Welcome to the House of Black...
- His entrance is incredibly eerie
◊, especially with the riff that plays in the background while he rises. - A real-life example. The injury that caused him to get written off NXT for a while? Perhaps one of the most horrifying in-ring injuries in wrestling; On the July 18th, 2018 episode of NXT during a match with Tommaso Ciampa for the NXT Championship, Black went crotch-first into the ring post much too forcefully. Black later revealed that he legitimately broke one of his testicles into seven pieces during that spot, necessitating surgery and an extended write-off from television. (To demonstrate how insanely tough Black is, he wrestled most of the match, a 22-minute affair, with this injury and cut a promo afterwards.) "Ouch" doesn't even begin to cover it.
- After his release from WWE, Tommy End released a short film teasing his next endeavour with the ominous name "The Devil Made Me Do It". Portraying Tommy End as a psychotic patient in an insane asylum (and his entire run in WWE as a delusion during his time there, with his eye injury at Buddy Murphy's hands portrayed as the result of a brawl with another patient), "Tom" is haunted by nightmarish visions and mysterious figures that appear out of nowhere as he argues with his doctors, until he breaks out of his restraints and murders them both, declaring that his name is "Malakai" and strolling out of the asylum in a slick black suit, singing the Golden Earring song that the films draws its name from in a frighteningly chipper voice. If Tommy End was dangerous before, now he's pure evil!
- His AEW entrance makes his WWE one look like a tiptoe through the tulips, appearing in the darkness silhouetted against a blinding light, wearing a human skull mask topped with bestial antlers, seemingly teleporting from the entranceway up onto the turnbuckles and then down into the ring every time the lights fade out and rise again, as "Ogentroost" by Amenra blasts over the arena speakers with bone-chilling force.
