10 Best WWE Gimmicks That Were Only Used Once
5. The Brother Of Legend Becomes A Legend
More on Kane later, but it's worth noting just how much life WWE gave to a character that, at best, was to be killed off within six months.
The retconning of 'The Big Red Machine's original origins in later years ultimately tested and proved its immortality. That such a deeply traumatic and personal tale could be f*cked with highlighted how fond enough of the fanbase had grown of The Undertaker's brother, and just how made a man he was in WWE canon. Kane - unlike all the slain monsters before him - was for keeps.
WWE's love/hate relationship with wrestling families seems to get in the way of them booking such a layered and nuanced family history for characters without magical powers. They dialled back Edge and Christian's kayfabe-but--believable relationship to being brother-like. Even if Rick Steiner was an Austin/Hogan hybrid, Scott Steiner's not exactly mates with the McMahons. And nobody in the company never had the faith in Broken Matt Hardy to draw like his brother did in singles competition when the pair were brought back into the fold in 2017.
There's a pretty notable sibling of a bonafide WWE legend doing interesting things in wrestling elsewhere, but it's unlikely he'll be Dashing back to Vince McMahon any time soon...