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America's [[Overly Narrow Superlative|second most popular]] [[Professional Wrestling|wrestling]] promotion, even if it's primarily just by default.
After the end of the [[Monday Night Wars]] in 2001, [[WCW]] and [[ECW]] were out of business and there was no company that could compete with [[WWE]] on a national scale; a wave of independent promotions sprang up in the wake of the end of the Attitude Era.
...That head-to-head confrontation with WWE saw TNA totally obliterated in the ratings and they promptly returned to their original Thursday night timeslot on May
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* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: Well, since the Gangstas showed up they've raped both [[Ms. Fanservice|Socal Val]] and Jeremy Borash, and they've also had [[Depraved Bisexual|Orlando Jordan]] molesting the Pope, so, the rapists are [[Unfortunate Implications|all black]] and it's a lot of emphasis on [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)|man on man rape]].
* [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins]]: This is basically the gimmick that Mickie James played up when she first arrived in TNA in 2010, underscoring her Native American heritage with, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|beads and buckskins]] (no braids, though) and the 1970s hard-rock theme "Hardcore Country" (with its "primitive" guitar sound). She has kept "Hardcore Country" into 2011, but now goes for a more generic, [[Deep South|traditionally Southern look]] (she's from Virginia).
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: One of THE most blatant and needless examples of this in the history of scripted television came from [[Hulk Hogan]] on ''ReAction'' November
{{quote|'''Hogan''': "Well, brother, we're lightening the load around here. We're trimming the fat. We're thinning the herd. I mean, you know, it's pathetic. It's pathetic, that Dixie would let this company get in the shape it's in. It's her train of thought! Raven? Who hasn't had a damn shower or bath? Y'know, with RVD, and that whole crew out there? They meant to professional wrestling what [[Hulk Hogan]], who sold out Shea Stadium? who put 94,000 people in the Pontiac Silverdome? who slammed a 700-pound giant? They mean to professional wrestling what [[Hulk Hogan]] means?
"No wonder this company ''was'' in the shape it's in. It's time to get rid o' the trash, the garbage, the worthless piece of crap out here, and we started with Dixie Carter. Yeah, we're gettin' ''very'' real around here. We are so, real, it's unbelievable. Because, if you don't get over like I said, you're fired. If you don't draw number, if you don't entertain, if you don't put asses in seats, if you don't put the coinage in the piggy bank, you're fired. No more games. No more, "[[Fourth Wall|Kayfabe]]." "It's a work." "I've won 34 tag team belts." Who gives a damn, how many…fake belts you won!? If you don't draw money, you get fired around here. If you don't put asses in seats, you’re gone." }}
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Unintentional, but it still counts. Flair was originally saying "They" were Fortune during the initial conspiracy.
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: D'Angelo Dinero, a supposed evangelical (Protestant) street preacher, has been nicknamed "The Pope."
* [[Conspiracy Redemption]]: Fortune, defecting from Immortal on February
* [[Corrupt Cop]]: TNA Security Guards Gunner and Murphy. And this is ''before'' they worked for Immortal.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]:
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** And most of the time the average fan likely can't tell who's a face and who's a heel, despite the fact that for a couple of years, they had [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience|separate entrances for faces and heels]].
*** One of [[Vince Russo]]'s booking trademarks is that he doesn't believe in pure faces and pure heels, and feels all characters should be "[[Gray and Grey Morality|shades of gray]]". This is why it's so hard to tell the heels from the faces, and why the booking can be so inconsistent.
*** It would be one thing if Russo's idea of [[Gray and Grey Morality]] was to have the faces exhibit some heelish traits occasionally, a la [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] or [[The Undertaker]], or if he had faces sometimes act selfish the way [[CM Punk]] did when he cashed in his MITB contract on a beaten and exhausted [[Jeff Hardy]] while still a face. The problem is that Russo's idea of [[Gray and Grey Morality]] involves wrestlers acting like they're 100% face one week, and then going to 100% heel the next. Beer Money did a [[Face Heel Turn]] for no real reason, while Eric Bischoff and Mr. Anderson have done [[Heel Face Turn
*** [[Vince Russo]]. He's either a magnet for bad writers, or he has some sort of karmic curse following him, because bad writing seems to just ooze from his pores into the general atmosphere of the script.
* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Immortal.
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