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Heel
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You're the heel, BOO! A Heel is a bad guy in professional wrestling. He's a Hate Sink and a Jerk Jock, existing to make the crowd angry and menace their favorites. They are typically the antagonist of a pro wrestling storyline or "angle." The opposite of a heel is a Face. Note that hate comes from a desire to see the heel punished and set back, distinct from X-Pac Heat, which skips that step and simply wants someone gone entirely, which is itself distinct from a heat vacuum, where the crowd neither pops nor boos, they just sit absolutely silent for their entrances. At this point, he/she should just hang up the boots because they don't even elicit a response. The Lucha Libre equivalent is known as a rudo. In theory, rudo is more an "attitude" about Lucha Libre as a whole, but in practice rudos are almost always interchangeable with heels. |
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The Wild Samoans (Afa & Sika) were the prototype of the afro and bare feet eastern heels followed by the likes of Meng. | |
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Idra of the StarCraft Meta Game is one, in large part thanks to his bad sportsmanship and many a Rage Quit on his part. | |
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In Bleach, Mask de Masculine insists on viewing himself as the "hero", and decries all of his opponents as "villains", evoking this trope. When they meet during the Wandenreich's second invasion of Soul Society, Renji introduces himself as "a villain" in a way that is meant to make fun of Mask's wrestler gimmick. Having taken a few levels in badass while training in the Soul King's Palace, Renji ends up curbstomping Mask so hard that the latter becomes enraged and breaks character. | |
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Shawn Michaels was just another long-haired blond in a federation stacked with long-haired blonds, so he had to turn the heat somehow. By the mid-nineties and the incident known as the Montreal Screwjob, he was already hated for what he did to his former tag partner, Marty Jannetty. | |
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Vader would tour as a "heel for hire" for a few months mostly in the States, then very regularly in Japan, Germany and even Mexico. | |
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The Simpsons had a Pro Wrestling Episode where it's revealed that Abe Simpson was once a Gorgeous George-type wrestler calling himself "Glamorous Godfrey" but retired after the hatred from the wrestling community started to be too much for him. Mr. Burns who was a fan of his back in the day convinces him to come out of retirement (with a great Villain Song), but Abe retires once more after seeing that he's become a bad influence on Bart. | |
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Curt Hennig played the narcissist with elements of The Ace. His "West Texas Redneck" persona was a blend of country singer and 'black hat' cowboy. | |
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Managers are almost always older people who have been in the business for a while. They were used back in the territorial days and early 80s as heat magnets. The more entertaining they were, the better. (And in an era where promos were recorded backstage instead of the ring, wrestlers weren't given much chance to express their heelishness.) The "Triumvirate of Terror" is mostly forgotten today, but they helped WWF make a name for itself back east. The Grand Wizard (so named for his oh-so-stylish turban) died in '83. Both Blassie and Albano ended their WWF stints in '86. | |
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In Looney Tunes' Pro Wrestling Episode "Bunny Hugged", Bugs Bunny faces off against a scary, intimidating heel called The Crusher. Bugs, of course, defeats The Crusher by going into his bag of tricks. Interestingly, the babyface for that match before Bugs stepped in was clearly based on Gorgeous George (who, as noted above, was himself a heel). | |
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John "Bradshaw" Layfield (formerly only Bradshaw of The APA, and nephew to "Blackjack" Lanza) turned heel in 2004 and never looked back. His transformation from trailer-trash Texan to conniving stockbroker was inspired in part by his actual exploits on Wall Street, for which he became eminently known in the world of finance. Throughout that period, he was hardly ever seen without his trademark white Stetson hat and matching limousine, which his opponents had the pleasure of wrecking! (The Undertaker once chokeslammed Bradshaw through the limo.) He portrayed himself as a crooked politician throughout 2004 and 2005 (complete with a "cabinet" of henchmen wrestlers) who handed out American flags to spectators. In late 2005 and early 2006, he transformed into a xenophobic redneck who taunted Rey Mysterio (he did this to Eddie Guerrero, too, in 2004.) Since the latter half of 2006, he's a color commentator with Michael Cole on WWE SmackDown!. He toned down his heelish traits a bit but still invariably roots for the heel wrestlers. He returned to ring action in December 2007 to feud with Chris Jericho, during which time he reverted to his roots (attacking the midget Hornswoggle) before finally retiring for good in 2009. |
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The Most Evil Trainer: Main Character Max starts off the story genuinely despised by audiences (and some fellow trainers, and the Pokemon League itself) for his Combat Pragmatist style going against the Honor Before Reason style of Kalos; after some successes, however, as well as finding appeal amongst counter-culture groups for the same reason, he starts leaning into this as a kind of stage persona as "Blackguard" a Black Knight set up in direct opposition to his Friendly Rival Roland. | |
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In "Mister Torgue's Campaign of Carnage," the DLC for Borderlands 2, the whole storyline is written like a pro wrestling arc, with the player character as the Face and Piston as the cheating, cowardly Heel. | |
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Rocky Invoked in Rocky II. Apollo Creed starts a harassment campaign to draw Rocky into a rematch, but his PR guy warns him that by picking on the underdog “People’s Champion�, he’s setting himself up as the bad guy. In Rocky III, Rocky has a “Boxer vs Wrestler� match with Thunderlips (a pre-stardom Hulk Hogan), a literal wrestling Heel playing a Narcissist gimmick. |
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In Rocky III, Rocky has a “Boxer vs Wrestler� match with Thunderlips (a pre-stardom Hulk Hogan), a literal wrestling Heel playing a Narcissist gimmick. | |
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"Xochitl la Terible" in Love and Rockets. | |
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Dario Cueto was a heel authority figure who put the heroes through hell, but he did it in a way which he knows the fans (or 'believers') will enjoy. Example: "Sorry, Son of Havoc, in order to get that title shot you need to go through another hurdle with even more VIOOOOLLLENCE and Dario hates waiting so it's now!!" Dario was also sympathetic in a way that most heel bosses aren't. The way he interacted with Sexy Star was particularly interesting. Because Sexy Star is a purely heroic character, the old standby of villain-hates-hero would normally be in effect, but here it wasn't. Dario gave her a pep talk before her No Más match about standing up to abusers and overcoming evil people. True, it was from his own pro-violence perspective but he did seem to honestly want to help her succeed. The fact their characters are both abuse survivors is touched on here as Dario's mother used to beat him. He's much the same in MLW as Cesar Duran. |
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Several characters in Wanna Be the Strongest in the World!, as it's an anime about female pro-wrestling. The heels usually wear masks and usually utilizes underhanded tactics like using a shinai for a submission hold, or having their assistants hamper their opponent. | |
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A low-down, foul-mouthed cheat who is also accompanied by bagpipes? Look no further, Roddy Piper's got you covered! | |
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Gladiators (2024): The first season quickly establishes Viper and Legend as heels for this version of the show. Viper's portrayed as a mostly silent brute with anger issues, willing to cheat and demolish contenders, whereas Legend is vain, dim and self-obsessed. | |
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The Rumble for Ragnarok in the DuckTales (2017) episode of the same name works like a pro wrestling match, and Earth being the away team makes the Ducks Foreign Wrestling Heels by default, so Scrooge encourages them to play heel: Scrooge as the "Millionaire Miser", a Rich Bastard who demands the audience pay back taxes and is (as far the audience knows) willing to backstab his own family for the belt. Dewey's attempts to become the Face "ChamPopular" backfires, as him constantly telling the crowd how much they love him makes him come of as a Narcissist heel by accident. Mrs Beakley as the "Shield Maiden" acts as an Enforcer, getting heat for fighting alongside Scrooge against the champ, but not really bothering to work the crowd up (she's more focused on the actual fight). |
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Abdullah the Butcher is possibly one of the most interesting cases in pro wrestling history, he's one of the earlier examples of a Composite Character blending the foreign and monster heel tropes. His career spanned over 5 decades with a very limited set of moves, relying only in cheating, the use of foreign objects and a very, very slow work pace. | |
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The biggest heel in AEW nowadays is MJF. On the women's side, Britt Baker was this for a time; in 2023, it looks like the alliance of Saraya, Toni Storm, and Ruby Soho has this status. | |
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Invoked in Rocky II. Apollo Creed starts a harassment campaign to draw Rocky into a rematch, but his PR guy warns him that by picking on the underdog “People’s Champion�, he’s setting himself up as the bad guy. | |
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"The Sheik" is a character played by a number of performers throughout history, but The Original One is noteworthy not just as one of the first performers owning a promotion, but for knowing how to be a Cheap Heat cauldron better than nobody. His antics would take him to retain a title more time that he should, fight dirty on every turn and having his way either the audience wanted or not. The Iron Sheik innovated many of the tropes used by the foreign heels: Carrying foreign flags, wearing ethnic clothing and the evil mustache. He's also worth of notice for he went over as a great in-ring technician, and not just for his villainy. |
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He's much the same in MLW as Cesar Duran. | |
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Photographer turned fighter Mike Jackson got a lot of heat for unnecessarily prolonging his fight with CM Punk at UFC 225, choosing to repeatedly strike his largely helpless opponent rather than just submitting him. After the fight he was fired and banned from the promotion for his unsportsmanlike conduct. | |
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Josh Koscheck is perhaps the most successful at playing the heel. His arrogant personality was put on display in the first season of The Ultimate Fighter'' and he rode it into a long and successful career in the UFC. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender has Fire Nation Man, an Earth Kingdom professional bender who dresses like a Fire Nation soldier, waves their flag, preaches their greatness, and bends sand to resemble fire. Naturally, he's also corpulent, unattractive, and stupid. Unsurprisingly, and intentionally so, he's the resident Hate Sink among the fans who gets easily taken down by popular benders like The Boulder while the fans cheer on his defeat. | |
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Buddy Rogers broke onto the scene as a babyface, but it wasn't until he adopted his "Nature Boy" heel persona—a cocky, arrogant, overtly-confident character—that he really began to shine. | |
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In one episode of Steven Universe, Amethyst secretly joins a wrestling club under the guise of an overly aggressive cat-themed wrestler known as the Purple Puma. When Steven finds out, he keeps her secret in exchange for joining her as her tag team partner, the obnoxious Tiger Millionaire. He quickly gains the admiration of the crowd, but loses it after he gets carried away and acts mean to Lars when he tries to get an autograph. Later on, when Garnet and Pearl try to stop both from wrestling, but relent when they see how much it means to Amethyst, they start acting like they are from a "federation that wants to ban wrestling" so that the show can go on. "Defeating" them makes Purple Puma and Tiger Millionaire popular again. | |
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Early in their career, The Rolling Stones were strategically marketed as the Heels to the Beatles' Faces. Their manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham was responsible for lines such as Melody Maker's headline "Would You Let Your Sister Go With a Rolling Stone?" and the memorable press announcement for their first New York visit: "The Rolling Stones, who haven't bathed in a week, arrived here yesterday." | |
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The Undertaker started his career as a Heel, but had multiple Heel and Face periods over the course of his career. | |
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The Miz is such a natural heel that it helped sabotage every attempt at a face run he ever had. | |
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BattleTech: The 'Mech fights in the arenas of Solaris VII are the setting's rough equivalent to professional wrestling, as such certain stables of MechWarriors are set up as Heels and Faces, often relating to their nation of origin. Solaris VII is in the Lyran Commonwealth, so fighters from the Lyran's typical enemies (the Free Worlds League and Draconis Combine) are often treated as Heels. However, since the fights are distributed throughout the Inner Sphere, this isn't precise: a Combine fighter might be regarded as the Heel when his fight is played in the Lyran Commonwealth or Federated Suns, but be seen as the Face when the fight is viewed in the Combine. Helping the Solaris exhibitors with their marketing is that fighters who really want to make a name for themselves will behave in a way conforming to nationalist stereotypes, so a Capellan fighter being sneaky and underhanded is the despicable coward in the Federated Suns, a cunning and pragmatic warrior to the Capellan Confederation. Notably, as part of a plot to embed him as The Mole within the Capellan Confederation's intelligence service, Justin Xiang Allard made a name for himself on Solaris by playing up the image of the sneaky, dishonorable Capellan and scoring lots of wins against noble, heroic jocks from the Federated Suns. | |
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The Tiger's Den from Tiger Mask is basically a criminal organization who specializes in training heel wrestlers. This included Tiger Mask who was a brutal Foreign Wrestling Heel back when he was wrestling in the US. He turned face though to help support the orphanage he grew up in (as Wrestlers from the Tiger's Den had to give half their income to them.) | |
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Heel | |
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Discussed in one issue of Archie Comics. Reggie spends half the issue heckling and booing a wrestler who in turn is spitting threats and insults at him. Later on Reggie gets a flat tire and that same wrestler pulls over to help. Reggie's terrified until the wrestler reveals he's a Mean Character, Nice Actor and explains that, as the heel, he's supposed to be hated by the audience and that it's all part of the act. Then he replaces Reggie's tire and asks him to keep up the heckling at the next match. | |
| Heel / int_9b530c26 | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
| Heel / int_9e2f90f4 | comment |
Bartolomeo from One Piece adores angering the crowd and pulling dangerous jokes on them. | |
| Heel / int_9e2f90f4 | featureApplicability |
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| Heel / int_9f89a5f0 | type |
Heel | |
| Heel / int_9f89a5f0 | comment |
Hawlucha, a Pokémon introduced in Pokémon X and Y, is interesting in that its shiny form makes it look the Heel to its default form's Face. | |
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1.0 | |
| Pokémon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Heel / int_9f89a5f0 | |
| Heel / int_9f92c5ed | type |
Heel | |
| Heel / int_9f92c5ed | comment |
Since the latter half of 2006, he's a color commentator with Michael Cole on WWE SmackDown!. He toned down his heelish traits a bit but still invariably roots for the heel wrestlers. He returned to ring action in December 2007 to feud with Chris Jericho, during which time he reverted to his roots (attacking the midget Hornswoggle) before finally retiring for good in 2009. | |
| Heel / int_9f92c5ed | featureApplicability |
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| Heel / int_9f92c5ed | featureConfidence |
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| Michael Cole (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Heel / int_9f92c5ed | |
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Heel | |
| Heel / int_9fcc8c53 | comment |
Super Macho Man in nearly all versions of Punch-Out!!. He's a rich, sun-tanned bastard who knocks the referee over and showboats like there's no tomorrow, and in the Wii version, the audience boos him when he makes his appearance in the ring. If he wins, though, the audience loves him again. Aran Ryan. Whenever he uses one of his (many) illegal moves, such as a headbutt, the audience boos. As with most opponents, if he's Star Punched out of one of these moves, it's an instant KO. In his rematch, he's even the victim of Produce Pelting between rounds. Many of the recurring boxers, such as Bald Bull, Great Tiger, or Vodka Drunkenski/Soda Popinski fit the "Monster"/"Foreign" trope nicely. Bear Hugger represents literally every single stereotype of his country at once, although he's more of a Nature Hero than your typical heel. (The best part is that the studio who made the Wii game is Canadian.) Narcis Prince, a one-shot opponent from Super Punch-Out!! He's a pretty-boy, English pugilist who goes nuclear if you damage his face. |
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| Heel / int_9fcc8c53 | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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Jake Roberts was unfortunate in that steroids didn't have the desired muscle-building effect on his body, and he just got fatter. But he still looked the part, and he had Wrestling Psychology down to a science. | |
| Heel / int_a02ea961 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| Jake Roberts (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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Heel | |
| Heel / int_a183d57f | comment |
Bender becomes this in Futurama when he joins the Ultimate Robot Fighting League. At first his Bender The Offender personality is extremely well-liked, but as his popularity begins to wane they put him in a pink tutu, call him The Gender Bender, and declare that he's going to lose the next match. | |
| Heel / int_a183d57f | featureApplicability |
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| Heel / int_a183d57f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Futurama | hasFeature |
Heel / int_a183d57f | |
| Heel / int_a22bb6ad | type |
Heel | |
| Heel / int_a22bb6ad | comment |
Brock Lesnar was surprisingly media-shy for his run in MMA, but after his victory at the record-setting UFC 100 event, he suddenly had a heel meltdown, during which he trash talked the already-defeated Frank Mir, swore and spat at the camera, announced he was going to "get on top of" his wife, and insulted the UFC's biggest sponsor. | |
| Heel / int_a22bb6ad | featureApplicability |
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| Brock Lesnar (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Heel / int_a22bb6ad | |
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Heel | |
| Heel / int_afd1e4ec | comment |
Jake Hager even had it when he worked in WWE as Jack Swagger. He represented the dark side byproduct of America's two halves, a proud Anglo-Saxon and jingoistic jerk. In AEW, Hager has been the enforcer for Chris Jericho's Inner Circle, which started out as heels but later turned face, and its retooled form, the indisputably heel Jericho Appreciation Society. | |
| Heel / int_afd1e4ec | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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Kai Lan the Serpent from Jade Empire, though he's also a genuine villain and crime boss. While competing in the Arena, he deliberately built up a reputation as a douchebag so the crowd would love to hate him, and he continues to play this up now that he's the boss. This backfires on him in the most direct way possible: when the PC climbs into the Gold Division, he can't stop them from challenging for the championship because the crowd will be rooting for a Face to defeat his invincible champion. | |
| Heel / int_b0b4e8ff | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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Wolf (played by Michael Van Wijk) from the original ITV Gladiators. Which leads to a subversion, as he was easily the most popular Gladiator, although his attitude never changed throughout the show's run (due to his deliberately-poor acting). This carried into the Sky revival when he returned, though somewhat toned down in his role. | |
| Heel / int_ba4a4543 | featureApplicability |
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The trope image is of "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, who remains the most famous babyface of all time. When Hogan's face act got old and the fans turned on him (and his longest WCW Championship reign of all time despite joining in '94, to give it some sort of perspective), he just turned his back on them and aligned with the New World Order at Bash at the Beach '96, resulting in the crowd throwing trash at him and even one fan leaping up to attack Hogan. He transitioned into a heel boss on TNA Impact, and makes sporadic appearances in his heroic red and gold regalia. He appeared at WrestleMania 31 in his nWo attire, but "Hollywood" Hogan for all intents and purposes turned face by rescuing Sting, his old enemy. |
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| Heel / int_c3210502 | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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Lex Luger and "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff looked like living He-Man action figures, and they were weeeeell aware of the fact. | |
| Heel / int_c51cbdab | featureApplicability |
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| Lex Luger (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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Heel | |
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Nikolai Volkoff was a Cold War-era villain, even singing the Soviet anthem. When that got stale, he teamed up with The Iron Sheik and they both sang their national anthems. | |
| Heel / int_ce601601 | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
| Heel / int_cf37fb60 | comment |
Pro wrestler Hana Kimura starred in the Japanese Reality TV series Terrace House, where she was asked to play this role. Sadly, after a scripted incident where she blew up at another housemate over a misunderstanding, she was cyberbullied by fans of the show on Twitter to the point of suicide. This, along with revelations of the show's scripted nature, led to its eventual cancellation. Several of the perpetrators were tracked down and fined... the equivalent of $10-$100. | |
| Heel / int_cf37fb60 | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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He transitioned into a heel boss on TNA Impact, and makes sporadic appearances in his heroic red and gold regalia. He appeared at WrestleMania 31 in his nWo attire, but "Hollywood" Hogan for all intents and purposes turned face by rescuing Sting, his old enemy. | |
| Heel / int_d154285c | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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Incineroar, the final form of Sun and Moon's Fire starter, is explicitly categorized as the "Heel Pokémon", is part Dark rather than Fighting, and is described as being a dirty enough fighter to even attack non-combatants like the opposing Pokémon's Trainer. Incineroar represents puroresu, the Japanese take of the American-based professional wrestling (similar to characters like R. Mika). One thing that defines this is despite his heel status, he is still cheered by the audience, as heels in puroresu operate in a slightly different way. They're also said to especially enjoy the cheers of young Pokémon and children, and will even go out of their way to help them out. | |
| Heel / int_d502170c | featureApplicability |
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Zigzagged with the Glitz Pit champion Rawk Hawk from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. On one hand he's a clear case of The Narcissist who fights dirty, trash-talks, and cheats. On the other hand he is immensely popular with the fans and when put in the ring can deliver a pretty decent fair-and-square beating. After defeating Macho Grubba it turns out he's not such a bad guy beneath it all: while he doesn't drop the trash talk he swears off cheating in favor of winning the belt fair and square, and during the final boss battle he's one of the characters seen cheering on Mario. | |
| Heel / int_da02c1ef | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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In The Legend of Korra, the White Falls Wolfbats are a pro-bending team who have a flashy, pyrotechnics-heavy entrance; blatantly cheat; and use banned moves like headshots and mixing rock into water. | |
| Heel / int_db96ded4 | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. You really are a heel. | |
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| How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | hasFeature |
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Heel | |
| Heel / int_e1d41ff7 | comment |
If you are managing a Monster Heel and your name happens to be Harley Race... your opponents should think twice before get in the ring! | |
| Heel / int_e1d41ff7 | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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The Strong Bads from Tag Team Wrestling (1983), one of whom who was later recycled as one of the stars of Homestar Runner. | |
| Heel / int_e25322af | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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Dale Earnhardt Sr. was the Ric Flair of NASCAR, in that he started off as a heel and was turned babyface by the fans, and went on to become one of the most beloved figures in the sport. | |
| Heel / int_e3ce3877 | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Eri of Team Star puts on a Heel persona, complete with scary facepaint and elaborate stances. Despite this she's actually a very good-natured young woman. | |
| Heel / int_e566c7bc | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
| Heel / int_e863cc41 | comment |
In Mega Man Battle Network, the model of Navi typically employed by — or found operating autonomously as — criminals is called a HeelNavi. They have a more intimidating appearance than regular Navis, and usually a mean, thuggish personality to match. In the poorly-translated fourth game they were referred to as "HealNavis" instead. | |
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Heenan was like Rita Repulsa or Finster from Power Rangers. They themselves were often the butt of jokes, but the monsters they introduced were legit threatening. Managers don't work like this anymore. At best they have one person or team they represent, and they become synonymous with each other. Like Maria Kanellis with Mike Bennett, Lana with Rusev, or Lio Rush with Bobby Lashley. | |
| Heel / int_ec2c42ce | featureApplicability |
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Heel | |
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André the Giant would tour the world as "guest heel", to prevent Villain Decay, and then return for another short run. Contrary to popular belief, he was a face for most of his career before this. | |
| Heel / int_ed64983f | featureApplicability |
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Former WWE Diva Maxine played 'The Bitch' so well that in her entire career, she was never a face. Most talent get tested out in different roles but she was always a heel on television, only getting to be a face in a dark tag team match alongside two other long established faces. Since she was the General Manager of FCW, she got to be The Authority, too. She also appeared as a heel in Lucha Underground. | |
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William Regal played the Evil Brit with aplomb. These days he remains a firm, but fair neutral party, whether on NXT or in AEW—unless he's pushed too far by a wrestler. He’s like a British Dario Cueto minus the outright murder boner. | |
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