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The character of Kane is one of the WWF/WWE's best "slow-burn" (no pun intended) builds. When the Undertaker split with his manager Paul Bearer, Bearer retaliated by claiming the Undertaker had burned his own home down as a child, killing his parents and his half-brother Kane--and that Kane was still alive and would be coming to the WWE as vengeance. In October 1997, Kane arrived and attacked the Undertaker, setting off a feud, and beginning one of the great love-hate relationships in professional wrestling.

Kane is actually Glenn Jacobs, who began his wrestling career in 1992. He joined the then-WWF in 1995 as Isaac Yankem, a wrestling dentist (!); when that character failed to get much of a reaction, he briefly served as "Fake Diesel," Vince McMahon's idea to get a modicum of revenge on the real Diesel (Kevin Nash), who had left the WWF for rival WCW. That persona failed spectacularly, leaving the talented Jacobs without a gimmick. Thus the Kane character was born, as the Undertaker's estranged half-brother; to hide Jacobs' identity from fans (who would remember him as Yankem and Fake Diesel), he wore a mask and a full-body suit to the ring because of "burn scars" from when the Undertaker had burned down the house.

The character worked wonderfully, and Kane has remained a fixture in the WWF/WWE since then, never gone for long. His feud with the Undertaker developed into a partnership, the Brothers of Destruction, and though they have occasionally engaged in other feuds with each other, the two are still very much considered a team--to the point that it was Kane who initially answered John Cena's challenge to a "retired" Undertaker in 2018. Though the Kane character is now over 20 years old and Jacobs himself is 51 at this writing, Kane continues to inspire terror whenever he comes into the ring.

I missed the WWE photoshoot for the second year in a row this year at Anime Central--ACen tends to have it on Sundays, after I'm headed for home--but I did get to see a few WWE cosplayers, including this Kane. He is wearing a combination of Kane's classic full-face mask and a suit from Kane's "Authority" era around 2014. The "Kane 4 Mayor" sign is sort of a real thing--Glenn Jacobs ran for mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, and won the election.

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