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Nikki Cross debuted a superhero gimmick on this week's Monday Night RAW and it's gotten the whole WWE Universe talking about whether or not they like the new direction for her or not.
Whilst WWE certainly has a precedent for superhero gimmicks with the likes of Hulk Hogan and Owen Hart donning superhero personas, it remains to be seen what will come of Cross' new character.
However, if Cross ends up anything like WWE's most successful superhero character, The Hurricane, she'll probably be picking up a sidekick to help her with her caped crusading or winning title belts.
The Hurricane had many sidekicks during his WWE tenure, with Mighty Molly (Molly Holly), Super Stacy (Stacy Keibler) and Rosey (Matt Anoa'i) all assisting him in his crime-fighting escapades. But who could assist Nikki Cross?
Let's take a look at five WWE Superstars who could serve as Nikki Cross' superhero sidekicks.
#5. Alexa Bliss could reform Bliss Cross Applesauce as Nikki Cross' supernatural sidekick in WWE
Nikki Cross' time teaming up with Alexa Bliss was certainly a fruitful one in WWE as Bliss Cross Applesauce managed to secure the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships.
The pair were at one point best friends until Alexa Bliss was swayed by 'The Fiend' Bray Wyatt, and despite Nikki Cross' best attempts to get through to Bliss their friendship eventually ended.
However, the pair teamed up again on this week's Monday Night RAW and they managed to score a decisive victory over former Women's Tag Team Champions, Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler.
Could this mean that a renewed partnership between the two might be something to look for going forward. Alexa Bliss would certainly be a great side-kick for Nikki Cross, especially as she actually has supernatural powers, like the ability to hypnotize and control people by looking at them.
#4. Could Killian Dain become Nikki Cross' superhero muscle in WWE?
If we're looking at people who have previously teamed up with Nikki Cross before she became a superhero then look no further than WWE NXT's Killian Dain as a potential sidekick for her.
As the last remaining male member of SAnitY left in WWE, he'd be the perfect partner for Cross given that the two were part of that stable for a prolonged amount of time.
To make things even better, Dain has gotten used to teaming up with a much smaller partner as he currently operates on NXT as part of a tag team with the significantly smaller Drake Maverick.
Dain would be the perfect enforcer-type character for a superhero Nikki Cross, allowing the two superstars to reconnect and perform together as much different characters.
Dain recently revealed that the new superhero gimmick for Cross was her idea and that she pitched it and managed to bring it to life.
We haven't even gotten into the fact that the two are married in real-life so it would be great to see the couple interacting with each other to help carry out Cross' vision with the new character.
#3. WWE NXT's Kacy Catanzaro certainly has the moves to be the 'Robin' to Nikki Cross' 'Batman'
WWE's Kacy Catanzaro isn't called the Human Highlight Reel for no reason, with the NXT starlet able to pull off some physically amazing things inside a WWE ring, some of which have rarely been seen before.
With that in mind, she'd be the perfect person to partner up with superhero Nikki Cross and offer a semblance of balance as the smaller, yet more agile one between the two of them.
This would admittedly mean breaking up a really good tag team in Catanzaro and Kayden Carter on NXT, but you could even bring Carter up to team up with Nikki Cross too.
The more this author thinks about the idea of Kacy Catanzaro wrestling as a caped hero in WWE the more he falls in love with it. Plus, it makes perfect sense given that she's a real-life ninja warrior.
#2. WWE RAW's Piper Niven ditches Eva Marie to sidekick for someone who appreciates her
Eva Marie's return to WWE on last week's Monday Night RAW was heavily built up, but when she did eventually re-debut, she didn't do so alone. WWE NXT UK's Piper Niven accompanied her and helped Marie claim a win over Naomi without having to lift a finger.
Marie has certainly found herself a powerful and formidable sidekick in Piper Niven, but on this week's Monday Night RAW she seemed to frustrate her by calling her Doudrop, which we can all agree is a truly awful name.
Niven ended up walking out on Eva Marie during a tag-team match, which allowed Naomi to role Marie up for the pin-fall victory and the opportunity for her and Asuka to enter the Women's Money in the Bank match.
It seems that Doudrop isn't going to be putting up with Eva Marie's nonsense for long, so there's a good chance she reverts back to being Piper Niven. If she does it'll be great to see her align with Nikki Cross, particularly as both are from the United Kingdom.
#1. Liv Morgan should embrace her inner superhero and join Nikki Cross in WWE
Nikki Cross is a wrestler who has enjoyed some tag team success in WWE but hasn't managed to really break out as a singles wrestler, at least prior to her superhero transformation.
The same can be said for SmackDown's Liv Morgan who finds herself alone and trying to carve a singles path for herself following the release of her tag team partner Ruby Riott.
But, given that Liv Morgan often gets compared to DC Comics' Harley Quinn, she could possibly lean into that comparison and adopt a superhero persona and join Nikki Cross. But crucially they would remain as singles wrestlers on their separate brands, and just support each other across both shows.
Not only would this provide WWE with a different dynamic, but it might allow Cross and Morgan to propel each other into the women's singles division success they both arguably deserve.
