The Brothers of Destruction

The Brothers of Destruction
Kane (left) and The Undertaker (right)
Tag team
Members	The Undertaker Kane
Name(s)	The Brothers of Destruction The Undertaker and Kane Kane and The Undertaker
Heights	The Undertaker: 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) Kane: 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m)
Combined weight	622 lb (282 kg)
Debut	August 24, 1998
Years active	1998–2001 2006–2010 2012–2016
Promotions	WWF/E OVW

The Brothers of Destruction are a professional wrestling tag team in WWE, composed of storyline half-brothers, The Undertaker and Kane. They have teamed together (on and off) since 1998, winning three tag team championships (two WWF Tag Team Championships and one WCW Tag Team Championship).

After The Undertaker won the WWF Championship at WrestleMania 13, Paul Bearer (since the two having been engaged in a long period of mutual hostility ever since Bearer's betrayal at Summer Slam 96') attempted to reunite with him the following night on Raw is War. When Undertaker rejected his attempt at a reunion however, Undertaker's arch-enemy, Mankind, along with Bearer, launched a fireball into The Undertaker's face. This continued at April's In Your House 14: Revenge of the 'Taker event when The Undertaker returned the favor, launching a fireball of his own into the face of his former manager, who had unsuccessfully attempted to assist Mankind to victory in their WWF Championship match. On the May 12 episode of Raw, Foley reintroduced Bearer, whose face was heavily bandaged due to the burns The Undertaker had inflicted upon him. Bearer again made efforts to get Undertaker to be his protege, this time around, however, threatening the exposure of a fire-related secret, The Undertaker's "deepest, darkest secret." During the cryptic interview, Bearer likened the fire that had burned his face at "Revenge of the Taker" to a fire that had occurred during The Undertaker's childhood (the secret).

The secret in question suggested that Bearer had a traumatic past with The Undertaker, long preceding Brother Love's joining the two as manager and protege in January 1991. The secret was as follows: The Undertaker's mother had an affair with Bearer and as a result, gave birth to a younger half-brother of The Undertaker, named Kane. (It's important to note that while growing up, Undertaker {and presumably his deceased father} lived the vast majority of his life {entirety of the father's life} under the belief that Kane was fully related to him and his family; that is, until Bearer unintentionally {kayfabe} revealed to a Raw audience that he was actually Kane's father, this as a result of an affair Bearer had with their mother and thus making Kane and Undertaker half-brothers). This came to light when Bearer informed Jerry Lawler on Monday Night Raw, at a point in which he thought cameras had stopped rolling for a commercial but were still on. Growing up, Undertaker lived in a funeral home with his family. According to the secret, The Undertaker committed arson/murder, burning down the family funeral home, in the process, killing his parents and scarring his half-brother's face. Bearer, who survived the fire, hid Kane in a mental asylum during the rest of Kane's youth into adulthood. In the meantime, Bearer went on to form an alliance with The Undertaker while in the World Wrestling Federation, standing by his side for six years before eventually turning on him at SummerSlam.