We’re not who they’re aiming for with the street profits and their presentation that’s why it feels “corny”
Not every character is meant for the adults in the room to connect to and older fans sometimes can forget that.
I’d imagine for a 30-40 year old fan back in the day that had seen Harley Race, Bruiser Brody, Dusty, Terry Funk, Ric Flair etc as their standard
seeing a young loud muscle bound surfer kid with loud ass colors facepaint and a blonde flattop named Sting would have made them be like

is this?
Yet to a kid at that time the over the top nature of that character would be like
Easy to forget that we ain’t the target demo at times.