Turning heel

This thought kept lingering around me ever since 2019 when bad things started happening in my life. But I'm kinda taking this concept of turning heel seriously now. I'm confident it can change a lot of things in my life.

What does turning heel even mean?

If you have a life, you probably don't watch wrestling, and I won't blame you for that. So, if you don't already know, professional wrestling is scripted, meaning that all the stories are not real, it's a work. The beef isn't real. If two people are fighting, they might be best friends in real life. But that doesn't mean "wrestling" is fake. It's not. It hurts.

So, in wrestling, to make compelling stories, creative writers usually make fights and stories between a babyface (good guy) and a heel (bad guy), that's how most wrestling stories are written, although we do see face vs face and heel vs heel time to time. These heel people do anything in their power to win. It can be by lowblowing the opponent while the referee isn't watching or having their mates interfere.

Also, whenever there's some situations, these wrestlers often change sides and that's called turning babyface (turning into a good guy) or turning heel (turning into a bad guy).

That's how the basic storytelling system works in professional wrestling.

Babyfaces

Now, what makes a good guy in professional wrestling? He listens to the fans, he gets cheered by the fans. He does not tolerate any insult towards the fans, and he defends his championships like a fighting champion, fair and square.

All seems cool, but what happens is they refuse to let anyone help them. So the heel can come in and mess things up and take the championship home by doing almost nothing and the babyface can't do anything about it.

They are gullible, quite obvious, and sometimes even lack common sense. In professional wrestling, there have been many babyfaces that the fans disliked because of lack of common sense or no fresh character. I remember Seth Rollins from 2019 when he was the WWE Universal Champion, people absolutely HATED him despite him being a babyface. That's because he was the generic babyface, no unique character, it's just like crybabies, "I will help the fans", "How dare you talk crap about the Texas crowd in the arena?" and what not.

I think for most of my life I've been on the babyface side. I never tried to win over others by doing some stuff that could lower myself in my eyes. I always earned my way through success. Nobody seems to appreciate me. So, now I think it's time to turn heel.

Heels

I already covered how heels do their thing. I've been watching heels since like 2014. Or even earlier, I guess. But I didn't know one great point about heels. Or I didn't realise it at first.

Heels don't choose to be heels just because they need to play a bad guy. Something happens to them that leads them to turn heel. Maybe they lose a lot of matches and championship opportunities because some dude decided to interfere in his matches often. Or the fans don't appreciate that babyface anymore so they turn heel (hello Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson!).

Sometimes, as a fan, you understand what led them to turn heel (in story, ofc), and you start rooting for them even when they do heel stuff like winning through unfair means, etc. Sometimes, these heels just impress you. The current generation of WWE is a WONDERFUL example for this. Drew McIntyre, Rhea Ripley, Gunther, and heck even Dominik Mysterio.

All these people turned heel because they wanted to achieve something so bad and they couldn't because of whatever reason. For Drew, the bloodline kept beefing with him and he kept losing, eventually him leaning to the psycopath side of him. For Dominik, he gets boo-ed out of the arena, you almost feel pity for him off-script. Rhea is just a fabuluous heel, she RULES the women's division with her new character. Gunther, the longest reigning Intercontinental Champion, is a heel but he doesn't participate in unfair action, he LOVES the sport, he beats everyone fair and square, he just doesn't like the fans. Heck when Dominik faced Gunther, people thought Gunther is the babyface.

Get my point?

Heels, even though they are bad people, they completely change into unstoppable forces and achieve everything they want to. No heel becomes a heel without a reason. Every heel has a story they couldn't finish (Cody, go finish yours!). I think I'm at that point where I turn heel and become more suspicious of people about who I let in my life and who gets to advice me on situations.

I don't need to be a bad guy literally- but next time anyone takes a shot against me (ofc not wrestling, I can't even do a superkick properly), I will fight back without thinking how the person feels. I think I need to be more selfish than I am now. Need to stop being a people pleaser. Mostly, need to stop giving a fuck about most people.

Not all heels are successful though. Some even just keep facing failures. And I'm worried about that but I don't think there's any choice. I need to make this change for myself.

Lmao chill, that's just a thought, it takes a lot of time to get this correct, but once I become a great heel, I think I can achieve everything I want in life.

That's for today's thought.

Later, smellies.