Smackdown vs. Raw: Difference between revisions

* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: In 2010 and 2011 some of the RTWM storylines dictate that your character get beaten up resulting in a loss or something close to it.

* [[Fleeting Demographic Rule]]: Mickie James's RTWM in 2010. Her RTWM involves Natalya as her crazy stalker, a part Mickie herself played against Trish Stratus when she arrived at WWE.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Multiple cases, but here's one of the more [[Egregious]] ones. When playing through [[Sheamus]]' "Road To WrestleMania" in ''WWE 12'', you find yourself in a tag team match against [[John Cena]] and [[Rey Mysterio]]. You can beat the hell out of Cena to the point where you're just seconds away from hitting him with your finisher...and then before the match ends it goes to a cutscene where you're getting ready to hit ''Rey'' with a finisher and Cena (who seems to be in no pain at all) stops you before you can.

* [[Head Swap]]: Both played with straight and inverted in the first two SmackDown games with the Create-A-Superstar mode. You can use existing heads, torsos or legs from existing characters.

* [[Jerkass]]: In RtW in 2011, everyone you talk to backstage (storylines aside) treats you like crap.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: In RtW Edge and Randy Orton in 2010. Subverted with {{spoiler|Chris Jericho in 2011}}.

** Also in Shawn Michaels' 2010 RTWM, his "highlights" are done in graphics from the appropriate previous installments

** Pushed to even further levels in 2011 with Edge and Christian:

{{quote| '''Edge:''' "Dude, we totally fooled the player into thinking we weren't going to reunite."<br />

** On that note THQ's wrestling games made it pretty easy to create characters from other games. They clearly realized this as one of the default custom wrestlers in the original [[Smackdown vs. Raw]] was an [[Expy]] of Chun Li from [[Street Fighter]].

* [[Subsystem Damage]]

* [[Take That]]: Against your character in Road to Wrestlemania, who has to do everything from fight in handicap matches in a stupid outfit chosen by Vince McMahon to being forced to wear a chicken suit. Santino against the player, heck, even the game itself regards you as a loser.

{{quote| While your work attire might be a paper hat and smock, [[Vince McMahon]] wears luxurious suits.}}