“Hello everyone and welcome to AWWF Superstars! I’m your host, Carja McMahon along with Popkin “The Body” Ventura.”
“Pickles!”
Okay, so it’s the same joke I opened with last week, but I still like it, so sue me. This week, we continue with the wrestling mash-ups by concluding our look at the faces (good guys). In reality, every single one of these wrestlers (and those from last week) has been a bad guy at some point in their career…wait maybe not Warrior, but they transcended being bad guys by being so good at being bad that people started cheering for them, requiring the company to turn them into good guys. Let’s get back to our ring announcer, shall we? As ever, click to embiggen.
“Oooooh yeah!” “Approaching the ring, accompanied by the Lovely *mumblemumble*, the Intercontinental champion, Oonchy “Macho Fur” Savage!” The 80s Intercontinental title belt is my favorite title belt ever. There’s something about the design I really like which is why I’m glad WWE went back to it this year. I had to include it with someone and Macho Man was the titleholder when I started watching, so he gets the belt here (even though he was a bad guy at the time). There was nobody else to play him than Big Oonch (it helps that he always wore those sunglasses to cover his eyes) because really, who’s the most macho of all the Animus cast members?
“‘The Heartbreak Kid’ Nek Michaels!” I drew Nektara before I drew Zoë and I ran into the same problem with them as I did with the other girls…male wrestlers often go around bare-chested. Here I cheated (like I did with Zoë) and gave Nektara a t-shirt under her vest.
“From Parts Unknown, the Sassiest Warrior!” Sass was not originally going to play the Warrior. But I booted who she was going to play to the bad guy roster, so I needed another idea. Ultimately (see what I did there) I chose Warrior. He was one of my favorites for a time (until he started believing his own hype and went a little loopy). He did wear singlets once or twice, so I felt justified in putting Sass in one, even if hers doesn’t feature any airbrushed artwork.
“The best there is (in his mind), the best there was (in his mind) and the best there ever will be (in his mind), Pink “Hitfur” Rich!” I was going to stay away from the leather jacket, but in the one picture I found of Bret in the pose I wanted he was wearing it so I went for it. I like the buckle.
That’s all for now. Next week, we introduce the heels (bad guys). Seeya then!