Create A New Gimmick

[TheHeartbreakPunk]

The topic of this thread is what new gimmick would you create for wwe's next star.

The gimmick I have wanted to see for a long time is a move thief. This would be a guy who always uses his opponents finisher/signature move to finish them off, or maybe they could use the finisher of the person they are feuding with. What gimmick do you want to see?

 

[Xkimo]

I'm not sure if this has been done before, but with all the talk of Wade Barrett being in Randy Orton's head, it got me thinking that there should be a superstar with the gimmick of being able to read their opponents mind and knowing exactly what moves they are going to pull in kayfabe next. Basically a wrestler who can anticipate and dodge most of their opponents moves and can predict blindsides and backstage assaults, somebody that would require a team of faces to overpower or take down. I realize this is going way beyond the norm, and into sort of fantasy/sci-fi, but with the return of the monster Kane persona, I believe something like this could work and be new and exciting for the creation of a dominant heel.

I would keep their mind reading abilities a secret when they debut, and it wouldn't be until after they go on a win-streak and take a mid-card champion and a well established face out that there would be some suspicion as to how they operate.

 

[backwardsrko]

They need to bring in a aerobatic ninja style wrestler with a gimmick where he is untouchable. His gimmick would be of a ninja or martial arts style persona. He would come to the ring and have a match basically bouncing off ropes and reversing everysingle move that the opponent would throw towards him. Ahhh yes a fantasy wrestler. He would look like Snake Eyes from Gi Joe.

 

[thecookietroll]

I was thinking of a Batman/Bruce wayne Gimmick for Ted Diabiase, and a Bane Gimmick for Mason Ryan. The Batman/Bruce wayne gimmick would fit in with is son of the million dollar man gimmick he has now, It would also get him over I think. He has the Bruce Wayne Gimmick already, i think he could also start cutting promos saying he has a fear of cats or panthers or something, Then maybe have his dad Diabiase SR attacked by The Bane Mason Ryan or Kane, have Dibiase say he wasnt there to stop it cause of a fight they had or something, Then have Dibiase talk about how he will make him self a symbol and use his fear of cats or panthers and although he couldnt stop his dad being injured he promises to protect the wwe universe and the fans and will go for vengeance against the venom fuelled bane mason ryayn or kane, then the following week Dibiase comes out in a batmobile complete with a dark suit, mask and cape, have him act like sting did in wcw complete with gatgets, and lets call him ..... CATMAN OR BLACK PANTHER, i think it would be great for wwe as it could coincide with the release of the dark knight ri ses, it would also get dibiase or catman over as HUGE with the fans, then he could take the ic title from cody

 

[AwesomeRko]

I would have a young superstar representative of the frustrated attitude era generation, who's goal is the downfall of PG television along with its standard bearers most notably Cena in order to create an edgier future resembling the attitude era. The person to do this would have to be excellent on the mic and be able to come across as cool and charismatic, im thinking his moniker could maybe be something like 'embrace the chaos' and he would seek to cause as much disorder as possible in order to spark a revolution. He would essentially say that in order to progress the WWE has to look to the past and revert to certain attitude era traditions eg wrestling old school matches like boiler room brawls and pushing the PG language limit with slightly edgier promos than we are used to.

I think his ring style would be best suited to being unorthodox and cheap eg getting deliberately dq'd to retain titles, cheating to win (a la eddie guerrerro). This would ensure a good level of heat from the fans when utilised against the top faces in the company. It would also help him to come across as intelligent and canniving two qualities necessary in order to make his persona credible.

I think that this would work as like most of the best storylines it contains a grain of truth in that many attitude era fans are disillusioned with the current product. Thus having someone of a similar demographic and age to them embrace these issues as part of an engaging charcter in high level stroylines against the faces of the PG era would certainly in my view be interesting. It may even help to resolve some of the issues between attitude loyalists and the current PG state, through giving the WWE the chance to act out on screen the reasons behind the PG era.

 

[Jessie Lynn DivaGirl]

I kind of want to see one of those dark and mysterious guys come in. Just have some promos go for a few weeks about a new superstar and then he shows up in a match wearing dark ring attire, doesn't say anything, kind of dark (but good) ring music and excellent moves. He can be either heel or face but he doesn't speak. He just walks up to someone, looks at them and they get the message. And then whoever he feuds with digs up info on him and threatens to tell the world and he keeps beating them down so they keep their traps shut, thus making people wonder what the hell is up with the guy. It wuld only work until the truth was actually spilled and unless it was hard to understand the whole concept would die and we could start him on mic work. Hopefully the WWE writers could buold from that and we could have a really good new talent on our hands with a memorable beginning.

Kind of like Taker but what the hell right?

 

[King of the Words]

I'd like to see a character like Hannibal Lector. He could be wheeled out to the ring in the restrengths, then unleashed on his opponent. He could be a bigger guy, who is great at mind games in the ring. Then when he finishes his opponent he could start sizing up his opponents head but the white coats get in a restrain him before he does something horrible to his opponent. He could have a psycho type crush on one of the divas that he stocks and tries to brainwash. his finisher could be called the labotamizer, where he grips the forehead of his opponent and squeezes until they tap or pass out. Sort of like Killer Kowalski did, if I'm not mistaken. It would be cool to have a brand new psychotic type of wrestler in the WWE who takes over that role that was kind of played by Kane and Mankind, Damian Damento, Nailz and the Undertaker to and extent. A combo of Triple H. with the mind games and heelish ways and the Undertaker with his dark, cryptic, mysterious ora. A man who steps into the ring not just to win but to mentally destroy their opponent so that they never forget to not mess with this guy again. This is what I would like to see.

 

[JaylisJayP]

The WWE needs a gimmick that actually going to have some weight to it. Some impact and consequences. Something that people really believe can change things. Maybe that's more of an angle than a gimmick, but it starts with a leader and that's the gimmick.

So here's my gimmick - a cult leader. He starts converting members to the cult and along the way they lose their personalities as they're assimilated.

 

[gwarren]

So here's my gimmick - a cult leader. He starts converting members to the cult and along the way they lose their personalities as they're assimilated.

As far as your cult idea goes, need I remind you of CM Punks Straight Edge Society or his New Nexus, where he actually made Husky Harris take a whipping before he was indicted? Yeah. CM Punk is already there, in fact one of the most played commentary lines on WWE 12 is about Punk being able to get a "cult like following over members of the locker room"

Anyway, I'd love to see a new psychopathic character. Sure, we've got Orton and Kane but I think we need a young gun to step up and replace them because both their gimmicks are getting somewhat stale. You could say Kane's remasking has given him a new gimmick but it's still the same Big Red Monster. So, I think we need a new psycopath.

 

[lazeric]

1st I like the ideas posted by cmpunkftw and thepeopleschamp777 both were really gud but cmpunkftw ur idea reminds me of a more sophisticated form of Eugene becuz his gimmick was that of a move thief and thepeopleschamp777 ur idea sounds like a heel version of CM Punk's current character.

For me I would to see WWE create some sort of counter for Undertaker's deadman persona. Maybe bring back the evil Taker like back in the Ministry days and then have a guy who is just as dark but in a good way battle with him. Similar to Sting's crow gimmick but this guy has to have powers like Taker and be able to take pain like him. It would be cool to see the 2 duke it out in some sort of power struggle type angle.

 

[ian_d]

Firstly, nice thread idea you have here. Secondly my idea has no doubt been done but i was thinking of a wrestler for hire. Like the APA, but just one guy, who when used in a feud between two guys can stir it up between them a bit. I'm personally not sure whether this guy should be a Mason Ryan type guy, or someone less muscular but with better ring psychology.

 

[mrfantastic111]

As far as your cult idea goes, need I remind you of CM Punks Straight Edge Society or his New Nexus, where he actually made Husky Harris take a whipping before he was indicted? Yeah. CM Punk is already there, in fact one of the most played commentary lines on WWE 12 is about Punk being able to get a "cult like following over members of the locker room"

Anyway, I'd love to see a new psychopathic character. Sure, we've got Orton and Kane but I think we need a young gun to step up and replace them because both their gimmicks are getting somewhat stale. You could say Kane's remasking has given him a new gimmick but it's still the same Big Red Monster. So, I think we need a new psycopath.

I was about to suggest the exact same gimmick. Punk's Straight Edge Messiah gimmick was absolute gold. I miss factions, decent ones I mean. Nexus was pulled off well except it was drowned after only a short run. Other then that, the beginning of it was fantastic. They seemed like a legit force to be reckoned with, and took down the likes of Cena, Vince, Jericho, Edge, Orton, etc. What made the original Nexus so great was that everyone was a new star, and except for Barrett no one was really more supreme then anyone else. When the Nexus was around each member got equal heat, because they were hated as a group. Their theme song said "we're one", and that was more then true.

 

[Dice-J]

I'd like to see a gimmick where a guy like David Otunga, who has such a close connection to the Raw GM, gets a huge push. The guy has the mic skills and I think the ability to turn into a star. We could have Johnny Ace form a "Corporation" like stable, where he has Otunga as the leader and the rest of the Stable help him achieve greatness, and take down CM Punk. I know this isn't really a gimmick, but more so a storyline, but I still think it'd be interesting to see.

 

[Existence_is_Futile]

I want to say, great thread. Love the idea of this.

I would do a split personality character. One week he would come out as a face, happy, loves the fans. A good mat wrestler, an all around good guy. He could cut promos about how he is standing up against hate, ect...

The next week, his personality changes completely. Kind of turning into a monster here, possibly with face paint or what not. He could talk about his "face" persona being weak, and that "HE" will be taking over from now on.

Have it so the face portion doesn't know about the heel, and play it off that when that persona is out, his matches are being messed with by some "mysterious force."

I think that would be a great gimmick, entertaining, and you never know whats next, ya know?

 

[amishpyrate]

I personally would like to see another dark character along the lines of kane and undertaker. In fact since Undertakers "brother" kanes character worked so well I would like to see a character that is Undertakers "son". This would be cool and if done after undertaker eventually retires they could have Undertaker be his manager if he still wants to hang around the WWE

 

[Krossbreed]

a new psychopathic character...dean ambrose...unstable...and only looses by DQ because he gets out of control. His promos would be deep ...and twisted taking jabs stalking, his first appearance he walks in to a match with 2 top stars and starts hitting them with finishers, chairs, and leaves them both bloody then escapes in the crowd. He gets away with everything because he knows secrets of the mcmahons and blackmails them so they do a forced censorship...then he starts calling out randy screaming his name...his entrance music screams...I will expose u! then he does a jake the snake type promo that he knows how to control the darkness ...atleast i hope so for your sake...

 

[Ryberg]

The WWE needs a gimmick that actually going to have some weight to it. Some impact and consequences. Something that people really believe can change things. Maybe that's more of an angle than a gimmick, but it starts with a leader and that's the gimmick.

So here's my gimmick - a cult leader. He starts converting members to the cult and along the way they lose their personalities as they're assimilated.

They did that in WCW years ago with Raven's Flock.
Raven
Stevie Richards
Saturn
Kidman
Reese
Riggs
Lodi
Sickboy
Horace
Hammer

I wish they'd do a jobber's squad who come down each week to beat down main eventers. Wait that was 75% of The Nexus. But I think it woudl be funny to see Santino and all the other jobbers do it weekly only to get beat up each attempt.

 

[Ryberg]

I'd like to see a gimmick where a guy like David Otunga, who has such a close connection to the Raw GM, gets a huge push. The guy has the mic skills and I think the ability to turn into a star. We could have Johnny Ace form a "Corporation" like stable, where he has Otunga as the leader and the rest of the Stable help him achieve greatness, and take down CM Punk. I know this isn't really a gimmick, but more so a storyline, but I still think it'd be interesting to see.

Cool idea but that has jobber squad written all over it. I'd much rather see Otunga as a sue happy wrestler.

I'd love a DB "holier than thou" stable with all the people in the WWE who feel they're better than the normal person because they're Vegan or whatever, Only issue is I would HOPE they didn't do it similar Straight-Edge Society as it was Punk and jobbers. Make it more of heels who think they're not and people just don't get it. I could see that would be a great DB and Cena thing then you never have to turn Cena Heel since the WWE is too afraid to. Cena could talk how he's all about Loyalty and Respect and DB a Vegan, how they can help the fans be better in their every day lives.

 

[BigThunder]

The misanthrope face.

The man who insults the fans at every turn, who believes the fans are the people who spoil wrestling, who loudly declares he'd rather wrestle in an empty arena than in front of fans, who will never go to a corner and raise hs hands or play to the crowd -- and yet doesn't cheat, conducts himself with honor, defends women against the heels, will argue with fellow faces one minute, and make the save on the next. He never uses shortcuts to win. He treats veterans, heels or faces with respect. He never says he's the best in the world, never makes excuses (even when he's obviously been screwed) but is enormously self-critical. He's far more honorable than anyone in the company -- except that he has a grouchy, misanthrope demeanor and will argue until the cows come home that fans suck.

Eventually, after his personality is sold to the fans, the announce team plays him as "that guy everyone knows who hasn't a nice thing to say about anyone, yet will give you the shirt off your back when you need it." It would be a different character.

 

[enviousdominous]

There just aren't enough ninja's anymore.

I would have Yoshi Tatsu dress like a ninja and start going ape during his matches in strange but interesting ways, like he develops a pain addiction.

He sells four moves in a row, gets frustrated and sits indian style in the middle of the ring and shakes violently.

He gets his forehead slammed in the corner of the ring and stares down his startled opponent before ripping off the padding and slamming his own head into the corner before collapsing and sneaking the blade across his forehead while pretending to wipe it.

He shows up for no dq matches with metal elbow and knee pads.

He becomes a lunatic ninja basically. I imagine he faces Kane in an inferno match and at the apex of the match covers himself in gasoline and sets himself on fire causing Kane to react dramatically. He could be a classic eastern asian lunatic.

 

[enviousdominous]

I wish there were more colorful managers. Managers who get involved in matches and take huge bumps on behalf of their team.

I imagine someone like Paul Heyman meets Jimmy Hart with a little bit of Gary Hart's seriousness. Like he acts like a loud mouth geek, but has a literal feather in his hat to signify wisdom.

A new tag team debuts, or an old tag team re-debuts, with the manager I have in mind and they take on a monster tag team like Cena and Orton or Big Show and Khali as a middle finger to their right to exist.

This new manager has a knack for pulling the legal member of his team out of the ring in advance of his likely being pinned before throwing up his hands to the ref like he didn't do anything.

He pulls strings with "management" or the "Board of Directors" or whatever, and obtains a license to always be at ring side and thus be immune from the ref's ability to send him to the back. DQ can still happen, but he's good enough to get his team past a monster tag team meant to squash them through frantic manipulation of the circumstances.

Above all he gets his ass kicked on purpose to expose a flaw in the opposing teams dynamic and get a previously no name team a big win.

I realize that it would be bad juju to rip on a particular religion by having another Reverend Devon gimmick. The trick then is to make a wrestler who made up his own religion.

Someone who is something like a snake oil salesman who swears up and down that a deity he made up is in control and can grant all the worlds desires. He gives odd riddles that either suggest his fate is to win, or was misinterpreted which he realizes upon losing.

Kind of like he says "It was told unto me by the great and powerful Homnus, at wrestlemania a great man will fall!". He believes that this obviously means that Undie's streak will end, but it will turn out that the great man was himself.

He could dress like Aleister Crowley and do promos like King Curtis meets The Black Scorpion.

I might get jumped for this. But I would like to see some kind of retelling of The Black Scorpion gimmick.

Like a masked phantom like character is interfering in matches and in a twist like they did during the Blue Blazer gimmick have people suspected of being him get attacked when all the evidence points to them being the phantom.

Just like the original Black Scorpion gimmick, they can draw it out for the better part of a year so they can toss around ideas for who it should turn out to be and at the very least have a short list of people be revealed during a ppv.

I'm almost done, I swear.

With this whole "Be a Star" campaign, I've had an idea.

You have someone with Duke Rotundo's build be an audience member who's holding a popular face's sign in the front row. A heel with a hot female valet is cutting a promo and becomes transfixed on this overweight guy in the front row and makes a series of snied remarks before the very face that the overweight guy's sign promotes comes out. Win or lose, the heel wants to confront the overweight guy and either shout him down or laugh at him. The overweight guy's feelings get hurt and the female valet looks back longingly while she's being drug away by her heel significant other.

They do a promo where the guy decides to get in better athletic shape and while keeping his large build manages to perform some decent moves in the ring, like another Bam Bam Bigelo if you will.

The heels dub him "Lard Butt" or something like that. In a match where if he loses his ring name will be "Lard Butt" he loses, but chooses to embrace the name as it inspires him to try harder and eventually score a huge win over his heel tormentor.

Last one. I promise.

We have a rainbow club of wrestlers from various places these days. The Corre had members from different Continents.

I imagine someone who plays a russian acrobat style wrestler. He cuts promos as though he's a bit off due to paranoia and distrust toward a capitalist company like the WWE.

Soon he fails miserably in an attempt to earn even a mid-card championship and complains that it has all been a conspiracy against him for being a communist.

Eventually it is revealed that his mother, who he never knew, was an Afghan due to the Russo-Afghan war in the 80's. He fully embraces being from Afghanistan and dresses in long buttoned up shirts, loose pajama like dress pants and sandals (I've been there, that's how they dress). He plays up how nobody, not even Alexander the Great could conquer Afghanistan. Eventually they see how he handles being IC or US champion.

 

[gurvinder372]

I imagined a confused, shy, nervous and opportunistic face who copies other superstars style to gain acceptance from the WWE universe. He is too scared to just be himself, so he just want to ride the wave. He repeat other superstars' catchphrases and does everything what is already liked by the audience. Boos from the audience makes him nervous so he immediately comes up with a catchphrase or a wrestling move which is someone else's signature move.

He has a strong built, runs in save faces, and beats up bad guys, in a hope that people will like that. He will shown watching old legendary wrestler's DVDs to see why people like them so much. He has only one focus -- people should like him and chat his name every time he shows up.

He tries to show that he has a lot of self respect, logic and flair, so he doesn't beg in front of anyone to get a push. Instead he tries to side himself with faces and ends up looking like their side kick rather than a genuine threat to the top spot. He is not able to figure out what is wrong with him, so there is a little frustration in him.

It should take around 3-4 weeks to establish this character, and then it could lead to very funny, dramatic, emotional and action packed story lines.

 

[Galvatron]

I would like a character who didn't care about championships, only hurting and injuring people. His main goal would never be even winning matches, just going after people to put them on the injured list. All his fueds would be him stalking and slowly picking people apart week by week until they had to miss time. This would be also be useful to write off anybody from tv who is really injured or failed a drug test.

 

[AustinHartLesnarHBKTaz80]

i wanna see a ravishing rick rude part 2 .

pretty much someone good-looking enough to take the rude gimmick and evolve it, adding to it, modernizing it.

maybe a bobby roode- john morrison- big poppa pump type guy could make this work.

he gotta be cocky, great in the ring, killer mic skills, has washboard abs, does the gyrations, taunts the crowd relentlously, and at the end of his matches, make fun of the fat people in the crowd and take their hot women.

i could see john morrison running with this heel gimmick, but he has to drastically amp up his mic work to pull it off. he could have melina with him as his valet, and once they pull chicks from the crowd, he could make out with her first....then pass her over to melina for girl on girl makout.... then they do a three-way makeout! hahaha

don't know if it will fly in PG wwe right now, but shit, in TNA, anything goes!

ravishing rick rude 2012!!!

that would be awesome!

 

[TempestH]

I imagined a confused, shy, nervous and opportunistic face who copies other superstars style to gain acceptance from the WWE universe. He is too scared to just be himself, so he just want to ride the wave. He repeat other superstars' catchphrases and does everything what is already liked by the audience. Boos from the audience makes him nervous so he immediately comes up with a catchphrase or a wrestling move which is someone else's signature move.

He has a strong built, runs in save faces, and beats up bad guys, in a hope that people will like that. He will shown watching old legendary wrestler's DVDs to see why people like them so much. He has only one focus -- people should like him and chat his name every time he shows up.

He tries to show that he has a lot of self respect, logic and flair, so he doesn't beg in front of anyone to get a push. Instead he tries to side himself with faces and ends up looking like their side kick rather than a genuine threat to the top spot. He is not able to figure out what is wrong with him, so there is a little frustration in him.

It should take around 3-4 weeks to establish this character, and then it could lead to very funny, dramatic, emotional and action packed story lines.

I like this.

The majority of the gimmick sounds pretty much like Zack Ryder. Although he doesn't copy other Superstars, his character seems to be motivated by a desire to be liked and accepted.