10 Weirdest Wrestling Characters (That Actually Worked)

2. Bray Wyatt

It may sound strange, but on paper, nothing about Bray Wyatt should work... Drawn in part from deranged cult leaders like Charles Manson and Shoko Asahara and in part from the backwoods lunacy of movies like Deliverance, or even Cape Fear, the character of Bray Wyatt is a demented figure who spouts quasi-religious rhetoric at every opportunity and believes himself to be some sort of messiah of violence. In the ring, he wrestles in clothing that could only have come from The GAP€™s €˜backwoods murderer€™ collection, too clean to be barn-fodder, but too anachronistic to truly be fashionable. On top of that, he teamed with his €˜followers€™ Luke Harper and Eric Rowan, who are something like an evil take on Henry and Phinneas Godwin from back in the day €“ and who wear animal masks vaguely reminiscent of the movie The Wicker Man. The third-generation wrestler formerly known as €˜Husky Harris€™ in NXT was given this bizarre gimmick a couple of years back and has ultimately made it work to his advantage, rocketing to the top of the card and staying there, whilst at the same time becoming one of the most consistently entertaining characters on WWE TV right now.