History Trivia / TheUndertaker

** Plans were for Undertaker to originally face Wrestling/JohnCena at Wrestlemania 33, and Taker himself handpicked Cena to potentially be his final opponent. However, Vince replaced Cena with Wrestling/RomanReigns because he wanted to build on future stars instead.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: PaulBearer mentioned in a shoot interview that Undertaker is ungodly afraid... of '''cucumbers'''. One time, after he played a joke on Paul, Paul paid him back by putting cucumbers everywhere. Taker proceeded to puke.

** Several fans have remarked about what might have been had the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior resolved his differences with Wrestling/VinceMcMahon after the 1991 SummerSlam and continued his feuds with Undertaker and Wrestling/JakeRoberts. These hardcore fans wanted to see -- after disposing of Roberts -- a final, ultimate showdown pitting Warrior and a still-heel Undertaker at [[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania VIII]], with Warrior gaining a decisive victory. Surely, Undertaker's push would have been squashed (as his credibility as an unbeatable, more-dire-than-usual force would have been destroyed) and certainly there would never have been anything close to resembling "The Streak," much less Calaway remaining with WWF/WWE all these years, and certainly not as the Undertaker.

** Twice over at Wrestlemania 21:
*** The original plan was for Taker and Kane to reunite to face Heidenreich and Snitsky. Taker refused as he wanted to face Randy Orton so he could help build the future of the company.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: PaulBearer mentioned in a shoot interview that Undertaker is ungodly afraid... of '''cucumbers'''. One time, after played a joke on Paul, Paul paid him back by putting cucumbers everywhere. Taker proceeded to puke.

* FountainOfExpies: Popularized the {{Light Flicker Teleport|ation}}, the Chokeslam, the tombstone, the no sell situp and various supernatural monster gimmicks. Did not start most of them but definitely caused a trend. Also inspired the use of mixed matrial arts equipment, even for wrestlers who have no background in the sport or relating gimmick.

*** Taker actually wanted to ''lose'' to Orton, but Orton flat out refused. This was probably also why this was the first year that The Streak itself became a major built part of his Mania match.

** In all Taker's WWE career lasted over 26 years. To put that into perspective, that's longer than Hogan's, the Rock's, and Stone Cold's longest runs with the company combined.

** Taker very briefly worked a gimmick that was essentially a post-Ministry Undertaker who rode a motorcycle. Not too long after he started the gimmick, Music/LimpBizkit came out with "Rollin'" and Taker's theme music was switched to that to cash in on its popularity, and then the demonic aspects of the character were dropped because they didn't fit in anymore. If Limp Bizkit hadn't written Rollin', we might never have had Bikertaker as we know him.

** Several fans have remarked about what might have been had the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior resolved his differences with Wrestling/VinceMcMahon after the 1991 SummerSlam and continued his feuds with Undertaker and Wrestling/JakeRoberts. These hardcore fans wanted to see -- after disposing of Roberts -- a final, ultimate showdown pitting Warrior and a still-heel Undertaker at [[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania VIII]], with Warrior gaining a decisive victory. Surely, Undertaker's push would have been squashed (as his credibility as an unbeatable, more-dire-than-usual force would have been destroyed) and certainly there would never have been anything close to resembling "The Streak," much less Calaway remaining with WWF/WWE all these years, and certainly not as the Undertaker.

** Several fans have remarked about what might have been had the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior resolved his differences with Wrestling/VinceMcMahon after the 1991 SummerSlam and continued his feuds with Undertaker and Wrestling/JakeRoberts. These hardcore fans wanted to see -- after disposing of Roberts -- a final, ultimate showdown pitting Warrior and a still-heel Undertaker at [[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania VIII]], with Warrior gaining a decisive victory. Surely, Undertaker's push would have been squashed (as his credibility as an unbeatable, more-dire-than-usual force would have been destroyed) and certainly there would never have been anything close to resembling "The Streak," much less Calaway remaining with WWF/WWE all these years.

** Several fans have remarked about what might have been had the Wrestling/Ultimate Warrior resolved his differences with Wrestling/VinceMcMahon after the 1991 SummerSlam and continued his feuds with Undertaker and Wrestling/JakeRoberts. These hardcore fans wanted to see -- after disposing of Roberts -- a final, ultimate showdown pitting Warrior and a still-heel Undertaker at [[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania VIII]], with Warrior gaining a decisive victory. Surely, Undertaker's push would have been squashed (as his credibility as an unbeatable, more-dire-than-usual force would have been destroyed) and certainly there would never have been anything close to resembling "The Streak," much less Calaway remaining with WWF/WWE all these years.

** Several fans have remarked about what might have been had the [[Wrestling/Ultimate Warrior]] resolved his differences with Wrestling/VinceMcMahon after the 1991 SummerSlam and continued his feuds with Undertaker and Wrestling/JakeRoberts. These hardcore fans wanted to see -- after disposing of Roberts -- a final, ultimate showdown pitting Warrior and a still-heel Undertaker at [[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania VIII]], with Warrior gaining a decisive victory. Surely, Undertaker's push would have been squashed (as his credibility as an unbeatable, more-dire-than-usual force would have been destroyed) and certainly there would never have been anything close to resembling "The Streak," much less Calaway remaining with WWF/WWE all these years.

** Several fans have remarked about what might have been had the [[Wrestling/Ultimate Warrior]] resolved his differences with Wrestling/VinceMcMahnon after the 1991 SummerSlam and continued his feuds with Undertaker and Wrestling/JakeRoberts. These hardcore fans wanted to see -- after disposing of Roberts -- a final, ultimate showdown pitting Warrior and a still-heel Undertaker at [[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania VIII]], with Warrior gaining a decisive victory. Surely, Undertaker's push would have been squashed (as his credibility as an unbeatable, more-dire-than-usual force would have been destroyed) and certainly there would never have been anything close to resembling "The Streak," much less Calaway remaining with WWF/WWE all these years.

** Several fans have remarked about what might have been had [[Wrestling/Warrior The Ultimate Warrior]] resolved his differences with [[VinceMcMahnon]] after [[Wrestling/SummerSlam the 1991 SummerSlam]] and continued his feuds with Undertaker and Wrestling/JakeRoberts. These hardcore fans wanted to see -- after disposing of Roberts -- a final, ultimate showdown pitting Warrior and a still-heel Undertaker at [[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania VIII]], with Warrior gaining a decisive victory. Surely, Undertaker's push would have been squashed (as his credibility as an unbeatable, more-dire-than-usual force would have been destroyed) and certainly there would never have been anything close to resembling "The Streak," much less Calaway remaining with WWF/WWE all these years.

** Mark almost became Wrestling/TheGobbledyGooker! Vince [=McMahon=] wanted Mark to debut by being hatched from the egg as "The Eggman", but was persuaded by Wrestling/PatPatterson to take up the Undertaker persona he had created.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Undertaker married Michelle [=McCool=] in 2010.

** Wrestling/{{WCW}} had their chance with Mark, who wrestled there in the late 80's, but true to WCW style they fired him because [[ItWillNeverCatchOn they thought he'd never catch on]].

** Wrestling/{{WCW}} had their chance with Mark, who wrestled there in the late 80's, but true to WCW style they fired him because [[ItWillNeverCatchOn they thought he'd never catch on]].
** Taker very briefly had a gimmick sort of halfway between his Druid/Ministry gimmick and the American Badass. He had his motorcycle, and an entrance video with three [[CreepyChild creepy girls]] saying "his judgment day is now...". Then Music/LimpBizkit released "Rollin'", and Taker's gimmick was changed so he could use it as a theme song

** The name "Kane the Undertaker" turned into an even more massive BrickJoke [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgGHNLSw4NE later on]].

* FanCommunityNicknames: Creatures of the Night** Underfaker for the Brian Lee Undertaker in the "Two Undertakers" storyline.

** Taker very briefly had a gimmick sort of halfway between his Druid/Ministry gimmick and the American Badass. He had his motorcycle, and an entrance video with three [[CreepyChild creepy girls]] saying "his judgment day is now...". Then Music/LimpBizkit released Rollin', and Taker's gimmick was changed so he could use it as a theme song

** This led to one '''hell''' of a BrickJoke about [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uXKhRdUjl8 a decade later]].

* FanCommunityNicknames: Creatures of the Night** Underfaker for the Brian Lee Undertaker in the "Two Undertakers" storyline. * DyeHard: He is a redhead and performed as one early in his career, but eventually dyed it black and kept it that way ever since. You could see his hair shift a bit back towards red during his [[FanNickname BikerTaker]] days when he had short hair and didn't have to do the Deadman jet-black dye job.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Undertaker's original manager, back when he was "Cain the Undertaker" (get a load of ''that'' name)? '''''Brother Love'''''. Now just imagine how the character would have evolved if Brother Love had ''stayed'' his manager.