5. The Jackyl - WWF, 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioYNxNy9Zas Don Callis' 1997 gimmick as the leader of the Truth Commission is likely the closest that the WWE has gotten to the walking and talking actuality of exactly who and what a minister in the Church of Scientology is most stereo-typically compared. Called "The David Koresh of the WWF" by Jim Ross, his WWF Magazine explained back story involves him being a lower-level WWF employee during the early 1990s who developed a messianic complex when he lafter leading a group of stranded WWF superstars out of Kuwait during the Gulf War. Of course, when the gimmick moved in the direction of embracing the Necronomicon (or when he became the leader of the Oddities) things got weird, definitely less Scientology-similar and possibly even insulting to the Church of Scientology.
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