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
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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
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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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There's the Angel episode where it turns out that a troupe of luchadore brothers were also demon-hunters by night, and now the last surviving one is being hunted by one of their former targets.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect and
And Angel is, obviously, deeply inflected by Batman. It was less obvious in the late 90s/early 00s because superheroes weren't as common in pop culture. But there's a reason Whedon ended up being called up by both Marvel and DC.
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The Middleman's episode with the Luchador Conspiracy had the dude start off explaining how it works by saying "The Saint is like the Mexican version of Superman and Blue Demon is his Batman"
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