Line #4 Wrestling/TheDangerousAlliance


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dangerousalliance_6.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:L-R: "Ravishing" Wrestling/RickRude, [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin "Stunning" Steve Austin]], Larry Zbsyzko, Wrestling/{{Madusa}}, Wrestling/ArnAnderson, Bobby Eaton and [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul E. Dangerously]]]]
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4	The Dangerous Alliance was a ProfessionalWrestling PowerStable in Wrestling/{{WCW}} from 1991-1992. ''WCW Halloween Havoc 1991'' on October 27th started with a scene in the parking lot where Larry Zbyszko attacked Wrestling/BarryWindham and smashed his hand in a car door. Later that night, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PqV-ak6QmY The WCW Halloween Phantom]] {{Squash\|Match}}ed Wrestling/TomZenk. Then [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul E. Dangerously]] and Wrestling/{{Madusa}} walked out and Madusa unmasked the Phantom as [[Wrestling/RickRude "Ravishing" Rick Rude]], who cut a promo running down [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-us-h.html WCW United States Heavyweight Champion]] Wrestling/{{Sting}}. The group would come to include [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-tv.html WCW World Television Champion]] [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin "Stunning" Steve Austin]], [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Champions]] The Enforcers (Wrestling/ArnAnderson and Larry Zbyszko) and Bobby Eaton. At ''Clash of the Champions XVII'', Rude defeated Sting for the US Heavyweight Title and never lost it, since he had to forfeit it due to injury before ''[=Starrcade=]'' in December 1992. [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]] and the returning Wrestling/RickySteamboat defeated Anderson and Zbyszko for the Tag Titles that same night, though Anderson and Eaton later won them back for the D.A. The group proceeded to fall apart after Sting's Squadron (Sting/Steamboat/Rhodes/Windham[=/=]Wrestling/NikitaKoloff) defeated them in [[GimmickMatches War Games]] at ''[=WrestleWar=] 1992'' on May 17th.
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6	!!"The Dangerous Tropes":
7	* AlliterativeName: '''R'''avishing '''R'''ick '''R'''ude.
8	* ArchEnemy: Everyone in WCW, but particularly Sting.
9	* BastardlySpeech: It's Paul Heyman, so this one was inevitable. From ''WCW Clash of the Champions XVII'', after Wrestling/JimRoss said that the Sting-Rude match could be in jeopardy.
10	-->"First of all, let me state this on behalf of Mr. Rick Rude. It was a terrible tragedy what happened to Sting tonight. Both Mr. Rude and myself are ashamed to have ever met Lex Luger. We're even more ashamed to have met Madusa, to be honest with you. But business is business. And this, gentlemen and ladies, is the official contract for the United States Heavyweight Championship match tonight. It has been negotiated by my lawyers. Right now, in the locker room, the WCW Championship Committee, the Board of Directors, my attorneys and my good friend Mr. Jim Herd, and they're all back there pondering over one clause, Page 12, section 6.1, article 6. You want to get a close-up, go ahead, too late. It states, and you can see right here, and I'm not lying this time, 'Should by accident, Acts of God, or injury, the United States Heavyweight Champion not appear in the ring by bell time, the United States Heavyweight Championship will be forfeited, and the title will be assumed by Ravishing Rick Rude.' Ladies and gentlemen, I am very sorry that Sting will not be here tonight, but I had nothing to do with this. Should he not appear here by bell time, there will be a new United States Heavyweight Champion. Nothing you can do about it, nothing that Jim Herd, nothing that the Championship Committee, nothing that WCW can do about it, and the new Champion, without even breaking a sweat, will be Ravishing Rick Rude."
11	* DarkActionGirl: Wrestling/{{Madusa}} was the Director of Covert Operations and, at ''Clash of the Champions XVII'', she walked out dressed like a [[BedlahBabe harem girl]] to distract Sting so that [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-h.html WCW World Heavyweight Champion]] Wrestling/LexLuger could clip Sting's knee before his match with Rude. She also climbed up on the roof of the cage during the War Games match while holding Paul E.'s phone until Sting chased her down.
12	* TheDogBitesBack: At ''WCW Halloween Havoc 92'', October 25, 1992, [[Wrestling/{{Vader}} Big Van Vader]] (w/manager Wrestling/HarleyRace) defended the U.S Heavyweight Title against what remained of The Dangerous Alliance. After the match, Paul E. kicked Madusa out of the Alliance, saying that he only hired her "because the other hooker had prior engagements." Madusa, of course, took some exception to that. This is made funnier by Vader and Harley seeing the rage in Madusa's eyes and "noping" out of there. (Vader, who had just retired "Russian Nightmare" Wrestling/NikitaKoloff, would go on to become the company's resident ''[[WrestlingMonster monster heel]]'', and Race is an eight-time NWA World Champion.)
13	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: During the War Games match, one of the turnbuckle rods came loose, and Zbyszko tried to fix it (with commentator Wrestling/JesseVentura saying that Zbyszko "should concentrate more on wrestling.") He tried to hit Sting with it but missed, hitting Eaton instead. Sting wiped out Zbyszko and forced Eaton to submit to an armbar.
14	* InsistentTerminology: Paul said that they weren't a "stable" or a "family," they were an "alliance of businessmen."
15	* {{Ninja}}: Paul E. disguised himself as one for the Rude-Steamboat match at ''WCW [=SuperBrawl=] II'' as a way to set up his nailing Steamboat with his cell phone.
16	* OhCrap: Arn and Zbyszko's response when Dustin's partner, who had walked to the ring in a dragon costume, unmasked to reveal Steamboat.
17	* SpiritualSuccessor: The stable was conceived and assembled deliberately as a new version of Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen, filling the void since Horsemen leader Wrestling/RicFlair was in the WWF at the time, right down to having Wrestling/ArnAnderson as a member.[[note]]In fact, D.A. member Bobby Eaton's famous team with Stan Lane, Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress, was previously considered to join Flair and Anderson to form a new version of the Horsemen, before that idea was nixed.[[/note]]
18	* TakeThat: The D.A. was Paul's revenge for getting fired as an announcer, since he still had his manager's license and set out on a campaign to destroy the company.

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