The many faces of Foley need no introduction. Over the many years of his career, Mick Foley succeeded in portraying many distinctive characters whether it was a barbed wire obsessed outlaw in Cactus Jack or a love loving hippy in Dude Love. Yet his most bizarre gimmick has to be the demented psychopath that was the original Mankind. Mankind was a masked and mentally deranged schizophrenic who enjoyed both inflicting and experiencing copious amounts of pain. He often physically abused himself; such as ripping out his own hair and stabbing himself with blunt instruments. In addition he would squeal like a tortured animal when wrestling and rock gently in the corner of the ring as part of his entrance and intermittently throughout matches. In other words Mankind was a wrestling gimmick mirroring some twisted horror movie perception of a mental asylum inmate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnbcRBhB174 Under the guidance of his 'Uncle' Paul Bearer, Mankind would prove there is more to a gimmick than characterisation alone. On many occasions Mankind would leave WWE audiences in no doubt as to the bizarre and unstable nature of his gimmick. From falling from the top of Hell In A Cell to taking injury causing bumps in Boiler Room Brawls, Mick Foley's Mankind talked and walked one of the most bizarre gimmicks ever portrayed in a wrestling ring.
