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▲[[caption-width-right:320:"[[The Spoony Experiment|YOU'LL NEED AN ENERGON CUBE THE SIZE OF WYOMING TO DEFEAT MY AUTOBOTS]] [[Hulk Hogan|HOAK HOGAN!!]]"<ref>BUTTONS! BUTTONS! WHO'S GOT THE BUTTONS?! [[Spice Girls|IF YOU WANNA BE MY LOVER, YOU GOTTA GET WITH MY FRIENDS!! MAKE IT LAST FOREVER, BECAUSE FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS]], HOAK HOGAN!! '''''SKROOONK'''''</ref>
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'''The [[Ultimate Warrior]]''' is one of the most famous names of [[Professional Wrestling]] from the late 80s and early 90s. He is best-known for his appearances in the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] in the late 80s and early 90s, where he had a famous match at [[Wrestlemania]] VI defeating [[Hulk Hogan]] for the WWE Championship. Back then he was seen as the next big legend of wrestling, the next Hogan, so to speak.
Unfortunately now, he's more infamous for being a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], having legally changed his name from Jim Hellwig to Warrior in order to use it outside the WWE, his short-lived [[Warrior (Comic Book)|comic book]] containing bizarre imagery and walls of text (which was featured on [[
He has an outside career as a conservative lecturer. [http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/Media/FullBlownPostsandComm/WarrioronQueerStudies.html Yes, really]{{Dead link}}. Hence, you can call him "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Professor Warrior]]".▼
▲Unfortunately now, he's more infamous for being a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], having legally changed his name from Jim Hellwig to Warrior in order to use it outside the WWE, his short-lived [[Warrior (Comic Book)|comic book]] containing bizarre imagery and walls of text (which was featured on [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|The Spoony Experiment]] and [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Atop the Fourth Wall]]), his disastrous run in [[WCW]] in the late 90s, again feuding with Hogan in what is now seen as one of the worst pay-per-view matches in the history of pro wrestling, and his nonsensical promos (such as the one above).
As usual, [[That Other Wiki]] has a complete rundown [
▲He has an outside career as a conservative lecturer. [http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/Media/FullBlownPostsandComm/WarrioronQueerStudies.html Yes, really]. Hence, you can call him "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Professor Warrior]]".
▲As usual, [[That Other Wiki]] has a complete rundown [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_(wrestler) on the Warrior's career.]
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* [[Angrish]]: Seriously, listen to ANY of his interviews and try to wonder what the hell he is saying.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: In [[Real Life]], [[Vince McMahon]]. In [[Kayfabe]], [[The Spoony Experiment|HOAK]] [[Hulk Hogan|HOGAN!!]]
** Hogan is very much a [[Real Life]] example now.
** Warrior also didn't appreciate what [[Ted
** [[Bobby Heenan]] has absolutely no love for Warrior either. He was by far the most vicious critic of Hellwig in ''The Self-Destruction of the [[Ultimate Warrior]]''. You'll see Heenan take a cheap shot at the man every now and then.
*** Once, during an interview with [[Wrestlecrap]], interviewer RD Reynolds asked Heenan about Warrior. Heenan told Reynolds to bring the microphone with him and lead Reynolds into a bathroom. He asked Reynolds to say Warrior's name again and once he did Heenan flushed a toilet repeatedly. He then stated something along the lines of "that's what I think of that man."
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* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] : Winning the WWF Championship from [[Hulk Hogan]] at [[Wrestlemania]] VI. He and Hogan had the match planned out weeks in advance to ensure it was as good a match as possible.
** His very first appearance on WCW. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] depending on whether you saw it on TV or live: Eric Bischoff claimed that the ratings slowly went down during that segment, but Warrior got some deafening pops every time he opened his mouth.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: During his promo quoted above, Warrior kept motioning his arms as if he was doing pelvic thrusts at the camera. Between that and his talks of how he would "keep coming" and would "swell" really big, it sounded really bad. Whether he wanted it to or not, the promo makes it sounds like he's describing how he gets an erection.
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: He legally changed his name to "Warrior".
* [[Expy]]: The Renegade in WCW in 1995. Eventually the WWE sent a cease-and-desist letter about stealing the Warrior's gimmick, and WCW eventually fired him once the real Warrior showed up.
** And not too much after that, Richard Williams, the man who played The Renegade, [[Critical Existence Failure|committed suicide]]... [[They Just Didn't Care|WCW aired a tribute where they called him]] "[[They Just Didn't Care|Rick]] '''[[They Just Didn't Care|Wilson]]'''"...
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* [[Five Moves of Doom]]: A punch, two clotheslines, a gorilla press slam, and a running splash.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Jim Hellwig was a trained and licensed chiropractor.
* [[Hot
* [[Large Ham]]: Without a doubt, Warrior literally hams it up.
* [[Meaningless Meaningful Words]]: It's a mystery why no one has yet published a coffee table book entitled ''The Wit and Wisdom of the Ultimate Warrior.''
* [[Professional Wrestling/Memes|Memetic Mutation]]:
** "[[Buffy
*** To elaborate, the point he was apparently making was that humanity would die out if every person was gay. While ''seemingly'' true in principle<ref>Homosexuals are as intelligent as any other random sample of humans, so while the sexual attraction might not be there even an all-homosexual society would presumably accept the need for procreation.</ref>, what makes it homophobic was the ludicrous way he tried using this [[Slippery Slope Fallacy]] to justify banning homosexuality altogether.
** Thanks to Spoony: "HOAK HOGAN!". Or "SKRONK!"
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** On the ''Self Destruction of the [[Ultimate Warrior]]'' DVD, [[Jerry Lawler]] states that his feud with [[Randy Savage]] worked because nobody could understand a word either of them said.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: As mentioned [[The Unintelligible|above,]] his... bombastic delivery of his promos led to him slurring and [[Accent On the Wrong Syllable|over-enunciating certain words,]] which in turn led to his [[Fountain of Memes]] status.
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* [[Word Salad Philosophy]]: Destrucity.
** The short-lived ''Warrior'' comic book was essentially a long promotional tract for his philosophical ideas. You can read an amusing summary of it [http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox14/ here].
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