10 Ways WWE Treats Its Fans Like Idiots
4. Ignoring Their Own History
Pretending there’s no other alternative out there is one thing, it’s a whole other ballgame to place fast and loose with your own canon.
This doesn’t just include essentially saying “I don’t know who you mean” about wrestlers no longer in their employ. That’s a stupid expected norm about the petty nature of the company’s top men.
Character motivations, relationships and attitudes just bend and turn in the winds of whatever is necessary for “the moment” within WWE programming. One random example, the storyline where Kane decided he was a horror movie monster again and decided to hunt down Daniel Bryan even though just a year prior they were a comedy babyface tag team. And this kind of thing happens constantly.
However, the most egregious things are when previous events are verbally altered to make them seem even more historic or convenient. DX did not invade WCW on a “tank” as much as the WWE might stretch the limits of the definition of the word. The “Get the F Out” campaign was followed by legal proceedings with the World Wildlife Fund charity and not a sign of the “changing of the times” as described in WWE in-house documentaries.
WWE may be closer to a scripted TV series than a sport in some respects, but you wouldn’t see Stranger Things claiming that there had never been a Mike if Finn Wolfhard went to work on another show.