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How do the WWE decide which wrestler of a tag-team will take the team's theme once they break up i.e. Miz and Morrison, Carlito and Primo, Hardys, Edge & Christian?

WWE creative will probably suit it to the performer they feel would get the best reaction to it. Usually whichever performer turns heel will end up with a new, fresh theme song.

Around the time of PS2 "Smackdown: Just Bring It!" and N64 "WWF No Mercy" there were websites where they would give you the exact attributes and body information to create superstars not on the game (Rob Van Dam, Abdullah the Butcher, WCW/ECW wrestlers). Are there any websites like that now for the new Smackdown VS Raw series or for the TNA game?

There are. Google Create A Wrestler along with Smackdown vs. Raw or TNA Impact.

Was The Great Khali ever athletic? I remember when Andre The Giant first began wrestling, he regularly left his feet to perform a splash or leg drop etc. Did Khali ever perform these moves or has he been just power and immovable?

He's always been awful.

Who is in charge of a wrestler's look? For instance, was it Jeff Hardy's idea to do the facepaint or was he encouraged/told by creative to do it? Same with Mysterio and his different masks, Morrison's coats etc.

It all really depends on the background of the wrestler. When it comes to guys as they are coming up through smaller companies, it's all their creativity. In the larger companies, they are given suggestions and then modify is to their own liking, but everything is cleared ahead of time before it pops up on television. In the case of Hardy and Mysterio, it was their idea. Morrison's coat is a runoff-off of the MNM gimmick,

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