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[[caption-width-right:300:The Billion-Dollar Princess]]

'''Stephanie [=McMahon=] Levesque''' (née Stephanie Marie [=McMahon=]) is certified pro-wrestling royalty. The daughter of promoter [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] and granddaughter of WWF/WWE founder Vince [=McMahon=] Sr., Stephanie has worked in the wrestling business since she was a teenager answering phones at Titan Tower. She has worked both in front of and behind the cameras, as a wrestler, a {{heel}} manager for her storyline-husband (and eventual RealLife husband) Wrestling/TripleH, a General Manager for the ''Wrestling/{{WWESmackDown}}'' brand, and her current role as Executive Vice President of Creative Development and Operations (i.e. [[SoYouWantTo/BeABooker head writer]]).

ThatOtherWiki has an article on her life and career [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_McMahon here]].
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!!'''Tropes associated with Stephanie [=McMahon=]:'''

* AbortedArc: Her on-camera appearances are so few and far-between, that there wasn't really an arc to abort, but they did try to uphold the illusion of Triple H and Stephanie's storyline divorce, mostly because, since everybody and their goldfish knew they were married in real life, it made for some hilarious in-jokes (see the night Stephanie gave birth to her first daughter; Triple H was in the ring congratulating her and "That guy who knocked her up.") However, at some point, they seemed to simply throw their hands up and say "Forget it," since now they acknowledge that they're still married.
* AbusiveParents: In-character only, but pretty thoroughly in-character. Vince has actually ''wrestled'' Stephanie (in a match that took place only a few days before her wedding).
* AloofDarkHairedGirl
* AlphaBitch: Could slide into this when she was with [[Wrestling/DGenerationX DX]] and the early [=McMahon=]-Helmsley Regime days.
* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/ChrisJericho, oh so much during the Attitude Era. It really went into FoeYay territory.
* BadassFamily: The [=McMahons=].
** BigScrewedUpFamily: What they tend toward in-character.
* BaitAndSwitch: She announced that a ''Smackdown'' Diva had been chosen to pose in Playboy and said "congratulations to me!" (and gathered an Earth-shattering pop from the crowd) before elaborating that she meant congratulations to herself for sealing the deal and that Wrestling/TorrieWilson would be in Playboy instead.
* BattleCouple: With Hunter, occasionally.
* BecomingTheMask: She and Wrestling/TripleH fell in love with each other during their storyline.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Wrestling/ChrisJericho, so much so that [[FanPreferredCouple the fanfic writers]] went bonkers. Every fangirl who ever wrote wrestling fic has a [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming Smoochy Dreamer]] fic in her past.
** The Wrestlemania 18 feud between Jericho and TripleH was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally planned to involve]] Jericho and Stephanie having an affair to spite Hunter. Unfortunately, that idea got nixed.
* BerserkButton: Like any [=McMahon=], it's a bad idea to question her power or decisions.
** After she successfully goads him into booking a match with Triple H against Brock Lesnar, Paul Heyman goes into a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech livid rant]], labelling her an underhanded SpoiledBrat. Her reaction to all of this is rather nonchalent, if not outright smug, until he remarks [[MamaBear she'll probably raise her kids to be the same]], [[UnstoppableRage then the gloves are off...]] She was [[KnowWhenToFoldEm a bit more self preserving when]] [[Wrestling/BrockLesnar his client]] [[OhCrap came in to even the odds however]].
* BlackComedyRape: When Wrestling/TripleH kidnapped, drugged and married Stephanie in Vegas. She also fell in love with him after that. Of course, it's entirely possible he was lying to mess with Vince's head.
--> '''Wrestling/TripleH:''' The question, [[VinceMcMahon Vince]], isn't ''if'', but ''how many times'' we "consummated the marriage!" ''(thrusting his hips)''
* BlondesAreEvil: Briefly in 2005.
* BrainyBrunette
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Played it in her 20's, but otherwise played it straight.
* BrotherSisterTeam: With her brother, [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon Shane]], as owner of Wrestling/{{ECW}} during the Alliance storyline.
** They did team on the July 24, 2000 ''Raw.'' Wrestling/{{Lita}} and Wrestling/TheBigShow defeated them by DQ when Wrestling/TrishStratus interfered and pushed Lita off of the top turnbuckle.
* ButtMonkey: Much like her Dad, Stephanie was on the receiving end of hilarious abuse during the Attitude Era, typically from Wrestling/ChrisJericho or [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]].
** Special mention needs to be made of Wrestling/KurtAngle and the Milk Wagon, when [[Wrestling/JimRoss the Billion-Dollar Princess became a Dairy Queen.]]
** IronButtMonkey: Again like her father, she is pretty commendable for some of the abuse she takes for a non wrestler.
* TheCaligula: During the first few months of the [=McMahon=]-Helmsley Era and later the Invasion angle.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Towards Wrestling/TripleH during her Heel run in the early 2000s.
* ComplexityAddiction: One immaterial thing she's [[ItRunsInTheFamily inherited from her daddy]] is this pathological vindictive need to torment top-level employees that cause the family trouble rather than fire them on the spot. Clearly demonstrated in this exchange with Wrestling/RandyOrton in 2009, right before bringing out her brother Shane to attack him for punting Vince in the head:
--> '''Randy Orton:''' "FIRE. ME. NOW."
--> '''Stephanie:''' "Firing you... would be too easy. We have ''bigger'' plans."
* ControlFreak: Also seems to be inherited from her father (during her heel runs, anyway). And much like her father, this often came to bite her back, due to overestimating just how much crap particular employees would take from her. It was her [[BullyingTheDragon berating of Randy Orton]] that kicked off the horrific feud mentioned above, for example.
--> '''Stephanie:''' This is MY show!
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Most definitely when she's in-character. Some of the rumor mills have painted her as this in real life, due to her yes-man status for her father and the high turnover in the writer's room.
** Reportedly kicked Tommy Dreamer off of the "creative" team for "making too much sense."
* CreatorCouple: Stephanie handles most of the writing for Wrestling/{{WWE}}, Hunter is more active in front of the camera as well as with the showrunning aspect.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Almost as good a heel as her father. It's just hard to top the guy frequently called "{{Satan}}" by commentators.
* DistractedByTheSexy: [[Wrestling/ChrisJericho She's the breast- I mean best.]]
* DistressedDamsel: During the Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness storyline in which she was kidnapped by Wrestling/TheUndertaker, and later, in the "Love Her or Leave Her" storyline between her brother Shane and Wrestling/{{Test}}.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment[=/=]MoralEventHorizon: Her [[FaceHeelTurn Heel Turn]] on [=Vince=] and siding with Wrestling/TripleH at the [=Armageddon=] 99 [=PPV=] effectively set her heel persona in stone.
** Her real-life marriage to Triple H hasn't helped.
*** CrossingTheLineTwice: On the September 13, 2001 episode of ''[[{{Wrestling/WWESmackDown}} WWE SmackDown]]'', equated the 9/11 attacks with Daddy's steroid trial.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the ''[=McMahon=]'' DVD, Stephanie confirmed that Vince wanted to write her pregnancy into an angle, with [[ParentalIncest Vince himself]] as the father. She immediately rejected it. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Then he pushed]] [[BrotherSisterIncest for the father to be]] [[{{Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon}} Shane]]. Both his kids subsequently protested.
* ExecutiveMeddling
* FanNickname: [[{{Wrestlecrap}} Nipple H]].
* FaceHeelTurn: When she first appeared, she was the innocent little girl that somehow remained as such while having a horrible father. Then, she turned on him and got with TripleH as revenge for the MinistryOfDarkness BreakTheCutie plot, causing Vince to leave the company for months in a DespairEventHorizon, leaving her and TripleH as the head of the WWF. She turned out to be ''much'' more capable a heel than she ever was as a face.
* FamilyBusiness
* FauxActionGirl: Was technically ''capable'' of wrestling (as in, could take bumps, had a few offensive moves), but mainly stuck to taunting opponents, bitch-slapping, and hiding behind Dad or Hunter or Shane when things got bad.
* [[MurderTheHypotenuse Fire the Hypotenuse]]: What Wrestling/{{Chyna}} claimed that Stephanie did to her in 2001, if she's to be believed.
* GagBoobs: Went from being flat-as-a-board to a D-cup almost overnight.
** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Hilariously]] lampshaded by Wrestling/ChrisJericho when she got her first boob job (she's had at least two more since then).
* GroinAttack: Delivers a devastating one to Jericho during the June 26, 2000 episode of Raw.
* HotChickInABadassSuit: In her GM role
* HotMom
* InsultToRocks: On the May 8, 2000 episode of ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} Raw]]'', Wrestling/ChrisJericho called Stephanie a "filthy, dirty, disgusting, nasty, skanky, brutal, bottom-feeding, trash-bag ho!" When he was forced to apologize, he apologized to all the filthy, dirty, disgusting, brutal, skanky, bottom-feeding, trash-bag hoes for even comparing them to Stephanie. He decided that "Bargain basement slut" and "Miserable slimeball pig" were more appropriate.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Paul Heyman, in a 2008 interview, referred to Stephanie as "The Vincess".
* LargeHam: Pretty much invented the screechy-heel character that Vickie Guerrero now plays to the hilt.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Kayfabe forced her to dance all around this. She went by Stephanie [=McMahon=]-Helmsley while she and Wrestling/TripleH were Kayfabe married and goes by Stephanie [=McMahon=]-Levesque in real life[[note]]She is even credited under that name in the liner notes for WWE's entrance music albums[[/note]], but since Hunter doesn't [[DoNotCallMePaul go by his real name]], she just goes by Stephanie [=McMahon=] any time she appears in-character.
* MamaBear: As Paul Heyman learned; all he did was ''mention'' her children, and she knocked him to the ground and started wailing on him. Of course, Hunter had warned him at least twice already, so frankly, he kinda had it coming.
** Granted she also threatened Heyman because 1. To infuriate him into placing Hunter against Lesnar in a match and 2. He then labelled her a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative]] "[[DaddysLittleVillain Daddy's Little Girl]]" [[GenreSavvy out of awareness of this]].
* MoralityPet: Zach Gowen
* {{Nepotism}}: She ''is'' the boss's daughter.
* NiceHat: Wore an ECW motorcycle cap during the [=InVasion=] storyline.
* {{Oireland}}: Her "Irish temper" was mentioned during her match with Wrestling/TrishStratus at the ''No Way Out 2001'' [=PPV=].
* RapeAsDrama: Implied when Wrestling/TheUndertaker kidnapped her and held her in a seedy motel.
** Happened again in LighterAndSofter form when Wrestling/RandyOrton cuffed Hunter to the ring ropes and kissed an unconscious Stephanie.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: By 2005, everyone and their brother knew she was married to Wrestling/TripleH. This lead to various angles - most [[CrowningMomentOfFunny notably]] DX making rampant and gleeful speculation on [[Wrestling/TripleH who the father of her baby was]] - and references to their marriage and family.
-->'''Wrestling/TripleH''': (dressed as Vince) When I pass, I'm gonna hand my company to my beautiful daughter, Stephanie...[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall and to whoever that guy is that knocked her up!]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Later into her stint as Smackdown GM and her appearances on Raw.
* RedBaron: The aforementioned "Billion Dollar Princess".
* RichBitch: Her early character. She seems refreshingly normal outside the ring.
* RomanceOnTheSet: How her relationship with Hunter started.
* SanitySlippage: That time she and Wrestling/TripleH (in-character) wanted to renew their wedding vows, Hunter found out Steph had [[MoralEventHorizon lied about her pregnancy]] and trashed the ceremony (Protip: If you're going to attempt TheBabyTrap on your boyfriend, make sure that the actor you hire to play your doctor isn't currently on a late-night infomercial.) Steph ''Flipped. Her. Shit''. WWE, any time that footage is reused, almost without fail, turns her scream at the end into a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UJcevBAyyo deep ''roar.'']]
* ScreamingWoman: Good god, listen to some of her heel [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFijSAC6r1k promos]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem
* SelfDeprecation: If anyone should, it's her.
* SexySpectacles: Briefly in 2008.
* SiblingYinYang: Stephanie likes the spotlight, Shane plays it cooler.
* SlutShaming: Well, Jericho and the fans tried, but it didn't really take.
** However, the fact that she basically stole HHH from Wrestling/{{Chyna}}, leading to her disappearing from TV and finally leaving the company in 2001, should not be ignored.
* SmugSnake: During her heel phase as Stephanie [=McMahon=]-Helmsley.
** Even as a Face she tends to be this, whatever side she is on she has an unsavvy tendency to [[BullyingTheDragon bicker or try to kick around dangerous Heels]], this usually ends with her becoming a patsy used against another more prominant rival such as Hunter.
* SpoiledBrat[=/=][[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Rich Idiot With a Day Job]][=/=]UpperClassTwit: The core of her Heel persona in early years. Toned down as she matured, though foes still like to snide her as "Daddy's Little Girl".
* SpotlightStealingSquad: When she was with [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} DeGeneration-X]].
* StatuesqueStunner: She's 5'9.
* TakeThatKiss: A number with Wrestling/TripleH, the crowner probably being their in-ring smooch during the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ-eC3qhAyk "[=McMahon=] Family Reunion"]] segment (before their marriage was official on-air canon).
-->'''Stephanie''': [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Dad]], you have serious problems. You've embarrassed this family long enough. It's time I embarrassed you. (''makes out with Wrestling/TripleH'')
-->'''Hunter''': [[NoFourthWall See ya]] [[HappilyMarried at home]], Steph!...[[LameRhymeDodge ooh, I mean, your brother's a gnome]]!
* TheTease: Most noteworthy when she was announcing who was chosen to pose for Playboy.
* VocalEvolution: While she might be forever known for that whiny screechy harpy voice, in recent years, her voice has seriously mellowed out, with her voice becoming smoother and more authoritative as time has gone on.
* {{Warrior Prince}}ss: Being the daughter of WWE's owner, she can be considered as such.
* WeddingSmashers: Thrice involved. First came the infamous "satanic wedding" angle with Wrestling/TheUndertaker in the spring of 1999, where Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin eventually saved her from a lifetime of torture. Later in 1999, she was to be married (in kayfabe) to [[Wrestling/{{Test}} Test (Andrew Martin)]], only for the whole event to be upstaged by Wrestling/TripleH, who drugged her and married her while unconscious. Later, when Steph agreed that the vows were legitimate and became a scheming heel, the kayfabe marriage continued until Triple H decided he was tired of Steph's lying; the two would try to work out their differences and it appeared that they had to a point where they agreed to renew their vows ... until Triple H learned that Steph's "pregnancy" was a sham. Triple H ended the wedding right there and exposed her on national television, knocking her down so that one of her breasts was sticking out of her dress.
** Makes it all the more ironic that Wrestling/TripleH and Steph's real-life wedding was a low-key affair.
* WrestlingFamily: Fourth-generation and proud of it.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: While Stephanie has always looked fairly age appropriate, her voice radically changed around early/mid-2002 (most likely due to her role as the ScreamingWoman during the [=McMahon=]-Helmsley era). By early-2003, she sounded more like she was 46 than 26 (her actual age at the time).
* {{Yandere}}: If she's a heel.
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