Randy Orton: Difference between revisions

Also considered one of the more [[Your Mileage May Vary|practical/lazy]] wrestlers in the near century-long existence of pro wrestling (counting the carny days), while every other wrestler was coming up with new crazy risky moves to finally put their opponent down, Randy Orton was the one man to go [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|"Why don't I kick him in the head really hard?"]]

 

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=== '''Tropes associated with Randy Orton:''' ===

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Of the oddest sort. His behavior never changed, the fans just kept cheering him more and more until the WWE apparently threw its hands up and [[Sure Why Not|went with it]]. The only thing different now is his choice of targets. Apart from Orton, the only other person to ever really pull that off was [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]].

** Along with [[Ric Flair]], [[Jake Roberts|Jake "The Snake" Roberts]], [[The Undertaker]], Razor Ramon, [[Kevin Nash|Diesel]], Sabu, Taz, [[Rob Van Dam]], [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]], [[Chris Jericho]], [[Eddie Guerrero]], [[Edge]], & [[Batista]] as well [[Overly Long Gag|of course]]...

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: At ''Money In The Bank 2011'', Christian provoked Orton into getting himself disqualified & losing the World Heavyweight title due to the stipulations by spitting in his face; something that Orton himself had a habit of doing back in hs Evolution days.

** And on a more meta level, a couple of his feuds have happened because, at some point, Orton didn't know where to draw the line.

* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: His secondary finisher, a running punt to the head. Also, he's prone to stomping on his opponents repeatedly to weaken them.

* [[Large Ham]]: Although Orton's current persona is that of a tweener [[The Stoic|stoic]], Orton does have/has had his moments. A prime example is when he was leader of Legacy and attacked [[CM Punk]], who was the World Heavyweight Champion at the time. After a few moments of allowing Legacy to pound on Punk, Orton appears from offscreen, delivers the punt kick to Punk, and shouts, "[[This Is Sparta|NOW THAT!]] [[This Is Sparta|THAT RIGHT THERE!]] [[This Is Sparta|WAS!]] [[This Is Sparta|IMPRESSIVE!!!]]"

* [[Manly Tears]]: After winning the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time at ''Summerslam 2004''.

** Also during [[Ric Flair]]'s retirement ceremony the night after [[Wrestlemania]] XXIV.

* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Orton's character is a [[Complete Monster]], who is merely borderline when he's a face. Compare that to Orton in real life, who once complained on Twitter that his infant daughter was sleeping when he returned home after several days on the road and he couldn't get a hug from her.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: A possible literal example. After smashing [[Cody Rhodes]] across the face with his own [[Mask of Power]] and cracking it, the latter seems to have become even more dangerous than he was before.

** Also induced this from time to time, especially during his Heel runs, if for no other reason than the fact that he was such a loose cannon and was liable to [[Finishing Move|RKO]] or [[Kick Them While They Are Down|punt]] anyone that was in his way - that includes his enemies, his ''allies'', [[Would Hit a Girl|women]], guys sitting in the first row (just ask [[John Cena]]'s father) or...[[Complete Monster|his own grandmother]].

* [[One Hit KO]]: The RKO is being pushed as this.

** Also, his post-RKO/victory flailing about.

** Seemed to combine this with [[Berserk Button]] at Money in the Bank 2011 when he utterly destroyed Christian when he spat in Ortons face {{spoiler|and getting DQ'ed in the process, losing the title to Christian.}}

* [[Villain Song]]: Well when he IS a villain, his theme song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWmH_-RxPMk Voices]" could count.

* [[Villain Team-Up]]: With [[Edge]] when they formed Rated-RKO.