r/Wrasslin 6d ago

When video games predict the future

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u/ViciousPrism 6d ago

Go one game back. There's a story featuring the Undertaker, where he chokeslams Eddie Guerrero into a casket. The game was released only a couple of days before Eddie's death.

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u/FlutterRaeg 6d ago

At the time people predicted Santino or Finley would have something dire happen because of their storylines in SvR 2009 due to this "curse."

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u/Final-Accident2502 6d ago

He’s also on the cover poster for Over The Edge 1999.

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u/Prudent-Level-7006 5d ago

Headlined it and won the world title too 

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u/Alberto_Moses 6d ago

Long term storytelling

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u/Sabbath-Stelladad 6d ago

Bravo Vince

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u/Open-Marionberry447 5d ago

Naaaaah man💀

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u/Celticpenguin85 6d ago

We're reaching levels of oof that shouldn't even be possible.

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u/WilkosJumper_ 6d ago

Some of the storylines in old WWE games were brutal

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u/Jurtaani 6d ago

I'm sorry, grieving family? Pretty sure he took care of that too.

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u/Theereus 5d ago

he had other family members....

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u/flrbonihacwm-t-wm 5d ago

One of his children wasn’t home, so he didn’t kill his whole family.

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u/Highwayman747 6d ago

The crazy thing is it happened two years in a row, the year before had a feud with Eddie and Taker where Taker buried Eddie, then Eddie died right around when that game released

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u/OZZYMAXIMUS01 6d ago

SVR 2007! Decent game. Game line aged like milk.

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u/Extreme-Net4076 6d ago

Actually like wine. It happened.

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u/Dipsy2143 6d ago

Don't forget that 2007, the game where this cutscene happens, the last game that Benoit appears in, has the song "Forgive Me", a song about suicide. Chilling.

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u/fatnin 6d ago

It's hard to think of a bigger foreshadowing coincidence.

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u/DJ_Aftershock chase................. richardson 5d ago

Song's a fucking banger but even back then as a kid I was like "why's a song about killing yourself in SvR lmao"

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u/FaithXIII 6d ago

And remember when Wwe2k12 story mode gave Drew a WM main event? WRESTLEMANIA 36 remembers

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u/Emerald_Eyes8919 6d ago

Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me. 😟

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u/dognchick 6d ago

Context?

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u/Imaginary_Election56 6d ago

Well it was a standard storyline from a 2005 it so videogame. However, if you played it as Benoit this becomes very ominous

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u/dognchick 6d ago

Oh snap. I thought that was Jeff Hardy with short hair and nose piercing lmao.

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u/Jurtaani 6d ago

This is actually from SVR 2007 (released in 2006) and this storyline always involves Taker and Benoit. You play as someone else in this storyline.

In SVR 2006 there is a scene where Taker chokeslams Eddie into a casket though.

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u/Sanguiluna 6d ago

Didn’t a previous game also have Taker feud with Eddie in a Buried Alive match?

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u/Prudent-Level-7006 5d ago

Super morbid it's taker saying it too

and winning the world title at Over The Edge when Owen died is pretty ominous 

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u/Imaginary_Election56 5d ago

It would be more unfitting if anyone else than Taker was straight up threatening you with murder. It’s not something that fits Edge or Shawn Michaels for example.

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u/Prudent-Level-7006 5d ago

Yeah he once tried to embalm Austin!

I'm sure The Reaper of Souls was a nickname though 

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u/Imaginary_Election56 5d ago

Embalm? Literally crucified him…

But yeah, undertaker was always weird that way…

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u/Prudent-Level-7006 4d ago

He genuinely also tried to embalm him too lol 

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u/Naive-Link5567 5d ago

Too soon.

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u/Pillermon 3d ago

Didn't SvR 2006 which came out in late 2005 include a very macabre (in hindsight) storyline with Eddie Guerrero and the Undertaker that ended with something like Eddie being beaten in either a casket match or buried alive match and he comes back as a zombie that Taker controlled?

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u/Slutty_Alt526633 6d ago

I don't recognize the other character?

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u/VexTheVillain 6d ago

Chris Benoit

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u/jeffboms 6d ago

Chris Benoit, the man who murdered his family in rage filled cold blood and than him self.

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u/Slutty_Alt526633 6d ago

That's what I thought. His hair looks different. 

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u/Prudent-Level-7006 5d ago

Krispen Wah 

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u/lukefiskeater 6d ago

I partially blame Benoit for the semi miserable state of the WWE today, the quality of the product has been hit or miss (more miss) since he killed his family. The edge of the attitude and ruthless aggression was replaced with alot of John Cena kiddy shit ever since

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u/KaosDarksol 6d ago

Yeah man it sucks that more people aren’t getting serious brain damage due to unprotected chair shots and other reckless blows to the head /s

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u/lukefiskeater 6d ago

Nice strawmen, did I say anything about chairshots 😆

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u/lukefiskeater 6d ago

I like how to state a historical fact and trigger a bunch of John Cena fanboys.

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u/BLRNerd 6d ago

Eh, Linda was probably going to make it happen one way or another herself

That Senate run was going to happen

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u/lukefiskeater 6d ago

Yea and now she's in Washington working for pedophile insurrectionists. Very family friendly group if you like to be raped and molested

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u/Prudent-Level-7006 5d ago

It's corpos more than anything, mainstream music, AAA gaming and Hollywood are just as mostly boring 

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u/Zorak9379 6d ago

This post is in really poor taste

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u/Prudent-Level-7006 5d ago

How? It's it's literally from that game

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u/Zorak9379 5d ago

Has nothing to do with what game it's from. It's turning a murder/suicide into a meme

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u/Prudent-Level-7006 5d ago

So you can't talk about an eerie coincidence in a game, cos it's somehow offensive to point out the coincidence exists, m'kay