Really, all it takes is WWE re-creating their own Drax the Destroyer/Dancing Baby Groot moment and the Batista-as-babyface movement begins in earnest. Ideally, involving the Usos in this moment would be terrific, and really cement everyone involved as babyfaces. In Guardians as the spaceship takes off to end the film, Drax is sharpening his knife as a root of tree-as-man Groot is doing a shimmying dance to the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back." Drax is a tough, hard-nosed character who when he believes Baby Groot is moving, sternly looks at Groot in his pot, and he freezes. Of course, when Groot turns back around, he continues dancing. The idea of the night when Batista returns involving some sort of tag match in the next segment with The Usos wrestling Corporate Kane and Seth Rollins (with say, Randy Orton at ringside - maybe Trinity mouths off at Stephanie to start all of this), and say, things get a bit out of control and the Usos are being beat down 3 on 2 and the returning Batista makes the save. Flash forward to just before the main event, and Batista is in the locker room taping up in one corner alone, while The Usos and Trinity are in the other corner, and seeing Batista in deep concentration, start to get hyped quietly. Batista looks over his shoulder at the corner, and the Usos and Trinity chill out. Batista turns around, and the Usos go back to getting hyped. When Batista turns his head again, the trio stops. Eventually, as Batista finishes putting on his gear, Jimmy, Trinity and Jay are bouncing up and down, and Batista turns around and sees both of them as they're say, in mid-air. They stop, look at him, he looks back, and just as the Usos are about to apologize, Batista shakes his head says, "this isn't like the movie, guys," and walks right past them on the way to the ring. WWE taking the moment of the film that cemented Dave Batista the man as a movie star and flipping it for their purposes on TV would make for an undoubtedly fun TV moment that would certify Batista as a babyface performer.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
