Line #1 YMMV/TheBigShow


1	* BaseBreakingCharacter: His entire angle with Wrestling/TripleH and Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon in the closing months of 2013. On one hand, it was nice to see him getting involved in the main event again. On the other…fans were displeased that Big Show had supplanted Daniel Bryan as the anti-authority rebel for fans to cheer. His match against Wrestling/RandyOrton wasn't exactly a thriller either.
2	* CreatorsPet: He is one of those wrestlers that WWE tends to push more often because of his size. In later years he's become a symbol of the problems a lot of people have with WWE's booking, as he appears quite frequently, whether Face or Heel, and often wins over newer wrestlers, while fans agree he hasn't been interesting in years. He's also older and has more injuries than other wrestlers, so his matches don't tend to be great, either.
3	** His on-and-off teaming with Kane has never really been well received, but officially went into this territory when they teamed up as part of the Authority. It has reached the point that the "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Local Men]] [[MemeticMutation Ruin Everything]]" meme has been disparagingly slapped on them.
4	* FanNickname:
5	** The Big Slow, originally coined by [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]].
6	** Pig Slow, according to Creator/ScottKeith, who has no room to talk.
7	* FanonDiscontinuity: That he started his career in Wrestling/{{WCW}} as the Giant of the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom tends to be either overlooked, ignored or unknown to some people. There are even fansites for him that ''only'' cover his WWE run in the gallery sections.
8	* HilariousInHindsight: His reasoning for joining the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder in {{Kayfabe}} was that he wasn't paid enough by WCW and was envious of Wrestling/HulkHogan and his huge mansion. He later appeared on Stone Cold's podcast, where he discussed his pay in WCW. While numbers weren't specified, both agreed that his pay was far less than it should have been for someone on the top of the card, but he was too inexperienced at the time to know this.
9	* MemeticMutation:
10	** His HeelFaceRevolvingDoor has been the butt of jokes among wrestling fans for many years now.
11	** Thanks to WebVideo/TheMarkRemark, "I'm havin' fun!"
12	* NarmCharm: The angle where Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis fired a weeping Show could not have been done with anyone else.
13	* NeverLiveItDown: His 45 second World title reign.[[note]]It's really nearly a two minute reign, but WWE has retconned it into 45 seconds in storyline[[/note]]
14	* OneSceneWonder: His memorable one-scene cameos as the giant Santa in ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' and as Captain Insano in ''Film/TheWaterboy''.
15	-->'''Giant Santa''': I'm gonna deck your halls, bub.
16	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: In the first half of his WWE run, Wight was badly overweight and couldn't do many of the moves that made him famous during his WCW tenure, making the fans wonder just why he was being pushed as a main eventer. Thankfully, he took some time off, lost much of his excess weight and came back a much better wrestler.
17	** In his first year in WWE, however, he was probably as in shape as he's ever been and was capable of dropkicks and kip-ups (though he usually held a rope but still). As time went on, injuries and weight dragged his agility way down.
18	* TheScrappy: He and Kane became this in 2015 as the Authority's twin titans, to the point they are repeatedly accused of ruining everything they touch. The two's anticlimactic garbage-dumping eliminations of several crowd favorites in the 2015 Royal Rumble along with Show's victory in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at Mania 31[[note]]his WWE TV/PPV battle royal record prior to this match was 2-33[[/note]] have been described as making the roster look like the weakest it's been in Show's time there, and since then Show has been peppered with chants telling him to "Please Retire!" until late 2016.
19	* ShockingMoments: When he's in a feud with another big man, things will get broken:
20	** His first match with Wrestling/TheUndertaker led to him chokeslamming 'Taker through the ring.
21	** His famous superplex at the hands of Wrestling/BrockLesnar. Lampshaded by Wrestling/{{Tazz}}.
22	-->'''Tazz''': HOLY SHIT!
23	** Similarly lampshaded back in WCW when {{Wrestling/Goldberg}} was readying the Jackhammer.
24	-->''7'4", 550! Can he get him up in a Jackhammer?''\
25	''If he does, the roof's coming off this joint!''
26	** Slamming JBL through the ring in a Cage Match.
27	** Recently, Mark Henry knocking him through the side of a cage.
28	*** Also, Mark Henry and Show repeating the Show/Lesnar spot mentioned above.
29	** In WCW, he once hit Wrestling/ScottSteiner with a missile dropkick, launching Steiner across the ring and on his head.
30	** Show breaks the ring for the third time, this time being superplexed by Wrestling/BraunStrowman.
31	* TheWoobie: During his late 1999 feud with The Wrestling/BigBossman. Not only did Bossman frequently mock his dying (later dead) father, but he also tricked his mother into revealing, live on ''Raw'', that Show was an illegitimate son. May also fall under WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds since Show was also WWF champion for part of the feud and at one point got a bit of revenge by ''pushing a skip onto a car'' where Bossman and his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Prince Albert were hiding.
32	* XPacHeat: [[{{Pun}} Two words for ya]]—"PLEASE RETIRE!"
33	** It's reached a point where some are stating they should rename this trope "Big Show Heat".

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