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[[File:CM_Punk_as_WWE_CHAMPION_display_image_6367.jpg|frame| [[Living Colour|Look in my eyes, What do you see?]] [[Darkest Hour|Even through the darkest days]], [[Killswitch Engage|this fire burns]]. [[The Determinator|Always]].]]

* [[Arch Enemy]]: Raven in the early [[Ring of Honor]] era. [[Jeff Hardy]] in 2009, and [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]] in 2010. In 2011 we had [[John Cena]], and probably [[Vince McMahon]] as well, [[Triple H]], John Laurinaitis, [[Alberto Del Rio]] and [[Chris Jericho]]. [[Daniel Bryan]] has managed to enter the list.

* [[Aside Glance]]: Gives these whenever someone (usually [[Triple H]], John Laurinaitis, or [[Michael Cole]]) says something off-the-wall, nonsensical, or just plain stupid. It's also the basis for the recently created "[[CM Punk]] Is Not Impressed" [[Professional Wrestling/Memes|meme]].

{{quote| '''CM Punk''': Jericho, '''YOU'RE BULLSHIT!!''' You're bullshit and that's exactly what I'm gonna beat of you!}}

** At ''Over The Limit 2010'', Punk was shaved bald after losing to Rey Mysterio (per a pre-match stipulation). For weeks, Punk refused to show his bald head and wore a specially-designed SES mask to hide it (he received a legitimate head injury during the match that required stitches, which may have also contributed to the decision to use the mask). On the July 16, 2010 episode of ''[[WWE Smackdown]]'', [[The Big Show]] dragged him on top of a giant ladder, put him in a headlock, and removed the mask, letting the world see a bald [[CM Punk]] for the first time.

** Now he's trimmed it back to a shorter, unkempt shag...in any case, he's tended toward less facial hair as a face, instead opting for the [[Perma -Stubble]] look.

{{quote| '''Allison Danger (looking in the side mirror of [Punk's] car):''' Um, Punker, I want you to keep calm.<br />

* [[Blatant Lies]]: As a WWE heel, one of his major tactics for garnering heat. He claimed to defeat Rey Mysterio without interference, and turned NXT-1's eight-man beatdown on him and Cena into [[Self -Serving Memory|an attack on only him by thirty six armed opponents]]. Or that he didn't defeat [[The Big Show]] and [[Kane (Wrestlingwrestling)|Kane]] because he had a '''one hundred and twenty''' degree fever.

** He's beaten [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]] 600 times and has never lost to him.

{{quote| "Whoops, I'm breaking the fourth wall!" ''[Grins and waves at the camera]''}}

** In a match with [[Alberto Del Rio]], Alberto tried a strategy made famous by [[Eddie Guerrero]]: faking a chair shot and making it seem like the opponent did it by throwing him the chair and falling to the ground. [[CM Punk (Wrestling)/Funny|Punk just threw it back at Alberto and fell down instead.]]

** Recently, he's gotten tattoos all [https://web.archive.org/web/20120624052639/http://www.ring-rap.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/WWE-CM-Punk-New-Leader-of-Nexus.jpg across his upper chest.] At this point, he looks like he has a nice pelt going whether he actually does or not.

* [[The Casanova]]: Apparently he won't take drugs, but he can't get enough of women. His list of conquests reportedly includes Daffney, Traci Brooks, Mickie James, Maria, Kelly Kelly, [[Lita]], and [[Beth Phoenix]]. As those examples show, this is mostly a real life trope for him, especially considering the list could be even larger than that, but there is some in-character merit to folks needing to hide their girlfriends around him. Just ask Mike Knox, whom Punk [[All Love Is Unrequited|stole Kelly from with literally no effort on his part]], and whoever might've been close to [[Perky Female Minion|Serena Deeb]] around the time she [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|jumped the rail to be saved and held on tight to CM Punk]].

* [[The Chessmaster|"Chess Master" Punk]]: On the December 28, 2010 episode of ''Raw'', [[John Cena]] called Punk out to the ring, but Punk refused to bite, saying that ''he'' would call out Cena later. Towards the end of the show, Cena refused to let Punk call him out and returns to the ring, calling Punk out again. Instead, [[The Nexus]] come out, with David Otunga remarking that Nexus "is under new management" before offering Cena a truce (which Cena refuses). The Nexus then attack Cena, leaving him laying in the ring once again...''then'' CM Punk comes to the ring and reveals that he's the new leader of the group. Punk falls under both this and [[Magnificent Bastard]] when you realize that ''Punk had figured out everything Cena would do before Raw had even started.''

{{quote| "In anybody else's hands, this is a microphone. [[Badass Boast|In my hands, it's a pipe bomb.]]" }}

** He also brought up being part of Cena's gangster posse at Wrestlemania 22 during his feud with him, something that had not really been acknowledged on-air before.

** During the first Summer of Punk in ROH, Punk switched his music to "Cult of Personality" by [[Living Colour (Music)|Living Colour]]. When he returned to WWE television in the second iteration, his music had changed to..."Cult of Personality."

{{quote| "That's a very appropriate color he's wearing. Green." On [[TNA|Jay Lethal]].}}

* [[Delinquent Hair]]: Especially as a [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20201112020708/https://www.wrestlingsuperstars.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/108.jpg teenager].

* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: Punk has mentioned on his website that he really hates being called Phil by fans.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: When most of the WWE walked out, [[CM Punk]] came to support [[Triple H]] and [[John Cena]] ([[Sheamus]] was there too, but Punk has nothing against him) in standing up for the WWE. He lampshades this trope pretty effectively in the process.

* [[The Farmer and Thethe Viper]]: Referenced directly in Punk's very first promo after winning the ROH World Title, where he declared his intention to take the belt with him to WWE and signed his WWE contract on said belt.

* [[Follow the Leader]]: Darts player and [[CM Punk]] [[Fan Boy]] Paul Nicholson has to this to a tee. Just compare this video of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvArL38BuGo Nicholson's walk-on] to Punk's entrance at Money in the Bank 2011 and it's practically a carbon copy. Past entrances also include wearing a [[The Nexus|Nexus]]-branded scarf, coming out to "We Are One" (Nexus' entrance theme), and having Xs drawn on his hand like Punk.

{{quote| "...and right now this isn't CM Punk talking to [[Triple H]]. This is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque!"}}

* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]]: The "CM" in "CM Punk" used to stand for "Chick Magnet", the name of a tag team he was in during his backyard wrestler days. Later on, he declared that it had no real meaning, but has humorously made up different stories and meanings for it when asked about it.

** Cookie Monster Punk takes no guff!

** Nothing is quite as excellent as the wrestling of [[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|Charles Montgomery]] Punk!

** To [[Michael Cole]]:

{{quote| "Don't worry buddy, you know the CM stands for [[Fan Community Nickname|Cole Miner]]."}}

{{quote| "CM means [[Sarcasm Mode|Caring]] [[Blatant Lies|Man]]."}}

*** Which was followed up by

{{quote| ''Scott Stanford'': What does CM stand for again?<br />

"Company man."<br />

"Changing Mondays"<br />

** [[Ring of Honor]] and [[Face]] [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Punk had long, unkempt hair and no beard, marking him as a tough guy that had a strong streak of individuality to him.

* [[He's Back]]: The 7/25/11 edition of RAW ends with [[John Cena]] winning the "[[In Name Only|championship]]" from [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]]. Just before the show ends, "[[Professional Wrestling/Awesome Music|Cult of Personality]]"<ref>his entrance theme when working in [[Ring of Honor]] and other indy shows</ref> blares over the arena, and CM Punk enters, holding ''the real'' WWE Championship belt.

* [[Hijacked Byby Ganon]]: Punk took over leader of Nexus from [[Wade Barrett]].

{{quote| '''CM Punk:''' "Ok... I respect the fact that each week, you come out each week, live, with this completely lost deer in the headlights look on your face. I respect the fact that you don't know how to hold a mic. I respect the fact that you would wrestle with a mullet and was never any good yet somehow still got to the top, showing the world new found levels of ass kissing, but above all I respect the fact that someone with so little has done so much. [[Punctuated! forFor! Emphasis!|I.]] [[Sarcasm Mode|Respect.]] [[Take That|You.]]"}}

* [[How Much More Can He Take?]]: His match with [[John Cena]] at Money in the Bank 2011.

* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: In early 2011, he climbed to the top of the TitanTron and threatened to jump off. The crowd chanted, "Jump! Jump!" Punk mocked them and stated he had no intention of jumping, he was testing them to see how they would react, and they failed miserably.

* [[Hypocrite]]: Shows up during his feud with Cena and Orton, particularly when he tells Cena that "Good things happen to good people, and I am a good person." Look, Punk may have [[What the Hell, Hero?|legitimate criticisms]] against Cena and Orton, but a good person he is ''not''.

{{quote| "Am I a bad guy? Absolutely! I don't wear a white hat!"}}

* [[Idiot Ball]]: For all the [[Genre Savvy]] and [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]] Punk has been showing for a while now, it was quite grating when on the 8-22-11 edition of Raw he fell for the classic [[Overly Long Gag|hey-look-at-me-I'm-a-guy-on-the-outside-of-the-ring-who-actually-can't-do-anything-to-you-hey-hey-over-here-now-that-I've-had-your-attenntion-for-several-seconds-turn-around-to-get-hit-with-the-finisher-of-the-guy-you-would-have-beat-if-you-weren't-an-idiot-lol-kthxbai]].

* [[Irony Asas She Is Cast]]: Punk's increasingly mad savior character from Straight Edge Society and [[The Nexus]] has a lot of creepy religious undertones; real-life Punk is notoriously anti-religious. His response to Teddy Hart saying God made him able to jump off a thirty foot cage?

{{quote| "There is no god, and that cage wasn't thirty feet."}}

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Punk's Live Journal (and, in more recent times, his Twitter) oftentimes comes off as the writings of a grumpy old man.

* [[Metal Scream]]: At the beginning of his opening. [[Killswitch Engage (Music)|YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!]]

** [[Living Colour (Music)|Not anymore...]]

* [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]]: His match with Cena at MitB 2011. On both ends.

** Also, he's a fan of many aspects of pop culture, as he often quotes other media. A good example would be him comparing Lauranitis to Lumbergh from ''[[Office Space]]'' without any of the comedy and blasting Lauranitis for being so out of touch.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Repeatedly taking a beatdown from [[Kane (Wrestlingwrestling)|Kane]], who was targeting him as being guilty for attacking [[The Undertaker]]. Why is this [[Pet the Dog]]? Punk had an alibi, but didn't want to reveal that Serena had been caught breaking her pledge to the Straight Edge Society (he forgave her the following week, though).

* [[Playing Drunk]]: Manages to [[Out -Gambitted]] [[Chris Jericho]] by doing this.

* [[Popularity Power]]: The recent angle with [[John Cena]] landed him the complete ''opposite'' of [[X -Pac Heat]]. For the purposes of his feud with Cena, he was technically supposed to be a heel, but what Punk did with the angle was so awesome that by about a week before the PPV, most people in the crowd just couldn't boo him.

{{quote| "I'm gonna beat you like a bitch."}}

{{quote| '''"You're {{spoiler|bullshit!!!}}"'''}}

* [[The Quiet One]]: This is just about the last trope you find on the page of someone known for being outspoken in Punk, but he pulled it off. Punk comes out to face Jericho on the 2/6/2012 Raw, after Jericho bashed him for being a "Jericho wannabe", walks up to him, "pipe bomb" in hand and looks like he's about to go off on the former Y2J, but instead drops the mike, holds up his WWE title to incite the crowd, turns around and leaves a fuming Jericho in the ring, all without saying a word, a mocking, nonverbal [[Ironic Echo]] of Jericho's return and his subsequent "[[Troll|trollingtroll]]ing" of the WWE fans.

{{quote| '''Punk:''' I'm not gonna have ''you'' sit here and belittle me, say ''I've'' lost sight, ''I've'' lost sight of things, ''John''? The reason I say I'm gonna take that and walk out is because I ''don't'' fit a certain mold, because ''I'' am the underdog, and that's exactly what ''you've'' lost sight of! Earlier in this ring, you mentioned great wrestlers like [[Eddie Guerrero]] and you said that ''they'' used to look at ''you'' and say "the kid couldn't hang," and now ''you'' stand here and look at ''me'' as the kid that can't hang...What you are is what you hate! You're the ten-time WWE Champion, you're the man! Ladies and gentlemen, the champ is here! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are ''no'' longer the underdog! You're a ''dynasty''! You are what you hate! You have become the [[Invincible Hero|New]] [[Jerkass Has a Point|York]] [[Berserk Button|Yankees]]!" }}

{{quote| '''Punk:''' You don't like me, but it has nothing to do with who I am and if I could be your psychologist for a moment, it has everything to do with who you are ''not.'' See, the people have no idea who you are. That's because when you were a competitor in [[Insistent Terminology|sports entertainment]] as you like to call it, you had the look, but oh boy ''oh boy'' did you ever suck. And that must have been really, really difficult Johnny, your brother being one half of the legendary Road Warriors, and you never amounting to much more than road''kill''. See you were boring, you weren't charismatic, you were vanilla--that's right, ''boring''! And it kills you that you never made it to this stage, the WWE, as a competitor, so you traded in your lame-ass tights for your equally lame-ass suit. You went from somebody who just sucked to somebody who just sucked ''up''. And now that you're your corporate [[Yes -Man]], you take your eyes and you look at a guy like me and you can't stand the fact that the last year of my career, I've achieved more than you have in your entire ''life!''}}

* [[Revival Byby Commercialization]]: His revival of "Cult of Personality" by [[Living Colour (Music)|Living Colour]] as a theme in 2011 led to a resurgence of popularity in the iTunes charts, especially in the U.S. and the UK.

* [[Romance Onon the Set]]: Dated [[Beth Phoenix]] until December last year.

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: He and [[John Cena]] are almost complete opposites that also have a lot in common. John is a clean shaven, heavily muscled, classically handsome, rap loving, football playing, suburban born, [[WWE]] raised, uber face. Punk is a slight, scruffy, tattooed, [[Unkempt Beauty|that has his own appeal]], metal and punk loving, poor city kid that spent years in the indies and became a heel to raise himself to stardom. Yet both are determined, charismatic men that are adamant in their beliefs and define the casual fan vs. [[Smark]] [[Broken Base]] of [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]].

* [[Shout -Out]]: In one promo, he's threw out a lot of references to [[Straight Edge]] bands.

{{quote| "I'm not just a [[Minor Threat]]."}}

** [http://twitter.com/#!/CMPunk/status/93004003859898368 Posted on his Twitter] the morning after he won the WWE title from [[John Cena]] at Money In The Bank 2011: "On my couch. [[One of Us|About to put the title on the line against]] [[Punch -Out (Video Game)!!|Piston Honda]]."

{{quote| '''Punk''': If you say "Because it's my destiny!", I swear to Jeebus I'm going to start [[Straight Edge|drinking]].}}

** [[Smug Snake]] {{context}}

* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Punk's latest disciple, Serena, very briefly started as this.

* [[Straight Edge Evil]] {{context}}

* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: This is the problem he's been having with Raw GM John Laurinaitis. In the gauntlet match on [[WWE Raw|Raw]] at the end of 2011 with Dolph Ziggler, Punk has Ziggler pinned, but the ref is talking with Laurinaitis, who came out and "fairly" removed Swagger and Vickie Guerrero from ringside for earlier interference, ''during'' the match. Punk goes to ward him off, only to get Zig-Zagged by Dolph for the 1-2-3, which earns him a WWE Title match the following week. In that match, Punk has Ziggler locked in the Anaconda Vice and tapping, only for the ref to miss it again because the Raw GM is "dutifully" instructing the man to replace a turnbuckle pad that came loose during the match.

{{quote| ''"Some days I get real pissed about it, because it's disrespectful. [...] Most other days I just laugh it off because nobody from Chikara will ever be over enough anywhere for anybody else to parody them."''}}

{{quote| "Only an idiot would jump off the Titantron."}}

{{quote| "That's funny, because 'Godawful' is how Alex Riley wrestles.}}

** Towards [[Kurt Angle]] after Kurt got mad that [[Randy Orton]], [[Jerry Lawler]], and [[Michael Cole]] used his [[Finishing Move|Finishing Moves]]s. Kurt later redacted his statement by saying that his Twitter was hacked.

{{quote| [http://twitter.com/CMPunk/status/54991076376838144 "my twitter account was hacked", is the new: "I'm a sloppy drunk douche".]}}

** A MASSIVE one leveled at John Laurinaitis at the 2011 Slammys, which included all the [[Narm Charm|cheesiness]] of an 80s style montage complete with Stan Bush's "The Touch" (doubles as a [[Shout -Out]] to the [[Transformers]]).

** Take a shot at [[Chris Brown]]. The latter responds by accusing him of steroids. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925132518/http://www.twitvid.com/4CAPE Punk was not amused].

** [[Writing Around Trademarks|Airbrushing Around Trademarks]]: The tattoos on his shoulders, a Pepsi logo and a tattoo of the [[G.I. Joe|COBRA logo]], are usually airbrushed/photoshopped out of WWE promotional photos and video games featuring Punk to avoid lawsuits.

** He's also been known to mimic certain wrestlers in-ring style. Most prominent was during his tag match against [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]] and Alex Riley, which featured [[Bret Hart]] as the special referee; throughout the entire match, Punk could be seen performing many of Bret's classic moves, including the [[Five Moves of Doom]]. Most memorable moment was when he performed a backbreaker very slowly right in front of Bret, smiling and making eye contact the whole time. He got his comeuppance at the end.

* [[Wham! Line]]: Seems to deliver one per promo.

** "And I'd like to think [[WWEWorld Wrestling Entertainment|this company]] will be better off after [[Vince McMahon]]'s ''dead''..."

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]:

*** And he's gone on to base to as his reason for targeting Cena as he's gotten tired of this.

* [[The Windy City]]: Punk's hometown. Majorly in ROH back when he ran the Second City Saints. It hasn't been very important to the character during his WWE run, but we do see glimpses of it; the motif of four six-pointed stars on his wrestling trunks mirrors the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Chicago:Flag of Chicago|flag of the city of Chicago]].

** Pulled yet another one of them on [[John Cena]], who thought he had finally defeated [[The Nexus]]. See [[Hijacked Byby Ganon]].

*** Pulled yet ''another'' one on the 7/25/11 RAW. [[John Cena]] had just won the "[[In Name Only|WWE Title]]" from [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]], who had won the fake title himself earlier that night (because of Punk leaving with the belt a couple of weeks before; he was never defeated, therefore RAW actually had no champion). Then a strange theme began playing, and several tense moments later, who else should appear but Punk himself, carrying the real title belt.

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