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Old 02-21-2015, 11:36 AM   #1
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We are approaching two decades of the dictatorial authority figure meme, and I'm curious as to whether you fellas think that the type of character ought to be put away for a while. Perhaps return to the seldom seen, yet respected Jack Tunney/Gorilla Monsoon president role, or the more involved but less omnipresent Commissioner like Sgt. Slaughter?

What say you?

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Old 02-21-2015, 11:01 PM   #2
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Yeah.....we're kind of ingrained into the whole GM type figure now. I'm not sure that can just be put back in the bag as the concept of televised wrestling seems like it needs a character to "keep order" as it were. I guess you could always just do away with it and pretend such a thing never happened to begin with. Could probably get away with it since they've done similar things to other story lines that never panned out.
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Old 02-21-2015, 11:38 PM   #3
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At this point, it's just a way for main event storylines to be lazy. "Authority hates good guys. Story written." A face/non-obtrusive authority figure would force them to actually make feuds come from a more personal, interesting, fresh place. I'm just not sure if they could get by without the easy crutch at this moment though.
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Old 02-21-2015, 11:56 PM   #4
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At this point, it's just a way for main event storylines to be lazy. "Authority hates good guys. Story written." A face/non-obtrusive authority figure would force them to actually make feuds come from a more personal, interesting, fresh place. I'm just not sure if they could get by without the easy crutch at this moment though.
Sadly, I agree with this. I don't think the way things are currently they can do without the crutch of the heel authority figure right now.

I still think whether heel or face when an authority figure storyline is planned out, done well and makes sense, it can/could still be awesome. In fact, in terms of believability and their performances, I LOVE HHH and Steph as the heel authorities and think they could work equally well as face. Hell, even have them disagree and one is a face, the other's a heel.

The problem is the writing and long term planning for the authority story lines are generally shit that either don't make sense or don't actually lead anywhere long term.
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Old 02-21-2015, 11:56 PM   #5
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William Regal is a pretty good authority figure. He gets involved sometimes but he usually lets lets the chips fall where they may. Where does he do his authority figure job at again...?

It's a problem. No doubt about it. Nobody can really get that over as a heel because what's a bigger heel move than "you're fired?"

Orton's the only one who has gotten close to being a heel on his own when he punted Vince McMahon in the head. Brock maybe too when he took out Vince with the F5 but all were just to be fed to Triple H anyways.
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Seth Rollins is an amazing heel character that doesn't need The Authority. Sure, he's their token guy, but I can see him turning his back on them for his own good, just because he's that multi-dimensional.

But #1-wwf-fan is right (as he often is). It's just a crutch. An annoying crutch, but it allows matches like the six-man tag at Fastlane to just...happen. It's like the non-title victory for a guy against a champion. It's an absolutely lazy, tired and counter-productive trope, but it exists because the WWE doesn't care about the IC, US or Tag Team Titles as much as they should.

I think that The Authority might die for realsies at WrestleMania, when Sting beats Triple H. The bad guys that will be worth a shit past WrestleMania won't need Triple H and Stephanie to get them heat. Rollins will have his briefcase and will cash that in very soon after WrestleMania and be a wormy heel champion that can survive on his own.
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