10 Alternative Happy Endings To Universally Hated Wrestling Storylines
3. The Invasion
The Reality:
The WWF buys WCW for peanuts after the league finally succumbs to the slowest suicide mission ever piloted. This is fantasy booking writ large; despite lacking the real marquee names, who elect to wait out their cushy contracts, the novelty is surely enough to prop up short-term business. The massively lucrative 'Invasion' pay-per-view isn't sold on the strength of a Goldberg or a Hulk Hogan in a WWF ring, after all, but the last embers of the brand's value - which the WWF stubs out, laughing, under the catastrophic ego massage that is "proving" they had won the Monday Night War. Which they'd already done by winning it.
The Alternative:
Diamond Dallas Page debuts as Diamond Dallas Page, not a perverted stalker. Booker T isn't treated as a punchline to The Rock and a perennial loser (of handicap matches, no less). WCW is treated not as an impotent joke but a genuine threat, and as its own lucrative entity manned by a separate creative crew, thus fulfilling the desire for competition upon which Vince McMahon apparently thrives. Essentially, just do the blindingly obvious and make obscene money through doing the blindingly obvious.
Buy cake. Eat cake.