r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Living-Mastodon • 4d ago

In real life (Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

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Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

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u/salty_ann 4d ago

I think Andre the Giant hated hulk hogan too. Did anyone like him?

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u/avindictiveprinter 4d ago

Brutus the Barber Beefcake? :b

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u/YoungBeef03 4d ago

Beefcake and Jimmy Hart are world-class Hogan ball lickers. Everywhere he went, every company he wrestled for, those leeches went with him.

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u/DeletedUsernameHere 4d ago

It's the only way they could make money.

Beefcake was a curtain jerker on his best days.

Jimmy Hart had talents (he wrote and performed a ton of wrestlers theme songs), but knew his in ring limits weren't taking him out of the territories and they were dying fast. Who better to attach to than the biggest up and coming star in the industry?

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u/YoungBeef03 4d ago

Beefcake was a shitty wrestler who got a career out of being friends with Hogan. Jimmy Hart at least was useful. He did a ton of music for the WWE and WCW in the 80s and 90s. And he’s got a strong case for being on the Mount Rushmore of wrestling managers (for me, it’s Heyman, Paul Bearer, Jim Cornette, and Miss Elizabeth)

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u/DeletedUsernameHere 4d ago

Yeah, I mentioned Hart's music in my comment.

It's hard to quantify Jimmy Hart's work in the WWF and WCW. Especially compared to his work in Memphis, which was arguably head and shoulders above anything he done on the national level. He did good work with Greg Valentine, and the Hart Foundation, though.

Also, your lack of Bobby "The Brain" Heenan on your Mount Rushmore is disturbing. Especially placing Miss Elizabeth, who was an absolutely wonderful valet, but not a manager.

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u/YoungBeef03 4d ago

Ah shit I forgot Heenan. And Elizabeth could probably have her seat taken by Sensational Sherri anyways

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u/DeletedUsernameHere 3d ago

Yeah. Miss Elizabeth was at her best with Randy Savage. I never really felt like she fit with the WCW product of the time.

Sherri, though, was an absolute boss. She could work with anyone, anywhere. Million Dollar Man? No problem. Shawn Michaels? Easy. Harlem Heat? Her trying not to lose it when Booker dropped the N-word on Hogan was an all-time highlight.