10 Best Ever WWE WrestleMania Entrances

3. John Cena (WrestleMania 25)

Shawn Michaels WrestleMania XIV
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Few entrances in WrestleMania history had a better subtext than John Cena's army of clones that flanked him at the 2009 half-century celebration.

Cleverly flinging criticisms of Cena's cookie-cutter character back in the faces of audience members they'd been stubbornly subduing for years, WWE employed approximately 100 extras to dress as 'The Champ' to perform his by-then-insufferable 'U Can't C Me' pose as Cena himself charged through the path to the ring they'd made ahead of his arrival.

Like everything about the entire John Cena story in WWE, it's absolutely f*cking absurd, and brilliant with it. Bombastic, batsh*t and without a hint of subtlety, it's Vince McMahon's 'more is always more' vision in glorious technicolour, saved only from sheer insanity by the fact 'Big Match John' tended to stick to black t-shirts at the time instead of his neon palettes in later years.

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