10 Reasons WWE's Best Era Is Secretly Its WORST Era
7. The McMahons (General)
You can't watch the character back now with any of the old catharsis or entertainment value, but the Mr. McMahon character was priceless. A genius, really. Watching his menace recede into a conniption fit was a joy. (He was a monster at the time, of course, but much of the audience wasn't aware of the scope of his evil.)
What's often lost is that he turned face a lot sooner and more often than you'd think, it never worked, and he peaked in May '98. He was a fun caricature after the fact, but a caricature all the same.
Shane McMahon was well-cast as the entitled, uppity little bastard, but he also turned, as virtually everybody did at an extravagantly meaningless rate, and that never worked either. The idea of rooting for any one of these rich, bratty subhumans was appalling. Stephanie was a shrill, effective heel, but every insult aimed in her direction is despicable through a 2024 lens and was witless at the time.
Linda, a ghoul, was savvy enough to sit down and shut the f*ck up, at least.
In 2000 especially, the administrative war for the WWF was convoluted, poorly-acted rubbish. The time period is lionised in retrospect, but many despairing fans at the time were bored and numbed by the relentless imposition of those horrible, boring people.