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BigDaddyCool
10-10-2004, 07:51 PM
Like for instance, remeber how Molly Holly first got startedin WWE. She was one of the "Hollys." But now, her currenct gimmick has jack crap to do with any of that, and it is hard to remeber exactly how that came about.

Or Nuzio. Wasn't he like Jamie Noble's cousin or something, but then he started up a Mafia. As long as we are on Noble...Nidia started out (in story lines anyhow) has Helm's ex, then starts being Noble's white trash girl, and now she is just some Porta Rician or something?

Any how, discuss.
Ferocious
10-10-2004, 07:55 PM
Molly was hot as hell when she first came about as Crash's Cousin or some shit. Also Czech out the changes in Steven Richards giommicks over the last few years.
Mike the Metal Ed
10-10-2004, 08:04 PM
Bradshaw.
Mike the Metal Ed
10-10-2004, 08:05 PM
Molly was hot as hell when she first came about as Crash's Cousin or some shit. Also Czech out the changes in Steven Richards giommicks over the last few years.

Molly still is hot as hell.
Afterlife
10-10-2004, 08:06 PM
And Billy Gunn doesn't seem to mind being tossed around in the gimmick box, either. He's done everything from Cowboy to "I swear I'm not gay!".
McLegend
10-10-2004, 08:09 PM
Farooq and JBL's gimmack changed a lot too.
Corkscrewed
10-10-2004, 08:33 PM
Glenn Jacobs. :shifty:

HHH's evolution has been kinda neat, as it's happened over an extended time and has really, to be honest, been a great improvement over the original concept (which wouldn't have been a great long term gimmick IMO).
V
10-10-2004, 08:41 PM
Rosey... from bischoff's enforcer, to being managed by rico, to being hurricane's sidekick
El Santo
10-10-2004, 09:25 PM
And Billy Gunn doesn't seem to mind being tossed around in the gimmick box, either. He's done everything from Cowboy to "I swear I'm not gay!".

Speaking of which, that reminds me of that recent match with Rico & Haas vs. Hardcore Holly & Billy Gunn. Rico was pulling his gay antics, and Billy was shocked --- SHOCKED! As if to say, "Good Lord, what utterly repulsive behavior, not that I was ever involved in a gay angle two years ago, now was Rico ever my manager at that time, playing pretty much the same character."
Savio
10-10-2004, 09:30 PM
Rosey... from bischoff's enforcer, to being managed by rico, to being hurricane's sidekick
To being "I'll purposely turn my mask so I can't see."
BigDaddyCool
10-10-2004, 10:05 PM
Hell, even Rico has gone from kinda gay, to "mega annoying, make Golddust look straight" gay.
Azriel
10-10-2004, 10:10 PM
I liked him better when he was just a metrosexual.
Mayo
10-10-2004, 10:27 PM
Batista started as a corrupt deacon, and is now the cocky monster of Evolution.
M-A-G
10-10-2004, 11:13 PM
Shawn Michaels....wait....

Chris Jericho.....wait....

X-P...dammit, never mind.
Gouda
10-11-2004, 02:02 AM
Kane from heel with no emotions to face with emotions to heel with no emotions to face with emotions.... repeat.
BigDaddyCool
10-11-2004, 02:15 AM
Kane from heel with no emotions to face with emotions to heel with no emotions to face with emotions.... repeat.

Ok, I don't think you understand what I mean. Kane has pretty much played the same bit. I'm talking about like Molly Holly is still going by the same name, but plays a role that has nothing to do with what she started with. Or how Billy Gunn used to be a a cowboy, but he still goes by the same name but is teaming with Hardcore and kinda gay or into asses or something. Or completely unlike JBL who changed names with gimmicks, he used to be Blackjack Bradshaw, then Acoylite Bradshaw (I know for a bit he was teaming with TAKA before that), and now JBL, and has changed names with Gimmicks.
Gertner
10-11-2004, 03:32 AM
Val Venis went from pron star to chief morley, to being the big valbowski, to being val venis again


hardcore holly was bob sparkplug, to being bombastic bob, to being like bob holly to being hardcore holly.
asphyXy
10-11-2004, 03:35 AM
Justin Hawk Bradshaw as the world champion is a fucked up thing to think about.
Kapoutman
10-11-2004, 05:23 AM
Justin Hawk Bradshaw as the world champion is a fucked up thing to think about.
Let's say we go back to the mid-nineties. The fans would have farted on a Bob Spark Plugg Holly vs Justin Hawk Bradshaw match.

Now it's headlining Smackdown.

I gotta agree with you asphyxy.
PerfectOne
10-11-2004, 05:40 AM
Kane - Masked Man out to destroy the Undertaker. Horribly scarred, most of his body covered up except for one arm, and vocal cords destroyed.

Kane - Suddenly falls in love with Tori (long since gone from teh WWF/E). Also falls in love with X-pac. Softer side coming out. Lot's of hugging between Kane and X-pac in the ring. His new ring attire has both arms uncovered-the burns have healed on his arm, apparently. No longer controls fire, but giant red lightning bolts.

Kane - Post-Xpac and Tori. Angry again at Undertaker. They battle for a while, then they become best friends and tag team for a while. Then they fight some more. Then, for no apparent reason, Kane decides to fight Austin. Austin destroys the monster, who no longer has a softer side.

Kane - Post-Austin. Kane can speak! It's a miracle. Although his vocal cords were irreparably damaged in the fire that killed his parents (but not really, since he turns out to Paul Bearer's bastard son...I think...maybe?) when he was a small child. Oh, it turns out that he also apparently was dating a girl in his younger days. Of course, according to his initial story, he was burned alive and left for dead when he was a child. It must have been a young romance....:/

Kane - HIS MASK IS GONE, and his skin isn't burned - only blackened by eyeshadow! Wow! I can't believe it! After all these years, all he was hiding was a bald head and eye-shadow. You silly, silly man. No one cares if you wear women's makeup - being metrosexual is a-ok in all of our books.

Kane - He's a maniac again and this time he got Lita pregnant. Lot's of jokes about his burnt member...but judging from past experience, I tend to believe his penis is simply covered in a thick coating of eyeshadow. He's since gone from metrosexual to straight-edge, wiping the makeup off his face. I bet so he can keep his tough guy "I was burned and although I didn't heal over the course of my entire life, being in the WWE made my healing accelerate so much that wounds that didn't heal over 30 years magically healed in 3 years" image. WWE should really consider opening up a day-spa if people get these types of results.
Aussie Skier
10-11-2004, 07:29 AM
Val Venis went from pron star to chief morley, to being the big valbowski, to being val venis again


hardcore holly was bob sparkplug, to being bombastic bob, to being like bob holly to being hardcore holly.

val was also anti porn 4 a while to (RTC)
CosaNostra
10-11-2004, 08:03 AM
HHH

Going from rich, elite snob, to fun loving DX member, evolving over time into super ultra heel. But kept the name "pedigree" for his signature move.
Astley316
10-11-2004, 01:35 PM
The rock, started off as a blue chipper joined the nation, then the corporation, the mega face, then hollywood big wig,
BigDaddyCool
10-12-2004, 01:09 AM
HHH

Going from rich, elite snob, to fun loving DX member, evolving over time into super ultra heel. But kept the name "pedigree" for his signature move.

Exactly.
Jorgha
10-13-2004, 04:38 PM
I am surprised no one mentioned the many, many incarnations of Steven Richards. Granted, everyone one of them has been utterly stupid. He's the village idiot. Is there anything that man will not do?
Shawshank
10-13-2004, 05:29 PM
what about the godfather, he joined RTC and became the goodfather then back to being the godfather again. also at some point wasnt he the same guy he played papa shango?