10 WWE Storylines We'd Like To See In 2018
2. The (Part-Time) Legend Killer
Nostalgia, it would seem (or you would hope) is finally dying in WWE. The main event of Survivor Series killed the crowd through its ritual murder of the present tense. In the midst of it all, Triple H and Kurt Angle contributed little content because they'd knackered themselves preparing for the match - a fatalistic dose of irony WWE will inevitably ignore, come New Orleans.
WWE should grasp the nascent sentiment and use it to create something new from something old: a committed, full-time roster member taking it upon hmself to exorcise the ghosts haunting the WWE landscape and ruining any sense of organic momentum with their egotistical insistence on hogging WrestleMania for themselves.
Drew McIntyre is well positioned - realistically - to assume the (Part-Time) Legend Killer role. A proper WWE favourite - the company is hardly going to afford Shinsuke Nakamura the privilege of ushering in a brand new era - and a scorned character with the foundational logic to embark on such a mission, McIntyre is, restoring his own arc in the process, the Chosen One.
The mission statement stated immediately upon his main roster promotion, McIntyre runs through threatened part-timers drafted in purely to do the job - The Big Show, Billy Gunn, Mark Henry - transcending the churn with months of metafiction, like a meteorite murdering the dinosaurs.
It all ends, and if only it did, with McIntyre formally ending the part-timer era by retiring Triple H at WrestleMania 35 - a tedious match on paper elevated by the ultimate stakes.