So we all want something original, that's obvious!

[Guest Downhome]

So many of us are always complaining that WWE never produces anything at all that is original in terms of storylines. It seems they vie to go the route of rehasing former angles, gimmicks, storylines, etc... from the past over and over. This is obvious, and we all know that it is true, but, what is even original anymore?

 

Can any of you guys think of an actual original storyline/gimmick/angle? Do you even have any original angles yourself, or are you just as clueless as the WWE bookers/writers seem to be? Let's hear your ideas, and I'll post mine soon.

 

I don't really consider this a "fantasy" booking thread, as it applys to the current product. I just want to know where the line lies between original, and rehashing!

[Guest Anglesault]

My angle that might *gasp* get Test over.

 

Week after week, have Test do something good, and then go to Storm and Christian for a spot in Team Canada. Week after week Christian and Storm find a way around telling him no. But gullble ol' test just keep trying until finally Christian and Storm just beat the ever loving shit out of him. continue from there however you want.

[Guest Respect The 'Taker]

A new stable with a new purpose would be cool...

 

For example, a group of under-used talent coming together, labelling themselves something like 'The Hostility' and speaking out against the current direction of the business and how it keeps them from evolving into the stars they know they are set to be. Just an idea..

 

OR they could bring back Austin and feud him with Vince!! RECYCLED STORYLINES = RATINGS BABY!!!

 

This has been the environmentally friendly Taker Mark

[Guest Austin3164life]

Something original I would've wanted is a heel tag team. This team would be made up of Kurt Angle and Steve Austin. Both could claim they have been screwed over this past year, and are sick of the split bullshit. They both go on a rampage, on both Raw and SD. Not like the Two Man Power Trip (Vince's toys), but two highly independent heels who use excellent wrestling and heel tactics to screw with babyfaces. Perhaps Angle and Austin could've been a small alliance, not necessarily a tag team. I had this idea since December, but sadly it would never come to be......

[Guest the pinjockey]

There is no such thing as an original angle anymore every thing has been done. I think Keith mentioned in a rant a few weeks ago that every angle ever falls into one of seven or eight categories and it all made sense.

 

As for some of my ideas first is to abandon the evil owner/figurehead idea. It has been run into the ground since Austin/McMahon and it needs a rest.

 

Second no random handouts of title matches. I don't like the idea of UT throwing Jeff Hardy around like a rag doll in every match and then Jeff receiving a title shot. For what? having guts. Hell I will take a beating to get a shot like that. Or Hogan getting a title shot a JD, I know it was because of the pops but this is my angle. He lost clean at WM so he gets rewarded with a title shot. Um, no. Either a fued from the previous PPV gets another shot or the person with the biggest match win (or reasonably argueable) moves up to the #1 contender slot.

 

As for a storyline I am not a creative enough person to come up with one off the top of my head. But that is why I am not a writer, if they are not able to come up with fresh ones things need to change.

[Guest Austin3164life]

*I also wanted to see the psedo-feud between Austin and RVD actually take off into a feud for alliance leadership, then at the end have Flair come and declare leadership, but keep them both as his two main guys*

[Guest AlwaysPissedOff]

My angle that might *gasp* get Test over.

 

Week after week, have Test do something good, and then go to Storm and Christian for a spot in Team Canada. Week after week Christian and Storm find a way around telling him no. But gullble ol' test just keep trying until finally Christian and Storm just beat the ever loving shit out of him. continue from there however you want.

Nasty Boys did that when they tried to join the NWO.

[Guest Anglesault]

How long ago?

[Guest AlwaysPissedOff]

Around 96-97. Can't remember exactly when though.

[Guest Anglesault]

Damn. Not seven years.

[Guest TheSmarkzone]

I'll book the next year (main event scene) for ya:

 

Rock beats Taker at Vengeance for the WWE undisputed title.

 

Brock vs. Rock at SummerSlam.

 

Taker interferes, costing Rock the match and the strap.

 

Post-match, Brock absolutely annhilates The Rock, putting him on the shelf.

 

Brock dominates the WWE as champ for the next two months. I think that Brock could do good business on pay-per-view with Kurt Angle (A job won't hurt him since he is leaving for the Olympics anyway) or Edge.

 

Come November, everybody wants a shot at Brock. Taker wants a shot and he justifies it by telling Brock that he's the reason that he has the gold around his waist in the first place. The nWo, which is finally living up to its rep as a lethal poison and is growing in power by the day, wants Kevin Nash to get the shot.

 

Taker winds up getting the shot, and he and Brock have a real physical war at Survivor Series. The nWo costs Taker the match and Brock retains, which sparks a Taker babyface turn. Taker re-discovers his "Deadman edge" and he, Kane, RVD, Booker T, and HHH lead the fight against the nWo in the absence of The Rock, Steve Austin and Kurt Angle.

 

In the month of December, Team Canada (Test, Storm, Christian, and Jericho) start to bump heads with the nWo, and the main event scene develops into a truly volatile situation. It's the WWE superstars vs. the Canadians vs. the nWo, and Brock's strap is on all of their radar.

 

It eventually boils down into some sort of #1 contendership situation with the Canadians vs. the nWo, and thanks to interference by The Undertaker, a Canadian gets the title shot against Brock at Armageddon (Test).

 

At Armageddon, Brock retains cleanly against Test and establishes himself as a truly dominant champ, and not just a flash in the pan. Also at Armageddon, there is some sort of tag match pitting the WWE superstars against the nWo. RVD truly shines in this match, nearly leading his team to victory, but in the end HHH turns on the WWE crew and joins the nWo, costing the WWE guys the match.

 

The nWo is now firmly in control.

 

The next night on RAW, Brock and the nWo get into a confrontation in the ring. HBK wants it to be HHH vs. Brock at WrestleMania. He wants Brock and the nWo to watch each other's backs to make sure that happens. HBK threatens Brock and basically says that if Brock doesn't accept the offer, they can make sure that Brock won't make it to Mania with the strap around his waist. Before Brock can give the nWo an answer, the party is crashed by a plethora of WWE superstars (RVD, Taker, Kane, Booker T, etc.) and Team Canada members, all of whom are claiming that they are going to enter the Royal Rumble and earn the shot at the WWE champ at WrestleMania. A pier-six brawl nearly breaks out, but Vince restores order. Vince gets on the mic and asks, "Is there anybody ELSE who wants to enter this year's Royal Rumble?!", and The Rock's music hits and the place erupts.

 

The Rock cuts a promo and tells the nWo that their days on top are numbered, but he'll get to them AFTER he wins the Royal Rumble and gets revenge on Brock for SummerSlam at WrestleMania.

 

The main event at the Royal Rumble eventually boils down to Brock vs. RVD in a re-match from the KOR finals. RVD puts on another strong performance but a sledgehammer shot by HHH costs him the match and the title. In the Royal Rumble match, it boils down to Rock and HHH, and RVD makes the difference. Rock eliminates HHH to win the Royal Rumble.

 

No Way Out can be booked many ways.

 

At WrestleMania, we get Brock vs. Rock for the WWE undisputed title in the big showdown....and maybe even that one last HBK match that everybody has been waiting for: HBK vs. RVD anyone? Anyway, in the main event Rock beats Brock and wins the title.

 

Unfortunately, the threat of the nWo still loomes large after Mania. The very next night on RAW, the nWo storms the ring during The Rock's very first title defense and attacks. The WWE troops try to make the save, but then a disgruntled and bitter Team Canada joins the nWo in beating down the WWE guys. It looks bad for the WWE guys until Brock Lesnar hits the ring and beats the living hell out of anything that moves, completely clearing the ring of the nWo and Team Canada.

 

You can build from there.

[Guest Imarkout4chrisdaniels]

Although I enjoy the current roles of the new rookies, I would have liked to have seen them debut as a group. I think it would have been cool to have them come out and say that they are out to make names for themselves. Have them wrestle each other, though. They are used to wrestling each other in OVW, and they could put on some good matches with familiar opponents. After wrestling each other out of friendship to establish themselves, the group splits as one is jealous of another, two get pissed off at each other for hurting each other in a match, and two of them win the tag straps. All of the new guys have a direction, someone to feud with, and they can branch off and start their new roles after already being established.

[Guest Imarkout4chrisdaniels]

Another one I thought of a while back would be to have a new wrestler cut a promo about how badly he wanted to break into the business. He paid a heavy amount of money to get a match on WWE programming. During the match, he is found out to have no wrestling ability at all and botches several easy moves. He is destroyed by the opponent, and gets an injury. Not a severe one that would make fans worry about his life, but a faking of torn bicep or something that the announcers could play up. About a month later or so (after having his name and the match dropped during interviews or announcing several times to keep the idea alive), the wrestler again pays even more money to have a match for a title like the European title. The wrestler again blows move after move, and the opponent is feeling real sorry for him. All of a sudden, the rookie busts out a couple of technical takedowns and gets a Peterson roll or La Mahistrol for the opin and the title. The rookie shows off his wrestling ability in defending the title week after week, and enters the fed in a unique fashion.

[Guest papacita]

I have a gimmick for Molly that I actually got from my ex-girlfriend and used in an e-fed for one of my wrestlers (you'd never guess who).

 

Anyway, she said she couldn't buy Molly as a heel because she's too nice. Well why not play up on that? I'm really no fan of worthless comedy skits, but they could do a few of those where she's trying as hard as she can to prove to people that she's not a goody two shoes, but in the end, only reinforces just how good she really is. The gimmick itself is hard to explain, and it really wouldn't work for heel Molly, but everybody in the e-fed loved the gimmick and the way I presented it, so I think it could work.

 

And I agree with the idea that it's pretty hard to come up with a completely original wrestling angle, because with a lot of angles, good and bad, you're just finding new ways to do old things. But blatant rehashes are just plain lazy and unacceptable, IMO.

[Guest TheyCallMeMark]

Give a wrestler a gimmick where in real life they just got divorced. Say their wife cleaned them out and they have nothing left in life. Then, use this as the reason they came to the WWE. The dude wants to take out his aggression on others and what does he have to lose? They can make sure to rub it in that even though his life has pressure he would never hit a woman (taking one of Vince's beloved shots at SCSA).

 

I would mark for that guy!

[Guest Redhawk]

For Mark Henry -- Do another "trying to get back into shape" angle. During random matches on Smackdown, Mark would come down the ramp, jogging and wearing sweats with plastic bags (high school wrestlers and football players know what I'm talking about). He would run down the ramp, take a couple of laps around the ring, then hop the rail and run through the crowd to the back. The catch is that he pays no attention whatsoever to the match, and when he comes down the ramp he doesn't get music or anything. He could even stop by the announce table to get a swig of water, or better yet, toss his sweaty towel on Michael Cole's face. Sometimes, if the wrestlers happened to be outside the ring, Mark would run them over, totally oblivious to their presence. Or he could help them up and apolgize, depending on if they were a heel or face. I bet Mark would have people marking out for his "run-ins" in no time

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

The Kayfabe Breaker.

 

Have a guy go out and expose the business intentionally. Have him call spots REALLY LOUDLY and piss off all the other workers.

 

Like:

 

KB: "HIT ME WITH A CLOTHESLINE AND THEN i WILL DUCK AND THEN I WILL BOUNCE OFF THE ROPES AND THEN I WILL HIT YOU WITH A CLOTHESLINE, OK??? WE ARE REALLY FOOLING THE FANS EH!"

 

Finally have the opponent 'shoot' on the KB and have the KB say things like "OW!!! That REALLY HURTS! I AM TELLING PAT! WHAT ABOUT BRADSHAW?"

[Guest WhenDanSaysJump]

Instead of Mark Henry trying to lose weight, how about taking an ultra-lanky stringbean lightweight (Jeff Hardy, for example) and have them go on an almighty binge?

 

No training required, they'll just need to eat and eat and eat and eat until they tip the scales at 500lb+.

 

The triumphant climax of the angle could be a worked-shoot heart attack.

 

Or maybe this idea just sucks.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Have Funaki as the kingpin of the Wwf. AKA the REAL HHH. The real man who holds everyone down. The man who had Jericho, Benoit, and Angle elevated and then de-pushed cause they looked at him funny. His jobber status is just a smoke screen, to make you all think that he is nothing but another stereotyped japanese wrestler just happy to make an American dollar.

 

Have 'The Whole Funakin Sho' come out in the ME of an important PPV and then have JR say 'Oh no, THE TIME HAS COME! OH BAH GAWD NO!' Funaki would go up to JR, put his hand on JR's face and have JR go unconscious and the king would be like 'No JR! NO! Wake up Jim!' and then have the two wrestlers in the ring (say Taker and Brock) stop and look on in horror.

 

Funaki would just walk up to them and point, and they would collapse and curl up in the fetal position and start sucking on their thumbs. Funaki would grab a mic...throw it away...and start laughing (a laugh that would create an enormous echo)..Stacy and Torrie would walk down to ringside in jungle grrrl outfits and kneel at the Feet of Shoichi Funaki as he continues to laugh.

 

Vince comes down and says 'Dammit Funaki! You said you wouldn't do this just yet! I gave you my soul and You gave me 10 years dammit! 10 YEARS! of success and happiness! WHY HAVE YOU COME NOW! WHY!' and Vince would just go into a corner and start sobbing like a child... Funaki walks up to him, reaches down and wipes away a tear and smiles... Vince starts to smile as well BUT THEN blood starts running down Vinces face and gets onto his hands and he cries out 'NOOOOOOOO' and then on the titantron there is a live feed to Vinces mansion and his children and wife are laying on the floor with 'INDEED' writen with Blood on the walls.

 

....

 

That's as far as my dreams go, but they are pretty damn original if you ask me

[Guest Redhawk]

'The Whole Funakin Sho'

That NEEDS to be on a T-shirt someday.

[Guest Nezbyte]

'The Whole Funakin Sho'

That NEEDS to be on a T-shirt someday.

I agree, that was funny like a mah-fucker.

[Guest M Nyland]

I want to see a Jekyll/Hyde character that can be a tweener.....he can be a good guy when he hangs with the faces or an evil b*tch when with the heels.

 

I don't know if that has ever been done. He can even have different names for both of them or something stupid like that. Who knows what the WW_ could come up with...

 

 

 

and I would totally buy that Funaki shirt...

 

 

 

100th POST~! OVW!!!!

[Guest GenerationNever]

I want to see a Jekyll/Hyde character that can be a tweener.....he can be a good guy when he hangs with the faces or an evil b*tch when with the heels.

Like the Zodiac...LOL.

[Guest papacita]

A Coffee-drinking, Ken Shamrock-type heel that comes to the ring hyped up. When he gets in trouble, he cheats by smashing his coffee mug over his opponents head.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

A Coffee-drinking, Ken Shamrock-type heel that comes to the ring hyped up. When he gets in trouble, he cheats by smashing his coffee mug over his opponents head.

Or even better, how about a crazy, hopped-up-on-caffeine, Ken Shamrock-type heel that wrestles a brilliant psychological match but snaps mid-match and smashes the coffee mug over his own head and bolting through the crowd for no apparent reason.

 

As for new ideas, you can never go wrong with a Taipei Death Match! Also, I'd like to suggest every match from now on be IN A STEEL CAGE~! just because it's cool to say.

 

How about a Taipei Death Ladder Match... IN A STEEL CAGE~!? Object is to slash the opponent and draw blood, then climb a super-tall ladder and dive over the cage from the top of the ladder for the victory. Somebody call XPW, I've got their next main event!

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Test gets fired after the Survivor Series because his immunity runs out. A couple weeks later we see him in skits trying out for a football team. Suddenly, Test shows up on Smackdown and becomes the lonesome kicker, coming out to the Adam Sandler song of the same name. All he does is just sit around backstage on a bench, watching Smackdown, he never wrestles a match although he does do interviews talking about how he hopes to get into the game. Then at random spots during the show, sometimes right in the middle of matches, he comes out and kicks field goals and acts all excited before going backstage and sitting back down on the bench to keep on watching Smackdown again. They could even get him a manager to give him pep talks and all that stuff. Finally Faarooq comes and clobbers him while hes kicking a field goal and blocks it and then Test snaps and starts wrestling in football gear sans a helmet. I almost think Shawn Stasiak would be better, but whatever...

 

I know this has to be the stupidest thing I have ever thought of in my life, but my picture inspired the idea and it was either humiliate Test or my other idea of him winning the WWE Undisputed Title at Armageddon.

[Guest Redhawk]

I want to see a Jekyll/Hyde character that can be a tweener.....he can be a good guy when he hangs with the faces or an evil b*tch when with the heels.

They already have The Undertaker.

 

Anyway, here's an idea...

 

Randy Orton, Jaime Noble, and some other rookie (Maven) start playing practical jokes on the veterans. They're rookies trying to get respect with the boys, but at the same time they're tired of guys like Bradshaw and 'Taker riding them so hard (not like that, sicko). So they team up and do stuff like pour baby oil in Bradshaw's luggage, tie Taker's boots together while he's asleep, and replace Hardcore Holly's candy bar with a laxative. The vets have no idea who's doing it, and beat the crap out of various people they blame (Crash, Tommy Dreamer, Mark Lloyd, etc.). The rookies are staying out of harm's way, but soon they start getting cocky and brag to a couple of low-level "fun-loving" veterans (Rikishi, Bubba Ray Dudley, Al Snow) that they're behind the jokes. One of them stooges to the big guys, and hilarity ensues as we watch Undertaker shuffling around trying to catch Noble an so on.

[Guest FeArHaVoC]

That could be pretty funny. I think it would be better if Booker and Goldust was doing that to people and blaming the nWo for it, though.