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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Wrestling/SherriMartel, with Dolph as her [[Wrestling/ShawnMichaels HBK]].

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* {{Nepotism}}: Her becoming a wrestling personality was more of a case of this than the usual connections found in a WrestlingFamily, albeit for a pretty understandable reason: after Eddie died, Vickie was given a (rumored to be lifetime) contract with the company as appreciation for her husband's contributions, and as a way to support her and their two daughters following his passing.



* PetTheDog: A recipient of such a moment in RealLife. After Eddie died, Vickie was given a (rumored to be lifetime) contract with the company as appreciation for her husband's contributions and as a way to support her two daughters.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Slapped Wrestling/MichaelCole after he "won" the Dance off.
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'''Vickie Lynn Benson''' (formerly Guerrero, née Lara, born April 16, 1968) is an American professional wrestling personality, manager, shifting authority figure and occasional wrestler under her former married name of '''Vickie Guerrero''', which she held as the wife and widow of the late professional wrestler Wrestling/EddieGuerrero.

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'''Vickie Vickie Lynn Benson''' Benson (formerly Guerrero, née Lara, born April 16, 1968) is an American professional wrestling personality, manager, shifting authority figure and occasional wrestler under her former married name of '''Vickie Guerrero''', Vickie Guerrero, which she held as the wife and widow of the late professional wrestler Wrestling/EddieGuerrero.
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'''''(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...)'''''

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'''''(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...'''''(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...)'''''
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'''"I SAID "EXCUSE ME!!"'''

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'''"I SAID "EXCUSE ME!!"'''ME!!"'''\\
'''''(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...)'''''
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She started off by making cameos in the feud between her then-husband and Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr and became involved in the company full-time as a {{heel}} in 2006 after acting as the occasional peacemaker in the [[Website/{{WrestleCrap}} controversial feud between Chavo Guerrero and Mysterio]]. She later went on to have storylines with Wrestling/{{Edge}} and later Wrestling/{{LayCool}} . After spending some time managing for Wrestling/DolphZiggler, later becoming the [[InsistentTerminology managing supervisor]] of ''RAW'' but was fired from that position in July 2013. She then became the General Manager of Smackdown, until June 2014, when she was fired for the last time by Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon and left the company.

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She started off by making cameos in the feud between her then-husband and Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr and became involved in the company full-time as a {{heel}} in 2006 after acting as the occasional peacemaker in the [[Website/{{WrestleCrap}} controversial feud between Chavo Guerrero and Mysterio]]. She later went on to have storylines with Wrestling/{{Edge}} Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} and later Wrestling/{{LayCool}} . After spending some time managing for Wrestling/DolphZiggler, later becoming the [[InsistentTerminology managing supervisor]] of ''RAW'' but was fired from that position in July 2013. She then became the General Manager of Smackdown, until June 2014, when she was fired for the last time by Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon and left the company.



* ButtMonkey: Verging on TheChewToy, especially with the ''nuclear'' heel heat she gets from the crowd and Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/JerryLawler spending fifteen minutes every Raw telling fat jokes about her. Wrestling/{{Edge}} had to lampshade it during his retirement speech:

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* ButtMonkey: Verging on TheChewToy, especially with the ''nuclear'' heel heat she gets from the crowd and Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/JerryLawler spending fifteen minutes every Raw telling fat jokes about her. Wrestling/{{Edge}} Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} had to lampshade it during his retirement speech:



* DirtyOldWoman: While not really that old, she has a necklace with "Cougar" on it, and has had relationships with Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/TheBigShow, [[PutOnABus Eric Escobar]], and Wrestling/DolphZiggler.

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* DirtyOldWoman: While not really that old, she has a necklace with "Cougar" on it, and has had relationships with Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}, Wrestling/TheBigShow, [[PutOnABus Eric Escobar]], and Wrestling/DolphZiggler.



* WomanScorned: Towards Wrestling/DolphZiggler, ever since he left her for Wrestling/AJLee, although that looks pretty tame compared to what she did to Wrestling/{{Edge}}...

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* WomanScorned: Towards Wrestling/DolphZiggler, ever since he left her for Wrestling/AJLee, although that looks pretty tame compared to what she did to Wrestling/{{Edge}}...Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}...
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* BigBadWannabe: Whenever she's in an authority figure role, she thinks herself as the ultimate evil mastermind who's five steps ahead of everyone. This never, ''ever'' lasts long.

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* BigBadWannabe: Whenever she's in an authority figure role, role and she's a heel, she thinks herself as the ultimate evil a mastermind who's five steps ahead of everyone. This never, ''ever'' never lasts long.long, as her schemes are either transparent or easily foiled by the faces that she's feuding with.



-->'''Edge''': I have to thank Vickie Guerrero... See, she does such an awesome job that I'm thanking her from the heart, and you still boo her!
* CatchPhrase: "EXCUSE ME!" [[ThrowItIn Actually not intentional at first]]; she said it the first few times to try and quiet an especially hostile crowd, but upon seeing how much heat it got, she made it part of her repertoire.[[invoked]]

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-->'''Edge''': I have to thank Vickie Guerrero... Guerrero. ''(crowd boos)'' See, she does such an awesome job that I'm thanking her from the heart, and you still boo her!
* CatchPhrase: "Excuse me!" Or rather, "EXCUSE ME!" shouted as loud and as shrill as she can. [[ThrowItIn Actually Making this a catch phrase was not intentional at first]]; she said it the first few times to try and quiet an especially hostile crowd, but crowd on an episode of [=SmackDown=]. But upon seeing how much heat it the phrase got, she made it part of her repertoire.[[invoked]]



* DirtyOldWoman: While not really that old, she has a necklace with Cougar on it, and has had relationships with Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/TheBigShow, [[PutOnABus Eric Escobar]], and Wrestling/DolphZiggler.

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* DirtyOldWoman: While not really that old, she has a necklace with Cougar "Cougar" on it, and has had relationships with Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/TheBigShow, [[PutOnABus Eric Escobar]], and Wrestling/DolphZiggler.



** Sending her very brief (Kayfabe) husband Edge to a Wrestling/HellInACell match with the Undertaker after finding out he cheated on her would be a pretty normal form of retribution. However, the Undertaker then sent Edge to {{Hell}} at the end.

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** Sending her very brief (Kayfabe) {{Kayfabe}} husband Edge to a Wrestling/HellInACell match with the Undertaker after finding out he cheated on her would be a pretty normal form of retribution. However, the Undertaker then sent Edge to {{Hell}} at the end.



* EvilCripple: At times in {{Kayfabe}}, she found herself in a wheelchair for a time.
* EvilLaugh: Whenever she does an especially dastardly deed she rattles off one of these.
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* EvilCripple: At times in {{Kayfabe}}, she found herself in a wheelchair for a time.
time. She may or may not have been faking it to garner sympathy and appear helpless. Towards the end of her first run as a heel, there were hints that Vickie (in {{kayfabe}}) was playing it up as worse than it was.
* EvilLaugh: Whenever she does an especially dastardly deed deed, she rattles off one of these.
* FaceHeelTurnFaceHeelTurn: She started as a face, being seen as Eddie's grieving widow after his death in 2006. However, after her program with Edge, she leaned hard into being an evil General Manager and wrestling manager.



* HairTriggerTemper: Vickie had an extremely short fuse even by professional wrestling standards. Her CatchPhrase came from her going off like a volcano at the the slightest provocation.

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* HairTriggerTemper: Vickie had has an extremely short fuse fuse, even by professional wrestling standards. Her CatchPhrase came from her going off like a volcano at the the slightest provocation.



* {{Leitmotif}}: Averted actually, aside from her appearance as DLC in WWE 12, and her last night in the company, Vickie NEVER had a theme.

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* {{Leitmotif}}: Averted actually, aside Averted. Aside from her appearance as DLC in WWE 12, ''WWE 12'', and her last night in the company, Vickie NEVER never had a theme.any entrance music.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Vickie had an extremely short fuse even by professional wrestling standards. Her CatchPhrase came from her going off like a volcano at the the slightest provocation.
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As per usual, Wiki/ThatOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickie_Guerrero provides full details]] of her life and career. On a September 2020 appearance on [[https://www.texasrealfood.com/podcast/the-lone-star-plate/vickie-guerrero-wrestling-icon/ The Lone Star Plate Podcast]] Vickie Guerrero shares many details of her journey and what's important to her.

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As per usual, Wiki/ThatOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickie_Guerrero provides full details]] of her life and career. On a September 2020 appearance on [[https://www.texasrealfood.com/podcast/the-lone-star-plate/vickie-guerrero-wrestling-icon/ The Lone Star Plate Podcast]] Vickie Guerrero shares many details of her journey and what's important to her.
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* HappilyMarried: To her first husband, the late Wrestling/EddieGuerrero.
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Mostly played the shrillest, most annoying, most spiteful bitch you'd ever seen during her run in the WWE, while universally considered an absolute sweetheart in real life by everyone who knows her.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Vickie was so incensed by Edge having an affair with their wedding planner Wrestling/AliciaFox that she reinstated Wrestling/TheUndertaker and had Edge face him in a Wrestling/HellInACell match at that year's ''Wrestling/SummerSlam''. Yet the following year, she had no issue having an affair of her own with Wrestling/TheBigShow.
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* InformedAttribute: Her supposed ugliness. She was played up as being rather unattractive by WWE after becoming a manager, but a lot of viewers found her quite good-looking for a woman her age. Following some weight loss in 2010, she stopped being presented as an AbhorrentAdmirer and instead as a 'cougar'.

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* InformedAttribute: Her supposed ugliness. She was played up as being rather unattractive by WWE after becoming a manager, but a lot of viewers found her quite good-looking good-looking, especially for a woman her age. Following some weight loss in 2010, she stopped being presented as an AbhorrentAdmirer and instead as more of a 'cougar'.


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* SpicyLatina: Is of French and Mexican descent, and has a very hot temper to match.
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As per usual, Wiki/ThatOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickie_Guerrero provides full details]] of her life and career.

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As per usual, Wiki/ThatOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickie_Guerrero provides full details]] of her life and career. On a September 2020 appearance on [[https://www.texasrealfood.com/podcast/the-lone-star-plate/vickie-guerrero-wrestling-icon/ The Lone Star Plate Podcast]] Vickie Guerrero shares many details of her journey and what's important to her.
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'''Vickie Lynn Benson''' (formerly Guerrero, née Lara, born April 16, 1968) is a retired American professional wrestling personality, manager, shifting authority figure and occasional wrestler under her former married name of '''Vickie Guerrero''', which she held as the wife and widow of the late professional wrestler Wrestling/EddieGuerrero.

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'''Vickie Lynn Benson''' (formerly Guerrero, née Lara, born April 16, 1968) is a retired an American professional wrestling personality, manager, shifting authority figure and occasional wrestler under her former married name of '''Vickie Guerrero''', which she held as the wife and widow of the late professional wrestler Wrestling/EddieGuerrero.
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Vickie made one-off appearances with WWE in 2016 and 2018. In late 2019, she signed on with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, and appeared as a guest commentator for an AEW Dark match in December 2019.

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Vickie made one-off appearances with WWE in 2016 and 2018. In late 2019, she signed on with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, and appeared as a guest commentator for an AEW Dark match in December 2019.
2019. At ''Fight For the Fallen 2020'' she revealed herself as the new manager for former Women's Champion Nyla Rose.
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Mostly played the shrillest, most annoying, most spiteful bitch you'd ever seen during her run in the WWE, while universally considered an absolute sweetheart in real life by everyone who knows her.
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--->'''Edge''': I have to thank Vickie Guerrero . . . see, she does such an awesome job that I'm thanking her from the heart and you still boo her!

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--->'''Edge''': -->'''Edge''': I have to thank Vickie Guerrero . . . see, Guerrero... See, she does such an awesome job that I'm thanking her from the heart heart, and you still boo her!
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* CatchPhrase: "EXCUSE ME!"
* ChewingTheScenery: Vickie's temper tantrums result in this.

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* CatchPhrase: "EXCUSE ME!"
ME!" [[ThrowItIn Actually not intentional at first]]; she said it the first few times to try and quiet an especially hostile crowd, but upon seeing how much heat it got, she made it part of her repertoire.[[invoked]]
* ChewingTheScenery: Vickie's temper tantrums result in this.this, getting very loud and shrill.



* InformedAttribute: Her supposed unattractiveness. See HollywoodHomely.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Slaps Wrestling/MichaelCole after he "won" the Dance off.

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* InformedAttribute: Her supposed unattractiveness. See HollywoodHomely.
ugliness. She was played up as being rather unattractive by WWE after becoming a manager, but a lot of viewers found her quite good-looking for a woman her age. Following some weight loss in 2010, she stopped being presented as an AbhorrentAdmirer and instead as a 'cougar'.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Slaps Slapped Wrestling/MichaelCole after he "won" the Dance off.



* ProgressivelyPrettier: In 2010 following some weight loss, she stopped being presented as an AbhorrentAdmirer and instead as a 'cougar'. She also participated in a swimsuit battle royal, and it wasn't shown as FanDisservice.

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* ProgressivelyPrettier: In 2010 2010, following some weight loss, she stopped being presented as an AbhorrentAdmirer and instead as a 'cougar'. She also participated in a swimsuit battle royal, and it wasn't shown as FanDisservice.
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%%* AlphaBitch: Like this needs explaining...

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%%* * AlphaBitch: Like this needs explaining...Has the personality of one, and attempts to be the biggest person of any room she walks into, but can never quite back it up. Most of the people who hang around her do so because she's in a position of authority.



* EvilCripple: At times in {{Kayfabe}}.

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* EvilCripple: At times in {{Kayfabe}}.{{Kayfabe}}, she found herself in a wheelchair for a time.



* LikesOlderWomen: Edge tried to pretend to be this in order to wed Vickie in a Kayfabe shoot. It turns out he was just after her power as General Manager.
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* LikesOlderWomen: Edge tried to pretend to be this in order to wed Vickie in a Kayfabe shoot.WorkedShoot. It turns out he was just after her power as General Manager.
%% * ManipulativeBastardManipulativeBastard: Would frequently attempt to play people against each other for the sake of keeping her hand-picked heels at the top. The degree of success this had largely depended on how much authority she had at the time.



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%% * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThemScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: When she was running [=SmackDown=], she would frequently bend the rules in the favor of her hand-picked heels. This could involve putting the faces against overwhelmingly bad odds, changing matches on the fly, or even restarting matches that ended the way she didn't want them to.
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Vickie made one-off appearances with WWE in 2016 and 2018. In late 2019, she signed on with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, and appeared as a guest commentator for an AEW Dark match in December 2019.
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** Sending her very brief (Kayfabe) husband Edge to a Hell in a Cell match with the Undertaker after finding out he cheated on her would be a pretty normal form of retribution. However, the Undertaker then sent Edge to {{Hell}} at the end.

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** Sending her very brief (Kayfabe) husband Edge to a Hell in a Cell Wrestling/HellInACell match with the Undertaker after finding out he cheated on her would be a pretty normal form of retribution. However, the Undertaker then sent Edge to {{Hell}} at the end.



* YourCheatingHeart: Vickie was so incensed by Edge having an affair with their wedding planner Wrestling/AliciaFox that she reinstated Wrestling/TheUndertaker and had Edge face him in a Hell in a Cell match at that year's ''Wrestling/SummerSlam''. Yet the following year, she had no issue having an affair of her own with Wrestling/TheBigShow.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Vickie was so incensed by Edge having an affair with their wedding planner Wrestling/AliciaFox that she reinstated Wrestling/TheUndertaker and had Edge face him in a Hell in a Cell Wrestling/HellInACell match at that year's ''Wrestling/SummerSlam''. Yet the following year, she had no issue having an affair of her own with Wrestling/TheBigShow.

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