Mick Foley: Difference between revisions

** Comparable to Hell in a Cell was Foley's participation in the IWA Japan King of the Deathmatch Tournament in 1995. During his first match, he got opened up hardway with a punch from Terry Gordy, then took a powerbomb into a bed of thumbtacks, and still came back to win the match. Next match, he bumped on a barbed-wire covered board ''and'' a bed of nails before winning. Finally, in the grand finale, he and Terry Funk proceeded to destroy each other in a Barbed Wire Rope, Exploding C4, and Time Bomb Match. What made the match even more brutal was that one of the gimmicks (the ring was supposed to be enveloped by massive explosions at the 10 minute mark) failed horribly, forcing Foley and Funk to take insanely dangerous bumps to save the match. In the end, after three brutal matches, Foley pinned Funk and became IWA Japan's King of the Deathmatch.

* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Narrowly averted for the Mankind persona, as Mick recounted in his first autobiography. Vince initially pitched the character as "Mason the Mutilator", a name that Mick thought was absolutely dreadful. Mick countered by suggesting "Mankind the Mutilator", explaining that with that name, he could talk about "the evils of Mankind" and the audience would never quite know whether he was talking about himself, or them. Vince not only adopted the idea, but dropped the "Mutilator" part of the name, leaving Mick as, simply, Mankind.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Researches very heavily for his books.

** Foley also ''wrote'' all of his books and, unlike many athletes, does not use a ghostwriter (he actually was given one on his first book, but was unsatisfied with his work). He proudly notes in the introduction to ''Have A Nice Day!'' that he wrote the over 700-page manuscript for it in longhand (mostly because his typewriter broke). Also, his publisher was surprised by how ''[[Doorstopper|long]]'' it was - they were expecting under 150 pages.

* [[Honorary Uncle]]: [[Paul Bearer]] was Mankind's honorary uncle after betraying [[The Undertaker]] and managing Mankind instead.

** In a related play on the trope, for a short period Mankind considered [[Goldust]] his honorary ''mother''.

{{quote| '''[[Jim Ross]]''' ''[after Foley is thrown off the Hell in a Cell through a table]'' '''''AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, HE IS BROKEN IN HALF!'''''}}

** And then he got up off the stretcher, went up top a second time, got choke-slammed through the roof... Jesus, it was ''carnage.''

* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: His persona of Dude Love.

* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: His Mankind gimmick was definitely this, especially at the beginning. Often a prime source of....

** In particular the Hell in a Cell match, which is honestly nauseating to watch. When he was choke-slammed through the cage, he dislocated his shoulder, was knocked unconscious, and had a chair land on his face, causing a tooth to pierce through his lip and lodge itself in his nose.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Mark Callaway ([[The Undertaker]]) had a moment of this when Mick Foley fell through the ceiling of the Hell in a Cell and thought that he'd seriously injured or even killed [[Mick Foley]], saying in interviews that all he felt after that happened was "concern" for his fellow wrestler's health.

* [[Unperson]]: Averted since his jump to [[TNA]], though he isn't the only one, [[WWE]] has mentioned many of its stars recently, though Mick was the only one mentioned in a positive light, [[Michael Cole]] even shilled for his latest book.

** [[Joey Styles]] even interviewed Mick on WWE.com recently. The shilling of the book might be because some of the book is reportedly about Foley's time as a commentator on ''[[Smack Down]]!'' and Vince very much likes Mick's writing style.

** Still no e-book release for ''Have a Nice Day!'', though, at least, not one that I've seen.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: As part of his general [[Running Gag]] of [[Butt Monkey|making fun of Al Snow whenever possible]] in ''Have a Nice Day!,'' Foley refers to taking a shit as "taking a Snow" and references wiping his "Avatar" (named for one of Snow's many, many failed gimmicks). In fact, Mick says that "Hardcore" [[Bob Holly]] is banned from taking part in Mick and Al's insult contests on the grounds that he can't make up an original [[Unusual Euphemism]] to save his life.