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Green Eagle (World Wrestling Superstar)  (idea #147)
Date: 2005-07-22 
Category: Culture / Performing Arts
Price: Free
Target Audience: Pro wrestling promoters and aspiring young wrestlers who are looking for an appealing identity to assume.

Description: By bridging worlds and representing a rapidly-growing consumer consciousness, wrestling sensation Green Eagle has become one of entertainment's most interesting (and profitable) celebrities. In the highly-encoded world of WWE wrestling personalities, numerous characteristics set the part-Native American muscleman apart from his peers. His tie-dyed headband, silver and turquoise cross pendant, bald eagle icon, and forceful personality blend together in a convincing mix of patriotism, Christian faith, environmentalism, health consciousness, and a dash of hippie idealism. While other wrestlers consume the same brand-name packaged products in between rounds, no matter where the WWE tour takes them, Green Eagle snacks conspicuously on organic produce that's grown locally, appreciating the region's farmers. Where other wrestlers drink commercial sports drinks, Green Eagle quenches his thirst with local tap water, which he drinks from a re-usable Nalgene bottle that's covered with stickers from a carefully-chosen set of environmental organizations, including the Nature Conservancy and the Evangelical Environmental Network. And unlike other wrestlers' tour buses, the Green Eagle Express runs on 100% biodiesel.

In his pre-match interviews, Green Eagle usually takes the high ground-- a strong, silent type who's more likely to quote the book of Genesis, or a traditional prayer from the local indigenous population, than to talk trash. But when he's pitted against wrestlers such as Johnny Nitro or Joey Mercury, whom he sees as representing shameless excess, Green Eagle shows a ferocious, righteous streak, laying into his opponents for their disrespect of Creation and mocking their weakness from filling their bodies with chemical preservatives and poisons.

Green Eagle's distinctive persona has drawn a diverse range of fans, including the countless wrestling enthusiasts who are starting to trade fast food for the increasingly-popular organic produce offerings at Wal-Mart. Other fans include farmers and artisanal food producers nationwide, and intellectual hipster types who never followed pro wrestling at all until they started reading about Green Eagle in the leftie press. These new fans have measurably boosted WWE event attendance in many coastal cities-- a whole new audience for the sport. They typically come to the shows in safe "field trip" groups, and cheer their hero and the message that he's bringing to newly-receptive ears across America with the enthusiasm of a Semiotics professor at a Madonna concert. You can usually identify these new pro wrestling fans by sight, and by the way they pepper their conversation with numerous Obligatory Distancing Comments that ensure their like-minded companions that they have little in common with the other closed-minded members of the audience.

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