History YMMV / RubyRiott

* [[HoYay Les Yay Shipping]]: On Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, she gets {{Shipp|ing}}ed with Wrestling/LivMorgan, Wrestling/AlexaBliss, Sarah Logan, Jessamyn Duke and Wrestling/NikkiCross. Her only {{Het}} pairings are with Wrestling/AleisterBlack and with [[Wrestling/JonMoxley Dean Ambrose]], and that's only one story each.
** FanonDiscontinuity: Almost all of the stories on [=AO3=] have her as Ruby, as if her entire six year career in the independents never happened. There are only two stories with her as Heidi in CHIKARA. Not surprising, as CHIKARA is not a televised promotion, meaning most fanfic writers will not typically care for it beyond background knowledge.

* MemeticLoser: Ruby never has a memorable moment in the WWE. She went through NXT rarely winning a match and ended up leading a [[Wrestling/TheRiottSquad jobber squad]] in the main roster where [[Wrestling/LivMorgan one member]] becomes even more popular than she is and she left the company without herself or her team winning any titles. Even in AEW she doesn't fare well either, losing two inaugural titles to Dr. Britt Baker (the Women's Owen Hart Cup) and Jade Cargill (the AEW TBS Championship).

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: WWE signed her in late-2016 in NXT before quickly calling her up to the main roster a year later to be the leader of a new stable, only to job her and her teammates out nonstop. By the time WWE released her in 2021 in the name of "budget cuts", she'd accomplished basically ''nothing'' in her entire 4-and-a-half-year run, not winning a single championship and barely ever even getting a single angle to herself. The Riott Squad never even won the Women's Tag Team Championships, despite being one of the very few actual women's tag teams on the roster!

* BadassDecay[=/=]DorkAge: Heidi Lovelace was a Champion and main eventer in several promotions. Ruby Riott/Soho is lucky if she wins a match.

* MemeticLoser: Ruby never has a memorable moment in the WWE. She went through NXT rarely winning a match and ended up leading a [[Wrestling/TheRiottSquad jobber squad]] in the main roster where one [[Wrestling/LivMorgan the member]] becomes even more popular than she is and she left the company without herself or her team winning any titles. Even in AEW she doesn't fare well either, losing two inaugural titles to Dr. Britt Baker (the Women's Owen Hart Cup) and Jade Cargill (the AEW TBS Championship).

* BadassDecay[=/=]DorkAge: Heidi Lovelace was a Champion and main eventer in several promotions. Ruby Riott is lucky if she wins a match.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: WWE signed her, changed her name, made her the leader of a team... and then jobbed her out nonstop. By the time WWE released her in 2021 in the name of "budget cuts", she'd accomplished basically ''nothing'' in her entire 5-year run, not winning a single championship and barely ever even getting a single angle to herself. The Riott Squad never even won the Women's Tag Team Championships, despite being one of the very few actual women's tag teams on the roster!

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Wrestling/TaelerHendrix might have been Heidi's lover, but it was Heidi and Daffney's relationship with Solo Darling that some fans found too sweet for the palate. After a couple shows the two of them did stop being giddy enablers and started trying to actually instruct Solo, to mixed results.

* [[HoYay Les Yay Shipping]]: On Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, she gets {{Shipp|ing}}ed with Wrestling/LivMorgan, Wrestling/AlexaBliss, Sarah Logan, Jessamyn Duke and Nikki Cross. Her only {{Het}} pairings are with Wrestling/AleisterBlack and with Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, and that's only one story each.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Taeler Hendrix might have been Heidi's lover, but it was Heidi and Daffney's relationship with Solo Darling that some fans found too sweet for the palate. After a couple shows the two of them did stop being giddy enablers and started trying to actually instruct Solo, to mixed results.
* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: The Riott Squad being made up of a punk, an ordinary brunette and a pretty blonde led to many suggestions that the group is simply a copy of Wrestling/{{Paige}}'s team Absolution, with Sarah and Liv being the clones, respectively, of Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: WWE signed her, changed her name, made her the leader of a team...and then jobbed her out nonstop.
** TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: OVW should have run the secret admirer storyline first and have that set up the big feud with Hendrix in 2012.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Taeler Hendrix might have been Heidi's lover, but it was Heidi and Daffney's relationship with Solo Darling that some fans found too sweet for the palette. After a couple shows the two of them did stop being giddy enablers and started trying to actually instruct Solo, to mixed results.

** FanonDiscontinuity: Almost all of the stories on [=AO3=] have her as Ruby, as if her entire six year career in the independents never happened. There are only two stories with her as Heidi in CHIKARA.

* HolyShitQuotient: She received this exact reaction for getting up from Wrestling/KimberLee's top rope sitout powerbomb at ''[=F1RST=] Wrestling Wrestlepalooza VIII''.

* FridgeLogic: Wrestling/TarynTerrell defeated Heidi for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-wm.html OVW Women's Title]] on the November 15, 2012 (taped November 13) episode of OVW TV, with Wrestling/TaelerHendrix as the special referee. Taeler setting up this match to cost Heidi the title, with Taeler defeating Taryn 19 days later, means that the whole lesbian angle between Heidi and Taeler in 2013 makes no sense. Why would Heidi be attracted to someone who cost her the title and treated everybody like dirt? To make it even worse, any AlternativeCharacterInterpretation would only make Heidi into an [[IdiotBall Idiot Ball]]-carrying HorribleJudgeOfCharacter.
** TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: They should have run the secret admirer storyline first and have that set up the big feud they had in 2012.

* {{Narm}}: The Riott Squad's debut promo was not well-received when WWE posted it on Website/YouTube, with many people using the word "cringe" to describe it, and one person writing, "I'm done with this already." Part of the problem was that Liv Morgan seemed too happy and cheery compared with Ruby and Sarah.

* FridgeLogic: Taryn Terrell defeated Heidi for the OVW Women's Title on the November 15, 2012 (taped November 13) episode of OVW TV, with Taeler Hendrix as the special referee. Taeler setting up this match to cost Heidi the title, with Taeler defeating Taryn 19 days later, means that the whole lesbian angle between Heidi and Taeler in 2013 makes no sense. Why would Heidi be attracted to someone who cost her the title and treated everybody like dirt? To make it even worse, any AlternativeCharacterInterpretation would only make Heidi into an [[IdiotBall Idiot Ball]]-carrying HorribleJudgeOfCharacter.

* HolyShitQuotient: She received this exact reaction for getting up from Kimber Lee's top rope sitout powerbomb at [=F1RST=] Wrestling Wrestlepalooza VIII.
* [[HoYay Les Yay Shipping]]: On Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, she gets {{Shipp|ing}}ed with Liv Morgan, Alexa Bliss, Sarah Logan, Jessamyn Duke and Nikki Cross. Her only {{Het}} pairings are with Wrestling/AleisterBlack and with Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, and that's only one story each.