10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1990
2. Jacques Rougeau Moves Between His Two Most Famous Gimmicks In The Same Year
A good midcard babyface tag act and a fantastic heel one, The Fabulous Rougeaus had just about reached their natural expiration point in 1990.
After losses to The Bushwhackers and The Rockers on house shows and defeat against the former pair at the 1990 Royal Rumble, that was it for the 'All-American Boys'. But not quite the end of the line for Jacques Rougeau, even if it took the better part of a year for the man to return under the gimmick that arguably became his most famous.
Having simply disappeared from view as a tag star, vignettes of a new character called "The Mountie" hassling various Canadians to follow his archaic rule started airing in December, with commentator Vince McMahon even confirming that this was indeed the man we'd all seen wrestling with his brother relatively recently. Far from being just another human cartoon, Rougeau's conversion to joining the RCMP was apparently part of him wanting to reclaim some law and order in and around his own life.
It was ultimately much less subtle (but no less effective a repackage) in execution. Speaking of which...