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Since XL covered Cody Rhodes perfectly, I'll go with Kofi Kingston. They can talk about his initial success, but how he has become a cartoon superhero trying to make all the people happy. A man who can steal the show due to his pure athleticism and his passion...yet a man who has yet to evolve...until now. Kofi Kingston joins Evolution and is in a role like that of Seth Rollins in The Shield. Kofi quits all the jumping and such, but is still high energy and high impact. Slowly as the year progresses, he starts doing those big moves that get big pops. He starts smiling at the big reactions. At Survivor Series, he ends up playing to the crowd and getting fired up due to their positive response, but it ends up costing them the match. He gets the hell beaten out of him for it the next night on RAW. They continue to build the tension through the Royal Rumble when they demand that Kofi eliminate himself to give Randy/Batista the win. Kofi finally stands up for himself and fights back. He does his normal 'HOLY SHIT, HOW DID HE KEEP FROM BEING ELIMINATED!!!" spot and does a huge springboard on the posing/taunting Orton/Batista and Kofi goes on a huge roll of momentum. Kofi takes a huge risk and does a diving cross body or something to eliminate the opponent hanging onto the ropes, but he hangs on like a crazy monkey in the ropes to win the 2015 Royal Rumble and go on to headline WrestleMania XXXI for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
You could do that same storyline with Cody, but less flips.
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