History YMMV / BrayWyatt

** One of the lyrics for "Broken Out of Love" goes "He won't see the sun again for years to come"...how about he'll ''never'' see the sun again...

** His match against Wrestling/SethRollins at ''Wrestling/HellInACell'' 2019 had the audience firmly by his side with the fans ''noisily furious'' when it ended in a "no contest" with the belt still on Seth. And to prove that even the talent themselves would be cheering for Bray if they could, Wrestling/SeanWaltman called bullshit on the ''de facto'' disqualification finish on WWE's official watchalong, and Rollins himself later described being furious enough with that ending he wanted to ''fight Vince [=McMahon=]'' over it.

** His match against Wrestling/SethRollins at ''Wrestling/HellInACell'' 2019 had the audience firmly by his side with the fans ''noisily furious'' when it ended in a "no contest" with the belt still on Seth.

** Look at almost ''every'' major moment on Bray's [[Awesome/BrayWyatt Awesome page]]- his getting over with Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, his WWE Championship win at ''Wrestling/EliminationChamber 2017,'' (''especially'' the bit about him supposedly having Wrestling/RandyOrton cowed and under his control), his creation of the Fiend character and his Universal Championship win. ''Every one'' of those moments was completely undermined by WWE's almost ''maliciously'' awful booking of him that suggests that they've never ''really'' had faith in him at any point- Wrestling/TheWyattFamily was buried by constant defeats, Randy Orton would backstab Bray, make him look like a fool, and take the WWE Championship off him at ''[=WrestleMania=] 33'', the Fiend would be appallingly misbooked by being hotshotted into the Universal Title picture (leading to the [[Website/WrestleCrap Gooker-winning]] ''Wrestling/HellInACell 2019'' match) and Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} would squash him in a very poor match at ''Super [=ShowDown=]'' in Saudi Arabia for the Universal Title. Even the entire character of the goofy Firefly Funhouse Bray and The Fiend has been effectively taken from him so they could give it to Wrestling/AlexaBliss instead, and the one masterpiece his fans believed he would be able to have as his legacy forever, the Firefly Funhouse match where he defeated and completely deconstructed Wrestling/JohnCena in a way that nobody ever had before, was effectively rendered null when Cena returned to WWE in 2021 after Bray's release to feud with Wrestling/RomanReigns without even the most token acknowledgment of what he'd gone through in his last appearance, effectively rendering the match CanonDiscontinuity, but in fairness, it is rare for WWE to acknowledge released performers anyway. Nearly every single thing Bray has ever worked hard to accomplish, WWE has stripped away from him with the gleeful recklessness of a bratty kid kicking over a sandcastle.

** At the RAW is XXX show, Wrestling/TheUndertaker gives a PassingTheTorch moment to Bray, establishing him as the new WrestlingMonster in the WWE. Bray would never get that chance to truly show himself as a true monster as he passed away seven months after his final match against Wrestling/LAKnight. Moreover, LA Knight's promo was about Bray living on "past glory", which is now all that's left of him.

** Ambushing Wrestling/TheUndertaker, alongside the other three members of his family, after Taker's defeat against Wrestling/BrockLesnar at ''Wrestling/HellInACell. The next day's RAW revealed he captured Undertaker to steal the power of his soul. When Wrestling/{{Kane}} demanded the whereabouts of his older brother, they did the same to him, dragging him backstage [[NoBodyLeftBehind with no sign of]] [[NothingIsScarier either brothers' body]] the following week. It should be noted that even ''[[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]]'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards was audibly appalled and disgusted by these actions]].

** Likewise his "Firefly Funhouse" match at ''[=WrestleMania=] 36'' had people wondering how the hell that would work. Many people were amazed at it was a cinematic that made a lot of references to Cena's life all while Wyatt psychologically ''broke'' the Cenation leader.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUuaqKuMmrY entrance theme for "The Fiend" persona]], care of the band Code Orange. Basically, it was a DeathMetal take on Mark Crozer and The Rels' "Live in Fear", and it properly hammered down that the new Bray was ''way'' more terrifying than before.
** After his 2022 return, he used a new, original song by Code Orange called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l89VxkNRGEw Shatter]]" that even those who missed his old theme(s) agreed was amazing.

** Suffering this after several underwhelming ends to feuds with Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/ChrisJericho. While Bray is still considered one of the better in-ring talkers, his promos have started to lose credibility due to him having little impact on his opponents (particularly John Cena) and having no clear goal or focus. It's gotten to the point where WWE attempted a retool on the entire Wyatt family, having Harper and Rowan "break free," and Wyatt to enter into singles competition and putting him into a feud with Wrestling/DeanAmbrose.
** Seemed to be getting a bit of his mojo back, looking very dangerous in his feud with Reigns and reconstituting the Family along the way... but then started trying to mess with the Undertaker and Kane. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor At the same time.]] Being the shortest one of his stable doesn't help when he is going against the Brothers of Destruction. Harper can take a concentrated beating from Kane and Undertaker. Bray? Not so much.
** Wrestling/EliminationChamber 2017 may have finally cured the decay with him winning the WWE Championship in the titular match, concluding by pinning both John Cena and Wrestling/AJStyles cleanly, then following that up two nights later by ArcWelding his creative difficulties over the years into Sister Abigail's prophecy to his character and then beating both Cena and Styles again in a triple threat rematch by pinning Cena — again clean, and this time after being attacked by Wrestling/LukeHarper before the match!
** Then, typically, undone again when his feud with Wrestling/RandyOrton, which had been thought to be resolved, started up again when Orton turned on him and beat him at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 33,'' ending his championship reign after only a month and making it jarringly obvious that the whole point of the feud ''and'' Bray's title win was just to put Orton over again for his 13th World Championship on the Grandest Stage Of Them All. Oh, and this means Bray loses at ''[=WrestleMania=]'' yet ''again!''[[note]]He's now 0-4 after he was beaten by Wrestling/JohnCena at 30, Wrestling/TheUndertaker at 31, and the entire Wyatt Family was collectively humiliated by [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] and Cena again at 32[[/note]] And considering he'd supposedly absorbed the power of Sister Abigail (after Randy had burned down the Wyatt compound) to become more powerful than ever, the fact that he then ''lost'' means the Bray Wyatt character has pretty much no credibility left now. Even worse, it made Bray Wyatt,who was previously a great example of a MagnificentBastard, look like a gullible fool. "The [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder guy who betrays everyone]] betrayed me! How could this happen?!" Bray is one of the tragic few cases of someone who's come out of a run with the World Championship ''worse'' off than he was before he won it!

** His 2019 repackaging initally appeared to successfully reversethis trend, with Bray's debut match as the Fiend eliciting massive pops from the audience and widespread acclaim on social media, although with the caveat of leaving his fans even more desperate for WWE to not screw up his character again … And they promptly ''did'' screw up his character again, first with the Hell in a Cell 2019 debacle and then the loss to Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, starting what could be seen as the path towards the end of Bray's WWE career with his absolute ''burial'' at the hands of the same man who'd derailed his last run, Randy Orton. After Orton defeated The Fiend at ''TLC'' 2020 in a Firefly Inferno match, burning him to a crisp, he feuded with The Fiend's PerkyFemaleMinion Alexa Bliss until The Fiend returned from the dead at ''Fastlane'', helping Alexa win an intergender match against Orton, a farce where Orton was unable to lay a hand on Alexa as she used "magic" to make him vomit black goo and cause lighting rigs to fall from the ceiling on him, and Orton and The Fiend were scheduled for a rematch at ''[=WrestleMania 37=]'' in a... normal, no-stipulation singles wrestling match. Five minutes into the match, Alexa turned on The Fiend by distracting him, setting him up for Orton to beat with a single RKO (a move The Fiend had completely [[NoSell no-sold]] the last time they'd fought), before revealing on the follow-up episode of RAW that she's turned on The Fiend because... she was [[EvilerThanThou more evil than him]] and didn't need him any more (and that she had a new "friend", a rag doll named Lilly). Orton went on his merry way victorious, completely unbothered by the entire affair, Alexa began antagonizing the RAW women's division with magic shenanigans, and Bray returned to the Firefly Funhouse for one last episode to announce he was looking forward to "a fresh start" before completely disappearing from WWE screens altogether, with it initially emerging that he was dealing with unspecified health issues, and needed time off.[[note]]While it was initially reported that said health issues were mental health issues due in part of the death of his good friend, Brodie Lee, those rumors turned out to be completely false.[[/note]] However, it later turned out that creative had nothing for him, and he was released at the end of July 2021 (after reports that he was planning to return that August). The ''[=WrestleMania=]'' loss stung more, thanks in part to reports that Bray had previously been set to ''win'' the feud against the man who had literally tried to ''kill him'' before plans were torn up and changed to a pointless Orton victory at the last second. It also emerged that WWE had never had any endgame in mind for the Bray/Orton feud and had basically been [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants winging it]] the whole time. When even Wrestling/VinceRusso is calling you out for inexcusably mismanaging your talent (and you can't find any real grounds to disagree with him), you know you've screwed up.

** It got broken just several hours after ''[=WrestleMania=] XXX,'' where Cena won his match with Bray Wyatt (Wyatt's first [=WrestleMania=]). Some people claim that Wyatt was buried by losing to Cena; other people are saying that the Cena victory was the start of an eventually Wyatt-dominated feud. Still, others are saying Wyatt was elevated by the match itself due to the amazing display of storytelling involved with credit for this varying from half-Wyatt/half-Cena to being all down to Wyatt himself.
** The base got broken in a whole new way after the debut of the Fiend gimmick, between those who adore the Fiend for it's depth, attention to detail, creativity, performance and feel that Bray Wyatt is perfectly capable of a decent match when he's allowed to do his own thing and not be bogged down by terrible creative decisions like the 2019 Hell in a Cell match, and those who see the Fiend as an overrated, overly goofy and pretentious gimmick tied to wrestler who they see as incapable of having a good match (unless carried by a Daniel Bryan). Perhaps as a symbol of this, ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' named The Fiend the Best Gimmick of 2019, only to name it the Worst Gimmick one year later in 2020.

** The Fiend is a sinister MonsterClown with glowing gold eyes and a metal remix of "Broken Out in Love" who absolutely ''mauled'' Finn Balor in his debut match with the audience on his side. His trademark lantern was replaced by a ''model of Bray's head''.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Much like [[ComicBook/TheJoker the character who inspired his gimmick]], Wyatt became universally beloved by fans as soon as he unveiled the Fiend and practically became a WWE icon overnight, which led to him becoming lopsidedly favored by audiences even during matches against unambiguous heroes. This role-defying popularity is so strong, in fact, that Wyatt was almost singlehandedly responsible for the death of Wrestling/SethRollins' audience approval following the latter's referee-stoppage victory against him at ''Hell in a Cell 2019'', remaining popular himself after the universally-hated match while Seth was left with XPacHeat of the kind not seen since Wrestling/RomanReigns.

* FountainOfMemes: Just like BROKEN Matt Hardy, the Firefly Fun House made Bray a meme machine.

--->''Goldberg is still an active wrestler, who performs occasionally in WWE. As a matter of fact, the former Universal Champion could take part in Super [=ShowDown=], which is set to take place in Saudi Arabia. It is feasible for Goldberg and The Fiend to collide, but [[TemptingFate WWE is unlikely to let this match happen, as it might affect the credibly of either of the two Superstars]].''
** Look at almost ''every'' major moment on Bray's [[Awesome/BrayWyatt Awesome page]]- his getting over with the Wyatt Family, his WWE Championship win at ''Elimination Chamber 2017,'' (''especially'' the bit about him supposedly having Randy Orton cowed and under his control), his creation of the Fiend character and his Universal Championship win. ''Every one'' of those moments was completely undermined by WWE's almost ''maliciously'' awful booking of him that suggests that they've never ''really'' had faith in him at any point- the Wyatt Family was buried by constant defeats, Randy Orton would backstab Bray, make him look like a fool, and take the WWE Championship off him at ''[=WrestleMania=] 33'', the Fiend would be appallingly misbooked by being hotshotted into the Universal Title picture (leading to the [[Website/WrestleCrap Gooker-winning]] ''Wrestling/HellInACell 2019'' match) and Goldberg would squash him in a very poor match at ''Super [=ShowDown=]'' in Saudi Arabia for the Universal Title. Even the entire character of the goofy Firefly Funhouse Bray and The Fiend has been effectively taken from him so they could give it to Wrestling/AlexaBliss instead, and the one masterpiece his fans believed he would be able to have as his legacy forever, the Firefly Funhouse match where he defeated and completely deconstructed Wrestling/JohnCena in a way that nobody ever had before, was effectively rendered null when Cena returned to WWE in 2021 after Bray's release to feud with Wrestling/RomanReigns without even the most token acknowledgment of what he'd gone through in his last appearance, effectively rendering the match CanonDiscontinuity, but in fairness, it is rare for WWE to acknowledge released performers anyway. Nearly every single thing Bray has ever worked hard to accomplish, WWE has stripped away from him with the gleeful recklessness of a bratty kid kicking over a sandcastle.

** At the RAW is XXX show, Undertaker gives a PassingTheTorch moment to Bray, establishing him as the new WrestlingMonster in the WWE. Bray would never get that chance to truly show himself as a true monster as he passed away seven months after his final match against LA Knight. Moreover, LA Knight's promo was about Bray living on "past glory", which is now all that's left of him.

*** The "Firefly Funhouse Match" against John Cena in Wrestlemania 36 has him unleash a BreakThemByTalking routine on Cena, shaking fans to their core with all of the points he makes in a way that is utterly visceral. And the March 13, 2020 promo (taped in an empty arena due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic) has him sound utterly chilling, like he's some sort of insane maniac one could find in real life.
* HilariousInHindsight: Bray's gimmick-- a backwoods cult leader from the bayou with a flair for Southern Baptist Preacher themed rhetoric and implied supernatural overtones-- is very similar to themes present in HBO's smash hit ''Series/TrueDetective'' that debuted a few months after Bray was turned loose on the WWE.
* HoYay: He had quite a bit of this during his feud with Wrestling/DeanAmbrose. During one backstage segment, after he ambushed Ambrose and hit him with the Sister Abigail, he actually [[http://33.media.tumblr.com/b8903f64856b63162bfc34492aae8450/tumblr_nf1tyv18Cm1sub5hso2_250.gif starts petting Ambrose's head, in a rather intimate manner]].

** His mental deconstruction of John Cena at the Firefly Funhouse Match in ''Wrestlemania 36'' has been compared to the Scarecrow segments in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' where The Scarecrow psychologically taunts Batman himself through fear toxin-induced hallucinations.

** Ambushing Wrestling/TheUndertaker, alongside the other three members of his family, after Taker's defeat against Brock Lesnar at Hell in a Cell. The next day's RAW revealed he captured Undertaker to steal the power of his soul. When Kane demanded the whereabouts of his older brother, they did the same to him, dragging him backstage [[NoBodyLeftBehind with no sign of]] [[NothingIsScarier either brothers' body]] the following week. It should be noted that even ''[[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]]'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards was audibly appalled and disgusted by these actions]].

** Frightening as Bray and his domination of Undertaker and Kane could be, the promo in which he claimed to have sucked their souls and demonstrated it by summoning their lightning and fire all over the ring can be seen as too over-the-top. It switches Wyatt from a subtle [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Maybe Magic, Maybe Mad]] cult leader to something straight out from [[Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE HUSTLE]].

** His Hell in a Cell match against Seth Rollins at ''Hell in a Cell 2019'' and his match against Goldberg at ''Super [=ShowDown=] 2020'' are most remembered as the one-two punch that symbolized WWE ruining the credibility of "The Fiend" character; the former going to a no contest despite the match's stipulation stating that it can only end via pinfall or submission, and in the latter Wyatt losing to Goldberg in a SquashMatch.

** Only increased further by his feud with John Cena. Cena's antics, and the general perception of their feud by many being that Wyatt's performance is the only thing standing in the way of Cena burying yet another shining young career, has now resulted in the fans eerily singing, clapping, and chanting in favor of Bray Wyatt and ''using the beat of Cena's own theme song for a "John Cena Sucks" song ala Wrestling/KurtAngle's original "You Suck" theme meme''.
** In his debut at ''Summerslam'' 2019, the entire audience was on his side chanting "Yowie Wowie" and "Let Him In".
** His match against Seth Rollins at ''Hell in a Cell'' 2019 had the audience firmly by his side with the fans ''noisily furious'' when it ended in a "no contest" with the belt still on Seth.

** The Fiend's entrance at ''Summerslam'' 2019 which had the entire audience on his side.
** The Firefly Funhouse match against Wrestling/JohnCena at ''[=WrestleMania=] 36.'' The fact that Vince ''allowed'' Bray to expose and deconstruct one of the biggest stars he ever had so brutally and openly was enough to make jaws drop, along with the ending where The Fiend apparently ''wiped Cena from existence!''

* SignatureScene: The Fiend's debut at ''Summerslam'' 2019.

** Wrestling/MickFoley outright called Wyatt a SuperiorSuccessor to his Mankind gimmick. Wyatt even eventually took a page from Foley's book by showing he was also able to freely switch around his three most prominent personas.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Seems to have fallen into this following Hell in a Cell 2019. For years Wyatt was saddled with inept booking and took loss after loss, until the shine was off him and he seemed to be another talented performer with all the potential in the world who had been failed by the WWE system.\\
Then his shocking reboot into a DepravedKidsShowHost turned him into the biggest thing in wrestling overnight, he was put almost immediately into a title feud with Wrestling/SethRollins and looked like he was finally going to break out and become one of the company's top stars. Then his big match was ended by referee stoppage. In a Hell In A Cell match. Because ''Seth'' was being too violent. Now some fans are actively feeling sorry for the psychotic, possibly demonic, creepy MonsterClown, because of how frequently and how badly the promotion he works for has dropped the ball with him.
* VillainDecay: His original "Eater of Worlds" gimmick suffered this after several underwhelming ends to feuds with [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], Wrestling/JohnCena, and Wrestling/ChrisJericho. While Bray was still considered one of the better in-ring talkers, his promos started to lose credibility due to him having little impact on his opponents (particularly John Cena) and having no clear goal or focus despite what it looked like since his beginning. It got to the point where WWE attempted a retool on the entire Wyatt family, having Luke and Rowan "break free," from Bray to enter into singles competition and putting Bray into a feud with Wrestling/DeanAmbrose.

* UnexpectedCharacter: Suffice to say, absolutely ''nobody'' was expecting Bray to return in spring of 2019 as a children's show host character. He has a little of everything; [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Mr. Rogers]], Steve from ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', even [[Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse Pee-wee Herman]]. And even though most fans rightly (this ''is'' Bray, after all) suspected that there was nothing but NightmareFuel incoming, '''not a single person''' imagined that Bray would eventually reveal his true gimmick to be a golden-eyed, slash-mouthed MonsterClown that looks very much like it could have been spawned by the Pentagon Dark era of Wrestling/LuchaUnderground.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUuaqKuMmrY entrance theme for "The Fiend" persona]], care of the band Code Orange. Basically, it's a DeathMetal take on Mark Crozer and The Rels' "Live in Fear", and it properly hammers down that the new Bray is ''way'' more terrifying than before.

* VillainDecay: His original "Eater of Worlds" gimmick suffered this after several underwhelming ends to feuds with [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], Wrestling/JohnCena, and Wrestling/ChrisJericho. While Bray is still considered one of the better in-ring talkers, his promos have started to lose credibility due to him having little impact on his opponents (particularly John Cena) and having no clear goal or focus despite what it looked since his beginning. It's gotten to the point where WWE attempted a retool on the entire Wyatt family, having Luke and Rowan "break free," from Bray to enter into singles competition and putting Bray into a feud with Wrestling/DeanAmbrose.

* DesignatedHero: The Fiend is this when he's treated as a face, despite having essentially brainwashed Wrestling/AlexaBliss into being his follower and generally behaving like a horror movie villain. Sure he's mostly been up against Wrestling/RandyOrton, who's a sadistic psychopath in his own right, but it comes off as an EvilVsEvil situation at best.

** Wyatt's BadassDecay during his "Eater of Worlds" gimmick, bringing him down to near-{{jobber}} status, has resulted in him attracting the derogatory nickname of "the Eater of Pins".

* FountainOfMemes: Just like BROKEN Matt Hardy, the Firefly Fun House has made Bray a meme machine.
* GrowingTheBeard: [[{{Pun}} So to speak....]] Wyatt has definitely come a long way from being "that fat dude from the Nexus."

** Wrestling/MickFoley was once quoted several years ago as calling Bray a darker, meaner, more athletic version of himself by way of a compliment. In 2019 Bray would return after a long absence, and down Foley with a more brutal version of Foley's own Mandible Claw. The Fiend has since employed it as a finisher, but much, ''much'' more brutally than perhaps even early-era Mankind ever did. Wrestling/SethRollins even spit up blood once after having The Fiend's version put on him. ''Yikes.''

** Likewise his "Firefly Funhouse" match at ''[=WrestleMania=] 36'' had people wondering how the hell that would work. Many people were amazed at it was a cinematic that made a lot of references to Cena's life all while Wyatt psychologically ''breaks'' the Cenation leader.

** After his 2022 return, he uses a new, original song by Code Orange called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l89VxkNRGEw Shatter]]" that even those who miss his old theme(s) agree is amazing.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Was Bray Wyatt an actual malevolent entity who possesses Husky Harris' body, or was he just Husky Harris, who, after being punted by Randy Orton, went mental and started seeing things?

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Bray Wyatt an actual malevolent entity who possesses Husky Harris' body, or is he just Husky Harris, who, after being punted by Randy Orton, went mental and started seeing things?

** He becomes WWE's resident [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane "paranormal wrestler"]] starting in TheNewTens after Wrestling/TheUndertaker and Wrestling/{{Kane}} are becoming less and less active. By TheNewTwenties, with Taker's retirement and Kane being busy with his political career, it's safe to assume he is officially ''the'' resident supernatural wrestler of the company.

** At the RAW is XXX show, Undertaker gives a PassingTheTorch moment to Bray, establishing him as the new WrestlingMonster in the WWE. Bray would never get that chance to truly show himself as a true monster as he passed away seven months after his final match against LA Knight.

** Look at almost ''every'' major moment on Bray's [[Awesome/BrayWyatt Awesome page]]- his getting over with the Wyatt Family, his WWE Championship win at ''Elimination Chamber 2017,'' (''especially'' the bit about him supposedly having Randy Orton cowed and under his control), his creation of the Fiend character and his Universal Championship win. ''Every one'' of those moments was completely undermined by WWE's almost ''maliciously'' awful booking of him that suggests that they've never ''really'' had faith in him at any point- the Wyatt Family was buried by constant defeats, Randy Orton would backstab Bray, make him look like a fool, and take the WWE Championship off him at ''[=WrestleMania=] 33'', the Fiend would be appallingly misbooked by being hotshotted into the Universal Title picture (leading to the [[Website/WrestleCrap Gooker-winning]] ''Wrestling/HellInACell 2019'' match) and Goldberg would squash him in a very poor match at ''Super [=ShowDown=]'' in Saudi Arabia for the Universal Title. Even the entire character of the goofy Firefly Funhouse Bray and The Fiend has been effectively taken from him so they could give it to Wrestling/AlexaBliss instead, and the one masterpiece his fans believed he would be able to have as his legacy forever, the Firefly Funhouse match where he defeated and completely deconstructed Wrestling/JohnCena in a way that nobody ever had before, was effectively rendered null when Cena returned to WWE in 2021 after Bray's release to feud with Wrestling/RomanReigns without even the most token acknowledgement of what he'd gone through in his last appearance, effectively rendering the match CanonDiscontinuity, but in fairness it is rare for WWE to acknowledge released performers anyway. Nearly every single thing Bray has ever worked hard to accomplish, WWE has stripped away from him with the gleeful recklessness of a bratty kid kicking over a sandcastle.

** From his work as Husky Harris or Axel Mulligan, you would '''NEVER''' be able to guess that Wyatt had that amount of mic skills and character performing ability in him. Go back and watch Husky Harris, and then watch Bray Wyatt. They're not even the same goddamn person.

*** The "Firefly Funhouse Match" against John Cena in Wrestlemania 36 has him unleash a BreakThemByTalking routine on Cena, shaking fans to their core with all of the points he makes in a way that is utterly visceral. And the March 13, 2020 promo (taped in an empty arena due to the Corona virus pandemic) has him sound utterly chilling, like he's some sort of insane maniac one could find in real life.

** His mental deconstruction on John Cena at the Firefly Funhouse Match in ''Wrestlemania 36'' has been compared to the Scarecrow segments in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' where The Scarecrow psychologically taunts Batman himself through fear toxin induced hallucinations.

** Wrestling/MickFoley outright called Wyatt a SuperiorSuccessor to his Mankind gimmick. Wyatt even eventually takes a page on Foley's book by showing he is also able to freely switch around his three most prominent personas.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Seems to have fallen into this following Hell In A Cell 2019. For years Wyatt was saddled with inept booking and took loss after loss, until the shine was off him and he seemed to be another talented performer with all the potential in the world who had been failed by the WWE system.\\

* TearJerker:
** Bray's first promo after returning to WWE in October of 2022 took a serious turn for the emotional, much to the surprise of just about everyone. Already on the verge of tears, he begins by telling the audience that he wants to speak as the real him, showing a side that he's never been able to before. He thanks his fans for never giving upon him, continuing to support him even at the lowest points of his life. He reflects upon the passing of two people close to him, Brodie Lee/Luke Harper, and his childhood friend in real life. He speaks about how the infamously poor booking of his past characters destroyed not only his own confidence as a performer but his faith in the merit of his creative ideas. But above all, he makes it clear that he missed putting on a show for the WWE Universe, and when the chants of "Thank You Bray!" start up, it's equally clear that the feeling was mutual. Of course, this being Bray Wyatt, [[MoodWhiplash things would take a VERY spooky turn towards the end.]] But it's safe to say that his fans wouldn't have it any other way.
** August 24th, 2023: ''The'' '''''extremely''''' ''unexpected death of Windham Rotunda.'' The man caught COVID-19 the previous year, and would suffer lasting heart problems that would culminate in a heart attack claiming his life just when it seemed he was finally on his way to return to the spotlight. And this came the '''day''' after Wrestling/TerryFunk's death too. His fellow wrestlers and fans around the world wasted no time in mourning the loss of one of the most brilliant minds in the industry.
*** Wrestling/BookerT [[https://twitter.com/wrestlelamia/status/1694937896250220961?s=19 happened to be streaming his podcast with Brad Gilmore when the news broke]], with Brad interrupting their current discussion to break the news on-air. What this means is viewers ended up witnessing their reactions to Bray's premature death right as the news first hits them, and you can tell from their facial expressions and tones of voice that they're devastated.
--->'''Booker T:''' Ah, man... Man man man...

** August 24th, 2023: ''The completely unexpected death of Windham Rotunda.'' The man caught COVID-19 the previous year, and would suffer lasting heart problems that would culminate in a heart attack claiming his life just when it seemed he was finally on his way to return to the spotlight. And this came the day after Wrestling/TerryFunk's death too. His fellow wrestlers and fans around the world wasted no time in mourning the loss of one of the most brilliant minds in the industry.

--->'''Booker T:''' Ah, man... [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife Man man man...]]

** At the RAW is XXX show, Undertaker gives a PassingTheTorch moment to Bray, establishing him as the new WrestlingMonster in the WWE. Bray would never get that chance to truly show himself as a true monster as months later...
** One of the lyrics for "Broken Out of Low" goes "He won't see the sun again for years to come"...how about he'll ''never'' see the sun again...