History Wrestling / KarlAnderson

* TheDragon: To his best friend Prince Wrestling/FergalDevitt in the first year of Bullet Club.

** Wrestling/TheUsos, Wrestling/TheNewDay and The Viking Raiders are quickly becoming this for him and Gallows in WWE.

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Karl Anderson has a hot Asian wife. He constantly references her in promos, interviews, and the Talk'n Shop podcast. Yet she's never been seen anywhere in social or wrestling-related media, as he generally believes in maintaining the mystique surrounding his wife as opposed to thrusting her directly into the limelight, so you almost have to take his word for it. Or at least you ''had'' to—until May 26, 2016 happened on Website/{{Twitter}}:

** [[Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki Suzukigun]]'s Killer Elite Squad were this for him as a tag team wrestler in NJPW.

More on Karl Anderson's career on [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Anderson here]].

Karl Anderson (born Chad Allegra on January 20, 1980) is an American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, best known for his work in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (NJPW) and later Wrestling/{{WWE}}.

Despite the Club being centered around Devitt as the leader, Anderson quickly became the group's main handler of the microphone, and both men had their turns going after what was now Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada's IWGP Heavyweight Championship. For the G1 World Tag League that year, Anderson brought in [[Wrestling/DrewHankinson Doc Gallows]], a big man known for his stints in WWE and TNA, to be his tag team partner. Instant chemistry and success followed, as Anderson and Gallows won the 2013 World Tag League tournament, then went on to beat KES at Wrestle Kingdom VIII to become IWGP World Tag Team Champions. When Devitt left NJPW and was replaced by Wrestling/AJStyles at the April 6, 2014 Invasion Attack show, Anderson was considered by NJPW to be the official leader of Bullet Club despite Styles becoming its most elite wrestler, effectively forming a BigBadDuumvirate. Throughout the next couple of years, Anderson and Gallows would gain back and lose the IWGP Tag Team titles three times and Anderson would remain the primary voice and co-leader of Bullet Club along with Styles as it soared in popularity both in its native Japan and especially in many of its members' homeland in the United States, all the way up until 2016, when Styles left the company for WWE and was kicked out of Bullet Club, with Anderson and Gallows soon following suit though leaving on their own feet.

Anderson debuted in WWE with Luke Gallows eight days after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 32'', and very quickly they made their intentions known: to reform their alliance with AJ Styles and take over WWE. The first part took some convincing initially, but eventually it got done. The second part, however, was not so successful. While he and Gallows did win the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship twice, their WWE run is mostly considered less impressive than their NJPW run as they failed to establish a dominant force before being ultimately released in 2020 due to WWE having to downsize as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns.

* MrFanservice: He's like showing his abs after got ripped abs.

Karl Anderson (born Chad Allegra on January 20, 1980) is an American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, best known for his work in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (NJPW) later Wrestling/{{WWE}}.

Karl Anderson (born Chad Allegra on January 20, 1980) is an American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, best known for his work in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (NJPW) and currently signed to WWE.

Anderson debuted in WWE with Luke Gallows eight days after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 32'', and very quickly they made their intentions known: to reform their alliance with AJ Styles and take over WWE. The first part took some convincing initially, but eventually it got done. The second part, however, is still up in the air.

** Wrestling/TheUsos and Wrestling/TheNewDay are quickly becoming this for him and Gallows in WWE.

* RedBaron: "2 Badd" as Chad Allegra. "The Machine Gun" as Karl Anderson.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: He and Gallows are actually portrayed as this in WWE. They actively provoked AJ Styles to both of his heel turns in WWE, and despite the brief Bálor Club alliance in 2018 being their HeelFaceTurn it was also the closest that Finn came to being a heel prior to returning to NXT in late 2019. Furthermore, going by the subtle off-mic interactions with both Bálor Club and The OC, Anderson seems to be more of the right hand man advising or encouraging the central singles star as to how to move forward, while Gallows is the hotheaded enforcer more than happy to bring the muscle to the table.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Is this with Devitt and Gallows in RealLife.

* PowerTrio: With [AJ Styles/Finn Bálor] and Luke Gallows in what WWE [[WritingAroundTrademarks simply calls The Club]].

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Is this with Devitt in RealLife.

* TrueCompanions: With most of his other Bullet Club stablemates, as well as [[Wrestling/MattBloom Giant Bernard]]. In RealLife this also extends to other prominent members of the New Japan roster in his time there, including Chaos's Rocky Romero, with whom he and Gallows hosted a podcast called Talk'n Shop. And if anyone doubted he was this with Gallows, he confirmed it when he named his fourth child Cash Gallows, with Isaiah Cash being Gallows' ''Ring Ka King'' ring name.

* TrueCompanions: With most of his other Bullet Club stablemates, as well as [[Wrestling/MattBloom Giant Bernard]]. In RealLife this also extends to other prominent members of the New Japan roster in his time there, including Chaos's Rocky Romero, with whom he and Gallows hosted a podcast called Talk'n Shop.

* ActionDad: He has four children with his hot Asian wife.

* ActionDad: He has 3 children.

"The Machine Gun" Karl Anderson (born January 20, 1980) is an American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er originally known by his birth name and initial nickname, Chad "2 Badd" Allegra.

Allegra was soon repackaged as Karl Anderson, a distant relative of the [[Wrestling/ArnAnderson Anderson]] [[UnrelatedBrothers kayfabe wrestling family]], as they felt he had an "Anderson style" to his work. The Anderson family association was gradually dropped as he came into his own as a wrestler. By 2007 he formed a team with "Magnum" Wrestling/JoeyRyan called "The Real American Heroes", and outside the NWA began working for Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla and picking up big victories over the likes of Wrestling/FrankieKazarian and Wrestling/ColtCabana.

* BadassLongcoat: Rocking them in his entrance gear since 2016, through Wrestle Kingdom 10 and into his WWE career. Went back to T-shirts and regular vests again by mid-2017.

* BadassLongcoat: Rocking them in his entrance gear since 2016, through Wrestle Kingdom 10 and into his WWE career.

On his own, Anderson's star only ascended further, reaching the finals of various tournaments in 2012 and even winning the World Tag League as part of the tag team Sword & Guns with Hirooki Goto. However, through 2012 and 2013, his attempts to challenge after IWGP Championships such as Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi's IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the Killer Elite Squad's (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer) IWGP Tag Team titles, always came up short. It was the green light for a behind-the-scenes friendship to become a collective heel turn and faction on-screen that allowed Anderson to become a part of history, when May 3's Wrestling Dontaku saw Anderson and Tama Tonga joined [[Wrestling/FergalDevitt Prince Devitt]] and Bad Luck Fale in their attack on Tanahashi, eventually forming the force that would become known as Wrestling/BulletClub.

* PowerTrio: With AJ Styles and Luke Gallows in what WWE [[WritingAroundTrademarks simply calls The Club]].

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He came to WWE to making money and make it greed.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He came to WWE to making money.