No, but it was funny when The Rock used to take the piss out of him.

He was great from about 2000-2001. Also, this was by far his best attire:

 

No, but it was funny when The Rock used to take the piss out of him.

Yes, the promo Rock talks about Kane and The Undertaker celebrate winning at a Vegas Casino is all time classic stuff.

 

I liked it. I loved the Kane gimmick for the first few years, all started to go downhill when they moved away from the original "Big Red Monster" stuff and turned him into more of a face. Kane was an amazing heel when he first came in.

 

It was a necessary evolution of the character. Was it gimmicky? Sure it was, but these supernatural characters needed to shift during the Attitude Era to fit in. I thought it kept Kane as a monster becuase he couldn't talk normally and it felt creepy.

Now when he started hanging out with X-Pac and saying "suck it" in the immodulated voice then it started to suck.

 

 

"I WON! I WON! LET'S PARTY!!"

 

And this:

 

The Rock cut some incredible promos back in the day. So entertaining.

 

Definitely one of the many stupid booking decisions made for Kane over the years. And people think the character has only now gotten shitty. Imo, the voice box marked the beginning of the downfall of the character. Sure, much like today, they tried to revamp it by making him a beast. But much like today, a couple months later, he'd eventually end up doing comedy.

 

Loved it. Wish it never went away. They really messed with Kane's character to such an extent that I thought he lost his mystique and now we're left with this indecisive, ambiguous Kane who's sometimes Corporate Kane and sometimes a Demon Kane.

O.G. Kane was a great, incredibly realized character. I can understand moving away from the voice box over time, but I thought they did it too soon.

 

I preferred the enigmatic nature of the original Kane. It was preferable when Bearer spoke for him as opposed to the voice box though. What I'd really like to see is Kane go back to being masked but without the lame wig.

 

Didn't care for the voice box gimmick but I did like Kane better when he didn't talk so much. It kept his mystique.

Kane 1998-2001 was the best.

 

Fuck no. Kane using the spoke voice box made him look retarded.

 

No. Good Lord, Kane came in in 97 (95 if you count his other gimmicks)...I cannot believe he is still on the roster.

 

The voicebox was awesome and PERFECT for the character. It's not like he was cutting promos every week with it.

It was brilliant the fact that he says he's going to set himself on fire if he loses a match with this monster's voice. I loved it.

 

Yeah, it added some authenticity to his character.

 

I have to admit, it sounded way better with the voicebox, then it did when he first said "Suck It" without the voicebox.....

 

I actually didn't mind the voicebox. I thought it was meant to add to the character. I agree with the guy who pointed out that after a few years, Kane's arm is suddenly not burned. But really, the voice didn't bother me. Although it sounded kind of silly in the WWF Attitude game, haha

 

Voicebox!

 

i liked it the first time he did it but they screwed it up after that, kane didnt need to be acting like a member of DX with that stupid voicebox

 

Like others have stated Kane's backstory is he was badly burned in a fire at his home and spent the rest of his life living in a mental institution. So the voice box thing was perfect his character. It would have been silly for him to use it often but he really only spoke with it once in a blue moon.

 

i found it very creepy and fitting the character. he really had a mystique to him in his early days

 

It worked for his character, and was used sparingly in any case.

The problems began when he was aligned with DX, had interest in Tori and looked weak against X-Pac. Couldn't take him seriously as a monster from that point on.

 

It was stupid.