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* [[Game Breaking Injury]]: Ivelisse and Martin from TE5, see [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] below.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Season 5's Luke and Jeremiah quickly became this, although it'll be interesting to see if the friendship survives, especially if they end up as the final two competitors, as many suspect will happen.
* [[Hey
** [[The Miz|Mike "The Miz" Mizanin]] in Season 4, who previously appeared on ''[[The Real World]]''. [[The Runner Up Takes It All|That was only the beginning.]]
** Michelle Deighton from Season 5 also appeared in Cycle 4 of ''[[
** Jeremiah Riggs in Season 5, better known to [[VH 1|Celebreality]] fans as "Big Rig" from ''Daisy Of Love''.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Trish criticizes Ariane for constantly pulling up her pants in the ring (Even saying that it was her biggest pet peeve), while, as many fans have pointed out, she has had her own share of in-ring wardrobe adjustments.
** It's probably more to do with the fact that Ariane was doing it '''during''' the challenge, ie she was more focused on her wardrobe than the challenge. That would be more like adjusting your wardrobe while doing a move in the ring as opposed to just fixing it when the camera is off.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Most notable was Michelle who eventually quit the show to spend time raising her daughter. Also before the show Ariane worked as a behaviour therapist for autistic children.
* [[In
** Martin Casaus (Season 5) was initially tagged as "Donny Osmond" by DeMott, but by the fourth episode the trainers made a specific point of no longer calling him that, in recognition of his excellent performances.
** Others include Tumbleweed (AJ), Miss 11 Years (Michelle), Miss USA ([[Captain Obvious|Rima]]), [[Cool Hand Luke]] ([[Captain Obvious|Luke]]) and Evey (Ivelisse). Ariane also got labelled "Powder Puff" before her elimination.
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* [[Licensed Game]]: Subverted with the WWE game, ''WWE Day of Reckoning''. The game has a tutorial mode featuring Al Snow teaching a pair of rookies how to wrestle. As a bonus, the two trainees are clearly modeled after John Hennigan and Matt Cappotelli, the two winners from Season 3.
** An episode in season 5 shows the contestants visiting THQ, makers of "WWE All-Stars". They're asked to use the game's create-a-wrestler mode to give Austin an idea of what sort of ring attire and gimmick they'd choose for themselves, as a test of their creativity.
* [[
* [[The Neidermeyer]]: Kurt Angle played this role in Season 4, in a deliberate heel move, which gave us the now legendary "MTV Sucks!" line to [[The Miz]].
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Bill DeMott in Season 5
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] / [[What Could Have Been]]: Matt Cappotelli, who was a heavyweight champion for WWE's then indy brand, OVW, had his career cut short due to him being diagnosed with Astrocytoma, and the surgery and chemo that followed. He had been at OVW from 2004 to 2007 and released from his contract in 2009, never even reaching the WWE again.
** During a routine kick-out drill, Martin (season 5) fractured his foot, and was ordered by his doctor to withdraw from the show. Up to that point, Martin had won three skill challenges in a row, and was unquestionably one of the favorites to win the show. Now that he's gone, the consensus appears to be that the last two contestants will be Luke and Jeremiah. It's also worth noting that Martin was pointedly never forced to give Austin his belt to signify his elimination, he was instead asked to hang up his belt on his own, with Austin noting that he IS indeed "Tough Enough", save for this unforseen injury. Ivelisse, who was also injured, was not given this distinction when she was eliminated.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Rather than just eliminate the contestants, Stone Cold likes to tell everyone who ends up in his bottom three why they suck. Oddly enough the contestants who end up surviving often gets the worst of it as a way of 'lighting a fire under their ass'.
* [[Sensei for Scoundrels]]: Stone Cold.
* [[Shocking Elimination]]: Arguably Matt Cross considering he had nine years of wrestling experience and watching one of his matches will show that he would be a great addition to the roster.
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* [[Smug Snake]]: Luke (Season Five) is developing into this. Although he won the first two skill challenges, Martin would go on to win the following three. After Martin's second win, he acted graciously while Luke fumed, pouted, and refused to shake Martin's hand. Luke later whined in the confessionals that the trainers had it wrong and that he was clearly superior.
* [[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
{{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
* [[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".
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