I think it’s fine so long as the other guy also has a chainsaw or giant spider (or at least the option of a chainsaw or giant spider if he so chooses)

What you’re describing is essentially what professional wrestling has become. Where once a distracted (or unconscious) referee and an opportunistic steel chair across the back of the sconce was a spectacular (and dastardly) capper to a dramatic match, it has now become par for the course. The success of Extreme/Hardcore wrestling has meant that the bar has been pushed increasingly higher, with ever more violent and outrageous payoffs demanded.

Don’t get me wrong, some of the most entertaining bits of televisions I’ve ever witnessed have involved high-flying, tag-team, “Table-Ladder-Chairâ€? matches (the really hurtful kind of TLC), but the joys of wrestling have always been the cartoonish nature of the violence. I haven’t watched it in a few years but when last I did there was an increasingly (and depressingly) prevalent trend for the acting out of “domestic violenceâ€? scenarios – with female characters being smacked around by beer-swilling bores like Steve Austin.

I really must post my planned paean to 80s wrestling soon…

Anyway, the point I was initially going to make was that while I can allow Mark, John, Jack, Sam and even David, there will never, ever be a convincing wrestler named “Peter”