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In reality, we know Triple-H is Vince’s son in law. He married Steph after a storyline brought the couple in close proximity to each other several years ago. Hunter and Steph recently had their first child.

Having Triple-H be the “son” of Vince is a payoff that makes a lot of sense, from a business perspective. For one thing, it would reaffirm Helmsley’s entrenched status in WWE. With Vince’s daughter as his wife and a storyline that makes him Vinnie’s son, he has too much tying him to WWE for him to ever again bolt from WWE to a rival promotion.

HHH is already family, so he can be trusted more than most. Plus, it would provide a certain “ick!” factor to the storyline, an element Vinnie-Mac seems prone to favor over years and years and years of RAW broadcasts.

Trouble is, the “incest” aspect of this – even though fictional – might leave some viewers squeamish. While chances that HHH being the bastard son of Vince are high, it’s not a lead-pipe cinch, either. I mean, the thought of HHH and Steph being brother and sister after having a kid together, even though it’s fictional, is enough to make most viewers wet their padded panty in disgust.

SummerSlam has come and gone and the secret of who on the WWE roster is Vince’s son remains. That’s disappointing.

The main reason it’s disappointing is that it’s not that compelling a mystery that one would want to see it play out beyond one pay-per-view. Sure, it was a graceful way to twist the storyline that began with a tacky, ill-timed “Who Murdered Vince?” storyline, which was dropped, only to be replaced by the “too close to the original storyline for comfort” take, which was more of a “Vince Faked His Own Death” storyline. That was given a sharp left turn and now we’re into familiar “McMahon Family Drama” territory… Vince has a “bastard” son who is a WWE superstar.

Let’s hope the storyline pays off soon so that it can advance before the whole thing starting feeling played out. It doesn’t yet, but will very soon. I’m gonna start posting some of my favorite possible resolutions to this storyline in this space. It could be more – or less – useful than a collection of cabinet hardware. You decide.