History Characters / WCWNWA

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* DemotedToExtra: He had more going on, '''before''' he joined the nWo.
* TheDragon: In the York Foundation.
* ForeignWrestlingHeel: As a member of nWo Japan.
* JerkJock: As a member of the Varsity Club.
* {{Mook|s}}[=/=]{{Jobber}}: In the nWo.
* PowerStable: The Varsity Club, the York Foundation and the nWo.
* RedBaron: 'Captain' as his sailor gimmick and in the Varsity Club.
* TakeThat: As V.K. Wallstreet as in [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon "Vincent Kennedy" [=McMahon=]]].
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling sailor as Captain Mike Rotunda and a stock market analyst as Wallstreet.
* WrestlingFamily: Married into the Windham family, father to Windham and Taylor Rotunda (who both work for Wrestling/{{WWE}}).

* DemotedToExtra: As a WCW road agent trainer from 1995-2000.

* {{Mook|s}} / {{Jobber}}: In the nWo.

* ReluctantRetiree: He had to do this several times due to his recurring injuries he sustained in the Wrestling/{{WWE}}.

* ArchEnemy: Arn Anderson

* BitingTheHandHumor: Once when [[Characters/WCWInvasion Psicosis]] missed a top-turnbuckle legdrop to his opponent on the floor, Larry on commentary said, "He landed right on his [[Wrestling/EricBischoff Bischoff!"]]

* PunnyName: His stage name is a homage to the Music/ChuckBerry son Johnny B. Goode.

!!! [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin "Stunning" Steve Austin]] (1991-1995)
See his page for his list of tropes.

!!! Wrestling/TerryFunk (1989, 1994, 2000-2001)
See his page for his list of tropes.

!!! The Great Muta (武藤 敬司, Muto Keiji, 1989-1990, 1993-2000)

!!! Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage (Page Joseph Falkinburg, Jr., 1991-2001)
See his page for his list of tropes.

!!! [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]] (Dustin Patrick Runnels, 1991-1995, 1999-2001)
See his page for his list of tropes.

!!! Wrestling/RonSimmons (1989-1994)
See his page for his list of tropes.

!!! Wrestling/DanSpivey 1989-1991
See his page for his list of tropes.

* RedBaron: 'The Dog Faced Gremlin'

!!! Wrestling/ScottSteiner (Scott Carl Rechsteiner, 1989-1992, 1996-2001)
See his page for his list of tropes.

!!! Wrestling/KevinSullivan / The Taskmaster (Kevin Francis Sullivan, 1987-1992, 1994-2001)
See his page for his list of tropes.

!!! Big Van Wrestling/{{Vader}} (Leon Allen White, 1990-1995)
See his page for his list of tropes.

!!! Wrestling/DrDeathSteveWilliams 1987-1989, 1992

* WrestlingFamily: Was married to Wrestling/{{Sable}}.

* RedBaron: 'The Dragon'

* TeddyBear: Carried one around as Trucker Norm.

!!! Sid Vicious (Sid Eudy, 1989-1991, 1993, 1999-2001)
* AxCrazy
* TheBigGuy
* BlondGuysAreEvil: As a heel
* TheBrute
* GameBreakingInjury: His last match saw him take a relatively small jump from the second turnbuckle and land on one leg. Said leg collapsed under him at about a ninety degree angle at the knee, causing so much damage that the leg nearly had to be amputated.
* MeaningfulName
* NamesTheSame: As the bassist from The Sex Pistols.
* RedBaron: 'The Millenium Man'
* UnstoppableRage

!!! Michael Wallstreet / V.K.Wallstreet / Mr. Wallstreet (Lawrence Michael Rotunda, (1987–1991, 1995-2000)
* DemotedToExtra: He had more going on, '''before''' he joined the nWo.
* TheDragon: In the York Foundation.
* ForeignWrestlingHeel: As a member of nWo Japan.
* {{Mook}} / {{Jobber}}: In the nWo.
* JerkJock: As a member of the Varsity Club.
* PowerStable: The Varsity Club, the York Foundation and the nWo.
* RedBaron: 'Captain' as his sailor gimmick and in the Varsity Club.
* TakeThat: As V.K. Wallstreet as in [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon "Vincent Kennedy" [=McMahon=]]].
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling sailor as Captain Mike Rotunda and a stock market analyst as Wallstreet.
* WrestlingFamily: Married into the Windham family, father to Windham and Taylor Rotunda (who both work for Wrestling/{{WWE}}).

!!! State Patrol - Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker (Dewayne Bruce, 1989-2001), Lt. James Earl Wright (Dale Veasey, 1989-1996)
* BreakupBreakout: Parker, after Wright retired.
* DirtyCop
* DrillSergeantNasty: Parker's gimmick after the group's split. Based on his position as a trainer at the WCW Power Plant.
* {{Jobber}}: For such trash talkers, they sure did suck.
* LargeHam
* {{Leprechaun}}: Parker became Braun the Leprechaun during a short stint in the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: Wrestling police officers.

* BreakupBreakout: He was originally part of a tag team called the 'American Males', after he turned on his parter, Scotty Riggs, the latter mostly toiled in obscurity while Buff got the push.

* AlliterativeName

* DemotedToExtra: More or less his second run with the company. He was more of a {{Mook}} than a stand alone star.

* MuggingTheMonster: Sure, he had muscles, but he was ''not'' going to win ''any'' posing contests against '''LEX LUGER''' or '''[[Wrestling/ScottSteiner SCOTT STEINER]]]'''.

* [[AnimalMotifs Animal Motif]]

!!! [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Steve Austin]] (1991-1995)
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Most of his WCW run, especially notable during his time with Brian Pillman in the Hollywood Blonds.
* BreakupBreakout: Even taking out his [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Stone Cold]] wrestling years, Austin won more singles titles than his Hollywood Blond tag partner, Brian Pillman.
* PowerStable: A member of the Dangerous Alliance and the Stud Stable.
* RedBaron: 'Stunning'

!!! Wrestling/TerryFunk (1989-1994, 2000-2001)
* ArchEnemy: Ric Flair
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: His stint as Commissioner of WCW in 2000.
* BadassGrandpa
* CoolOldGuy
* GarbageWrestler: He arguably became this during his 2000-2001 run, in which he mostly competed in the Hardcore Division.
* RedBaron: The Funker
* RingOldies

* CoolOldGuy: He started his wrestling career at about 35.
* {{Determinator}}: The guy legitimately trained his ass off to become one of the better wrestlers WCW had.
* {{Joisey}}: Even though he's made Florida his home for a long time.
* LargeHam
* OneHitKill: You could beat him up all day, but all he had to do was hit the [[FinishingMove Diamond Cutter]] and he'd come out on top and he could hit the Diamond Cutter at a moment's notice, from 52 different positions.
* UglyGuyHotWife: A particularly epic RealLife case, with his Playboy model/fitness goddess ex-wife Kimberly, and Page himself being an ugly, older, hairy, flabby guy with "big green mess"-style tattoos from head to toe.

* AllAmericanFace: As 'the Natural'.
* RedBaron: 'The Natural' and 'The American Nightmare'.
* WrestlingFamily: Son of Dusty Rhodes.

* AngryBlackMan

** BadassBeard
* BreakupBreakout: Over his Doom tag team partner, Butch Reed.
* CoolMask: As part of Doom, at first.
* MightyGlacier
* [[MartialArtsHeadband Pro Wrestling Headband]]: During his singles career.
* RedBaron: 'The All-American' in his singles career.
* ScaryBlackMan
* SoulBrotha
* UrExample: WCW's first Black World Champion.

!!! Rick Steiner (Robert Rechsteiner, 1987-1992, 1996-2001)
* AlliterativeName: Averted, his real name was alliterative but he only used that during the very early days of his career.
* [[AnimalMotifs Animal Motif]]
* {{Badass}}

* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* BreakupBreakout: Scott and Rick Steiner, or the Steiner Brothers, were a successful tag team. Scott would become WCW Heavyweight Champion. Rick was not so successful as a singles competitor.
* CainAndAbel: After they split as a team, he and Rick fought a lot.
* CatchPhrase: Had a bunch of them, but the main one as usually "Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, holler if you hear me!"
* HeroKiller: During his World Title run, he put most every main event face in the company out of action.
* HotBlooded: He was described as 'The Man with the Largest Arms, and the Shortest Fuse, in WCW'.
* ICallHimMrHappy: He called his "The Big Dipper" after the constellation.
* InsistentTerminology: He refered to the various women he had around, exclusively, as 'his freaks'.
* LeotardOfPower: When he was still teaming with Rick.
* LightningBruiser: In his prime.
* RedBaron: "Big Poppa Pump". For a short time before adopting "Big Poppa Pump", he used the nicknames "White Thunder" and "Superstar".
* SleevesAreForWimps
* UnstoppableRage

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad: Of the Dungeon of Doom.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom
* JerkJock: As a member of the Varsity Club.
* LargeHam
* LegionOfDoom / PowerStable: The Dungeon of Doom, which he led as the Taskmaster.

* {{Acrofatic}}: A 450 pound guy doing a moonsault.
* TheBrute: Depending on if he was a face or a heel.
* CatchPhrase: "It's Time... It's Time... It's [=Vader=] Time!"
* CoolMask: His most famous mask counts, but especially his Mastodon mask that he sometimes wore to the ring before matches, which among other things, blew fog out. [[http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/475/644/vader_display_image.jpg?1288468386 Just check it out.]] Sadly, that mask, along with the name "Big Van Vader", was found to be the intellectual property of New Japan Pro Wrestling, so in his later days in North America, he had to make do with his leather mask and just the name "Vader".
* {{Determinator}}: Considering he once wrestled a match where he had a detached retina of all things and simply popped it back in and finished his match, this trope seems fitting.
* LightningBruiser: Especially so in his younger days when he was a bit leaner, though he was still a large fellow. He was able to pull moonsaults and other types of high-flying attacks while also being able to powerbomb and chokeslam with the best of them.
* MightyGlacier
* UnstoppableRage

Lists the various wrestlers active during the [[NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] {{WCW}} Era, from 1988 through 1993. Please limit associated tropes to that wrestler's time in the WCW.

!!! Loch Ness (Martin Ruane) 1996
* BritishTeeth
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Was in line for a push but had to return home to England due to health issues. He ultimately died of cancer in 1998.
* FinishingMove: Elbow Drop
* TheGiant
* PowerStable: The Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom
* StockNessMonster

* CaptainErsatz: As Arachnaman for SpiderMan and Buzzkill (in part) for his brother, [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} the Road Dogg]]. The latter was lampshaded during a backstage vignette setting up the character, where Brad asked VinceRusso when he'd get a shot, and Vince replied, "When you get a personality like your brother!" As it turned out, he got a personality very much like his brother's.

* TheJannetty: To his brother Scott. Ironically during the time that he and Scott were a tag team, he was considered the more interesting of the two. After the team broke up however, Rick lost the feud with Scott soundly, floundered in the upper midcard for a while, and then turned heel. Although he had decent face charisma, as a heel he was a heat vacuum.

!!! Big Van Wrestling/{{Vader}} (Leon Allen White, 1990-1995)
* {{Acrofatic}}: A 450 pound guy doing a moonsault.
* TheBigGuy: Depending on if he was a face or a heel.
* TheBrute: Depending on if he was a face or a heel.
* CatchPhrase: "It's Time... It's Time... It's [=Vader=] Time!"
* CoolMask: His most famous mask counts, but especially his Mastodon mask that he sometimes wore to the ring before matches, which among other things, blew fog out. [[http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/475/644/vader_display_image.jpg?1288468386 Just check it out.]] Sadly, that mask, along with the name "Big Van Vader", was found to be the intellectual property of New Japan Pro Wrestling, so in his later days in North America, he had to make do with his leather mask and just the name "Vader".
* {{Determinator}}: Considering he once wrestled a match where he had a detached retina of all things and simply popped it back in and finished his match, this trope seems fitting.
* LightningBruiser: Especially so in his younger days when he was a bit leaner, though he was still a large fellow. He was able to pull moonsaults and other types of high-flying attacks while also being able to powerbomb and chokeslam with the best of them.
* MightyGlacier
* UnstoppableRage

!!! Bobby Eaton (Robert Lee Eaton, 1985-1992, 1994-2000)
* BlondesAreEvil: As a heel
* BreakupBreakout: During the time Jim Crocket Promotions was becoming WCW, he was the only one in the Midnight Express that found some long term success.
* TheBrute: Of the Dangerous Alliance.
* DemotedToExtra / {{Jobber}}: In 1997 after he broke up with the Bluebloods.
* PowerStable: The Dangerous Alliance and the Bluebloods.
* RedBaron: 'Beautiful' in the Midnight Express then 'Earl' Robert in the Blueboods.
* TagTeam: A former member of the Midnight Express, on of the greatest teams in professional wrestling. Also with Regal and Taylor in the Bluebloods.

* {{Expy}}: As Arachnaman for SpiderMan and Buzzkill (in part) for his brother, [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} the Road Dogg]]. The latter was lampshaded during a backstage vignette setting up the character, where Brad asked VinceRusso when he'd get a shot, and Vince replied, "When you get a personality like your brother!" As it turned out, he got a personality very much like his brother's.
** Arachnaman was aborted early once Marvel Comics got wind of it and threatened to sue.

!!! Brian Pillman (Brian William Pillman, 1989–1994, 1994–1996)
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Most of his WCW run, especially notable during his time with Steve Austin in the Hollywood Blonds and as the 'Loose Cannon'.
* GutturalGrowler: Spoke with a rasp due to multiple childhood bouts with throat polyps.
* ObfuscatingInsanity
* RedBaron: First 'Flyin' then 'Loose Cannon'
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness

** This also includes his tag teams with Scorpio, the Patriot and Scott Norton.

* CatchPhrase: "Buff is the stuff!"

* TedBaxter: "I'm simply delicious"

!!! Butch Reed (Bruce Reed, 1989-1991, 1992)
* AngryBlackMan
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard
* TheJannetty: Butch was this to his tag team partner, RonSimmons, who went on to become WCW's first Black World Champion.
* CoolMask: As part of Doom, at first.
* MightyGlacier
* RedBaron: 'Hacksaw' in his singles career.
* ScaryBlackMan
* SoulBrotha

!!! Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage (Page Joseph Falkinburg, Jr., 1991-2001)
* CoolOldGuy: He started his wrestling career at about 35.
* {{Determinator}}: The guy legitimately trained his ass off to become one of the better wrestlers WCW had.
* {{Joisey}}: Even though he's made Florida his home for a long time.
* LargeHam
* OneHitKill: You could beat him up all day, but all he had to do was hit the [[FinishingMove Diamond Cutter]] and he'd come out on top and he could hit the Diamond Cutter at a moment's notice, from 52 different positions.
* UglyGuyHotWife: A particularly epic RealLife case, with his Playboy model/fitness goddess ex-wife Kimberly, and Page himself being an ugly, older, hairy, flabby guy with "big green mess"-style tattoos from head to toe.

!!! [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]] (Dustin Patrick Runnels, 1991-1995, 1999-2001)
* AllAmericanFace: As 'the Natural'.
* RedBaron: 'The Natural' and 'The American Nightmare'.
* WrestlingFamily: Son of Dusty Rhodes.

!!! The Great Muta (武藤 敬司, Muto Keiji, 1989-1990, 1993-2000)
* CostumePorn

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Judo]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[AHandfulForAnEye The Asian mist]]
* RedBaron: 'The Great' Muta

!!! Johnny B. Badd (Marc Mero, 1991-1996)
* AlliterativeName: His real name.
* CampStraight: Just like the man he is an expy of.
* DiscoDan
* {{Expy}}: Of LittleRichard.
* TheFightingNarcissist
* GorgeousGeorge: A rare {{Face}} example.
* PunnyName: His stage name is a homage to the ChuckBerry son Johnny B. Goode.

!!! Wrestling/KevinSullivan / The Taskmaster (Kevin Francis Sullivan, 1987-1992, 1994-2001)
* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad: Of the Dungeon of Doom.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom
* JerkJock: As a member of the Varsity Club.
* LargeHam
* LegionOfDoom / PowerStable: The Dungeon of Doom, which he led as the Taskmaster.

!!! Larry Zbyszko (Lawrence "Larry" Whistler, 1987-1989, 1990–2001)
* PowerStable: A member of the Dangerous Alliance and the Old Age Outlaws.
* RedBaron: 'The LivingLegend'
* RetiredBadass: By 1996, Zbyszko stopped wrestling fulltime and took his talents to the announce table on ''WCW Monday Nitro''.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Officially, his last name is spelt Zby'''sz'''ko, but is sometimes misspelled like Zby'''s'''ko or Z'''yby'''sko.
* WrestlingFamily: Married into the Gagne family.

!!! Masahiro Chono (蝶野 正洋, Chono Masahiro, 1991-1992, 1995-2000)
* BadassLongcoat
* CoolShades
* FinishingMove: STF
* ForeignWrestlingHeel

!!! Michael Wallstreet / V.K.Wallstreet / Mr. Wallstreet (Lawrence Michael Rotunda, (1987–1991, 1995-2000)
* DemotedToExtra: He had more going on, '''before''' he joined the nWo.
* TheDragon: In the York Foundation.
* ForeignWrestlingHeel: As a member of nWo Japan.
* {{Mook}} / {{Jobber}}: In the nWo.
* JerkJock: As a member of the Varsity Club.
* PowerStable: The Varsity Club, the York Foundation and the nWo.
* RedBaron: 'Captain' as his sailor gimmick and in the Varsity Club.
* TakeThat: As V.K. Wallstreet as in [[VinceMcMahon "Vincent Kennedy" McMahon]].
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling sailor as Captain Mike Rotunda and a stock market analyst as Wallstreet.
* WrestlingFamily: Married into the Windham family, father to Windham and Taylor Rotunda (who both work for Wrestling/{{WWE}}).

* TedBaxter: As a heel

!!! Rick Steiner (Robert Rechsteiner, 1987-1992, 1996-2001)
* AlliterativeName: Averted, his real name was alliterative but he only used that during the very early days of his career.

* BadassBeard
* BadassBiker: After the Steiner Brothers split.
* BullyBulldog: He did have a very slight resemblance to a bulldog, and he invoked the trope with his wrestling style and taunts.
* CatchPhrase
-->"If you want some, come get some! And if you don't like me, bite me!"
* CainAndAbel: After they split as a team, he and Scott fought a lot.
* TheJannetty: To his brother Scott. Ironically during the time that he and Scott were a tag team, he was considered the more interesting of the two. After the team broke up however, Rick lost the feud with Scott soundly, floundered in the upper midcard for a while, and then turned heel. Although he had decent face charisma, as a heel he was a heat vacuum.
* LaserGuidedKarma: As noted below, Rick often shot on his opponents. So while working an indy match he decided to rough up his opponent Vordell Walker. But Walker, who was an accomplished wrestler himself, rubbed Rick's face in the mat. Rick literally fled the arena.
* LeotardOfPower
* LightningBruiser: In his prime
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Rick Steiner played an easy going babyface character for much of his career. He was also notoriously nasty backstage, often no-selling and sandbagging for his opponents, and shooting on them (beating them up for real) just to prove he could.
* RedBaron: 'The Dog Faced Gremlin'

!!! Wrestling/RonSimmons (1989-1994)
* AngryBlackMan
* {{Badass}}

* BreakupBreakout: Over his Doom tag team partner, Butch Reed.

* [[MartialArtsHeadband Pro Wrestling Headband]]: During his singles career.
* RedBaron: 'The All-American' in his singles career.

* UrExample: WCW's first Black World Champion.

!!! Wrestling/ScottSteiner (Scott Carl Rechsteiner, 1989-1992, 1996-2001)
* AlliterativeName

!!! State Patrol - Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker (Dewayne Bruce, 1989-2001), Lt. James Earl Wright (Dale Veasey, 1989-1996)
* BreakupBreakout: Parker, after Wright retired.
* DirtyCop
* DrillSergeantNasty: Parker's gimmick after the group's split. Based on his position as a trainer at the WCW Power Plant.
* {{Jobber}}: For such trash talkers, they sure did suck.
* LargeHam
* {{Leprechaun}}: Parker became Braun the Leprechaun during a short stint in the [[LegionOfDoom Dungeon of Doom]].
* WrestlingDoesntPay: Wrestling police officers.

!!! [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Steve Austin]] (1991-1995)
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Most of his WCW run, especially notable during his time with Brian Pillman in the Hollywood Blonds.
* BreakupBreakout: Even taking out his [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Stone Cold]] wrestling years, Austin won more singles titles than his Hollywood Blond tag partner, Brian Pillman.
* PowerStable: A member of the Dangerous Alliance and the Stud Stable.
* RedBaron: 'Stunning'

!!! Tatsumi Fujinami (藤波 辰爾, Fujinami Tatsumi, 1991-1992)
* ForeignWrestlingHeel: In WCW at least.
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: How he beat Ric Flair for the NWA world title.
* RedBaron: 'The Dragon'
* SignatureMove: The Dragon Sleeper
* SuplexFinisher: The Dragon Suplex

!!! Wrestling/TerryFunk (1989-1994, 2000-2001)
* ArchEnemy: Ric Flair
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: His stint as Commissioner of WCW in 2000.
* BadassGrandpa
* CoolOldGuy
* GarbageWrestler: He arguably became this during his 2000-2001 run, in which he mostly competed in the Hardcore Division.
* RedBaron: The Funker
* RingOldies

!!! Tom Zenk (Thomas Erwin "Tom" Zenk, 1989-1994)
* {{Face}}
* RedBaron: 'The Z-Man'
* SomethingPerson
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling bodybuilder (other than Lex Luger).
* XtremeKoolLetterz

* WrestlingDoesntPay: In his first run, a wrestling UsefulNotes/HeavyMetal guitarist.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: His theme music, "Self High-Five," essentially an instrumental of {{Nirvana}}'s "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with a few notes and chords reversed.

* CatchPhrase: "It's Time... It's Time... It's {{Vader}} Time!"