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* A semi-subversion: "Stand Back" was sung by Vince McMahon with the original intention to be used as Andre the Giant's song (and was actually used as such [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVWDcCcnlvM for a promo video] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwPVFp5ho6U in the NES Wrestlemania game]), but wound up being used for McMahon himself, who wasn't actually a villain at the time. (His on-screen persona was a face-biased announcer, nothing more) That changed a few years later, when he got a new persona and a new theme:
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|"'Cause you've got.... NO CHANCE!"]] To quote [[Bill Simmons]]:
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* As much of a douche the Miz is...his song fits the trope.
** "I came to PLAY! There's a price to pay, time for you to get down on your knees and pray. Say GOODBYE to the good ole days, they're never coming back, watch your future fade.
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** "CLOTHESLINE will break your neck! The match is over and your body's a wreck. POWERSLAM will put you out! Havok and mayhem is what we're about!"
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c_QlGODXf8 Drew McIntyre's] star may have faded, but his theme fits to the T.
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Perhaps the end...is drawing near?
You never hear the shot, that takes you down.''
''Out of time...so say goodbye.
What is yours....now is mine.
And I DREAM BROKEN DREAMS!
I make them come true...
I make them for youuuu.'' }}
* The Honky Tonk Man: His 50s-styled themed entrance song, the narcissistic "Honky Tonk Man." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkjRz1fQGg0 He's cool, he's cocky, he's b-b-b-b-b-b-b-baaaaaaad.]
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Revision as of 07:17, 8 August 2014
Just about every heel wrestler's entrance theme, if it has lyrics, tends to be a Villain Song, but for some specific examples...
- WWE wrestler Triple H's entrance theme, "The Game", is largely a Villain Song, sung by Motorhead from Triple H's point-of-view. It's three-and-a-half minutes of gloating about how Trips is the baddest of the bad and controls the WWE with an iron fist. Lemmy even throws in an Evil Laugh or two along the way.
- Randy Orton's current theme is an awesome Villain Song.
- The Undertaker's theme - BONG. *cue the druids, ominous Latin chanting, and one hell of a creepy Evil Laugh*
- Shawn Michaels' theme, "Sexy Boy."
- The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase. (Evil laugh), MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY, "Everybody's got a price!"
- A semi-subversion: "Stand Back" was sung by Vince McMahon with the original intention to be used as Andre the Giant's song (and was actually used as such for a promo video and in the NES Wrestlemania game), but wound up being used for McMahon himself, who wasn't actually a villain at the time. (His on-screen persona was a face-biased announcer, nothing more) That changed a few years later, when he got a new persona and a new theme:
- "'Cause you've got.... NO CHANCE!" To quote Bill Simmons:
- As much of a douche the Miz is...his song fits the trope.
- "I came to PLAY! There's a price to pay, time for you to get down on your knees and pray. Say GOODBYE to the good ole days, they're never coming back, watch your future fade.
- His Wrestlemania 27 promo song, "Hate Me Now", is even better. Here it is, with Miz's current titantron.
- "I came to PLAY! There's a price to pay, time for you to get down on your knees and pray. Say GOODBYE to the good ole days, they're never coming back, watch your future fade.
- In the early 90s The Texas Hangmen had a pretty awesome one to introduce them to the USWA it helped establish how Ax Crazy they were.
- "CLOTHESLINE will break your neck! The match is over and your body's a wreck. POWERSLAM will put you out! Havok and mayhem is what we're about!"
- Drew McIntyre's star may have faded, but his theme fits to the T.
- The Honky Tonk Man: His 50s-styled themed entrance song, the narcissistic "Honky Tonk Man." He's cool, he's cocky, he's b-b-b-b-b-b-b-baaaaaaad.
- The Mountie: Jacques Rougeau Jr.'s heel marching tune, "The Mountie." When Rougeau began teaming with Pierre Oulette as part of The Quebecers, the tune was changed to "We're Not the Mounties" but – aside from minor lyrical differences and the vocal track replaced with a duet – kept pretty much intact.