WWE: 10 Reasons Why Bray Wyatt Is The Next Undertaker

9. Both Are Fan Favourites, Despite Being Heels

Sometimes, things don't work out the way that WWE want them to. They can push someone as a bad guy or a good guy all they like, but if the audience decide otherwise, there's very little they can do about it. John Cena is living proof of that. He is promoted as the WWE equivalent of Captain America, but the audience will boo him out of the building 9 times out of 10. And 'Taker and Bray Wyatt have both been heels, but that doesn't stop the audience loving them. Sometimes, it's just too much fun not to root for the bad guy. The Undertaker hasn't always been a heel, but when he started out, he definitely was. And you can't really blame WWE for expecting him to be perceived as the bad guy, he was all in black, he was associated with death and the occult, and he had a diminutive, comical sidekick. We all learned that that signified evil by watching Saturday morning cartoons in the '80s. But going into the '90s, attitudes were changing, and suddenly the brooding guys in black who fixated on death and Hell weren't the bad guys anymore, they were Batman and Spawn and The Crow, our new heroes. Besides which, The Undertaker was so individual, so captivating and so damn GOOD that you just couldn't help but cheer for the guy.

Bray is much the same, in that he's so unique you can't help but be glued to the screen whenever he's on. Add to this his natural cult-leader style charisma. His gimmick is built around preaching to people, so he has preached to the WWE Universe, and as such, he has formed a bond with them. He speaks to them, and they answer. He sings, and they sing along. He has become an audience favourite because he makes the audience part of everything he does.