YMMV / Big Show

• Base-Breaking Character: His entire angle with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon in the closing months of 2013. On one hand, it was nice to see him getting involved in the main event again. On the other…fans were displeased that Big Show had supplanted Daniel Bryan as the anti-authority rebel for fans to cheer. His match against Randy Orton wasn't exactly a thriller either.
• Creator's Pet: He is one of those wrestlers that WWE tends to push more often because of his size. In later years, he's become a symbol of the problems a lot of people have with WWE's booking, as he appears quite frequently, whether Face or Heel, and he often wins over newer wrestlers, while fans agree he hasn't been interesting in years. He's also older and has more injuries than other wrestlers, so his matches don't tend to be great, either.
  • His on-and-off teaming with Kane has never really been well received, but officially went into this territory when they teamed up as part of the Authority. It has reached the point that the "Local Men Ruin Everything" meme has been disparagingly slapped on them.
• Fan Nickname:
  • The Big Slow, originally coined by The Rock.
  • Pig Slow, according to Scott Keith, who has no room to talk.
• Fanon Discontinuity: That he started his career in WCW as the Giant of the Dungeon of Doom tends to be either overlooked, ignored, or unknown to some people. There are even fansites for him that only cover his WWE run in the gallery sections.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: His reasoning for joining the New World Order in Kayfabe was that he wasn't paid enough by WCW and was envious of Hulk Hogan and his huge mansion. He later appeared on Stone Cold's podcast, where he discussed his pay in WCW. While numbers weren't specified, both agreed that his pay was far less than it should have been for someone on the top of the card, but he was too inexperienced at the time to know this.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • His Heel–Face Revolving Door has been the butt of jokes among wrestling fans for many years now.
  • Thanks to The Mark Remark, "I'm havin' fun!"
  • Whenever Big Show is mentioned trying to modify his contract, fans joke about his "ironclad contract" given to him by John Laurinaitis.
  • The "WEEEEEEEEEEEELL" that started his famous WWE theme became so iconic it carried over on All Elite Wrestling (with the same singer, no less)
• Narm Charm: The angle where John Laurinaitis fired a weeping Show could not have been done with anyone else.
• Never Live It Down: His 45 second World title reign.^note It's really nearly a two-minute reign, but WWE has retconned it into 45 seconds in storyline
• One-Scene Wonder: His memorable one-scene cameos as the giant Santa in Jingle All the Way and as Captain Insano in The Waterboy.
  Giant Santa: I'm gonna deck your halls, bub.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: In the first half of his WWE run, Wight was badly overweight and couldn't do many of the moves that made him famous during his WCW tenure, making the fans wonder just why he was being pushed as a main eventer. Thankfully, he took some time off, lost much of his excess weight, and came back a much better wrestler.
  • In his first year in WWE, however, he was probably as in shape as he's ever been and was capable of dropkicks and kip-ups (though he usually held a rope but still). As time went on, injuries and weight dragged his agility way down.
• The Scrappy:
  • He and Kane became this in 2015 as The Authority's twin titans to the point they are repeatedly accused of ruining everything they touch. The two's anticlimactic garbage-dumping eliminations of several crowd favorites in the 2015 Royal Rumble, along with Show's victory in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at Mania 31^note his WWE TV/PPV battle royal record prior to this match was 2-33, have been described as making the roster look like the weakest it's been in Show's time there, and since then, Show has been peppered with chants telling him to "Please Retire!" until late 2016.
  • Nobody likes him on commentary on AEW Dark because his commentary is banal and he has a tendency to bury the local enhancement talent. This tendency is exacerbated when he is paired with Mark Henry.
• Shocking Moments: When he's in a feud with another big man, things will get broken:
  • His first match with The Undertaker led to him chokeslamming 'Taker through the ring.
  • His famous superplex at the hands of Brock Lesnar. Lampshaded by Tazz.
  Tazz: HOLY SHIT!
  • Similarly lampshaded back in WCW when Goldberg was readying the Jackhammer.
  7'4", 550! Can he get him up in a Jackhammer?
  If he does, the roof's coming off this joint!
  • Slamming JBL through the ring in a Cage Match.
  • Recently, Mark Henry knocking him through the side of a cage.
    • Also, Mark Henry and Show repeating the Show/Lesnar spot mentioned above.
  • In WCW, he once hit Scott Steiner with a missile dropkick, launching Steiner across the ring and on his head.
  • Show breaks the ring for the third time, this time being superplexed by Braun Strowman.
  • Just signing a contract with All Elite Wrestling; almost entirely because absolutely nobody saw it coming.
• Unexpected Character: As mentioned above, his suddenly leaving WWE to sign with AEW came out of nowhere. With just about every other WWE to AEW move, there had been at least a short period of free agency during which plenty of speculation could exist^note Sting's debut was preceded by the conspicuous withdrawal of his merchandise from WWE's store, Christian Cage was known to be a free agent and was conspicuously absent from WWE despite a very well-received Royal Rumble 2021 appearance, the likes of Miro, FTR, and Brodie Lee had all left the company under acrimonious circumstances, and so on. Big Show, on the other hand, had largely been considered loyal to WWE, and practically nobody knew his contract had even expired before the new signing was announced.
• The Woobie: During his late 1999 feud with The Big Bossman. Not only did Bossman frequently mock his dying (later dead) father, but he also tricked his mother into revealing, live on Raw, that Show was an illegitimate son. May also fall under Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds since Show was also WWF champion for part of the feud and, at one point, got a bit of revenge by pushing a skip onto a car where Bossman and his Dragon Prince Albert were hiding.
• X-Pac Heat: Two words for ya—"PLEASE RETIRE!"
  • It's reached a point where some are stating they should rename this trope "Big Show Heat".
  • Finally subverted as of late 2016, possibly due to his weight loss and subsequent muscle gain, looking in even better shape than his time in WCW. This coincided with WWE finding a perfect opponent for him to work with in Braun Strowman, who Show manages to bring the best out of.