The Cleaner was always a character about love, friendship, and community. He acted like a badass heel and had the match record to prove it but it was his vulnerability and his relationship to the people closest to him that made him so compelling https://twitter.com/geneticghost/status/1334344819456532482

he was a "bad guy" but he always hugged his friends before his big matches. Maybe he would lose sometimes but he'd always have his people behind him and supporting him and hyping him up for next time.

It's hard to villainize someone so openly loving and receives so much love in return. It lent a fun, mischievous cast to his heel antics in BC esp. alongside the bucks' chaotic, irreverent party energy. He may have acted badly sometimes but you still wanted to root for him

But this kenny... he's alone, he's pushed his friends away. He's barely interacted with the bucks, his closest friends, for months AND THE WEREN'T AT RINGSIDE, a WILD deviation from the norm esp given how much emphasis has been given to seconding lately

I talked about all this a while ago and I think this is the POINT. Kenny is reprising the Cleaner but without the support and strength of his friends he's ultimately a cheep shadow of his former self https://twitter.com/fakesportfeel/status/1303675836332232704?s=20

Kenny would NEVER have settled for a cheating win against Okada; the gold was not the point, being the best was. It was one of the things that caused friction between the elite and the rest of the bullet club; cheating to win was their whole deal!

The Cleaner was never about glory, in the beginning. He was about proving something to someone else, and to himself. And now that people have been clamoring at him to take that glory back, Kenny says "Okay. Careful what you wish for."