Deaths being used in a Storyline (Yay/Nay)

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I was listening to the latest Lapsed Fan podcast covering No Way Out 2004 and I was thinking about Eddie's passing.....along with this shyt



and this



Like WTF? I know wrestling pulls no punches with storylines but using real life death in a storyline for "gasps" seems tacky as hell and tasteless as fukk. However, like the Eddie's dead video which actually worked with that feud along with this following video:



It all depends on the weight of a story to get it over. Yet, I feel so torn by the shyt being used for cheap "omg that b*stard" mark moments.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Worked when they brought up Reid Flair's death in that Paige/ Charlotte feud.

 

[RammerJammer]

I mean on paper it's tasteless but at least with Paul Bearer, it was tied in with his character like with the urn and stuff.

 

[Swiggy]

Whack

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Worked when they brought up Reid Flair's death in that Paige/ Charlotte feud.

I mean on paper it's tasteless but at least with Paul Bearer, it was tied in with his character like with the urn and stuff.

Exactly. A good storyline gets rid of the tasteless factor behind using a dead wrestler/family member in a feud. It's night and day compared to shyt like Big Show holding onto his "father's" casket as Big Bossman was dragging it with a hearse.

 

[OVER]

Clear it with the family first. Reid was wrong because Ric and Reid's mom claimed to not have known about it while Paul Bearer's family claimed he loved the business so much he would've been cool being used in a storyline.

 

[ChuckTaylor84]

If they family is cool with it and the wrestler who died would have been cool with it

It's good to me

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

When done correctly it's great, I personally hated the whole Mysterio thing though .

 

[The Rainmaker]

You know Vince's death gonna give us a two years storyline

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Makes me uncomfortable

 

[September]

That Reíd shyt was so bad.

It was awful and cheap and not worth using in that feud that no one remembers.

It’s the only part that anyone remembers because it was so damn tasteless, not because it made the feud better in any way.

 

[September]

You know Vince's death gonna give us a two years storyline

Two only? Lol by the 5th yr after he’s dead, the Undertaker will become his physical host or something. I can see it a whole era with his death as the connecting link to every storyline.

 

[Devilinurear]

Exactly. A good storyline gets rid of the tasteless factor behind using a dead wrestler/family member in a feud. It's night and day compared to shyt like Big Show holding onto his "father's" casket as Big Bossman was dragging it with a hearse.

That is still the most fukked up shyt i have ever seen.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

You know Vince's death gonna give us a two years storyline

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