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I think Tensai was easily fixed by just acknowledging hey it's the same guy but he got better. That being said the fact that it was A-Train was not really outright denied as much as hand waved. He was acknowledged as "a guy who used to work here and went to Japan" with the A-Train/Albert name not ever being acknowledged

But the point is that the lack of real reason given for how he transformed from A-Train to Tensai was the main problem with the character more than anything. Fiend has the same problem-- you can say there are things that are "implied" but that's giving an awful lot of slack to WWE's storytelling that it frankly hasn't earned. Figure the current WWE fanbase just has a lot of Bray Wyatt sympathizers is the main reason there's significantly less backlash on the Fiend than Tensai-- people who'll take any dumbass explanation or lack thereof as long as it means Bray is finally getting pushed.

Anyway Tensai tangent aside the main point is it's not like Undertaker or Kane at all. And I stand by that. Nothing wrong with a supernatural gimmick-- the problem is it's a supernatural gimmick that spawns from a midcarder who was nowhere near that power level. Fake Diesel who puts on a Kane mask, is still acknowledged as Diesel, but becomes super powerful as Kane, would be the Kane version. I'm not sure there is an Undertaker version because he was always fairly consistent-- even as American Badass he was a tough sob.

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