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Post by jmule on Oct 22, 2014 10:40:30 GMT -5
How many gimmicks do you think started out amazing for the first 6 months then....well you know...
Kane
Val venis
Rico
Doink
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 10:44:52 GMT -5
Vladimir Kozlov
Mankind
Stone Cold
John Tenta in WCW
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Ben Wyatt
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I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Oct 22, 2014 11:05:25 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 11:08:47 GMT -5
The thread is about gimmicks that you think started awesome and then turned to crap. |
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Post by TGM on Oct 22, 2014 11:13:12 GMT -5
I'm going to assume you mean good gimmicks that tanked, not had some kind of castration element to them.
Diesel is a pretty major example, they had this badass trucker with a brilliant finisher and who could cut a fine promo. Stupid decision to turn him into a generic good guy champion battling Monster of the Week.
Christopher Nowinski also had a pretty good gimmick until they teamed him with Teddy Long because, apparently, Havard educated white males are also oppressed (I'm not sure if this was supposed to be ironic).
I quite enjoyed RTC Steven Richards until they created the lame stable, stripping Godfather and Val Venis of anything they had that was interesting, although Val had been doing SRS Venis for a few months beforehand, which was cool.
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Ben Wyatt
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I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Oct 22, 2014 12:20:33 GMT -5
The thread is about gimmicks that you think started awesome and then turned to crap. Eh, differet strokes and whatnot. I thought both gimmicks evolved great |
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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 22, 2014 12:22:06 GMT -5
Matt Hardy, V1/Mattitude. Hilarious stuff...before the writers stopped caring about it because Johnny Ace thought A-Train was a more marketable heel (again).
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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 22, 2014 12:23:44 GMT -5
The thread is about gimmicks that you think started awesome and then turned to crap. Eh, differet strokes and whatnot. I thought both gimmicks evolved great If this is about mentioning Austin and Mankind, granted heel Austin/tweener Austin was great. I wonder if the person who posted this, if he wasn't being sarcastic, was referring to how they Flanderized that character into a politically incorrect redneck. Similarly, I think the thing with Foley boils down to "did you like psycho, dark Mankind vs. comedian Mankind?" |
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 22, 2014 12:25:02 GMT -5
Definitely Mankind
I loved the deranged version.
I hate the shirt/tie wearing buffoon version
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 12:31:09 GMT -5
Eh, differet strokes and whatnot. I thought both gimmicks evolved great If this is about mentioning Austin and Mankind, granted heel Austin/tweener Austin was great. I wonder if the person who posted this, if he wasn't being sarcastic, was referring to how they Flanderized that character into a politically incorrect redneck. Similarly, I think the thing with Foley boils down to "did you like psycho, dark Mankind vs. comedian Mankind?" That's precisely what I'm talking about. Loved the "Stone Cold" character. Hated the beer drinking redneck who spewed ignorance like "WHUUUT?" Loved the psychotic Mankind who talked to rats and stabbed himself with a pencil. Hated the comedy guy who shoved a sock puppet down people's throats. |
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Post by MC Blowfish on Oct 22, 2014 16:30:37 GMT -5
I loved crazy Mankind, and I even liked the comedy Mankind to a point. I really think they should have had him do a different finisher though. The sock was funny at first, but it ran it's time. He could have easily used the double arm DDT that he used for his other personas.
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 22, 2014 18:30:35 GMT -5
Just mentioned it in another thread: Samuel Shaw. Started out as something refreshingly edgy in the PG wrestling era, and had the appeal of playing off current pop culture. Then went dish ill SO fast.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Oct 22, 2014 20:24:45 GMT -5
The Boogey Man. It's a good character but not one you can keep on television every week without getting stale. Especially with how limited he was in the ring. I think he would've been a major star during the territory days, staying a couple of months in each territory, working his program without outstaying his welcome.
The Spirit Squad is another one. It was a good short-term gimmick and got a lot of heat at first, but it just stuck around too long and got really stale by the end of things.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Oct 22, 2014 20:27:23 GMT -5
Whatever Sean O'Haire was doing.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 22, 2014 21:10:52 GMT -5
Crazy Chavo and Crazy Saturn both started great, then went to hell.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Oct 23, 2014 5:33:45 GMT -5
The Hurricane was great as a goofball heel, not so much as a kid friendly face.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 23, 2014 6:46:47 GMT -5
Hardcore Holly - or rather, at least when he first started it as "the Big Shot". He was great as this absolutely delusional guy who thought he was bigger and tougher than he actually was, with Big Show constantly having to save his ass and Holly being oblivious to the fact that he needed someone else's help. While Crash was a good gimmick in its own right, adding him into the mix diluted and pretty much ruined any interest and development there was in Hardcore's own gimmick.
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Post by ronnie2hotty on Oct 23, 2014 7:33:06 GMT -5
Muhammad Hassan.
I really think the Hassan character could have been a great character if they would have started with him being a smiling good guy type character who was trying to break the stereotype of Arab-Americans. Then it could have evolved it into what it eventually became, a guy who felt like he was constantly being held back by American prejudice because of 9/11.
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Oct 23, 2014 8:25:33 GMT -5
Crazy Chavo and Crazy Saturn both started great, then went to hell. Eh, eventually there is the issue of 'why are they letting the crazy person compete?' And it breaks logic. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 8:30:07 GMT -5
I'm going to nominate Goldust too.
The androgynous guy with ambiguous sexuality who quoted films with eerie music playing in the background was brilliant. When he ran away with the homo/bi gimmick and started kissing dudes, it destroyed the subtlety of the character and just turned him into a gay shock caricature. Now he is a gold Darth Maul who stutters.
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