Why is it that most Wrestlers work better as a Heel?

[DaylitoJames]

Being an a$$hole is so much easier than being mr. nice guy

Just like super heroes and villains, super heroes have rules they follow... villains don’t have the restrictions

I’d be a heel easily

True... but anti-heroes really don't have restrictions as well. Wolverine, Deadpool, The Punisher, Han Solo and etc do what the fukk they want and are loved and respected by everyone. Which is why its kinda baffling that WWE don't go that route again. They promoted top guys like Austin, Rock and Thugonomics Cena that way they could do the same with guys like Finn, Seth, Nakamura and Roman. Guys like Ambrose, Braun, Samoa Joe and Randy "Racism Outta Nowhere" Orton are prime examples of guys that do what the fukk they want to do good or bad and the crowd loves them for it which is why Orton had one of the biggest pops of the night in Saudi Arabia.

edit: It's the reason why The Bullet Club and Los Ingobernables de Japon which started off as a couple of major heel stables are one of the most popular groups of anti-heroes in wrestling today.

 

[puppetmaster]

It really is easier to get people to hate your guts than it is to get them to like you for the most part. You can put a little more hot sauce on a scripted heel promo than a babyface one because they have the faces talking like little kids. No one says some of the shyt the faces do in real life

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Everyone's said what needs to be said, but one huge reason why it's easier to be a heel is because WWE makes it rocket science to be a face. It's not as complicated as people think because in this day and age, getting over with the audience is easier than it's ever been. The problem is WWE can't write for faces at all. They make them too corny or weak, and kill their momentum with reckless abandon if they see the face getting over like they're supposed to.

So it's not just because being a heel is more fun or easier to be. It's that WWE refuses to treat their face characters like they're in 2018, and keeps them using the same model from 1988.

 

[daboywonder2002]

i totally disagree. its much harder to be a heel. Especially with Social media and upupdowndown. I'm supposed to boo you but then on instagram see you posing with fans. It's hard to stay n character. Plus fans love heels so its hard to even get heat. Fans still cheer.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Always felt like being a heel is easier than being a face because it doesn't matter what the people think of you as a heel. You have more freedom to just be an a$$hole or atleast you don't have to be a stiff ass face cutting "I never give up" promos. You have to be more convincing on the mic as a face than a heel IMO.

Because being a heel now days is simply a personality injection. They tend to be more bad ass, have better promos and are generally more entertaining. Their material is noticeably more interesting.

Plus, this roster seem to enjoy playing heels more. Faces are some corny muthafukkas honestly. Not many today can do a pure face justice. Most tend to toe the tweener line to get over.

And there's a certain freedom in being an arrogant a$$hole than sticking to corny ass face scripts.

WWE also seems to be more interested in giving heels great segments than their faces imo.

Now, I don't think there are enough dastardly heels who do some fukked up shyt. Heels today are TOO entertainig if you get what i mean.

The problem is that :flabbyvince: has never known how to make an interesting face. They’re always a cookie cutter white meat character with no depth. If they were heel before, then :flabbyvince: strips away everything that got them over in the first place, and in some cases, he never gives them anything to get over with at all. This is how he’s always liked booking his faces too. Hogan, this is how he booked Shawn in the mid 90’s, the total lack of personality Batista had from late 2007 until his 2009 heel turn, Cena from 2005 onward, any face run that Jericho has had from 2002 onward, and Roman are all examples of this.

 

[Amor fati]

Heels have way more room to show personality than faces.
Its like in movies, the coolest characters are often the villains

Na it's not that the Villian is cool it's simply because of shytty writing, they give villains valid motivations for doing the things that they do whereas the hero has an invalid motivation and possibly fighting for the wrong cause.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

People are naturally a piece of shyt.

 

[Amor fati]

i totally disagree. its much harder to be a heel. Especially with Social media and upupdowndown. I'm supposed to boo you but then on instagram see you posing with fans. It's hard to stay n character. Plus fans love heels so its hard to even get heat. Fans still cheer.

These so-called heels need to stop posting pictures and be straight a$$holes with the fans like Scott Steiner during his time in WCW.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Na it's not that the Villian is cool it's simply because of shytty writing, they give villains valid motivations for doing the things that they do whereas the hero has an invalid motivation and possibly fighting for the wrong cause.

This is a big deal too. Hogan and Cena regularly would be sore sports, act like bullies or all around jerks, and would frequently leave friends high and dry yet we’d be told that they’re supposed to be the good guy and how virtuous they are. Basic shyt they’d get wrong. I think Roman basically tried to kill Braun after he lost a match last year and Roman was still presented as a face. That shyt doesn’t make any sense.

 

[Da King]

It really is easier to get people to hate your guts than it is to get them to like you for the most part. You can put a little more hot sauce on a scripted heel promo than a babyface one because they have the faces talking like little kids. No one says some of the shyt the faces do in real life

It’s 2018 not 1978, everyone in the building knows it’s fake and wrasslers today go out of their way to remind everyone how it’s all a show. That’s why no heel today is actually hated and has any heat, every match is 50/50 chants

 

[Chris Cool]

No one today knows how to work as a heel because no one has any heat


Except for Big Cass and Diet Mahal

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[Da King]

?

They’re actually legit hated by fans, not like the BS play along heel chants Tommy Ciampa gets from the marks that worship him

 

[Amor fati]

This is a big deal too. Hogan and Cena regularly would be sore sports, act like bullies or all around jerks, and would frequently leave friends high and dry yet we’d be told that they’re supposed to be the good guy and how virtuous they are. Basic shyt they’d get wrong. I think Roman basically tried to kill Braun after he lost a match last year and Roman was still presented as a face. That shyt doesn’t make any sense.

Vince McMahon is too stuck behind in his 1980's thinking, that Cena and Hogan shyt urks the hell out of me man. Cena pretty much acts like a damn heel for example; Cena must always have the last word, must win every battle, talks down other wrestlers as if they are gum underneath his sneakers and etc. LOL how does the writers expect people to behind Cena when he's being more of a heel towards the so-called heel. When Cena was feuding with AJ(Heel) most of the fans were Behind AJ due to how Cena has horribly been written. Roman is better off being heel already but he's gonna have to find a way not to get cheered for.

 

[Da King]

Vince McMahon is too stuck behind in his 1980's thinking, that Cena and Hogan shyt urks the hell out of me man. Cena pretty much acts like a damn heel for example; Cena must always have the last word, must win every battle, talks down other wrestlers as if they are gum underneath his sneakers and etc. LOL how does the writers expect people to behind Cena when he's being more of a heel towards the so-called heel. When Cena was feuding with AJ(Heel) most of the fans were Behind AJ due to how Cena has horribly been written. Roman is better off being heel already but he's gonna have to find a way not to get cheered for.

The millisecond Roman goes heel he’ll be a bigger face with the marks than Daniel TA

It just won’t work

 

[Amor fati]

They’re actually legit hated by fans, not like the BS play along heel chants Tommy Ciampa gets from the marks that worship him

True, but Big Bird Cass doesn't know how to cut a convinceable promo and Jinder needs to be written better light than a shytty 1980's foreign heel, what's to point having all this heat if the company doesn't know how to effectively to capitalize off it.