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1* ApprovalOfGod: A Facebook page called Chibi Wrestlers posted artwork of her as a Sailor Scout. She put it on a T-shirt and sent them a picture of her wearing it.
2* AscendedMeme: The NXT crowd's "ratchet" chants heckled Sasha for her tacky outfits; she milked them by making her outfits even tackier. She even eventually debuted a T-shirt that said "I'm not ratchet".
3* BadassFamily: She is related to rapper Music/SnoopDogg, singers Music/{{Brandy}} & Music/RayJ and music producer Daz Dillinger, who confirmed this on [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BD0zA1wtIUJ/ his Instagram page]].
4* BreakupBreakout:
5** Both she and Wrestling/{{Charlotte|Flair}} are far more successful than their Beautiful Fierce Females stablemate and leader Wrestling/SummerRae. Sasha and Charlotte have 20 championships (both singles and TagTeam) between them while Summer's time in WWE didn't really amount to anything.
6** Explicitly discussed and lampshaded this when she decided to fly solo from Team BAD. Wrestling/{{Naomi|Wrestler}} and Wrestling/{{Tamina|Snuka}} were ''not'' amused.
7* CreatorBreakdown: Sasha's 5-month hiatus after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' in 2019 was caused by depression and burnout, which she spoke at length about in a ''WWE Chronicle'' episode released shortly after her return.
8* ExecutiveMeddling: Claimed that in her FCW days, before Sara Del Rey was training the women, she was told off for wrestling too much "like a man", and was frequently told to [[{{Chickification}} be more girly]].
9* FanCommunityNickname: Formerly the Sasha Scouts[[note]]Appropriately coming from a ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' fangirl, this is a reference to the [[Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Senshi's]] name in the English dub, the Sailor Scouts[[/note]], now the Sasha [[XtremeKoolLetterz Krew]].
10* FunnyCharacterBoringActor: Inverted. The Boss is a ruthless, humorless AlphaBitch. As seen on social media, Mercedes the person is much goofier and bubblier. The skits Team BAD did a la Wrestling/TheNewDay and her backstage interview with Wrestling/{{Bayley}} after their tag match at Battleground 2016 are actually closer to her real-life personality.
11* GodNeverSaidThat: In an interview with Lilian Garcia, she refuted claims that she had ill will towards the women of the Diva Era or the era itself; while she was happy that things had changed by the time she made it to WWE, she still respects the effort of the women themselves. And she was the first to admit that when she was signed, she bought lots of bikinis, because she expected she'd have to do a fair share of swimsuit contests herself.
12* HostilityOnTheSet:
13** She and Wrestling/CharlotteFlair were good friends initially but had a falling out backstage in 2014, which resulted in their partnership quietly dissolving. They apparently patched things up enough to work together repeatedly by the end of the year.
14** She and Wrestling/AlexaBliss also had a falling out thanks to Sasha breaking Alexa's nose in a late 2014 match and reportedly not apologizing afterwards. Things were tense between the two in the following years until they finally made amends around 2020.
15* LyingCreator: She missed TV time around late 2019 to early 2020 and claimed it was due to recording a "rap album". She was actually filming in the second season of ''Series/TheMandalorian''.
16* OldShame: She says she laughs when she thinks of her days as Mercedes KV, feeling she was a bland babyface who had no identity in the ring.
17* PlayingAgainstType: Pretty much always played a {{Face}} on the indies. However, on NXT she found most of her success as a {{Heel}}. She's now back to being a {{Face}} on the main roster, and pretty much the top female face in the company at that. She's said that she feels more comfortable as a heel, but likes being a face because of the child fans.
18* PromotedFanboy: Similar to Wrestling/{{Bayley}}.
19* RealLifeRelative: She got Snoop Dogg (her cousin) to perform her entrance music live at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 32'', as well as do a verse on a more recent remix of her theme.
20* RomanceOnTheSet: Her husband is a wrestler but not employed by WWE in that capacity - he works as a costume designer for them while wrestling on the indies as Mikaze. He is known for appearing on ''WebVideo/UpUpDownDown''.
21* WagTheDirector: While it's unclear at what degree she was serious or joking about it, she said that the Women's Tag Team titles came about simply because she and Wrestling/{{Bayley}} kept "annoying" Vince for months about it until he finally said yes.
22* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
23** Ring Warriors sent out a congratulatory message regarding her NXT contract. Since Mercedes KV had never wrestled for them, it was likely they were setting her up to.
24** When she pitched potential names in FCW, Sasha originally had a different last name, and Banks a different first name. A little while later, she was told she'd be "Sasha Banks".
25** The Boss character first appeared in snippets from a promo class, where Sasha spoke in a ghetto accent and leaned more towards a SassyBlackWoman type.
26** Was supposed to win the IWGP STRONG Women's Championship, but broke her foot during the tournament final, and called an audible to have Willow Nightingale win the match.
27* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings:
28** She was reluctant to post about or even mention her husband on social media for ages because of the inevitable ridicule he would get from possessive fans.
29** For similar reasons, you rarely see a photo of how she walks around in real life, because she doesn't want over-eager fans to be able to recognise her without her wigs and in normal-looking makeup. Her look in ''The Mandalorian'' (hair pulled back, no makeup) is thought to be fairly close, though.
30* WriterRevolt:
31** Fed up with how little she was being used, she asked the NXT creative team if she'd ever get a storyline. When told she was "a good hand" and best suited to making the other women look good, she revolted by pitching the Boss character.

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