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Mr. America

Aroo's Smackdown Files #9: Mr. America


After Hulk Hogan was forced to sit out by Vince McMahon in 2003 shortly after his Wrestlemania match, vignettes of a new Superstar aired on TV, promoting a mysterious, yet patriotic man known only as "Mr. America", leading to his debut on the Smackdown brand the show after Backlash in a main event spot, debuting on an episode of Piper's Pit. And debut he did, sporting all of his idol (Hulk Hogan)'s mannerisms and attire, including his blonde mustache, his 24 inch pythons, his weightlifting belt, feather boa (decked in blue), and his theme song. A fellow Hulkamaniac, who trained, said his prayers and ate his vitamins, he also inherited the ability to 'Hulk Up', in much the same manner as Hulk Hogan, and also had a thunderous leg drop. And paranoid did it make Vince McMahon, which he could do nothing about at all, with Mr. America having the most lucrative contract in the wrestling business; signed 'sight unseen' by Stephanie McMahon, with a clause that he could not be fired or suspended for whatever reason. Unless, of course, he was discovered to be Hulk Hogan...

This would lead Vince on a borderline obsession to rid Hulkamania and Mr. America once and for all, with multiple attempts to rip off his mask; or otherwise force Mr. America to reveal his 'true identity', the most notable of these being a lie detector test where it backfired on Mr. McMahon massively, confessing to the world that he fantasized about Mae Young.

Ultimately however, Mr. McMahon would finally get his way; after Mr. America took off his mask, as what he usually did after Smackdown finished taping, he would show the world on the next episode of Smackdown the conclusive evidence that Mr. America was in fact Hulk Hogan, and would fire both of them. Hulk Hogan would not be seen again in the WWE until almost two years later in 2005. In real life, Hogan walked out of the WWE over monetary disputes.


3 costumes, full logic and AI, 137 points.