10 Times WWE Accidentally Brought Awful Gimmicks Back From The Dead
1. Karrion Kross Part III - RETRIBUTION
And for the grand finale, we have RETRIBUTION - the final zombified gimmick munching on the corpse of Kross' credibility.
WWE may have been trying to evoke Kane with Karrion's new entrance, with the red and black outfit and the flames in the background, but Kross looked more like a reject from one of the worst factions in wrestling history - RETRIBUTION.
RETRIBUTION were abysmal - a faction of so-called renegades who gave themselves moronic names and wore masks that looked like the early, drunken drafts of Hannibal Lecter's iconic muzzle. The only member of the group to still get regular TV time is Mustafa Ali, coincidentally the only one who didn't wear one of those godawful masks.
RETRIBUTION have only been dead for less than a year. Hell, Mase and T-Bar (told you the names were stupid) are still wearing the damn masks. Their failure is still fresh in fans' minds, and Kross' career is way too flimsy to survive association with them, however indirect.
To be associated with one bad gimmick may be regarded as a misfortune; to be associated with two looks like carelessness. To be associated with three leaves us wondering exactly whose chips Karrion pissed in on his first night on RAW.