9 Stables WWE Debuted In The WORST Way Possible
1. The Ministry Of Darkness
The Undertaker took a while to figure out how to truly fit in to the Attitude Era, particularly after his feud with Kane - a holdover from the transitional final days of the New Generation - concluded with them joining forces in the summer of 1998. With the product moving at an ungodly pace, even that was done and dusted by the winter, and donning denim and riding his bike to the ring was ultimately what got him over a pretty enormous 1999 hump.
Welcome to the hump.
After fighting and losing to Stone Cold Steve Austin to formalise his heel turn, The Undertaker as we'd known him became something of a limited offering. A shift was required, and that came in the form of the Ministry Of Darkness; a stable of wrestlers that could do his bidding while conveniently padding midcards during a hot time and keeping the mention of 'The Deadman' around even if big Mark wasn't directly involved. It was hit and miss, in-part thanks to some of the dross he associated with along the way and the rapidly declining quality of his matches, and also because weird icky goth stuff definitionally isn't for everybody.
The formation of the Ministry very literally wasn't. A ceremony involving the "sacrificing" of Dennis Knight didn't make air in all of WWE's markets thanks to some of the overtones and the smoke-and-mirrors slicing of his skin. Knight became Mideon, the first (or, third including Faarooq and Bradshaw as The Acolytes that dragged him to his fate) member of cult leader Undertaker's new army of darkness. In relatively short order, he got bored of bossing around average wrestlers, merging his crew with the Corporation to build to the Higher Power reveal that brought him all the way back to Steve Austin anyway, rendering it all as pointless as the original segment felt.