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Post by snabbit888 on Feb 15, 2012 18:29:51 GMT -5
Had a question in regards to kayfabe in the world of your circuit. Does it bother you in a circuit if certain circumstances are depicted as being real when in real life, these things would never happen? I'll give an example. Back in 91's DWF, he did an angle with Brad Armstrong. Armstrong's gimmick was that he mimicked other wrestlers. One of the wrestlers he copied was Sid, doing an angle where Armstrong attacked Devon Storm with a pair of scissors. According to 91, Storm was scarred up badly, and he had those scars on his face and body from that point forward.
What are your opinions on angles like that? I'm torn. I thought it was clever and I have nothing wrong with the violence involved in that attack. My problem is with Storm then being scarred for life, because in real life, no one is going to agree to purposely scarred with scissors for one angle (I'm not talking about someone like a Sabu who has gained scars over his career).
Thoughts?
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Post by JoshiQ on Feb 15, 2012 18:50:05 GMT -5
I really wouldn't have much of an opinion on it. I think it might be my new found feeling for a Universe over when I used to do circuits that didn't take into consideration the rest of the wrestling world. I remember back in my WWA days that I had Matt Hardy turn into some sort of crazed guy that led to him pulling teeth out of some guy's head and fingernails out of another. In reality, this would cause permanent damage, but I'm sure the guys he did this to went on to lead successful careers without actually having that stuff used because it was fake.
So, I guess it wouldn't hinder me from getting into a certain angle. This example, however, doesn't really do much for me unless there was good build to something so extreme.
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Post by JoshiQ on Feb 15, 2012 18:51:29 GMT -5
Going back into my statement that this has to do with my new Universe mode, it'd be hard to do an angle like that without a considerate partner. Doing it on my own, no problems. Heck, I'd remove people's arms if it helped me.
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Post by snabbit888 on Feb 15, 2012 18:53:32 GMT -5
Going back into my statement that this has to do with my new Universe mode, it'd be hard to do an angle like that without a considerate partner. Doing it on my own, no problems. Heck, I'd remove people's arms if it helped me. Low blow, dude.  |
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Post by JoshiQ on Feb 15, 2012 18:56:09 GMT -5
Going back into my statement that this has to do with my new Universe mode, it'd be hard to do an angle like that without a considerate partner. Doing it on my own, no problems. Heck, I'd remove people's arms if it helped me. Low blow, dude. I still don't know how you can sometimes get cards out faster than me. |
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Post by rey619 on Feb 16, 2012 6:23:20 GMT -5
I don't think I would have done it. I very much try to book as realistically as possible - and there's no way anyone would have agreed to have been maimed or scarred badly for the sake of one angle. The closest I have come is Velvet Sky attacking Angelina Love with scissors, but she never hit though.
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Post by LillaThrilla on Feb 16, 2012 20:39:01 GMT -5
With the scissor thing, it could actually work with a dedicated enough wrestler as the victim using fake scars and selling it for a long time.
An angle that I'm surprised has never been run (that I know of) in a major circuit was done back in SMWA: in a Rockers-like breakup, one wrestler superkicked the other but in the face instead of the chin. The heel of the guy's boot hit his ex-partner in the eye and kayfabe blinded him in that eye. So he spent the rest of his career wearing a patch over his "blind" eye. (Terry Sky blinding Rick Clark, IIRC)
Other than something like that where the "maiming" could be covered by an eyepatch/mask/bandages/etc or otherwise faked by makeup/prosthesis, it would be unrealistic for me.
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