A 9 year old boy was brutally murdered when he was forced to imitate his favorite wrestler/video game character, Parachute McKenzy.
McKenzy, known to wrestling fans around the world for his unorthodox ring entrance in which he jumps off of a roof and parachutes to the ring, and his catch phrase, "Try this at home, Kids!", is a former WWE wrestler from the late 90s.
After retiring from wrestling, McKenzy had a brief career as a video game star. His first appearance would be as an exclusive bonus character in the Dreamcast version of Soul Calibur II, he would also later appear in the crossover fighting game "Capcom Vs. Parachute McKenzy: Another Age of Heroes". However, it wasn't until he starred in the critically acclaimed "SKY DIEver: Blood in the Clouds", a game where Parachute McKenzy teams up with rapper, 50 Cent, to fight Nazi Zombies from the future, that McKenzy's career as a video game character would really begin to take off.
Unfortunately, that success would be short lived. In 2005 McKenzy murdered his wife and son, leaving Bibles next to their bodies, and then hung himself using his own parachute. It was a tragic event that was immediately blamed on steroids.
This would be the last anyone would hear of Parachute McKenzy, until November of last year when THQ released the video game "Smackdown Vs. Raw 2009." The game, which features McKenzy as an unlockable character, was heavily criticized for it's T rating despite including such a controversial character.
"It should have been rated M," said one concerned mother with nothing better to do. "It doesn't say anywhere on the box that this wrestler is included in the game. This is an outrage! This game should be banned from stores, and THQ should be ashamed for marketing it to children!"
"Parachute McKenzy is huge star in both wrestling and video games," said a spokesman for THQ. "So it made perfect sense to include him in a video game about wrestling. We wanted him to be a surprise, so we made him a secret unlockable character in the Wii version of the game. To unlock him, all you have to do parachute off of your roof with two Wii controllers(one in each hand) while flapping your arms like a bird."
"They just don't care," says an expert who doesn't play video games but is still an expert on them somehow. "All these video game developers care about is making money. Kids play these games and then they go out and they kill eachother, they become obese, they cause global warming, they get pregnant, they do drugs, and they get molested by pedophiles. Meanwhile these game developers just sit back and make money off of it. It's outrageous! THQ had to know this would happen. If a kid plays a game that has a character with a parachute in it, of course they're going to try to parachute off of their own roof and kill themselves. Why wouldn't they?"
In response, THQ has done a recall on the game and has promised that all future copies of the game will come with a working parachute to ensure that kids don't kill themselves trying to make their own.
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This article really disappointed after that T_T.
My bad, sir. D:
Nice.