10 Best 'Meet The REAL Villain' Moments In Wrestling History
9. Brodie Lee Is The Dark Order's Exalted One
Far from scanning as a desperate attempt to fix something that seemed irreversibly broken, the late great Brodie Lee's reveal as The Dark Order was strong enough that it almost waved away months of risible plotting around the beleaguered entity.
Lee felt like a big f*cking deal having shouldered some rough years in WWE, and though he never got the crowd responses he richly deserved due to the pandemic, his legacy was forever assured by the transformative impact he had.
A dominant and dangerous heel atop the group made them a dominant and dangerous heel group overnight. It was that simple and that effective, and that was just what audiences were getting on Dynamite.
As The Exalted One, his Vince McMahon impersonation morphed into something altogether purer on Being The Elite, resulting in the rest of The Dark Order getting over as supremely sympathetic babyfaces in the shadow of their evil heel leaders. And it's in Lee's shadow the group will always remain, but there's presumably nowhere else any of them would rather be.