History Wrestling / Emma

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Tenille Dashwood (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian professional wrestler who debuted for the Professional Wrestling Alliance in Melbourne as Valentine. After three years in Australia she would be invited to the USA to wrestle for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}, which she would do as Tenille Tayla. Tenille also went up North to Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling and became a two time [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] [=SuperGirl's=] title holder. She also made stops in Manitoba's Steeltown Pro Wrestling and Wrestling Fan Xperience.

After concluding a tour with a different PWA in Canada, the Prairie Wrestling Alliance, Tenille signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where she became known on its main roster and in its developmental territory [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] as Emma. She debuted on [[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]] in 2014 before returning to [=NXT=] in 2015. She later returned to Raw in 2016, but was abruptly released on October 29, 2017. She's now performing for Wrestling/RingOfHonor.

More on Emma at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_(wrestler) The Other Wiki]].
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!! "Emmataining Tropes":

* AbortedArc:
** The teased love angle with Wrestling/SantinoMarella and their feud with Wrestling/{{Fandango}} and Wrestling/SummerRae were both quietly dropped without any real resolution one way or the other.
** She and Paige made a couple of Instagram videos that seemed to imply that Emma had her eyes on not just becoming Divas Champion, but also on becoming Paige (stealing her jacket, using her catchphrase, putting on a black wig and mimicking Paige's signature roar). After Emma got arrested, released and rehired, the arc seems to have been dropped.
** Her and Wrestling/{{Dana|Brooke}} re-teaming up on the main roster to antagonize Wrestling/BeckyLynch had to be abruptly ended when Emma suffered a serious back injury.
** She was set to return from the back injury as Emmalina, a sort of time-displaced Diva. Hype packages towards Emmalina's return aired for over four months[[note]]17 weeks, to be exact[[/note]] before being abruptly dropped. Allegedly the angle was canned at the very last minute because Emma couldn't pull off the gimmick.
* AlmostKiss: With Wrestling/SantinoMarella until Wrestling/{{Fandango}} kicked him in the head.
* ArchEnemy: Kellie Skater had some sort of grudge toward Tenille Tayla. Wrestling/SummerRae once ''hated'' her. Depicted mostly in ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'', though the feud between the team of Emma and Wrestling/{{Santino|Marella}} and the team of Summer and Wrestling/{{Fandango}} on the main roster counts as a MythologyGag, considering the women's history with each other.
* ArmourPiercingSlap: Delivered one to Bayley after a grumpy speech failed to affect her.
* AscendedMeme: A fan with a bubble gun blew bubbles at Emma during one of her entrances. Fast forward a few weeks and she's now using a bubble gun of her own, bubbles are incorporated into her entrance and animations of them even appear in her entrance video.
* BigDamnHeroes: When Wrestling/SummerRae, Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}, and Wrestling/SashaBanks started beating the crap out of Wrestling/{{Bayley}} on ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'', Emma and Wrestling/{{Paige}} stormed the ring and chased them off.
* BluntYes: At one point during their match together on the August 14, 2014 edition of ''Superstars'', Emma flustered Wrestling/AliciaFox by executing a two-step move that landed Fox on her ass. Fox crawled out of the ring and screeched out "You don't embarrass ''me''!" Emma's response was a straightforward "I just did."
* BoobsOfSteel: She is quite buxom, though her moveset is more technical than power based like most of the female wrestlers also associated with this trope.
* BreakTheCutie: As of her return to NXT in March 2015, this seems to be the effect of her stint on the main roster.
* TheBully: Turned into one when she returned to NXT.
* CaptainErsatz: She uses her "All About Me" gimmick in Wrestling/RingOfHonor but this time under her real name, similar to what Wrestling/ScottHall did in Wrestling/WCW.
* TheCassandra: During her 2016 feud with Wrestling/BeckyLynch, Emma always berates the latter for being too {{Adorkable}} while evoking her "nice girls finish last" mentality. And while Lynch seemed to prove her wrong by becoming the first ever [=SmackDown=] Women's Champion later that year, she did found herself gradually getting OutOfFocus for almost two years after this, and only regained prominence by adopting a DarkerAndEdgier gimmick change not unlike Emma's.
* CatchPhrase: Oh boy... Emmalution, Emmatainment, Emmalicious, Empressive... [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] once by Wrestling/WilliamRegal on commentary, asking if Tom Phillips expected a royalty cheque every time he attached 'Emma' onto a word.
** Becomes "It's all about me!" during her last WWE run.
* ChefOfIron: She loves cooking, and even had an online CookingShow on Website/YouTube for a while.
* TheChewToy: Bubbly Emma spent two [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] matches as a {{heel}}, but fans found her gimmick endearing and she quickly became a {{face}}.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Bubbly Emma really isn't the brightest bulb.
* CombinationAttack: Puts two opponents in head locks and grabs their nearest arms while [[Wrestling/BillieKay Jessie McKay]] jumps on all their backs and wrenches the furthest arms.
* ConspicuousGloves: Started rocking them at ''[=TakeOver=]: London'' for her match against [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]].
* CoolShades: Same as the gloves.
* CoolTeacher: Had one — and so another pupil of the [[Wrestling/LanceStorm technical wizard]] lands on the WWE's active roster.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Outside of the ring, she's apparently been responsible for accidentally injuring Wrestling/SantinoMarella (in {{kayfabe}}, of course), but he still loves her.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Eh, she comes from a [[LandDownUnder somewhat arid land]] and is in a business that encourages tanning, so probably a JustifiedTrope.
* {{Determinator}}: In real life. Tenille dislocated a shoulder during a ring drill and popped it back in a few minutes later. The relevant part of the video starts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uy70zIvHnw&feature=youtu.be&t=05m13s here]].
* DistaffCounterpart:
** Not Emma herself, but after being paired with Wrestling/{{Santino|Marella}}, she wound up incorporating his [[FinishingMove Cobra]] into her arsenal, complete with a bright pink Cobra-esque puppet named [[PunnyName Ven-Emma]].
** An arrogant {{heel}} character who wears black gloves, aviator shades, and one other entrance item in addition to her ring gear, after having played a drastically different {{face}} character for quite a long time. Are we talking Evil Emma, or "The Cleaner" Wrestling/KennyOmega?
* TheDitz: She would frequently injure [[Wrestling/SantinoMarella Santino]] while trying to show him her gratitude or some affection.
* EarlyBirdCameo: {{Subverted|Trope}}, as announcers would specifically call attention to her OnceAnEpisode appearances on main programming and say she was from ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]''; therefore viewers with any sort of knowledge of how things work in a wrestling promotion would know she was debuting soon. This culminated in a segment where Wrestling/SantinoMarella called her out of the crowd and into the ring.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: As her heel turn was completed, her blonde hair became replaced with a balayage of brown into blonde.
* EyeScream: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ena9drAe7w Summer once]] threw bubble solution in her eyes as revenge after Emma [[SoreLoser won a match against her]].
* FinishingMove: As Tenille Tayla on the indies she used a running big boot to the side of a bent-over or kneeled opponent's head, similar to Wrestling/{{M|ontelVontaviousPorter}}VP's Drive-By Kick. In WWE as Emma she has the Emma Lock (see below). Since her release Dashwood has gone back to using that kick as a finisher, now called Spotlight the Difference.
* FiveMovesOfDoom: Dil-Emma (a tarantula), Emmamite Sandwich (a crossbody to an opponent seated at the bottom turnbuckle), catapult into the Emma Lock (a [[Wrestling/TheGreatMuta Muta Lock]]).
* GameBreakingInjury:
** Spent 2006 and 2007 as a member of the Professional Wrestling Alliance's ring crew due to a shoulder injury putting a break on her wrestling. She was signed to WWE but did not report to FCW for over a year in order to get surgery for the shoulder.
** Happened in 2016 with her back, which put her on the shelf for about six months or so.
* GenkiGirl: Really gives off this vibe, particularly as a face.
* GoldfishPoopGang: She and Dana have made a habit of antagonizing just about everyone they can think of. And most of the time they both got their asses handed back to them.
* GoneHorriblyRight: As mentioned above, Emma's constant berating of Wrestling/BeckyLynch for her {{Adorkable}} GirlNextDoor personality during their 2016 feud, stating that it will "not get the latter anywhere". While it seemed bitterness on Emma's part at first for her own shortcomings while she herself was like that, her claim was validated when Becky in fact found herself gradually OutOfFocus for almost two years after losing her [=SmackDown=] Women's Title and only regaining prominence after dropping said friendly gimmick over a DarkerAndEdgier one.
* HappyDance: [[http://www.wwe.com/superstars/divas/emma The official WWE profile page for Emma]] quotes Emma as saying that the Emma Dance is her "victory dance" that she does "to celebrate the fact that I am, indeed, a winner."
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor:
** While in the middle of a heel turn on NXT, she still competed as a face in matches on the main roster. And earlier when she first turned face on NXT, she still competed as a heel at live events for a while.
** Finally went full heel when she went back to NXT full-time, bullying Bayley and allying herself with Wrestling/DanaBrooke.
* HotterAndSexier: The intended goal of her [[AbortedArc abruptly dropped]] Emmalina gimmick change was to turn her into a MsFanservice FemmeFatale character akin to Wrestling/{{Sable}} and [[Wrestling/StacyCarter the Kat]].
* IShallTauntYou: The girl spends half of her in-ring time doing the Emma Dance.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Since her heel turn, Emma has been using this as a catchphrase during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENvEKP7qsJ4 promos]], and even shouts "IT'S ABOUT MEEEEEE!" during matches. It would later becomes her last theme song before her release.
* JadeColoredGlasses: After a failed attempt on the main roster, she became very cynical when she returned to NXT.
* JobberEntrance: An infamous case that lead to [=#GiveDivasAChance=] "trending" on Website/{{Twitter}}, as WWE so loves to keep track of.
* LandDownUnder: She is the first-ever Australian Diva.
* LovelyAngels: Tenille Tayla with fellow Aussie in a foreign land [[Wrestling/BillieKay Jessie McKay]]. And with Dana Brooke on NXT as Team Disingenuous.
* MeaningfulRename: Averted, she was supposed to return as Emmalina, a sort of throwback to earlier Divas, but creative thought that she couldn't pull it off.
* OddFriendship: With Wrestling/{{Paige}}, off and on.
* OnlyOneName: She's simply addressed as Emma.
* PowerStable: In Ring Of Honor, she's part of "Lifeblood" along with Juice Robinson, David Finlay Jr., Tracy Williams, Mark Haskins and Bandido as the TheSmurfettePrinciple of the stable
* PungeonMaster:
** One of Tenille's signature moves was a Yakuza kick she called "Tayla Made."
** Emma has given pun after pun after pun off her name. See CatchPhrase.
** One of her moves is named the Emmamite Sandwich, a nod to Vegemite — a popular sandwich filling in Australia. Emma herself is a huge fan of it.
* TheResenter: To Wrestling/BeckyLynch and Wrestling/{{Bayley}}. After seeing Lynch and Bayley get over as {{Adorkable}} GirlNextDoor types, eventually to the point of achieving ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' moments of awesome, Emma, still carrying the sting of her initial failure, is determined to make sure that whichever one she shares a locker room with learns that "nice girls finish last".
* TheRival:
** Frequently opposed the Canadian Ninjas Portia Perez and Nicole Matthews. Tenille and Matthews have had some periods of cooperation though. Tenille and Veronika Vice feuded over the [=SuperGirls=] title throughout Canada but worked together when they were booked as a team by the Prairie Wrestling Alliance.
** Summer Rae. Even when their feud was long over, they still faced each other in numerous singles matches.
* ShutUpKirk: Her heel turn was foreshadowed when she interrupted Bayley's WorldOfCardboardSpeech with a slap.
* SignatureMove: Tenille's were a [[Wrestling/MasatoTanaka roaring elbow]], Yakuza kick and bridging Indian death lock.
* TookALevelInCynic: Her main gimmick since returning to NXT (see JadeColoredGlasses above).
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Wrestling/SantinoMarella. Given that he has since retired from in-ring activity, it is likely to ''stay'' unresolved.
* VillainTeamUp:
** She was in the middle of a heel turn while tormenting Bayley. Around the same time Dana Brooke was antagonising Bayley's friend Charlotte. So the two formed an alliance known as Team Disingenuous. Both then debuted on the main roster calling themselves The '''[[FunWithAcronyms E]]'''[[FunWithAcronyms n]]'''[[FunWithAcronyms D]]''' (Emma and Dana) but Emma had to be taken off TV after suffering a back injury.
** Her return to Raw had her teaming up with Charlotte and Nia Jax in a six-woman tag team match against Bayley, Sasha Banks, and now-face Dana Brooke.
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After concluding a tour with a different PWA in Canada, the Prairie Wrestling Alliance, Tenille signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where she became known on its main roster and in its developmental territory [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] as Emma. She debuted on [[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]] in 2014 before returning to [=NXT=] in 2015. She later returned to Raw in 2016, but was abruptly released on October 29, 2017.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Since her heel turn, Emma has been using this as a catchphrase during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENvEKP7qsJ4 promos]], and even shouts "IT'S ABOUT MEEEEEE!" during matches.

* {{UST}}: With Wrestling/SantinoMarella. Given that he has since retired from in-ring activity, it is likely to ''stay'' unresolved.
* VillainTeamUp: She was in the middle of a heel turn while tormenting Bayley. Around the same time Dana Brooke was antagonising Bayley's friend Charlotte. So the two formed an alliance known as Team Disingenuous. Both then debuted on the main roster calling themselves The '''[[FunWithAcronyms E]]'''[[FunWithAcronyms n]]'''[[FunWithAcronyms D]]''' (Emma and Dana) but Emma had to be taken off TV after suffering a back injury.

* [[ManChild Womanchild]]: Most definitely.

** Her and Wrestling/{{Dana|Brooke}} re-teaming up on the main roster to antagonise Wrestling/BeckyLynch had to be abruptly ended when Emma suffered a serious back injury.

* ArchEnemy: Kellie Skater had some sort of grudge toward Tenille Tayla. Wrestling/SummerRae once ''hated'' her. Depicted mostly in ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'', though the feud between the team of Emma and Wrestling/{{Santino|Marella }} and the team of Summer and Wrestling/{{Fandango}} on the main roster counts as a MythologyGag, considering the women's history with each other.

* FinishingMove: As Tenille Tayla on the indies she used a running big boot to the side of a bent-over or kneeled opponent's head, similar to Wrestling/{{M|ontelVontaviousPorter}}VP's Drive-By Kick. In WWE as Emma she has the Emma Lock (see below).

* HotterAndSexier: The intended goal of her [[AbortedArc abruptly dropped]] Emmalina Gimmick change was to turn her into a MsFanservice FemmeFatale character akin to Wrestling/{{Sable}} and [[Wrestling/StacyCarter the Kat]].

** Her and Dana re-teaming up on the main roster to antagonise Wrestling/BeckyLynch had to be abruptly ended when Emma suffered a serious back injury.

* ArchEnemy: Kellie Skater had some sort of grudge toward Tenille Tayla. Wrestling/SummerRae once ''hated'' her. Depicted mostly in ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'', though the feud between the team of Emma and [[Wrestling/SantinoMarella Santino]] and the team of Summer and Wrestling/{{Fandango}} on the main roster counts as a MythologyGag, considering the women's history with each other.

* CombinationAttack: Puts two opponents in head locks and grabs their nearest arms while Jessie [=McKay=] jumps on all their backs and wrenches the furthest arms.

* HotterAndSexier: The main point of her becoming Emmalina, apparently.

* LovelyAngels: Tenille Tayla with fellow Aussie in a foreign land Jessie [=McKay=]. And with Dana Brooke on NXT as Team Disingenuous.

** She was set to return from the back injury as Emmalina, a sort of time-displaced Diva. Hype packages towards Emmalina's return aired for over four months[[note]]17 weeks, to be exact[[/note]] before being abruptly dropped. Allegedly the angle was canned at the very last minutes because Emma couldn't pull the gimmick off.

* GamebreakingInjury:

** An arrogant evil character who wears black gloves, aviator shades, and one other entrance item in addition to her ring gear. Are we talking Evil Emma, or "The Cleaner" Wrestling/KennyOmega?

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], as announcers would specifically call attention to her OnceAnEpisode appearances on main programming and say she was from ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]''; therefore viewers with any sort of knowledge of how things work in a wrestling promotion would know she was debuting soon. This culminated in a segment where Wrestling/SantinoMarella called her out of the crowd and into the ring.

After concluding a tour with a different PWA in Canada, the Prairie Wrestling Alliance, Tenille signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where she became known on its main roster and in its developmental territory [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] as Emma. She debuted on [[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]] in 2014 before returning to [=NXT=] in 2015. She later returned to Raw in 2016.

** An arrogant evil character who wears black gloves, aviator shades, and one other entrance item in addition to her ring gear, with a look reminiscent of at least two pop culture icons (in her case a ''Franchise/MadMax'' character crossed with a female human [[Characters/DragonBallFrieza Frieza]]). Are we talking Evil Emma, or "The Cleaner" Wrestling/KennyOmega?

** Frequently opposes the Canadian Ninjas Portia Perez and Nicole Matthews. Tenille and Matthews have had some periods of cooperation though. Tenille and Veronika Vice feuded over the [=SuperGirls=] title throughout Canada but worked together when they were booked as a team by the Prairie Wrestling Alliance.

* JobberEntrance: An infamous case that lead to [=#GiveDivasAChance]] "trending" on Website/{{Twitter}}, as WWE so loves to keep track of.

* TheChewToy: Spent two ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'' matches as a {{heel}}, but fans found her gimmick endearing and she quickly became a {{face}}.

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** She was set to return from the back injury as Emmalina, a sort of time-displaced Diva. Hype packages towards Emmalina's return aired for over a month before being abruptly dropped. Allegedly the angle was canned at the very last minutes because Emma couldn't pull the gimmick off.

* ArchEnemy: Kellie Skater had some sort of grudge toward Tenille Tayla. Wrestling/SummerRae ''hates'' her. Depicted mostly in ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'', though the feud between the team of Emma and [[Wrestling/SantinoMarella Santino]] and the team of Summer and Wrestling/{{Fandango}} on the main roster counts as a MythologyGag, considering the women's history with each other.

* DistaffCounterpart: Not Emma herself, but after being paired with [[Wrstling/SantinoMarella Santino]], she wound up incorporating his [[FinishingMove Cobra]] into her arsenal, complete with a bright pink Cobra-esque puppet named [[PunnyName Ven-Emma]].

* {{Expy}}: Black gloves, aviator shades…she's been a leather coat away from being one of "The Cleaner" Wrestling/KennyOmega since ''[=TakeOver=]: London''.

* GoldfishPoopGang: She and Dana have made a habit of antagonising just about everyone they can think of. And most of the time they both get their asses handed back to them.

* JobberEntrance: An infamous case that lead to #Give Divas A Chance "trending" on twitter, as WWE so loves to keep track of.

** One of her moves is named the Emmamite Sandwich, a nod to Vegemite - a popular sandwich filling in Australia. Emma herself is a huge fan of it.
* TheResenter: To Wrestling/BeckyLynch. After seeing Lynch's debut as the pun-slinging, {{Adorkable}} GirlNextDoor got her over and lead her to a ''WrestleMania'' moment of awesome, Emma, still carrying the sting of her initial failure, is determined to make sure that Lynch learns that "nice girls finish last".

** Her return to Raw had her teaming up with Charlotte and Nia Jax in a six-woman tag team match against Bayley, Sasha Banks, and Dana Brooke.

* MeaningfulRename: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7usVWW7nEs Apparently,]] Emma, when she returns from hiatus, will be known as '''Emmalina.''' It still remains to be seen what this actually means, but it's significant in the fact that it's one of the rare times WWE has actively acknowledged and drawn attention to an onscreen name change.

* OnlyOneName: She's simply addressed as Emma (later Emmalina).

** Her Raw debut had her teaming up with Charlotte and Nia Jax in a six-woman tag team match against Bayley, Sasha Banks, and Dana Brooke.