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Akumos
Sep 10, 2006
lol I went back to review a wwf vid and spotted a saiyan drawing in 1999, praise goku

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Panamaniac
Jun 18, 2007

HEROES NEVER DIE

Akumos posted:

lol I went back to review a wwf vid and spotted a saiyan drawing in 1999, praise goku




Could be worse. They could start dressing their characters as animes...



oh.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006


Not unexpected.

Jamesman
Nov 19, 2004

"First off, let me start by saying curly light blond hair does not suit Hyomin at all. Furthermore,"
Fun Shoe
WWE is pretty racist and homphobic and sexist and whatnot. Why would they fire Hogan, much less pretend he never existed?

Like this is a typical black American wrestler in WWE.





And now a wrestler says something bad about black people and they're gonna pretend they're above that? loving hahahaha nah bro.

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


Jamesman posted:

WWE is pretty racist and homphobic and sexist and whatnot. Why would they fire Hogan, much less pretend he never existed?

Like this is a typical black American wrestler in WWE.





And now a wrestler says something bad about black people and they're gonna pretend they're above that? loving hahahaha nah bro.

They're showing their racial sensitivity by not having Big Boss Man shoot them as soon as they step into the ring. It helps that he's dead though.

Ramsus
Sep 14, 2002

by Hand Knit

Jamesman posted:

WWE is pretty racist and homphobic and sexist and whatnot. Why would they fire Hogan, much less pretend he never existed?

Like this is a typical black American wrestler in WWE.





And now a wrestler says something bad about black people and they're gonna pretend they're above that? loving hahahaha nah bro.

yes these guys choosing to make a character out of real types of people that currently do exist even today is somehow racist

all the black guys in wwe should be business man character

Jamesman
Nov 19, 2004

"First off, let me start by saying curly light blond hair does not suit Hyomin at all. Furthermore,"
Fun Shoe
There was also that time they had a white guy play an Arab Muslim after 9/11 whose character was that he was disillusioned with America because everyone viewed him as a terrorist and treated him like poo poo. Naturally, the audience hated him and other wrestlers told him to gently caress off and go back where he came from and the audience cheered for them.


Then he actually became a terrorist. So there's that.

What I'm saying is WWE is pretty great y'all should watch it.

Ramsus
Sep 14, 2002

by Hand Knit
and that has actually happened

Clochette
Aug 12, 2013

Jamesman
Nov 19, 2004

"First off, let me start by saying curly light blond hair does not suit Hyomin at all. Furthermore,"
Fun Shoe

Lord of Pie posted:

They're showing their racial sensitivity by not having Big Boss Man shoot them as soon as they step into the ring. It helps that he's dead though.

They actually did something like this once.

Stone Cold came out and pulled a gun on someone in a crowded arena. They even shouted "LOOK OUT HE'S GOT A GUN!" and I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing that the audience didn't go into a panic thinking a wrestler might have actually lost their poo poo and was about to open fire on people.


Ramsus posted:

and that has actually happened

OK but what I'm saying is WWE embraces stereotypes and plays into bigotry so them severing ties with Hogan and wiping him for history for doing those exact same things is funny.

Ramsus
Sep 14, 2002

by Hand Knit
yes they are called characters and if the wwe or movies or whatever was the way you wanted it everyone would be the same and it would be boring as hell

except i guess we could have a stereotypical white villain that would be okay

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Real chat the godfather owned

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

vyst posted:

Real chat the godfather owned

Yeah of all the bad black characters, his was probably the best.

Jose Oquendo
Jun 20, 2004

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a boring movie

Jamesman posted:

WWE is pretty racist and homphobic and sexist and whatnot. Why would they fire Hogan, much less pretend he never existed?

Like this is a typical black American wrestler in WWE.





And now a wrestler says something bad about black people and they're gonna pretend they're above that? loving hahahaha nah bro.

So how come all the bleeding heart, ultra-liberal, full-stop communist SAS posters are all into it? Makes no loving sense.

A Stupid Baby
Dec 31, 2002

lip up fatty

cram me sideways posted:

i swear if you make more than 30k a year and unironically make comments like this then i have definitive proof there is no god

He has a point. I don't know about the post-attitude era crop but go and watch any youtube interview with any wrestler, especially the poorly produced "shoot" ones. It's carny as gently caress and every response the wrestler gives you can see them staring into their eyelids trying to find the angle to generate themselves some heat.

Now that said HH was always known even among self-serving, mercenary shitheels as being one of the greatest of them all. He was even more mercenary than either McMahon, Bischoff/Russo and has nearly tanked every promotion in existence by a mixture of walk-out threats, politicking, and whining to make sure he was never out of the limelight for a second. I guess that more makes him the most successful in the business since he managed to repeatedly upstage wrestling promoters, who might be the purest distillation of snake oil in the universe.

It's probably not a surprise to anyone in the business about him boning his daughter or saying friend of the family a lot, but everyone probably understood that because of the length of time he managed to make sure wrestling was synonymous with his image, burying Hogan was the same as burying wrestling which might possibly put them out of a job, especially if anyone thought they were the rat.

Which is probably why the WWE is going full Benoit on the history wipe - if the first thing people think of when they thing wrestling is Hogan, and the first thing they think of Hogan right now is him saying that he "hates niggers" a bunch, it's incredibly damaging to a business that is literally made out of the pure carnie dust of marketing and PR.

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
just because a guy said "N*gg*r"" doesn't necessarily make him racist, it's all about context

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
I think hulk hogan loving he own daughter is actually worse than he saying friend of the family

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

vyst posted:

Real chat the godfather owned

afeelgoodpoop
Oct 14, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

jackyl posted:

I think hulk hogan loving he own daughter is actually worse than he saying friend of the family

you will never be accepted in sjw circles with an attitude like that.

NecroMonster
Jan 4, 2009

he doesn't gently caress his own daughter he merely rubs suntan lotion into her rear end and taint

Tony Homo
Oct 30, 2014

by zen death robot
What is wwe going to do with Tough Enough now?

A Stupid Baby
Dec 31, 2002

lip up fatty

jackyl posted:

I think hulk hogan loving he own daughter is actually worse than he saying friend of the family

Yeah but its not really a cardinal sin so long as you're famous enough. People still love Seinfeld & Aerosmith & Michal Jackson songs

burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp

Jose Oquendo posted:

So how come all the bleeding heart, ultra-liberal, full-stop communist SAS posters are all into it? Makes no loving sense.

Because those posters are insincere about their beliefs.

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.

NecroMonster posted:

he doesn't gently caress his own daughter he merely rubs suntan lotion into her rear end and taint

well who else are you going to trust to rub lotion onto your rear end and taint?

Strudel Man
May 19, 2003
ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

burritolingus posted:

Because those posters are insincere about their beliefs.
They're not necessarily insincere. People are typically very good about compartmentalizing conflicting ideas.

Digiwizzard
Dec 23, 2003


Pork Pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsfztADiH9M

circ dick soleil
Sep 27, 2012

by zen death robot
Or maybe you're really bad at judging people?

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


Hulkamania is in full remission.

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.
I was prescribed Depakine and it really brought my Hulkamania under control

burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp

Strudel Man posted:

They're not necessarily insincere. People are typically very good about compartmentalizing conflicting ideas.

I dunno maybe maybe not.

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 33 days!
Hulk Hogan is not a racialist and I have the video to prove it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU6cSVF6kKw

Also in this video he daughter sings to him about being the "only one" to give him "good and plenty"

burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp
Wrestling is racist and sexist as all hell and if you like wrestling then you are racist and sexist too.

afeelgoodpoop
Oct 14, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

burritolingus posted:

Wrestling is racist and sexist as all hell and if you like wrestling then you are racist and sexist too.

but a new 3 letter acronym wrestling organisation is rising to its rightful place. one that deals with the mass of true aggression, however micro, which cause real angst in society.

afeelgoodpoop fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Jul 26, 2015

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

cram me sideways posted:

you all realize the only reason we don't have any dirt on mr rogers is because he had the good sense to do all his gross poo poo before the era of ubiquitous recording devices, right?

Cool NIN Shirt
Nov 26, 2007

by vyelkin

Sydney Bottocks posted:

Hulk Hogan is not a racialist and I have the video to prove it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU6cSVF6kKw

Also in this video he daughter sings to him about being the "only one" to give him "good and plenty"

LMAO hulk hogan is the man......brother

Shirley Crabtree
Aug 8, 2012
Hakunamatata to you too brother!

It means no worries, for the rest of your days.

jsoh
Mar 24, 2007

O Muhammad, I seek your intercession with my Lord for the return of my eyesight

how can people not see that this poo poo is a joke.


also its pretty obvious that hulk is a racist he ends every tweet by heiling hitler

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

jsoh posted:

how can people not see that this poo poo is a joke.

agreed, america is a joke

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
I can't believe Hulk Hogan is still alive

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Lowtechs
Jan 12, 2001
Grimey Drawer

Jamesman posted:

WWE is pretty racist and homphobic and sexist and whatnot. Why would they fire Hogan, much less pretend he never existed?

Like this is a typical black American wrestler in WWE.





And now a wrestler says something bad about black people and they're gonna pretend they're above that? loving hahahaha nah bro.

:vince:

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