The American Knightmare made himself the villain that AEW needed.
Cody Rhodes has become the most universally-beloved babyface in decades, yet just two years ago, he was heavily booed by a faithful he helped build. Despite never officially turning heel, Rhodes spent his final days in AEW receiving the reception fans would typically give to a bad guy. The good will from the AEW audience began to evaporate during his white-hot feud with Malakai Black in Summer 2021, with his first major negative reaction coming at the inaugural AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam.
Cody Rhodes Likens His AEW Exit to The Dark Knight's Ending The narrative surrounding Cody Rhodes at the time of his AEW departure was that AEW no longer viewed him as one of the company's top guys and consequently were not willing to pay him a salary comparable to that of newly-signed main-eventers like CM Punk and Bryan Danielson. Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Rhodes noted he is fine with embracing this narrative akin to the way Batman allowed Gotham to paint him as the villain at the conclusion of The Dark Knight.
"It's super convoluted, and I'm not comparing myself to Batman, but there's a piece of it that's really important. To certain fans from the AEW fandom, they need the story to be they didn't want me, they pushed me , he was bad, they need that story, they need me to be the villain," Rhodes explained."I was always fine with accepting that because of the respect I have for it in the first place. Regardless of any petty squabbles, I will always have a love for it.
The Dark Knight ends with Gotham District Attorney Harvey Dent turning heel, killing various Gotham citizens and taking Police Commissioner Jim Gordon's family hostage. At the time, no one in Gotham knows who is responsible for these murders. When Dent falls to his death, Batman and Gordon realize that the people of Gotham seeing that their District Attorney causing crime would lead to havoc across the city.
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