5 WWE legends who once had terrible gimmicks 

#4. Triple H: Terra Ryzing/Jean-Paul Levesque

The future Game smiles as Jean-Paul Levesque.

Again, we're in WCW, where a young Triple H would be for just a year, before joining the WWF in 1995.

But when the Game debuted in WCW, he was Terra Ryzing, a clear pun on terrorizing, and that was as much of a character as he had.

But maybe he was safer as Terra Ryzing, because when the company did give him a gimmick, they went way overboard.

Within weeks, Ryzing became Jean-Paul Levesque, a play on Triple H's real name, with the company telling him to be a French aristocrat.

Not knowing what he could do, and unable to speak French, Levesque put on a French accent, but knew he had to leave when there were plans to make him a tag-star.

Joining the WWF, as an American aristocrat, Jean-Paul became Hunter Hearst Helmsley, which later transformed into Triple H.

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