As this list has demonstrated, WWE are not shy when it comes to exploitation and televising upsetting or distasteful material. It is shocking, then, to come across an angle so shameful and unpleasant that even Vince McMahon was rendered speechless and refused to go ahead with it when it was pitched to him. Not only that, but the WWE chairman allegedly walked out of the room after the pitch and was not seen for the rest of the day, so shocked was he by what had just been proposed to him. The angle was suggested by Dan Madigan, a former Hollywood scriptwriter, at a writers meeting in 2004. Madigans idea was for a new character called Baron Von Bava, a cyborg Nazi storm trooper , who had been cryogenically frozen and would be thawed out in 2004, unaware of how to behave and act in modern society. Now this would be absurd enough but Madigan didnt stop there: he wanted Paul Heyman, a Jewish New Yorker, to be the one to revive the Baron and manage him to championship glory. Judging by the stern faces of his co-workers it would have probably been a good place to stop. But he didnt. To fully illustrate the concept Madigan proceeded to goose-step around the room as a dumbstruck Vince glared at him. Speaking to Power Slam magazine in 2008 Madigan said that I thought these were good ideas: inside my mind, it worked out well. The Baron never made it to WWE TV and Madigan was castigated by his colleagues afterwards. He eventually quit the WWE in November 2004 after seeing his backstage standing falling dramatically. It seems that genocide is going too far even for WWE.
