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** Val Venis' pre-debut vignettes showed him lounging around porn movie sets clad in only a towel, spewing out {{double entendre}}s like they were going out of style. One such vignette ended with the not-at-all-subtle tagline "Val Venis Is Coming." Another featured [[TheCameo a cameo]] by Jenna Jameson, the It Girl of late 90s porn.

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** Val Venis' Wrestling/ValVenis' pre-debut vignettes showed him lounging around porn movie sets clad in only a towel, spewing out {{double entendre}}s like they were going out of style. One such vignette ended with the not-at-all-subtle tagline "Val Venis Is Coming." Another featured [[TheCameo a cameo]] by Jenna Jameson, the It Girl of late 90s [[TheNineties '90s]] porn.



* [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy "Macho Man" Savage]] debuted in the WWF dressed in a gaudy purple robe that makes Wrestling/RicFlair look modest.

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* [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy "Macho Man" Savage]] debuted in the WWF [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] dressed in a gaudy purple robe that makes Wrestling/RicFlair look modest.



* Wrestling/{{Kamala}}: James Harris' Ugandan headhunter-cannibalistic savage gimmick had been used with success in several regional promotions, including [=USWA=] before [[Wrestling/FreddieBlassie "Classy" Freddie Blassie]] brought him to the WWF in the summer of 1984. The trope came into play during an infamous promo on the WWF's ''Tuesday Night Titans'' show, where Blassie -- along with Kamala's "handler," Friday (also a holdover from [=USWA=]) -- brought a caged live chicken onto the set. As Blassie bragged that Kamala would soon defeat both Wrestling/AndreTheGiant and Hulk Hogan, Kamala was preoccupied by the chicken. When hosts Wrestling/VinceMcMahon and "Lord" Alfred Hayes questioned Kamala's behavior, Blassie declared that it was time "for the chicken to do a disappearing act. He's going to eat him alive!" With several off-stage screams being heard, [=McMahon=] tried to stop Kamala and yelled out, [[BigNo "No! No! No!"]] as Friday opened the cage and Kamala reached for the chicken. A cut shot showed Kamala sitting on the couch with feathers around his mouth and [[EyeTake a completely insane look in his eyes.]] (The idea of the promo being, of course, that he was a feared savage that could and would, given the chance, literally eat his opponents alive.)

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* Wrestling/{{Kamala}}: James Harris' Ugandan headhunter-cannibalistic savage gimmick had been used with success in several regional promotions, including [=USWA=] before [[Wrestling/FreddieBlassie "Classy" Freddie Blassie]] brought him to the WWF in the summer of 1984. The trope came into play during an infamous promo on the WWF's ''Tuesday Night Titans'' show, where Blassie -- along with Kamala's "handler," Friday (also a holdover from [=USWA=]) -- brought a caged live chicken onto the set. As Blassie bragged that Kamala would soon defeat both Wrestling/AndreTheGiant and Hulk Hogan, Kamala was preoccupied by the chicken. When hosts Wrestling/VinceMcMahon and "Lord" Alfred Hayes questioned Kamala's behavior, Blassie declared that it was time "for the chicken to do a disappearing act. He's going to eat him alive!" With several off-stage screams being heard, [=McMahon=] tried to stop Kamala and yelled out, [[BigNo "No! No! No!"]] as Friday opened the cage and Kamala reached for the chicken. A cut shot showed Kamala sitting on the couch with feathers around his mouth and [[EyeTake a completely insane look in his eyes.]] (The eyes]] (the idea of the promo being, of course, that he was a feared savage that could and would, given the chance, literally eat his opponents alive.)alive).



* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin when he won Wrestling/KingOfTheRing 1996: "You sit there, and you thump your bible, and you say your prayers, and it didn't get [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts you]] '''''anywhere!''''' Talk about your psalms, talk about John 3:16... [[MemeticMutation Austin 3:16 says 'I just whipped your ass!']]"

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* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin when he won Wrestling/KingOfTheRing ''Wrestling/KingOfTheRing'' 1996: "You sit there, and you thump your bible, and you say your prayers, and it didn't get [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts you]] '''''anywhere!''''' Talk about your psalms, talk about John 3:16... [[MemeticMutation Austin 3:16 says 'I just whipped your ass!']]"



* Wrestling/{{Kane}} showed what he was made of when he showed up at the Hell in a Cell Wrestling/ShawnMichaels vs. Wrestling/TheUndertaker match and ripping the door off the cell.

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* Wrestling/{{Kane}} showed what he was made of when he showed up at the Hell in a Cell Wrestling/ShawnMichaels vs. Wrestling/TheUndertaker Hell in a Cell match at ''Wrestling/BadBlood'' 1997 and ripping the door off the cell.

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