10 Times WWE Were OBSESSED With Pointless Power
7. The Corporate Ministry
The Corporate Ministry was right out of an e-fed or action figure promotion.
The short version of the long convoluted story is that Undertaker had a gang now, and was using the group to rattle Vince McMahon's group in order to become WWE Champion and maybe own the whole company. Russo's shades of grey bro didn't go that well when 'The Deadman' targeted McMahon's innocent daughter Stephanie to make his point. As a Father standing up for his kid (and crucially abandoning any issues with Steve Austin - that's how much this mattered), Vince was now the substantially lesser of two evils. His other kid, meanwhile, took the opportunity to take their gang and merge it with the first lot - consolidating both the evil and the power and oh boy aren't Stone Cold and The Rock and Vince himself in some trouble now?!
Big ratings-drawing b*llocks all of this, but like a lot of the Attitude Era, neither the story nor the acts within them survive a second of scrutiny. McMahon's position as the Greater/Higher Power undercut the whole master plan, whilst a confused focus on both The Undertaker and Triple H as well as malevolent leader Shane muddied the purpose of this big gang of...corporate zombies? It was never established why The Mean Street Posse and Mideon were now mates, but there they were, and THEY HAD ALL THE POWER, AUSTIN! Or something like that.
The mash-up theme music was good. Good for them for that.