World Wrestling Entertainment/Characters/New Generation

Lists the various WWE wrestlers active during the New Generation Era, from 1993 through 1997. Please limit associated tropes to that wrestler's time in the WWE.

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Ahmed Johnson (Anthony Norris) 1995-1998

• Bald of Awesome
• The Big Guy / The Brute: Depends on his Face/Heel status.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Fan Nickname: The Sand Rippa.
• Finishing Move: The Pearl River Plunge (Tiger Driver)
• Genius Bruiser
• Glass Cannon: Strong but injury prone.
• Memetic Mutation: These videos show off Ahmed's narmtastic mic skills with Mondegreens aplenty.
• Put on a Bus: Because he kept getting injured since August 1996 and couldn't stay healthy.
• Underwear of Power
• The Unintelligible: See Memetic Mutation.

Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Charles Bigelow) 1987-1988, 1992-1995

• Acrofatic: Seriously. Name another big man who could not only splash off the top, but moonsault.
  • Vader?
  • The Blue Meanie?
• Alliterative Name
• Badass
• Badass Beard
• Bald of Awesome
• The Big Guy
• Blood Knight
• The Brute
• Bounty Hunter: He once was in Real Life.
• Finishing Move: Flying Headbutt
• Genius Bruiser
• Holy Shit Quotient
• Hot-Blooded
• I Have the High Ground
• Large Ham
• Lightning Bruiser
• Too Cool to Live

Bret Hart (Bret Sergeant Hart) 1984-1997, 2010-

• The Ace
• Always Someone Better: To a Heel Owen Hart.
• Americans Are Ambivalent Over Bret Hart: Even as a face Bret was never as popular as his predecessors.
• Badass Family
• Badass Long Hair
• Canadian Wrestling Fans Love Bret Hart: Oh so much. It is the reason why the title was given to him instead of Tito Santana.
• Cool Shades
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Him and Shawn Michaels burying the hatchet over the Montreal Screwjob after twelve years and embracing.
• Dead Younger Brother: Owen Hart
• Finishing Move: Piledriver; Sharpshooter (Scorpion Death Lock)
• Five Moves of Doom: Trope Codifier (Scott Keith named the trope in reference to Bret's finishing sequence)
• Follow the Leader: Was in the first-ever ladder match in Stampede Wrestling against Bad News Allen and the first ladder match in the WWF against Shawn Michaels.
• Hitman with a Heart (And a Hart too.)
• Hoist by His Own Petard or Screwed By Vince/Shawn/Earl Hebner: Depending on which side of the "debate" you're on.
• Hot Dad
• Iconic Wrestler
• It Runs in The Family
• Montreal Screwjob: This happened to him.
• Real Men Wear Pink
• Red Baron: "The Hitman"
• Tag Team: Kind of obvious, but had one with Jim Neidhart, known as the Hart Foundation.

British Bulldog (David "Davey" Boy Smith) 1984-1988, 1990-1992, 1994-1997, 1999-2000

• Alliterative Name
• Animal Motif: The Bulldog. Duh.
• Badass Long Hair: Prior to his Important Haircut in the late 90s.
• The Big Guy / The Brute: Depends on his Face/Heel status.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Demoted to Extra: During his final stints in both WCW and WWF.
• Evil Brit (If he's a Heel)
• Finishing Move: Running Power Slam
• Genius Bruiser
• Hot Dad
• It Runs in The Family
• Tag Team: With the Dynamite Kid as the British Bulldogs.
• Underwear of Power: And by extension, Wearing A Flag As A Wrestling Attire.
• What Could Have Been: Was supposed to retain the European Title against Shawn Michaels at the 1997 pay-per-view entitled "One Night Only" in England. He even publicly dedicated the match to his dying sister. Instead, Shawn vetoed that, in favor of him beating Smith for the European championship.

Diesel (Kevin Scott Nash) 1993-1996, 2002-2003, 2011-

• Badass Beard
• Badass Long Hair
• The Big Guy / The Brute: Depends on his Face/Heel status.
• Bodyguard Betrayal: Inverted, as HBK turned on him for overshadowing him. Diesel would eventually return the favor in March 1996.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: One of the most infamous examples in wrestling history, he's one of the four wrestlers who publicly said buh-bye to Kayfabe with the Curtain Call.
• Finishing Move: Power Bomb
• Genius Bruiser
• The Giant
• Heterosexual Life Partners and Ho Yay: He and Scott Hall are some of wrestling's longest running HLP's. There have been quite a number of eyebrows raised by the comment Kevin made that he'd have no problem doing a gay angle if it was with Scott.
• Hot Dad
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Kevin Nash is a walking, talking SSS. the nWo, the Wolfpac, the Main Event Mafia...
• Tall, Dark and Snarky: And when he's blond, Tall, Blond, and Snarky.
• Ted Baxter
• True Companions: The Kliq. Mess with one, and the rest will make your life a living hell.
• True Neutral

Doink The Clown (Matt Osborne, Steve Keirn, Steve Lombardi, Dusty Wolfe, John Maloof, Ray Liccachelli, Jeff Jarrett, Chris Irvine, Nick Dinsmore, Dwaine Henderson) 1992-1995, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010

• Commuting on a Bus: Has came back a couple times after his best run in the company was over.
• Costume Copycat: Including Dink, four of them.
• Facial Markings
• Finishing Move: Whoopee Cushion (Flying Butt Drop)
• Laughably Evil: As a Heel.
• Legacy Character: The Ur Example of Professional Wrestling.
• Love It or Hate It: Mainly as a Heel, as a Face, he was more hated than loved.
• Me's a Crowd: For a time, up to three Doinks would appear at once.
• Monster Clown
• The Other Darrin: Have you seen all the names in the parentheses?
• Psycho Sidekick: Dink
• Public Domain Soundtrack: His theme song was "Entry of the Gladiators" (you know that song they use for circuses?)
  • At least as a face. As a heel, it started with the first few notes, then shifted into a dirge with a high-pitched evil laugh in the background.
• They Changed Him Now He Sucks: His Heel Face Turn
• You Gotta Have Green Hair: He is a clown, after all.

Goldust (Dustin Patrick Runnels) 1990-1991, 1995-1999, 2001-2003, 2005-2006, 2008-2012

• Ambiguously Gay: Though it could be argued that that was all part of his mindgames to get into his opponent's head.
  • What Could Have Been: The character was supposed to be the first openly gay wrestler, and was portrayed as one for about a month (his first major feud was sending love letters to Razor Ramon). However, gay rights groups got upset over a gay person also being "evil," so Marlena was introduced and it all became "mindgames."
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Of movies when the Goldust gimmick started.
• Award Bait Song
• The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust: In 1998.
• Badass Family
• Facial Markings
• Fashion Victim Villain: As The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust.
• Genre Savvy: Of Pro-Wrestling and Film
• Gorgeous George
• Groin Attack: "Shattered Dreams"
• Heterosexual Life Partners: Him and Yoshi Tatsu are superpals.
• Ham and Cheese: Like his dad and brother.
• It Runs in The Family
• Large Ham: Just look at some of his promos throughout the years as Golddust.
• Rage Against the Author / Real Life Writes the Plot: Dustin got tired of being Goldust at one point and tried to be a born-again Christian wrestler. The gimmick sadly didn't take, in part because the WWE didn't care and in part because it was just him in a t-shirt and blue jeans just preaching before matches. Even when Dustin went to WCW and TNA, he never (or they never let him) tried the gimmick again.
• Red Baron: The Bizarre One.
• Tourette's Shitcock Syndrome: After getting "electrocuted", thankfully it died down and went away permanently later on.
• Wrestling Family: Son to "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, older brother to Cody Rhodes and ex-husband to Terri Runnels/Marlena.

Hakushi 1995-1998

• A Hero to His Hometown: He was cheered for by the fans when the shows were in Japan even though he was booked as a heel.
• Bald of Evil
• Evil Foreigner: He never did much evil though, he was just a bad because he was foreign.
• Facial Markings: They extended all over his body.
• Hard Head
• I Have the High Ground: Used the diving headbutt off the top and sometimes finished matches with a top rope moonsault.
• I Know Kung Fu
• Won't Work On Me
• Put on a Bus: He was shamed out of the WWF by Bradshaw.

Jeff Jarrett (Jeffrey Leonard Jarrett) 1993-1996, 1997-1999

• Alliterative Name
• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Catch Phrase: "Ain't I great?" and later "Don't piss me off!"
• Man in White
• Red Baron: "Double J"
• Straw Misogynist: His daddy said that a woman's place was "in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant!", and he's a firm believer of that.
• Ted Baxter
• Wrestling Doesn't Pay:
• Weapon of Choice: The Acoustic Guitar.
• Would Hit a Girl: His (Kayfabe) abusive behavior to his valet Debra.
• Wrestling Doesn't Pay: A wrestling aspiring country music star, at least at first.
• Wrestling Family: Him and his dad, Jerry Jarrett.

Jim Neidhart (James Henry "Jim" Neidhart) 1985-1992, 1994-1997, 2007

• Badass Beard: Eh, it's more of a goatee, but it still counts.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Demoted to Extra: During his stint in WCW.
• Evil Laugh
• Genius Bruiser
• It Runs in The Family
• Real Men Wear Pink
• Red Baron: "The Anvil"
• Tag Team: With Bret Hart as the Hart Foundation.
• Tough-Looking Guy With Hot Daughter: In Real Life.

Lex Luger (Lawrence Wendell Pfohl) 1993-1995

• All-American Face
• Alliterative Name
• The Big Guy
• Captain Ersatz: Of Hulk Hogan
• Fan Nickname/Ascended Meme: Is credited with first calling Shawn Michaels and his friends "The Clique."
• The Fighting Narcissist: As "The Narcissist" until after the 1993 King of the Ring.
• Finishing Move: Running Forearm (as The Narcissist); Rebel Rack (Argentine Back Breaker)
• Improbable Weapon User: A steel plate in his forearm
• Lantern Jaw of Justice
• Pec Flex: He did it a lot during his run.
• Red Baron: The Narcissist
• Replacement Scrappy: After Hulk Hogan left, Luger was plugged right into Hogan's All-American Face gimmick, his main event spot, and even his feud with Yokozuna. The fans didn't take it well.
• Tag Team: With the British Bulldog
• Underwear of Power
• Wearing A Flag As A Wrestling Attire

Ludvig Borga (Tony Halme) 1993-1994

• Evil Foreigner
• Narm
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Injured his ankle in a match with Rick Steiner at Madison Square Garden, prior to the 1994 Royal Rumble, as Borga was booked to face Tatanka.

Mabel / Viscera / Big Daddy V (Nelson Frazier, Jr.) 1993-1996, 1998-2000, 2004-2008

• Badass Decay: As "The World's Largest Love Machine", Viscera.
• The Big Guy / The Brute: Depends on his Face / Heel status.
• Continuity Nod: The police sirens that are in Big Daddy V's theme song, Calling All Cars, were also in King Mabel's theme song.
• Dark-Skinned Blond: As Viscera and Big Daddy V.
• Fat Bastard
• Fashion Victim Villain
• I Have Many Names: See above and add King Mabel after his King of the Ring win.
• Mighty Glacier
• Red Baron: "King Mabel" and "The World's Largest Love Machine".
• Scary Black Man
• Stout Strength
• Wrestling Doesn't Pay: As a wrestling rapper, with his, then tag team partner, Mo.

Mr. Perfect (Curtis Michael "Curt" Hennig) 1982-1984, 1988-1996, 2002

• The Ace: Subverted when a heel.
• Blond Guys Are Evil (Heel)
• Calling Your Attacks: "Now, you're going to see a Perfect-Plex!"
• The Fighting Narcissist
• Hot Dad
• It Runs in The Family: Both with his father, Larry "The Ax" Hennig and his son Michael McGillicutty
• Jerkass (Heel)
• Jerk Jock (Heel)
• Massive Multiplayer Scam: With Triple H against Marc Mero.
• Oral Fixation Fixation: Gum
• Smug Snake
• Spell My Name Without An "N": Hennig, not Henning
• Suplex Finisher: The Perfect-Plex (Fisherman's Suplex)
• Ted Baxter
• Too Cool to Live

Owen Hart (Owen James Hart) 1988-1989, 1991-1999

• Annoying Younger Sibling: To Bret if he's a Heel.
• Badass Family
• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Canadian Wrestling Fans Love Owen Hart: As for all Harts.
• Cool Mask: As the Blue Blazer.
• Dead Younger Brother: To Bret and his other older siblings...
• Death From Above: Literally...
• Draco in Leather Pants: He often got louder cheers then his opponents especially during his 1994 run as the top heel.
• Driven to Villainy: His one-sided feud with DX eventually drove him to join the heel group The Nation. Lampshaded in his theme music:

"I tried to be a nice guy..." "I was a victim! I snapped!"

• Fatal Method Acting: Died during a PPV.
• Finishing Move: Missile Dropkick; Sharpshooter (Scorpion Death Lock); Dragon Sleeper
• Green-Eyed Monster: To Bret during his Heel run.
• Hot Dad
• I Did What I Had to Do: Considering what he's been through in his feud with DX, turning Heel on Ken Shamrock and joining The Nation could be seen as this.
• Iconic Wrestler
• It Runs in The Family
• Jack of All Stats: He was a very well-rounded wrestler.
• Lightning Bruiser
• Real Men Wear Pink
• Take That: His second run as the Blue Blazer was a swipe towards 1980's babyface, especially Hulk Hogan with this line:

"Take your vitamins, say your prayers, and drink your milk."

• Too Cool to Live
• What Could Have Been: He was supposed to win the WWF Title in 1994, but the McMahons decided to put on Diesel. After his death, the WWF actually released promotional shots of him with the championship belt.

Papa Shango / Kama / The Godfather/ The Goodfather (Charles Wright) 1992-1993, 1995-2002

• Catch Phrase: "Pimpin ain't easy!" (As The Godfather)
• Culture Police: When The Godfather did a Face Heel Turn and joined Right To Censor, becoming The Goodfather.
• Defanged Horrors: Papa Shango
• Dress Code: As the "Good Father" in Right To Censor, his only drastic character change to be addressed on screen.
• Facial Markings (As Papa Shango)
• Finishing Move: Shoulder Breaker; Pimp Drop (Death Valley Bomb); Ho Train (Corner Splash)
• Hollywood Voodoo (As Papa Shango)
• I Have Many Names
• Never Live It Down: Involved in a segment that resulted in Ultimate Warrior puking on TV.
• Nice Hat (Both)
• Pimp Duds (As The Godfather)
• Pit Girls: The Godfather's "Hos", subverted by "The Hardcore Ho", who won the WWF Hardcore title and "The Head Ho", who would later become Victoria/Tara.
• Religion Is Magic (As Papa Shango)
• The Scrappy: Shango is considered one of the all-time worst anythings related to wrestling.
• Simple Staff: The Godfather's pimp cane.
• Wrestling Doesn't Pay: A wrestling pimp (The Godfather)

Pierre Ouellette / Jean-Pierre Lafitte (Carl Joseph Yvon Ouellet) 1993-1995, 1998-2000

• Always Gets His Man: As Quebeccer Pierre
• Canada, Eh?
• Civvie Spandex: As Quebeccer Pierre
• Cool Shades: As Quebeccer Pierre
• Dirty Cop: As Quebeccer Pierre
• Dreadful Musician: Sings in the Quebeccers theme... off-key.
• Eyepatch of Power: As Jean-Pierre Lafitte and later Quebeccer Pierre.
• Evil Foreigner: As Quebeccer Pierre
• Executive Meddling: What led to his departure from the WWE, thanks to The Kliq.
• Glass Eye: In Real Life
• Pirate: As Jean-Pierre Lafitte
• Screwed By The Kliq
• Wrestling Doesn't Pay: First, a wrestling mountie, then a wrestling Pirate.

Razor Ramon (Scott Oliver Hall) 1992-1996, 2001-2002

• The Alcholic
• Alliterative Name
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: One of the most infamous examples in wrestling history, he's one of the four wrestlers who publicly said buh-bye to Kayfabe with the Curtain Call.
• Catchphrase: He had "Hey Yo!" and "Say hello to da Bad Guy.", among others.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Used to flip his shit when someone broke his toothpick.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Subverted with Goldust, as it was merely a mind game to help him capture the Intercontinental title.
• Fake Nationality: Billed as a Cuban immigrant. He's not.
• Finishing Move: The Razor's Edge (Cross Power Bomb)
• Heterosexual Life Partners and Ho Yay: With Kevin Nash, for something like seventeen years.
• Off the Wagon: Perpetually. His battles with alcohol (and various other controlled substances) are well known.
• Oral Fixation Fixation: Toothpicks
• Perma-Stubble
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad
• Tall, Dark and Snarky
• Ted Baxter
• True Companions: The Kliq. Mess with one, and the rest will make your life a living hell.
• Underwear of Power
• Waistcoat of Style: Consistent part of his entrance attire.

The Sultan / Rikishi Fatu (Solofa F. Fatu Jr.) 1992-2004

• Acrofatic
• Ass Kicks You: Has several moves for this purpose, the Stink Face being his best known.
• Cool Mask: As The Sultan.
• Cool Shades: As Rikishi Fatu.
• Dark-Skinned Blond: After the Sultan gimmick.
• Does Not Like Shoes: As a Headshrinker.
  • This became a plot point in his "Makin' a difference" Fatu gimmick, where he had difficulty climbing the ropes because he wasn't used to wearing boots.
• Dork Age: "Makin' a difference" Fatu and heel Rikishi are considered the worst portions of his career.
• Expy: After his massive weight gain, of his cousin Rodney "Yokozuna" Anoa'i. Rikishi means "strong man" and is another term for a sumo wrestler. Also adopted the Banzai Drop as part of the package.
• Fake Nationality: As the stereotypical “Middle Eastern" Sultan.
• Fat Bastard: As a heel.
• Fun Personified: As a face, he would dance after matches with Too Cool.
• I Have Many Names: Fatu, The Sultan, Rikishi Fatu.
• Spell My Name with an "S": When he started teaming with Tool Cool his last name would either be "Fatu" or "Phatu".
• Squick: The aforementioned Stink Face maneuver.
• Tag Team: A member of the Headshrinkers with Samu and later Sionne (The Barbarian).
• Unfortunate Implications: After Fatu's face turn, the announcers pointed out that he was from American Samoa, so he was okay.
• The Voiceless: As the Sultan, makes sense because he had no tongue.
• Wild Samoan: As a member of the Headshrinkers.
• Wrestling Family: Part of the massive Samoan family with Jimmy and Jey Uso as his sons.

Shawn Michaels (Michael Shawn Hickenbottom) 1988-2010

• The Ace
• Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Surprisingly, it gets worse as he gets older. He was focused - if juvenily-focused - when he was younger. In the 2006 revival of DX, he was lucky if he could go an entire promo or 3-minute segment without either getting distracted or running around like a three-year-old.
• Biseinen
• Blood Brothers: The entire Kliq, but especially Triple H.
• Book Ends: Ladies and gentlemen, the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, has left the building.
• Beware the Nice Ones: As a face. Especially after his return in 2002.
• Breakup Breakout: Famously, from The Rockers, which makes Marty Jannetty his Garfunkel.
  • To stress how important the Rockers' breakup was, not only has his superkick to Marty Janetty become an iconic image, Marty Janetty himself has become synonymous with the less-talented person of a broken-up partnership.
  • In fact, this is such a huge example, the originally planned name for Breakup Breakout was "The Janetty".
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: One of the most infamous examples in wrestling history, he's one of the four wrestlers who publicly said buh-bye to Kayfabe with the Curtain Call.
• Canadian Wrestling Fans Hate Shawn Michaels: So, so much after the Montreal Screwjob. But around 2006, things started to look better.
  • Shawn even lampshaded it in an off-the-air promo the night he was finally cheered in Montreal (as a part of uber-face tag team DX): "And because, for one night, Montreal forgave me . . ."
• Casanova
• Chivalrous Pervert
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Lampshaded many, many times during his feuds with Triple H, going back to his superkick of Marty Janetty, to Diesel, to Stone Cold Steve Austin, to John Cena, etc.
• Cool Old Guy
• Creepy Cool Crosses: His merchandise starting from his 2002 return.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: It would be shorter to list wrestling-related CMOA's that Shawn Michaels isn't a part of, especially at Wrestlemania.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Him and Bret Hart burying the hatchet over the Montreal Screwjob after twelve years and embracing.
• Crucified Hero Shot: During his entrance since returning in 2002.
• Delinquents: DX loves this trope. Also had elements of it in Real Life, since the DX concept was based off Michaels' and Triple H's behind the scenes friendship and juvenile sense of humor.
• Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune
• Draco in Leather Pants
• Evil Foreigner: To the Canadians.
• Finishing Move: Flying Fist Drop; Teardrop Suplex; Sweet Chin Music (Savate Kick)
• Gimmick Matches: He participated in many firsts, most notably the first Ladder Match (with Razor Ramon at Wrestlemania 10) and the first Hell in a Cell (with The Undertaker at In Your House '97).
  • The first ladder match in the WWF was between Michaels and Bret Hart on a Saturday Night's Main Event.
• Handsome Lech
• Heroic BSOD: After Triple H's second quad tear at New Year's Revolution '07, Shawn is getting beat down by Rated-RKO (Randy Orton and Edge), who are trash-talking DX while they do it. Shawn rolls out the ring, picks up Hunter's sledgehammer and stares at it for a good minute or two. Cue the Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • He's also had a series of them in 2010, from losing the Royal Rumble onwards.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: Not that we don't wonder about the "heterosexual" tag, but Triple H and Shawn Michaels are, in the words of Jim Ross, "closer than a lot of brothers" in Real Life as well as in-character.
  • In his book, Shawn calls Hunter "one of the best men I've ever known" and admits he wouldn't have survived 1996-2000 without Hunter.
• Holy Shit Quotient
• Hot Dad
• Ho Yay: Triple H (including the time Shawn kissed him on live television), Chris Jericho, John Cena, Marty Janetty, even some Foe Yay with Bret Hart.
• Iconic Wrestler (One of his Red Barons in fact.)
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Doesn't outright break it as much as Triple H, but he has his moments.
  • "Man, there's something familiar about that kid, but I can't quite put my finger on it!" (Taps Triple H's shoulder)
• Loveable Rogue
• Loveable Sex Maniac
• Magnificent Bastard: "Who's your Daddy, Montreal?"
• Military Brat
• Never Live It Down: Go ahead, ask a Canadian their opinion on Shawn Michaels. We'll wait until the "YOU SCREWED BRET" chants die down.
• Nice Hat: Shawn wears a cowboy as part of his entrance attire nowadays.
• Perma-Stubble (Late in his career.)
• Red Baron: Heart Break Kid, HBK, The Showstopper, The Main Event, The Icon, Mr. Wrestlemania
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: The Kliq and DX kind of live for this trope.
• Tear Jerker: His original retirement, his final match against The Undertaker, and his farewell on the following Raw.
  • Not to mention "I'm sorry. I love you."
• Ted Baxter
• The Fundamentalist: In real life, from 2001-present. Tones it down for his career, though there have been many, many mentions of his religion by Triple H.
• True Companions: The Kliq. Mess with one, and the rest will make your life a living hell.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Doesn't pick on Hunter as much as Hunter picks on him, but he has his moments of mockery and asskicking.
• Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: Two words: D Generation X.

Sid (Sidney Raymond "Sid" Eudy) 1991-1992, 1995-1997

• Alliterative Name (Sycho Sid)
• Awesome McCoolname: Sid Justice, Sid Vicious...
• Ax Crazy: They don't call him Sycho for nothing.
• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Bodyguard Betrayal
• The Brute
• Meaningful Titles: His rotating surnames of "Vicious" and "Justice", and his occasional prefix of "Sycho", depending on heel/face status.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Sycho Sid, Sid Vicious, Sid Justice is even an intimidating name.
• Red Baron: Sycho.
• That's Gotta Hurt: His downright nasty injury while working with WCW. Has to be seen to be believed.
• Underwear of Power

Tatanka (Christopher "Chris" Chavis) 1992-1996, 2005-2007

• An Axe to Grind: His Tomahawk, it's just for show though.
• Animal Theme Naming: Being that Tatanka is a Lakota word that literally means "bull buffalo."
• Badass Native
• Captain Ethnic
• Defeating the Undefeatable: Had an undefeated streak for over a year and a half being losing to Ludvig Borga of all people
• Fake Nationality: Subverted, as he actually is of Native American descent.
• Kiai: The Warpath Yell
• Loin Cloth
• Nice Headdress
• Noble Savage
• Proud Warrior Race Guy
• Underwear of Power

Thurman "Sparky" Plugg / Bob "Hardcore" Holly (Robert "Bob" Howard) 1994-2009

• Drill Sergeant Nasty: On the second season of Tough Enough.
• Fan Nickname: Bobcore Holly
• Groin Attack: As Hardcore Holly.
• Hair of Gold
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Holly has a reputation for working stiff in matches and sandbagging his opponents, this worked out until he decided to sandbag Brock Lesnar during a powerbomb, the result? Holly gets a broken neck.
• Jerkass: Both Face and Heel.
• Red Baron: "Sparky", "Hardcore" and "Bombastic" Bob as part of the new Midnight Express.
• Tag Team: With Cody Rhodes.
• Too Dumb to Live: He made the wise decision to sandbag^[1] Brock Lesnar, who where going to give him a powerbomb. This resulted in a broken neck for Holly, as Brock dropped him on his head, and was sideline for over a year.
• True Neutral: As Hardcore Holly.
• Wrestling Doesn't Pay: A wrestling race car driver (As Sparky Plugg)

The Undertaker (Mark William Callaway) 1990-

• The Ace
• A God Am I: During his Ministry days.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Of Death. But then, maybe it's all mind games...
• Anti-Hero: Type IV usually, but his more Type II or III in Badass Biker gimmick.
• Back from the Dead: Several Times.
• Badass
• Badass Beard
• Badass Biker: During his Big Evil persona, to the point of riding a giant freaking Harley-Davidson to the ring.
• Badass Grandpa
• Badass Longcoat
• Badass Long Hair
• Black Cloak: During the Ministry of Darkness days.
• Catch Phrase: "Rest In Peace".
• Cain and Abel: With Kane.
• Cool Old Guy
• Cool Shades: During his Big Evil persona.
• Creepy Cool Crosses: One of his logos during the Ministry days. He also uses it to "crucify" his opponents for his "sacrifice".
• Dark Messiah: During the Ministry/Corporate Ministry/Higher Power days.
• Dark Is Not Evil: No matter if he's a face or a heel.
• Darker and Edgier: Compared to the rest of the super colorful characters of WWE at the time, Taker was for all intents and purposes darkness incarnate.
• Dead Man Walking: Literally. Also one of his catchphrases
• Death Is Cheap: Seriously.
• Defeating the Undefeatable: Averted hard, with his unprecedented 19-0 winning streak at Wrestlemania. Every year, someone swears they're going to end the streak. Every year, the Undertaker stays undefeated.
• Dem Bones: Interestingly, he had them in his logos and merchandise when he was in his Big Evil persona.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Why WWE decided to turn him face back in 1991.
• The Dragon: Became this after the formation of the Corporate Ministry.
• Dye Hard: Naturally a redhead.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: One of the biggest examples in Professional Wrestling. He was a cool, talented, and vicious character who got over BIG time very quickly. Despite this, he's never really been considered the one of the faces of the company, due to the difficulty in marketing him. Despite this, he is probably the one wrestler most closely tied to Wrestlemania, and his matches are now considered events even of themselves.
• Epic Flail: His Biker chain during his Big Evil persona.
• Everything's Deader with Zombies
• Evil Overlord: During the Ministry days.
• Fingerless Gloves
• For Doom the Bell Tolls
• Genius Bruiser
• Gimmick Matches: He innovated plenty of these, but he's best known for the Hell in a Cell, Casket, and Buried Alive matches.
• The Grim Reaper: All gimmicks except his Big Evil persona.
• He's Just Hiding
• Holy Shit Quotient: Just try and keep your jaw off the floor when Taker does his over the top rope suicide plancha. The man can fly.
• Hot Dad
• Iconic Wrestler
• Lightning Bruiser
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast
• Nice Hat: A bowler in during his early years, and a wide-brimmed hat after his 2004 "revival."
• No One Could Survive That
• Won't Work On Me: What he does after the Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh before the Oh Crap.
• Obviously Evil: Subverted. Played straight in his Ministry/Corporate Ministry/Higher Power days.
• Ominous Fog
• Once Per Wrestlemania: Someone wrestles against the Undertaker for his streak. They lose. He is now 19-0.
• Our Zombies Are Different
• Out of the Inferno
• Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh: His opponent has just hit an amazing move, knocking the Undertaker down and supposedly out cold, and now he's celebrating. Just don't turn around, because Taker's just sat up.
• Romance on the Set: Had been seeing Michelle McCool for several years, before finally getting married.
• Shock and Awe: All gimmicks except his Big Evil persona.
• The Stoic
• Tall, Dark and Snarky: "Some people talk too much!"
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Recently got remarried to Michelle McCool; subverted in his previous marriage to Sara Callaway.
  • YMMV, he was pretty hot when he was younger. At least the Yaoi Fangirls think so.
• Visual Effects of Awesome

Yokozuna (Rodney Agatupu Anoa'i) 1992-1996

• Ass Kicks You: The Banzai Drop. Given his girth, it served as his finisher.
• Awesome but Impractical: His Banzai Drop. If he hit it, the match was over. No questions asked. But getting up to the top rope and positioning the opponent in a position where he could hit it was quite difficult and it was often how he lost his matches.
• Badass Family
• The Big Guy / The Brute: Depends on his Face/Heel status.
• Designated Villain
• Evil Foreigner (Even though he was Hawaiian Samoan)
• Fake Nationality: Subverted as even though his gimmick was that of a sumo wrestler that trained in Japan and carried their flag, he was billed as being from the Polynesian Islands. Too bad this only lasted about a year or so.
• Fat Bastard: As a heel.
• Finishing Move: Again, The Banzai Drop.
• Genius Bruiser
• The Giant (In the girth department)
• It Runs in The Family
• Meaningful Name: Yokozuna is the highest title in sumo wrestling.
• Too Cool to Live

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