From @SethVigdor: Most disappointing payoff in an angle since the attitude era?
When I get these questions I try to just use the first thing that comes to mind, so for this one my answer was that storyline with Vince McMahon having a son he didn't know about. It was originally supposed to be Ken Kennedy. He got suspended, so they changed it to a joke angle with Hornswoggle, then claimed it was all some ruse from Finlay, who is apparently some genius mastermind? The whole thing was ridiculous. It would have been a role for a lifetime for a wrestler to say that they were Vince's son. That person could have been elevated to main event status. He could have feuded with Triple H over power in the family and things of that nature. Instead they just turned it into a joke. The Anonymous GM angle also had a brutal payoff. They really could have turned that into something by making some wrestler or authority figure into a great character. Once again they went the joke route saying it was Hornswoggle. There are probably a lot of other good choices too.
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