Fed up with a lack of promotion on TNN, ECW owner Paul Heyman did more than complain about it. He created The Network, a faction of pro-network, anti-hardcore wrestlers led by Don "Cyrus" Callis including Steve Corino, Rhino, Yoshihiro Tajiri and Scotty Anton to raise hell against ECW's hardcore babyfaces.

Originally formed as an entry in TNA's 2004 X Cup, manager Scott D'Amore kept Team Caanda in the promotion for years. The group gave us our first look at future TNA Champions Bobby Roode and Eric Young, as well as Johnny Devine, Tyson Dux, Petey Williams and Jack Evans.

After Eddie Guerrero clashed with Eric Bischoff and tried to get out of his contract, he formed his own nWo parody group called The Latino World Members, whose members included Rey Mysterio Jr., Juventud Guerrera, Psychosis,  La Parka, Silver King and El Dandy.

The Dungeon Of Doom was created in WCW in the mid-1990s as a macabre, Plan 9 From Outer Space-style faction of monster heels. Led by Kevin Sullivan and The Wizard, members included The Giant, Kamala, The Shark, The Zodiac, Konnan and others.

Robert Fuller created a faction in the Continental territory in the early 1980s, which later traveled to Smoky Mountain and WCW. Members of The Stud Stable included Fuller,  Cactus Jack, Dutch Mantel, Bunkhouse Buck, Terry Funk, Arn Anderson and The Blacktop Bully.

The 2000, WCW created The Misfits In Action, a military-themed group of mid-carders who were given pun-tastic new names. Hugh Morrus became General Hugh G. Rection, Chavo Guerrero was Lt. Loco, Van Hammer was Private Stash, and Lash LeRoux was Corporal Cajun. 

While the group of male cheerleaders  -- Ken "Kenny" Doane, Johnny "Johnny" Jeter, Nick "Mitch" Mitchell, Mike "Mikey" Mondo and Dolph "Nicky" Ziggler -- weren't exactly top of the card, The Sprit Squad collectively held the World Tag Team Titles for 216 days in 2006.

Vince McMahon's public shot at right-wing lobby group The Parents' Television Council (PTC), The Right To Censor (RTC) became the WWF's moral compass in 2000 and included Steven Richards, Val Venis, The Godfather as "The Goodfather", Bull Buchanan and Ivory. 

A 1999 merger of Vince McMahon's Corporation and The Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness created The Corporate Ministry. Although it didn't last long, the faction had many of the WWF's top heels, including Triple H, The Big Boss Man, The Acolytes and The Big Show. 

When The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase returned to the WWF in 1994, he began a faction that included Nikolai Volkoff, Bam Bam Bigelow, Tatanka, Irwin R. Schyster, Kama and King Kong Bundy. Later, the group featured Sid, The 1-2-3 Kid and The Ringmaster.

In 1999, WCW created a Dollar General version of D-Generation X known as The Filthy Animals. The group included at times Konnan, Rey Mysterio Jr., Eddie Guerrero, Billy Kidman, Juventud Guerrera and Disco Inferno, mixing high-flying wrestling with juvenile antics.

After John Bradshaw Layfield won the World Championship in 2004, he realized he would need backup to hang on to the championship. Members of The Cabinet included Orlando Jordan and Doug and Danny Basham, who all eventually ending up winning gold as well.

Much of the booking in TNA in 2010 led to the unveiling of Immortal on 10/10/10, a wide-ranging group consisting of most of the company's heels. While short-lived, the faction included Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff, Jeff Hardy, Ric Flair, Abyss, Jeff Jarrett, Matt Hardy, Scott Steiner and others.

In 1999, an evil, corporate version of D-Generation X was formed by Triple H and Stephanie McMahon and was dubbed The McMahon-Helmsley Era. Other members included X-Pac, Road Dogg and Billy Gunn.

In 1999, Shane Douglas, Chris Benoit, Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko promised to shake things up as The Revolution, a heel faction in WCW. By early 2000, they joined forces with Eddie Guerrero (and left Douglas behind) as The Radicalz, a group of outsiders that invaded the WWF en masse.  

General Skandor Akbar managed most of the heels that passed through World Class Championship Wrestling in the 1980s and 1990s under the name Devastation Inc. Members of the revolving-door group over the years included Kamala, Dick Murdoch, King Kong Bundy, Abdullah The Butcher, Cactus Jack and Steve Austin.

Upon turning heel in 1998, The Undertaker adopted a new look, reunited with Paul Bearer and assembled The Ministry Of Darkness, a fearsome faction whose members included Bradshaw, Faarooq, Mideon, Viscera, Edge, Christian and Gangrel.

The Nexus was formed in 2010 following the first season of NXT, in which members Wade Barrett, David Otunga, Skip Sheffield (a/k/a Ryback), Justin Gabriel, Heath Slater, Michael Tarver and (briefly) Daniel Bryan wreaked havoc over WWE for months. CM Punk and early versions of Bray Wyatt and Curtis Axel later joined the group.

A reboot of The Corporation in many respects, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon launched The Authority in 2013 to show WWE what was best for business. Members included Randy Orton, Corporate Kane, Seth Rollins, The Big Show and The New Age Outlaws.

The Bullet Club was formed in New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2013 as a faction of rebellious foreigners, which continues on to this day. Members over the years have included Prince Devitt (a/k/a Finn Balor), Kenny Omega, AJ Styles, The Young Bucks, Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson.

Years before he was Paul Heyman, Paul E. Dangerously assembled an all-star cast of heels in WCW to topple Sting and other babyfaces. The group's members included Ravishing Rick Rude, Larry Zbyszko, Arn Anderson, Bobby Eaton and Stunning Steve Austin.

A 2000s version of The Four Horsemen, Triple H created Evolution in 2003 with the purpose of protecting The Game while introducing new stars to WWE. In addition to HHH and Ric Flair, the faction included future World Champions Randy Orton and Batista. 

For many years during the WWF's 1980s boom, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan terrorized the company's top heroes with a The Heenan Family, a faction that included Andre The Giant, Hercules, Harley Race, Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy, Rick Rude, Paul Orndorff, The Brain Busters and King Haku.

Towards the end of the first year of Roman Reigns' historic WWE Championship run, he and special counsel Paul Heyman recruited Anoa'i family members Jimmy and Jey Uso and Solo Sikoa to form one of the most dominant groups in recent memory. Sami Zayn was briefly a member as well.

Easily the most emulated wrestling faction in history, The Four Horsemen became known as the prototype for creating a group of talented, charismatic and ruthless heels. Over the years, members included Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, Tully Blanchard, J.J. Dillon, Lex Luger, Barry Windham, Sid Vicious, Chris Benoit and Brian Pillman.

Born out of the ashes of the original Nation of Domination, Savio Vega's Los Boricuas was a group of fighting Puerto Ricans, which included Vega, Miguel Perez, Jesus Castillo and Jose Estrada. While never top contenders, they were staples of WWF's "Gang Warz" era in 1997.

A few years earlier in WCW, Lance Storm launched his own stable of Team Canada, which included Elix Skipper, Carl Ouelette and Jacques Rougeau, as well as decidedly non-Canadians Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Mike Awesome and Major Gunns. 

Imperium was formed in 2016 in a German independent promotion and later joined NXT UK, NXT and WWE, where they have experienced great success. Members have included Gunther (formerly Walter), Ludwig Kaiser (formerly Marcel Barthel), Giovanni Vinci (formerly Fabian Aichner) and Alexander Wolfe.

The Dark Order debuted in AEW in 2019 with founding members Evil Uno and Stu Grayson, and have expanded and evolved over the years to include John Silver, Alex Reynolds, Mr. Brodie Lee, Alan Angels, Colt Cabana, Anna Jay and Preston Vance.

At the time of WWE's first brand split in 2002, Lance Storm began insinuating that the company discrimated against Canadians. He teamed with fellow Canucks Christian and Test to protest, and William Regal was soon added to the anti-American faction.

Another offshoot of The Nation of Domination, Crush formed The Disciples Of The Apocalypse (DOA) in 1997, a group of badass bikers including Brian "Chainz" Lee and The Harris Brothers as Skull and 8-Ball. 

Raven's Nest was formed in ECW in 1995, in which members including Stevie Richards, The Pitbulls and Cactus Jack blindly followed Raven. A few years later in WCW, Raven's Nest included Raven, Richards, Kanyon, Billy Kidman, Lodi, Horace Hogan and Perry Saturn.

An offshoot of early AEW stable The Inner Circle, the Jericho Appreciation Society formed in 2022 and includes Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Jake Hager, Angelo Parker, Matt Menard, Daniel Garcia, Tay Melo and Anna Jay A.S.

Jimmy Hart first assembled The First Family in Memphis in the late-1970s, with members like Eddie Gilbert, Andy Kaufman, Kamala and King Kong Bundy. Hart resurrected the group later in WCW, featuring Meng, The Barbarian, Brian Knobbs, Hugh Morrus and Jerry Flynn.

In the late 1980s, Kevin Sullivan assembled The Varsity Club in the NWA, a group of collegiate wrestlers including Rick Steiner (Michigan), Mike Rotunda (Syracuse), "Dr. Death" Steve Williams (Oklahoma) and Dan Spivey (Georgia). They briefly reunited in WCW about a decade later.

The Judgment Day was created in mid-2022 by Edge and included Damien Priest and Rhea Ripley as like-minded goth heels. Eventually, Finn Balor was invited to join and the group kicked out Edge and soon added Dominik Mysterio to reshape the faction.

While most think of The Wyatt Family as a trio consisting of Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan, the cult-like faction also included Braun Strowman for a short period in 2015, when the four targeted The Undertaker (leading to a match at that year's Survivor Series). Randy Orton also joined the family at one point.

The Main Event Mafia was formed in TNA in 2008 as a group of main eventers gone heel and looking for respect. The original members included Kevin Nash, Kurt Angle, Booker T, Scott Steiner and Sting, with Samoa Joe and others later joining. The group briefly reformed to battle Aces & Eights in 2013.

One of the very first faction-based attempts to counter Ric Flair and The Four Horsemen was The Dudes With Attitude in 1990. The group included Sting, Lex Luger, El Gigante, Rick and Scott Steiner, Paul Orndorff, The Junkyard Dog and preliminary wrestler Rocky King.

Formed by William Regal in 2022, the Blackpool Combat Club was created as a way for Jon Moxley and Bryan Danielson to get on the same page and become a group of badass competitors. The BCC soon expanded to include Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta, while Regal left the faction.

The Undisputed Era were formed in NXT in 2017 with Adam Cole, Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly - the common thread being their backgrounds in Ring of Honor and elsewhere. They soon added member Roderick Strong and would go on to dominate the promotion for well over a year.

The very first episode of AEW Dynamite in 2019 concluded with AEW Champion Chris Jericho introducing his associates, who would go on to terrorize the promotion for some time. The Inner Circle included Sammy Guevara, Jake Hager, Santana and Ortiz.

Arguably the most effective faction in Impact Wrestling history, Aces & Eights were formed in 2012 and dominated the promotion for almost a year as fans tried to figure who the Sons of Anarchy-style characters really were. Members included Bully Ray, Brother Devon, Mr. Anderson, Knux, Doc Gallows, Garrett Bischoff and Wes Brisco. 

Formed in 1996 by Faarooq (a/k/a Ron Simmons), The Nation of Domination were a big part of Attitude Era WWF storylines. Members included Savio Vega, Crush, D'Lo Brown, Mark Henry, The Godfather, Owen Hart and The Rock.

An spinoff of the aformentioned Bullet Club, The Elite was formed in 2016, traveling to New Japan, Ring of Honor and eventually, helping form All Elite Wrestling. Members have included Cody, The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega and Hangman Adam Page.

While the WCW/ECW invasion of 2001 isn't many people's favorite storyline, there's no denying The Alliance was an impressive faction. Led by Shane and Stephanie McMahon, members included Booker T, Rob Van Dam, The Dudley Boyz and Stone Cold Steve Austin.

To bolster the heel turn of Bret Hart in early 1997, the WWF created The Hart Foundation, a group that included The Hitman's family members Owen Hart, The British Bulldog, Jim Neidhart and family friend Brian Pillman. The group dominated WWF storylines for nearly a year.

A big part of the WWF's success in the late-1990s was based on Stone Cold Steve Austin's ability to stand up to Vince McMahon and his faction known as The Corporation. Members included The Rock, Triple H, Kane, Ken Shamrock, Big Boss Man and "stooges" Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco.

When Shawn Michaels, Triple H and Chyna joined forces in 1997 as D-Generation X, they effectively ushered in what would be known as The Attitude Era. Along with members including Road Dogg, Billy Gunn and X-Pac, DX became known for thumbing their noses at authority.

The new World order had a massive impact not only on WCW but all of wrestling. Formed by Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, the group expanded over the years (and in different incarnations) to include Randy Savage, The Giant, Konnan, Eric Bischoff, Syxx, Scott Steiner, Lex Luger and dozens of others.