>>10221560Nice list. You left out the biggest one, thought.
>DarbyI mean, he's gotta be number one, right?
Put yourself in Darb's shoes: Your favorite pro-wrestler of all time is a straight-edge punk-rocker, just like you, who manages in spite of all VKM's crazy bullshit to become the biggest star in wrestling. But said idol was broken all the same and vows he's retired for good after one too many screwovers from The 'E.
You're heartbroken, but you vow to commit to the business yourself all the same, and start training a year after your idol's retirement. You grind hard on the indies for five years, and miracle of all miracles, some crazy desi halfbreed with a billionaire daddy wants to start a new pro-wrestling company on primetime cable TV, and he wants YOU to be one of the company's top prospects! And he kept his word! You even get paired with one of the top stars of the last company that seriously challenged The 'E's monopoly, and he both gets you more over than ever, and turns out to be a really cool dude on a personal level. It's still a rough road. You wrestle a brutal style, and half the company's existence is spent under the shadow of the worst pandemic in a hundred years, but you've still succeeded beyond your wildest dreams.
Then, all of a sudden, you find out your idol wants to come back after all. Not only that, but he wants to wrestle YOU in his first match with the company. You say yes, and it's the biggest show in front of the hottest crowd in company history. You deliver. You can't believe your good luck. Just when you thought you had everything, you manage to get even more!
But it wasn't good luck. Your idol's a scumbag: a fool with money; a letch with women; a swine of a husband; entitled to the point of personality disorder; vengeful to the point of Captain Ahab, only far less sympathetic; and on top of all that, your idol isn't even straight edge! He uses ambien and painkillers, and has for well over a decade!
