11 Weird Heel Turns WWE Icons Would Like You To Forget
1. Edge Is In The Judgment Day
On paper, choosing to create and lead a new heel stable as a way of getting more spotlight on a few under-utilised players on the WWE roster seemed like a strong idea from the mind of Adam 'Edge' Copeland.
However, for a variety of reasons, the WWE Hall of Famer's purple-tinted evil run just ended up feeling all kinds of weird.
Firstly, fans were always going to struggle to fully turn on a bloke who'd put his body on the line for so long, had the business he loved taken away from him, and then enjoyed one of the most emotional and well executed comebacks of all time.
How do you boo the man who made that face at the 2020 Royal Rumble?
The overall direction Edge took his Judgment Day didn't help matters either, with his painfully tedious "mountain of omnipotence" speeches and cheap heat attacks on the audience whilst flanked by Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley all just feeling incredibly forced and bizarre.
None of it will be making it onto the Copeland highlight reel, that's for sure.
Thankfully, WWE and the icon both sensed it simply was not working out, and Edge was eventually kicked from the group when Finn Balor joined the team.
The faction only went from strength to strength from that point, bringing in a freshly turned heel Dominik Mysterio and dropping the spooky vibes for consistently entertaining a-hole attitudes. And after clashing with his former squad for a bit, Copeland enjoyed a fun little veteran babyface run before becoming an All Elite 'Rated "R" Superstar' in 2023.
Purple Edge was never spoken of again.