Roddy Piper
Born George Roderick Toombs, is a professional wrestler from the 1980s and 1990s. He is extremely well known for his kayfabe rivalry with Hulk Hogan and various movie appearances such as in They Live!.
Roddy Piper provides examples of the following tropes:
- Ax Crazy
- Berserk Button: Basically everything as he was Crazy Awesome but if you really wanted to tick off Hot Rod, you'd say that the kilt was a skirt. Another would be to call him a coward in front of his son. Hollywood Hogan learned the hard way in WCW.
- Catch Phrase: "Just when they think they've got the answers, I CHANGE THE QUESTIONS."
- Cloudcuckoolander: He's been referred to as the Robin Williams of wrestling.
- Chew Bubblegum: he's the one who said the immortal line.
- Cool Mask: As Piper Machine.
- Cool Old Guy: His gimmick now is the awesome old-school guy that comes in to teach the young punks a lesson.
- Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: Not only did his entrance theme feature bagpipes, he also occasionally played them himself.
- Fake Nationality: He was billed from Scotland; he's actually from Saskatchewan.
- Finishing Move: A good old fashioned sleeper is Piper's finisher of choice.
- Genre Savvy: This in spades. Even as a face he remembered every dirty trick in the book and exploited them at every chance.
- Hot-Blooded
- Iconic Wrestler
- Jerkass
- Large Ham: Even by wrestling standards!
- Man in a Kilt
- Mean Character, Nice Actor: Whether he's a heel or a face, Piper is as mean as they come. Rude, wild, aggressive, has a real short temper and depending on the occasion, does and says things that even back then are severely politically incorrect. Yet when not wrestling and either being interviewed or talking to fans, he's as nice as they come. Down to earth, laid back and very approachable. A good example of a Professional Wrestling figure having a line between fiction and reality.
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent: He was supposed to be Scottish after all, whilst speaking with a recognisable Canadian accent.
- Precision F-Strike: Got away with saying "bullshit!" at Wrestlemania XXI; appropriately enough, it was in an interview segment with Steve Austin.
- Retired Badass
- Talk Show With Fists: Piper's Pit.
- Underwear of Power
- Violent Glaswegian
- Wild Card: See his Catch Phrase and Genre Savvy above. No one knew what Piper would do at any given time.