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...ways walked the line between cute and scary in that regard, and communicating in non-verbal ways using non-human characters.
The other main droid, C-3PO has always been a personal favourite of mine. I really relate to his fear of death (among other things), although I doubt most self-aware robots in the future will be as sympathetic and benevolent to humans as he is. Like Artoo, he allows for unique narrative situations because of h...
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As mentioned above, Cena is the modern day Kurt Angle (but was less technical.) Both are good guys who are generally hated for being good guys and are both pro American, which usually gathers support in the WWE.
However, the Cena issue differs for three reasons:
1) Angle had rivals. When Angle would come with his good guy shtick it would be contrasted against DX, a hardcore wrestling match or The Godfather. Cena has no real bad rivals to play against, meaning that his good guy persona comes across as patronizing to a large section of the WWE audience.
2) Cena is way over promoted, whereas Angle was rationed as a ‘good heel.’ Linking to the point above, the lack of rivals means Cena has had to carry the company at times and this has meant his product has become streched too thin. Angle could be saved and rationed, Cena is overused and many of his angles have been repeated multiple times.
3) Angle was unique, as he could play the good guy/ass kiss against a whole heap of rebels (DX, Austin, The Great One, Undertaker,Kane) whereas the ratio has become inverted with lots of ‘happy’ WWE performers (The Usos, The New Day etc) to few bad asses (The Wyatts and potentially Kevin Owens.) This has meant that Cena no longer stands alone on the ‘good guy platform’ he has to share it, weakening his output.
Does this qualify as racist?
