Whilst watching Raw I heard JBL made a throwaway comment in regards to Edward Snowden comparing it to a situation in the Corporation storyline about Cole being a traitor to the company he worked for. When I heard that it immediately gave me an idea for the Corporation storyline which I think would work beautifully in this context.
WWE and Pro Wrestling have always been concerned traditionally with being a mirror of what society is. Right now in the world but especially in the UK (where I'm from) and America, it's paranoid. Paranoid about terrorism, paranoid about losing freedoms etc. which I touched on in my idea with how the Shield could have been booked in regards to having a police state in WWE.
The idea I have is what if a few months down the line we would have information being leaked out by an anonymous rogue messenger who is giving out information about meetings the Corporation are having which can be important pieces of information that would help the faces in certain big angle/match type situations? This wouldn't be done too much in order to undermine the dominance the heel faction is having but it would happen in certain important angles in the storyline enough to the point where this anonymous leaker would become a problem for the Corporation. You'd do this after at least a few months of Corporate domination and you could build and build this closer to either the Rumble or even stretch to close to Wrestlemania when finally Hunter decides he's had enough of this crap and he goes out to find out who this rogue person is. From there you can build for a few weeks up till the big reveal. Why I think this would be unique play on angles like this done in the past and would work really well is this:
1) It draws a direct parallel to a huge topic which is prevalent in society today about rogue information leakers who are leaking information to the benefit of the public like Edward Snowden who have been caught and threatened and treated like threats to national security yet become like martyrs and heroes to the public. In this case, the guy who gets revealed would become a huge babyface to not only the fans but the face lockeroom
2) I touched on it, it gives an opportunity to make a big new babyface who by the end of it pretty much becomes a martyr figure and would end up as a sympathetic babyface because of the consequences he would initially face.
3) It gives the babyfaces a different way of getting the upper hand without taking much away from the heels, so it gives the fans hope but without giving them that big comeuppance pay off just yet.
For this to work my idea would be it being one of the people associated with the Corporation which is another reason why I said after a least a few months because otherwise, it wouldn't be believable. Who should it be? My idea was either Maddox or one of the Shield guys because obviously it can't be one of the big players. The best option I think is Rollins because out of everyone, he is the guy who is most likely to pull off a role like this well and get fans invested.
What you guys think? Good idea? Dumb idea? Give some feedback either way.
WWE and Pro Wrestling have always been concerned traditionally with being a mirror of what society is. Right now in the world but especially in the UK (where I'm from) and America, it's paranoid. Paranoid about terrorism, paranoid about losing freedoms etc. which I touched on in my idea with how the Shield could have been booked in regards to having a police state in WWE.
The idea I have is what if a few months down the line we would have information being leaked out by an anonymous rogue messenger who is giving out information about meetings the Corporation are having which can be important pieces of information that would help the faces in certain big angle/match type situations? This wouldn't be done too much in order to undermine the dominance the heel faction is having but it would happen in certain important angles in the storyline enough to the point where this anonymous leaker would become a problem for the Corporation. You'd do this after at least a few months of Corporate domination and you could build and build this closer to either the Rumble or even stretch to close to Wrestlemania when finally Hunter decides he's had enough of this crap and he goes out to find out who this rogue person is. From there you can build for a few weeks up till the big reveal. Why I think this would be unique play on angles like this done in the past and would work really well is this:
1) It draws a direct parallel to a huge topic which is prevalent in society today about rogue information leakers who are leaking information to the benefit of the public like Edward Snowden who have been caught and threatened and treated like threats to national security yet become like martyrs and heroes to the public. In this case, the guy who gets revealed would become a huge babyface to not only the fans but the face lockeroom
2) I touched on it, it gives an opportunity to make a big new babyface who by the end of it pretty much becomes a martyr figure and would end up as a sympathetic babyface because of the consequences he would initially face.
3) It gives the babyfaces a different way of getting the upper hand without taking much away from the heels, so it gives the fans hope but without giving them that big comeuppance pay off just yet.
For this to work my idea would be it being one of the people associated with the Corporation which is another reason why I said after a least a few months because otherwise, it wouldn't be believable. Who should it be? My idea was either Maddox or one of the Shield guys because obviously it can't be one of the big players. The best option I think is Rollins because out of everyone, he is the guy who is most likely to pull off a role like this well and get fans invested.
What you guys think? Good idea? Dumb idea? Give some feedback either way.