Mick Foley: Difference between revisions

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Jimmy Snuka's epic leap off of a steel cage inspired Foley to eventually enter the industry.

* [[Bait and Switch Comment]]: ''Have a Nice Day!'' relates the following from when he was in [[ECW]] and headed to the [[WWE|WWF]]. The crowd chanted at him "You [[Sell Out|sold out]]! You sold out!" Foley responded by getting on the mic.

* [[The Berserker]]: Cactus Jack.

** To the point where when Commissioner [[Shawn Michaels]] wanted to punish the Corporate Ministry by putting them in matches they'd clearly get beaten immensely from, Michaels put Mideon and Viscera in an handicap hardcore match with Cactus Jack (as opposed to Mankind, the character Foley was playing at the time), apparently confident that Cactus Jack was more than enough against two men, one of whom was the Ministry's 500-pound [[The Brute|monster heel]]. He was right. [[Curb Stomp Battle|He was oh so very right]].

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

* [[How Much More Can He Take?]]: Foley '''lived''' this trope during the majority of his WWE run.

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

* [[Insult Backfire]]: When it was announced on WCW that [[Mick Foley]] was about to win the WWE championship... things did not go as WCW expected <ref>To be precise, a ''very'' large number of viewers switched from WCW to WWE to see Mick get what they considered his just rewards.</ref>

* [[Running Gag]]: As Commish, he'd often found the most absurd places to set up his office in the arena.

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: When riffing on one of [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock's]] [[Catch Phrase|Catch Phrases]]:

* [[Solemn Ending Theme]]: When he first appeared as "Mankind" in the WWF, he had two themes, an entrance theme and a different, more solemn exit theme that played when he won a match (which he requested specifically for the [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]).

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Employs this regularly.

* [[Something They Would Never Say]]: More like Something They Would Never ''Do'', but during one heel turn (the "Corporate Dude Love phase", if memory serves) he started wearing his false teeth again. His wife was enormously put off by this.

** A straighter example would be the end of the infamous "I Quit" match with The Rock. Mankind realized afterward that not only was "I quit" something he would never say, but he was actually unconscious when he supposedly said it. He realized it was a recording of him saying it during a pre-match taunt.

** 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.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: According to his second book, Wrestlemania XV was booked to have Mankind involved in the main event as part of a triple threat match with The Rock and [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]]. Reportedly, [[Shawn Michaels]] convinced the writers that the Wrestlemania main event MUST be two wrestlers and two wrestlers only. Though Michaels was lobbying for it to be Stone Cold vs. Mankind, Foley was the wrestler who got removed from the main event.

** Next year, he managed to get into the main event by getting in a FOUR Way Match with The Rock, [[Triple H]], and [[The Big Show]].