Favorite Failed Gimmicks.

(Note: I thought it'd be cool to start a discussion not based off of a game or WSHH video, lol.)

Wrestling has had plenty of great gimmicks, but for every Undertaker there are a thousand Battle Kats. Gimmicks can fail for a plethora of reasons, whether it be the performer not living up the gimmick, the company not marketing the performer, the gimmick not getting over, or the gimmick just being straight up terrible. No matter the reason, there has to be at least one that you enjoyed for it being awesome, terrible, terribly awesome, or awesomely terrible.

One of my favorite failed gimmicks is:

Repo Man


First off, Anyone who carries a rim to the ring has to be awesome. His mannerisms were always sneaky and shady, and while pretty much a joke, I thought it had plenty of potential. When the U.S. was recently in really bad shape economy wise, I thought the gimmick could have made a return with people not being able to pay for their possessions, etc.

I was originally going to post more, but I'm too tired atm... So what was your favorite train wreck?

DJ Gabriel and Alicia Fox.

The duo were fun, enjoyable and made me laugh whenever they made their way to the ring.

Kevin Thorn
Mordecai
Kizarny
Muhammad Hassan
Eric Escobar
Goldust

Eric Escobar
Just Joe

It Begins wrote:

Kevin Thorn
Muhammad Hassan

These and:

Reflection of Perfection Mark Jinjrak
Rob Conway (Just look at me)
Rene Dupree
Edge's debut gimmick.
Chuck Palumbo's biker gimmick.

Natayla Farting
Santino Marella
Hornswoggle(I hate that lil guy)
That dude from tna who made that one apperence on ecw then got released.
Kelly Kelly Stripper
John Cena Dr.Thuganomics

I don't know if Santino is a failure, since he's done pretty well as of late and has had a nice run in the WWE.

DrizzyDrakeFan wrote:

That dude from tna who made that one apperence on ecw then got released.

Vance Archer? Cassidy Riley? Marcus Cor Von? Braden Walker?

Brandon walker

DrizzyDrakeFan wrote:

Natayla Farting

Dude her name is Natalya.

Even in your "favorite WWE Divas" section, you wrote Natayla. :/

Maybe he rushed and accidentally typo'd?

"Brandon Walker" when his ring name was "Braden Walker" is complete ignorance though.

Does it matter how I spell someone's name as long as you know who I'm talking about then it should be ok with you.

Wlel in taht csae I'll jsut tpye lkie tihs teh whloe tmie snice you'll konw waht I'm tlaknig abuot.

Saen O' Harie's divel's adovacte was a graet gimmikc.

Stop it that's not what I ment you know my spelling isn't good and I didn't mean it like the way your typeing

I'm just joshing with you, DL. Chill out, it's all good, lol.

I'm not mad I just dont care

It Begins wrote:

Kevin Thorn
Mordecai
Kizarny
Muhammad Hassan
Eric Escobar
Goldust

Muhammad Hassan wasnt a failed gimmick, not in the slightest

my list includes
Mordecai
The Boogeyman
Glacier
Rellik

It wasn't a fail per se, but the controversial nature of it was. Sucks that he had to be written off of the program, but it is what it is.

It Begins wrote:

Kevin Thorn
Mordecai

Weren't they portrayed by the same Person?

The Dudebusters as well loved them!!!

and in memory of my fave!!

Glacier

I thought he was awesome, especially in WCW vs NWO Revenge for the N64, whenever you got a finisher with him you could that 10 hit combo, oh I loved that.

3-Count

They were a little douchy, but I loved them and I thoght that verta-breaker was sick!

Jung Dragons

I thought Leia Meow was HOT!

DrizzyDrakeFan wrote:

Does it matter how I spell someone's name as long as you know who I'm talking about then it should be ok with you.

You're talking to a future French/English teacher.

Yes, spelling matters to me. A lot.

It Begins wrote:

Goldust

IMO, Goldust didn't fail. He wasn't a main event guy, but he was a popular mid-carder and tag team wrestler.

I liked Mordecai. I was hoping that we were going to eventually see him fight The Undertaker in a "light vs. darkness" match.

Gangrel could have been bigger if he hadn't gotten caught in E&C's shadows. He was over as hell.

I have 3 count downloaded on to my ps3

Get up on your feet!
Put your hands together!!
Sing along with 3 count
We'll party on forever!!

we like the backstreet boys, nsync too
britney spears is kinda cute
we watch TRL on MTV
everybody 3count...1! 2! 3!

1....2.....3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How long has TRL been off the air now?

It was kinda cool in the beginning, but it became the largest pile of shit on the network.

I didn't mind TRL, because it was the only music on MTV.

MTV had music?

I miss "The Box"

I have Fuse but they even dont play music like they used to.

I hate fuse tv all I see is top 100 sexiest video countdown.