YMMV / Claudio Castagnoli

• Awesome Ego: As a heel, he was an arrogant, super athlete who thought he was better than everybody else and proved it by using ridiculous Cherry Tapping moves like the Giant Swing, it's just that it was so cool that he turned face by being awesome in the ring and being a good friend to Tyson Kidd. As a face he's basically the same showy, cocky guy, he just now he's added posing with his fans between bouts of ass-kicking, doesn't insult America anymore and still is a good friend to Tyson Kidd.
• Awesome Music: The Kings of Wrestling's Ring of Honor theme, KoW. His pre-siren theme songs as (Antonio) Cesaro, both alone and as part of The Real Americans.
• Broken Base:
  • Over Cesaro's brief run as a Paul Heyman guy. Most can agree that it killed Cesaro's rising babyface heat because the crowd wasn't sure whether to cheer or boo Cesaro, as he was managed by The One Behind The One in Twenty One and One. Where the break comes in is either you thought it was an awesome idea that failed due to lazy booking, or a terrible idea that was doomed to fall on its face.
  • Some people weren't too thrilled over his 2017 Face–Heel Turn with Sheamus, either, feeling that the turn didn't make the feud better and was therefore unnecessary, that Sheamus was the main one driving the team's newfound villainy, and that it contrived by WWE so that the fans wouldn't cheer Cesaro over the returning Hardy Boyz (prompting more discussion about WWE's willingness to trade the momentum of rising stars for nostalgia pops.)
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Has been his status probably ever since his time in the Real Americans with Jack Swagger. This helped him in the sense that, even as he went through a year-plus-long period of absolutely godawful booking, he never quite became irrelevant in the eyes of the fans. Then the US Open Matches with John Cena (of all people) happened, and though he came up short in both, his performances made sure no one's going to be forgetting about him any time soon.
  • He's most recently been the subject of one of the biggest and most vocal grassroots campaigns in recent WWE history with the "Cesaro Section." The product of a single fan who created the sign as a show of support, fans took to it and began printing and handing out so many copies of the signs the audience is blanketed with them. Not bad for somebody who, according to rumor, is having his momentum actively ruined because it's believed he's boring and can't connect with audiences.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Some people have noticed the irony of the fact that Jack Swagger was getting a push as an ultra-patriot who was complaining about foreigners coming along and taking American jobs... only to have Swiss-born Cesaro come along and completely steal his thunder and cut his momentum off right at the knees.
• Ho Yay:
  • His tag team with Tyson Kidd seemed to be heading toward the idea of Tyson being more interested in Bro-mancing with Cesaro than being with his wife, Natalya. This became more notable when Natalya became the valet of their team and started wearing a very dominatrix-looking outfit^note Total Divas later revealed that she did indeed go to classes with one to spice up her own character and Tyson still seemed more interested in teaming with Cesaro.
  • In mid-2015, Dolph Ziggler had a habit of taking "Cesaro Section" signs from the crowd and holding them up to the camera whenever they were teaming together.
• Hype Backlash: Much like Daniel Bryan, the IWC often hypes him up as the greatest thing since sliced bread, meaning that, while Cesaro is talented, he can still get fans wondering what the fuss is about.
• Memetic Badass: Cesaro's feats of physical prowess in wrestling matches as well out of wrestling workout videos, and his appearances doing other physical feats on Up Up Down Down (throwing strike after strike, destroying everybody in an axe-throwing competition) have caused Xavier Woods to get frustrated and scream "CESARO CAN DO ANYTHING!" Many wrestling fans would agree with Woods, and even non-wrestling fans who come across Cesaro through a montage of his feats will likely be left wondering how he isn't the world champion.
• Older Than They Think: Cesaro even looks sort of like Karl Anderson when he was part of the NWA tag team "The Real American Heroes", and both teams feuded with masked "Mexicans".
• Suspiciously Similar Song:
  • His first theme was a blatant copy of "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis.
  • He then switched to a recycled version of Dean Malenko's old theme, "Iceman".
  • In 2014, after splitting off from The Real Americans, he started using a theme that sounded very similar to "Buck Dich" by Rammstein.
• Shocking Moments: Face it, Cesaro's nickname of "Swiss Superman" isn't for show. The best example was winning the Andre the Giant Battle Royale by tossing The Big Show over the top ropes like he weighed less than nothing. Big Show is 450 lbs.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: When Cesaro's "Swiss Made" theme song was changed, replacing the Air Raid Siren that opened the song and pops up throughout with an ambulance siren, the general response was that the change was completely unnecessary and that it removed the one aspect of the song that everyone liked.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: WWE had Cesaro for over a decade, and never made him World or Universal Champion, despite his massive ongoing popularity and peerless ability. AEW had Claudio Castagnoli for less than a month before making him ROH World Champion, to great acclaim.
• Woolseyism: Since Romanch isn't exactly common terminology in North America, any time he went through his "Five languages" spiel, Aksana would simply say "In English," "In French," "In Italian," "In German," and "In Swiss."