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{{quote| I have no breaking point, and all you have to do is look in my eyes and realize I have laughed in the face of temptation time and time again. I have never tapped out to society's attempts at peer pressure. You try to stick a beer in my hand with the same commercials that have hypnotized all of you people, and that sell you all your narcotics and things you're addicted to. Well, I'm harder than any alcohol you can drink, I'm straighter than any line you can snort up your nose, and I certainly can hurt you a lot faster than any pill you put on your tongue.}}
 
'''[[CM Punk]]''' (real name Phil Brooks) is a professional wrestler, having worked with various promotions over the years - most notably, [[Ring of Honor]] and [[WWE|World Wrestling Entertainment]]. He made a name for himself in the indies for his "Straight Edge" gimmick: he flaunted his Straight Edge lifestyle (which, according to pretty much everyone who's ever known him, is completely legit) over other wrestlers, and told them that "I'm better than you!" because of it. He used to head a growing faction in WWE called the Straight Edge Society, which promised to "save" people from their self-destructive lifestyles by helping them embrace the principles and beliefs of a Straight Edge lifestyle. He left WWE on 7/17/11, having beat [[John Cena]] to win the WWE Championship, becoming the first man to leave the company with the title; he returned eight days later, staring down Cena to end RAW.
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* [[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]].
* [[Atomic F-Bomb|Atomic S Bomb]]: After what Jericho brought up about Punk and his family's addiction issues, you could hardly blame Punk for what he said next:
{{quote| '''CM Punk''': Jericho, '''YOU'RE BULLSHIT!!''' You're bullshit and that's exactly what I'm gonna beat of you!}}
* [[Badass]]: As much as he is a whiny, lying, preachy and obnoxious jackass, Punk is a very talented wrestler.
** [[Badass Beard]]
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** 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.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Real life example: according to Punk's old [http://cmpunk.livejournal.com/11306.html LiveJournal], he will be livid if a cop pulls him over and then calls for a drug-sniffing dog to go over the car. [[SHIMMER|Allison Danger]] was with him at the time, and the instant she saw the dog she knew he was about to go apeshit, which is kind of funny.
{{quote| '''Allison Danger (looking in the side mirror of [Punk's] car):''' Um, Punker, I want you to keep calm.<br />
'''Punk:''' Huh? I am calm, I just think it's stupid that (Punk sees that the second squad is a K-9 unit) '''<big>WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?</big>''' }}
** Bringing up his family's past drug and alcohol problems apparently doesn't go over too well with him either. Jericho did it, and Punk '''[[Cluster F-Bomb|blew his top.]]'''
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* [[Borrowed Catchphrase]]: Before and sometimes during a match, Punk will yell, [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|"IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!"]]
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: During his [[Author Filibuster]] rant on the 2011-06-27 Raw.
{{quote| "Whoops, I'm breaking the fourth wall!" ''[Grins and waves at the camera]''}}
* [[Breakup Breakout]]: Colt Cabana and Ace Steel, his teammates in the Second City Saints, joined him in signing with WWE, but Punk was the only one to make it big. Ace Steel never made it out of developmental, while Colt Cabana's run on WWE programming lasted all of four months and he'd be the first to tell you that it didn't exactly work out.
* [[Brick Joke]]: His first championship reign had these. He became champion after [[Batista]] gave [[Edge]] a Batista ''Bomb'': Punk took advantage of the ambush and cashed in his Money In The Bank. He lost his championship after [[Kevin Nash]] gave him a Jackknife ''Powerbomb'' and [[Alberto Del Rio]] cashed in ''his'' Money In The Bank.
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** His feud with [[Randy Orton]] was started because Orton KICKED HIM IN THE HEAD two years ago.
** He plans on leaving the WWE with the WWE title just like he did ROH.
{{quote| "In anybody else's hands, this is a microphone. [[Badass Boast|In my hands, it's a pipe bomb.]]" }}
** 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.
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** And during his tenure as leader it appeared as if the [[The Nexus|New Nexus]] was one as well.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Punk is awesome at this.
{{quote| "That's a very appropriate color he's wearing. Green." On [[TNA|Jay Lethal]].}}
* [[Defeat Means Friendship|Defeat Means Indifference]]: Punk was one of the first people against [[Triple H]] becoming C.O.O. and there was at least a month of build-up of their feud. Following his defeat at Night Of Champions, Punk just doesn't seem to care anymore, even though none of his issues were directly addressed. He was even conspicuously absent during the whole vote of confidence thing.
** 1. Punk came out the night after NOC and admitted that Hunter wasn't part of the conspiracy like he originally suspected, so he's somewhat in the dark on the matter, that being he now suspects "[[Curb Your Enthusiasm|Funkman]]".<br />2. Triple H also came out and allayed Punk's complaints by giving him what he deserved, a WWE Title match without outside interference (albeit, Hell in the Cell, but Punk wasn't picky).<br />3. Punk explained after the walkout, first on [[Twitter]] then the following week on Raw, why he didn't show up or follow: that the so-called "Agents of Change" were [[Comically Missing the Point]] on making change by not doing it personally and physically in the ring like he did.
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* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: During his feud with [[Randy Orton|Randall Keith Orton]].
** and later
{{quote| "...and right now this isn't CM Punk talking to [[Triple H]]. This is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque!"}}
* [[Fun with 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!
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** [[John Morrison]] once "theorized" that the letters stood for "Craves Men."
** To [[Michael Cole]]:
{{quote| "Don't worry buddy, you know the CM stands for [[Fan Community Nickname|Cole Miner]]."}}
** To Scott Stanford:
{{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 />
[[I Have Many Names|Chicago Made, Championship Material...]] }}
* [[The Fundamentalist]]: When he's a heel, he's a straight edge fundamentalist.
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* [[Hijacked by 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.]]"}}
* [[How Much More Can He Take?]]: His match with [[John Cena]] at Money in the Bank 2011.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: 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.
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** Cena eventually calls him out on this as part of a very well done [[Kirk Summation]].
** Punk himself has lampshaded this a lot recently by putting variations of the following quote in the same segments where he is calling others out on their garbage:
{{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 on 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]].
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* [[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 as 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.
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* [[Power Stable]]: The Straight Edge Society was supposed to be one, but it fizzled out rather quickly. [[The Nexus]], on the other hand... also fizzled out quickly once he was in charge.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: On the second day of 2012, no less. This is what Punk says will happen if Johnny Ace screws him out of the WWE title.
{{quote| "I'm gonna beat you like a bitch."}}
** And it's not the harshness of the language, either. Punk probably swears the most out of any other wrestler (minus Steve Austin and The Rock) as he went on a [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster Bitch Bomb]] with liberality. It's the context in which he used it, basically saying that he'll beat Lauranitis like a dog if screwed.
** On the 3/19/2012 edition of Raw, they had to censor some the words he said to Jericho.
{{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|trolling]]" of the WWE fans.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: CM Punk legitimately lives a Straight Edge lifestyle, and this eventually became the basis for his career-defining heel gimmick.
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** On the 7/11/11 edition of RAW, Punk manages back to back speeches on [[Vince McMahon]] and [[John Cena]].
*** After talking about how Cena had always liked to consider himself the underdog just like the Boston Red Sox, Punk told him that it was no longer the case for either the man or the team.
{{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]]!" }}
** The above with the result of a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] from Cena, which likewise made some good points.
** Gives one to [[Triple H]], John Laurinaitis, and [[John Cena]] on the August 8, 2011 RAW, calling the former two out on the firings of several superstars and the latter out on being above it all.
** He would then level a MASSIVE one two weeks before the 2012 [[Royal Rumble]] at Johnny Ace, seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZhjI_xYUQTQ#t=359s here]. It's especially notable in that it was the one thing that finally caused [[Villainous Breakdown|Johnny to lose his cool]].
{{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!''}}
* [[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.
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* [[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 [[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]]."}}
** He once wore a Colt Cabana T-shirt while commentating on Raw. Colt Cabana was one of the Second City Saints alongside Punk and Ace Steel.
** On the Raw following the death of [[Randy Savage]], Punk wore the exact same ring gear as Savage during his classic ''Wrestlemania III'' match with [[Ricky Steamboat]] (except he had his own name on the trunks).
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** 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].
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: A [[Crowning Moment of Funny|serious..ly funny one]] directed at Alberto Del Rio and his tiresome [[Because Destiny Says So|"Destiny"]] speeches:
{{quote| '''Punk''': If you say "Because it's my destiny!", I swear to Jeebus I'm going to start [[Straight Edge|drinking]].}}
* [[Smug Smiler]]: ESPECIALLY in his heel role.
** [[Smug Snake]]
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** This has resulted in Laurinaitis installing himself as the special referee for the Punk-Ziggler title rematch at Royal Rumble, and the [[Precision F-Strike]] of a warning delivered above.
* [[Take That]]: Both a recipient and a giver. In [[CHIKARA]], CP Munk (a straight edge chipmunk) is a sendoff of Punk in response to him noshowing an event. Punk's response?
{{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."''}}
*** Though now that Claudio Castagnoli is signed, with other former CHIKARA workers in the wings, that might come back to bite Punk in the ass.
** Also after his feud with [[Jeff Hardy]] that ended with Jeff leaving the company, Punk mentioned Jeff Hardy's arrest for drug trafficking on the air.
*** Jeff would throw one Punk's way in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6GcrIBhBWA drugged-out tirade] in a video against Punk in a diner. It more just proved Kayfabe!Punk's point than anything.
*** 1/11/11 Raw, keep in mind that [[Jeff Hardy]] is a bit of a [[Spot Monkey]].
{{quote| "Only an idiot would jump off the Titantron."}}
** He took a potshot at [[Shawn Michaels]], saying that not only was William Regal better as a trainer of [[Bryan Danielson]], but that Shawn "took $3,000 from him and that's it."
** Various ones at [[The Miz]].
*** And his "apprentice" Alex Riley - When Riley fired a [[Take That]] towards Punk's repeated remarks about his recent DUI by remarking that Punk's commentary was "Godawful". Punk's response?
{{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]]. 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".]}}
** Not sure if this counts, but CM Punk showed up at the WWE Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, with the WWE title as he making comments about how they are trying to crown a new champion. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KBjzeCIAe0&feature=share See for yourself].
** He tried doing this in regards to [[John Cena]] being a [[Base Breaker]], [[Insult Backfire|but that didn't work out so well.]]
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