Common Pro-Wrestler Gimmick Archetypes 

Razor was more inspired by. Sting was a straight rip off.

Glacier by subzero.

So you’re a child

What was the Christmas Creature based off?

In Japan they have actual movie villains as wrestlers: Leatherface, Freddy, Jason etc

The crowd is always gonna love you when you make guys go one on one with the Undertaker playa!!! 😎

@@CharlieMyrkr or he makes it a tag team match playa

No one else is like Teddy he was great

Lol, not sure if it's in the vid, but Teddy was a referee in WCW before he was chosen to become a Mgr, and his first tag team to manage, was Harlem Heat (Booker T & bro Stevie Ray)! Can You Dig It, Playa?

Adam Pearce does a good job on Raw. He doesn’t really have a gimmick. He’s just an Everyman trying to do his job effectively and not get threatened by his muscled up coworkers.

And The SHEILD. They were like S.W.A.T. / Black Ops guys you know were skimming a few bricks on every drug bust.

What you think about AoP they seem to have a militia/mercenaries type gimmick IMO

@@aubreyyoung4610im pretty sure they were supposed to be a private militia but yeah

And Corporal Kirchner

Benoit

so excited for dragunovs future. gunther v dragunov 2 is my favorite match of all time

Krispen Wah?

Idk if Dragunov can be described as the scrappy underdog I mean maybe in his feud with Walter but *right now* even against guys who are much bigger than he is Bron Corbin Dijak, he never feels like the underdog he is so intense and brutal

*B-E-N-O-I-T

In all forms of media the anti hero works

​​@@pleaseshutup7053Kanye West, Eminem and Howard Stern proves that.

@@17thNO lol stern was a flat out villian along with Simon cowell

@@17thNO Trump is an antihero while Eminem and Stern are woke elitist sellouts.

​@17thNO Kanye west? The guy who announced he loved Hitler? The guy who made Jewish executives kiss pictures of Hitler before business deals? Hes an anti hero? You're an American, right?

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CM Punk as well

I don’t really recall Waylon being a cult leader though lol was he?

The character was partially based on Jim Jones, so... He wasn't there long enough to get a cult but I reckon it would have been on the cards.@@Terryfrost219

Absolutely. Though, he was part of Raven's 'Gathering' in 2003 TNA, so it all comes full-circle. @@sirkjohno0129

It's a lot easier to rap than sing. Less repetition of words, and you don't need to carry a tune.

​@@Rocket1377why would less repetition be easier?

With rapping it gives the opportunity to do disses with it which when done right usually go over pretty good with the crowd

He's a man and we are boys. And theres nothing he likes better than playing with boys. LOL. Kurt Angle was gold.

Except maybe R Truth. Oh it's True, it's the damn Truth, the whole damn truth, and nothing but the damn Truth.

He's the tito ortiz of wrestling

You made the point I wanted to make. The face authority figure works best as a side character. They also can act as the glue to make the overall environment work. The competing GMs for Raw and Smackdown Adam Pierce and Nick Aldis are perfect examples. Why should I care which show Jade Cargill goes to? Well, if Raw and Smackdown are market competitors, then it gives me some reason to care.

Polish Power!

Even Hulk Hogan was originally "the Irish hero" (before he became the "Real American" which was originally the US Express of IRS and The Widowmaker)

And Val venis

Sycho Sid

Could you consider Rikishi an Ass Man?

Rikishi, of course.

The Lackey: Virgil, Brisco & Patterson, Tajiri, Mizdow, The Disciple

​@@alexklimkewicz7191Tajiri for a while had lackeys of his own namely Akio (repackaged later as Jimmy Wang Yang) and the late Sakoda.

Don't forget pro golfer Barry Darsow in WCW.

and if you are fitting an archetype, figure out how to make it your own thing and silence the "he's a copycat" critics.

True

But also remember, Undertaker wasn't the first to be slotted in that kind of role. Vince first had Barry Windham portray The Widowmaker. rather undertaker version 1.

Not to say that you're wrong but the Widow maker gimmick looks more to be another heel cowboy as opposed to a wild west undertaker, in both terms of presentation and personality though while i can see how you may've drawn that conclusion quite frankly it doesn't seem plausible to me@@Briansgate

@@mattjones5531 I get what you're saying. I see it as more of an evolution rather than a direct comparison. "Let's tweak it" as they say.

@@BriansgateYeah, that sounds better. Paul Bearer and the urn showed up very quickly and give him a supernatural air, but it took some time before he ditched the undertaker tie.

New Jack

I always just classified it as Blue Collar, but Street Fighter probably fits better, since it doesn't imply a job itself being the gimmick (and Day Job gimmicks probably qualify as their own archetype anyway). But yeah, Eddie Kingston is probably the GOAT of this archetype. Not enough ugly (extremely relatively speaking in Eddie's case, man has the most perfect eyebrows in the business, lmao), tough old cusses who just beat the hell outta people. Mox mixes it in nicely with his loose cannon character as well. Sheamus in The Bar and especially as an old-timey hooligan also nicely embodies the trope. Finlay's definitely on the Blue Collar/Street Fighter Mount Rushmore alongside Eddie too. But it doesn't just have to be ugly tough fat guy energy. As you noted, Cryme Tyme & Street Profits fit the archetype nicely, and they're both *very* different portrayals from each other and the most common Nasty Boy types. Cryme Tyme had those brutishly violent vignettes heralding their debut, but once they actually showed up they got by almost entirely on comedic charm, street smarts, & hustling marks. And the Street Profits have the most amazing chaotic, crazy athletic streetball energy about them. So I think the archetype definitely works well with the way video was structured! There's certain common aesthetics & some fairly iconic portrayals, while leaving enough space for a lot of different stylistic approaches to find success under the same banner.

@@kami_in_the_skye R-Truth embodied this at different times, too. Maybe split the difference and call this type of character "Streetwise."

Ricky Steamboat

Eddie Kingston

Dean Ambrose

Stone Cold

Do not forget the Briscoes.

It doesn't help they both have the "Ramen-Noodle Mullet" going on😂😂

​@@joe9739now I figured out why I always felt hungry after watching a Sid match

@@joe9739and Lexis King is continuing the tradition. Wrestling indeed has more than one royal family.

@@jaybee5315 McMahon-Hart-Von Erich-Guerrero- and those damn Samoans (idk how to spell the last name)

Sid was doing the insane megalomaniac since 93 in WCW with Vader. Pillman ripped him off if anything.

& John Cena left off the musician one?

What lol

HBK, Bagwell, Big Poppa, Heel Lex, Rick Martell, Rick Rude, The Masterpiece and everyone doing the selfie (Prince Pretty, Theory, Logan Paul) all fall under the narcissistic heel gimmick

Mr. Ass and Val Venis.

Sounds like a Rick Rude insult, if you ask me... LOL

As long as its not Hoggy Sweatgrease i’m good with it 😅

Could've been even better if they'd played him as a sympathetic babyface with legit concerns (like his initial few promos). Also, that undertaker angle was tasteless and probably would've killed things off regardless of the 7/7 bombings imo.

@jimbo_1312 it was awkward. I loved his promos though. In ring was ok, I'd seen worse...but creative got out of hand real fast

Curt Hennig. i mean his finisher is a fisherman suplex 😁

Tugboat. Typhoon.

Ironically, when WWF booked “King” Harley Race in Memphis they got sued by Lawler because nobody can be booked as “king” in Memphis. and Jerry Lawler won

Yeah I agree. A lot of wrestlers had that American hero or patriot gimmick everyone from Hulk Hogan, Hacksaw Jim Duggan and even Lex Luger

@@christophernicholson20Del Wilkes also literally played The Patriot

The Heart Foundation of the 90s is a classic example of a patriot gimmick. In the states, the Harts being patriotic Canadians make them heels to the American fans, but step north of the 49th parallel, and their patriotic Canadians made them the home country heroes against the evil American foreigners arrogantly proclaiming Canada is the same as the States and Canadians have no identity of our own. Pretty much whenever you work nationality into a gimmick, it'll make them a near automatic babyface in their kayfabe homeland, and heels outside their homeland. After all, guy coming out waving Stars and Stripes and chanting "USA, USA, USA" on Canadian soil, will be received very differently from him doing that same on American soil, or coming out waving the red Maple Leaf and chanting "Go Canada Go!" or something. As a Canadian, I viewed Brett Hart and his stable mates as babyfaces during their patriot gimmick.

Not sure if you remember, but Hacksaw Jim Duggan actually tried doing the USA USA chant at WM 6 in Toronto... against Canadian (Quebecois) Dino Bravo.

That Royal Rumble spot with Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Just brilliantly executed!

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Damn!

And he will Rule You !

Regal to an extent too.

Shinsuke Nakamura, right after his WM bout against AJ Styles Strong Style applied to yo crotch!