10 WWE Heel Moments From Which There Was No Return

Jake Roberts using his pet snake as a cheap way of intimidating his opponents was one thing, but it was more than a little jarring to see him actually tie Randy Savage to the ring ropes and will it to draw blood from his bare arm.

There were kids (or at least one kid, anyway) legitimately balling their eyes out in the crowd, after watching a fully grown king cobra - albeit one that had was no longer venomous - take a huge bite out of the Macho Man's bicep.

Few heel moments in the two decades since the incident have come close to evoking the same visceral response, and - for the little ones who replayed the images in their nightmares, at least - it would have been virtually impossible to cheer for Roberts were he ever to give up his evil-doing ways.