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Critic of the DawnPosted on 09/10/06 at 07:14:46

If you're anything like me, you occasionally think of awesome gimmicks that for one reason or another just will NOT fit in your current circuit. Whether they're so hilariously goofy that they make you giggle uncontrollably to yourself, or totally badass but unusable because of other considerations, this is the place for them.

Please post any and every oddball and/or awesome gimmick you've thought of but not had a chance to use, or those you've used but couldn't do justice in this thread. Since I'm starting the topic, I'll submit the first.

The Huge Ugly Goon Squad
Tag Team
Members: The Iceberg & The Necro Butcher

The Iceberg and The Necro Butcher have been in and out of prison for assault charges for their entire adult lives, and rumors persist that they may have gotten away with far more than the simple assault charges that have stuck with them. Naturally, your talent scouts did what any respectable promotion would do when encountering ultra-violent ex-cons rumored to be mass murderers: they signed them to a multi-year contract on the spot.

Over the course of several months the Goon Squad runs rampant over your company's babyfaces, decimating them in hardcore matches before stabbing them repeatedly in the head with a potato peeler and a shiv respectively. Finally, after several months, one of the babyfaces they confront tells them that he respects them for what they're capable of. Everyone (including the babyface) is shocked when the Squad breaks down in tears and give him a HUUUUGE group hug!

You see, The Iceberg and The Necro Butcher weren't always hardened homicidal maniacs. Once upon a time, they were normal little boys. But the other kids always made fun of Iceberg because he was fat, and The Necro Butcher's mommy didn't really love him, so eventually they both snapped. This revelation (preferably done in as goofy and sappy of a promo as possible) leads to a face turn by the Huge Ugly Goon Squad, who begin feuding with heels who invariably make fun of them for opening up and are summarily left in a bloody mess as the Squad's rage destroys them. Oh, and the Squad gets a new catchphrase.

"Real thugs just need H.U.G.S.!"

Eric "Critic of the Dawn"
Snabbit888Posted on 09/10/06 at 09:56:33

The one I had planned and came THIS close to using was to continue playing up Justin Credible as "Chicken Boy."  He already had The Colonel (Tennessee Lee) as a manager.  He was to have an ongoing feud with Roadkill, because he is the Angry Amish Chicken (Boy) Plucker after all, but Credible was to get aid from Buff "The Stuffing" Bagwell and Rodney Mack-n-Cheese, collectively known as the Side Dishes.

And yes, I'm 100% serious.
91Posted on 09/10/06 at 11:20:25

If I think of it, I almost certainly use it, regardless of how stupid it might be. I've got that kind of mindset. I did almost turn Strike Force into gay lovers mind you.
PulsarPosted on 09/10/06 at 15:54:22

I love the HUGS gimmick. Just pure amazing

I always wanted to do an angle where the top babyface gets suspended on the first day of Lent. The main heel, someone with an already fragile mind (Foley, Raven, someone you can call crazy), who got him suspended, would then be harrassed by a man in a Bunny suit, who throws eggs at him, and hides eggs with weird messages on them in his shoes/locker/bag etc. Finally, at the big PPV, held on Easter Sunday in front of an orphanage of good little children, the Heel finally gets stuck in the ring against the Easter Bunny, and the whole time he just yells "The Easter Bunny's not real". After said heel has made 100's of children cry, he rips off the Easter Bunny mask to reveal BALLS MAHONEY!! (Balls is not the top face who was suspended). Balls and said face then begin to beat the crap out of said heel.

This works in 2 ways. 1) Classic "man in the mask" schtick that has worked for years
2) Making children cry is ultimate heel power.
americamamushiPosted on 09/10/06 at 19:37:17

hahahaha, Ryan will atest to the fact that this thread is the perfect place for me ;)  Unfortunately I think most of the ridiculous things I've come up with are either going to appear in GLWF or GCW so I don't want to divulge anything just incase.

Ok.  Here's one of my more ludicrous things i pitched to Ryan, albeit as a joke (unlike my other ones which are only slightly less ridiculous but were serious pitches).  Bobby Lashley decides he wants to get a sex change opperation and starts demanding that people call him "Betty."  He starts using the song "Black Betty" by Ram Jam as his theme music.  And eventually starts bringing down a chubby asian man with a boombox so stands at ringside and dances during Lashley's matches (ala Kung Pow: Enter the Fist) and the theme music plays throughout his matches New Jack-style.

Ryan thinks I need to be put in a padded room. ;)
kurropt_antagonistPosted on 09/10/06 at 20:25:54

Who are you to doubt Betty Lashley?

My craziest gimmick?

Shannon Moore (in MFer form) as a credible main-eventer.

I'm not even joking.  I put him over Brock Lesnar to earn my fed's Undisputed World Title.

I shut the fed down immediately after that.  ;D
CarlzillaPosted on 09/10/06 at 23:45:55

On 09/10/06 at 09:56:33, Snabbit888 wrote:The one I had planned and came THIS close to using was to continue playing up Justin Credible as "Chicken Boy."  He already had The Colonel (Tennessee Lee) as a manager.  He was to have an ongoing feud with Roadkill, because he is the Angry Amish Chicken (Boy) Plucker after all, but Credible was to get aid from Buff "The Stuffing" Bagwell and Rodney Mack-n-Cheese, collectively known as the Side Dishes.

And yes, I'm 100% serious.
I would have totally had Justin Credible wrestle as J.F.C. (you can use your imagination to fill in the F as I don't think 'Fried' would work).
americamamushiPosted on 09/10/06 at 23:48:35

On 09/10/06 at 09:56:33, Snabbit888 wrote:The one I had planned and came THIS close to using was to continue playing up Justin Credible as "Chicken Boy." He already had The Colonel (Tennessee Lee) as a manager. He was to have an ongoing feud with Roadkill, because he is the Angry Amish Chicken (Boy) Plucker after all, but Credible was to get aid from Buff "The Stuffing" Bagwell and Rodney Mack-n-Cheese, collectively known as the Side Dishes.

And yes, I'm 100% serious.
i can't believe i didn't think of this at the time we were orignally tossing ideas for the angle back and forth but he so could've made the referee refer to his matches as "Original Recipe" while when indulging his hardcore side they'd be refered to as "Extra Crispy."
CarlzillaPosted on 09/11/06 at 00:04:08

On non-posted circuits I've had some real strange gimmicks going on.

I remember pitching this one over AIM to someone a LOOONG time ago, it's really been years, but it involved Stevie Richards in a gimmick called Gimmick Infringement. He basically just ripped off his opponents gimmick for the entire match. I think something like this has been done since then, but to my knowledge nothing had been done like it at the time.

I've also had the Necro Florist, this is what would happen if Necro-Butcher took an active interest in flower gardens, and floral decorations. I've also used Necro Butcher in an angle where he became a card carrying PETA member and changed his name to Necro Herbivore

I had a deathmatch contingent (Zandig, Mad Man Pondo, JC Bailey, and Nick Mondo) become team Ultra-Kindness. They refused to do anything mean during their matches and if they won, and that wasn't often, it was through their team finsiher the dreaded Group Hug submission.

I'm sure there's a whole bunch more.
triad4evrPosted on 09/11/06 at 02:15:01

This Necro Butcher guy- has he appeared in any e-feds? Just wondering..!
CarlzillaPosted on 09/11/06 at 02:17:54

What do you mean by e-feds? If you mean has he appeared on the circuits posted here then yes, I've used him before a few times. If you mean is he a fictional e-fed character...then no, he's a real wrestler, and he's a bad-ass.
djmasterscooterPosted on 09/11/06 at 20:56:52

Not real great ones on my end...

I came up with a complete techno-geek gimmick.  I named him Oswald Harding.  He had a nice undefeated streak, until Mick Foley beat him to end it.  He then rose to main event status after becoming a tweener.  He then became a laid back hippie named Ozzy.

I put Elijah Burke & Eric Priest together and named them The Lost Prophets.  

I can't think of any more "WrestleCrap" worthy gimmicks right now.
meetzorakPosted on 09/11/06 at 21:49:20

All i have to say is, "The Baby Eater" Yugi Nagata
americamamushiPosted on 09/11/06 at 22:11:16

On 09/11/06 at 21:49:20, meetzorak wrote:All i have to say is, "The Baby Eater" Yugi Nagata
Yugi Nagata stole Snitsky's gimmick
triad4evrPosted on 09/12/06 at 03:11:58

I only asked about the Necro Butcher guy cuz somebody ran him in an e-fed I was in once and I didn't know he was a real wrestler...

But as far as gimmicks I've never capitalized on, the big one is a whole federation essentially. Years ago when I was running a dice-and-pencil wrestling RPGish game, one of the players suggested "What if somewhere, these larger-than-life wrestler characters really existed, and they were the heroes of their world, and what if they were fighting for the fate of their world?"

Basically, it was a Mortal Kombatesque "world" where the faces were literally the forces of good, the heels were basically the forces of evil, and like Mortal Kombat, there was some aspect of their battle that would determine which forces would prevail (a tournament or some kind of ongoing  conflict). Oh, and there were "fatalities" too... But it was all within the confines of a wrestling ring.

Anyway, it's just something I've never fully worked out how to run, but I've always liked the idea.
AllPowerfulGARTHPosted on 09/14/06 at 01:34:47

One gimmick that I've wanted to do for a long time -- and may yet, if I ever get off my lazy ass and start writing WWL again -- is a ninja character who subscribes to the "Real Ultimate Power" school of ninjitsu. Essentially, he would WRESTLE like your stereotypical wrestling ninja with acrobatics and martial arts, but his promos would all be, "The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people, so I'm going to come down to that ring and whoop your ass, because I am totally super-sweet like that!" His finisher, whatever move it may be, would simply be called NINJA'D.

Further fantasy has him learning his ninja skills from "Hard Master" and "Soft Master," as did Storm Shadow in the old G.I. Joe comics, with those roles being played by Glacier and Steve Blackman.

I'm sure I've had more, but hell if I can think of them at the moment. None were as good as the ninja one.
LillaThrillaPosted on 09/17/06 at 18:21:32

I just had the idea the other day to have a tag team called The Atomic Bombs, one named Fat Man and one named Little Boy. Of course, Little Boy would be about the size of Rikishi and Fat Man would be a skinny midget. They'd have glown-in-the-dark facepaint and radioactive warning labels on their pants.

Also, I want to do a  ninja character called The Ninja who talks like the guy in the Ask A Ninja videos on YouTube.  Ask a Ninja 18 - Ninja Omnibus, baby!