History Wrestling / Elias

** After being fired from NXT, he came back the following week under a mask as El Vagabundo -- the Spanish translation of his usual RedBaron. Other than the mask, he was wearing the same outfit and even carrying the same guitar around as usual. Oney Lorcan ripped his mask off mid-match before defeating him, and he was promptly ejected from the arena after the bell.
** Happened again on Raw after [=WrestleMania=] 38, who goes by the name Ezekiel, Elias' younger brother. [[PaperThinDisguise With shorter hair, a shaven face, and trunks.]] For some reason, Wrestling/KevinOwens is the only one not buying this identity.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He's not entirely there, given that he was coming up with lyrics in his head while Wrestling/BaronCorbin was trying to get him to leave the stage. At that point he outright admitted that he was lost in his own world for a moment. There's also the fact that he tends to appear strumming his guitar in the most unlikeliest of places, most of the time on backstage, but also one time ''atop a production truck''.

-->'''Elias:''' But now you're just a giant puppet with Stephanie's hand up your a-

After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he currently competes on the [[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]] brand. He is a four-time WWE 24/7 Champion.

** Happened again on Raw after [=WrestleMania=] 38, who goes by the name Ezekiel, Elias' younger brother. With shorter hair, shaved beard, and a trunk. Even Wrestling/KevinOwens isn't buying this identity.

Jeffrey Sciullo (born November 20, 1987) is an American professional wrestler and musician currently signed to the Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where he performs under the ring name Elias.

** Happened again on Raw after [=WrestleMania=] 38, who goes by the name Ezekiel, Elias' younger brother. Even Wrestling/KevinOwens isn't buying this identity.

* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: After being fired from NXT, he came back the following week under a mask as El Vagabundo -- the Spanish translation of his usual RedBaron. Other than the mask, he was wearing the same outfit and even carrying the same guitar around as usual. Oney Lorcan ripped his mask off mid-match before defeating him, and he was promptly ejected from the arena after the bell.

* BadassBeard: As a face.

* TemptingFate: On the April 8th, 2019 RAW, Elias declared that the next man who interrupted him was a dead man. [[ExactWords Cue]] Wrestling/TheUndertaker.

After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he currently competes on the [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] brand. He is a four-time WWE 24/7 Champion.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/BobbyLashley and Wrestling/BaronCorbin. Wrestling/JeffJarrett after his FaceHeelTurn.

* FaceHeelTurn: After Wrestling/RoyalRumble (2019) Elias turned heel again after insulting the crowd, proclaiming that they dissapointed him for lackluster reactions towards him, and was subsequently interrupt by Jarrett and Wrestling/RoadDogg, who proceeded to sing With My Baby Tonight until Elias attacked both men with guitar.

* EyeTake: [[https://youtu.be/UpSxrGkKTe0?t=161 His]] [[OhCrap reaction]] to [[spoiler:having his segment on the RAW after Wrestlemania 35 interrupted by Wrestling/TheUndertaker's gong]].

* HeelFaceTurn: On the October 22, 2018 edition of Raw, Elias turned face after attacking Wrestling/BaronCorbin from behind, who had previously told him to stop playing his song.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He was only a face for barely three months before turning heel again.

After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he currently competes on the [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] brand. He is a three-time WWE 24/7 Champion.

After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he currently competes on the [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] brand. He is a two-time WWE 24/7 Champion.

* SitcomArchnemesis: He is one to Corey Graves, who isn't happy that Samson is from Pittsburgh as well.

After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he currently competes on the [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] brand. He is a one-time WWE 24/7 Champion.

* CatchPhrase:

* {{Tweener}}: Elias's morality appears to be proportionate to people's willingness to get behind him and let him finish his songs. He pulls a HeelFaceTurn when the crowd is going wild for him, and switches back when he's convinced that they've turned on him. Any attempts to interrupt him when he's trying to cut a promo will invariably end in either a match or guitar smash, regardless of who's doing it. True to his status a Drifter, he's far more independent with his endeavors, very rarely getting into any tag matches or interferences.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The whole chain of events that resulted in [[Wrestling/FergalDevitt Finn Balor]] challenging Wrestling/BrockLesnar at ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'' instead of Strowman, and Strowman in turn replacing Wrestling/JohnCena in the Rumble match itself, was set off by Elias ratting Baron Corbin out to Strowman in an earlier show, who turned out to have hidden in the limo of ''Wrestling/VinceMcMahon''.

After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he now competes on the [[Wrestling/WWERaw RAW]] brand.

* ButtMonkey: Constantly, ''constantly'', has his segments interrupted by another wrestler from the locker room; most of those interruptions end with him getting beaten up, sometimes with his own guitar. Occasionally he does get the upper hand on his interrupter, but not nearly as often.

->''"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was in my own world there, while [[Wrestling/BaronCorbin you]] were rambling and sucking the entertainment out of the building I was writing a song in my head that I'm going to sing right now, so if you could just silence your cell phone, hold your applause until after I'm finished, and most importantly do me a favor and shut your damn mouth!"''

'''Jeffrey Sciullo''' (born November 20, 1987) is an American professional wrestler and musician currently signed to the Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where he performs under the ring name Elias.

** "Silence your cell phones, hold your applause, and shut your mouths." He began omitting the "shut your mouths" part after his HeelFaceTurn.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He's not entirely there, given that he was coming up with lyrics in his head while Wrestling/BaronCorbin was trying to get him to leave the stage. At that point he outright admitted that he was lost in his own world for a moment.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/BobbyLashley and Wrestling/BaronCorbin.
** Wrestling/JeffJarrett after his FaceHeelTurn.

* BullyingADragon: The drawback of being a lone drifter is that you have no friends to give you advice when you're about to do something incredibly stupid - like smash a guitar over the neck of '''[[Wrestling/BraunStrowman BRAUN FREAKING STROWMAN.]]''' Predictably, Braun was not happy about this, and he responded the next week by beating the hell out of Elias, dragging him up the ramp, and then returning the favor with a ''double bass.'' You know, the giant stringed instrument that's taller than most grown men.

** "Who wants to walk with the Drifter[=/=]Elias?"

** And yet the very next day, on Smackdown Live, he said that as the "biggest acquisition of Smackdown Live" by Wrestling/VinceMcmahon, he will be [[TemptingFate "taking the rei(g)ns" of the show]]. [[spoiler:Cue [[Wrestling/RomanReigns The Big Dog]]]].

** The next week, on the RAW's Superstar Shakeup show, he said that if [[TemptingFate anyone interrupts him]], they will never "be able to show thir face again!" [[spoiler:Cue Wrestling/ReyMysterio]].

** The next week, on the RAW's Superstar Shakeup show, he said that if [[TemptingFate anyone interrupts him]], they will never "be able to show thir face again!" Cue Wrestling/ReyMysterio.
** And yet the very next day, on Smackdown Live, he said that as the "biggest acquisition of Smackdown Live" by Wrestling/VinceMcmahon, he will be [[TemptingFate "taking the rei(g)ns" of the show]]. Cue [[Wrestling/RomanReigns The Big Dog]].

* FiveSecondForeshadowing:

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: During the Raw after Wrestlemania 35, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRUihzQvBMo he spoke on]] Wrestling/JohnCena's interrupting his Wrestlemania segment, notably saying that "the next one to interrupt [him] [[TemptingFate is a]] [[ExactWords dead man]]." [[spoiler:Cue [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker gong]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[FunWithAcronyms Walk. With. Elias]].]]
-->''"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was in my own world there, while [[Wrestling/BaronCorbin you]] were rambling and sucking the entertainment out of the building I was writing a song in my head that I'm going to sing right now, so if you could just silence your cell phone, hold your applause until after I'm finished, and most importantly do me a favor and shut your damn mouth!"''