History YMMV / Kane

* MagnificentBastard: Revealed himself to be this after using both the feuds and times he teamed up with Wrestling/TheUndertaker for over a decade as a way to exploit his weaknesses and then playing the role of the avenging brother in 2010 all the way to the World Heavyweight Championship. (see XanatosRoulette on the main page)

** In an interview, Glen Jacobs claimed that the only people 100% behind the unmasking were [[{{Wrestling/VinceMcMahon}} Vince McMahon]]...and himself. He felt that they had taken the character as far as they could behind the mask, and that the addition of facial expression allowed him to add more depth to the performance. He also noted that it was becoming increasingly uncomfortable and difficult to wrestle with the mask on, and that removing it was a relief.

* FirstInstallmentWins: Kane as Taker's insane, evil younger brother who supposedly died when the family funeral home burned down when they were kids but somehow survived and came back for revenge, with other acts of mayhem and destruction along the way? Great. Kane after a bazillion nonsensical {{Retcon}}s, jobs to [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon Shane [=McMahon=]]], losing the mask, talking like a normal person, and other Website/{{WrestleCrap}}: Not so much.

*** On the other hand, the matches themselves tend to be pretty cool, if only for the fact that it's hard to beat the visual effect of [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome two men beating the shit out of each other while surrounded by a ring of fire]].

* FirstInstallmentWins: Kane as Taker's insane, evil younger brother who supposedly died when the family funeral home burned down when they were kids but somehow survived and came back for revenge, with other acts of mayhem and destruction along the way? Great. Kane after a bazillion nonsensical {{Retcon}}s, jobs to [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon Shane [=McMahon=]], losing the mask, talking like a normal person, and other Website/{{WrestleCrap}}: Not so much.

** He was suffering from severe BadassDecay even prior to his unmasking. One needs only refer to any incidents that could be classified as Crowning Moments of either Funny or Heartwarming that occurred while he was masked. For example: the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQAYSgkZuj0 'Kane-o-roonie']]. The friendship with X-Pac. [[UglyGuyHotWife The relationship with Tori.]] (Both turned on him and lived to tell about it.) His first words being "Suck it" - the DGenerationX catchphrase. Tag teaming with the Hurricane and saying "Freaks are cool!" Many feel when he started talking (i.e. acting more and more human), he lost his threat level.

* FirstInstallmentWins: Kane as Taker's insane, evil younger brother who supposedly died when the family funeral home burned down when they were kids but somehow survived and came back for revenge, with other acts of mayhem and destruction along the way= Great. Kane after a bazillion nonsensical {{Retcon}}s, jobs to [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon Shane [=McMahon=]], losing the mask, talking like a normal person, and other {{WrestleCrap}}: Not so much.

** The moment itself is being treated as CanonDiscontinuity by Wrestling/{{WWE}} these days. In a recent storyline Kane stated that he was unmasked by [[{{Wrestling/TheUndertaker}} The Undertaker]] (though he ''was'' unmasked by the Undertaker at Summerslam 2000 before his permanent unmasking, he put the mask back on afterwards).
*** Remember, the person who said Undertaker had unmasked Kane was Kane himself, and in kayfabe, Kane's always been a little...unbalanced. So Kane could have convinced himself that it was Undertaker who caused him to permanently unmasked, even though it was actually [[{{Wrestling/TripleH}} Triple H]] who was the mastermind behind the unmasking, because he hates Undertaker that much.

** Really, aside from the SpecialEffectsFailure, the unmasking itself wasn't a problem. In the months immediately following the unmasking, Kane committed such acts as throwing [[{Wrestling/RobVanDam}} Rob Van Dam]] (his friend at the time) through a steel cage, setting [[{{Wrestling/JimRoss}} Good Old J.R.]] on fire, tombstoning Linda [=McMahon=], electrotorturing [[{{Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon}} Shane O'Mac]]'s testicles with a car battery, beating Shane in the first ambulance match by tombstoning him on the concrete floor, and burying the Undertaker alive. He sent the whole faction of Evolution running scared from him when he made his entrances. The problems started when they put him in the world title picture for all of a month so he could destroy [[{{Wrestling/Goldberg}} Goldberg]] so that Triple H could beat him; after that, they didn't have anything for him to do up until the Royal Rumble where they started teasing the Undertaker's return, and from that point it was only a matter of time until he was used to worf to the returned Deadman. Once that storyline was out of the way, they didn't have any idea what to do with him, and it all went down hill from there.

* DesignatedHero: Kane often turns face by default only because the person he's feuding with just happens to be an even bigger heel. Certainly the most prominent (and questionable) example is his feud with Edge over Lita, in which his characterization would be summarized as "Vengeful, jilted rapist." And he was the hero...if [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real life didn't]] [[YourCheatingHeart write the plot]], WWE even coming up with this would've backfired unless the intention was to double-turn Edge and Kane rather than make [[{{Wrestling/Lita}} Lita]] heel. Lita turned into something of a DesignatedVillain for walking out on her abusive rapist husband.
* DesignatedVillain: [[{{FaceHeelTurn}} Turned heel]] on the Undertaker right before Summerslam 2000, since UT's original intended opponent, [[{{Wrestling/TheBigShow}} The Big Show]], had been [[{{PutOnABus}} shipped off to]] WWE's then-developmental league Ohio Valley Wrestling in hopes that he could lose some weight. While the turn was a surprise as far as Kane's character direction at the time, at least it was understandable why Kane might still be mad at UT.
* FoeYay: With [[{{Wrestling/TheBigShow}} The Big Show]], ("You complete me"), [[{{Wrestling/RobVanDam}} Rob Van Dam]], [[IncestSubtext his own brother]], [[{{Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr}} Rey Mysterio]], [[{{Wrestling/BryanDanielson}} Daniel Bryan]]...Kane's an intense guy, and when he's teaming with them, he has straight up HoYay.
* FridgeBrilliance / VisualPun: He ''does'' look an awful lot like Orson Welles in ''Film/CitizenKane'', particularly Charles Foster Kane in his later, "Rosebud" years. His political blog, "The Adventures of Citizen X", takes it even further; if you take the X as a variable, it becomes "The Adventures of Citizen ''Kane''".

* MagnificentBastard: Revealed himself to be this after using both the feuds and times he teamed up with [[{{Wresling/TheUndertaker}} The Undertaker]] for over a decade as a way to exploit his weaknesses and then playing the role of the avenging brother in 2010 all the way to the World Heavyweight Championship. (see XanatosRoulette on the main page)

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN1SAIYJm4U This]] malfunction, in which Kane's pyro doesn't go off, doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They Changed Him, Now He Sucks]] / BadassDecay: How people felt about Kane after his unmasking.

*** Worth nothing that it was Kane's decision to lose the mask, as he said it was becoming more difficult to wrestle with it on and that he felt limited with the character since he had to convey emotion with just his body. According to reports, only [[{{Wrestling/VinceMcMahon}} Vince McMahon]] was fully on-board with the change, but if there's one guy you need to sign off an idea...

** Just when he was becoming a Badass again, the recent storyline in which [[{{Wrestling/PaulBearer}} Paul Bearer]] is abducted by [[{{Wrestling/Edge}} Edge]] has managed to decay it all over again, with Kane insisting he's a human being with feelings, and that he loves the holidays and just wants his dad back.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Kane's entrance and corner pyro.
** Also worth mentioning is the time in early 1998 when [[{{Wrestling/PaulBearer}} Paul Bearer]] had Kane show off his 'powers' by shooting lightning at the stage and setting a camera man on fire with his pyrokinesis.

** Also worth mentioning is the time in early 1998 when [[{{Wrestling/PaulBearer}} Paul Bearer]] had Kane show off his 'powers' by shooting lightning at the stage and setting a camera man on fire with his pyrokinesis.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Announcers often refer to Wrestler/{{Kane}} as a 'one-eyed monster'.
** Hilariously [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by {{Edge}} during a feud (see AbortedArc.)

** The moment itself is being treated as CanonDiscontinuity by Wrestling/{{WWE}} these days. In a recent storyline Kane stated that he was unmasked by TheUndertaker (though he ''was'' unmasked by the Undertaker at one point a couple years before his permanent unmasking, he put the mask back on afterwards).
*** Remember, the person who said Undertaker had unmasked Kane was Kane himself, and in kayfabe, Kane's always been a little...unbalanced. So Kane could have convinced himself that it was Undertaker who caused him to permanently unmasked, even though it was actually TripleH who was the mastermind behind the unmasking, because he hates Undertaker that much.
** In an interview, Glen Jacobs claimed that the only people 100% behind the unmasking were VinceMcMahon...and himself. He felt that they had taken the character as far as they could behind the mask, and that the addition of facial expression allowed him to add more depth to the performance. He also noted that it was becoming increasingly uncomfortable and difficult to wrestle with the mask on, and that removing it was a relief.
** Really, aside from the SpecialEffectsFailure, the unmasking itself wasn't a problem. In the months immediately following the unmasking, Kane committed such acts as throwing Rob Van Dam(his friend at the time) through a steel cage, setting Good Old J.R. on fire, tombstoning Linda [=McMahon=], electrotorturing Shane O'Mac's testicles with a car battery, beating Shane in the first ambulance match by tombstoning him on the concrete floor, and burying the Undertaker alive. He sent the whole faction of Evolution running scared from him when he made his entrances. The problems started when they put him int he world title picture for all of a month so he could destroy Goldberg so that Triple H could beat him; after that, they didn't have anything for him to do up until the Royal Rumble where they started teasing the Undertaker's return, and from that point it was only a matter of time until he was used to worf to the returned Deadman. Once that storyline was out of the way, they didn't have any idea what to do with him, and it all went down hill from there.

* DesignatedHero: Kane often turns face by default only because the person he's feuding with just happens to be an even bigger heel. Certainly the most prominent (and questionable) example is his feud with Edge over Lita, in which his characterization would be summarized as "Vengeful, jilted rapist." And he was the hero...if [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real life didn't]] [[YourCheatingHeart write the plot]], WWE even coming up with this would've backfired unless the intention was to double-turn Edge and Kane rather than make Lita heel. Lita turned into something of a DesignatedVillain for walking out on her abusive rapist husband.
* FoeYay: With TheBigShow ("You complete me"), RobVanDam, [[IncestSubtext his own brother]], ReyMysterioJr, DanielBryan...Kane's an intense guy, and when he's teaming with them, he has straight up HoYay.
* FridgeBrilliance / VisualPun: He ''does'' look an awful lot like Orson Welles in ''CitizenKane'', particularly Charles Foster Kane in his later, "Rosebud" years. His political blog, "The Adventures of Citizen X", takes it even further; if you take the X as a variable, it becomes "The Adventures of Citizen ''Kane''".
* MagnificentBastard: Revealed himself to be this after using both the feuds and times he teamed up with TheUndertaker for over a decade as a way to exploit his weaknesses and then playing the role of the avenging brother in 2010 all the way to the World Heavyweight Championship. (see XanatosRoulette on the main page)

*** Worth nothing that it was Kane's decision to lose the mask, as he said it was becoming more difficult to wrestle with it on and that he felt limited with the character since he had to convey emotion with just his body. According to reports, only VinceMcMahon was fully on-board with the change, but if there's one guy you need to sign off an idea...

** Just when he was becoming a Badass again, the recent storyline in which PaulBearer is abducted by {{Edge}} has managed to decay it all over again, with Kane insisting he's a human being with feelings, and that he loves the holidays and just wants his dad back.

** Also worth mentioning is the time in early 1998 when PaulBearer had Kane show off his 'powers' by shooting lightning at the stage and setting a camera man on fire with his pyrokinesis.

* FridgeBrilliance / VisualPun: He ''does'' look an awful lot like Orson Welles in ''CitizenKane'', particularly Charles Foster Kane in his later, "Rosebud" years.

* FoeYay: With TheBigShow ("You complete me"), RobVanDam, [[IncestSubtext his own brother]], ReyMysterioJr...Kane's an intense guy, and when he's teaming with them, he has straight up HoYay.

* FridgeBrilliance/VisualPun: He ''does'' look an awful lot like Orson Welles in ''CitizenKane'', particularly Charles Foster Kane in his later, "Rosebud" years.

* CompleteMonster: Default mode when he turns heel. Particularly prominent when he lost the mask and turned into a warped Hannibal Lecter type who did things ForTheEvulz.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Announcers often refer to {{Wrestler/Kane}} as a 'one-eyed monster'.

** The moment itself is being treated as CanonDiscontinuity by {{WWE}} these days. In a recent storyline Kane stated that he was unmasked by TheUndertaker (though he ''was'' unmasked by the Undertaker at one point a couple years before his permanent unmasking, he put the mask back on afterwards).

** In an interview, Glen Jacobs claimed that the only people 100% behind the unmasking were VinceMcMahon...and himself. He felt that they had taken the character as far as they could behind the mask, and that the addition of facial expression allowed him to add more depth to the performance. He also noted that it was becoming increasingly uncomfortable and difficult to wrestle with the mask on, and that removing it was a relief.

** Also worth mentioning is the time in early 1998 when PaulBearer had Kane show off his 'powers' by shooting lightning at the stage and setting a camera man on fire with his pyrokinesis.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMz8LiI4A2M Kane returned on the 12th of December 2011, with a new version of his very first theme, the upper half of his costume restored, and a BRAND NEW MASK]].
** The rejoicing continued as it was confirmed that Kane was feuding with JohnCena as opposed to MarkHenry. A feud with Henry would have almost certainly been a rehash of Henry's ongoing feud with TheBigShow, and it's widely accepted that the quality of the matches that the two would have had would have been...lacking, to say the least. Instead we get Kane verse Cena, where speed will play a factor, plus Kane's playing the heel, which has always been given his strongest performances.

* DesignatedHero: Kane often turns face by default only because the person he's feuding with just happens to be an even bigger heel. Certainly the most prominent (and questionable) example is his feud with Edge over Lita, in which his characterization would be summarized as "Vengeful, jilted rapist." And he was the hero...if [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real life didn't]] [[YourCheatingHeart write the plot]], WWE even coming up with this would've backfired unless the intention was to double-turn Edge and Kane rather than make Lita heel.

** Really, aside from the SpecialEffectsFailure, the unmasking itself wasn't a problem. In the months immediately following the unmasking, Kane committed such acts as throwing Rob Van Dam(his friend at the time) through a steel cage, setting Good Old J.R. on fire, tombstoning Linda McMahon, electrotorturing Shane O'Mac's testicles with a car battery, beating Shane in the first ambulance match by tombstoning him on the concrete floor, and burying the Undertaker alive. He sent the whole faction of Evolution running scared from him when he made his entrances. The problems started when they put him int he world title picture for all of a month so he could destroy Goldberg so that Triple H could beat him; after that, they didn't have anything for him to do up until the Royal Rumble where they started teasing the Undertaker's return, and from that point it was only a matter of time until he was used to worf to the returned Deadman. Once that storyline was out of the way, they didn't have any idea what to do with him, and it all went down hill from there.

* DesignatedHero: Kane often turns face by default only because the person he's feuding with just happens to be an even bigger heel. Certainly the most prominent (and questionable) example is his feud with Edge over Lita, in which his characterization would be summarized as "Vengeful, jilted rapist." And he was the hero...if [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real life didn't]] [[YourCheatingHeart write the plot]], WWE even coming up with this would've backfired unless the intention was to turn Edge face rather than Lita heel.

** He was suffering from severe BadassDecay even prior to his unmasking. One needs only refer to any incidents that [[YourMileageMayVary could be classified as Crowning Moments of either Funny or Heartwarming]] that occurred while he was masked. For example: the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQAYSgkZuj0 'Kane-o-roonie']]. The friendship with X-Pac. [[UglyGuyHotWife The relationship with Tori.]] (Both turned on him and lived to tell about it.) His first words being "Suck it" - the DGenerationX catchphrase. Tag teaming with the Hurricane and saying "Freaks are cool!" Many feel when he started talking (i.e. acting more and more human), he lost his threat level.

** The moment itself is being treated as CanonDiscontinuity by WWE these days. In a recent storyline Kane stated that he was unmasked by TheUndertaker (though he ''was'' unmasked by the Undertaker at one point a couple years before his permanent unmasking, he put the mask back on afterwards).

* MagnificentBastard: Revealed himself to be this after using both the feuds and times he teamed up with The Undertaker for over a decade as a way to exploit his weaknesses and then playing the role of the avenging brother in 2010 all the way to the World Heavyweight Championship. (see XanatosRoulette on the main page)

** Just when he was becoming a Badass again, the recent storyline in which PaulBearer is abducted by Edge has managed to decay it all over again, with Kane insisting he's a human being with feelings, and that he loves the holidays and just wants his dad back.

** In an interview, Glen Jacobs claimed that the only people 100% behind the unmasking were Vince McMahon...and himself. He felt that they had taken the character as far as they could behind the mask, and that the addition of facial expression allowed him to add more depth to the performance. He also noted that it was becoming increasingly uncomfortable and difficult to wrestle with the mask on, and that removing it was a relief.

* [[Awesome/ProfessionalWrestling Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Winning the World title after a full decade of being a mid-carder and holding it longer than 24 hours.
** Retaining the Tag titles, by himself, in a four team TLC match. Also, winning the ECW title in less than thirty seconds.
** The fact that he might be the only wrestler to have defeated TheUndertaker in ''three consecutive Pay-Per-Views'' is one as well.
* [[Funny/ProfessionalWrestling Crowning Moment of Funny]]:

* [[Funny/ProfessionalWrestling Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Undertaker and Kane get one for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fm26XdZ_28 this.]] (As an explanation: in the weeks prior to ''No Mercy'', Undertaker had been assaulted, been accused of infidelity, and had his hand broken by BrockLesnar, and Kane had to deal with the Katie Vick situation.)
** "[[FanCommunityNicknames Kanenites]]?"
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Lnv8N7SFE Kane cooks himself some Chef Boyardee pasta.]] The clip speaks for itself.
** A wordless one [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzyDvzyBKGo here]] with TheUndertaker teaching Kane his FinishingMove at the expense of [[{{Jobber}} Kaientai]].
** During Kane's hunt for the person who had put TheUndertaker into a 'vegetative state', Jack Swagger was giving a promo where he sang the Boomer Soomer song (Complete with bouncing Jack Swagger head to show people which lyric to sing). Kane appeared half way through the song and Swagger slowly deflated before stopping entirely as Kane screamed "WAS IT YOU??!" Into his ear. Considering how straight faced the Undertaker angle had been played up to that point, it was an amusing break to say the least.
** The Brothers of Destruction's first match tag-teaming in five years, from the 11.03.06 Smack!Down, against MVP and Kennedy. If you're not peeing yourself laughing at JBL's commentary (and blatant marking-out), Kane and Taker's "who does the better scoop slam?" contest might get you, as well as the Brothers breaking {{kayfabe}} to chat at the end.
** The 3-28-11 RAW. Kane and TheBigShow come down to ringside to watch Santino Marella (himself a walking CMoF and accompanied by his tag partner [[MotherRussia Vladimir Kozlov]]) take on Justin Gabriel from [[PowerStable The Corre.]] Naturally, the rest of the Corre is there as well to offer [[SarcasmMode "moral support."]] When Santino wins the match (which mostly centered around the ringside supporters beating the hell out of each other), he breaks into his trumpet victory dance along with his Kozlov and his {{Kayfabe}} girlfriend, Tamina. [[TheBigShow Show]] enters the ring, where Santino shows him the dance, and Show starts doing it. Then [[StraightMan Kane]] enters the ring and [[FascinatingEyebrow looks at the other four (Show in particular) like they'd just lost their damn minds.]] Meanwhile, Santino is trying to teach ''him'' the dance. After much effort and tension, we are treated to seeing Santino, Kozlov, Tamina, Show, and ''Kane'' stomping around the ring and blowing imaginary trumpets.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQAYSgkZuj0 Kane-o-rooney anyone?]].

* [[Funny/ProfessionalWrestling Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Undertaker and Kane get one for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fm26XdZ_28 this.]] (As an explanation: in the weeks prior to ''No Mercy'', Undertaker had been assaulted, been accused of infidelity, and had his hand broken by BrockLesnar, and Kane had to deal with the Katie Vick [[DisContinuity situation]].)