The Many Faces Of Goldust Ranked From Worst To Best

4. The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust

By mid-1997 the Goldust gimmick was in need of freshening up. It was the Attitude Era, and the Attitude Era's only solution for all such circumstances seemed to be 'pull the curtain' back and 'work a shoot, brother!'. Goldust revealed himself to be Dustin Runnels, turned face and heel over the course of the year and subsequently moved into his weirdest incarnation yet.

After siding with Luna Vachon in a feud with Vader, Goldust became The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust, a reference to the equally bizarre Prince who had taken on a similar moniker. The gold bodysuit of The Bizarre One was eschewed in favour of a variety of weird outfits that were as out there as the Attitude Era got - outfits that would make Marilyn Manson think twice.

TAFKAGoldust also began mimicking his opponents and in doing so arguably became the only wrestler in history to make such a gimmick work. We had HunterDust, SableDust, Dude LoveDust, ChynaDust and even DustyDust, as Dustin was given room to take his comedic chops to the extreme. It coincided with the scaling back of the character's push but this mattered little as Goldust continued to be an entertaining presence on Raw Is War.