History Wrestling / BeckyLynch

-->'''Becky:''' Because I want the best, most aggressive version of everyone coming after this (Raw Women's Championship)! I wanna fight the best!

* BloodySmile: As mentioned directly above, Becky got in a brawl with Wrestling/NiaJax in November 2018 and accidentally took a stiff, bloody punch to the face, genuinely breaking her nose and concussing her. Amazingly, Becky [[MadeOfIron worked off the injury]] and continued with the match, and the image of her in the aftermath -- with a bloody, visibly broken face, but still smiling and proudly defiant -- is widely cited as what catapulted her to megastardom.

* BreakTheCutie: Becky is one of the best on the roster at selling betrayal and emotional hurt. Of course, she has plenty of practice as the bookers seem to take particular joy in spending weeks or months building up the relationship between Becky and some other talent before it ends in them viciously betraying her.
* BreakoutCharacter: There's an argument to be made that Becky was 2018's breakout wrestler of the year not just for WWE itself, but for ''all of wrestling.'' No other wrestler in the world - not [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], not Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada, not even Wrestling/KennyOmega - can make the claim that Becky can, to have gone from the very bottom of the card to being arguably the face of their entire company, with entire ''arenas'' chanting their name, within the space of a month. Her popularity even makes her the first woman to be on the cover of a WWE video game, sharing the spot with Roman Reigns in ''WWE 2K20''.
* BringIt: When several people challenged her for the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship, Becky told them to line up and that she will beat them all.

* ButNotTooWhite: Has a very thick orange tan as of her main roster debut.

* DeadpanSnarker: Becky's late-2018 repackaging has made absolutely stellar use of her cutting, ''hilariously'' ruthless sense of humor. Not even ''Conor [=McGregor=]'' has been safe from Lynch's pointed barbs and biting Tweets.

** After losing to Bianca Belair in their rubber match for the Raw Women's Championship match at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', Lynch would gain enough respect for Belair to not only shake her hand post-match, but also stand at her side to confront Wrestling/{{Bayley}} and her new group Control.

** After losing to Bianca Belair in their rubber match for the Raw Women's Championship match and ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', Lynch would gain enough respect for Belair to not only shake her hand post-match, but also stand at her side to confront Wrestling/{{Bayley}} and her new group Control.

** Out of the Four Horsewomen, she is the only one who isn't an outright heel even when she is one. Whereas the other three act as a stereotypical heel (arrogant, cowardly in the face of an opponent, denying challengers a championship match, and typical KickTheDog moments), Becky instead portrays as a BloodKnight ChallengeSeeker who wants to see a different opponent instead of the same one every time. While she acts as a typical heel when she is Big Time Becks, it is portrayed more as an AffablyEvil. As seen during her feud with Liv Morgan, she bad mouths her every time but instead being treated as an insult, it serves as a flame for Liv and to see whether or not she can be a WorthyOpponent for Becky or not.

In 2011, she got back in the game with {{Wrestling/SHIMMER}}, managing former rival Sweet Saraya and her daughter, Becky's longtime friend Britani Knight, who would become better known as Wrestling/{{Paige}}. A year later, Becky reentered the ring, and in 2013 she signed with {{Wrestling/WWE}} to became Becky Lynch. Under her current ring name, she is one fourth of WWE's "Four Horsewomen" (alongside Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, Wrestling/SashaBanks and Wrestling/{{Bayley}}), a cohort of four women who came through NXT and were a major part of the revolution of women's wrestling in WWE through their stellar matches.

Her initial happy-go-lucky, [[{{Oireland}} Irish-jigging]] gimmick was poorly received; this led to her makeover into a steampunk-turned punk rocker persona, which was less stereotypical and truer to herself. She slowly ascended from a frustrated [[{{face}} babyface]] getting held back on the sidelines (both in {{kayfabe}} and [[RealitySubtext in real life]]) to the sidekick of a legitimate contender in the ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'' women's division, to the good-hearted bruiser of the main roster women's division after joining ''Raw'' as part of a stable including Paige, to [[TheDogBitesBack a badass, not-giving-a-crap-anymore]] {{antihero}} when she turned heel against Wrestling/CharlotteFlair on ''[=SmackDown=]'', drawing comparisons to a [[DistaffCounterpart female]] Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin. The initial feud with Charlotte drew her unprecedented praise and attention from the entirety of the wrestling industry, in what now is remembered as one of the top female rivalries in WWE history.

Lynch went on maternity leave in May 2020 following a pregnancy with Wrestling/SethRollins. Their first child, a daughter named Roux, was born on December 4 of that year. They subsequently got married in June 2021, and in August of that year, Lynch returned at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2021'' -- as a proper {{heel}}, no less. She currently performs on ''Raw''.

* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: She has dropped these multiple times in the WWE without hesitation despite its infamous PG rating.

** Out of the Four Horsewomen, she is the only one who isn't an outright heel even when she is one. Whereas the other three act as a stereotypical heel (arrogant, cowardly in the face of an opponent, denying challengers a championship match, and typical KickTheDog moments), Becky instead potrays as a BloodKnight ChallengeSeeker who wants to see a different opponent instead of the same one every time. While she acts as a typical heel when she is Big Time Becks, it is potrayed more as an AffablyEvil. As seen during her feud with Liv Morgan, she bad mouths her every time but instead being treated as an insult, it serves as a flame for Liv and to see whether or not she can be a WorthyOpponent for Becky or not.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Around early 2018, her affinity for quinoa struck out with its own online following.

** After a concussion took her out of the ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'' match against Creator/RondaRousey, she chose her replacement from [=SmackDown's=] top female wrestlers. Looking them all over, she quietly said "You," to Charlotte (whom she'd beaten in a Last Woman Standing match barely two weeks before), told her to beat Ronda and make her tap out the way Becky was going to, shook her hand, and then gave her a hug. Averted a few weeks later when their feud continue as Becky doesn't consider Charlotte worthy over her title since she was given the opportunity to compete against her instead of earning it.

** After losing to Bianca Belair in their rubber match for the Raw Women's Champship match and ''Summerslam 2022'', Lynch would gain enough respect for Belair to not only shake her hand post-match, but also stand at her side to confront Wrestling/{{Bayley}} and her new group Control.

* YouAreWhatYouHate: A day after ''TLC 2019'', Becky realizes the downside of being the top girl of the company. Now that she is WWE's new golden girl, the system that once prevented her from winning a title is now "protecting" her from losing it by putting her in the tag team division and not letting her defend her Raw Women's Championship for two months. Not wanting to be a CreatorsPet like those she lashed out for a year, Becky challenged the only person on the roster who she had yet to beat, [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]].

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Turned face and made up with Bianca Belair at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', even backing her up against Bayley's new faction of Damage [=CTRL=]. Unfortunately, it was revealed afterwards that Becky had separated her shoulder during the match and had to take a break to recover. She would later be attacked by Damage CTRL backstage and become their first ever victim as a collective faction. However, this later became subverted on the November 25, 2022 episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'', when she was revealed as the fifth and final member for Bianca's team at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries''.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Turned face and made up with Bianca Belair at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', even backing her up against Bayley's new faction of Damage [=CTRL=]. Unfortunately, it was revealed afterwards that Becky had separated her shoulder during the match and had to take a break to recover. She would later be attacked by Damage CTRL backstage and become their first ever victim as a collective faction. However, this became subverted on the November 25, 2022 episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'' as the fifth and final member for Bianca's team.

* HeelFaceDoorslam: Turned face and made up with Bianca Belair at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', even backing her up against Bayley's new faction of Damage [=CTRL=]. Unfortunately, it was revealed afterwards that Becky had separated her shoulder during the match and had to take a break to recover. She would later be attacked by Damage CTRL backstage, and become their first ever victim as a collective faction.

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** At the height of her popularity in the second half of 2018, Becky was scheduled to face Creator/RondaRousey at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'' in a Champion vs Champion match. For weeks after ''Evolution'' the two exchanged jabs on numerous occasions over who is the better fighter and compared their history to the point they were {{Foil}}s to each other. A week before their match, Becky led an invasion on Raw and attacked Ronda backstage before beating her up with a steel chair. Unfortunately, Becky had her nose broken by Wrestling/NiaJax and had to be pulled out from the match, postponing it to a later date. At ''TLC'' 2018, Ronda interfered in Becky's match and cost her the title, further elevating the feud. After winning the ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'' in 2019, Becky moved to Raw and challenged Ronda for the Raw Women's Championship at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 35''. Things became a little complicated when Wrestling/CharlotteFlair got involved again and replaced Becky after the latter was suspended by Vince. That said, pretty much the entire IWC treated the "suspension" as 100% work, and fully expected Becky to join Ronda and Charlotte in a three-way [=WrestleMania=] main event. And following ''[[Wrestling/WWEFastlane Fastlane]] 2019'', the three-way ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' match indeed came about, and was officially announced as the main event about two weeks before [=WrestleMania=]. The stakes were taken UpToEleven when Charlotte won the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship, and a stipulation was added that the winner at WM would take home ''both belts''.

* FashionVictimVillain: Her entrance gear under the Big Time Becks after her heel turn at Summerslam 2021 was absolutely ridiculous looking, when announcing that she'd been injured at Summerslam 2022 she indicated that she had turned face and reverted to her The Man persona, meaning her clothes would have been much more sensible going forward.

* SpiritualSuccessor: She's already drawing Wrestling/{{Lita}} comparisons.
** Her second [=SmackDown=] Women's title reign in 2018 was fairly similar to the one that Wrestling/AJStyles went on with the WWE Championship just a couple years prior. Just like Styles, Becky played a cocky kind of heel, but not in the way most WWE heels are, and the crowd absolutely couldn't get enough of her to the point that even the most popular faces had trouble getting any cheers against her.
** Of course, there's also the prevailing comparison: Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin. Like Austin, Becky is an aggressive, foulmouthed AntiHero with virtually unparalleled charisma and ''godlike'' popularity with wrestling fans, and all attempts to turn her into a proper heel have been met with overwhelming scorn and subsequently fallen flat. The fact that Austin himself is a fan of Becky's and has praised her on numerous occasions has only fueled the parallels.

** After she unable to win back the Raw Women's Championship from Bianca at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', she's finally putting this aside as the two finally embraced together in the ring. She's even standing to her against the returning Bayley and her new allies, the returning Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky.

** After she unable to win back the Raw Women's Championship from Bianca at [=SummerSlam=] 2022, she's finally putting this aside as the two finally embraced together in the ring. She's even standing to her against the returning Bayley and her new allies, the returning Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky.

Lynch went on maternity leave in May 2020 following a pregnancy with Wrestling/SethRollins. Their first child, a daughter named Roux, was born on December 4 of that year. They subsequently got married in June 2021, and in August of that year, Lynch returned at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2021'' -- as a proper {{heel}} for the first time in her WWE career, no less. She currently performs on ''Raw''.

* {{Corpsing}}:
** When Wrestling/TheMiz compares the break-up of PCB to that of Music/OneDirection, Becky can be seen smiling and chuckling to herself.
** Tried valiantly to keep it together during a post-Mixed Match Challenge interview with Wrestling/SamiZayn, throughout a hilarious diatribe about how the WWE Universe wasn't snapping enough to support their team. He goes on to blame the birthday cake - "local Philly bakery, too heavy" - for their loss, and Becky just loses it. She does turn it into fake crying, to her credit, but it's a pretty funny corpse.
** During a ''WebVideo/{{React}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a0tymHAiYw "Try To Watch This Without Laughing Or Grinning" episode]] featuring her, Wrestling/AlexaBliss, Wrestling/AliciaFox, and Wrestling/MickieJames, Becky was the only one who went in while [[{{Kayfabe}} in her on-screen character]]. She's one of the three (the other two being Bliss and Fox) to fail on the very first challenge and was the second one (after Bliss) to do so. She placed 2nd overall (Mickie won).

* BloodySmile: As mentioned directly above, Becky got in a brawl with Wrestling/NiaJax in November 2018 and accidentally took a stiff, bloody punch to the face, genuinely breaking her nose and concussing her. Amazingly, Becky [[MadeOfIron worked off the injury]] and continued with the match, and the image of her in the aftermath -- with a bloody, visibly broken, but still smiling and proudly defiant -- is widely cited as what catapulted her to megastardom.

Lynch is a four-time [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] Women's Champion in addition to being the inaugural champion, both a two-time [[Wrestling/WWERaw RAW]] Women's Champion and the championship's longest holder, the second ever Women's Royal Rumble winner, the victor of the first-ever ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}}'' main event to feature women, and the first-ever woman to hold both the [=SmackDown=] and RAW titles simultaneously. It is no hyperbole to claim that she was not only the face of WWE at the height of her popularity, but has gone down as one of the most popular wrestlers of her generation, if not all time.

Lynch is a four-time [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] Women's Champion in addition to being the inaugural champion, both a two-time [[Wrestling/WWERaw RAW]] Women's Champion and the championship's current holder, the second ever Women's Royal Rumble winner, the victor of the first-ever ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}}'' main event to feature women, and the first-ever woman to hold both the [=SmackDown=] and RAW titles simultaneously. It is no hyperbole to claim that she was not only the face of WWE at the height of her popularity, but has gone down as one of the most popular wrestlers of her generation, if not all time.

Lynch went on maternity leave in May 2020 following a pregnancy with Wrestling/SethRollins. Their first child, a daughter named Roux, was born on December 4 of that year. They subsequently got married in June 2021, and in August of that year, Lynch returned at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2021'' -- as a proper {{heel}} for the first time in her career, no less. She currently performs on ''Raw''.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: She wears one as part of her wrestling gear during her {{Steampunk}} phase.

* BlasphemousBoast: Perhaps an unintentional one. Becky [[{{Catchphrase}} uses]] and [[PhraseCatcher catches]] the phrase "The Man comes (back) around" fairly often, which is a ShoutOut to a well-known Music/JohnnyCash song.[[note]]Wrestling/CoreyGraves even quotes the first line of the song word-for-word, which also doubles as a quotation from [[Literature/TheBible the Book of Revelation].[[/note]] In the song itself, the titular "Man" is UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}.

** As far as her contemporaries on the roster, she and Wrestling/SethRollins have no shortage of similarities. They both call themselves "The Man," they're both avid [=CrossFitters=], they've both been WWE double-champions, they're the most popular faces on [=SmackDown=] and Raw, respectively, and at [=WrestleMania=] 35, they both defeated household-name heels from the MMA world for a Raw top championship while wearing black and gold ring attire. To put the icing on top of all that cake, the two are legitimately engaged and, in a WWE first, co-main-evented a PPV where they defended their respective titles [[BattleCouple together]] in a mixed tag match.

** She is the last of the Four Horsewomen to win a championship but after losing it 3 months later, she never had another championship match for eighteen months, from ''[=WrestleMania=] 33 to ''[=SummerSlam=] 2018''. In order to get the oppportunity for that match, she had to go on and defeat every women in the ''[=SmackDown=]'' locker room, including then champion, Carmella. However, Charlotte was eventually inserted into the match, after two months of absence, and not long after losing the championship, frustrating Becky. After Charlotte won the match that night, Becky finally reach her breaking point and beat up Charloote, leading to the aforementioned FaceHeelTurn.

** She wins her first and second [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship on a September PPV in a Southern state by defeating a wrestler whose name starts with "C" and loses it three months later at TLC to a wrestler with MultiColoredHair whose name starts with "A" in a match where she doesn't have to be pinned. In addition, she was scheduled for a match against a blonde oppponent during both reigns only to be pulled out due to an injury.