>>11843181Marty helped Shawn become brave in a competitive cutthroat business by rubbing off his wildcard schizo persona onto him. I recently watched the Shawn bio and he tends to display a lot of vulnerability in it especially when he recounts his early career and how he was terrified in the locker room. In an ironic sense his destructive personality was a self defense mechanism.
Also in regards of feeling bad for Marty we always see this in wrestling whenever a tag team splits up and the other what becomes wildly successful i.e Hardy Boyz
