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Post by XIII on Apr 16, 2023 16:22:23 GMT -5
I am now picturing a room full of Hollywood's top make-up artists all in a room with Cody, ranging from crying to baffled to frightened, because nothing any of them can do is able to cover up the neck tattoo. If anything, it keeps getting sharper and more vivid despite all their best efforts. Maybe the only thing that would entertain me about Cody would be a story where his tattoo becomes sentient and takes over his body for evil purposes. Wyatt get your ass in here we found your return angle! |
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Post by CMWaters on Apr 16, 2023 17:20:51 GMT -5
I am now picturing a room full of Hollywood's top make-up artists all in a room with Cody, ranging from crying to baffled to frightened, because nothing any of them can do is able to cover up the neck tattoo. If anything, it keeps getting sharper and more vivid despite all their best efforts. Maybe the only thing that would entertain me about Cody would be a story where his tattoo becomes sentient and takes over his body for evil purposes. Wyatt get your ass in here we found your return angle! I'm now picturing him getting it painted onto him ala Balor's Demon paint somehow, maybe with hints of both Goldust and Stardust in there somehow. |
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Post by Citizen Snips on Apr 16, 2023 17:42:23 GMT -5
It will always be a mystery why Cody decided to get his huge assed logo on his neck instead of his shoulder or something. This dude has been the lord and ruler of Bitchhalla for years now.  "Brandi, I'm sorry. Please don't scream." Hahaha look at that look!  |
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Apr 16, 2023 19:05:38 GMT -5
They typically do, but for some reason it rarely seems to be brought up in relation to Roman. In the build to Sami vs Roman, he and Cody had a conversation about whether it was possible to overcome Roman. He was being presented as a world beater rather than a dirty heel who constantly cheats. Few if any of the people facing him have called this out and I don't recall announcers really bringing it up either. It's ever present, but like the proverbial elephant in the room, no one seems to acknowledge it. Exactly. If it's mentioned at all it's in the background instead of it being the DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC of his title reign. They talk about him like he's legit God Mode. He's not. He's a heel who's enjoying the hell out of manipulating his family. I just figure this is Roman's last hurrah, and they want to prop him up as much as possible, but it's beyond irritating when as you said it's the elephant in the room. If he were this guy as a badass face, he would be f***ing OVER. He's already over, but "Takes no shit and legit WINS" Tribal Chief is money. Rejected Top Face Roman's problem wasn't that he was bad or couldn't hang, but that they gave him a dogshit character meant to be Not John Cena. If he showed all that cool and swagger and let something more natural shine through, I think the back half of the '10s would have been a far less contentious time. Hell, remember that brief post-Sheamus cash-in period where he was actually picking up steam and getting big pops, and then Superman Punched Vince to a huge pop? He was getting somewhere and showing more attitude. It didn't last, he regressed, and we were back to square one. Tribal Chief as a face could be something huge. |
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Apr 16, 2023 19:36:49 GMT -5
Watch they push everything back to December and Starrcade for Cody's "cornonation".
He wins the US title at this show.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Apr 16, 2023 21:17:05 GMT -5
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Post by King Devitt: What Plants Crave on Apr 17, 2023 0:20:15 GMT -5
I 100% think Roman could still pull this off at 80 years old. All he does is hit one move then walk around and talk shit for 2 minutes. Then his 75 year old cousins can do interference for the win. The Tribal Chief: The gimmick that stands the test of time. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Apr 17, 2023 0:33:23 GMT -5
Exactly. If it's mentioned at all it's in the background instead of it being the DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC of his title reign. They talk about him like he's legit God Mode. He's not. He's a heel who's enjoying the hell out of manipulating his family. I just figure this is Roman's last hurrah, and they want to prop him up as much as possible, but it's beyond irritating when as you said it's the elephant in the room. If he were this guy as a badass face, he would be f***ing OVER. He's already over, but "Takes no shit and legit WINS" Tribal Chief is money. Rejected Top Face Roman's problem wasn't that he was bad or couldn't hang, but that they gave him a dogshit character meant to be Not John Cena. If he showed all that cool and swagger and let something more natural shine through, I think the back half of the '10s would have been a far less contentious time. Hell, remember that brief post-Sheamus cash-in period where he was actually picking up steam and getting big pops, and then Superman Punched Vince to a huge pop? He was getting somewhere and showing more attitude. It didn't last, he regressed, and we were back to square one. Tribal Chief as a face could be something huge. Yeah, his character when he was a top face was...  He was a wacky prankster that was a deadly serious loner... that was totally popular and had lots of friends... etc. etc. He was everything thrown at the wall hoping something would stick... except nothing COULD stick because the next time you saw him his personality was completely different. The fact on top of that they had him basically curb stomp most of his feuds to the dirt and never look vulnerable... except when they wanted to do big crowning moments and they had him either choke or do it in the most half assed way possible. |
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Apr 17, 2023 0:40:12 GMT -5
Rejected Top Face Roman's problem wasn't that he was bad or couldn't hang, but that they gave him a dogshit character meant to be Not John Cena. If he showed all that cool and swagger and let something more natural shine through, I think the back half of the '10s would have been a far less contentious time. Hell, remember that brief post-Sheamus cash-in period where he was actually picking up steam and getting big pops, and then Superman Punched Vince to a huge pop? He was getting somewhere and showing more attitude. It didn't last, he regressed, and we were back to square one. Tribal Chief as a face could be something huge. Yeah, his character when he was a top face was... He was a wacky prankster that was a deadly serious loner... that was totally popular and had lots of friends... etc. etc. He was everything thrown at the wall hoping something would stick... except nothing COULD stick because the next time you saw him his personality was completely different. The fact on top of that they had him basically curb stomp most of his feuds to the dirt and never look vulnerable... except when they wanted to do big crowning moments and they had him either choke or do it in the most half assed way possible. Roman was a god beating everyone up until he got in there with Roman. I still think about the Mania where, after years of the F5 being an instant death shot, Roman kicked out of it only to still lose. It was a mess. Every step of the way they just did the wrongest thing because Vince f***ing lost his touch and for main event talents it takes a guy so good he succeeds in spite of that fact, and it took Roman a few more years to mature up to that point. |
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Post by Bruce Mother Wayne on Apr 17, 2023 0:43:37 GMT -5
Yeah, his character when he was a top face was... He was a wacky prankster that was a deadly serious loner... that was totally popular and had lots of friends... etc. etc. He was everything thrown at the wall hoping something would stick... except nothing COULD stick because the next time you saw him his personality was completely different. The fact on top of that they had him basically curb stomp most of his feuds to the dirt and never look vulnerable... except when they wanted to do big crowning moments and they had him either choke or do it in the most half assed way possible. Roman was a god beating everyone up until he got in there with Roman. This sentence is surprisingly true. |
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Post by Bruce Mother Wayne on Apr 17, 2023 0:47:26 GMT -5
Horrible new tattoos haven't stopped the Rock and Batista from being successful in Hollywood. To be fair, apart from the Bull, all of Rock's ink is cultural, so all it takes is a line in passing about his Polynesian heritage (or a whole Samoan subplot, like in Hobbs & Shaw). Batista's roles are pretty evenly split between serious roles where he's all covered up to draw attention away from his larger than life physique, or meatheads who would probably have all those tattoos in-story. Cody's tattoo is just so "American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes TM that they have no choice but to cover it up. There's no role he can play with that tattoo except Special Guest Star Cody Rhodes. The word "new" is doing the work in my sentence, which, for the Rock, would be his Brahma Bull cover-up. Not at all a knock against his Samoan ink. |
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 17, 2023 0:50:05 GMT -5
Even if he gets the Johnny Cage role, it'll all go downhill when he endorses the Bloodstorm movie.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 17, 2023 2:01:52 GMT -5
I still can't believe Cody thought that tattoo was a good idea, like that thing has actively hurt his career more than helped it
Really thought it might blend in or grow on people but it's now years later and there's still no excuse for it, shit's just bad lol
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Post by Nosnorb on Apr 17, 2023 4:19:50 GMT -5
He could always ask Gunther to chop the tattoo off during their inevitable feud.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 17, 2023 5:00:12 GMT -5
"Brandi, I'm sorry. Please don't scream." Hold up. Every tattoo I've gotten, they put the stencil on, then asked me if that's what I wanted. How could not know the damn thing was twice the size? You mean to tell me that the man who got this tattoo on his f***ing neck even though everyone told him it was a terrible decision and his wife hated it made a poor choice that wasn't thought out properly and didn't check out that he knew exactly what he was getting??? |
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Post by pinja on Apr 17, 2023 8:05:25 GMT -5
I got told in an exclusive interview that the only reason he got that tattoo was so he would be found at airports. A surprising amount of Codys get lost at airports every day and it's a crisis.
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Post by 06vwgti on Apr 17, 2023 8:33:00 GMT -5
He could always ask Gunther to chop the tattoo off during their inevitable feud. Is it crazy that i could have seen moxley try to bit it off lol |
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Post by King Devitt: What Plants Crave on Apr 17, 2023 8:45:45 GMT -5
So I've been thinking...
American Bitchmare
American Nightbitch
Bitcherican Nightmare
Bitcherican Bitchbitch
What say you?
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Post by Push R Truth on Apr 17, 2023 9:02:17 GMT -5
So I've been thinking... American Bitchmare American Nightbitch Bitcherican Nightmare Bitcherican Bitchbitch What say you? Bitchdust or Starbitch IMHO I'd go with Bitchdust because I'm pretty sure Starbitch is a porno |
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Post by XIII on Apr 17, 2023 10:12:09 GMT -5
So I've been thinking... American Bitchmare American Nightbitch Bitcherican Nightmare Bitcherican Bitchbitch What say you? Dashing Bitching Cody Rhodes |
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