10 Precise Moments WWE's Best Ever Gimmicks Stopped Working

4. Goldust

If you have children who stumble across 'Sabledust' on the WWE Network, good luck. Here's a quick PSA: Goldust's entire 'Artist Formerly Known As' experimental phase from 1997-98 should be avoided generally by anyone with kids. It's just a bad time for everyone.

The golden outfits of before were replaced with increasingly more out-there attires, and Luna Vachon's stint as Goldie's erm... pal was more intense than the average rollercoaster ride. This was not a banner period for Dustin Rhodes, nor was it progressive in a good way. 'TAFKA' Goldust killed the original's genius play on psychological mind games and sexual prejudice.

It wasn't a running commentary on anything in particular, and was weird for the sake of being weird. When Goldust first took steps away from his blonde hair, golden paints and dazzling costumes in favour of oddity mishmash garbage, people stopped paying attention to him as much.

That irony wasn't delicious.