Come up with a brand new gimmick/storyline

[Pay Per Ghost]

You know how wrestling custodians always say 'everything in wrestling is rehashed', well buck that trend, and come up with something mildly original here.

Could be a character, could be a storyline. New gimmicks, put gimmicks on existing superstars, stars of yesteryears, anything.

Here:

A backpacker from Europe comes to America. Call him Sven. He comes to America as a tourist and so visits all the cities and sights worth seeing. While admiring *whatever the fuck is famous in Chicago*, he is robbed, beaten up and left to die (surprise, surprise). He lives in a home shelter for a year, all the while looking for menial jobs so he can collect enough money to go home. He has lost all his papers mind you, so he can't go home, for some reason.... SHUT UP!

He finds work at a local Judo dojo and slowly starts observing and learning. Teaching himself. Finally, after years of practise he ventures out and becomes 'a bonafide street fighter'. And then (as they always do, ask Nathan Jones), he ends up in the WWE.


There, original? Or eerily similar to Ken Shamrock's tale? Fuck you its gold.


Go on have a crack.

 

[Hard Hit Prince]

Well I've always been a fan of making Santino Marella return from some time off as a guy that trained in the Himalayas with monks, make him even return with the orange suit and a ponytail of some sorts. He would still be a comedy character as he would tell everybody that he was the master of "Cobraté", however in the ring he would have a Joseph Park moment and without his awareness he would beat his opponents MMA style and then party like a crazy girl who had just won the WWE Championship.

Yup, I have too much free time.

 

[Nate DaMac]

A wrestler has AIDS and no one wants to wrestle him. He wins every match by forfeit until he gets a title shot. Cena (the champ, obviously) doesn't forfeit and actually has the match, but he taps out whenever he sees that the guy is bleeding.

 

[Gelgarin]

If you take most people here's arguments about why Vickie Guerrero and Michael Cole weren't shit to it's logical conclusion, there'd be big money in a Holocaust denier gimmick.

Wants to become world champion so that he has a platform from which to expose the yadda, yadda, yadda.

 

[Dirk]

I pitched this to you guys before, but Sandow coming out and lecturing Big Show about diabetes. Extra points if he actually gets diabetes and powers through it with face power.

 

[Dr. Mantis Toboggan, M.D.]

A wrestler has AIDS and no one wants to wrestle him. He wins every match by forfeit until he gets a title shot. Cena (the champ, obviously) doesn't forfeit and actually has the match, but he taps out whenever he sees that the guy is bleeding.

Make it even better if he wore Naked Mideon's gear

 

[ScreaminNormanSmiley]

A redneck that likes beer.

 

[Con T.]

If you take most people here's arguments about why Vickie Guerrero and Michael Cole weren't shit to it's logical conclusion, there'd be big money in a Holocaust denier gimmick.

Wants to become world champion so that he has a platform from which to expose the yadda, yadda, yadda.

Can he want to unify the belts because he believes they're Jew gold?

 

[ABMorales787]

A man clad in cardboard boxes is brainwashed into thinking he's a real robot.

A man with split personality and rage fits.

A masked man that breaks the 4th wall very oftenly.

A blaxploitation character.

Storyline-wise, a wrestler backstage asks another wrestler for a dollar for a vending machine. He says he'll pay it back and the other guy holds him to it. But for weeks, the guy owing the dollar ducks the other guy frustrating him until things get really heated more for the lying than the actual dollar.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

A man clad in cardboard boxes is brainwashed into thinking he's a real robot.

A man with split personality and rage fits.

A masked man that breaks the 4th wall very oftenly.

A blaxploitation character.

Storyline-wise, a wrestler backstage asks another wrestler for a dollar for a vending machine. He says he'll pay it back and the other guy holds him to it. But for weeks, the guy owing the dollar ducks the other guy frustrating him until things get really heated more for the lying than the actual dollar.

I'm guessing all these are real life Puerto Ricans.



Here's one, a mask collector gimmick who goes after Kane, Rey, Sin Cara.

 

[ABMorales787]

I'm guessing all these are real life Puerto Ricans.

WZCW, actually.

 

[George Steele's Barber]

A guy who wrestles in a body suit made of bubble wrap.

I think they can make an ongoing storyline with "Who did Vince really want Steph to marry so that they could take over the business?". The answer is ME, but more likely Hornswaggle. Actually I'm kind of serious about the first part. I think they can get people interested and drag it out along time. It would be stupid and have no payoff but I love McMahon storylines.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

I think they can make an ongoing storyline with "Who did Vince really want Steph to marry so that they could take over the business?". The answer is ME, but more likely Hornswaggle. Actually I'm kind of serious about the first part. I think they can get people interested and drag it out along time. It would be stupid and have no payoff but I love McMahon storylines.

I'd suggest fall SD 2003 re runs. Gold.

Plus you know, Sable.


I'm serious about the mask guy. Serious dude who just goes after for like an eternity behind guys with masks. It would be a fun gimmick. True there would be a very short timeline, but he'd be entertaining while he lasts.

 

[George Steele's Barber]

I'd suggest fall SD 2003 re runs. Gold.

Plus you know, Sable.

I honestly don't remember this. What was the story and how did it pertain to Sable?

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

It was so convulsed. McMahon was having his feud with Mr. America aka Thunderlips. Then I can't remember why, Hogan kinda left and so we were left with the Mr. McMahon character and no foil. Zack Gowan came in as the flying saviour. All the while Steph is the GM. VKM gets with Sable coz, she's there. Then Taker got involved. Kane then buried his brother at Survivor Series and cut an insane promo on the following SD.

At No Mercy 2003 it was Steph vs VKM. And by god, even then it appealed to me as appalling, so you can guess how I fel now recollecting that hey fuck you for making me recollect that!


There a lot of other details to that I'm choosing to avoid. Make a thread about it and you'll gather how others "hail" that as the best time EVAHHH!

 

[Mark Henry's Beard]

Two words: Adolf Ziggler.

 

[BaconBits]

How about a street musician who happens to outside the arena at every event?

They could build the character through social media. Just little pics of this dude outside playing his guitar or sax or trumpet or whatever. Eventually, though, they could play the angle they they're tired of him stealing the spotlight from the superstars. Have security go out an attempt to remove the guy, and he could mow through security with ease. Then send a superstar or superstars out to "take care of it" (3MB would be perfect for this) and have the musician one up the wrestler(s) leading up to a debut feud.

 

[actionsub]

A "Mormon" polygamist wrestler/manager with a stable of wrestling "sisterwives". Naturally, he accompanies his "wives" to the ring and interferes in their matches. This could eventually lead to an "in-house" feud where two of the women get jealous of each other, wanting more of "Big Love" than they're getting.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

Haha! Totally see that if it was the AE we were living in.