10 Disturbing Backstories Behind WWE Gimmicks

9. Bray Wyatt/The Fiend

What Matt Osborne could not do with the Doink character, Bray Wyatt did with his - evolving with it and reaching headliner status.

After nearly a year away from the ring Wyatt, who portrayed the cult leader of the Wyatt Family, came back with one of the most compelling and engrossing characters WWE had seen in years with The Fiend. He sucked viewers into his Mr. Rogers-like children’s show, only to then reveal the horrifyingly Fiend character connected to it. Fan theories ran rampant regarding The Fiend, whether the smiling sweater Fun House character only existed in Wyatt’s mind whilst The Fiend existed in the real world. You never see The Fiend or Bray Wyatt together and The Fiend hauntingly walks to the ring with a lantern inside a replica of Wyatt’s head after all.

On his Fun House segments Wyatt educated viewers on his backstory, filled with pain and suffering, explaining how The Fiend exists to wreak havoc on anyone that once caused Wyatt pain, demonstrated with The Fiend the following year taking out Kane, Daniel Bryan and John Cena. His Firefly Fun House puppets gave clues to his distressing history too, like Huskus the Pig being Wyatt’s bitterness for the Husky Harris character he had to portray in his early days of WWE.