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[[File:edge_2468.jpg|frame|''Won it all, Done it all...'']]
'''[[Edge]]''' (real name: Adam Copeland) was one of the top-tier [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestlers]] in the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]. Referred to as either "The Rated R Superstar" (garnering the nickname after the details of his real-life affair with WWE Diva [[Lita]] emerged [[Reality Subtext|& became part of their on-screen personas]]) or "The Ultimate Opportunist" (a nickname inspired by his penchant for using any opportunity he can get to screw over his opponents and win titles), Edge gained fame in WWE first as a member of The Brood with Gangrel and [[Christian]]. Later on, Edge found superstardom as he teamed with Christian and the team feuded with the Dudley Boyz and the Hardys for the latter half of the Attitude Era in many memorable matches--chiefly Ladder Matches and TLC Matches. Edge would eventually break away from his tag team success and find singles success, then used his victory in the very first Money in the Bank Ladder Match to catapult himself into main eventer status by using the contract to screw over [[John Cena]] and win the WWE Championship. From then on, Edge was a main-eventer for the rest of his career--which ended in early April 2011 (following his successful defense of the World Heavyweight Championship at ''[[Wrestlemania]] 27''). In a surprise announcement on ''Raw'', Edge revealed that due to his spine deteriorating as a result of neck surgery he underwent years ago, if he did not retire, he risked being paralyzed or killed by continuing to perform in the ring. Rather than fight through the injury and risk his health, Edge chose to retire from in-ring competition--though he promised to be part of WWE in the future, and rumors were running rampant as to a future WWE Hall of Fame induction; they were finally confirmed on January 9, 2012. CurrentlyHe was a recurring character on [[Sy FySyfy]]'s ''[[Haven]]'', and guest-starringstarred on ''[[Sanctuary]]''.
 
You can learn more about Edge's career at [[That Other Wiki]], but aA quick note on how successful he was: during the course of his career, Edge racked up a total of 31 different WWE championship victories, more than any other wrestler in the history of the company - including 13-time world champion [[Triple H]].
 
This Edge is not to be confused with ''[[Edge (Videovideo Gamegame)|Edge]]'', a video game, [[U 2U2]] guitarist The Edge, ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'''s ninja prince, the [[Knife Nut|knife-loving]] [[Delinquent]] from ''[[Rival Schools (Video Game)|Rival Schools]]'', or the wielder of the Star Dragon Sword from ''[[Suikoden III]]''.
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=== '''Tropes associated with Edge:''' ===
 
* [[Actor Allusion]] / [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Appears as a road bandit in the movie ''Highlander: Endgame''. When he is beaten in a minor skirmish, the titular character (with a sword [[Groin Attack|pointing threateningly at the]] [[Hilarious in Hindsight|crotch area of Edge's character]]) tells him, "Looks like you've lost your ''Edge'', lad."
* [[Animate Inanimate Object]]: Does this to the Anonymous RAW General Manager's laptop, which s/he uses to communicate with [[Michael Cole]]. But then his own bit of self-inflicted [[Fridge Logic]] kicks in...
{{quote| '''Edge''': ''WHY DO YOU KEEP INTERFERING IN MY BUSINESS?! WH''--''([[Beat]])''...[[Crowning Moment of Funny|why am I arguing with a computer]]?}}
* [[Arch Enemy]]: [[John Cena]], [[Batista]] and [[The Undertaker]].
** The unseen GM of [[WWE Raw|Raw]] (and his laptop).
*** [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|Two Words]]: [[Matt Hardy|Matt]] '''FREAKIN'''' [[Matt Hardy|Hardy]]!
**** "That's three words, Paul!"
** [[Kurt Angle]] around 2001- early 2003.
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** "You Think You Know Me?" in his all of his theme songs. It originated in his debut as an angry loner. It stuck with him even after forming many tag teams and alliances.
*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Having [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|screwed, scammed, and alienated]] a good many of his tag partners, guys still want to team with him. So again, do you think you know him?
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: He attended ''[[Wrestlemania]]}VI'' at the SkyDome in 1990, cheering for then-WWF Champion [[Hulk Hogan]].
** Truth on two levels. Twelve years later, not only would he win his first ''WrestleMania'' singles match as the Show of Show returned to the SkyDome at ''WrestleMania X8'', but he would win the WWE World Tag Team Championship with Hogan on a July 2002 episode of ''Smackdown.''
** Also, in one of his high school yearbooks, he was voted "Most Likely to Win the WWF Championship".
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* [[Call Back]]: A meta example, as he has the ornate cross logo of The Brood tattooed on his arm.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: His accent is pretty damn noticeable too.
* [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]]: After the [[Paul Bearer]] kidnapping debacle ended, he has these words to say:
{{quote| "Yep, that all actually happened, now if we could forgot that ever happened I'd be thankful."}}
** When he and [[Christian]] started in WWE they where referred to as brothers. This was however downplayed over the years until they referred to each other as best friends.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: He's still "friends" with [[Zack Ryder]], his old fanboy (with a much different gimmick and look) from 2008.
** Also, his late 2010/early 2011 feud with [[Christmas Cake|Vickie Guerrero]] and her new boyfriend, [[Dolph Ziggler]], has repeatedly referenced Edge and Vickie's kayfabe marriage from 2008-09.
** Edge's retirement speech had a nice long continuity nod to his entire career.
* [[Professional Wrestling/Awesome|Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Enough that he has [[Edge (Wrestling)/Awesome|his own page]].
* [[Professional Wrestling/Funny|Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Again, he has [[Edge (Wrestling)/Funny|his own page]].
* [[Professional Wrestling/Heartwarming|Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: He has [[Edge (Wrestling)/Heartwarming|his own page]] too.
* [[Cry for Thethe Devil]]: It was hard not to feel bad for Edge in the summer of 2008, really. His (kayfabe) romantic relationship with then-''SmackDown!'' General Manager Vickie Guerrero, which at first appeared to be nothing more than a shrewd career move, was later shown to be real and heartfelt. On the day of their wedding, when [[Triple H]] revealed that Edge had been cheating on his fiancee with wedding planner Alicia Fox, the heartbreak was truly something to behold. Edge went overnight from being his usual [[Jerkass]] self to begging Vickie for forgiveness: [[Tastes Like Diabetes|"I can't live without your love!"]] But Vickie was so vindictive that she booked her would-be husband in a Hell in a Cell Match against [[The Undertaker]]. Edge was terrified, and desperately asked [[Mick Foley]] for advice on how to win the match. When Foley refused to help him, Edge snapped and smashed Foley through a table (after delivering the monumental, two-word [[World of Cardboard Speech]] described below). He had passed the [[Despair Event Horizon]] by this point and even lashed out at his own (adopted) family, vowing to Vickie that "I'm gonna drag you down to Hell with me!" And at the conclusion of the Hell in a Cell match, Edge actually ''was'' sent to Hell (or Chokeslammed through the ring mat and set on fire, to be precise). But of course, he proved [[Three Month Rule|three months later]] to be [[Not Quite Dead]].
* [[Cut Short]]: His career, due to a [[Game-Breaking Injury]].
* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Edge's eyes and teeth are slightly larger and more prominent than the average person's, making him appear to have fangs.
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* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: His last [[Face]] run was this - he lies, cheats, tortures, kidnaps, psychologically torments, and brutalizes people, but he's so gosh darned funny about it.
** After seeing him get the fans on ''Smackdown'' 11.26.10 to cheer the prospect of him going from kidnapping [[Paul Bearer]] to sending [[Paul Bearer]] tumbling to his death along with possibly some hapless spectators in the way, can we also claim serious [[Values Dissonance]] on his Face run?
** In this way he's actually quite different from [[Randy Orton]] (the ''Raw'' Superstar with whom he teamed up in late 2006/early 2007 and whose "sociopath" gimmick most closely mirrors his own). Orton seems to be a lot more methodical in his schemes while Edge is more fiendishly creative, coming off as more mischievous than bloodthirsty. Think of it as the difference between [[The Dark Knight|Heath Ledger's version]] of [[The Joker]] (Orton) and [[Batman (Filmfilm)|Jack Nicholson's version]] (Edge).
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Edge and [[Christian]], who grew up as best friends in Canada, joined wrestling school at the same time, broke into the business together as the great tag-team "E&C", and as Edge puts it, been together for ''twenty-seven years''.
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]] / [[Humiliation Conga]]: In 2008, Edge got beaten down by [[Batista]] on ''Raw'', then got beaten for the World Heavyweight Championship by a fresh [[CM Punk]], who cashed in his Money in the Bank contract after the Batista beatdown (mirroring Edge's screwing over of [[John Cena]] in 2006 and [[The Undertaker]] in 2007).
** Also, Edge has been on the wrong end of a [[Finishing Move|Con-chair-to]] a fair few times, most recently during his 2011 feud with [[Alberto Del Rio]].
** Subverted during his early 2011 feud with Vickie Guerrero, who tried to hit him with a Spear during a match. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Needless to say,]] [[Epic Fail|it didn't work.]]
* [[Important Haircut]]: Shaved off his long blond locks about a year after he retired. It's not his iconic look anymore, but most people think [http://beneaththemat.com/edges-short-hair it doesn't look that bad.]
* [[Large Ham]]: Edge can veer into this territory quite often in his promos.
{{quote| '''"What the hell are you doing here, Jeff Hardy?! Didn't you die like three years ago?!"'''}}
* [[Leitmotif]]: [[Alter Bridge (Music)|Alter Bridge]]'s "Metalingus". And before that, [[Rob Zombie]]'s "Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy)". Dude loves his metal.
** Alter Bridge, the band behind his "Metalingus" theme, actually thanked him for his continued use of the theme in the sleeve notes for their ''Blackbird'' album & congratulated him on his career & wished him well after his retirement in 2011. Speaking of which....
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: He didn't adopt "Metalingus" as his theme until after his 2004 [[Face Heel Turn]]. It's actually a song about Christian redemption. (Now, of course, the song is more [[Dark Is Not Evil]].)
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** Lampshaded by the "Anonymous GM" laptop: ''"What are you doing, Edge? You're giving me the crazy eyes!"''
* [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal]]: Back in Edge's early days when he was in of the [[Ministry of Darkness]] as part of The Brood, he and Gangrel made the dangerous decision to defect from The Ministry because of [[The Undertaker]]'s continual abuse of [[Christian]] after the latter failed a mission.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: In late 2010, Edge feuded with [[Kane (Wrestlingwrestling)|Kane]] and kidnapped the man's father [[Paul Bearer]], providing some mental torture for Kane and some low grade physical torture for Paul (including chucking things at his head and keeping him tied to a wheelchair for weeks) in the hopes of getting a title match for Kane's World Heavyweight Championship. Yet, Edge was the ''face'' in this feud.
** It started after he won a #1 contender's match to get one title shot, which resulted in a draw, and it continued even past using Paul as bait to get another one. Put this all in perspective: his weekly MO was to keep Paul hostage, promise to return Paul, only to have Kane hunting and chasing his location to no avail so he can tease some method of what would be Paul's murder - usually by bait-and-switching Paul with a dummy to kill off in his stead, but at one point at least actually asking the fans if he should commit said murderous act. And again: ''Edge was the face in this feud''. Which means fans were being asked to support kidnapping, torture, and threat of murder. Week after week, at least twice a Smackdown. Even some Edgeheads felt a bit disillusioned by the dissonance.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: During his time in the Brood, it's always stated that there was some history between the three members (specifically Gangrel's role with the two boys' lives, and why Edge decided to go back to him if they had history). Even after all this time, it's never come to light.
* [[No Shirt, Long Jacket]]: And [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|nobody is complaining]].
* [[Odd Couple]]: For both of them being top-tier superstars, Edge and [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]] have been paired together in quite a few tag-team matches recently, and seem to execute them well, to the point of having their own specialized maneuvers.
** [[Older Than You Think]]: Edge teamed with Rey Mysterio back in 2002 as part of the fabled [[Fan Nickname|Smackdown Six]], having actually won the Tag titles on one occasion.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: His brief "destroy everything stupid in the WWE" pathology. Yes, he was both this and [[Ax Crazy]] at the same time.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: In his retirement speech he states that he was a 'Pseudo-vampire' in the Brood (which consisted of him, Christian and Gangrel).
* [[Perma -Stubble]]
* [[Power Stable]]: With La Familia, and the [[Ministry of Darkness]].
** Story gets interesting: the Brood were the only ones who defected from the Ministry before it merged with [[The Corporation]] to become the [[Villain Team-Up|Corporate Ministry]].
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: Played pretty straight with Edge; anyone that got hit with a [[Finishing Move|Spear]] during the match usually didn't get up.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] / [[Worked Shoot]]: The Edge / [[Matt Hardy]] / [[Lita]] [[Love Triangle|love triangle]] in 2005. And the ironic thing was that Edge was the Hardys' real-life friends.
** [[Never Live It Down]]: Ever since that incident, Edge became known as the guy that "screwed Matt". (Lita didn't get much better treatment, either.) However, it did nothing to hurt his career in the long run; on the contrary he went on to much greater heights than anybody at the time would've thought possible, going from perennial midcarder to one of the company's top heels.
** [[Reality Subtext]]: While Matt was gone from WWE, Lita and Kane were (kayfabe) married for a while; eventually, Kane found out that Lita was cheating on him...with Edge.
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* [[Rule of Funny]]: Edge and Christian circa 2000 ran on this.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: In the weeks leading up to his Hell in a Cell Match against [[The Undertaker]] at ''SummerSlam 2008'' (a match booked by Vickie Guerrero to punish him for <s>hitting on</s> ''cheating on her with'' their wedding planner), Edge started going crazy. He sent [[Mick Foley]] packing with a brutal assault, demolished every member of La Familia, and threatened to take [[The Undertaker]], himself, and La Familia (including Vickie) down to Hell.
{{quote| '''Edge''': You wanna put me in a Hell in a Cell with [[The Undertaker]] like it's ''some form of punishment?!''}}
** His final feud with [[Alberto Del Rio]] hinted at pushing him [[Incredibly Lame Pun|over the edge]] a bit... and ended at Wrestlemania XXVII with a victorious Edge (and assisted by Christian) destroying one of Del Rio's prized cars.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Actually pulled one ''during a match'' - a triple threat match between himself, [[John Cena]], and [[The Big Show]] during [[Wrestlemania]] 25. Edge had Show in a sleeper hold (which naturally didn't go well for Edge, who got sandwiched in between the turnbuckle and Big Show's full weight. Cena, on the ground, gets up and [[Charles Atlas Superpower|gets Big Show up on his shoulders with Edge still on Show's back.]] Edge realizes after about a split second how this is going to end (with Cena hitting the Attitude Adjustment on Show and Edge being [[Oh Crap|on the bottom of the pile.]]) and ''bails immediately.'' Of course, John Cena hit him with the AA right after that, but at least Edge got to land on top of Big Show instead of the other way around.
** Another during the 9/16/2011 episode of the Cutting Edge and being in the middle of a very volatile Randy Orton/Mark Henry conflict:
{{quote| '''Edge:''' Ooo-kay. Okay. This is... this is the part of the show where I remind you that Teddy Long said during the Cutting Edge there is no physical contact. Remember...remember that part? This is also the part of the show where I tell you [[Exact Words|the Cutting Edge is now offically over]].}}
* [[Serious Business]]: Edge thinks wrestling is, well, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|serious business]].
** He sometimes did his ''WWE Magazine'' interviews ''in character'', which is rare in the post-[[Kayfabe]] wrestling business.
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: With Vickie Guerrero.
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* [[Take That]]: A massive zinger leveled at [[Michael Cole]]: "I'd rather listen to a ''recording'' of [[Jim Ross|JR]] than a ''live'' [[Michael Cole]]!" Many [[Smart Mark|smarks]] feel/felt the same way.
** Then later after he wins the Slammy for "Oh Snap" Meltdown of The Year, he levels him again:
{{quote| '''Edge:''' [[Borrowed Catchphrase|And I quote,]] "[[Michael Cole]] is still a massive tool."}}
* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: The promo he cut on [[John Cena]], wherein he channeled the spirits of [[Smark|Smarks]] worldwide, involved numerous variations of the phrase "I hate you".
* [[The Unfair Sex]]: Inverted. Many were quick to forgive him for his affair with Amy "[[Lita]]" Dumas, who ended having to retire when the stress of the intense heat she was getting became too much.
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* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Edge did this to [[John Cena]] and [[The Undertaker]] with Money in the Bank contracts.
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{{quote| ''"....another chance to feel....alive!"''}}
 
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