10 Collector’s Items Of Modern WWE Brilliance

4. The Firefly Fun House Match

The Firefly Fun House was a cruel glimpse of the Bray Wyatt character actually working, in its own specific context, with the full breadth of the performer's imagination fuelling it.

The crux of the character failed every single time he went 50/50 in a mid match because the Bray Wyatt character cannot exist within the traditional context of professional wrestling. Bray Wyatt either has literal magical powers or a mind so formidable that he can control the minds of others. And yet, in what is a rather inconvenient achilles heel, he can't do this in the confines of the squared circle.

"He was an intellectual mastermind and a terrifying monster...and then the bell rang," to paraphrase Bruce Prichard.

At WrestleMania 36, John Cena entered a metaphysical Jungian nightmare dreamt up by Bray Wyatt, and was forced to confront his latent heel shadow self in a fantastic takedown of his myth. In an inspired aesthetic touch, the funny, sobering and audacious story was told through the kaleidoscope of WWE and WCW's vibrant history; Wyatt and Cena's work here somehow contrived to make WrestleMania 36 feel like a WrestleMania.

The twist was catharsis for Cena's many detractors; as he literally punched down into the face of Huskus the Pig Boy, he realised that he was the heel he always resisted turning into.

Wyatt, for the first and only time, had realised his power.