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Stalest Gimmicks.

Cactus Col · 2009-09-08 10:31:06

Bored in work, so felt like starting a thread. This isn't for bad gimmicks, it's a discussion about who has / or had the stalest gimmicks. People like X-pac, who kept the same gimmick over a long period of time, even though it was obvious fans had become bored with the gimmick. So who do you reckon had (or has) the stalest…

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Bored in work, so felt like starting a thread.

This isn't for bad gimmicks, it's a discussion about who has / or had the stalest gimmicks. People like X-pac, who kept the same gimmick over a long period of time, even though it was obvious fans had become bored with the gimmick.

So who do you reckon had (or has) the stalest gimmick?

I'm sure there must be a few willing to label Kane as having a stale gimmick ...

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#2 08-09-2009 10:55am

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DX.

destroying something which was actually ground breaking at the time.

end thread. :pac:

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#3 08-09-2009 12:44pm

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Undertaker, his bi-monthly returns and all his hocus pocus stuff is way old at this stage

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#4 08-09-2009 1:01pm

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EdK wrote: »

Undertaker, his bi-monthly returns and all his hocus pocus stuff is way old at this stage

I want to agree with you, but him taking Hardys place at Summerslam was damn awesome.

My vote would go to Matt Hardy, if you can call his character a gimmick. Finally, after several boring years, they finally turned him heel. And now he's face again because Jeff left. And I had such high hopes

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#5 08-09-2009 1:12pm

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paddyirishman85 wrote: »

I want to agree with you, but him taking Hardys place at Summerslam was damn awesome.

My vote would go to Matt Hardy, if you can call his character a gimmick. Finally, after several boring years, they finally turned him heel. And now he's face again because Jeff left. And I had such high hopes

I liked the version 1 gimmick, with the fun facts about Matt when he came out.

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#6 08-09-2009 4:21pm

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one gimmick that has gone for a new PW look http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=62013274#post62013274

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#7 08-09-2009 4:54pm

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Bounty Hunter wrote: »

one gimmick that has gone for a new PW look http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=62013274#post62013274

Cactus Col wrote: »

I'm sure there must be a few willing to label Kane as having a stale gimmick ...

/pms thread to rovert

Now there's a way to start your first day, mwahahahaha!

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#8 08-09-2009 5:14pm

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Bounty Hunter wrote: »

one gimmick that has gone for a new PW look http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=62013274#post62013274

Haha, came in to crack the same joke.

Stalest man in WWE meanwhile HAS to be Big Show. Sick of him.

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#9 08-09-2009 5:24pm

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id say cena has the stalest charchter just been the same since he first turned face and every feud is the same near enough also think hhh or hbk could turn heel which would freshen up things as well especally an hbk heel turn

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#10 08-09-2009 10:09pm

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that midget

god I hate him with a passion

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#11 08-09-2009 10:32pm

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Yeah the Hornswaggle - Chavo thing EVERY WEEK makes me want to punch some dry wall.

I'm sick of Tommy Dreamer too.

Above all Jeff Hardy, same thing week in week out. I'm delighted he's gone tbh.

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#12 08-09-2009 11:42pm

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HHH Orton Batista Cena. Get them all off television for 6 months simultaneously.

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#13 08-09-2009 11:53pm

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Headshot wrote: »

that midget

god I hate him with a passion

Don't get me started on giving out about midgets in wrestling :mad:

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#14 09-09-2009 1:26am

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I know there's a whole thread for this (and this may not fit some peoples' definition of 'gimmick') but....

The king of kings, the cerebral assasin, the Game, TRIPLE H!

Alright Michael Cole, Vince, Stephanie, Jean-Paul, we get it. HHH is meant to be really really good. So good, in fact, that he can't lose cleanly. Whoopdy F**king doo. You know why they wrote in kryptonite as the one thing that could hurt superman? Because people got heartily sick of knowing the guy would just wonder around kicking ass with zero chance of failing over the long term. Take a memo, creative team - we're really sick of seeing this guy being booked like the terminator. Stalest. Gimmick. Ever.

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#15 09-09-2009 12:19pm

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geeky wrote: »

I know there's a whole thread for this (and this may not fit some peoples' definition of 'gimmick') but....

The king of kings, the cerebral assasin, the Game, TRIPLE H!

Alright Michael Cole, Vince, Stephanie, Jean-Paul, we get it. HHH is meant to be really really good. So good, in fact, that he can't lose cleanly. Whoopdy F**king doo. You know why they wrote in kryptonite as the one thing that could hurt superman? Because people got heartily sick of knowing the guy would just wonder around kicking ass with zero chance of failing over the long term. Take a memo, creative team - we're really sick of seeing this guy being booked like the terminator. Stalest. Gimmick. Ever.

tbh for the past month and a half though he has been using the DX gimmick and has actually been somewhat putting Legacy over though (this is an argueably point but in comparison to pre SS they are def being made look stronger).

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#16 10-09-2009 1:30pm

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EdK wrote: »

Undertaker, his bi-monthly returns and all his hocus pocus stuff is way old at this stage

I think taker pulls it off though ... for me the long breaks he takes each year keeps it fresh, it allows other wrestlers to share and move into the spotlight. At one point I thought the character was stale ... but I think it became ... unstale ....

The DX gimmick that HBK and HHH do i would think is the stalest gimmick in the E at the moment though. Can't stand to watch Raw with that pair on. (So I generally don't).

Historically .... from what accounts I've read anyway, no first hand experience ... the NWO was truely run into the ground. Several times.

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#17 10-09-2009 3:19pm

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Another stale gimmick......the reluctant tag team partners that hate each other gimmick that is aired on a weekly basis on RAW.

HOW WILL THEY CO-EXIST~!!!???

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#18 10-09-2009 6:20pm

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flahavaj wrote: »

Another stale gimmick......the reluctant tag team partners that hate each other gimmick that is aired on a weekly basis on RAW.

HOW WILL THEY CO-EXIST~!!!???

It especially an annoys me when they do this prior to Mania. Beurrgh! It's not that difficult to do something fresh...

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#19 10-09-2009 6:23pm

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The handicap match in WWE. How many more times do we have to see the damn faces overcome those damn odds?!?!?

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#20 10-09-2009 7:02pm

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Machismo Fan wrote: »

The handicap match in WWE. How many more times do we have to see the damn faces overcome those damn odds?!?!?

Very, very rarely is it done well either. One that sticks out in my memory is Orton/Edge vs Michaels, in the lead up to Wrestlemania 23.

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#21 10-09-2009 7:05pm

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michael.etc... wrote: »

Very, very rarely is it done well either. One that sticks out in my memory is Orton/Edge vs Michaels, in the lead up to Wrestlemania 23.

The worst is when the faces challenge the heels to a handicap match.

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#22 11-09-2009 11:30pm

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Has to be Mark Henry. They really are tearing the hole out of the 'World's Strongest Man' thing and he's only ever held two titles, European and ECW.

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#23 12-09-2009 7:15pm

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Are gimmicks not becoming more rare ? Well, since the Attitude or post-Attitude era. I'd have thought the BoogeyMan or MVP was a definite gimmick whereas Randy Orton and Cena et al are just "playing characters". Vince said years ago that he "made movies" so I think it's fair to say that there's been a shift towards using real names and bluring the line between the gimmick and the wrestler.

I thought when they reused the Body Donnas gimmick for Simon Dean a few years ago, that was pretty stale. At the minute though the "Hart Dynasty" and "The Legacy" just seems like a lame attempt to guarantee people that they're over because they're multi-generation.

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#24 12-09-2009 7:31pm

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Rally up

got old very very quickly

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#25 12-09-2009 7:34pm

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Headshot wrote: »

Rally up

got old very very quickly

also got released though. But yeah that got old sooo fast, not that i thought it was good to start with anyway.

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