YMMV / The Road Warriors

• Badass Decay: Their runs from 1998 on with Droz and as LOD 2000 could be seen as this to some degree, but their WWF run in 1992 with their ventriloquist dummy "mascot" Rocco screams this, with a hefty dollop of Audience-Alienating Era thrown in.
• Draco in Leather Pants: They pretty much wrestled the same way as faces or heels, and the fans by and large loved them for it.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Paul Ellering has always been well liked by the fans thanks to him being LOD's manager for the majority of their career, staying with them right up until the group ended after Hawk's death.
• Fandom Rivalry: The LOD (NWA) vs. Demolition (WWE)
• Gateway Series: Hawk and Animal tagging with Genichiro Tenryu and Kensuke Sasaki is what lead to many fans in the US becoming fans of Japanese promotions like All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan.
• Ho Yay: The leather outfits that Animal wore pre- and post- LOD as "The Road Warrior".
• Just Here for Godzilla: Hawk and Animal's popularity was what kept the American Wrestling Association a visible competitive national promotion. It was not until they were gone that the AWA was truly in trouble.
• Never Live It Down:
  • Drozdov earned the nickname "Puke" during his NFL days, from an incident during a nationally televised game where he vomited directly on the ball before a snap. The name followed him into the WWF, along with a puking gimmick, but it did eventually get dropped, with Drozdov losing the "Puke" name in favor of "Droz".
  • Unfortunately for Hawk, one of the most enduring memories people have of his career is him blundering into one of Vader's promos.
• Once Original, Now Common: Within a decade, huge muscular tag teams who beat people quickly and decisively became so common that many newer fans can't appreciate why the Road Warriors were the most popular tag team in the United States in the 1980s. It doesn't help that they were never able to recreate the magic of the early years, limiting the window for people to have experienced them at their height.
• Replacement Scrappy
  • Depending on how you feel about Droz and Heidenreich.
  • Sunny is this to fans of "Precious" Paul Ellering who she replaced as the team' manager for a time when they became LOD 2000.
• Rooting for the Empire: Even as heels that got the occasional riot started, fans loved them. This can best be seen in their tag match at Starrcade '88, where despite being the heels, despite their opponents being Sting and Dusty Rhodes, despite the reason for the match being that Animal pulled one of the spikes from his shoulder pads and jammed it into Dusty's eyes, fans were still chanting L.O.D! L.O.D! L.O.D!
• The Scrappy: Rocco is universally despised by LOD's fans due to having absolutely no reason to exist and for completely ruining their credibility as the badass tag team they always were before. Paul Ellering seemed to be the only one who actually had fun with the gimmick since he was the one controlling the puppet. It goes to the point where Animal and Hawk, when they once discussed how the gimmick only stopped when the Rocco puppet got lost on airplane luggage, gleefully implied that they themselves set up the disappearance, since they didn't like it either.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: They used "We Are Iron Men" in WCW. It's so close to the Black Sabbath song that it's a wonder WCW didn't get sued. It can be found here.