5 Strange WWE gimmicks that actually worked 

#4. Kane

Kane is a sure-fire WWE Hall of Famer. The former World Champion has already secured all-time great status, despite being introduced to fans with a rather outlandish back-story.

The Kane character was brought into WWE as the brother of The Undertaker. Apparently the son of Paul Bearer, Kane was thought to have died in a fire at the mortuary where The Undertaker and his family lived. Bearer revealed that this was not the case when he announced that the "badly-scarred" Kane would be coming to the WWE in late 1997.

Kane was obviously out for revenge on The Undertaker and went on to have a fantastic feud with "The Deadman" the following year. Much of Kane's backstory was seemingly dropped in 2003 - when he finally took off his mask and revealed that there weren't any scars from his childhood.

Kane later explained that all of his scars were mental. A story like Kane's would have been hard for anyone else to pull off, but somehow Glenn Jacobs was able to do the role justice, taking a far-fetched gimmick and turning into a run that exceeded 20 years on the WWE roster.