Shannon Claire Spruill (July 17, 1975 - September 1, 2021) was an American pro wrestler, manager, and announcer. Inside the ring, she is most remembered as Daffney, the Scream Queen of Mean. Outside of the ring, she was famous for her legal battles (worker's comp). She was one of the few female wrestlers trained by WCW, and of her entire era concerning wrestling in the US, who was admired for three things well before her looks: her personality, her ring work, and her vocal range (a special rarity among wrestlers).
She first appeared on WCW circa 2000 as David Flair's valet, a crazy townie who was obsessed with him, often barging into the ring herself. The two would team up with Crowbar, and she and Crowbar would become co-holders of the WCW Cruiserweight Championship, before defeating him later on to become the sole champion (after previous champion Chris Candido attacked Crowbar and Daffney inadvertently pinned him while trying to revive him). She was released by WCW on February 2, 2001 due to budget cuts, a month before WCW was purchased by its rival, the WWF.
She had a career revival in TNA as a Knockout; first as a Sarah Palin parody called The Governor, then reverting to Daffney after her split personality was ousted in the ring. In 2007, she debuted in SHIMMER as a manager, and even competed for a brief time (the espected way as Daffney and under her "Shark Girl" persona). She effectively retired from wrestling due to the injuries she sustained on Impact. Starting in 2012, she worked as a hostess and manager for SHIMMER's sister promotion SHINE.
Tragically, Spruill's mental health began to worsen from the effects of what she believed to be chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and she committed suicide on September 1, 2021; at her request, her brain was donated to the Boston University CTE Center and Brain Bank.
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- All-Loving Hero: According to an interview at Glory, Face!Daffney loves everyone. No effort to hide her history of anger fueled retaliatory violence was made when saying this, and she even looks back at being put in Ric Flair's figure four leg lock fondly. (This, too, is reflective of real-life Daffney: She claims it was an honor to be chokeslammed by The Wall, piledrived by Terry Funk, etc.) The only negative feelings Daffney spoke of regarded a Falls Count Anywhere loss to Rachel Summerlyn, whom she still does not regard as an enemy.
- And Your Little Dog, Too!: She was not content to physically injure Tara but also wanted to consume her beloved tarantula, Poison. Daffney was not successful in either endeavor but her antics led to Tara losing the TNA knockouts title in a screwy fashion anyway.
- Arch-Enemy:
- Ms. Hancock (Stacy Keibler) and her almost father-in-law Ric Flair.
- The Beautiful People, after they were suckered in with promises of joining The Governor's "cabinet".
- Arc Welding:
- Despite its frequent mining of WCW plot lines, TNA initially tried to treat the Daffney persona as something new. A lot of viewers probably were surprised to see
she was The Governor all the same. They did make an effort to explain Daffney's past and eventually added to the "mythos" so to speak when Dr. Stevie (Richards) got her on the couch. - In hindsight, it seems TNA was experimenting with bringing back WCW valets in the same manner as WCW digging up former WWE talents (Miss Elizabeth and others) for Nitro.
- Despite its frequent mining of WCW plot lines, TNA initially tried to treat the Daffney persona as something new. A lot of viewers probably were surprised to see
- Ass Kicks You
- As mentioned below, Lucy Furr took Amber O'Neal's booty popping stink face. She even wore a set of tights with holes in the fabric around the butt cheeks.
- Daff took the biggest bump of her career when she got flattened by 300 lb Rosie Lottalove (later the formerly fat Betsy Ruth/Andrea), which landed her in the hospital. Did we mention this occurred on tryouts? During a dark match to boot? And that Rosie was fired two months later after only two on-screen appearances?
- Ax-Crazy: Daffney's always crazy but her TNA run really brought the ax into the equation, as she became really violent, spitefully violent. It was apparent even during her lock box challenge "strip tease"...which made the whole thing even more uncomfortable. Dr. Stevie's efforts to cure her just seemed to be making her worse.
- The Baroness:
- The loyal henchwoman of Dr. Stevie, even dressing up as his nurse at one point. She vacillated between a Type 1 and 2.
- She provided more fan service in WCW than she would in later promotions, most notably when she competed in a Wedding gown match against Ms Hancock. In TNA she initially appeared in a fanservice battle royal, but was played up as a homely freak once the company decided to give her a lasting on-screen presence. All the same, Tazz found her "zombie hot".
- Lucy provided a whole lot of fan service in Women's Extreme Wrestling(naturally) but not quite as much in Ring of Honor.
- Bash Brothers: With Colt Cabana in ROH.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: On the frequent receiving end of the trope's aversion. In particular, her TNA feud with Taylor Wilde revolved around Daffney's efforts to cut and maim her only to see them backfire. More dramatically still, Daffney received a concussion when Abyss put her through a barbed wire board.
- Big Damn Heroes: The Scream Queens saving Alexa Thatcher from Alicia, who had decided to break Thatcher's foot on SHIMMER Volume 13.
- Bilingual Bonus: The Hindi tattoo on her hand which reads "Samadhi", meaning "dead body".
- Break the Cutie/Butt-Monkey: Both in kayfabe and real life. Daffney was generally considered one of the unluckier wrestlers in TNA's Knockouts Division. Most of her injuries occurred in non-televised matches as the network didn't allow any depictions of man-on-female violence. During the Lockbox Challenge in which the wrestlers competed in a lottery for the Title, Daffney crapped out and opened the box requiring her to striptease. And, as the "
ugly" Knockout of the bunch, she rarely got booked despite grossing high ratings during her appearances on iMPACT. - Butt Biter:
- During their SHIMMER encounter, Shark Girl saved herself from Amber O'Neal's booty popping stink face the only way she knew how: by biting down, leaving Amber to run around with Shark Girl stuck to her backside.
- Lucy, on the other hand, simply kicked her and appropriated the move for herself.
- The Cameo:
- Shortly before the Governor angle, Daffney made a test-drive appearance on Impact along with two other wrestlers (Amber O'Neal and Becky Bayless), volunteering to fight Awesome Kong for the $25,000 purse. That didn't work out so well.
- Lucy Furr was at WrestleReunion 4, which extended to being in the audience for ROH SoCal Showdown. Daffney was later in the audience for the Knockouts Knockdown portion of TNA's first One Night Only, with signs supporting her friends... and one mentioning she was there independently.
- Charlie Brown from Outta Town: After the Daytona fiasco, Daffney was kayfabe sentenced to a mental ward for five years. Upon her release, she kicked around as a "thespian" for a while (blurring the line between Spruill and her character) before she lost the plot again and became Palin.
- Cleavage Window: While she has worn these outfits, it is usually subverted since they have tinted screens. Between yellow, red, blue and purple, only the grey tint is really see through at ringside, much less for the viewers at home. Then again, the grey tinted window is also the largest window by a wide margin...
- Cloud Cuckoolander: She preps her squad for battle by going in circles on a push scooter.
- Combat Commentator: For IWA Mid-South.
- Contortionist:
- Enters the ring via a split. This does not bode well for a clean pin.
- Lampshaded by commentator Don West after witnessing all the submission moves that failed to put her away. Even Amber O'Neal, who likes to show off by doing the splits, was taken aback by Daffney's rubber limbs.
- Costume Porn:
- If Daff sticks out like a sore thumb on Impact (and she does), it's because Unger is known for sewing entrance attire and designing all sorts of ring gear and fashions for herself. This was dialed up in SHINE, where Daffney formed her own squad. Tiny tilted top hats for everyone!
- Yo Dawg I heard you like top hats, so I put a top hat on your top hat.
- Cute But Psycho:
- In WCW, and if the fans reactions are any indication, Remix Pro Wrestling as well. Psychosis was apparently part of her charm.
- In TNA to the extreme. Don West described her as being crazy enough to attract him but also crazy enough to make him want to run the hell away.
- Damsel in Distress: The nWo needed to make a point to David Flair (this was before Ms. Hancock entered the picture), so they dragged a kicking and flailing Daffney backstage to show they meant business. Even Steiner seemed skeptical that David would even want to get her back.Steiner: Y'know it's one thing about you Flairs, you've always surrounded yourselves with ugly women. This bitch is uglier than your mother.
Tony Schiavone: (on commentary) And she's still laughing, look at this! She's nuts. - Defeat Means Friendship: Daff was suicidal enough to challenge Kong to a rematch after the pair of them migrated to the NWA circuit. Following another defeat, she agreed to manage MsChif, Kong's hated enemy, in the main event for Thorns & Roses. Oddly, this wasn't the last the two would see of each other; Kong later joined Daffney's All-Star Squad (with her own ridiculous hat) to battle Rain for the SHINE singles title. Kong would eventually return to TNA, while the (now full-babyface) Goth Goddess remained behind with what remained of her squad Solo Darling and Heidi Lovelace, The Buddy System.
- Demoted to Extra: In TNA she went from a prominence in the midcard to repeatedly jobbing on the B Show
- Dented Iron: In all seriousness, everyone should at least respect Daffney for taking hardcore bumps. Yes, it was insane. Yes, it was completely unnecessary. Yes, it made people cringe rather than cheer. But the woman fell on a bed of thumbtacks for frak's sake.
- Distaff Counterpart: (as Shark Girl): To Shark Boy, of course.
- Eerie Paleskinned Brunette: Especially when Draculetta was with White Magic
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: The Black Mass gown◊ she wore in anticipation of her union with David.
- Evil Counterpart:
- Soul stealing Lucy Furr was an evil counterpart to the guardian Heaven Sent and the "good example" Angel Williams (However, Williams wasn't always so good).
- CM Punk, in a case of ironic names, intended Lucy to be the good counterpart to Trinity, whom Raven had sicked on him, asking her to conform to the morals of the Second City Saints and respect the Code of Honor.
- Daffney was basically the good counterpart in SHINE to Portia Perez in SHIMMER, the one who just wanted veterans to be respected in contrast to Portia, who had no respect for "rookies". Daffney eventually became the good counterpart to April Hunter(and later still, SoCal Val) when Daffney decided to go back to managing, partially in response to the disrespect shown to her by the wrestlers Hunter managed.
- Expy/Homage:
- Unger has cited Harley Quinn as an inspiration for her original gimmick, she even has a green version of Harley Quinn' outfit from Batman: The Animated Series, minus the jester hat, as Daffney has her own headgear preferences.
- WCW envisioned her gimmick as something closer to Mallory Knox (Juliette Lewis), Mickey's accomplice in Natural Born Killers. Unger said that Harley was her main influence from the start.
- A bit of the "dog chasing cars" speech made by The Joker in The Dark Knight made it into the promo she cut for Hamada. Also, her TNA entrance (the split) is borrowed from Melina.
- Fighting Your Friend: She and Crowbar started out as "co-champions" to the cruiserweight title and when wrestling each other to determine who would be the true title holder, neither really wanted to hurt the other.
- Finishing Move
- Frankenscreamer, Lobotomy (Bridging Swinging Fisherman Suplex), Daff Knees (Single knee facebreaker)
- Lucy's was an Enzuigiri
- The Governor's was a swinging fisherman's suplex called Thrilla From Wasilla
- Shark Girl's is the Chummer
- Foreshadowing: Among other things, Kimberly's loving lunge to Daffney and Daffney's warning not to mess with Su Yung during SHINE's early days. Kimberly's face turn was completed when she sought membership in Daffney's Squad while Sweet Saraya seemingly took that warning as an opportunity, provoking Yung's heel turn and leading her into Valkyrie.
- Fun with Acronyms: Daffney's All-Star SquadMsChif: "DAFF'S ASS!"
- Funny T Shirt: In WCW, Daffney wore spaghetti tops with crudely-ironed slogans to look even younger. Among them were "I ♥ DAVID", "Hunger for Unger", "WALL SUCKS", Flair's Flare", and "DAVID 4 PREZ"
- Girlish Pigtails: Shark Girl always, Daffney sometimes.
- Godzilla Threshold: On SHINE 27, she talked as if Valifornia breaking Heidi Lovelace's leg and putting Solo Darling through a table were extremes that caused her to bring back the friendly loon Kimberly. It was actually the last thing she was going to try before loosing "The Iron Maidens" on SHINE, getting what was left of her squad out of their way.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Considers Lexie Fyfe a true sister and Nikki Roxx the other half of her brain. Alternatively refers to MsChif as "my better half" and "my twin".
- Honey Trap: For Kevin Nash in TNA while she was with Dr. Stevie. Surprisingly, it worked. Then again, macking on strange girls in Dr. Stevie's waiting room wasn't the brightest idea Nash ever had.
- I Have Many Names: In addition to WCW, also worked for WSU, Pro Wrestling Guerilla, CHIKARA (as Shark Girl), and Wrestlicious (as Draculetta). Daffney would later for Ring of Honor (as Lucy Furr), and during TNA's early years, she made a one off appearance as "Shannon".
- I Was Beaten by a Girl:
- Improvised Weapon: In a bit of foreshadowing, Daffney beat down Tara with a tool box. Later in a first blood match between the two, Tara won by hitting Daffney with a toolbox. This lead to the "lock box" challenge.
- Ineffectual Death Threats: Vince Russo tried to punish Miss Elizabeth by putting her in a match with Daffney, who came out wearing a shirt which read "Liz Will Die". Daffney did not get any offense in the resulting "match".
- Informed Deformity: Daffney has often been described as "ugly". The problem with this is that Daffney looks like Daffney who is definitively not ugly.
- Irony: She had undiagnosed, and thus unmedicated bipolar disorder, which was not discovered until she left ROH and temporarily quit the wrestling business. This put all the gimmicks she had been using since her debut in WCW in a new light, for everyone up to and including the woman using it herself. She wouldn't talk about it publicly until her in ring retirement following her final TNA run.
- It's Not You, It's Me: What she said after telling her three remaining squad mates to stay home at SHINE 28. Apparently she didn't think they were quite ready for what her "retribution" entailed.
- Kaleidoscope Hair:
- You gotta have blue hair.◊ Or pink◊, or whatever color wig she chose to wear on a given night. These days, Face!Daffney wears neon hair ribbons.
- She wore a green wig on the December 20, 2000 episode of WCW Thunder. In her and Crowbar's pre-match interview with "Mean" Gene Okerlund, she said, "It's not easy being green, Gene".
- On the Feb. 22nd episode of Nitro, Daffney's blue wig flew off in the process of doing a hurricanrana.
- On July 25th, Daffney, with a red wig on, wore a shirt that read "Step-Child", ho ho.
- You gotta have blue hair.
- Leitmotif:
- While managing Flair and Crowbar: "Burn"
- As The Governor: "Hail to the Chief"
- As a Knockout: "Psychotic" by Dale Oliver
- While managing Flair and Crowbar: "Burn"
- Looks Like Cesare: After briefly reverting to her old look on TNA (a ring rat with goofy shirts), she resurfaced with corpse makeup and a Gothic Lolita wardrobe.
- Louis Cypher: Lucy Furr had red horns, but only in promo videos and photo shoots, not in matches.
- The Mad Hatter/The Ophelia: Her sessions with Dr. Stevie were very creepy for someone so clearly at peace with the belief that she could never be fixed.
- Mad Love: For David Flair, who was a few fries short of a Happy Meal himself.
- Master-Apprentice Chain: Considering Daffney has gotten training from Crowbar, Leilani Kai, Dusty Rhodes, Gregory Helms, Malia Hosaka, Madusa and Molly Holly, among others, such was the nature of WCW, it's no surprise she's been a part of several. Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker-Slaughter-Daffney Unger was just one chain in WCW itself. It is discussed by Malia Hosaka in SHINE, in regards to Daffney guiding the Buddy System.
- Military Brat: Born on a German military base.
- Misplaced Retribution:
- Daffney attacked Taylor Wilde for the Beautiful People sticking her head in a paper bag in retaliation for her "governor" prank.
- Daffney would go after MsChif for abandoning her while she was injured, even though they were in different companies when it happened.
- Motivational Lie: Keeping Solo Darling away from sweets was both difficult and at times counterproductive to making Solo do the other thing Daffney wanted(win matches). So Daffney told Solo the SHINE Tag Team Title belts were made of chocolate.
- Murderous Thighs: Her Finishing Move for a long time was the Frankenscreamer.
- Nerd in Evil's Helmet: Daffney excitedly mistaking her opponents, the Mamalukes, for "the Marmadukes".
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: She parodies Sarah Palin "The Governor".
- Odd Couple: On two occasions, Daffney challenged TBP for the Knockouts Tag Team Titles. Her team-up with ODB was pretty bizarre (didn't Daff try to yank her leg out of its socket?), but her tag team with Sarita took the cake. They got bumped off in first round elimination, but not before Sarita barked at Daffney to quit dawdling on the apron with her lil' umbrella.
- Of Corsets Sexy: At SHINE 3 and 5.
- Older Than They Look:
- The oldest of the Knockouts, she was pushing 40 but looked about 20 with the Goth makeup. She even impersonated Sarah Palin for months and did a very convincing job of it. Here's Daffney with the makeup◊, without it◊, and as Sarah Palin◊.
- Her protip for staying so youthful? Staying out of the sun!
- The oldest of the Knockouts, she was pushing 40 but looked about 20 with the Goth makeup. She even impersonated Sarah Palin for months and did a very convincing job of it. Here's Daffney with the makeup
- Ominous Fog: Part of Draculetta's entrance.
- Only One Name: Somewhere along the line, the name "Unger" disappeared and she became known only as "Daffney". Her last name is still remembered, as evidenced by Daffney Unger's online accounts, but is no longer used at shows.
- Opposed Mentors: Indirectly with Ivelisse Vélez in SHINE, since Amazing Kong is the squad member who primarily faced Valkyrie but Daffney is the leader and Velez the heir apparent of two opposed power stables and both are mentors of Solo Darling. You wouldn't know about Velez teaching Darling unless you went to the SHINE website though.
- Pain to the Ass: While on the receiving end of a booty popping stink face by Amber O'Neal, she saved herself by chomping down really hard on her butt cheeks. It worked.
- Parts Unknown: A few times in her career.
- Shark Girl was from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
- As Daffney, she was billed for a time from "Sybil, Texas"
- Lucy Furr was billed from "The Erotic Heavens" (as oppose to the "Canadian Heavens" Angel Williams was billed from). "The Eight Circle Of Hell" after her Heel–Face Turn. (Apparently that heaven was worse than hell.)
- As The Governor: "Unknown Parts of Alaska", a clue that Daffney has no idea what the state capital is.
- Perky Female Minion:
- Sometimes Daffney is chastened for her behavior, more often the heels are amused by it; but Daffney is most gleeful and enthusiastic when paired with MsChif. She also served in this role to Crowbar in WCW, CM Punk and Chris Hero in Ring of Honor, Aaron "The Idol" Stevens in OVW and Simply Luscious elsewhere.
- She finds her own in SHINE, Solo Darling, who has even taken up the mantel of Shark Girl.
- Sometimes Daffney is chastened for her behavior
- Perky Goth: The dark version. One set of ring gear included a shirt which read "I SCREAM" and pants depicting skulls on top of ice cream cones.◊
- Pink Means Feminine: As Shark Girl, she wore a pink mask to Shark Boy's blue.
- Power Stable:
- (in WCW): The New Blood (originally led by Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff with Jeff Jarrett as the focus before the group fell apart)
- (in Dusty Rhodes' Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling): Park Place Limited
- (in IWA Mid-South and ROH): The Second City Saints (CM Punk, Colt Cabana, etc.)
- One of many YRR who followed Young Rich And Ready For Action (Kenny King, Chasyn Rance, Steve Madison) in Full Impact Pro and ROH.
- Daffney's All-Star Squad in SHINE was a baby face variant put together to stop the out of control heels (though their "test run" was against the West Coast Connection, a team who reunited for the exact same reason). It featured Nikki Roxx, Solo Darling, Heidi Lovelace, Crazy Mary Dobson, Amazing Kong and Kimberly Maddox at various points.
- Power Trio:
- New Hardcore Revolution with David Flair and Crowbar
- Out of the larger squad, Daffney manages The Buddy System, Solo Darling and Heidi Lovelace.
- Product Placement: One of her moves is called "Leggo My Eggos".
- Put on a Bus:
- After defeating Miss Hancock in a Wedding Gown match at Bash at the Beach 2000, she made rare appearances before being released. She briefly retired and concentrated on acting, before making a return to the independent circuit.
- After filing a worker's compensation complaint against TNA. (Daffney retired due to injury after Rosie Lottalove's fat ass squashed her. Was that before or after Abyss chokeslammed her through a barbed-wire table?)
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She tried to be in SHINE anyway, even though her main duty was hosting. The antics of Mercedes Martinez seem to have made her give up.
- Red Baron: The Goth Goddess.
- Retired Badass: Emphasis on retired, as it has made her a target for ridicule from Radiant Rain, Mercedes Martinez, The SNS Express and Valifornia. "Sweet" Saraya seemingly had more sinister designs, making a b-line for Daffney after taking down the Buddy System with Rhia O'Reilly and Mayumi Ozaki. But Daffney demonstrated not being able to wrestle is not the same as being defenseless...
- Revenge by Proxy: She attacked Taylor Wilde's sorority sister and TNA backstage interviewer Lauren just because she was someone Taylor Wilde cared about.
- The Rival
- Torrie Wilson & Shane Douglas, Rachel Summerlyn, ODB, and Abyss.
- When the "smoked out icon" Tai Killer Weed found a new life in Jesus Christ and became dedicated to Teaching His Almighty Influence, Lucy felt a need to protest.
- Rock–Paper–Scissors: She and Sara Del Rey would play it at PWElement to decide who would start in tag team matches.
- Screaming Warrior: One of her nicknames is "The Scream Queen".
- Once her WCW music hit, and incessantly after that. As a Knockout, Daffney put everyone on the back foot by remaining mute up until she got to the ring, then rolling to her knees and SHRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!
- During the six-way WCW World Cruiserweight Title match involving Shannon Moore, Crowbar, Chris Candido, Juventud Guerrera, Prince Iaukeanote and Lash LeRoux, where she was seconding Crowbar, Juvy ran after her and she held him off by SCREAMING!
- At Alternative Wrestling Show Summer Heat 2013, The Scream Queens took turns vocally "battering" Candice LeRae until the referee, also having to endure their noise, ejected Daffney.
- Shout-Out:
- Has borrowed moves from Malia Hosaka (spin kick out of the corner), Lexie Fyfe (side walk slam) and Lance Storm (rolling through to single leg Boston Crab).
- Billed for a time from "Badstreet, Atlanta, GA", a la the Fabulous Freebirds.
- Signature Headgear: A tiny top hat, tilted of course.
- Signature Move
- Lucy used Marshmallow Hell (fallen angel, geddit?) and a double leg cradle.
- Shark Girl's are the Hangman's neckbreaker, knee lift, Thez Press and a lot of biting.
- Draculetta's are a European uppercut, running turnbuckle butt smash and a Sleeper hold
- Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: As you may imagine, Daffney did not sit idly by when Flair announced his engagement and subsequent live-TV wedding to Ms. Hancock. Daffney arrived at Daytona Beach with her backup (Crowbar) and fought Hancock (w/ David Flair) in the world's only Wedding Gown Match. It ended with everyone hurling wedding cake at each other. Just amazing.
- Super-Scream: Not usually, but Daffney was able to repel Juventud Guerrera with a scream.
- Tagline: At the start of her WCW run, she wore T-shirts that read "HUNGER FOR UNGER".
- Tag Team: "The Scream Queens" with the banshee MsChif. Also, Shark Boy with when she is Shark Girl. Also "Ghouls Gone Wild" with White Magic (Better known as the Lovely Lacey) when she was Draculetta in Wrestlicious (they were alternatively known as Team Beast, in direct contrast to Lacey Von Erich and Amber Lively who were Team Beautiful).
- Team Mom: To The Buddy System, particularly Solo Darling, whom she refers to as "my" and lays down ground rules for. Breaking these ground rules had led to most of the Buddy System's success though.
- The Stoic: Shark girl does vocalize but does not speak.
- Tournament Arc: Knocked off Rachel Summerlyn in the first round of the 2010 Anarchy Championship Wrestling "Queen of Queens" taking her ACW American Joshi title belt in the process. Jessica James would go on to beat Daffney in the semifinals, meaning she wouldn't even hold the belt a whole day.
- Treacherous Advisor: To Rachel Summerlyn in SHIMMER, and if Daffney's own words are to believed, a bit of a sabotutor too. Daffney would later try to "make up" for doing such a terrible job at teaching Summerlyn how to wrestle by abandoning her to the International Home Wrecking Crew and then giving her personal on the job training.
- Unstoppable Rage: Do not piss Daffney off, she will end you.
- Use Your Head: In a Slampegs video, Daffney receives two headbutts from Sara Del Rey. She tanks both of them and then floors Del Rey with a headbutt of her own.
- Versus Title: The "fins" half of the CWA Pro Skirts vs. Fins events referred to Shark Girl and Shark Boy. The skirts were Awesome Kong and Gluteus Maximus. Black Pegasus was also involved.
- Woman Bites Woman: Shark Girl's always looking for things to bite. Her victims almost always end up being deserving of it, someway or another.
- Villain Team-Up: Crowbar, Ace Steel, Traci Brooks, Velvet Sky (sometimes), Sarita (before she announced plans to conquer Orlando in the name of Mexico), Raven, and Dr. Stevie.
- Wrestling Family: Although Daffney had no children of her own, she and Jamie Lynn Senegal considered eachother to be mother and daughter. After her passing the connection crossed over into kayfabe with Jamie being billed as Daffney's daughter without any qualifiers.
- Yandere: The fallout from Bash at the Beach which was obliquely referenced on the Hermie's Hotseat webcast. On an unrelated note, David Flair was later hospitalized with a broken kneecap. The investigation is still ongoing.
