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Line 1: {{~~work~~creator}} * [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: A [[Knight Templar]] who truly believes that the world would be better under his guidance? Or a [[Sinister Minister]] and a [[Sleazy Politician]] who uses the Straight Edge Society for personal gain and no higher goals then that? Perhaps the truth will be uncovered. It's also possible to interpret him as the truly good guy who has to put up with fans and fellow wrestlers who are misled - the [[Jeff Hardy]] feud that turned Punk heel, and ended when Jeff left the company (and was arrested for drug trafficking soon after), helped. From his final heel turn before leaving Ring of Honor: who was [[The Farmer and ~~The~~the Viper\|the real snake]], Punk or the ROH fans? ** Punk's [[Hijacked Byby Ganon\|New]] [[The Nexus\|Nexus]] feud with [[John Cena]]. It's really not that hard to interpret Cena's actions in the past as horrible. Using childish names like "CM Sucks" doesn't help, but one of the real kickers was on the 1/17/11 edition of RAW, when [[John Cena]] is walking to the ring to face Punk, randomly grabs a guy's cell phone, hangs it up, and tosses it at him. * [[And the Fandom Rejoiced\|And The IWC Rejoiced]]: The 10/25/10 RAW saw [[CM Punk]] on commentary during [[Bryan Danielson]]'s match with Dolph Ziggler. The end of the match, with Danielson looking over at Punk, was seen by the [[IWC]] as a massive tease towards a [[Cool Versus Awesome\|Danielson/Punk feud]] ** In late 2010, Punk suffered a hip injury just as WWE started teasing the Bryan/Punk feud... But then the IWC rejoiced again when Punk spent some of his recovery time doing color commentary. Line 12: * [[Awesome Ego]] * [[Professional Wrestling/Heartwarming\|"Crowning Moment" Punk of Heartwarming]]: but this exchange: {{quote\| '''WWE Fans:''' [[It Makes Sense in Context\|WE WANT ICE CREAM!]]~~<br />~~ '''[[Vince McMahon]]:''' I don't give a damn what you want!~~<br />~~ '''[[CM Punk]]:''' ''[[Kick the Son of Aa Bitch\|THAT'S THE PROBLEM!]]'' }} * [[Complete Monster\|"Complete Monster" Punk]]: His most extreme heel runs portray him as a manipulative, sociopathic jerk with a god complex, who wouldn't shy away from physically abusing his own followers. ** His most monstrous act involves [[It Makes Sense in Context\|singing "Happy Birthday" to Rey Mysterio's nine-year-old daughter]]. * [[Crossing the Line Twice]]: or rather in his own words {{quote\| ''"I'm a [[~~Chapelles~~Chappelle's Show ~~(TV)~~\|Habitual line stepper.]]"''}} * [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: His asshole arrogant [[Card -Carrying Villain]] [[Heel]] persona gets massive pops, probably cause he's the definition of [[Faux Affably Evil]], his [[Straight Edge]] gimmick is much beloved by hardliners and other people who think that cheering an [[Jeff Hardy\|addict]] is odd. ** Becomes more evident in his fight vs [[Randy Orton\|Orton]] on the 4/18/11 edition of Raw it had fans cheering the both of them in a similar fashion to "let's go Cena", "Cena Sucks" chant. * [[Epic Riff]]: Both of his WWE theme songs. Line 25: * '''''[[Fountain of Memes]]''''' * [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Punk's "Good things happen to good people" promo. Flash forward to ''[[TNA\|Victory Road 2011]]''. Considering [[Jeff Hardy]]'s [[Take That]] rant towards him... * [[Holy Shit Quotient]]: Punk getting [[Vince McMahon]] [[Cue the Flying Pigs\|to APOLOGIZE]] will probably go on to be remembered as his greatest achievement in the industry. Yes, it's a [[WWE ~~(Wrestling)~~/Awesome\|Crowning Moment of Awesome]], but goddammit it deserves to be here too because NO ONE thought it was ever going to happen. ** And also a promo in which he calls both himself and [[Triple H]] by their [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"\|real names]] on live camera. <ref>They're both known to hate this, even among wrestlers. Hunter's one half of the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]], in fact</ref>. And then ends the promo by braining Trips with the mic out of nowhere and doing a [[D Generation X\|crotch chop]] over his prone body. * [[Hype Backlash]]: Some wrestling fans may not understand quite why he was so hyped by the internet wrestling community prior to his WWE debut. * [[Iron Woobie]]: Punk in [[Real Life]], he says it best. {{quote\| "My dad was an alcoholic and my parents...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me."}} * [[Magnificent Bastard]]: See [[The Chessmaster]] entry on [[CM Punk\|the main page]]. ** On the January 10 2011 ''Raw'', he did a promo on top of the TitanTron and said he was going to jump in order to initiate himself into the new Nexus. He made it seem like he would. And, surprisingly, the crowd wanted it. He then revealed he was hooked on a harness and two people were spotting him, saying that anybody that thought he was really going to jump was an idiot. Line 36: * [[Most Wonderful Sound]]: static ([[Epic Riff]]) "Look in my eyes, what do you see..." * [[Narm]]: When he [[Crowning Moment of Awesome\|finally]] got his hands on Laurinitis and gave him the GTS, good ol' Johnny Ace gave ''absolutely '''zero''' reaction to his predicament''. No [[Oh Crap]] expression, no [[Screams Like a Little Girl\|panicked screams]], no pleas for mercy, just [[Dull Surprise\|a dull, blank stare]]. Totally not Punk's fault, though. * [[Pandering to ~~The~~the Base]]: His current gimmick is all about doing this. * [[Rooting for ~~The~~the Empire]]: He got a pretty good ovation when the crowd realized he was the new leader of Nexus. They even started chanting his name. "[[CM Punk]]" chants have happened fairly regularly since then. ** To give you some perspective on this one, The Boston crowd chanted his name over hometown hero John Cena, even after comparing Cena to their most hated enemy, the New York Yankees. * [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: Punk's speech on the 7/11 RAW to John Cena. Cena mentions that Punk is a hypocrite and Punk gets mad at him for him suggesting that. He talks about how Cena was always thought of as the "underdog". Like how his city's teams (save for the New England Patriots), were always underdogs. He goes on a small rant after this, ending it with comparing John Cena to the New York Yankees (The Red Sox's biggest rival) and showing how Cena is no longer the underdog, but has become what he's claimed many times to fight against. Line 44: Pulls the same thing with Orton, but this is less effective since Orton's made it perfectly clear in the past that he knows his actions have no excuse, but doesn't care and does them anyway. * The one with Orton might have been aimed at the people who root for him despite even at his least evil, still being a [[Designated Hero]]. The epic [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] on the 6/27/11 ''RAW'' was ''full'' of these, but perhaps his paragraph about [[Vince McMahon]] fit this trope the best: {{quote\| '''[[CM Punk]]:''' But [[Vince McMahon]]'s gonna make money despite himself. He's a millionaire who ''should'' be a billionaire. You know why he's not a billionaire? It's 'cuz he surrounds himself with glad-handing, nonsensical douchebag yes-men like John Laurinaitis, who's gonna tell him everything he wants to hear! And I'd like to think that maybe this company will be better after [[Vince McMahon]]'s dead, but the fact is, it's gonna get taken over by his [[Stephanie McMahon\|idiotic daughter]] and his [[Triple H\|doofus son-in-law]] and the rest of his ''stupid'' family!}} Becomes a [[Lampshade Hanging]] when [[Fan Nickname\|Trips]] told Vince the board fired him and he was replacing him at least in kayfabe Another [["The Reason You Suck" Speech\|Reason You Suck Speech]] to John Cena on July 11th's RAW. While [[John Cena]] had a point about Punk claiming to know what the fans want but still going to leave them all the same, Punk's retort that Cena [[You Are What You Hate\|has become a dynasty]] and that Cena can't call himself the underdog anymore struck home harder. * Cena didn't help his case by not giving Punk a real retort. Instead, he [[Talk to ~~The~~the Fist\|punched Punk in the face]]. * Cena didn't have a point. Punk's "Voice of the Voiceless" statement referred to the guys who lost their jobs unjustly because they didn't fit Vince's mold of a wrestler. Not the "WWE Universe" exactly. Also, it is not like fans are incapable of watching Punk in any other promotion. Ironically, Cena ends up ''standing up for him'' when Vince suspended him and tried to cheat him out of his title match... Somewhat inverted with his recent feud with [[Triple H]]. It's... honestly kind of hard to get behind Punk when Trips has been ''extremely'' lenient with Punk and his constant verbal abuse and accusations. Not helped by the fact that Punk is accusing Trips of stuff that has been made fun by everyone in the company for years, including Triple H himself. The only thing he really has any real point about is the possibility that Triple H was the one who sent [[Kevin Nash]] the text to Jackknife Punk at Summerslam, and as time goes on evidence shown makes it increasingly less likely that Trips really was the one who sent it. As a result, Punk comes off as less of a corporate rebel advocating change and more as a bully throwing a temper tantrum that things aren't going his way. *** Well, his point is that [[Triple H]] is basically the same guy as [[Vince McMahon]]; no matter what Trips says, he's still stuck in the past and content with a boring product. Punk is playing a jackass revolutionary opposed to Trips respectful traditionalist. * [[Vindicated Byby History]]: A [[Kayfabe]] meta-example. We all know that [[CM Punk]]'s heel [[Smug Straight Edge\|Smug Straight]] [[Straight Edge Evil\|Edge Evil]] [[The Teetotaler\|Teetotaler]] character from 2009-2010 ranged somewhere between having a sensible moral point to his position and being a complete asshole, which made it tough at times for some viewers to really evaluate how they felt about him. But then in 2011 his straightedge became deemphasized in favor of becoming a cult leader for [[The Nexus]], then the Voice of the Voiceless, then cementing his place as the [[Badass Boast\|Best Wrestler in the World]].<br />Enter 2012. In his "Best in the World" feud with [[Chris Jericho]], the former Y2J takes it upon himself to expose the dirty laundry about Punk's father's alcoholism to the WWE audience for the first time and then make up even more about Punk's sister and mother just to piss him off. When this doesn't work, Jericho decides to [[Moral Event Horizon\|stoop so low]] as to try and step on Punk's core by letting/helping [[Mark Henry]] leave Punk floored and prone for two weeks in a row only so he can pour and/or smash large quantities of [[Kayfabe\|whiskey and beer]] all over Punk.<br />This is extra notable because [[Ron Killings\|R-Truth]] had poured whiskey and cigarettes from a trash can all over Punk once on Smackdown during his smug zealot days and back then was actually ''[[Played for Laughs]]''. Between this and the later fates of the [[Jeff Hardy\|Hardy]] [[Matt Hardy\|brothers]] (Punk's first enemies in his heel turn all those years ago, who are not big fans of his in [[Real Life]] either), most fans could look back and easily understand and sympathize with what drove Punk to that place he'd been in back then [[Alternate Character Interpretation\|if not outright agree with his cause in retrospect]]. [[Harsher in Hindsight\|And almost certainly no more laughs are being made about R-Truth dumping intoxicating trash over Punk's head.]] :Enter 2012. In his "Best in the World" feud with [[Chris Jericho]], the former Y2J takes it upon himself to expose the dirty laundry about Punk's father's alcoholism to the WWE audience for the first time and then make up even more about Punk's sister and mother just to piss him off. When this doesn't work, Jericho decides to [[Moral Event Horizon\|stoop so low]] as to try and step on Punk's core by letting/helping [[Mark Henry]] leave Punk floored and prone for two weeks in a row only so he can pour and/or smash large quantities of [[Kayfabe\|whiskey and beer]] all over Punk. :This is extra notable because [[Ron Killings\|R-Truth]] had poured whiskey and cigarettes from a trash can all over Punk once on Smackdown during his smug zealot days and back then was actually ''[[Played for Laughs]]''. Between this and the later fates of the [[Jeff Hardy\|Hardy]] [[Matt Hardy\|brothers]] (Punk's first enemies in his heel turn all those years ago, who are not big fans of his in [[Real Life]] either), most fans could look back and easily understand and sympathize with what drove Punk to that place he'd been in back then [[Alternate Character Interpretation\|if not outright agree with his cause in retrospect]]. [[Harsher in Hindsight\|And almost certainly no more laughs are being made about R-Truth dumping intoxicating trash over Punk's head.]] ** Averted back in his indie days as Punk acknowledged his father's issues somewhat more freely in promos then.