Kane[]
Kane, born Glenn Thomas Jacobs, was a villain from WWE who was portrayed as the half-brother of The Undertaker (his biological father was Paul Bearer), yet unlike The Undertaker (who would often switch sides) Kane tended to remain a villain (or "heel" as they are called in the profession). Originally Kane wore a mask to conceal his identity and was a savage brute of an almost demonic nature, as could be seen when his theme song played, the area would be bathed in red light and the stage would ignite into flame (via special pyrotechnic effects).
Biography[]
Kane was born on April 26, 1967 in Death Valley to Paul Bearer and his unnamed mother. He lived in a funeral parlor along his eldest brother who was named The Undertaker, who used to teach him things like how to smoke a cigarette or light matches which according to Paul turned Kane from a sweet innocent kid to the cold heartless monster he is today.
On May 19, 1977, his brother The Undertaker burned down his family's funeral parlor, which scarred his brother's face. His father Paul took him to a mental institution where he was bullied and mocked there.
At 7 feet tall and weighing in at more than 300 pounds, Kane is a monstrous abomination that seems to have been extracted directly from your childhood nightmares.
Consumed by an infernal desire to set ablaze the lives of his fellow Superstars, Kane leaves a scorched path of destruction behind his fiery footsteps. Some of The Big Red Monster’s more demented acts have included setting a WWE Hall of Famer on fire, hitting a WWE executive with a Tombstone, kidnapping too many Superstars to mention and forcing Lita to marry him. No one is safe from his twisted desires and demonic impulses. Least of all, it would seem, Kane himself.
WrestleMania XIV (1998)[]
Near the end of the Hell in a Cell match at Badd Blood, the lights went out and a masked man known as Kane came to the ring and delivered a tombstone piledriver to the shocked Undertaker.
Before Undertaker's casket match with Michaels, D-Generation X claimed Kane had joined them, but in fact he came to the ring to assist Undertaker. The alliance was short lived, however, as during the Royal Rumble event, Kane came to the ring and locked Undertaker in his casket before setting it ablaze, presuming his brother dead.
On the March 2 episode of Raw Is War, Kane's opponent, Stone Cold Steve Austin, was taken out by D-Generation X and with nothing to do, Bearer ordered the time keeper to deliver a ten-bell salute for The Undertaker's passing, before telling Kane to tombstone him. After he did, more bells were heard to ring, this time signalling Undertaker's theme music. The ringing continued much longer than normal, with Bearer denying the possibility of it being Undertaker. Eventually a sarcophagus appeared on the top of the ramp and after lightning struck it, The Undertaker sat up before revealing that he had been through hell and talked to his parents to tell them that he would have to go back on his vow. The week before WrestleMania, Kane came to the ring and began to display similar supernatural powers as his brother, striking the Titantron with lightning, as well as the announce table, before striking a crew worker with lightning, setting him on fire; Undertaker was shown on the same episode speaking to his parents' gravestones, revealing it may have to take the damnation of his soul to reunite the troubled family.