History DummiedOut / ProfessionalWrestlingGames

* In a rare case of a company actually publicly saying this was happening it was announced two weeks before release that Wrestling/BrockLesnar would be dummied out of ''[=WWE2K24=]'' via a day one patch, thanks to Lesnar being named (sort of[[note]]He's not actually mentioned in the lawsuit filed against [=McMahon=] by ''name'', but the description of a "former UsefulNotes/{{UFC}} champion" really leaves only one possibility. Probably not helping Lesnar's cause here is that UFC and WWE are now one company[[/note]]) in the Wrestling/VinceMcMahon sex scandal.

* In a rare case of a company actually publicly saying this was happening it was announced two weeks before release that Wrestling/BrockLesnar would be dummied out of ''[=WWE2K4=]'' via a day one patch, thanks to Lesnar being named (sort of[[note]]He's not actually mentioned in the lawsuit filed against [=McMahon=] by ''name'', but the description of a "former UsefulNotes/{{UFC}} champion" really leaves only one possibility. Probably not helping Lesnar's cause here is that UFC and WWE are now one company[[/note]]) in the Wrestling/VinceMcMahon sex scandal.

* In a rare case of a company actually publicly saying this was happening it was announced two weeks before release that Wrestling/BrockLesnar would be dummied out of ''[=WWE2K4=]'' via a day one patch, thanks to Lesnar being named (sort of[[note]]He's not actually mentioned in the lawsuit filed against by by ''name'', but the description of a "former UsefulNotes/{{UFC}} champion" really leaves only one possibility. Probably not helping Lesnar's cause here is that UFC and WWE are now one company[[/note]]) in the Wrestling/VinceMcMahon sex scandal.

* Wrestling/JeffJarrett's name and mugshot are hidden in the data for ''[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] [=SmackDown!=]'' on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, due to his having left for Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1999. His parts intended for the game were later included in Smackdown 2's Create A Wrestler mode (as is his music, since Debra continued using it after he left the company).

* Ric Flair was mostly dummied out of ''WCW Thunder'' (and completely removed from ''WCW vs. nWo World Tour'') thanks to a legal dispute with then-WCW Executive Producer Eric Bischoff, giving us the rather hilarious option of being able to make any wrestler in the game a member of the 4 Horsemen... but not being able to use its founder and only consistent member. Flair, along with Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock of Public Enemy, Glacier, Prince Iaukea, and Vincent (aka Virgil), who were also all dummied out, actually ''can'' be used in the game by using an "unlock everything" code at the title screen, though they have no entrances, finishing moves, all use the same moveset, and can't be used in the game's title modes.

* In a couple of similar examples, in 2008 Armando Estrada and Maria both appear in parts of Season Mode, and one of the tag entrances is for Estrada and Wrestling/{{Umaga}}, but neither are selectable in any way. Similarly, in 2011 Hurricane Helms appears in ''Road to [=WrestleMania=]'' (including in a match in Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr's story), has a newly-done entrance and a full moveset, and can be used in the story creator, but for some reason you cannot play as him without hacking.

* Ric Flair was mostly dummied out of ''WCW Thunder'' (and completely removed from ''WCW vs. nWo World Tour'') thanks to a legal dispute with then-WCW Executive Producer Eric Bischoff, giving us the rather hilarious option of being able to make any wrestler in the game a member of the 4 Horsemen... but not being able to use its founder and only consistent member. Flair, along with Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock of Public Enemy, Glacier, Prince Iaukea, and Vincent (aka Virgil), who were also all dummied out, actually ''can'' be used in the game by using an "unlock everything" code at the title screen, though they have no entrances, finishing moves, and all use the same moveset.

* Wrestling/JeffJarrett's name and mugshot are hidden in the data for ''[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] [=SmackDown!=]'' on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, due to his having left for Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1999.

* ''WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2006'' allows you to play as Jerry "The King" Lawler in season mode but you can't unlock him (except presumably with a cheating device). It is possible he was intended to be playable at one point and was dummied out, much like the ''Smackdown 2'' examples. Additionally, unused announcer voice clips in the game's data reveal that Maven, Kenzo Suzuki, and Hulk Hogan as Mr. America were on the roster at some point in development.

* In a couple of similar examples, in 2008 Armando Estrada and Maria both appear in parts of Season Mode, and one of the tag entrances is for Estrada and Wrestling/{{Umaga}}, but neither are selectable in any way. Similarly, in 2011 Hurricane appears in ''Road to [=WrestleMania=]'' (including in a match in Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr's story), has a newly-done entrance and a full moveset, and can be used in the story creator, but for some reason you cannot play as him without hacking.

* Wrestling/{{Jeff Jarrett}} was dummied out on the first WWF Smackdown game. Oddly, his head and ring attire appear as options in the Create-a-Wrestler feature on ''Smackdown 2''. Goldust was also done like this.
* ''[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] Smackdown 2: Know Your Role'' for the first Playstation had two characters dummied out: namely, The Big Show and Wrestling/KenShamrock (the first had been sent down to the developmental leagues, and the second had left the company). Both could be unlocked via a VideoGame/GameShark, but entrances must be disabled as well, as their lack of an entrance video would hang the game. A developer oversight could also be used to encounter The Big Show: In the Royal Rumble mode, the developers mistakenly forgot to remove him as a possible random participant. This leads to a small chance of him entering the Royal Rumble, complete with theme song.

* ''Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth'' was originally intended to feature both Shane [=McMahon=] and nWo member Scott Hall, but were both removed during development (Shane, for unknown reasons, Hall due to his departure from WWE). While a character slot for Shane still exists on the disc (albeit very glitched), there are no remnants of Hall other than a handful of CAW mode parts. Hall's role in Season Mode (which replicated the WrestleMania X8 nWo angle) was instead filled by X-Pac.

* In AKI's next wrestling game, ''WWF Wrestlemania 2000'', a [=GameShark=] code could be used to access an unfinished version of the shootfighting mode that showed up in their next (Japan-only) game, ''Virtual Pro Wrestling 2''.

* ''[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] Smackdown 2: Know Your Role'' for the first Playstation had two characters dummied out: namely, The Big Show and Wrestling/KenShamrock (the first had been sent down to the developmental leagues, and the second had left the company). Both could be unlocked via a GameShark, but entrances must be disabled as well, as their lack of an entrance video would hang the game. A developer oversight could also be used to encounter The Big Show: In the Royal Rumble mode, the developers mistakenly forgot to remove him as a possible random participant. This leads to a small chance of him entering the Royal Rumble, complete with theme song.

* Wrestling/{{Jeff Jarrett}} was dummied out on the first WWF Smackdown game. However, his model remains intact in the Create-a-Wrestler feature on ''Smackdown 2''. Goldust was also done like this.

* Wrestling/{{Jeff Jarrett}} was dummied out on the first WWF Smackdown game. However, his model remains intact in the Create-a-Wrestler feature on the first two ''Smackdown'' games. Goldust was also done like this.

* ''WWE Day of Reckoning 2'', which was released a few months before Smackdown VS Raw 2006, also had Maven dummied out of the roster: apparently, his deletion for this game happened so late in development that he had [[http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/6379/maven9sk.jpg a character model on the game's official website]] for a brief period of time.

* Wrestling/{{WWE}} games:
** ''[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] Smackdown 2: Know Your Role'' for the first Playstation had two characters dummied out: namely, The Big Show and Wrestling/KenShamrock (the first had been sent down to the developmental leagues, and the second had left the company). Both could be unlocked via a GameShark, but entrances must be disabled as well, as their lack of an entrance video would hang the game. A developer oversight could also be used to encounter The Big Show: In the Royal Rumble mode, the developers mistakenly forgot to remove him as a possible random participant. This leads to a small chance of him entering the Royal Rumble, complete with theme song.
** Similarly, ''WWF No Mercy'' for the N64 had a CAW mode face for Big Show and an alternative one for The Rock able to be unlocked with a [=GameShark=], as well as an extra Create a Wrestler slot that would have been unlocked via connecting with the Game Boy Color version had it not been cancelled. A completed texture for the [[http://i43.tinypic.com/1rq0eg.jpg Brahma Bull]] belt is in game, and can be used with texture-modifying [=GameShark=] codes. Presumably, the belt was cut from the game because the real-life version never saw the light of day either; WWF Magazine reported that it was lost in the mail when shipped from the belt maker to WWF.
** ''Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth'' was originally intended to feature both Shane [=McMahon=] and nWo member Scott Hall, but were both removed during development (Shane, for unknown reasons, Hall due to his departure from WWE). While a character slot for Shane still exists on the disc (albeit very glitched), there are no remnants of Hall other than a handful of CAW mode parts. Hall's role in Season Mode (which replicated the WrestleMania X8 nWo angle) was instead filled by X-Pac.
** ''Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain'' infamously had Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, and Jeff Hardy removed prior to release; lesser known is that it had many, many more dummied out characters ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tScvfmtLrk seen here]]). Their data is still on the disc and they can even be selected, but all cause the game to crash (with the exception of Wrestling/AlSnow, who instead strangely loads The Rock's model). There also remains Team Angle sweatsuit alternate attires for Kurt Angle, Charlie Haas, and Shelton Benjamin that are fully useable via [=GameShark=] ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwIR-5Y8ho seen here]]).
** Related, hacking the original ''WWE [=SmackDown=] vs. Raw'' would let one play as the British Bulldog (not in the game in any way), though one of the members of the main roster had to be replaced. There was also voice data for The Rock and Mankind in the game's story mode that was not used.
** ''WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2006'' allows you to play as Jerry "The King" Lawler in season mode but you can't unlock him (except presumably with a cheating device). It is possible he was intended to be playable at one point and was dummied out, much like the ''Smackdown 2'' examples. Additionally, unused announcer voice clips in the game's data reveal that Maven, Kenzo Suzuki, and Hulk Hogan as Mr. America were on the roster at some point in development.
*** ''WWE Day of Reckoning 2'', which was released a few months before Smackdown VS Raw 2006, also had Maven dummied out of the roster: apparently, his deletion for this game happened so late in development that he had [[http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/6379/maven9sk.jpg a character model on the game's official website]] for a brief period of time.
** In a couple of similar examples, in 2008 Armando Estrada and Maria both appear in parts of Season Mode, and one of the tag entrances is for Estrada and Wrestling/{{Umaga}}, but neither are selectable in any way. Similarly, in 2011 Hurricane appears in ''Road to [=WrestleMania=]'' (including in a match in Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr's story), has a newly-done entrance and a full moveset, and can be used in the story creator, but for some reason you cannot play as him without hacking.

** In AKI's next wrestling game, ''WWF Wrestlemania 2000'', a [=GameShark=] code could be used to access an unfinished version of the shootfighting mode that showed up in their next (Japan-only) game, ''Virtual Pro Wrestling 2''.
** In ''WCW Nitro'', Jeff Jarrett was dummied out very shortly before the game was released due to Jarrett leaving WCW on fairly bad terms. Images of Jarrett in the game could be seen on, of all places, the packaging of the [=PlayStation=] itself.
*** Jarrett was also dummied out on the first WWF Smackdown game. However, his model remains intact in the Create-a-Wrestler feature on the first two ''Smackdown'' games. Goldust was also done like this.

** ''Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth'' was originally intended to feature both Shane McMahon and nWo member Scott Hall, but were both removed during development (Shane, for unknown reasons, Hall due to his departure from WWE). While a character slot for Shane still exists on the disc (albeit very glitched), there are no remnants of Hall other than a handful of CAW mode parts. Hall's role in Season Mode (which replicated the WrestleMania X8 nWo angle) was instead filled by X-Pac.

** ''[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] Smackdown 2: Know Your Role'' for the first Playstation had two characters dummied out: namely, The Big Show and Ken Shamrock (the first had been sent down to the developmental leagues, and the second had left the company). Both could be unlocked via a GameShark, but entrances must be disabled as well, as their lack of an entrance video would hang the game. A developer oversight could also be used to encounter The Big Show: In the Royal Rumble mode, the developers mistakenly forgot to remove him as a possible random participant. This leads to a small chance of him entering the Royal Rumble, complete with theme song.

** In a couple of similar examples, in 2008 Armando Estrada and Maria both appear in parts of Season Mode, and one of the tag entrances is for Estrada and Umaga, but neither are selectable in any way. Similarly, in 2011 Hurricane appears in ''Road to WrestleMania'' (including in a match in ReyMysterio's story), has a newly-done entrance and a full moveset, and can be used in the story creator, but for some reason you cannot play as him without hacking.

** ''Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth'' was originally intended to feature both Shane McMahon and nWo member Scott Hall, but were both removed during development (Shane, for unknown reasons, Hall due to his departure from WWE). While a character slot for Shane still exists on the disc (albeit very glitched), there are no remnants of Hall other than a handful of CAW mode parts.

** In a couple of similar examples, in 2008 Armando Estrada appears in one small section of the story and one of the tag entrances is for him and Umaga but he is not selectable in any way, and in 2011 Hurricane appears in ''Road to WrestleMania'' (including in a match in ReyMysterio's story), has a newly-done entrance and a full moveset, and can be used in the story creator, but for some reason you cannot play as him without hacking.

** ''Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain'' infamously had Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, and Jeff Hardy removed prior to release; lesser known is that it had many, many more dummied out characters ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tScvfmtLrk seen here]]). Their data is still on the disc and they can even be selected, but all cause the game to crash (with the exception of Al Snow, who instead strangely loads The Rock's model). There also remains Team Angle sweatsuit alternate attires for Kurt Angle, Charlie Haas, and Shelton Benjamin that are fully useable via [=GameShark=] ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwIR-5Y8ho seen here]]).