>>14319058I watch AEW and even like it sometimes, but not sure I’d agree there are faces and heels. Orange Juice man is supposed to be a face and so is Darby. But everyone else? The crowd cheers. Even when they do something “heelish” the crowd pops for it. Mox said he was going to cave someone’s skull in with a tire iron and run them over with a car on Wednesday. Not sure that’s a face promo. They pop for everything Okada does but he’s with the Young Bucks who are supposed to be dastardly heels. But everytime they talk about being EVP’s the crowd pops. Christian is very clearly a heel but they also kek when he does his schtick. It’s not just the crowd being smarks, it’s the way Tony presents everyone. BCC, Okada and Ospreay probably the most egregious. Ospreay gets a pop for everything he does and says but comes out with Don Callis who gets nuclear heel heat. I get they are breaking that situation up but I’m not sure why it was put that way to begin with.
Swerve beat down a teenage boy and home invaded him in a vignette, got buried in a coffin match, but because they did a bunch of shows in his home state and he wore the local sportsball colors and has a dance the crowd cheered. The teenage boy and his mother both became heels separately shortly thereafter. Hangman was a face who drank Swerve’s blood and somehow he became a heel and Swerve became a top babyface. He’s going up against Samoa Joe soon and Joe implied that Swerve’s manager has AIDS from being gay or African or both but the crowd still loves him and chants his name.
This is all off the top of my head and really what I can remember of the last few months. There is way more, more dimeless factions that come and go, more turns and betrayals than you can count, sometimes for no discernible reason. Some of this is on the crowd, most of it is on Tony.