TheBigSwigg 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 Can people give examples of things they had in their e-fed and then the WWE used it later? With all the stories I've heard of the WWE stealign storylines from people applying for jobs and things like that, I guarantee you they use the internet to steal ideas. My best friends character was called "The Prophet" His job was to cleanse the fed of all sinners. He wore white, had white hair and was very much like the Undertaker. His promos were from churches, etc, and some did involve him praying in his locker room surrounded by candles. His arch-nemesis was "Apocalypse" who was basically the exact opposite of "The Prophet." I'm not kidding. WWE stole Mordecai. Note: Check back later, and I'll link you to some of the old PPV sites. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LaParkaYourCar 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 Bah, characters like that have been done before in the indies. I doubt they took the idea from your friend. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheBigSwigg 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 Bah characters like that have been done before in the indies. I doubt they took the idea from your friend. My friend can't watch Smackdown because it's such a rip-off. I know it's highly unlikely, but hey, it's so close it's still annoying as hell. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 If it's a roleplay fed, and you can create your own characters, I'd be more than happy to ruin some shit in a WWE e-fed. I've always laughed at morons who use like, HHH as their picbases, and I find it not-so-ironic that they're now getting pissed on. Good ol' WWE... now I remember why I stopped watching years ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A Happy Medium 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 Any old school SWF'ers remember Cyclone Comet? The guy who thought he was a superhero? Suddenly you see Shane Helms change over to the Hurricane, complete with his own Hurricycle and shit. It was pretty obvious...even tho Helms is a big comic book guy. The timing was just so fishy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mecha Mummy 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 Can people give examples of things they had in their e-fed and then the WWE used it later? In one fed I'm in, we did the "Hogan tries to retire, Vince won't let him" angle (with different characters, of course), then they did it. I think it's more a coincidence than anything, though, because those two occurrances were really close together. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheBigSwigg 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 Here's the links I promised: http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/fwwshows/Pay...ll/PPVmain.html http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/fwwshows/Pay...mpage/Main.html http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/fwwshows/Pay...fest/index.html http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/fwwshows/Pay...acre/index.html This was the first four PPV's of the year. While the Prophet has black hair, it's solely because my friend couldn't find a good pic with white hair. He later used Christopher Lambert from Mortal Kombat. The main thing that makes me doubt that WWE stole the character was that this was about two years ago. Otherwise, I'd think it was a direct rip-off Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 Any old school SWF'ers remember Cyclone Comet? The guy who thought he was a superhero? Suddenly you see Shane Helms change over to the Hurricane, complete with his own Hurricycle and shit. It was pretty obvious...even tho Helms is a big comic book guy. The timing was just so fishy. Yeah, that amused me. There were a few things we did back in the day that seemed fishy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Salacious Crumb Report post Posted July 8, 2004 I had to completely change a gimmick for one of my characters because of BikerTaker showing up in 2000. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thoth 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 The WWE stole "Get off my lawn." Still pissed about that one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rob E Dangerously 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 So? TNA 'stole' "The Truth" from me. [only my guy was Latino from East LA] {if you want more details, I can provide them} I don't think anything else has been stolen. But, if they take the "T-Shirt" gimmick.. it's on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ultra Violence 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 Can people give examples of things they had in their e-fed and then the WWE used it later? With all the stories I've heard of the WWE stealign storylines from people applying for jobs and things like that, I guarantee you they use the internet to steal ideas. I booked an angle where my stable kidnapped someone, drugged them to make them seem dead and dropped them in "the happy homosexual's necrophilia club" .... about 4 months later the Katie Vick angle aired on WWE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Staravenger Report post Posted July 8, 2004 Nothing good is original when it comes to wrestling gimmicks. Just because 1 person in say CA for example, thinks of something different doesn't mean 100 other people won't come up with something resembling the same thing. The only original things are stuff people don't wanna touch, like corpse fucknig and the turkey thing at SSeries 1990. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MillenniumMan831 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2004 Most TV shows and many movies have cult followings, and in most cases, the companies who produce them cater to the hardcores. WWE should be thrilled that people enjoy their product enough to create their own fantasy world about it. The greed they're displaying over something that's ultimately harmless blows me away. Hit the nail right on the head. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest INXS Report post Posted July 8, 2004 WWE are introducing their own "efed" fantasy type online game shortly so are only getting rid of any competition I suppose. It'll probably be a half hearted attempt to close them down such as their attempt to get rid of the newz sites that use WWE copyrighted images. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scroby 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 My guess is the people who are good never get a good push while the people who are medicore or suck will get pushed to the moon. I'd join the WWE fed just to see whats it like through, I find it funny as hell that the WWE is going all out like this even through there's a new E-fed everyday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Wondermouse Report post Posted July 9, 2004 From what I hear, the "efed" will be closer to a fantasy baseball. Travis (of the Other Arena fame) runs the fWo and has ties with WWE (Mick Foley, Al Snow, and D'Lo were "in" the fed, but they didn't really do anything. Al just wanted to see how his hair would look bleached, and later changed it). That's where I get my info. He also claims that the WWE does take ideas from fWo, or at least take off of them. In general, they ask. Here's what he had to say about the most recent one: Most recent example was likely the O'Haire stuff, which was ripped off, word for word, paragraph for paragraph from old Fallen/Death interviews in '99... which are on the site here and can be looked up. In that case, I know the person doing the "borrowing" pretty well, and it's okay. But, it happens. I'll go look it up and see if I can find them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mandarin 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 Since when is it WWE Corporation? Looking it up on corporate sites, it's WWE Entertainment, Inc.. It's also nice to know J.R. makes $318,333 a year and Kevin Dunn makes $497,917. Where did you find this from? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 My guess is the people who are good never get a good push while the people who are medicore or suck will get pushed to the moon. Obviously. Take a look at the captions that win those contests... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anakin Flair 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 Don't forget to say hi to Droz... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Open the Muggy Gate 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 We had a guy in my fed named "The Reflection of Perfection" Bryan Cade. Three weeks later.. "Reflection of Perfection" Mark Jindrak. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
griffinmills 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 Since when is it WWE Corporation? Looking it up on corporate sites, it's WWE Entertainment, Inc.. It's also nice to know J.R. makes $318,333 a year and Kevin Dunn makes $497,917. Where did you find this from? I was more interested in why he would put "corporation?" whith a question mark(as if it wasn't) then write "WWE Entertainment inc.(INCORPORATED)." Somebody mentioned the WWE e-fed would be like "fantasy baseball" how is that run? Do you just make up or pick a team then wait around and see if you "win?" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rob E Dangerously 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 We had a guy in my fed named "The Reflection of Perfection" Bryan Cade. Three weeks later.. "Reflection of Perfection" Mark Jindrak. 28 years earlier.. Superstar Billy Graham used that line in his interviews Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChick 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 My character is the Female Phenom. Now Dupree is the French Phenom! That's all I got. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Soylent Green Is People Report post Posted July 9, 2004 You'd really think a multi-million dollar company would have better things to do with their time, but i guess not. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Twisted Intestine 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 So? TNA 'stole' "The Truth" from me. [only my guy was Latino from East LA] {if you want more details, I can provide them} Actually.. apparently there's an indy wrestler named "Truth Martini" (I think.. something like that anyways) with the same gimmick and he's been around for quite awhile.. Anyways, point is, I HIGHLY doubt WWE, or TNA, steal gimmicks/angles from anyone. It's not rare for people to have the same idea. Besides, WWE has a good creative team (Ha!), why would they need to steal ideas from anyone? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest netslob Report post Posted July 9, 2004 i could go for a Truth martini right about now... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slingshot Suplex 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 Truth Martini was predominantly a Michigan indy guy a few years ago. I think he's gotten a bit more exposure in other feds the last year or so. In terms of a "Truth" gimmick, he didn't really have a gimmick when I saw him..maybe that changed after Killings got well known? I don't know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2004 Even if you feel like Vince and Co are acting like an 800 lb gorilla, they have the right to do it because they've copyrighted the names and likenesses of the wrestlers for the most part as well as the belts and other stuff. Im surprised they didn't go after E-Feds a couple years ago when the e-feding thing was hugely popular. Now comes all the cheesy ripoff names like the Environmentalist Man, Nick Flare.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted July 10, 2004 Even if you feel like Vince and Co are acting like an 800 lb gorilla, they have the right to do it because they've copyrighted the names and likenesses of the wrestlers for the most part as well as the belts and other stuff. What legal precedence is there? Do fanfiction sites get shut down for the same reasons? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
