History Wrestling / Paige

** Priscilla Kelly got to national television first, as a part of ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings''' US SpinOff, but Britani Knight was in the wrestling business before the reality show, Kelly waiting for it to end before wrestling. Knight's gimmick and behavior didn't get ''really'' similar until Knight became Paige in NXT, but people who only knew Kelly through wrestling assumed she got ''everything'' from Paige. The similarities between the two are disjointed; Indy!Britani Knight was a "Gypsy Soul" due to the fact her family were roaming travelers who settled in England, Paige was an antisocial technical brawler in NXT, then Paige used her sexuality as a weapon on Raw and Smackdown. The antisocial technical brawling Kelly gets from Knight, the sexual curiosity towards Wrestling/BigELangston and harassment of AJ Knight gets from Kelly, the black hair(which is {{dye|ingforyourart}}d in Knight's case but before ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings'' aired), pale skin and gypsy identity are coincidental but enough to ensure the two would have been compared even if they didn't borrow from each other.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: She's a deceptively tall, pale, dark-haired and darkly-dressed British beauty who thinks quite differently from others and has hints of PsychoLesbian tendencies which she's exploited to her advantage. If she's in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]], then her name is [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Winter]].

* {{Expy}}: It goes both ways. Priscilla Kelly got to national television first, as a part of ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings''' US SpinOff, but Britani Knight was in the wrestling business before the reality show, Kelly waiting for it to end before wrestling. Knight's gimmick and behavior didn't get ''really'' similar until Knight became Paige in NXT, but people who only knew Kelly through wrestling assumed she got ''everything'' from Paige. The similarities between the two are disjointed; Indy!Britani Knight was a "Gypsy Soul" due to the fact her family were roaming travelers who settled in England, Paige was an antisocial technical brawler in NXT, then Paige used her sexuality as a weapon on Raw and Smackdown. The antisocial technical brawling Kelly gets from Knight, the sexual curiosity towards Wrestling/BigELangston and harassment of AJ Knight gets from Kelly, the black hair(which is {{dye|ingforyourart}}d in Knight's case but before ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings'' aired), pale skin and gypsy identity are coincidental but enough to ensure the two would have been compared even if they didn't borrow from each other.

* {{Expy}}: It goes both ways. Priscilla Kelly got to national television first, as a part of ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings''' US SpinOff, but Britani Knight was in the wrestling business before the reality show, Kelly waiting for it to end before wrestling. Knight's gimmick and behavior didn't get ''really'' similar until Knight became Paige in NXT, but people who only knew Kelly through wrestling assumed she got ''everything'' from Paige. The similarities between the two are disjointed; Indy!Britani Knight was a "Gypsy Soul" due to the fact her family were roaming travelers who settled in England, Paige was an antisocial technical brawler in NXT, then Paige used her sexuality as a weapon on Raw and Smackdown. The antisocial technical brawling Kelly gets from Knight, the sexual harrasment Knight gets from Kelly, the black hair(which is {{dye|ingforyourart}}d in Knight's case but before ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings'' aired), pale skin and gypsy identity are coincidental but enough to ensure the two would have been compared even if they didn't borrow from each other.

* {{Expy}}: It goes both ways. Priscilla Kelly got to national television first, as a part of ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings''' US SpinOff, but Britani Knight was in the wrestling business before the reality show, Kelly waiting for it to end before wrestling. Knight's gimmick and behavior didn't get ''really'' similar until Knight became Paige in NXT, but people who only knew Kelly through wrestling assumed she got ''everything'' from Paige. The similarities between the two are disjointed; Indy!Britani Knight was a "Gypsy Soul" due to the fact her family were roaming travelers who settled in England, Paige was an antisocial technical brawler in NXT, then Paige used her sexuality as a weapon on Raw and Smackdown. The antisocial technical brawling Kelly gets from Knight, the sexual harrasment Knight gets from Kelly, the black hair(which is {{dy|ingforyourart}}ed in Knight's case but before ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings'' aired), pale skin and gypsy identity are coincidental but enough to ensure the two would have been compared even if they didn't borrow from each other.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paige_(wrestler) The Other Wiki]].

* ShoutOut: Her wrestling name is taken from a ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' character.

* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Pretty much the point of her 'Anti-Diva' character. Until her 2014 heel turn, the character didn't have much depth beyond "cheer for me because I'm not feminine". She and AJ Lee invoked this against the Bella Twins, claiming they weren't 'real' women.

* RealityEnsues:
** So TheAce, a vicious, antisocial prodigy with a knack for beating down anyone she judges to be an acceptable target, debuts on WWE as the first female NXT champion and ends up taking on Wrestling/AJLee. She wins, and accomplishes four things at once: first, she becomes the first Diva to be both NXT Women's and WWE Divas champion; second, she becomes the youngest ever Divas champion; third, she prevents AJ from reaching the 300-day milestone; and fourth, she's the one to finally vanquish the widely-despised AJ. (Also add to this that night before, at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XXX'', they all had a shot at AJ's title in the form of the "Wrestling/VickieGuerrero Invitational", and ''failed yet again''.) As the champion, she brutally beats down everyone who goes up against her, and doesn't even attempt to make friends. So how do the Divas react to this triumphant young upstart who walked in out of nowhere, did everything they couldn't and hasn't even tried to fit in? They loathe her. Prior to Team PCB's formation in summer 2015, only three exceptions to this rule have existed:
*** [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]], whom Paige has known since at least NXT and whom Paige pointed to as one of her friends in a WWE App promo. That relationship's been on and off depending on alignment, with Paige once hilariously "proposing" to Emma to be her tag team partner by promising she won't attack her.
*** Wrestling/{{Naomi}}, who developed a mutual grudging respect with Paige, as the two match up rather well competitively speaking. This lasted until Paige won a #1 Contender's battle royal, causing Naomi to snap and pull a violent FaceHeelTurn on Paige after being shafted to the side.[[note]]Naomi had pinned Divas Champ Nikki Bella three times in the past two months at that point, so from her perspective the battle royal should've never been booked.[[/note]]
*** [[{{Irony}} None other than]] Wrestling/AJLee herself, who went on to have the infamous "Frenemies" feud with Paige over the Divas title. Their affable enmity eventually turned into mutual respect and an actual friendship after both had to contend with the Wrestling/BellaTwins' games for months, leading to the two beating the Bellas in a tag match at Wrestling/WrestleMania 31. AJ retired shortly afterwards.
** Used again during her feud with the Wrestling/BellaTwins when, in desperate need of allies to put things on an even playing field, she turns to the other Divas — and finds that ''not one of them'' will help her because they still have issues with her. In fact, the Bellas manage to convince one, Wrestling/AliciaFox, to join up with them against Paige, and Wrestling/{{Naomi}} and Wrestling/{{Tamina|Snuka}} outright hate both sides and opt to become the third option in the feud.
*** This lasts all the way up until July 2015, when Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon introduces three of NXT's "Four Horsewomen": Wrestling/{{Charlotte|Flair}}, Wrestling/BeckyLynch—the two of whom join up with Paige and form the trio later known as PCB—and Wrestling/SashaBanks, who links up with Naomi and Tamina as Team BAD. Despite Stephanie putting herself in the position of officially placing the trios together, Charlotte and Becky have plenty of reason to be exceptions to the "Everybody Hates Paige" rule. They both came from NXT like she did, Charlotte was Paige's successor as longtime NXT Champion and WildCard [[TheAce Ace]] of the women's division there, and Becky's been a friend of hers since the independent days and even came back to wrestling after three years off by first managing her and her mother for awhile.
*** And then the trope revisits itself, but also as an inversion. After PCB wins a three-way team elimination match at Wrestling/SummerSlam that gets retroactively turned into a "victor gets the spoils" thing where the winning team gets to vie for a chance at a title shot, Paige comes up short in the Beat the Clock challenge thanks to Team BAD saving Wrestling/SashaBanks, allowing Charlotte to become #1 contender. Over the next few weeks Charlotte gets her title shot pushed to before Night of Champions in an attempt to stop Nikki from breaking AJ's record, ends up winning by DQ thanks to the Bellas' Twin Magic hijinks and getting another shot at Night of Champions anyway. Meanwhile, Paige's already dismal record against Sasha Banks on the main roster keeps getting worse as she and Becky Lynch are repeatedly frustrated by Team BAD. Come Night of Champions, Charlotte, clad in new gear including a top that says WOOOO, beats Nikki for the title, then celebrates with her father Wrestling/RicFlair as well as her teammates. So what happens when Paige, the nominally anti-social, headstrong, and increasingly bratty and frustrated prodigy with "[[ItsAllAboutMe This is MY HOUSE!]]" as a catchphrase who has a case to claim that she started the Divas Revolution in more ways than one, has to stand and witness her NXT successor whose identity is essentially "I'm the daughter of a wrestling god" standing on top with the championship she honestly expected to regain off the back of this new movement? She goes scorched earth, buries Charlotte's lack of an identity, and absolutely tears into every other non-executive woman on the roster.

* NWordPrivileges: Her family are settled travelers[[note]]She's never specified whether she means Irish Travelers or Roma[[/note]], and she describes herself as a "Gypsy Soul". Though this isn't actually a slur in England.

* WorkedShoot: The night after Night of Champions 2015, she utterly destroyed [[spoiler:Wrestling/{{Charlotte|Flair}}'s Divas Championship celebration in a FaceHeelTurn promo which started with her [[GreenEyedMonster bitter envy]] at Charlotte winning the title that she felt belonged to her, continued on by blasting her own longtime friend Becky Lynch as being irrelevant, then went on to verbally burn every other woman in the company]]. In the process, she managed to call out many of the issues fans have been seeing with the Divas Revolution and the main roster Divas in general from the perspective of staying within the kayfabe: [[spoiler:the Bellas being seen as holding the division back with political favor from the front office, Becky being pigeonholed as the wacky plus-one with limited depth, Charlotte being a placeholder champion with "Ric Flair's daughter" as seemingly the full extent of her gimmick, Team BAD being the underbilled sassy black girls team, Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidhart}} being excluded to the point of invisibility, and even non-wrestlers Wrestling/SummerRae and [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Lana]] being reduced to {{catfight}}ing repeatedly over the same [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana two]] [[Wrestling/DolphZiggler guys]] in a purely soap opera angle which undermines all talents and characters involved]].

* ZettaiRyouiki: She's known for sporting Grade B tigh-high boots.

* {{Adorkable}}: Demonstrated in spades on the ''[[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Stone Cold Podcast]]''. Fans were quite amused at Paige talking a mile a minute, and gushing over Austin and her other idols.

* UseYourHead: Her signature moves include a wide variety of headbutts, whether she would deliver them normally, in tandem with her PCB partner Becky Lynch, by grabbing her opponent by the hair and hit a series of headbutts, or by crawling on top of her before doing the same thing.

* BiTheWay: Saraya herself, which may explain how casually she throws LesYay into her matches.

[[caption-width-right:300:''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Tear the stars out from the sky!]]'']]

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: She's a deceptively tall, pale, dark-haired and darkly-dressed British beauty who thinks quite differently from others and has hints of PsychoLesbian tendencies which she's exploited to her advantage. If she's in Wrestling/{{TNA}}, then her name is [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Winter]].

** After getting her foot in the United States, Knight looked south to Florida, hoping to get to Universal Studios so she could get signed by [[Wrestling/{{AAA}} Triple A]]. The best this approach would get her is to the middle man of [[Wrestling/{{TNA}} a middle man]].

* BatmanGambit: JBL suggested that Paige never went onto WWE to congratulate AJ, she went there to goad AJ into a match so she could take her title. Whether this is anywhere close to the truth or not is unknown. Regardless of whether the gambit was intentional or not, Paige ends up having it turned on her by a returning AJ on the 6/30/14 Raw and losing the belt back to her.

* BecomingTheMask: Possibly. After Wrestling/AJLee comes back, Paige's personality takes a drastic change: she adopts many of AJ's mannerisms, professes that AJ is her best friend and that she loves her, and becomes noticeably [[FaceHeelTurn more malevolent and manipulative]] than she seemed to be before. It was suggested that the dramatic shift in personality was deliberate, with [[ManipulativeBitch Paige]] playing a part to play mind-games with AJ and unbalance her so that Paige could take back the Divas title, which seemed to be supported several times when Paige became so unnerved by AJ successfully turning her ploy against her by playing along that Paige couldn't keep up the act. At some point, though, Paige seems to have gotten caught up in her own act and started to [[SanitySlippage genuinely lose it]] [[NotGoodWithRejection and be hurt by AJ's attacks]], continuing to show AmbiguouslyGay tendencies in her interactions with other Divas such as Wrestling/AliciaFox, Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart, and, if you count ''Series/TotalDivas'', Wrestling/RosaMendes. (Depending on how scripted one believes ''Series/TotalDivas'' to be or not, this could also be interpreted as a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot.)

* BigDamnHeroes: When Wrestling/SummerRae, Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}, and Wrestling/SashaBanks started beating the crap out of Wrestling/{{Bayley}} on ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'', Paige and [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]] stormed the ring and chased them off.

* ButNotTooWhite: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] to the point that ''Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}'' looks tan in comparison. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by commentary on 4/14/14 RAW when they note that she and Sheamus probably go to the same tanning salon, and later joke that they should become a pasty-skinned couple. After Paige began feuding with the Wrestling/BellaTwins after 2015's ''Royal Rumble'', they started taunting her about her skin color, calling Paige a "vampire" and forcibly spray-tanning her in a post-match attack to give her some "color."

* CharacterisationMarchesOn: Started in FCW as a badass hacker a la [[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy Lisbeth Salander]] who was stalking Wrestling/SethRollins, but she then switched to the "Anti-Diva Army" with [[Wrestling/IvelisseVelez Sofia Cortez]], and both angles were dropped. As a parenthetical note, the hacker gimmick was given to [[Wrestling/SamiCallihan Solomon Crowe]]. It's pretty awesome, which [[WhatCouldHaveBeen does make you wonder...]]

* ChristmasEpisode: Wasn't her last but her 2009 "Christmas Dinner Match" with Sweet Saraya at WAW's Carols and Carnage stands out, being the only completely "Christmas" themed encounter on the show.

* {{Determinator}}: Paige's thing seems to be hanging on through beatings long enough to hit the Paige Turner, starting with her unexpected counter to AJ's Black Widow.
** She also definitely qualifies from an out-of-kayfabe perspective. She may have retired from in-ring competition at a young age, but when you consider that she sustained a career as a wrestler for over 10 years and became a pioneering force for WWE's women's division despite suffering from scoliosis, it's amazing that she got so far at all.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness

* FailedASpotCheck: See GenreBlind with regards to [[Wrestling/BellaTwins Nikki's]] solo ''Money in the Bank'' entrance. Not to mention that Paige doesn't immediately notice the difference in who she's wrestling post-TwinSwitch despite the fact that the Bellas now look ''very'' [[TwinDesynch different]] -- apart from different body types Paige should probably have noticed since she's, you know, ''wrestling'' Nikki, Brie's Nikki attire and wig border on PaperThinDisguise for how laughably cheap and transparent it looks.
* FalseFriend: After Wrestling/AJLee reclaimed the divas' title from Paige, Paige acted surprisingly cool with it, declaring her admiration of AJ, cheering her on at matches, treating her with respect, and trying to buddy up to her in general. While Wrestling/MichaelCole and Wrestling/JerryLawler bought it, [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]] suspected that it was an act and was eventually proven right on the July 21, 2014 edition of ''RAW'' when, after they won a match together, Paige called AJ into the ring under the pretense of celebrating together and instead beat an unsuspecting AJ down.
** She's actually kept proclaiming her friendship for AJ since then. At one point, she attacked AJ after a match, putting her in hospital, but she kept calling AJ her friend even as she sat on the stage and watched medical personnel attending her.

* FoeRomanceSubtext: With [[Wrestling/AJLee AJ]], given that AJ seems to like calling her "my sweet little crumpet." Paige has played into it, too, saying things like, "I still love you!" and "We belong together! ...In that ring!" (See also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uURXVvXu-6Q&list=UUJ5v_MCY6GNUBTO8-D3XoAg her entire speech in this video.]]) Their [[FriendlyEnemy "frenemies"]] phase was full of FoeYay, given how many insincere interactions they had. Their match at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam'' had a hell of a lot of this, mostly on Paige's part - slowly crawling up AJ's prone body and staying in that pose for a bit longer than necessary, hugging and kissing AJ (on the cheek) after beating her...
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The trailer for ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2014'' ended with [[InAWorld the voiceover]] saying "What goes around... ''always''... comes back around" while Paige is on-camera. The match she had at ''[=SummerSlam=]'' was against Wrestling/AJLee for the Divas Championship, which Paige had lost to AJ a few months ago. In retrospect, the commercial seems to be hinting that Paige would win back her title.

* {{Friendly Enem|y}}ies: She claimed that her relationship with AJ was this (even calling AJ her "frenemy"). Officially learned more towards the "enemies" side when she attacked AJ after they won a tag-team match. Went back towards friends half a year later when both got complete sick of the Bella Twins.

* GeniusBruiser: Was initially portrayed in FCW as a mysterious character with an unexplained interest in Wrestling/SethRollins who apparently was to be revealed as some sort of hacker. She could be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg2dIyKkAsw helping him and]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v1w9dS5kSc standing up for him]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XHnJOSZceU several times]] before this angle was dropped in a matter of weeks.
* GenreBlind: To the Wrestling/BellaTwins's [[TwinSwitch Twin Magic]]. After Nikki came out "alone" for a title match with Paige on RAW, only to swap out with Brie under the ring and let Brie steal a win over Paige for her, Paige is outraged, saying how they've used that trick for years to win and she's sick of it. During her next title match against Nikki, at ''Money in the Bank 2015'', Nikki came out "alone" again. No red flags for Paige, who is somehow surprised when it turns out that Nikki has swapped with Brie ''again'', even though she didn't do anything to prevent it and nothing suggested that the twins weren't planning to do it again.

** Returned in late 2017 as the leader of the villainous faction Absolution, before injuries forced her into an early retirement. She since turned face as the new GM of ''SmackDown Live.''

* LadyInRed: Switched from a purple outfit to an otherwise-identical red one at Wrestling/SummerSlam, and seems to be sticking with it.

* MysteriousPast: She invoked this trope in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQN79IWpeG0 her first promo]]: "So many things the NXT Universe wants to know about Paige... but the less you know about me, ''the better.''"

* NoSell: A variation. She has a tendency to only sell her face, despite being hit somewhere else. ([[Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart Natalya]] was the same way.)
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Part of Paige's {{heel}} persona is that she has started getting touchy-feely with her opponents in the ring. Mostly with [[Wrestling/AJLee AJ]], but on August 18, 2014's ''Wrestling/{{Raw}}'', Paige also grabbed Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidhart}} from behind, stood real close, and started whispering something into her ear while touching her face. In a ''Main Event'' match against [[Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart Natalya]], [[http://gifyu.com/images/Paigelick2.gif she approached from behind and gave Nattie a long Winter-esque lick on the face.]] ''Total Divas'' portrays the moments with Nattie as her intentionally pissing Nattie off to get her to fight harder while giving fans something to talk about.

* TheQuietOne: Aside from her initial debut when she came out to congratulate Wrestling/AJLee, Paige really didn't do any talking on the main roster. She was eventually put on commentary for a Wrestling/{{Naomi}} v. Wrestling/AliciaFox match on the 6/23/2014 episode of ''RAW'', but even then, she didn't say much, even with Wrestling/{{Cameron}} - who was also on commentary - constantly trying to goad her. Then again, Cameron was talking '''''so much''''' that Paige might have just given up on giving actual commentary on the match as a lost cause, in favor of watching the match and ignoring Cameron as much as she could get away with. Eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when Wrestling/AJLee came back to reclaim her title and Paige started doing more mic work, incidentally marking a FaceHeelDoubleTurn for both Divas.

*** This lasts all the way up until July 2015, when Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon introduces three of NXT's "Four Horsewomen": Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}, Wrestling/BeckyLynch—the two of whom join up with Paige and form the trio later known as PCB—and Wrestling/SashaBanks, who links up with Naomi and Tamina as Team BAD. Despite Stephanie putting herself in the position of officially placing the trios together, Charlotte and Becky have plenty of reason to be exceptions to the "Everybody Hates Paige" rule. They both came from NXT like she did, Charlotte was Paige's successor as longtime NXT Champion and WildCard [[TheAce Ace]] of the women's division there, and Becky's been a friend of hers since the independent days and even came back to wrestling after three years off by first managing her and her mother for awhile.

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: She infamously mocked (in character, of course) Reid Flair's death to get in Wrestling/{{Charlotte|Flair}}'s skin.

** (in WWE) Formed unnamed ones with Wrestling/AliciaFox, [[Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart Natalya]], and even Wrestling/AJLee as necessary.

** Seems to be a common theme with the Divas, as they repeatedly write Paige off as some rookie who got a fluke win. Most notably, Wrestling/AJLee took her too lightly and lost her first Divas Championship because of it. Wrestling/{{Cameron}} in particular tends to look down on Paige; she repeatedly calls Paige a rookie, despite Paige having a damn sight more experience than her—which is canon, too, with Michael Cole & JBL outright referring to Paige's real-life background as a part of a WrestlingFamily—and insists Paige's victories over herself are flukes, though Paige says it happening more than once shows that they were anything but.
** Since Booker T replaced Jerry Lawler on the ''RAW'' announce team at the start of 2015, Booker has routinely refered to Paige as a rookie each week despite Paige's background of essentially growing up in a wrestling ring thanks to being part of a WrestlingFamily being long established on WWE telvision; and even ignoring that, Paige was already a two time Divas champion by the time Booker joined the announce team.

* UrExample

* WorkedShoot: The night after Night of Champions 2015, she utterly destroyed [[spoiler:Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}'s Divas Championship celebration in a FaceHeelTurn promo which started with her [[GreenEyedMonster bitter envy]] at Charlotte winning the title that she felt belonged to her, continued on by blasting her own longtime friend Becky Lynch as being irrelevant, then went on to verbally burn every other woman in the company]]. In the process, she managed to call out many of the issues fans have been seeing with the Divas Revolution and the main roster Divas in general from the perspective of staying within the kayfabe: [[spoiler:the Bellas being seen as holding the division back with political favor from the front office, Becky being pigeonholed as the wacky plus-one with limited depth, Charlotte being a placeholder champion with "Ric Flair's daughter" as seemingly the full extent of her gimmick, Team BAD being the underbilled sassy black girls team, Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidhart}} being excluded to the point of invisibility, and even non-wrestlers Wrestling/SummerRae and [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Lana]] being reduced to {{catfight}}ing repeatedly over the same [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana two]] [[Wrestling/DolphZiggler guys]] in a purely soap opera angle which undermines all talents and characters involved]].
* WorthyOpponent

** First there was the falling out with her mother in SHIMMER. For more details, see MistreatmentInducedBetrayal below.

* HelloNurse: In the documentary about her family, her mother says that putting her daughter's face on merchandise always sells and that people always flock to see her. She's also described as being signed by WWE instantly and a huge number of fans find her attractive.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood[=/=]TheSpartanWay: The way her upbringing was described in the ''Stone Cold Podcast''. First off, she was (in her own words) "taking bumps as a fetus" because of the fact that her mother, Sweet Saraya wasn't aware of her pregnancy until a match where she got thrown ''outside the ring'' and came up feeling ill. And Saraya was pretty far along at that point. And then, the bulk of Paige's initial ring training (which any wrestler will tell you can be [[TrainingFromHell harsh and physical]]) occurred while she was still barely a teenager, at the hands of her mother and brothers. During this training and in the early goings of her career, she would often be stiffed if she screwed up a move (a practice she later returned onto others in FCW developmental until the WWE's trainers informed her that it was a no-no). Also, she describes an incident where she was apparently '''''hit by a car''''', looked like a bloody mess, and her dad essentially told her that if she could still move her toes, she would still work the match that night. Again, she was still a teenager (she'd just turned 18 when she signed with FCW). Counts under these relatively less traumatic tropes of abuse simply because she volunteered for much of it, is proud of what she's gained through it (being both tough and strong enough to be ''a bouncer at fifteen years old'', for example), and loves her wrestling career.
* HonorBeforeReason[=/=]IdiotBall: When a returning Wrestling/AJLee comes out to admit that Paige "slapped her back to reality" by taking the Divas Title from AJ and tries to congratulate her, Paige [[GenreSavvy wastes no time]] in [[LampshadeHanging pointing out]] that this is the same "tactic" she used to goad AJ into a title match months earlier... and she ''still'' ends up being goaded into a title match herself and losing the title back to AJ by giving in to the fans' desire for a championship rematch.

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter]]: As Britani Knight, she was disowned by her mother for losing one match too many in their largely unsuccessful Shimmer (after debuting in Shimmer Saraya did okay individually but the Knight Dynasty lost as many tag team matches as they won and Britani won no individual encounters). Britani then turned around and disowned her mother.

* [[{{Pun}} Incredibly Lame Pun]]:
** In the names of her {{Finishing Move}}s: She uses a swinging leg hook fireman's carry slam called the "[=Paige=]-Turner," and a Cloverleaf leglock variation called the "Ram-[=Paige=]." The latter was originally called the Knight Light while she was still Britani Knight - keeping the trope intact.
** She named the modified Scorpion Crosslock the 'Paige Tap Out', or PTO. PTO also stands for 'Please Turn Over', continuing the page theme.

* PowerTrio: Part of a three-woman stable with Wrestling/BeckyLynch and Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}, who were brought up from NXT by Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon ''herself'' to even the odds in Paige's struggle against Team Bella (the Wrestling/BellaTwins plus Wrestling/AliciaFox). In 2017 Absolution with Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville.

** She lead a PowerTrio called Absolution prior to her retirement consisting of herself, Mandy Rose, and Sonya Deville. She mentored the two during Season 5 of ''Wrestling/WWEToughEnough''.

* SoundtrackDissonance: "Stars in the Night" fit Paige's stone-cold badassgimmick beautifully, but doesn't exactly suit the [[BadassDecay weaker]], AJ-lite gimmick she is currently saddled with. The contrast between music and character is made painfully obvious whenever Paige does her [[SkipOfInnocence AJ skip]].

* TookALevelInKindness: After winning the Divas Championship. Unfortunately, though understandably, some think that this has led to BadassDecay—especially combined with the more formulaic nature of her matches on the main roster.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Britani Knight had white-blonde extensions in around 2011-ish. Likewise Paige had blue in her hair for ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' week in 2015. It's since become a regular thing.

** So TheAce, a vicious, antisocial prodigy with a knack for beating down anyone she judges to be an acceptable target, debuts on WWE as the first female NXT champion and ends up taking on Wrestling/AJLee. She wins, and accomplishes four things at once: first, she becomes the first Diva to be both NXT Women's and WWE Divas champion; second, she becomes the youngest ever Divas champion; third, she prevents AJ from reaching the 300-day milestone; and fourth, she's the one to finally vanquish the widely-despised AJ. (Also add to this that night before, at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XXX'', they all had a shot at AJ's title in the form of the "Wrestling/VickieGuerrero Invitational", and ''failed yet again''.) As the champion, she brutally beats down everyone who goes up against her, and doesn't even attempt to make friends. So how do the Divas react to this triumphant young upstart who walked in out of nowhere, did everything they couldn't and hasn't even tried to fit in? [[CaptainObvious They loathe her.]] Prior to Team PCB's formation in summer 2015, only three exceptions to this rule have existed:

** Also combined with {{Ascended Fan|boy}}girl, as the defining elements of the badass Anti-Diva Paige character were all influenced from three of her own favorite wrestlers from when she grew up: Wrestling/BullNakano's brutality and [[FinishingMove scorpion cross lock]] finisher, Wrestling/{{Lita}}'s unconventional beauty and attitude, and Stone Cold Steve Austin's take-no-nonsense anti-status quo bent—something she would later admit to Austin himself on the ''Stone Cold Podcast''.

* RealSongThemeTune: Used Music/LinkinPark's "Faint" in SHIMMER.

Saraya-Jade Bevis (born 17 August 1992) is an English professional wrestler known previously as Britani Knight. She made her first debut for the World Association Of Wrestling Academy at age 13, when she was asked to fill in for another wrestler who could not make a show. She has since competed for various European promotions and was invited to work for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} in 2011. She signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}} later that year, where she performs on the main roster and in its developmental territory, [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]], under the ring name Paige.

!!! "The Enchanting Raven-Troped Index":

* BittersweetEnding: Her Wrestling/{{WWE}} career in general. She came in triumphantly, winning the Diva's Championship in her debut, but her career was mired with a number of controversies since then. She then made a strong comeback that was ultimately derailed by a CareerEndingInjury. By the time she hang up her boots, however, her goal of women's wrestling being taken seriously again is in full swing and she is forever remembered as one of the movements' pioneers. Also, [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson one of the biggest names in wrestling history]] decided to make a {{Biopic}} of her which became critically and commercially successful.

* AnimalMotif: Ravens. She was dubbed "the Mysterious Raven-Haired Lady" due to [[RavenHairIvorySkin her appearance]] and her entrance theme is preceded with a loud a bird screech.