10 Times WWE Fans Forced A Face Turn

Face turns rarely have the same impact as heel turns. This is because it's a lot more surprising to see a good guy do something bad than it is a bad guy do something good.

Imagine, for example, Daniel Bryan drop-kicking a small puppy into a swimming pool. It's shocking, isn't it? Certainly more shocking than Braun Strowman helping an old woman across the street, at any rate.

But face turns still, occasionally, make for compelling viewing, particularly when they have been driven by the WWE audience themselves, instead of Vince McMahon's own personal, big muscly-man fantasies.

This generally happens when a wrestler simply entertains us too much to be jeered, and the fans - sensing they have a chance to change the course of wrestling history - then refuse to dance to beat of the WWE drum until they rip up their script.

When you put it like that, it sounds kind of childish: stamping your feet until you get what you want - but it's tended to work for many of wrestling's backstage divas, so you can't really blame us for trying.

On paper, a psychotic fan with an unhealthy obsession with one of the WWE Divas sounds like the perfect heel.

The problem, of course, was that Mickie - instead of being a creepy, middle-aged bloke - was a good-looking young woman. Besides which, she was also a terrific wrestler, in an era when many women of the company's female cast simply weren't.

Though she emerged from her WrestleMania 22 match with Trish Stratus a heel, Mickie never quite managed to turn the crowd against her. Fans were yearning for a new figure to spearhead the Women's Title Division that had for so long (and with good reason) been dominated by Trish and Lita.

By the end of her first 12 months with the company, she was officially a face. A face who was still, from to time, given to the occasional psychotic episode, granted, but that didn't exactly stop Undertaker or Mick Foley from being cheered either.