10 WWE Ideas EVEN Vince McMahon Thought Were Too Sleazy
6. Heidenreich Becomes A Nazi
There's Heidenreich pictured above reading from 'Mein Kampf'.
Or at least it might have been, had Vince McMahon approved former creative writer Dan Madigan's 2004 pitch: the pitch to repackage Heidenreich as a cryogenically frozen nazi stormtrooper resusciated by the Jewish son of a holocaust survivor, Paul Heyman.
The best thing about this rejected idea is that it in all likelihood punished what was a profoundly lazy thought process.
"Heidenreich..."
"Reich...."
"Third Reich..."
"I've got it! Let's make 'im a nazi!"
Had Heidenreich thawed out in 2020 and logged on to Twitter, he might have been quite happy. But alas he did not, because this was a spectacularly offensive idea so bad that it offended those in the power walls of Titan Towers, a place that ain't f*ckin' Disneyland, that's for sure. What a gigantic yikes. The Muhammad Hassan character was created a year later, so perhaps they were disgusted at how passé the distaste was?
Vince McMahon was famously so appalled that he left the room in disgust, and didn't return that day. He might have just been a bit hungry.
Can't rule that out.