Worst: WWEs Good Guy Vs. Bad Guy Argument Template
I am so f**king sick of the good guys on this show.
At some point, WWE taught us to cheer for the bully. I tried to explain it to Destiny using Toy Story. Remember when Toy Story was released, and it was really great and creative and didnt look like anything else in theaters? And now every year we get 30,000 Hotels Transylvania and ParaNormans and Hoodwinked The Third: Tonights Gonna Be A Hood Night or whatever? Stone Cold Steve Austin was Toy Story.
Dolph Ziggler comes to the ring with a point, and its a good one wrestlers dont know when to hang it up, and Jerichos gonna end up just like Roddy Piper, showing up every six months for a paycheck to be kinda sad and start lonely ass chants when someone should be turning off his microphone. Zigglers comments have merit, but they arent right
hes being a dick about it, and thats why we should boo him and cheer for Jericho. We want Jericho to prove hes still got it, and that hes not going to fart on his legacy and namedrop his equivalent to Mr. T on a Raw 20 years from now. We want him to stick up for Piper and tell Ziggler hes full of shit, because hes going to prove himself at SummerSlam.
What we get instead is Jericho responding to merited comments with insults about how Zigglers hair is ugly (Jerichos the one with a balding faux-hawk) and how Zigglers shirt is pink (Jericho is wearing a sparkling jacket with a popped collar and no pants). A bad guy says something reasonable, so the good guy acts like a child and calls him names. Where have I seen that before?
Its just agony for me. We need to reboot and restore some moral balance to whats going on. I cant keep justifying cheering for the guy who makes sense if the arena and announcers (and fans, and fans on the Internet) think Im a contrarian for doing so. It just doesnt feel right. The talking point about wrestling being one of the most pure artistic expressions of simplified good versus evil got washed away with those stupid Vince Russo shades of grey, and now nobody knows how to write a shade of grey, so were left with a big blob of shitty grey and nothing to feel or cheer for. Its why we get on the Internet and yell at each other about wrestling. If the wrestling was good, wed be okay just getting together and yelling at THEM.
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