10 Problematic WWE Storylines That Have Aged HORRIBLY

5. Jillian Hall's Mole

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There's a joke in Austin Powers 3: Goldmember about an undercover associate of the good guys who has on his face what he does for a living - a giant mole.

For a silly slapstick film, the bit is played well - both the villainous Dr Evil and heroic Austin Powers try not to mention it, but do so with such cartoonish lack of restraint that it makes the situation ten times worse. Like a lot of the franchise's big gags, it's a case of doing lowbrow humour couched in diplomacy, allowing the audience a giggle that's as guilty as the ones coming from the characters.

Regardless of what you think of The Bloodline, WWE isn't cinema. Not even third-film-in-a-tired-franchise cinema.

Jillian Hall had a mess of prop organs and the like on the side of her face, was ridiculed relentlessly by heels and babfyaces alike for it, and The Boogeyman eventually bit it off to eat and/or keep as a trinket. As opposite to "Be A Star" as it gets, this was rampant corporate toxicity filtered through a megalomaniac on top who considered gross-out comedy to be high art.

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