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Post by chunkylover53 on Mar 18, 2011 22:54:32 GMT -5
What turns can you can come with that seemed out of no where? I can think of a few....
Albert As The Hip-Hop Hippo - Before, he was a monster heel and then suddenly he just showed up one day on RAW teaming with Scotty 2 Hotty and became a hip-hop duo. He later turned on his partner.
Victoria From Crazy Psycho to Dancing - I never got the change and I don't recall how it happened.
Kane - Like every month.
Big Show - see Kane.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Mar 18, 2011 22:55:54 GMT -5
Stone Cold - post-Invasion. He went from being a part of the evil Alliance to face all in the span of one night. (the Raw after the 2001 Survivor Series).
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Post by ratedXsuperstar on Mar 18, 2011 22:56:43 GMT -5
Stone Cold - post-Invasion. He went from being a part of the evil Alliance to face all in the span of one night. (the Raw after the 2001 Survivor Series). And on the flip side, this caused Kurt Angle to do the opposite.
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Post by woowoowoox on Mar 18, 2011 22:57:03 GMT -5
Melina's recent turn.
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Post by CMWaters on Mar 18, 2011 22:59:19 GMT -5
Rosey from 3 Minute Warning turning face by randomly talking to The Hurricane in the backstage area.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2011 23:01:00 GMT -5
Or the Bellas for that matter (no, "we're mad at Gail Kim" is not a valid reason for people to suddenly go from happy-go-lucky to bastions of hostility). Also Mark Henry. Turns face simply by laughing and wagging his finger at Randy Orton.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Mar 18, 2011 23:01:37 GMT -5
Rosey from 3 Minute Warning turning face by randomly talking to The Hurricane in the backstage area. That's the Hurricane's superpower.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Mar 18, 2011 23:03:40 GMT -5
former broadcaster Jonathan Coachman randomly siding with Eric Bischoff during Summerslam '03 by attacking Shane McMahon during his match against the Bisch.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Mar 18, 2011 23:05:45 GMT -5
Demolition turned heel over the summer of 1990 with no real major event or explanation that I recall. They had started using a third member around this time but they just kind of became defacto heels slowly over the summer to the point of randomly having Mr. Fuji back as their manager in the autumn.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Mar 18, 2011 23:14:58 GMT -5
Demolition turned heel over the summer of 1990 with no real major event or explanation that I recall. They had started using a third member around this time but they just kind of became defacto heels slowly over the summer to the point of randomly having Mr. Fuji back as their manager in the autumn. True. If I recall, one time they interfered in a Rockers-Hart Foundation (face v. face) match when all three teams were really babyfaces. This sort of came off as a heel thing to do. That was before Crush was added. It is the only thing I can really point to that was sort of a heel thing to do.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Mar 18, 2011 23:22:30 GMT -5
Edge turning face in late summer '10 by destroying the Raw GM Laptop.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Mar 18, 2011 23:22:32 GMT -5
Demolition turned heel over the summer of 1990 with no real major event or explanation that I recall. They had started using a third member around this time but they just kind of became defacto heels slowly over the summer to the point of randomly having Mr. Fuji back as their manager in the autumn. True. If I recall, one time they interfered in a Rockers-Hart Foundation (face v. face) match when all three teams were really babyfaces. This sort of came off as a heel thing to do. That was before Crush was added. It is the only thing I can really point to that was sort of a heel thing to do. Was that the match on SNME? I remember them watching from ringside and it was when they "helped" one of the participants in the match back into the ring it all kicked off. unless it's another match you're referring to, I don't recall them interfering really. They even had the heel commentator at the time rip on Demolition for sticking their noses in.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Mar 18, 2011 23:32:22 GMT -5
Yes, it was on SNME. Jesse Ventura does protest that they have no business out there. I think they help the wrestlers up, but at one point Jannetty pushes one of them and the other attacks him. I can't remember all the particulars, but it ends with all of them brawling. It's not really a textbook heel turn, but I'm grasping at straws to explain how they became heels.
Earlier in 1990, the Rougeaus left and the Powers of Pain and Twin Towers were split up (soon to be followed by the breakup of the Bolsheviks). WWE was about to bring in the Legion of Doom to be babyfaces. They were in major need of heel teams, since their top 3 (soon to be top 4) tag teams were babyfaces. They brought in the Orient Express, made Valentine and Honky a proper tag team, put Roma and Hercules together, and they would bring in the Nasty Boys. I know I got off track there, but it's easy to get me going on this time period of WWE.
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Post by Stu on Mar 18, 2011 23:33:30 GMT -5
former broadcaster Jonathan Coachman randomly siding with Eric Bischoff during Summerslam '03 by attacking Shane McMahon during his match against the Bisch. Didn't they play it off as the result of months of abuse from JR, Lawler, etc.?
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Post by Summerfest on Mar 18, 2011 23:41:22 GMT -5
Mark Henry, stunned by the crowd cheering him and deciding it was pretty cool, turned over a new leaf and became the happy Kool-aid man we know today.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 0:14:53 GMT -5
former broadcaster Jonathan Coachman randomly siding with Eric Bischoff during Summerslam '03 by attacking Shane McMahon during his match against the Bisch. Didn't they play it off as the result of months of abuse from JR, Lawler, etc.? Yes.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 19, 2011 0:20:01 GMT -5
Although it had been teased through the aborted Londrick breakup, Brian Kendrick turning heel simply by showing up on SmackDown with Ezekiel Jackson, a snazzy jacket, trippy dance moves and adding "The" to his name.
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Post by bobversion1 on Mar 19, 2011 0:24:13 GMT -5
The Demolition turn mentioned earlier always had me scratching my head... They were so over as faces at Wrestlemania 6... It seemed like such a short time after they turned heel and no real reason...
Would Jake Roberts Heel turn in 91 go under this? I can't for the life of me remember an actual reason he turned heel. He went from major sympathy angles with getting sprayed in the eyes with Arogence and Earthquake squashing his snake... to leading Warrior to a room full of snakes and turning heel. I remember back then I was like...wait.. What? I still am to this day confused about it. Was it because mentally he snapped because he lost Damien?
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Mar 19, 2011 3:19:29 GMT -5
Does anyone remember a 1 on 1 match between Jim Neidhart & one of the members of Demolition? It was either on Superstars or Challenge... Neidhart eeked out a win, attempted to leave with the tag belts... And ended up being on the wrong end of a full demolition beatdown.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 19, 2011 4:12:21 GMT -5
Would Jake Roberts Heel turn in 91 go under this? I can't for the life of me remember an actual reason he turned heel. He went from major sympathy angles with getting sprayed in the eyes with Arogence and Earthquake squashing his snake... to leading Warrior to a room full of snakes and turning heel. I remember back then I was like...wait.. What? I still am to this day confused about it. Was it because mentally he snapped because he lost Damien? I think Jake officially turned heel when Warrior got bitten by a snake in that room and then revealed he was in cahoots with The Undertaker. Remember, he was supposedly training Warrior to fight Undertaker.
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