10 WWE Gimmicks That Started Elsewhere

10. Lex Luger

Another gimmick that basically borrowed from the man already portraying it, 'The Narcissist' Lex Luger wasn't a huge leap froward from WCW's 'Total Package' beyond a few WWE (and Bobby Heenan) bells and whistles.

But how could it be? Not to completely steal from 'The Brain's gushing praise for his new associate at the 1993 Royal Rumble, but look at him.

So when the stories from the time, Luger had plenty of narcissism flowing through him (along with other things...) and the use of the mirror was as much a heel prop in real life as it was Luger's favourite spot when he wasn't wrestling.

The character was just five months old when Lex was infamously repackaged as a Hulk Hogan surrogate with a bus, but there's a timeline somewhere in which McMahon goes all the way with the heel version that probably makes for a more prosperous outcome. He'd proven in WCW just how well he could work as a muscle-bound heel against fiery babyfaces, and WWE could have lined up loads of them.

Ultimately, we got what we got, Luger got jack sh*t, and it was only when he returned to the birthplace of the gimmick in 1995 that he got to realise much of that lost potential.