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'''[[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.
You can read all about his career in the indies and WWE over on [
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=== '''Tropes associated with CM Punk include:''' ===
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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
** 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.
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* [[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.
* [[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''.
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* [[Metal Scream]]: At the beginning of his opening. [[Killswitch Engage (Music)|YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!]]
** [[Living Colour (Music)|Not anymore...]]
* [[No
** And taken [[Up to Eleven]] in his Extreme Rules 2012 match with [[Chris Jericho]].
* [[Not Me This Time]]: Said he didn't put [[The Undertaker]] in a coma, though he did say he wanted to. The July 2nd, 2010 episode of Smackdown confirmed he was telling the truth.
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*** He is considered to be a small to average sized wrestler.
** Considering the power moves he uses, especially picking the Go To Sleep (a fireman's carry drop with a knee to the face) as his finisher, and that he can execute this move on huge men like Luke Gallows and Kane, this is pretty true.
* [[Playing Drunk]]: Manages to [[Out
* [[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.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Referenced by John Cena]], who ''commends'' Punk for being able to get this reaction. Interestingly enough, this has worked both ways and to some made Cena more likable as well, making their feud one of the most entertaining feuds in recent memory.
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** 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
* [[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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* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: In the summer of 2011, Punk had growned tired of his place in the WWE and decided to leave, but not before giving one of hell speech about what just was wrong with WWE in general. He also decided to take the WWE title with him on his way out.
* [[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
{{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.
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** And now he has [[Chick Busters|AJ]]
* [[Straight Edge Evil]]
* [[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.
** 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?
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** He tried doing this in regards to [[John Cena]] being a [[Base Breaker]], [[Insult Backfire|but that didn't work out so well.]]
** Pulled one on Triple H when he asked if Triple H made his own decisions or did what his wife ([[Stephanie McMahon]]) told him to do. Included a ''spot on'' impersonation of Triple H. Didn't work out so well in annoying the target when Trips [[Lampshade Hanging|pointed out]] that people have been making that accusation for 8 years.
** 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
** Take a shot at [[Chris Brown]]. The latter responds by accusing him of steroids. [http://www.twitvid.com/4CAPE Punk was not amused].
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: An extremely charismatic, oddly attractive and highly talented wrestler. The only problem? He's a manipulative, jerkass of nearsociopath levels.
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* [[Unsportsmanlike Gloating]]: The day after leaving WWE as champion, Punk posted a picture on Twitter of the WWE Championship belt...now being kept in his refrigerator.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: A microphone, which he refers to as a pipebomb in his hands. While this usually refers to what he has to say, [[Jeff Hardy]], [[Triple H]], and even [[Zack Ryder]] found it has another meaning...
* [[Wham! Line]]: Seems to deliver one per promo.
** [[Ring of Honor|"I am the DEVIL HIMSELF, and you STUPID, MINDLESS PEOPLE fell for it!"]]
*** Him calling out John Cena was one, 10-minute long edition that crossed over to [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] at times.
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*** And he's gone on to base to as his reason for targeting Cena as he's gotten tired of this.
** And his newest target of New Nexus has been [[Randy Orton]]. Why? Because of when Orton called him a fluke champion, jumped him from behind with Legacy, beat him down, and punted him in the head, causing him to forfeit his World Championship then pointing out Orton as being a selfish, cold individual. You know it's bad when no matter what King tries to say on commentary, Orton will always looks like he deserves every single thing he gets.
* [[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 [
** One of his trademark moves in the indies was called "[[Kill Hannah|Welcome to Chicago, Motherfucker]]".
** After one of his matches in WWE, Punk actually brought out the Chicago flag; Matt Striker has also referred to him as "the Second City Saint", which is also a reference to his indy days (where he teamed with Colt Cabana and Ace Steel as the Second City Saints).
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