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  • When Omega stole both AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura's finishing moves on their way out of NJPW as a form of "taking their mantles" for heel heat, he renamed Shinsuke's Boma Ye running knee the V-Trigger. Obviously the name is a Shout-Out to Street Fighter V, but there's also the fact that triggers are what you pull to fire bullets from guns, so it stays faithful to the Bullet Club motif.
  • Omega taking Styles and Nakamura's finishing moves also plays into Omega being a Mega Man Fanboy – having "defeated" Styles and Nakamura in the same night, he followed in the Blue Bomber's footsteps and obtained their signature "weapons" in the process.
  • In his historic G1 Climax final victory, Omega once again used the Styles Clash, but alongside Prince Devitt/Finn Bálor's Bloody Sunday/1916. Being that the parallel involves the finishing moves of both the club's former top guys, and that after the match Omega declined to wave the flag of the G1 Climax tournament in favor of waving the Bullet Club flag, this changed the nature of his use of AJ's move from a Take That! for Cheap Heat to a respectful tribute. A few months earlier AJ had just turned back heel in WWE to cement his union with Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows, and Omega's Elite partners The Young Bucks promptly "forgave" AJ on Twitter, showing that Styles was back in the good graces of all of Bullet Club — a notion which Omega all but confirmed by showcasing AJ's "mantle" in a position of respect during the highest accolade of his career.
    • In light of The Elite vs. BCOG schism and separation in the ensuing years, this takes on a more disappointing meaning in the eyes of Bullet Club, in that Omega using Devitt's move next to Styles' only gave the appearance of respect so BC could be more assured of The Elite's loyalty. This is almost given away in how The Young Bucks were the offenders in the issue with Styles yet they were the ones who claimed to forgive him, indicating a stealth jab. During The Elite's ejection from Bullet Club, Tama attempted to hit Kenny with a Styles Clash during their match at the G1 Climax tournament, only to have the chair he wanted to do it on kicked away by the referee.
  • The V-Trigger is occasionally used as one of Kenny's signature moves, usually done in the middle of the match or as a lead-up to his One Winged Angel. It actually makes sense considering how the V-Trigger works in its namesake game: Kenny builds up to the move by receiving damage over the course of the match and uses it as a way to turn the tide in his favor. He rarely spams it either (only on certain occasions), considering how V-Triggers need to be built up again before it can be used.
  • Of all the people Omega chose to take out Adam Cole, why Marty Scurll? Simple: the prestigious Best of the Super Juniors tournament is coming up, and since Kenny "graduated" from the division Bullet Club hasn't had a proper Junior Heavyweight ace in over a year. (Ironic considering the club's founder and original leader cemented himself as one of the most decorated juniors in New Japan history and is a two-time winner of the tournament himself.) Not only would the debuting Scurll make a formidable entrant for BOSJ, he's also a worthy foil for arguably the two top threats in the tournament, Will Ospreay (last year's winner, Chaos's representative and a longtime Arch-Enemy of his from the UK indie scene) and Hiromu Takahashi (the current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and something of a lunatic himself). Cole himself could've filled this role, but was more focused on using the Club to take back over ROH from the start, and the
  • For Halloween '19, Kenny decides to dress up as Sans. This doesn't seem to fit as Sans (as a costume), for those who are aware of San's "inclusion" into Smash Bros. Ultimate is for the Mii Gunner...but wait, that also can relate to the whole Bullet Club motif right?

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