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[[File:16394684_2199.jpg|frame|...and he's AWESOME!]]
{{quote|'''Miz''': You all think I'm a frog-faced loser?
'''Green Bay crowd''': YES!
'''Miz''': [[Catch Phrase|Really]]?
'''Green Bay crowd''': ''YES!''
'''Miz''': ''[[Verbal Tic|Really]]''?
'''Green Bay crowd''': ''YES!''
'''Miz''': ''[[Overly Long Gag|REALLY]]''?
'''Green Bay crowd''': '''YES!!!!'''
'''Miz''': Well, [[Cheap Heat|Green Bay Packers]] [[Hilarious in Hindsight|aren't]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|going to]] [[Jerkass|the Super Bowl!]]
'''Green Bay crowd''': ''(boos)''<ref> Oh yes they are</ref>
|''[[Monday Night Raw]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}sbWn1eqE2dE#t{{=}}1m51s October 25, 2010]}}
Michael "Mike" Mizanin (born October 8, 1980) is an American reality television personality and professional wrestler, currently{{when}} working for the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] on its [[WWE Raw|Raw brand]], and is better known by his ring name: '''[[The Miz]]'''.
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Not to be confused with ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Miz]]''.
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* [[Arch Enemy]]: He would say it's [[John Cena]]. In [[Real Life]], it's probably [[Jerkass|J]][[The Bully|B]][[Alpha Bitch|L]].
** [[Daniel Bryan]] was also one in 2010.
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* [[Boisterous Weakling]]: Started off at this, with more minimal skills and no smaller a mouth, most notably when he spent a long period of time goading Cena into a match, [[Curb Stomp Battle|with the expected results]]. As time passed, Miz became significantly more [[Not So Harmless]] and could add up to his talk more often, though, being an egotistical [[Dirty Coward]], his mocking still gets him more than he bargained for every once in a while.
* [[Breakup Breakout]]: After Miz and Morrison broke up, Miz was the one, to everyones surprise, that had more success, with winning the WWE Championship, and after losing it are still part of a major storyline. And while Morrison hasn't really faded in to obscurity, hasn't had that much success as Miz has had.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]:
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Almost painfully so.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Because I'm [[The Miz]]... and I'm... '''''AWESOME!'''''"
** "And I'm the Chick Magnet, [[The Miz]]" on the Dirt Sheet
** Also added "Really? Really?" when he interrupts people after they say something especially disagreeable to him.
** "HOORAH" when he made his debut.
* [[Character Development]]: Despite being on the back-burner for most of the build up to Wrestlemania, it resulted in Miz getting some much needed [[Character Development]] and [[Took a Level
* [[Chick Magnet]]: So says he. And if you've seen some of the women he's dated in [[Real Life]] (like, say, Maryse) it's true.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Has shown a tendency toward turning on partners as of late. If he feels you're [[You Have Failed Me...|not pulling your weight]] or simply [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|served your purpose...]] it's only a matter of time before he gives you the [[Finishing Move|Skull Crushing Finale.]] [[Jerry Lawler]] [[Lampshade Hanging|hung a lampshade]] on it in a recent{{when}} episode of RAW, by way of a warning to [[Michael Cole]] (who claims to be a friend of Miz as well).
** [[Hoist
* [[Companion Cube]]: The WWE Championship. Seriously, when was the last time a Champ flaunted it around as much as he did? In a weird sort of [[Insane Troll Logic
** Before that, that MITB briefcase (although it was usually [[Ho Yay|Alex Riley]] that carried it.)
* [[Cool Mask]]: As Calgary Kid.
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* [[Creepy Monotone]]: Miz is arguably scariest when he's not being a [[Large Ham]].
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Seems to have been lost in the shuffle more recently, going from a WWE Champion to a guy that has trouble getting meaningful TV time. He seems to be floating in the awkward camp of being above the status of a mid-carder (and therefore not being seen as a good candidate for a run with the IC or US titles), but not quite a true main-eventer.
* [[Determinator]], [[Doing It for
** The Determinator aspect also shows up in the ring. Whatever lack of in ring ability he has is made up by the fact that he's capable of taking a truly brutal asskicking, at least ever since he became champion.
** During his Wrestlemania 27 match, he suffered a concussion by smacking his head off concrete; he proceeded to wrestle the rest of the match and retained the title.
** During the 2011 RAW Money in the Bank match, his knee got dislocated (which they kept showing [[Squick|over and over again]]) and was carted out. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Not even ten minutes later he was back out in the ring]].
*** Despite still in bad condition from this, he won his next two matches under completely legitimate tactics on RAW ''the following day''.
* [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat]]: Miz's recent{{when}} defeats have been coming about due to him having a pretty firm grip on the [[Villain Ball]]. Even though he'll pretty much have his opponent beaten cleanly, or damn near close to it, he just ''has'' to do that one thing that'll get him disqualified or take his time beating down an opponent just long enough for them to get that [[Heroic Second Wind]]. Hell, he lost his last two matches with Cena for the title because of this.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Has become one more and more since becoming WWE Champion.
** It is however,
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: After losing to Cena for the third consecutive time at Over The Limit, he once more berates Alex Riley, who responds by kicking the ever loving crap out of Miz. Even ''[[Michael Cole]]'' states that Miz had it coming.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: He has improved big time compared to when he first arrived to WWE, and he demands to be recognized for it.
* [[Early
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Not so much for Miz the character, but winning the WWE Title was this for the real person. Don't believe me? See the [[Determinator]] entry.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: "I'd rather you hate me for who I am than love me for someone I'm not!"
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: He ''is'' called "Chick Magnet," after all. When he was first getting his feet wet in ECW in the summer of 2007, Extreme Expose ([[Kelly Kelly]], Layla El, and Brooke Adams) used to hang out with him all the time.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: On the 2/14/11 edition of Raw, after beating [[Bryan Danielson|Daniel Bryan]], [[The Miz]] announced that [[Jerry Lawler]] (his opponent at Elimination Chamber) wasn't there that night because of the passing of his mother...
* [[Evil Mentor]]: To [[Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up|Alex]] [[Jerk Jock|Riley]].
* [[Evil Is Petty]]
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* [[Finishing Move]]: Three: The Reality Check (A kneelift to a neckbreaker), the [[Punny Name|Mizard of Oz]] (A front facelock neckbreaker), and the Skull Crushing Finale(A full nelson facebuster).
* [[Flat What]]: While ranting on Air Boom (The tag team name for [[Evan Bourne]] and Kofi Kingston) [[Ron Killings|R-truth]] has this to say.
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'''The Miz''': (stops the crowd from saying the
* [[Fleeting Demographic Rule]]: [[The Miz]] decided to make own logo by flipping the WWE logo upside down to make an M. [[Matt Hardy|Too bad somebody beat him to it.]]
** Also, he and R-Truth decided to follow with [[Kurt Angle|someone who decided to have a theme with the only lyrics being the words "You Suck."]]
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*** Well, that and the fact that Miz gave Truth the Skull Crushing Finale on the steel ramp.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: After [[John Cena]] got Alex Riley fired, it's just him versus [[The Miz]], one on one, exactly what Cena wants. But now Cena has to deal with an angry Miz that feels slighted by [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] and Cena while trying to make his WWE title reign as memorable as possible and doesn't have his moron of a lackey to fall back on. The result? A month of Cena getting owned repeatedly by Miz.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Gave one to Cena on the RAW before Over The Limit 2011. However, Cena wasn't going to have any of it gave a ''very'' [[Hot
* [[Hoist
* [[Ignored Enemy]]: To [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] and [[John Cena]] leading to [[Wrestlemania]] 27. Of course, with Cena being his opponent for that years [[Wrestlemania]] and The Rock the host of the event, he didn't take that very well.
* [[I Have Many Names]]: He lists about five or six trying to pick up a girl in a WWE.com video.
* [[Incoming Ham]]: [[Ear Worm|AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEESOME]].
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Miz wasn't the first Money n the Bank Winner to hit people with the briefcase, but he did it so much that by the time he cashed it in it was so dented up that it looked like it had been in <s> a car wreck</s> <s>a train wreck</s> [[Stuff Blowing Up|an episode of]] ''[[
** He even kept using it for a time ''after'' cashing it in.
** Miz won the MITB match in July 2010. He cashed it in to win the WWE Championship in November 2010. As of
*** Who later smack him in the head with it.
* [[
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: In a recent{{when}} RAW episode taped on Long Island, NY, [[The Miz]] countered the You Suck chant by shouting "I don't suck! All the New York sports teams suck!" There were general boos, but then a few nods of agreement in the stands.
** Although this might be a case of [[Insult Backfire]] as well. Anyone with a bit of knowledge about sports fandoms knows that it's almost impossible to out-complain New Yorkers about their own teams. Other than perhaps Philadelphia, [[Big Applesauce|New York]] is one of the [[Unpleasable Fanbase|hardest fandoms to satisfy in any sport.]]
* [[Kick the Dog]]: By the time Miz was paired with [[Daniel Bryan]] on NXT, he had accumulated a large amount of heat. His bullying of Bryan as a sadistic [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] gained him even more, and had fans everywhere looking forward to the day when Bryan would finally pay him back. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Which finally happened.]]
** His final 2010 match against [[Jerry Lawler]] was basically this to borderline [[Moral Event Horizon]] levels, where what started as a match between the WWE Champion and a Hall of Famer quickly devolved into Miz beating the crap out of a old man who could barely fight back. It reached the point where even [[Michael Cole]], who ''always'' finds a reason to excuse [[The Miz]]'s actions, [[Even Evil Has Standards|was thoroughly disturbed by it]].
* [[Large Ham]]: Because he's [[The Miz]], and he's AWESOME!
* [[Laser
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: When Alex Riley got fired, he subsequently grew a spine.
* [[Manly Tears]]: After winning the WWE title, as seen in the pic above.
* [[Master of None]]: Because Miz is not specifically a power, high flying, technical, or brawling wrestler - instead having a mix of all these styles - he doesn't really stand out in the ring as much as other wrestlers. If he continues to improve at the rate he is, however, he'll probably become [[Jack of All Stats]] in short time.
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Though [[The Miz]] is pretty Heelish, if you see an appearance of [[The Miz]] outside the WWE, you can tell he's actually a really nice and friendly guy.
* [[The Napoleon]]
* [[Never My Fault]]: Always finds an excuse for his failures. Alex Riley became his go to scape goat whenever he lost. Unfortunately this came back to [[The Dog Bites Back|bite him]].
* [[Nice Hat]]: Used to have a fedora as part of his entrance attire.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: The 4/11/11 RAW. A 5-man gauntlet match was held between Dolph Ziggler, [[John Morrison]], [[Randy Orton]], [[John Cena]], and R-Truth to determine the #1 contender for Miz's WWE Championship. The last match ended up being between Cena, WWE's resident Superman, and R-Truth, a well-liked crowd favorite that seems [[Screwed
** However, R Truth would lose the right to challenge Miz a week later. Who did he lose it to? ''[[John Morrison]]''. Now Miz has to take on WWE Superman [[John Cena]] as well as Morrison, the one guy who got closest to beating Miz for the WWE Championship in a previous match over anyone else, including [[Randy Orton]], [[Jerry Lawler]], and Cena himself.
* [[No Shirt, Long Jacket]]: While not being a [[Badass Longcoat]], his leather jacket is pretty cool.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: A defining character trait of [[The Miz]]. He started as an awkward, untalented, uncharismatic dork, but after years of work he's turned into a man who's crippled the overconfident R-Truth after a [[Boastful Rap]] distracted him and got pops for beating up World Champion [[Sheamus]] after he called him a loser, of course, that's all topped by his greatest achievement yet, taking the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Championship from [[Randy Orton]].
** Not to mention his last few encounters with [[John Cena]], all of which have ended with Cena's face in the ground, and one of which ended with [[Dwayne Johnson|The People's]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Elbow.]]
** He also managed to trick [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] into a fake showdown in the ring, where he promptly sicced Alex Riley on him and proceeded to leave afterwards. Unfortunately, Riley didn't last too long afterwards...
* [[Odd Couple]]/[[Different As Night and Day]]: Miz and Morrison - an [[Mr. Fanservice]] [[Cloudcuckoolander]] [[Warrior Poet]] who's [[Pretty in Mink]] and skillful in [[Le Parkour]], and a [[Hot
* [[Oh Crap]]: When [[John Morrison]] faced [[The Miz]] for the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] title on Raw, [[The Miz]] had Alex Riley help him beat down Morrison, then Morrison recovered, beat the crap out of Riley, set him up on a barricade and kneed his face in, camera cuts to [[The Miz]] with a look like he just crapped his pants.
** Got another one of these looks on a recent{{when}} episode of RAW. He was in the middle of cutting a promo complaining, as usual, about the lack of respect he gets, when suddenly... [[Ron Killings|"THE TRUTH...]] [[He's Back|HAS SET]] [[Heel Face Turn|ME FREE!!"]]
* [[Only Known
* [[Overshadowed
** He got back in to the feud by cutting an amazing promo where he destroyed Cena using [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|The People's Elbow.]], entering the ring dressed as The Rock [[No
* [[Pick
* [[Pretty Fly for
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Miz and Morrison wouldn't have become tag team champions when they did if it wasn't for then-current champion [[Matt Hardy]]'s bursting appendix. The rest is history, ladies and gentlemen.
** Before [[Ron Killings|Truth]] got busted and sent on a "Wellness vacation", [[What Could Have Been|Awesome Truth was set to win the tag titles from Air Boom following "Survivor Series."]]
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: He was the Red Oni to Morrison.▼
* [[Red Baron]]: Has three - "[[Casanova Wannabe|The Chick Magnet]]", "[[Ted Baxter|The Awesome One]]", and "[[Cleveland Rocks|The Cleveland Screamer]]".▼
▲* [[Red Oni Blue Oni]]: He was the Red Oni to Morrison.
** And the Blue Oni to R-Truth.
* [[The Rival]]: He had this with [[John Morrison]], and [[Bryan Danielson|Daniel Bryan]].
* [[Romance
* [[The Runner Up Takes It All]]: Despite falling short from winning the fourth season of Tough Enough, [[The Miz]] is the only contestant from the show to become the WWE Champion. The winner, Daniel Puder, spent less than a year in developmental and was later released due to [[Executive Meddling]].
* [[The Scapegoat]]: [[Insane Troll Logic|Somehow he got blamed for the low buyrates for SurvivorSeries PPV.]]
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Subverted; when he dropped the scarf, he started kicking way more ass.
* [[Serious Business]]: He almost always acts completely straight, instead of mugging or playing to the audience, giving the bits more humor ''and'' dramatic gravitas.
* [[Sharp
** [[Badass in
** [[Waistcoat of Style]]: And damn fashionable to boot.
* [[Slasher Smile]] + [[Tons of Teeth]]: His [http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww149/TheDevilsCreed/logo2.jpg symbol], a haphazard smiling face with ''THEMIZ'' as the teeth.
** His trunks have a similar motif, but with ''I'M AWESOME'' as the teeth instead.
** Gave a pretty creepy one to Cena after beating the crap out of him on this week's RAW. Can anyone find a picture of that, he actually looked pretty badass.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: In [[kayfabe]].
* [[Smug Snake]]: Even if he's a face, he's smug.
** His [[Smug Snake]] status has grown big time since become WWE Champion. While he HAS taking multiple levels in badass, it's now gotten to his head big time proclaiming him to be best of all time, the most must see WWE champion, etc. despite fact he's needed help repeatedly for matches.
*** This trait has been reversed somewhat as of recently, with him managing to compete with wrestlers under legitimate tactics [[Villain Ball|only to lose after]] [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat|Stopping To Cheat]]. His recent pay per view matches with Cena and Riley are good examples.
▲* [[
* [[Straw Fan]]: [[Vince McMahon]] tried to use him to "show" anti-Cena fans why they're wrong. It didn't quite work.
* [[Stone Wall]]: Not the stationary type, but he fits the qualifications of low ATK high DEF in the idea that his offense isn't the most hard hitting, but he can take the most hellacious beatings in WWE and still kick out. Hell, he's kicked out of peoples finishers in matches that didn't really mean anything.
* [[Straight Man]]: Somehow manages to be this to [[Ron Killings|R-Truth]] at points. [[Cloudcuckoolander|This really says]] [[Large Ham|a whole lot]] [[Up to Eleven|about Truth's character.]]
* [[Too Many Belts]]: At the start of 2010, Miz held the United States championship and the Unified Tag Team championships simultaneously - Meaning he had an
▲* [[Too Many Belts]]: At the start of 2010, Miz held the United States championship and the Unified Tag Team championships simultaneously - Meaning he had an unprecendented (In the WWE, anyway) ''three'' championship belts in his possession at one time.
** For a ten-minute period on 2-21-2011, he held the WWE Championship and the Unified Tag Team titles.
* [[Took a Level
** Especially after he started out fumbling lines as a mere Diva Search host and wrestling just passable matches with a so-called "finishing move" that made its victims look like they should retire???
*** In line with the above, the Falls Count Anywhere match with [[John Morrison]] on the 1/3/11 RAW proved that Miz HAS become a [[Badass]].
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* [[Troll]]: Oh dear God yes.
* [[Underwear of Power]]: After returning.
* [[Unknown Rival]]: To [[John Cena]] at first. Miz is now{{when}} a full-blown [[Arch Enemy]] for Cena.
* [[Unnecessary Roughness]]: Wow. Behind his overconfident smirk and [[Large Ham]] tendencies, Miz packs a pretty brutal mean streak. The beatdown he gave to [[John Cena]] leading up to their [[Wrestlemania]] match, has probably only been matched in recent memory by the one Cena received during the [[The Nexus|NXT Riot.]]
** And then his [[No
** His run-in along with [[Ron Killings|R-Truth]] during the Punk/HHH match at ''Night of Champions 2011''. They beat the hell out of both competitors, and then ''beat the hell out of the referees.''
*** Then came ''Hell In A Cell 2011'' when they beat the crap out of everyone including the ''cameramen''
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** "Hate Me Now" from ''Wrestlemania XXVII'' certainly qualifies.
** He actually sings part of "You Suck" along with [[Ron Killings|R-Truth]].
* [[Villain Team
* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: With [[John Morrison]], Alex Riley and [[Ron Killings|R-Truth.]]
** And it's actually ''Morrison's'' fault they split up, because he tried interfering with a match of his during the Tri-Brand Trade, which made Miz lose and got him traded to Raw.
* [[Wham! Line]]: While it didn't change the entire business, or even spark a major angle, Miz's character is defined by one line.
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* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: In the 2/14/11 RAW Miz gave his condolences to Lawler's mother (who died the Saturday before) and states that he didn't want that tragedy to hinder Lawler when the two fought at Elimination Chamber that Sunday. It was considerably one of the only times that he's done this. (which is more surprising upon a certain [[Michael Cole|troll]] who ''WOULD NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THE WHOLE THING'')
* [[Wrestling Psychology]]: He's damn good at selling; his pirouette after getting Knockout Punched by [[The Big Show]] was spectacular.
** He sold a recent{{when}} [[Sheamus]] Brogue Kick very similarly.
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