She may have created her own painfully annoying character, but the name Guerrero is still her last name. That last name being there reminds everyone who she was once married too. That being Eddie, her last name will forever associates her with Eddie and his family. It just the way things are.
Funny, when I think of Vickie Guerrero, I rarely think of Eddie. I just think of the character "Vickie." Same goes for Chavo. Can I speak for the entire wrestling fan base? No, and neither can you.
When she first came onto the scene, after Eddie passed away, I just kept seeing Eddie's widow. But as she grew as a heel character, she completely came into her own. That was something I never expected to happen, not in a million years.
Yes she draws tons of heat, but is it good heat? The heat I hear is a bunch of desperate fans that want to boo out whatever she is saying to the point where she goes away. That is a sign that fans don't necessarily want to see you anymore.
I don't buy any of that. Vickie gets heat because she plays a
character no one can stand. She isn't getting John Cena-type boos, like "You can't wrestle," or anything like that. She is just being booed. Not sure where you are getting this from. So yes, I agree fans are booing her to say they don't like her, but that has more to do with how well she has done in her evil role as opposed to people just thinking she sucks.
Yes she got great sympathy after Eddie died, she's his wife and whatever sympathy she built up that year she through that all away when she and Chavo feuded with Rey. The birth of her ever annoying on screen character.
Actually, it was the birth of the character that draws an amazing amount of heat.
She went from being almost a saint in the eyes of most fans, to being arguably the most hated female character in the history of pro wrestling. After Eddie died, fans felt for this woman. No one wanted to boo her. How did she get the fans to boo? By working a decent program, and making a good heel turn. Who would have ever thought Eddie's widow would be able to draw that much heat? It's pretty remarkable if you ask me.
Hardly, it's quite an average character if you ask me. Any old schmuck can show up and yell at the top of their lungs at a crowd for five minutes of air time, what makes Vickie so special.
I will say it again; what makes Vickie so special is the fact she had to work really hard to draw heat after the death of Eddie. It's not so much about how successful she's been, but how does any of that make her a disgrace? It doesn't.
I'm sure if WWE is as considerate as they have been to provide her with an ever so unneeded on screen role, they could very well have provided her with some kind of role backstage you know if she wasn't comfortable with what they originally gave her.
Backstage role? Doing what? Mopping the floors?
As much as I enjoy her character as an evil GM/manager, she knows nothing about the creative side of pro wrestling. It's not like she could have been a writer, or a booker. Also, I don't think she's overly intelligent, so I doubt she could help on the business end of things, as an accountant or anything like that.
An on-screen role is the only thing she had a chance of succeeding with, and she has done so. WWE wouldn't have kept her on-screen for all this time if they didn't think she was doing a half-way decent job.
The fact that she is fine with the crap that's gets written for is a tad alarming to me. Sure she was able to step out of a grieving widow on screen, but the role she stepped into was a conniving bitch who screams at the audience and looks for men to have "relations" with because she offers them benefits sue to her powers as a GM/Consultant. The character could really offend other widows which I will get to later.
She is playing a character. She is acting. You don't think Al Pacino really snorts a bunch of coke and shoots people Tony Montana-style, do you? Do you think Anthony Hopkins eats people like Hannibal Lecter? She's just playing a role. The vast majority of fans know this is fake, and understand she is playing a scripted character.
No it's not her fault, but again she went along with it didn't she? She could very easily turned down a role like this if she didn't feel comfortable with what they were giving her. Due to her situation I will once again say that WWE would be sympathetic enough to give her a non television role. Really all she had do was ask, but instead she went along and did such story-lines that could easily offend her fellow widows. I may not be an expert but I'll say that the grieving process for all widows is a long one that can take years to get over or that person may go through their whole life feeling empty inside with heartache. So in a lot of way what Vickie is doing on television could be seen as disrespectful and disgusting by many.
She went along with it to provide for her family. I think that shows a great deal of courage. She went through a horrible tragedy, and came out alright on the other end. She is no longer only known as Eddies widow, but as her own character. I think what she has done deserves a lot more credit than you are giving.
Also, she isn't new to this business. I'm sure she realized Eddie wouldn't mind her playing the type of character she has in the context of the show. If any family understands this business, it's the Guerrero's.
When a crowd is booing you for the sake of blocking out what you're saying in hope that you go away, is not what i would consider top notch heat. The definition of a good heel is CM Punk, the crowd will listen to what he has to say and boo him when they feel insulted. That is the successful formula in my books. Vickie on the other hand gets booed right away before she even speaks, the crowd doesn't even give her a chance. They boo her in the hope that she goes away not in the way that she is being a good heel.
I've already addressed this, but I'll be a bit more specific here.
She draws heat because her character is annoying and useless. For the sake of beating a dead horse, I'll even (fictitiously) agree with you she draws "bad" heat. Who cares! Who cares if fans don't want to see her anymore. She's a general freakin' manager. A consultant. She isn't wrestling in 20 minute matches. She isn't holding any titles. I really don't agree that all fans want her gone, but even if they do, who cares?
It's just a speaking role, that draws heat. Not only does it draw heat to Vickie, but to whoever she is managing. Why do you think WWE has attached her to Dolph Ziggler? They are looking to get him over as a major heel, and hope Vickie can lend some of her heat to him, because she gets a hell of a lot more heat than he does.
Actually her heel run began in the summer of 2006. Remember when she first turne heel and sided with Chavo Guerrero against Rey Mysterio? Her run with Edge was the one that started in 2007, albeit at the end of that year.
Thanks for the historical correction, but I was pointing out when she went out on her own as a heel, not just using the family name.
They would know how it works from being in it. They didn't piggyback off of Eddie's legacy in the right light. The way they went about seems more like a in spite of Eddie we will do all these non sensical, evil antics. She felt comfortable stepping into a character that is quite embarrassing and annoying and could also be offensive to her fellow widows. All by her own choice when she easily could have opted out and worked for WWE in some other kind of manner after the death of her husband. I think the company would have been sympathetic enough to her try and do something else rather than just throw her on television if she didn't want that.
We've already went over this several times, not addressing it again.
Vickie has become a role model to all widows. She has made something of herself, when no one thought it possible. She is an inspirational woman, not a disgrace.
