History YMMV / SashaBanks

** Two years later, Bayley and Sasha feuded again with the same reason. After a year of being heels, Bayley attacked Sasha after they failed to reclaim the Women's Tag Team Championship. Like in 2018, the story portrayed Sasha as the one who cherishes friendship and Bayley had broke it for her selfishness, but ignored all the times Sasha had betrayed Bayley. Furthermore, Sasha played a role in Bayley's FaceHeelTurn the year before and didn't seem guilty at all in her role. After her feud with Bayley ended, Sasha continued being a smug and arrogant person despite being a nominal face, and in fact became more of a {{tweener}}, being prone to antagonizing fellow faces such as Bianca Belair and Shotzi Blackheart. While she was the one who first attacked Bianca and thus turned heel in their program, the opposite was true of her mini-feud with Shotzi, yet in both cases Sasha appeared as the more arrogant or callous personality.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Judging by Bayley's comments a week after attacking her, did Sasha ever has a plan to betray Bayley in the near future? Later weeks often show Sasha in tears for what Bayley did and how she is angry over Bayley's betrayal after everything they had been through together, not the least being Sasha helping Bayley several times to defend her title for a full year. However, Sasha has a long history of betrayals with Bayley being a frequent victim of it as well as playing victim in order to get sympathy, not to mention her insistence that Bayley is nothing without her and her increasing frustration at not being able to keep a championship.

** As mentioned above, Sasha announced a fake retirement after an injury before revealing that she is faking it to ambush Dana Brooke. While this normally works for a heel like Mark Henry did in 2013, remember, Sasha's a face.

** Two years later, Bayley and Sasha feuded again with the same reason. After a year of being heels, Bayley attacked Sasha after they failed to reclaim the Women's Tag Team Championship. Like in 2018, the story portrayed Sasha as the one who cherishes friendship and Bayley had broke it for her selfishness, but ignored all the times Sasha had betrayed Bayley. Furthermore, Sasha played a role in Bayley's FaceHeelTurn the year before and didn't seem guilty at all in her role. After her feud with Bayley ended, Sasha returned to being a smug and arrogant person despite being a Face.
** Sasha has been [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor switching between being a Face and Heel]] since her 2020 feud with Bayley. However, as before, there is little change between her gimmick even when she is the Face and is simply being the Face who is facing a heel. Notably, on the October 29, 2021 episode of [=SmackDown=], Shotzi Blackheart turned heel when she attacked Sasha, after Sasha constantly interfered in Shotzi's match with Charlotte (whom Sasha is feuding with at the time) and costing Shotzi the match, yet Sasha is still treated as the victim of this angle, in addition of not properly turning Face.

** Oh geez, her 2022 real-life ScrewThisImOuttaHere on WWE due to not liking how she and tag team partner Wrestling/{{Naomi}} were being booked. Opinions range all over the place from the two being completely in the wrong and unprofessional to applauding them for standing up for themselves to a more moderate line of thinking that suggests they had legitimate complaints but could[=/=]should have handled them differently. Combine that with conflicting reports on what actually happened that day [[note]]up to and including accusations that one of WWE officials used sexist and[=/=]or racially-charged language in the final argument that preceded the walkout[[/note]] and bringing it up openly on the internet is asking for trouble.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: To a degree, her HeelFaceTurn in 2020 when Bayley attacked her following their failed attempt to reclaim the Women's Tag Team Championship. For the next several weeks, Sasha would speak often of how Bayley destroyed their friendship after everything they had been through together while Bayley continued to attack her. The issue was that Sasha has [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder a long history of betraying her friends]], often in [[KickTheDog rather cruel ways]], ''and'' that [[CreateYourOwnVillain she had a direct hand in corrupting Bayley]]; the beatdowns, while harrowing, still largely looked like [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty a rod Sasha made for her own back and was finally being punished for]]. It didn't help that Sasha kept her AlphaBitch heel personality and [[NeverMyFault showed no remorse or even hinted that she felt any guilt for making Bayley into a heel]].

* DorkAge: Her 2016 feud with Charlotte Flair killed a lot of the goodwill she'd built up with the IWC - and it's there that her detractors began to emerge. Despite still delivering good matches, the booking of her repeatedly losing and reclaiming the title mixed with some annoying segments like her fake retirement and numerous promos referencing Eddie Guerrero caused many to cry BadassDecay. As noted under CharacterRerailment, she did recover some goodwill in 2017 but it wasn't until her 2019 heel turn that her character finally began to regain momentum.

* UnfortunateImplications: It was [[http://www.lethalwow.com/2015/09/13/bobby-between-the-ropes-the-wwe-divas-and-the-uncomfortable-subject-of-race/ noted]] how, despite Sasha's obvious popularity, her trio, Team B.A.D. was placed in the HufflepuffHouse stable in the 'Divas Revolution' storyline... which just so happened to be composed of a mixed-race woman (Sasha), a black woman (Naomi), and a Samoan woman (Tamina), while 5 out of the 6 women that composed the other two trios (Team PCB and Team Bella) were white. Likewise while she has broken out of the MinorityShowGhetto in terms of fan reactions, it took her suspiciously long to get her push — and far longer than her relatively unknown contemporaries (Charlotte and Becky Lynch were still developing their characters when they got their title pushes). Exasperated with her three short title reigns on the main roster, effectively killing her momentum and credibility — in favour of a white competitor. And the next person pushed was {{Wrestling/Bayley}} who — while she's Latina — looks much whiter than Sasha.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: To a degree, her HeelFaceTurn in 2020 when Bayley attacked her following their failed attempt to reclaim the Women's Tag Team Championship. For the next several weeks, Sasha would speak often of how Bayley destroyed their friendship after everything they had been through together while Bayley continued to attack her. The issue was that Sasha has [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder a long history of betraying her friends]], often in [[KickTheDog rather cruel ways]], ''and'' that [[CreateYourOwnVillain she had a direct hand in corrupting Bayley]]; the beatdowns, while harrowing, still largely looked like [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty a rod Sasha made for her own back and was finally being punished for]]. It didn't help that Sasha kept her AlphaBitch heel personality and [[NeverMyFault showed no remorse or even hinted that she felt any guilt for making Bayley into a heel]].
* WhatAnIdiot: Surprisingly caught a case of this at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 32''. She walked into the Women's Championship match being serenaded to the ring by her cousin Music/SnoopDogg and wearing gear inspired by that of her hero Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, and one of her opponents, old friend Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}, has been notorious of late for having her father Wrestling/RicFlair at ringside constantly engaging timely interference to help her retain her Divas title. Yet does Sasha do anything to neutralize Ric Flair, or even ask Snoop to keep an eye on him and get the jump on him if need be? No; Snoop immediately retreats to the back after the musical performance never to be seen again, and the closest we get to Sasha doing anything about Flair at all is to hold him in place to get taken out by a Wrestling/BeckyLynch over-the-top cross body which he soon recovered from. Naturally, the finish involved Charlotte making Becky tap to a Figure Eight to remain champion with the new title — as Ric held Sasha's legs to keep her from entering the ring to break it up. Sasha clearly learned from this by the time of her title shot on the first Raw of the "new era" brand extension. Wrestling/DanaBrooke had replaced Ric as Charlotte's interference buddy, and being a woman, Dana was free to do direct damage against Charlotte's enemies in ways that Ric couldn't. When Dana tried to do such damage to Sasha, Sasha pulled an Wrestling/EddieGuerrero by tossing her the Women's Championship belt and falling to the floor, at which point the referee turned around and ejected Brooke. With the match now purely one-on-one, Sasha was able to extract the championship gold away from Charlotte via Bank Statement.

** Oh geez, her 2022 real-life ScrewThisImOuttaHere on WWE due to not liking how she and tag team partner Wrestling/{{Naomi}} were being booked. Opinions range all over the place from the two being completely in the wrong and unprofessional to applauding them for standing up for themselves to a more moderate line of thinking that suggests they had legitimate complaints but could[=/=]should have handled them differently. Combine that with conflicting reports on what actually happened that day [note]up to and including accusations that one of WWE officials used sexist and[=/=]or racially-charged language in the final argument that preceded the walkout[/note] and bringing it up openly on the internet is asking for trouble.

* EthnicScrappy: A leaked video from a promo class saw Sasha playing a snobby character that talked in a ghetto accent — which would have raised a lot of eyebrows given WWE's long story with racial characters. She turned heel and played the character without the accent.

* GrowingTheBeard: While regarded as a good worker and one to watch from the moment she debuted on NXT, Sasha truly came into her own in the year 2014. 'The Boss' had previously just been a BetaBitch to Summer Rae and then Charlotte, only getting the occasional win for herself. Here, she started getting more wins, developing an effective Bank Statement finisher, improved her promo skills and ended the year having an incredible match against Charlotte at ''Takeover''. It was around this time the NXT crowd started cheering her.
* HarsherInHindsight: The 'ratchet' chants came from Diva fans mocking Sasha for how cheap her gear and hair extensions looked. These comments have become incredibly uncomfortable once Sasha revealed how poor her family was growing up and how she was frequently bullied over it.

** Sasha has been [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor switching between being a Face and Heel]] since her 2020 feud with Bayley. However, as before, there is little change between her gimmick and is simply being the Face who is facing a heel. Notably, on the October 29, 2021 episode of [=SmackDown=], Shotzi Blackheart turned heel when she attacked Sasha, after Sasha constantly interfered in Shotzi's match with Charlotte (whom Sasha is feuding with at the time), yet Sasha is treated as the victim of the HeelFaceTurn.