Oba Femi Reveals Marvel’s Thanos as Major Inspiration for His Character

Oba Femi reveals that Marvel’s Thanos, specifically from Avengers: Infinity War, is the biggest inspiration for his character in WWE NXT. During a recent interview with FOX 54 News, the reigning NXT Champion revealed that his NXT persona was inspired the MCU villain Thanos, as portrayed by Josh Brolin on the big screen. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):

On the Nigerian aspects of his character: “Let’s look at what the Oba Femi character is. Oba Femi, a good guy or bad guy, functions as an obstacle. Even when I’m being cheered by the crowd, I’m still functionally am a heel. When it comes to the Nigerian aspect of the character, I think I don’t have to go too far to pull inspiration — I had my father, I had a couple of friends who were pretty big Nigerian characters and embodied everything about the Nigerian culture and how they spoke and stuff like that.”

Oba Femi on Thanos being the biggest inspiration of his character: “The biggest inspiration I had was of course Thanos from Infinity War because he was just such a memorable character with so many quotable lines.”

Oba Femi set for action later tonight on WWE NXT TV. He teams with Ricky Saints and Hank & Tank against DarkState in an eight-man tag team bout. Tonight’s show airs live on The CW starting at 8:00 pm EST.