10 Ups & 7 Downs For Daniel Bryan’s WWE Career

6. A Hellish Face Turn

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Team Hell No were such a refreshing act—and such a great, essential one, too.

Genuinely hilarious—the premise, that the psychotic demon Kane was the straight man, was really quite sharp—the two men bonded throughout a great When Harry Met Sally riff in which the genre of torture porn brought them together. The visual of Kane, dressed in full gimmick, sat in a cafe, was pitched perfectly.

All of it was, really, particularly the inspired time-lapse edit that affectionately lampooned the Kane character’s preposterous, retconned, epic two-decade arc throughout WWE from Attitude to PG. The easy-going Bryan, a man who didn’t make a fuss at being paired with Big Cass upon his improbable, triumphant return, hilariously portrayed himself as an impatient, Seinfeldian madman constantly at the end of his tether.

The best ever iteration of WWE’s beloved strange bedfellows trope, Team Hell No, remembered for the laughs, also performed in one of the best matches of WWE’s modern history: the Shield’s TLC debut.

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