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Disgaearulz12
Title: A Dragon At Heart.
Joined: Jun 23 2009
Location: New York
Posts: 67
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Ever since the WWF became the WWE there has been a severe decline in decent character developments. Characters like Undertaker, Kane, Edge and many others left over from the attitude era have really just been put through the meat grinder. Kane is no longer that mysterious monster where no one knows what his face looks like he is just a "monster" now. Undertaker is nothing more than just all of his personas mashed together to try and capture his awesomeness from the past and they are just utterly failing at it. Edge used to be cool when he was that wacky good guy who had crazy tendencies.
It is amazing what they have done.
Do you agree with me?
Do you see any other characters they have utterly destroyed or over played?
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Deadmau_5pra
Title: Amatuer film/podcaster
Joined: Feb 10 2009
Location: Chicago Area
Posts: 1126
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John Cena ( I like him outside wrestling )
JTG & Shad (Give them a push like him "The Legacy")
Triple H ( Too many regins, forgot he even had one)
The Big Show ( The biggest athlete .....what about Khali?)
CM Punk ( Slamdunked before he dribbled )
Randy Orton ( Fuck this guy and his gimmick )
WWE doesn't even do gimmicks like they used to...I mean they're PG shouldn't they have kept The Boogeyman?
After the realse of SVR2010 I doubt I'll even bother with WWE. 
My golden age 1998-2004
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
Posts: 5042
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Any potentially good characters are axed.Paul Burchill was a great example.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Yeah, Pirate Paul was awesome. MVP was another guy who had some great potential, but then they jobbed the fuck out of him and the fans stopped caring.
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Bouya
Title: Delinquent
Joined: Aug 15 2007
Location: Suzuran
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To be fair, Undertaker's character was ruined the minute he "ascended" at Royal Rumble 1994. Hasn't been the same ever since.
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Disgaearulz12
Title: A Dragon At Heart.
Joined: Jun 23 2009
Location: New York
Posts: 67
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I miss some of the old teams they had too like X-Pac and Road Dogg, Edge and Christian, Dudly Boys, the old hardy boys, most nowadays seem to be just plays off of the old ones.
What I also noticed is that WWE has become enthralled with itself with their little facts they are always giving between commercials.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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Edge is still crazy, just megalomaniacal, in a "let's take over the world" sorta way.
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Chile Guy
Title: Token Latino Otaku
Joined: Apr 14 2008
Location: Fortaleza, Brazil
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Some stars in WWE look either egomaniacal, oblivious or out of place. All the others are lowcarders.
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Bouya
Title: Delinquent
Joined: Aug 15 2007
Location: Suzuran
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| Disgaearulz12 wrote: |
| I miss some of the old teams they had too like X-Pac and Road Dogg, Edge and Christian, Dudly Boys, the old hardy boys, most nowadays seem to be just plays off of the old ones. |
That's old? 
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
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Bouya
Title: Delinquent
Joined: Aug 15 2007
Location: Suzuran
Posts: 1443
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Seriously, I could go for a little "girls in cars" right about now!
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Sephiroth
Title: . : Louder than God : .
Joined: May 20 2008
Location: Princeton, IN
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The WWF fell off the wagon when they bought ECW and jobbed Taz (YES ONE Z NOT TWO)
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
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| Sephiroth wrote: |
| The WWF fell off the wagon when they bought ECW and jobbed Taz (YES ONE Z NOT TWO) |
That is kind of where I really started losing interest. WWF was awesome for me from 1998-2002. Even during and a long time after that it became the Triple H show. I officially stopped watching in 2005.
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Disgaearulz12
Title: A Dragon At Heart.
Joined: Jun 23 2009
Location: New York
Posts: 67
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Yea i wish i could have given up the addiction but the constant allure of stale writing and bad acting is so much fun to mock lol
Oh we can't forget about the Diva's. they were once so well choreographed they were actually interesting to watch, but now its just a big sex show when they are involved.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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| Disgaearulz12 wrote: |
Yea i wish i could have given up the addiction but the constant allure of stale writing and bad acting is so much fun to mock lol
Oh we can't forget about the Diva's. they were once so well choreographed they were actually interesting to watch, but now its just a big sex show when they are involved. |
That's because WWE used to hire female wrestlers, who came through the independent curcuits and knew what they were doing. Now they hire fake-breasted bikini models and teach them how to take a few bumps.
With the exception of Gail Kim, Beth Pheonix, and Mickey James, the TNA knockouts would wipe the floor with the Divas in a brawl.
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Dorkus
Joined: Jul 19 2009
Location: England
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CM Punk's actually finally being allowed to show his potential as a character now. Watch tonight's Smackdown to see what I mean.
Generally though, I agree. One of my favorite things about the Attitude era was how everyone had a character who you could pick out, even the lower card guys. Unless you were jobbing on Shotgun or something, you had a gimmick besides generic looking guy in black trunks.
This mainly applies to Raw though, as Smackdown and ECW seem to have character development down for the most part.
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uncle joe
Joined: Jul 15 2008
Location: Spanish Harlem
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Of Course the Taker hasn't been the same; he's been better. He may have been a lot more athletic when he was younger, but his old age has taught him how to use and work with what he has, and he's been having some really good matches this past decade. His new persona is really just his love of MMA coming out.
Also, I have no clue how Rico (remember him?) didn't make it; the dude could really wrestle.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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| Also, I have no clue how Rico (remember him?) didn't make it; the dude could really wrestle. |
Because they introduced him as a gay hairdresser, which effectively and permanently buried him with wrestling's most important demographic: homophobes.
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uncle joe
Joined: Jul 15 2008
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Ghandi
Title: Alexz Aficionado
Joined: May 21 2008
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WWE also became useless after they bought WCW too. Now they've got no drive and no creativity to bother to keep people interested.
They need some competition again to bring them to the brink of bankruptcy before they'll come up with anything good.
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
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At least they're doing good with DiBiase and Rhodes.
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Ghandi
Title: Alexz Aficionado
Joined: May 21 2008
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Well Dusty WAS a good Guest Host.
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Sephiroth
Title: . : Louder than God : .
Joined: May 20 2008
Location: Princeton, IN
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It's sad to say but TNA and ROH suck... I wish they had another big company that would stand against them.
RIP WCW...
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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RAW sucks a hell of alot more than TNA and ROH, the only thing it has going is it's mid-card division and even that's being mishandled, because the writers love to have Randy Orton fight Cena or Trips all the time over giving anything in the mid-card a decent storyline.
Smackdown > TNA > ECW > ROH >>>>> RAW as far as I see it.
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Ghandi
Title: Alexz Aficionado
Joined: May 21 2008
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| Ba'al wrote: |
...the only thing it has going is it's mid-card division and even that's being mishandled, because the writers love to have Randy Orton fight Cena or...
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What are you talking about?
That IS their mid card division.
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