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[[File:hulk-hogan-image_7510image 7510.jpg|link=Hulk Hogan|frame|"Train, say your prayers, eat your vitamins, be true to yourself and [[All-American Face|be true to your country]]."]]
 
 
{{quote|''[[Memetic Mutation|You're the face, YAY!]]''}}
 
A [['''Face]]''' (short for Babyface) is a [[Professional Wrestling]] good guy. He's the guy the fans get behind, the one they cheer for. A face used to always be a clean-cut good guy, but nowadays, anybody the fans cheer for is generally classified as a face, whether or not he's clean-cut, and whether or not he plays by the rules. The Lucha Libre equivalent is known as a ''técnico'' (or ''[[Spell My Name with an "S"|technico]]''). To further confuse, in British Wrestling (Such as World Of Sport), the term used is "Blue Eyes."
 
Like many things in pro wrestling, a wrestler's status as a face is anything but permanent; a [[Face Heel Turn]] could come at a moment's notice.
 
Some fans draw a distinction between "face" and "babyface"; they argue that "babyface" should be used to refer to the old-school, clean-cut, "train, say your prayers, and eat your vitamins"-type good guys, and the shortened version is simply anybody fans cheer for (including a wide variety of [[Anti-Hero|Antiheroes]] and [[Designated Hero|Designated Heroes]]es). Insiders in the pro wrestling business, however, use the two interchangeably.
 
The opposite of a face is a [[Heel]], the bad guy that the fans love to hate. See also [[Tweener]] (a guy who falls in be''tween'' Face and Heel status, fighting either side as the situation calls for) and [[X-Pac Heat]] (when the fans hate the ''actual person''). The [[Face Heel Index]] has some more variations.
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=== '''Examples:''' ===
 
* [[Hulk Hogan]] was perhaps the ultimate [[All-American Face]], keeping it up for ''eighteen years'' until he pulled his infamous [[Face Heel Turn]] during Bash at the Beach in 1996.
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