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Was watching GTLive play secret of the mimic, and we noticed something kinda funny. All of the return letters where people are complaining about the products they bought are signed with the first initial last name of wrestlers who worked in WWE.

So far we've spotted

B Wyatt - Bray Wyatt

E Guerrero - Eddie Guerrero

A Dumas - Real first initial and last name of Lita

R Quin - Real first initial and last name of Becky Lynch, though I think the spelling is off in game

An interesting thing I noticed is that both of the ones they used stage names for are men who have died while the two they used real names for are women who are still alive.

Seems like someone on the dev team is a fan of pro wrestling XD

Just thought this was a neat little thing to notice.

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this is just a little ramble from something me and my friend talked about a bit ago, but I need to share this to fuel my long term special interest lol

Bray Wyatt, more specifically in his Eater of Worlds/Wyatt Family era reminds me a lot of Macbeth.

Throughout his whole career in the WWE, he has constantly been fueled by ambition, his intentions in the 2010s as a character being to bring in more followers for his cause, getting rid of the "sickness" infecting the world and gaining power. Macbeth is obviously not a professional wrestler with a cult leader gimmick lmao, but he also wishes to gain more power once he becomes Thane of Cawdor, along with already being Thane of Glamis.

Both characters already have pre-existing power, Bray having his followers and Macbeth having his titles. However, they both end up being fueled by greed.

Most of Macbeth's greed comes from Malcolm being given the title as Prince of Cumberland, and this leads him giving into his "black and deep desires". While Bray's greed is mostly caused by his want to gain more followers and his hatred towards other wrestlers in the WWE, wishing that he can "smile from my throne as I watch my enemies drown". This causes him to attempt to go after the heavyweight titles, saying that it's "all the power I could ever need" during his segment near the 2014 Money in the Bank.

What I also find interesting is that both Macbeth and Bray's greed are influenced by quite similar people.

Macbeth is influenced by his wife, Lady Macbeth, through the use of pathos, logos, and ethos. She insists to him that he has to kill Duncan in order to get what he wants and ends up becoming the "spur that pricks his side of his vaulting ambition". The same can be said for Bray's influence, his mother figure Sister Abigail. Instead of emasculating Bray, she promises him great things and guides him throughout his younger years, using her power over him as a guardian and referring to fate and a higher power constantly as a form of proof that Bray should trust her words, for example, when she says to him that "they chose you long before you even existed" on her dying breath. The promising of greater things can also be seen in the aftermath of 2014 Payback, when Bray describes how she told him that "your voice will soothe their ears, and your hand will lead their armies".

However, as the story of Macbeth goes, greed can have consequences.

Due to his growing insecurity, Macbeth causes the death of Banquo and attempts to kill Fleance in fear of his title as King of Scotland crumbling too quickly, as Macbeth has no one to pass the crown to. He also causes the downfall of Scotland, Malcolm describing how she "weeps and bleeds" under Macbeth's control to Macduff. With Bray, this comes in the collapse of the Wyatt Family. He valued them along with his power as the Eater of Worlds in the early 2010s. However, when the years grow later, a divide begins to form, as the 2016 draft causes them to separate. Bray accuses Braun near Survivor Series of betraying him when what happened was out of everyone's control, and I believe that Luke being kicked out of the Wyatts is a key point of starting Bray's downfall, because it shows how easily replaceable the members actually were to Bray, much like Banquo to Macbeth.

Macbeth's downfall is shown through his realisation that all of the trouble that he went through to become King meant absolutely nothing in the end, especially through his monologue after finding out about Lady Macbeth's suicide, which then leads up to his death. However, Bray's downfall as the Eater of Worlds is a bit different. Unlike Macbeth, he doesn't show guilt for any of his actions to his family members, likely due to his god complex and the fate apparently laid down for him since he was a child. But, the downward spiral was still present. This is mostly due to issues happening outside of kayfabe, such as Windham's divorce with Samantha, and poor booking decisions made by the WWE. I believe that Bray's "Macbeth death" moment occured after him and Matt Hardy lost the raw tag team championships in 2018 to the B-Team, which signified his loss of power and the period of his absence before the Firefly Funhouse began.

The only differences I see between the two characters is that Macbeth is a tragic hero while Bray is a bit delulu with his cultish tendencies, but that was mostly due to Sister Abigail feeding into his very large ego (sorry 😭).

Anyways that's all for the ramblings of a mad man (me) and feel free to ask me more questions about Bray's character, I especially like his work in the 2010s :3

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You turned our happy upside-down

We're gonna burn your flag and piss on your parade" (piss on your parade)🎶