History Wrestling / Lita

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-->'''JIM ROSS''': "Lita, losing her meal ticket."
-->'''JERRY LAWLER''': "Lita's losing her pants."

* WhoWearsShortShorts: When she returned in 2003 she started wearing these.

** HilariousInHindsight, since a romantic indiscretion is what killed her career.

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'''Lita''' (born Amy Christine Dumas on April 14, 1975, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a retired {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er. She traveled in Mexico to learn the sport and debuted as a manager in [[Wrestling/{{CMLL}} EMLL]] before working Maryland MCW and various Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA promotions managing Skull Von Krush and Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels as Angelica and former affiliate Wrestling/{{ECW}} as Miss Congeniality. Lita's the best known name she has wrestled under though, starting in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 2000-2006.

She got her debuted in the WWF managing Essa Rios but after he attacked her she switched her allegiance to the [[Wrestling/MattHardy Hardy]] [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Boyz]] and eventually used that to branch into a singles career where she took female wrestling by storm with her high-flying wrestling. She also gave Wrestling/{{Edge}} the biggest push of his career by cheating on Wrestling/MattHardy with him in RealLife. She eventually became a four time WWE women's champion and in 2014, was inducted into WWE's Hall of Fame.

Outside of wrestling, she had a brief acting career, has founded animal rescue A.D.O.R.E. and is one of the band members of The Luchagores.

* FragileSpeedster: First to use the WaifFu style in WWE.

* {{Retcon}}: Her marriage to Kane was briefly moved into CanonDiscontinuity thanks to the whole LoveTriangle situation with Matt and Edge. Years later, in the new tens, it was moved back into continuity because of Matt's subsequent release and blackballing from the company. In return, the LoveTriangle was (mostly) retconned in its place, only acknowledged during the week of Edge's retirement the following year, due to it being pivotal to his rise as a main event star.

* TheUnfairSex: Inverted. Matt wasn't seen as impotent because Lita strayed, Edge wasn't condemned because he couldn't say no to a hot woman wanting him, instead she was treated as a monster, turned heel, and eventually had to retire because of the hatred from the fans, who had loved her for FIVE YEARS. Actually, all three happened. The other two not nearly as much, though, until her retirement and Matt's meltdown kicked in.

* HeroesWantRedheads: So do villains (Kane, Edge.) Take a look at the amount of Kayfabe love interests she's had.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Judo]]: Moreso after she returned from the neck injury. She actually did ''competitive'' judo before getting into pro wrestling.

* {{Tomboy}}: Except when she was Miss Congeniality, who was more girly girl and [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]] was the tomboy.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/TrishStratus. Subverted as of Raw's 15th anniversary, which finally gave way to their RealLife friendship. Angelica had Lexie Fyfe in PGWA.

* Ricky Santana, Ace Steel, Dory Funk Jr. Kevin Quinn (Christopher Daniels's International Male tag team partner)...she had quite a few. The Hardy Boys also offered.

'''Lita''' (born Amy Christine Dumas on April 14, 1975, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a retired {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er. She traveled in Mexico to learn the sport and debuted as a manager in [[Wrestling/{{CMLL}} EMLL]] before working Maryland MCW and various Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA promotions managing Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels as Angelica and former affiliate Wrestling/{{ECW}} as Miss Congeniality. Lita's the best known name she has wrestled under though, starting in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 2000-2006.

'''Lita''' (born Amy Christine Dumas on April 14, 1975, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a retired {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er. She traveled in Mexico to learn the sport and debuted as a manager in [[Wrestling/{{CMLL}} EMLL]] before working Maryland MCW and various Wrestling/{{NWA}} promotions managing Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels as Angelica and former affiliate Wrestling/{{ECW}} as Miss Congeniality. Lita's the best known name she has wrestled under though, starting in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 2000-2006.

* SlutShaming: Initially, WWE was going to keep the Matt-Lita-Edge stuff behind closed doors. Unfortunately, it hit the dirtsheets and RAW was going to be in heavily-smarky Madison Square Garden. Sure enough, babyface Lita was greeted with chants of "YOU SCREWED MATT" and "SLUT", despite Trish (playing the heel) doing her best to deflect the heat off Lita. Reportedly, Lita was in tears after the segment, but soon found the best way to deal with her massive heat: turn heel on-screen in similar fashion.

* StatuesqueStunner: One of the taller divas of the 2000s.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Dean Malenko, whom Lita only paid attention to because she wanted his light heavyweight championship, but was unable to take it from him.

** She described or WWE original's effort as sounding too much like a cheerleader song.

'''Lita''' (born Amy Christine Dumas on April 14, 1975, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a retired {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er who is best known for her time in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 2000-2006. She got her start managing the [[Wrestling/MattHardy Hardy]] [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Boyz]] and eventually used that to branch into a singles career where she took female wrestling by storm with her high-flying wrestling. She also gave Wrestling/{{Edge}} the biggest push of his career by cheating on Wrestling/MattHardy with him in RealLife. She eventually became a four time WWE women's champion and in 2014, was inducted into WWE's Hall of Fame.

Currently, Lita is one of the band members of The Luchagores.

** Before that, in Wrestling/{{ECW}}, she was Miss Congeniality, the valet for "Dastardly" Danny Doring and "The Angry Amish Warrior" Roadkill until Wrestling/{{Sabu}} put her through a table to send her to WWE.

!!! "[=I know when I get you alone, there's gonna be tropes=]"

* BattleStrip: She once ripped her shirt off before performing her FinishingMove.
** To make it even more humiliating for her opponents, it was a Bra and Panties match and she hadn't lost any clothing.

* BreakupBreakout: She was once a valet for Essa Rios. Rios is now a largely forgotten wrestler while Lita is currently immortalized in the WWE Hall of Fame.

* EvilRedhead[=/=]FieryRedhead: Evil at the start since she and Rios were tweeners at best. Fiery later (what with the theme song [=FuryEnergyAndPassion=]) then evil after she turned on Kane for Edge.
** She is a natural brunette who has had her hair dyed red for her WWE career. On the indies, natural redhead April Hunter sometimes served as her evil {{foil}}.
* FaceHeelDoubleTurn: In her feud with Trish she was the face and Trish the heel. They reignited it two years later with the roles reversed.
** Her affair with Edge and her heel turn killed off FIVE YEARS of the fans loving her.

* GimmickMatches: Was in the first (and to this day only) WWE women's '''steel cage''' match, [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron against Victoria]]. Has also been involved in street fights and TLC matches even if she wasn't a participant. And of course she's done a couple of Bra & Panties matches in her time.

* {{Irony}}: The woman everybody derided as a slut in 2005 (and in Kayfabe in 2006) for one romantic indiscretion, was one of the few Divas WWE contacted about returning for the ''WrestleMania XXV'' Divas battle royal who refused to take part in the indignity of that event.[[note]]She may have had a point, since the match was won by [[Wrestling/SantinoMarella "Santina Marella" (Santino playing his own "sister" in drag)]].[[/note]]

* TheLadette: When she was with Team X-tream and latter, Wrestling/{{Edge}}.
** Arguably her entire WWE career.

* MentorArchetype: To Christy Hemme, though she has less success than Lita and was mainly trained to fight Trish or Hunter when Lita was unable to herself.

* SelfDeprecation: After running into some legal trouble she posted about all of Team Xtreme possibly doing jail time and was insulted no one had made any {{demotivational poster}}s or anything to that effect about it yet.
* SheCleansUpNicely: When she was going to marry Edge, with AbsoluteCleavage to boot.

* StatuesqueStunner: One of the taller divas.

* TheUnfairSex: Inverted. Matt wasn't seen as impotent because Lita strayed, Edge wasn't condemned because he couldn't say no to a hot woman wanting him, instead she was treated as a monster, turned heel, and eventually had to retire because of the hatred from the fans, who had loved her for FIVE YEARS.
** Actually, all three happened. The other two not nearly as much, though, until her retirement and Matt's meltdown kicked in.

* TookALevelInBadass: Once she split as Essa Rios' valet, watching Lita was like watching [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers,]] [[Series/{{Alias}} Sydney Bristow]] or [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] in the ring.

* WardrobeMalfunction: One of the most bizarre cases ever - [[InvertedTrope she tried to strip her top off and ''failed'']].

* GimmickMatches: Was in the first (and to this day only) women's '''steel cage''' match in WWE. Has also been involved in street fights and TLC matches even if she wasn't a participant. And of course she's done a couple of Bra & Panties matches in her time.