Fridge / The Wyatt Family

Fridge Horror

• Where did Luke Harper and Erick Rowan come from, and why are they following Bray Wyatt? When one considers how Wyatt temporarily brainwashed Daniel Bryan into joining his Family, tried to turn John Cena into a monster, and succeeded into turning Kane back into a monster, it does suggest a certain pattern: Wyatt tries to corrupt people, and is always recruiting for his Family. This raises the unsettling possibility that, like Bryan, Cena, or Kane, Harper and Rowan were just two wrestlers who caught Wyatt's eye for whatever reason, and then... well...
• As far as being two wrestlers, the obvious is true, but let's get specific here. Before entering WWE, Luke Harper was a tough, no-nonsense jerkass wrestling truck driver under the name Brodie Lee, whereas Erick Rowan was a less successful but equally no-nonsense proud Scandinavian going by Thoruf Marius. Furthermore, we can presume they'd never met each other during those stints. For the demon that possessed Husky Harris to be able to take those two men, break them down and rebuild them into near-catatonic worshippers of his cause as well as a fearsome tag team despite having been complete strangers before this…the things he must've done to them had to have been truly horrendous.
• Never mind that — what the hell did he do to Braun Strowman? We're talking about a 6'8", near-400-pound powerlifter that could probably crush Bray if he were so inclined (and Bray himself is no small fellow). And add to that the fact that he didn't show up until much later - was Wyatt already in the process of breaking Strowman while he and the other two prominent Family members were making their first public appearances? What if Strowman was in one of the other rooms of Bray's swamp hideout?? And for that matter, where's the guy that was in the zombie-like trance in that one room? Is he still there? Is he even still alive?
• In light of Braun Strowman's absolute rampage through Monday Night Raw since being split off from the rest of the Family in the 2016 draft, it is becoming painfully obvious that Bray Wyatt tamed and corralled this monster. This brings to mind two very horrifying questions: how under God's hot sun did Wyatt ever pull something like that off in the first place, and what was he intending to save the full extent of Strowman's destructive power for?
• What in God's name did he manage to do to Randy Orton? First off, this is Randy freaking Orton we're talking about. Second, Randy's had a notoriously awful history as far as joining stables, and usually prefers to work alone. Third, the two had been bitter enemies up to the point where he joined them, but has recently referred to Bray as a 'god'. This all suggests that Wyatt had a little more than a creative sales pitch up his sleeve…or, as the story would reveal, that Orton himself did…

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