Edge/YMMV

• Author's Saving Throw: After weeks of decidedly un-facelike behavior and a Running Gag of Paul Bearer dummies that fans hated, Edge made a promo about he was fighting Kane's evil with his own evil and actually acted like a face, i.e. wanting to win the World title legitimately and actually respecting the General Manager.
• Crazy Awesome: How much of his character is "crazy" and how much is "awesome" varies from time to time, but Edge falls firmly into this category.
• Deus Ex Machina: The in the last several weeks of his feud with Dolph Ziggler/Vickie Guerrero, the stipulations to his Championship matches became steadily harder to work one's way out of. Consequently, the ends of the matches and the ways he was rescued from losing the title became more and more outlandish, including Kelly Kelly retaining his championship in a mixed tag-team match using the Spear (when Vickie Guerrero said that if Edge used the move, he would be disqualified and lose the title, and Clay Matthews of the Green Bay Packers signing a one-day referee contract to come in and count the pinfall after Vickie (who had set herself up as the guest referee) injured herself trying to spear Edge. Then, finally, when Vickie Guerrero actually stripped him of the title and fired him, he was rescued by Theodore Long (who was supposed to be in critical condition at a hospital) rehiring him and gave him an immediate title match against Ziggler, which he won. The worst part is that he was able to count being stripped of the title for about an hour and a half as a separate title reign, bolstering his resume and giving him eleven world title reigns instead of just ten.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Similar to Randy Orton, he turned face in late 2010, despite doing nothing good to warrant his massive pop.
• Dude, Not Funny: A meta-example, some fans find it hilarious to make jokes about Edge's injuries.
  • Chris Jericho was one such man. Then Edge returned. He was not happy.
• Fridge Brilliance: Edge & Christian were first introduced to the WWE as brothers. From a certain point of view, they are.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Go watch any of the matches early in his career, like the TLC or Ladder matches - More than likely, you'll hear Jim Ross remarking about how they were shortening their careers.
• Hilarious in Hindsight / Funny Aneurysm Moment - During his feud with Kurt Angle, Edge jokingly suggested that fans should chant "You Suck" to Kurt Angle.
  • WrestleMania 17 had the second TLC, and Edge speared Lita. Fast forward to 2005, and it turned out that Edge had been spearing Lita.

Jim Ross: "Lita's here! Jerking Edge off... the ladder!"

• • Edge and his one-time proteges Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder all have one thing in common aside from blonde hair and love of wrestling: all three men share the real life middle name of Joseph.
• Jerkass Woobie: How Edge pulled off his most recent Heel Face Turn.
• Love to Hate: The fans preferred Edge as a heel so much that his 2004 and early 2010 face runs both petered out after a few months. Of course, comebacks after long injury breaks tend to pop the fans, but he's never had much of a natural progression from heel to face when he's active. Until the autumn of 2010, when issues with the anonymous Raw General Manager caused him to become a Jerkass to more traditional heels - leading to a fitting final run for his Hall of Fame career.
• Magnificent Bastard: He IS called "The Ultimate Opportunist" for a reason, after all.
  • Case in point; out-Mind Screwing Kane of all people.
• Memetic Molester: Edge will steal your girlfriend.

Paul Heyman: Hey, hide your girlfriends, it's Edge! You know, Edge, I've got the guts they don't, so I'm going to say the two words that no one else will dare to say. Matt Freakin' Hardy!

• Memetic Mutation: Be careful; next you have a hard fought victory over something you've worked long and hard, Edge might just pop up with a briefcase and take it from y-
  • You think you know me. *guitar*
  • "SPEAR! SPEAR! SPEAR! SPEAR! SPEAR! SPEAR..."
  • "WROOOONNG!! WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG...."
  • Edge - spear - doesn't care - spear spear - about your accomplishments because Spear.
• Moral Event Horizon: Prior to about December 2006, Edge seemed more annoying than evil. It is true that he'd already done plenty of low things - betraying Chris Benoit; stealing Lita from both Kane (in Kayfabe) and Matt Hardy (in Real Life); shoving Mick Foley through a flaming table; pinning Beulah McGillicutty in a simulated rape pose at WWE's second annual One Night Stand pay-per-view; and breaking into John Cena's house and slapping Cena's father - but it was still hard to see him as much more than just a cheap bully. He really made clear just how bad he was when he and Randy Orton delivered a Con-chair-to to Ric Flair - thus savagely bloodying a near-60-year-old man - just to piss off Triple H. A year later, when he began his ongoing feud with the Undertaker, he proved just how diabolical a foe he had become - and when he screamed at Vickie Guerrero and Chavo Guerrero (his wife and nephew-in-law at the time) that if he was going to Hell, he was taking them with him...by God, he made you believe he would do it.
  • Of course, this 60-year-old man seems to have an addiction to being savagely bloodied, so in hindsight…
  • Pay attention -- this was all after Lita retired. Was she secretly his Living Emotional Crutch or Morality Chain in some way? Did not having her by his side anymore because of the fans expedite a Sanity Slippage on his part? As noted above, he certainly seemed to be even more callous and disregarding of others after she retired.
• Most Wonderful Sound: You think you know me...
• Straw Man Has a Point: His "Real Emotion" promo from the episode of Raw that aired August 8, 2005. Edge points out that the only reason Matt Hardy was now a main event star was because his girlfriend fell in love with someone who had earnt his main event spot. Whilst the promo is definitely Vindicated by History, these were still valid points in 2005. But the absolute kicker? Edge's remark that despite Matt saying he wanted to marry Lita, they were together for 6 years & he never proposed.
• Tear Jerker: His farewell shoot announcing his retirement on the 4/11/11 edition of RAW.
  • As was his shoot on the 4/15/11 edition of Smack Down, when he left the belt in the middle of the ring.
  • The finale of his speech on the 4/11/11 RAW makes one feel downright awful: He states that if one would ask him to go through the whole thing all over again--the matches, the training, surgery, injuries, planes, etc. etc.--he'd do it...in a heart beat. (cries)
• Vindicated by History: Edge and Lita. See trope page for details.