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{{quote|"''Yeah, reach out for me! [[Card-Carrying Villain|I'm a snake!]] '''[[Card-Carrying Villain|Never]]''' [[Card-Carrying Villain|trust a snake!]]''"|'''Jake "The Snake" Roberts''', ''[[
'''Jake 'The Snake' Roberts''' is a second-generation professional wrestler best known for his years with the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] in the late eighties and early nineties when he feuded with their top fleer talent, including [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]], [[Andre the Giant]], [[Randy Savage]], [[The Undertaker]], and Sid Justice. He was notable for his mic work, cutting dark, cerebral promos, for bringing his live, pet snakes into the ring, and for innovating the 'DDT' maneuver. Unfortunately, years of family troubles and drug abuse (and his resulting in-ring behavior) have made him notorious, and he has had trouble maintaining employment with any of the large companies, though he has worked continually on the road as an independent since his WWE days.
It was during a feud with [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] that Roberts mentioned the biblical passage John 3:16, prompting Austin's career-defining response: "Well, Austin 3:16 says 'I just whupped your ass!' ".
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* [[Animal Motifs]]
* [[Child
* [[Digital Bikini]]: Inversion--Roberts was feuding with lady-killer 'Ravishing' Rick Rude and Rude began to wear tights with a portrait of Roberts' wife on them, claiming they had been together. Roberts made good on his promise to rip the tights off Rude if he ever wore them again, leaving Rude running from the arena trying to cover his blurred crotch, despite the fact that he was actually wearing flesh-colored underwear.
* [[Feather Boa Constrictor]]
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** One of the theories says it stands for "Damien's Dinner Time", perhaps because anybody on the receiving end of it would be in no condition to stop Jake's pet python Damien from eating him. Another story says it stands for "Drop Dead Twice." When Roberts was asked for its meaning, he simply (and famously) replied: "The end."
* [[Five Moves of Doom]]: jab, jab, [[Rule of Three|jab]], haymaker/clothesline, short-arm clothesline, DDT.
* [[Grandfather Clause]]: Though the DDT is now a common move, Roberts (who invented it) and a few others ([[ECW/Characters|Tommy Dreamer]], [[
* [[Immune to Drugs]]: He's not exactly in a good place in terms of health, finances or professional standing, the fact that he should, by rights, be ''dead'' by now might count.
* [[Instrument of Murder]]: Honky Tonk Man once hit Jake with a real guitar instead of a breakaway prop, legitimately injuring him and leading to a serious painkiller addiction.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Jake's attempt to take a steel chair to Ms. Elizabeth, [[Randy Savage|The Macho Man's]] valet. Luckily, [[The Undertaker
* [[Morality Pet]]: The [[Kayfabe]] death of his favorite snake, Damian, prefigured a very serious [[Face Heel Turn]], and though it wasn't stated outright as the reason for the change, it makes for a logical [[Start of Darkness]].
* [[Never Work
* [[Off the Wagon]]
* [[Psycho for Hire]]
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