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He's Here
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So, what IS The Undertaker, exactly?
Taking his entire WWF run into account, he started out as essentially an Undertaker, but eventually turned "undead". He's "died" at least four times, the third of which he returned as a living Biker. His fourth death put him back in undead/zombie status, except he inherited the traits of the American Bad Ass (and found a hat).
What exactly is he? What can die multiple times, come back to life, then die again? |
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Cranky Kong
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Suspension of disbelief is the name of the game. Just enjoy the character or GTFO.
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#3 |
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Suspension of belief != looking for an explanation.
Believe me, if that were true I'd be asking what the fuck's up with Snitsky's undefeated transition. |
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Cranky Kong
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So posing the question "So, what IS The Undertaker exactly?" isn't looking for an explanation?
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Luke 15:11-32
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The Undertaker has died 4 times in his feud with Randy Orton alone. lol
What IS The Undertaker? The Undertaker is an undead monster who sometime struggles with human interests. All those years of being silent and building caskets finally caused him to crack, and become a leader of a Satanist cult. After taking some time off to rethink his personal choices, he decided to start collecting motorcycles and joyriding to help eliminate his satanist tendencies. He also got married. Like many other monsters (take Shrek for example), The Undertaker realized that he is who he is. He's an undead monster, so he started wearing all black and dying again. Understand? |
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#6 |
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Yeah, it is, but it doesn't mean I'm not suspending my disbelief.
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Cranky Kong
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If you were truly suspending it, YOU WOULDN'T CARE.
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#8 |
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If I "truly" suspended disbelief, by your definition, I'd still enjoy the product.
But I don't, because I only partially suspend it to a sane level. |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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He's a God.
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He was a zombie, obviously not a Romero zombie but a zombie none the less. I'm thinking like Solomon Grundy. Every time he died and came back he gained more control and intelligence. He's gone from needing a leader to being independent enough to wrestle alone to having emotions to being intelligent enough to thinking himself a prophet but still be fooled by Vince until the point where he was able to live like a normal human and marry and assume hobbies like riding motorcycles and training in mixed martial arts. After Kane threw a piss party and went crazy about how human he was, he himself realized that he was far more powerful if he could inspire fear in his opponents and now portrays his scary zombie-super powers but keeps his personal life to himself.
If you look at it, the more he dies the more successful he becomes. Last edited by The Optimist; 05-21-2008 at 10:55 PM. |
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Planet Races The Moon
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Have fun picking that idea apart.
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What about when Michael Cole started explaining his behaviour as an altered state of mind and that he just conditioned himself to not feel pain? That lasted for a month or so sometime after he last came back as the Deadman I believe.
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emerge
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A Property of Matter
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He explained it the first time he died (against Yoko) "The spirit of the Undertaker lives within the soul of all mankind..." So he is some kind of incarnation of our thoughts and demons in wrestling form. Now with a hat again.
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You can't teach that
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SO he is our collective Tyler Durden?
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You can't teach that
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SO he is our collective Tyler Durden?
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He is the Fundertaker.
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You can't teach that
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Honestly, they should have went a different route when Kane "killed" him last time.
Instead of comign back as undead, he should have just been the same thing, btu was just a dark and jaded version of Biker taker. I would rather him be a goth than a zombie. |
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MITTENS
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sexy
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#22 |
You can't teach that
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I didnt double post, I posted once, Taker Durden was the other
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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He's just acting like a stereotype zombie, wrestling fans are idiots and will believe anything. Taker knows this.
Also, Goth Taker would be gay. |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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As opposed to a wrestler who used to wear purple gloves.
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#26 |
Planet Races The Moon
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Prince wears purple, he has sex with more women than is statistically possible.
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You can't teach that
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Prince also wears assless pants.
......... I have to get me some assless pants.... |
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Cranky Kong
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The Undertaker exactly is a machination of a creative team trying to keep the same person entertaining for something like eighteen years. Fair shout to that.
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Waiting for this guy
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Maybe he's half man, half amazing. No. Wait...
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#32 |
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Freddie Mercury was the straightest man in the world. So straight that he turned Chuck Norris gay.
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LAKE SHOW HOES
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*GONG* LIGHTNING RIP
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EATER OF HOT POCKETS
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![]() ![]() That's the origin of Khali, by the way. |
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How would you feel if they tried to pull a heel turn for Taker where somebody comes out and says he isn't the real one, but that Dibiase actually DID have the real one all along so the guy we've been supporting for the last decade has been the impostor while the real Undertaker RIPed at Summerslam '94, maybe trying to make a comeback through ECW as "The Zombie."
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#38 |
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All but the last part might be interesting.
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#39 |
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No no, none of it would be interesting.
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Then, at Judgment Day when Taker fought Booker T, Tazz asked "Some people want to know, is the Undertaker Really dead?" Michael Cole then gave a word for word explanation that Tazz just told him. |
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