Strong Bad is one of the major characters of the Homestar Runner series of animated Flash web cartoons. He is portrayed by Matt Chapman, the principal voice actor and co-founder of the series. Strong Bad sports red boxing gloves and a red lucha libre mask with four laces in the back and a blue diamond in the center. He enjoys pranking the other characters of the series, along with his pet The Cheat and his older brother Strong Mad. Strong Bad’s main segment is Strong Bad Email (2001-2009), in which he answers emails sent to him by fans. Segments have been spun off of his emails, including Trogdor the Burninator and Teen Girl Squad, a comic drawn by Strong Bad about four teenage friends.
P.S.IT’S OVER! Summer is over! Happy autumn equinox. By the way, the Strong Bad character was based on the Strong Bads, a lucha libre-style fighter team from the 1983 arcade video game Tag Team Wrestling. Oh, nostalgia for 1980s entertainment via Flash cartoons of the early 2000s. ARROWED!!!
Warrior (born James Brian Hellwig) was an American professional wrestler, who wrestled most famously under the ring name the Ultimate Warrior. He was best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) from 1987 to 1996, as well as his stint in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1998. Warrior died last week, on April 8, 2014, at the age of 54. Over the preceding three days he had been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, appeared at WrestleMania XXX and made his final public appearance on Raw.
Note: I never followed the WWF closely, but I do remember junior-high classmates discussing rumors of how the Ultimate Warrior had died in 1991, and was secretly being portrayed by a new wrestler—thus the drastic change in his appearance (shorter, blonder hair and a smaller physique). It seems he was always Hellwig though. Shrug.
An American professional wrestler known by his ring name “Macho Man” Randy Savage. He was recognizable for his distinctively deep and raspy voice, his ring attire and his signature catchphrase (“Oooh yeah!”). He was the spokesman for Slim Jim snack foods in the 1990s. Savage was born on this day in 1952. He died of a sudden heart attack on May 20, 2011.
A diminutive Mexican luchador in Capcom’s Saturday Night Slam Masters, a 1993 professional wrestling arcade game. This masked Mexican wrestler amazes crowds with his high-flying speed and techniques. Also known as El Stinger, he is based on real-life Mexican wrestler Lizmark, who’s very popular in Japan.
An American professional wrestler, actor and television personality. He was born on this day in 1953 as Terry Bollea. In the 1980s, the Hulk Hogan character led the expansion of professional wrestling’s popularity across North America. This period of time in the history of the World Wrestling Federation is now referred to as the Hulkamania Era.
An American actor known for his roles as B. A. Baracus in the 1980s TV series The A-Team, as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III and for his appearances as a professional wrestler. He is also known for his trademark African Mandinka warrior hairstyle and his gold jewelry. This dude has been pitying fools for 30 years now.
This French professional wrestler and actor has a posse. Billed at 7′ 4″ and 520 pounds, he was born on this day in 1946 and died in 1993. Artist Shepard Fairey raised the Obey Giant image of André to iconic status.
