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10 Disturbing Backstories Behind WWE Gimmicks - The Fiend! The Undertaker & Kane! CM Punk! Deacon Batista?!

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4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0

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So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. WWE doesn't really fit into a genre.

0:34.0

If you go through some of the gimmicks, Vince McMahon has brought us over the years,

0:37.0

you'll find plumbers, mascot, zombies, dead people, aliens, hog farmers, posh dudes, and so much more. It means sometimes stories are very much based in reality

0:45.8

whereas others is all hukas, pocus and magic.

0:48.3

It's that variety though which likely makes this madness so damn entertaining.

0:53.2

What else is like it?

0:54.5

Due to this, however, some creations have some pretty terrifying backstories that made its

0:59.2

way all the way to your television screen.

1:02.2

Binimac always says that WWE makes movies.

1:05.0

I suppose based on this, that's true.

1:07.0

If something makes for a good idea, we'll move forward regardless.

1:11.0

I'm Simon from what culture make sure you hit that

1:13.4

subscribe button this is 10 disturbing backstories behind WWE gimmicks.

1:18.2

Number 10 doink. He's just a clown right and you don't need to be scared of Bobo.

1:23.6

However, actually there's more to doink than meets the eye.

1:26.9

To the point, it's not too dissimilar to Batman's The Joker.

1:30.2

A character whose origins are purposely held back from the audience, it's the mystery that makes it so disturbing, a backstory would have actually lessened the creepiness.

1:38.5

Portrayed by Matt Bourne when it debuted in 1992, the idea was far more sinister than it would become, designed to play on people's

1:45.7

irrational fears of clowns, doing started by playing pranks on wrestlers like dumping water

1:50.6

and Marty Janetti.

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