7. Bray Wyatt
There’s certainly something to the argument that Bray Wyatt has lost some of his luster in recent years, but there’s no disputing that The Eater of Worlds has been a truly menacing and maniacal presence when the WWE has presented him in the right way. When the former Husky Harris was repackaged as Bray Wyatt, his time in FCW and then NXT had the character and gimmick played up like Max Cady of Cape Fear fame.
Serving as a cult leader whose misguided mindset saw him justifying his actions, Bray was someone who had one of the key characteristics that make a great bad guy. There was actually some rationale and reasoning behind what he said.
Eli Cottonwood was the first to fall under Wyatt’s charms, before Luke Harper and Erick Rowan became the more famous Wyatt Family members. Daniel Bryan and Braun Strowman joined the group at later dates as Bray was positioned as a master manipulator and a twisted leader of tortured souls.
Unfortunately, for every great Bray Wyatt promo and every delicately delivered message, there’s been too much supernatural chicanery for him to be taken seriously by modern audiences in recent times. Similarly, it’s hard to accept Wyatt as a truly major player when he tends to lose every big match he’s in.
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