Started out based, became very cringe

Absolutely based beyond belief.
>best powerslam in the business
>GOAT theme music
>can be funny or serious equally well
>30+ year career and can still put on a good match
>ironically not Dusty’s gayest son despite portraying a faggot for half of his career

I really liked the gimmick, great look, mudic and entrance. Dustin was an okay worker. It might have been just 20 or even 10 or five years too late, because a gimmick like that would have been a top heel once upon a time.
What I like about Goldust as a gimmick is that he's like the metaphysical energy that gives hollywood people their arrogance, lustre, glitter, etc. They could have leant into that more when wrestlers went off to do films or something.

>>16281783
Was Goldie supposed to be a homo?

Also I remember that Vince gave him this shitty gimmick out of spite.

>>16281817
That can't be right because Vince offered him a contract.

>>16281817
vinces exact word was 'androgynous' but he ended up being pretty gaycoded

>>16281817
Goldust was supposed to expose the Hollywood elite or at least make fun of their behind the curtain activities.
A shitload of 90s and early 2000s WWF content was ever so slightly redpilled like that.
The evil CEO being the higher power behind the Ministry of Darkness which tried to sacrifice his daughter? Disclosure.
The redneck saving the princess? Classic hero story of how the common man will beat the evil overlord.
Most people didn't get McMahon being the higher power at the time, but when you're redpilled on the elite in the entertainment industry and how they run things and what they do behind the scenes, it's obvious.

Unfortunately Goldust got Russoed. Went from hard homosexual deviant heel action to BDSM kink play and being Luna Vachon's dungeon bitch in 1 year.

>>16281724
Goldust is one of the great gimmicks. A Top 10 gimmick.