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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 17, 2022 17:48:25 GMT -5
Probably Cena but honestly I doubt much of anyone has heard of one without having some concept of the other.
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Post by peaches1 on Jan 17, 2022 17:50:57 GMT -5
Cena easily.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Jan 17, 2022 18:15:59 GMT -5
Dave looking at the poll results
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Post by Dub H on Jan 17, 2022 18:22:57 GMT -5
For what it's worth, Google trends has Cena way ahead over the past 5 years. trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F01ypx5,%2Fm%2F02_r_l Cena comes out on top all over the world. If you change the search term to just "Batista" Cena still has almost every country but Batista gets Brazil, Spain, Chile and Venezuela. That could just be Batista being a common surname in those countries though. from my anecdotal note as a brazilian , Batista is talked sligthy more than Cena when it comes to movies but it is also the name of an infamous corrupt family. It has been talked less those last years but could still affect
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Jan 17, 2022 18:29:16 GMT -5
For what it's worth, Google trends has Cena way ahead over the past 5 years. trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F01ypx5,%2Fm%2F02_r_l Cena comes out on top all over the world. If you change the search term to just "Batista" Cena still has almost every country but Batista gets Brazil, Spain, Chile and Venezuela. That could just be Batista being a common surname in those countries though. from my anecdotal note as a brazilian , Batista is talked sligthy more than Cena when it comes to movies but it is also the name of an infamous corrupt family. It has been talked less those last years but could still affect I just scrolled down the page and noticed that it tells you that most of the Batista searches are for a Brazilian singer Amado Batista. Is he a big name? Wikipedia has almost no info on him.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Jan 17, 2022 18:48:32 GMT -5
Cena is bigger because while Batista has had a solid run in Hollywood, he's not really a big name there. Cena, while not bigger in Hollywood, has some pop cultural cache as the wrestling guy (interrupting John Cena music became a meme for a reason), so being the bigger fish in that pond benefits him for name recognition.
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Post by Dub H on Jan 17, 2022 20:52:53 GMT -5
from my anecdotal note as a brazilian , Batista is talked sligthy more than Cena when it comes to movies but it is also the name of an infamous corrupt family. It has been talked less those last years but could still affect I just scrolled down the page and noticed that it tells you that most of the Batista searches are for a Brazilian singer Amado Batista. Is he a big name? Wikipedia has almost no info on him. Oh yeh,he used to be a fairly big singer in Brazil,he is semi-retired but I guess he is still a mainstream name, completely forgot
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Jan 17, 2022 21:30:27 GMT -5
I just scrolled down the page and noticed that it tells you that most of the Batista searches are for a Brazilian singer Amado Batista. Is he a big name? Wikipedia has almost no info on him. Oh yeh,he used to be a fairly big singer in Brazil,he is semi-retired but I guess he is still a mainstream name, completely forgot It must be a bit of a trip knowing that you're the most famous person in the world with your name. Like I wonder if that even registers for this dude. Or if Tom Hanks ever sits and thinks to himself "you know, there are a lot of famous Tom's out there but none of them have shit on me." I find it interesting and a nice time wasting exercise to do the Google trends comparisons but I’m not sure how much importance it actually carries. There could be the awkwardness of do people search for Batista, Dave Bautista or Dave Batista which could be splintering his results. I put Cena and Batista against a bunch of big celebrities and maybe it’s just the wrestling fan in me being in a bubble and underestimating the wrestlers popularity outside of it but Cena especially is holding up well against a bunch of people I thought would be ahead of him. He’s neck and neck with Will Smith, Tom Cruise and Jay-Z over the past 5 years, he’s above Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks and Quentin Tarantino. The Rock is ahead of him and Ariana Grande and Kanye West blow him out the water though.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 17, 2022 21:33:05 GMT -5
I feel like people know Dave's characters more than know Dave whereas with Cena it's the other way round if that makes sense.
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Post by eJm on Jan 17, 2022 21:42:36 GMT -5
I feel like people know Dave's characters more than know Dave whereas with Cena it's the other way round if that makes sense. I’d say that’s fair, really. Like, I genuinely don’t think anyone else could have played Drax like Dave did and a lot of his other characters haven’t had that wide cultural berth and Cena has mostly played himself somewhat right up until Peacemaker where it feels like only Cena could have played him like he did.
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Post by ayumidah on Jan 17, 2022 21:54:24 GMT -5
Probably Cena. My ex even mentioned him to me back when Cena was a meme
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Post by Tiffany Stratton's Daddy on Jan 18, 2022 3:10:51 GMT -5
It's funny wrestling fans are answering this
But if you asked a random stranger to name a wrestler that comes to mind, one of the first 3 names -- if not the first -- is likely John Cena. Hell, it's probably mentioned before The Rock.
So yeah, no contest, Cena.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2022 3:37:24 GMT -5
I'd say they're about the same.
Anyone who knows Cena would know Batista. Especially with his movies.
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Post by The Ichi on Jan 18, 2022 13:12:33 GMT -5
Cena, but it's probably closer than this poll suggests.
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Post by 06vwgti on Jan 18, 2022 14:12:17 GMT -5
Both seem to get equal amounts of coverage in the Tampa area as they both live down here. At the same time I think Dave does make more local news coverage for some of the stuff he has tweeted about, like some of the animal rights stuff he's been involved in.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jan 18, 2022 14:18:51 GMT -5
I think Batista if you asked this a few years ago. It's definitely Cena now.
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Post by ronin705 on Jan 18, 2022 14:37:32 GMT -5
In pop culture? John by far, as he's somehow reached meme levels of popularity.
In the Hollywood game?? Bautista eats his breakfast. Didn't go the typical route, and has a very solid BODY OF WORK as opposed to John's rocky start. He's getting up there slowly but surely though
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Post by salz4life on Jan 18, 2022 17:07:15 GMT -5
I think both are equally recognizable. But Batista is very much in a "Hey, it's that guy!" character actor position, and people know John Cena's name. Batista is sort of that character actor that everyone knows they've seen from something, while people actually know of the name John Cena from The Suicide Squad/Peacemaker, F9, that movie he was a fireman in, that movie with Amy Schumer, etc. Both are doing well, but I think Cena is more well-known (despite Batista as Drax in the MCU).
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 19, 2022 7:53:41 GMT -5
I’d say Cena is probably more visible individually unless you consider that Batista as Drax is a more famous role than anything Cena’s done up to now. As big as Peacemaker is getting it’s still an R-rated property, which will push away more parents than the PG-13 MCU.
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Post by Woo on Jan 20, 2022 14:48:00 GMT -5
I think it's definitely Batista. Marvel movies, James Bond, Blade Runner, Dune. He's already had the best movie career of any pro-wrestler imo. Yeah The Rock's made way more films but they are mostly garbage.
Cena recently being in Suicide Squad makes this much closer, but I still think it's Batista even though he's probably just known as Drax.
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