10 Times WCW Broke With Reality

10. Seven

After serving in WWE as face-painted weirdo Goldust, Dustin Runnels returned to WCW as face-painted weirdo Seven. In 1999 he appeared in several short vignettes to hype the new character for its debut...

Unfortunately for everyone concerned, the vignettes suggested Seven was a child-bothering creep. He lurked outside a child's window, encouraged the tot to 'join him and live forever', and finally to 'sleep'. The character was less 'professional wrestler' and more 'child abductor', and was so off-putting it never even made it to his first match.

Dustin Runnels appeared on Monday Nitro for his live debut. Runnels, in full white facepaint and leather flashing mac, immediately broke character and complained about how stupid his gimmick was, along with how dumb Goldust also was, and re-branded himself as the 'American Nightmare' Dustin Runnels.

Whether Runnels genuinely broke character, or whether they whole thing was a ploy to kill off the creepy character and keep using Runnels while getting a 'worked shoot' angle going, is still unclear.

Whatever Seven's purpose really was, it was extremely weird, as was the bilious promo Runnels gave about how much it sucked.