Ever wondered if by some bizarre twist of fate (see, I miss Jeff already), the biggest face and most evil heel there is switched places?

 

Now, before you get some funny idea, imagining Orton in denim short pants prancing around making up rap songs about everything, and by gosh Cena wearing trunks, allow me to stop you right there. That’s not what I meant.

 

Those two guys got in the WWE almost at the same time and have stayed in their roles for as long as you can remember; that being Cena as a face and Orton as a heel.

 

But what if they were given different roles? Cena was a heel before and Orton tried being a face but it didn’t last that long. How or what would the storyline be if they were to turn them the opposite of what they are now? Would it work? Would it sell?

 

Let’s start with the HOW.

 

I think it’s easier for a face to make the heel turn, especially for Cena who gets heat as much as he gets pops in most places.

 

For the last couple of PPV’s, Cena has been booed, whether he’s exchanging blows with Triple H or with Randy Orton. And this could be the “root” of his turn. He could go Jericho on the Cenation.

 

Imagine this: Cena’s music hits and he walks in to a huge heat, of course there’s the little voices screaming for him still but that would be drowned out by big booming boos. He doesn’t do the salute, and he walks to the ring with a really somber mood. He takes the mic and this is what he says.

 

“Week in and week out, I try to be the best man I can be. For this company, for the fans, for everyone. I work hard, harder than anybody. I follow the rules to a t, I respect every single one of the people I work for, every single one of the people I work with, and every single one of you who are sitting in the stands and watching at home!”

 

That gets a huge pop. And then…

 

“And what do I get?” Crowd goes silent. And then he continues. “You buy arm bands, you buy my wrist bands, you buy my caps.” He takes off the said items and throws them on the canvass as he mentions them. “YOU BUY MY DAMN SHIRTS!” He takes that off and throws it to the canvass as well. “Do you think I care?!”

 

Jerry Lawler says something like, “Michael, what’s going on here? Cena’s acting crazy!”

“I don’t know King, but this is so unlike the John Cena we know.” Responds Cole.

 

Cena hears them talking and gets crazier, “You two need to shut your mouths when I’m talking or I’m gonna go down there and shut it for you! Nobody wants to hear the crap that comes out your mouths and you don’t even realize it!”

 

He looks at the crowd again, and shakes his head. “See, this is what I’m talking about. Nobody respects me! Week in and week out I do what I do to please all of you and yet I get disrespected by you people, and I’m TIRED OF IT!

 

"From now on I’m going to do what I want to do, when I want to do it for myself and not for anybody else, and because I CAN and there’s nothing you can do about it!”

 

He drops the mic then he walks out to the backstage, brooding, with no music, leaving the audience in shock, and BOOM, the heel turn begins.

 

They can fuel it more if they bring the smack talk with The Rock to the front. Rock and Cena have kind of been exchanging banters in the media haven’t they? So there’s plenty of material there.

 

They could even bring the Hulkster back since Cena’s been compared to him, and Cena would play the “I’m nothing like you, I’m better than you!” card.

 

In Orton’s case, with all the evil deeds he has done, it’s really hard for him to make a face turn. Although, they might have done it if he hadn’t gotten his collar bone injured and re-injured as he was supposed to star in Marine 2 instead of DiBiase.

 

And with Ted’s inevitable face turn probably coming soon enough; I just had to wonder how they were going to do it if it was Orton.

 

He can’t just grow a conscience all of a sudden. It has to be slow and gradual.

 

The last time he had a face run, he was unceremoniously betrayed by his group Evolution. And even then, Randy still had the heel characteristics of being cocky and arrogant. But then, we have to remember Triple H and Shawn Michaels were once cocky SOB's themselves.

 

Betrayal seems to be the custom in the storylines when they are making someone turn. (e.g. Morrison by Miz, Matt through Jeff). But really, it’s hard for me to picture any of the Legacy guys betraying Randy right now.

 

But think about it for a second: If the plan of him starring in the movie actually happened, and he has to be a face to promote the movie because he’s going to be heroic in it. And then the betrayal card has to be played. How will the Legacy that he built betray him?

 

Someone from the group must have a hidden agenda of some sort and an insatiable taste for glory.

 

He had taught them well so that someone will use everything he taught them, and sort of use his “play book” to secretly sabotage him. They like using the “masked guy” so they can do that to hide the real identity of the perpetrator.

 

They could go the Matt-Jeff way, and have the masked assailant attack Randy in and out of the ring. Suspicions will surface that it's one of the guys, but then whenever it points to one of them, the assailant attacks when the suspect is with Randy.

 

Some fans would probably not feel sorry for him in the beginning, but will start to sympathize when the attacks get more grave and severe.

 

They would have to make him humble and thankful to the fans for their support through all his trials. That should win everyone over...by doing a heart wrenching promo, of course.

 

And then finally, they reveal the betrayer—which is actually both the Legacy boys and Brett DiBiase if he makes it to the group. The two (or three) gets on Orton and beat him up. And then they go on a feud, crowd gets behind Orton and the turn is complete.

 

He already gets pops as a heel, so it could only make it bigger with the sympathizing women and children demographics. We know how we all love the underdog.

 

Now, the question is could it work?

 

If it’s done right, I think it could. The fans who want Cena to turn heel would get what they want finally. Orton could get the demographics he lost. He won’t have to lose his fans as long as he doesn’t become too cheesy.

 

Of course, this is only if it were up to me. I don’t believe they’re ever going to do it. Why should they turn Cena heel and allow the sales of his merchandise to go down? Right?

 

Now the last question: Would it sell? Would you buy it? You decide.

 

….actually, tell me on the comments.