History Wrestling / TheRoadWarriors

* BadassDecay: Their runs from 2000 on with Droz and as LOD 2000 could be seen as this to some degree, but their WWF run in 1992 with their ventriloquist dummy "mascot" Rocco screams this, with a hefty dollop of DorkAge thrown in.

* BreakupBreakout: Kensuke Sasaki (Power Warrior) was successful teaming with Hawk Warrior but he eventually held all three major Japanese World Titles (New Japan's IWGP, All Japan's Triple Crown, Noah's GHC).

* RealSongThemeTune: Music/BlackSabbath's "Iron Man"

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* AmericanNewspapers: In their early days, Ellering would carry copies of the ''New York Times'' or the ''Wall Street Journal'' to the ring.

* BashBrothers: Hawk and Animal were this until 2003. Hawk tried being this with Heidenrich but to no avail.

'''The Road Warriors''' (also known as '''The Legion of Doom''' or '''L.O.D.''') were a ProfessionalWrestling TagTeam who competed in essentially every major promotion in the world (Wrestling/{{WWE}}, THE [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]], Wrestling/{{WCW}}, [[Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling AJPW]], [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling NJPW]], Wrestling/{{TNA}}, and [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation the AWA]]). The team consisted of wrestlers '''Michael "Hawk" Hegstrand''' (September 12, 1957 – October 19, 2003) and '''Joseph "Animal" Laurinaitis''' (born on January 26, 1960) with manager '''"Precious" Paul Ellering''' (born on August 22, 1953).

They attempted a comeback in mid-to-late 2003 but nothing came of it. Sadly, Road Warrior Hawk (the guy sticking his tongue out) died of a heart attack on October 19, 2003. Road Warrior Animal returned to WWE in 2005, teaming up with Heidenreich, but unfortunately, the new combination didn't take off, even with [[Characters/{{TNA}} Christy Hemme]] as their valet.

* ArchEnemy: The Four Horsemen, Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress, the Russians (Wrestling/IvanKoloff[=/=]Wrestling/NikitaKoloff[=/=]Krusher Khrushchev [Barry Darsow]), the Powers of Pain, Wrestling/{{Demolition}}, Wrestling/TheNastyBoys, the Natural Disasters ([[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] and Typhoon), Money Inc. ([[Wrestling/TedDiBiase "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted [=DiBiase=]]] and [[Wrestling/MikeRotunda Irwin R. Schyster]]), Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination, the Godwinns, [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} DeGeneration X]]
** Wrestling/DanSpivey was very much a RealLife example.
* [[{{Biography}} Autobiography]]: Animal's ''The Road Warriors: Danger, Death and the Rush of Wrestling.''
* {{Badass}}: Their theme and attire say it all.
* {{The Band Minus The Face}}s: After Hawk died in October 2003, Animal tried doing the Road Warriors with Heidenreich and Christy Hemme but it didn't work.
** Comebacks in Japan with Power Warrior were a bit more successful.

* TieredByName: At one point, they were repackaged in 1998 as LOD [[{{Trope2000}} 2000]], with little changing except more colorful shoulderpads and the addition of Sunny as their manager. This lasted for about six months.
* {{Trope 2000}}: Known as "L.O.D. 2000" when [[Characters/WWEDivas Sunny]] reintroduced them at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XIV'' with a new look.

** This caused one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E0KbHly7xE famous incident]] when Hawk and Animal began stiffing and no-selling '''Mean Mark Callous''' (who would go on to become Wrestling/TheUndertaker later on) in a TagTeam match. This caused the ire of Mark's TagTeam partner, Wrestling/DanSpivey, who broke kayfabe and proceeded to cave in the skulls of both Hawk and Animal [[note]] but specially Hawk [[/note]] with chair shots, basically '''forcing them''' to sell.

** This caused one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E0KbHly7xE famous incident]] when Hawk and Animal began stiffing and no-selling '''Mean Mark Callous''' (who would go on to become Wrestling/TheUndertaker later on) in a TagTeam match. This caused the ire of Mark's TagTeam partner, Wrestling/DanSpivey, who broke kayfabe and proceeded to cave in the skulls of both Hawk and Animal [[note]] but specially Hawk [[/note]] with chair shots, basicallt '''forcing them''' to sell.

** This caused one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E0KbHly7xE famous incident]] when Hawk and Animal began stiffing and no-selling '''Mean Mark Callous''' (who would go on to become Wrestling/TheUndertaker later on) in a TagTeam match. This caused the ire of Mark's TagTeam partner, Wrestling/DanSpivey, who broke kayfabe and proceeded to cave in the skulls of both Hawk and Animal [[note]] but specially Hawk [[/note]] with chair shots, basicallt ''forcing them'' to sell.

** This caused one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E0KbHly7xE famous incident]] when Hawk and Animal began stiffing and no-selling '''Mean Mark Callous''' (who would go on to become Wrestling/TheUndertaker later on) in a TagTeam match. This caused the ire of Mark's TagTeam partner, Wrestling/DanSpivey, who broke kayfabe and proceeded to cave in the skulls of both Hawk and Animal [[note]] but specially Hawk [[/note]] with chair shots, forcing them to sell.

** This caused one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E0KbHly7xE famous incident]] when Hawk and Animal began stiffing and no-selling '''Mean Mark Callous''' (who would go on to become Wrestling/TheUndertaker later on) in a TagTeam match. This caused the ire of Mark's TagTeam partner, Wrestling/DanSpivey, who broke kayfabe and proceeded to cave in the skulls of both Hawk and Animal [[noste]] but specially Hawk [[/note]] with chair shots, forcing them to sell.

* ArchEnemy: The Four Horsemen, Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress, the Russians (Wrestling/IvanKoloff[=/=]Wrestling/NikitaKoloff[=/=]Krusher Khrushchev [Barry Darsow]), the Powers of Pain, Wrestling/{{Demolition}}, Wrestling/TheNastyBoys, the Natural Disasters ([[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] and Typhoon), Money Inc. ([[Wrestling/TedDiBiase "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted [=DiBiase=]]] and [Wrestling/MikeRotunda Irwin R. Schyster]), Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination, the Godwinns, [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} DeGeneration X]]

* ArchEnemy: The Four Horsemen, Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress, the Russians (Wrestling/IvanKoloff[=/=]Wrestling/NikitaKoloff[=/=]Krusher Khrushchev [Barry Darsow]), the Powers of Pain, Wrestling/{{Demolition}}, Wrestling/TheNastyBoys, the Natural Disasters ([[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] and Typhoon), Money Inc. ([[Wrestling/TedDiBiase "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted [=DiBiase=]]] and [Wrestling/MikeRotunda Irwin R. Schyster]]), Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination, the Godwinns, [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} DeGeneration X]]

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* {{Badass}}

* BashBrothers

* DoomyDoomsOfDoom

* NoIndoorVoice

* HypercompetentSidekick - Precious Paul Ellering. In RealLife, Ellering personally booked the Road Warriors/Legion of Doom's matches, scheduled their flights, set up hotel reservations, and kept track of expenses. He is a member of [[UsefulNotes/{{Mensa}} MENSA]] and was a wrestler himself, holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/cwa/awa-s-h.html Southern (Memphis) Heavyweight Title]], the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/cwa/awa-s-t.html Southern (Memphis) Tag Team Title]], and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/iwe/iwe-t.html IWE IWA (Japan) World Tag Team Title]], thus qualifying for the designation of GeniusBruiser.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: As the [[Quotes/TheRoadWarriors Quotes page]] demonstrates, they were famous for threatening to perform acts of violence on their opponents that would at times stretch the limits of what is humanly possible. In a vignette to hype their [[GimmickMatches scaffold match]] against the Midnight Express ("Loverboy" Dennis Condrey and "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton, w[=/=]Wrestling/JimCornette) at ''[=NWA=] [=Starrcade=] 86'', they dropped a pumpkin off of a fire escape.

* [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Screw This We're Outta Here]]: Hawk eventually left the WWF due to their gimmick where they brought around a ventriloquist dummy named Rocco. Animal attempted to fulfill their commitments, teaming with Demolition [[Wrestling/BrianAdams Crush]], but left due to injury.

* ArchEnemy: The Four Horsemen, Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress, the Russians (Wrestling/IvanKoloff[=/=]Wrestling/NikitaKoloff[=/=]Krusher Khrushchev [Barry Darsow]), the Powers of Pain, Wrestling/{{Demolition}}, Wrestling/TheNastyBoys, the Natural Disasters ([[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] and Typhoon), Money Inc. ([[Wrestling/TedDiBiase "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted [=DiBiase=]]] and [Wrestling/MikeRotunda Irwin R. Schyster]]), [[Wrestling/TheNation the Nation of Domination]], the Godwinns, [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} DeGeneration X]]

* ArchEnemy: The Four Horsemen, Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress, the Russians (Wrestling/IvanKoloff[=/=]Wrestling/NikitaKoloff[=/=]Krusher Khrushchev [Barry Darsow]), the Powers of Pain, Wrestling/{{Demolition}}, Wrestling/TheNastyBoys, the Natural Disasters ([[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] and Typhoon), Money Inc. ([[Wrestling/TedDiBiase "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted [=DiBiase=]]] and [Wrestling/MikeRotunda Irwin R. Schyster]]), the Nation of Domination, the Godwinns, [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} DeGeneration X]]

* DistaffCounterpart: Legion Of Womb (Jetta and Skye) in Triple X Wrestling and Bellatrix. The Divas Of Doom (Wrestling/BethPhoenix and Wrestling/NataylaNeidhart) in WWE

* ImprobableHairstyle

* CrowdSong: "L-O-D, L-O-D, L-O-D!"

* LegionOfDoom: [[CaptainObvious Well, they started as one anyway]] but were eventually reduced to just two members, Hawk and Animal, who would ''occasionally'' bring in someone else. On the 2005 ''Road Warriors: The Life And Death of the Most Dominant Tag Team in Wrestling History'' [=DVD=], Animal ''admits'' that they got the name "from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' cartoon."

* FacialMarkings

* LegionOfDoom: [[CaptainObvious Well, duh]]. On the 2005 ''Road Warriors: The Life And Death of the Most Dominant Tag Team in Wrestling History'' [=DVD=], Animal ''admits'' that they got the name "from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' cartoon."