Be a pro wrestler and just constantly take the kind of Mick Foley bumps that the corporation would normally fine you over
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Like, Superman looks like that because the original idea is he's just this incongruous figure of someone dressed up as a circus strongman or a wrestler going around beating people up in real life
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And that, back then, made a lot more sense because the whole idea of a wrestler's or circus performer's costume is it was this gimmicky exaggeration of an old-school heroic swashbuckling narrative
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Also re: Spider-Man/Hogan - in context, at that point in time (mid-60s) FAR fewer people generally understood the kayfabe grift fully
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Like it was joked about as "fixed" MORE than boxing was, and there were different layers and levels to it and different promotions had different rules; but a good deal of it was organized around gambling with real money and even events "known" to be fake would try to sell...
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