10 Times WWE Successfully Recycled Its Own Storylines
3. Urning Your Stripes
Every f*cker took The Urn, yet it never particularly seemed to matter than the plan to apparently disable The Undertaker by owning the remains of his dead parents never actually worked.
Hogan opened it up to throw ashes in the face of 'The Deadman' to briefly claim back his WWE Championship in 1991, whilst Yokozuna allowed a mythical power to escape from it to retain his in 1994, but ownership of it hasn't ever proved particularly powerful.
Harvey Wippleman via henchmen Giant Gonzalez and Mr Hughes was the first to think he had all the power with all the gold, but Ted Dibiase was positively obsessed with it. He paid off some druids to allow IRS to nick off with it in 1995, sent his 'Supreme Fighting Machine' Kama to retrieve it and melt it down into some gaudy jewellery when King King Bundy took his eye off it at WrestleMania 11, and even distracted him just long enough for Mabel to poach the necklace long after Kama had been stuffed in a coffin.
Paul Heyman took it twice. At least the 2004 theft only resulted in jokes over the comedic "death" of Paul Bearer, rather than the slightly unsavoury ones alongside CM Punk that soundtracked his real demise in 2013.