"Why don't we make Kane...why don't we say he's a murderer, and he's murdered somebody in his past?" That's the way that Vince McMahon pitched the Katie Vick storyline to his creative team according to former WWE writers Seth Mates and Chris Gough in the fall of 2002. Think about that for a second. "Let's say he's a murderer!" Yeah. It happened. What a stupid idea. The sad thing is it didn't happen there. Here is some further explanation by those same WWE writers talking about this crazy angle: "The angle was basically, 'There's a backstory here where he's gonna start picking on you for your girlfriend dying, and that he's gonna start acting like you killed her, and he's gonna start playing more emotional mind games with Kane.' That was the pitch, with Triple H and Kane. There was no, like, 'Hey, by the way, he's gonna say that you banged your ex-girlfriend when she was, uh, dead.' That was never even talked about until the vignette aired, and it really wasn't talked about after that again. That wasn't an idea by a writer, that wasn't pitched to anybody. That was the vignette that was of the sick minds of the McMahon family that was taped in the funeral home that night." The storyline was ridiculous with Triple H going into a coffin and simulating a sexual act (as Kane) while looking like he was having sex with "Katie" in the funeral parlor. It was ridiculous to the point that it was embarrassing to watch. They used murder to try to get Kane's character over. It was brutal. When people refer to Vince McMahon as a genius, just remember that geniuses make a lot of mistakes too. Katie Vick is a very good example of that.
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