Kyle Scarborough Claims Bray Wyatt Opposed Firefly Fun House Characters Coming to Life

Bray Wyatt’s passing remains one of the saddest in pro wrestling history, as he was truly universally beloved. Today, his legacy is being honored on WWE television through his brother Taylor Rotunda, known as Bo Dallas, and The Wyatt Sick Sicks faction, which includes Bo Dallas, Joe Gacy, Erick Rowan, Dexter Lumis, and Nikki Cross, but it appears Wyatt wasn’t a fan of his characters coming to life.

Excluding Dallas, the remaining group members are portraying characters that once existed as puppets in Windham’s Firefly Fun House. While speaking to SOUNDSPHERE MAGAZINE, artist Kyle Scarborough, who collaborated closely with Windham in designing The Fiend character, revealed some interesting facts about Bray Wyatt.

Scarborough shared that Windham was not fond of the idea of bringing Firefly Fun House characters to life as part of a faction. Although the concept was pitched to him, Windham felt that all of it was meant to exist solely in Bray Wyatt’s head. If the characters were ever to come to life, he believed he should portray each of them himself. Scarborough recalled their discussions from a few years ago.

Reflecting on his direct relationship with Windham, Scarborough explained how the corporate creative side often proposed ideas that Windham disliked. Windham would then task Scarborough with designing alternative concepts. Windham was particularly upset about the idea of bringing the Fun House characters to life as a stable of people dressed as puppets. He believed it made more sense for him to portray the characters, keeping them within the psychological realm of the Fun House.

”Speaking to that direct relationship with him (Windham Rotunda) because the corporate, creative side would come in and say, we’re gonna do X, Y and Z and he would go, oh, he hated it and he would say no so he would task me to design something else. He always wanted to have a counteroffer. If they came at him sideways with stuff, he would say, ‘No, I don’t like that. I wanna do this.’ He was very upset, at the time, about the idea of bringing the Fun House to life. I believe the company or somebody wanted to have an entire stable of people dressed up as the puppets and he was not into it. So, the counter that he made and I spoke to this already but, that’s why that Huskus, almost Leatherface with the big, giant metal spikes piece made it out there. That was something that he requested because his counteroffer was, ‘Well, I will play the characters.’ You keep it in that headspace of the Fun House. It’s not a real physical place and if I have to come out or the characters come out, I will play it because it’s all in my head. So I will be these characters come to life. That helps keep it in the mythos that I’ve created. Not, I’ve got five friends with me. That doesn’t make any sense. They wouldn’t be there physically. So, that’s what it was a few years ago.”

The Wyatt Sicks continue to be actively present on WWE television as they regularly terrorize Chad Gable for good measure. Nevertheless, fans hope the faction will continue to honor Bray Wyatt’s memory and that’s all that matters.

What do you think of this story regarding Bray Wyatt’s dislike for his Firefly Funhouse characters coming to life? Do you feel WWE shouldn’t have gone through with the Wyatt Sicks faction? Let us know in the comments section below!