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Lists the various wrestlers active during the NWA WCW Era, from 1988 through 1993. Please limit associated tropes to that wrestler's time in the WCW.


Big Van Vader (Leon Allen White, 1990-1995)

  • Acrofatic: A 450 pound guy, who innovated the moonsault.
  • The Big Guy: Depending on if he was a face or a heel.
  • The Brute: Depending on if he was a face or a heel.
  • Catch Phrase: "It's Time... It's Time... It's Vader Time!"
  • Cool Mask: His most famous mask counts, but especially his Mastodon mask that he sometimes wore to the ring before matches, which among other things, blew fog out. Just check it out. Sadly, that mask, along with the name "Big Van Vader", was found to be the intellectual property of New Japan Pro Wrestling, so in his later days in North America, he had to make do with his leather mask and just the name "Vader".
  • Determinator: Considering he once wrestled a match where he had a detached retina of all things and simply popped it back in and finished his match, this trope seems fitting.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Especially so in his younger days when he was a bit leaner, though he was still a large fellow. He was able to pull moonsaults and other types of high-flying attacks while also being able to powerbomb and chokeslam with the best of them.
  • Mighty Glacier
  • Unstoppable Rage

Bobby Eaton (Robert Lee Eaton, 1985-1992, 1994-2000)

  • Blondes Are Evil: As a heel
  • Breakup Breakout: During the time Jim Crocket Promotions was becoming WCW, he was the only one in the Midnight Express that found some long term success.
  • The Brute: Of the Dangerous Alliance.
  • Demoted to Extra / Jobber: In 1997 after he broke up with the Bluebloods.
  • Hair of Gold: As a face.
  • Power Stable: The Dangerous Alliance and the Bluebloods.
  • Red Baron: 'Beautiful' in the Midnight Express then 'Earl' Robert in the Blueboods.
  • Tag Team: A former member of the Midnight Express, on of the greatest teams in professional wrestling. Also with Regal and Taylor in the Bluebloods.

Brad Armstrong (Bradley "Brad" James, 1984-1995, 1997-2000)

Brian Pillman (Brian William Pillman, 1989–1994, 1994–1996)

Buff Bagwell (Marcus Alexander Bagwell, 1991-2001)

Butch Reed (Bruce Reed, 1989-1991, 1992)

Diamond Dallas Page (Page Joseph Falkinburg, Jr., 1991-2001)

  • Cool Old Guy: He started his wrestling career at about 35.
  • Determinator: The guy legitimately trained his ass off to become one of the better wrestlers WCW had.
  • The Jimmy Hart Version: His theme music, "Self High-Five," essentially an instrumental of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with a few notes and chords reversed.
  • Joisey: Even though he's made Florida his home for a long time.
  • Large Ham
  • One-Hit Kill: You could beat him up all day, but all he had to do was hit the Diamond Cutter and he'd come out on top and he could hit the Diamond Cutter at a moment's notice, from 52 different positions.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: A particularly epic Real Life case, with his Playboy model/fitness goddess wife Kimberly, and Page himself being an ugly, older, hairy, flabby guy with "big green mess"-style tattoos from head to toe.

Dustin Rhodes (Dustin Patrick Runnels, 1991-1995, 1999-2001)

The Great Muta (武藤 敬司, Muto Keiji, 1989-1990, 1993-2000)

Johnny B. Badd (Marc Mero, 1991-1996)

Kevin Sullivan / The Taskmaster (Kevin Francis Sullivan, 1987-1992, 1994-2001)

Larry Zbyszko (Lawrence "Larry" Whistler, 1987-1989, 1990–2001)

Masahiro Chono (蝶野 正洋, Chono Masahiro, 1991-1992, 1995-2000)

Michael Wallstreet / V.K.Wallstreet / Mr. Wallstreet (Lawrence Michael Rotunda)

Paul Orndorff (Paul Parlette Orndorff, Jr., 1990, 1992-2000)

Ron Simmons (1989-1994)

Scott Steiner (Scott Carl Rechsteiner, 1989-1992, 1996-2001)

Sid Vicious (Sid Eudy, 1989-1991, 1993, 1999-2001)

State Patrol - Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker (Dewayne Bruce, 1989-2001), Lt. James Earl Wright (Dale Veasey, 1989-1996)

Steve Austin (1991-1995)

Tatsumi Fujinami (藤波 辰爾, Fujinami Tatsumi, 1991-1992)

Terry Funk (1989-1994, 2000-2001)

Tom Zenk (Thomas Erwin "Tom" Zenk, 1989-1994)

Van Hammer (Mark Hildreth, 1991-1993, 1997-2000)


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