The John Cena problem

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Originally Posted by CSL Why do all of the top faces have to be serious all of the time, especially a character that is geared and molded towards kids? Die Hard would have been pretty boring had John McClain went after Hans Gruber with a straight face. Cena does serious perfectly fine when he needs/is instructed to.

Difference between "not being serious all the time" and "being goofy".

But yeah, I don't think Cena needs to change for what the WWE is going for. But this thread is about the problems that people who aren't kids have with Cena.

Cena actually plays his role pretty amazingly. When the whole Nexus thing was going on, I was craving for Cena to turn heel. Then I heard the fans chant "Never Give Up" and I was literally blown away by it. I realized that not only was everything about him working for their target audience, but that you pretty much had to leave him as a face.