10 WWE Superstars Who Gambled On A New Look

2. Bray Wyatt's New Mask

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Bray Wyatt had to gamble; WWE's Gil Gunderson, he was so destitute as a character that it was a genuine double or nothing scenario.

And, away from WWE television - effectively any area beyond the hard camera is a dose of modafinil - Wyatt succeeded with inspired new looks, plural: an unsettling Mr. Rogers character in a state of volatile suppression, and the harrowing tulpa, the Fiend, that he willed into existence as penance for his wasted potential.

This reinvention marked yet another illustration of WWE's broken system; devised and produced outside of the umbrella, once under it, any nuance and hope was lost under a red light and sh*tty in-ring faster than one can say 'BLEH', or whatever the hell Wyatt's old sting was.

The matches are awful affairs that conflate horror movie tropes with pro wrestling that only highlight how ineffective pro wrestling is in any context but its own, and the horror is campy and derivative and lacking completely in gravity. The Miz cares more about the hard camera than his own children, which isn't good character development, but Wyatt does some acting, which is?

That mask makes for hella cool Twitter profile pics, though,guys.

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