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* BashBrothers: Mike Bailey, Pat Skillz, Jason Axe, Super Dragon, [[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson]], Sexxxy Eddy, Akira Tozawa, Steve Corino. More recently, Wrestling/ChrisJericho, (ironically enough) Wrestling/SamiZayn, Wrestling/RomanReigns, and Wrestling/SamoaJoe.

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* BashBrothers: Mike Bailey, Pat Skillz, Jason Axe, Super Dragon, [[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson]], Sexxxy Eddy, Akira Tozawa, Steve Corino. More recently, Wrestling/ChrisJericho, (ironically enough) Wrestling/SamiZayn, Wrestling/RomanReigns, Wrestling/SamoaJoe and Wrestling/SamoaJoe.Wrestling/RandyOrton
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** Solo Sikoa and [[Wrestling/GuerrillasOfDynasty Tama Tonga]]. After Tonga brutalized attacked Owens in the episode April 19 of [=SmackDown=], the following week Owens was brawl with Tonga but unable to stop Tonga with Solo backup Tonga later Wrestling/RandyOrton backup Owens and fight both Solo and Tonga. Owens and Randy have a Tag Team match againts Solo and Tonga at Wrestling/BackLash France.

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** Solo Sikoa and [[Wrestling/GuerrillasOfDynasty [[Wrestling/GuerrillasOfDestiny Tama Tonga]]. After Tonga brutalized attacked Owens in the episode April 19 of [=SmackDown=], the following week Owens was brawl with Tonga but unable to stop Tonga with Solo backup Tonga later Wrestling/RandyOrton backup Owens and fight both Solo and Tonga. Owens and Randy have a Tag Team match againts against Solo and Tonga at Wrestling/BackLash France.
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** Solo Sikoa and [[Wrestling/GuerrillasOfDynasty Tama Tonga]]. After Tonga brutalized attacked Owens in the episode April 19 of [=SmackDown=], the following week Owens was brawl with Tonga but unable to stop Tonga with Solo backup Tonga later Wrestling/RandyOrton backup Owens and fight both Solo and Tonga. Owens and Randy have a Tag Team match againts Solo and Tonga at Wrestling/BackLash France.
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* MediumAwareness: There will be times when Owens is aware he is a character on a wrestling show and gets incensed when some doesn't adhere to the tropes of one.
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** Creator/LoganPaul. After Owens became number one contender for the United States Championship. In the episode 1/19/2024 of [=SmackDown=], Owens invited Logan to the KO Show and Logan that he disliked him because he's a celebrity not a wrestler. -->''You're not centenary one of us. You're not a Wrestling/ReyMysterio, you're not a Wrestling/SethRollins, you're not a Wrestling/SamiZayn, you're not Kevin Owens''. Owens and Logan have a match at Wrestling/RoyalRumble for the United States Championship and lose by disqualification after Owens accidentally wearing a brass knuckles and referee saw it. After the Rumble Owens demand a rematch for the United States Championship.

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** Creator/LoganPaul. After Owens became number one contender for the United States Championship. In the episode 1/19/2024 of [=SmackDown=], Owens invited Logan to the KO Show and told Logan that he disliked him because he's a celebrity not a wrestler. -->''You're not centenary one of us. You're not a Wrestling/ReyMysterio, you're not a Wrestling/SethRollins, you're not a Wrestling/SamiZayn, you're not Kevin Owens''. Owens and Logan have a match at Wrestling/RoyalRumble for the United States Championship and lose by disqualification after Owens accidentally wearing a brass knuckles and referee saw it. After the Rumble Owens demand a rematch for the United States Championship.
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** Creator/LoganPaul. After Owens became number one contender for the United States Championship. In the episode 1/19/2024 of [=SmackDown=], Owens invited Logan to the KO Show and Logan that he disliked him because he's a celebrity not a wrestler. -->''You're not centenary one of us. You're not a Wrestling/ReyMysterio, you're not a Wrestling/SethRollins, you're not a Wrestling/SamiZayn, you're not Kevin Owens. Owens and Logan have a match at Wrestling/RoyalRumble for the United States Championship and lose by disqualification after Owens accidentally wearing a brass knuckles and referee saw it. After the Rumble Owens demand a rematch for the United States Championship.

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** Creator/LoganPaul. After Owens became number one contender for the United States Championship. In the episode 1/19/2024 of [=SmackDown=], Owens invited Logan to the KO Show and Logan that he disliked him because he's a celebrity not a wrestler. -->''You're not centenary one of us. You're not a Wrestling/ReyMysterio, you're not a Wrestling/SethRollins, you're not a Wrestling/SamiZayn, you're not Kevin Owens.Owens''. Owens and Logan have a match at Wrestling/RoyalRumble for the United States Championship and lose by disqualification after Owens accidentally wearing a brass knuckles and referee saw it. After the Rumble Owens demand a rematch for the United States Championship.
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** Creator/LoganPaul. After Owens became number one contender for the United States Championship, Owens earn the match at Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2024 end up Owens lose by disqualification after Owens accidentally wear a brass knuckles. After the Owens demand a rematch for the United States Championship.

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** Creator/LoganPaul. After Owens became number one contender for the United States Championship, Championship. In the episode 1/19/2024 of [=SmackDown=], Owens earn invited Logan to the KO Show and Logan that he disliked him because he's a celebrity not a wrestler. -->''You're not centenary one of us. You're not a Wrestling/ReyMysterio, you're not a Wrestling/SethRollins, you're not a Wrestling/SamiZayn, you're not Kevin Owens. Owens and Logan have a match at Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2024 end up Owens for the United States Championship and lose by disqualification after Owens accidentally wear wearing a brass knuckles. knuckles and referee saw it. After the Rumble Owens demand a rematch for the United States Championship.

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** Creator/LoganPaul. After Owens became number one contender for the United States Championship, Owens earn the match at Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2024 end up Owens lose by disqualification after Owens accidentally wear a brass knuckles. After the Owens demand a rematch for the United States Championship.



* AudienceSurrogate: Described as such when Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness lamented that maybe that "Fat Loser" was right before telling the [=RoHbots=] to screw themselves [[ThisLoserIsYou and derisively comparing them to Steen]].

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* * AudienceSurrogate: Described as such when Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness lamented that maybe that "Fat Loser" was right before telling the [=RoHbots=] to screw themselves [[ThisLoserIsYou and derisively comparing them to Steen]].

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* {{Determinator}}: As a babyface in WWE, you'd better park a semi on top of Kevin if you want to keep him down. Wrestling/RomanReigns resorted to handcuffing Kevin to the set to keep him from winning a Last Man Standing match.



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* DirtyCoward:DirtyCoward: As a heel.



* GenreSavvy: Don't try a rebound lariat against this guy. He walked out of the way of Nigel [=McGuinness=]' when they wrestled in 2008, and later dumped Dean Ambrose out of the ring when he tried the same move.

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* GenreSavvy: Don't try a rebound pendulum lariat against this guy. He walked out of the way of Nigel [=McGuinness=]' when they wrestled in 2008, and later dumped Dean Ambrose out of the ring when he tried the same move.



* Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion: Acheived his Grand Slam Champ status on April 1, 2023 at ''Wrestlemania 39'' with a tag team win with best enemy Wrestling/SamiZayn.

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* Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion: Acheived Achieved his Grand Slam Champ status on April 1, 2023 at ''Wrestlemania 39'' with a tag team win with best enemy Wrestling/SamiZayn.



* HappilyMarried: To his wife Karina for over ten years. It's his motivation for turning on Zayn and attempting to become champion, or so he says (see NothingPersonal).

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* HairTriggerTemper: During he and Sami Zayn's tag run in mid-2023 to the present, this has become a hallmark of Kevin's character.
* HappilyMarried: To his wife Karina for over ten years.Karina. It's his motivation for turning on Zayn and attempting to become champion, or so he says (see NothingPersonal).



* HesBack: He didn't want to go through a "reform" angle, since the Bravado Brothers had already done that. So instead a "sympathy" was worked where Steen would gain fan support by running in at ROH shows trying to get his job back only to be done away with. Probably ended up working a ''little'' too well, given S.C.U.M. were cheered till he left.

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* HesBack: He didn't want to go through a "reform" angle, since the Bravado Brothers had already done that. So instead a "sympathy" angle was worked where Steen would gain fan support by running in at ROH shows trying to get his job back only to be done away with. Probably ended up working a ''little'' too well, given S.C.U.M. were cheered till he left.



* OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain: As younger villain his wrestled against Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/ChrisJericho, Wrestling/AJStyles, Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon, Wrestling/DanielBryan, Wrestling/BraunStrowman, Wrestling/KofiKingston, and Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin. As older hero he's teaming up with Wrestling/SamoaJoe and Wrestling/BigShow wrestled against Wrestling/SethRollins and AOP. He also wrestle a single match against Angel Garza, [[Wrestling/TheUsos Jey Uso]] and Wrestling/RomanReigns.

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* OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain: As a younger villain his villain, he's wrestled against Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/ChrisJericho, Wrestling/AJStyles, Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon, Wrestling/DanielBryan, Wrestling/BraunStrowman, Wrestling/KofiKingston, and Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin. As an older hero he's teaming hero, he once teamed up with fellow older heroes Wrestling/SamoaJoe and Wrestling/BigShow wrestled to wrestle against Wrestling/SethRollins and AOP. He He's also wrestle a single match wrestled singles matches against Angel Garza, Logan Paul, [[Wrestling/TheUsos Jey Uso]] and Wrestling/RomanReigns.



** On August 27, 2018 Raw, [[spoiler:he quits WWE after being demolished by Braun Strowman on Summerslam 2018 and failing to beat Seth Rollins for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.]] He comes back.

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** On August 27, 2018 Raw, [[spoiler:he quits he quit WWE after being demolished by Braun Strowman on Summerslam 2018 and failing to beat Seth Rollins for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.]] Championship. He comes back.came back soon after.



* SelfServingMemory: A week before ''Fastlane 2017'', Owens bragged about how he defeated some of the top stars in the company, one of them being Dean Ambrose. The only problem is, not only Owens never beat Ambrose in a one-on-one match before, Ambrose often was the one who came out on top whenever they had a brawl.

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* SelfServingMemory: A week before ''Fastlane 2017'', Owens bragged about how he defeated some of the top stars in the company, one of them being Dean Ambrose. The only problem is, not only has Owens never beat Ambrose in a one-on-one match before, Ambrose often was the one who came out on top whenever they had a brawl.



* SoftSpokenSadist: Owens contrasts with almost every heel in the entire WWE because of how calm he acts. No matter how cruel he may treat you in the ring or how much he hates you, he'll never get louder than maybe somewhat of an outdoor voice because of [[WorldOfHam the nature of the game]].

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* SoftSpokenSadist: Pre-2023, Owens contrasts contrasted with almost every heel in the entire WWE because of how calm he acts.acted. No matter how cruel he may treat you in the ring or how much he hates you, he'll never get louder than maybe somewhat of an outdoor voice because of [[WorldOfHam the nature of the game]].


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* SuddenlyShouting: Part of his personality from 2023 onward. It's pretty funny.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: This trope, combined with NiceJobBreakingItHero, is the origin of Creator/LoganPaul's path to becoming a wrestler. After being way too annoyed by Logan's presence alongside Sami Zayn at ''Wrestlemania 38'' and Logan trying to co-opt Kevin's victory celebration, Kevin simply Stunnered Logan and left him in the middle of the ring, completely unconcerned. A humiliated Logan swore revenge, beginning to train as a wrestler and eventually, became United States champion to Kevin's challenger.

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** A native of Quebec, subjecting him to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cxCyx7SMrA this]] promo set before a ROH show in Montreal: [[spoiler: Steen attempts to con Colt Cabana into saying "I slept with my mom last night," only for Cabana to switch "my" with "his" while acting oblivious to the con or to how he made it backfire on Steen]].

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** A native of Quebec, subjecting him to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cxCyx7SMrA this]] promo set before a ROH show in Montreal: [[spoiler: Steen attempts to con Colt Cabana into saying "I slept with my mom last night," only for Cabana to switch "my" with "his" while acting oblivious to the con or to how he made it backfire on Steen]].Steen.



* {{Bookends}}: Steen would start his eternal war with former best friend El Generico with a steel chair shot to the head at ''Final Battle 2009''. At ''Final Battle 2010'', Generico would send him packing from ROH with a similar chair shot to the head -- the same steel chair from the year prior, still smeared with the blood of Generico.

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Steen would start his eternal war with former best friend El Generico with a steel chair shot to the head at ''Final Battle 2009''. At ''Final Battle 2010'', Generico would send him packing from ROH with a similar chair shot to the head -- the same steel chair from the year prior, still smeared with the blood of Generico.Generico.
** In 2017, Sami Zayn turned heel to save Kevin from a [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon legacy-obsessed son]] of a wrestling dynasty. In 2023, Sami Zayn turned babyface to save Kevin from a [[Wrestling/RomanReigns legacy-obsessed son]] of a wrestling dynasty.

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