Ranking Every Incarnation Of The Mr McMahon Character From Worst To Best
5. Dead/Dad
Now a smash hit t-shirt from a smash hit catchphrase on a smash hit podcast, Vince McMahon's simplified efforts to take himself off television in 2007 amounted to the infamous proclamation 'I can't be on TV if I'm dead!'
The logic was sound enough. Having lost the ECW Title to Bobby Lashley in a one-sided decimation, McMahon was a physical and emotional wreck, appearing on television as a comatose version of himself barely making it to the toilet and back without the constant support of a doting Jonathan Coachman.
As if to inspire the otherworldly stare of Dougie Jones in Twin Peaks a decade later, Vince's off-the-wall portrayal concluded with similar fireworks. Rather than a fork in a plug socket, it was an exploding limousine that did the damage, theoretically killing off the character once and for all.
The a very real death skewered the plans. In a dark and devastating coincidence, Vince opened an edition of Monday Night Raw intended to be a morbid parody of a tribute show with the sombre news that Chris, Nancy and Daniel Benoit were all dead. It necessitated the full and frank abandonment of his own demise, and instead triggered a more light-hearted illegitimate son storyline instead.