History YMMV / EvaMarie

* TheWoobie: As the seasons of ''Total Divas'' have gone on, viewers have come to see Eva as such. Whether the conflict with her family over her marriage to Jonathan was real, it's still very sad when Eva discovers that her father has cancer. It's later revealed that she's a recovering alcoholic who has massive issues with body image. Reports of her interactions with fans list her as one of the friendliest and most accessible employees too - with a general attitude of "It's a shame that someone as lovely as Eva is so bad at wrestling."

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** Attempted and failed. After weeks of badly executing the Sliced Bread, her finisher was switched to a Sliding Reverse STO. Not only is Xavier Woods doing a much better version as a mid match move, she nearly broke her ankle in the first attempt.
** Attempted again for her 2021 redebut; once it became obvious that their attempt at pushing "Eva-lution" as a face gimmick was doomed to failure even before Eva had redebuted, WWE reversed course and promoted her as a heel instead.

* CommonKnowledge: "WWE released Wrestling/MickieJames, Chelsea Green, Wrestling/PeytonRoyce and Wrestling/BillieKay to make room for Eva to come back" - a common statement that sprung up after a vignette hyping up Eva's return in 2021. She had actually been hired back in 2020, and given their several highly profitable contracts (e.g. FOX, USA, Peacock, Saudi Arabia), WWE could've rehired Eva and not done any roster cuts with little to no difficulty if they wanted to. It's also extremely unlikely Eva has a say in who else gets hired and fired. Not to mention, roster cuts and call-ups/debuts/returns both taking place shortly after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' was a commonplace thing in the pre-AEW years.

** Through some almost ''impossibly'' tone-deaf booking, WWE managed to garner a re-signed Eva a fresh new coating of loathing ''before she'd even re-debuted-'' first by, despite signing her again at the end of 2020, only officially announcing her return shortly after releasing several talented and popular but under-used women, including the legendary Wrestling/MickieJames (as mentioned under MisBlamed this is not in any way Eva's fault, but is still a ''really'' bad move by WWE), and then giving her the gimmick of "Eva-lution" shortly after Mickie had given a shoot interview where she revealed that she'd been told by a backstage figure that female wrestlers "didn't draw" and there was no chance of WWE doing a follow-up to their critically-acclaimed all-woman "Evolution" PPV from 2018, which combined with Eva's existing reputation as an atrocious worker and an extended period of really ''awful'' booking for the RAW women's division, was a move that people saw as [[TrollingCreator WWE rubbing their lack of interest in taking women's wrestling seriously in the audience's faces]]. And then it came out that WWE intended Eva's new gimmick (that of a model who'd worked really hard to become a wrestler) to be a ''face'' gimmick. Fortunately they realised at the last second that this was never going to work (since she'd already garned ''nuclear'' heat even before she'd made her first live appearance) and [[AuthorsSavingThrow switched to pushing her as a heel the week before her redebut]], but still, she never had a chance.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Attempted and failed. After weeks of badly executing the Sliced Bread, her finisher was switched to a Sliding Reverse STO. Not only is Xavier Woods doing a much better version as a mid match move, she nearly broke her ankle in the first attempt.

* XPacHeat: She garnered more nuclear heat than the Trope Namer ever did. You know it's bad when Full Sail started chanting the name of her just-debuted jobber opponent. When she issued her title challenge to Wrestling/{{Bayley}} on the November 18 edition of NXT, the crowd was booing so loud that Eva couldn't get her words out and Bayley herself was trying to calm the fans down. There are two reasons for this: the first is, in the words of [[ImageBoards Taimapedia]], her "propensity to make the first Wrestling/SinCara look botch-free", and the second is her lack of mic skills to make up for it. All the other recipients of X-Pac Heat currently in the WWE have one or the other, or maybe just a terrible character; Eva had ''all three'', making her more hated than the rest of them combined.

* CommonKnowledge: "WWE released Wrestling/MickieJames, Chelsea Green, Wrestling/PeytonRoyce and Wrestling/BillieKay to make room for Eva to come back" - a common statement that sprung up after a vignette hyping up Eva's return in 2021. She had actually been hired back in 2020, and given their several highly profitable contracts (e.g. FOX, USA, Peacock, Saudi Arabia), WWE could've rehired Eva and not done any roster cuts with little to no difficulty if they wanted to. It's also extremely unlikely Eva has a say in who else gets hired and fired. Not to mention, roster cuts and call-ups/debuts both taking place shortly after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' was a commonplace thing in the pre-AEW years.

* CommonKnowledge: "WWE released Wrestling/MickieJames, Chelsea Green, Wrestling/PeytonRoyce and Wrestling/BillieKay to make room for Eva to come back" - a common statement that sprung up after a vignette hyping up Eva's return in 2021. She had actually been hired back in 2020, and given their several highly profitable contracts (e.g. FOX, USA, Peacock, Saudi Arabia), WWE could've rehired Eva and not done any roster cuts with little to no difficulty if they wanted to. It's also extremely unlikely Eva has a say in who else gets hired and fired.

** As noted under CommonKnowledge above, many fans blame Eva's re-signing for the releases of Wrestling/MickieJames, Chelsea Green, Wrestling/PeytonRoyce and Wrestling/BillieKay. Eva had been re-signed in October 2020, months before those other women were let go.

** Through some almost ''impossibly'' tone-deaf booking, WWE managed to garner a re-signed Eva a fresh new coating of loathing ''before she'd even re-debuted-'' first by, despite signing her again at the end of 2020, only officially announcing her return shortly after releasing several talented and popular but under-used women, including the legendary Wrestling/MickieJames (as mentioned under MisBlamed this is not in any way Eva's fault, but is still a ''really'' bad move by WWE), and then giving her the gimmick of "Eva-lution" shortly after Mickie had given a shoot interview where she revealed that she'd been told by a backstage figure that female wrestlers "didn't draw" and there was no chance of WWE doing a follow-up to their critically-acclaimed all-woman "Evolution" PPV from 2018, which combined with Eva's existing reputation as an atrocious worker and an extended period of really ''awful'' booking for the RAW women's division, was a move that people saw as [[TrollingCreator WWE rubbing their lack of interest in taking women's wrestling seriously in the audience's faces]]. And then it came out that WWE intended Eva's new gimmick (that of a model who'd worked really hard to become a wrestler) to be a ''face'' gimmick. Fortunately they realised at the last second that this was never going to work (since she'd already garned ''nuclear'' heat even before she'd made her first live appearance) and [[AuthorSavingThrow switched to pushing her as a heel the week before her redebut]], but still, she never had a chance.

** Through some almost ''impossibly'' tone-deaf booking, WWE managed to garner a re-signed Eva a fresh new coating of loathing ''before she'd even re-debuted-'' first by, despite signing her again at the end of 2020, only officially announcing her return shortly after releasing several talented and popular but under-used women, including the legendary Wrestling/MickieJames (as mentioned under MisBlamed this is not in any way Eva's fault, but is still a ''really'' bad move by WWE), and then giving her the gimmick of "Eva-lution" shortly after Mickie had given a shoot interview where she revealed that she'd been told by a backstage figure that female wrestlers "didn't draw" and there was no chance of WWE doing a follow-up to their critically-acclaimed all-woman "Evolution" PPV from 2018, which combined with Eva's existing reputation as an atrocious worker and an extended period of really ''awful'' booking for the RAW women's division, was a move that people saw as [[TrollingCreator WWE rubbing their lack of interest in taking women's wrestling seriously in the audience's faces]]. And then it came out that WWE intended Eva's new gimmick (that of a model who'd worked really hard to become a wrestler) to be a ''face'' gimmick. She never had a chance.

* CommonKnowledge: "WWE released Wrestling/MickieJames, Chelsea Green, Wrestling/PeytonRoyce and Wrestling/BillieKay to make room for Eva to come back" - a common statement that sprung up after a vignette hyping up Eva's return in 2021. She had actually been hired back in 2020. It's also extremely unlikely Eva has a say in who else gets hired and fired.

* XPacHeat: She garnered more nuclear heat than the Trope Namer ever did. You know it's bad when Full Sail started chanting the name of her just-debuted jobber opponent. When she issued her title challenge to Wrestling/{{Bayley}} on the November 18 edition of NXT, the crowd was booing so loud that Eva couldn't get her words out and Bayley herself was trying to calm the fans down. There are two reasons for this: the first is, in the words of [[ImageBoards Taimapedia]], her "propensity to make the first Wrestling/SinCara look botch-free", and the second is her lack of mic skills to make up for it. All the other recipients of X-Pac Heat currently in the WWE have one or the other, or maybe just a terrible character; Eva had ''all three'', making her more hated than the rest of them combined.

* {{Misblamed}}: Eva is much hated among wrestling fans, purportedly for WWE's attempts at giving her a mega-push despite her utter lacking of in-ring ability in the midst of the "women's revolution" era. Eva's own conduct, however, indicates complete acceptance of the fact that she's not a good wrestler as well as respect for wrestling itself. She's admitted on a podcast that her ring work sucked, she went to [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Brian Kendrick]] and then to NXT to try to improve, her own actions ultimately negated the mega-push on ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown Live]]'', she tried for numerous ideas to get herself back on WWE TV as a non-wrestler before ultimately leaving the company as soon as her outside ventures got rolling, and she schooled Mia Khalifa with a reasoned, non-bitter defense of the athleticism and art form of pro wrestling on a sports talk panel. All the rightful blame for her failed experiment of a wrestling career would rest at the feet of the [=McMahons=] who tried to force the square peg of a Hollywood version of Sunny into the round hole of a manufactured Wrestling/TrishStratus (which is ironically the exact opposite of how Trish became successful), and it can be argued that Wrestling/BeckyLynch inaugurating a WWE title as well as the rise of Wrestling/AlexaBliss only got the space to happen after Eva herself torpedoed the whole thing.

* CreatorsPet: Played up slightly on ''Total Divas'' at first, where she was portrayed as a TooDumbToLive GoldDigger who frequently got away with her epic fails. WWE appeared to be trying to invoke this by putting her on TV with minimal wrestling training. However she's not a straight example as she didn't get any wins or pushes, being used only as a {{Jobber}} or manager. Until she joined NXT and got pushed to the moon, anyway.

** Since being drafted to ''[=SmackDown=]'' even with it only being on for two weeks, Eva has actually gained some supporters for two reasons. One, as mentioned above her absolutely amazing entrance that is oozing with cheese and is blatant self-aware praise about Eva, along with her doing things like faking injuries/traffic delays and pulling her top down in order to get out of competing in matches. Second, in that it seems the WWE are actually taking her in the direction that fans wish they would take someone like Wrestling/RomanReigns in the sense that they're taking a genuinely loathed and inexperienced wrestler and pushing them as a cowardly heel instead of a forced face.

* {{Misblamed}}: Eva is much hated among wrestling fans, purportedly for WWE's attempts at giving her a mega-push despite her utter lacking of in-ring ability in the midst of the "women's revolution" era. Eva's own conduct, however, indicates complete acceptance of the fact that she's not a good wrestler as well as respect for wrestling itself. She's admitted on a podcast that her ring work sucked, she went to [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Brian Kendrick]] and then to NXT to try to improve, her own actions ultimately negated the mega-push on ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown Live]]'' (which allowed Wrestling/BeckyLynch to win her first championship and gave way for the rise of Wrestling/AlexaBliss), she tried for numerous ideas to get herself back on WWE TV as a non-wrestler before ultimately leaving the company as soon as her outside ventures got rolling, and she schooled Mia Khalifa with a reasoned, non-bitter defense of the athleticism and art form of pro wrestling on a sports talk panel. All the rightful blame for her failed experiment of a wrestling career would rest at the feet of the [=McMahons=] who tried to force the square peg of a Hollywood version of Sunny into the round hole of a manufactured Wrestling/TrishStratus (which is ironically the exact opposite of how Trish became successful).

** A popular meme during the brand split draft was that she had been drafted to Pornhub[[note]]Not helped by Vivid, the company that produced adult films starring Chyna and Sunny sarcastically tweeting at her offering her a film "when her failed wrestling career dries up"[[/note]]. It doesn't help that part of her entrance now consists of entering in a long robe and then taking it off, which puts a lot of focus on her ample breasts.
** Eva's suspension (and subsequent disappearance into her NEM Fashion venture) led many fans to joke that she took her gimmick so seriously she willingly got herself suspended to avoid wrestling. The fact that she never returned to WWE television after this doesn't help.

** The fact that WWE persisted for so long with Eva Marie ''at all'' despite both her massive unpopularity and, let's be honest, complete lack of talent suggests that ''someone'' upstairs definitely had her back. The most likely candidates would be either Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself, or his right-hand man Kevin Dunn (based on [[DirtyOldMan their observed proclivities]]). Though even they got the hint eventually let her contract run out.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Almost universally despised beforehand, she's now moved into this as of her NXT re-debut. Half the base still hates her guts and thinks she has no place in a wrestling ring. Others are happy that she's at least trying to improve and support her. No less a mind than Wrestling/MickFoley vouched for her. This by and large snapped back into TheScrappy territory when she left NXT without any noticeable improvement.

** The fact that WWE is continuing to persist for so long with Eva Marie ''at all'' despite both her massive unpopularity and, let's be honest, complete lack of talent suggests that ''someone'' upstairs definitely has her back. The most likely candidates would be either Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself, or his right-hand man Kevin Dunn (based on [[DirtyOldMan their observed proclivities]]).
* FanPreferredCouple: For some reason, many fans would like to see Eva become a valet for a heel Wrestling/RomanReigns. Both are Creator's Pets and hated for pretty much the same reasons, so many are interested in seeing how much heat the two could draw together. The fact she can't wrestle would also be a plus for her numerous detractors.

** Eva's suspension (and subsequent disappearance into her NEM Fashion venture) has lead many fans to joke that she took her gimmick so seriously she willingly got herself suspended to avoid wrestling.

* NeverLiveItDown: Time will tell eventually of course but she lives in the shadow of her disastrous first performances in the ring. She's attempting to do this on NXT but still hasn't for a good majority of fans.
* PeripheryDemographic: She's actually quite popular with ''Total Divas'' audiences[[note]]Though she was hated at first due to her original portrayal as a GoldDigger[[/note]] but is near universally detested by actual wrestling fans.

** Largely undone however, similarly to Reigns ironically enough, by her violating the wellness policy and being suspended for 30 days after having the first four weeks of Smackdown Live's women division built around her. Like Roman the fans were less than pleased at a performer being given so much opportunity and then getting themselves suspended. This was amplified further when consensus was the women's division began to pick up steam and surpass RAW's the instant Eva was out of the picture, and considering that the [[Wrestling/{{Bayley}} three]] [[Wrestling/SashaBanks most]] [[Wrestling/{{Charlotte}} over]] women on the main roster are on RAW [[note]]The fourth Horsewoman, Becky, being on [=SmackDown=][[/note]] is no small feat (though to be fair the introduction of an actual title was just as much of a help in that sense). She also hasn't appeared on [=SmackDown=] since and is sitting out the rest of her contract to focus on her new fashion line, [[IKnewIt seemingly confirming that Eva was only using WWE as a stepping stone]] and forever tarnishing her less-than-stellar reputation with the hardcore fanbase.

* XPacHeat: So much so that she could be the new {{Trope Namer|s}}, as she's garnered more nuclear heat than the Trope Namer ever did. You know it's bad when Full Sail started chanting the name of her just-debuted jobber opponent. When she issued her title challenge to Wrestling/{{Bayley}} on the November 18 edition of NXT, the crowd was booing so loud that Eva couldn't get her words out and Bayley herself was trying to calm the fans down. There are two reasons for this: the first is, in the words of [[ImageBoards Taimapedia]], her "propensity to make the first Wrestling/SinCara look botch-free", and the second is her lack of mic skills to make up for it. All the other recipients of X-Pac Heat currently in the WWE have one or the other, or maybe just a terrible character; Eva has ''all three'', making her more hated than the rest of them combined.

** A popular meme during the brand split draft was that she had been drafted to Pornhub [[note]]Not helped by Vivid, the company that produced adult films starring Chyna and Sunny sarcastically tweeting at her offering her a film "when her failed wrestling career dries up"[[/note]]. It doesn't help that part of her entrance now consists of entering in a long robe and then taking it out, which puts a lot of focus on her ample breasts.

** A popular meme during the brand split draft was that she had been drafted to Pornhub. It doesn't help that part of her entrance now consists of entering in a long robe and then taking it out, which puts a lot of focus on her ample breasts.

* AwesomeMusic: Eva might be...well, Eva, but kudos to CFO$ for giving her a great entrance track, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZVna5b8Pu4 "Time to Rise"]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEtSS0HOXBM The remixed version]], which has added drums in the intro, is even better.

* FunnyMoments: The time her below-mentioned hammy introduction got to her name.... and then revealed that she wasn't at the arena yet as she was stuck in traffic.

** Her forced MarySue introduction (see below) is gearing up to become this.
** A popular meme during the brand split draft was that she had been drafted to Pornhub. It doesn't help that part of her entrance now consists of entering in a longrobe and then taking it out, which puts a lot of focus on her ample breasts.

* NarmCharm: Her absolutely over-the-top and ridiculous entrance that premiered at the first ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'' after they reintroduced the brand split, where the entire arena was bathed in red light while a male old-school narrator-style voiceover described Eva in such a way that it made her sound like a MarySue. It got major heat from the crowd, but many watching at home admit to busting a gut laughing at it and that it was easily one of the best parts of the show. It was first tested out at NXT live events, albeit not as a voiceover; but with Eva forcing ring announcers Tom Philips and Eden Stiles to introduce her with it.

** She ''attempted'' this by getting more training and competing at NXT. Her XPacHeat has died down a little and some would argue that she's transformed it partially into genuine heel heat. There can be audible "let's go Eva" chants during her matches at NXT anyway. There's also a few who find her LoveToHate. Unfortunately, many fans also say that she has reached a point where she is almost completely unrescuable from the heap — just like how ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' couldn't completely save Jar Jar Binks.[[note]]Funnily enough, at least one fan has posited a theory that Eva is playing up how terrible she is and is actually better than she's letting on, similar to the idea that's caught fire in the ''Star Wars'' fandom about Jar Jar secretly being a trained Force user and Sith mastermind. Unfortunately for Eva, that sort of thing is much easier to believe about a CGI movie character than a real life inexperienced pro wrestler.[[/note]] Especially since internet [[SmartMark smarks]] typically aren't the type that forget or forgive very easily. Judging by her near-unanimous negative reaction upon her return to the main roster in 2016, her scrappy status looks to be set in stone.

** Largely undone however, similarly to Reigns ironically enough, by her violating the wellness policy and being suspended for 30 days after having the first four weeks of Smackdown Live's women division built around her. Like Roman the fans were less than pleased at a performer being given so much opportunity and then getting themselves suspended. This was amplified further when consensus was the women's division began to pick up steam and surpass RAW's the instant Eva was out of the picture, and considering that the [[Wrestling/{{Bayley}} three]] [[Wrestling/SashaBanks most]] [[Wrestling/{{Charlotte}} over]] women on the main roster are on RAW [[note]]The fourth Horsewoman, Becky, being on [=SmackDown=][[/note]] is no small feat (though to be fair the introduction of an actual title was just as much of a help in that sense). She also hasn't appeared on [=SmackDown=] since and is sitting out the rest of her contract to focus on her new fashion line, seemingly confirming that Eva was only using WWE as a stepping stone and forever tarnishing her less-than-stellar reputation with the hardcore fanbase.

* PeripheryDemographic: She's actually quite popular with ''Total Divas'' audiences[[note]]Though she was hated at first due to her original portrayal as a GoldDigger[[/not]] but is near universally detested by actual wrestling fans.