Vince had spent the better part of two decades building stars by playing of their natural, genuine selves, and then his brilliant plan with Roman was to make him a fucking cartoon character.

I said it at the time and it’s still true today, Roman just oozes that Big Homie, will fuck foos up for fun energy. Heyman’s presence allowed him into center it and amplify the signal, but anyone with a brain saw this gear in him.

The fact that Vince actively tried to kill that latent greatness in favor of a cheesy cartoon hero is a story in and of itself.