Ever since becoming Bray Wyatt, the wrestler formerly known as Husky Harris became a major source of Nightmare Fuel for the WWE, either on his own or as part of The Wyatt Family.
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Cult leader
- Bray's modus operandi post-Hell in a Cell 2014 has to be this, even on an in-universe level. He's picked up this habit of showing up out of nowhere - via Offscreen Teleportation - right in the middle of a PPV match and singling someone out for attack, usually after not being seen or heard from much for several weeks. There's no telegraph or warning for anyone - not the audience, not the broadcasters, and certainly not the guys in the ring that are invariably worried about some other man or men beating them up. And the worst part is, Wyatt seems to hold a new grudge every couple of months, and his enemies have no idea that they're being targeted until after they've been hit.
- As hilarious and awesome as it was, the ULTIMATE DELETION! has creepy scenes such as Matt trying to run a lawnmower onto Bray, and Bray being thrown to the Lake of Reincarnation after he hears Jeff "Brother Nero" singing a line of "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" and teleporting just like Bray would do.
- During a part of the fight, Bray gets flashbacks of the time Randy Orton burned down the Wyatt compound and starts screaming fury.
- Bray's first promo
after attacking Roman Reigns at Money in the Bank 2015 is pretty standard...and then he starts singing "I'm A Little Teapot" (which was sung by Reigns and his daughter in a fatherhood PSA at the time) while the camera slowly zooms out to show he's holding a picture of Roman and his daughter.
The Fiend/Firefly Fun House
- Just about everything about how messed up the Firefly Fun House is.
- First, there's the pair of teasers that appeared in the leadup to it. The first one consists of the camera slowly zooming in on a mysterious box with smoke coming out of it... only for an uber-creepy bird head to emerge in a bizarre Jump Scare, a sinister, raspy chuckle emerging from its beak before a cut to black. The second one consists of a slow panning shot over a series of toys, including a weird dollhouse and a rabbit plushie riding a rocking horse — which looks cute, until you realise one of the horse's legs is rocking on the throat of another stuffed animal — before settling on a rocking chair that's cast in darkness... right before the lights come on, and it's revealed to have a severly Creepy Doll sitting on it, who proceeds to let out her own Evil Laugh as the camera slowly zooms in on her before cutting to black again. Oh, and these were both scored to what sounded like an instrumental of Bray's intro music remixed as if coming from a child's toy or mobile, which would make a Dark Reprise in certain episodes when a certain someone is about to emerge.
- Episode 1 has Bray cutting a cardboard version of his past self with a chainsaw. You know everything's messed up when a) Bray's companions are a buzzard called Mercy and a witch doll called Abby, and b) he introduces his "Heal" and "Hurt" gloves and treats them like they're no big deal. And just as he's about to chainsaw his cardboard standee, look close at how the "Hurt" glove is placed near his ear...almost as if it's alive and telling him what to do.
- Episode 2 has Bray painting a house on fire with a girl inside of it, a reference to when Randy Orton burned down the Wyatt compound.
- In episode 3, Mercy eats Rambling Rabbit, who was introduced in the prior episode... and is pardoned! Then the cult-like vibe of the show is even more apparent with the kids and their empty look in their faces, as if they're brainwashed!
- The first few episodes were occasionally unsettling, but still amusing. Then episode 4 hits you full force with The Reveal of this horrifying Monster Clown, eerie imagery and that goddamn mask of his, and you realize Wyatt is as insane as ever.
- Episode 5 reads like a normal introduction card. But towards the end, the music begins to fade and the dark scenery takes place.
- Episode 6 has Bray hiding behind a plate with a clown face painted on it. And we finally know the name of the Monster Clown of previous episodes: the Fiend. Whenever he hides behind the plate, that disturbing sequence appears again.
- Episode 7 is about fitness and we're introduced to Huskus the pig, as well as a marionette shaped like WWE boss Vince McMahon acting as the devil. A fun song called "Muscle Man Dance" begins to play... and then it reaches the line "ERASE YOUR MIND", where a dark scenery is displayed and Bray stares intensely into the camera. It says something about how messed up this is when this is the tamer episode so far.
- Episode 8 starts with Bray sticking up a cardboard letter reading "ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO EXIT HERE!". Then Mercy and the Rabbit begin to fight, and Bray stops it with the threat of calling the Fiend. When Rabbit is given a microphone to ramble thereafter, he looks to be on the verge of bringing the true horrors of the Funhouse to light...at which point Bray kills him with a hammer and turns him into sauce.
- Episode 9 starts out fairly normally, before veering off track quickly as every last puppet from before returns, urging the viewer to "join us" as Bray reveals he made the Firefly Fun House as a place to fit "them" all, since they don't belong. And then, the Fiend is unleashed again, accompanied by a sequence of the previous "Muscle Man Dance" song being done in different styles, all of them culminating in the "ERASE YOUR MIND" bit. And at the end, the Fiend stands, as a child chants "Follow the Leader"... and seems to teleport away in plain view. Bray has likely been unleashed again.
Bray: People worship what they fear. Fear. Is. Power. - First, there's the pair of teasers that appeared in the leadup to it. The first one
- The fact that members of the Firefly Fun House have been spotted stalking potential targets of The Fiend on the following week to Episode 9:
- On the 6/24/19 edition of RAW, Abby the Witch and Mercy the Buzzard observed The Miz and Kofi Kingston respectively...
- The following day, on Smackdown, Rambling Rabbit and Huskus the Pig were stalking Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville, and Daniel Bryan and Rowan.
- And the following week? Mercy was spotted stalking The Miz again, (apparently) Huskus was spotted stalking Ricochet, and in Smackdown, Abby was spotted stalking Shelton Benjamin.
- The following week had Huskus spying on Ricochet (again) and Abby spotting the janitor (eventually revealed to be former Cruiserweight champion Cedric Alexander) on Raw and Rambling Rabbit spying on Bayley and Abby the Witch spying on the Iiconics, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville on Smackdown.
- A few commercials recently have had The Fiend appearing for a split-second at the very end. Not Fiend merchandise or shirts or anything, no, just his face pops up for the last half second of the commercial.
- His in-ring redebut as the Fiend. Couple the single light reminiscent of a swinging lamp, the loving closeups on his mask, the fact that he somehow moves faster than he ever has in his career, and the high-pitched ringing and screamlike ambiance accompanying his appearance and you have the recipe for professional wrestling's first ever living Creepypasta.
- His attack on Mick Foley during the Raw Reunion show, using Foley's own Mandible Claw on him. For the record, Foley is Professional Wrestling's poster child for Dented Iron.
- Notably, Mick Foley would return on the SummerSlam Kickoff, and used his time to talk about how people may have forgotten that despite the gym sock he dolled it up with, the Mandible Claw is still a terrifying, paralyzing nerve hold that he created as a means to mess with The Undertaker's head... and that from his firsthand experience, The Fiend had mastered it. Sure enough, even since then, The Fiend has used the Mandible Claw as his new Finishing Move.
- SummerSlam 2019: The Fiend's official debut match. Wyatt comes out to a new metal remix of "Broken Out in Love", nothing too terrifying there... but the lantern he's carrying is. Why? Because it's Bray's decapitated head with its eyes stitched shut and his jaw unhinged so the lantern can fit in his mouth. That's to say nothing of his mannerisms. While there are a few Wyatt trademarks, The Fiend is somehow more aggressive, trying to flat out murder Balor by strangling him, trying to break his neck, and suffocating him with the Mandible Claw. And then there's this shot.◊ Jesus.
- If you thought his entrance music, Mark Crozer's "Live in Fear" was creepy before, wait until you get a load of the cover of the song by Code Orange, created specifically for the Fiend, which has all the weird beats and lyrics of the original with an unstable metal remix and the words "HURT!" and "HEAL!" shouted loudly between verses. Spooky stuff.
- What Wyatt did to Finn Bálor in and of itself is only layer one of how scary it really is. Finn Bálor would not recover and return to WWE until two months later... going back to NXT on a heel run akin to his final year as Prince Devitt in New Japan Pro-Wrestling. That's layer two. Layer three involves The Fiend's future rivals Seth Rollins and Daniel Bryan both reverting to previous personas as well (Seth a combination of his Shield and Authority heel gimmicks, Bryan eventually going back to 2009 and later 2012). And then there's layer four. Following the below with Seth Rollins and Hell in a Cell, about a month before his heel turn, Rollins would enter and burn the Firefly Fun House... only for the Fun House to recover good as new about a week later, and Bray to imply on Twitter that Seth would have to have been DEAD to enter that place. Come early Febrary 2020, heel Finn is telling Johnny Gargano that he doesn't have a heart.
- Oh and you wanna make this better? The reverting to previous personas is kinda familiar...where did we last see this? Answer: The Lake of Reincarnation. That's right, apparently The Fiend has somehow absorbed the power of the Lake and is using it as a corrupting force on all who fight with him. WOKEN Matt, what have you done?!
- As listed on Foreshadowing on the main page, Bray had (possibly) given us a hint of the Fiend since 2015. While at the time, it seemed nothing more than Bray being cryptic and telling a story from his childhood, it ended up being so much more. The "man in the woods" had no pigment in his skin, long yellow hair, and yellow eyes. When he got back to Abigail, she explained to him that he was the "man in the woods". Fast forward three and a half years, and Bray reveals the Fiend to the world, a pale masked, blond haired, and golden eyed Monster Clown. We were warned!
- His apperarance in the 8-19-19 RAW has him appear right behind Jerry Lawler and assault him with a Neck Snap (probably a reference to how he was assaulting Lawyer back in '14)
- 9/4/19: He ends the segment cheerfully stating "See you in Hell!" which can either mean the Hell in a Cell PPV or something even worse.
- Speaking of Hell in a Cell, The Fiend shrugged out almost every single thing Seth dished out, including but not limiting to ladders, steel chair shots to the head and sledgehammers. In fact that last one had the referee stop the match before Seth killed The Fiend. And even while The Fiend was laid out on a stretcher, he had enough strength to put Seth in a Mandible Claw and make him bleed.
- During a Miz TV segment with Daniel Bryan on 11/15/19, Bray interrupts by asking Daniel Bryan to challenge him. Daniel Bryan knows that Bray is trying to trick him to go back to his old "Yes! Movement" gimmick, so he refuses. Instead, Daniel Bryan makes the challenge. Bray responds by shouting "Yes! Yes! Yes!" over and over again, each time getting louder and more frantic. Initially, the audience is also chanting "Yes!" with Bray, but as he gets crazier and crazier, they realize how bat-shit insane he is and go quiet.
- 11/29/19: The Fiend comes through the ring right behind Daniel Bryan and attacks him. Bryan tries to fight back, but The Fiend applies the Mandible Claw and drags Bryan into the ring. In there, The Fiend pulls and rips Bryan's hair apart.
- 12/6/19: Bray's set his sights on The Miz this time, mostly due to Miz trying to find out just where the hell Daniel Bryan is. It proceeds with Bray's usual creepiness right up until Miz calls Daniel "family" to the WWE Universe, which turns out to be Bray's "Word of the Day", causing Ramblin' Rabbit to actually warn Miz to run away over. Bray takes his time to remark on how he "used to have a family" prompting a blink-and-you'll miss it cut in of The Wyatt Family during the time Daniel was one of them to pop in for a Jump Scare before Bray excitedly tells Miz that he's got a chance to join a new family... and then pulls up a picture of Miz, his two kids and Maryse. As if that implication wasn't clear enough, when Miz storms backstage in full Tranquil Fury mode looking for Bray, he finds an empty room with a pedestal and a picture. The same picture Bray was holding with one key difference. Miz has been replaced with Bray. He's then hit with a surprise Sister Abigail from Bray, who had been hiding in the shadows of the room the entire time before Bray puts the picture on his chest and walks off singing "Home For The Holidays" to himself. Some time later, an official finds him and helps him up before leaving to get a doctor to aid him, but not before Miz remarks "Where is he? Where's that Photo?" It's not clear if someone removed it, or if Miz's encounter with Bray was 100% real or not.
- In non-Miz related horror, Bray remarks that even he doesn't want to know where Daniel Bryan went, implying that he thinks The Fiend still has him and isn't done with him yet. Given The Fiend's possibly mystical bent, it might be that Daniel Bryan's very soul is trapped in The Fiend's grasp, or Bray has him trapped somewhere for The Fiend to torment at his leisure. Neither possibility is a fun one to think of.
- 12/13/19: Bray's torment of Miz ramps up when during an interview in his home about how despite his differences with Daniel Bryan he still wants to put that aside to find out what happened to the guy, Maryse suddenly interrupts the interview by calling for him by his given name and not his stage name to show him something she noticed on the tablet she has set up to monitor their baby daughter Monroe's crib. Her playing with Ramblin' Rabbit. Bray then hijacks the stream to cackle at them before slipping slightly into The Fiend persona to demand that they "Let me in." before the stream cuts back to show Monroe in her crib surrounded by the Firefly Funhouse puppets and Bray's laughter can be heard through the stream. Miz actually mutters "oh my god" beneath his breath as he realizes that a complete madman is in his baby daughter's room as he speaks causing him and Maryse to bolt up to her room. When they get there, Bray and the puppets are gone... but he left a doll with The Fiend's face behind. Miz is so rattled that he makes the camera crew leave his home immediately.
- Due to the reflective nature of tablet screens, eagle eyed viewers can actually see the look of terror on Maryse's face as she realizes just what's going on.
- A creepy, and likely unintentional, detail comes from how Monroe reacts to what's happening around her. Over the tablet she seems to be having a great time with the Firefly Funhouse puppets, but once Miz and Maryse reach her she's terrified of the doll Bray left behind with Maryse smacking it out of Miz's hands because of Monroe's negative reaction to the thing being close. It gives the impression that either she didn't realize how terrifying Bray was until he was forced to bail or he had her under some sort of illusion to keep her from panicking.
- Not to be one-upped by himself, Bray then cuts a promo on the funhouse about how he's taught himself to ignore pain, jarringly slamming his head against his table to prove his point. He then says if he can ignore pain that Miz can teach himself to ignore love, offering to teach him if he just lets him in.
- Tables, Ladders & Chairs PPV 2019: Bray wrestles in his Funhouse persona against the Miz. Not as the Fiend, as Bray the kids' show host. And as you'd expect, he's the complete opposite of the Fiend in terms of presentation, mannerisms and entrance music. He even acts like a babyface, slapping palms, greeting the audience and making it clear he's happy to be there. But it still falls under this not just because his inner nature leaks through in places, like the two Sister Abigails he pulls after trying to not fight Miz for most of the match, but also because after the match, the Fiend appears on the big screen and seemingly compels Bray to bash Miz's head in. It's bad enough the Fiend is implied to be "Like old Bray but worse", now he's making "nice" Bray act like him too?
- The 13th March 2020 episode of Smackdown. Filmed in an empty Performance Centre due to COVID-19 fears, the whole episode has a legitimately surreal and slightly discomforting atmosphere due to the small, intimate setting and total lack of crowd noise, which makes Bray all the creepier. He starts by interrupting John Cena's interview; there's no entrance music, no crowd reaction, and no commentary pointing him out- we hear his laugh, and the camera pans over to show him in Firefly Funhouse mode leaning up against the barricade. Cena and Michael Cole's shocked reactions genuinely make it look like he just appeared out of thin air. From there, he cuts a promo on John; and with no fan chants to break his flow or commentary to fill the gaps, it stops sounding like a promo and starts sounding like an actual crazy person just rambling; and suddenly, without the trappings of wrestling presentation around him, Bray doesn't look like a gimmick or a character, he looks like a real dangerous, unhinged maniac that you could actually meet in Real Life.
- The Firefly Funhouse match against Cena is essentially one humongous Break Them by Talking nightmare that Wyatt unleashes on Cena in regards to Cena's career as a wrestler, stating that he's no good guy and he has no one who truly likes him, deconstructing his Designated Hero status and how he buried so many wrestlers just to be on top. The fact that Wyatt mentally broke John Cena is a humongous cause for alarm.
- At least one person has referred to this as Cena entering his own personal Silent Hill, and they're not entirely wrong.
- This article essentially deconstructs the famous Vince promo "RUTHLESS AGGRESSION" that John Cena used as his Establishing Character Moment and runs with it. Dolph Ziggler stated on his twitter that this is like a wrestling equivalent of Black Mirror and that is a very disturbing thought to consider.
- To make it more chilling, the ending has this quote (by John Cena, btw) overlapped:
- While everyone who encounters the Fiend for too long is corrupted somehow, or in the case of Cena just fades away and classifies himself as obsolete, the way that Alexa Bliss became straight up Brainwashed and Crazy and slowly turned into a soulless monster like him is evil on a whole other level.
- On the RAW October 26 '20 episode, the fun house is having an Alice in Wonderland tea party with him as the Mad Hatter and Alexa being Alice, having giving Ramblin' Rabbit tea spiked with arsenic. Bray is gleeful at this as he quotes the Cheshire Cat's "We're all mad down here" speech.Alexa: But how do you know I'm mad?
Bray: Well, you must be! Or else you'd never have come down here.- Also, notice that he places the HEAL glove over Alexa's face before she shows off these eerie white eyes with pink rimmed pupils. When she wakes up from the trance, she states how happy she'll be to have Randy Orton as her guess on "A Moment of Bliss". Then it cuts to a scene of Bray giving a Thousand-Yard Stare while screams play in the background while he glances at the painting of the Wyatt Compound on fire....
- Ramblin' Rabbit reveals he's alright after the poisoned tea, but Bray decides to wallop him to death while he and Alexa laugh at his pain.
- The episode ends with Bray excited for when Orton has his interview with Alexa, stating that it's gonna be fire. This won't bode well...
- Tables, Ladders & Chairs PPV 2020: The Fiend faced Orton in a Firefly Inferno Match, where the barricades are on fire and the only way to win is to set your opponent on fire. As usual, The Fiend decides to No-Sell everything Orton throws at him, even Orton punching him with a chain wrapped around his fist. The Fiend straight up tries to kill Orton with a pick axe and by putting him in a rocking chair and lighting a trail of gasoline. Orton eventually wins the match by shoving him back-first into the flames, but The Fiend ignores the fact that he's on fire to attack Orton again. Orton manages to knock him out and pours gasoline all over him to completely light him up.
- This also appears to have been the legitimate death of The Fiend for a good few months- but only a few weeks later, like a parasite, Alexa began using his powers to terrorize Orton and the women’s division.
- Then it got worse. At Fastlane, two months after his seeming death, The Fiend came back, looking even more horrifying.
Uncle Howdy
- Extreme Rules 2022: Bray's return. As a creepy rendition of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" plays, there's spotlights shining down in areas of the audience where human versions of all of his puppet friends appear, as well as the Fiend himself. Then we zoom in on the announcers' table as Michael Cole and Corey Graves notice the "Burnt Fiend" mask on their table and react in fear as to how that got there...and then we see Bray himself doffing the White Rabbit mask and that can only mean one thing. He's here.
- "Uncle Howdy" himself is terrifying. His tendency for Jump Scare interruptions, weird, unsettling image flashes, and vague portents of doom and disaster aren't new for those familiar with Wyatt's mythos and gimmick(s) but... just look at him. The eyes, one of them an icy bluish-white, look like they'd suck your soul out if you stared into them too long. His mask... if that is a mask... is deep in the Uncanny Valley, looking like what a psychopath that's been kept in total isolation for years thinks a human being looks like. On top of all that, whether he's a separate person/being that has a past or present influence on Wyatt, like Sister Abigail, or a malevolent entity inside or part of Bray more akin to The Fiend is being left vague for the time being. Whoever or whatever he is, he's so bad not even Wyatt wants to embrace him, and given what we've seen of Wyatt in the past, that's very telling.
- YOWIE WOWIE...
