History Wrestling / Emma

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[[caption-width-right:289:Doing her trademark dance]]

* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: 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.

* HappyDance [=/=] VictoryPose: [[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."

* ShutUpHannibal: A villainous example. Her heel turn was foreshadowed when she interrupted Bayley's WorldOfCardboardSpeech with a slap.

* 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.

* LovelyAngels: Tenille Tayla with fellow Aussie in a foreign land Jessie [=McKay=].

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

* {{Adorkable}}: Oh dear lord yes. More so on ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'' than on ''Wrestling/{{Raw}}'' or ''Wrestling/SmackDown!''

* SignatureMove: Tenille's were a roaring elbow, Yakuza kick and bridging Indian death lock.

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

* ArchEnemy: Kellie Skater had some sort of grudge toward Tenille Taylor. 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.

* ComedyGhetto: Avoided it on NXT as, although she had a comedy gimmick, she was still pushed as a (somewhat) serious wrestler and title contender. But she ended up falling into it on the main roster, mainly due to {{Flanderisation}} so that she became a one-note punchline and was not taken seriously at all.

* FinishingMove: The Emma Lock (see below).

* SignatureMove: Tenille's were a roaring elbow and Yakuza kick

* CloudCuckooLander:

* FinishingMove: Bridging Indian Death Lock, Tenille's was anyway

* TheRival: 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.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: After an incident in which she was arrested for shoplifting an iPad case, she was ''released''... then, after more facts came out (allegedly, she was using a self-checkout lane and just forgot to scan the item) and[=/=]or when WWE realized [[DisproportionateRetribution how ridiculous this would look in comparison to some of their other disciplinary actions]], they recanted her release. That said, she was taken off main roster TV straightaway (it didn't help that [[SantinoMarella her onscreen partner]] [[GameBreakingInjury was forced to retire suddenly not long after that]]) and eventually ended up back on NXT.
** She eventually managed to return to the main roster programs but any prominence she had in Diva programming disappeared. She does get the occasional victory, though.

* ArchEnemy: 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.

* GamebreakingInjury: Spent 2006 and 2007 as a member of the Professional Wrestling Alliance's ring crew do to a shoulder injury putting a break on her wrestling.

* {{Determinator}}: In real life. Tenille dislocated a shoulder during a ring drill and popped it back in a few minutes later.

* FiveMovesOfDoom: Dil-Emma (a tarantula), Emmamite Sandwich (a crossbody to an opponent seated at the bottom turnbuckle), catapult into the Emma Lock (a Muta Lock).

* 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.

** 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.

Tenille Dashwood (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian professional wrestler who debuted for the Professional Wrestling Alliance in Melbourne Victoria 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/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA [=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, Tennille signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where she became known on its main roster and in its developmental territory [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] as '''Emma'''.

* {{Adorkable}}: Oh dear lord yes. More so on NXT then on Raw or Smackdown.
* AlmostKiss: With Santino Marella until Fandango kicked him in the head.
* ArchEnemy: Summer Rae ''hates'' her.

* CatchPhrase: Oh boy...
** Emmalution
** Emmatainment
** Emmalicious
** Empressive
*** Lampshaded once by William Regal on commentary, asking if Tom Phillips expected a royalty cheque every time he attached 'Emma' onto a word.
* ChewToy: Spent two NXT matches as a heel but fans found her gimmick endearing - and she quickly became a face.

* CoolTeacher: And 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, but he still loves her.
* DanceBattler: The girl spends half of her in-ring time [[IShallTauntYou doing the Emma Dance]].
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Eh, she comes from a sort of arid land and is in a business that encourages tanning.
* {{Determinator}}: Dislocated a shoulder during a ring drill and popped it back in a few minutes later.
* DistaffCounterpart: Not Emma herself, but after being paired with Santino she wound up incorporating his [[FinishingMove Cobra]] into her arsenal, complete with a bright pink Cobra-esque puppet named [[PunnyName Ven-Emma]].
* TheDitz: She would frequently injure Santino while trying to show him her gratitude or some affection.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Subverted, as announcers would specifically call attention to her OnceAnEpisode appearances on main programming and say she was from 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.

* GamebreakingInjury: Spent 2006&7 as a member of the Professional Wrestling Alliance's ring crew do to a shoulder injury putting a break on her wrestling.

* LandDownUnder: The first ever Australian Diva.
* LovelyAngels: Tenille Tayla with fellow Aussie in a foreign land Jessie [=McKay=]

* PungeonMaster

!! Tropes associated with Emma:

* TheRival: 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 Super Girls title throughout Canada but worked together when they were booked as a team by the Prairie Wrestling Alliance.

* 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.