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* Following a poorly received FaceHeelTurn that involve targeting the very fans supporting her, Wrestling/BeckyLynch turned into one near the end of 2018, with her Heel Turn being retooled as a person who has enough of her opportunities being taken away. Considered as a DistaffCounterpart to Steve Austin, Becky Lynch's new persona as "The Man" was a trash-talking rebel going against the company who never treat her seriously, even getting into a brief conflict with the [=McMahon=] family. No matter what Becky did during this period, from bringing up Edge's neck injury to mocking John Cena, the fans refused to turn against Becky no matter what. It helped that the [[Wrestling/CharlotteFlair two]] [[Wrestling/RondaRousey people]] she feuded from ''[=SummerSlam=] 2018'' to ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'' were heavily favored by the company and their position as faces were questionable at best (and in the case of Charlotte Flair, well on the way to straight-out X-Pac Heat).
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* Following a poorly received FaceHeelTurn that involve targeting the very fans supporting her, Wrestling/BeckyLynch turned into one near the end of 2018, with her Heel Turn being retooled as a person who has enough of her opportunities being taken away. Considered as a DistaffCounterpart to Steve Austin, Becky Lynch's new persona as "The Man" was a trash-talking rebel going against the company who never treat her seriously, even getting into a brief conflict with the [=McMahon=] family. No matter what Becky did during this period, from bringing up Edge's neck injury to mocking John Cena, the fans refused to turn against Becky no matter what. It helped that the [[Wrestling/CharlotteFlair two]] [[Wrestling/RondaRousey people]] she feuded from ''[=SummerSlam=] 2018'' to ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'' were heavily favored by the company and their position as faces were questionable at best (and in the case of Charlotte Flair, well on the way to straight-out X-Pac Heat).Heat).
* At the very least, Wrestling/{{MJF}} became this in mid-2023. As the man himself says:
-->I'm still a scumbag, don't get me wrong. But, I'm ready to be ''your'' scumbag.
* At the very least, Wrestling/{{MJF}} became this in mid-2023. As the man himself says:
-->I'm still a scumbag, don't get me wrong. But, I'm ready to be ''your'' scumbag.
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* Following a poorly received FaceHeelTurn that involve targeting the very fans supporting her, Wrestling/BeckyLynch is turned into one near the end of 2018, with her Heel Turn being retooled as a person who has enough of her opportunities being taken away. Considered as a DistaffCounterpart to Steve Austin, Becky Lynch new persona as "The Man" is a thrash talking rebel going against the company who never threat her seriously, even getting into a brief conflict with the [=McMahon=] family. No matter what Becky does during this period, from bringing up Edge's neck injury to mocking John Cena the fans refuse to turn against Becky no matter what. It helps that the [[Wrestling/CharlotteFlair two]] [[Creator/RondaRousey people]] she feuded from ''[=SummerSlam=] 2018'' to ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'' are heavily favored by the company and their position as Faces are questionable at best.
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* Following a poorly received FaceHeelTurn that involve targeting the very fans supporting her, Wrestling/BeckyLynch is turned into one near the end of 2018, with her Heel Turn being retooled as a person who has enough of her opportunities being taken away. Considered as a DistaffCounterpart to Steve Austin, Becky Lynch Lynch's new persona as "The Man" is was a thrash talking trash-talking rebel going against the company who never threat treat her seriously, even getting into a brief conflict with the [=McMahon=] family. No matter what Becky does did during this period, from bringing up Edge's neck injury to mocking John Cena Cena, the fans refuse refused to turn against Becky no matter what. It helps helped that the [[Wrestling/CharlotteFlair two]] [[Creator/RondaRousey [[Wrestling/RondaRousey people]] she feuded from ''[=SummerSlam=] 2018'' to ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'' are were heavily favored by the company and their position as Faces are faces were questionable at best.best (and in the case of Charlotte Flair, well on the way to straight-out X-Pac Heat).
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* Wrestling/JonMoxley, particularly in his more mature form seen in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as opposed to his earlier pre-WWE work. He's a borderline-psychotically violent thug who loves beating the crap out of people, who debuted in the promotion by running in at the end of the ''Double or Nothing'' PPV and attacking, in sequence, Wrestling/ChrisJericho (then heel), an innocent referee (N/A) and Wrestling/KennyOmega (then face). He got into a brawl with Omega that culminated in him hurling his opponent off a large stack of giant ornamental poker chips while the crowd who'd previously been cheering for Omega during his match against Jericho ''screamed'' their support for Moxley. In AEW Moxley has had almost no real friends or allies except the young lunatic Wrestling/DarbyAllin (who ''earned'' Moxley's respect in brutal matches against him and reminds Moxley of himself when he was younger) and later Wrestling/EddieKingston (who, for a long time, had been ''seriously'' on the outs with Mox in kayfabe). Mox's only loss in the promotion for a long time was the tag match where he was teamed with Wrestling/{{PAC}} until PAC annoyed him one too many times, so Mox beat him up and walked out, leaving his "partner" to get pinned. Ever since he finished his initial feud with Kenny Omega, Moxley has exclusively feuded with heels, but that was because his first post-Omega feud was with the AEW Champion Chris Jericho, and then after he beat him and became champion himself he was primarily challenged for the title by more heels including Mr. Wrestling/BrodieLee, Brian Cage and Wrestling/{{MJF}}; Moxley would have absolutely no issues beating the crap out of any face who steps up to him either. And the crowd ''love'' him no matter what he does, whether he's putting Kenny Omega through a glass table head-first with a [[FinishingMove Paradigm Shift]] or Pillmanizing [[YouAreNumberSix 10's]] arm[[labelnote:*]]"[[{{Kayfabe}} breaking]]" it with a steel chair[[/labelnote]] because his boss Mr. Brodie Lee pissed him off too much.
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* Wrestling/JonMoxley, particularly in his more mature form seen in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as opposed to his earlier pre-WWE work. He's a borderline-psychotically violent thug who loves beating the crap out of people, who debuted in the promotion by running in at the end of the ''Double or Nothing'' PPV and attacking, in sequence, Wrestling/ChrisJericho (then heel), an innocent referee (N/A) and Wrestling/KennyOmega (then face). He got into a brawl with Omega that culminated in him hurling his opponent off a large stack of giant ornamental poker chips while the crowd who'd previously been cheering for Omega during his match against Jericho ''screamed'' their support for Moxley. In AEW Moxley has had almost no real friends or allies except the young lunatic Wrestling/DarbyAllin (who ''earned'' Moxley's respect in brutal matches against him and reminds Moxley of himself when he was younger) and later Wrestling/EddieKingston (who, for a long time, had been ''seriously'' on the outs with Mox in kayfabe). Mox's only loss in the promotion for a long time was the tag match where he was teamed with Wrestling/{{PAC}} until PAC annoyed him one too many times, so Mox beat him up and walked out, leaving his "partner" to get pinned. Ever since he finished his initial feud with Kenny Omega, Moxley has exclusively feuded with heels, but that was because his first post-Omega feud was with the AEW Champion Chris Jericho, and then after he beat him and became champion himself he was primarily challenged for the title by more heels including Mr. Wrestling/BrodieLee, Brian Cage and Wrestling/{{MJF}}; Moxley would have absolutely no issues beating the crap out of any face who steps up to him either. And the crowd ''love'' him no matter what he does, whether he's putting Kenny Omega through a glass table head-first with a [[FinishingMove Paradigm Shift]] or Pillmanizing [[YouAreNumberSix 10's]] arm[[labelnote:*]]"[[{{Kayfabe}} breaking]]" it with a steel chair[[/labelnote]] because his boss Mr. Brodie Lee pissed him off too much.much.
* Following a poorly received FaceHeelTurn that involve targeting the very fans supporting her, Wrestling/BeckyLynch is turned into one near the end of 2018, with her Heel Turn being retooled as a person who has enough of her opportunities being taken away. Considered as a DistaffCounterpart to Steve Austin, Becky Lynch new persona as "The Man" is a thrash talking rebel going against the company who never threat her seriously, even getting into a brief conflict with the [=McMahon=] family. No matter what Becky does during this period, from bringing up Edge's neck injury to mocking John Cena the fans refuse to turn against Becky no matter what. It helps that the [[Wrestling/CharlotteFlair two]] [[Creator/RondaRousey people]] she feuded from ''[=SummerSlam=] 2018'' to ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'' are heavily favored by the company and their position as Faces are questionable at best.
* Following a poorly received FaceHeelTurn that involve targeting the very fans supporting her, Wrestling/BeckyLynch is turned into one near the end of 2018, with her Heel Turn being retooled as a person who has enough of her opportunities being taken away. Considered as a DistaffCounterpart to Steve Austin, Becky Lynch new persona as "The Man" is a thrash talking rebel going against the company who never threat her seriously, even getting into a brief conflict with the [=McMahon=] family. No matter what Becky does during this period, from bringing up Edge's neck injury to mocking John Cena the fans refuse to turn against Becky no matter what. It helps that the [[Wrestling/CharlotteFlair two]] [[Creator/RondaRousey people]] she feuded from ''[=SummerSlam=] 2018'' to ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'' are heavily favored by the company and their position as Faces are questionable at best.
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* Among the colorful luchadors and {{superhero}}es of Wrestling/{{Chikara}}, Wrestling/EddieKingston stands out for being, well, not. In fact, most of the time he wasn't a tecnico, with his apparent {{Heel Face Turn}}s being more about being in need of allies to fight numerically superior foes rather than genuinely embracing tecnico ideologies, as opposed to the more obvious turns of others. It was also ridiculously easy to get Kingston to revert, as Wrestling/JimmyJacobs proved. Still, Kingston considers Chikara his home and will give everything to defend it while it stands. While it doesn't stand is [[YouHaveOutlivedYourusefulness another story]], but for the most part the [[FanCommunityNickname Chikaramy]] consider him a hero.
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* Among the colorful luchadors luchadores and {{superhero}}es of Wrestling/{{Chikara}}, Wrestling/EddieKingston stands stood out for being, well, not. In fact, most of the time he wasn't a tecnico, técnico, with his apparent {{Heel Face Turn}}s being more about being in need of allies to fight numerically superior foes rather than genuinely embracing tecnico técnico ideologies, as opposed to the more obvious turns of others. It was also ridiculously easy to get Kingston to revert, as Wrestling/JimmyJacobs proved. Still, Kingston considers considered Chikara his home and will give gave everything to defend it while it stands. until he left in 2016. While it doesn't stand is [[YouHaveOutlivedYourusefulness another story]], but for the most part the [[FanCommunityNickname Chikaramy]] consider considered him a hero.
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* Wrestling/JonMoxley, particularly in his more mature form seen in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as opposed to his earlier pre-WWE work. He's a borderline-psychotically violent thug who loves beating the crap out of people, who debuted in the promotion by running in at the end of the ''Double or Nothing'' PPV and attacking, in sequence, Wrestling/ChrisJericho (heel), an innocent referee (N/A) and Wrestling/KennyOmega (face). He got into a brawl with Omega that culminated in him hurling his opponent off a large stack of giant ornamental poker chips while the crowd who'd previously been cheering for Omega during his match against Jericho ''screamed'' their support for Moxley. In AEW Moxley has almost no real friends or allies except the young lunatic Darby Allin (who ''earned'' Moxley's respect in brutal matches against him and reminds Moxley of himself when he was younger) and his only loss in the promotion was the tag match where he was teamed with Wrestling/{{PAC}} until PAC annoyed him one too many times, so Mox beat him up and walked out, leaving his "partner" to get pinned. Ever since he finished his initial feud with Kenny Omega, Moxley has exclusively feuded with heels, but that was because his first post-Omega feud was with the AEW Champion Chris Jericho, and then after he beat him and became champion himself he was primarily challenged for the title by more heels including Mr. Wrestling/BrodieLee, Brian Cage and Wrestling/{{MJF}}; Moxley would have absolutely no issues beating the crap out of any face who steps up to him either. And the crowd ''love'' him no matter what he does, whether he's putting Kenny Omega through a glass table head-first with a [[FinishingMove Paradigm Shift]] or breaking [[YouAreNumberSix 10's]] arm with a steel chair because his boss Mr. Brodie Lee pissed him off too much.
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* Wrestling/JonMoxley, particularly in his more mature form seen in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as opposed to his earlier pre-WWE work. He's a borderline-psychotically violent thug who loves beating the crap out of people, who debuted in the promotion by running in at the end of the ''Double or Nothing'' PPV and attacking, in sequence, Wrestling/ChrisJericho (heel), (then heel), an innocent referee (N/A) and Wrestling/KennyOmega (face).(then face). He got into a brawl with Omega that culminated in him hurling his opponent off a large stack of giant ornamental poker chips while the crowd who'd previously been cheering for Omega during his match against Jericho ''screamed'' their support for Moxley. In AEW Moxley has had almost no real friends or allies except the young lunatic Darby Allin Wrestling/DarbyAllin (who ''earned'' Moxley's respect in brutal matches against him and reminds Moxley of himself when he was younger) and his later Wrestling/EddieKingston (who, for a long time, had been ''seriously'' on the outs with Mox in kayfabe). Mox's only loss in the promotion for a long time was the tag match where he was teamed with Wrestling/{{PAC}} until PAC annoyed him one too many times, so Mox beat him up and walked out, leaving his "partner" to get pinned. Ever since he finished his initial feud with Kenny Omega, Moxley has exclusively feuded with heels, but that was because his first post-Omega feud was with the AEW Champion Chris Jericho, and then after he beat him and became champion himself he was primarily challenged for the title by more heels including Mr. Wrestling/BrodieLee, Brian Cage and Wrestling/{{MJF}}; Moxley would have absolutely no issues beating the crap out of any face who steps up to him either. And the crowd ''love'' him no matter what he does, whether he's putting Kenny Omega through a glass table head-first with a [[FinishingMove Paradigm Shift]] or breaking Pillmanizing [[YouAreNumberSix 10's]] arm arm[[labelnote:*]]"[[{{Kayfabe}} breaking]]" it with a steel chair chair[[/labelnote]] because his boss Mr. Brodie Lee pissed him off too much.
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* Wrestling/KevinSteen HeelFaceTurn started with a HeelFaceDoorSlam when he tried to turn a new leaf to get his job back in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, but in a lapse of judgment, tried to comeback trough Wrestling/TruthMartini's stable, leading to actions that extended his ban from the promotion. This lead to an effort on Steen's part to destroy Ring Of Honor with Suffering Ugliness Chaos and Mayhem but Steen had been legitimately trying to get his job back for so long that fans sympathized with him and SCUM didn't truly start getting booed until Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and Steve Corino turned on Steen for losing to Jay Briscoe and installed the much easier to hate Wrestling/MattHardy as the new leader, also firmly cementing Steen as a still rough around the edges baby {{face}} who now had to take down [[CreateYourOwnVillain the evil stable he created]].
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* Wrestling/KevinSteen HeelFaceTurn started with a HeelFaceDoorSlam when he tried to turn a new leaf to get his job back in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, but in a lapse of judgment, tried to comeback trough Wrestling/TruthMartini's stable, leading to actions that extended his ban from the promotion. This lead to an effort on Steen's part to destroy Ring Of Honor with Suffering Ugliness Chaos and Mayhem but Steen had been legitimately trying to get his job back for so long that fans sympathized with him and SCUM didn't truly start getting booed until Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and Steve Corino turned on Steen for losing to Jay Briscoe and installed the much easier to hate Wrestling/MattHardy as the new leader, also firmly cementing Steen as a still rough around the edges baby {{face}} who now had to take down [[CreateYourOwnVillain the evil stable he created]].created]].
* Wrestling/JonMoxley, particularly in his more mature form seen in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as opposed to his earlier pre-WWE work. He's a borderline-psychotically violent thug who loves beating the crap out of people, who debuted in the promotion by running in at the end of the ''Double or Nothing'' PPV and attacking, in sequence, Wrestling/ChrisJericho (heel), an innocent referee (N/A) and Wrestling/KennyOmega (face). He got into a brawl with Omega that culminated in him hurling his opponent off a large stack of giant ornamental poker chips while the crowd who'd previously been cheering for Omega during his match against Jericho ''screamed'' their support for Moxley. In AEW Moxley has almost no real friends or allies except the young lunatic Darby Allin (who ''earned'' Moxley's respect in brutal matches against him and reminds Moxley of himself when he was younger) and his only loss in the promotion was the tag match where he was teamed with Wrestling/{{PAC}} until PAC annoyed him one too many times, so Mox beat him up and walked out, leaving his "partner" to get pinned. Ever since he finished his initial feud with Kenny Omega, Moxley has exclusively feuded with heels, but that was because his first post-Omega feud was with the AEW Champion Chris Jericho, and then after he beat him and became champion himself he was primarily challenged for the title by more heels including Mr. Wrestling/BrodieLee, Brian Cage and Wrestling/{{MJF}}; Moxley would have absolutely no issues beating the crap out of any face who steps up to him either. And the crowd ''love'' him no matter what he does, whether he's putting Kenny Omega through a glass table head-first with a [[FinishingMove Paradigm Shift]] or breaking [[YouAreNumberSix 10's]] arm with a steel chair because his boss Mr. Brodie Lee pissed him off too much.
* Wrestling/JonMoxley, particularly in his more mature form seen in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as opposed to his earlier pre-WWE work. He's a borderline-psychotically violent thug who loves beating the crap out of people, who debuted in the promotion by running in at the end of the ''Double or Nothing'' PPV and attacking, in sequence, Wrestling/ChrisJericho (heel), an innocent referee (N/A) and Wrestling/KennyOmega (face). He got into a brawl with Omega that culminated in him hurling his opponent off a large stack of giant ornamental poker chips while the crowd who'd previously been cheering for Omega during his match against Jericho ''screamed'' their support for Moxley. In AEW Moxley has almost no real friends or allies except the young lunatic Darby Allin (who ''earned'' Moxley's respect in brutal matches against him and reminds Moxley of himself when he was younger) and his only loss in the promotion was the tag match where he was teamed with Wrestling/{{PAC}} until PAC annoyed him one too many times, so Mox beat him up and walked out, leaving his "partner" to get pinned. Ever since he finished his initial feud with Kenny Omega, Moxley has exclusively feuded with heels, but that was because his first post-Omega feud was with the AEW Champion Chris Jericho, and then after he beat him and became champion himself he was primarily challenged for the title by more heels including Mr. Wrestling/BrodieLee, Brian Cage and Wrestling/{{MJF}}; Moxley would have absolutely no issues beating the crap out of any face who steps up to him either. And the crowd ''love'' him no matter what he does, whether he's putting Kenny Omega through a glass table head-first with a [[FinishingMove Paradigm Shift]] or breaking [[YouAreNumberSix 10's]] arm with a steel chair because his boss Mr. Brodie Lee pissed him off too much.
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* Wrestling/JakeRoberts was, at his best, a sinister, darkly intelligent schemer. Yet was still ''wildly'' popular with the audience.
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* Wrestling/JakeRoberts was, at his best, a sinister, darkly intelligent schemer. Yet was still ''wildly'' popular with the audience. He didn't become a heel until he was [[TheCorrupter corrupted]] by Wrestling/KevinSullivan.
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* Homicide for most of his career in Wrestling/RingOfHonor. He had an entire "redemption arc" that basically amounted to him assaulting and stabbing anyone and everyone within arms reach who had ever so much as annoyed him at any time during the promotion, once attempted to murder Wrestling/ColtCabana, ambushed fan favorite Wrestling/SamoaJoe, corrupted founding father Wrestling/LowKi and was all around abrasive. But fans almost always took his side, he was the lesser evil against the likes of Wrestling/JimCornette and Wrestling/BryanDanielson, and saving the promotion from Wrestling/ChrisHero's destructive Wrestling/{{CZW}} invaders didn't hurt Homicide's case either. Also, reDRagon deserved it!
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* Homicide [[Wrestling/NelsonErazo Homicide]] for most of his career in Wrestling/RingOfHonor. He had an entire "redemption arc" that basically amounted to him assaulting and stabbing anyone and everyone within arms reach who had ever so much as annoyed him at any time during the promotion, once attempted to murder Wrestling/ColtCabana, ambushed fan favorite Wrestling/SamoaJoe, corrupted founding father Wrestling/LowKi and was all around abrasive. But fans almost always took his side, he was the lesser evil against the likes of Wrestling/JimCornette and Wrestling/BryanDanielson, and saving the promotion from Wrestling/ChrisHero's destructive Wrestling/{{CZW}} invaders didn't hurt Homicide's case either. Also, reDRagon deserved it!
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* Wrestling/MsChif in general but as Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} Champion in particular, as she was the only baby face wrestler for over decade to win the [[ArtifactOfDoom singles title belt]] and remain a baby face while holding it, but was also among the most ruthless baby faces of the , and displayed a stunning [[NoSenseofPersonalSpace lack of social skills]] and had a "[[TheFairfolk demonic]]" gimmick.
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* Wrestling/MsChif in general but as Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} Champion in particular, as she was the only baby face wrestler for over decade to win the [[ArtifactOfDoom singles title belt]] and remain a baby face while holding it, but was also among the most ruthless baby faces of the , and time, displayed a stunning [[NoSenseofPersonalSpace lack of social skills]] and had a "[[TheFairfolk demonic]]" gimmick.
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* Many in Wrestling/{{WSU}}, but aside from perhaps the wrestling pimp Human Tornado from the early years, no one was more this trope than Jessicka Havok, whose crimes included trespassing, destruction of property and attempted murder but [[NominalHero became a face by default]] when CZW took over the promotion and DJ Hyde became [[TyrantTakesTheHelm the new boss]]. Simply by fighting her(very justified) ban from the promotion while Hyde happened to be at the helm was enough to get fans on Havok's side, as was her attacking in a technical show of "biting the hand that feeds you" when he initially decided to lift it.
* Wrestling/KevinSteen HeelFaceTurn started with a HeelFaceDoorSlam when he tried to turn a new leaf to get his job back in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, but in a lapse of judgment, tried to comeback trough Truth Martini's stable, leading to actions that extended his ban from the promotion. This lead to an effort on Steen's part to destroy Ring Of Honor with Suffering Ugliness Chaos and Mayhem but Steen had been legitimately trying to get his job back for so long that fans sympathized with him and SCUM didn't truly start getting booed until Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and Steve Corino turned on Steen for losing to Jay Briscoe and installed the much easier to hate Wrestling/MattHardy as the new leader, also firmly cementing Steen as a still rough around the edges baby {{face}} who now had to take down [[CreateYourOwnVillain the evil stable he created]].
* Wrestling/KevinSteen HeelFaceTurn started with a HeelFaceDoorSlam when he tried to turn a new leaf to get his job back in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, but in a lapse of judgment, tried to comeback trough Truth Martini's stable, leading to actions that extended his ban from the promotion. This lead to an effort on Steen's part to destroy Ring Of Honor with Suffering Ugliness Chaos and Mayhem but Steen had been legitimately trying to get his job back for so long that fans sympathized with him and SCUM didn't truly start getting booed until Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and Steve Corino turned on Steen for losing to Jay Briscoe and installed the much easier to hate Wrestling/MattHardy as the new leader, also firmly cementing Steen as a still rough around the edges baby {{face}} who now had to take down [[CreateYourOwnVillain the evil stable he created]].
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* Many in Wrestling/{{WSU}}, but aside from perhaps the wrestling pimp Human Tornado from the early years, no one was more this trope than Jessicka Havok, whose crimes included trespassing, destruction of property and attempted murder but [[NominalHero became a face by default]] when CZW took over the promotion and DJ Hyde became [[TyrantTakesTheHelm the new boss]]. Simply by fighting her(very justified) ban from the promotion while Hyde happened to be at the helm was enough to get fans on Havok's side, as was her attacking him in a technical show of "biting "[[UngratefulBastard biting the hand that feeds you" you]]" when he initially decided to lift it.
* Wrestling/KevinSteen HeelFaceTurn started with a HeelFaceDoorSlam when he tried to turn a new leaf to get his job back in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, but in a lapse of judgment, tried to comeback troughTruth Martini's Wrestling/TruthMartini's stable, leading to actions that extended his ban from the promotion. This lead to an effort on Steen's part to destroy Ring Of Honor with Suffering Ugliness Chaos and Mayhem but Steen had been legitimately trying to get his job back for so long that fans sympathized with him and SCUM didn't truly start getting booed until Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and Steve Corino turned on Steen for losing to Jay Briscoe and installed the much easier to hate Wrestling/MattHardy as the new leader, also firmly cementing Steen as a still rough around the edges baby {{face}} who now had to take down [[CreateYourOwnVillain the evil stable he created]].
* Wrestling/KevinSteen HeelFaceTurn started with a HeelFaceDoorSlam when he tried to turn a new leaf to get his job back in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, but in a lapse of judgment, tried to comeback trough
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* Wrestling/DickTheBruiser and his "cousin", The Crusher, were basically insane drunken {{blood knight}}s. But they beat up people fans didn't like and (usually) didn't resort to cheap tricks, putting them solidly in baby face territory, in contrast to say [[Wrestling/EdFarhat The Sheik]] or Ox Baker.
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* Wrestling/DickTheBruiser and his "cousin", The Crusher, Wrestling/TheCrusher, were basically insane drunken {{blood knight}}s. But they beat up people fans didn't like and (usually) didn't resort to cheap tricks, putting them solidly in baby face territory, in contrast to say [[Wrestling/EdFarhat The Sheik]] or Ox Baker.
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Pro Wrestling ''thrives'' on {{Anti Hero}}es, as the very nature of the show requires even the most idealistic to pound someone into a gooey paste for a living. Plus, if a woman dumps a man and betrays his trust, the audience will often demand [[WouldHitAGirl physical retribution]] from the wronged hero.
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* Wrestling/AntonioInoki intentionally set himself up in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling as a {{foil}} to his former TagTeam partner Giant Baba of Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. So while Baba was respectful, subdued and straight laced, Inoki was showier, cockier and rougher, almost to the point of being Baba's EvilCounterpart if not for the fact all the fans loved Inoki like a hero.
* El Canek was this in Lucha Libre Internacional. While he wasn't considered as likeable as pure tecnicos Dos Caras, Sicodelico or Mil Mascaras, he was the man who most consistently defended the honor of the Mexican based fed against foreigners like Wrestling/RikiChoshu, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant and Wrestling/BigVanVader. A sort of "jerk but our jerk" deal.
* Wrestling/DickTheBruiser and his "cousin", The Crusher, were basically insane drunken {{blood knight}}s. But they beat up people fans didn't like and (usually) didn't resort to cheap tricks, putting them solidly in baby face territory, in contrast to say [[Wrestling/EdFarhat The Sheik]] or Ox Baker.
* Macho Man Wrestling/RandySavage, meanwhile, made his name by always being on the edge of a psychotic breakdown and would defend his girlfriend Wrestling/MissElizabeth whenever necessary -- even though he wasn't always the nicest guy to her.
* Wrestling/HulkHogan's status as superhero and protector of the innocent meant he could get away with a ''lot'' of things on camera, such as hogging the spotlight and fighting fire with fire. The deconstruction of his wrestling style helped facilitate his infamous FaceHeelTurn in 1996. Infamously, Hogan was unrepentantly nasty in matches with No Disqualification rules, almost instantly resorting to tactics that were typically only used by heels.
* Wrestling/TheUndertaker was one of the earliest anti-heroes in the WWE. Several examples-including ones listed on this very page-do predate him, though.
* Wrestling/JakeRoberts was, at his best, a sinister, darkly intelligent schemer. Yet was still ''wildly'' popular with the audience.
* Almost required of pretty much any Wrestling/{{FMW}} baby face, with Atsushi Onita setting the example by establish legit explosives as a legit means of intimidating and or defeating your opponent. However, while Onita was a loopy but laid back and funny guy, this approach did not work so well for Tarzan Gotoh, so the following male faces Hayabusa and Wrestling/MasatoTanaka were more "traditional" heroes. FMW was such a violent promotion that the two still qualified as antiheroes in the more mainstream puroresu feds, however, and it was ''only'' the male faces that had to become more heroic, averting WomenAreWiser.
* At any given time in Wrestling/{{ECW}} one could look in the locker room and find the entire gamut of them, from the classical in Wrestling/TommyDreamer all the way down to the pay evil unto evil Wrestling/NewJack and everywhere in between with crazies like [[Wrestling/JimFullington The Sandman]] or arrogant showboats like Wrestling/RobVanDam.
* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin raised it to an art form by becoming (in his own words!) a "trash-talking, beer-swilling, backstabbing son of a bitch" who was the hero because he opposed CorruptCorporateExecutive Wrestling/VinceMcMahon.
* During [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock's]] heyday, he was cheered by millions (and millions) of fans while showing classic bullying behavior, most notably to Wrestling/MickFoley.
* Hijo del Santo. Wrestling/ElSanto was a failed {{rudo}} who failed so hard he became the greatest {{tecnico}} of his time and maybe of all time. He held a grudge against Blue Demon but this mostly resulted in them simply having matches to prove once and for all who was better. El Hijo del Santo by contrast was known for his violent, bloody brawls where he resulted to tactics equally illegal and brutal as the worst rudos and even sparked a riot in the usually well behaved arena Mexico with his FaceHeelTurn, which nonetheless only took in Wrestling/{{CMLL}} as the rest of the nation's fans still cheered him like a hero and even CMLL's fans took back his side before Hijo del Santo officially became a tecnico again.
* For that matter, Blue Demon and Black Shadow. Black Shadow only became a tecnico because DefeatMeansFriendship after he lost his mask to El Santo and Blue Demon only became a tecnico to get out of a mask vs mask match with El Santo. That said, both of them did genuinely support him after, disapproving of their would be successors, Los Misonaries de la Muerte, going so far as to trying to kill their rival.
* Among the colorful luchadors and {{superhero}}es of Wrestling/{{Chikara}}, Wrestling/EddieKingston stands out for being, well, not. In fact, most of the time he wasn't a tecnico, with his apparent {{Heel Face Turn}}s being more about being in need of allies to fight numerically superior foes rather than genuinely embracing tecnico ideologies, as opposed to the more obvious turns of others. It was also ridiculously easy to get Kingston to revert, as Wrestling/JimmyJacobs proved. Still, Kingston considers Chikara his home and will give everything to defend it while it stands. While it doesn't stand is [[YouHaveOutlivedYourusefulness another story]], but for the most part the [[FanCommunityNickname Chikaramy]] consider him a hero.
* Homicide for most of his career in Wrestling/RingOfHonor. He had an entire "redemption arc" that basically amounted to him assaulting and stabbing anyone and everyone within arms reach who had ever so much as annoyed him at any time during the promotion, once attempted to murder Wrestling/ColtCabana, ambushed fan favorite Wrestling/SamoaJoe, corrupted founding father Wrestling/LowKi and was all around abrasive. But fans almost always took his side, he was the lesser evil against the likes of Wrestling/JimCornette and Wrestling/BryanDanielson, and saving the promotion from Wrestling/ChrisHero's destructive Wrestling/{{CZW}} invaders didn't hurt Homicide's case either. Also, reDRagon deserved it!
* [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]], also in Ring Of Honor, during his "Red Poison" feud with [=Hangm3n=], which involved him spitting trachea restricting poison on Adam Pearce and his cohorts for trying to hang him. Delirious would also use rough tactics on many other wrestlers not associated with Pearce during this time period, though he would eventually mellow out. Similar antihero arcs would be seen later in ROH, such as those of Wrestling/ElGenerico and Wrestling/DaltonCastle.
* Wrestling/MsChif in general but as Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} Champion in particular, as she was the only baby face wrestler for over decade to win the [[ArtifactOfDoom singles title belt]] and remain a baby face while holding it, but was also among the most ruthless baby faces of the , and displayed a stunning [[NoSenseofPersonalSpace lack of social skills]] and had a "[[TheFairfolk demonic]]" gimmick.
* Wrestling/RandyOrton in his 2010-2013 face role. What better example of an antihero do you need than a man who told Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} to his face that he would RKO his own grandmother if it meant holding on to the WWE title, and then he would RKO Sheamus' grandmother just to see the look on her face. All the while he's one of the most beloved wrestlers in the WWE.
* Wrestling/CMPunk in 2011-2012. Brash, bold and hilariously entertaining, he gets cheered for doing/saying anything he would normally.
* Many in Wrestling/{{WSU}}, but aside from perhaps the wrestling pimp Human Tornado from the early years, no one was more this trope than Jessicka Havok, whose crimes included trespassing, destruction of property and attempted murder but [[NominalHero became a face by default]] when CZW took over the promotion and DJ Hyde became [[TyrantTakesTheHelm the new boss]]. Simply by fighting her(very justified) ban from the promotion while Hyde happened to be at the helm was enough to get fans on Havok's side, as was her attacking in a technical show of "biting the hand that feeds you" when he initially decided to lift it.
* Wrestling/KevinSteen HeelFaceTurn started with a HeelFaceDoorSlam when he tried to turn a new leaf to get his job back in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, but in a lapse of judgment, tried to comeback trough Truth Martini's stable, leading to actions that extended his ban from the promotion. This lead to an effort on Steen's part to destroy Ring Of Honor with Suffering Ugliness Chaos and Mayhem but Steen had been legitimately trying to get his job back for so long that fans sympathized with him and SCUM didn't truly start getting booed until Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and Steve Corino turned on Steen for losing to Jay Briscoe and installed the much easier to hate Wrestling/MattHardy as the new leader, also firmly cementing Steen as a still rough around the edges baby {{face}} who now had to take down [[CreateYourOwnVillain the evil stable he created]].
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* Wrestling/AntonioInoki intentionally set himself up in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling as a {{foil}} to his former TagTeam partner Giant Baba of Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. So while Baba was respectful, subdued and straight laced, Inoki was showier, cockier and rougher, almost to the point of being Baba's EvilCounterpart if not for the fact all the fans loved Inoki like a hero.
* El Canek was this in Lucha Libre Internacional. While he wasn't considered as likeable as pure tecnicos Dos Caras, Sicodelico or Mil Mascaras, he was the man who most consistently defended the honor of the Mexican based fed against foreigners like Wrestling/RikiChoshu, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant and Wrestling/BigVanVader. A sort of "jerk but our jerk" deal.
* Wrestling/DickTheBruiser and his "cousin", The Crusher, were basically insane drunken {{blood knight}}s. But they beat up people fans didn't like and (usually) didn't resort to cheap tricks, putting them solidly in baby face territory, in contrast to say [[Wrestling/EdFarhat The Sheik]] or Ox Baker.
* Macho Man Wrestling/RandySavage, meanwhile, made his name by always being on the edge of a psychotic breakdown and would defend his girlfriend Wrestling/MissElizabeth whenever necessary -- even though he wasn't always the nicest guy to her.
* Wrestling/HulkHogan's status as superhero and protector of the innocent meant he could get away with a ''lot'' of things on camera, such as hogging the spotlight and fighting fire with fire. The deconstruction of his wrestling style helped facilitate his infamous FaceHeelTurn in 1996. Infamously, Hogan was unrepentantly nasty in matches with No Disqualification rules, almost instantly resorting to tactics that were typically only used by heels.
* Wrestling/TheUndertaker was one of the earliest anti-heroes in the WWE. Several examples-including ones listed on this very page-do predate him, though.
* Wrestling/JakeRoberts was, at his best, a sinister, darkly intelligent schemer. Yet was still ''wildly'' popular with the audience.
* Almost required of pretty much any Wrestling/{{FMW}} baby face, with Atsushi Onita setting the example by establish legit explosives as a legit means of intimidating and or defeating your opponent. However, while Onita was a loopy but laid back and funny guy, this approach did not work so well for Tarzan Gotoh, so the following male faces Hayabusa and Wrestling/MasatoTanaka were more "traditional" heroes. FMW was such a violent promotion that the two still qualified as antiheroes in the more mainstream puroresu feds, however, and it was ''only'' the male faces that had to become more heroic, averting WomenAreWiser.
* At any given time in Wrestling/{{ECW}} one could look in the locker room and find the entire gamut of them, from the classical in Wrestling/TommyDreamer all the way down to the pay evil unto evil Wrestling/NewJack and everywhere in between with crazies like [[Wrestling/JimFullington The Sandman]] or arrogant showboats like Wrestling/RobVanDam.
* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin raised it to an art form by becoming (in his own words!) a "trash-talking, beer-swilling, backstabbing son of a bitch" who was the hero because he opposed CorruptCorporateExecutive Wrestling/VinceMcMahon.
* During [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock's]] heyday, he was cheered by millions (and millions) of fans while showing classic bullying behavior, most notably to Wrestling/MickFoley.
* Hijo del Santo. Wrestling/ElSanto was a failed {{rudo}} who failed so hard he became the greatest {{tecnico}} of his time and maybe of all time. He held a grudge against Blue Demon but this mostly resulted in them simply having matches to prove once and for all who was better. El Hijo del Santo by contrast was known for his violent, bloody brawls where he resulted to tactics equally illegal and brutal as the worst rudos and even sparked a riot in the usually well behaved arena Mexico with his FaceHeelTurn, which nonetheless only took in Wrestling/{{CMLL}} as the rest of the nation's fans still cheered him like a hero and even CMLL's fans took back his side before Hijo del Santo officially became a tecnico again.
* For that matter, Blue Demon and Black Shadow. Black Shadow only became a tecnico because DefeatMeansFriendship after he lost his mask to El Santo and Blue Demon only became a tecnico to get out of a mask vs mask match with El Santo. That said, both of them did genuinely support him after, disapproving of their would be successors, Los Misonaries de la Muerte, going so far as to trying to kill their rival.
* Among the colorful luchadors and {{superhero}}es of Wrestling/{{Chikara}}, Wrestling/EddieKingston stands out for being, well, not. In fact, most of the time he wasn't a tecnico, with his apparent {{Heel Face Turn}}s being more about being in need of allies to fight numerically superior foes rather than genuinely embracing tecnico ideologies, as opposed to the more obvious turns of others. It was also ridiculously easy to get Kingston to revert, as Wrestling/JimmyJacobs proved. Still, Kingston considers Chikara his home and will give everything to defend it while it stands. While it doesn't stand is [[YouHaveOutlivedYourusefulness another story]], but for the most part the [[FanCommunityNickname Chikaramy]] consider him a hero.
* Homicide for most of his career in Wrestling/RingOfHonor. He had an entire "redemption arc" that basically amounted to him assaulting and stabbing anyone and everyone within arms reach who had ever so much as annoyed him at any time during the promotion, once attempted to murder Wrestling/ColtCabana, ambushed fan favorite Wrestling/SamoaJoe, corrupted founding father Wrestling/LowKi and was all around abrasive. But fans almost always took his side, he was the lesser evil against the likes of Wrestling/JimCornette and Wrestling/BryanDanielson, and saving the promotion from Wrestling/ChrisHero's destructive Wrestling/{{CZW}} invaders didn't hurt Homicide's case either. Also, reDRagon deserved it!
* [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]], also in Ring Of Honor, during his "Red Poison" feud with [=Hangm3n=], which involved him spitting trachea restricting poison on Adam Pearce and his cohorts for trying to hang him. Delirious would also use rough tactics on many other wrestlers not associated with Pearce during this time period, though he would eventually mellow out. Similar antihero arcs would be seen later in ROH, such as those of Wrestling/ElGenerico and Wrestling/DaltonCastle.
* Wrestling/MsChif in general but as Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} Champion in particular, as she was the only baby face wrestler for over decade to win the [[ArtifactOfDoom singles title belt]] and remain a baby face while holding it, but was also among the most ruthless baby faces of the , and displayed a stunning [[NoSenseofPersonalSpace lack of social skills]] and had a "[[TheFairfolk demonic]]" gimmick.
* Wrestling/RandyOrton in his 2010-2013 face role. What better example of an antihero do you need than a man who told Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} to his face that he would RKO his own grandmother if it meant holding on to the WWE title, and then he would RKO Sheamus' grandmother just to see the look on her face. All the while he's one of the most beloved wrestlers in the WWE.
* Wrestling/CMPunk in 2011-2012. Brash, bold and hilariously entertaining, he gets cheered for doing/saying anything he would normally.
* Many in Wrestling/{{WSU}}, but aside from perhaps the wrestling pimp Human Tornado from the early years, no one was more this trope than Jessicka Havok, whose crimes included trespassing, destruction of property and attempted murder but [[NominalHero became a face by default]] when CZW took over the promotion and DJ Hyde became [[TyrantTakesTheHelm the new boss]]. Simply by fighting her(very justified) ban from the promotion while Hyde happened to be at the helm was enough to get fans on Havok's side, as was her attacking in a technical show of "biting the hand that feeds you" when he initially decided to lift it.
* Wrestling/KevinSteen HeelFaceTurn started with a HeelFaceDoorSlam when he tried to turn a new leaf to get his job back in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, but in a lapse of judgment, tried to comeback trough Truth Martini's stable, leading to actions that extended his ban from the promotion. This lead to an effort on Steen's part to destroy Ring Of Honor with Suffering Ugliness Chaos and Mayhem but Steen had been legitimately trying to get his job back for so long that fans sympathized with him and SCUM didn't truly start getting booed until Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and Steve Corino turned on Steen for losing to Jay Briscoe and installed the much easier to hate Wrestling/MattHardy as the new leader, also firmly cementing Steen as a still rough around the edges baby {{face}} who now had to take down [[CreateYourOwnVillain the evil stable he created]].
