This study investigates professional wrestling as a cultural arena where national identity and emotional politics are performed through narrative structure. By analyzing five emblematic wrestlers—Rikidozan and Antonio Inoki (Japan), Lee Wang-pyo (South Korea), Hulk Hogan and Kurt Angle (USA)—the research reveals how these figures have been constructed as national heroes and how their storylines enact xenophobic tensions and nationalistic sentiment. The study adopts Christopher Vogler’s “The Hero’s Journey” framework, originally developed for analyzing fictional narratives, to examine the real-world myth-making of these athletes. Each wrestler is interpreted through key narrative roles: hero, enemy, mentor, and audience. In particular, the role of the audience is emphasized not as passive observers, but as active participants who engage emotionally, chant national slogans, and perform the moral dichotomy embedded in each match. The presence of "evil foreigners"—represented through exaggerated accents, cultural costumes, or symbolic acts of dishonor—illustrates how professional wrestling becomes a site of symbolic conflict and emotional regulation. Findings indicate that professional wrestling operates as a stage for orchestrating collective emotion, transforming political anxieties into moral narratives. The hero overcomes not only a physical opponent but also a symbolic other, who often embodies real-world geopolitical tension. In this context, professional wrestling is not merely spectacle but a form of cultural propaganda and public pedagogy that instructs audiences on who they are, who they are not, and how to feel about both. This research expands the applicability of narrative theory to political discourse and media performance, offering a new lens through which to understand the emotional labor of nationalism. It also demonstrates the need to include audience affect and performativity in the analysis of modern popular culture.