10 BEST Wrestling Rip-Offs
4. Sting (The Crow)
There's a lot to enjoy from going back and watching Sting's transition from heart-on-sleeve WCW lifer to iconoclastic loner in 1996, particularly in how his look shifted from the last vestiges of the surfer act to the era-defining aesthetic that became his calling card.
Crucial to its completion was Scott Hall, and not just because he was one of the men stood on the opposite side of the ring every time Sting hit the ring. Hall was the one who suggested taking inspiration from The Crow, look included.
In the 1994 film, Brandon Lee's Crow exerts a campaign of revenge as a vigilante, decked out mostly in black with the relatively expressionless white face to boot. He's neither a man of the law nor the people in this moment, but operating for himself for a greater good. This suited Sting's motivations to a tee, particularly in the exceptional early stages of the New World Order angle and especially due to the colour scheme matching theirs rather than the WCW group he'd finally side with after almost a year of watching from the rafters.