Mick Foley is not the image on the Professional Wrestling page for nothing.
- The aforementioned Mankind gimmick, before he became Lighter and Softer. Plus, Cactus Jack could veer into this at times.
- Mankind's titantron. And music. Geez...
- He originally had two separate songs; his entrance theme, a grand, dark theme featuring violins and the occasional heavy drum, and his victory music, an incredibly eerie piano piece.
- Many of his speeches as Mankind focused on his character's anger at being so alone in the world, and directing that anger not only on whoever he is about to face, but sometimes on the audience themselves, with both of the examples below getting featured on his Titantron
with a haunting rendition of "Adagio for Strings" laid over it for good measure.[Whimpering] The time has come to relieve that pain, which will be better for me...but not so enjoyable for all of YOU! - This speech as well, in which he brings up the very real injuries that he has suffered through his career and turns them into a Rage Against the Heavens and a "Reason You Suck" Speech for humanity.On the eighth day, God created Mankind. Why was he having such a bad day?! Why did he create all of you normal and forget so many important parts of me!? He made the teeth that I swallowed...the ear that was ripped from my skull! A face that no longer exists! Deep inside, you are merely a mirror image of all my atrocities! The ugliness that exists outside lives inside every one of you! Destruction... can be beautiful!
- Some of the actual damage he has suffered falls into this (like losing his ear to Vader as a result of almost getting strangled by the ring ropes or the 1999 "I Quit" match that was so over the top his wife and children were mortified by what WWF was allowing to happen; the prelude and aftermath of the match was made a part of the documentary Beyond the Mat and showed the real toll all those unprotected chairshots had).
- The way he describes the ear incident in his first book is the stuff of nightmares. The ropes that night weren’t the typical wrestling ropes but were metal elevator cables that easily could have choked him to death.
- The extremely toxic and dangerous mentality of machismo of the ‘80s that Mick describes in his book Have a Nice Day. One example being how some wrestlers, when they would get into bar fights, knew how to land a punch that would tear an eye from its socket. If that weren’t bad enough, the wrestler would proceed to stomp on the loose eye on the floor in front of the person they maimed. Mick described how wrestlers who would do this would defend their actions because needed to “look tough”. It’s honestly disturbing the nonchalance displayed by some wrestlers in permanently disfiguring someone in a fight on purpose.
