It’s Official: A New Era Has Begun In WWE

Death Becomes Her
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In the main event, DX defeated the Brothers of Destruction. With an impressive gall, even after Super Show-Down’s headliner, WWE allocated 27 minutes and 48 seconds to it.

WWE invited fate. Fate, with a wicked relish, answered DX’s ‘Are You Ready?’ call.

In the 1992 Robert Zemeckis black comedy Death Becomes Her, Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn play two characters that possess a shared obsession to maintain their youthful beauty. To live forever young, they both ingest a magical potion, one apparently immune to death—but death is inevitable. Death is more powerful than any man-made substance. Death becomes them in the form of terrifically revolting sight gags so brilliant that they earned an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Streep’s Madeline is rushed to the emergency room with her head twisted gruesomely backwards. Hawn’s Helen survives a shotgun blast to the abdomen, and yet lives on with a hole where her midriff used to be.

Under the heat of the Saudi Arabian desert, Shawn Michaels, in a return match so uninspiring and greedy that the dormant dream became a literal living nightmare, was forced to carry a disaster when his partner, Triple H, was struck down. All-powerful fate teared one of his pectoral muscles apart. Making a comeback against a slow, aged government official literally masquerading as a demon, he reached for Kane’s head. The fate nobody can ignore, not even the forever young practitioners of the Attitude Era, made another, hilarious intervention. Kane’s mask and wig fell off. Repeat: Kane’s f*cking mask and f*cking wig fell off. We spent the in-ring return of Shawn Michaels p*ssing ourselves laughing.

Fate wasn’t done.

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