Lambs and Goats: Would Bryan Joining The Wyatts Be THAT Bad

[SCCB Was Told To Do Steroids]

Let's all take a deep breath, relax with some chamomille tea, and ponder the existence of life...in partcular, the off-chance Bryan gets brainwashed by The Wyatts. What story-related givens do we have concerning Bryan:

1.) He is, at best, emotionally fragile.
2.) He has rage issues.
3.) He started off as part of an outsider group.
4.) He is constantly picked on for his size, stature, looks, and lack of charisma.

If, truly, there are no plans for Bryan to win at WM, then why not involve him in a highly gimmicky angle?

At some point at the RR, all the members of The Wyatts get eliminated. Bryan is one of the last six remaining. He goes on a tear, and eliminates two guys automatically (possibly even Wyatts). He's got the crowd behind him. As soon as he is about to eliminate whichever heel, The Wyatts cause him to be eliminated. He brawls with the three of them backstage until Bray gets the upper hand. Next, they cart him off again, thhis time, to their compound for further indoctrination.

He doesn't even have to leave the title picture:

After the indoctrination, Bryan comes out in a zombified trance, like twilight sleep. He can talk and has independent thoughts, but they are spacy. Bray recuts the "you are just like us" promo. He then states its what he and Sister Abagail had planned all this time. Bray knew, in order to lead his Revolution, he needed a number-one man. While he himself could never win the WWE Title, he now has someone who can. Bray would claim the metaphor that, if I am God, then Daniel Bryan is the new Jesus. Bryan wins the title, and the Wyatt mission is complete.

Thoughts?

[Kevin Hamilton]

Your scenario is ok, but neither of them need one another, and it'd be quite the step down for DB to be relegated to midcard act flunky.

[Sephiroth]

But...but is Bryan...and the Wyatt's don't have the title...

[Bub (BLM)]

Bryan has no business being a lackey in a midcard stable. I always hated Randy Savage as Hogan's lackey in the nWo, and this would actually be worse.

[audiencewatching]

I just want it to end, I don't even like thinking about what a waste of talent it would be.

The Wyatts shouldn't be wasting time "brainwashing" existing wrestlers either.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Yeah because Bryan is too big to not lead, too established to play the Rock's role of upstart usurper, and if Bryan leads the stable then Wyatt is made less important/ useless/ interchangeable

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Bryan being "emotionally fragile" and having "rage issues" are leftover relics from a comedy gimmick that was long dropped. He shouldn't be that way anymore.

[sportatorium]

I can't imagine what good comes of it. Like DB or not, he's completely over as is. A better defined feud with Bray would be fine, but Bray has to get better in the ring.

[Push R Truth]

Bryan joining the Wyatts would have been like The Rock joining Los Boricuas after finishing his feud with Stone Cold.

[riseofsetian1981]

Given the WWE's way of booking as of late, it wouldn't surprise me if they had Bryan join the Wyatt's. Don't get me wrong though. I like the Wyatt's, their gimmick and their look is very different, however, even I feel like the WWE has dropped the ball on them and made them look like less of a threat.

But that's just my opinion.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

Done right, it'd be absolutely amazing. Bryan as the brainwashed assassin, demolishing Wyatt's enemies? It'd be beautiful.

I do not trust the WWE to do it right.

[saintpat]

Silence of the Goats.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

I just don't understand why someone would take the face who gets the biggest, loudest reactions every week, and turn him into a brainwashed or heel flunky for a midcard stable. That's just regressing. Especially if that's the context in which we get him actually winning the title, which is also really shitty because come on, leaders of heel stables chase the title with the help of their underlings, not recruit people he says are better than him and live vicariously through them. It honestly would not do anybody any favours.

[SCCB Was Told To Do Steroids]

Wow, I'm like dolphin1925 or whomever...

[Bang Bang Bart]

Oh my god.

[government mule]

This storyline should have happened when the Wyatts' debuted about 8 months ago, when Bryan was having 'weak link' issues and having to fight his way to the top. Now that he has since reached the top (all be it not for long), the story seems a little insignificant now. He has got the beard for the stable though...

[Fiddleford H. McGucket]

Something to think about: There's an old concept of an animal called a Judas goat, it is a Trained Goat meant to lead Lambs and Sheep to slaughter. If Bray Wyatt is REALLY being given as much free reign over his character, angles, and such (including who he puts over/is in angles with) I wouldn't be surprised if they're building to that. With Bryan leading more "Sheep" to him, so that he may eventually (Metaphorically) Slaughter them, this leading back to the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" vibe of the Wyatt Family Gimmick.

Because The Wyatt Family.....they're not "Protecting" the Sheep. Bray is attempting to herd the Sheep, Harper is the one slaughtering, and Rowan is his "Inside" man, the predator/alpha that hides as a sheep (The Mask) to look less threatening.......But they're now obvious predators. They need their Judas Goat, someone that the Sheep trust, because he escapes the Slaughter....but sees it every time.

[Chip]

Dec 31, 2013 14:54:06 GMT -5 Chip said:

I'd go with Bryan sincerely joining the Wyatts, he joins because all that resisting the Wyatts has gotten him is a couple of bruises and a hurt pride. Each week, he forces Bryan to reject a certain positive emotion to become a monster because he claims emotions are what makes us human, a true monster is one that acts without a sense of morality or emotion. Eventually, Bray reveals that the last emotion Bryan needs to rid himself of his love and he has Harper and Rowan drag Brie out and threaten to hurt her if Bryan doesn't comply. Bryan starts hulking up, he breaths harder and harder to the point fire practically blasts from his nostrils. I'm not really sure how I'd do this but Bryan disposes of Rowan and Harper and keeps Brie safe. He turns to Bray with fire in his eyes, Bray is standing there, arms out-stretched laughing, taunting Bryan into hitting him. Bryan instead, stretches out his arms and hugs Bray. Bray is enraged as the hug shows his months of work has been for nothing, he rushes out of the ring and sprints full force at Bryan with Bryan turning around and knocking Bray out with his flying knee. A mic mysteriously appears in Bryans hands at the top of the ramp and he announces he will enter the Rumble and get back on the track that the Wyatts drug him away from.

This was my fantasy booking scenario I posted in an earlier thread. So far, the only motivation I'm aware of for the Wyatts wanting Bryan is that Bray wants to turn him into the monster he thinks he can be. Whether to use as a weapon or just to cause chaos has yet to be seen. Really though, they need to do a better job of establishing why Bray wants Bryan, even if it means making Brays teachings make sense.

Dec 18, 2013 15:34:51 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

Bryan being "emotionally fragile" and having "rage issues" are leftover relics from a comedy gimmick that was long dropped. He shouldn't be that way anymore.

Why not? Why discard character development no matter the seriousness of the gimmick/storyline? In my brain, these character traits could be a large focus of the storyline. Bray could either, in trying to build a monster get Bryan to move past these flaws, flaws that may hold Bryan back as a wrestler. It could go in an entirely different way where Bray exacerbates the flaws but in doing so builds a monster that not even he can control.

As a fan and supporter of Bryan, I'd love to look back in a year and say that the Wyatts were tasked with turning a goat into a dragon ready for Wrestlemania. Much like Foley brought out Rocks mean streak in an effort to make him a credible threat to Austin.