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* Often used for a [[Face Heel Turn]]; for example, when Bob Backlund made his early '90s return to [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], he was portrayed as a nice older guy who loved to compete and served as a mentor to the younger wrestlers on the roster -- right up until he snapped, putting [[Bret Hart]] in the cross-face chicken-wing out of jealousy, and becoming an uber-reactionary psychopath. [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] owner [[Vince McMahon]]'s evolution from goofy good-guy announcer to maniacally lecherous and evilly manipulative corporate boss following the [[Montreal Screwjob]] (see [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]) is another good example, also an example of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]].
** Though sometimes the face doesn't turn heel, they just reveal that they've [[Took a Level in Badass]]. [[The Undertaker]] is particularly adept at this.
* [[John Cena]] can typically be counted on to be a guy who's pretty calm and relaxed and willing to joke around and playfully mock his opponents, and when competing in fair fights will still find plenty of time to have fun. Piss him off a little too much, though, and he'll start doing things like throwing around 500-pound men, ripping pipes out of the machinery and taking them to someone's face, and trying to ''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|run people down with forklifts.]]''
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