stable has ''[[[WritersCannotDoMath six]]''[[[WritersCannotDoMath [= =]people in it (seven if including Flair)]] after including Morgan and Williams, it was switched to "Fortune".

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: For the stable's first few months, the name was spelled "Fourtune" in honor of the Four Horsemen. However, since more and more people pointed out that the stable has ''six'' people in it (seven if including Flair) after including Morgan and Williams, it was switched to "Fortune".

Desmond's losing streak ended up keeping him out of the Fourtune lineup, while the Core Four (as they referred to themselves) were soon joined by Kaz's rival and X-Division Champ Douglas Williams, along with [[TheGiant Matt Morgan]] as Flair's personal bodyguard, to make up the numbers against a band of [[Wrestling/{{ECW}} ECW Originals]] who would henceforth be known as [=EV2.0=] due to [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope trademarks]] on the company name. Fourtune hated [=EV2=] for the perception of their being overrated {{Garbage Wrestler}}s as well as outsiders taking spots away from the guys that built the company. (Also during this feud: the spelling of the stable name was tweaked to its more known version because everybody kept pointing out that [[ArtisticLicenseMath they had more than four wrestlers]].)

Desmond's losing streak ended up keeping him out of the Fourtune lineup, while the Core Four (as they referred to themselves) were soon joined by Kaz's rival and X-Division Champ Douglas Williams, along with [[TheGiant Matt Morgan]] as Flair's personal bodyguard, to make up the numbers against a band of [[Wrestling/{{ECW}} ECW Originals]] who would henceforth be known as [=EV2.0=] due to [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope trademarks]] on the company name. Fourtune hated [=EV2=] for the perception of their being overrated {{Garbage Wrestler}}s as well as outsiders taking spots away from the guys that built the company. (Also during this feud: the spelling of the stable name was tweaked to its more known version because everybody kept pointing out that [[ArtisticLicenseMathematics they had more than four wrestlers]].)

Desmond's losing streak ended up keeping him out of the Fourtune lineup, while the Core Four (as they referred to themselves) were soon joined by Kaz's rival and X-Division Champ Douglas Williams, along with [[TheGiant Matt Morgan]] as Flair's personal bodyguard, to make up the numbers against a band of [[Wrestling/{{ECW}} ECW Originals]] who would henceforth be known as [=EV2.0=] due to [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope trademarks]] on the company name. Fourtune hated [=EV2=] for the perception of their being overrated {{Garbage Wrestler}}s as well as outsiders taking spots away from the guys that built the company. (Also during this feud: the spelling of the stable name was tweaked to its more known version because everybody kept pointing out that they had more than four wrestlers.)

** An offshoot of AJ's tradition with his theme being an IAmSong, one version of which had the same drum/cymbal beat as the Fortune theme—showing subtly that he was the shot-caller of the group among the active wrestlers.

* OutGambitted: Had a habit of doing this to Immortal, especially when they worked together with Sting.

* ConspiracyRedemption HeelFaceTurn

Flair first came to TNA on January 4, 2010 as part of the massive influx of name value talent courtesy of Hulk Hogan, and didn't take too long before striking up an alliance with then-World Heavyweight Champion (and face of the company) AJ Styles, with Flair being AJ's manager and mentor. AJ would adopt Flair's lifestyle, cheating ways, sequined entrance robe (albeit with a hood), and even a couple of his moves as tribute, while Flair kept AJ on top until he lost the world title three months later to Wrestling/RobVanDam. Shortly thereafter, recently-returned former X-Division Champion Kazarian came into the picture, and he and AJ started fighting over being Flair's top guy to the point they couldn't work together long enough to beat Jay Lethal—until Flair introduced the solution: take AJ, Kaz, and fellow Team Flair allies [[Wrestling/JamesStorm Beer]] [[Wrestling/BobbyRoode Money]] [[BashBrothers Inc.]] and Desmond Wolfe, and give them the chance to come together under the modified Horsemen banner of Fourtune.

After virtually dominating the feud with [=EV2=] and joining with Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/EricBischoff's [[MassiveMultiplayerScam latest rehashing of the nWo]] to get the power to fire most of the Hardcore crew, Fortune contained most of the titles and most of the credibility within the Immortal alliance. And on February 3, 2011, when [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real life wrote the plot]], they took that credibility and [[ConspiracyRedemption turned on Immortal with it, costing then-]][[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] {{Heel}} Wrestling/JeffHardy the World Heavyweight Title. The ensuing feud kept true to Fortune's original purpose, turned them into the faces the crowd always believed they were, added the return of Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels to join the stable when they needed someone to fill in for AJ heading into ''Lethal Lockdown'', led to a litany of noteworthy moments which had TNA diehards jumping for joy, and set the seeds up for the future character directions of all involved (although Flair missed out on much of the awesomeness, as he chose Immortal over Fortune).

* ConspiracyRedemption

* ChekhovsGun: Unintentional, but it still counts. Flair was originally saying "They" were Fortune during the initial Immortal conspiracy. Cue IronicEcho when the "Them" that Wrestling/KurtAngle and Crimson were promising would come after Immortal heading into 2/3/11 turned out to be Fortune's…

** AJ's theme in particular was an IAmSong, one version of which had the same drum/cymbal beat as the Fortune theme—showing subtly that he was the shot-caller of the group among the active wrestlers.

* InsistentTerminology / CanonDiscontinuity: When Roode, Kaz, and Daniels lated formed the '''[[FunWithAcronyms E]]'''xtraordinary '''[[FunWithAcronyms G]]'''entlemen's '''[[FunWithAcronyms O]]'''rganization, they termed it as a '''new''' alliance despite having previously acknowledged Fortune during prior attempted team-ups.