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4. X-Pac
In this scenario, X-Pac could be considered Triple H's large adult nepo-son; they starred alongside one another in the D-Generation X stable throughout 1998 and formed a friendship along the way.
To this day, X-Pac still appears infrequently on WWE television whenever DX or the New World Order are required to spike the ratings for a one-off jump-start.
It's hard to begrudge him of that; he never gets in the way, he's endured a hard life and learnt his lessons, and the wrestling landscape would look unrecognisable without his contributions in the 1990s. "X-Pac heat" is the worst phrase to enter the wrestling vernacular. So many electrifying back-and-forth sequences are patterned after the Lightning Kid's series with Jerry Lynn, even if today's workers aren't aware of it.
Besides which, sticking around too long with zero character development is something of which entire generations, plural, are guilty in WWE. Why isn't it Miz heat? Dolph Ziggler heat? Elias heat?
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