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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
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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* [[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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