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* [[Arch Enemy]]: The Hart Foundation, The Nation of Domination, and [[The Corporation]] were all enemies of DX in succession.

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: The entire damn stable. From where [[Seme|Triple H]] stands in relation to [[Uke|Shawn Michaels]] when they hit the ring to the [[Black Comedy Rape|setup]] to Road Dogg's Pumphandle Powerslam to the random lips painted all over Billy Gunn's trunks along with his moniker of "Mr. Ass". D-X reeks of this trope.

{{quote| "You know and I know, that [[Shawn Michaels]] and his boy-toy Hunter Helmsley are the one responsible for all the problems right now."}}

* [[Appropriated Appellation]]: [[Bret Hart]] called them a pack of degenerates, so they took on that name for themselves.

* [[Breakup Breakout]]: [[Triple H]], who went from a smart-assed comic-relief type to [[Magnificent Bastard|a guy called "the Cerebral Assassin"]] and a ''thirteen-time'' world champion.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: From 1999-2000, DX was a revolving door.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Shawn and Hunter in the final incarnation of DX firmly hit this trope.

* [[Depraved Bisexual|Depraved Bisexuals]]: Hunter and Shawn most notably.

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The original, very brief, and easily forgotten DX incarnation featuring Rick Rude as the group Enforcer. This roster only lasted about three months before Rude split for [[WCW]] and famously appeared on Raw and Nitro on the same night. Soon after [[Shawn Michaels]] went on indefinite leave because of injuries, DX brought in Chyna as their new Enforcer and the New Age Outlaws as full-time members, evolving from sophomoric jokes and insults into the revolutionary "DX Army" incarnation they're best remembered for.

* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: Hornswoggle in DX? What is this that you speak of?

** For some people, any part of DX that involved X-Pac.

*** Billy Gunn was pushed as the WWF's best pure athlete in 1998-99 all while calling himself Mr. Ass. Chyna was the bodyguard of Hunter Hearst Helmsley and that role evolved into [[The Enforcer]] of DX, but her doctor would constantly evolve her with [[Breast Expansion|improvements]] to the point where she was a Playboy covergirl. So, those last two roles are pretty much interchangeable.

* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]

{{quote| ''I'm bi- a lot of things. Lingual ain't one of them.''}}

* [[Kick the Dog]]: One of the most cruel acts committed by DX was during the Thanksgiving '99 episode of Smackdown when they invited a group of homeless into the arena for a Thanksgiving feast. Instead of offering them the food, DX tortured the homeless people by waving food in front of their faces. Of course, the whole segment was [[Rule of Funny|played]] [[For the Evulz|for]] [[Dead Baby Comedy|laughs]].

* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: Part of the DX aesthetic was bright neon green letters, arena lighting, merchandise and glowsticks.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: In late 1998 to 1999, [[Mick Foley|Mankind]] was a unofficial member of the group during their war with the Corporation and, in fact, DX was watching [[Mick Foley|Mankind]]'s back during his famous first world title win. After the match, DX hoisted him on their shoulders with smiles too big not to be real.

* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: All the damn time.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Any time Shawn Michaels was in the ring, but for maximum tropage:

* [[This Is Sparta]]: "ARE? YOU?? REEEAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDYYYYYY???????"

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Road Dogg and Billy Gunn.

* [[True Companions]]: DX was born out of a [[Real Life]] group of these in [[The Kliq]].

* [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx]]: Probably the poster children for this trope. If we tried to list all of DX's juvenile pranks, promos, and segments, we'd be here all <s>year</s> decade.