Wall Banger/Professional Wrestling/World Wrestling Entertainment: Difference between revisions

{{worktrope}}

WWE = "World [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] Entertainment"? Probably not, but these examples of stupid moments in WWE programming may leave viewers doing more than simply [[WWE/Headscratchers|scratching their heads]].

** What really made this [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] was that the original ECW owner Paul Heyman was currently an announcer for WWF and was an active part of the Alliance storyline (and does wonderfully as an obnoxious heel),T meaning there was absolutely no reason whatsoever for Stephanie to be the "owner" of ECW other than to have the Chairman's daughter in a major storyline role.

* Since going PG, WWE has a real [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] whenever somebody bleeds. At first, it wasn't so bad; wrestlers were not allowed to cut themselves to bleed anymore, but it didn't hurt the matches. However, if a wrestler is opened up hardway (starts bleeding unintentionally due to the match) then paramedics come out to stitch him mid-match, meaning absolutely all momentum grinds to a halt. This was really shown during a ladder match between [[Christian]] and Shelton Benjamin. While the paramedics were closing Christian's cut Shelton was free to climb up the ladder. The match was going quite well up until that point.

* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] has a continuing [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] in their insistence on using the terms "sports entertainment" and "entertainer" instead of "wrestling" and "wrestler". Yes, yes, we all know [[Kayfabe|wrestling is fake]], but it seriously hurts [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] when you're reminded of that fact every five minutes.

***** The whole "wrestler vs superstar" thing was even lampshaded when [[Joey Styles]], who was temporarily announcing for Raw took off in a flying moment of rage after being completely harassed for several weeks by the likes of Heidenreich and the Spirit Squad (separately) and he proceeds to leave, but not before, at the top of the entrance ramp, going into a rant about how "Back in ECW, we called them what they were, wrestlers! What do we call them here in the WWE? ''SUPERSTAAARS!''" He was announcing for the new ECW not long afterward. [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|And calling the wrestlers "extremists".]]

**** It's gotten so ridiculous that when TV Week.com ran a story on Drew Carey's induction into the WWE's hall of fame, a WWE publicist actually emailed them to complain about the article's headline: "Drew Carey Inducted Into Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame. Huh? Drew Carey??!!" and '''demand''' that it be changed. The reason? Quote: ''“We are no longer a wrestling company but rather a global entertainment company with a movie studio, international licensing deals, publisher of three magazines, consumer good distributor and more.”'' The original writer removed the article rather than change it. Full details [https://web.archive.org/web/20130721043453/http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/2011/03/whoaa-nellie-when-brands-go-horribly-wrong-pstvince-mcmahon-and-the-wwe-are-no-longer-in-the-wrestli.php here.]

* [[Wrestler/Kane (wrestling)|Kane]]'s unmasking.

*** [[It Got Worse|BUT IT DIDN'T STOP THERE]]. The Miz would go on to tap out to Cena for the next ''3 consecutive weeks'' on Raw. Many thought that the Miz would never recover from that burial, but he would be [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap]] and become a double champion with the Unified Tag Team Title and US Title (which means he was carrying around THREE belts).

** That's exactly the reason why Nora Greenwald aka Molly Holly quit altogether. By invoking [[Hollywood Homely]] to the point of [[Values Dissonance]], Molly went from hillbilly Juliet (Spike Dudley was the Romeo,) to [[The Comically Serious|a brunette no-nonsense prude]] to a [[FatUnintentionally MonicaUnsympathetic]]. Never mind that she was credible enough to train other women or remain one of the few legit competitors in a growing era of [[Faux Action Girl|contest-winning models,]] Vince was so fixated on her being a "fat-ass" and '''NOT'not'' in the [[Baby Got Back]] kind of way that she finally got fed up and quit the business to do missionary work.

** Lita, it seems, [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20200409034840/https://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1248039659 did have something to say.] [[Captain Obvious|It]] [[Cluster F-Bomb|wasn't]] pretty.

** Gail Kim \[https://web.archive.org/web/20110830105650/http://www.ringsidenews.com/news/gail-kim-posts-several-twitter-messages-criticizing-wwe-s-use-of-divas/ actually took WWE creative to task over how they book the Divas nowadays.] And yet even despite this you'll still have people assuming it's the talent's fault why the modern division is in a dire state of affairs instead of calling out the true guilty parties.

*** [[Vince McMahon]] was the only possible choice to be the Higher Power. It's not the first time he swerved everyone as part of his gambit just to screw Austin (think Survivor Series 1998, when Shane and The Rock, whom Vince feuded with heading into the event, were in cahoots with him the entire time). Foley wouldn't have made sense for the reasons mentioned, also the fact that his only "bad blood" with Austin was when Foley was Vince's lackey, and Austin even helped him win the WWE Championship at one point, while he had a lot more bad blood towards Vince and [[The Undertaker]]. Other fan choices including Jake Roberts (who was not only not in WWE at the time, but he was going through his drug and alcohol problems and the angle would have ended in an instant [[Role -Ending Misdemeanor]] right after the reveal probably, as well as several people who could not wrestle at the time due to injuries, such as [[Ted DiBiase]] (who, like Roberts, wasn't even in WWE at the time) and [[Shawn Michaels]], thus a feud with them wouldn't really go anywhere. It got to the point where people said they wanted it to be Brother Love, of all people. So basically they just wanted a random shocking twist for the sake of a random and shocking twist, whether it resulted in anything worthwhile or not. Vince being revealed as the Higher Power wasn't TOO shocking, but did a lot storyline wise, such as make Austin more heroic than he's been at any other time in his career when he saved Vince's daughter Stephanie from the Ministry, and it was what turned Vince from simply the [[Bad Boss]] to a [[Complete Monster]] who was willing to have his own daughter kidnapped just to screw Austin and cared more about his power and authority than his own family. So if anything it was a [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] on the fan's part who assumed that it was going to be a huge return of someone from the past, whether it made sense or not.

*** The hidden kicker in this is that they actually came up with what would've made the most sense as a solution as to the motivations for Vince being the Higher Power of the Corporate Ministry, by having Vince claim his own personal [[Parody Religion|Parody]] [[Religion of Evil]] called "McMahonism" where he declared himself [[A God Am I|the lord, master, and god of the entire business]] and that [[God-Emperor|everyone involved in it from fan to superstar must worship him]]. ''Except they came up with this'' '''seven years later''', ''during a feud with'' '''[[Shawn Michaels]]''' ''over Vince's own inability to move on from the'' '''[[Montreal Screwjob]]'''. In other words: [[What Could Have Been]] a full-on [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moment of Evil Awesome]] became one [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] and one [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] split about by seven-tenths of a full decade, both scrapped shortly after one month each and never mentioned again.

* During the Kane/Undertaker 2010 feud 'Taker appeared to have been weakened since [[Wrestler/Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] left him in a comatose-like state earlier in the year. In an effort to fully regain his power he decided to bring back his urn, the urn which is held by none other than [[Paul Bearer]]. Paul, who hadn't been seen or mentioned on WWE programming in over four years, returned on a Smackdown a few weeks before the Kane/Taker rematch for the World Heavyweight title at the "Hell In A Cell". Paul's abrupt return isn't what makes this a wallbanger though. The thing that puts this in the bang-your-head-into-the-nearest-sturdy-surface category is the fact that during his last appearance Bearer was buried in concrete and left for dead by...you guessed it, [[The Undertaker]]! So after no on-screen reconciliation between the two I guess we were supposed to be surprised when Bearer sided with Kane and cost 'Taker the match.

* The Edge/Kane feud on Smackdown has involved Edge abducting [[Paul Bearer]] and proceeding to taunt Kane through a series of mind-games. Including placing a fake dummy of Bearer on a wheelchair and throwing it down a stairwell, showing videos of Bearer tied and gagged while tormenting him by throwing dodgeballs at his face, and then running over another Bearer dummy with his car, showing Paul tied up in the backseat. Now, aside from the fact that Edge is basically committing felony kidnapping on ''national television'', or that Kane hasn't informed the police. Here's the big [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]], ''Edge is the face in this angle!''

** Let's further this [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] for a minute now. Kane had just come off a feud revealing and successfully completing a 15-year-long plan of vengeance against his brother [[The Undertaker]] for always trying to keep Kane underneath his shadow. Yet here when Edge is being a borderline [[Heroic Sociopath|Heroic]] [[Complete Monster|Monster]], Kane ends up staring Teddy Long in the face at least twice, Long being ''the General Manager of the show, and a man who has gotten on Edge's case for wrongdoings in the past'', yet the most he could do was demand Paul's whereabouts as if Long was just any other guy as opposed to ''the one person who could force Edge to give Paul back with the right persuasion''. The kicker? When Edge does give him Paul back, he does so from a high enough distance that the emotionally disoriented Kane thinks it's another dummy… and proceeds to push his own father off a balcony and immediately regret it. So basically Kane goes from an evil genius to a complete dumbass, and Edge becomes the evil genius as an accepted babyface. Toss in [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]] and Alberto Del Rio to turn it into more of a free-for-all, and the end result is Edge becoming World Heavyweight Champion at TLC. ''To zero backlash.''

**** True, but that situation was different. In the case of [[Wrestler/Sting (wrestling)|Sting]], he had become demoralized and emo (before it was called emo) over how all of the people he considered friends actually believed that he had joined the nWo and treated him like he was the enemy. Even after it was revealed that the nWo had framed him in order to divide the WCW locker room, Sting was still stuck in his [[Heroic BSOD]] and [[Achilles in His Tent|walked away]]. As 1997 drew on, Sting slowly but surely managed to stop wallowing in self-pity and start thinking about getting revenge. And that led to him terrorizing the nWo for a while, which led to Starrcade. Compare that with Cena and Rocky. It would be one thing if Cena were to react like Sting, to say "You know, half of the WWE Universe hates my guts. I always knew that, but it didn't really register just how much until The Rock cost me the WWE Championship. I heard the cheers when he Rock Bottomed me and Miz pinned me. I've been fighting as hard as I can for a long time to regain that title, to be able to shout 'The Champ Is Here!' one more time. I almost made it, and then I got cheated out of another reign thanks to The Rock. And all of you thought that was the greatest thing ever. Well, I'm not blind. When I feuded with Randy Orton, I heard all of you out there chanting "RKO" just because you wanted to see somebody--anybody--kick my ass. And now that I've been battling Miz, I hear you cheering for him. And when Rocky talks trash to me, when Rocky actually attacks me, you cheer for Rocky. I get the hint, WWE Universe. I see the writing on the wall. I...QUIT!" Followed by Cena walking away, and having vignettes of people in the WWE such as [[Jim Ross]] and [[Jerry Lawler]] and even Randy Orton trying to convince him to come back, with him saying no each time. Until finally, something happened to set Cena's blood boiling and he came charging back to [[Big Damn Heroes|put a stop to something really horrible]], possibly involving a heel Rock. But that's not what we've got. Cena isn't demoralized at all. Neither is Rocky. There's no reason to wait.

* Hunico. Ugh... The man himself is a talented wrestler, and his old Sin Cara Negro angle was one of the more interesting things going on in the WWE at the time. After he gets unmasked, however, he just suffers the most crippling [[Character Derailment]] - suddenly, he's a mexican gangster (as if to say the only things mexican wrestlers can be are luchadors or gang-members, and if they aren't one, they have to be the other) who doesn't even wear ring-gear any more, fights in street clothes (which is a). pointless, and b). just completely impractical) and, worst of all, ''his wrestling style is completely changed''! He's apparently no longer allowed to use his high-flying manouvers, and has instead switched to a completely generic mat-based style! Why!? Bah gawd!

[[Category:{{BASEPAGENAMEROOTPAGENAME}}]]