CHIKARA/Characters

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People Who First Wrestled in 2002

Blind Rage

A Indy worker in the New York area who trained under Mike Quackenbush. As he debuted in 2000, he is not counted as a member of the original class, but is a honorary member. Led the Night Shift, a Power Trio of himself and two of the original class rookies in Hallowicked and Ichabod Slayne (the future Icarus), until Slayne broke away from them. Then he continued on in a tag team with Hallowicked until UltraMantis went to the dark side dubbing himself Ultra-Mantis Black. This unit was called the Dark Breed. He continued to lead this unit until his retirement in 2004. But, he would return in the 2005 Tag World Grand Prix, and would still be aligned with the Dark Breed. In 2006, he sided with UltraMantis Black when the Dark Breed split, and served as a brief member of the Order of the Neo Temple. His last match in November of 2006 saw him making peace with Hallowicked, and staying out of CHIKARA for good.

  • Big Bad: Of seasons one and two.
  • Goth: Was identified as such.
  • Power Trio: Led both the Night Shift and Dark Breed.
  • Put on a Bus: Retired in May of 2004.
    • The Bus Came Back: Wrestled a sizable amount in 2005 (even in the tag World and Cibernetico) and 2006 before going back into retirement for good.

BlackJack Marciano

One of the members of the second class, who debuted in 2002. From the very start, he was a tag partner of his childhood friend Eddie Kingston dubbed the Wild Cards. For much of his time in wrestling, the duo caused much trouble in CHIKARA, fueding with Team F.I.S.T. and Ultra-ZERO. However, he suddenly retired early in 2005, and has not been seen since then.

  • Brother Chuck: Vanished by the start of 2005. Some explanations outside of CHIKARA is Chris Hero kicking him out of all of wrestling or retiring of a knee injury he got in Canada in the winter of 2004, and to this day remains perhaps the most notable CHIKARA trainee to have never returned.
  • The Dragon: Was this in the Toxic Trio of him, Kingston and a still-Rudo Jigsaw.
  • The Jannetty: Is this to Eddie Kingston.
  • What Could Have Been: Was a in a prototype of the Kings of Wrestling with Hero and Double C in the winter months in Combat Zone Wrestling. Whether he was going to join or not if he stayed in wrestling is unknown, though.

Chris Hero

DJ Skittles

Don Montoya

Dragonfly

  • Flat Character: Didn't have much of one, especially compared to the others.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: Was pretty well this by the rest of his fellow rookies.
  • The Bus Came Back: After about six years away, Dragonfly returned near the end of 2008 for an alumni battle royal and has since generally made at least one appearance each year.

Eddie Kingston

Gran Akuma

  • Bald of Evil: Post un-masking.
  • Put on a Bus: Kicked out of F.I.S.T. in 2010. Strangely, he's been seen in other Indies just fine, which has caused much speculation of a falling out, or it being a angle.
    • The Bus Came Back: Finally returned to seek revenge on his ex-stablemates at the end of season ten, and appears to be returning to the CHIKARA roster altogether.
  • The Stoic
  • Tecnico Rudo Turn: Turned in 2005 and didn't look back.

Hallowicked

Icarus (formerly Ichabod Slayne)

  • Embarrassing Tattoo: To the point where many fans don't even know him as Icarus, just "that guy with the stupid back tattoo".
    • Tursas has referred to him on Twitter (in-character) as "Backstain."
  • Everything's Deader with Zombies: Was one as Ichabod Slayne, dropped when he turned Technico and when he lost the mask and became Icarus.
  • Jerkass
  • Large Ham
  • The Chew Toy: Truly a rudo everybody loves to hate, probably the single most hated rudo in CHIKARA history.

Jigsaw

Lester "Darkness" Crabtree


Melvin Snodgrass

Mike Quackenbush

Mitch Ryder

Mr. ZERO

Reckless Youth

Sumie Sakai

UltraMantis Black (formerly just UltraMantis)


People Who First Wrestled in 2003

Ares

Claudio Castagnoli

Jolly Roger

Private Eye

Robbie Ellis

  • Badass Grandpa: Capable of hitting moves that no wrestler his age should even think of doing.
  • Ring Oldies: Is a legit one, well into his 60's.

Rorschach

Skayde

  • Fallen Hero: The whole 2010 King of Trios scandal made him a real one in CHIKARA.


People Who First Wrestled in 2004

Allison Danger

Arik Cannon

Crossbones

Joker

Lance Steel (both I and II)

Larry Sweeney

  • Big Bad: In 2004, arguably the first one in CHIKARA history.
  • Brother Chuck: Disappeared from CHIKARA in 2009 due to personal issues. He made a one-night return in 2010 but tragically passed away the following year.
  • Large Ham: The largest.
  • What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: So many things, but especially every time he'd challenge his opponents to a strut-off.

Mano Metallico

  • The Brute: In Sweet 'n' Sour International
  • Butt Monkey
  • Made of Iron: His gimmick his hand was, but about all of him was due to the abuse he would take from everybody in and maybe not in a match
  • Mighty Glacier
  • With Friends Like These...: Crossbones was a lousy partner back then, he was usually the one who started Dragon Kicking him when he as seated on the ring!

Sabian

  • Nice Character, Mean Actor: Is not loved in his home promotion of CZW.
  • Odd Friendship: With Jigsaw. Originally they tagged so Sabian could get a shot at Jigsaw's YLC, but continuted teaming for a while anyways.

The Sharecropper

STIGMA (formerly Shane Storm)


People Who First Wrestled in 2005

Cheech Hernandez (formerly just Cheech)

CP Munk

Daizee Haze

Delirious

Dragon Dragon

Dr. Cheung

  • Affectionate Parody: Of John Cena of all things.
  • Stealth Pun: Nowadays it's harder to figure out why a chubby Mexican guy with a Doctor gimick has anything to do with him, but back then, remember Cena's old Badass Nickname The Doctor of Thuganomics".

Jervis Cottonbelly

KC "Cloudy" Day (formerly Cloudy)

KUDO

Hydra

Milano Collection AT

  • Rule of Funny: Him being an Italian supermodel when he's obviously Japanese.

The North Star Express (Darin Corbin & Ryan Cruz)

Retail Dragon

  • Flat Character: Didn't dress or act like a Dragon or a Retail Supermarket worker. Add in the fact he was kind of mediocre in the ring, and you can see why most people didn't really care about him.

The ROH Students (Anthony Franco, Davey Andrews, Matt Turner & Shane Hagadorn)

  • Better Then Canon: Got treated much better in CHIKARA then they could ever be in their own home promotion, with the possible exception of Hagadorn.

U.S.Ape

Vin Gerard (formerly Equinox I)


People Who First Wrestled in 2006

Chuck Taylor

El Hijo del Ice Cream

Fire Ant

Helios (formerly Ricochet)

Ice Cream Jr.

Max Boyer

  • Villainous BSOD: When his mentor Chris Benoit died, he left wrestling for a while to cope.

MIYAWAKI

  • Hard Head: And the Thomasellies are the first to know.

Player Uno

  • One of Us: It doesn't take much to figure out Uno is a huge video game geek.

Sara Del Rey

Shane Matthews

Scott Parker (formerly Jagged)

Soldier Ant

Worker Ant

Yoshiaki Yago

  • Badass: People get hurt when they step into the ring with him.


People Who First Wrestled in 2007

Amasis

Brodie Lee

Buck Hawke (formerly Shayne Hawke)

Colin Delaney Olsen

Dasher Hatfield (formerly Create-A-Wrestler, MosCow & Ultimo Breakfast)

El Pantera

Jimmy Olsen (formerly Equinox II)

Lince Dorado

Ophidian

Tim Donst


People Who First Wrestled in 2008

Da Soul Touchaz (Acid Jaz, Marshe Rocket, Willie Richardson)

Escorpion Egipcio

Grizzly Redwood

Johnny Gargano

Madison Eagles

Marc Roudin

  • The Jannetty: To both Claudio Castagnoli and Ares. They had been a trio called Swiss Money Holding, but Claudio had gone on to become a major fixture in the American independent scene. Ares remained in Europe, and Roudin had actually retired - booking problems with the Tag World Grand Prix 2008 caused Chikara to beg him out of retirement for the show.

Pinkie Sanchez (formerly Carpenter Ant)

Player Dos (formerly Stupified)

  • One of Us: Like Uno, he is pretty dorky and loves video games.


People Who First Wrestled in 2009

Frightmare

  • Keet: Almost never runs out of energy.
  • Sidekick: To Hallowicked

Green Ant

Sugar Dunkerton


People Who First Wrestled in 2010

Hieracon (formerly Jonathan Gresham)

  • Put on a Bus: Completely failed to get over and after a while he just disappeared from the cards.
    • Back for the Dead: Sort of. Hieracon came back for one match with Ophidian, which resulted in Ophidian stealing his mask and "killing" Hieracon.
  • Sixth Ranger: To the Osirian Portal.

Kodama

Obariyon

Tursas


People Who First Wrestled in 2011

Archibald Peck

Jakob Hammermeier

Kobald

Saturyne

Sinn Bodhi


People Who First Wrestled in 2012

Mark Angelosetti


GEKIDO (combatANT, deviANT, assailANT [These three are called "The Swarm"], 17 & The Shard)

  • Badass: 17 made Mike Quackenbush tap out and broke his wrist in the process, The Shard is tough enough to shrug off opponents' chops, and The Swarm are at least a match for The Colony.
  • Big Bad: Seemingly the new ones in town.
  • Deceptive Disciple: Quackenbush outed three of the GEKIDO members as "Jose and the two Franks," Wrestle Factory students who washed out of the program before they could debut.
  • Evil Counterpart / Psycho Rangers: To The Colony, Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw
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