About Face/heel characters

[JRH]

I was watching an episode of Wrestling With Wregret where the host was pointing out that there were never any "smart" (ie, highly intellectual) or "rich" (think million dollar man) characters given to faces. It made me wonder, are there any characterizations that are strictly for babyfaces or heels? Since the 90s we've seen characters that one would think would be a face get over as heels (ie, kurt angle: amateur champion), and we've seen heelish characters get over as faces (val venis comes to mind). Bear in mind, this isnt really about the crowd causing the character to become a face or heel, its more about how the character is initally portrayed (otherwise i would have used undertaker and austin and the nwo as examples of heels who got face pops).

[funkdoc]

maybe you could include babyface del rio as a counter to the point about "rich" characters? he seemed to be more "rags to riches" though

[JerryvonKramer]

Wasn't Batista kind of a rich face? And The Rock.

[Goodear]

People hate rich, smart and good looking people that show off their gifts. Simple psychology at play there.