10 Bizarre Times WWE Stars Experimented With Their Gimmick
7. Elias - Ezekiel
Don't let liars tell you this was terrible!
There's a deal amongst enough fans to make it a familiar refrain that the old ways are the only ways. For a not insignificant amount of time, Elias generated a not insignificant amount of heat for his "Drifer" guitar shtick, and it didn't matter a jot that his matches weren't really that good. Name three white hot Elias matches. You can't, which really is something considering that several of his promos approached that grade.
Ezekiel was a dumb bit when the clean-shaven cut-bodied "twin brother" debuted on the post-WrestleMania 38 edition of Raw, but it was a new one, and it turned out that he had more babyface fire than slow-it-down heat in his toolbox all along.
The last good Vince McMahon idea before he resigned in disgrace, Ezekiel was the origin story for Kevin Owens' impotent rage, and though Triple H sent the gimmick packing to the hospital forever, the photoshopped image of the family with slightly different Elias-faces was a last reminder that this company is the one place where something so fundamentally stupid can actually function.