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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Most definitely as a face. Usually a solid [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III]] but can slip upward to Type II ''or'' downward to Type IV depending on the situation/feud.
* [[Heroic BSOD|Anti-Heroic BSOD]]: Jericho bringing up Punk's alcoholic father as a sticking point for his Straightedge lifestyle and promising to make Punk "drink" his loss away after Wrestlemania sent Punk into this. All he did after Jericho's promo was pick up his championship and walk away, head tilted down, in a sullen mood.
* [[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.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6GcrIBhBWA This shoot] has turned Jeff into a [[Real Life]] example
* [[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]].
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* [[Big Word Shout]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qoiReTpmo0 "YOU ARE A WHOOOOOOOOOORE!"]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeoOTkV74UI "YOU HAVE A VAGIIIIINAAAAAA!"]
* [[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.
** The time he was a guest commentator on an episode of NXT season 3. At the end of the broadcast he said he'll return the following week. He never did.
*** This wasn't by choice, he was initially supposed to remain on NXT until the season ended but WWE removed him, apparently because his presence made the show entertaining.
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** Internet rumor is that he goes to lengths to provide writers with these. Two examples, in particular, were when he reminded everyone during his Nexus feud with John Cena that Cena spilled his Diet Pepsi and when he reminded writers that he had already feuded with Randy Orton for Orton's Legacy costing him his first WWE championship reign.
* [[Call Back]]
** 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.]]
** Following the death of [[Randy Savage]], Punk added the Macho Man's elbow drop to his moveset.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Was extremely proud of his award for "Dick Move of the Year".
* [[Carpet of Virility]]: One of the few wrestlers in the 'E with actual chest hair; of course, he went with a [[Beard of Evil]] too, so maybe he's just playing into [[Beauty Equals Goodness]] and trying to make himself appear uglier than he actually is.
** Recently, he's gotten tattoos all [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]].
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Straight edge means I'm better than you!"
** Since mid-2011, he's been using "Pipe bomb!" as his new [[Catch Phrase]].
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** He is one of the few Superstars who really does keep continuity as much as possible. In addition to the Kelly and Orton moments above, he also hung a lampshade about Vince's stip to have Cena fired if Cena did not beat Punk at ''Money in the Bank'', stating that Cena's stipulated "retirement" in 2010 lasted all of a week. He also brought up the failed runs of Colt Cabana and Luke Gallows during his worked-shoot run during that feud.
** 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."
* [[Cult]]: The Straight Edge Society.
** And during his tenure as leader it appeared as if the [[The Nexus|New Nexus]] was one as well.
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* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Punk accomplished this in WWE by feuding with Jeff Hardy in the summer of 2009, eventually bringing the dickish "Straight Edge means I'm better than you" persona that made him a star in the indies into WWE.
** During the end of his run in [[Ring of Honor]], he won the ROH title as a face and immediately proclaimed his plans to take it WWE, going so far as to sign his development contract in the middle of the ring on top of the belt.
* [[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.
** And he planned on doing the exact same thing at Money In The Bank. {{spoiler|He did, but then returned.}}
* [[Finishing Move]]: In his early days on WWE's ECW brand, he used the Anaconda Vice; nowadays, his chief finisher is the GTS, or "Go To Sleep".
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** and later
{{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!
** Fear the power of Chuck Mosley Punk!
** Nothing is quite as excellent as the wrestling of [[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|Charles Montgomery]] Punk!
** [[John Morrison]] once "theorized" that the letters stood for "Craves Men."
** To [[Michael Cole]]:
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* [[Handwraps of Awesome]]
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Recently Punk has been going full blown anti hero, what with fighting with the faces in a 12 man tag match and staying on Raw during the walk out. Hell, after Triple H saved him from a post match beatdown from Miz and R-Truth, he even did the standard face "thanks bro" handshake.
* [[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.
** Correctly and eerily predicted by [[Genre Savvy|Archie]], the six-year-old son of Cousin Sal on [[Jimmy Kimmel Live]], which was taped prior to that Raw's airing but aired an hour after Raw went off the air.
* [[Hijacked Byby Ganon]]: Punk took over leader of Nexus from [[Wade Barrett]].
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: On the October 24th, 2011 episode of [[WWE Raw]], Johnny Ace offers Punk the one-on-one WWE Title shot against Alberto Del Rio that he wants, but Punk [[Genre Savvy|knows there's a catch.]] The catch is that Punk has to tell the WWE Universe that [[Cool People Rebel Against Authority|he]] ''respects'' [[Bad Boss|Johnny Ace]]. Punk first responds by saying he respects "Funk Man", [[Crowning Moment of Funny|while doing a pretty good impression of the guy's voice]]. Johnny Ace isn't amused, and gives Punk one more chance. Punk, for a moment, considers it, then goes on to remind us why he's the master of "[["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]." (It's a bit paraphrased):
{{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 for Emphasis|I.]] [[Sarcasm Mode|Respect.]] [[Take That|You.]]"}}
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{{quote| "Am I a bad guy? Absolutely! I don't wear a white hat!"}}
* [[I Always Wanted to Say That]]: When Punk temporarily took Cole's duties as relayer of the Raw GM's messages. "Sorry, I'm a little nervous, I've always really wanted to do this. [[Borrowed Catchphrase|I HAVE RECEIVED AN EMAIL]]!"
* [[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]].
* [[Important Haircut]]: [http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/18000000/Cm-Punk-Join-Nexus-wwes-the-nexus-18065218-437-339.jpg It clearly leaned this way] when he led the Nexus.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: "This is not a belt, this is a championship title."
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** [[Kevin Nash]] once said Punk looks like a guy who should be managing a Waffle House. Punk's response: "I like Waffle House; I don't know why you would say that."
* [[In the Blood]]: In [[Real Life]], Punk chose to be [[Straight Edge]] after hearing that his father's alcoholism may be hereditary. This fact was [[Real Life Writes the Plot|placed into his WrestleMania 28 feud]] with [[Chris Jericho]], who promised to make Punk [[Turn Out Like His Father]].
* [[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."}}
* [[It's Personal]]: What started as a feud over who was the best in the world, turned in to this when [[Chris Jericho]] revealed to the world that Punk's father and sister was addicts, alcoholic and drugs respectively. Punk was not [[Cluster F-Bomb|pleased.]]
* [[Jack of All Trades]]: Good striker? He knows Muay Thai, so check. Submission maneuvers? [[Finishing Move|Anaconda Vice]] and others, so check. Top-rope moves? [[I Have the High Ground|Yep.]] A couple of power moves? Yes. He tends toward strikes and submissions, but mostly everything he does in the ring, he does well.
* [[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.
** Also, his actual on-screen character. He openly admits that he might be a bad guy for some people, but he only wants the best for the wrestling business in general and will do anything to accomplish that.
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: His speech on 7/11/11 brought up a few interesting points, most notably that his speeches have made wrestling interesting to non-wrestling fans for the first time in god knows how long.
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*** And he speaks the truth!
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Since starting his Straight Edge Society, he claims to be able to "save" people from their addictions. He even grew the [[Fan Nickname|Jesus beard]] and, at ''Elimination Chamber 2010'', urged people watching the show to put their hand on the screen and "feel CM Punk flow through you."
* [[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.
** And taken [[Up to Eleven]] in his Extreme Rules 2012 match with [[Chris Jericho]].
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: This is how Punk views himself, now whether he actually is or not...
* [[Perky Female Minion]]: Serena, Serena, Serena...how can a [[Bald of Evil|bald women]] look so hot? She kicked ass in [[SHIMMER]] and it's a shame we never got to see her [[Dark Action Girl]] roots.
* [[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).
* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|He's at the practically midget-like height of six one]].
** "Midget-like"? Then what does that make [[Chris Jericho]], who's nearly two inches ''shorter''?
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* [[Recognition Failure]]: On filming the last Smackdown of 2011, a security guard refused to let Punk into the building, claiming he had never heard of him and refused to believe he was a wrestler. A second security guard was able to confirm Punk's identity and let him in.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Any time he gets his hands on a microphone.
* [[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.
* [[Running Gag]]: At the ''Royal Rumble'' 2010 event, Punk would find himself the only man in the ring several times, and would preach his Straight Edge lifestyle during the downtime. At the following PPV ''Elimination Chamber'', Punk and R-Truth would start the match. Punk made short work of Truth and started right back where he left off at the Rumble.
* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: Seems to be Punk's [[Deadpan Snarker|default setting.]]
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*** He's recently added the Savage Elbow Drop to his regular moveset.
** "Hey, Colt Cabana, how you doin'?"
** [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]]."
** Simplest of all, he has a tattoo of the [[G.I. Joe|Cobra emblem]] on his arm.
** Punk ended up on the receiving end of one of these on October 13, 2011, when during a hockey match between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals, the Penguins' Arron Asham got in a fight with Capitals' Jay Beagle. Asham cleanly punched Beagle out, after which he [http://l.yimg.com/a/p/sp/editorial_image/df/df3445b507da68c3651a80b103b31181/fight_video_arron_asham_bloodies_jay_beagle_who_pulls_out_tooth.jpg did Punk's trademark "Go To Sleep" motion].
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** [[Smug Straight Edge]]: The epitome of this trope.
* [[So Unfunny It's Funny]]: When Cena got injured, Punk showed up on the next ''Raw'' to rub it in the fans' faces. He told the crowd he had searched for Cena in the building all day and couldn't find him. He then came to the conclusion of "[[Catch Phrase|I couldn't SEE him!]]" while doing Cena's signature hand wave taunt. The delivery was so groan-worthy and Punk acted so smugly proud of himself for that joke that it was kind of hilarious.
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Punk's latest disciple, Serena, very briefly started as this.
** And now he has [[Chick Busters|AJ]]
* [[Straight Edge Evil]]
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** [[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.
* [[Troll]]: Part of his heel persona; he'll fake out the audience by pretending to jump from the Titantron, pretend to have [[The Undertaker]] or [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] come out and kick his ass, steal other wrestlers [[Catch Phrase|lines]] and implement them into his promos, and he even taunted [[Randy Orton]] by doing The Pose right in front of him.
** 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.
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: On July 11, 2011, he cites Cena as the reason he's leaving the WWE and generally treats him like dirt. This is despite the fact that he'd not even ''have'' his Title Match on Sunday if Cena hadn't put his own career on the line to get Punk's suspension revoked out of respect for the fact Punk earned said match.
** Continues after his return, despite the fact Cena was willing to be fired to prevent Punk from being screwed out of the WWE Title by [[Vince McMahon]].
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* [[You Can Leave Your Hat On]]: Early in his career, at the tender age of 22, he performed a lap dance at an indy show for a raffle winner alongside [[Real Life]] best friend Colt Cabana. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQPEpgObLLs here].
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Punk pulled this on [[Jeff Hardy]] in 2009; after Hardy had just beaten [[Edge]] in a Ladder Match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Punk cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and made Jeff's reign as champion a very, very short one.
** Pulled yet another one of them on [[John Cena]], who thought he had finally defeated [[The Nexus]]. See [[Hijacked Byby Ganon]].
** Alberto Del Rio attempted this on Punk by trying to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase (at Vince McMahon's insistence) immediately after Punk won the WWE Title from John Cena. It failed when Punk gave him a boot to the head and high-tailed it through the crowd.
*** Unfortunately the second time he wasn't as successful.
*** 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.
*** Ended up on the wrong end of this {{spoiler|on the 1/23/12 RAW. After one too many confrontations with John Laurinaitis, the latter of which ended with Laurinaitis setting his [[Amoral Attorney]] (David Otunga) on Punk in a sneak attack, Punk finally snapped, choked out Otunga with the Anaconda Vice, then give a red-letter GTS to Laurinaitis...only to have [[Dolph Ziggler]] appear from out of nowhere and drop Punk on the back of his head with a Zig Zag.}}
 
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