Trivia / Bullet Club

• Ascended Fan Nickname: The finishing moved that received the Fan Nickname of the Fatality was specifically called as such on Ring of Honor's 14th Anniversary Show. The "Fatality" name later also applied to Adam Cole's Last Shot when preceded by superkicks, meaning it probably applies to any finisher where that happens.
• Follow the Leader: Well known as one of the more popular nWo imitators, who have managed to retain their own popularity longer than the original (mostly because Bullet Club is not quite invincible), to the point Bullet Club has its own following groups. Ky-ote Joe's Arrow Club, an indiginal Amerindian stable rather than a foreign one nonetheless started by a junior heavyweight, seems like a coincidental case that decided to run with it, but the Victoria Australia based PCW "Bullet Kliq" is a blatant cash in, complete with foreigners.
• Romance on the Set
  • Amber O'Neal/Gallows was married to Doc Gallows in Real Life. She's also ten years older than him.
  • Bad Luck Fale is dating Yujiro's scantily-clad valet "Tokyo Latina" Pieter.
• So My Kids Can Watch: Explained by Gallows to be the reason why the WWE off-shoot is simply called The Club, along with taking out all bullet-themed imagery like the gun taunts. Aside from the Bullet Club name being owned by NJPW and legally out of their reach, he says it fit the family-friendly vibes WWE was looking for and personally made it easier for his children to watch his stuff.
• Wag the Director: Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks became this via their YouTube channel as The Elite, as its kayfabe content slowly progressed from comedic skits into a major part of a serious build for a feud between Omega and Adam Cole across New Japan and Ring of Honor, meant to culminate in at least one match between the two for ROH during his farewell with the company in Florida. They wound up incorporating legitimate events, such as Nick's food poisoning and Omega's Visa issues keeping him away from the ROH shows, into the storyline as being the handiwork of Cole blatantly playing The Starscream (which was portrayed early on with him trying to "fire" the Bucks after he lost the ROH title to Daniels). Instead of Cole vs. Omega, thanks to the Visa issues, the payoff to the story turned out to be Marty Scurll joining the Bullet Club, replacing Cole, and being the one to beat him on his exit. NJPW made the call to have Scurll join the Club and represent them at the 2017 Best of Super Juniors tournament after seeing the positive fan response to his appearances on the channel, but they wanted him to simply tweet his membership, which the Bucks protested as they considered it a waste of storytelling opportunity. So instead they reworked the plot to have Scurll revealed at the War of the Worlds event where Cole was to be kicked out, plugging him into Kenny's place as Cole's final opponent, even filming Kenny's "Consider yourself fired" screen promo on some pretty short notice. That said, NJPW (or Gedo, more specifically) plan all of the Club's storylines and future members far in advance, so the Elite (as with almost all other New Japan talent) need to earn the company's blessing before moving on with any other ideas.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally it was just going to be Devitt and Fale as a duo. It was due to the chemistry and that the first four members were good friends that they were all put together.
  • Following Devitt's departure for NXT, Omega was considered to be the faction's next leader, but was held off due to Styles' arrival in 2014. For that matter, Styles winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship on the Bullet Club's one-year anniversary is highly hinted to have been the original plan intended for Devitt, which would mean AJ was chosen as soon as he was available specifically as a more certain plug to fill that void due to being so seasoned and renowned as an elite wrestler, whereas Omega was still unproven as a top player at that point. Kenny would join the group a few months after AJ's debut, and it would take a bit over a year before he properly took control of Bullet Club by ousting AJ when he too left for WWE.
  • Tama Tonga had been pitching for his brother to come to NJPW and team up with him all the way back during the time of AJ Styles' run, while NJPW remained reluctant to bring Tanga Loa into the fold. When Styles, Anderson and Gallows left for WWE at the start of 2016 along with Shinsuke Nakamura, Tama was close to joining them as well; however, Bad Luck Fale and Gedo both remembered Tama's desire to team with his brother and convinced NJPW to sign Loa to the company in order to keep him. In hindsight, this act very likely preserved the future of Bullet Club.
  • Jay White stated when he joined the club that he'd left a mole within CHAOS, but this was never followed up on for several reasons. The storyline between Chuckie T and Beretta hinting at the Best Friends' falling out had been torpedoed when the two left for AEW in 2019, which meant neither one of them could be the guy. Jay being stuck in America for most of 2020 and 2021 forced storylines to switch course, resulting in EVIL betraying LIJ instead and becoming a co-leader to BC. When the two later obvious candidates (Ospreay and Sho) turned on CHAOS, Jay was nowhere to be seen for either of them; in fact he very quickly declared on Twitter that he did not want Ospreay in Bullet Club. Sho ended up joining EVIL's sub-unit and Ospreay formed his own stable. The closest we got to any payoff for the mole angle was KENTA, who'd been brought into NJPW by a respected ally of CHAOS (Shibata) only to betray them and join The Club, and this was attributed to Tama Tonga's recruiting^* and his friendly background with The Prince elsewhere instead.

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