10 WWE Wrestlers Who Need More Personality

To be a great WWE wrestler, you need personality.

And, however shackled by the constraints of storyline and character, almost all WWE wrestlers have it in spades. We know this because of their social media output, if not always from their work under the glare of the company's bright lights, where it is easy to come off overly-prepared and wooden.

Even the company itself, maligned by many for scripting its wrestlers' promos and, ultimately, strangling them of any individuality, may not be entirely to blame. The very format of modern-day professional wrestling - where upwards of seven or eight feuds are incrementally built each week on a two- or three-hour show - makes it necessarily difficult for everyone to do their best work. Perhaps they deserve more credit for trying.

So granted, it's impossible for all of WWE's top talent to shine brightly at once. However, that doesn't mean that they should slip into lazy archetypes and neglect the opportunity to develop genuine personality, of the type that helps individuals truly stand out from the rest of the locker room.

Randy Orton the face is not as good as Randy Orton the heel.

In fact, it's difficult to take the Viper seriously as a good guy, given how great the chasm between his current guise and the one he wore roughly a decade ago is, when he enjoyed nothing more than kissing a woman's unconscious body whilst her helpless husband watched, handcuffed to the ring.

These days the nearest Randy comes to the knuckle is when he's calling Jinder Mahal a big mean jerk (although he does have a point).

A character transformation of some kind was necessary after fifteen years on TV, but Orton - a man who hears voices in his head - should be closer to the Stone Cold face archetype than that of Hulk Hogan. In short: arrogant, uncompromising, and a touch unpleasant.