Kaybe continuity questions

[JerryvonKramer]

If you've ever spent any time on Comic Book forums you'll always find a particular obsession with the question of "continuity". What's "in continuity", what isn't, and so on. I'm a DC guy and DC fans in particular are prone to asking these sorts of questions.

 

As wrestling fans, however, used to the carny absurd world of wrestling, we don't tend to ask them. In this thread, for fun, I'm going to have a go. I want to highlight some of the grey areas. For example,

 

Is the Robocop who turns up at Capital Combat meant to be the same Robocop as in the film? And does that mean that the Robocop films belong to the same "universe" as WCW? Is Sting able to go to the near-future version of Detroit we see in that film? Do the Horsemen have connections with Omni Consumer Products (OCP)? Ole did run a lot of shows at the Omni after all ...

 

More questions ...

 

How deep did Donald Trump's friendship with Ted DiBiase go?

 

Were Smash and Repo Man meant to be the same person or two completely different people?

 

Were Virgil and Vincent the same person or "alternate universe" versions of each other. In fact, were WWF and WCW in the "same universe" or were they separate like DC and Marvel? Was there a moment (Flair's promo in 91? Luger in 95? DX raiding Nitro? Final Nitro?) when the two universes collided and then were retconned into being one universe?

 

Who the hell was Zeus meant to be? And if the world of No Holds Barred is part of the WWF universe, then who the hell is "Rip"? Technically is Rip the same as Hogan or another guy?

 

The career of Ed Leslie? Discuss.

 

Are the versions of Ted DiBiase and Hulk Hogan we see in 1979 "in continuity" or are they meant to be different people? Or do we assume that anything that happened prior to Hogan beating Sheik is out of continuity? Or is it like the Golden Age "Earth 2" Hulk Hogan?

 

Answer and ask all of these questions and more in this thread!

[Bix]

I think the idea was Zeus was a nickname for Tiny Lister who was all rough and shit when the director yelled cut. Or something.

 

But what of Jake Bullet?

[Karl]

I think we may have found someone with too much spare time on their hands! :-)

[JerryvonKramer]

[BrickHithouse]

I think we may have found someone with too much spare time on their hands! :-)

That's why we're ALL here isn't it?

[Karl]

I think we may have found someone with too much spare time on their hands! :-)

That's why we're ALL here isn't it?

 

Oh god I hope so.....I fear its just me!

[Johnny Guitar]

I don't now about now, but once upon a time all this shit happened for some kind of reason in kayfabe. No matter how convoluted the explantion. The Apter mags were great at clearing up the mess so to speak.

 

All the far out crazy shit (Robocop, Papa Shango etc) was either written off as mind games or dumb promotional shit.

[Sidebottom]

Did Trish Stratus never watch Raw to know Jericho had a bet on her?

 

[Log]

Do wrestlers not have access to the broadcasts of their shows? How many tag partners have broken up because one guy thought his buddy hit him from behind? Couldn't they just go backstage, take a look at the footage and have a good laugh about the mix up?

[Loss]

The presence of the camera should ALWAYS be explained.

 

Wrestlers should not arrive to a show after it starts.

[marrklarr]

How deep did Donald Trump's friendship with Ted DiBiase go?

I always assumed they spent their weekends together on a yacht snorting blow and banging high-priced hookers. Once a month, they'd go to Ted's private island and hunt poor people for sport. I see no reason to doubt any of this.

[marrklarr]

Were Smash and Repo Man meant to be the same person or two completely different people?

It'd be fun to take a wrestler, like Darsow, and try to construct a narrative thread that unites all of his weird gimmick changes from promotion to promotion. Barry Darsow starts out as a roided-up Soviet sympathizer whose commie ways fade as he falls in with some strange leather/biker/post-apocalyptic subculture. When this runs his course, he decides to enter the repossession business. Before long, he grows tired of this career and becomes an asshole truck driver. Eventually, he takes up professional golf.

[Karl]

Were Smash and Repo Man meant to be the same person or two completely different people?

It'd be fun to take a wrestler, like Darsow, and try to construct a narrative thread that unites all of his weird gimmick changes from promotion to promotion. Barry Darsow starts out as a roided-up Soviet sympathizer whose commie ways fade as he falls in with some strange leather/biker/post-apocalyptic subculture. When this runs his course, he decides to enter the repossession business. Before long, he grows tired of this career and becomes an asshole truck driver. Eventually, he takes up professional golf.

 

Or as I like to call it - The Jack Nicklaus Story

[soup23]

Wrestlers should not arrive to a show after it starts.

I would agree with this except in the case of the NWO. I always enjoyed their disregard for the establishment and how they always gave a presence of arriving fashionably late.

[SteveJRogers]

Were Smash and Repo Man meant to be the same person or two completely different people?

It'd be fun to take a wrestler, like Darsow, and try to construct a narrative thread that unites all of his weird gimmick changes from promotion to promotion. Barry Darsow starts out as a roided-up Soviet sympathizer whose commie ways fade as he falls in with some strange leather/biker/post-apocalyptic subculture. When this runs his course, he decides to enter the repossession business. Before long, he grows tired of this career and becomes an asshole truck driver. Eventually, he takes up professional golf.

 

Speaking of never referencing past gimmicks, if not for The Spirit Squad losing to Flair's Legends team in 2006, Nick Nesmith would be undefeated/on the winning team in every Survivor Series he has appeared in. 4-0 as Dolph Ziggler, which includes successful IC and US belt defenses....

 

Poor Dolph, to borrow a phrase from segments of the IWC...

[SteveJRogers]

Wrestlers should not arrive to a show after it starts.

Riding up to a PPV with a friend back in 1999, we were hoping to get their early enough to see the wrestlers getting in. Sadly we just got in time to see Heat go off. Jokingly I said "yeah, if they really DO show up at the time they are shown arriving on TV, I don't think they'd be long for the company!"