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| Art scanned via WWE.com |
It's always fascinating to see the early stages of character design, especially when they turn out as differently as they actually manifested themselves. WWE released early conceptual designs for a whole bunch of characters: two of the three faces of Mick Foley, Goldust, Rocky Maivia, Adam Bomb, Doink the Clown, IRS, Razor Ramon, Papa Shango, Shawn Michaels, and Max Moon. Some of them were similar to what they turned out as. Others? Well, look above at the IRS sketch. It doesn't seem too different until you look at his pose and the shirt-and-tie look stylized as a tank top. He's less a bureaucrat and more a male stripper, which I admit, would have been a fantastic way of playing the character.