Who Turns Heel First?

[Dub H]

Both teased their heel side coming back soon.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Cody seems like he is further along in the progression, but Kenny also seemed more overt. Still going with Cody.

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Cody

Kenny feels like a slower burn

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Probably Cody since he is putting pressure on himself with the titles and he could snap at any moment

Omega is a slow burn but they could do it at any moment as well. I do expect them all to turn heel around the sametime tho

[4real]

Cody I would imagine will be soon. He will snap once he loses the TNT Title and become an entitled heel believing the company should be built around him. And I can’t wait.

[Chiral]

I'd be super curious to see what Cody, especially as a heel, could add to the Hangman/Omega/Bucks tensions.

[sunnytaker]

kenny just started his turn and cody has been doing his for a while now so probably cody. someone needs to get the tag belts off kenny and hangman before he truly turns heel which probably leads to face FTR/Page vs heel the Elite at some point.

i also expect brandi/allie to do a double turn to keep heel cody and heel brandi together.

[RKTaker]

Jul 16, 2020 10:15:19 GMT -5 sunnytaker said:

kenny just started his turn and cody has been doing his for a while now so probably cody. someone needs to get the tag belts off kenny and hangman before he truly turns heel which probably leads to face FTR/Page vs heel the Elite at some point.

i also expect brandi/allie to do a double turn to keep heel cody and heel brandi together.

nick and Matt aren't turning heel any time soon

[Fake Jesus]

Honestly, turning both Cody and Kenny is overkill. This is one of AEW's problems - when they have a booking idea they replicate it. Dark Order/Nightmare Family, Archer/Lee, now Rhodes and Omega (Two of their four main event faces) are teasing turns.

I think there's a potential for an interesting story here, though. Omega and the Bucks turn and Page turns to the other current "outsider" in the Elite, Cody, for advice. These two guys have never been the closest in the faction or regular partners, but they're both united by feeling abandoned and adrift. Cody is going through the same "call of darkness" moment Hangman was doing a few months ago. Maybe they become a faction with FTR, or maybe Page just helps Cody see the light. It'd be a nice moment, something that would really emphasise how AEW, more than any other promotion, is about characters and character interaction.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Jul 16, 2020 13:55:32 GMT -5 RKTaker said:

Jul 16, 2020 10:15:19 GMT -5 sunnytaker said:

kenny just started his turn and cody has been doing his for a while now so probably cody. someone needs to get the tag belts off kenny and hangman before he truly turns heel which probably leads to face FTR/Page vs heel the Elite at some point.

i also expect brandi/allie to do a double turn to keep heel cody and heel brandi together.

nick and Matt aren't turning heel any time soon

They could flip that switch on Page pretty easily, with their smug “You were just a jobber in ROH” without us attitude. And the way they worked that tag match.

But then the tag scene would be a bit too heel dominated.

Maybe they’ll ultimately be faces who have had enough of Page’s cowboy shit.

AEW has had a lot of shades of grey especially surrounding this storyline from the start, so I don’t see anything precluding a heel/antihero FTR/Page team and a dickish face Elite team.

[Cieto]

Cody I think.

Either way both turns will likely be triggered when they drop their titles.

[Celgress]

I think Omega will turn hell first.

[Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite]

It would be funny if they were teasing a slow turn for Cody and then Omega just beats him to the punch/turns full blown heel suddenly

That attack on Stunt WAS pretty out the blue as it was

[rnrk supports BLM]

Cody still feels open to interpetation, like he'll play up heel mannerisms in matches where they'd like his opponents to get cheered as well, not necessarily like it's leading to a turn. He's been doing this since the Dustin match when they started.

Omega beating up Marko was immediately played up like a cut-and-dried Bad Guy Move that's almost certainly leading to an alignment flip.

[Dub H]

Jul 16, 2020 17:19:11 GMT -5 Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite said:

It would be funny if they were teasing a slow turn for Cody and then Omega just beats him to the punch/turns full blown heel suddenly

That attack on Stunt WAS pretty out the blue as it was

Cody:

[johnnyk9]

Cody definitely

[Super Duper Dragunov]

yeah it's gotta be Cody. There's been a whole lotta time building Hangman up, and this is part of it. So I expect a slow burn with this as well.

Cody reminds me of my uncle who would flip the Monopoly board if he was losing, but would be all smiles and congratulatory when he finally won.

[bob]

guessing Kenny

[Viking Hall]

Jul 16, 2020 13:55:32 GMT -5 RKTaker said:

Jul 16, 2020 10:15:19 GMT -5 sunnytaker said:

kenny just started his turn and cody has been doing his for a while now so probably cody. someone needs to get the tag belts off kenny and hangman before he truly turns heel which probably leads to face FTR/Page vs heel the Elite at some point.

i also expect brandi/allie to do a double turn to keep heel cody and heel brandi together.

nick and Matt aren't turning heel any time soon

They've been the heels in the whole Hangman versus the Elite thing all along in my opinion.

[Bad Moon]

I've said it before, the best way IMO to play the fracturing of the Elite is to have the whole group turn heel on Hangman.