WWE: 10 Most Unoriginal Aspects Of The Fiend

If someone who never watched professional wrestling before tuned in to see a sociopathic clown creep out through the ring canvas, they might have been surprised by what was on the screen. A traffic jam of questions such as “Why is Pennywise on WWE?” or “How long was that guy under the ring for?” surely ensued. Sidestepping them, the new viewer had an opportunity to be entertained.

Alas, wrestling promotions, primarily WWE, have always had a habit of recycling old tricks in times of creative drought.

In 2019 September, Wyatt claimed Kane as one of his victims and appeared to borrow a trick from ‘The Big Red Machine.’ The next month, ‘The Fiend’ emerged from underneath the ring and attempted to drag Seth Rollins down to… somewhere… with him. And he did the same thing again a month later, this time with Daniel Bryan. Wyatt alone repeated the parlour trick enough times to make a new viewer tired of it. For a longtime fan, the repetition was even more blatant.

Diehard wrestling fans had seen the likes of Kane and The Undertaker come up through the canvas to drag their rivals, and each other, to the depths of Hell countless times. Even The Big Show broke through the ring during his 1999 WWE debut at St. Valentine’s Day Massacre: In Your House to help Mr McMahon defeat Steve Austin (which failed in ironic fashion). While the spooky peek-a-boo entrance fits that of Wyatt’s dark character, it was clichéd long before ‘The Fiend’ ever arrived.