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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: A [[Knight Templar]] who truly believes that the world would be better under his guidance? Or a [[Sinister Minister]] and a [[Sleazy Politician]] who uses the Straight Edge Society for personal gain and no higher goals then that? Perhaps the truth will be uncovered.
** It's also possible to interpret him as the truly good guy who has to put up with fans and fellow wrestlers who are misled - the [[Jeff Hardy]] feud that turned Punk heel, and ended when Jeff left the company (and was arrested for drug trafficking soon after), helped.
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* [[Awesome Ego]]
* [[Professional Wrestling/Heartwarming|"Crowning Moment" Punk of Heartwarming]]: but this exchange:
{{quote|'''WWE Fans:''' [[It Makes Sense in Context|WE WANT ICE CREAM!]]
'''[[Vince McMahon]]:''' I don't give a damn what you want!
'''[[CM Punk]]:''' ''[[Kick the Son of a Bitch|THAT'S THE PROBLEM!]]'' }}
* [[Complete Monster|"Complete Monster" Punk]]: His most extreme heel runs portray him as a manipulative, sociopathic jerk with a god complex, who wouldn't shy away from physically abusing his own followers.
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** Somewhat inverted with his recent feud with [[Triple H]]. It's... honestly kind of hard to get behind Punk when Trips has been ''extremely'' lenient with Punk and his constant verbal abuse and accusations. Not helped by the fact that Punk is accusing Trips of stuff that has been made fun by everyone in the company for years, including Triple H himself. The only thing he really has any real point about is the possibility that Triple H was the one who sent [[Kevin Nash]] the text to Jackknife Punk at Summerslam, and as time goes on evidence shown makes it increasingly less likely that Trips really was the one who sent it. As a result, Punk comes off as less of a corporate rebel advocating change and more as a bully throwing a temper tantrum that things aren't going his way.
*** Well, his point is that [[Triple H]] is basically the same guy as [[Vince McMahon]]; no matter what Trips says, he's still stuck in the past and content with a boring product. Punk is playing a jackass revolutionary opposed to Trips respectful traditionalist.
* [[Vindicated by History]]: A [[Kayfabe]] meta-example. We all know that [[CM Punk]]'s heel [[Smug Straight Edge|Smug Straight]] [[Straight Edge Evil|Edge Evil]] [[The Teetotaler|Teetotaler]] character from 2009-2010 ranged somewhere between having a sensible moral point to his position and being a complete asshole, which made it tough at times for some viewers to really evaluate how they felt about him. But then in 2011 his straightedge became deemphasized in favor of becoming a cult leader for [[The Nexus]], then the Voice of the Voiceless, then cementing his place as the [[Badass Boast|Best Wrestler in the World]].
:Enter 2012. In his "Best in the World" feud with [[Chris Jericho]], the former Y2J takes it upon himself to expose the dirty laundry about Punk's father's alcoholism to the WWE audience for the first time and then make up even more about Punk's sister and mother just to piss him off. When this doesn't work, Jericho decides to [[Moral Event Horizon|stoop so low]] as to try and step on Punk's core by letting/helping [[Mark Henry]] leave Punk floored and prone for two weeks in a row only so he can pour and/or smash large quantities of [[Kayfabe|whiskey and beer]] all over Punk.
:This is extra notable because [[Ron Killings|R-Truth]] had poured whiskey and cigarettes from a trash can all over Punk once on Smackdown during his smug zealot days and back then was actually ''[[Played for Laughs]]''. Between this and the later fates of the [[Jeff Hardy|Hardy]] [[Matt Hardy|brothers]] (Punk's first enemies in his heel turn all those years ago, who are not big fans of his in [[Real Life]] either), most fans could look back and easily understand and sympathize with what drove Punk to that place he'd been in back then [[Alternate Character Interpretation|if not outright agree with his cause in retrospect]]. [[Harsher in Hindsight|And almost certainly no more laughs are being made about R-Truth dumping intoxicating trash over Punk's head.]]
** Averted back in his indie days as Punk acknowledged his father's issues somewhat more freely in promos then.
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