10 WWE Superstars In Desperate Need Of An Image Update
1. Bray Wyatt
Bray Wyatt is stigmatised as a joke.
Everything about him is stained. His laugh is less creepy, more ironic. His promos are less mysterious and powerful, more baffling and bereft of any dramatic heft. Sometimes he wins, sometimes he loses. It hardly matters. He never wins the matches that matter. White guys can't pull off dreadlocks. Supernatural white guys can't pull off dreadlocks. Bray's torn, acid wash jeans are as early '90s as the gimmick itself so, in that regard, he is at least dressing for the part. He also needs to stop wearing his own merchandise. That alone reduces him from cult leader to huckster. It's impossible to take him seriously as a backwoods monster when he looks fresh off the merch table.
If Bray Wyatt is stigmatised as a joke, Bray Wyatt needs to drop anything remotely connected with Bray Wyatt from his wardrobe. It's difficult to conceive of any alternatives, given that the character has long since lost his identity. His physique, not within the WWE norm, also necessitates cover-ups - not that it should, necessarily.
Perhaps a full-on, Norman Bates-esque transition to Sister Abigail, complete with muddied shawl modified for wrestling - presented very carefully, to stave off the more insensitive pockets of the fanbase - may yet provide Wyatt with an escape from the buzzards.
That's probably a ludicrous suggestion, but no less ludicrous than the idea of Wyatt, in his current guise, recapturing the magic.