10 Biggest WWE Creative Mistakes Of 2020
1. RETRIBUTION
Dreamed up when ratings were cascading ahead of the move to the ThunderDome, RETRIBUTION were so obviously inspired by Antifa, as Bruce "You need to pay taxes to vote!" Prichard switched on the news, saw the mass protests against gross racial injustice, and thought "Hey, we can use that, because we reflect society!"
This was quasi-problematic garbage in concept and hilariously bad in execution. The first batch of masked extras were tiny, unthreatening figures who spray-painted the WWE logo on plexiglass before crossing it out. The symbolism was powerful.
Even funnier still, the message board mutants defended the edgelord vandalism. Just you wait.
"One day RETRIBUTION will destroy the ThunderDome, and everybody will rejoice. Remember this post," they wrote.
RETRIBUTION did no such thing, even though the man wouldn't have looked too kindly on it. WWE were so staggeringly incompetent that they conceived, in parallel, a group of chaos agents and an extravagant production set-up without considering the plot hole.
They stuck Bane and TNMT masks on the daft tw*ts, who were simultaneously Performance Center rejects and...not. They lost first time out. They continue to lose more than they win. It doesn't really matter. They could have defeated Brock Lesnar, Stan Hansen, Haku, Naoya Ogawa and Aja Kong, and they'd still look geeks because one of them is a synonym of j*zzlobber.
Mustafa Ali is their leader, and it's genuinely sad to see his "Ah, but you thinking we're dog sh*t is the idea..." patter on socials. Somehow, there existed something worse than the act itself: the notion that they were "good at Twitter".
The idea that Dominick Dijakovic is good at Twitter was worse than being locked down for nine months.