History YMMV / BretHart

* {{The Munchausen}}: Some of the claims in his autobiography range from dubious to demonstrably false.

** Bret has lost numerous friends in the wrestling business. His column on the death of the Wrestling/BigBossman is a {{Tearjerker}}.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: The irony of Montreal Screwjob is what should have disgraced Vince [=McMahon=] in the eyes of the IWC instead [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity became his hook]], catapulting him and his family to a type of stardom that's been envied and imitated by every wrestling promoter since. Bret, meanwhile, was left to mope over his loss for the next when years. Mention of "Montreal" could be relied on for quick pops in the nineties (and once that got tired, he steered conversations towards {{Wrestling/Goldberg}} kicking him in the head something like a hundred times), but the reality is Bret was pushing forty, and his body didn't have any more ★★★★★ matches in him. Moreover, he came off as a one trick pony with his whining and became his own worst enemy.

** Bret has lost numerous friends in the wrestling business. His column on the death of the Wrestling/BigBossman is a {{Tearjerker}}.

* FanDumb: There are some people out there who will never accept that Wrestling/{{Sting}} and Bret Hart are just two wrestlers who happened to use the same finishing move and will insist that Sting stole it from Bret. When Sting joined NWA/WCW in 1987, he travelled to Japan for a wrestling show where he was taught the hold by '''IT'S ACTUAL CREATOR''' Riki Choshu, who had called it the Scorpion lock. When Bret began his singles career in the early 90's, Pat Patterson suggested that Bret use the Scorpion Death lock as his finishing move. Hart had no idea what the move was until {{Konnan}} taught it to him and Hart renamed it the Sharpshooter to fit his Hit Man gimmick. So to recap, ''' Sting did it before Bret, neither man invented it and the Scorpion Deathlock is the move's actual name. Sort of.'''
** The main reason that people think Sting stole it from Bret is because WWF was more popular than WCW until the nWo era, so many people were unaware of Sting until then and just assumed he stole the move.

* BaseBreaker: Bret Hart, in recent years has split the IWC into two camps that only agree on one thing, that Bret was a technically gifted wrestler, everything else, his charisma, mic skills, status as TheWoobie or a man wallowing in {{wangst}}, feud with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob, his opinion on wrestling today, will turn into a pretty massive debate.

FanDumb: There are some people out there who will never accept that Wrestling/{{Sting}} and Bret Hart are just two wrestlers who happened to use the same finishing move and will insist that Sting stole it from Bret. When Sting joined NWA/WCW in 1987, he travelled to Japan for a wrestling show where he was taught the hold by '''IT'S ACTUAL CREATOR''' Riki Choshu, who had called it the Scorpion lock. When Bret began his singles career in the early 90's, Pat Patterson suggested that Bret use the Scorpion Death lock as his finishing move. Hart had no idea what the move was until {{Konnan}} taught it to him and Hart renamed it the Sharpshooter to fit his Hit Man gimmick. So to recap, ''' Sting did it before Bret, neither man invented it and the Scorpion Deathlock is the move's actual name. Sort of.'''

FanDumb: There are some people out there who will never accept that Wrestling/{{Sting}} and Bret Hart are just two wrestlers who happened to use the same finishing move and will insist that Sting stole it from Bret. When Sting joined NWA/WCW in 1987, he travelled to Japan for a wrestling show where he was taught the hold by '''IT'S ACTUAL CREATOR'' Riki Choshu, who had called it the Scorpion lock. When Bret began his singles career in the early 90's, Pat Patterson suggested that Bret use the Scorpion Death lock as his finishing move. Hart had no idea what the move was until {{Konnan}} taught it to him and Hart renamed it the Sharpshooter to fit his Hit Man gimmick. So to recap, ''' Sting did it before Bret, neither man invented it and the Scorpion Deathlock is the move's actual name. Sort of.'''

* MostWonderfulSound: *SCREEEEEEEEEEE*

** His TWO divorces (albeit the first one was largely his own fault) and the death of two of his best friends, Brian Pillman and Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith, too.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZe6LvqQaVk "Who are you to, to.. to doubt El Dandy?"]]

* MemeticMutation: 4/10/Not Top 1000 Bret, stemming from a shoot interview where he said that Wrestling/TripleH was not in his Top 1000 wrestlers and that his End of An Era match with Wrestling/TheUndertaker was a 4/10.

* BizarroEpisode: ''Survivor Series 89'', which was the only time he and Jim Neidhart were not on the same team, or even in the same match, during the original Hart Foundation's run. Bret was on the 4x4s with [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]], Hercules and "Rugged" Ronnie Garvin in their losing effort against the King's Court ([[Wrestling/RandySavage "Macho King" Randy Savage]], [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Canadian Earthquake]], "Canada's Strongest Man" Dino Bravo and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine). In the prematch interview, it's odd, though funny, to see the normally reserved Bret brandishing a 2x4 and cutting the same kind of cartoonish [[NoIndoorVoice NO INDOOR VOICE]] promo as the other guys.

*** Bret has lost numerous friends in the wrestling business. His column on the death of the Wrestling/BigBossman is a {{Tearjerker}}.

* BizarroEpisode: ''Survivor Series 89'', which was the only time he and Jim Neidhart were not on the same team during the original Hart Foundation's run. Bret was on the 4x4s with [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]], Hercules and "Rugged" Ronnie Garvin in their losing effort against the King's Court ([[Wrestling/RandySavage "Macho King" Randy Savage]][=/=][[Wrestling/JohnTenta Canadian Earthquake]][=/=]Dino Bravo[=/=]Greg Valentine). In the prematch interview, it's odd, though funny, to see the normally reserved Bret brandishing a 2x4 and cutting the same kind of cartoonish [[NoIndoorVoice NO INDOOR VOICE]] promo as the other guys.

*** Bret has lost numerous friends in the wrestling business. His column on the death of the Wrestling/BigBossMan is a {{Tearjerker}}.

* BaseBreaker: BretHart, in recent years has split the IWC into two camps that only agree on one thing, that Bret was a technically gifted wrestler, everything else, his charisma, mic skills, status as TheWoobie or a man wallowing in {{wangst}}, feud with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob, his opinion on wrestling today, will turn into a pretty massive debate.

* MemeticMutation: 4/10/Not Top 1000 Bret, stemming from a shoot interview where he said that TripleH was not in his Top 1000 wrestlers and that his End of An Era match with TheUndertaker was a 4/10.

*** Bret has lost numerous friends in the wrestling business. His column on the Wrestling/BigBossMan is a {{Tearjerker}}.

** His TWO divorces (albeit the first one was largely his own fault) and the death of two of his best friends, Brian Pillman and Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith, too.

* BaseBreaker: BretHart, in recent years has split the IWC into two camps that only agree on one thing, that Bret was a technically gifted wrestler, everything else, his charisma, mic skills, status as TheWoobie or a man wallowing in {{wangst}}, feud with ShawnMichaels, TheMontrealScrewjob, his opinion on wrestling today, will turn into a pretty massive debate.

* TheWoobie: Let's see, {{Goldberg}} gave him a career ending concussion, his brother, OwenHart, died on national television, the Montreal Screwjob, anything else?
** His TWO divorces (albeit the first one was largely his own fault) and the death of two of his best friends, Brian Pillman and Davey Boy Smith, too.

* TheWoobie: Let's see, {{Goldberg}} gave him a career ending concussion, his brother, OwenHart, died on national television, the MontrealScrewjob, anything else?

* TheWoobie: Let's see, {{Goldberg}} gave him a career ending concussion, his brother, OwenHart, died on national television, the MontrealScrewjob, anything else?

* BaseBreaker: Bret Hart, in recent years has split the IWC into two camps that only agree on one thing, that Bret was a technically gifted wrestler, everything else, his charisma, mic skills, status as TheWoobie or a man wallowing in {{wangst}}, feud with Shawn, TheMontrealScrewjob, his opinion on wrestling today, will turn into a pretty massive debate.
* TheWoobie: Let's see, Goldberg gave him a career ending concussion, his brother, OwenHart, died on national television, the MontrealScrewjob, anything else?

* BaseBreaker: Bret Hart, in recent years has split the IWC into two camps that only agree on one thing, that Bret was a technically gifted wrestler, everything else, his charisma, mic skills, status as TheWoobie or a man wallowing in {{wangst}}, feud with Shawn, TheMontrealScrewjob, his opinion on wrestling today, will turn into a pretty massive debate.