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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]].

* [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)/Wrestlemania|Wrestlemania]]

** 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.

* [[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 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 From 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).

*** [[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.

* 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.''