10 Crazy Secrets From The WWE Writers Room

7. Vince Thankfully Shot Down A Nazi Cyborg Idea

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See No Evil writer Dan Madigan's time working on the WWE writing team was certainly an eventful one.

Not only was Madigan the person who reportedly came up with the god-awful Katie Vick story - y'know, Triple H f**king the 'corpse' of Kane's dead girlfriend - but Madigan came up with an arguably even more ludicrous idea that would've seen a Nazi cyborg become part of WWE television.

To be named Baron Von Bava, this monstrosity had been frozen in the Swiss Alps since the days of World War II. And what would make the perfect accompaniment to this gimmick? How about Paul Heyman - who is Jewish - as Baron Van Bava's manager.

It's not like Vince McMahon hasn't had some awful, distasteful and offensive characters on his television programming over the decades, but Baron Van Bava was even too much for the oft-questionable McMahon.

Upon hearing Madigan's idea, Vince took a moment of silence before calmly standing up from his chair, putting his coat on, picking up his briefcase, and quietly left the room. Which to Vinny Mac's credit, seems like the perfect thing to have done in this situation.

Madigan himself is the one who revealed all of this in several interviews, and the writer thankfully realises what an utterly atrocious idea Baron Von Bava was.

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