Unfortunate Implications/Professional Wrestling

Important Note: Just because a work has Unfortunate Implications does not mean the author was thinking of it that way. In fact, that's the point of it being unfortunate. So, please, no Justifying Edits about "what the authors really meant." The way an author handles a trope is an important factor here; handling a trope in a clumsy manner can certainly create unintentional impressions for readers. Likewise, if a work intends the offensive message (for example, a piece of Nazi propaganda about Jews), it wouldn't count. Also, for something that may not be offensive to you personally but may offend others in a different culture or time period, see Values Dissonance.

Examples of Unfortunate Implications in Professional Wrestling include:

Suicide! Come alive! Takes the pain from all who just can't see the light! Dark savior! He can save you! He'll take your nail and be the one they crucify, Suicide comes alive!
- And for the record, Suicide was a face that everyone was supposed to love, and was indeed quite popular to start with.
Very often (usually in the big promotions like WWE, WCW, ECW, and TNA) when they try to work a wrestler's ethnicity into a gimmick or angle, it will end up as this.
In 2012 Jerry Lawler decided to try joking about how the heels of the WWE were horrible even as infants, but sadly it ends up sounding way more like parental abuse, bordering on infanticide.

"When Cody Rhodes' parents gave him a rattle, it was attached to a snake."

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