Tweener (professional wrestling)
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In professional wrestling, a tweener is a character who is portrayed as being morally neutral or ambiguous; that is, they are between a face and a heel.
The first truly prominent tweener in American wrestling, in the sense of being portrayed as such, was Diesel, the character portrayed by Kevin Nash in the WWF during the 1990s.
During the mid to late 1990s, tweener gimmicks became increasingly popular in ECW, the nWo era in WCW, and Attitude Era in the WWF. These saw a number of crowd favourite faces, rather than become traditional faces, instead adopt heel tactics. Some examples of such are Stone Cold Steve Austin, Sting and Eddie Guerrero's "Lie, Cheat and Steal" gimmick, prior to his mid-2005 heel turn.