The Phantom Republican
Name: The Phantom Republican (aka Gordon O. Powell, initials GOP)
Height: 6’5”
Weight: 257 lbs.
Hometown: Conservative Middle America
Face/Heel: Depends on your political leanings. Acts underhandedly though, as per all politicians, so I guess he’s a heel.
Appearance: Wears a mask at all times. It has a blue base with a white Republican elephant imposed on the face. In the ring, wears blue trunks with white trim that say Bush going up the right side and Cheney going up the left, in white text with black trim. Wears blue boots with white laces and soles, blue knee and elbow pads with white trim and a blue Bush/Cheney ’04 robe (which he takes off before the match). Outside of the ring, business casual.
History: Say what you will about the Phantom Republican, but he is passionate in his beliefs. A personal admirer of both Trickle Down Reaganomics and ending the Cold War, GOP became enamored with Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party at an early age. Enamored also with Hulk Hogan and fighting foreign threats like Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Sheik, GOP got into wrestling as well. Combining the two of them, GOP turned wrestling and conservatism into a lifestyle. Splitting time between the ring and the campaign trail, GOP is as fervent an interview as he is a Republican booster.
Style: Power technical. Much like the GOP likes to spend ungodly amounts of money on making state-of-the-art weapons to destroy the world several times over, GOP like to spend ungodly amounts of time training to learn moves that would win him several world titles over. Pretty agile for a guy his size too, gained from lurking in the shadows.
Move Set: Unilateral Strike (Starts out like a vertical suplex, but stops at the height and falls forward, slamming the victim front first), Tax-breaker (torture rack set up to backbreaker), Stealth Bomber (180° spinning guillotine leg drop), Trickle Down Thuganomics (alternating rolling shoulder-breakers on his left and right knees, finished with a power slam), Terror Alert (a series of submissions of varying skill and pain inflicted – Green: sleeper hold, Yellow: sleeper hold/camel clutch hybrid, Orange: kata-ha-jime, Red: Stranglehold Gamma), Star Wars (high arching moonsault), Deficit Runner (hard Irish whip to the corner, followed up with GOP bouncing off the ropes and hitting the victim with a stiff clothesline as the victim stumbles out), shoulder breaker, power slam, overhead belly to belly suplex, other basic power moves
Finisher Name: WMD
Description of Finisher: Starts out like a powerbomb, but at the apex, GOP puts the victim back first on his shoulder. He then drives the victim at a 45° angle to the canvas, with impact sharply on the head, neck and upper back
Entrance: “The Imperial March” by John Williams hits, with overdubs of various sound bites from George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Don Rumsfeld and in an old-school twist, Newt Gingrich on top. Red, white and blue house lights flash as GOP heads down to the ring.