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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Mar 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Be a pro wrestler and just constantly take the kind of Mick Foley bumps that the corporation would normally fine you over

      2 replies 1 retweet 35 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 19
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      It kind of says something that Peter Parker making money off his powers as a wrestler was supposed to be this big ethical lapse on his part Like what's inherently wrong with that

      6 replies 2 retweets 57 likes
    3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Mar 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      the episode of TANGLED WEB written by Scott Levy aka Raven retconned that Crusher Hogan was basically the headliner of an ECW-style promotion that had money problems and was having its talent picked off by a WWF expy Crusher Hogan's gimmick was getting over and Pete ruined it

      2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    4. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Mar 19
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect

      And Crusher Hogan was a Bret Hart kind of figure, who thought the ringwork should speak for itself and couldn't stand gimmicks So him adopting this smug monster heel gimmick was a reluctant choice he made to compromise his ideals to keep the promotion aloft and wrestlers paid

      1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
    5. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Mar 19
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect

      It's the equivalent to how people think that Rob Van Dam might have saved ECW if he hadn't gotten injured when he did and had to drop the Television Championship, thus fucking up like several years of buildup Pete wiped the floor with Hogan and completely killed his heat

      1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
    6. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Mar 19
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect

      The implication being that Peter's selfish grab at a cash payout (which was real money borrowed from the mob but never meant to be more than a storytelling prop) caused the entire promotion to fold and put dozens of professional wrestlers out of work, and ruined Hogan's marriage

      1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
    7. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Mar 19
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect

      Ironically, by recontextualizing the Crusher Hogan story this way, it means that Spider-Man's origin story parallels the ill-conceived and ill-fated Brawl For All shoot tournament devised by Vince Russo Which meant to sell Dr. Death as a legit badass and instead ended his career

      2 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
    8. Jezibel‏ @cymaiden Mar 19
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect

      Has any retelling of Spider-Man's origin story ever explicitly acknowledged the reality of pro-wrestling that people aren't supposed to talk about?

      3 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 19
      Replying to @cymaiden @Nymphomachy

      Well I mean then we'd have to admit superheroes are also fake

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect @cymaiden @Nymphomachy

      I did like the thing on WandaVision where Vision's Halloween costume is a luchador, because actual superheroes do not exist in Wanda's sitcom universe (for sensible reasons) But it's weird to imagine a world where luchadores and comic book superheroes have no connection

      2 replies 2 retweets 22 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect @cymaiden @Nymphomachy

      Same with the next episode creating a traveling circus to provide an environment for Vision's superhero form to blend in with Wrestlers, circus performers and comic book superheroes all look alike because in the early 20th century they were all imitating each other

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 19
          Replying to @arthur_affect @cymaiden @Nymphomachy

          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

          2 replies 2 retweets 16 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 19
          Replying to @arthur_affect @cymaiden @Nymphomachy

          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

          1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
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        2. MovieBob Productions‏Verified account @the_moviebob Mar 19
          Replying to @arthur_affect @cymaiden @Nymphomachy

          Also re: Spider-Man/Hogan - in context, at that point in time (mid-60s) FAR fewer people generally understood the kayfabe grift fully

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
        3. MovieBob Productions‏Verified account @the_moviebob Mar 19
          Replying to @the_moviebob @arthur_affect and

          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...

          2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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