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It began one day at a Family Owned Funeral Parlor. Undertaker, and his Brother Kane lived together with their parents and Paul Bearer. Kane was a happy go lucky child who dreamed of being a professional wrestler. Undertaker was a mean spirited, almost evil child. Eventually, he would set a fire that would seemingly kill his parents and Kane. After this, he would continue down his path to the dark side. Paul Bearer, who was out buying milk at the time, returned to see the horror that Taker had unleashed.
Even though he thought his own son (Kane) gone, Paul Bearer would not give up on Taker. He continued after Taker, thwarting various evil plots and deeds of Taker, as he moved from town to town.
Eventually Taker got mixed up with a nice female demon who tried to use him as a sacrifice to bring an Elder Chaos Demon to the Earthly plane. She almost succeeded, and did indeed mortally wound Taker. As Taker lay dying surrounded by the Ritual Summoning Ring of Demonic Flame, Paul Bearer came to save the day. He stopped the summoning and dispatched the female Demon. Not before she cursed him with being FAT.
Taker, meanwhile, was losing a lot of blood in the midst of the ring of fire... and the last thing he remembered was the image of a fat man, leaping over the wall of fire to save him.
Next thing he knew, he awoke in the hospital... but he had total amnesia! The only thing he remembered was... fire.
Paul Bearer, perhaps in a selfish desire to get his own son back (whom he had thought perished in the original fire), told him that he was Kane... and that his brother, The Undertaker died in a fire when he was young. Wanting to know more about his brother, Paul said he wanted nothing more than to become a Pro Wrestler. And that his ashes were inside of The Urn he carried.
Undertaker, thinking he was Kane, vowed to join the world of professional wrestling, and add the tribute to his brother onto his name, by calling himself "Kane the Undertaker".
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