When Balor returned to “NXT” in 2019, the Demon character disappeared from his presentation. At the time, Balor explained that he felt the “Finn” side had become too reliant on the “Demon” side, and that it had strayed away from the character he had initially created. On After the Bell, he explained that as originally conceived, the persona had no “rhyme or reason,” but that all changed in WWE.

“When you bring it into the WWE universe, it has to become something, or it has to have a reason why this happens, why this transformation happens. And I feel like the more you’re trying to explain something, the less sense it actually makes and the more ridiculous it becomes,” Balor said, “For me, that was the crutch that I felt. It wasn’t necessarily the process of the paint or the creative part of trying to execute a different unique design every time. It was to try to keep so many people happy and not really staying true to myself and why I was doing it in the first place.”