History Wrestling / Kane

* YouGotGuts: Used in a frightening (and [[DeadpanSnarker funny]] manner towards Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}, when the Irishman interrupted a backstage segment of Kane's:

* ActionPolitician: Competed in several WWE matches during his campaign for Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, and even ''after'' winning the election. He even won

'''[[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon THAT'S GOTTA... THAT'S GOTTA BE KANE!]]'''

** Rose was the surprise[[note]](his participation had been announced but not his specific role)[[/note]] special guest ring announcer for the UT-Kane match at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XIV'', which was held in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, MA. Rose went heel on the crowd, ripping on the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Boston Red Sox]], making sure to work in a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Buckner Bill Buckner]] reference.[[note]](During Game 6 of the 1986 World Series between the Red Sox and the New York Mets, Buckner had the misfortune of not stopping a ball from rolling between his legs, allowing the Mets' Ray Knight to score the winning run. The Mets would go on to win the series.)[[/note]] Kane and Paul Bearer came down to no introduction and Kane Tombstoned Rose.

* RunningGag: His "obsession with torturing" [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Cincinnati Reds baseball]] great [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rose Pete Rose]]:

->''"To all those people who call me inhuman... who call me a freak, who call me a monster... I want to prove them '''[[ThenletMebeevil right.]]'''”''

* ManOnFire: Kane doesn't have the best win/loss record when it comes to Inferno Matches. That's mainly because he's the only person besides The Undertaker (who defeated Kane both times) who's actually been in more than one of them.

* AsHimself: Kane made his return on the September 16th episode of Wrestling/WWERaw, but using his real name Glenn Jacobs, Mayor of Knox County. Jacobs used his mayoral power to give Wrestling/RTruth a tour of Nayland Stadium, but upon arriving, Jacobs reaveled a referee and pinned R-Truth to capture the 24/7 Champion as Mayor Glenn Jacobs.

Over his long, ''long'' career, Jacobs has wrestled as a shoot style wrestler (he is a Malenko Wrestling School alumni; they occasionally sent some of their wrestlers to shoot style promotion, Pro Wrestling Fujiwara-Gumi), a {{mad bomber}} (the Unabomber was A Thing at the time), a {{depraved dentist}}, and a replacement [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] after the original jumped ship to {{Wrestling/WCW}}. Currently, he is most famous for wrestling as a maimed, masked slasher villain; in 2003, he went ''sans fards'' (and bald), revealing his supposed injuries from the fire were more like mental scars. Audience reaction to the makeover was mixed. In late 2011, he started wearing a mask again, but that ship had sailed, so in 2013 he switched to his [[Film/CitizenKane "Citizen Kane"]] attire, symbolizing his cynical new alliance with Wrestling/TheAuthority.

* NoSell: Possibly the only man in wrestling history to no-sell a kiss. {{Wrestling/AJ|Lee}} leapt onto him and started going to town, and Kane, in response, stood there, motionless, even as she kissed him. Once she was done he said ScrewThisImOuttaHere, tagged in [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], and left the ring calmly without saying a word.

->''"To all those people who call me inhuman... who call me a freak, who call me a monster... I want to prove them '''right.'''”''

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In the Attitude Era, he was an AntiHero who opposed the McMahon-Helmsley Regime alongside The Rock, Chris Jericho, and The Undertaker. In the 2010s, Kane joined The Authority, becoming "Corporate Kane" and acting as a minion to Triple H and Stephanie, turning into the sort of corporate heel that he had once opposed as a face.

* MirrorMatch: At ''Vengeance 2006'' against an impostor who dressed like the masked Kane (the impostor later showed up in WWE as Festus, real name Wrestling/DrewHankinson, later Luke Gallows of Wrestling/CMPunk's Straight Edge Society, later DOC of Wrestling/AcesAndEights in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]]). It became an AbortedArc.

* UnwittingPawn: Ended up in the middle of the CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan feud because each of them has used Kane's HairTriggerTemper to do damage against the other. Eventually Kane caught onto it and beat the hell out of ''both of them'', temporarily putting himself into the entire affair involving them, the WWE Championship�and [[LoveMakesYouCrazy AJ Lee]].

** Although he arguably had his strongest push (prior to his 2010 title run) while he was a babyface in 2002; he held the Intercontinental and Tag Team titles simultaneously, winning the latter in a Fatal Four-Way Tornado Tag TLC match... ''without a partner''' (The Hurricane had been attacked backstage before the match). Then the Katie Vick angle happened, and well...

* BerserkButton: Kane has started feuds over the smallest things, such as when he got spilled coffee on him by Wrestling/ChrisJericho. May 19th qualifies as well[[note]](InUniverse, Kane said that this was the date (the year, of course, will never be known) of the fire that turned him into what he is. May 19, 2006 was also the release date of his movie ''Film/SeeNoEvil''.)[[/note]]

** In real life, don't mention Isaac Yankem to him. He hung up on an interviewer for it

* BigBrotherINstinct: Though he's younger than Taker, he can be very protective of him, whether he's saving him or defending his honor.

** Kane's ''MASK'' also qualifies as an artifact due to the fact that he wore it well past the end of the more cartoonish era of the 80s and early 90s, and the end of the Attitude Era. He has worn a number of different masks with mostly variations on a singular design that were reconstructed to make them more comfortable for Kane to wear, until his 2003 mask which was a large departure from what was then the standard design for his masks' look.(It was ultimately the fact that the mask was a source of discomfort that he was finally unmasked in 2003) His most recent mask is actually one worn by the Undertaker when he was recovering from a cracked orbital socket, repainted red to match Kane's gimmick and the colors associated with him. Which means the mask he currently wears is something of a MythologyGag for anyone who noticed it.

Over his long, ''long'' career, Jacobs has wrestled as a shoot style wrestler (he is a Malenko Wrestling School alumni, they occasionally sent some of their wrestlers to shoot style promotion; Pro Wrestling Fujiwara-Gumi), a {{mad bomber}} (the Unabomber was A Thing at the time), a {{depraved dentist}}, and a replacement [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] after the original jumped ship to {{Wrestling/WCW}}. Currently, he is most famous for wrestling as a maimed, masked slasher villain; in 2003, he went ''sans fards'' (and bald), revealing his supposed injuries from the fire were more like mental scars. Audience reaction to the makeover was mixed. In late 2011, he started wearing a mask again, but that ship had sailed, so in 2013 he switched to his [[Film/CitizenKane "Citizen Kane"]] attire, symbolizing his cynical new alliance with Wrestling/TheAuthority.

In August 2018, Jacobs was [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/08/03/make-that-mayor-kane-wwe-wrestler-glenn-jacobs-wins-tennessee-political-race/ elected Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee]], adding to the [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands long list of professions]] of the Big Red Machine.

->->''"[[Podcast/DrunkenPeasants Why is he wearing a suit?]]"''

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* TallDarkAndSnarky

Over his long, ''long'' career, Jacobs has wrestled as a shoot style wrestler, a {{mad bomber}} (the Unabomber was A Thing at the time), a {{depraved dentist}}, and a replacement [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] after the original jumped ship to {{Wrestling/WCW}}. Currently, he is most famous for wrestling as a maimed, masked slasher villain; in 2003, he went ''sans fards'' (and bald), revealing his supposed injuries from the fire were more like mental scars. Audience reaction to the makeover was mixed. In late 2011, he started wearing a mask again, but that ship had sailed, so in 2013 he switched to his [[Film/CitizenKane "Citizen Kane"]] attire, symbolizing his cynical new alliance with Wrestling/TheAuthority.

Over his long, ''long'' career, Jacobs has wrestled as a {{mad bomber}} (the Unabomber was A Thing at the time), a {{depraved dentist}}, and a replacement [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] after the original jumped ship to {{Wrestling/WCW}}. Currently, he is most famous for wrestling as a maimed, masked slasher villain; in 2003, he went ''sans fards'' (and bald), revealing his supposed injuries from the fire were more like mental scars. Audience reaction to the makeover was mixed. In late 2011, he started wearing a mask again, but that ship had sailed, so in 2013 he switched to his [[Film/CitizenKane "Citizen Kane"]] attire, symbolizing his cynical new alliance with Wrestling/TheAuthority.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV-EkIq78Ok&feature=player_detailpage#t=41s In his return on the February 17 episode of Monday Night Raw,]] the Big Red Machine mowed down superstar after superstar in the ring as he attempted (but failed) to get to X-Pac.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m7o7F8ONO4&feature=player_detailpage#t=496s Later that year, on Monday Night Raw's May 29 episode,]] he took it up a notch. This time, the other wrestlers began to rush towards him before he even got in the ring (hell, before his music even stopped playing). Big mistake. As JR so aptly put it, "The Big Red Machine, with evil intentions, is kicking ass!" To be honest, that was probably an understatement.

* PetTheDog: [[https://youtu.be/7vQYfzchnnU Who would've thought the Big Red Machine would help a little boy win at a claw machine?]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Arguably the angle he's going for after his re-transformation into "The Demon" in mid-2014. He's used the Tombstone Piledriver more than he ever had for years prior (and used THREE on Daniel Bryan during one segment on an episode of Raw), and he returned to his old M.O. of kicking ass at completely unexpected times for petty reasons (or none at all).\\
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He also altered the execution of his finishers, going back to [[http://youtu.be/9ZNlLUwnLWI?t=2m51s his old-school one-armed chokeslam]] (and using more force overall), and, sometimes, [[http://youtu.be/YET0pMs4X9o?t=29s a version of the Tombstone Piledriver in which he simply lets his feet out from under him]] (resulting in a much quicker, and more painful looking fall), [[http://youtu.be/YET0pMs4X9o?t=3m34s instead of being safer by kneeling slowly]] [[http://youtu.be/0NXzxmzqjEg?t=1m41s He used the former version during an attack on Daniel Bryan]] in April 2014, ''on the steel steps at ringside.''

* {{Expy}}: His character, [[TheVoiceless before he began to speak on his own]], had shades of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]]. An angry, less-than-talkative, masked giant who kicks whatever ass is in front of him and is known to sit straight up when it looks like he's down and out. Basically, give Jason fire-based abilities and make him a wrestler; now you've got Kane.\\\
Additionally, Kane is ''probably'' (it hasn't been confirmed officially) named after the Biblical character Cain, but it may be less than coincidence that the man who may be Jason Voorhees' most well-known portrayer is named [[Creator/KaneHodder Kane Hodder]].

** [[https://playersbio.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/crystal-004.webpHere's a picture]] of Glenn and his wife Crystal.

** [[https://a2-images.myspacecdn.com/images03/35/47feb6a909c5473fa1e122eda2b7fc04/600x600.jpg Here's a picture]] of Glenn and his wife Crystal.