Legendary WWE superstar John Cena has made a cryptic GTA 6 reference on Instagram. But fans reckon they know exactly what it means, with him poking fun at the game's looming release.
It comes after the legendary professional wrestler-turned-actor shocked the entire WWE universe after Cena 'turned heel' on Saturday night's Elimination Chamber live on Netflix with millions watching on.
Winning the big match to secure himself a place at WrestleMania in April against world champion Cody Rhodes, the legendary baby face (wrestling terminology for a good guy) turned heel (became a big old bad guy) by turning on Rhodes.
Cena and The Rock standing over Cody Rhodes after the huge heel turn (Rich Freeda/WWE via Getty Images)
John Cena shows up 'naked'
In doing this, he became the sidekick of The Rock during his 'Final Boss' run, which is kind of like a 'do what he wants overlord' of the whole thing.
It sent shockwaves throughout the WWE universe, with it being called the biggest moment in professional wrestling for decades and going completely viral, viewed millions of times outside of the live event.
Undoubtedly for some, it will be the biggest moment in their lifetime.
But what's the link to GTA 6?
Well, taking to Instagram in the days after the huge twist, Cena posted the GTA 6 poster that we've all become familiar with since it was first released back in December 2023.
Cena shocked millions of fans (Georgiana Dallas/WWE via Getty Images)
As always, Cena never posts words with his Instagram images but they usually have a link to modern pop culture or something he's done.
In another post, he posted a picture of Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight Rises, who goes from saintly mayor of Gotham City to the supervillain Two Face.
Fans immediately got what this meant, with one person quoting the famous Dent dialogue from the movie: "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
Deep stuff. But the Grand Theft Auto VI reference is seemingly a lot more light-hearted and a reference to a longstanding meme about the game.
With it now being 12 years since the last GTA instalment, huge moments in pop culture are used to show just how long it's been since GTA 5 with the 'we got ... before GTA 6'.
The stare that changed it all (Georgiana Dallas/WWE via Getty Images)
In this case, it seems we most definitely got the biggest moment in WWE history, with the nicest guy in the industry turning in to the most shocking of bad guys, before we got GTA 6. You've just got to laugh at this stage.
It's definitely one for both video game and wrestling fans, but if you understand either of them you understand the magnitude of what happened.
Cena is set to retire from professional wrestling at the of 2025, with him moving in to an out-of-ring career with the WWE, while he continues his time exploring Hollywood in a similar vein to his WWE colleague, The Rock.
For many, a villainous Cena was the dream but seemed too far away from anything that was ever going to really happen.
Times, though, they are a changing.
Published 13:33 21 Feb 2025 GMT
GTA 6 fans begging for release date given important reminder over why they should trust Rockstar
Rockstar knows how to perfect a game and part of that comes down to the resource and time... Just look at Red Dead Redemption 2
The era of GTA 6 is almost here, with fans begging for a release date after Take-Two Interactive reconfirmed it is going to be released later this year.
We've no date as it stands, only a period with the fall/autumn earmarked by bosses at Take-Two and developer Rockstar for the releases to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
Fans think they've narrowed down this window due to the release of another Take-Two game that, they say, puts September off of the table.
PC fans have had hope, with one gaming insider saying we should get a port to computer after just months, rather than years as we saw with GTA 5.
Will we get a second GTA 6 trailer before the game is released? (Rockstar)
Despite all of this positivity in recent weeks, gamers are still desperate for that release date. It's understandable, given how much people love the franchise.
But over on Reddit, one fan has urged calm for one very particular reason.
"Something you have to keep in mind when wondering why GTA 6 is taking so long," one fan posted in the r/GTA6 subreddit.
This was alongside trivia relating to one of Rockstar's previous creations, Red Dead Redemption 2.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Trailer
Arguably the greatest video game of all time (fight me), RDR2 was delayed on three occasions before it was finally released to the public.
Saying it needed extra time to 'polish' the game, it went on to win numerous accolades, winning more than 175 gongs around the world. And part of that was because of the effort included in creating the finished product.
As highlighted in the Reddit post, the game was developed for more than eight years.
All in all, it had 700 voice actors, 300,000 animations, 500,000 lines of dialogue, 1,000 software developers, and 500 motion-capture actors. That's a lot of resource and time needed to create what is deemed to be a perfect game and piece of storytelling.
Red Dead Redemption 2 took ages to make - but it was worth the wait (Chesnot/Getty Images)
Responding to the post, one Redditor said: "Been replaying RDR2 and yeah, the more you play that game the more you realise how detailed GTA 6 will most likely be."
A second user posted: "Rockstar is no copy and paste sports game you get from other companies every year. Pre-production and active development for such games takes time, especially when you have to deal with a pandemic in between."
And a third wrote: "I think majority of people stopped wondering why GTA 6 took so long a while ago, they’re now wondering why trailer two takes so long."
GTA 6 is coming out in the autumn of 2025 (Rockstar)
On the lack of another trailer, another responded: "At this point, GTA 6 will have enough content to make another trailer. They just don't want have to deal with the media hype until it's time to promote."
And a fifth wrote: "We don't need a trailer. We need a release date. It's going to sell regardless [of a second trailer]."
GTA 6 is set to be released in the autumn of 2025.
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