8 Ups & 6 Downs From The Undertaker's WWE Career

3. The Ministry Of Darkness

Going back and viewing some of the Attitude Era's wackier content through a modern lens is difficult and unadvisable. Nostalgia is a powerful drug, but wrestling's evolution means much of the game-changing period's television now feels like empty calories, which is partly why that styling of programming can never come back.

This is certainly true of the Ministry of Darkness, but this writer is willing to bet a hefty sum that The Undertaker and his band of weird demonic goths scared the living sh*t out of you as a kid.

'Taker and his cult were awesome. A perfect fit for their place in time, their stuff would look like hokey bullsh*t if it were going down on Raw or SmackDown right now, but it worked. They were a genuinely distressing force in wrestling's edgiest period, and while the wheels fell off with the Higher Power reveal, most forget that the build to that moment was fantastic, generating huge amounts of intrigue around The Undertaker and his unholy army.

The Ministry had legs beyond the Higher Power and their Corporation merger, leading into 'Taker's hiatus and subsequent rebirth as the 'American Badass.' It's a shame they were pulled apart so early, but their daft, over-the-top shtick created some wild pantomime moments.