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Three Month Rule
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In professional wrestling, anything that happened more than three months ago is no longer true canon. Professional Wrestling's version of Negative Continuity and Retcon. The unwritten rule states that any events that took place more than three months ago do not need to be considered Canon. This creates interesting situations where two wrestlers who were recently at each other's throats are now the best of friends. It also provides a means for the writers to not have to explain radical changes in anyone's gimmick (went from a millionaire playboy to a voodoo priest and back again? No problem!). Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Japanese professional wrestling rarely uses this trope due to its usual lack of gimmicky elements and the particular star-making dynamics of the discipline; a wrestler's career is expected to be well documented from rookie status, and his alliances, enmities and changes of character are meant to fit in a realistic continuity. In contrast, Mexican lucha libre often enforces an extreme version of the rule, allowing wrestlers to re-debut with new masked identities if needed and treating every mask as if it was a different wrestler. Note that this is different from the Seven Year Rule; after three months, the aftereffects of an angle can be forgotten, but after seven years, the angle itself can be recycled wholesale. |
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An early storyline involving Kane established him as being a deeply disturbed, physically scarred, mute, masked monster. Throughout the years, Kane evolved from being mute, to requiring an electrolarynx to speak, to being able to speak normally. When he was eventually unmasked, his face was completely unscarred. Surprise! And in Kane's 2010 feud with The Undertaker, he claimed that Undertaker removed his mask. They then showed footage of the time Undertaker did remove Kane's mask (but he put it back on the next day, it was two years before his actual unmasking). WWE probably wants people to forget about the Special Effects Failure of Kane's real unmasking. |
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Eddie Fatu started in WWE as a street thug named Jamal, and was a few years later revamped as Umaga, a Wild Samoan. It apparently runs in the family, as Solofa Fatu started out as a Wild Samoan (as half of The Headshrinkers), then became a reformed gang member trying to "make a difference", and eventually became Rikishi, the hip-hop dancing, thong-clad sumo wrestler. | |
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And in Kane's 2010 feud with The Undertaker, he claimed that Undertaker removed his mask. They then showed footage of the time Undertaker did remove Kane's mask (but he put it back on the next day, it was two years before his actual unmasking). WWE probably wants people to forget about the Special Effects Failure of Kane's real unmasking. | |
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Christian and Edge were initially referred to as being on-screen Kayfabe brothers when they were together as a tag team. When they semi-reunited a few years after their breakup, they were only said to be best friends. | |
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