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* ShoutOut: Kane's costume seems to run the gamut of American popular culture, evoking various "dark" or Gothic" things. The red-and-black mask he wore (and never took off) between 1997 and 2003 looked eerily familiar to the bondage mask that was the unofficial logo of metal band Music/QuietRiot during the 1980s, while the iron mask he wore during his entrances during his 2011-2012 heel run had a vibe of either [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] or [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], depending on which color you imagined it to be. Meanwhile, the black tights with red stitches across them that have been part of his costume for the majority of his career look remarkably similar to those donned by Creator/MichellePfeiffer for her role as Catwoman in ''Film/BatmanReturns''; others might be reminded of [[Film/EdwardScissorhands Edward Scissorhands]], or Brandon Lee in ''Film/TheCrow''.
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* ShoutOut: Kane's costume seems to run the gamut of American popular culture, evoking various "dark" or Gothic" things. The red-and-black mask he wore (and never took off) between 1997 and 2003 looked eerily familiar to the bondage mask that was the unofficial logo of metal band Music/QuietRiot during the 1980s, while the iron mask he wore during his entrances during his 2011-2012 heel run had a vibe of either [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] or [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], depending on which color you imagined it to be. Meanwhile, the black tights with red stitches across them that have been part of his costume for the majority of his career look remarkably similar to those donned by Creator/MichellePfeiffer for her role as Catwoman in ''Film/BatmanReturns''; others might be reminded of [[Film/EdwardScissorhands Edward Scissorhands]], or Brandon Lee in ''Film/TheCrow''.''Film/TheCrow1994''.
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* JerkassWoobie: As monstrous as Kane can be, many can't help but feel sorry for him due to his backstory and the numerous times that he has been betrayed by friends (i.e. X-Pac) or others whom he thought he could trust.
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* JerkassWoobie: As Strictly kayfabe speaking, as monstrous as Kane can be, many can't help but feel sorry for him due to his backstory and the numerous times that he has been betrayed by friends (i.e. X-Pac) or others whom he thought he could trust.
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* JerkassWoobie: As monstrous as Kane can be, many can't help but feel sorry for him due to his backstory and the numerous times that he has been betrayed by friends (i.e. X-Pac) or others whom he thought he could trust.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: TheUnfavorite son of a Death Valley mortician to psychotic WrestlingMonster with demonic powers.
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In [[https://youtu.be/-pplzzHLbYs?si=chjgjvUb2utpY6q7 this 1998 promo]] Kane sets a (presumably kayfabe) TV crew member on fire while demonstrating his powers.
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** In [[https://youtu.be/-pplzzHLbYs?si=chjgjvUb2utpY6q7 this 1998 promo]] Kane sets a (presumably kayfabe) TV crew member camera man on fire while demonstrating his powers.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: When the character was still in the planning stages, Wrestling/JimCornette pushed for Kane to have a more realistic look and persona based on [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]].
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** Furthermore, when Kane isn't the paper monster, he's the wet blanket thrown over anything hot. Daniel Bryan's rallying a comeback against Randy Orton inside the Elimination Chamber? Nope, Kane's there ready to screw Bryan out of the gold. Dean Ambrose is ready to do just about anything to Seth Rollins (be it win Money in the Bank over him, win a lumberjack match against him, win a Falls Count Anywhere match against him, get within, saaay, ten feet of him)? Kane's there to throat thrust the fight out of Ambrose and the enthusiasm out of the crowd. It's not the guy's fault, but he's the absolute biggest buzzkill of WWE 2014 (a fact that's compacted when the only two guys capable of completely neutralizing Kane to the point of negligibility are John Cena and Roman Reigns, both widely considered [[CreatorsPet Creator's Pets]])
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** Furthermore, when Kane isn't the paper monster, he's the wet blanket thrown over anything hot. Daniel Bryan's rallying a comeback against Randy Orton inside the Elimination Chamber? Nope, Kane's there ready to screw Bryan out of the gold. Dean Ambrose is ready to do just about anything to Seth Rollins (be it win Money in the Bank over him, win a lumberjack match against him, win a Falls Count Anywhere match against him, get within, saaay, ten feet of him)? Kane's there to throat thrust the fight out of Ambrose and the enthusiasm out of the crowd. It's not the guy's fault, but he's the absolute biggest buzzkill of WWE 2014 (a fact that's compacted when the only two guys capable of completely neutralizing Kane to the point of negligibility are John Cena and Roman Reigns, both widely considered [[CreatorsPet Creator's Pets]])Pets]])
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* NightmareFuel: Say what you will about his new "corporate" appearance, but as shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOhVj4ZagRA this interview]], Kane can be just as terrifying in a suit and tie as he is in a mask.
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* NightmareFuel: NightmareFuel:
In [[https://youtu.be/-pplzzHLbYs?si=chjgjvUb2utpY6q7 this 1998 promo]] Kane sets a (presumably kayfabe) TV crew member on fire while demonstrating his powers.
** Say what you will about his new "corporate" appearance, but as shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOhVj4ZagRA this interview]], Kane can be just as terrifying in a suit and tie as he is in a mask.
In [[https://youtu.be/-pplzzHLbYs?si=chjgjvUb2utpY6q7 this 1998 promo]] Kane sets a (presumably kayfabe) TV crew member on fire while demonstrating his powers.
** Say what you will about his new "corporate" appearance, but as shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOhVj4ZagRA this interview]], Kane can be just as terrifying in a suit and tie as he is in a mask.
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* CharacterRerailment: From Katie Vick to his post-unmasked era throughout most of the 2000s, many felt Kane had undergone a lot of BadassDecay and his character had suffered tremendously. In 2010, all of that changed when Kane won the World Heavyweight Championship, defeated Undertaker cleanly at ''Night of Champions'', won their overall feud, and finally had a lengthy world title reign for a few months, bringing back some of the old, menacing Kane that people loved.
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* BadassDecay:
** Some will point to the Katie Vick angle as an example of this - and it certainly counts - but most will point to a single moment: when Kane lost his mask. Many fans feel he's never recovered from this. Ironically, the unmasking was initially Kane taking a few levels in badass; after several years of being comedy fodder, the unmasking led to Kane becoming genuinely terrifying again (doing things such as setting Wrestling/JimRoss on fire and electrocuting Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon's testicles). It was only after the novelty wore off and the storyline with Lita and Matt Hardy that Kane lost his relevance and became a glorified jobber-to-the-stars.
** Some will point to the Katie Vick angle as an example of this - and it certainly counts - but most will point to a single moment: when Kane lost his mask. Many fans feel he's never recovered from this. Ironically, the unmasking was initially Kane taking a few levels in badass; after several years of being comedy fodder, the unmasking led to Kane becoming genuinely terrifying again (doing things such as setting Wrestling/JimRoss on fire and electrocuting Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon's testicles). It was only after the novelty wore off and the storyline with Lita and Matt Hardy that Kane lost his relevance and became a glorified jobber-to-the-stars.
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* BadassDecay:
**BadassDecay: Some will point to the Katie Vick angle as an example of this - and it certainly counts - but most will point to a single moment: when Kane lost his mask. Many fans feel he's never recovered from this. Ironically, the unmasking was initially Kane taking a few levels in badass; after several years of being comedy fodder, the unmasking led to Kane becoming genuinely terrifying again (doing things such as setting Wrestling/JimRoss on fire and electrocuting Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon's testicles). It was only after the novelty wore off and the storyline with Lita and Matt Hardy that Kane lost his relevance and became a glorified jobber-to-the-stars.jobber-to-the-stars.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: The "Corporate Kane" gimmick is one of the most infamously divisive decisions made with Kane, a wrestler who's already been on the receiving end on a plethora of controversial decisions. Many fans passionately despise the gimmick for abandoning the "demonic monster" identity that made Kane so appealing to begin with, [[BadassDecay cementing his downfall from a terrifying beast to just a dude in a suit with nothing to be afraid of]]. Despite this, he also has a share of fans who respect the creative risk to make him [[CorruptCorporateExecutive a different kind of "monster"]], with many highlighting how [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct it allowed Glenn Jacobs an opportunity to flex his largely-downplayed performance abilities]], with a common argument that his dedication to the unusual gimmick made it work.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: The "Corporate Kane" gimmick is one of the most infamously divisive decisions made with Kane, a wrestler who's already been on the receiving end on a plethora of controversial decisions. Many fans passionately despise the gimmick for abandoning the "demonic monster" identity that made Kane so appealing to begin with, [[BadassDecay cementing his downfall from a terrifying beast to just a dude in a suit with nothing to be afraid of]]. Despite this, he also has a share of fans who respect the creative risk to make him [[CorruptCorporateExecutive a different kind of "monster"]], with many highlighting how [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct it allowed Glenn Jacobs an opportunity to flex his largely-downplayed performance abilities]], with a common argument that his dedication to the unusual gimmick made it work.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Basically, whenever they [[JustForPun throw]] Kane back his mask.
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* CompleteMonster:
** The Demonlord, Sathonys, known by Tloluvin, Lato and {{Satan}}, is the greatest evil of the setting. Ruler of Hell, Sathonys hunts for wayward souls to drag into the depths of [[AndIMustScream eternal torment]] under the Demonlord's Moon, going astride the land with his {{hellhound}} Serberys to reap evil in all its forms. In a particularly monstrous move, Sathonys promised Ionor, a victim of one of Kane's rapes, revenge--but only if Ionor sacrificed her bastard daughter Klesst to him, delighting in how Ionor tormented herself and drowned in her hate for seven straight years for the will to [[OffingTheOffspring kill her daughter]]. In his final chronological appearance, Sathonys intends to open up the gates of Hell and [[HellOnEarth bathe the world in hellfire]], ending the series ready to kickstart a cosmic war.
** ''Dark Crusade'': Orted Ak-Ceddi, a murderer, rapist and bandit, becomes [[DarkMessiah the prophet of the dark god Sataki]] and forms a [[ReligionOfEvil brutal group of religious fanatics]] that conduct HumanSacrifice, torture and mass murder. Orted leads them in a grand war where they set upon towns and cities, [[RapePillageAndBurn killing and raping all they find within]]. Plotting to bring Sataki to the world by grand amounts of death that might wipe out all existence, Orted later realizes his army cannot defeat a coming crusade of light and [[DirtyCoward abandons his followers]] to be slaughtered as he escapes with his treasure.
** "Reflections for the Winter of my Soul": The seemingly inconspicuous albino minstrel [[ManipulativeBastard Evingolis]] uses his gentle, charismatic exterior to belie a [[SerialKiller predatory nature]]. Evingolis travels from area to area, blending in seamlessly with large groups of people who slowly find themselves cut away from civilization. When bodies begin to drop, Evingolis is there in the background, pitting friends against each other in their fear before he reveals the terrible truth: [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Evingolis]] is the alpha of a monstrous werewolf pack. Evingolis [[{{Sadist}} delights in murdering vast swathes of people at a time]], [[EvilGloating gloating]] about how much he revels in manipulating the terror of his victims before slaughtering them all and moving on to repeat it all over again.
** "Cold Light": [[PsychoForHire Mollyl]] is the one member of Gaethaa the Avenger's band that lacks either a KnightTemplar conviction or reason for {{Revenge}}. A sadistic SerialRapist and TortureTechnician combination, Mollyl has a long history of murdering people in the name of Gaethaa's deranged justice, sometimes dozens at a time. Mollyl demonstrates his cruelty dragging off a blind woman named Rehhaile off to have her gang-raped, all to give himself and his men something to amuse himself with. Mollyl later publicly tortures the innocent mayor of the town Sebbei in order to extort the location of Gaethaa's target, Kane, and gleefully proposes torturing Rehhaile the second he realizes Kane may have an attachment to her.
** "Lynotris Reprise": [[EvilOverlord King Masale of Westvin]] attempted to conquer Lynotris in his dream of empire. Wiping out all villages and towns in the vicinity, Masale subjected the city to a [[TheSiege years-long siege]] where countless people died, with Masale even using [[DeadlyGas poison gas]] on the city. Throwing his own men in as CannonFodder, Masale later boasted he left not a living soul, taking only the ruler's daughter Princess Reallis as a [[SexSlave tortured concubine]]. Later returning to claim Reallis's supposedly lost treasure from his and Reallis's daughter Sesi, Masale attempts to have Sesi tortured to gain the gold, intending to kill her after.
** "Misericorde": Sitilvon Vareishei is the worst of her wicked clan and brothers. Having helped to [[{{Patricide}} murder her father]], Sitilvon helps to run the Vareishei lands as a place of horror where any "trespassers" are tortured and murdered, or sacrificed. A [[MasterPoisoner poisoner]] in her spare time, Sitilvon subjects countless to [[PlayingWithSyringes horrific poisons]] for fun, including forty [[WouldHurtAChild children]] in one batch, simply [[ForScience to study their agony]].
* {{Squick}}: Kane having sex with Efrel in ''Darkness Weaves''.
* TheUntwist: In ''Dark Crusade'', the evil god's dark prophet has amassed an army of fanatics. They march to face a vastly superior force of well-armed, well-trained knights and soldiers. The knights are naturally confident that they will easily defeat this rabble. [[spoiler:The reader holds his breath in anticipation of some dark magic that will turn the tide for the fanatics, but it never materializes, and the dark prophet's horde gets stomped.]]
* TearJerker: the conclusion of "Two Suns Setting" is heartbreaking enough to even make Kane [[PetTheDog behave magnanimously.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: granted, it was probably through no fault of Karl Edward Wagner himself but still, it'd be awesome to see more of Klesst.
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* CompleteMonster:
** The Demonlord, Sathonys, known by Tloluvin, Lato and {{Satan}}, is the greatest evil of the setting. Ruler of Hell, Sathonys hunts for wayward souls to drag into the depths of [[AndIMustScream eternal torment]] under the Demonlord's Moon, going astride the land with his {{hellhound}} Serberys to reap evil in all its forms. In a particularly monstrous move, Sathonys promised Ionor, a victim of one of Kane's rapes, revenge--but only if Ionor sacrificed her bastard daughter Klesst to him, delighting in how Ionor tormented herself and drowned in her hate for seven straight years for the will to [[OffingTheOffspring kill her daughter]]. In his final chronological appearance, Sathonys intends to open up the gates of Hell and [[HellOnEarth bathe the world in hellfire]], ending the series ready to kickstart a cosmic war.
** ''Dark Crusade'': Orted Ak-Ceddi, a murderer, rapist and bandit, becomes [[DarkMessiah the prophet of the dark god Sataki]] and forms a [[ReligionOfEvil brutal group of religious fanatics]] that conduct HumanSacrifice, torture and mass murder. Orted leads them in a grand war where they set upon towns and cities, [[RapePillageAndBurn killing and raping all they find within]]. Plotting to bring Sataki to the world by grand amounts of death that might wipe out all existence, Orted later realizes his army cannot defeat a coming crusade of light and [[DirtyCoward abandons his followers]] to be slaughtered as he escapes with his treasure.
** "Reflections for the Winter of my Soul": The seemingly inconspicuous albino minstrel [[ManipulativeBastard Evingolis]] uses his gentle, charismatic exterior to belie a [[SerialKiller predatory nature]]. Evingolis travels from area to area, blending in seamlessly with large groups of people who slowly find themselves cut away from civilization. When bodies begin to drop, Evingolis is there in the background, pitting friends against each other in their fear before he reveals the terrible truth: [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Evingolis]] is the alpha of a monstrous werewolf pack. Evingolis [[{{Sadist}} delights in murdering vast swathes of people at a time]], [[EvilGloating gloating]] about how much he revels in manipulating the terror of his victims before slaughtering them all and moving on to repeat it all over again.
** "Cold Light": [[PsychoForHire Mollyl]] is the one member of Gaethaa the Avenger's band that lacks either a KnightTemplar conviction or reason for {{Revenge}}. A sadistic SerialRapist and TortureTechnician combination, Mollyl has a long history of murdering people in the name of Gaethaa's deranged justice, sometimes dozens at a time. Mollyl demonstrates his cruelty dragging off a blind woman named Rehhaile off to have her gang-raped, all to give himself and his men something to amuse himself with. Mollyl later publicly tortures the innocent mayor of the town Sebbei in order to extort the location of Gaethaa's target, Kane, and gleefully proposes torturing Rehhaile the second he realizes Kane may have an attachment to her.
** "Lynotris Reprise": [[EvilOverlord King Masale of Westvin]] attempted to conquer Lynotris in his dream of empire. Wiping out all villages and towns in the vicinity, Masale subjected the city to a [[TheSiege years-long siege]] where countless people died, with Masale even using [[DeadlyGas poison gas]] on the city. Throwing his own men in as CannonFodder, Masale later boasted he left not a living soul, taking only the ruler's daughter Princess Reallis as a [[SexSlave tortured concubine]]. Later returning to claim Reallis's supposedly lost treasure from his and Reallis's daughter Sesi, Masale attempts to have Sesi tortured to gain the gold, intending to kill her after.
** "Misericorde": Sitilvon Vareishei is the worst of her wicked clan and brothers. Having helped to [[{{Patricide}} murder her father]], Sitilvon helps to run the Vareishei lands as a place of horror where any "trespassers" are tortured and murdered, or sacrificed. A [[MasterPoisoner poisoner]] in her spare time, Sitilvon subjects countless to [[PlayingWithSyringes horrific poisons]] for fun, including forty [[WouldHurtAChild children]] in one batch, simply [[ForScience to study their agony]].
* {{Squick}}: Kane having sex with Efrel in ''Darkness Weaves''.
* TheUntwist: In ''Dark Crusade'', the evil god's dark prophet has amassed an army of fanatics. They march to face a vastly superior force of well-armed, well-trained knights and soldiers. The knights are naturally confident that they will easily defeat this rabble. [[spoiler:The reader holds his breath in anticipation of some dark magic that will turn the tide for the fanatics, but it never materializes, and the dark prophet's horde gets stomped.]]
* TearJerker: the conclusion of "Two Suns Setting" is heartbreaking enough to even make Kane [[PetTheDog behave magnanimously.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: granted, it was probably through no fault of Karl Edward Wagner himself but still, it'd be awesome to see more of Klesst.
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** Furthermore, when Kane isn't the paper monster, he's the wet blanket thrown over anything hot. Daniel Bryan's rallying a comeback against Randy Orton inside the Elimination Chamber? Nope, Kane's there ready to screw Bryan out of the gold. Dean Ambrose is ready to do just about anything to Seth Rollins (be it win Money in the Bank over him, win a lumberjack match against him, win a Falls Count Anywhere match against him, get within, saaay, ten feet of him)? Kane's there to throat thrust the fight out of Ambrose and the enthusiasm out of the crowd. It's not the guy's fault, but he's the absolute biggest buzzkill of WWE 2014 (a fact that's compacted when the only two guys capable of completely neutralizing Kane to the point of negligibility are John Cena and Roman Reigns, both widely considered [[CreatorsPet Creator's Pets]])
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** Furthermore, when Kane isn't the paper monster, he's the wet blanket thrown over anything hot. Daniel Bryan's rallying a comeback against Randy Orton inside the Elimination Chamber? Nope, Kane's there ready to screw Bryan out of the gold. Dean Ambrose is ready to do just about anything to Seth Rollins (be it win Money in the Bank over him, win a lumberjack match against him, win a Falls Count Anywhere match against him, get within, saaay, ten feet of him)? Kane's there to throat thrust the fight out of Ambrose and the enthusiasm out of the crowd. It's not the guy's fault, but he's the absolute biggest buzzkill of WWE 2014 (a fact that's compacted when the only two guys capable of completely neutralizing Kane to the point of negligibility are John Cena and Roman Reigns, both widely considered [[CreatorsPet Creator's Pets]])
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