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Post by WBL a.k.a. Mountie II on Jun 3, 2013 8:37:25 GMT -5
After focusing goddamned everything on Cena and Rock, and Cena and Punk, and everything getting stale and Cena Cena Cena, it's nice to see an influx of talent coming in and shaking things up. But there's something I've been noticing about this new influx of talent, in the last year or so.
Big E. Langston. Dean Ambrose. Seth Rollins. Roman Reigns. Bray Wyatt. The Wyatt Family. Fandango. Curtis Axel.
All of them are heels.
Is this, as my associate reflecto once mused, the Batman syndrome? Where the hero (Orton, Cena) gets a pass on being bland and boring as long as the villains are interesting and fascinating?
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Post by Juice on Jun 3, 2013 8:51:28 GMT -5
Batman is boring? News to me.
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Post by molson5 on Jun 3, 2013 9:08:36 GMT -5
It's easier to be a heel, so it would make sense for more of the new guys to start as heels. I'm sure it'll balance out a little in time.
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Post by BigWill on Jun 3, 2013 9:12:54 GMT -5
Batman is boring? News to me. Pretty much all DC heros are boring. |
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Post by Emmet Russell on Jun 3, 2013 9:13:29 GMT -5
Well ... they did bring up that young stallion: Bo Dallas.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jun 3, 2013 9:15:32 GMT -5
Yeah, it's much easier to get hated than it is to make fans actually care about you. I remember similar rounds of callups in the past where the mast majority of them were heels, leading to guys like Rob Conway, Chris Masters, Carlito, MNM, The Bashams, Luther Reigns, Mark Jindrak and most of the 2004-2005 debuts were almost entirely heels.
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Post by Cronant on Jun 3, 2013 9:16:24 GMT -5
It's easier to be a heel, so it would make sense for more of the new guys to start as heels. I'm sure it'll balance out a little in time. Yeah, most start off as heels then turn face when the crowd gets more familiar with them. Cena and Orton started as faces, but they were non factors until heel turns. As for the new group, Big E will probably turn face sooner or later. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2013 10:47:12 GMT -5
Yeah, it's much easier to get hated than it is to make fans actually care about you. I remember similar rounds of callups in the past where the mast majority of them were heels, leading to guys like Rob Conway, Chris Masters, Carlito, MNM, The Bashams, Luther Reigns, Mark Jindrak and most of the 2004-2005 debuts were almost entirely heels. Masters, Carlito and MNM aside, I'd hardly say those guys managed to make fans care. |
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Post by BigWill on Jun 3, 2013 12:03:37 GMT -5
It's easier to be a heel, so it would make sense for more of the new guys to start as heels. I'm sure it'll balance out a little in time. I disagree. How many heels on the roster, aside from the main eventers, actually get booed? Where as even a bland face can get a decent amount of cheers just from putting on an entertaining match. |
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Jun 3, 2013 13:17:30 GMT -5
Even Fandango who is suppose to be a heel is getting cheers, its just easier to book a heel start than a face. With a heel have him interrupt a face promo, or be associated with an established heel and there you go while booking a face is kind of hard to start with
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Post by Heinz Doofenschmirtz on Jun 3, 2013 14:11:04 GMT -5
They could try the ass kicking face. Have Yoshi Tatsu get destroyed by a mega-heel. The heel keeps beating the tar out of Yoshi until Mason Ryan (or whoever) runs in and destroys the heel. He gets on the mic, challenges anyone in the back and have him destroy a couple of mid-card heels.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jun 3, 2013 14:15:36 GMT -5
They really need to balance it out. It really bothers me that the majority of the featured regulars are heels, and the majority of the faces are just warm bodies to put the heels over.
I really don't like this formula. You see heels getting pushed and getting over enough to turn face, which bogs down the face side of the roster making it even harder for faces to move up the card, unless THEY turn heel, and get pushed via the same stale formula that hammered their credibility into the ground to the point where they needed a heel turn to begin with.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Jun 3, 2013 14:16:01 GMT -5
It wouldn't matter if they came in face. If they got over, as Ryback did, they'd just turn him heel anyway to feed Cena, whom they're terrified to ever alter, tweak or turn.
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Post by WBL a.k.a. Mountie II on Jun 3, 2013 14:41:42 GMT -5
It wouldn't matter if they came in face. If they got over, as Ryback did, they'd just turn him heel anyway to feed Cena, whom they're terrified to ever alter, tweak or turn. And therein lies my fear. The already fed The Shield to Cena, who literally ended their as-a-team undefeated streak BY HIMSELF, regardless of how it happened. I'm just waiting for the rest of them to line up and get fed. |
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Post by BigWill on Jun 3, 2013 14:45:45 GMT -5
It wouldn't matter if they came in face. If they got over, as Ryback did, they'd just turn him heel anyway to feed Cena, whom they're terrified to ever alter, tweak or turn. And therein lies my fear. The already fed The Shield to Cena, who literally ended their as-a-team undefeated streak BY HIMSELF, regardless of how it happened. I'm just waiting for the rest of them to line up and get fed. Not sure if serious... |
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Post by WBL a.k.a. Mountie II on Jun 3, 2013 14:47:44 GMT -5
And therein lies my fear. The already fed The Shield to Cena, who literally ended their as-a-team undefeated streak BY HIMSELF, regardless of how it happened. I'm just waiting for the rest of them to line up and get fed. Not sure if serious... AND YOU WILL NEVER BE SURE MOTHERF it's a worst case scenario, I know. But what else is the WWE prone to do? |
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Post by mizerable on Jun 3, 2013 15:03:37 GMT -5
There only chance to get pushed is as a heel. You'll never have a chance with the other faces in place, or even if you do, they'll turn you heel anyways.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jun 3, 2013 15:13:31 GMT -5
Big E is a heel?
But seriously it makes sense, many wrestlers have got to the point where they're too respected to keep as a heel for more than a few months, that process takes a lot longer with new talent as they don't have that emotional connection with the majority of the audience.
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Post by mrjl on Jun 3, 2013 17:36:44 GMT -5
current fans are so petty they won't cheer most guys just because you ask them to. Bringing a guy in a face is practically a death sentence
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Post by WBL a.k.a. Mountie II on Jun 5, 2013 7:01:46 GMT -5
current fans are so petty they won't cheer most guys just because you ask them to. Bringing a guy in a face is practically a death sentence But it worked great for Bo Dallas. Oh, yeah... |
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