As strange as it sounds to have the wrestler that looks like a masked burglar become a good guy, Barry Darsow had a plan in his back pocket for his promised run as a babyface. He shared with hosts Lars Frederiksen and Dennis Farrell that Repo Man could have transitioned into a Robin Hood-esque hero by essentially stealing from the rich to give to the poor.

“[I was] a terrible heel that took bicycles from kids,” he recalled. “They’d hate [me] worse than anybody. But all of a sudden, [what if] now you start giving them out to people and you were a good guy and you were screwing the bad guys? These little kids in the hospital might want to meet that Repo Man. [He might] bring them a bicycle. For what I wanted in my career after wrestling, that was really important … I wanted to go out and play golf with the celebrities. I want to do all of that stuff, but it just never happened and it was because I wasn’t a babyface.”

It’s hard to imagine Repo Man being his generation’s John Cena, but fans have gravitated toward weirder characters. If Darsow did have a face run, it would have been interesting to see how long it would have lasted. 

His final appearance in WWE (excluding nostalgia battle royals in the early 2000s) was a losing effort to Typhoon in 1993. A few years later, WWE transitioned into the Attitude Era, where characters and storylines were edgier, sexier, and more violent. Would a benevolent Repo Man fit into that landscape? Darsow might have moved on to a backstage role by then, but we’ll never know since McMahon changed the plan, as he often tends to do.