Basic Trope: Someone uses Professional Wrestling moves in an unlikely place.
- Straight: In the middle of an otherwise fairly realistic Fight Scene, Bob delivers a vertical suplex to a Mook.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob then performs the Three Amigos on another mook. Then, near a light pole, he hits an improvised 619 on yet another mook, and once he gets to The Brute, the two enter a 5 minute long bare chested chopping contest that will make WALTER, Ric Flair, and Kenta Kobashi proud. At the end of Bob's adventure, he's got the Big Bad on the torture rack up on a massive roofed cage after chokeslamming the bastard off of it, before hitting the Burning Hammer on a steel chair, causing the roof to collapse, and the Big Bad's head to just splatter open at the sheer impact of the move.
- Alternatively, EVERYONE does wrestling moves.
- Downplayed:
- Justified:
- Bob is a professional wrestler, and rather than start a riot, he wants to convince onlooker it's All Part of the Show.
- Bob is a superhuman who mostly Fights Like a Normal, but his particular suite of superpowers makes normally unrealistic moves at least plausible.
- Inverted: Masked Luchador El Santo Del Fuego uses Good Old Fisticuffs.
- Subverted: Bob is unable to suplex a mook because the mook is unwilling to go along with the maneuver...
- Double Subverted: ...So Bob gets frustrated, kicks him in the stomach, and powerbombs him.
- Parodied:
- Near the end of the fight, Bob puts on sunglasses, a yellow bandana, and a feather boa and proceeds to perform Hulk Hogan's comeback sequence dramatic including no selling punches, dramatic pointing gestures, and plenty of flexing and raging.
- Bob pins the last Mook in a street fight for a three count, and then his theme song starts playing.
- Zig Zagged: In his first real fight, Bob tries to suplex a mook and fails. A few episodes later, Bob ends a street fight with a Texas Cloverleaf. The next season, Bob seems to only use Boring, but Practical maneuvers in real fights that would work in or out of a wrestling ring. In the finale, he finishes the Big Bad with Burning Hammer.
- Averted: Nobody uses a Professional Wrestling maneuver in a Fight Scene.
- Enforced:
- The character of Bob is being played by a well-known professional wrestler, and Executive Meddling required him to perform his signature maneuvers in order to please his fan base.
- Bob isn't a wrestler, but is in a crossover for a wrestling game and so it would be weird if he DIDN'T have a special move or so.
- Lampshaded: "Bob, did you just power bomb a man in real life? Who does that!?"
- Invoked:
- In order to activate his Heroic Second Wind, Alice turns up the lights in the abandoned arena and starts playing Bob's Theme Tune.
- The villains invite Bob to fight in a place littered with steel chairs and kendo sticks.
- Exploited: Charlie sees Bob coming in his luchador mask, cape, and wrestling tights and waits for him to throw a big dramatic dropkick or lariat before launching a brutal counterattack, being a lariat / dropkick of his own.
- Defied: Bob point out that many maneuvers require the aid of your opponent to work, and settles for judo.
- Discussed: "Did you catch the RAW marathon last night?" "Yes, why do you ask?"
- Conversed: "Why does the Mighty Glacier in every fighting game use Professional Wrestling moves regardless of his stated fighting style?"
- Implied: We only see the faces of the onlookers throughout Bob's fight. At one point, there is a whirl and a scream, and a man in the background asks if he just saw a suplex.
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