History Wrestling / TheDarkOrder

The Dark Order is a ProfessionalWrestling PowerStable on Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling currently consisting of [[Wrestling/TheSuperSmashBrothers Evil Uno]], Alex Reynolds, John Silver, 10 (Preston Vance), and -1 (Mr. Brodie Lee Jr.)[[note]]While only 8 years old when inducted into his father's group, Brodie Lee Jr. has actually been signed to an official AEW contract[[/note]].

* {{Corpsing}}: With how over the top some of the group's BTE segments can get, this becomes a common occurrence. Reynolds nearly fell into this and Mr. Brodie turned it around by asking him if he was going to cry. Silver nearly always has a smile on his face during the segments as if he is trying to hold himself back from laughing. Even Mr. Brodie had an instance of this when [[ItMakesSenseInContext Trent's real mother spectacularly failed to throw papers at Silver]].

The Dark Order is a ProfessionalWrestling PowerStable on Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling currently consisting of [[Wrestling/TheSuperSmashBrothers Evil Uno, Stu Grayson]], Wrestling/ColtCabana, Alex Reynolds, John Silver, 10 (Preston Vance), 5 (Alan Angels), Anna Jay and -1 (Mr. Brodie Lee Jr.)[[note]]While only 8 years old when inducted into his father's group, Brodie Lee Jr. has actually been signed to an official AEW contract[[/note]].

** On night 2 of the 2021 New Year's Smash the group confirmed that they would be faces going forward, in honour of Brodie Lee. They supported Tay Conti for her match against NWA Women's Champion Serena Deeb and, rather than trying to cheat to help her win, Anna Jay only consoled Tay after her spirited loss. They later made a genuine attempt to befriend a depressed Wrestling/AdamPage, and even when he refused to join the Order (because of the trust issues he's been left with after losing his friends in Wrestling/TheElite) the were sad but accepting, and have even continued to help him during his feud against Wrestling/MattHardy.

* BaldOfAwesome: Grayson, Silver and Angels are all bald. Doubled as BaldOfEvil in their initial Heel run.

The Dark Order is a ProfessionalWrestling PowerStable on Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling currently consisting of [[Wrestling/TheSuperSmashBrothers Evil Uno, Stu Grayson]], Wrestling/ColtCabana, Alex Reynolds, John Silver, 10 (Preston Vance), 5 (Alan Angels), Anna Jay and -1 (Brodie Lee Jr.)[[note]]While only 8 years old when inducted into his father's group, Brodie Lee Jr. has actually been signed to an official AEW contract[[/note]].

* ReimaginingTheArtifact: The Dark Order's numerical scheme originated as a holdover from Uno and Grayson's time as the video game-themed tag team "The Super Smash Brothers", when they called themselves "Player Uno" and "Player Dos". They repurposed it to fit the Dark Order's theming by explaining that the organization [[YouAreNumberSix assigned a number to all members]] to indicate their ranking relative to the Exalted One.

* YoungAndInCharge: -1 took charge of the group after his father's passing. He's still a child, with the rest of the group often having to reign in some of his impulses.

The Dark Order is a ProfessionalWrestling PowerStable on Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling currently consisting of [[Wrestling/TheSuperSmashBrothers Evil Uno, Stu Grayson]], Wrestling/ColtCabana, Alex Reynolds, John Silver, 10 (Preston Vance), 5 (Alan Angels), Anna Jay, -1 (Brodie Lee Jr.)[[note]]While only 8 years old when inducted into his father's group, Brodie Lee Jr. has actually been signed to an official AEW contract[[/note]] and their masked henchmen, the Creepers.

* BadassBeard: Grayson, Silver and Angels all sport these. Doubled as BeardOfEvil in their initial Heel run.

Starting in 2020, Evil Uno began to tease the arrival of his superior, the Exalted One, who would later be revealed to be none other than [[Wrestling/TheWyattFamily Wyatt Family]] alumnus Luke Harper, now under his original ring name [[Wrestling/LukeHarper Mr. Brodie Lee]]. On the August 22 episode of ''Dynamite'' he defeated Wrestling/{{Cody|Rhodes}} to win the AEW TNT Championship, the Dark Order's first title. Brodie Lee would hold onto the TNT championship for 8 weeks defeating Dustin Rhodes and Orange Cassidy before Cody reclaimed the title in a dog collar match on the October 7 episode of ''Dynamite''.

* BeardOfAwesome: Grayson, Silver and Angels all sport these. Doubled as BeardOfEvil in their initial Heel run.

* BaldOfEvil: Grayson, Silver and Angels are all bald.
* BeardOfEvil:
** Grayson, Silver and Angels all sport these.
** Mr. Brodie Lee also retained his trademark beard, albeit more trimmed and groomed.

** After Mr. Brodie Lee took his leave of absence, Alan Angels shifted positions with John Silver, becoming the victim of comedic verbal abuse from the rest of group.

** Evil Uno, Five and Ten are never seen without them.[[note]]Five and Ten appeared unmasked in the ''BTE'' tribute episode following Brodie Lee’s passing in December 2020, but were back wearing the masks on the subsequent episode of ''Dynamite''. Five would eventually decide to keep his mask off after the AHouseDivided arc.[[/note]]

** Evil Uno, Five and Ten are never seen without them.[[note]]Five and Ten appeared unmasked in the ''BTE'' tribute episode following Brodie Lee’s passing in December 2020, but were back wearing the masks on the subsequent episode of ''Dynamite''.[[/note]]

** The December 30th 2020 episode of ''Dynamite'', which was the Brodie Lee tribute episode and featured the Dark Order teaming with various faces throughout the night, featured the in-universe justification (Courtesy of Wrestling/ChrisJericho) that the face locker room had no love lost for the Dark Order, but had nevertheless embraced them for the night due to Mr. Brodie Lee’s untimely passing.

** Evil Uno & Stu Grayson were absent for several months due to being unable to travel from Canada due to travel restrictions in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic; subsequently they had no part in the early months of Mr. Brodie Lee’s tenure in the group.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Initially they only had one female member, Anna Jay, who they recruited after she suffered [[SquashMatch an ego-crushing loss]] to Abadon. She wears a much more elegant masquerade ball-like mask than the male members do. After Anna had some moderate success in the Women's Tag Team Cup tournament teaming with Taynara Conti, the Order approached her for recruitment as well and she seemed receptive, although she has not as of the current moment made an official appearance as a member the group. When Anna was taken out with an injury, Tay basically stepped into this role as an associate member, with the full backing and support of the Order, even if she's still not an "official" member.

* AHouseDivided: After Hangman Page and Dark Order's loss against Kenny Omega and The Elite on the 7/28/2021 episode of Dynamite, Hangman blamed himself for the loss and Dark Order losing a shot at the AEW Tag Team championships and subsequently decided to step back from their alliance so that Dark Order would no longer be targeted by the Elite. Following this, Dark Order have been split between those who wanted to help him against the Elite versus those who felt it was best to respect his wishes, resulting in groups within the faction consisting of Uno, Grayson and Cabana, and Reynolds, Silver, Angels (5) and Vance (10), with Reynolds ultimately walking away from the group after tensions between himself and Uno reached a point.

** Reynolds, Silver and Angels all started out wearing matching trunks & masks; Reynolds & Silver ditched the masks whilst Reynolds & Angels switched from trunks to personalised tights.
** Ten started out with a white version of the Dark Order mask; at the start of 2021, he switched to new mask with a stylised “10” design. The design was further modified to incorporate the ComicBook/{{Joker}}’s color scheme after the original mask was damaged in a match.

** -1 has a set of ring gear that is essentially a personalised variant of 10’s, his favourite member of The Dark Order, down to having his number written on his chest.

* BadBoss: As the leader of a cult-like organisation that promotes the loss of individuality in the pursuit of power, Brodie Lee had a very casual attitude towards the welfare of the lesser members of the Dark Order. When Wrestling/JonMoxley responded to Lee's theft of the AEW Championship belt by beating up one of Lee's favoured acolytes, [[YouAreNumberSix 10]], in the ring and threatening to break his arm if Lee didn't come out and return the belt, Lee appeared on the screen and coldly stated "We all have to make sacrifices" before walking off, abandoning 10 to the tender mercies of Moxley who went on to prove he was ''not'' bluffing. Not to mention [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jsvjERWrsI what he had Evil Uno do]] to TheMole who'd infiltrated the Order...

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Dark Order originally debuted at ''Double or Nothing 2019'' as just the Grayson/Uno tag team with an assortment of nameless masked minions referred to as “Creepers” and remained in this format even as AEW Dynamite premiered on TNT in October 2019, with Grayson and Uno even taking part in the tournament to crown the inaugural AEW Tag Team champions; the first “#[=JoinDarkOrder=]” vignette didn’t air until a month after they were eliminated from the tournament, the Exalted One wasn’t mentioned until January 2020 with Evil Uno being portrayed as the leader of the group until that point, and slowly the various members of the group started being fleshed out on ''BTE'', leading to Dark a Order becoming a more comedic group that they were originally portrayed as.

* AHouseDivided: After Hangman Page and Dark Order's loss against Kenny Omega and The Elite on the 7/28/2021 episode of Dynamite, Hangman blamed himself for the loss and Dark Order losing a shot at the AEW Tag Team championships and subsequently decided to step back from their alliance so that Dark Order would no longer be targeted by the Elite. Following this, Dark Order have been split between those who wanted to help him against the Elite versus those who felt it was best to respect his wishes, resulting in a split in the group between Uno/Grayson/Cabana and Reynolds/Silver/Angels (5)/Vance (10), with Reynolds ultimately walking away from the group after tensions between himself and Uno reached a point.

* AHouseDivided: Ever since Hangman's loss against Kenny Omega on the 7/28/2021 episode of Dynamite, the Dark Order have been split between those who wanted to help him against the Elite vs. those who felt it was best to leave him alone. Alex Reynolds afterwards decided that he didn’t want to get involved, resulting in a split in the group between Uno/Grayson/Cabana and Reynolds/Angels (5)/Vance (10).

* AHouseDivided: Ever since Hangman's loss against Kenny Omega on the 7/28/2021 episode of Dynamite, the Dark Order have been split between those who wanted to help him against the Elite vs. those who felt it was best to leave him alone.

** Wrestling/TheElite. Not only were the Dark Order the first ones to stand against the newly reforged stable; tensions would only increase as Dark Order began championing Hangman Page’s claim to a shot at Wrestling/KennyOmega’s AEW World Heavyweight championship, with the Wrestling/TheYoungBucks outright banishing Dark Order from ''Being The Elite''.

The group debuted at Double or Nothing 2019, only consisting of Evil Uno, Stu Grayson, and a handful of Creepers, seemingly as a reference to supervillains seen on shows such as Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles and Franchise/PowerRangers. While reception of the group was initially mixed, the group began to gain interest when Evil Uno began to release a series of vignettes in order to recruit new members, leading to the addition of former jobbers Alex Reynolds and John Silver.