If anything, he should be wrestling on robotic stilts or whatever and entering via space ship. I go back and forth on this look because it humanizes him a little, and I’m not sure I want the Warrior to ever seem human. Sometimes Warrior would get tired and not want to draw cosmic birds or whatever on his face, so he’d go down to the boardwalk and get one of the kid facepainters to draw his log on his cheek. If that doesn’t work, imagine an alternate WCW in which Warrior joined the Wolfpac instead of Sting. Imagine an alternate WWE in which Kane wasn’t raised in shame in a funeral parlor basement, and instead grew up on Venice Beach hanging and banging with the locals. Sure, Warrior could growl and snort and be angry and threatening, but could he look like an old person from an anime? YES, yes he could.

This is one of my favorite Warriors because it forced him to be expressive in a way he never was. Occasionally Warrior would go a little heavy on the black outlines and accidentally give himself comical eyebrows. If you ever wanted a picture of Warrior looking like 1970s Bruce Jenner, here you go. Still, though, if you’re in a war, make sure you’ve got the insane guy who can’t stop running and throwing people on your side. This would rank higher if his former tag-team partner hadn’t done the motif so much better for the competition. Warrior hailed from Parts Unknown - if you’ve ever driven through rural Oklahoma, it’s probably somewhere in there - but he wasn’t afraid to get patriotic and rock the red, white and blue. Check out our choices and let us know your favorites in our comments section below. Warrior’s one of those guys we’ll never forget, so in celebration of his birthday we’ve gone back and ranked our 16 favorite Ultimate Warrior face-paint combinations. Warrior should be in Australia or Austria or wherever, delivering crazy rants, uploading confrontational YouTube videos and showing up to local shows to clothesline the Honky Tonk Man. He’s been gone for over a year now, and it still doesn’t seem right. Today would have been the 56th birthday of Hall of Famer and former WWE Champion The Ultimate Warrior.

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