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00:00There have been a bunch of terrible heel turns over the years, none more catastrophic for

00:05the wrestling business than Stone Cold Steve Austin in 2001. However, as poorly timed and

00:11as industry-buggering that turn was, it did make sense. Austin had been sidelined for

00:16a year after being hit and ran, and he'd been unable to climb back to the top of the

00:19mantle on his own. He'd seen guys like The Rock take his place at the top, and his obsession

00:24to be the WWF Champion meant that he turned to the only person he knew was corrupt enough

00:29and powerful enough to make sure that happened. It shocked people, but there was enough groundwork

00:35done so that people understood it. And in storytelling, that's the goal. Serving

00:39up well-foreshadowed surprises so that people don't feel like fools for investing their

00:43time watching. These heel turns are not that. These are heel turns that will make you question

00:48your patience, your sanity and your grip on the basic mechanics of wrestling. I'm Luke

00:53Cain from PartsFunknown, and here are 10 WWE Portrayals That Made Zero Sense.

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02:54Now on with the list. Honourable Mention. Why did Brock turn on Cody? No seriously,

02:59someone tell me why though.

03:0010. Shayna Hates Success

03:02Well this absolutely was not supposed to happen at this year's SummerSlam, and it shows.

03:06Ronda and Shayna had been subtly working a storyline since the end of last year, with

03:09Ronda helping Shani Baz re-capture that killer slash vampire instinct with which she'd

03:14burst onto the main roster in 2020. Fans could see where it was going, and it made a bunch

03:18of sense. Tag for a while, capture the gold, build up the division, lose the belts after

03:22around six months, betrayal, deeply personal feud for Wrestlemania, but Ronnie's off

03:26after SummerSlam, so whoops, gotta do it all now, at a point in the storyline where it

03:29made no sense for Shayna to turn. She'd been on a decline in her career, Ronda stepped

03:34in, now Shayna was a champion with her friend, things were good. And that's when she batters

03:38her friend because she made wrestling no fun anymore? Sure Jan, not her fault obviously,

03:43but even WWE knows this was a Franken-story that was rushed to the point that it broke

03:47our interest.

03:489. Lita Breaks Out Of An Abusive Relationship Is The Villain

03:52Forgive me if we've said this before, but the ruthless aggression was really weird.

03:57Vince turned into an oak tree and feuded with God, Eugene was a thing, more on him later,

04:02and then there's this. In 2005, Lita turned heel on her husband Kane and aligned with

04:07Edge, and her heel turn earned her the scorn of announcers and fans, JR calling her a Jezebel

04:12among other things. I guess the heel turn made kind of sense in a wrestling soap opera

04:16way, but it made no sense from a reality perspective given the previous year of Lita's life.

04:21Strap in, folks. In 2004, Kane abducted and impregnated Lita against her will. It was

04:27a rape storyline, it was horrible. Matt Hardy tried to save her, but at SummerSlam, lost

04:32a match, which meant Lita was forced to marry Kane. Wrestling. Lita had a miscarriage, which

04:39as we all know, was not Snitsky's fault, meaning that Lita went through sexual assault

04:43and a miscarriage storyline in the same year, before Matt Hardy, currently out injured,

04:47revealed to the world that Lita and Edge had a real life affair and got fired for his troubles,

04:52but the affair was now public and everyone took the side of the guy who got fired. So

04:56fans turned on Lita, so WWE turned her heel on the man who abducted and got her pregnant

05:00like a horror movie villain. She escaped Kane's clutches, aligned with someone she

05:04actually WANTED to have sex with, and everyone in production treated her like scum for doing

05:08so. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Hate that. Maybe Oli was right. This was worse than the Katie Vick

05:13story. And hey, speaking of Edge.

05:158. Edge is kicked out of the Edge fan club

05:17Baffling. Like Lita, like Shayna, this is another shock swerve WWE executed as a way

05:22to compensate for real life intruding into their kayfabe. Edge was going through a midlife

05:26crisis at the time. Instead of starting a band or wearing Hawaiian shirts, he created

05:30a Hot Topic cult that once had a match that ended by the lights being turned off. It's

05:33a common phase that a lot of men go through. I opted for the Hawaiian shirts.

05:37The judgement they formed by Edge turning heel on AJ Styles didn't make a bunch of

05:41sense. Not sure why feuding with AJ made Edge turn into a combination of Blade and Shao

05:45Kahn, but whatever. But what made no sense was Edge being abruptly kicked out of the

05:50group two months after he put them together. Why did WWE do this thing? Because Cody went

05:56out and got hurt, and Raw was short on top babyfaces. They tried to explain it away,

06:00and it was because Edge thought he was the leader and this group shouldn't have leaders,

06:03but then Vince sort of became the leader, and that was all very confusing and very unsatisfying.

06:07It's like Grimace kicking Ronald McDonald out of McDonald's, complete with all the

06:10obnoxious purple. Took Judgement Day a loooong time to crawl out from under that booking

06:15mess, although now I really wonder what a Judgement Day shake tastes like. Probably

06:18eyeliner.

06:197. Forgiven via lesbian treachery

06:22Ah, a good old fashioned sibling fight. This had only really worked for WWE once, when

06:28Bret and Owen had their year-long feud in 1994. Other attempts to recreate it ended

06:32in failure. Edge vs Christian was fun, but they aren't actually brothers. Sorry to

06:35drop that bombshell, Matt and Jeff Hardy was too silly, we'll get to that. And then there's

06:40the Bella Twins, who feuded in 2014, and sweet Jerry Springer was it, but it doesn't help

06:45that the Bellas are about as good at acting as I am at laying eggs. Not very good, and

06:49when I try it causes a lot of embarrassment for everyone in the vicinity.

06:52Nikki turned heel on Brie at SummerSlam, helping Steph beat her in a surprisingly good match.

06:56Then Nikki screamed in Brie's face that she wished he died in the womb, a promo that will

07:00live in infamy before winning her indentured servitude in a match. Just another fun time

07:05that WWE dodged the Emancipation Proclamation. A month of humiliation ensued for Brie before

07:10Survivor Series where, for no reason at all, Brie turned heel on AJ, kissed her, and helped

07:14her intensely abusive sister win the Divas title. Never explained, and the best part

07:18is, the match between Steph and Brie that started this whole thing was built around

07:21Daniel Bryan, but when Brie turned and Bryan was on Raw the next night, never mentioned.

07:26WWE is held together with packing tape.

07:296. Taker has a great and sincere appreciation for Vince's ass. Ah, respect. The one thing

07:35that turned CM Punk from beloved babyface WWE Champion to remarkable heel WWE Champion.

07:41However when the Punk turned, he had been disrespected. The Rock had shown up to upstage

07:45him in the main event of Raw 1000 so he acted rashly, but it makes sense. In late 2001,

07:50Blow Up He The Vampire Slayer turned and it made none of the sense. Now I just want to

07:54add here that I quite like this heel turn because the way that Taker delivers the heel

07:59turn line really makes me laugh. I mean it makes no sense and it is silly, but it is

08:04a bit funny.

08:05You see, Vince had just kicked out the Coalition of Chaos from WWE and he'd let all of that

08:09power go to his ass, which he was whipping around and making people kiss because, well,

08:13he's Vince. He wanted Jim Ross to kiss his ass. Sure, one of the most loyal voices he

08:17had throughout the entire evasion, okay, and when JR refused, out came The Undertaker.

08:22Asked if JR wanted to kiss Vince's ass, JR responded with a reasonable, no thank you,

08:27and Taker asked, is it because you think you're better than me? And then he decks him. The

08:31American Badass, The Deadman, The Fiendarm, insecure that Jim Ross, good ol' Jim Ross,

08:36was getting ideas above his station. He may be big evil, but he has big feelings.

08:41Really, this was done because with the Alliance gone, WWF now had no top heel, so TURN TAKER

08:45TURN NONSENSE. Speaking of JR, though…

08:485. JR'S WEIRD FRIEND

08:50This still doesn't make any sense. In wrestling, there are only a few ideas that are always

08:54bad. Champions entering first, the Great Khali in your main event, and turning Jim Ross heel.

08:59WWE have actually tried it twice, and both times it failed. It failed in 99 when JR kicked

09:04Michael Cole in the balls and everyone cheered, and it failed even harder in 1996 when JR

09:10introduced fake Diesel and fake Razor Ramon, recasting the gimmicks after Hall and Nash

09:15left for WCW, screaming at Vince that it's a good idea, then going on long work shoot

09:19tirades against the entire company, and especially Vince which was made all the more confusing

09:23because Vince hadn't yet been officially outed as the top guy in charge. In this 1996

09:27kayfabe world, Vince was merely an announcer, and was as confused as everyone else when

09:31good ol' JR started going heatstroke crazy on live TV, pointing at two men who were clearly

09:36not Hall and Nash, and screaming, that's Hall and Nash, everyone shut up I hate this

09:40company. It lasted meal weeks, but it was a few weeks too long. No one wants to boo

09:45this man, stop trying to make me hate my childhood.

09:474. Matt Hardy – Dog Murderer

09:49Man, I don't know. Maybe the whole ETA saga drove Matt Hardy crazy, maybe the ECW championship

09:55contained mercury, maybe wrestling is just dumb, but fans have never really wanted to

10:00boo the Hardy boys, or watch them fight. Didn't want to watch them fight when Matt first turned

10:04heel on Jeff in 2001 because of emotional problems, didn't want to see them fight

10:07in 2009, when Matt turned on Jeff and repeatedly tried to kill him, first by chucking him down

10:11the stairs, then by running his car off the road, then with his own pyrotechnics like

10:15he's in a Hitman game, and also setting a fire that killed Jeff's f***ing dog. Are

10:19you not sports entertained? It's the kind of cartoonish supervillainy that feels utterly

10:24weightless and unconvincing. I mean, he killed his own brother's dog because he was WWE

10:29champion, pardon what, sorry? At least he didn't make him eat the dog, I suppose.

10:33Reportedly, this wasn't supposed to be Matt, but rather a returning Christian who'd just

10:37left TNA, but this got leaked to the dirt sheets and Vince blew a gasket and decided

10:41the best way out of the situation is to make the storyline f***ing stupid. You sure showed

10:46those dirt sheets, Vince.

10:473. Rikishi – People Murderer

10:49Another day, another nightmare for WWE's human resource department. At Survivor Series

10:541999, Steve Austin was written off WWE programming so that he could get neck surgery. The method

11:00they chose was a mysterious hidden run.

11:01I can't possibly solve this mystery, can you? WWE asked, pointing a finger directly

11:06at us.

11:07Oh, it was Triple H. You know, because he lured Austin into the parking lot, he had

11:12the most to gain in Austin's absence, and in fact did gain the most in Austin's absence,

11:17plus he was the top heel so that would add up.

11:20Oh, said WWE, visibly disappointed.

11:22We don't mind being right, said the fans. It makes the most sense.

11:26Well, who says you are right? Said WWE, desperately scanning the room for someone else.

11:31Um, it was him!

11:32Rikishi? Asked the fans, slightly puzzled. The man who danced and shaked his ass and

11:36never had a care in the world?

11:38Yeah, said WWE.

11:39Bet you're surprised, aren't you?

11:42I mean, I guess, said the fans, now visibly uncomfortable.

11:45Um, why?

11:46Uh, said WWE, clearly scanning the room for another visual aid to get them out of this

11:51mess.

11:52Um, he did it for… The Rock?

11:54Sure, why not? I mean, are you sure it wasn't Triple H? Asked the fans.

11:59No! Said WWE. F*** you, Rikishi is an attempted murder and it was hiding in plain sight. There

12:03ain't no Triple H and there never was.

12:05You'll be surprised to hear that this was greeted with the same reception as a fart

12:08in a spacesuit. No one bought Rikishi as this character, and a few weeks later, WWE revealed

12:12that the mastermind behind it all was, in fact, Triple H, and we never saw it coming.

12:172. F*** Eugene

12:19Eugene, the ruthless aggression idea of having a non-special needs wrestler pantomime as

12:25a special needs gimmick, is an evergreen bad idea.

12:28And so, like night inevitably follows day, the prick keeps coming up on our list of bad

12:33ideas.

12:34If you were being charitable to WWE, you could argue that the creation of Eugene was an attempt

12:38to put a pure childlike character on TV that younger fans would grow to love through his

12:42whimsical antics and increase those fans' appreciation for people with special needs.

12:47That ability to be charitable to WWE ended in 2005 when Kurt Angle beat the piss out

12:52of him at SummerSlam in one of history's most uncomfortable matches, and ends even

12:55harder in 2006 when WWE turned Eugene heel, having the one character you could depend

13:02on in seeing the good in all people, having the one character who loved all things from

13:06wrestling's past team up with WWE legend Hacksaw Jim Duggan, and then having Eugene

13:11beat Duggan down after a loss before screaming I'm special over and over into a live mic.

13:18Once again, the award for not knowing what people want to see goes to Vincent Kennedy

13:23McMahon and number one, Vince is the higher power.

13:27Okay, let's try and make sense of this.

13:29In 1999, The Unstakable formed the Ministry of Darkness, a prototype Judgment Day.

13:33Big bunch of goths who did all the goth things, blood rituals, taco Tuesday, abductions, hated

13:38their parent, claimed Cradle of Filth were a good band, that sort of thing.

13:42Vincent Taker led the faction, but was acting under the orders of a higher power, or as

13:45he once fumbled, the Hauer Power.

13:47The Ministry feuded with Vince McMahon's corporation, going as far as tormenting Vince

13:51by burning his daughter Stephanie's teddy, and then, perhaps slightly less evil, kidnapping

13:56Stephanie so Taker could marry her in an unholy union.

13:59Vince was so desperate for help that he asked his long time enemy, Stone Cold Steve Austin

14:03for help, even driving his son Shane away to the Ministry in doing so.

14:07Steve helped Vince, but he didn't do it for Vince, he did it because it was the right

14:10thing to do.

14:11But the question remains, who was the Hauer Power?

14:15It was Vince.

14:16Ah, son of a bitch, it was him all along, and we were all made fools of.

14:22And we were made fools of for thinking that this would be good, because, McMahon claims

14:26in story, he did this because he wanted the WWF title of Stone Cold.

14:32Despite the fact the higher power was mentioned before Austin won the title at Mania 15, which

14:37means that Vince put this whole plan into action, a plan that would involve kidnapping

14:41unwitting members of his own family and taking the belt off his guy.

14:45It is pure and undiluted, my first improv class bullshit.

14:49There's lots of rumours of who the Hauer Power was going to be, from Jake the Snake

14:53Roberts to Christopher Daniels to The Jackal, now known to us today as Don Callis, but one

14:57thing is clear, Vince was not the plan from the outset.

15:00And that's because, like Hornswoggle after him, there was no answer when this story was

15:04started.

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