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After Scott Levy's Varsity Club-knock off Johnny Polo was thrown out the country club following a drunken, late night phone with Shane McMahon to his pa', he wound up in ECW understandably gloomy. Gone were the eponymous shirts and the straw hat, replaced with a grungier aesthetic in-line with the Seattle music movement, all cut-off jorts, leather jackets, and Nirvana shirts.

Adopting the sobriquet 'Raven' after Poe's Gothic poem, Levy assumed a moody, nihilistic personality not dissimilar to a 15-year old who's just read Nietzsche for the first time. For a supposed misanthrope, Raven had an alarming amount of friends, introducing a group of lackeys known as 'The Nest' in 1995, whose philosophy echoed that of their leader. Raven's melancholic clutch comprised such fledglings as Cactus Jack, Stevie Richards, and The Dudley Boyz.

When Raven flew his proverbial nest for Atlanta in 1997, he landed with his black plumage in tact. In WCW he fostered a similar collection of misfits, the likes of Saturn, Kidman and Reese coming together to form the Flock. Raven's crew were notable for spending most of their time sitting in the crowd at ringside, a volatile and pervasive threat towards whoever happened to be competing at the time.

The Flock eventually dispersed when its members, tired of Raven's increasingly controlling methods, mutinied. Despite most of his most prominent acolytes sharing the stage with their former leader after his move to WWE in 2000, the gang never had a reunion - and pretty much all of them ended up floundering solo.