In WWE right now the man who was The Devils Favourite Demon is now wearing a suit and is Director of Operations for The Authority, A dark character in Bray Wyatt is sending the universe messages every week on both Raw and Smackdown and Cody Rhodes has turned in to Stardust and now all he can focus on his galactic facts.
But we have scanned the entire WWE Alumni and have come up with two gimmicks we think were weird.
Doink
Once the circus music started, WWE fans instantly knew that Doink the Clown was on his way to the ring.
When Doink first burst upon the WWE scene, his jokes were more malicious. He would squirt children with trick flowers and delight in making little tykes cry. The evil clown astonished WWE viewers by attacking opponents with prosthetic clown limbs. The gleam in his eyes and his grin could not hide the twisted monster that lurked behind the clown makeup and costume.
And Doink showed that he was no joke in the ring. He displayed an in-ring acumen that surprised his opponents. Doink loved to torture early rivals Randy Savage, Bret Hart and especially Crush. In many ways, Crush was never the same after his WrestleMania IX encounter, when he was attacked by not one, but two Doinks!
After earning the wrath of a wicked Jerry Lawler following his inability to defeat The "Hit Man," Doink showed a kinder, gentler side. He started taking delight in making children smile. With a miniature version of himself named Dink by his side, Doink targeted some of WWE's most notorious villains. In the years that followed, the duo provided some of WWE's most memorable moments.
Who could forget Doink and Dink (along with Wink and Pink) taking on Lawler and his team of miniature kings — Queazy, Cheezy and Sleazy — at Survivor Series in 1994? Or the jesters battling Bam Bam Bigelow & Luna Vachon at WrestleMania X?
The joker still occasionally tumbles into WWE rings. He competed at WrestleMania X-Seven in a Gimmick Battle Royal and teamed with Kane and Eugene against Umaga, Viscera & Kevin Thorn in perhaps the weirdest tag match in WWE history.
Papa Shango
In 1992, the haunting voodoo practitioner known as Papa Shango made his shocking debut in WWE.
Stalking down the aisle with a smoking skull in his hands, the bizarre Superstar's horrifying appearance — complete with morbid skeletal face paint and a necklace made from bones — struck fear in his opponents before he even stepped into the ring. Once the bell rang, Shango was even more fearsome, using his 330-pound frame to completely destroy everything in his path.
Although his tenure in WWE was a short one, the witch doctor made a major impact at WrestleMania VIII when he interfered in the main event between Hulk Hogan and Sid Justice, resulting in a disqualification. Shango would keep a high profile due to his rivalry with The Ultimate Warrior in the spring of 1992. Using black magic to intimidate the Warrior, Shango infamously caused a strange, dark liquid to ooze from the former WWE Champion's head during a memorably twisted interview segment with Mean Gene Okerlund.
The shocking incident would become Papa Shango's most memorable moment in WWE and earned the magic man his place amongst the scariest Superstars of all time.
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