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Common heel behavior includes cheating to win (e.g. using the ropes for leverage while pinning, or attacking with foreign objects such as folding chairs when the referee can't see), attacking other wrestlers backstage, interfering with other matches, and acting in a haughty or superior manner.

Whilst being heel is often part of a wrestler's gimmick, many successful heels fall into one or more categories:

• Monster heel: an unstoppable juggernaut who squashes his opponents (example: Kane)
• Egotistical heel: the character regards himself very highly and becomes obnoxious and self-important; some wrestlers play on their own fame and achievements to achieve this (example: Triple H)
• Foreign heel: in United States wrestling, foreign heels are often portrayed as being anti-American, such as Canadian Bret Hart, various Japanese wrestlers, or more recently, French ( Rene Dupree). In Mexican wrestling, Americans are often portrayed as heels; the most hated tag team in lucha libre history, Los Gringos Locos, consisted of the Anglo Art Barr and Eddie Guerrero, a Mexican American from El Paso.
• Traitor heel, a variation on the foreign heel who is actually an American, but has turned his back on his country in favor of an (ostensibly superior) one. For example, Rob ConwayRobert Thomas Conway, Jr. born November 28, 1974 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a professional wrestler currently performing for World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW brand as part of the heel tag team La Resistance. Stats Height: 6ft 2ins (1. 83 m) Weight, who portrays a man who has defected from America to France, or Sgt. SlaughterSlaughter (real name Robert Remus was an American wrestler from the US World Wrestling Federation. In his " gimmick" he greatly distrusted American culture and battled wrestlers as Hulk Hogan and the The Ultimate Warrior, causing controversy in 1991 by be, who was billed as an Iraqi sympathizer during the first Persian Gulf War.

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