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** [[Faux Affably Evil]]: It's pretty hard ''not'' to hate [[Jeff Jarrett]] and (the former) Karen Angle, since they're ''super'' smarmy.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: James Storm
* [[All
** To a somewhat lesser extent, "Team TNA" / "Team USA" in any World X Cup Tournament.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: Immortal are treated like this. Aside from Abyss's name for [[Incredibly Lame Pun|them]] before ''Bound For Glory'' "10.10.10", and aside from the glaring fact that [[Hulk Hogan]] and Eric Bischoff notoriously gave [[WCW]]'s life to the [[New World Order]] over a decade ago, there's the fact that Sting has been shouting in tongues about the nefarious evils of Hogan/Bischoff since they've arrived in TNA yet few other characters ever listened. Also, [[The Bad Guy Wins|they get away with it]].
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*** When they have their good wrestling getting in the ring and nearly ''killing'' themselves for their matches (which they do), they can claim [[Darker and Edgier]].... [[Badass Decay|but this does not happen as frequently as it used to]].
* [[Deal With the Devil]]: Joining Immortal is largely treated as this, which is only fitting considering the nature of that outfit.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: After the rise of Immortal, Sting and Nash [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|decide to leave rather than fight or join them]].
** [[He's Back|Until Sting had a change of heart]]....
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Treating [[AJ Styles]] and Matt Morgan like crap came back to haunt Eric Bischoff, as it made both [[Heel Face Turn]] on him, AJ taking Fortune with him and forming the first real threat to Immortal. A lesser example happened later when Eric insulted most of the X Division. Later that night, he and Hogan find "You're next" written on the side of their car, leaving them even more paranoid than they already were. Cut to the same wrestliers Eric was insulting earlier laughing and high fiving each other.
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*** He does call his finisher the Tower of London and run in a group called London Brawling though.
** Also kind of averted with Sarita and her ''[[Bilingual Bonus|prima]]'' Rosita. They are Mexican, and have been known to lapse into [[Gratuitous Spanish]] on occasion, but otherwise they don't really come off as foreign. Same with Hernandez, who dresses like a Chicano homeboy but was serving as muscle for the primary Anglo-American faction Immortal....
** ....until now (March/April 2011). The above three, plus a new wrestler named [[Meaningful Name|"Anarquia"]] have now joined forces as "Mexican America," a faction of [[Politically
*** Esvástica
* [[Expy]]: Upon the revealing of the new Impact Wrestling set, fans are already comparing it to the set of [[WCW|Thursday Night Thunder]].
* [[Face Heel Turn]] and [[Heel Face Turn]]: [[Heel Face Revolving Door|Constantly]].
** 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
*** 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|Heel Face Turns]] for no reason that was adequately explained. It's like the old character has been abducted and replaced with their [[Evil Twin|evil (or good) twin]].
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* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Immortal.
** Indeed, considering how vulnerable Immortal seems to be to the various curveballs hurled at it by "The Network," wouldn't this also be a literal case of [[Artistic License Forever|You Fail Forever Forever]]?
* [[Five
** Fourtune:
*** [[Big Bad]]: [[Ric Flair]]
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*** [[Evil Genius]]: Eric Bischoff
*** [[Dark Chick]]: [[Jeff Jarrett]], if only by default.
* [[Five
** EV2.0
*** [[The Hero]]: Tommy Dreamer
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* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Before Fortune's defection, this was literally the only reason [[Jeff Jarrett]] stopped beating up plant fans in his Double-J-Double-MA challenge, [[Jeff Hardy]] ever lost the World Heavyweight title, and Immortal's iron fist hadn't completely choked TNA.
** There's a bit of a pattern in TNA where guys who've had a history of turning their backs on partners and friends end up finally taking a taste of their own medicine. See [[Christian (Wrestling)|Christian]], [[Beergasm|James Storm]], and [[The Giant|Matt Morgan]].
* [[Adaptation Distillation|House Show Distillation]]: While mileage may vary on TNA television, their house shows are actually well liked for their matches (often compared to the weekly pay-per-view era) and [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|the meet and greets]] before and after the show.
* [[I Call It Vera]]: Abyss' nail covered 2x4, "Janice," and his "10.10.10" branding iron "Bob."
** [[Meaningful Name]]: Though it was never stated, these weapons were named after Dixie Carter's parents, [[Foreshadowing]] her forceful exit from the company.
* [[The Illuminati]]: Immortal. It's bad enough the whole formation of this stable involves [[Massive Multiplayer Scam|an ever-expanding secret group]] [[Ancient Conspiracy|working the scene for longer than the entire duration of most wrestling plots]] [[Take Over the World|to take full control of TNA from]] [[Pointy
** To make matters worse, that same first ''Impact'' after "10.10.10", which as a result of said event was the most viewed episode ever, was near-universally found abysmal in every way except for showcasing the power and control of Immortal. The fact Hogan and Bischoff actually have creative power in TNA could not be made more obvious than that night. This is important because in one key device to the theories, the Illuminati is said to control the media. Examples are as follows:
*** On what is supposed to be a wrestling show, it took '''''<big>75 MINUTES</big>''''' for the ring announcer to first be able to say the words "The following contest is scheduled for one fall." The ensuing entrances, match, and disqualification ending occurred ''within three and a half minutes''. This made the very name of the company itself look like [[In Name Only|false advertisement]].
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*** Most of the main event was actually wrestled on ''ReAction'', and even that match had a non-finish which only served to showcase the power and control of Immortal.
*** Combine ''Impact'' and ''ReAction'', we had less than 20 minutes of wrestling in a three-hour block of programming. If we're to go into [[George Orwell|Orwellian]] territory with TNA, the whole show was an insulting level of [[Newspeak|prolefeed]].
** However, they managed to make an [[
** And then there's the court case. Dixie Carter goes to court to contend that Hogan and Bischoff's acquisition of the company is illegal, which, since ''everybody saw that it was under false pretenses'', should've gotten the whole contract annulled within days. Considering the judge was apparently a friend of Dixie's, maybe not even that long. Instead, weeks was how long it took merely to get the injunction slapped on Hogan. Not even Bischoff. Just Hogan. The whole case itself took months. And it was ruled that [[Artistic License Law|the contract was 100% legal, Hulk and Eric have total control of TNA, and Dixie is still responsible for supplying the company money]]. Oh, these two are [[The Illuminati]] indeed.
** Although, after [[Jeff Hardy]]'s [[Epic Fail]] at Victory Road, Immortal wasn't so much the Illuminati altogether anymore as a street gang with support from the 2/3-man Illuminati of Bischoff and Hogan, and maybe Flair.
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** Confirmed done the Impact after the PPV, via a 39 minute segment in which Sting, Hogan, and Dixie celebrated, among other things.
** So basically, this trope [[Book Ends|both began and ended with a Hulk Hogan turn at BFG and a 30-40-minute segment on the following Impact]]…
* [[Incompetence, Inc.]]: Any company that willfully employs [[Vince Russo]] is asking for this title.
** The entire power structure in TNA seems to be composed of petulant, spoiled brats.
*** [[Adult Child]]: Dixie Carter is over 40 but frequently acts a third her age on her [[Twitter]] account. Eric Bischoff is much, much worse.
*** [[Artist Disillusionment]]: Eric Bischoff loves acting like a six year old, making fat jokes at the expense of and generally sniping at fans who simply do not like TNA.
*** [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: Aside from Bischoff above, [[Matt Hardy]] will complain about all the negativity going around on the dirtsheets, despite being the direct cause of it (see Edge/Lita 2005, his Twitter account, his and Jeff's "shoots" against [[CM Punk]], his pathetic re-enactment of his breakup with [[Lita]]).
*** [[Pointy
*** [[Upperclass Twit]]: Dixie has a rich daddy. However, other than sign the checks, does anyone know what she even does?
*** [[Dumb Is Good]]: Dixie's opinion is that, since wrestling is "television", nothing has to make sense. Apparently confusing "television" with "Twin Peaks". This explains the rampant [[Lowest Common Denominator]] atmosphere, as well.
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* [[Slobs Versus Snobs]]: How James Storm and Robert Roode interacted when they first were paired up. Over time, they meshed very well and Beer Money was formed.
* [[Spanner in The Works]]: Subverted with Miss Tessmacher being one to Immortal's plan. [[The Worf Barrage]] example of this, actually.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: [[Ric Flair]]'s group. Is it "Fortune" or "Fourtune?" Fans and reporters alternate between the two. Even ''the company itself'' seems to alternate between the two.
** For the stable's first few months, it was "Fourtune" in honor of the Four Horsemen. However, since more and more people pointed out that the stable has ''six'' people in it (seven if including Flair) after including Morgan and Williams, it was switched to "Fortune."
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Has become one to [[WCW]] over the past few years.
* [[
* [[Stealth Pun]]: In the acronym of the promotion, though it wasn't much of a [[Stealth Pun]] in the early days of the promotion; the name was intended to make the company stand out as a more adult alternative to WWE, since TNA started out on pay-per-view with weekly shows.
* [[Take Over the World]]: Well, the TNA world, anyway. [[Hulk Hogan]] and Eric Bischoff came in, influenced people, brought in some friends, worked Dixie Carter, and obtained control of the company. Some fans feel like this is more than just the on-air storyline.
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** In May 2011, TNA began the process of rebranding itself as ''Impact Wrestling'' as a rather pointed [[Take That]] to WWE, which had just dropped all references to the word "wrestling" both on its TV shows and in its legal name.
*** Included in the various commercials about the rebranding, are a few with Hulk Hogan talking about how this is [[Kayfabe|real wrestling]], with [[Shocking Swerve|real stories]] and [[Blatant Lies|no scripts]]. Ending with "We're here to wrestle, [[Tempting Fate|not entertain]]." Looking at some of the TV ratings, PPV buy-rates and IWC responses, he may in fact be right on that last aspect; it's just ''not'' entertaining any more.
* [[Take That, Audience!]]: Eric Bischoff introduced a new ranking system where the fans would have a major say in it, voting for who would be the top ten contenders for the TNA World Title. Despite the fact that [[AJ Styles]], Abyss, The Pope, Sting, and [[Jeff Hardy]] were all being pushed hard, the fans voted for Desmond Wolfe to be #1 contender. The very next week, he lost in five minutes to [[Rob Van Dam]] in a non-title match. To date, Wolfe has not even sniffed world title contention since then.
** More insulting was that Dixie's comments on Twitter gave the impression that she thought this was what the fans had wanted.
** When introducing the new four-sided ring to replace TNA's unique six-sider, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO5QqVKWT-w&t=1m0s the crowd booed and started to chant "WE WANT SIX SIDES!"] Hogan's response to the crowd?
{{quote| '''Hogan''': "I got one thing to say about six sides: you had it, and it only got you so far. Now we're takin' ya all the way, Jack! No more eight sides, no more six sides, no more stinkin' playpen rings!" }}
** There was Dixie Carter's quote about how TNA tries to appeal to the kind of fans like "that guy who collects the toys in the 40 Year Old Virgin." Of course, it [[You Suck|is]] the titular character of the film.
* [[The Un
* [[Throwing Down the Gauntlet]]: "Open Fight Night" is basically built around this, anyone can call out anyone and the challenged ''must'' fight.
* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]] / [[Motive Decay]] / [[Heel Face Door Slam]]: Tomko.
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