What are some examples of gimmicks you haven’t seen in wrestling yet and would you think they would have a chance of getting over?
Honestly...I want a Serial Killer gimmick. And I don’t mean shit like Marty the Moth or Samuel Shaw who have the potential to be booked like serial killers because of how fucked in the head they pretend to me.
I want a gimmick that is identical to that of Jigsaw Killer of the Saw franchise. A long term angle that starts off small with jobbers who magically start going missing. Stephanie doesn’t care because “LOL i’m above losers like them!” Eventually when more and more of the roster starts disappearing the talent start rioting leaving Stephanie to start losing her temper. Eventually, Stephanie on the way to the limo gets attacked by a phantom figure leaving Shane in charge until things start getting worked out
Vince comes out and demands to know if Shane has anything to do with this and Shane assures Vince he pleads the 5th. Meanwhile Stephanie eventually comes back bound and gagged in a body bag unconscious but alive. When Vince and Shane try to get answers from her but she is emotionally and mentally broken. All she has is a monotone look on her face and a small tape in her hand that just says “To Vince” on it written in marker
Vince, trying to not be visibly shaken over this places the tape inside the titantron for the audience to view with him and its literally a blurred out interrogation tape of the phatom figure who abducted her trying to intimidate her. At first it feels like Stephanie tries to emasculate despite being tied to a chair but as the tape goes on Vince realizes the recording just keeps going as if this was taped for multiple days and weeks at a time.
If he took out the jobbers the roster would be smaller, and how would you bring them back if he's a Serial Killer?
Shit idea to be honest lad
>>1387789
We'd have to iron out the kinks
and besides Vince would probably consider the gimmick because only an hr of actual wrestling happens within the 3 hours of Raw and some of the highest rated episodes of Raw have like zero actual wrestling in them
>>1387790
you can't iron out killing someone, and how is this supposed to result in a feud? If nobody knows who the serial killer is how is the person with the gimmick supposed to get heat? this is honestly probably the worst idea I've ever heard of and I've heard some shit
>>1387793
>you can't iron out killing someone
Lucha Underground tells me I can. Its like you didn't even see the ending of Dario's Jobber Alliance or Katrina's alliance to the Disciples of Death
>>1387795
That's because LU works in a comic book world where magic is real and a half-dozen characters are some combination of dead, immortal and insane before the series even starts.
Its a no-go in any other fed.
>>1387795
Story lines that work in Luchadore wrestling and storylines that work in WWE are entirely different.
>Even Lucha Underground knows you can't iron out killing more than one person every few years
>>1387795
also avoided answering either question I asked
>>1387796
>That's because LU works in a comic book world where magic is real and a half-dozen characters are some combination of dead, immortal and insane before the series even starts.
And I both love and similteiniously hate it for that.
>Its a no-go in any other fed.
You clearly have not watched Chikara a company that literally had a time travel angle followed by parasitic aliens.
>>1387795
WWE is not LU. I know you're hyped about this ''original'' idea but it won't work. We also already have Brayy Wyatt
>>1387799
Chikara does some crazy shit and nobody outdoes OCD Mike for longterm storyline considerations, but they're too family friendly to roll with a serial killer angle.
>>1387797
>More than 1 person
Did you literally not fucking see the climax of The Disciples of Death? Katrina demanded the other 2 dead weight members of the team be sacrificed so the strongest one can remain loyal to the power of Muertes
I'm getting this hunch Joey Ryan and the other 2 Mexijobbers from Dario's former Kliq will most likely get killed next
>>1387798
Lucha Underground, Chikara, and having a lot of money in general basically just tells me literally anything is possible.
>>1387800
Bray is fucking worthless now. They had the chance to give him the whole "I absorb the powers and personalities of other wrestlers" angle but that literally lasted a week and Obese smarks got triggered because "UGH! This wouldn't happen in my ROH because everything is taken at serious value.'
>>1387802
I think they were planning something for Mojo Rawley, Alex Riley, and or Marcus Louis giving them an angle similar to mine.
I think an ISIS gimmick would be great if it were tastefully done
>>1387788
a steam punk guy
>>1388526
Indeed desu
>>1388526
An american designated theatre shooter would be fine also
>>1389686
Already exists
I want to see a Jackie Chan kind of gimmick-A cocky martial arts movie actor and He could do ladder tricks at Ladder matches similar to that Jackie Chan movie. It's different from the Miz
>>1390083
Who the fuck are you
It would be cool if they did Hunter Hearst Helmsley again but with a new guy
>wrestler could be British
>wrestles dirty in the ring
>has his own show called "The Tea Party"
>Submission specialist
>Over the top heel mic skills
>>1390091
Someone infinitely your greater lil guy
>>1390100
So, William Regal
#BringBackDoink
>>1390103
More like a revisit of Lord Steven Regal
>>1390102
Carter, get off the internet.
>>1387788
This isn't a terrible idea until you try to apply it to wrestling.
I, for one, think a Mordecai style gimmick could be real neat if done right. And by done right I mean not explicitly Christianity, or even overtly deistic.
Have a guy with humanist leanings who thinks that the highest calling is advancing up the evolutionary mountain and being the best, strongest, winningest human bean you can be. He equates winning competitions with holiness (as this is how you climb to the "mountaintop" and prove yourself the next step in human evolution or some unhinged ranting to that effect), and traditional sins like the seven deadly sins with the kind of weakness that holds humanity back. He pursues winning with a religious zeal and considers losing to be a sign of weakness, which in his slightly unglued mind is a mortal sin, and drives him utterly crazy.
He views cowardly heels as greedy and therefore weak because they'd rather weasel their way to a paycheck than stand and fight. He views faces like John Cena as prideful and therefore week because they spend more time sucking up to the audience than in the gym getting stronger. He views heels like KO as gluttonous and therefore weak because HE'S FAT.
And so on. He could play either a face feuding against heels and trying to eliminate their "sin"/weakness from the promotion, or play heel my making greatly exaggerated claims of laziness/pride/weakness against faces and then losing, ostensibly exonerating the face of those accusations. OR beating the face, proving him right, and being a catalyst for character development of the face.
>>1387788
Jigsaw never killed anyone. He gives them choices
>>1390239
>cut out the key from this still living guy that I told you was dead or your jaw is going to be reverse bear trapped
such choice
I want a douchy hockey player tag team like the hockey players in letterkenny. They'd skip nxt and have a feud with the nxt tag teams who got called up, and fake botches to make them look incompetent and not ready for the main roster, then turn them into a comedy gimmick with cheesy training montages as their promos. Finally the nxt teams come back from their injuries and the hockey players beat them again, this time clean. I know comedy gimmicks get old fast but promos between enzo's trash talking and their hockey chirps would be amazing.
Wresting bounty hunter.
Doesn't give a shit about titles, will make the pin if the price is right.
Kind of like a solo APA
>>1390296
Hockey is pretty irrelevant nowadays. Also didn't they have a hockey gimmick tag team that was just awful?
