10 Ditched Wrestling Storylines That Thankfully Never Happened
7. Heidenreich: The Frozen Nazi Soldier
The same character who ended up seemingly sexually assaulting a commentator backstage, delivered uncomfortably intense poems on top of the SmackDown fist, and ultimately cosplayed as a member of the Legion of Doom somehow almost found himself in the middle of an even more bizarre storyline back in 2004.
Back before he showed up alongside Paul Heyman as a blue show psychopath, another former WWE writer, Dan Madigan, pitched for the bleach blonde nutter to debut as a Nazi who had been cryogenically frozen.
Said thawed out Nazi would have gone by the name of Baron von Bava, with this storm trooper stepping right out of 1940 to apparently cause chaos in the land of sports entertainment.
Think Captain America, but a whole lot more inappropriate and disturbing.
Madigan even recalled (via BleacherReport) pitching having Jewish New Yorker Heyman be the one to revive Baron, because he "thought it would be a scream to have Paul E. come down to the ring and introduce Baron von Bava, only to have the Baron come down to the ring goose-stepping and wearing the red Swastika around his biceps.”
If your idea is capable of making Vince McMahon silently exit a room with a stunned expression on his face, you know you've done something horrifically wrong.