10 Ways WWE Can Save RETRIBUTION

As much as we all love the alter egos adopted by the group and their absolutely not mid-nineties-kids-television-programme-sounding names, it would be far more impactful to see the faces and reveal the names behind T-Bar, Mace, Slapjack, and Reckoning.

For long time fans of WWE, and more specifically NXT, seeing these superstars as their former personas would be a payoff to years of character building, something that WWE has never let us down on before. Sigh.

For new viewers, or even regular viewers of Raw who have no knowledge of these superstars, seeing the like of Mia Yim, Shane Thorne, Dominik Dijakovic, and Dio Maddin as people rather than awful Jason Vorhees cosplayers will make their cause far more emotionally compelling.

Applying faces to the heartache and misfortune that RETRIBUTION speak about in their promos will ironically create sympathetic characters who the audience may actually side with to an extent.

Every fan knows that a heel is far more compelling when we can actually believe what they're saying, and even The Fiend garners his fans by showing his face almost weekly in his Firefly Funhouse vignettes.

As for the hooded army...