Line #18 Wrestling/DebraMarshall


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Debra as WWE Women's Champion.]]
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4	Debra Marshall (born March 2, 1960) is an American retired {{professional wrestl\|ing}}er and professional wrestling manager. She is notable for her appearances with [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW) between 1995 and 1998 and the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] (WWF) between 1998 and 2002.
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6	She began her career in professional wrestling in WCW in late-1995 and early-1996, making occasional unnamed appearances as an audience plant, and as part of a group of valets. In April 1996, she began appearing regularly as a valet for her husband, professional football player and WCW announcer Steve "Mongo" [=McMichael=], as he transitioned to competing as a wrestler. Debra took on the role of a beauty-pageant queen character, giving herself the nickname "The Queen of WCW." At ''The Great American Bash 1996'', [=McMichael=] and his partner, fellow professional football player Kevin Greene competed against two of the Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen (Wrestling/RicFlair and Wrestling/ArnAnderson). Flair won the match after Mongo and Debra turned on Greene by hitting him with a steel briefcase, joining the Horsemen. At ''Bash at the Beach 1997'', Debra turned on Mongo during his WCW United States Heavyweight Championship match against Wrestling/JeffJarrett by handing Jarrett the steel briefcase, which he then used to knock Mongo out and win the match, after which she became Jarrett's manager.
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8	After her divorce from [=McMichael=], Debra joined the WWF in 1998, where she managed the tag team of Jarrett and Wrestling/OwenHart, up until the evening of Hart's in-ring death in May 1999. She won the WWF Women's Championship from Wrestling/{{Sable}} in an Evening Gown match in 1999, played the role of Lieutenant Commissioner (assistant) of Commissioner Wrestling/MickFoley, and later appeared on-screen with her second husband Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin until 2002, when the duo left the company.
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10	!!Tropes related to Debra Marshall:
11	* BeautyContest: Her gimmick in WCW had her having the title of "Queen of WCW."
12	* BoobBasedGag: On the February 1, 1999 ''Raw'', Mankind (Mick Foley) gave her a sweater, saying, "I didn't want you to catch a chest cold, which in your case could be fatal..."
13	* BuxomBeautyStandard: She's not the one who had the term "puppies" coined for no reason.[[note]]Wrestling/RoadDogg referred to her big boobs as "puppies" and after it caught on Jerry "The King" Lawler, now it's a common slang term among wrestling fans.[[/note]]
14	* CatFight: If she ever got into the ring with someone, this was what usually ensued.
15	* DefeatByModesty: Subverted. Wrestling/{{Sable}} defeated her in an evening gown match for the Women's Championship, but Shawn Michaels ruled that in his eyes, the woman who ''lost'' her dress was the true winner - and awarded the title to Debra.
16	* FirstNameBasis: She was initially called Debra [=McMichael=] or Debra Marshall, but eventually just Debra.
17	* LadyInAPowerSuit: Her standard outfit in the WWF consisted of business suits (or, after taking a liking to stripping off, sometimes just a suit jacket over a bikini) up until she was paired with her husband Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, at which point she started wearing attire similar to his.
18	* LethalChef: Well, ''lethal'' may be too strong a word, but, there was something of a RunningGag in 2001 about her being a bad cook. Her cookies were dreaded.
19	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: After being mistreated by Jeff Jarrett one too many times, she interfered in his Intercontinental title match against Wrestling/{{Chyna}} and hit him over the head with his guitar.
20	* MsFanservice: After the success of Sable, she was explicitly brought in to provide fanservice as Jeff Jarrett's manager.
21	* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Lampshaded when she appeared on a version of ''Series/TheWeakestLink''.
22	--> '''Debra:''' I'm famous for being Steve [Austin]'s wife.
23	--> '''Anne Robinson:''' So you're a real feminist then.
24	* NonActionGuy: She was a manager first and foremost rather than a wrestler. Her reign as Women's Champion is a telltale example; she was awarded the title on a technicality and lost it in her very first defense.
25	* NoShirtLongJacket: A rare female example; after she found a liking to having to strip her clothes off, instead of her usual business suits, she would for a while appear wearing only a suit jacket over a bikini.
26	* PowerStable: The Four Horsemen in WCW; The Alliance in WWF.
27	* PunnyName: It's purely a coincidence, since it is, in fact, [[invoked]] [[TheDanza her real name,]] but the fact that she's a well-endowed woman named "Debra" gave fans a lot of ammo for "de-bra Debra" jokes.
28	* RedBaron: In WCW, "The Queen of WCW."
29	* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Debra was required to take her clothes off after Jeff Jarrett lost a match to Goldust, per the match's stipulation. Debra was embarrassed... at first, before [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl getting really into it.]]
30	* SexySecretary: As the Lieutenant Commissioner of Commissioner Wrestling/MickFoley, she was basically his secretary. She also evoked this when she first appeared as Jeff Jarrett's valet - in her sexy business suits.
31	* SpiritualSuccessor: [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Lana]] is thought to be a modern successor to Debra, since they're both blonde valets to heel wrestlers and dress in sexy business suits.
32	* VisualPun: She appeared at Survivor Series 1999 wearing ring gear that had paw prints on it. As in ''puppy'' paw prints.
33	* WrestlingFamily: Ex-wife to Steve "Mongo" [=McMichael=] and Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin.
34	* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: After Jeff Jarrett lost a match to Goldust, Debra was required to strip by the stipulation. At first [[ShamefulStrip she was embarrassed]]...before getting really into it.

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