10 WWE Stars Who Would Be Nothing Without Their Props

To suggest that a human being is a (partially dead) entity being powered by an urn would be a bit of a stretch in the current WWE landscape. Right now, we struggle to believe in our top babyface's ability to avoid getting distracted by their adversary's music popping up mid-match. However, in 1990 that very idea became a reality and it was like nothing we'd witnessed before.

A man that could strike fear into his contemporaries with ease had been equipped with a power source that could also be his greatest weakness. Paul Bearer, the urn keeper, repeatedly highlighted this by betraying The Phenom with its use in matches with both Mankind in 1996 and Kane in 2010. Many would steal this prop from the Deadman but that would always prove unwise. Just ask Kama, who melted down the urn into a gold chain before finding himself in a casket at SummerSlam 1995.

The urn has taken on a few different shapes and sizes over the years - ranging from the large golden iteration we saw up to 1995, to the handheld reincarnation of the modern era.

Mystique is a tricky beast in the world of pro-wrestling but The Undertaker's urn helped gift the man with immeasurable power, without ever having to fully explain the logic behind what the prop was offering him.