Costumed wrestling heel VS costumed vigilante face
August 4, 2015 2:04 PM Subscribe
After months of social media sparring, the Arrow TV superhero / WWE fanboy / giant nerd actor Stephen Amell will don full Oliver Queen-ish kayfabe to face his WWE nemesis Stardust on WWE Monday Night RAW. [Mild Arrow season 3 / The Flash season 1 spoilers within]
Does this make wrestling canon in DC (and Marvel) now? Will this delightful publicity deathmatch see the return of the boxing glove arrow? Will Amell wear his newest Green Arrow garb or opt for his classic shirtless look? Can Stardust defeat the salmon ladder challenge?
Perhaps this will launch the cage-match battle promised by the Three Minute Fight Club: Arrow, Flash, Arsenal, Black Canary, Firestorm, and Atom versusJOHN BARROWMAN Malcolm Merlyn, Ra's al-Ghul, Captain Cold, Heatwave, and Reverse Flash. THE FIGHT IS ON!
Does this make wrestling canon in DC (and Marvel) now? Will this delightful publicity deathmatch see the return of the boxing glove arrow? Will Amell wear his newest Green Arrow garb or opt for his classic shirtless look? Can Stardust defeat the salmon ladder challenge?
Perhaps this will launch the cage-match battle promised by the Three Minute Fight Club: Arrow, Flash, Arsenal, Black Canary, Firestorm, and Atom versus
But is it a singing fish-based trick arrow?
The salmon ladder has become nigh unto a beloved full cast member in the Arrowverse, and I have no doubt it could gain sentience to come to the aid of its comrades in battle.
posted by nicebookrack at 2:38 PM on August 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
The salmon ladder has become nigh unto a beloved full cast member in the Arrowverse, and I have no doubt it could gain sentience to come to the aid of its comrades in battle.
posted by nicebookrack at 2:38 PM on August 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
So I know nothing about wrestling but Arrow is one of my favorite series ever.
My question is about WWE canon- in WWE canon, is Stephen Amell, Actor, the character that is competing with Stardust or is it Ollie/Arrow?Is he playing himself or is this supposed to be a characted from the Arrowverse vibrating through dimensions to confront Stardust?
Either way this is really fun. Great post, too.
posted by kittensofthenight at 2:46 PM on August 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
My question is about WWE canon- in WWE canon, is Stephen Amell, Actor, the character that is competing with Stardust or is it Ollie/Arrow?Is he playing himself or is this supposed to be a characted from the Arrowverse vibrating through dimensions to confront Stardust?
Either way this is really fun. Great post, too.
posted by kittensofthenight at 2:46 PM on August 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
a characted from the Arrowverse vibrating through dimensions to confront Stardust
"Wait, the Arrow can't fly!"
"I told you, I'm not the Arrow, I'm Stephen Amell."
The obvious answer is that Oliver Queen and Stephen Amell are one and the same, and it is Mr. Queen who has been vibrating through to our dimension to act on TV shows and be entertaining on Twitter. It's easy to do your own stunts when you're a superhero!
Arrow has rapidly ascended to one of my favorite series ever as well. It's the perfect blend of grimdark, melodrama, humor, eyecandy, heart, and unironic nerdy glee to cement my affections forever. I'll be DVRing a wrestling show for after work next Monday, Amell, look what you've brought me to!
posted by nicebookrack at 3:08 PM on August 4, 2015 [3 favorites]
"Wait, the Arrow can't fly!"
"I told you, I'm not the Arrow, I'm Stephen Amell."
The obvious answer is that Oliver Queen and Stephen Amell are one and the same, and it is Mr. Queen who has been vibrating through to our dimension to act on TV shows and be entertaining on Twitter. It's easy to do your own stunts when you're a superhero!
Arrow has rapidly ascended to one of my favorite series ever as well. It's the perfect blend of grimdark, melodrama, humor, eyecandy, heart, and unironic nerdy glee to cement my affections forever. I'll be DVRing a wrestling show for after work next Monday, Amell, look what you've brought me to!
posted by nicebookrack at 3:08 PM on August 4, 2015 [3 favorites]
That Stardust chap really goes the full Shatner in his acting, doesn't he?
posted by pipeski at 3:31 PM on August 4, 2015
posted by pipeski at 3:31 PM on August 4, 2015
I don't know if he's acknowledged it, but Stardust strikes me as a cross between Romero's Joker and Gorshin's Riddler. I do enjoy the commitment to the character in interviews and such.
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 4:01 PM on August 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 4:01 PM on August 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
Since when has the WWE ever stuck to 'canon'?
They've done a crossover with THE FLINTSTONES.
(I was surprised to see there's no official link to WWE's Raw or Smackdown shows in the Tommy Westphall Universe... too fake for that?)
Still, I'd be less interested in a crossover with Oliver Queen's salmon ladder than John Oliver's salmon cannon.
Canon? CANNON!
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:16 PM on August 4, 2015
They've done a crossover with THE FLINTSTONES.
(I was surprised to see there's no official link to WWE's Raw or Smackdown shows in the Tommy Westphall Universe... too fake for that?)
Still, I'd be less interested in a crossover with Oliver Queen's salmon ladder than John Oliver's salmon cannon.
Canon? CANNON!
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:16 PM on August 4, 2015
Last season Arrow featured a pivotal fight scene atop a dam and OH MAN I am now so sad that a salmon cannon was not weaponized for this event.
posted by nicebookrack at 5:26 PM on August 4, 2015
posted by nicebookrack at 5:26 PM on August 4, 2015
Stardust plays a WWE video game on the video screen at Levi Stadium, as his previous "persona", Cody Rhodes. (His opponent is R-Truth, real name: Ron Killings).
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 8:42 PM on August 4, 2015
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 8:42 PM on August 4, 2015
I can't believe Mr. Killings passed up such a perfect built-in wrestling name.
posted by nicebookrack at 8:48 PM on August 4, 2015
posted by nicebookrack at 8:48 PM on August 4, 2015
No one has yet mentioned that Stardust is the son of recently deceased wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes.
RIP, Dream.
posted by Billiken at 6:42 AM on August 5, 2015
RIP, Dream.
posted by Billiken at 6:42 AM on August 5, 2015
No one has yet mentioned that Stardust is the son of recently deceased wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes.
Rumor has it that, after Dusty's death, WWE wanted to turn Stardust (Cody Rhodes) into a face (good guy) and/or turn him back to Cody Rhodes, but Cody pointed out that his father* would have wanted him to stay in character and finish the angle.
* -- From Grantland's Dusty Rhodes obituary: "In a recent interview, [Cody and Dustin, his other wrestler son] said that when they were growing up, Dusty didn’t even acknowledge that wrestling was fake around the house. Cody was 12 when the Four Horsemen broke his father’s leg, and Dusty wore the cast and crutches around at home to keep up the act. He cared so much about the show that he was playing to an audience of two the same way he’d play to a sold-out Omni in Atlanta. 'He doesn’t want the magic to end,' Cody said. 'He loves it so much.'"
posted by Etrigan at 6:52 AM on August 5, 2015 [2 favorites]
Rumor has it that, after Dusty's death, WWE wanted to turn Stardust (Cody Rhodes) into a face (good guy) and/or turn him back to Cody Rhodes, but Cody pointed out that his father* would have wanted him to stay in character and finish the angle.
* -- From Grantland's Dusty Rhodes obituary: "In a recent interview, [Cody and Dustin, his other wrestler son] said that when they were growing up, Dusty didn’t even acknowledge that wrestling was fake around the house. Cody was 12 when the Four Horsemen broke his father’s leg, and Dusty wore the cast and crutches around at home to keep up the act. He cared so much about the show that he was playing to an audience of two the same way he’d play to a sold-out Omni in Atlanta. 'He doesn’t want the magic to end,' Cody said. 'He loves it so much.'"
posted by Etrigan at 6:52 AM on August 5, 2015 [2 favorites]
Maybe AmellArrow the reformed killer will help Stardust turn over a new face leaf.
posted by nicebookrack at 7:12 AM on August 5, 2015
posted by nicebookrack at 7:12 AM on August 5, 2015
Maybe RhodeStardust the heel will will ambush Arrow in Starling City to rearrange his face. DC loves a crossover, just saying.
posted by otherchaz at 8:49 AM on August 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by otherchaz at 8:49 AM on August 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
The match has started! I have no idea what's happening!
posted by nicebookrack at 6:00 PM on August 10, 2015
posted by nicebookrack at 6:00 PM on August 10, 2015
The Miz insulted Amell's acting and is now the nemesis of every fan on #AmellGetsRaw.
posted by nicebookrack at 7:10 PM on August 10, 2015
posted by nicebookrack at 7:10 PM on August 10, 2015
DAMMIT NOW I HAVE TO WATCH SUMMER SLAM
posted by nicebookrack at 7:42 PM on August 10, 2015
posted by nicebookrack at 7:42 PM on August 10, 2015
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Since I don't watch Arrow I'm choosing to interpret this as a particularly complex, fish-based trick arrow and I refuse to admit it might not be the truth.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 2:23 PM on August 4, 2015 [5 favorites]