#4 Laziness
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It’s easy to take a beautiful woman and to make people hate her by having her act stuck up because she knows she’s beautiful. It bugs the men in the audience who know they’d never be able to get her and it bugs the women who are jealous of her looks and how she flaunts them.
The fact that it’s so easy to do this is why it’s been done so many times in all sorts of different media, not the least of which is sports entertainment. We’ve even seen the male equivalent of it done more times than can be counted with people like “The Narcissist” Lex Luger and “The Masterpiece” Chris Masters.
In an age where people praise television shows for being new and innovative, why does WWE not realise that it comes off lazy to retread on familiar ground so often?
Granted, a good staple foundation of a character such as vanity or pride will never go away in fiction, but if it’s something the fans have seen before, it definitely won’t elicit a response of shock and awe.
Mankind was a fantastic character that broke barriers by being strange in ways never before seen. Can you remember any other psychotic self-abusing lunatics who required lullaby music to calm them down after winning a match by ramming his fingers down his opponent’s throat? It’s doubtful.
On the other hand, can you remember a woman who was positioned as a sexy heel who continually didn’t show up to wrestle?
As mentioned before, we can even go back as recently as Eva Marie and you’ll see the same exact thing with some minor details changed.
Now, there are even rumors circulating that Kelly Kelly is coming back to WWE to pick up the remains of this character and portray it herself, meaning the creative team really wants to have this throwback to the Sable and Sunny days and are willing to risk the fans seeing right through the facade in retconning Emmalina, just to try it again with another returning star.
If you go to the well too many times, you taint the water.
