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Line 2: [[File:ToughEnoughLogo_748.png\|frame\|Are you...?]] ''Tough Enough'' is a reality show developed by the [[World Wrestling Entertainment\|WWE]] where participants compete to win a WWE Contract and be the next WWE Superstar or Diva. It originally aired in 2001 on [[MTV]] for three seasons, but was dropped. Its fourth season was integrated into ''[[Smack Down]]'' in 2004, after which the series was canceled until 2011, when it was revived once more with [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] as the host. Several of the competitors from ''Tough Enough'' have been employed by the WWE despite not being the overall winners of their respective seasons, and not all of the winners are still employed by the WWE. Line 30: ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== This show contains examples of: ===~~ * [[All There in the Manual]]: You have to look up Christina's bio away from anything ''Tough Enough''-related to learn that she's the sister of Alicia Fox (Christina goes by her given last name of Crawford). Line 43: ** And wouldnt it make it [[Distaff Counterpart\|Black Chick Goes First?]] * [[Butt Monkey]]: Every season has one. Ryan never really stood a chance once he garnered the name "Skidmarks" * [[Canon ~~Dis Continuity~~Discontinuity]]: John Morrison's guest appearance in Season 5, that totally ignores the fact that he ''won the third season''. * [[Designated Girl Fight]]: Didn't happen until Christina and Ivelisse were the last two girls, and after that incident it never happened again * [[The Determinator]]: Could be said for most of the eventual winners and a large number of the runner ups. Line 101: * [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Not explicitly invoked, but only two of the final nine contestants were female, and both were in danger of undermining each other's chances due to injuries from botched spots and accusations of sabotage. Trish Stratus sat both Christina and Ivelisse down and told them to keep their heads on straight if they planned to survive to the end because "this is a man's game" and petty, cattish behavior isn't going to do either of them any favors. Both heed the advice, {{spoiler\|but Ivelisse's injury forces Stone Cold to remove her, to the point he ''says'' that was the sole reason he eliminated her.}} * [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Indirectly delivered by [[Triple H]] upon hearing that one of the contestants had hung a [[Goldberg]] poster in his room, to both Goldberg and the contestants, while lecturing the group on the level of commitment they need to be successful as a wrestler. Segues into the very best parts of [[Dare to Be Badass]]. {{quote\| ''"Who are your idols? Who do you look at and say 'that's what I want to do'? Not 'that's the money I want to make', not 'that's the other TV show I want to be in', not 'that's the spot I want to be in on [[Jay Leno]]'. That's the yard. That's the business. That's what I want to do. That's the story I want to tell. You can tell a lot about a guy in this business (from) who he looked up to in this business. ([[Beat]]) Then somebody tells me... one of these guys had a Goldberg poster on his wall that had to be torn off. No big deal to me. I think, 'You know, Goldberg. He's in our business. Hell of an athlete'. [[Armor-Piercing Question\|The question I ask is:]] If your biggest idol in this business is a guy that's been in this business for about a year, got everything handed to him, can't have a match [[Squash Match\|longer than four minutes]], has not wrestled for probably for more than three months straight because every three months he's got a hangnail, he's got a toothache, he's got a tummyache, and he's got to take time off, and I wonder where does that mentally put that person? What does that person think about this business? Is it about what we do? Is it about [[Wrestling Psychology\|telling a story]]? Or is it about being a big jacked-up guy that stands in the ring, is [[Jobber\|fed a bunch of guys]] who really don't know what they're doing to mow over? He abuses that. What does that say about someone that has no heart for what we do? No guts, no heart. You get injured, you keep going. [[Determinator\|You get hurt, you keep going]]. I've had to be carried to the top of the ramp to go to the ring! I've had to be helped up the stairs because I couldn't walk myself to 'em! And I've walked to that ring and I've wrestled for 45 minutes against [[Vince McMahon]]. After he fell thirty-five feet on my leg, his big fat ass almost busted it, and I still went to the ring. I'm not bragging.''}} {{quote\| ''I'm not that tough. I'm not tougher than anyone else in our business. But I respect our business. I love our business. I put my life on the line'' every day ''for our business and I gladly do it, and I'll continue to do it until I can do it no longer. Not for the fame. Not for the glory of it. Not so I can get laid. No other reason than the love of the business (...) But I question the fact that when somebody has a poster of a guy on their wall that can't suck it up enough to continue when he's on top of the business, when he's on top of the company, and they ask him to go, and he says, 'I'm sorry. I can't. I have to sit home for three months. I can't even make it to TV. I'm sorry, I don't like where the storyline's going, so I can't come in.' I have to question that guy's heart! I've got to question that guy's desire! If got to question whether he just thinks, 'Hell, I'm pretty jacked up. I'm just as big as these guys, so I can stand in the ring with them. As long as they put me over, it don't matter, I'll be a big star. I'll make a lot of money, I'll be famous'. You gotta ask yourself inside where to draw the line. When do you take time off? Do you tape it up and you keep going? Or do you call in sick? (...) You guys have the greatest opportunity in the world, in my opinion, to be in the greatest business in the world. [[Precision F-Strike\|Do not fuck it up]]. Do not throw it away, 'cuz if you do, you piss on every single person that's come before you. Every single person that's paid their dues, every person that's busted their ass, every single old timer that's busted up and can barely walk, you piss on them.''}} * [[The Runner Up Takes It All]]: The Most Triumphant Example for the show would be The Miz, who between the fourth and fifth seasons managed to become the only Tough Enough graduate to become WWE Champion. ** Taken to an extreme with the fifth season where the first contestant eliminated was the first to debut on WWE TV in an active role. Ariane is currently one of Brodus Clay's dancers using the name "Cameron Lynn". * [[Title Drop]]: In season five's episodes. * [[Too Dumb to Live]]: In season five, when Ariane was asked by Austin what her all-time favorite match was, she replied with ''Melina versus Alicia Fox''. {{quote\| '''Austin:''' (trying to hold himself from strangling her) "Out of all the matches in the history of this business, ''that'' was your favorite?!"}} * [[Token Trio]]: The trainers for the new season - Bill (white guy), Booker T (black guy) and Trish (white girl but Polish and Greek if you want to be specific). * [[Voted Off the Island]]: Depending on the season, the eliminations are done by the trainers and/or public vote. However ... Line 116: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Turn~~Live-Action TV of the ~~Millennium/Live Action TV~~2000s]] [[Category:Professional Wrestling]] [[Category:American Series]] [[Category:WWE Tough Enough]] [[Category:TV Series]]