Originally Posted by Noid
As for how to get the mask back, I've always suggested this:
Kane is a psychopath, right? The one guy we're yet to see him really destroy is himself. Just have Kane taken out one week, maybe by Edge, Chavo Guerrero, Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins. Kane then appears a few SmackDown!s later on the titantron, where he is cutting a promo, talking about the pain he felt when he was put down by those four men, and how it was the second most excruciating pain of his life, but then he remembered what the most excruciating was. Kane then holds up his old mask, and just looks at it, then looks back to the camera and says something about needing to re-acquaint himself with that pain to truly understand how to inflict it on others again.
Kane then does his maniacal laugh (that laugh is money), and then he turns, and then something with camera angles is done, or even special effects as the angle would be taped, and Kane sticks his own face in a furnace, or something. You hear him screaming, and when he's done, he straps on the mask, and then turns, and we've got the old Kane back.
Or, you can make the character slightly different, and just use this Kane as kind of the unmasked Kane, in a mask, if that makes sense. Kind of like the muzzle idea someone had. Kane could remove the mask when he gets pissed off during matches, and use it to really turn on the psycho-killer angle. Kane's a pretty good talker, so using him in a talking role would be using him to the best of his abilities, but talking with the mask is a bit awkward.
So yeah, my suggestion: Kane burns his face, then becomes a new Masked Kane, who is still as demented as unmasked Kane. Eventually there comes a time (probably when The Undertaker confronts him, and when his burns heal in kayfabe), where he removes the mask, and then becomes two-sides of Kane. There's the Kane in the mask that does not feel pain; the remorseless machine...and there's Kane when he takes off the mask, who is a lot less unpredictable and less likely to stop with his onslaught.
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