I'll start off by turning The First heel, twice!
HEEL TURN 1
Militant Gay Rights Activist- First becomes a jerk about things, calls crowds 'bigots'. Pretty much works the crowd to get to chant anti-gay things at him so he can turn around and show them that they are exactly what he says they are. CM Punk in a way where he has a point, but he goes about proving it by being a total scumbag. Would work as a face in states that have legalized gay marriage, unless he could find some other anti-gay event that's happened there so he can play that up for more heat.
HEEL TURN 2
"Soulless" Brian Nadalny- First does something horrible, like say, has an affair with Muse and ruins his marriage, and doing this causes him to believe that The Soul Of The First has left his body. He is now no longer The First. This creates an identity crisis in him that turns him into something of a lunatic. I'd try to stay away from nihilism as that's pretty played out...He could become obsessed with identity, since's lost his...Spending his time constantly asking people "Who are you?" (Which is also a cool Babylon 5 reference!) He seeks to force people to explain why they are they way they are, and it's up to him if he accepts their reasoning.
NOTE: If your character has been around for forever, it's no fair face turning them just because all know olde tymie heels just become faces from the legend/nostalgia pop, so giimme something to work with here. Hell, gimme replies for anything.
Hmmmm. Well I guess I'll leave Anarky out of it, though I suppose a face turn would probably go something like, "Nark is betrayed by his buddies and goes on a one-man ass-kicking tour of vengeance." He's basically a heel-leaning tweener, so going face is hardly absurd.
ReplyDeleteHAL would definitely be trickier. Maybe have a monster heel harassing some nerdy kid in the crowd and HAL jumps in to defend his use of C++ when clearly LISP was preferred... or something. The crowd is very nerd-hip these days, but the pretention would have to be dropped. Maybe push as a "woe is me, I'm stuck with all the IT problems this company generates" everyman working class stiff deal.
Eddie Patton would have to literally shove a gun into the mouth of a puppy and pull the trigger to turn heel at this point, but hey, that's why they make guns!
Rocko Daymon - After the death of his daughter off-screen, Daymon is hit with feelings of guilt for the first time since he adopted "the Undying" lifestyle. Under the scrutiny of his rivals, he finally snaps and goes on a violent, Orton-esque rampage on anybody who so much as looks at him differently. Kind of a tragic villain, as he'd be going through a self-destructive downward spiral, taking out anybody that gets in the way. This would culminate into an LMS match with "The Ego Buster" Dan Ryan, who Humility Bombs him hard enough to break his spine and paralyze him from the waist down, effectively ending his career.
ReplyDelete"DOPESMOKER / The Druid / Chrono.naut" Erik Black - Always kind of hopped around with his alignment. If you want to see a face, look at NEW, and if you want to see a heel, look at EPW.
Olvir Arsvinnar - All the worst parts of Hollywood Hogan, amped up to eleven... with some Ric Flair and Macho King thrown into it. Overly ego-centric coward heel. Parades in limousines and is always escorted by models, talking up a big game, but always ducking fights against people he deems "unworthy" to fight against his god-like greatness. He'd probably dump the Viking shtick, getting a more updated and high-tek look.
Magnus Destructo - Don't really know what alignment he is currently -- I'm guessing a face. Anyplace outside of NLW, he'd probably be a heel. Within NLW, he'd find Jesus and become your stock evil Evangelist. Reverend Destructo. Thumps Bibles and heads.