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You're the face, YAY! A Face, short for Baby face, is a Professional Wrestling good guy. He's a Lovable Jock, the guy the fans get behind, the one they cheer for. A face used to always be an upright do-gooder, but nowadays, anybody the fans cheer for is generally classified as a face, regardless of personality or whether or not they play by the rules. The opposite of a face is a Heel. Some fans draw a distinction between "face" and "babyface". It's argued that the latter should refer to the old-school, clean-cut, "eat your vegetables"-type good guys, and the shortened version is simply anybody fans cheer for, including a wide variety of Antiheroes, Nominal Heroes and Designated Heroes. Insiders in the pro wrestling business, however, use the two interchangeably. Some fans also call for the distinction of Tweeners for villains that receive a hero's welcome, though bookers and promoters themselves only slowly started embracing the concept in the late 1990s as, despite perceptions, most wrestlers wanted to be seen as pure face or heel for whatever show they happened to be working on. The Lucha Libre equivalent is known as a técnico (or more rarely technico) which is more about the method they take to win (técnicos are content to rely on valid wrestling techniques, whereas heels cheat or use brute force) but is the same in practice more often than not. To further confuse, in British wrestling (such as World of Sport), the term used is "Blue Eyes." |
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Undie's brother Kane is another face by default. He tries really hard to be heel and generally does a good job and gets booed. The moment he stops performing over the top acts of evil though the fans are back to cheering for him. | |
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Lita was eternally a face too, due to her One of Us nature. Little girls looked up to her, little boys wanted to hang with her - and her daredevil streak made her really exciting. She did turn heel towards the end of her time in WWE, but that was only because a real life affair scandal caused fans to chant obscenities at her anyway. As with Trish, she's always a face when she returns to WWE. | |
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The Great Khali has always been a hero in the Indian market. It was only in the US, Japan and Mexico that he was booed. Khali is a standout example as he is practically a legend in India! By the time he made it to nationally televised shows in the USA, though, he was no longer very mobile (his knees turned to powder from all those bumps he took), so the fans didn't see what the big deal was. | |
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Kofi Kingston and R-Truth (at least under that name) both had short heel stints but were otherwise lifelong babyfaces through their decade-long runs in WWE. | |
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The man called Sting is very interesting from a career standpoint. He became a star completely independent of WWE (despite being booked as a dumbass in kayfabe), survived numerous ill-conceived attempts to turn him heel, made a ton of money with WCW and later TNA, worked limited days for the majority of his career, and put up with some of the worst moments in wrestling history going on around him. (ex: Starrcade '97, Victory Road '11.) For a legend of such high caliber, Sting sure put up with a lot of crap in his career. There have only been a couple of attempts to turn him heel over his near 30-year career and they have all been half-hearted and poorly-received. Most recently, when TNA put him in the Main Event Mafia, Sting was conspicuous in not participating in the beatdowns administered by his stable mates. They eventually threw him out for his disloyalty. He had another heel run in 2010 (an impersonation of Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight), but the audience still would not accept it, so he became Ace Ventura in Joker paint instead. Sting reportedly does not like to be a Heel and prefers to be a Face; this preference and his drawing power are likely why few have even tried to turn him over the years. |
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Bobo Brazil is the Jackie Robinson of pro wrestling. He got over by wrestling non-white midcarders and heels, until finally the Caucasian fans demanded that he be allowed to face better competition (i.e. white people). This was in the early sixties. | |
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Los Guerreros by all means should have been the heel team, with the way they proudly lived out ethnic stereotypes and regularly lied, cheated and stole. They were such good workers in the ring and on the microphone though that it did not take any effort to get them over as faces. Trying to get them over as heels always failed, at most they could make Chavo hated by attacking the more popular Eddie. WWE later gave them a Spiritual Successor in Cryme Tyme whose career went pretty much the exact same way, only with less success in winning titles and less longevity. | |
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Zack Ryder. Hated for bad jokes, arrogance, entrance music, hair style, goggles, see through jacket, pants with different leg lengths, and his signature taunt "Woo Woo Woo!" Oddly enough though, many Smart Marks are fans of Zack Ryder. Though this may have something to do with his theme song... Ultimately it got him to full time Facedom by late 2011. | |
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All Elite Wrestling's biggest and most curious break out baby face during the COVID-19 Pandemic was Darby Allin. He's a skinny, 160 lbs skateboarder who paints half of his face with a skull, speaks in monotone, refuses to defend himself when insulted-even when the insults are blatantly untrue, and deliberately subjects himself to harm and discomfort to get motivated. But in a company full of acrobatic cruiser weights and spot monkeys Darby Allen is not only one of the best high fliers thanks to the body control that comes from skateboarding, from the stiff collisions that come from a man who doesn't care about his own pain much less his target's, but he also has occasional bouts of brilliant Wrestling Psychology when working with anyone else who cares about such details... In a promotion full of comedy it seems fans take Allin's morbidly serious attitude a welcome change of pace, and he is of course an underdog. | |
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Before Kelly Kelly came along, Torrie Wilson filled the same role. Torrie was a heel as part of the WCW and ECW Invasion storyline, but turned Face and defected when she fell for Yoshihiro Tajiri. She would spend the next four years as WWE's favourite Girl Next Door. She made a heel turn in 2005 but that didn't stick because fans just loved her too much. It was a similar case with her fellow WCW alumnus Stacy Keibler. Stacy was able to remain heel longer than Torrie - a whole year in fact - but fans loved her too much. She also became a face and remained that way for the rest of her career. | |
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And talking about The Harts, The British Bulldog had the same reaction back in Britain since his sole reason to turn heel-ish in late '95 was nobody gave him a well deserved title shot. | |
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The professional wrestler of Air Gear is Rika, however it is Ikki who gets slapped with the "babyface" label for his behavior on the inline skating circuit | |
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A similar thing happened with Randy Orton's second face run, where half of his feuds were started by his own need to be the most BAMF around. Sometimes the enemy would be shown to be just as evil or worse than him, but not always. Becoming face by default in 2010 being the only thing he changed is who he attacked. | |
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"PARENTAL WARNING: The Sandman has been known to promote drinking, smoking, swearing and ass-kicking. Keep away from children." Jim Fullington is a perfect example of Paul Heyman's ability to hide flaws and accentuate strengths. An untrained construction worker whose gimmick is chain-smoking and getting drunk shouldn't be trading armbars and doing 450's, anyway. | |
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This applies to Bret Hart, who will always be face in Canada no matter how he's booked. Even when he was the biggest heel in the company in 1997, all he had to do was drive the border and he was a face again. And talking about The Harts, The British Bulldog had the same reaction back in Britain since his sole reason to turn heel-ish in late '95 was nobody gave him a well deserved title shot. |
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ODB in TNA has never been able to stay heel for very long. She was a boisterous, big-tittied lush who lived in a trailer park. She started out as a heel in TNA, but became very popular with the fans (if not the critics!). She was able to get heel heat in other companies and returned to TNA in 2011 as a heel, but TNA's fans didn't take to it and she reverted to face within a month. | |
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In one episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, Xena decides the best way to save her friend Joxer (who has offended the Amazon tribe) is to stage a Squash Match, with Xena playing to the crowd before "killing" Joxer with an overly dramatic finishing move. | |
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Perhaps the more appropriate term is técnico but Lucha Libre Internacional had a luchador who went by (not kidding) Babe Face in the late 1970s up until Triple A forced it out of business around 95. Later his son Babe Face Jr. entered the business, although not even IWRG was interested in him, much less the major Mexican enterprises; both AAA and CMLL opted to milk whatever they could out of Babe Face Sr. instead. Likewise, one of Dominican Wrestling Entertainment's featured luchadoras goes by La Baby Face and on the flipped side, there is the masked Australian wrestler of Pro Wrestling ZERO1, El Technico. | |
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Antonino Rocca. The man who brought elbow drops, cross bodies, huracanranas and the Argentine back breaker to professional wrestling back in the late 1930s (the dropkick is disputed, and the rana is sometimes attributed to Huracán Ramirez). He was also responsible for bringing wrestling back to Madison Square Garden in the 50s, where it hasn't left since. How influential has he been, you ask? He is the reason Antonio Inoki is called like that! | |
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Bayley is one of the biggest Faces in NXT, and possibly one of the biggest female Faces in history. (She'd probably be the female John Cena if WWE had played their cards better.) It's especially notable that while the rest of her fellow horsewomen (Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks, and Charlotte) have had periods where they worked as both heels and faces at various points in their WWE careers, it took until late 2019 for Bayley to finally turn heel. | |
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Even when Eric Bischoff and the nWo were running roughshod over WCW, they still had to answer to Ted Turner, who frequently came down hard on them. | |
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Molly Holly has been outspoken about how much she preferred being a face: She liked being a positive role model for children, hence why she hated being a heel. In a shoot interview, her family talk about how it is against her nature to be one. | |
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Haystacks Calhoun was probably the first traveling face enforcer, moving from territory to territory back in the days before WWE bought them out. So influential was he that Rock n' Wrestling performers like Hillbilly Jim took a lot of cues from him, starting for his "lucky charm" horseshoe. | |
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The Rock 'n' Roll Express were THE underdog pretty-boy babyface team of the 80s, and inspired MANY imitations. | |
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Rikidozan: One of his matches drew a TV rating of 88.0. Think about that. RAW at its peak got 9.3 ratings. Andre v. Hogan drew a 14.5 rating. Rikidozan is probably the biggest star to grace the wrestling business ever. He had an unfortunately short run on account of being assassinated, but his death was enough to bring officials from South Korea, Japan and North Korea together for peaceful festivities on at least three separate occasions. It's also why Japanese wrestling has always revolved around a few homegrown stars ("aces") and the invaders (gaijin and/or wrestlers from other Japanese companies) who oppose them. Rikidozan built pro wrestling in Japan. He was the hero, the "ace" of all of Japan, fighting for his country against the foreigners who faced him on Japanese soil. It came about in the post-WW2 era when Japan was broken and occupied, and the locals were not too fond of foreigners loitering at every street corner. The country was seriously lacking a shared identity. People flocked to see Rikidozan beat up the Americans. (It's also why WWE repeatedly goes back to the foreign heel gimmick. It's just such a distinct part of pro wrestling culture, and it always gets one or both guys over.) |
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The Undertaker became a face by default. This was through a combination of his all-around talent and grave-digging zombie gimmick. | |
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Mask de Smith from Killer7 was apparently a face during his wrestling days. A former fan calls him "Babyface" (though you'd think they'd call him "tecnico," given he's a Masked Luchador). | |
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An in-universe example is found in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, Case 2: the Amazing Nine-Tails, who managed to revitalise the once near dead village of Nine Tails Vale and is a heroic icon for them. Learning about the man behind the mask is crucial to uncovering the truth of the case. | |
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While Tiger Mask manga is the story of a heel's journey to baby face, every wrestler who has since used the gimmick has been a face by default. The first official wrestler to be recognized as Tiger Mask by New Japan caused ratings to increase by 25% whenever he was featured on a show, further ensuring this would be his role. The Caras/Sicodelico family are also featured prominently. The manga shows them trying to learn the fouls committed by heels, but they never turn, remaining The Cape. | |
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In fact, there has been a myriad of heels receiving this same treatment barely changing their gimmicks, Jake Roberts, Honky Tonk Man, Roddy Piper and Randy Savage to name a few. | |
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In Hitman: Absolution, there is an achievement for stealing the All-American's disguise (The Patriot), then beating the Monster (Sanchez) with your bare fists, in the arena. From then on, getting a Silent Assassin rating is practically a shoo-in, since the crowd wants to see violent, gladiatorial combat. | |
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Goldberg, the top draw of WCW, was always a face, though he had somewhat of a mixed reaction when he wrestled The Rock. Brock Lesnar took all the heat for his infamous parting match at WrestleMania 20. Goldberg did briefly turn heel in Spring of 2000, but that got quickly nixed as fans didn't react well to Heel Goldberg. Mind you, not the usual booing that a heel gets and that sort of stuff, but rather fan apathy at how poorly-booked the Goldberg turn was. |
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The Caras/Sicodelico family in Mexico by and large. Dos Caras Junior is the only one to ever be a heel (at least until the family went to Puerto Rico) and is still more known for his tecnico run there. And when he returned from his WWE heel run he was greeted by scores of hero-worshippers, as if it never happened, or indeed he had remained good during his entire stay up North. Mil Máscaras in particular has a similar reputation to Tiger Mask and Maeda but is shielded from any damaging criticism by his legendary status, being considered the third biggest name in lucha libre after El Santo and The Blue Demon. | |
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Kelly Kelly is a Diva who debuted in the "new" ECW in the spring of '06. She began as an "exhibitionist" who was always removing her clothes (at first just to entertain the male fans, and then to distract the heels) and was a love interest of Mike Knox, but apart from the distractions, she herself never did anything truly heelish. She eventually broke up with Knox, and starting around 2007 the "exhibitionist" gimmick was dropped as well. She's been a straight-up babyface ever since.(The easiest way for a WWE Diva to get heat nowadays is for them to do something bad to Kelly Kelly.) Interestingly enough, despite her overwhelming popularity her in-ring wrestling style is one more expected for a heel. She uses an illegal submission hold, is very aggressive, screams a lot and will ram her opponent's face off the canvas sometimes just for the hell of it. A major reason why she's been a face so long is because she is probably the single largest woobie in WWE, who seems to take an almost perverse glee in making her suffer. Her boyfriend was emotionally abusive and let her get hit in the head by Sandman with a singapore cane, The Miz actively sabotaged her attempts to hook up with anyone, got stalked by Kane and rejected by Randy Orton, and the list goes on. |
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Hulk Hogan is this very trope's image for a reason. Started his career as a Monster Heel and later became the ultimate face, keeping it up for 18 years until he pulled his infamous Face–Heel Turn at Bash at the Beach '96. Even this only makes him a heel in WCW's continuity. When he tried the same routine in WWE the fans still cheered him anyway. Part of his appeal was drawing on the fans' energy to be "Running wild, brother!" back again. | |
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Kelly Kelly get booed when she was in Beth Phoenix's hometown of Buffalo New York as a result, even though "The Glamazon" was the obvious heel in all their other matches. | |
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Aside for Cena, and except for one match against Mark Henry where he used one of Eddie Guerrero's heel tricks (though even that was more of an homage to his recently departed friend), Rey Mysterio Jr. had never play any role other than the pure whitemeat face. He's probably unique among male Superstars in that respect. Rey turned heel when the Filthy Animals were formed and they feuded with Ric Flair for a bit back in 1999 after he lost his mask and the whole No-Limit Solders thing died. The Animals was partly responsible for luring Flair out to the middle of nowhere, where the New World Order ambushed him. He had to hitch a hay truck back to the arena. (Really.) Rey's maskless period, however, is no longer considered canon in WWE. |
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Lita's archenemy, Trish Stratus, was the WWE's top female face for most of her career. Although she has said she loved being a heel, both her runs in that role were quite short, lasting less than a year each. Her Plucky Girl nature, natural likability and stunning beauty meant that she was always put back into the face role. Whenever she makes a return to WWE, she's always a face. | |
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Wendi Richter was a solid performer who fell victim of a real-life episode named as "The Original Screwjob" predating the most famous one by 12 years. This only applies to the WWF, who tried to maker her a distaff counterpart to Hulk Hogan until McMahon realized she wanted her pay to match her level of promotion. In the NWA Wendi Richter was a heel or face depending on the territory. Prior to La Tigresa and Stacy Colon, Richter was one of the templates for a female face in Puerto Rico alongside her rival Monster Ripper, though Ripper had more long term influence there. | |
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Not a wrestling example, but Hercule Satan from the Dragon Ball series acts like the typical wrestling hero and the main characters, despite being better fighters than him, are all willing to do the job so that he will look good. He was even instrumental in the defeat of one of the series most powerful villains in a scene which had obvious parallels to the power of the Hulkamaniacs. | |
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Before he became The Patriot, Del Wilkes got his first break in the AWA as "The Trooper" Del Wilkes. He was a face wrestling state trooper because, you know... people just love being pulled over on state roadways! | |
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El Santo is another candidate for the biggest wrestling star ever, whose impact was not as dramatic or as quick as Rikidozan's in Japan but whose career was also much longer, spawning many comic books and movies. Santo was planned to have a heel or rudo gimmick in the vein of The Masked Marvel, a mysterious no good who would inevitably be unmasked. The fans were more intrigued than angered, so promoter Salvador Lutteroth decided to run with it and made Santo the greatest face, or técnico in all of Mexico for 43 years in a row. Helping his "face" status was that Santo generously donated to charities and lent his image to public works projects designed to help the poor. Santo was never seen without his mask until shortly before he died and the fans put it back on him when he was buried, which is why masked luchadors became famous for guarding theirs so carefully. | |
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By the end of his career, Edge was a face. | |
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All attempts to turn the fans against Jim Ross fail miserably. Yes, face/heel extends to commentators. Not even WWF's biggest competitor, WCW, were permitted to take shots at Ross, even though the fans seemed to hate everything else WWF. | |
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Ric Flair was probably the funniest example, as all of his heel mannerismsnote ...and cheats, like... all of them. had long since slipped into nostalgia by the end of his career. He was even cheered for running in fear from Big E. Langston after his chops failed to hurt him! | |
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Other than some disputes with his brother and Rob Van Dam, Jeff Hardy is among the most unique stars in pro wrestling who actually made it as a singles superstar when he never should have. Technically, Jeff and his brother were heels (as the "New" Brood) when they debuted in 1999, but Jeff turned face two months later, and it's been a decade since then. (Matt, however, had gone back to being heel once in a while). When Jeff was caught selling illegal substances, charged with 5 felonies and sent to prison, his merch still out-sold DGenerationX and Cena. Extremely gifted, but ultimately wasted talent. | |
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Even the 'western' characters in Street Fighter II revere Zangief, a pro wrestler who trained himself by fighting bears in Siberia. In a time when any "Champion of the proletariat" starts as a mere ideological enemy, they have a change of heart or teaming up with the westerners for the greater good. In-universe, "The Red/Iron Cyclone" is not just a national and ideological hero, but a beloved face by children, fellow wrestlers and wrestling fans world-wide. | |
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People tend to forget that André the Giant was a face for most of his career. He would typically travel from territory to territory, making special appearances to defeat a particularly persistent nuisance. | |
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Triple H seemed to be heading this way after turning face in 2006, having spent most of his career as one of the most despicable heels. However, in 2013, he cost Daniel Bryan, easily the most "over" superstar at the time (and probably in the last fifteen years) the WWE championship, and unsurprisingly everyone booed him like crazy. Two months later, the same thing happened with Bryan and Shawn Michaels... While Shawn quickly reverted back to being a full-fledged face, Hunter has remained heel since that day in August. | |
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