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=== '''Tropes associated with Wade Barrett include:''' ===
* [[A Father to His Men]] --> [[
** Details. Seemed at first to genuinely care about the welfare of the other Nexus members, risking his own contract and title shot to secure contracts for them, but this eventually came to only apply if you were loyal to him and lived up to his standards. Darren Young and Michael Tarver were obvious weak links, and were brutally excommunicated for their trouble. [[Miles Gloriosus|David Otunga]] fancied himself [[The Starscream]] and was forced to lay down and surrender the tag titles to Gabriel and Slater. Also, Barrett was prepared to let the other Nexus members all keep falling victim to sneak attacks rather than bring [[John Cena]] back…until they made it clear they would desert him for it. Thus began his [[Humiliation Conga]].
** The same pattern repeated itself with the Corre. He was again the main speaker for the team, but he seemed to have accepted that it wasn't all about him, even going out of his way to declare his fellow Corre members his equals. But then a world heavyweight championship battle royal came into play with all four members as participants, and Barrett fell right back into the same old habit starting from there. [[Aesop Amnesia|You'd think he'd know better]], but at this point he just doesn't freaking care.
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* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Feels completely justified doing what he did to get himself and the rest of the rookies contracts.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Played with. Anytime one of the announcers mentions his backstory, they'll usually mention that he was a bareknuckle fighter in Britain. But Barrett's wrestling style seems to involve a lot of power moves as opposed to the strikes and punches you think you would see.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: A possible inversion. He insisted on ''not'' being called the leader of The Corre, as it was an alliance of "four equals." Unfortunately, his [[
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: He's achieved all of his initial objectives, now he's just in it for the money and the power.
* [[The Kid With the Remote Control]]: Between ''Hell in a Cell'' and ''Survivor Series'' in 2010, [[John Cena]] had to obey Wade's orders to remain employed. This seemed at first like heaven for Barrett, Nexus, and [[Smart Mark|smarks]] worldwide alike. But then it [[Hoist By His Own Petard|worked]] [[Out Gambitted|out]] [[It Got Worse|terribly]].
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* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Still the Leader]]: Said this pretty much verbatim after [[CM Punk]] took over [[The Nexus]]. Punk would respond to this by costing him a shot at [[The Miz]]'s WWE championship--and ripping Barrett's Nexus armband off as an exclamation point.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Two years ago, he was a developmental talent in FCW. [[Wham Episode|Then the NXT Riot happened.]]
** Then, after his [[Power Stable]] (s) split, he was relegated to the mid-card again for a few months. Ever since he started the "Barrett Barrage", though, he's been running roughshod over most of his competition - including tossing [[Randy Orton]] off a staircase.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: On the NXT Season finale, he and David Otunga had 60 seconds to deliver one of these speeches to the other. Otunga would spend that time making fun of Wade's appearance, specifically his lanky body and crooked nose. Wade would deliver an epic retort centering on [[Muscles Are Meaningless|David's inability to wrestle]], stating that [[The Giant|The Great Khali]] moves around with more balance and poise than Otunga does. He would then cap off the rant blasting Otunga's "It-Factor" tag line stating that the only reason WWE promoted that is because he had absolutely no tangible qualities whatsoever, and that he could add two more letters in front of it to understand what Wade really thought of Otunga.
** Thus the friction between the two men during the Nexus run [[Fridge Brilliance|suddenly makes total sense]].
* [[Troll]]: A [http://vids.wwe.com/13395/wwecom-exclusive-wade-barrett-sh number of] [http://vids.wwe.com/13853/wwecom-exclusive-after-borrowing WWE.com] [http://vids.wwe.com/14381/wwecom-exclusive-wade-barrett-st videos] have revealed he likes being one backstage, usually by hijacking the websites' cameras and bugging his coworkers with silly or inane questions.
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