10 Insane Wrestling Gimmicks That Morphed Into Another Level
2. Kane
Kane debuted in the WWF under the most auspicious circumstances imaginable; removing the Hell In A Cell door from its hinges, this was in effect the mouth of hell he usurped his storyline brother into. This was an enormous entity so chilling, so blank of empathy, and so bent on vengeance that he - it - reduced the Undertaker to an immovable position of fright. A manifested horror villain stalking an ostensible sporting arena, that this even succeeded at all was a further parallel between the two supernatural characters, and a huge credit to the performer.
And then the insanity intensified.
Kane learned how to talk, and thanks to Tori, he learned how to f*ck - and then it was revealed that he could f*ck, Austin, he could f*ck all along. Kane had apparently surfaced from the incinerated funeral home when certain urges took hold of him.
The urge to party, whew; Kane drove, and how did he get a license, poor Katie Vick into an early grave. By 2010, the retcons and bullsh*t really started to reek, and so, instead of a new face, Kane was chosen to reign with the World Heavyweight Title and feud, for a third time, with the Undertaker - with whom he also reconnected and teamed for years under the Brothers of Destruction name.
WWE elongated the character's range for years, with varying success - and Vince attempted this very literally, in 2006, when he pitched the idea of Kane's See No Evil character Jacob Goodnight packing a three foot c*ck.