Give a struggling star a breakout gimmick

EdK

Just had this idea put your creative hats on and repackage a struggling star with a gimmick you think will help their career,Didnt have one in mind straight away. But thought it was an interesting idea?

Kankan14

Miz - turn him into a marine and drowned him.
Kofi Kingston -let him have a UN ambassador role seen as he's from about 8 different countries.
Zach Ryder - turn him into Zach Rodeher a gimmick where he bangs everyone’s missus including Stephanie several times on live tv and even Tensai by mistake(or was it!)
Santino- gets bitten by the cobra in a freak accident and the snake eats him and he disappears forever

PG era is Pish these ideas will make all the "superstars" heroic victims or central parts to the new and improved WWE imho

That's all I got, hope this helps

ForeverYoung90

Interesting one.I feel santino is being wasted as a comic act.How about he takes a break and comes back as an old school american gangster.Think godfather style.

markcahill1985

Hate Brous Clay's character also, would like to see him brought back as more of a mean dominating monster type although I guess thats unlikely while Mark henry is about!

MitchKoobski

I wanna see Santino snap and just go into pissed off heel mode. Not revolutionary, but they have way too many characters played for comedy.

bobby_says_hi

Make Jack Swagger into a fun-loving surfer called Ryan Ripcurl

Justin Gabriel guest stars on The Walking Dead and gets bitten which convinces him he's a zombie

Have Alicia Fox come to the ring in a straitjacket and have her appear in segments in an asylum to explain why she's face one week and heel the next

Hercule

Paint Darren Young in white make-up and have him mimic John Cena (same entrance/same 5 moves etc) - have a Cena -vs- Fake Cena angle.

Give Cesaro the gimmick that he steals finishers - whomever he fights, he does their finisher.

JP Liz V1

I'd like to see Drew McIntyre get a new gimmick and push, maybe play up his Scottish background more and even get Roddy Piper in for a time as his manager

ShagNastii

I love this discussion. When I think of possible gimmicks I think of the great characters of TV and movies.

Burchill's out and out tribute act of Jack Sparrow was a bit naff. But sly references to screen and TV characters would give brilliant scope for new characters/gimmicks. Gimmicks and characters that could really work.

It would be nigh on impossible to make work in the PG era but I always thought a Patrick Bateman-esque (tone down the murder and killing a bit of course) gimmick would be class.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

I think they should give someone a hacker gimmick. Have wwe.com be taken down a few times. Have him hack into the RAW feed and take over the titan tron. Have him hack into someone like del Rio's accounts and nick his entire personal fortune.

Would be something new anyway. Someone like Hero could pull it off quite well maybe.

ShagNastii

Pete Campbell wrote: »

I think they should give someone a hacker gimmick. Have wwe.com be taken down a few times. Have him hack into the RAW feed and take over the titan tron. Have him hack into someone like del Rio's accounts and nick his entire personal fortune.

Would be something new anyway. Someone like Hero could pull it off quite well maybe.

I can see this happening soon enough. I think I would be great. Someone leaving their "calling card" on all their hacks. Would drum up significant hype and intrigue with the "who is it" speculation.

gnfnrhead

Pete Campbell wrote: »

I think they should give someone a hacker gimmick. Have wwe.com be taken down a few times. Have him hack into the RAW feed and take over the titan tron. Have him hack into someone like del Rio's accounts and nick his entire personal fortune.

Would be something new anyway. Someone like Hero could pull it off quite well maybe.

Considering how desperate they are with Twitter and whatnot, that could work really well if the Twitter accounts and everything official are "hacked".

Hero might be a little too old for it though. When I think hacker, I think someone closer to 20.

JP Liz V1

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Considering how desperate they are with Twitter and whatnot, that could work really well if the Twitter accounts and everything official are "hacked".

Hero might be a little too old for it though. When I think hacker, I think someone closer to 20.

First imagine that comes to my mind is someone like Johnny Lee Miller's character Dade from Hackers :P

Ando's Saggy Bottom

I actually think it would have been a good way to develop the Golddust character a few years ago. I think he could do online wierdo quite well.

That or have a team of hackers forming a kind of faction. Slowly reveal their identity as the weeks go on and have people wondering who's next to be outed as part of the movement.

glenjamin

Hero looks the type that could definitely pull if off.

They should repackage Yoshi Tatsu as a North Korean tyrant who hates America, but loves McDonalds and Jack Daniels. Maybe not the best time to do it, but definitely a gimmick that would get over like Muhammad Hassan. Plus, all those Americans will think Korean, Japanese, Chinese, what's the difference.

DEFTLEFTHAND

ForeverYoung90 wrote: »

Interesting one.I feel santino is being wasted as a comic act.How about he takes a break and comes back as an old school american gangster.Think godfather style.

Bring back Little Guido and reform the Full Blooded Italians. :pac:

It's a good idea you have but it might not fly in the PG era.

rovert

I have dozens of money making ideas but I wouldn't give them away for free as Jimmy Jacobs may steal them: http://tinyurl.com/cr3fxg6 :pac:

anyway I've already given away my packaging Rebecca Knox as The Rybecca - something she endorsed even.

krudler

The hacker thing could work if they sold it right, go one further and have them mess with the production of the events themselves, screwing around with the lights in the arena causing "technical difficulties". There is a health & safety aspect to that of course though.

Sirsok

Posted the below up awhile ago, could work with any half decent talent

Always had an idea to introduce a new character so here it goes.

A new executive comes in for a gm or other authority power, a low key kind of thing, doesn't say much just seemis extremely professional and not overblown character. As the weeks go by various wrestlers are being viciously attacked back stage which garners the gms attention, a who done it angle incurs.

Over the course of the coming months it because a lot more frequent and more vicious, the executive is with the gm at all times while addressing the crowd. Remember josh Matthews nose bleed, well barely notice on the screen the executive coughs up a little blood, camera shys away. Subtle things like that you wouldn't really notice but remember when the reveal comes.

Anyway finally CCTV footage is found of a particularly vicious assault on a vulnerable wrestler (think Zac gowen, hornswoggle etc) anyway the reveal shows its the executive that done it.

Back in the gm turns around to see his executive with a very sinister look on his face , until he attacks. The attack would have to be like vinces pen attack on hogan. No mercy and a very satisfied look on his face, his suit covered in blood.

The executives (we shall call him ted dahmer) promos tell how he just wanted to inflict pain, he was in an environment where violence is encouraged yet due to his role as an executive he couldn't do what he loved most. This cause him sleepless nights, the stress led to him having physical illness(hence him coughing up blood) . He is a christian bale in American pyscho....the calm collective person who is just mentally insane.

Vince returns to confront him but embraces him , this man embodies ruthless aggression , unlike the last wrestler who claimed to be ruthless, unlike cena. This leads to the executive attacking cena building up a massive furd between cena and vinces new pet. Concluding at wrestle mania.....where dahmer loses.

Subsequently vince is pissed and fires dahmer.....he is broken up he now has to leave the violence that he loves.

A few months later promos start airing, incoherent promos just absolutely mental crazy promos. Sure enough it's dahmer who is returning with a band of misfits who have also been shunned by vince.

We get pirate transmissions of a haggard but invigorated dahmer showing up at Indy events, reminding vince he is coming after his promotion.

Finally him and his band of misfits...the devils rejects...show up at raw and take over...dahmer, the briscoes, and two other top Indy names. They take over raw in a way that has never been done they beat everyone heels faces doesn't matter, if they are under the wwe banner.

This carets on for awhile survivor series match 5 on 5 etc....dahmer takes out the old guard Kane trips etc wins the title and mistreats it, doesnt valur it just wants it to show utter disrespect to it and piss off everyone, create anarchy.

that is until vinces brings out the one guy who embodies wwe....The undertaker. A dark weird storyline occurs...think batman and joker....dahmer the elaborate crazy villain with his devils rejects who would be willing to die for him and the dark knight undertaker. Obviously concluding at wrestle mania

good v evil...

title v streak...

Dahmer v undertaker

And the winner is........

connemara man

An emergency seiren goes of (escaped convict sound) fake gaurds line the walkway out walks a warden type (the mouthpiece) to come down to explain about the man coming down. the person about to be squashed is waiting in the ring. A wrestler in the Hannibal lector getup gets wheeled down to the ring his straight jacket gets undone the hannibal mask is left on but is still attatched to one of the gaurds who walks him into the ring. the warden type calls for the bell bout starts and all hell breaks loose. the wrestler in the ring gets absolutely torn apart and pinned the bell goes and the madman stops the gaurds rush in and take him back to his trolley tie him up. and bring him back to the back. the warden type goes back on the mic and challenges anyone next week to a go at the madman. cycle continues till you introduce bigger names leading to a WHC championship feud.
name and wrestler to put it on required

re the hacker idea thats great. he should have a neo from matrix look aswell

Ridley

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I'd like to see Drew McIntyre get a new gimmick and push, maybe play up his Scottish background more and even get Roddy Piper in for a time as his manager

It'd be so simple for Vince McMahon to walk past 3MB doing their schtick and for him to say something derogatory about McIntyre. Later in the night McIntyre turns on Slater and Mahal. Voila, the Chosen One is back in the game.

(I'd rather not see him or anyone get lumped with the country of origin stereotype gimmick. )

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I'd quite like to see David Otunga be made Brad Maddox's assistant.

Surprised They haven't tried to give Hornswoggle a Tyrion Lannister gimmick yet.