Line #31 Wrestling/TeamHellNo


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:A rare moment of the two actually getting along.]]
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4	Team Hell No was a TagTeam that consisted of [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] and Wrestling/{{Kane}} from September 10th, 2012 until July 29th 2013. The team was forced together when then General Manager Wrestling/AJLee ordered them into anger management classes, and later putting them in a match to become the number one contenders for the Tag Team Title, which they won at the 2012 ''Night of Champions'' PPV. After they lost the titles, they decided they wanted to pursue singles gold (the WWE Championship), and split as a team.
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6	Quite unexpectedly, after Daniel Bryan's return to active competition in 2018, Team Hell No reunited again on the 27th of June episode of ''[=SmackDown=].''
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8	!! I am the Tag Team Tropes!
9	* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/TheShield. They ended up being the ones (alongside Randy Orton) who broke the Shield's undefeated streak in 6-man tag team matches. And, one can argue, each other.
10	* BigGuyLittleGuy: Kane and Daniel respectively.
11	* TheCameo: Indie wreslter Scorpio Sky appeared as Harold in the Anger Management skits. The late Mae Young also had a short and hilarious cameo following Daniel and Kane's ImmodestOrgasm.
12	* CatchPhrase: "I'M THE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS!"
13	* CooldownHug: Whenever they had an argument, it would end with them hugging it out. It was something ordered by their Anger Manager Dr. Shelby.
14	** GroupHug: Sometimes they got another wrestler in on the action, most hilariously Wrestling/RandyOrton, as seen [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F1zEKRtuvdM/UPn_eS3hGrI/AAAAAAAAf2k/kP3Yq7fFPdA/s320/Capture55.PNG here.]] He did ''not'' want to be hugged.
15	%%* CompetitiveBalance: Part of what made Team Hell No great was their contrasting styles. The team as a whole is a LightningBruiser, with a balance of speed and power. However, break it down and we have...
16	* ContinuityNod: Kane's "anger history" consists of a breathtakingly complete summary of Kane's most ludicrous and outlandish angles.
17	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Take away the arguments, the anger management skits, Dr. Shelby, and the whole "I AM THE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS" catchphrase: you have two former world champions in Kane, the Big Red Machine and in-ring veteran from the days of the Attitude Era, and Daniel Bryan, one of indy wrestling's brightest stars and a damn good technical wrestler.
18	** In fact, their rivalry with Dolph Ziggler, AJ and Big E. Langston as well as Wrestling/TheShield showed off more of the "badass" side of Team Hell No.
19	* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: They tend to argue back and forth with Kane saying "Yes!" and Bryan replying "No!" until someone stops them.
20	* DumbIsGood: Or cheered anyway, in comparison to "Rhodes Scholars".
21	* FinishingMove: They only developed it around 2013, with Kane hitting a chokeslam followed by a flying headbutt from Bryan.
22	* FireForgedFriends: Quite apt given one-half of their team. The two initially went from feuding rivals, to anger management participants who never got along, to tag team champions who never got along, eventually becoming a more stable and cohesive unit after months of tagging along with each other.
23	* HeelFaceTurn: They were both heels when they started out (during their feud before forming, Kane was the default face), but their antics got so over the top that the fans started cheering them; they turned face almost seamlessly and only wrestled against heels. Notably, in the match where they won the tag team titles against Wrestling/RTruth and Wrestling/KofiKingston, a face tag team, they used the traditional face corner of the ring (back left) while Truth and Kingston used the traditional heel corner (front right).
24	* ImGoingToDisneyWorld: During one backstage interview after Bryan and Kane become tag team champions, Kane shouts "I'm going to Disneyland!"
25	* ImmodestOrgasm: Both of them in a send up to ''When Harry Met Sally''
26	* InfectiousInsanity: For AJ Lee, then for Dr. Shelby. Ironically enough, AJ was arguably the start of their anger management issues given her "crazy chick" persona in Kane and Bryan's rivalry with each other and CM Punk, but by the time she became Raw General Manager, much of it was tuned down, making her the straight man to Team Hell No's insanity.
27	* LargeHam: Which would usually involve…
28	** HamToHamCombat
29	* {{Leitmotif}}: Both used their own individual entrances during their earlier days, but later settled in on Kane's theme.
30	* TheLoad: Towards the end of their tenure, Daniel got this in his head that he was the weak link of the team. Kane, as well as Orton, tried to tell him otherwise.
31	* NamedByDemocracy: The WWE fans got to chose their TagTeam name, Team [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} Hell]] [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson No]], among Team Friendship and Team Teamwork.
32	* OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain: They feud against Wrestling/TheShield. Wrestling/{{Kane}} is 18 years older than Wrestling/RomanReigns and Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, 19 years older than Wrestling/SethRollins. [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] is older 4 years than Wrestling/RomanReigns and Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, 5 years older than Wrestling/SethRollins.
33	* PisstakeRap: Daniel Bryan aka B Dazzle and Kane aka Curly Kane put one together but Kane cut it short when it turned out to be a diss on him.
34	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: I! AM! THE Tag Team Champions!
35	* RedOniBlueOni: Bryan was the red, while '''Kane''' was the blue.
36	* StraightMan: ''Kane'' of all people! [[EvenEvilHasStandards Considering all the atrocities that his character's been in...]]
37	** Dr. Shelby was this to both Kane and Daniel.
38	* [[HesBack They're Back]]: At the end of the June 27th 2018 episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'', Bryan was being brutalised 2-on-1 by current tag team champions the [[Wrestling/LukeHarper Bludgeon]] [[Wrestling/ErickRowan Brothers]] when Kane unexpected came out to save him. After driving the brothers off, Kane spread his arms and offered Bryan a hug, and after some initial hesitation, Bryan gave him one, to ''rapturous'' cheers from the crowd. Then GM Wrestling/{{Paige}} came out and was so moved by the scene that she announced that the reunited Team Hell No would get a title shot against the Bludgeon Brothers at the upcoming Extreme Rules.
39	* VillainTeamUp: Subverted to hell and back... almost literally. They were heels and bitter enemies that were forced to attempt to work out their problems with one another in an [[ItMakesSenseInContext anger management program.]] Then, they were forced to team together... and eventually ended up winning the Tag Team titles. The crowd found their interactions so entertaining that, despite not changing their personalities at all (in fact, they've been simplified and turned up to near-parody levels) they've been receiving cheers like faces and have largely been booked as such (i.e. almost exclusively wrestling heels).
40	* VitriolicBestBuds: As a team, they were the epitome of this.
41	** TeethClenchedTeamwork: Throughout most of their time together.
42	** FireForgedFriends: Once they got targeted by the Shield, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain they actually started to get along!]] Same thing with Wrestling/DolphZiggler, Wrestling/AJLee and Wrestling/BigELangston.
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