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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350: The Lass-Kicker.\ |
| 3 | Big Time Becks.\ |
| 4 | ''[[Music/JohnnyCash The Man comes around.]]'']] |
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| 6 | ->''"BECKY! BECKY! BECKY!"'' |
| 7 | -->-- '''The average WWE crowd.''' [[BreakoutCharacter Get used to hearing this.]] |
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| 9 | Rebecca "Becky" Quin (born 30 January 1987) is an Irish {{professional wrestl|ing}}er. |
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| 11 | After five months of training in Wrestling/FergalDevitt and Paul Tracey's newly-opened wrestling school, she began working in Ireland in 2002 as Rebecca Knox. She wrestled alongside her brother in mixed tag team matches, but eventually went on to carve her own name, competing throughout Europe and even traveling across the Atlantic to wrestle in the U.S. |
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| 13 | In 2005, she became the first-ever Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/canada/bc/eccw/eccw-wm.html ECCW SuperGirls Champion]] in Canada, as well as a one-time Queens of Chaos Champion in France in 2006. Unfortunately, she suffered a cut above her eye in a match in Germany that same year which had severe repercussions, to the point of canceling most of her bookings and cutting her career short in 2008. |
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| 15 | In 2011, she got back in the game with {{Wrestling/SHIMMER}}, managing former rival Sweet Saraya and her daughter, Becky's longtime friend Britani Knight, who would become better known as Wrestling/{{Paige}}. A year later, Becky reentered the ring, and in 2013 she signed with {{Wrestling/WWE}} to become Becky Lynch. Under her current ring name, she is one fourth of WWE's "Four Horsewomen" (alongside Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, Wrestling/SashaBanks and Wrestling/{{Bayley}}), a cohort of four women who came through NXT and were a major part of the revolution of women's wrestling in WWE through their stellar matches. |
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| 17 | Her initial happy-go-lucky, [[{{Oireland}} Irish-jigging]] gimmick was poorly received; this led to her receiving a makeover into a steampunk-turned punk rocker persona, which was less stereotypical and truer to her real-life personality. She slowly ascended from a frustrated [[{{face}} babyface]] getting held back on the sidelines (both in {{kayfabe}} and [[RealitySubtext in real life]]) to the sidekick of a legitimate contender in the ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'' women's division, to the good-hearted bruiser of the main roster women's division after joining ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw RAW]]'' as part of a stable including Paige, to [[TheDogBitesBack a badass, not-giving-a-crap-anymore]] {{antihero}} when she turned {{heel}} against Wrestling/CharlotteFlair on ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]]'', drawing comparisons to a [[DistaffCounterpart female]] Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin. The initial feud with Charlotte drew her unprecedented praise and attention from the entirety of the wrestling industry, and is now remembered as one of the top female rivalries in WWE history. |
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| 19 | Lynch went on maternity leave in May 2020 following a pregnancy with Wrestling/SethRollins. Their first child, a daughter named Roux, was born on December 4 of that year. They subsequently got married in June 2021, and in August of that year, Lynch returned at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2021'' as a heel. After a year-long feud with Wrestling/BiancaBelair, culminating at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', Lynch returned to her old anti-hero gimmick under Wrestling/TripleH's new management of the company (and after a brief hiatus to recover from legitimately blowing her shoulder out at the show in question). She currently performs on ''RAW'' and ''NXT''. |
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| 21 | Lynch is a four-time WWE (formerly [=SmackDown=]) Women's Champion in addition to being the inaugural champion, both a three-time Women's World (formerly RAW Women's) Champion and the championship's longest holder (at 399 days), a NXT Women's Champion, a WWE Women's Tag Team Champion alongside WWE Hall of Famer (and her own personal hero) Wrestling/{{Lita}}, the sixth WWE Women's Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion, the second-ever Women's Wrestling/RoyalRumble winner, the victor of the first-ever women's ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}}'' main event, and the first-ever woman to hold both the [=SmackDown=] and RAW titles simultaneously. It is no hyperbole to claim that she was not only the face of WWE at the height of her popularity, but has gone down as one of the most popular wrestlers of her generation, if not all time, and will be remembered as one of the greatest women's wrestlers to ever live -- and that's all before 40. |
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| 24 | !!"Everyone's tough until the tropes come around." |
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| 29 | * AbortedArc: |
| 30 | ** Was supposed to finish a rivalry with Wrestling/DaizeeHaze with a 60-minute Iron Woman match in SHIMMER before receiving a [[GameBreakingInjury career-threatening injury]] in Germany. |
| 31 | ** She was in the middle of a feud with [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]] after ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 32'' which got cut short due to Emma suffering a back injury. |
| 32 | ** Her build towards a match with Creator/RondaRousey at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'' was truncated and postponed by a stiff punch to the face by Wrestling/NiaJax. |
| 33 | * TheAce: How else would you describe someone who managed to become the champion of both of WWE's major shows at the same time ''and'' the most popular person on both of them? |
| 34 | * ActionMom: Announced she was expecting her first child on the 5/11/20 episode of ''Raw''; her daughter Roux was born in early December of that year. She would bring up her daughter in promos after making her return to the ring (as a proper heel, no less), stating that if she was dangerous before, no one could imagine how dangerous she could be while now having a child to care about. |
| 35 | * AffablyEvil: |
| 36 | ** At her worst as a heel, Becky qualifies as this, being tremendously charismatic, magnetic, and believable in the rationale behind her attitude and dirty deeds. |
| 37 | ** As Big Time Becks, Becky insults her opponent but mainly to encourage them to give it their all if they ever want to become as big as her. |
| 38 | * AmazonianBeauty: She sure loves showing off her delts on social media. For a while, she did try to nickname herself the "Delty Diva" on Twitter. She also has arms and abs that would make most men jealous. |
| 39 | * AntiHero: Following poor fan reception to Becky trying to go full heel by targeting the very fans who supported her in a promo that didn't make exactly all that much sense, WWE dialed her turn back a few notches, instead, presenting Becky as someone who had finally (and arguably rightfully) had enough of seeing her opportunities stolen from her. Some people have even floated the suggestion that, if booked properly, she may be able to become the [[DistaffCounterpart female]] Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin. |
| 40 | * ArcWelding: The episode of NXT that aired after ''Unstoppable'', in which Becky left as a firm fan favourite, featured a video package that tied her initial appearances that played into the {{Oireland}} stereotypes into her retooling into her more commonly known rocker gimmick — namely the retooling was Becky simply acting like herself, instead of like a stereotype. |
| 41 | * ArchEnemy: |
| 42 | ** While Becky and Wrestling/{{Bayley}} have several minor encounters during their time on [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] and on the main roster, they never really feuded until 2022 when Bayley and her newly formed faction, Damge CTRL, attacked Becky, putting her away for a few months until November. From then on, Becky fought Damage CTRL for months, allying with anoyone she could find until ''[=WrestleMania=] 39''. |
| 43 | ** In NXT, Becky initially teams up with Wrestling/SashaBanks in order to make a name for herself but eventually, the alliance disbands after Sasha's poor treatment towards her. They fought at ''[=TakeOver=] Revolution'' for the NXT Women's Championship with Sasha coming out the victor. They continue to feud when they arrive on the main roster, first with respective factions, and then for the Divas/Women's Championship. The feud is reignited in 2019, with Sasha trying to claim credit for Becky's success as the Man. After their match at ''Clash of Champions'' ended with Becky getting disqualified, they fought again inside Hell in a Cell the next month in which Becky won. |
| 44 | ** While she and Wrestling/CharlotteFlair are close friends both in and out of the ring, Charlotte is also Becky's most heated enemy to date, having feuded with her since [=NXT=]. After Charlotte won the Divas Championship and became more and more arrogant, she betrayed Becky with help from her father. The two constantly fought over the title but Becky failed due to Wrestling/RicFlair's interference. Two years later, the rivalry continues, though this time Becky was the one who turned heel, tired of Charlotte constantly upstaging her and stealing the spotlight that Becky had fought so hard for. For the last four months of 2018, the two fought a total of six times for the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship, with Wrestling/{{Carmella}}, Creator/RondaRousey and [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] getting involved, and continued even in 2019 and 2021. Initially, WWE opted to have Becky be the Heel of the angle, but because of Becky's massive popularity, a FaceHeelDoubleTurn occurred by the end of 2018 with Becky being the Tweener while Charlotte returned to be a Heel. By 2021, the two are no longer friends in real life as well due to personal issues. |
| 45 | ** She also had issues with Charlotte's father, Wrestling/RicFlair, as well. Initially, in 2016, Ric interfered in his daughter's matches and cost Becky the win. After Becky became a bigger star than Charlotte and calling herself "The Man", in reference to Ric's "To be the man, you gotta beat the man!". The elder Flair considers the nickname being his trademark, accused Becky for using it without permission and begins throwing lawsuits at Becky and WWE. Becky and Ric fought for many years until in 2023 when Ric apologize and relented the nickname to her. This feud also became one of the rifts that strained Becky's friendship with Ric and by 2021, the damage has been done and they are no longer friends. |
| 46 | ** She probably hated James Ellsworth more than any other woman in the [=SmackDown=] women's division. Ellsworth had been a thorn in Becky's side for months in 2017, especially after he interfered in the first-ever women's Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank ladder match and its rematch on the same week, both times Becky almost won until Ellsworth interfered. She finally got her hands on him during a Battle of the Sexes match. |
| 47 | ** At the height of her popularity in the second half of 2018, Becky was scheduled to face Creator/RondaRousey at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'' in a Champion vs Champion match. For weeks after ''Evolution'' the two exchanged jabs on numerous occasions over who is the better fighter and compared their history to the point they were {{Foil}}s to each other. A week before their match, Becky led an invasion on Raw and attacked Ronda backstage before beating her up with a steel chair. Unfortunately, Becky had her nose broken by Wrestling/NiaJax and had to be pulled out from the match, postponing it to a later date. At ''TLC'' 2018, Ronda interfered in Becky's match and cost her the title, further elevating the feud. After winning the ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'' in 2019, Becky moved to Raw and challenged Ronda for the Raw Women's Championship at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 35''. Things became a little complicated when Wrestling/CharlotteFlair got involved again and replaced Becky after the latter was suspended by Vince. That said, pretty much the entire IWC treated the "suspension" as 100% work, and fully expected Becky to join Ronda and Charlotte in a three-way [=WrestleMania=] main event. And following ''[[Wrestling/WWEFastlane Fastlane]] 2019'', the three-way ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' match indeed came about, and was officially announced as the main event about two weeks before [=WrestleMania=]. The stakes were taken up to eleven when Charlotte won the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship, and a stipulation was added that the winner at WM would take home ''both belts''. |
| 48 | ** [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]]. Until ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2020'', Asuka's been the only wrestler Becky couldn't defeat ever since the latter arrived on the main roster in 2017, and it took Becky a lot to bring her down. |
| 49 | ** Bianca Belair, ever since she returned after she took time off due to maternity leave. She squashed Bianca to win the [=SmackDown=] women's champion from her at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam'' in 26 seconds. Bianca is not happy with the result and the feud continue for an entire year. Initially, Becky has the upper hand but Bianca eventually got her revenge at [=WrestleMania=] 38 and so on. By their final bout at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', Becky finally acknowledges Bianca as a WorthyOpponent and even snaps out from her BrokenAce period following her loss. |
| 50 | * TheArtifact: {{Subverted|Trope}}. An Irish last name like Lynch fit when she was doing her {{Oireland}} gimmick. Now, though, it doesn't really seem to match that of a moshpit (or steampunk) girl. However, her Irish origins are very much still part of her character, in part because of her [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent noticeable accent]]. |
| 51 | * AscendedExtra: In WWE she was a regular Rosebud for months before she actually debuted on NXT. |
| 52 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: In the 2018 year recap SD, New Day conjures her as a giantess. |
| 53 | * BadassBoast: After attacking Charlotte in retribution for her betrayal, Becky gave her a pretty nice one: |
| 54 | -->"I'm taking your championship, and I'm taking your arm with me!" |
| 55 | * BadassLongcoat: Wears one in her entrance during her {{Steampunk}} gimmick. |
| 56 | * BattleCouple: With Wrestling/SethRollins in 2019, after WWE put their real-life relationship onscreen. At the time the relationship started, they were the respective top male and female champions on RAW, and it was particularly played up at the ''Stomping Grounds'' PPV when Becky came out to beat up Wrestling/LaceyEvans (who she'd already defeated earlier in the night) after Wrestling/BaronCorbin enlisted her as a crooked surprise ref for his Universal Championship match against Seth (since unlike all the other heels Corbin had approached, Lacey was protected by Seth's [[WouldNotHitAGirl refusal to hit a woman]]). As for Seth's refusal to hit a woman? Corbin doesn't have that. During Seth's and Becky's winner-take-all tag match at ''Extreme Rules'' against Corbin and Lacey, [[WouldHitAGirl Corbin attacked Becky with a devastating]] [[FinishingMove End of Days]], [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating then stopped to taunt Rollins and call him a]] [[PrecisionFStrike piece of shit]]. Seth's response was to frantically [[UnstoppableRage beat the ever-loving shit out of Corbin with a kendo stick, a steel chair, and a series of Curb Stomps]]. |
| 57 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: |
| 58 | ** Beauty? Well, look at the page image. Brawn? In addition to wrestling, she's a brown belt in shoot grappling. Brains? Has a degree in acting. |
| 59 | ** In PCB she would qualify as the Brains. Paige the BloodKnight would be the Brawn. And Charlotte — who refers to herself as genetically superior — would be the Beauty. |
| 60 | * BerserkButton: Saying or even ''implying'' she's a coward and afraid to face stiff competition like Ronda Rousey is a good way to get punched and/or slapped in the face. Just ask the [=McMahons=]. |
| 61 | * BetaBitch: To Wrestling/SashaBanks after her NXT heel turn. The sad part is she seemed to believe that it was going to help her advance herself, but she really had just been a glorified hanger-on. Subverted as she ended up making sure that it did help her advance herself, whether Sasha liked it or not. |
| 62 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: |
| 63 | ** Completely pulled a fast one on Allison Danger the night she first competed in SHIMMER. |
| 64 | ** Came to Wrestling/{{Bayley}}'s aid... and attacked her a few seconds later. |
| 65 | * BlasphemousBoast: Perhaps an unintentional one. Becky [[{{Catchphrase}} uses]] and [[PhraseCatcher catches]] the phrase "The Man comes (back) around" fairly often, which is a ShoutOut to the well-known Music/JohnnyCash song of the same name.[[note]]Wrestling/CoreyGraves once even quoted the first line of the song word-for-word upon her entrance, which also doubles as a quotation from [[Literature/TheBible the Book of Revelation]].[[/note]] In the song itself, the titular "Man" is UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}. |
| 66 | * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Has been all three colours in her lifetime. In Team PCB she is the redhead to Charlotte's blonde and Paige's brunette. |
| 67 | * BloodKnight: Ever since her character makeover at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2018'', she was portrayed as living for fighting. This was referenced by herself a year later at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2019''. |
| 68 | -->'''Becky:''' Because I want the best, most aggressive version of everyone coming after this [Raw Women's Championship]! I wanna fight the best! |
| 69 | * BloodSplatteredWarrior: On the go-home episode of ''RAW'' preceding ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018,'' Becky got stiffed directly in the face by Wrestling/NiaJax during the episode's [=SmackDown=] invasion main event, [[NoSell no sold]] the injury (which was later proven to be a broken nose and a ''concussion''), and continued the spot with her nose, mouth, hands and arms ''covered'' in her own blood. |
| 70 | * BloodySmile: As mentioned directly above, Becky got in a brawl with Wrestling/NiaJax in November 2018 and accidentally took a stiff punch to the face, genuinely breaking her nose and concussing her. Amazingly, Becky [[MadeOfIron worked off the injury]] and continued with the match, and the image of her in the aftermath -- with a bloody, visibly broken face, but still smiling and proudly defiant -- is widely cited as what catapulted her to megastardom. |
| 71 | * BoisterousBruiser: Seems to be a core part of her main-roster character. She's portrayed as being far more relaxed and "just happy to be there" than the other members of the roster. Also the continued boast of her being a "life enthusiast" who's there to have a good time and kick-ass. |
| 72 | * BookEnds: |
| 73 | ** Becky's journey to becoming the universally-beloved AntiHero face of the WWE began with her taking Wrestling/CharlotteFlair's title by way of countering Charlotte's spear into a cunning DDT pinfall. At ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'', it culminated with Becky taking the titles off of both Charlotte and Creator/RondaRousey by countering Ronda's Piper's Pit into a cunning back-slam pinfall. |
| 74 | ** Her win at 'Mania 35 also made it so the show began and ended with one half of an OfficialCouple of beloved babyfaces both nicknamed "The Man" beating a heel champion who'd also been a big success in MMA. |
| 75 | ** Becky won the Raw Women's Championship at ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'' by pinning then champion, Ronda Rousey, a member of the Four Horsewomen of UFC, by reversing her finisher into a roll-up pin. A year later at ''[=WrestleMania=] 36'', which is also Becky's final match as Raw Women's Championship before her maternity leave, Becky defeated another UFC Horsewoman, this time being Wrestling/ShaynaBaszler, in a similar fashion. |
| 76 | * BoyishShortHair: Following her final feud with Wrestling/BiancaBelair in 2022, Becky traded her long half-braided hair for progressively shorter styles, ending on a rough above-the-shoulder bob that strikes a lot closer to her enduring tomboy image. |
| 77 | * BreakTheCutie: Becky is one of the best on the roster at selling betrayal and emotional hurt. Of course, she has plenty of practice, as the bookers seem to take particular joy in spending weeks or months building up the relationship between Becky and some other talent before it ends in them viciously betraying her. |
| 78 | * BreakoutCharacter: There's an argument to be made that Becky was 2018's breakout wrestler of the year not just for WWE itself, but for ''all of wrestling.'' No other wrestler in the world -- not [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], not Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada, not even Wrestling/KennyOmega -- can make the claim that Becky can, to have gone from the very bottom of the card to being arguably the face of their entire company, with entire ''arenas'' chanting their name, within the space of a month. Her popularity even makes her the first woman to be on the cover of a WWE video game, sharing the spot with Wrestling/RomanReigns in ''WWE 2K20''. |
| 79 | * BringIt: When several people challenged her for the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship, Becky told them to line up and that she would beat them all. |
| 80 | * BrokenPedestal: Becky, in her own words, used to respect the hell out of Wrestling/MickieJames, but that was before Mickie disguised herself as La Luchadora and helped Wrestling/AlexaBliss beat her in a steel cage match in 2017. At a joint contract signing later that year, Lynch lambasted James for that, and even more for her [[JerkJustifications excuse that Becky was trying to erase her past accomplishments]], and vowed to make her pay. |
| 81 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: The part of her main-roster gimmick. She's this weirdo who loves word-play and punning and talks about beating up dinosaurs and ghosts but she's also really, really, really good at wrestling. |
| 82 | * ButNotTooWhite: Had a very thick orange tan as of her main roster debut. |
| 83 | * CanonDiscontinuity: Her FaceHeelTurn in Wrestling/SummerSlam 2018 is downplayed the following week due to her massive popularity with fans, turning her from a generic {{Heel}} into a "severely frustrated AntiHero". |
| 84 | * CareerEndingInjury: Downplayed and Subverted. She suffered a major head injury in 2006 that could have ended her wrestling career, but she ultimately recovered. Still, it took her nearly a decade (seven years) to return to active competition. |
| 85 | * ChildProdigy: In a sense. She began training at 15 and several of her contemporaries called her one of the best wrestlers to ever train in Ireland. |
| 86 | * CoolTeacher: Learned to wrestle as a teenager at a small wrestling school in Ireland founded in part by a young Wrestling/FergalDevitt (Finn Bálor). |
| 87 | * CharacterisationMarchesOn: The Oireland thing was gradually phased out into a background element of her character within a few weeks. |
| 88 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Inverted and subverted. In NXT, she fell victim to the treachery bait around Wrestling/{{Bayley}} and turned on her, then eventually made moves against Wrestling/SashaBanks when opportunities at Sasha's title came her way. On the main roster, she was the schmuck, being betrayed by all three of her partners in a row, Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, and then Natalya; interestingly enough, these are also [[WrestlingFamily second generation]] wrestlers. Emma also originally presented herself as an old friend to Becky before she too attacked her, must be something in the water. A few years later in 2019, Bayley also betrayed Becky in favor of her friend, Sasha. Then in 2023, she was betrayed by Trish Stratus, whom attacked her tag team partner Lita before their match, costing both of them the Women's Tag Team Championship, and then attacked Becky after the match ended. |
| 89 | * CompositeCharacter: In her face debut on NXT, she had elements of Wrestling/SashaBanks and Charlotte when they were first faces: Like Sasha, she was a face who lost a lot of matches, got corrupted by a heel who used the loss record as a lever, and turned heel by attacking an unsuspecting person after a match. And like Charlotte, she was friends with Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, got an offer from the [=BFFs=] (well, former BFF in Becky's case), and attacked Bayley as her way of joining them. |
| 90 | * ContinuityNod: |
| 91 | ** Perhaps enforced by real life, as despite dropping the {{Oireland}} gimmick her legitimate Irish heritage is still subtly referenced. Namely, she's kept the red hair, still incorporated some form of green into her attire on occasion, and eventually got a theme song called "Celtic Invasion". |
| 92 | ** Considering how many times Becky has said hers and Wrestling/SashaBanks's association was an alliance, not a friendship, Sasha should've seen coming that she would go Starscream as soon as she got opportunities to win the Women's title for herself. |
| 93 | ** Becky would state in a showcase vignette on ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'' that she aligned with Paige upon being called to the main roster because she's known her since the latter was 13 years old. This is a CallBack to their past history together prior to WWE. For a clue on that, see PuttingTheBandBackTogether. |
| 94 | * CoolShades: Her {{steampunk}} ensemble attire comes complete with cool goggles. |
| 95 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Even in her initial run as an uncomplicated mega-face, Becky was prone to wearing mostly dark colors to the ring. Following her 2018 repackaging, however, she applies more than ever, preferring all-black outfits despite being an anti-establishment hero and perhaps the most beloved wrestler in WWE. |
| 96 | * DeadpanSnarker: Becky's late-2018 repackaging has made absolutely stellar use of her cutting, ''hilariously'' ruthless sense of humor. Not even ''Conor [=McGregor=]'' has been safe from Lynch's pointed barbs and biting tweets. |
| 97 | * DefeatingTheUndefeatable: At ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 35'', Becky ended Creator/RondaRousey's one-year undefeated streak by pinning her at the main event. |
| 98 | * DenserAndWackier: |
| 99 | ** Inverted at first, where the {{Oireland}} gimmick was toned down and phased out to be replaced with a much lower-key mosh pit one. |
| 100 | ** Played straight comparing NXT to the main roster. On NXT she was pushed as the OnlySaneMan and a serious wrestler. On the main roster, she became much more happy-go-lucky, cracking jokes and puns. Of course, she was still willing to get serious so it was downplayed. |
| 101 | * {{Determinator}}: |
| 102 | ** Took a botched punch that resulted in a [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction concussion and facial fractures]], only to completely NoSell the entire thing and return to the brawl, delivering a beatdown to Creator/RondaRousey and the Raw women's roster before taking a victory march through the crowd, all the while [[BloodSplatteredWarrior blood is pouring down her face]]. |
| 103 | ** Becky entered the 2019 Royal Rumble match after a tough battle against Asuka earlier that night. When it comes down to her and Charlotte, the recently eliminated Nia Jax pushed Becky off the stairs, injuring her leg in the process. Despite this, Becky continued to face her former best friend and eliminated her to win the Royal Rumble. |
| 104 | * DistaffCounterpart: |
| 105 | ** She's been drawing some comparisons to Wrestling/{{Sting}} in the sense that all of her allies have turned on her and she hardly wins any of her feuds (with one person to turn on her even being a Flair, much like the Nature Boy turned on Sting), eventually leading her to undergo a change of personality from a happy-go-lucky babyface who wore bright colors into a much darker persona who wears mostly black, much like how "Surfer" Sting became "Crow" Sting. In an episode of ''Ride Along'', Wrestling/RicFlair even told Charlotte that Becky will be "[her] Sting". |
| 106 | ** She's been favorably compared to Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin during the second half of 2018, due to being a massive fan-favorite despite being an anti-authority tweener at best. She eventually cemented her mega-face status after getting [[BloodSplatteredWarrior bloodied]] but [[{{Determinator}} not quitting]] during a brawl with the entire ''Raw'' women's division, much like a bloody Austin's refusal to tap out to Bret Hart at ''[=WrestleMania=] 13''. The comparison becomes even more apparent after ''Royal Rumble 2019'' with Becky feuding against the [=McMahon=] family, similar to Austin's legendary feud with Vince. Both [[https://www.wwe.com/f/styles/gallery_img_l/public/photo/image/2012/01/08_SCSA_McMahon.jpg Austin]] and [[https://cache.wrestlingnewssource.com/u/5eccbf9ce3bdf5ea6d5d04779c82d391_1894_1052.jpeg Becky]] also had memorable moments where they were forced to leave a WWE arena in handcuffs, wearing evil, rebellious grins on their faces. In fact, her triple threat match at ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'' seemed to simultaneously mirror two of the feuds that cemented Austin's star status at ''[=WrestleMania=] XIV'' and ''XV''; facing against both a household name from a non-scripted combat sport who made the crossover to wrestling (MMA's Ronda Rousey for Becky, boxing's Mike Tyson for Austin at ''XIV'') and a multi-generational wrestler pushed by Vince [=McMahon=] (Charlotte Flair for Becky, The Rock for Austin at ''XV''). |
| 107 | ** If Charlotte's counterpart is Wrestling/RomanReigns, then Becky's is [[Wrestling/JonMoxley Dean Ambrose]], the more popular "best friend" of wrestlers that WWE favours more over them. As the Man, Becky and Dean have an anti-authority streak and a take-no-prisoners attitude in order to get back at the person who wronged them. To wit, both Becky and Dean ended up becoming more popular than Charlotte and Roman (though for Dean to do so he has to leave for another company). |
| 108 | ** As far as her contemporaries on the roster, she and Wrestling/SethRollins have no shortage of similarities. They both call themselves "The Man," they're both avid [=CrossFitters=], they've both been WWE double-champions, they're the most popular faces on [=SmackDown=] and Raw, respectively, and at [=WrestleMania=] 35, they both defeated household-name heels from the MMA world for a Raw top championship while wearing black and gold ring attire. To put the icing on top of all that cake, the two are legitimately married and, in a WWE first, co-main-evented a PPV where they defended their respective titles [[BattleCouple together]] in a mixed tag match. |
| 109 | *** Her heel "Big Time Becks" run in 2021-2022 seemed to take a lot of cues from Seth as she became increasingly arrogant and unstable and convinced that she was God's gift to Wrestling - and also began dressing in a succession of increasingly garish outfits. |
| 110 | * TheDogBitesBack: |
| 111 | ** Becky turns on Sasha at ''[=TakeOver=]: Rival'' after the latter [[{{Pun}} bosses]] her one too many times. |
| 112 | ** Becky turned against Charlotte at [=SummerSlam=] 2018 after Charlotte constantly upstaged her for the last two years, and the final straw was when Charlotte pinned her during their triple threat match when Becky was only moments from winning the title. |
| 113 | ** Sure, Seth beating Corbin down was fitting revenge for his End of Days to Becky, but she did get to personally pay Corbin back herself by bringing out [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] to embarrass him and beat him down on the FOX debut of ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown''. |
| 114 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: A central catalyst to her FaceHeelTurn in 2018. |
| 115 | ** When she, Charlotte, and Sasha made their debut on the main roster in 2015, Becky is the only member of the trio (and by the end of the year, the only Four Horsewomen) who had never held the NXT Women's Championship. Eventually, it becomes clear that WWE began to favour Charlotte and Sasha more than her as shown during a press conference before ''[=WrestleMania=] 32'' where a set of dolls were introduced as a promo for the upcoming triple threat match, except there were only dolls of just Sasha and Charlotte, completely leaving Becky out despite she was in the match as well. |
| 116 | ** She is the last of the Four Horsewomen to win a championship but after losing it 3 months later, she never had another championship match for eighteen months, from ''[=WrestleMania=] 33 to ''[=SummerSlam=] 2018''. In order to get the opportunity for that match, she had to go on and defeat every woman in the ''[=SmackDown=]'' locker room, including then champion, Carmella. However, Charlotte was eventually inserted into the match, after two months of absence, and not long after losing the championship, frustrating Becky. After Charlotte won the match that night, Becky finally reached her breaking point and beat up Charlotte, leading to the aforementioned FaceHeelTurn. |
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| 119 | [[folder:E–M]] |
| 120 | * EarlyBirdCameo: She'd been appearing regularly on NXT as one of Adam Rose's Rosebuds for months before her debut. |
| 121 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The {{Oireland}} gimmick she debuted on NXT under was so stupidly over-the-top stereotypical (she just ''wouldn't stop jigging!'') that her career was lucky to survive. It was so bad that she got a Website/WrestleCrap [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/debut-of-becky-lynch/ induction]] for that single match alone and unsurprisingly it was gone without a trace by her second appearance. |
| 122 | -->'''Art O'Donnell:''' Look, we got it: she's Irish. I said, "LOOK, WE GOT IT, '''''SHE'S IRISH'''''"! |
| 123 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: Becky started 2018 absolutely languishing at the bottom of the Women's Division, slogging through pointless filler matches with other similarly underused wrestlers and never receiving a noticeable push in spite of being a former champion with seemingly invincible popularity with the fanbase until the triple-threat match for the Smackdown Women's Championship at ''Wrestling/{{SummerSlam}} 2018'' and the following FaceHeelTurn to Wrestling/CharlotteFlair. What followed was a series of events that cemented Becky as the top woman of ''the entire WWE'', including winning the Smackdown title at ''Wrestling/HellInACell 2018'', the Last Woman Standing match at ''Evolution'', and the go-home Raw episode for ''Survivor Series 2018'' with the broken face.\ |
| 124 | \ |
| 125 | Enter ''2019'', she's literally at the highest point of her entire career, with a new, cooler AntiHero persona, and more over than ever, a second title reign come and gone, and - most importantly - the hard-won respect and faith of the company and even Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself. Becky's unprecedentedly meteoric rocket-jump to the top of the company can really best be summed up by the fact that, on the New Year's special of ''[=SmackDown=]'', she not only had the chance to wrestle a mixed tag match alongside Wrestling/JohnCena - actually a noted and long-term supporter of Becky's out of character - but was categorically put over by Big Match John not just as a trusted future prospect, but ''as Cena's potential successor as the face of the company.'' It even started looking more and more likely that she, Ronda Rousey, and Charlotte Flair would ''main-event [=WrestleMania=] 35'', to the point where Becky was openly saying this and taking the credit for it on WWE programming as the face in the angle. Not long after, the Rousey–Flair–Lynch match was indeed announced as the WM 35 main event--and more importantly, Becky ''won'', becoming a double champion and ending Rousey's yearlong unbeaten run. |
| 126 | * EdgyBackwardsChairSitting: Perfectly befitting her rebel character, Becky sits backward in a chair, slouching forward nonchalantly, during her ''WWE 24: The Man'' monologues. |
| 127 | * EnemyMine: With Sasha Banks on the main roster as she sort of helps the latter against her former teammates Team B.A.D. |
| 128 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: Inverted. Most of Becky's major feuds have been with blondes (Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, Wrestling/AlexaBliss, James Ellsworth, Creator/RondaRousey, Wrestling/LaceyEvans, Wrestling/LivMorgan). |
| 129 | * EvilMakeover: While less "evil" and more "AntiHero", her post-Wrestling/SummerSlam 2018 turn on Wrestling/{{Charlotte|Flair}} has seen her wear more black clothing with a helping of exposing her midriff when not in her ring gear, as seen [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BodExregMM6/?taken-by=beckylynchwwe here.]] This was eventually taken even further, as Becky started 2019 by trading out her old ring gear in favor of a black "I Am the Man" tank top and shorts, black-and-white striped socks, and combat boots, creating a less elegant and more rough-and-tumble image overall. The phrase on the tank top was soon replaced by simply "The Man". [[IconicItem She kept the fishnets, though.]] |
| 130 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Appeared at ''NXT Takeover: Unstoppable'' for her Women's title match with bright orange hair. That also coincided with a proper HeelFaceTurn. Likewise, her AntiHero repackaging in late 2018 also saw a subtle change in the aesthetic of Becky's hairstyle in that she let it fade from bright orange to a muted, more realistic ginger and started wearing her hair swept asymmetrically to one side of her face, with the other side pinned into sharp Celtic braids. |
| 131 | * FaceHeelDoubleTurn: A gradual ''triple'' turn has taken place since ''Evolution'' in what became a three-way feud for supremacy in the WWE women's division between herself, Ronda Rousey, and Charlotte Flair. Initially, the company tried to persist in booking Becky as the dangerous rule-breaking villainess consumed by anger against both Charlotte's fair heiress to the Flair dynasty and Ronda's humble celebrity fighter and lifelong fan, but starting with the initial FaceHeelTurn at ''[=SummerSlam=]'' having to be retooled into an AntiHero because fans refused to boo Becky against Charlotte, Becky's popularity resulted in her sympathy factor being transformed into badass admiration every time she did something, with the iconic image of her defiant bloody face from the night she was injured by Nia Jax while invading ''Raw'' making this undeniable.\ |
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| 133 | At that point WWE caved in and allowed Becky to be treated by crowds as more of a face; while still willing to do whatever it takes and not caring much about fair play, she was now doing things like hugging Charlotte after choosing her to replace her against Ronda, showing respect to Asuka after she earned her opportunity for the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship, and even being put into a storyline where she defies the [=McMahon=] family's corporately-driven concerns ''ala'' the beginnings of Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's iconic feud with Vince. Charlotte, meanwhile, was booked to snap with a kendo stick attack on Rousey at ''Survivor Series'' and continuously show disrespect to Becky, Ronda, and even Asuka, placing her as the {{heel}} in this story even before Vince hand-picked her to replace Becky as Ronda's challenger at ''[=WrestleMania=]'', while Ronda was continuously placed as a respectful babyface rival to Becky until fans' refusal to give her the same approval as Becky, plus some of the questionable actions she was naturally booked into, resulted in the two having a heated WorkedShoot exchange on Website/{{Twitter}} which culminated in Ronda completely losing her patience with the WWE system and returning to the obnoxious psycho-competitor persona of her UFC fame while routinely BreakingTheFourthWall on the Internet, becoming the dangerous angry heel Becky was intended to be all along. |
| 134 | * FaceHeelTurn: |
| 135 | ** Her SHIMMER debut saw her go from a polite, hand-shaking, friendly babyface to an obnoxious, arrogant cheater all in the course of one match. |
| 136 | ** On NXT Wrestling/SashaBanks convinced her to turn heel, which Becky did by attacking Wrestling/{{Bayley}} after seemingly coming to her aid. |
| 137 | ** At ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2018'', after Charlotte Flair pinned her to win the SD Women's title from Carmella, Becky finally had enough of her friend taking her opportunities, snapped, and finally turned on her. Having said that, fan reaction to WWE trying to make her ''full'' heel on the [=SmackDown=] after the show was poor enough that it was actually dialed back, leading to the AntiHero entry above. |
| 138 | ** At ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2021'', Becky made her return and defeated Bianca Belair in less than a minute after a cheap shot before the match, winning the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship by underhanded means and turning heel for the first time since 2018. The following week Becky refused to have a rematch and then proceeded to mock and attack Belair during the latter's home celebration, cementing her heel turn. However, despite cheating in her return and trying to weasel her way out of matches, Becky proved at ''Extreme Rules 2021'' that she can still wrestle like a valiant hero when pushed, facing Belair again fair and square and running the gauntlet with her for nearly 17 minutes straight until Wrestling/SashaBanks brutalized both of them and ended the match in a no-contest. In that same match, the crowd were almost perfectly divided between chanting for both women, proving how extraordinarily hard it is for Becky to get too far out of [[AntiVillain moral grays]]. |
| 139 | * FanservicePack: Her flannel gear was quite modest. The steampunk gear shortened the pants by a lot. Subverted, as the steampunk gear tends to cover her midriff a lot more often than the flannel gear did. Later on, she got a {{leotard|OfPower}} that emphasized her curves even more. Her 2021 FaceHeelTurn sees her wearing more revealing (not necessarily sexualized) outfits. |
| 140 | * FieryRedhead: Though it is dyed to emphasize her nationality (she's naturally blonde). |
| 141 | * FightingIrish: Becky is arguably the most accomplished and high-profile Irish performer in wrestling history, edging out even her mentor [[Wrestling/FergalDevitt Finn Balor]], and perfectly taps into all of the classic Irish brawler notes: aggressive, unafraid of fighting through injury, and prone to occasionally swearing like a stevedore. |
| 142 | * FinishingMove: |
| 143 | ** A ''nasty''-looking Fujiwara Armbar which involves Becky sitting on the opponent's back and pulling the arm in between her legs. After her match with Wrestling/SashaBanks, she gave it a name — the Disgoostin Armbar, later tweaked to Dis-arm-her. |
| 144 | ** After ''Money in the Bank 2019'' (although she had previously used it at ''[=WrestleMania=] 35''), she's made more prevalent use of another one: a pumphandle [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Rock Bottom]] called the Manhandle Slam. |
| 145 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 146 | ** Her champion vs. champion feud with Creator/RondaRousey heading into the 2018 ''Survivor Series'' paints her as this. While both are women who specialize in collecting people's arms, both are lifelong wrestling fans, and both fought their entire lives to become trailblazers for female combat athletes, Becky was one who defied her mother's expectations and took a circuitous route through professional wrestling into WWE, while Ronda was bred from childhood by her mother to dominate in mixed martial arts before entering WWE as a celebrity star at the end of her MMA run. From a character standpoint, Ronda has consistently come off as someone who is humble and respectful and happy to be a part of WWE until someone disrespects her and provokes her dangerous fury, while Becky always maintained a rebellious streak even as an honorable babyface and just recently became increasingly arrogant, bitter, and self-righteous through her issues with Charlotte Flair. For pointers, ever since defeating Charlotte in a Last Woman Standing match, Becky has picked up the habit of calling herself "The Man"; Ronda, who instead fully embraces the notion of changing what it means to "fight like a girl", considers that an insult to womanhood. In addition, Ronda pointed out that despite Becky being two days older than her, Ronda had already accomplished so much for a decade; while Becky was still in training, Ronda was already in the main event of UFC, and while Becky was at the pre-show of ''[=WrestleMania=] 34'', Ronda's debut match at the same event was among the main highlights. |
| 147 | ** Wrestling/CharlotteFlair and Wrestling/LaceyEvans also served as foils for her, with Becky being an uncompromising {{Tomboy}} and Flair and Evans being the "girly girl" in their TomboyAndGirlyGirl dynamic (Flair being nicknamed "The Queen" and Evans being nicknamed "The Sassy Southern Belle.") |
| 148 | * ForeignWrestlingHeel: Particularly on the indies. Averted in NXT as her {{Oireland}} schtick was entirely as a face, and her foreignness was barely acknowledged after her heel turn. |
| 149 | -->'''''Website/WrestleCrap'':''' You only get one chance to make a first impression, and for Becky Lynch, even her wrestling debut at age 15, her global experience, and her year in WWE developmental couldn't save her from bad ideas. Bad ideas like making your wrestling persona the biggest mick this side of the Atlantic. |
| 150 | * GameBreakingInjury: In 2006, during a match she worked for German Stampede Wrestling, Knox suffered a cut above her eye that had to get stitched up, which later resulted in headaches, vision problems, loud buzzing in her left ear, and possible damage to her eighth cranial nerve. She ended up canceling or no-showing nearly all her bookings for the next year and a half before openly admitting that she didn't feel like wrestling was a proper career choice for her anymore. She wouldn't return to the squared circle until 2011 as the manager for the Knight Dynasty, and even then it was another year before she actually wrestled again. |
| 151 | * GenkiGirl: Especially when letting out her rocker side, particularly seen in SHIMMER as the Knight Dynasty's manager and in WWE since her gimmick change on NXT. Initially after her main roster call-up, she stood out in PCB, with TheStoic Wrestling/CharlotteFlair and DeadpanSnarker Wrestling/{{Paige}} as her teammates, her manic gleefullness pops even more. Take this exchange on [=SmackDown=], after she'd won both titles... |
| 152 | --> '''Audience''': Becky 2 Belts! Becky 2 Belts!\ |
| 153 | '''Becky''': That's me! |
| 154 | %%* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition. |
| 155 | %%* GiantWoman: New Day turned her into a giantess once. It was awesome and hilarious. |
| 156 | * GogglesDoNothing: During her {{steampunk}} gimmick; as the trope name suggests, she only wears them on her entrance. |
| 157 | * GoodIsNotNice: Even when Becky is a face, she's still hugely aggressive and will try to make her opponents tap out to submissions. This doubly applies to her persona post-''Survivor Series 2018''; despite once more falling into the role of a hero, Becky is rough, foul-mouthed (especially by PG Era standards), and cuts an absolutely ''brutal'' promo. |
| 158 | --> You may be the baddest bitch on the planet, [[Creator/RondaRousey Ronnie]], but at Survivor Series, I'm gonna make you ''mine.'' |
| 159 | * GuileHeroine: Becky is a classic wrestling technician in that she relies less on pure strength or absurd aerial maneuvers to win matches and more on cunning and lightning-quick submissions. Of course, she can still brawl with the best of them (as clearly evidenced by the heading image of her Awesome page above), but Becky's go-to strategy is to [[MadeOfIron endure]] and use wits to overcome. |
| 160 | * HairFlip: It goes with the head banging. |
| 161 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: Turned face and made up with Bianca Belair at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', even backing her up against Bayley's new faction of Damage [=CTRL=]. Unfortunately, it was revealed afterwards that Becky had separated her shoulder during the match and had to take a break to recover. She would later be attacked by Damage CTRL backstage and become their first-ever victim as a collective faction. Fortunately, this later became subverted on the November 25, 2022 episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'', when she was revealed as the fifth and final member of Bianca's team at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries''. |
| 162 | * HeelFaceTurn: |
| 163 | ** Becky won over the NXT crowd after her gutsy performance against Wrestling/SashaBanks in ''NXT Takeover: Unstoppable'', and they've been crazy for her ever since. |
| 164 | ** No matter whether you rate Becky as a tweener or a full-on heel since ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2018'', she put herself officially back on the face side of the fence right before ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries''. After fighting through injury on ''Raw'' to give Ronda Rousey and the Raw women's team hell, she came back to ''[=SmackDown=]'' to a hero's welcome and even buried the hatchet with Charlotte again. 100% appropriately, this drew a number of parallels to a bloodied Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin turning face after having the living snot beaten out of him by Wrestling/BretHart. |
| 165 | ** After she's unable to win back the Raw Women's Championship from Bianca at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', she's finally putting this aside as the two finally embraced together in the ring. She's even standing for her against the returning Bayley and her new allies, the returning Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky. |
| 166 | * HellBentForLeather: Since her 2018 heel turn, Becky's taken to wearing leather jackets and leather pants whenever she's not wrestling. |
| 167 | * TheHero: Arguably of the entire company as of 2019. The fans love her, the company loves her, and reportedly even stubborn old donkey Wrestling/VinceMcMahon loves her, and she's subsequently become the focus of all of WWE's most high-profile storylines. |
| 168 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, even since Charlotte being drafted to ''[=SmackDown=] Live!''. |
| 169 | * HiddenDepths: She would never be caught dead chumming with them the same way the likes of Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/{{Bayley}} do it, but AntiHero Becky loves her fans in her own subtle way, as evidenced by the way she breaks out into a cocky grin every time the crowd chants her name after her entrance. Her approach to interacting with the WWE Universe is perhaps best tied together by a tweet from Becky herself: |
| 170 | -->"I was prepared to go where I was going without all of you, but you came with me anyway." |
| 171 | * HistoryRepeats: |
| 172 | ** She's been an inaugural Women's Champion twice in her career. First was the ECCW [=SuperGirls=] Champion in 2005, then as the [=SmackDown=] Women's Champion eleven years later. |
| 173 | ** She wins her first and second [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship on a September PPV in a Southern state by defeating a wrestler whose name starts with "C" and loses it three months later at TLC to a wrestler with dyed hair whose name starts with "A" in a match where she doesn't have to be pinned. In addition, she was scheduled for a match against a blonde opponent during both reigns, only to be pulled out due to an injury. |
| 174 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: Becky has a habit of winning championships by countering other people's moves. Victims of this tactic include Charlotte Flair at ''Hell in a Cell 2018'' and Ronda Rousey at ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'', both of whom tried to hit signature moves on Becky, but got rolled into a cover and pinned to lose their titles. |
| 175 | * IHaveManyNames: Komeera, Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch. |
| 176 | * ImprovisedWeapon: At ''Money in the Bank 2023'', Becky is handcuffed by Zoey Stark on one hand but managed to get out before Zoey is able to lock the other cuff to the turnbuckle. Becky later uses the other cuff like a fish hook to drag Bayley down a ladder by the latter's mouth. |
| 177 | * InformedAttribute: Her 'rock chick' gimmick involves headbanging, throwing up the horns, flannel, and not much else. Justified in that unlike the {{Oireland}} act, she's not out to be a complete stereotype with this. |
| 178 | * ItsPersonal: Did '''not''' take Charlotte's betrayal of their friendship well. Even after resuming said friendship on ''[=SmackDown Live=]'' she never truly forgave her, as the moment Charlotte blindsided Becky to become champion again Becky promptly returned the favor. She even later pointed out on Twitter that when Charlotte had attacked her she did so with her back turned[[labelnote:*]]a statement that could apply to both Charlotte's betrayal and the sneak finish for the win at ''[=SummerSlam=]''[[/labelnote]], while she attacked Charlotte as they looked each other straight in the eye. |
| 179 | * IWasBeatenByAGirl: Becky gave James Ellsworth a taste of this when, after months of him interfering in matches on Carmella's behalf and Becky suplexing him in response, they had an actual match on ''[=SmackDown=] Live'', the first intergender match in WWE in almost ten years, and she made him tap out. |
| 180 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mellowed out into this after undergoing another HeelFaceTurn in the closing months of 2018. Despite being arrogant, aggressive, and an absolute ''savage'' on the mic, AntiHero Becky loves her fans and respects wrestlers who have earned their opportunities, rather than having them handed to them. For instance, she had this to say to [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] after the latter took her title at the main event of ''TLC 2018'': |
| 181 | -->おめでとう |
| 182 | -->'''Translation:''' [[GracefulLoser Congratulations.]] |
| 183 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 184 | ** After turning against Wrestling/{{Bayley}} on ''NXT'', she explained in a backstage interview that Wrestling/SashaBanks was right; being a face who's over with the fans wasn't actually stopping her from losing all the time. Given that, since she turned heel, she's been winning a lot more, it's hard not to see her point. Ironically, she ended up once again becoming a face who's over with the fans ''because of how true she was to her new attitude and how far it took her as a result''. |
| 185 | ** Did this again after turning against Wrestling/CharlotteFlair on the main roster in 2018, pointing out that she had earned her opportunity and was ready to ascend to become champion again and prove that she was her own woman, not Charlotte's plus-one, only for Charlotte to rip her grasp on the title out from under her like so many others have done over the past three years. |
| 186 | * KickTheDog: |
| 187 | ** The Knight Dynasty and Rebecca Knox beat little Leva Bates unconscious in between matches on SHIMMER volume 39. |
| 188 | ** At the 1000th episode of [=SmackDown=], Becky told Edge to be careful while leaving the ring and "don’t hurt his neck again going through those ropes." This however failed to get Becky any heat due to her massive popularity and one of the few times a heel was not booed for their harsh comment. |
| 189 | * LeotardOfPower: She wore one as her wrestling gear from 2018 to early 2019. |
| 190 | * LiteralAssKicking: She started off her mixed tag team Extreme Rules match with Wrestling/SethRollins against Wrestling/BaronCorbin and Wrestling/LaceyEvans at ''Extreme Rules 2019'' by kicking Evans in the ass while Evans was showing off the fact that she had "SETH" inscripted on the rear end of her trunks. |
| 191 | * MadeOfIron: This woman got ''punched in the face so hard she got a concussion'' and had to drop out of ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'', but she still got back up, beat Creator/RondaRousey up with a chair, and walked out through the stands under her own power. And she didn't stagger out, she ''swaggered out!'' |
| 192 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: She famously shrugs off a legitimately broken nose and concussion that happened on the spot just to finish the program she's part of. |
| 193 | * MoralityPet: Was retroactively one for PCB as a whole. Wrestling/{{Paige}} is an aloof loner and Wrestling/{{Charlotte|Flair}} has the Flair arrogance and swagger, but Becky was always portrayed as a pure babyface who just wants to hang out with her friends and kick ass. In fact, the breakup only got bad when Paige insulted Becky and Charlotte was noticeably far more animated in defense of her than she was in defense of her title win, which was "the most important win of her career". Sadly, fans' growing resentment of Charlotte for being the initial star of the "revolution" due to Flair's influence and for Becky ostensibly acting as her sidekick ended up ruining that. |
| 194 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: Her entrance theme is a recording of crowd chants during a hockey game. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:N–R]] |
| 198 | * NoSell: During the [=SmackDown=] invasion of Raw led by her in the leadup to ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'' her face got ''legit'' smashed up by a careless punch from Wrestling/NiaJax, breaking her nose, splattering blood across her face and arms, and giving her a concussion. Becky gave ''absolutely no fucks'' as she continued the destruction of the RAW women, including beating down Creator/RondaRousey with a chair, and swaggered out, taunting Ronda at the exit before departing. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Unfortunately]], the concussion ended up taking her out of ''Survivor Series'', but this display of absolute badassery still got her more impossibly over than ever before. |
| 199 | * OfCorsetsSexy: She started wearing corsets when she went to the main roster. |
| 200 | * OfficialCouple: With Wrestling/SethRollins, confirmed as of May 13, 2019, after months of speculation. |
| 201 | * {{Oireland}}: Hmm, red hair? Check. Lots of green? Check. Ceili music? Check, it's her entrance theme. Jig? You bet that's a check. Averted when she was retooled into a rocker, wearing flannel. All that remained was the red hair. She had done this type of gimmick for years on the indies, however. |
| 202 | * OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain: As older hero feuds against Wrestling/AlexaBliss and Wrestling/{{Carmella}}. As a younger villain, she's wrestled against Wrestling/{{Lita}} at Wrestling/EliminationChamber (2022). |
| 203 | * OneOfTheBoys: Fitting with her masculine attitude, Becky is definitely this, both on and off-screen. If any woman on the WWE roster is going to join the guys in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WrestleMania_36#/media/File:WrestleMania_36_Poster.jpg being featured on a pirate/viking themed piece of marketing]], star in a [[Film/TheMarine manly action movie]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vVnHtDwuw0 get involved in something like imitating a brash classic Stone Cold promo]], then Becky Lynch is often the most likely to do it. She also frequently does workouts with the male wrestlers at the gym and then there are also scenes like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYpp2mKiJCY this]], fitting this trope to a T. |
| 204 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Even when using Rebecca Knox as her ring name, she still referred to herself as "Becky", and her first ring name was literally just Becky. |
| 205 | * PartsUnknown: From the School of Hard Knox in her ''SHIMMER'' days. |
| 206 | * PowerTrio: With Wrestling/{{Paige}} and Charlotte. First generically called "Team Paige" after the team's main roster veteran, their first attempt at a real name was the "Submission Sorority"—only for it to be called out on its stiff wordiness and coincidental porn connections enough to be changed to "PCB" after each woman's first letter. |
| 207 | * PrecisionFStrike: Her promos have been known to have bits of colorful language (by PG standards) added into them sparingly; see ThisIsForEmphasisBitch below. |
| 208 | * PregnantBadass: Worked (and won) her ''Wrestlemania 36'' match against Wrestling/ShaynaBaszler while pregnant (granted not knowing it at the time). |
| 209 | * ProgressivelyPrettier: An understated example considering the PG rating and Women's Evolution and all, but her ring outfits have gotten progressively more on the "sexy" side over time on the main roster. She's introduced shiny leotards, pantyhose, and vests resembling open dresses with slits in place of her steampunk set's earlier corsets with shorts and overcoats. This was somewhat reversed with the gimmick of "The Man", as she would alternate between the aforementioned elegant look and a more rough-and-tumble image consisting of "The Man" tank top and shorts depending on the match. |
| 210 | * PungeonMaster: Follow her on Twitter. You have been warned. She's started incorporating this on-screen as of her main roster debut. |
| 211 | * PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Rebecca returned to wrestling in 2011 as the manager of the Knight Dynasty (aka Saraya and Britani Knight, the latter of whom is now known as Wrestling/{{Paige}}). Since Becky debuted on NXT, many fans were calling for her and Paige to team up. This would finally come to fruition upon Becky's call-up to the main roster, as she and Charlotte joined Team Paige in the three-way war for control and change in the Divas division. |
| 212 | * RageBreakingPoint: ''Finally'' hit hers at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2018'' when she snapped and attacked Charlotte Flair after Charlotte took her out from behind to steal her victory for the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship. |
| 213 | * RedBaron: K-Nox, The Lass Kicker, The Man, Becky 2 Belts and Big Time Becks. |
| 214 | * RedheadInGreen: Initially when she debuted, she had an {{Oireland}} gimmick. She does still sometimes wear some green on her steampunk gear, making this a downplayed trope. She also favours green eyeshadow from time to time. |
| 215 | * RetiredBadass: From 2006-2012. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:S–Z]] |
| 219 | * ScreamingWarrior: She's even had it out with Wrestling/MsChif, Knox being of noticeably higher pitch. |
| 220 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Even after repackaging as an antihero in her 2018 heel turn this is one of the qualities she retained. It's actually quite understandable that after being cheated out of the title for so long the very thought of losing it again terrifies her, so she tended to RageQuit whenever Charlotte looked to be getting the upper hand. But even then, it's downplayed compared to most examples. Most of the time, she runs ''towards'' the fight, not away from it, and if she tries to walk off mid-match, it's usually the transition to an extended sequence that takes place away from the ring. |
| 221 | * SeriesMascot: She's been the face of the ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]]'' women's division since the second Brand Extension in 2016. Two years later, toward the end of 2018, she became the de facto face of all of ''[=SmackDown=]'', and just a few months after that arguably became the face of '''''the entire WWE.''''' |
| 222 | * ShaggyDogStory: After winning the 2019 Royal Rumble, Becky got into a confrontation with the [=McMahons=] and was suspended for refusing to see a doctor. A week later, after her knee was healed, she was then forced to apologize to Stephanie and Triple H for her recent behavior or her match with Ronda Rousey at [=WrestleMania=] would be canceled. Becky spent the entire night thinking about it and finally decided to swallow her pride and apologize to them. Unfortunately, Vince himself refused to accept her apology and suspended her until after [=WrestleMania=] and choose Charlotte Flair to replace her. |
| 223 | * SheIsTheKing: Starts referring to herself as "The Man" during her mega-push towards the end of 2018. After her return at SummerSlam 2021, she added "Big Time Becks" in addition to her now iconic moniker. |
| 224 | * ShoutOut: |
| 225 | ** Though no one can confirm if this was the intent, someone noted that Lynch's "steampunk" getup evokes [[http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/581305-check-out-becky-lynchs-brand-new-look-possible-influence-game-of-thrones-actor-attends-nxt-takeover-w-stephanie-McMahon Chandra Nalaar]] from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. |
| 226 | ** Also (and perhaps also coincidentally), the hair, in particular, makes her resemble Irisa Nyira from the short-lived science fiction show ''Series/{{Defiance}}'' ([[VideoGame/{{Defiance}} and accompanying video game]]), which happened to air on the same network as ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'' at the time. |
| 227 | ** Her wrestling gear in late 2018 heavily resembled the costume of Creator/DCComics hero, ComicBook/BlackCanary. |
| 228 | ** From ''Elimination Chamber 2019'' onwards, Becky took to wearing a black tracksuit with yellow stripes (and using wrestling gear modeled after it), which some fans noted looks like a [[PaletteSwap color-swapped]] version of the yellow tracksuit with black stripes worn by the Bride on ''Film/KillBill'' (itself a ShoutOut to Creator/BruceLee wearing a similar tracksuit in ''Film/GameOfDeath''). Becky herself lampshaded this, sharing on Instagram [[https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxnh1gVhAEE/ a picture of herself]] similar to [[https://www.slantmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2004/04/killbillvolume1.jpg one of the posters of the film.]] |
| 229 | * SirSwearsALot: Post-''[=SummerSlam=] 2018'' Becky is ''unprecedentedly'' foulmouthed by PG Era WWE standards, routinely invoking ThisIsForEmphasisBitch and showing a remarkable propensity for [[PrecisionFStrike dropping the big F during times of duress or emotional celebration]]. She also uses a lot of swearing on her social media as well, such as this lovely quote after being kicked out of her [=WrestleMania=] 35 Raw Women's Championship match which Seth Rollins had lampshaded on his Instagram: |
| 230 | -->'''Becky:''' Complete and utter bullshit. |
| 231 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Becky's been getting into Twitter wars with Wrestling/SethRollins over who "The Man" in WWE really is. They're on entirely separate shows and of separate genders and thus have no way of fighting each other in PC WWE, but they keep going at it anyway. It makes their eventual romantic relationship ''infinitely'' funnier. |
| 232 | * SlouchOfVillainy: Though the "villainy" part only barely counts, since she became an AntiHero almost immediately and then underwent a proper HeelFaceTurn not too long after that, this trope has been a recurring part of Becky's character after her late-2018 repackaging. Emphasizing her rough, cocky demeanor, most seated interviews and spots where she's observing from ringside have Becky lazily lounging in her seat with her championship belt slung over one shoulder. |
| 233 | * {{The Smart G|uy}}irl: Wins a good deal of her matches with cunning and trickery rather than brute force or fighting spirit. She's also more technically adroit and more prone to using suplexes and submissions supported by extended limb work, which are traditional in wrestling as "smart" strategies. |
| 234 | * SmugSmiler: 2018-and-onward AntiHero Becky is prone to cocky, self-assured grins. |
| 235 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: She was quite literally the ''only'' female wrestler in Ireland when she started. There was another woman called Alex Breslin in Northern Ireland but Becky was the only female wrestler in the Republic. |
| 236 | * TheStarscream: Went from Sasha's lackey to Sasha's rival. |
| 237 | * {{Steampunk}}: Switched to a Steampunk-inspired wardrobe & titantron at ''Unstoppable'', complete with goggles in her entrance. |
| 238 | * StockingFiller: She's been wearing these since switching her wrestling gear to a {{leotard|OfPower}}. Most of the time they're fishnets ala ComicBook/BlackCanary, though at times they're the standard type. |
| 239 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: |
| 240 | ** She and Sasha Banks were not friends. She said so repeatedly. {{Subverted|Trope}}, as she wasn't lying. {{Double Subver|sion}}ted as it's acknowledged that the Four Horsewomen have become FireForgedFriends through their battles over the title. |
| 241 | ** Comes up a few times in her promos, usually after a big loss. |
| 242 | -->'''Becky''': Well, it's not like I'm sitting at home curled up in the fetal position eating a pint of ice cream with a novelty spoon while watching ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls'', no. |
| 243 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: During her EnemyMine matches tagging with Charlotte in 2019. Both women made it pretty clear they had no interest in joining forces beyond necessity, i.e. fending off their mutual enemies Sasha Banks, Bayley, and the Kabuki Warriors, and their long history of mutual violence and betrayal was not forgotten. |
| 244 | * ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqNXx706eNU&ab_channel=Mouchoir91 an old "NXT Presentation Skills" promo]], Becky claims there are two types of Divas. |
| 245 | -->"There's ''me'', then there's the Divas that want to..''beat''..''me''." |
| 246 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Likes calling herself "the champ" in promos ever since she started her second reign. Sure, Wrestling/{{Christian}} did the same in TNA, but he didn't also call himself "the man" to go with it. |
| 247 | * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: She has dropped these multiple times in the WWE without hesitation despite her rise to prominence occurring after the installation of its PG rating. |
| 248 | ** After Wrestling/AlexaBliss put Becky into a table, their upcoming match in ''TLC 2016'' was then made into a Tables Match. Becky then cuts this promo: |
| 249 | -->'''Becky:''' I don't care what kind of match it is. Tables, ladders, chairs, stairs… If she wants it, she'll get it! Then I'll get my revenge on that little bitch! |
| 250 | ** Post-''Summerslam 2018'', after the betrayal, she became an edgy AntiHero, who has dropped this trope twice on Wrestling/CharlotteFlair: |
| 251 | *** A week after ''Summerslam'', after Flair defended the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship against Wrestling/{{Carmella}}, Lynch attacked Flair and cut this promo: |
| 252 | -->'''Becky''': When I get my way, come Wrestling/HellInACell, I'm taking my title back.\ |
| 253 | ({{beat}} while the crowd cheers for Becky)\ |
| 254 | You ''bitch!'' |
| 255 | ** Two days after Flair lost the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship at ''Wrestling/HellInACell 2018'' to Lynch, she interrupts Becky's Championship Coronation, just to congratulate her, only for Becky to retaliate: |
| 256 | -->'''Becky''': I just want you to call me "queen"… bitch! |
| 257 | ** In the leadup to ''Survivor Series 2018,'' Becky unloaded two more of these on Creator/RondaRousey. First, when hyping up their Champion vs. Champion match: |
| 258 | -->'''Becky:''' You may be the baddest bitch on the planet, Ronnie, but at Survivor Series, I'm gonna make you ''mine.'' |
| 259 | ** And again after being pulled from the match on account of a concussion: |
| 260 | -->'''Becky:''' You're not the baddest bitch on the planet. You're the ''luckiest.'' |
| 261 | * TokenGoodTeammate: |
| 262 | ** She made her return to wrestling on the heel side of a six-person tag match but wrestled cleanly and turned face immediately afterwards. |
| 263 | ** Out of the Four Horsewomen, she is the only one who isn't an outright heel even when she is one. Whereas the other three act as a stereotypical heel (arrogant, cowardly in the face of an opponent, denying challengers a championship match, and typical KickTheDog moments), Becky instead portrays as a BloodKnight ChallengeSeeker who wants to see a different opponent instead of the same one every time. While she acts as a typical heel when she is Big Time Becks, it is portrayed more as an AffablyEvil. As seen during her feud with Liv Morgan, she bad mouths her every time but instead of being treated as an insult, it serves as a flame for Liv and to see whether or not she can be a WorthyOpponent for Becky. |
| 264 | * {{Tomboy}}: Anyone who calls herself "The Man" and is considered a female version of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin must be a huge tomboy. Even before her heel turn, her moshpit rocker and steampunk personas didn't exactly leave room for girly things, and Becky was always the "lass kicker" who just enjoyed fighting and wasn't bothered about looking glamorous in front of the camera. |
| 265 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: |
| 266 | ** The tomboy to Charlotte Flair's girly girl. The two are "The Man" and "The Queen" respectively. While Charlotte is big and tall, both women are muscular and Becky has the more tomboyish personality. Since her 2018 heel turn, Becky has been compared to Steve Austin, with a rough and edgy attitude (even before the heel turn, Becky once did a re-enactment of Stone Cold's famous King of the Ring speech along with fellow male superstars) and wears shirts, dark pants and jeans. Even before her heel turn, Becky was always the "lass kicker" who just enjoyed fighting and wasn't bothered about looking glamorous in front of the camera. Charlotte, especially when heel, has an AlphaBitch type of personality and often wears attires that sparkle and shine, coming off as a female socialite version of her father Ric Flair. |
| 267 | ** The tomboy to Lacey Evans's girly girl in their feud after ''[=WrestleMania=] 35''. The two are "The Man" and "The Lady" respectively. With Becky's aggressive persona looking to be groundbreaking in the women's division and Lacey's AlphaBitch persona that appears to be a throwback to TheForties and [[TheFifties '50s]], they couldn't {{foil}} each other better if they tried. Even better is how this dynamic is fully [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] between the two, with Lacey arguing that her mission is to bring "class" back to the women's division that Becky is ruining by being a bad example for young girls, and even making barbs about Becky being a "typical man". Even their attire choices for non-wrestling appearances highlight this dynamic, as Becky's still ready for a fight even when she doesn't have a match while Lacey's non-wrestling appearances usually include high heels. |
| 268 | ** After spending most of her year-long title reign fighting more feminine rivals (Lacey Evans, Natalya, and Sasha Banks), she finally ran into an inversion against Wrestling/ShaynaBaszler, who is more or less her equal in tomboyishness. While Becky may be the "Man" and Shayna the "Queen" (of Spades), Shayna's appearance and thuggish attitude make her seem anything but feminine. Both have generally masculine wardrobes albeit with [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak slightly feminine touches]] (they both wear strongly visible make-up and the occassional sparkly bit of clothing on their wrestling attires). Both are incredibly butch, violent, in-your-face rough women, and their rivalry, between all the promo threats, sneak attacks, brawls, and even a bitten ear, has essentially come across as a testosterone battle. |
| 269 | * TrademarkFavouriteFood: |
| 270 | ** Around early 2018, her affinity for quinoa struck out with its own online following. |
| 271 | ** According to the Man herself, her favorite meal after a match is cereal with a protein shake in place of milk. |
| 272 | * TsurimeEyes: She has sharp upward angled eyes to go with her BoisterousBruiser persona. |
| 273 | * TheUnchosenOne: Many times it was mentioned that prior to the ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2018'', Becky was a nobody even during her time on NXT, and unlike the other Horsewomen, she was often at the short end of the stick. It is by sheer determination and hard work, strong fan support, a change in her gimmick and challenging WWE's handpicked favorites that forced WWE to not only acknowledge her but to also change the direction of the story. This change can be seen in her ''[=WrestleManias=]'' 34 and 35 matches, she was in the pre-show in the former and the main event in the latter. |
| 274 | * UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Becky does a lot of rolls to reposition herself around the ring. Where most wrestlers would run the ropes, Becky instead just does a forward somersault. Justified somewhat by her being a tactically-minded grappler that wants more control over her movement[[note]]in wrestling physics, running leads one vulnerable to Irish whip reversals and is generally a risky move, reversals that you can't do to a person who is rolling[[/note]]. |
| 275 | * UnsportsmanlikeGloating: On October 28, 2018, she defeated Wrestling/CharlotteFlair in Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s first-ever Last Woman Standing match. The very first thing Becky did on the following episode of [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown Live]] was walk to the ring with a shit-eating grin and open up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pol-Q8S-49k the segment]] with two words: |
| 276 | -->'''Becky:''' I won. |
| 277 | * UseYourHead: She started by using double headbutts with her fellow PCB member Paige. In the following years, she would begin using them more frequently even in her singles matches. |
| 278 | * VillainTeamUp: With Sasha Banks on NXT, all the while warning that they weren't friends and eventually making moves on the title herself much to Sasha's chagrin. |
| 279 | * VillainousValor: Even as a heel, Becky will stop at literally ''nothing'' to win. Even when the odds are against her, she'll fight to her last reserves of strength and ''still'' just keep going. Easily the most famed and beloved example of this, as of this writing, was her Last Woman Standing title defense against Wrestling/CharlotteFlair at ''WWE Evolution,'' where absolutely nothing Charlotte did to her was enough to put Becky away. Even in 2021, wherein a more long-term FaceHeelTurn positioned her as a moral coward whose only real concern was withholding a championship, Becky still wrestled like a valorous hero in her second match against Bianca Belair, going blow for blow with her and never cheating a single time. |
| 280 | * VisualPun: Will often post Vines where she has an object to go with whatever statement she's making (for example holding up a ring to go along with 'ringside'). |
| 281 | * WarriorPoet: Aside from her wrestling career, she has a major in acting and has done theater arts and even some film acting (if in WWE's own productions). |
| 282 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: With Wrestling/{{Bayley}}. As of Bayley's NXT Women's Championship win, they seem to be cool again. On the main roster, she's suffered this with both Paige, and then Charlotte, and then again with Natalya. |
| 283 | * WhamLine: On the May 11th, 2020 episode of ''Raw'', shortly after revealing that the winner of the women's ''Money in the Bank'' ladder match ([[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]]) would not be getting an opportunity to win the Raw Women's Championship but the actual championship itself (which was "wham" enough), she immediately topped herself with her explanation why: |
| 284 | -->'''Becky:''' You are the champion. Now, as happy as you are to be the champion, I might be a little bit happier. So, you go and be a warrior, 'cuz I'm gonna go...''be a mother''. |
| 285 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Some fans have had this reaction to her accent — mostly those used to the {{Oireland}} way of speaking. Becky has a very typical higher-class Dublin accent, which does often sound like a hybrid of Irish and American pronunciations. Additionally, she did live in America and Canada for a while, which is bound to distort the voice. |
| 286 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Though a recurring element whenever Becky and Charlotte feuded, as of 2021, the two are also no longer friends in real life due to personal issues. |
| 287 | * WholeCostumeReference: Her ring gear for much of 2019 is black with yellow stripes on the side, which is the inverted version of the Bride's jumpsuit from ''Film/KillBill''. |
| 288 | * WildCard: Due to how incredibly relatable she's become as a character for her motivations and ordeals, and subsequently the fans' utter ''refusal'' to ever boo her for the sake of the company's [[Wrestling/CharlotteFlair handpicked]] [[Creator/RondaRousey favorites]], Becky's late 2018 run as "The Man", which was intended to be a straight {{heel}} turn, has her instead playing a very interesting position where she essentially acts like a {{face}} but [[CombatPragmatist fights like a heel]]. |
| 289 | * WorthyOpponent: |
| 290 | ** After winning her return match, she acknowledged one of her opponents Lucy Lasso as such. Her partner Wrestling/KateyHarvey didn't agree, leading to an immediate HeelFaceTurn from Becky — and eventual mixed tag match against Katey. |
| 291 | ** After a concussion took her out of the ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'' match against Creator/RondaRousey, she chose her replacement from [=SmackDown's=] top female wrestlers. Looking them all over, she quietly said "You" to Charlotte (whom she'd beaten in a Last Woman Standing match barely two weeks before), told her to beat Ronda and make her tap out the way Becky was going to, shook her hand, and then gave her a hug. Averted a few weeks later when their feud continued as Becky didn't consider Charlotte worthy over her title since she was given the opportunity to compete against her instead of earning it. |
| 292 | ** During a backstage interview on the November 27, 2018 episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'', she considered [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] worthy for her title because unlike Charlotte, who was given opportunity after opportunity without even winning a match, Asuka earned her rights by winning a Battle Royal. Accordingly, despite Asuka's victory meaning the loss of her title, the otherwise notoriously savage Becky tweeted a single word to Asuka in Japanese following the latter's victory at ''TLC 2018'': "[[GracefulLoser Congratulations.]]" Furthermore, when she admitted that she'd be relinquishing her Raw Women's Championship to whoever won the women's ladder match of ''Money in the Bank 2020'', Becky stated that she was extremely happy Asuka was getting it, calling her not only her strongest opponent but the best wrestler in the world. |
| 293 | ** She had this relationship with Wrestling/{{Bayley}} for a long time: |
| 294 | *** It took a while, but she eventually acknowledged Bayley as such after the latter defeated her to become the #1 contender for the NXT Women's Championship at ''NXT [=TakeOver:=] Brooklyn''. |
| 295 | *** A few years later, Bayley, like Asuka, earns the full respect of Becky after she cashed in her Money in the Bank contract to win the [=SmackDown=] Women's Championship belt from Charlotte after Charlotte cheated to take it off ''Becky herself'', even though Becky doesn't keep it a secret that she will one day try to take her title back from her. |
| 296 | ** After losing to Bianca Belair in their rubber match for the Raw Women's Championship match at ''[=SummerSlam=] 2022'', Lynch would gain enough respect for Belair to not only shake her hand post-match, but also stand at her side to confront Wrestling/{{Bayley}} and her new group Damage CTRL. |
| 297 | ** After losing the NXT Women's Championship to Lyra Valkyria on ''Halloween Havoc (2023)'', Becky, while flabbergasted over her loss, personally hands the belt to Lyra and sharing a hug with her fellow Irishwoman and raising her arm before leaving the ring to allow Lyra to celebrate. A far cry on how she reacted when she loss the Raw Women's Championship to Biance Belair a year prior. |
| 298 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: Rebecca Knox pulled one on Allison Danger that likely made fellow Irishman Finlay proud. |
| 299 | * YesMan: Was this to Sweet Saraya Knight as her and [[Wrestling/{{Paige}} Britani]]'s manager due to being deathly afraid of her. |
| 300 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: A day after ''TLC 2019'', Becky realizes the downside of being the top girl of the company. Now that she is WWE's new golden girl, the system that once prevented her from winning a title is now "protecting" her from losing it by putting her in the tag team division and not letting her defend her Raw Women's Championship for two months. Not wanting to be a CreatorsPet like those she lashed out to for a year, Becky challenged the only person on the roster who she had yet to beat: [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]]. |
| 301 | * YouGoGirl: As mentioned above, she was the only woman wrestler in Ireland. So she trained with men and acquired a brown belt in submission wrestling through working with them. And naturally, she had many intergender matches. |
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