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Characters from ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
== The Era of Honor Begins: 2002-2004 ==
=== Jay and Mark Briscoe ===
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* [[Badass]] - Yes, this is a wrestling character page, but the fact that the Briscoes are total badasses needs to be reiterated.
* [[Badass Beard]] - Mark.
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* [[Wrestling Family]]
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] - Homicide, Jimmy Jacobs, Kevin Steen, and Steve Corino all know this too well.
* [[Groin Attack]] - Attacked with Lacey's high heels, no less.
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* [[Romantic False Lead]]
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* [[The Atoner]] - To hammer it home, his sponsor was Jimmy Jacobs.
* [[Commuting on a Bus]]
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* [[Villainous BSOD]] - Goes hand-in-hand with [[My God, What Have I Done?]].
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* [[Horrible Judge of Character]] - He willingly shook Claudio Castagnoli's hand at The 100th Show, marking the first time Daniels had ever adhered to the Code of Honor. Later that night, {{spoiler|Castagnoli turned on ROH and joined CZW, reuniting with Chris Hero.}}
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]. Like recognizes like.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]] - Often does this with his alter ego, Curry Man.
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* [[The Bus Came Back]]: Shocked the world when he appeared at a PPV mere days after his unpublicized release from [[TNA]].
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* [[Catch Phrase]] - "I HAVE 'TIL FIVE," and the fan chant of "YOU'RE GONNA GET YOUR FUCKING HEAD KICKED IN!"
* [[Couch Gag]] - He always comes up with custom entrances for Bobby Cruise.
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* [[Worthy Opponent|Worthy Opponents]] - Austin Aries, Nigel McGuinness, Roderick Strong, Tyler Black, Jerry Lynn.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]] - When everyone thought ROH would lose to CZW in Cage of Death...
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]] - Even when he attempted to murder Colt Cabana, he was still treated as a hero in NYC.
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* [[Redemption Quest]] - The whole impetus for the "Road of Homicide" in the second half of 2006.
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* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] - Written out of ROH due to a "car accident."
** Possibly related to real life problems between him and Homicide.
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* [[Badass Decay]]
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] - Attacked by the Hangmen 3 after objecting to the Sweet 'n Sour hostile takeover. However, this appeared in clip form on the Take No Prisoners PPV.
* [[Genre Savvy]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]] - He tried to get between Jimmy Jacobs's quest to earn the love of Lacey. Not only did he lose the blow-off cage match in decisive fashion,
* [[Redemption Demotion]]
* [[The Worf Effect]]
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* [[Badass]]: Definitely.
* Catchphrase: THE CHAMP IS HERE!
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* [[Wild Samoan]]: In the ring, he is. He's a pretty quiet guy, though.
==
=== Alex Shelley ===
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* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]
* [[Reformed but Rejected]]
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* [[The Ace]] - Often competed against [[Bryan Danielson]] for this title.
* [[Batman Gambit]] - Used to lure
* [[Big No]] - Actually invoked ''9/11'' to get heel heat at Manhattan Mayhem III.
* [[Complete Monster]] - The Delirious feud pushed him to this from Smug Snake.
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* [[Hostile Show Takeover]] - This was the whole point of ROH "Generation Next."
* [[Jerkass]]
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* [[Moral Event Horizon]] - Crushing Delirious's throat.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] - Gave big ones to Ricky Reyes at Final Battle 2005 and Jimmy Jacobs at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj10giHAwAE Return Engagement].
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* [[Worthy Opponent]] - To [[Bryan Danielson]].
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* [[Ax Crazy]] - Only when he switches from the trademark green to red.
* [[Put on a Bus]] - After becoming head booker he stopped wrestling for ROH, presumably to prevent any conflict of interest (which is something that people like [[Kevin Nash]] would have been wise to do in the past). He has since performed only once at an ROH show, in a match with Colt Cabana dedicated to the late Larry Sweeney.
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* [[The Unintelligible]]
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* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]
* [[Keet]]
* [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]]
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* [[Put on a Bus]]: Back to [[WWE]].
* [[Redemption Quest]]
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* [[The Atoner]]: After he returned, he said "My name is Jimmy Jacobs, and I'm an evil person." The idea was that he was a ''recovering'' evil person and that he was Steve Corino's sponsor.
* [[Beard of Evil]]
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* [[Wham! Line]] - In the same promo: "Love doesn't save. NOTHING SAVES." "This project is over. The Age of the Fall has just begun."
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]
* [[World of Cardboard Speech]] - Supercard of Honor 2 started with one from Jacobs.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] - As soon as the Necro Butcher left, he lured a heartbroken Delirious over to the Age of the Fall.
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* [[Evil Foreigner]] - Played straight during his Pure Title reign, subverted afterward.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: At the same time as Danielson, but ended up [[TNA|taking a different bus]].
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* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] - Played a sick one on [[Bryan Danielson]] at the 6th Anniversary Show.
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* [[The Bus Came Back]] - He would appear at "Showdown In The Sun" to be interviewed by Jim Cornette one night after successfully defending the NWA World Championship against Adam Cole at an NWA show. This led to an impromptu non-title rematch between the two, the first time ROH fans got to see Pearce wrestle in an ROH ring in quite a while.
* [[Put on a Bus]] - When he became head booker in 2008.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]
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* [[Couch Gag]] - As part of the Embassy, Rave received a shower of toilet paper in lieu of streamers.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Rave endured this frequently:
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* [[The Bus Came Back]]: Rave returned in December 2011 to challenge Tomasso Ciampa at ''Final Battle''.
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* [[Put on a Bus]]
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* [[Put on a Bus]]
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* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[WWE|Evan Bourne]], is that you?
* [[I Have the High Ground]]
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* [[Badass Nickname]]: The Messiah of the Backbreaker.
* [[Breakup Breakout]] - A rather weird case, as every member of Generation Next has seen a good deal of success after leaving the stable.
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* [[Turned Against Their Masters]] - He formed the No Remorse Corps after he and Davey Richards attacked Austin Aries.
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== Respect Is Earned: 2007-2009 ==
=== Brent Albright ===
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* [[Hired Guns]] - The [[Only in It For the Money]] variety.
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* [[Breakup Breakout]]
* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Signed a [[WWE]] developmental contract.
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* [[Badass Beard]]
* [[The Stoner]]
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* [[Bald of Evil]]
* [[Catch Phrase]] / [[Red Baron]]: Claudio would frequently refer to himself as "Very European", which became as much a nickname as a description.
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* [[Put on a Bus]]: Around the time an identical looking fellow named Antonio Cesaro showed up in [[WWE|FCW]].
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* [[I Have the High Ground]]
* [[Le Parkour]] - Ran up a wall to deliver a somersault plancha at Death Before Dishonor V: Night 2.
* [[The Scrappy]]
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* [[Determinator]]: He's not called "Die Hard" for nothing. Just watch his title matches at ''Best in the World'' and ''Final Battle 2011'' to see how hard, and how many times, Davey Richards had to kick him in the head to keep him down.
* [[Implacable Man]]
* [[Made of Iron]] - Competed in Glory by Honor IX's Ladder War with a broken elbow, and the Survival of the Fittest finals with a torn muscle in his shoulder. He won both.
* [[TV Tropes Made of Win Archive]] - Combine [[Made of Iron]] with the fact he is
* [[Nakama]] - With Davey Richards, to the point where Richards didn't want to challenge Edwards for the ROH World Title.
* [[Red Baron]] - Die Hard.
* [[Repetitive Name]] - Eddie Edwards is actually his full name. As a result, Austin Aries once referred to him as Eddie "Eddie Edwards" Edwards alleging that he had no charisma.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]
* [[Iron Woobie]]
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* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]
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* [[Badass Long Hair]]
* [[Chest Insignia]]: Used to wear a "CH" patterned after the [[Superman]] "S".
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* [[Smug Snake]]
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* [[Acrofatic]]
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* [[Put on a Bus]] - Hasn't been seen in ROH since Death Before Dishonor VIII.
* [[Shout-Out]] - One of his finishers is the [[Street Fighter|HADOUKEN!]]
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* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]
* [[Mangst]]
* [[Nakama]]: With Eddie Edwards. Richards was reluctant to challenge for the World Title until
* [[Old Shame]]
* [[Stoic Woobie]]
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* [[You! Get Me Coffee!]]
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* [[Evil Foreigner]] - Averted, even when he was a member of Sweet 'n Sour Incorporated. While he was aligned with Larry Sweeney, he never really did much in the way of evil.
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* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: A native of Quebec, subjecting him to this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cxCyx7SMrA this] promo set before a ROH show in Montreal: {{spoiler|Steen attempts to con Colt Cabana into saying "I slept with my mom last night," only for Cabana to switch "my" with "his" while acting oblivious to the con or to how he made it backfire on Steen}}.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[He's Back]]
*
* [[Moral Event Horizon]] -
* [[Pet the Dog]] - Undeniable 2007: Kevin Steen declined an offer from the Hangmen 3 after they attacked El Generico.. however..
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]] - On the same show, Steen told Adam Pearce he was the only one who would have fun smacking Generico around. Two years later...
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* [[Wham! Line]] - "Generico, I just wanted to say... I hate your fucking guts."
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* [[Badass Decay]]
* [[Demoted to Extra]] - When the Necro Butcher became the official crown jewel of the Embassy...
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* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]] - Stevens won the FIP World Heavyweight Championship twice, unseating Roderick Strong both times at Final Battle 2007 and FIP's Hot Summer Nights 08. In both reigns, he lost the title in his first defense inside an FIP ring (he had successful defenses in ROH against Austin Aries, Bryan Danielson, Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli, and Davey Richards, however.)
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* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Too Cool to Live]]: Good night, sweet prince.
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=== Shelton Benjamin ===
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* [[Blue Oni]]
* [[Screwed by the Network|Screwed By The WWE]]
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* [[The World's Greatest Tag Team]]
=== "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett ===
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* [[Creator's Pet]] - The entire point of his character. ''It works''.
* [[Jerkass]]
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* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]
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* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] - Both of them.
* [[Family Values Villain|Family Values Villains]] - Their grandmother makes excellent sugar cookies!
* [[Put on a Bus]] - They're training/touring with Pro Wrestling NOAH as of January 2012.
* [[Team Rocket Wins]] - They actually defeated
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* [[Beard of Evil]] - In his recent appearances
* [[Captain Ersatz]] - Of Erick Stevens.
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* [[Implacable Man]]
* [[Psycho for Hire]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]] - His inability to beat
=== Adam Cole ===
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* [[Blue Oni]]
* [[Flanderization]] - Arguably, compared to his character in CZW.
* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]
=== Charlie Haas ===
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* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]
* [[Hot-Blooded]]
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* [[The World's Greatest Tag Team]]
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* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]] - He even moonlights as a Chippendale's Dancer.
* [[Expy]] - Of Shelton Benjamin, no less.
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* [[Took a Level in Badass]]
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* [[Blank Book]]: The ''Book of Truth'' is a hardcover book with Martini's face on the cover and complete nonsense inside.
* [[Fashion Victim Villain]]
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* [[Small Name, Big Ego]] - in kayfabe he's a self-help guru writer that no one's ever heard of; this doesn't stop him from trying to join everyone to join the House of Truth.
=== Grizzly Redwood ===
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* [[Broken Pedestal]] - He went from sharing beard sizes with the Necro Butcher to watching him sell out to the Embassy.
* [[Canada, Eh?]] - A rare instance where the traditional version is played straight instead of the professional wrestling version; he's a lumberjack billed from the Yukon Territory.
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* [[Canada, Eh?]] - The pro wrestling version.
* [[Morality Pet]]: To Davey Richards.
* [[Red Oni]]
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* [[Red Baron]] - "Right Leg."
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* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]
* [[Handsome Lech]]
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* [[Took a Level in Badass]]
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* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]s: They're very good at playing the part of insufferably cocky assholes who think nobody can beat them.
* [[Evil Duo]]
* [[I Have the High Ground]]: Not their entire offense, but a good portion of it. Their finisher, "More Bang For Your Buck", is one brother hitting a 450 splash on their opponent followed immediately by the other hitting a moonsault and then going for the pin.
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* [[Wrestling Family]]
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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Went from simply being a guy with a few impressive power moves to having a huge following after having a match of the year candidate with Davey Richards.
* [[Implacable Man]]
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* [[Red Baron]]: "Unbreakable."
* [[Noble Top Enforcer]]: To Truth Martini and Roderick Strong but that could change soon.
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