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Lists the various announcers, backstage personalities, commentators, and general managers throughout WWWF, WWF, and [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]. Please limit associated tropes to the individual's time in the WWE.
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== Announcers ==
* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[Large Ham]] (The winner of the bout... and '''''NEW!!!''''' World Wrestling Federation Champion!)
* [[Hammy Herald]]
* [[Non-Action Guy]]
* [[
* [[Hair of Gold]]
* [[Idol Singer]]: In [[Real Life]].
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* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Tall Blond And Bishoujo]]
* [[Hammy Herald]]
* [[Non-Action Guy]]
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* [[Very Punchable Man]]
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Mr. Kennedy
* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Hammy Herald]]
* [[Only Sane Man]]
* [[Verbal Tic]]: "The Rated R...'''SOOOPERSTAAARRRR!!''', Edge!"
** '''JEEEEOOOOON....CEEENAAA!!'''
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== Commentators & Backstage Personalities ==
* [[Badass Decay]]
* [[Casanova]]
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* [[Dirty Old Man]]
* [[Foe Yay]]: With Andy Kaufman and [[Bret Hart]].
* [[The Generic Guy]]: [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] into this sadly. With [[Michael Cole]] playing up as the [[
* [[Handsome Lech]]
* [[Ho Yay]]: With Jim Ross.
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* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: Lawler has admitted in [http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/quicknews/article_55004.shtml a 2011 interview] that he hasn't been interested in calling matches for years and the only reason he still does announcing these days is for the paycheck.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Hates being called "Burger King".
* [[
* [[Arch Enemy]] / [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Wether it was [[Kayfabe|for show]] or [[Real Life|for real]], Ventura ''hates'' [[Hulk Hogan]].
* [[Badass Mustache]]: Prior to hosting ''Conspiracy Theory''
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* [[Gorgeous George]]
* [[Nice Hat]]: As a commentator, he would wear one from time to time.
* [[
* [[Retired Badass]]: Became a successful politician after left wrestling.
* [[Sunglasses
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Was set to feud with Hogan for the WWF Championship, but was forced to retire due to blood clots in his lungs.
* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[Big OMG]]
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* [[Say My Name]]: "[[Stone Cold Steve Austin|STONE COLD! STONE COLD! STONE COLD!]]"
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: WWE's revamp of ECW was looking downright [[Crazy Awesome|awesome]] when it was announced that Joey would be heading up the announcing team for it. Shame about [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|what it became]].
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: The nerdy-looking, [[Meganekko|glasses-wearing]] journalist/commentator? Once legitimately [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punched]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|out]] John Bradshaw Layfield.
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* [[Worked Shoot]]: One of the most infamous examples, when he "quit" his commentary position and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1MJBO6k3a0 proceeded to take Vince McMahon and the entire professional wrestling industry to task]. Note - skip to 5:54 in the overly-long clip.
* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Post-Heel turn.
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* [[Evil Minions|Evil Minion]]: To Eric Bischoff
* [[Nice Hat]]: Briefly wore a white cowboy hat during his feud with JR.
* [[
* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]: Austin nixing him from the Raw announce team with a stunner when JR came back pushed him to side with Bischoff.
* [[The Artifact]]: Was one of the original season 1 Tough Enough competitors and as of today, the only one employed.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: During [[Michael Cole]]'s feud with [[Jerry Lawler]] in 2011, he got to join the Raw announcing team alongside [[CM Punk]] and Lawler on a number of occasions.
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* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: CM Punk gave him this treatment on one episode of NXT. "I'm CM Punk, you can join me and [[Michael Cole]] next week. Shut up Josh."
* [[Non-Action Guy]]:Now, but he was undefeated, 2-0
* [[One of Us]]: He's admitted to being a die hard wrestling fan, which was visible when he did color commentary for Velocity early in his career.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: During Cole's reign of megalomania, Josh was often times the only one who remembered that the announcers table was supposed to comment on the matches.
* [[Straight Man]]: A role he plays very, very well. He's significantly less entertaining when he doesn't have an [[Michael Cole|insane]] or [[Adorkable]] announcing partner for him to play off of.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Michael Cole on NXT seemingly.
** As well as Scott Stanford on Superstars.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: During the original Tough Enough, he was known for having a beautiful moonsault.
* [[Action Survivor]]: He was a former pro-wrestler himself.
* [[Annoying Laugh]]
* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Evil Brit]]: Sported a heelish attitude during the final three years of his stint, even sympathising [[Owen Hart]] in his feud against [[Bret Hart|his big brother Bret]].
* [[Quintessential British Gentleman]]
* [[
* [[Sidekick]]: To [[Vince McMahon]]
* [[Badass Decay]]: Used to be an actual wrestler, now...well.
* [[Base Breaker]]: Half of the IWC loves him for being a [[Smark]] and mentioning things from wrestler's indy days, the other half thinks he's the most annoying commentator alive and needs to shut the hell up.
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Even when in his pseudo-heel persona, he's never really mean to anybody, he's just over the top in praising everyone that he comes off as creepy and toady.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
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* [[Non-Action Guy]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3cYHHISZgE A series of vignettes] with [[Hulk Hogan]] highlighted this, as Hogan had to train Gene to participate in a wrestling match against Mr. Fuji and George "The Animal" Steele at a house show in Minneapolis in 1984. For his part, Gene was more interested in cigars and sleeping in than training, prayers, and vitamins.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhrfZ1EJlpc There's a reason he's called Mean Gene.]
* [[
* [[Take That]]: A fairly impressive one to Eric Bischoff on the 10th anniversary show of Raw: "Eric, maybe if you'd have shut up and learned how to run your company, we'd be celebrating the 10th anniversary of [[WCW|Nitro]]."
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: [http://pottymouthcole.ytmnd.com/ THIS... Just, this!]
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* [[Karma Houdini]]: As of Wrestlemania 27, anyway.
** [[Karma Houdini Warranty]]: Expired at Over The Limit 2011.
* [[Miles Gloriosus]]/[[
* [[Non-Action Guy]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Him admitting that Kaval's promo in the NXT season 2 finale was pretty good as well as congratulating him winning qualifies, given his usual attitude towards the "internet darlings."
* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: [[In-Universe|Acknowledged finally.]] Been this at various points of his career, usually when replacing [[Jim Ross]].
* [[Straw Misogynist]]
* [[The Scrappy]]
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Seems to have turned himself into a clone of JR since becoming Raw's lead announcer. When he was on Smackdown, he had his own play-by-play style; now he's one black Stetson and one "BAH GAWD! STONE COLD!" away from a Jim Ross [[Expy]]. With his heel character's on-screen love for [[The Miz]], he appears to have found an object of admiration that can compare to JR's love for Stone Cold.
* [[Took a Level
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: It's his way of getting back at the [[Smart Mark|Smarks]] (who see Bryan Danielson as an Indy legend) for his Scrappy status. His current fanboying of [[The Miz]] can also be seen as a [[Take That]] towards Daniel Bryan.
** As of the weeks leading up to his Wrestlemania match with [[Jerry Lawler]], he's completely crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
* [[Villainous BSOD]]: Everytime he is reminded of the "Kiss My Foot Match" his expression COMPLETELY drops.
* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Was a member of the wrestling team, the Fabulous Freebirds.
* [[Badass Long Hair]]
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Briefly known as Dok Hendrix.
* [[
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Even his broadcast partners (Tazz and [[Jerry Lawler]]) openly mocked his terrible commentary skills.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]
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* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: When he replaced [[Joey Styles]] at the broadcast table, the fans were not happy.
* [[The Load]]
* [[
* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: 4-time Emmy-winning sportcaster that ''really'' has fun with both his jobs.
* [[Closer to Earth]]
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Via [[Zack Ryder|"Z: True Long Island Story"]].
* [[One of Us]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110413175747/http://www.twitvid.com/HYRNH Audition at Age 17]
* [[Piss-Take Rap]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Josh Matthews. They're commentary basically consists of them snarking at each other in addition to calling the matches.
* [[Dark Horse Victory]]: Few expected him to become number one contender to the cruiser weight championship. Fewer expected him to win it yet he did, held on to it and successfully defended it in Tokyo.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: "Smackdown announcer number one!" He got better.
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* [[Jobber]]: One of the more well known examples, has lost to the lowest of the low, which was probably why Stephanie made him an interviewer.
* [[Laughably Evil]]: As part of Kaentai.
* [[
* [[Cue the Sun|Rising Sun]]: One of his finishing moves.
* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Dull Surprise]]: "It's...Christian."
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== General Managers ==
* [[Beeping Computers]]
* [[Bullying the Dragon]]: Namely, [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]], [[Jerry Lawler]], and [[John Cena]]
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** [[Word of God|According to a former assistant to the Creative team]], they had intended on revealing who it was, but Vince had lost interest and suggested they just reveal it was Laurinaitis "with a throwaway line backstage".
* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
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* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]]
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[The Rival]]: To [[Vince McMahon]], in [[Real Life]] as well as storyline.
* [[Accidental Public Confession]]: Type 1. His [[Villainous Breakdown]] caused him to reveal his intent to screw [[CM Punk]] at the ''Royal Rumble''. The board of directors didn't like that very much.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Teddy Long, [[CM Punk]] and [[John Cena]]
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* [[Blasphemous Boast]]: "I am better than [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] and [[Brock Lesnar]]."
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Both on-screen and off. On-screen he is a butt of many jokes from Cena and especially CM Punk. Off-screen he is hated by many wrestlers who feel they were unfairly treated by him and by proponents of stronger women's wrestling.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Has ''definitely'' become this. In addition to his sadistic actions to several WWE superstars and Teddy Long, he threatened Teddy Long by putting his ''girlfriend'' in a match with ''Kane!'' If that didn't push him over the [[Moral Event Horizon]], threatening to cut off the college fund of Teddy's ''three grandchildren'' if he didn't work for him.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
* [[Dull Surprise]]: Gave absolutely no reaction when he was about to get the GTS from [[CM Punk]].
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Invented the Cutter with [[Diamond Dallas Page]]. Superstars who've adapted the cutter include [[Randy Orton]], [[Cody Rhodes]], the Dudleyz, [[Matt Hardy|both]] [[Jeff Hardy|Hardys]], etc.
* [[Forgot Flanders Could Do That]]: Was actually a very good wrestler in his day. He helped invent the [[Diamond Dallas Page|Diamond Cutter]]/[[Randy Orton|RKO]], the [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|Stunner]] and the [[Brock Lesnar|F-5]]. He was also in a match that Dave Meltzer gave 5 stars and won the Wrestling Observer Match of the Year in 1996. That was the same year as the [[Shawn Michaels]] [[Bret Hart]] Iron Man match at [[Wrestlemania]] XII.
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** And again on the 4/30/12 airing of ''Raw'', after losing his top face for the company, [[Brock Lesnar]], and being made fun of by [[John Cena]], he lashes out on Cena with the help of Lord Tensai and Sakamoto.
* [[Wrestling Family]]: His brothers Joe (aka Road Warrior Animal) and Marcus are also wrestlers.
** His nephew (Animal's son), who is 240 pounds of muscle and wouldn't have been terribly out of place in a WWE ring, [[American Football|went to Ohio State to play linebacker instead.]] [[
* [[Yes-Man]]: Called one by [[CM Punk]].
* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: And he employed them, too.
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* [[Worked Shoot]]: Heyman's signature style of promo, not to mention multiple [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments of Awesome]] for him. Pick a Heyman [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vswZ73WETpc shoot] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_xzLijve40 promo]. ''Any'' Heyman [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XnzZXpVHMs shoot promo].
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: He ''was'' the General Manager of Smackdown!
* [[Bald of Awesome]]
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* [[Once Per Episode]]: A few years ago, it wouldn't be uncommon for Teddy to interupt a [[Heel]] and say "Tonight, you're gonna go one-on-one with ... Da Undatakah!". With [[The Undertaker]] mostly inactive these days, Teddy has now resorted to making them face [[Randy Orton]]. If there's four people in the ring, chances are he'll interrupt them and place them in a tag team match.
* [[Out-Gambitted]]: {{spoiler|Does this to Laurinaitis when faced with a [[Sadistic Choice]] of letting his girlfriend Aksana be placed in a match with Kane or laying down and letting Laurinaitis pin him. He refuses the latter and, while not outright said, is implied to have had [[Randy Orton]] take out Kane, allowing him to pin Laurinaitis, pick up the win, and save his girlfriend.}}
* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: After Rodney Mack was unceremoniously kicked off Smackdown and Teddy became his manager on Raw...
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: But once he became a GM, he grew out of it to become the authority who tries to give everyone a fair shot.
** Definitely plays this in juxtaposition to Laurinaitis.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Playa'", "Holla'" or "Believe that!"
* [[The Woobie]]: The man has taken a lot of crap after losing his job to Laurinaitis.
* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[The Artifact]]: She's less a Diva in the modern-day sense (although she is [[Hot Mom|quite attractive for her age]]) and more of a call-back to the old school valets/managers of yesteryear.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Verging on [[The Chew Toy]], especially with the ''nuclear'' heel heat she gets from the crowd and [[John Cena]] and [[Jerry Lawler]] spending fifteen minutes on Raw telling fat jokes about her.
** [[Edge]] had to lampshade it during his retirement speech:
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* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Occasionally
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Her frog splash at [[Wrestlemania]] 26, not only paying tribute to her [[Eddie Guerrero|husband]], but doing it despite looking abjectly terrified at being a good fifteen feet in the air.
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* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Officially crosses it after firing [[Kelly Kelly]] for retaining Edge's title.
* [[Most Annoying Sound]]: "[[Catch Phrase|EXCUSE ME]]!!!"
** [[Rule of Three]]: Will usually use three of these to start a promo - increasing in volume each time.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: This certainly seems to be the case. Even her non-screaming voice is pretty loud and grating.
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* [[Armor-Piercing Slap|Slap]] [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|The Son Of A Bitch]]: Gives one to [[Michael Cole]] after he "won" the Dance off.
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]
* [[X
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