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This is what happens when a major star fights off the ill effects of the Hollywood Hype Machine. So they debuted hot and fizzled out. Maybe they were a victim of their own hype. Maybe they made some unfortunate role selections or production choices. Maybe they were injured or ill, or had some demons they couldn't conquer. Maybe she was a White-Dwarf Starlet or a Former Child Star whose career fizzled out. Perhaps they made an ill-fated switch to another medium, or genre and didn't pan out. Or the big star did something dumb or scandalous and they faded out amongst the uproar. The bottom line is, their next big thing didn't work. Their career has bottomed out. At best, they take bit roles and second billing to pay the bills. At worst, they can look forward to a long career as a walking punchline, and then, suddenly...they're back! They landed a hot role, signed on to a Sleeper Hit or broke back into the industry as an Ensemble Dark Horse or what have you. If they were on drugs or had behavior issues, they've cleaned up. If they were always typecast, they show a surprising range. If they were labeled as played out, they manage to innovate their style that refreshes their work and possibly their medium. They've resurrected their careers. And if they're really lucky, they're bigger than they have ever been! See also Win Back the Crowd and Popularity Polynomial. Contrast Star-Derailing Role and Creator Killer. It should also be noted that examples can range from individuals to entire companies and organizations. |
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The Bella Twins left WWE in 2012 after a modest career. While they had both been champion, neither were what you'd call stars. They returned a year later and were announced as part of the cast of the reality show Total Divas. When the show proved to be a smash hit, they and the rest of the cast found themselves receiving more airtime (a rarity for females in WWE). Both twins notably put in lots of work to improve, as well as differentiate their previously identical characters. Brie got a big boost in popularity when she got to feud with Stephanie McMahon, main eventing Raw twice and having a high profile match at the 2014 SummerSlam. Although Nikki suffered a career-threatening shin injury, she was back in the ring within a few months. The year after she won the Divas' Championship, and eventually clocked the longest Divas' Championship reign of all time. Brie retired in 2016 but Nikki returned after suffering a neck injury and enjoyed many high profile feuds and storylines - also finally managing to shake off the smark hate that she had acquired over her career. | |
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Tina Ferrari tried to keep with wrestling after GLOW was cancelled, but eventually left it. Several years later she was asked to join WWE to help rebuild their women's division. She's now better known as Ivory and - while her career had plenty of ups and downs - she's still recognized as a 3-time WWE Women's Champion, and one of the best women to wrestle for the company. In 2018 she was announced as an inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame. | |
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The Artist. George Valentin, a fictional Silent Movie star, sees his career in ruins after the advent of sound cinema. In the end, after many trials and tribulation, he returns to acting once again. | |
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Shawn Michaels is easily this. In The '90s, he was acclaimed for his great ring work but run down for his drug use and constant showboating and backstage politics. In 1998, a bad back injury forced him out of the business and it looked like he was done. In 2002, after some replacement surgery and having undergone a religious conversion, HBK returned for "one more match" against Triple H. To the shock of everyone, Michaels wrestled a fantastic brawl that soon got him back into the swing of things. Indeed, it's arguable that Michaels was actually better after his injury than before it, winning titles and creating classic Match of the Year battles against John Cena, The Undertaker, Chris Jericho, and more. Also, Michaels was hailed for changing his attitude, more accepting and giving the rub to othersnote It helped that this time around Shawn didn't want the pressure and brutal travel schedule (during most his second run Michaels only worked PPVs and Raw, he rarely appeared on SmackDown and never worked house shows) of a top guy, so he didn't really have a spot that needed to be protected and had no reason to not play ball. Especially when he's best friends with the son-in-law. He finally retired in 2010 but his comeback established his legacy from a one-time great to one of the true icons of the entire business. Today he's helping the next generation of wrestlers as a senior trainer in the WWE Performance Center and a producer/agent for NXT. | |
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Sting. After becoming a breakout star in the late '80s, Sting became WCW's top guy in the early '90s, winning several world titles and being voted Most Popular Wrestler of the year in 1990, 1991, and 1994. Sting's momentum slowed down once Ric Flair returned in 1993 after a two-year run in WWF, and took an even bigger hit when Hogan and Savage came aboard. As a result, Sting got lost in the shuffle, wrestling mostly in the midcard or as the Ricky Morton to Hogan, Savage and Lex Luger in tag team matches. After Hogan's own resurrection (see above), Sting knew he had to change his character or else he'd suffer the same fate as pre-heel turn Hogan. He changed his look from a bleach-blond surfer dude to a dark, ghostly avenger reminiscent of Eric Draven from The Crow, stopped cutting promos and took the fight directly to WCW's biggest threat via sneak attacks and theatrical mind tricks. He won the WCW World Heavyweight title at Starrcade 1997 (but not without controversy), which was his first world title reign since 1993, and was once again voted Most Popular Wrestler of the Year. | |
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Troy McClure in The Simpsons undergoes one in the episode "A Fish Called Selma". His career was ruined by rumors about his fish fetish, so he starts dating Marge's sister Selma for publicity reasons, and gets a starring role in the stage musical adaptation of Planet of the Apes. Following his divorce, he gets offered the funny sidekick role in the next McBain movie, but turns it down in favor of his pet project The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel.note A parody of then-stellar British actor Anthony Newley's career-destroying vanity project, the unforgettably named film Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe And Find True Happiness. Newley staked everything on this movie, critically acclaimed as a long-dead stinking turkey. | |
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Rocio Mallo in the Latin American Spanish dub of Winx Club. In the late '90s, she was a rising star in the regional dubbing scene, with roles in popular shows like Super Cerdita (as Lassie Carlen/Karin Kokubu) and Spongebob Squarepants (as Karen's first voice). After she moved to Mexico in 2001, her career stagnated for a while, even after her return to Venezuela in 2006. However, getting the role of Roxy in Winx Club brought her career to new heights, leading to her most famous role to date, Garnet. | |
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Eddie Guerrero was a popular star in CMLL, AAA, NJPW, ECW, WCW and then-WWF, until drug abuse caused him to lose his job and his family. After finding religion, getting clean, and reclaiming his wife and kids, a rehired and rejuvenated Eddie reached new heights in the WWE as a world champion and fan favorite before his passing in 2005. His entertaining performances and real-life story, finding salvation in his life before his death, has made him one of the most beloved figures in wrestling history. | |
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In Shirobako, the Show Within a Show Exodus! is this for both the production company Musashino Animation and the director Seiichi Kinoshita, after their disastrous Jiggle Jiggle Paradise seven years ago. | |
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Jeff Jarrett was a solid midcard act in the early to mid-90s, but once the Attitude Era kicked in, fans turned on him in droves and he was fired from WWF in 1999. The fandom's ire for Jarrett only worsened as he became a Spotlight-Stealing Squad in both WCW and TNA (the latter company being one he co-founded with his father Jerry). Even the death of his wife, Jill, and a reduced role in TNA did little to repair this damage since it was soon discovered that Jarrett was having an affair with Kurt Angle's then-wife Karen. It wasn't until Jarrett left TNA and mended fences with WWE that people started openly admitting to liking him again. His Hall of Fame induction in 2018, followed by a return to a WWE ring in 2019, cemented his resurrection. | |
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The Hardy Boyz: were one of WWF's top tag teams in the Attitude Era and would pursue solo careers in the 2000s, but both men were derailed by their personal issues (various injuries, Jeff's drug addictions, and Matt's poor handling of his girlfriend having an affair with his best friend) and left WWE for TNA at the end of the decade. The low point for both men was 2011, when Jeff showed up to a TNA world title match against Sting doped to the gills (forcing Sting to shoot-pin him after about a minute) and Matt was fired due to a drinking problem, subsequently faking a suicide note, leading the wrestling fandom to completely turn on them both. However, both men spent the next few years cleaning up their act, with Matt in particular becoming one of the hottest things in pro wrestling with his "Broken" Matt Hardy gimmick in TNA. This was enough for WWE to give them another chance and re-hire them in 2017, with a RAW Tag Team Championship run to boot. | |
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Subverted in The Wrestler (ironically, given how the film revived Mickey Rourke's career). Randy "The Ram" Robinson tries to relive his Glory Days, but ultimately his age, his trainwreck of a personal life, and the half-healed injuries of his wrestling past catch up with him. | |
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Mariya Yamamoto of Shining Song Starnova was once a member of Quasar, Japan’s largest and most popular Idol Singer group, but despite spending almost ten years with them she never achieved enough notoriety to make it into Quasar’s prestigious front row unit and found herself constantly overshadowed by much younger girls, and was ultimately fired for being too old. By the time the story begins she’s become a chain-smoking alcoholic working various jobs that she hates while struggling to find more idol work. Joining the newly-formed idol group Starnova helps to resurrect her career: she experiences a popularity resurgence in any route and in her own route she achieves her lifelong dream of becoming Japan’s most popular idol and performing live in the Tokyo Dome. | |
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The titular character of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. After success during The '80s, Burt's signature magic act runs stale after he becomes complacent and doesn't update it. After being displaced by a Darker and Edgier rival, he is subsequently fired from his cushy Vegas show and has to invent a new trick to land a prestigious gig at a flashy new mega hotel. After rediscovering his passion and relearning the art of magic from his childhood hero, he rekindles his partnership with his best friend and designs a new trick to win the gig. | |
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Goldust was one of many outrageous gimmick wrestlers to show up in the mid-90s. While people liked his act, his ring abilities were less than stellar. He was in an out of the company a few times, but the year 2010 saw him receiving rave reviews for his improvement. He departed again but a return in 2013 was hugely well-received - as he and his brother Cody Rhodes formed a tag team and were eventually the ones to dethrone The Shield for the Tag Team Championships (in the main event of Raw no less). Rather than becoming known as a faded Attitude Era star, it was widely accepted that Goldust was in the best shape of his career. From 2014-2018 however, his presence eventually dried up, especially after Cody quit the company. Instead of languishing with no direction however, he joined Cody in All Elite Wrestling, where at their inaugural pay-per-view Double or Nothing, he went back to being Dustin Rhodes and fought his brother in a gruesome and emotional match. Despite being in his 50's, he had arguably the best match of his career, winning acclaim from fans all over and proving age doesn't always matter. | |
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Mexican voice actor Ricardo Bautista in Diabolik Lovers: Around the mid-Turn of the Millennium, Bautista had a budding career coming from his Tenor Boy voice, which helped him get roles like Hanataro Yamada from Bleach and Komatsu from Toriko. All of this was at serious risk when he had the bad luck of playing Keitaro Urashima in Love Hina, in a dub that was so poorly received it ended up killing the love for the franchise as a whole. A few years later, however, Bautista got the role of Ayato Sakamaki in the Mexican Spanish dub of Diabolik Lovers and the series was successful, making him quite more popular and giving him the chance to improve his talent, including Michelangelo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) and Ty Rux in Dinotrux. | |
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Becky Lynch: Rebecca Knox was a wrestling prodigy in her home country of Ireland. When all-women's promotions in America were just starting to take off, she took the indie scene by storm. Then she suffered a serious head injury and had to retire at the age of nineteen. Later at the age of twenty-six, she made a sudden return to wrestling and was signed to WWE instantly and quickly became the biggest she's ever been. She is held up as one of the 'Four Horsewomen' of NXT, alongside three much fresher talent, who helped put women's wrestling back on the map for a mainstream audience. In 2016 she became the first-ever SmackDown Women's Champion. She would experience this a second time towards the end of 2018. After losing the SmackDown Women's Championship, she finds herself gradually Out of Focus for the next year and a half in spite of her audible fan support. Then her Face–Heel Turn in SummerSlam 2018 happened, in which she attacked Charlotte Flair after her victory stating that Flair stole her spotlight and weaseled her way in the match that was originally just Becky's in the first place. Becky's subsequent Motive Rant (Flair always getting free opportunities, e.g.) would instead resonate with the fans instead of them turning on her. After defeating Flair to start her second reign, Becky was slated to face Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey on that year's Survivor Series in a Champion vs. Champion match. But what ironically cemented Becky's status as WWE's Breakout Character is the reason why the anticipated match didn't happen; on the final Raw before Survivor Series, the SmackDown women attempted an invasion in which Becky was legitimately busted open and concussed by a stiff punch from another wrestler. Becky shrugs off the injury to finish the segment, winning her the respect of Vince McMahon, everyone in the locker room, and the further adoration of the fans. Her popularity ultimately led her to be one of the first three women (along with Rousey and Flair) to main event WrestleMania in which she came out victorious. | |
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Ed Boon of Mortal Kombat fame. While other fighting series made a successful leap to 3D, Mortal Kombat had "hit and miss" luck there, and during the 2000s it was massively overshadowed by other fighting games. Then in 2009 Warner Bros. promptly picked up the studio that produces the series (now known as NetherRealm Studios), following Midway's bankruptcy. The end result: a complete Continuity Reboot in 2.5D. Mortal Kombat 9 was not only a critical and commercial smash but also earned a spot as one of the featured tournament titles at the Evo Championship Series, a first for a Mortal Kombat title. | |
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Entourage: Vincent Chase in a film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Aquaman had previously had the biggest opening day in film history (in the show's fictional universe), surpassing the real-world record set by Spider-Man, but the personal passion project he followed it up with, the Pablo Escobar biopic Medellin, was a critical, financial, and popular failure. Despite its $30 million budget and the legendary lengths the production crew went to produce the film (including negotiations with the government and the drug cartels of Columbia to get the location and accuracy), the film ended up being released Direct to Video after it was laughed out of the Cannes Film Festival. The subsequent disaster of Smokejumpers, which saw his role continuously shrunk by the director and with the entire production eventually shut down by the studio, seemed to officially signal the end of his career, and he actually left Hollywood to recuperate in Queens, New York. However, Martin Scorsese called and gave Chase the title role in his adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic after he saw some of the dailies from Smokejumpers. | |
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CM Punk was the hottest heel in the WWE for a period of time in 2009, but after he lost his World Heavyweight Championship to The Undertaker, he found himself in mid-card angles involving the Straight Edge Society, where he was constantly beaten by Rey Mysterio and Big Show. After he took over the New Nexus in 2011, he got put in a boring, one-sided feud with Randy Orton. As his WWE contract was about to expire, he was going to have one last feud with John Cena. Then, on June 27th, 2011, CM Punk sat down on the Raw stage and cut an epic worked shoot promo attacking WWE, Vince McMahon, and John Cena. This led to a classic match at that year's Money in the Bank where he won his first WWE Championship and left the company with the title. When he came back a week later, he proved himself to be the successor to John Cena's throne as the face of WWE. While he was never able to get that far, he still became one of the company's most popular superstars — to the point that fans are still cheering his name years his sudden departure in January 2014. Then he came back to wrestling in 2021 in AEW, becoming its world champion the next year... until getting involved in a backstage fight with The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega, who just so happened to be the company's executive vice presidents. He was suspended and stripped of the title (also suffering a serious real-life injury before getting into the fight). After his return in 2023, Punk got into another backstage fight, this one with Jack Perry (Luke's son), and was fired soon after. A few months later, Punk returned to WWE. |
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Madd Dogg of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas gained extreme popularity as a rapper in the late 1980s. However, his fame started to wane as the 90s rolled around, not helped by the murder of his manager and the disappearance of his rhyme book. Seemingly overnight, he became a laughingstock struggling with alcoholism and up to his eyeballs in debt, and was even forced to give his mansion to a drug lord. But after CJ saved him from killing himself and sent him to rehab, things started to look up for him. CJ became his new manager and helped him make his comeback album, Forty Dogg, which quickly achieved gold record status. His resurrected career proved to have staying power, and by 2013, the Vinewood Walk of Fame had a star honoring him. | |
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Parodied with Tugg Speedman in Tropic Thunder. An aging action star with little real acting talent whose signature Scorcher series is suffering from Sequelitis (the series is currently on the sixth movie, Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown, which, changed the concept of the Earth being turned into a giant fireball in the previous movies, to a frozen wasteland because the previous films had exhausted the previously mentioned concept). He put another nail in the coffin when he took the lead in a miserable Award Bait failure called Simple Jack. But the whole nonsense and resulting film surrounding the disastrous filming of the book Tropic Thunder ends up turning into a completely different movie, for which Speedman wins the Best Actor Oscar and gets his career back on track. | |
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AJ Styles was always considered the face and most recognizable wrestler of TNA by most but the company never truly got behind him as the main guy. After an ugly disagreement over his contract and tired of the way his character was done being looked over in favor of former WWE guys coming in despite doing everything for the company for eleven years, AJ left TNA in late 2013 with many thinking he’d be back soon or he was going to retire. Instead, AJ heads to New Japan Pro-Wrestling and shocks many when he wins The IWGP Heavyweight Championship, the top prize in the promotion. AJ would go on to win the crowd there with his stellar performances including his 2014 Match of The Year bout he had with Minoru Suzuki that at the end had the entire crowd on their feet and cheering and chanting his name having accepted him as one of their own. The Phenomenal One is Phenomenal once again. This translated to AJ Styles being signed by WWE in early 2016. He was allowed to keep his name, he went straight to the main roster, quickly became a main eventer and even had a run with the WWE World Heavyweight Championship all in less than a year despite being the antithesis of what Vince sees in potential stars. And to prove that he's not slowing down anytime soon, he won the World Title a second time in 2017 and held it for a year. | |
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An episode of Drake & Josh had the boys befriending a washed-up Stage Magician called "The Great Doheney". He becomes famous again after Megan gives him an idea for his attempted comeback show: to fake his own death and "come back to life" at his funeral. | |
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This trope also technically applies to Donkey Kong. The original Donkey Kong is one of the most iconic arcade games of all time, but as a character Donkey Kong was more a part of video game history than a full on character like Sonic the Hedgehog or the Super Mario Bros.. That all changed when Donkey Kong Country was released in 1994. The game was a huge hit and revived the big gorilla as one of Nintendo's most prominent mascots, kicking off a long series of well-received titles. | |
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The Undertaker was one of the biggest stars in the WWF during the 1990s. However, after his transformation into a biker character in 2000, his career went pretty much nowhere. Then, in 2004, he revived the "Deadman" gimmick for the first time since 1999. After that, his feuds became main-event storylines, he won the Royal Rumble and three world titles, and his streak at WrestleMania has been built up as a big deal. | |
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The Miz floundered in mid-card hell after his brief run as a main eventer from 2010-2011. He made a face turn, which did nothing to refresh his character, then turned back heel under a Hollywood Prima Donna-type gimmick and was given a "stunt double" (Damien Sandow), that became more over than he was. 2016 was a turning point for him. His wife Maryse returned to the company as his valet and he truly began to shine during the second Brand Extension, cutting a Worked Shoot promo against Daniel Bryan that was so epic that even the smarkiest of smarks weren't sure if it was legit or not, followed by a series of well-received matches with Dolph Ziggler, a feud with John Cena where both men (and their women) cut loose on each other with promo-work that wouldn't be out of place in the Attitude Era and a series of Intercontinental title reigns. The Miz, who was seen as a complete joke the previous year, once again became one of the more entertaining parts of WWE television. | |
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Simon Trent in Batman: The Animated Series episode "Beware the Gray Ghost" was an actor known for starring as the titular vigilante in the Show Within a Show The Gray Ghost, which would inspire Bruce to become Batman later on. However, the show was subject to Keep Circulating the Tapes as a fire destroyed the studio that produced it, so the public largely forgot about it. Simon Trent is now old, broke and hasn't had an acting job in a while due to Typecasting (Reality Subtext, as he's voiced by Adam West) living in a run-down apartment and barely paying the bills by selling his Gray Ghost memorabilia to collectors. After an unknown criminal begins imitating crimes from the show, Batman convinces Trent to help him solve the mystery. After the culprit is defeated, Trent is revered as a real hero, The Gray Ghost finally gets a home video release (as Trent had copies of the original episodes stashed away) and Trent's career is presumably revived. | |
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Then he came back to wrestling in 2021 in AEW, becoming its world champion the next year... until getting involved in a backstage fight with The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega, who just so happened to be the company's executive vice presidents. He was suspended and stripped of the title (also suffering a serious real-life injury before getting into the fight). After his return in 2023, Punk got into another backstage fight, this one with Jack Perry (Luke's son), and was fired soon after. A few months later, Punk returned to WWE. | |
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Oscar Hammerstein II revived his weakening career in musical theatre with Oklahoma!. In the previous years, Richard Rodgers had been one of Broadway's most successful composers in a partnership with Lorenz Hart that he was reluctant to discontinue (though it ended soon after with Hart's death), whereas none of Hammerstein's pre-Oklahoma! musical plays had succeeded in New York or London since Music in the Air in the early 1930s, while he drifted in and out of Hollywood and wrote the occasional hit song (such as "The Last Time I Saw Paris", which won an Academy Award that he disowned because he hadn't originally written the song for a movie). | |
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Wrestling journalism example: Adam Blampied was one of the most well-known voices in the pro wrestling fandom as a member of WhatCulture Wrestling, with him helping out in the founding of WhatCulture Pro Wrestling. In 2017, just as he and other prominent WhatCulture Wrestling members were about to leave to create Cultaholic Wrestling, allegations of sexual talks with multiple women was uncovered and with this being at the height of the #MeToo Movement, this was heavily scrutinized. Despite the women in question forgiving him and others agreeing it wasn't nearly as bad as the allegations against others, he still decided to take time off to reflect and improve. Come 2020, he was hired by WrestleTalk to do lists and analyses of various wrestling news, as well as to host a wrestling trivia game show called Quizzlemania, to much acclaim and fanfare from the fandom. Combined with starting a channel dedicated to his love of board games, it's fair to say Plumpy is in the best shape of his career after all that happened. | |
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Brock Lesnar made his WWE debut in 2002 and quickly became one of its most prolific main event players. However, Lesnar eventually became burnt out due to WWE's hectic schedule and left in 2004 alongside Goldberg. After a failed NFL career, he returned to wrestling for New Japan, which was a disaster second only to Tadao Yasuda's run in the company, and had a successful run in UFC despite being dismissed as a "fake wrestler". Lesnar returned to WWE in 2012 and quickly reminded both fans and wrestlers alike why he was such a force to be reckoned with. | |
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Stephen Sondheim recovered from a definite lull in his career with Company. In the years since his previous Broadway musical, Anyone Can Whistle, had finished its one-week run, Sondheim had returned to writing lyrics for other composers, including Richard Rodgers (with whom he split over Creative Differences) and his Gypsy partner Jule Styne, and also wrote songs by himself for teleplays that occasionally got produced. | |
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Scott Cawthon with Five Nights at Freddy's. Before that game, he mostly made cheap app games. However, his last one (Chipper & Sons Lumber Co.) was heavily criticized for making the animal cast look like a bunch of creepy animatronics. Scott fell into a deep depression, and almost made gave up making games as a result... until, in his words, "something just snapped in me, and I thought to myself- I bet I can make something a lot scarier than that...". Needless to say, it worked. | |
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Jon Moxley was a successful act in multiple independent promotions before signing with WWE in 2011 and competed in its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) under the new ring name Dean Ambrose. He made his debut on the main roster the following year and formed The Shield with Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns, in which they became one of the most successful stables in the history of the promotion. After they disbanded in 2014 and despite championship success, especially becoming WWE Champion in 2016, he tolled away in the upper midcard and lost his edge as a character. Upon departing in 2019 due to Creative Differences, he reverted back to being Jon Moxley and debuted in AEW and NJPW both in spectacular fashion, feeling revitalized and showing fans how he should've been booked in the WWE. He became a two-time IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion and the second ever AEW World Champion, becoming arguably the wrestler of 2020 in the process. His AEW success has continued, as he's won the World Championship two more times, and in 2023 became the first wrestler to have won more than one of AEW's singles titles by ending Orange Cassidy's nearly year-long reign as International Champion. | |
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Samoa Joe was at one point considered to be one of the best wrestlers in North America and pretty much put Ring of Honor on the map with his classic trilogy of matches with CM Punk as well as having epic encounters with the likes of Kenta Kobashi, Bryan Danielson and Austin Aries. He then moved to TNA and had an 18-month long winning streak that cemented him as one of the top stars in the company and his match with Kurt Angle led to TNA's highest PPV buy rate at that time(25,000). However, after that it all seemed to slowly fall apart for Joe as a disappointing World Title run, poor angles and a dose of Badass Decay had completely destroyed Joe's aura. It didn't help when TNA retooled Joe into an Ax-Crazy Wild Samoan, which seemed to provoke more laughter than fear. Eventually, TNA stopped trying and Joe's matches, save a great triple threat match with AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels, took a nosedive. Once Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff joined TNA, Joe floundered between the mid to low card and was pretty much irrelevant in TNA for a year and a half. Until he formed a tag team with fellow struggling wrestler Magnus and eventually, they became tag team champions, which made Joe relevant again in the eyes of fans. After the team broke up Joe's matches took a notable increase in quality resulting in show-stealing matches against old rivals Austin Aries and Kurt Angle. He hasn't reached his 2005–2006 peak, but Joe quickly climbed back up the TNA ladder again. He left TNA in 2015 and went to WWE NXT, becoming the first two-time NXT Champion and becoming a top monster heel. Then he moved to AEW and won its world title in late 2023. | |
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The Week follows Dick Romans, a once-beloved TV show host who's now stuck doing radio. The film ends with him being offered a new TV deal, but it's left open whether he'll take it or not. | |
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Goldberg was arguably WCW's greatest pet project in the 1990s. Stepping into a wrestling ring straight out of the NFL, Goldberg quickly became a hot act despite his minimal ring ability, generic look (that was essentially a ripoff of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin) and lack of mic skills. What he did possess was intensity, charisma and a devastating Spear/Jackhammer combo that put 173note the actual number is disputed wrestlers on their backs for the 1-2-3, while picking up a WCW United States and later Heavyweight championship along the way. Things started going downhill when he lost the championship to Kevin Nash via interference from Scott Hall and a taser. Goldberg floundered around for a bit before being given an ill-advised heel turn at the hands of Vince Russo. Following the closure of WCW and a brief stint in All Japan Pro Wrestling, Goldberg signed with WWE in 2003, which, despite a three-month world title reign, didn't do much for Goldberg or WWE. Goldberg's contract expired the next year and after both he and Brock Lesnar were booed out of the arena at WrestleMania XX, he retired from wrestling never to be seen again. At least not until 2016, when it was revealed that he was the Pre-Order Bonus character for WWE 2K17, which led to fans speculating that Goldberg might return to the ring, especially since this is the deal that led Sting to do the same a few years prior and Goldberg stated in an interview that he'd like to have one last match for his wife and son. The fans were proven right as Goldberg announced that he would return one last time in order to challenge Lesnar again, promptly squashing the Invincible Villain right in the middle of the ring, to thunderous approval from the fans. Goldberg extended the "last match" into a "last run", eliminating Lesnar from the Royal Rumble, defeating Kevin Owens for the Universal championship at FastLane, then dropping it to Lesnar at WrestleMania 33. Although fans turned on Goldberg again following the title win, and actually cheered for Lesnar after he beat Goldberg, Goldberg appeared the next night and thanked the fans for his last run while leaving the door open for another in the future. He was announced as the inaugural inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2018. Goldberg's WWE return also seems to have revitalized his acting career and mainstream presence, with him appearing in the aptly titled The Goldbergs, Nine Legends, American Satan, The Grand Tour, The Flash and a few commercials. | |
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Hulk Hogan. THE biggest wrestling star of The '80s, Hogan's career stalled in the mid '90s after a combination of steroid allegations (promptly ridding him of his reputation for being a good role model for children), a disastrous movie career, and especially jumping to WCW while still retaining the tired gimmick he'd held for a decade. Seen as old hat, boring and having gotten involved with a group of poor angles and feuds, Hogan's popularity was at an all-time low when the decision was finally made to turn him Heel by being a founding member of the nWo faction. The move sparked interest in wrestling that it hadn't seen since the turn of the decade. Hogan once more became one of the biggest names in wrestling as a leader of the nWo. Hogan's second career resurrection came after his legendary Wrestlemania 18 with The Rock. Booked as a heel as part of an attempt of a nWo resurrection, the Toronto crowd decided they just didn't want to boo the legendary Hulkster. They cheered Hogan and booed The Rock. The Rock switched on the fly, wrestling a more heel style than he'd planned once the crowd turned on him. The next night, also in Toronto, Hogan cut a promo thanking the fans, who at times drowned him out with their ovation. Shortly thereafter Hall and Nash turned on him, and he started coming out in his signature red and yellow to "Real American" once again. He enjoyed a short resurgence and even recaptured the WWE World Title from Triple H in 2002. He briefly left WWE in 2003 after a contract dispute, but returned in 2005 and finished up with WWE in 2007. His in-ring career ended shortly thereafter. |
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Mark Henry was long looked as a financial bust for the WWE, often injured and lethargic in the ring while his long-term contract was an albatross for the company. In 2011, with the company's roster getting thin, they gave Henry another shot as a monster heel. A motivated Henry, backed with great booking as an unstoppable force and the best ring and mic work of his career, won the world title and SmackDown's ratings went up during his reign. Although injury derailed his title run, the fact that Henry was a popular centerpiece of the company for half a year was an accomplishment few saw coming. | |
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Kurt Angle made his WWF debut in 1999 with a lot of hype behind him, as he was the first Olympic Gold Medalist to enter a pro wrestling ring. Kurt lived up to the hype, winning dozens of championships and putting on many classic bouts. As injuries and addictions took their toll on him, WWE fired Angle in 2006 after he refused to go to rehab. He was quickly snatched up by TNA and while he was arguably more successful there than in WWE, many fans grew tired of Angle constantly hogging the spotlight and his personal life went even further down the shitter: his wife Karen left him for Jeff Jarrett and he was arrested several times for drug and alcohol-related offenses. Angle's second wife, Giovanna, convinced Kurt to enter rehab in 2013 and he dedicated himself to getting clean. Kurt left TNA in early 2016 and returned to WWE the following year, with a headlining Hall of Fame induction, a stint as RAW's general manager, and a return to the ring in October to fill in for Roman Reigns in a 3-on-5 handicap TLC match. Angle proved he still had it, and his past struggles have been forgiven. | |
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Once considered a potential heir apparent to John Elway, Tommy Maddox was a first-round pick of the Denver Broncos in 1992 who had fizzled out in Denver, the Los Angeles (later St. Louis) Rams, and the New York Giants and was out of the NFL by 1996. Leave it to Vince McMahon's XFL to make Maddox into the league's sole MVP, and fuel his NFL comeback in 2001. He had two solid, if unspectacular seasons as the Pittsburgh Steelers' starting quarterback in 2002 (good enough for him to win the Comeback Player of the Year award) and 2003, before backing up new Steelers franchise QB Ben Roethlisberger in 2004 and 2005. | |
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While The New Day is a classic example of being Rescued from the Scrappy Heap, the stable itself has proven to be a Career Resurrection for Kofi Kingston. Prior to The New Day, Kingston was strictly being used as a jobber to the stars, rarely winning and not having taken part in any storylines of note since his last United States title reign. Kingston would get another resurgence as a singles competitor on the February 12, 2019 edition of SmackDown. Being a literal last-minute replacement for the injured Mustafa Ali in that year's Elimination Chamber PPV, a Gauntlet match was held to determine who will be the final entrant in the eponymous chamber. Kingston then proceeded to steal the show, first eliminating reigning champion Daniel Bryan, followed by Jeff Hardy, and finally Samoa Joe. He would eventually lose to AJ Styles, but the audience and his peers gave him a standing ovation for giving an excellent performance for over an hour. During said PPV, Kingston would steal the show again and became the final person eliminated by Daniel Bryan to retain the title, but the audience is on their seat during their match and once again gave Kingston a much bigger ovation for his showing. This ultimately led to him challenging for the title at WrestleMania 35 and finally winning it, becoming the first African-born WWE Champion (along with becoming the thirtieth Triple Crown Champion and twentieth Grand Slam Champion) in history. | |
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Max Bialystock in The Musical version of The Producers. He starts all versions of the story as a Jaded Washout whose acclaim and success are far behind him, with seducing little old ladies as backers as his only means of staying afloat. In the original film, his Springtime for Hitler scheme lands him in jail (but with plans to try again), but the musical adaptation (and the musical's own film adaptation) expand on this by having him and his partners pardoned, and restarting his Broadway career successfully with a string of hits (with the titles implying they duplicate Springtime's So Bad, It's Good formula, albeit intentionally). | |
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Edge and Christian both managed to pull this off within a year of each other. Edge was one of the most successful wrestlers of the 2000s, having won several world championships with WWE. Christian was more of a midcard star, but did enjoy a brief stint of success in TNA under his original full ring name of Christian Cage. And together, they were one of the Attitude Era's most popular tag teams. Edge was forced to retire in 2011 due to a neck injury, and while Christian lasted a few more years, he too was out of action by 2014 due to concussions. However, at the 2020 Royal Rumble, Edge made an unexpected return to a thunderous ovation, and came back on a part-time basis for programs with the likes of Randy Orton and Seth Rollins and would go on to win the 2021 Rumble. The latter Rumble is also where Christian made his return, but it turned out WWE would only be a brief detour leading to his true comeback in AEW, where he became Christian Cage again for the first time since 2008. And thanks to AEW's partnership with TNA (then known as Impact Wrestling), he would be back on Impact shortly afterwards and finally won the company's world title for the first time ever (having previously only won the NWA version in his first stint). | |
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Tony Schiavone was WCW's main play-by-play commentator throughout the 1990s. After WCW was bought out by the WWF in 2001, Tony stepped away from the business apart from brief stints in XWF and TNA, and seemed to distance himself from wrestling altogether. However, this would change starting in 2014, with Schiavone participating in WWE Network documentaries celebrating WCW. In 2017, he started a podcast with Conrad Thompson called "What Happened When" where the two discussed Tony's memories of WCW. This re-ignited Tony's passion for the business, leading him to return to wrestling commentary, first for MLW, then for All Elite Wrestling in 2019. | |
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Hogan's second career resurrection came after his legendary Wrestlemania 18 with The Rock. Booked as a heel as part of an attempt of a nWo resurrection, the Toronto crowd decided they just didn't want to boo the legendary Hulkster. They cheered Hogan and booed The Rock. The Rock switched on the fly, wrestling a more heel style than he'd planned once the crowd turned on him. The next night, also in Toronto, Hogan cut a promo thanking the fans, who at times drowned him out with their ovation. Shortly thereafter Hall and Nash turned on him, and he started coming out in his signature red and yellow to "Real American" once again. He enjoyed a short resurgence and even recaptured the WWE World Title from Triple H in 2002. He briefly left WWE in 2003 after a contract dispute, but returned in 2005 and finished up with WWE in 2007. His in-ring career ended shortly thereafter. | |
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Teyon really did themselves no favors when they released the universally panned Rambo: The Video Game, a title that was bashed to high heavens, and the studio, themselves already seen as a no-name, fell even further from grace, practically to the point of being considered a shovelware developer. Then in 2019, out of nowhere, they proceeded to release Terminator: Resistance with virtually no marketing or fanfare. Despite a mixed reception from professional critics, the general gaming populace embraced the game with open arms, praising its gameplay, atmosphere, and clear respect for the franchise, with many even considering it to be better than the film it released alongside. Needless to say, it more than repaired Teyon's reputation, further helped by their solid support of the title in the months that followed, with the announcement of an enhanced edition for the PS5 being greeted with solid approval. | |
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Tony Mandarich was hyped as the greatest offensive line prospect of all time going into the 1989 NFL draft. This was enough for the Green Bay Packers to draft him second that year. Unfortunately, Mandarich was widely believed to have been using steroids (when in fact he only used alcohol and painkillers in the league; Mandarich only did steroids in college), which hindered his on-field performance. He was so bad as a starter that the Packers cut ties with him after the 1991 season, Sports Illustrated called him "The NFL's Incredible Bust", and worst of all, the other four players taken in the Top 5 of his draft class (Troy Aikman, Barry Sanders, Derrick Thomas, and Deion Sanders) carved out Hall of Fame careers. His drug and alcohol addiction soon spiralled out of control, and he went to rehab in 1995. As the sports blog Deadspin put it best, "in a Vanilla Ice-like return from the dead", the Indianapolis Colts gave a newly sober Mandarich a second chance for the 1996 season, where he spent the next three years as a serviceable starter (even protecting Peyton Manning in his rookie season). | |
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Kenny Omega was a fairly popular name in the indy scene for a while, but he was widely considered a B-lister at best and never had anywhere near the same reputation as the likes of Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, or Kevin Steen. Once he left Ring of Honor in 2010, Omega became largely an afterthought in the minds of most wrestling fans. This all changed when he arrived in New Japan during the mid-2010s, where he quickly became a standout member of Bullet Club and provided five-star matches with the likes of Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada, and Tetsuya Naito, including three with Okada that went above the five-star scale, and essentially becoming arguably the hottest name on the industry outside WWE. He then went on to become one of the founders of AEW. | |
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Triple H was on the outs with the then-WWF in 1996 after the infamous "Curtain Call" incident where he and Kliq buddies Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash broke kayfabe in a group-hugging send-off for the latter two. As the only participant whom WWF could realistically punish (Michaels was WWF Champion while Hall and Nash were WCW-bound), the wrestler then known as Hunter Hearst Helmsley lost his planned push as King of the Ring, with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin winning the tournament and skyrocketing to stardom in the process. He did a series of jobs, including one at WrestleMania XII where he was squashed by Ultimate Warrior, who notoriously no-sold his Pedigree finishernote Though the fact that Vince McMahon even bothered jobbing him out instead of just sealing him in a crate and shipping him back to Atlanta says that he at least saw something in the guy. Also, it should be noted that he got squashed by Warrior about 6 weeks before the Curtain Call. But Helmsley soldiered on without complaint, and by the fall of 1997, he had dropped his "Connecticut Blueblood" gimmick for good, launching an edgier, raunchier persona as he and Michaels founded the DX stable. The rest, as they say, is history. | |
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