History PlayingAgainstType / ProfessionalWrestling

* {{Wrestling/Naomi}} was pushed as a heel in FCW but her athleticism and natural likability led to her debut as a face on NXT Season 3. They tried to make her a heel again in FCW but it didn't take. She was turned heel on the main roster in 2015 for the sake of a championship push, but again it didn't take. She stayed heel for about a year and quietly turned back face when she returned from injury. According to the woman herself, she knew the heel push wouldn't work and only agreed to it because she'd get a championship match.

** Wrestling/AngelaFong was a GenkiGirl face when she wrestled in FCW. She portrays Black Lotus, a dark and ruthless determinator out for revenge. She does so by forming an AmazonBrigade, rather than stepping into the ring herself. The Triad itself, given it is made up of Kairi Hojo, usually a dopey cheerful sailor...[[InsistentTerminology pirate]], Io Shirai, an arrogant but {{well|intentionedextremist}} meaning defender of World Wonder Ring Stardom's honor and Mayu Iwatani, a plucky polite {{fashion model}}. Even more so in that Iwatani and Shirai were in a rivalry with Hojo in Stardom that they had only relatively recently [[RivalsTeamUp put aside]] to deter incursions from rival joshi feds.

* Wrestling/BrodusClay first showed up on NXT Season 4 as a brutish monster, and spent a while as Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio's bodyguard on the main roster. At the end of 2011 he was repackaged as 'The Funkasaurus' - a happy dancing babyface. He did eventually pull a heel turn a couple of years later, but he was {{Brother Chuck}}ed and released soon after - so ultimately he spent more time as The Funkasaurus. According to WordOfGod, a planned angle was that Vince [=McMahon=] would want Brodus to be the monster and he'd debut as The Funkasaurus just to defy him.

* The unkempt, vulgar and ever scheming Wrestling/AustinAries became a much more well groomed cape wearing CasanovaWannabe in Wrestling/{{Chikara}}. Even more so in Wrestling/{{TNA}}, where he became {{refugee from TV land}} Austin Starr.
* While [[Wrestling/SamiZayn El Generico]] was a face in Ring of Honor and many of his indy appearances, since coming to WWE as Sami Zayn he's spent most of his career as an arrogant, ConspiracyTheorist heel. (He did have a face run in NXT and early on the main roster though).
* Many fans prefer Wrestling/AJStyles as a face, saying that a FaceHeelTurn for him is little more than a chance to add some luster to him and he played one mainly in impact Wrestling (even in NJPW, as leader of Wrestling/BulletClub, it was more of a EvilIsCool situation). The majority of his WWE career however, has seen him playing an arrogant, loud mouthed heel. [[note]] Whether or not this is WWE "punishing" him for getting his fame from one of their rivals is unknown. [[/note]]

* {{Wrestling/Kazza}} was a GirlNextDoor babyface for most of her early career. Right before she achieved stardom as a HardDrinkingPartyGirl "Session Moth" Martina - she had actually been trying out a heel gimmick as a [[Series/JerseyShore Snooki]] {{Expy}} that fans nicknamed 'K-Woww'. Martina's popularity taking off overseas meant that she never played that gimmick again.