What gimmicks have you come up with?

[ToyfareMark]

I'm sure all of us as wrestling fans have at some point have thought of a gimmick they would like to see in wrestling. So in this thread, describe what gimmick has crept into your brain.

The gimmick I came up with is a guy who had a father who was a billionaire, and also a HUGE wrestling fan, and wants nothing more than for his son to become the biggest star in wrestling. But the father died, and in his will he states that his son will only get his inheritance if he becomes a world champion. Now here is where is where the plot thickens. The son completely hates pro wrestling. Not in a its fake way, but in a kayfabe way. He wants nothing to do with it, he has his own hopes and dreams, but because of his fathers will he has no choice but start a career as a wrestler, even though he completely hates that he has to. But here is the thing, the son is an AMAZING wrestler, and also has the look and natural charisma.

But he still just completely hates it, and hates that he has to do it. He would come out, and run down wrestling, and its fans, and talk about the other things he would much rather be doing. Then just have amazing match, after amazing match, and would easily rise up the ranks. His fathers lawyer would be like his anti-manager, being around him all the time going over a list of accomplishments he has to pull off. Perhaps winning a tag title, or certain gimmick matches. This just annoys the son even more, but at the same time he just keeps getting better, and better, and it just drives the son up the wall even more. He would say things to his opponents like how he has no passion for the business, and doesn't care, but is still worlds better than them with only a fraction of the effort. And as he becomes more of a star, it just drives him more insane, especially with the lawyer always around.

Perhaps he eventually completes all his goals, and finally embraces wrestling. Or he just throws the belt down flips off the crowd and walks away. It's just something that I think would be an amazing story, one with obviously long term planning. It would also take someone very talented to pull it off. So thats the gimmick I came up with. Now lets see what you guys have came up with.

[魔界5号]

Narcoleptic wrestler. Not like Darkness Crabtree who fell asleep every once in a while because he was old, but a guy who falls asleep at all the wrong times. He's in a big title match and goes to the top rope, but falls asleep and just lands straight on the floor allowing his opponent to win. He locks in a submission, falls asleep, opponents pins him and wins. Cutting a promo, falls asleep. I'm surprised someone like Chikara or DDT haven't done this in the past.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

Jun 28, 2017 11:34:57 GMT -5 魔界5号 said:

Narcoleptic wrestler. Not like Darkness Crabtree who fell asleep every once in a while because he was old, but a guy who falls asleep at all the wrong times. He's in a big title match and goes to the top rope, but falls asleep and just lands straight on the floor allowing his opponent to win. He locks in a submission, falls asleep, opponents pins him and wins. Cutting a promo, falls asleep. I'm surprised someone like Chikara or DDT haven't done this in the past.

Isn't Orange Cassidy like this? I know he'll go up for a top rope move and fall asleep.

[ToyfareMark]

Jun 28, 2017 11:34:57 GMT -5 魔界5号 said:

Narcoleptic wrestler. Not like Darkness Crabtree who fell asleep every once in a while because he was old, but a guy who falls asleep at all the wrong times. He's in a big title match and goes to the top rope, but falls asleep and just lands straight on the floor allowing his opponent to win. He locks in a submission, falls asleep, opponents pins him and wins. Cutting a promo, falls asleep. I'm surprised someone like Chikara or DDT haven't done this in the past.

This reminds me of a sillier gimmick I came up with where the wrestler is just sick all the time. Just always catching various illnesses that aren't fatal or anything, but just leaving you feeling sickly non stop. He'd come to the ring in a hospital gown, and an IV in his arm. But then the bell rings and he goes all out, until the bell rings to end the match, and he goes back to being sick. Yeah it's totally absurd.

[James Fabiano]

HAHAHAHA! I did this all the time when I was younger. "Highlights":

- Beaker, yes named after the Muppet. It was a mental patient who didn't talk like his namesake and was calm and harmless...until someone turned out the lights in the arena. In which case he'd go crazy on his opponent. (This was based on the one Muppet Babies episode, with the "Good things happen in the dark" song)

- For some reason I had a streak of naming wrestlers after dogs and dog breeds: Tito Chihuahua, Bully Dog, Fox Terror.

- "Bad" Brad Banning and his valet the Lovely Veruca.

- "Bad" Charlie Brown (see a trend here?) and his valets (ibid?) Lucy and Sally. Came out to the Coasters song.

- Anyone remember the lineup of Super Fire Pro Wrestling X for the SNES? Remember the Cowboy template (from another video game?) I ended up making a Dudley-like family out of palette swaps of the cowboy: fat version wearing pink as an Adrian Adonis ripoff, cowboy in Muta stance with the mist and moonsault as one who thinks he's Japanese...

[lws]

I've come up with too many to discuss of the years, but my favorite is Aurelian Light - a smooth talking southern gambler who immediately buys his way into an authority position and bases every decision on the luck of the draw and his love of making money. Almost entirely morally ambiguous unless or until his power is threatened, at which point it becomes clear the house ALWAYS wins.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

"The Trailer Park Playboy." I never picked a name to go with it.

Basically, a guy who might be somewhat attractive if he took care of himself, but hasn't. Beer gut, mullet, stained wife beater, ratty bathrobe, etc. and thinks he's Rick Rude or something.

Occasionally, some women who look like they came from an episode of Cops will show up and fight over him, distracting him from his match, but he never acknowledges them afterwards.

[ERON]

A pair or trio of stereotypical football jocks who come to the ring with helmets, pads, and jerseys, and have a full entourage including a coach, cheerleader, and mascot. Sort of like the Varsity Club or Jack Swagger taken to the next level.

[Deleted]

For a very long time I've wanted to see a fortune teller gimmick who comes around once every so often and predicts the fate of a match. He's always right and this will go on for years until the right guy comes around to win a match against his prediction and completely shatter his reality.

[BorneAgain]

Mr. Champion, a mid/lower card heel who starts incredulously claiming to have won old and defunct titles; eventually the point where he's got a whole heap of a title belts on a cart he brings down the ring. This includes inexplicably, the WCW Women's Cruiseright Championship, despite that he's a man and weighs over 230 pounds.

[thecrusherwi]

I think I've said this in similar threads before, a wrestler obsessed with LinkedIn. They are super polite to their opponents so they leave them recommendations after they've fought and has a LinkedIn profile with endorsable skills like "Collar & Elbow Tied Up", "Side Headlock", "Battle Royal Wrestling" and typical of LinkedIn, has some ridiculous claimed skills that have endorsements from close friends and family like "720 Corkscrew Brainbuster" and "'Battle of the Tough Guys' Rules"

[ANuclearError]

I've tried coming up with tech/programming gimmicks, but I only ever got as far as a Death Valley Driver variant called the Silicon Valley Driver

[Baby, it’s Jes outside]

I came up with "Skull-o-mania". Totally ripped off the name from a video game (Street fighter, I think). She was a beautiful woman (think Maryse level beauty), but she wore a mask constantly to hide her hideous (in her mind) facial scars. The scars were psychological, and contributed to her especially vicious submission wrestling style.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

Hipster ninja. A hipster who is also a ninja.

[tigermaskxxxvii]

When I was a kid the first gimmick that I thought up was a character called Super Ninja, not knowing that had been done by at least three different guys. Plus you had The Yeti (Yet-Tay!) had been repackaged as Super Giant Ninja. The latter of which I don't recall, other than the ninja looking costume he wore at World War 3, and I was watching as much wrestling as I could in 1995.

A variation on Gene Kiniski's "Canada's Greatest Athlete" gimmick. But instead of being portrayed by a former CFL player turned NWA World Heavyweight Champion. This version of the gimmick would be portrayed by an out of shape American wrestler. Because according to him the bar is so low for the true north that an out of shape American can be Canada's greatest athlete! This obviously could only be done in a Canadian promotion in order for it to get any heat.

Speaking of gimmicks with a regional appeal. I would like to see a a California based promotion bring in a heel stable of wrestlers from The East Coast who play off the east coast bias the sports media can exhibit and the general rivalry between the two coasts. The name of the stable? The Eastern Standard.

A wrestler with a fear of success. Which is triggered whenever he is about to reach a new plateau in his career and it causes him to lose these clutch matches. He doesn't throw his matches and he's not cursed. It's just his phobia manifests itself in odd ways. So if he is in a ladder match and as he is about to retrieve the title belt, contract, whatever. His phobia kicks in and causes him to suffer an acute case of vertigo which clears up the moment the match is over.

[Deleted]

Random gimmick I thought of a few years ago is a guy who is a totally awful wrestler, just not really good at anything or able to take much of a beating or anything, except he has one move he is an absolute master at that is complete death. So basically all his matches are built around the guy doing everything in his power to hit that move and not paying any mind at all to anything else.

Of course, it doesn't really work since the eventual payoff would have to be someone kicking out of it in a big moment, and soon as that happens the guy's dead in the water.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Jun 28, 2017 13:10:26 GMT -5 ToyfareMark said:

Jun 28, 2017 11:34:57 GMT -5 魔界5号 said:

Narcoleptic wrestler. Not like Darkness Crabtree who fell asleep every once in a while because he was old, but a guy who falls asleep at all the wrong times. He's in a big title match and goes to the top rope, but falls asleep and just lands straight on the floor allowing his opponent to win. He locks in a submission, falls asleep, opponents pins him and wins. Cutting a promo, falls asleep. I'm surprised someone like Chikara or DDT haven't done this in the past.

This reminds me of a sillier gimmick I came up with where the wrestler is just sick all the time. Just always catching various illnesses that aren't fatal or anything, but just leaving you feeling sickly non stop. He'd come to the ring in a hospital gown, and an IV in his arm. But then the bell rings and he goes all out, until the bell rings to end the match, and he goes back to being sick. Yeah it's totally absurd.

That just sounds like an exaggerated version of Festus.

[ToyfareMark]

Jun 28, 2017 23:43:31 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

Jun 28, 2017 13:10:26 GMT -5 ToyfareMark said:

This reminds me of a sillier gimmick I came up with where the wrestler is just sick all the time. Just always catching various illnesses that aren't fatal or anything, but just leaving you feeling sickly non stop. He'd come to the ring in a hospital gown, and an IV in his arm. But then the bell rings and he goes all out, until the bell rings to end the match, and he goes back to being sick. Yeah it's totally absurd.

That just sounds like an exaggerated version of Festus.

Kinda, but Festus was all drugged up, and it was a mental thing. This guy is just always physically sick with like the Flu, and other illnesses.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

Jun 28, 2017 23:17:48 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Random gimmick I thought of a few years ago is a guy who is a totally awful wrestler, just not really good at anything or able to take much of a beating or anything, except he has one move he is an absolute master at that is complete death.

So, uh, he's every wrestler in the past three decades, then?

[Mozenrath]

Lots, but one would be a manager with a gambling problem who would make up losses by signing his charges into really unfair matches in return for payoffs. Like if he managed a guy, he'd be stuck in handicap matches against The Club, or fighting Braun, or matches he only knows the gimmick for when he's on his way to the ring.

"Oh, umm, singapore canes. Sorry."