History Wrestling / VinceMcMahon

* SatanicArchetype: He gets played up as this a lot, especially evident in his theme song and when he's paired against Shawn Michaels' Messianic Archetype. Hell, he fought ''God Himself'' at Backlash 2006.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: An unusual variant in that Vince loves making stars of wrestlers who aren't necessarily hated by the crowd, but that are other promoters' {{CreatorsPest}}s. Whether it was Wrestling/HulkHogan being let go by Verne Gagne, Ole Anderson thinking that Wrestling/TheUndertaker and Wrestling/MickFoley [[ItWillNeverCatchOn wouldn't draw]], [[PointyHairedBoss Jim Herd]] believing Wrestling/RicFlair was too old to wrestle anymore or Wrestling/KevinNash considering the likes of Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/ChrisJericho "vanilla midgets", Vince gave all these men his title belts and drew massive amounts of money in the process.

* EasilyForgiven: As noted under OrwellianEditor below, Vince has had nasty real-life feuds with a lot of wrestlers and other promoters. It'd be in character for Vince to permanently run them out of the business, but he's brought many of them back into his fold if they were capable of drawing.

* OrwellianEditor
** Vince [=McMahon=] created his WWF juggernaut by poaching talent from territorial companies and assimilating them into his company. Then Wrestling/EricBischoff and Wrestling/{{WCW}} started stealing WWF talent at the height of the Wrestling/MondayNightWars. Three guesses as to which of these situations had Vince [=McMahon=] crying about how unfair things were...
** If WWE were hurting for money, they would incorporate WCW's achievements into the history and "canon" of WWE. But that is unlikely to happen while Vince is in charge because 1) he doesn't seem too fond of acknowledging wrestling history as it is and 2) defeating/buying out his rivals is a highlight of his career and he's not quite done reminding people of it.
** On a RAW episode that took place in 2/01/10, Vince buried Wrestling/BretHart for having "no personality, no command of the English Language, and having a hound-dog looking face." Ironically, [[Wrestling/TheGreatKhali a certain former WWE wrestler]] fits the description as well.
** That man brought '''ERIC BISCHOFF''' into the WWE, gave him a paycheck and a prominent spot on the show as the top heel authority figure for years. Vince never held a grudge as long as there was business to be done. Bret Hart, Nash and Hall, Hogan, Sable, New Age Outlaws, Jake Roberts, Warrior, Bruno Sammartino... all people who at one point or another had major issues with WWE, filed lawsuits against them, trashed them in the press, and yet, all were invited back for the sake of entertainment. Except Macho Man.

*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] with Orton, as he'd won the ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'' and was thus promised a world title match at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}}'', and had threatened to sue WWE and get a court order to stop ''[=WrestleMania=]'' from taking place if he was fired before the event. He changed tack and started demanding he be fired after realizing how much it would hurt the [=McMahon=] family to not have the event take place.

** {{Subverted|Trope}} in 2003 during Vince's feud with Hulk Hogan. Vince ''tried'' a complex scheme to fire Hogan, but failed... so he simply decided to not book Hogan, and instead just pay him to stay home. [[CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown "Mr. America"]] would soon appear to avenge Hogan's honor; however [[TooDumbToLive Mr America unmasked himself to be Hogan to the MSG audience,]] thus giving Vince, [[NoNonsenseNemesis now done playing games]], [[TheBadGuyWins the loophole he needed to fire Hogan]].

** Ted Turner and Wrestling/{{WCW}}, of course. Vince's current version of events is that Ted Turner was personally handling the day-to-day affairs of WCW, rather than a massive media conglomerate of which WCW was just a small part; it's the linchpin of the whole legend. The Monday Night War was orchestrated entirely by Ted Turner as part of personal vendetta against [=Vince McMahon=]. WWE can't lower themselves to admit that the only person out to get them was little old Eric Bischoff.

Vincent Kennedy [=McMahon=] Jr. (born August 24, 1945) is a third generation ProfessionalWrestling promoter, chairman and CEO of Wrestling/{{WWE}}, American football executive, actor, sporadic wrestler, and patriarch of the [=McMahon=] WrestlingFamily. He is also the man who revolutionized professional wrestling forever by taking the World Wrestling Federation and turning it from a regional territory into a mainstream national promotion in the mid-1980s, where it enjoyed massive success and eventually turned into the multi-billion dollar empire we now know as World Wrestling Entertainment.

Vincent Kennedy [=McMahon=], Jr. (born August 24, 1945) is a third generation ProfessionalWrestling promoter, chairman and CEO of Wrestling/{{WWE}}, American football executive, actor, sporadic wrestler, and patriarch of the [=McMahon=] WrestlingFamily. He is also the man who revolutionized professional wrestling forever by taking the World Wrestling Federation and turning it from a regional territory into a mainstream national promotion in the mid-1980s, where it enjoyed massive success and eventually turned into the multi-billion dollar empire we now know as World Wrestling Entertainment.

Vincent Kennedy "Vince" [=McMahon=], Jr. (born August 24, 1945 in Pinehurst, North Carolina) is a third generation ProfessionalWrestling promoter, chairman and CEO of Wrestling/{{WWE}}, American football executive, actor, sporadic wrestler, and patriarch of the [=McMahon=] WrestlingFamily. He is also the man who revolutionized professional wrestling forever by taking the World Wrestling Federation and turning it from a regional territory into a mainstream national promotion in the mid-1980s, where it enjoyed massive success and eventually turned into the multi-billion dollar empire we now know as World Wrestling Entertainment.

** It's historically proven that Vince [[PrejudicedForPecs loves big, muscular men]], and he will push them, regardless of talent. High-flyers tend to get the short end of the stick.\\\
It was even more apparent in the 80's, when they either had talent but were forced to hide it ([[Wrestling/HulkHogan Hogan]]) or had zero skill in the ring ([[Wrestling/UltimateWarrior Warrior]]). As time went on, smaller--yet more talented--wrestlers were given chances.
*** As of 2015, the most popular person on the show is Dean Ambrose. Saying he's not 'over' is irrational because you HEAR the crowd chanting his name. Instead, Vince turns to the guy he wishes he could be: long hair, blue eyes [fake], built like a quarterback. Except for a random awful backstage segment or two, Wrestling/{{Roman|Reigns}} segments eat almost all of the live promo time.\\\
Could you imagine how good [[Wrestling/KevinSteen Owens]][=/=][[Wrestling/DeanAmbrose Ambrose]] promos could be? Two of your best mic guys and all they get in a month is '''a popcorn-throwing segment?''' (Put another way, if you had an excavator and a Ferrari, wouldn't you rather [[ViolationOfCommonSense race in the excavator and dig with the Ferrari?]] It's just how things are done in Stamford, Connecticut.)
*** Brakkus and Chris Masters would seem to be aversions of this, as the former only got a few TV appearances and the latter got pushed as hard as possible without ever winning a title in his first run, then came back much better, got somewhat over, then was given jobber duty. Of course, Masters came back much smaller because he had stopped taking steroids. Make of that what you will.

*** Part of the "bigger guys" thing is simply that they have more of a physical presence, since it's easier to make a guy look intimidating when he's bigger or taller (and it gives the announcers a go-to factoid to repeat during a dull part in a match.) While WWE isn't filled with complete giants right now, most of the wrestlers considered "average-sized" by WWE standards (guys not pushed as giants, such as Cena, Wrestling/{{Edge}}, [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Morrison]]) are at least 6'2" and over 220 pounds, which is considered above average for the typical man. The only really prominent smaller guys are Mysterio and Wrestling/EvanBourne, who are closer to the American average of 5'9" (Mysterio is in fact considerably shorter than that).

** It happened again in 1999, when during an Inferno match between The Undertaker and [=Kane=], Wrestling/MichaelCole mentioned that The Undertaker was answering to a "Higher Power", in which Vince replied "Well tonight he's answering to me!!" [[HijackedByGanon Vince would later be revealed to be the Higher Power all along]]. Could also be considered FridgeBrilliance, even if it wasn't intentional.
** [[http://youtu.be/bEIqKSpwM0Q This interview]] with Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin in 1996 after Stone cold attacked BrianPillman, Stone Cold's line. "You're the boss why don't you do something to me?". Come 1998.

* GoneHorriblyRight: A RealLife example at the end of ''Survivor Series 2015''. He had Sheamus cash in his Money In The Bank out of fear of Reigns getting too much XPacHeat for being the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion. As far as Reigns was concerned, it worked: the fans finally began getting behind him out of sympathy. But as far as both Sheamus and Vince himself were concerned, the fans suddenly found new targets for their displeasure, quickly culminating in some of the absolute worst ratings in the company's history.

** When Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho displayed the video of him singing [[OldShame "Stand Back"]] on the Titantron;

** In 2006, he booked himself against God (and Shawn Michaels) in a PPV match, a feud in which he healed Candice Michelle of a chest cold in an orgasmic frenzy simply by touching her chest and did a rambling prayer promo to himself in the middle of a church. ([[CrossesTheLineTwice God "appeared" in the match in the form of a spotlight before "walking out" of the match, BTW, and [=McMahon=], well, he couldn't keep from talking about it that night.]])
** After losing the ECW Championship at ''One Night Stand 2007'', Mr. [=McMahon=] started to behave more erratically in the following weeks that would lead to his "death" in a limousine explosion. (However, [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents this would soon be dropped abruptly]] [[RealLifeWritesThePlot due to the real life death of]] Wrestling/ChrisBenoit. Once WWE was ready to pick up the storyline again, Vince explained that it was a ruse to see what people actually thought of him, including his own family.)

** We're talking about a promoter who allowed himself to get his head shaved by Donald Trump, take several wrestlers' finishers, get hit with steel chairs, have his face shoved into Wrestling/TheBigShow and Wrestling/{{Rikishi}}'s backsides, getting literally whipped with a belt, and [[DiscontinuityNod allowed wrestlers to make fun of]] [[OldShame his "Stand Back" music video]]...

---->'''[[http://uproxx.com/sports/2012/07/the-best-and-worst-of-wwf-monday-night-raw-episode-1/2/ Brandon Stroud]]:''' I’ve been online long enough to have made fun of Tony Schiavone for thinking every episode of ''Nitro'' was the [[WelcomeToCorneria Greatest Night In The History Of Our Sport]], but Vince thought '''[[{{Keet}} EVERY SECOND OF EVERYTHING]]''' was the most amazing thing he’d ever seen, and f**king Samu or whoever would throw a hip toss and Vince would open his f**king eggsac and start screaming AHHNN BAAAAH LIEVABLEEEEEE.

** After losing the ECW Championship at ''One Night Stand 2007'', Mr. [=McMahon=] started to behave more erratically in the following weeks that would lead to his "death" in a limousine explosion. (However, [[TooSoon this would soon be dropped abruptly]] [[RealLifeWritesThePlot due to the real life death of]] Wrestling/ChrisBenoit. Once WWE was ready to pick up the storyline again, Vince explained that it was a ruse to see what people actually thought of him, including his own family.)

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: One storyline had Mankind blackmail Vince into giving him a title shot by attacking Shane and refusing to stop unless Vince gave him a WWE title match against the Rock. Vince was clearly anguished by his son's pain and grnated the request.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: One storyline had Mankind blackmail Vince into giving him a title shot by attacking Shane and refusing to stop unless Vince gave a WWE title match against the Rock. Vince was clearly anguished by his son's pain and grnated the request.

* ItRunsInTheFamily[=/=]WrestlingFamily: The whole [=McMahon=] family, including the in-laws.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Vince is a third generation wrestling promoter. His kids are fourth-generation promoters and have also shown themselves to be as reckless and borderline crazy as he is.

* HumiliationConga: Seems to get humiliated annually at ''[=WrestleMania=]''.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Way back in 1997 a ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers New York Times]]'' writer named Phil Mushnick targeted professional wrestling. He hated the sport, hated the fans, wasn't content to change the channel and wanted to take away people's rights. Wrestling/JimCornette spoke his mind on the issue and after another segment where fan opinions were voiced Vince read out the address to send Mr. Mushnick their opinion, before stating he can think of a letter to send himself. At the time few knew Vinnie Mac ran the WWF and as owner he would rightly have a few choice comments to make.

* TheBadGuyWins: For someone who believes he should never be on the winning end of a feud, Vince came out on top of all of his feuds in 2003: Firing Wrestling/HulkHogan as "Mr. America," bullying one-legged Zack Gowan and winning their match at ''The Great American Bash'', masterminding Wrestling/BrockLesnar's FaceHeelTurn and eventual WWE Championship victory over Wrestling/KurtAngle (not to mention removing the aforementioned Gowan from WWE in the process by having Lesnar throw him down a flight of stairs), arranging for Wrestling/EricBischoff to invade [=McMahon=]'s house so Bischoff could force himself on ''[[Characters/WWEMcMahonFamily Vince's wife]]'' while letting him get off scot-free for it, defeating ''[[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon his own daughter]]'' in an I Quit Match in order to get her removed as Smackdown GM, and burying Wrestling/TheUndertaker alive with the help of Wrestling/{{Kane}}. He was left a bloodied wreck dispised by everyone around him by the end of it, but maintained all the power plays and victories he had gained unnegated, heavily downplaying the PyrricVictory aspect.