Okay, so after all these years of mistreatment and bad booking, it would appear as though the Kane character is bulletproof. I mean, here we are in 2015 and he's still in the WWE Title picture, headlining pay-per-views with the top stars of today. It's astonishing that Glenn Jacobs is still going strong and even more astonishing that Kane is still effective. Although the character has had to endure some very corny booking over the years (Katie Vick, May 19th etc.), one of the biggest gambles the WWE creative team took was actually taking the iconic mask off of the Big Red Machine. Kane was very over as a babyface, but WWE wanted to turn him into a monster heel and decided that an unmasking was the way to make him snap and turn to the darkside once more. In the main event of the June 23rd 2003 Raw, Triple H defeated Kane in a World Heavyweight Title vs. Kane's mask match, marking the first time the demon had properly removed his hood. Fans were expecting some sort of burned monster like something out of an eighties horror film but what they got was... Well, what they got was a bloke with a truly bizarre haircut and smudged mascara. What a letdown that was. WWE should have never taken the mask off of Kane unless it had some truly special FX lined-up to validate his backstory. They especially shouldn't have done it on some throwaway episode of Raw that nobody remembered a month later.
