Why is it that in wrestling writing it is necessary for the heel to antagonize the crowd and the babyface to pander? This creates a distorted notion of reality, where the hero is truly only as good as the mob dictates. The fans of WWE:>cheer for clear beatdowns>cheer for mega-heels who are clearly egomaniacal freaks like the Final Boss Rock>act with cruelty online on social media>disregard the welfare of wrestlers>shout slurs>attempt to hijack any event where they are not pleasedHeel Cena is a fantastic character because he is a deconstruction of the oldest wrestling trope. For once, the fans are truly pieces of shit and Cody is their shiny new toy that so desperately tries to pander to awful people (making him just like the rest of them).Heel Cena reminds me of heel Daniel Bryan. They are both right and wise about the crowd. Compared to them, the heroes just look like childish action figures.I refuse to call this 'John Cena' a heel. Instead, it is the crowd that has turned heel. And /pw/ is the worst of it all.
his heel turn fucking sucked stop trying to make up headcanon why it's good
>>17510515It is good in a sense that it provides something that is hard to swallow but has actual meaning. Cena is heel because he stands by his principles. He's still the good guy, even if the crowd doesn't believe in goodness.
>>17510498based essay writer
I texted a friend the night Cena turned heel and he just said, “it’s not going to last very long”.
>>17510544This is true.
>>17510544The problem is he has no principles and never has. He has no dignity and isn't a good person.
>>17510498The classic heel uses a little bit of uncomfortable truth to generate apocalyptic seething heat from the crowd.It simply has been this fucking long since 1 guy has bothered getting heat that way.So long that most fans have forgotten what a heel is supposed to do and wouldn't play along if they find out.The heel is supposed to piss them the fuck off. A man winning a woman's MITB match for example. That gets heat which fuels PPV buys where the guy can get sat on by a really fat woman as the blow off.Make it a scrawny guy who any housewife could beat, and it'll be believable.Shit like that never gets chances since fans treat it like they're in the French resistance and Hitler shows up.
>>17512125Entertainment has shifted away from edge and towards comfort. That gimmick would need to be a comedy heel gimmick because you can't make people uncomfortable. You get heels though.
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>>17510498Nobody cares to read your blog post Nerd! Fuck off where you came from
>>17510544>Cena is heel because he stands by his principles. He's still the good guyNone of the principles he promoted throughout his long babyface run were exhibited in his behavior during the Elimination Chamber from the moment he kicked Cody in the dick onward. The storyline about him selling his soul to the Mephistophelean Rock may have been scrapped, but they're still holding to a watered down revision of the angle where the embodiment of "Hustle" sold out to his TKO Boss in some way to bypass a qualifying match for the Chamber. His heel promos have all laser-locked in on the portion of the audience that opposed him while he callously dismisses the sincerity of those that genuinely supported him. When we last saw him, he attempted to blindside Cody with what Michael Cole was carefully instructed to label a "cheap shot" to reinforce that Cena isn't conducting himself as a good guy. Your thesis that Cena is actually portraying an inverted heel by means of holding firm to the moral principles that informed his babyface character is simply false. For what it's worth, I think your idea would make for a better storyline than the messy one they're going with, but it isn't what the WWE is presenting on their shows.
>>17512529bassed
>>17510498Bump to make the cripple one seethe
>>17512702Good post
