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* BigBadDuumvirate: Tama, along with Bad Luck Fale, essentially became this as the primary shot-callers and coordinators of BCOG, seeking to take back Bullet Club from the clutches of The Elite and restore the faction to the original violent brotherhood state in which they founded it along with its previous leaders. They later added to this unit by making it a trio with a new frontmanace for the group in Wrestling/JayWhite, later naming him the official new leader. Although they consider themselves more of CoDragons than fellow Big Bads, Jay has been more of simply TheAce than a true decision-making commander, meaning the Tongans still hold a lot of sway.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Tama, along with Bad Luck Fale, essentially became this as the primary shot-callers and coordinators of BCOG, seeking to take back Bullet Club from the clutches of The Elite and restore the faction to the original violent brotherhood state in which they founded it along with its previous leaders. They later added to this unit by making it a trio with a new frontmanace frontman for the group in Wrestling/JayWhite, later naming him the official new leader. Although they consider themselves more of CoDragons than fellow Big Bads, Jay has been more of simply TheAce than a true decision-making commander, meaning the Tongans still hold a lot of sway.
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* ContinuityNod / ShoutOut: Tama constantly exchanges these with the alumni in WWE, as does Bad Luck Fale, with Loa sometimes joining in. Even the Firing Squad shirt holds the color scheme of the original BC shirt from the Shoot Style Era with Wrestling/FergalDevitt. There's also the obvious too-sweet and suck-it stuff, homages to Wrestling/TheKliq and its sister stables Wrestling/NewWorldOrder and Wrestling/DGenerationX, of whom The Club is a SpiritualSuccessor.
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* ContinuityNod / ShoutOut: Tama constantly exchanges these with the Bullet Club alumni in WWE, as does Bad Luck Fale, with Loa sometimes joining in. Even the Firing Squad shirt holds the color scheme of the original BC shirt from the Shoot Style Era with Wrestling/FergalDevitt. There's also the obvious too-sweet and suck-it stuff, homages to Wrestling/TheKliq and its sister stables Wrestling/NewWorldOrder and Wrestling/DGenerationX, of whom The Club is a SpiritualSuccessor.
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* DevilInPlainSight: Through the [[Wrestling/KennyOmega Team Kenny]] vs. [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Team Cody]] portion of the Bullet Club Civil War, Tama was constantly lurking in the background and making veiled threats that he was tired of the club's then-ongoing state of affairs. Look no further than the infamous [[DissonantSerenity Zero Fucks Given]] scene on ''WebVideo/BeingTheElite'' episode 93, where he watched Omega and Cody's pull-apart incident in front of the majority of the Bullet Club, including both OG and Elite members, sitting there looking bored as though the whole thing wasn't even worth bothering with.
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* DevilInPlainSight: Through the [[Wrestling/KennyOmega Team Kenny]] vs. [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Team Cody]] portion of the Bullet Club Civil War, Tama was constantly lurking in the background and making veiled threats that he was tired of the club's then-ongoing [[AHouseDivided state of affairs.of]] [[LighterAndSofter affairs]]. Look no further than the infamous [[DissonantSerenity Zero Fucks Given]] scene on ''WebVideo/BeingTheElite'' episode 93, where he watched Omega and Cody's pull-apart incident in front of the majority of the Bullet Club, including both OG and Elite members, sitting there looking bored as though the whole thing wasn't even worth bothering with.
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* RedBaron: Tama was originally The Bad Boy, then had a phase where he tried to be The Good Guy, only to blow his top at a convenient time and become The Good Bad Guy. Loa, meanwhile, has consistently been The Silverback, a play on the same time of "guerrilla/gorilla" pun as the name and logo of Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerrilla.
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* RedBaron: Tama was originally The Bad Boy, then had a phase where he tried to be The Good Guy, only to blow his top at a convenient time and become The Good Bad Guy. Loa, meanwhile, has consistently been The Silverback, a play on the same time type of "guerrilla/gorilla" pun as the name and logo of Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerrilla.
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** Being students of the Team 3D Wrestling Academy, they also use Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys' trademark finisher, calling it Killshot, which used to be Anderson's ring name in Wrestling Revolution Project.
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** Being graduated students of the Team 3D Wrestling Academy, they also use Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys' trademark finisher, calling it Killshot, which used to be Anderson's ring name in Wrestling Revolution Project.
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* WrestlingFamily: Sons of King Haku, cousins of Bad Luck Fale, big brothers to Hikuleo. And now this family has established itself as the most powerful clan in NJPW by heading up the "Firing Squad" crusade which successfully took back the direction of Bullet Club from The Elite. The Fifitas are also one of the interconnected island families inducted by the Anoa'i clan as part of their dynasty.
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* WrestlingFamily: Sons of King Haku, cousins of Bad Luck Fale, big brothers to Hikuleo. And now this family has established itself as the most powerful clan in NJPW by heading up the "Firing Squad" crusade which successfully took back the direction of Bullet Club from The Elite. The Fifitas are also one of the interconnected island families inducted by the Samoan Anoa'i clan as part of their dynasty.dynasty, making Tama Tonga's social media rivalry with Wrestling/RomanReigns even funnier.
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* WrestlingFamily: Sons of King Haku, cousins of Bad Luck Fale, big brothers to Hikuleo. And now this family has established itself as the most powerful clan in NJPW by heading up the "Firing Squad" crusade which successfully took back the direction of Bullet Club from The Elite.
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* WrestlingFamily: Sons of King Haku, cousins of Bad Luck Fale, big brothers to Hikuleo. And now this family has established itself as the most powerful clan in NJPW by heading up the "Firing Squad" crusade which successfully took back the direction of Bullet Club from The Elite. The Fifitas are also one of the interconnected island families inducted by the Anoa'i clan as part of their dynasty.
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After several years as one of BC's undercard members, Tama saw an opportunity: around the same time his adopted brother, who's more than capable of getting work done, was cleared from TNA, Anderson and [[Wrestling/DrewHankinson Doc Gallows]] were about to leave NJPW for WWE, leaving Bullet Club without a heavyweight tag team. Tama brought in his brother, who took on the name of Tanga Loa, creating the tag team Guerrillas of Destiny. Since teaming together, they have become 5-time (and current) IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, 1-time Wrestling/RingOfHonor World Tag Team Champions, 1-time [=WrestleCircus=] Big Top Tag Team Champions, 3-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions (twice with Bad Luck Fale, once with Taiji Ishimori), and increasing cornerstones of Bullet Club as a faction to the point that they were the catalysts of the mutiny and civil war that transitioned BC from the Golden Elite Era to the Cutthroat Era.
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After several years as one of BC's undercard members, Tama saw an opportunity: around the same time his adopted brother, who's more than capable of getting work done, was cleared from TNA, Anderson and [[Wrestling/DrewHankinson Doc Gallows]] were about to leave NJPW for WWE, leaving Bullet Club without a heavyweight tag team. Tama brought in his brother, who took on the name of Tanga Loa, creating recreating their tandem as the tag team Guerrillas of Destiny.Destiny, playing on the [[ThemeNaming "god" theme of their ring names]]. Since teaming together, they have become 5-time (and current) IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, 1-time Wrestling/RingOfHonor World Tag Team Champions, 1-time [=WrestleCircus=] Big Top Tag Team Champions, 3-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions (twice with Bad Luck Fale, once with Taiji Ishimori), and increasing cornerstones of Bullet Club as a faction to the point that they were the catalysts of the mutiny and civil war that transitioned BC from the Golden Elite Era to the Cutthroat Era.
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* MeaningfulName:MeaningfulName / ThemeNaming: Everything involving their names references Polynesian gods and homage to heritage.
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* TrueCompanions: With their Bullet Club brothers outside The Elite, including the "OC" alumni in WWE. Notably, no Tongans were ever involved in the exodus of either Devitt or Styles, and Tama and Fale backed up Anderson and Gallows in their exit, as if to ensure it would be a peaceful one.
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* TrueCompanions: With their Bullet Club brothers outside The Elite, including the "OC" alumni in WWE. Notably, no Tongans were ever involved in the exodus of either Devitt or Styles, and Tama and Fale backed up Anderson and Gallows in their exit, as if to ensure it would be a peaceful one.one, before bringing in T.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. As Camacho, T was more or less billed as Mexican through a character backstory with Wrestling/{{Hunico}}, but he never explicitly said he was, it was simply taken for granted. As Mica, his background went unmentioned for a week before he revealed himself as the son of Haku.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. As Camacho, T was more or less billed as Mexican through a character backstory with Wrestling/{{Hunico}}, Wrestling/{{Hunico}} as [[LowerClassLout a street thug from Juarez]], but he never explicitly said he was, it was simply taken for granted. As Mica, his background went unmentioned for a week before he revealed himself as the son of Haku.
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** Camacho had this with Hunico, with the backstory being that Hunico saved Camacho's life during a knife fight in Juarez.
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Eventually the two separated after gaining the interest of different companies. T was picked up by Wrestling/{{WWE}} and sent to its developmental system under the name Donny Marlow, before later emerging on Wrestling/WWESmackDown as Mexican wrestler [[Wrestling/SinCara Hunico]]'s bodyguard Camacho, in a rather uneventful stint before he left the company. Later, he would join [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] as part of [[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Drew Galloway]]'s revolution faction The Rising under the name Mica, before the stable disbanded and he was left with not much else to do before again being released. Pate, however, was picked up by New Japan and sent to the NJPW dojo as a young boy. As a NJPW wrestler, he took on the name Tama Tonga, eventually becoming the personal young boy of his good friend Wrestling/KarlAnderson, before joining Anderson and others in creating the infamous stable known as Wrestling/BulletClub.
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Eventually the two separated after gaining the interest of different companies. T was picked up by Wrestling/{{WWE}} and sent to its developmental system under the name Donny Marlow, before later emerging on Wrestling/WWESmackDown as Mexican wrestler [[Wrestling/SinCara Hunico]]'s Wrestling/{{Hunico}}'s bodyguard Camacho, in a rather uneventful stint before he left the company. Later, he would join [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] as part of [[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Drew Galloway]]'s revolution faction The Rising under the name Mica, before the stable disbanded and he was left with not much else to do before again being released. Pate, however, was picked up by New Japan and sent to the NJPW dojo as a young boy. As a NJPW wrestler, he took on the name Tama Tonga, eventually becoming the personal young boy of his good friend Wrestling/KarlAnderson, before joining Anderson and others in creating the infamous stable known as Wrestling/BulletClub.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. As Camacho, T was more or less billed as Mexican through a character backstory with Hunico, but he never explicitly said he was, it was simply taken for granted. As Mica, his background went unmentioned for a week before he revealed himself as the son of Haku.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. As Camacho, T was more or less billed as Mexican through a character backstory with Hunico, Wrestling/{{Hunico}}, but he never explicitly said he was, it was simply taken for granted. As Mica, his background went unmentioned for a week before he revealed himself as the son of Haku.
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* TheBrute: Both, but especially Loa. In fact Loa was this to [[Wrestling/SinCara Hunico]] at one point in WWE under the moniker Camacho.
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* LightningBruiser: While Tama emphasizes the "Lightning" part more while T favors the "Bruiser" side, both are quite capable of showing speed, agility, and strength.
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** Tevita Fifita, (Agent) T, Tanga Loa, Camacho, Donny Marlow, Nuku.
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* PowerTrio: Can frequently be seen alongside another BC members. Most of the time it'll be their cousin Bad Luck Fale or their tall younger brother Hikuleo, though sometimes post-Elite recruits such as Jay White and Taiji Ishimori can get this treatment as well.
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** Can frequently be seen alongside another BC members. Most of the time it'll be their cousin Bad Luck Fale or their tall younger brother Hikuleo, though sometimes post-Elite recruits such as Jay White and Taiji Ishimori can get this treatment aswell.well.
** Before T joined Bullet Club, he was part of The Rising with [[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Drew Galloway]] and Eli Drake in Wrestling/ImpactWrestling. Ironically, the stable The Rising fought against, The Beat Down Clan, had taken shots at Bullet Club in their entrance theme as part of their expressed interest in perhaps working a feud with them someday.
** Can frequently be seen alongside another BC members. Most of the time it'll be their cousin Bad Luck Fale or their tall younger brother Hikuleo, though sometimes post-Elite recruits such as Jay White and Taiji Ishimori can get this treatment as
** Before T joined Bullet Club, he was part of The Rising with [[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Drew Galloway]] and Eli Drake in Wrestling/ImpactWrestling. Ironically, the stable The Rising fought against, The Beat Down Clan, had taken shots at Bullet Club in their entrance theme as part of their expressed interest in perhaps working a feud with them someday.
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** Alipate Leone, Pate Fifita, Tama Tonga, King Tonga Jr., Tonga Strong Machine, Kava.
** Tevita Fifita, (Agent) T, Tanga Loa, Camacho, Donny Marlow, Nuku.
** Alipate Leone, Pate Fifita, Tama Tonga, King Tonga Jr., Tonga Strong Machine, Kava.
** Tevita Fifita, (Agent) T, Tanga Loa, Camacho, Donny Marlow, Nuku.
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The Guerrillas of Destiny (or [[FunWithAcronyms G.o.D]]) are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Alipate Aloisio "Pate" Leone (born on October 15, 1982) and Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata "T" Fifita (born on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor)under the ring names Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa. Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Pate and T to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from their father in addition to none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
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The Guerrillas of Destiny (or [[FunWithAcronyms G.o.D]]) are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Alipate Aloisio "Pate" Leone (born on October 15, 1982) and Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata "T" Fifita (born on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor)under Wrestling/RingOfHonor) under the ring names Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa. Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Pate and T to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from their father in addition to none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
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The Guerrillas of Destiny (or [[FunWithAcronyms G.o.D]]) are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Tama Tonga (born Alipate Aloisio "Pate" Leone on October 15, 1982) and Tanga Loa (born Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata "T" Fifita on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor). Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Pate and T to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from their father in addition to none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
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The Guerrillas of Destiny (or [[FunWithAcronyms G.o.D]]) are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Tama Tonga (born Alipate Aloisio "Pate" Leone (born on October 15, 1982) and Tanga Loa (born Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata "T" Fifita (born on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor).Wrestling/RingOfHonor)under the ring names Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa. Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Pate and T to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from their father in addition to none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
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* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Bullet Club's stock and trade.
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* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Aside from it being Bullet Club's stock and trade.trade, Tonga does not host a major promotion, so they come off as this in a sense whether in Japan or America.
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* FinishingMove: Three. Guerrilla Warfare, a double-arm DDT by Tama with Loa elevating the opponent by the legs. They also have Killshot, their version of the Dudley Death Drop, as well as the Magic Killer.
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** Being students of the Team 3D Wrestling Academy, they also use Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys' trademark finisher, calling it Killshot, which used to be Anderson's ring name in Wrestling Revolution Project.
** Singles-wise, Tama has taken up the Gun Stun, Anderson's old singlesfinisher.finisher, while T's Apeshit move, the Fire Thunder Driver, is known to WWF fans as the [[Wrestling/{{Rikishi}} Rikishi Driver]].
** Singles-wise, Tama has taken up the Gun Stun, Anderson's old singles
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* BashBrothers: Being the most dominant tag team in NJPW's recent history, they are obviously this with each other.
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* BashBrothers: Being the The most dominant tag team in NJPW's recent history, they are obviously this with each other.history.
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Eventually the two separated after gaining the interest of different companies; while Tevita was picked up by Wrestling/{{WWE}} and sent to its developmental system under the name Donny Marlow, before later emerging on Wrestling/WWESmackDown as Mexican wrestler [[Wrestling/SinCara Hunico]]'s bodyguard Camacho, in a rather uneventful stint before he left the company. Later, he would join [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] as part of [[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Drew Galloway]]'s revolution faction The Rising under the name Mica, before the stable disbanded and he was left with not much else to do before again being released. Alipate, however, was picked up by New Japan and sent to the NJPW dojo as a young boy. As a NJPW wrestler, he took on the name Tama Tonga, eventually becoming the personal young boy of his good friend Wrestling/KarlAnderson, before joining Anderson and others in creating the infamous stable known as Wrestling/BulletClub.
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Eventually the two separated after gaining the interest of different companies; while Tevita companies. T was picked up by Wrestling/{{WWE}} and sent to its developmental system under the name Donny Marlow, before later emerging on Wrestling/WWESmackDown as Mexican wrestler [[Wrestling/SinCara Hunico]]'s bodyguard Camacho, in a rather uneventful stint before he left the company. Later, he would join [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] as part of [[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Drew Galloway]]'s revolution faction The Rising under the name Mica, before the stable disbanded and he was left with not much else to do before again being released. Alipate, Pate, however, was picked up by New Japan and sent to the NJPW dojo as a young boy. As a NJPW wrestler, he took on the name Tama Tonga, eventually becoming the personal young boy of his good friend Wrestling/KarlAnderson, before joining Anderson and others in creating the infamous stable known as Wrestling/BulletClub.
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The Guerrillas of Destiny (or [[FunWithAcronyms G.o.D]]) are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Tama Tonga (born Alipate Aloisio "Pate" Leone on October 15, 1982) and Tanga Loa (born Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata "T" Fifita on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor). Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Alipate and Tevita to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
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The Guerrillas of Destiny (or [[FunWithAcronyms G.o.D]]) are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Tama Tonga (born Alipate Aloisio "Pate" Leone on October 15, 1982) and Tanga Loa (born Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata "T" Fifita on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor). Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Alipate Pate and Tevita T to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from their father in addition to none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
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The Guerrillas of Destiny (or [[FunWithAcronyms G.o.D]]) are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Tama Tonga (born Alipate Aloisio Leone on October 15, 1982) and Tanga Loa (born Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata Fifita on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor). Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Alipate and Tevita to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
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The Guerrillas of Destiny (or [[FunWithAcronyms G.o.D]]) are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Tama Tonga (born Alipate Aloisio "Pate" Leone on October 15, 1982) and Tanga Loa (born Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata "T" Fifita on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor). Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Alipate and Tevita to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
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* LifeImitatesArt: Camacho in WWE had a Mexican hoodlum gimmick. Through NJPW's relationship to Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, Tama has made a number of successful trips to Mexico as part of Bullet Club, including one with Tanga Loa.
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* TheBrute: Both, but especially Loa. In fact Loa was this to [[Wrestling/SinCara Hunico]] at one point in WWE under the moniker Camacho.
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The Guerrillas of Destiny, or [[FunWithAcronyms G.O.D]], is a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Tama Tonga (born Alipate Aloisio Leone on October 15, 1982) and Tanga Loa (born Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata Fifita on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor). Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Alipate and Tevita to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
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The Guerrillas ofDestiny, or Destiny (or [[FunWithAcronyms G.O.D]], is o.D]]) are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Tama Tonga (born Alipate Aloisio Leone on October 15, 1982) and Tanga Loa (born Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata Fifita on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor). Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Alipate and Tevita to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
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** BigBadWannabe: Ironically, before joining with Jay White, Tama and Fale looked like they were pretenders to the throne due to constantly getting disqualified in G1 28, seemingly failing to grasp the point of original Bullet Club which was to cheat ''to win''. {{Foreshadowing}} their true role, however, the Tongans were far more successful in the tag team preview matches on the G1 tour than in the actual G1 matches, with G.O.D in particular going undefeated, and their interference in White vs. Fale saw Fale successfully win.
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** BigBadWannabe: Ironically, before joining with Jay White, Tama and Fale looked like they were pretenders to the throne due to constantly getting disqualified in G1 28, seemingly failing to grasp the point of original Bullet Club which was to cheat ''to win''. {{Foreshadowing}} their true role, however, the Tongans were far more successful in the tag team preview matches on the G1 tour than in the actual G1 matches, with G.O.o.D in particular going undefeated, and undefeated. Even more distinctly, their interference in White vs. Fale saw Fale successfully win.win despite White's best attempts at cheating to fight them off, showing that they can cheat to win but simply didn't care enough to do so… until it was time for Tama to beat Wrestling/KotaIbushi and force him and Kenny to go all-out in their B-block match against each other for a small chance at surviving the block.
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* DevilInPlainSight: Through the [[Wrestling/KennyOmega Team Kenny]] vs. [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Team Cody]] portion of the Bullet Club Civil War, Tama was constantly lurking in the background and making veiled threats that he was tired of the club's then-ongoing state of affairs. Look no further than the infamous [[DissonantSerenity Zero Fucks Given]] scene on ''Wrestling/BeingTheElite'' episode 93, where he watched Omega and Cody's pull-apart incident in front of the majority of the Bullet Club, including both OG and Elite members, sitting there along as though the whole thing wasn't even worth bothering with.
* EvilSlinks: Tama has with uncannily smooth motions and the gimmick of this duo explicitly emphasizes guerilla tactics. This comes as no surprise.
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* DevilInPlainSight: Through the [[Wrestling/KennyOmega Team Kenny]] vs. [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Team Cody]] portion of the Bullet Club Civil War, Tama was constantly lurking in the background and making veiled threats that he was tired of the club's then-ongoing state of affairs. Look no further than the infamous [[DissonantSerenity Zero Fucks Given]] scene on ''Wrestling/BeingTheElite'' ''WebVideo/BeingTheElite'' episode 93, where he watched Omega and Cody's pull-apart incident in front of the majority of the Bullet Club, including both OG and Elite members, sitting there along looking bored as though the whole thing wasn't even worth bothering with.
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* SirSwearsALot: Much like Anderson and Gallows before them, G.O.D are capable of speech without swearing but enjoy cutting loose on a non-English-TV product to the point that a SwearJar would probably kill their paychecks.
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The Guerrillas of Destiny, or [[FunWithAcronyms G.O.D]], is a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of adoptive brothers[[labelnote:*]]and biological cousins[[/labelnote]] Tama Tonga (born Alipate Aloisio Leone on October 15, 1982) and Tanga Loa (born Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata Fifita on May 7, 1983), currently performing for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (and occasionally Wrestling/RingOfHonor). Alipate, along with his little brother Taula, were both adopted by their uncle and Tevita's father, the infamous [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Tonga Fifita]], otherwise known as Meng or King Haku. While Haku tried to dissuade his boys from getting into wrestling, causing both Alipate and Tevita to take on military paths, the two brothers gravitated to the business anyway, receiving training from none other than Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys at the Team 3D Wrestling Academy before making their debut as a team under the name "Sons of Tonga", with Pate as Kava and Tevita as Nuku.
Eventually the two separated after gaining the interest of different companies; while Tevita was picked up by Wrestling/{{WWE}} and sent to its developmental system under the name Donny Marlow, before later emerging on Wrestling/WWESmackDown as Mexican wrestler [[Wrestling/SinCara Hunico]]'s bodyguard Camacho, in a rather uneventful stint before he left the company. Later, he would join [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] as part of [[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Drew Galloway]]'s revolution faction The Rising under the name Mica, before the stable disbanded and he was left with not much else to do before again being released. Alipate, however, was picked up by New Japan and sent to the NJPW dojo as a young boy. As a NJPW wrestler, he took on the name Tama Tonga, eventually becoming the personal young boy of his good friend Wrestling/KarlAnderson, before joining Anderson and others in creating the infamous stable known as Wrestling/BulletClub.
After several years as one of BC's undercard members, Tama saw an opportunity: around the same time his adopted brother, who's more than capable of getting work done, was cleared from TNA, Anderson and [[Wrestling/DrewHankinson Doc Gallows]] were about to leave NJPW for WWE, leaving Bullet Club without a heavyweight tag team. Tama brought in his brother, who took on the name of Tanga Loa, creating the tag team Guerrillas of Destiny. Since teaming together, they have become 5-time (and current) IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, 1-time Wrestling/RingOfHonor World Tag Team Champions, 1-time [=WrestleCircus=] Big Top Tag Team Champions, 3-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions (twice with Bad Luck Fale, once with Taiji Ishimori), and increasing cornerstones of Bullet Club as a faction to the point that they were the catalysts of the mutiny and civil war that transitioned BC from the Golden Elite Era to the Cutthroat Era.
As usual, more detailed biography [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrillas_of_Destiny here]].
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!!"Guerrilla Trope Tactics":
* AlliterativeName: Tama Tonga.
* ArchEnemy:
** Wrestling/TheYoungBucks during the OG vs. Elite portion of the Bullet Club Civil War.
** ''Wrestling/LosIngobernablesDeJapon'' members EVIL and SANADA seem to be this every turn of the year over the World Tag League and IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships.
** Their main rivals in ROH have been The Briscoe Brothers.
* BashBrothers: Being the most dominant tag team in NJPW's recent history, they are obviously this with each other.
* BeardOfEvil: Both have this. Sometimes it stands out more when they use war paint.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Tama, along with Bad Luck Fale, essentially became this as the primary shot-callers and coordinators of BCOG, seeking to take back Bullet Club from the clutches of The Elite and restore the faction to the original violent brotherhood state in which they founded it along with its previous leaders. They later added to this unit by making it a trio with a new frontmanace for the group in Wrestling/JayWhite, later naming him the official new leader. Although they consider themselves more of CoDragons than fellow Big Bads, Jay has been more of simply TheAce than a true decision-making commander, meaning the Tongans still hold a lot of sway.
** BigBadWannabe: Ironically, before joining with Jay White, Tama and Fale looked like they were pretenders to the throne due to constantly getting disqualified in G1 28, seemingly failing to grasp the point of original Bullet Club which was to cheat ''to win''. {{Foreshadowing}} their true role, however, the Tongans were far more successful in the tag team preview matches on the G1 tour than in the actual G1 matches, with G.O.D in particular going undefeated, and their interference in White vs. Fale saw Fale successfully win.
* BigLittleBrothers: Baby brother Hikuleo is bigger taller than both of them.
* TheBrute: Both, but especially Loa.
* ClusterFBomb: Whenever these boys get hot and bothered, expect a lot of cuss words.
* ContinuityNod / ShoutOut: Tama constantly exchanges these with the alumni in WWE, as does Bad Luck Fale, with Loa sometimes joining in. Even the Firing Squad shirt holds the color scheme of the original BC shirt from the Shoot Style Era with Wrestling/FergalDevitt. There's also the obvious too-sweet and suck-it stuff, homages to Wrestling/TheKliq and its sister stables Wrestling/NewWorldOrder and Wrestling/DGenerationX, of whom The Club is a SpiritualSuccessor.
* CoolMask: Have started rocking this in their entrance since debuting a new theme song at Wrestle Kingdom 13 at the start of 2019.
* DevilInPlainSight: Through the [[Wrestling/KennyOmega Team Kenny]] vs. [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Team Cody]] portion of the Bullet Club Civil War, Tama was constantly lurking in the background and making veiled threats that he was tired of the club's then-ongoing state of affairs. Look no further than the infamous [[DissonantSerenity Zero Fucks Given]] scene on ''Wrestling/BeingTheElite'' episode 93, where he watched Omega and Cody's pull-apart incident in front of the majority of the Bullet Club, including both OG and Elite members, sitting there along as though the whole thing wasn't even worth bothering with.
* EvilSlinks: Tama has with uncannily smooth motions and the gimmick of this duo explicitly emphasizes guerilla tactics. This comes as no surprise.
* EvilVsEvil: Their feud with EVIL and SANADA, from another heel New Japan stable, ''Wrestling/LosIngobernablesDeJapon''.
* FaceHeelTurn: Both brothers had theirs in joining Bullet Club. Tama had been Karl Anderson's corner-man during Anderson's solo babyface run before they both turned heel and joined Devitt and Fale in founding Bullet Club. T's last gimmick before being brought in as Tanga Loa was a standard-fare babyface going by Mica.
* FacialMarkings / TribalFacePaint: Used to cover their faces with paint on a regular basis as an homage to their island heritage, now only do so occasionally.
* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Bullet Club's stock and trade.
* FunWithAcronyms: G.O.D, Guerrillas of Destiny.
* LifeImitatesArt: Camacho in WWE had a Mexican hoodlum gimmick. Through NJPW's relationship to Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, Tama has made a number of successful trips to Mexico as part of Bullet Club, including one with Tanga Loa.
* MeaningfulName:
** The first Tama Tonga is actually Haku himself from back in his days wrestling in Hawaii, and his Islanders tag team partner Sam Fatu was known as Tama Samoa. Furthermore, the name itself is an allusion to Tūmatauenga, the Māori god of war.
** Likewise, Tanga Loa's name also comes from one of the oldest Polynesian gods, whose legend depends on location. In Tongan myth, Tangaloa is actually the progenitor and namesake to an entire ''family'' of sky gods who were the ancestors of the first Tongan kings.
** In light of the above, the Guerrillas of Destiny become more significant when you remember both FunWithAcronyms and who [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} their father]] is.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Their specialty.
* OneLetterName: Haku's biological son is often simply called T. This actually comes from his real name of Tevita, though it fits with Tanga Loa.
* PowerStable: A not-insignificant part of the power of Bullet Club.
* PowerTrio: Can frequently be seen alongside another BC members. Most of the time it'll be their cousin Bad Luck Fale or their tall younger brother Hikuleo, though sometimes post-Elite recruits such as Jay White and Taiji Ishimori can get this treatment as well.
* RedBaron: Tama was originally The Bad Boy, then had a phase where he tried to be The Good Guy, only to blow his top at a convenient time and become The Good Bad Guy. Loa, meanwhile, has consistently been The Silverback, a play on the same time of "guerrilla/gorilla" pun as the name and logo of Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerrilla.
* RedOniBlueOni: Tanga Loa is the Red Oni, Tama Tonga is the Blue Oni. That said, both are clear Red Onis next to Fale and Jay White.
* SirSwearsALot: Much like Anderson and Gallows before them, G.O.D are capable of speech without swearing but enjoy cutting loose on a non-English-TV product to the point that a SwearJar would probably kill their paychecks.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Companies such as NJPW and ROH had a habit of spelling T's name as Tanga Roa, before he eventually corrected it and said it's Loa. Actually, despite this, it still happens every now and again.
* TheStarscream: Tama, backed by Loa and Fale, was one of several potential usurpers that had risen up towards Wrestling/KennyOmega in 2017 and 2018 out of frustration for his discordant behavior and emphasis on The Elite. Their coup turned out to be the successful one, restoring Bullet Club to its violent brotherhood credos, with Tama, Fale, and Jay White becoming the stable's three unofficial heads before Tama himself officially named White as the leader.
* TakeUpMySword:
** {{Subverted}} in the sense that they used an inverted version of the Magic Killer, the finishing move of Anderson and Gallows, in the form of Loa-assisted Tongan Twist by Tama which they treated as a SignatureMove rather than as their finisher, as though acknowledging that they can't carry it over because neither of them was part of the previous team in the chain of duos that used the move. And then EVIL and Sanada from LIJ started using the Magic Killer, forcing them to take it up as well and heating up their tag team championship rivalry even more than it already had been.
** Singles-wise, Tama has taken up the Gun Stun, Anderson's old singles finisher.
* TrashTheSet: Helped the Young Bucks and Wrestling/AdamCole do this in Cole's memorable Bullet Club debut in May 2016 at the joint NJPW/ROH show Global Wars. Interfering in the main event match between Colt Cabana and Jay Lethal, hardly anyone inside of the ring barricades was spared being superkicked. Both competitors, referee Todd Sinclair, Lethal's manager Wrestling/TaelerHendrix, Kevin Kelly and even Steve Corino were laid out along with security, the Young Bucks' own father, and one heroic cameraman who stepped in front of another to save the "$40,000 camera".
* TrueCompanions: With their Bullet Club brothers outside The Elite, including the "OC" alumni in WWE. Notably, no Tongans were ever involved in the exodus of either Devitt or Styles, and Tama and Fale backed up Anderson and Gallows in their exit, as if to ensure it would be a peaceful one.
* UndyingLoyalty: To each other, their family, and Bullet Club itself. This causes them to act as a primary force powering Bullet Club in NJPW's midcard. This does ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' make them beneath calling a fight with their leader if they thinks said leader is damaging The Club. Just ask Kenny.
--> '''Tama:''' "You wanna be the leader, of the Bullet Club? Huh? '''Then you gotta represent the Bullet Club!''' Who the FUCK is [[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks The Elite]], huh!? Huh!? Or the [[Wrestling/AdamCole Dream Team]]!? Huh, the [[CriticalResearchFailure Superkliq]]!?[[labelnote:*]]Superkliq is Adam Cole and the Young Bucks' trio, it has nothing to do with Omega. Furthermore, Cole was already kicked out by the time this rant took place.[[/labelnote]] Huh? You wanna be in Bullet Club, '''then you BE one of us!'''"
** Even the Tongans' actions about a year later, attacking Omega, The Elite, and their various supporters within Bullet Club, was motivated by a desire for BC to go back to a being united vicious heel group that would dominate NJPW and collect titles like hotcakes as a brotherhood. They never saw what they did as betraying The Club, but as properly ousting Omega's team from it, claiming outright that they're the real Bullet Club[[note]]not "The Firing Squad", as they simply consider that to be their mission at the moment[[/note]] and Omega's team are just The Elite. NJPW differentiated between the two groups by calling them Bullet Club OG and Bullet Club Elite, not officially declaring which side was true… until The Elite voluntarily announced they were giving up Bullet Club at the Chris Jericho cruise.
* VerbalTic: Huh?
* WildSamoan: Distinctly averted here. Don't let the face paint or Tama's pre-BC animal print/shoeless ring attire fool you, the Fifita clan are among if not ''the'' most thoughtful and articulate members of their club. Shown best in their breakout of BCOG from Kenny Omega and BC Elite; when they became frustrated with the antics of The Elite, they spent almost a year surveying the territory, deciding whether they would call their own shot regarding the future of Bullet Club, and planning out how to do so, before they finally did it.
* WrestlingFamily: Sons of King Haku, cousins of Bad Luck Fale, big brothers to Hikuleo. And now this family has established itself as the most powerful clan in NJPW by heading up the "Firing Squad" crusade which successfully took back the direction of Bullet Club from The Elite.
Eventually the two separated after gaining the interest of different companies; while Tevita was picked up by Wrestling/{{WWE}} and sent to its developmental system under the name Donny Marlow, before later emerging on Wrestling/WWESmackDown as Mexican wrestler [[Wrestling/SinCara Hunico]]'s bodyguard Camacho, in a rather uneventful stint before he left the company. Later, he would join [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] as part of [[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Drew Galloway]]'s revolution faction The Rising under the name Mica, before the stable disbanded and he was left with not much else to do before again being released. Alipate, however, was picked up by New Japan and sent to the NJPW dojo as a young boy. As a NJPW wrestler, he took on the name Tama Tonga, eventually becoming the personal young boy of his good friend Wrestling/KarlAnderson, before joining Anderson and others in creating the infamous stable known as Wrestling/BulletClub.
After several years as one of BC's undercard members, Tama saw an opportunity: around the same time his adopted brother, who's more than capable of getting work done, was cleared from TNA, Anderson and [[Wrestling/DrewHankinson Doc Gallows]] were about to leave NJPW for WWE, leaving Bullet Club without a heavyweight tag team. Tama brought in his brother, who took on the name of Tanga Loa, creating the tag team Guerrillas of Destiny. Since teaming together, they have become 5-time (and current) IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, 1-time Wrestling/RingOfHonor World Tag Team Champions, 1-time [=WrestleCircus=] Big Top Tag Team Champions, 3-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions (twice with Bad Luck Fale, once with Taiji Ishimori), and increasing cornerstones of Bullet Club as a faction to the point that they were the catalysts of the mutiny and civil war that transitioned BC from the Golden Elite Era to the Cutthroat Era.
As usual, more detailed biography [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrillas_of_Destiny here]].
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!!"Guerrilla Trope Tactics":
* AlliterativeName: Tama Tonga.
* ArchEnemy:
** Wrestling/TheYoungBucks during the OG vs. Elite portion of the Bullet Club Civil War.
** ''Wrestling/LosIngobernablesDeJapon'' members EVIL and SANADA seem to be this every turn of the year over the World Tag League and IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships.
** Their main rivals in ROH have been The Briscoe Brothers.
* BashBrothers: Being the most dominant tag team in NJPW's recent history, they are obviously this with each other.
* BeardOfEvil: Both have this. Sometimes it stands out more when they use war paint.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Tama, along with Bad Luck Fale, essentially became this as the primary shot-callers and coordinators of BCOG, seeking to take back Bullet Club from the clutches of The Elite and restore the faction to the original violent brotherhood state in which they founded it along with its previous leaders. They later added to this unit by making it a trio with a new frontmanace for the group in Wrestling/JayWhite, later naming him the official new leader. Although they consider themselves more of CoDragons than fellow Big Bads, Jay has been more of simply TheAce than a true decision-making commander, meaning the Tongans still hold a lot of sway.
** BigBadWannabe: Ironically, before joining with Jay White, Tama and Fale looked like they were pretenders to the throne due to constantly getting disqualified in G1 28, seemingly failing to grasp the point of original Bullet Club which was to cheat ''to win''. {{Foreshadowing}} their true role, however, the Tongans were far more successful in the tag team preview matches on the G1 tour than in the actual G1 matches, with G.O.D in particular going undefeated, and their interference in White vs. Fale saw Fale successfully win.
* BigLittleBrothers: Baby brother Hikuleo is bigger taller than both of them.
* TheBrute: Both, but especially Loa.
* ClusterFBomb: Whenever these boys get hot and bothered, expect a lot of cuss words.
* ContinuityNod / ShoutOut: Tama constantly exchanges these with the alumni in WWE, as does Bad Luck Fale, with Loa sometimes joining in. Even the Firing Squad shirt holds the color scheme of the original BC shirt from the Shoot Style Era with Wrestling/FergalDevitt. There's also the obvious too-sweet and suck-it stuff, homages to Wrestling/TheKliq and its sister stables Wrestling/NewWorldOrder and Wrestling/DGenerationX, of whom The Club is a SpiritualSuccessor.
* CoolMask: Have started rocking this in their entrance since debuting a new theme song at Wrestle Kingdom 13 at the start of 2019.
* DevilInPlainSight: Through the [[Wrestling/KennyOmega Team Kenny]] vs. [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Team Cody]] portion of the Bullet Club Civil War, Tama was constantly lurking in the background and making veiled threats that he was tired of the club's then-ongoing state of affairs. Look no further than the infamous [[DissonantSerenity Zero Fucks Given]] scene on ''Wrestling/BeingTheElite'' episode 93, where he watched Omega and Cody's pull-apart incident in front of the majority of the Bullet Club, including both OG and Elite members, sitting there along as though the whole thing wasn't even worth bothering with.
* EvilSlinks: Tama has with uncannily smooth motions and the gimmick of this duo explicitly emphasizes guerilla tactics. This comes as no surprise.
* EvilVsEvil: Their feud with EVIL and SANADA, from another heel New Japan stable, ''Wrestling/LosIngobernablesDeJapon''.
* FaceHeelTurn: Both brothers had theirs in joining Bullet Club. Tama had been Karl Anderson's corner-man during Anderson's solo babyface run before they both turned heel and joined Devitt and Fale in founding Bullet Club. T's last gimmick before being brought in as Tanga Loa was a standard-fare babyface going by Mica.
* FacialMarkings / TribalFacePaint: Used to cover their faces with paint on a regular basis as an homage to their island heritage, now only do so occasionally.
* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Bullet Club's stock and trade.
* FunWithAcronyms: G.O.D, Guerrillas of Destiny.
* LifeImitatesArt: Camacho in WWE had a Mexican hoodlum gimmick. Through NJPW's relationship to Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, Tama has made a number of successful trips to Mexico as part of Bullet Club, including one with Tanga Loa.
* MeaningfulName:
** The first Tama Tonga is actually Haku himself from back in his days wrestling in Hawaii, and his Islanders tag team partner Sam Fatu was known as Tama Samoa. Furthermore, the name itself is an allusion to Tūmatauenga, the Māori god of war.
** Likewise, Tanga Loa's name also comes from one of the oldest Polynesian gods, whose legend depends on location. In Tongan myth, Tangaloa is actually the progenitor and namesake to an entire ''family'' of sky gods who were the ancestors of the first Tongan kings.
** In light of the above, the Guerrillas of Destiny become more significant when you remember both FunWithAcronyms and who [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} their father]] is.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Their specialty.
* OneLetterName: Haku's biological son is often simply called T. This actually comes from his real name of Tevita, though it fits with Tanga Loa.
* PowerStable: A not-insignificant part of the power of Bullet Club.
* PowerTrio: Can frequently be seen alongside another BC members. Most of the time it'll be their cousin Bad Luck Fale or their tall younger brother Hikuleo, though sometimes post-Elite recruits such as Jay White and Taiji Ishimori can get this treatment as well.
* RedBaron: Tama was originally The Bad Boy, then had a phase where he tried to be The Good Guy, only to blow his top at a convenient time and become The Good Bad Guy. Loa, meanwhile, has consistently been The Silverback, a play on the same time of "guerrilla/gorilla" pun as the name and logo of Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerrilla.
* RedOniBlueOni: Tanga Loa is the Red Oni, Tama Tonga is the Blue Oni. That said, both are clear Red Onis next to Fale and Jay White.
* SirSwearsALot: Much like Anderson and Gallows before them, G.O.D are capable of speech without swearing but enjoy cutting loose on a non-English-TV product to the point that a SwearJar would probably kill their paychecks.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Companies such as NJPW and ROH had a habit of spelling T's name as Tanga Roa, before he eventually corrected it and said it's Loa. Actually, despite this, it still happens every now and again.
* TheStarscream: Tama, backed by Loa and Fale, was one of several potential usurpers that had risen up towards Wrestling/KennyOmega in 2017 and 2018 out of frustration for his discordant behavior and emphasis on The Elite. Their coup turned out to be the successful one, restoring Bullet Club to its violent brotherhood credos, with Tama, Fale, and Jay White becoming the stable's three unofficial heads before Tama himself officially named White as the leader.
* TakeUpMySword:
** {{Subverted}} in the sense that they used an inverted version of the Magic Killer, the finishing move of Anderson and Gallows, in the form of Loa-assisted Tongan Twist by Tama which they treated as a SignatureMove rather than as their finisher, as though acknowledging that they can't carry it over because neither of them was part of the previous team in the chain of duos that used the move. And then EVIL and Sanada from LIJ started using the Magic Killer, forcing them to take it up as well and heating up their tag team championship rivalry even more than it already had been.
** Singles-wise, Tama has taken up the Gun Stun, Anderson's old singles finisher.
* TrashTheSet: Helped the Young Bucks and Wrestling/AdamCole do this in Cole's memorable Bullet Club debut in May 2016 at the joint NJPW/ROH show Global Wars. Interfering in the main event match between Colt Cabana and Jay Lethal, hardly anyone inside of the ring barricades was spared being superkicked. Both competitors, referee Todd Sinclair, Lethal's manager Wrestling/TaelerHendrix, Kevin Kelly and even Steve Corino were laid out along with security, the Young Bucks' own father, and one heroic cameraman who stepped in front of another to save the "$40,000 camera".
* TrueCompanions: With their Bullet Club brothers outside The Elite, including the "OC" alumni in WWE. Notably, no Tongans were ever involved in the exodus of either Devitt or Styles, and Tama and Fale backed up Anderson and Gallows in their exit, as if to ensure it would be a peaceful one.
* UndyingLoyalty: To each other, their family, and Bullet Club itself. This causes them to act as a primary force powering Bullet Club in NJPW's midcard. This does ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' make them beneath calling a fight with their leader if they thinks said leader is damaging The Club. Just ask Kenny.
--> '''Tama:''' "You wanna be the leader, of the Bullet Club? Huh? '''Then you gotta represent the Bullet Club!''' Who the FUCK is [[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks The Elite]], huh!? Huh!? Or the [[Wrestling/AdamCole Dream Team]]!? Huh, the [[CriticalResearchFailure Superkliq]]!?[[labelnote:*]]Superkliq is Adam Cole and the Young Bucks' trio, it has nothing to do with Omega. Furthermore, Cole was already kicked out by the time this rant took place.[[/labelnote]] Huh? You wanna be in Bullet Club, '''then you BE one of us!'''"
** Even the Tongans' actions about a year later, attacking Omega, The Elite, and their various supporters within Bullet Club, was motivated by a desire for BC to go back to a being united vicious heel group that would dominate NJPW and collect titles like hotcakes as a brotherhood. They never saw what they did as betraying The Club, but as properly ousting Omega's team from it, claiming outright that they're the real Bullet Club[[note]]not "The Firing Squad", as they simply consider that to be their mission at the moment[[/note]] and Omega's team are just The Elite. NJPW differentiated between the two groups by calling them Bullet Club OG and Bullet Club Elite, not officially declaring which side was true… until The Elite voluntarily announced they were giving up Bullet Club at the Chris Jericho cruise.
* VerbalTic: Huh?
* WildSamoan: Distinctly averted here. Don't let the face paint or Tama's pre-BC animal print/shoeless ring attire fool you, the Fifita clan are among if not ''the'' most thoughtful and articulate members of their club. Shown best in their breakout of BCOG from Kenny Omega and BC Elite; when they became frustrated with the antics of The Elite, they spent almost a year surveying the territory, deciding whether they would call their own shot regarding the future of Bullet Club, and planning out how to do so, before they finally did it.
* WrestlingFamily: Sons of King Haku, cousins of Bad Luck Fale, big brothers to Hikuleo. And now this family has established itself as the most powerful clan in NJPW by heading up the "Firing Squad" crusade which successfully took back the direction of Bullet Club from The Elite.
