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Wild Samoan
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You probably don't need to be told this (what with all the Foreign Wrestling Heels running around), but Professional Wrestling isn't very culturally sensitive. Nowhere is this more evident than the Wild Samoan gimmick (or Tongan, or Fijian, or Marquesan, or...). Basically, in the wrestling world, if you come from a small South Pacific island, you talk in grunts, groans, and gibberish, you devour raw fish on the way to the ring (not prepared raw fish like sushi either, just plain, whole, raw fish)... and you destroy everything in your path in the most brutal manner possible. Oh, and your head is hard enough to break concrete. Most fans know literally nothing about Samoa other than the absurd amounts of wrestlers (and absurd amounts of NFL players) who just seem to appear out of thin air. We have seen no proof that the entire island isn't just one very large wrestling school. Fortunately, this is on its way to becoming a Discredited Trope, with the broadening gimmicks for islander wrestlers such as Samoa Joe, the badass submission expert - Rosey, the erstwhile sidekick to wrestling Superhero The Hurricane - Rikishi, the hip-hop dancing sumo wrestler who rubs his gargantuan, thong-covered ass into his opponents' faces (...yes, you read that right) - Evie, the kicking kiwi - Roman Reigns, the cerebral technician who takes advantage of wolfpack tactics to overwhelm his foes - Jey Dewhurst, the Drag Queen diva - and not least of all The Rock would count as well (his mother was Samoan, but his father was black). However, it does have a way of cropping back up from time to time. This kind of gimmick tends to come with a very specific moveset which perpetuates over time and it's often adopted by non-Samoan wrestlers. Moves like savate kicks, hip attacks, headbutts, diving splashes, reverse piledrivers, nerve holds/thrusts and the ubiquitous Samoan drop are the most common. The examples below cover the usage of this trope in professional wrestling, but also in other media as well. |
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Doctor Gonzo from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is described as Samoan (though his real name was Oscar Zeta Acosta and he was Chicano). The charade carries over from the books, and was pretty much necessary to keep Acosta from being disbarred. | |
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Haku/Meng, a wild Tongan. In real life this was half true. Outside of the ring he was very quiet, respectful, and well spoken........until you pissed him off and Lord help you at that point. Right, Jimmy Jack Funk? Jake "The Snake" Roberts once joked that, if he ever had to fight Meng in real life, he'd need a tank and a gun with one bullet. The gun was for himself if the tank failed to stop Meng. Haku currently works as a body shop manager at a Toyota dealership in Orlando, FL. |
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Sabu The Wildman (1945-2007), real name Ulualoaiga Onosai Tuaolo Emilio and better known as Cocoa Samoa, came long before and had no relation to the non-Samoan ECW wrestler of the same name. | |
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The late Umaga (Samoan for "The End"), who was actually a subversion of this trope before he began to embody it. He portrayed Jamal of Three Minute Warning, basically a gangsta, during his WWE run at the turn of the century. He continued on as Jamal in All Japan after getting released. Even as Umaga he was at least portrayed as being highly intelligent (despite being socially inept enough to gnaw on the intercontinental championship) and spoke fluently (albeit not in English). Subverted, when he actually challenged CM Punk, in English, to a "Samoan Strap Match." |
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Averted with Hunter from Starlink: Battle for Atlas, though he is still a capable soldier, pilot, and warrior whose talents focus on raw offense. He's basically the calmest playable character in the game. | |
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Referenced in Fast & Furious 6, where the character played by Dwayne Johnson is referred to as "Samoan Thor" at one point. | |
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Samu and Fatu, better known as The Samoan SWAT Team (WCW) and The Headshrinkers (WWF). Fatu would become far more famous as Rikishi. Samu would go to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he would wrestle as 'Wild Samoan'. | |
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Amazing (and appalling) that it isn't discredited yet, as it was subverted as far back as Moby-Dick. Queequeg is an "islander" from somewhere in the Pacific, and Ishmael initially fears him as a dangerous savage, but he turns out to be a basically civilized and decent fellow with some peculiar cultural mannerisms. | |
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The Price Is Right's Bob Barker was infamously wary of any Samoans (or anyone who looked like one) who got to Contestants Row, given their alleged tendency to pick him up in bear hugs out of jubilation. | |
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This trope is subverted, if you can believe it, by TNA's Samoa Joe. Not only does he speak fluent English in the ring and out of it, but he wears shoes as well! Unfortunately, he has suffered not from this trope, but from Badass Decay. It's made more sad when he was RoH World Champion, he reigned for twenty-one months. To give you an idea of how impressive that was, John Cena's longest title reign with the WWE championship was thirteen months. Worse still, in attempting to get rid of the Badass Decay, he headed into Wild Samoan territory, wearing face paint, biting people, covering himself in dirt and carrying a sling blade. Plus his entrance music had the nice addition of "...Samoa, nation of violence". This led to a moronic Face–Heel Turn at the 2009 King of the Mountain match that was regarded as one of the worst turns of all time. Not that it mattered anyway, as the next year, Samoa Freaking Joe was kidnapped by ninjas. And nobody was a bad enough dude to rescue him. | |
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Averted by WOW Women of Wrestling's Paradise. She was billed from Tonga, but didn't display any of the qualities usually associated with this trope. | |
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Wizard deckhand Freddy Maughtai on Deadliest Catch embodies most of the stereotypes: his English is heavily accented (the show actually often captions his lines, though he's not that hard to understand), he will take fish out of the crab pots and begin to eat them raw (scales, bones and all), and most recently, when the Wizard spotted a walrus carcass (with valuable tusks) and tried to harvest it, they were having trouble getting a rope around it to haul it up. Freddy's solution was to strip down to his sweatpants and jump into the Bering Sea in January, when the water temperature is around 35 degrees Fahrenheit (about 2 degrees Celsius) to fix the rope around it. Ship captain Keith Colburn and the rest of the crew almost went nuts, and they quickly fished him out. Keith was extremely frightened by Freddy's actions, but Freddy himself seemed to view it as no big deal. Of special note was that being in water that cold for one minute generally results in the beginning stages of hypothermia. Freddy was in the water for two minutes, and according to Keith, his skin didn't even feel cold. He was back working on deck within minutes, once he'd changed into dry clothes. | |
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Mauga from Overwatch is a friendlier, more charismatic example than most, but is very much a blood-hungry Samoan warrior of incredible physical prowess, and he wields it with ridiculous candor — i.e., by dual-wielding chainguns. | |
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Subverted, when he actually challenged CM Punk, in English, to a "Samoan Strap Match." | |
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On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Jadzia's bachelorette party included one of these, a crewman named Manuele Atoa. | |
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Floyd Iraia from Streets of Rage 4 is a towering powerhouse of Maori heritage who throws enemies around like ragdolls. Some of his animations even pay homage to the Haka dance. That said, when he's not fighting crooks, he's pretty relaxed. | |
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King Konga/The Barbarian/Sione Vailahi was also a wild Tongan. | |
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There was some game show on Boy Meets World where the losers were attacked by Samoans. Even in the home edition. | |
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American Gladiators included a Wild Samoan who went by "Toa" (the Samoan word for "warrior"). | |
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The Māori are portrayed this way in Deadliest Warrior. | |
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Young Rock depicts the actual Trope Namers, Afa and Sika, but is overall a deconstruction of the trope. All of the Samoans in the story are well-spoken and only use the gimmicks in the ring. The The Wild Samoans themselves are shown to be jovial and friendly in contrast to their Kayfabe personas. Of course, Dwayne Johnson himself is a subversion of the trope. | |
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Averted in Land of the Dead with Pilsbury, who remains calm and collected despite the Zombie Apocalypse, even when his Hot-Blooded teammate makes a small jab at Samoans. | |
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Jake "The Snake" Roberts once joked that, if he ever had to fight Meng in real life, he'd need a tank and a gun with one bullet. The gun was for himself if the tank failed to stop Meng. | |
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Female example - TNA's Lei'D Tapa (Tongan). She overlaps somewhat with The Giant but still fits the trope. Though her Gut Check video was completely out of character. She is the niece of the Barbarian, though. | |
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Queequeg in Codename STEAM has this appearance. | |
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King Adamo, known for wearing what looks like a straw ring around his neck, is an example of this in Ultimate Pro and Pro Wrestling ZERO1. Incidentally, Samoa Joe's first wild Samoan run was with this guy before he got sick of and walked out of Zero 1. Adamo's more regular partner, King Dabada (known as Alofa the Samoan Tank in WWC), is a even bigger example. | |
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From New Zealand comes Mana "The Polynesian Warrior", who is actually Māori, but was trained by the Trope Namers, teamed with Samu and Ekmo (Umaga) in MLW, and generally plays the trope straight. | |
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Afa and Sika, the original Wild Samoans (incidentally, Afa is the patriarch of the Anoa'i Wrestling Family, whose members make up most of the other examples). Just to give you an idea of how strong kayfabe was in the eighties. Hogan purchased a gun, and was traveling in New Jersey with the Wild Samoans (pre-Hulkamania) when he got pulled over by a state trooper. He went for his registration and the gun fell out of his glove box. He begged the Samoans to explain that he was unaware of NJ guns laws, but they just looked at each other and grunted so as not to break kayfabe (they both spoke perfect English). They remained mute while being taken into custody with Hogan, because going to jail beats breaking character. |
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The Usos (who are the sons of Rikishi Fatu), who actually lampshade this trope by noting in their debut promo that they're not "your stereotypical Samoans." When they perform a Haka, the commentators point out that athletes in Hawaii do that even if they aren't Polynesian. Then they did the Siva-Tau, the Samoan war dance, which is also used by many other Samoan athletes. | |
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