10 Outdated WWE Tropes That Need To Go Away

Commandeering ambulances, crossing the boss, distracting the ref, these tropes need to be shelved.

Drew McIntyre ambulance
WWE

"OHHH MYYY, IT’S DREW MCINTYRE IN AN AMBULANCE!"

Yeah, wel. Perhaps not-so-oh-myyy, because we’ve seen this exact spot about 765,278 times by now. Someone gets injured, is carted away on a Local Medical Facility Wagon, and they eventually return to the show riding atop the very same vehicle like it's some kind of triumphant symbol.

The point is, this, along with a number of other tropes, have become so overused, surely Vince has to look at it and go, “Goddamn, pal, we can't do that anymore." He won't, because Vince, but you get the point.

Over the years, we have seen certain spots become absolute favourites for WWE. So much so they have continued to absolutely run them into the ground. Now doing that to even a good thing would eventually make it suck. But many of these stunts are so dumb and so devoid of logic, it’s borderline painful seeing WWE continues to spam us with them.

With all that said, let’s fire up those sirens and prepare those bogus security teams...

10. Ambulances

Drew McIntyre ambulance
WWE.com

The ambulance, or the "Local Medical Facility Delivery Device" if you’re WWE management, has been a frequent feature of the company’s programming. Now ye,s that isn't exactly all that unexpected. What better way to sell injuries or an assault than have the victim be carted away in one of those?

Unfortunately that’s not the only thing that WWE likes to use ambulances for. Because for some reason unknown to mankind, WWE Superstars once they have been discharged from a local medical facility, can simply make off with one of their ambulances and drive all the way into a wrestling arena.

From a simple logic standpoint, what are we supposed to make of it? Did they steal the ambulances? And if so why aren’t they getting arrested for grand theft auto (though admittedly very few crimes seem to be prosecutable in the world of WWE)? Do the medical facility people just let one of their patients take one of their vehicles? We will never get those answers, but at the very least we should get the pleasure of seeing WWE do away with this trope.

 
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