History YMMV / MickieJames

* OnceOriginalNowUncommon: While the matches hold up, it's a little difficult for later viewers to understand her popularity (nor her contemporary's) if they didn't know how much more rarely fans in the USA got to see women wrestling good matches from 1995-2002. Internet streaming hadn't caught on yet, the most mainstream female promotion (Wrestling/{{W|OWWomenOfWrestling}}omen of Wrestling) was a train wreck that wouldn't be back for another decade, the Wrestling/{{WCW}} women's divisions were confined to Japan, the WWF's flat out stopped existing at some point, then came back and was frequently centered around minimally trained wrestlers often portrayed in the most cowardly ways possible in gimmick matches that just barely resembled pro wrestling, there was nothing providing as many cards WSU since it wasn't a women's promotion yet...it was a good time for "the big three" but not for anyone else and if the big three weren't featuring something, well it lead to people driving miles to see Alexis Laree vs Simply Luscious and such, a fan base she retained in some form or another for over two decades.

* RootingForTheEmpire: Her Wrestlemania 22 women's championship match with Wrestling/TrishStratus. Trish was the face and Mickie was the heel. The fans in attendance were actually cheering for Mickie and booing Trish, because, among other things, Trish had been women's champion for over a year and not defending it for most of that time, while Mickie James was the only new "diva" on Raw who fans could buy as champion(Trish was injured, to be fair to her, but WWE had done such a poor job of handling its female talent Raw didn't have a functional women's division until Mickie debuted a few weeks after Trish returned). When Mickie won the match, she got a huge pop (positive crowd reaction), her grabbing Trish's privates and performing a crotch lick didn't hurt.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: While the matches hold up, it's a little difficult for later viewers to understand her popularity (nor her contemporary's) if they didn't know how much more rarely fans in the USA got to see women wrestling good matches from 1995-2002. Internet streaming hadn't caught on yet, the most mainstream female promotion (Wrestling/{{W|OWWomenOfWrestling}}omen of Wrestling) was a train wreck that wouldn't be back for another decade, the Wrestling/{{WCW}} women's divisions were confined to Japan, the WWF's flat out stopped existing at some point, then came back and was frequently centered around minimally trained wrestlers often portrayed in the most cowardly ways possible in gimmick matches that just barely resembled pro wrestling, there was nothing providing as many cards WSU since it wasn't a women's promotion yet...it was a good time for "the big three" but not for anyone else and if the big three weren't featuring something, well it lead to people driving miles to see Alexis Laree vs Simply Luscious and such, a fan base she retained in some form or another for over two decades.

** The Piggy James storyline could be seen as this in 2018 after James ended up becoming Wrestling/AlexaBliss' accomplice in a similar bullying angle with Nia Jax. Even before this, fans were questioning AAA's wisdom in having James join in on the bullying of Mari Apache. That case wasn't ''as'' derided because [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the near entirety]] of La Sociedad had been tormenting The Apaches before Mickie joined in, and while they did resort to some fat jokes a Mari's expense, their primary focus was on the Apaches being "low class". Given the crowds [[DracoInLeatherPants cheered James half the time]] the wisdom of having her in La Sociedad at all could also be questioned, but again there were several wrestlers shoved into La Legion Extranjera or Sociedad solely for being foreign.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The segments involving Mickie making unwanted advances on Trish have become slightly uncomfortable since Mickie revealed she was the victim of sexual assault in her teen years.
* HarsherInHindsight: The Piggy James storyline could be seen as this in 2018 after James ended up becoming Wrestling/AlexaBliss' accomplice in a similar bullying angle with Nia Jax. Even before this, fans were questioning AAA's wisdom in having James join in on the bullying of Mari Apache. That case wasn't ''as'' derided because [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the near entirety]] of La Sociedad had been tormenting The Apaches before Mickie joined in, and while they did resort to some fat jokes a Mari's expense, their primary focus was on the Apaches being "low class". Given the crowds [[DracoInLeatherPants cheered James half the time]] the wisdom of having her in La Sociedad at all could also be questioned, but again there were several wrestlers shoved into La Legion Extranjera or Sociedad solely for being foreign.