10 Wrestling Props You Totally Don't Remember
1. Kane's Cape
Kane's debut was fantastic, at least when the big daft lug learned where the hard camera was - despite Glenn Jacobs appearing for the WWF for two years prior to the character's introduction - and the promotion nailed the presentation on the first try.
And then they tinkered with what worked, because it's the Fed, and for a very brief spell on the house show circuit, the incinerated psychopath wore a rather elegant cape.
The idea was abandoned, sensibly, for reasons that haven't been made clear; perhaps the WWF ultimately decided it was a poor idea to add a Hammer Horror element to a genuinely unnerving act. The cape was very Dracula, and might just have been pitched to make it very clear to fans that Kane was indeed scary.
"We need to sell the hell out of the idea that Kane is a terrifying entity. Make him a bit like Dracula? Any ideas?"
"We could allow him to air his political views live on television?"
"No, we don't do that. We will do it, for much of the 21st century in bizarre and ugly parody segments, but then we'll pretend we never did in the summer of 2022."