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[[File:WWETheNexusLogo 9902.png|frame|You're either Nexus, or you're against us!]]
{{quote|''We are the bold
''United souls
''We live to win another victory
''Our sacred scars
~ 12 Stones, '''"We Are One"''', the entrance theme of The Nexus. }}▼
''Show who we are
''And tell the story of our memories
''We are one
''We are one
''We are one
In 2010, [[WWE]] canceled the ECW brand after a three-and-a-half year run; they replaced it with a show named "NXT", which would follow eight WWE "rookies" (in reality, members of WWE's developmental system) as they trained alongside WWE "pros" (established WWE wrestlers) for the right to become the next "breakout star". The winner of the competition would receive a WWE contract and the right to challenge for any championship they wished on a live pay-per-view.
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Then at Wrestlemania, they lost in 30 seconds to [[The Big Show]]'s team. Shortly after, Ezekiel Jackson was kicked out of the group for being his own man. Jackson responded by eventually taking Barrett's IC Title. Barrett began leaving Gabriel and Slater to fight his battles for him during this time, which led to them ditching him to form a separate tag team, leaving Barrett on his own and ending the Corre. Tropes used in The Corre follow this section.
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* [[Anticlimax]] / [[Invincible Hero]]: The end of the Team WWE vs. Team Nexus match at ''SummerSlam'' 2010. Thanks to PPV time constraints, we get an extremely awkward finish to this particular match. Wade Barrett hits a DDT on John Cena on the exposed concrete on the floor and throws him back into the ring. He tags in Gabriel so he can finish Cena with the 450 Splash...only for Cena to move out of the way and pin Gabriel. Then Barrett comes in and immediately gets caught in the STF and taps out. All of that happened in about a two minute span, so it came off as though Cena just shrugged off a DDT on concrete to make the two most talented members of Nexus look like total tools.
** In a less direct show of invincibility and [[Plot Armor]], John Cena completely no-selling his "firing" by showing up at Raw every single week afterward. In fact, he did ''more'' damage to Nexus at this point than in the entire angle previous.
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