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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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Replying to @cymaiden @Nymphomachy
Well I mean then we'd have to admit superheroes are also fake
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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
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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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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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The tights and the cape and the boots are a glammed-up version of how they imagined a cool guy dressed back the olden days (like in the 18th century) Then evolving into its own thing in the wrestling ring or the circus tent, which then comic books kind of froze in time
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One of my favorite details is the why of trunks-over-tights: the fabric used for tights at the time was only *so* stretchy and thus prone to tearing under strain, and so performers wore trunks to prevent the obvious worst case scenario.
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Replying to @chibikonatsu @arthur_affect and
I'm reminded of a story I saw on Tumblr once of someone seeing a Shakespear stage play with Patrick Stewart where his tights did in fact have that particular flaw. It does make a lot of sense when you view it in that context
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