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The first "season" saw NXT Rookies [[Wade Barrett]], Michael Tarver, David Otunga, Skip Sheffield, Darren Young, Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel, and - last but not least - [[Bryan Danielson|Daniel Bryan]] fighting against each other and the Pros in matches, competing in different challenges (including a promo contest), and generally attempting to get themselves over with the crowd. About halfway through the first "season", Rookies started getting eliminated...but some rookies returned to NXT to speak out against the eliminations and the Pros, saying the Pros had offered little help in the competition. Eventually, Wade Barrett won the competition. And then six days later...'''''all hell broke loose.'''''

 

 

Then Michael Tarver showed up in the crowd, decked out in his ring gear and wearing a bandana over his face that made him look [[Nightmare Fuel|frightening]]. A few moments later, Tarver and the other six NXT Rookies jumped the barricade, all wearing the same armband as Wade Barrett. And then the group that would later be known as '''The Nexus''' started laying waste to anything and anyone in their path: the Straight Edge Society, ringside workers, announcers, and - especially - John Cena (''[[Invincible Hero|the top guy in the industry]]''), who received one of the most one-sided, brutal, viciously beautiful beatdowns in his career at the hands of ''every'' member of the group.

Then at Wrestlemania, they lost in 30 seconds to [[The Big Show]]'s team. Shortly after, Ezekiel Jackson was kicked out of the group for being his own man. Jackson responded by eventually taking Barrett's IC Title. Barrett began leaving Gabriel and Slater to fight his battles for him during this time, which led to them ditching him to form a separate tag team, leaving Barrett on his own and ending the Corre. Tropes used in The Corre follow this section.

 

 

* [[Anticlimax]] / [[Invincible Hero]]: The end of the Team WWE vs. Team Nexus match at ''SummerSlam'' 2010. Thanks to PPV time constraints, we get an extremely awkward finish to this particular match. Wade Barrett hits a DDT on John Cena on the exposed concrete on the floor and throws him back into the ring. He tags in Gabriel so he can finish Cena with the 450 Splash...only for Cena to move out of the way and pin Gabriel. Then Barrett comes in and immediately gets caught in the STF and taps out. All of that happened in about a two minute span, so it came off as though Cena just shrugged off a DDT on concrete to make the two most talented members of Nexus look like total tools.

** In a less direct show of invincibility and [[Plot Armor]], John Cena completely no-selling his "firing" by showing up at Raw every single week afterward. In fact, he did ''more'' damage to Nexus at this point than in the entire angle previous.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: So a bunch of rookies who could barely hold their own against the likes of William Regal are suddenly able to blow through John Morrison and go toe to toe with five star main eventers like Jericho and Edge despite showing barely any growth?

* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: Wade Barrett

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Justin Gabriel is the slim, delicate and pretty [[Bishonen]] with [[Ambiguously Brown|a foreign twist]], which makes sense considering he's a former model, while Wade Barrett is a [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]], [[Magnificent Bastard]] with a [[British Accents|British Accent]].

* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: A subtle one, but it works oh-so-well - high-flying pretty boy Justin Gabriel, who'd worn white tights during his full run on ''NXT'', started wearing black trunks when he turned heel as part of the NXT Riot.

* [[Hijacked by Ganon]]: Averted - In their third week, [[Vince McMahon]] ''tried'' to take credit for the Nexus, after they attacked Raw GM [[Bret Hart]] & forced him to leave his posistion as GM. The Nexus promptly attacked him, too.

** [[CM Punk]] would take over leadership of the Nexus after ''TLC 2010''.

*** It should be noted that Undertaker's return occured after the New Nexus/Corre split, and with the exception of Otunga, The New Nexus weren't involved. However, The Corre were also at the show to defend the newly won Tag Team titles.

* [[Kick the Dog]] / [[For the Evulz]]: The brutal beatdown of Ricky Steamboat and other WWE Legends in the middle of a plug for Ricky's new DVD set was probably the Nexus's most heinous act to date. The next week, Skip Sheffield commented on it and said they did it just for fun.

* [[Social Semi-Circle]]: One of those that applies to all three groups. More often than not, all members will be facing in the same direction while conversing with each other, ''Last Supper'' style. Sometimes they justify this by having them watch something on a monitor, but just as often they're simply standing there, talking to someone over their shoulder.

* [[The Starscream]]: David Otunga, ever since ''Hell in the Cell 2010''.

*** Barrett's also aware of Otunga's desire to replace him as the leader, as even after Barrett decided to punish Otunga for the trip to SmackDown by having him face Cena, he ''still'' tried to get the rest of the group to be ringside for him, only for Barrett to immediately order them backstage with a [[Smug Snake|smirk on his face]].

** Otunga's been looking to usurp Barrett's leadership since the ''Raw'' after ''Summerslam'' when he was very clear that Wade had to win his match with Jericho to stay in Nexus since the rest had to win theirs to stay in the group.

* [[With Us or Against Us]]: The Nexus's motto is "You're Either Nexus, Or You're Against Us."

* [[Worth It]]: On the September 20, 2010 episode of ''Raw'', John Cena agreed to any stipulation Wade Barrett wanted just to finally get his hands on him in a one-on-one match. Barrett said that he'd tried to recruit Cena to The Nexus before, but this time, he'd leave him with no choice: if Cena loses to Barrett at ''Hell in a Cell'', Cena joins Nexus. Cena fired back with a stipulation of his own - if he wins, Nexus is history - but considered the risk to his career path worth it ''just'' to finally get his hands on Barrett in a one-on-one match. This backfired painfully; Cena lost the match and was forced to join The Nexus, and per the anonymous ''Raw'' GM's orders, he had to obey Barrett's orders or he would be fired.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Michael Tarver received a beatdown from John Cena after losing to him on the ''Raw'' following ''Hell in a Cell'', with no Nexus members around to help him; Barrett later told Cena he was going to kick Tarver out anyway.

** With Wade Barrett's recent humiliating defeat at ''TLC 2010'' (as well as the various injuries he suffered at ''TLC 2010''), there's no doubt he'll get excommunicated as well.

 

== The New Nexus ==

 

* [[Arc Words]]: "Faith".

** Speaking of Otunga, his show name was "Punk" in ''[[I Love New York]]''.

* [[Cult]]: ''Hoo boy.'' The [[Hijacked by Ganon|New Nexus]] was already showing signs of this from the jump...but once Punk launched into one of his [[Fauxlosophic Narration|monologues]] on the 1-17-11 ''[[WWE Raw|RAW]]''…

* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: After CM Punk's brutal initiation rituals for New Nexus, every week, Jerry Lawler has been giving what amounts to an anti-hazing PSA whenever Nexus is brought up.

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: The feud with Randy Orton has basically obliterated the entire group except CM Punk.

 

== The Corre ==

 

* [[Arch Enemy]]: Theirs seems to be [[The Big Show]]... [[Fridge Brilliance|which makes sense]], since Big Show was the biggest enemy of the Original Nexus on the ''Smackdown'' side of WWE.

* [[Bald of Evil]]: Ezekiel Jackson.

* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: Corre is the grey compared to The Nexus (being the black) in the idea of being the lesser of two evils. Slater and Gabriel joined Barrett because they didn't agree with Punk's method of initiation. Plus Barrett claims that he made a mistake in making the Nexus all about him, and that in the Corre there is no leader, they are all equal. However, once again, this became a fatal flaw as the extreme individuality and lack of leadership lead to the Corre splitting up.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Justin Gabriel & Heath Slater.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: For Wrestlemania XXVII. Their match against Team Big Show was a thirty second squash with Big Show winning. They really never got back any of the steam they've had since then.

*** And in ''another'' bizarre coincidence, all three representatives of said colonies broke away from the Brit Barrett.

* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: Essentially, the group can be described as the three most talented members of the original Nexus, and [[Scary Black Man|Ezekiel]] [[The Juggernaut|Jackson]].

* [[Not Me This Time|Not Us This Time]]: The Corre were adamant that they weren't the ones to attack ''[[Smack Down]]'' GM Theodore Long, despite doing ''that exact thing'' to then ''[[Raw]]'' GM [[Bret Hart]] several months earlier - Hell, Long's assault even occured roughly the same amount of time after the Corre's formation, that the assualt on Hart did following the formation of the Nexus. [[Cassandra Truth|Turns out they weren't lying]].

* [[Not So Different]]: The Corre & New Nexus aren't as different as they claim - The Corre retained the [[True Companions]]/[[Fire-Forged Friends]] aspects of the Nexus that were abandoned by the New Nexus; and both the Corre & New Nexus shared similar modus operendi with their repeated gang attacks. [[Fridge Brilliance|This even applies to their names both referring to the relationships of each group's members]].

** Of course, Slater and Gabriel eventually split from Wade and were heading towards being [[True Companions]], but one bad loss to the Usos split them up as well.

* [[Underwear of Power]]: There's finally a bit of a subversion, not that Heath Slater has switched to long tights.

 

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