World Championship Wrestling/Characters/Bischoff: Difference between revisions

Lists the various wrestlers active during the Bischoff Era, from 1993 through 1996. Please limit associated tropes to that wrestler's time in the WCW.

 

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Don't hate the player, hate the game!" was used as his during his World Title runs, to the extent of being a soundbyte at the start of his entrance music. It never really got over.

* [[The Determinator]]

 

==== The Boss / The Guardian Angel / Big Bubba Rogers (Raymond Walter "Ray" Traylor, Jr., 1985-1987, 1993-1998) ====

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Big Bubba

* [[Badass Beard]]

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: In the nWo.

* [[Cool Shades]]: In the nWo.

==== [[Chris Benoit]] (1995-2000) ====

* [[Ascended Extra]]: His push out of the Cruiserweight division.

* [[The Determinator]].

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Dean Malenko

* [[Power Stable]]: He was a member of both The Flock and the Jersey Triad.

* [[Red Baron]]: "The Innovator of Offence". He was also briefly known as Chris "Champagne" Kanyon and "Positively" Kanyon.

 

==== Dean Malenko (Dean Simon, 1995-2000) ====

* [[Badass]]

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Chris Benoit

* [[Badass Spaniard|BadassLatino]]

* [[Dirty Coward]]: As a heel.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: His claiming to have been robbed by one of the [[Masked Luchador|masked wrestlers]] and forcing them all to unmask.

* [[Power Stable]]: Eddie was the leader of the Latino World Order, and a member of The Filthy Animals.

* [[Finishing Move]]: The Tombstone Piledriver.

* [[Garbage Wrestler]]: Not at first, but he was one of the forerunners in WCW's Hardcore Division.

* [[Red Baron]]: 'Fit' and 'The Belfast Bruiser'.

* [[Oireland]]

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: His incredible entrance cost nearly half a million dollars to put together, including $35,000 on the faux-armor he wore to the ring alone.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: [[Mortal Kombat|Sub-Zero]]? Who's that?

* [[I Know Karate]]: The whole basis of his gimmick was that he was a martial artist who trained for years under the finest masters in Japan. Try to find a wrestler these days who doesn't integrate at least a little martial arts into their wrestling style.

** Perry Saturn would call attention to that during a mini-feud in 1998, where he mocked the claim that Glacier invented his [[Finishing Move]] the Cryonic Kick (actually just a standard Standing Side Kick).

 

==== Hollywood [[Hulk Hogan]] (Terry Gene Bollea, 1994-2000) ====

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Badass Beard]]: Being able to grow one (or at least some wicked stubble) overnight cemented the famous heel turn described below.

* [[Big Bad]]: As leader of the New World Order

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Several

* [[Dirty Coward]]: As Hollywood, he hid behind the nWo whenever possible.

* [[Five Moves of Doom]]

* [[Sleeves Are for Wimps]]

* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: Part of the reason he became Hollywood, rather than [[The Incredible Hulk|Hulk]], was the avoid legal issues with [[Marvel Comics]].

* [[Jobber]]: Mainly his time in the First Family.

* [[Leotard of Power]]

* [[Power Stable]]: A member of the Dungeon of Doom and Leader of the Misfits in Action.

 

==== [[Jeff Jarrett]] (1996-1997, 1999-2001) ====

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]

* [[Cheap Heat]]: In a promo during the 10/1/2000 edition of WCW Monday Nitro, held in Buffalo, New York, Jarrett wore a Tennessee Titans jersey and proclaimed: "I ain't no Buffalo Bill, and I ain't a damn LOSER!". He also went through a period where he'd come down to the ring with several attractive ladies, then send them to the back so the fans couldn't see them.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: He seemed to turn on almost everyone at one point or another.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: He returned to WCW in 1999 by smashing a guitar over interviewer Mike Tenay's head.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: The old Acoustic Equaliser.

 

==== Jim Duggan (James Edward Duggan, 1994-2001) ====

* [[Badass Beard]]

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[I Know Madden Kombat]]: His three-point stance into a tackle.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: See Catchphrase

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: A 2 x 4

* [[Masked Luchador]]

* [[Red Baron]] 'Thunder'

* [[Superhero]]

 

* [[Parts Unknown]]: He's from "Some Unknown Part of the Planet."

* [[Power Stable]]: A member of the Stud Stable, the Dungeon of Doom and the First Family.

* [[Wild Samoan|Wild Tongan]]

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Against Goldberg.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Hogan, both in and out of the nWo.

 

* [[Badass Spaniard|Badass Latino]]

* [[Cool Mask]]

* [[Legacy Character]]

* [[Masked Luchador]]

* [[Power Stable]]: The Filthy Animals

* [[Wrestling Family]]

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Fake Nationality]] (billed from Scotland, actually from Saskatchewan)

* [[Iconic Characters|Iconic Wrestler]]

* [[Jerkass]] (Heel)

* [[Violent Glaswegian]]

 

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]

* [[The Southpaw]]

* [[Stiff Upper Lip]]

 

==== Stevie Ray (Lane Huffman, 1993-2001) ====

* [[Masked Luchador]]: He was Japanese, but because of the brutality of the Japanese training system he trained to wrestle in Mexico.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: His name was initially mistranslated as ''The Ultimate Dragon''.

 

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