Line #72 Wrestling/MickieJames


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2	[[caption-width-right:240: At ''Wrestling/{{SummerSlam}} 2008'']]
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4	->''"In my opinion, the best pure baby{{face}}s of all time are Wrestling/BradArmstrong, Wrestling/RickySteamboat and Mickie James. Mickie is always moving forward, up on the balls of her feet, going at her opponent. She always has that energy and passion, and it's infectious. Her smile is genuine. When she is winning, we celebrate with her. And when she is getting beat down, we want to fight for her."''
5	-->-- '''Wrestling/TommyDreamer'''
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7	Mickie Laree James-Aldis (born Mickie Laree James on August 31, 1979 in Montpelier, Virginia), already a local softball legend, became more widely known as an American valet and country music singer turned professional wrestler, trained by the staff of KYDA and The Funkin' Conservatory. She has had multiple runs in the Wrestling/{{N\|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA, particularly in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]], which was founded as a member promotion, where she is a three-time [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-wm.html TNA Knockouts Champion]] as well as a run in WWE between 2005 and 2010 where she is a former 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWE Women's Champion]] and a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-diva.html WWE Divas' Champion]]. She has also competed, usually under the name Alexis Laree, for Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}, Wrestling/{{AAA}}, Wrestling/RingOfHonor and has been a SCW Diva Champion (2001), FCW Ladies Champion (2002), CSWF Women's Champion (2003), Pro Wrestling Universal Women's Champion (2003), NWA Cyberspace Women's Champion (2003), ICW Junior Heavyweight Champion (2003), DCW Women's Champion (2003) and more in many other independent promotions. She was inducted into the Covey Pro Hall Of Fame in 2014. She returned to WWE in 2016 and was released again in 2021.
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9	!!"Hardcore Country Tropes!":
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11	* AbortedArc
12	** Whatever Mickie James's history was with Wrestling/BethPhoenix wasn't revealed as Beth was sidelined with a broken jaw and was never reinserted in the storyline. The implication was that the two of them dated and it ended badly.
13	** Her heel turn and feud with Velvet Sky looked to be aborted when Velvet left the company. She came back, however, and the story restarted after a while.
14	* AFriendInNeed: Back when they were friends anyway, Alexis Laree saved Wrestling/JillianHall from then WWE women's champion Wrestling/MollyHolly and Nikita Fink, and ended up putting an end to Jillian and Nikita's feud.
15	* AmazonianBeauty: Not to the degree of Beth Phoenix, but she does have some pretty nice biceps, and had them even when she was a 110 lbs soaking wet manager.
16	* AmbiguouslyBi: Mickie the character has shown blatant attraction to Trish Stratus, as well as a move that involved her kissing an opponent before kicking them, and was implied to have dated Beth Phoenix in the past, but she also had a relationship with Wrestling/JohnCena.
17	* ArchEnemy
18	** Alexis's "[[UnrelatedBrothers sister]]" Valentina Laree, along with Devin Sturgis and Simply Luscious.
19	** Mickie first had Wrestling/TrishStratus, then Wrestling/BethPhoenix, Wrestling/{{LayCool}}, Wrestling/MadisonRayne, Wrestling/VelvetSky Bram and Wrestling/JamesStorm.
20	* TheArtifact: Her theme, "Obsession" is so fitting for her that it would be weird to change it, even if it is named after her old crazed fan gimmick.
21	* {{Ascended Fan\|boy}}girl: Her first storyline with Trish. Incidentally this is the real life story between Mickie and Valentina, minus the psychotic breakdown.
22	* BadassNative: Her appearances in Florida Championship Wrestling were pushed by Native American Wrestling and her FCW Ladies title defenses took place on a Seminole reservation in Florida. This made Fyfe dislike her even more, as Laree is a member of the Powhatan tribe located in Virginia and Fyfe whined simply having native blood shouldn't have gotten her that spot.
23	* BashBrothers: Alexis Laree had Jake Damien, Jimmy Z, Sasha, Playboy Pete Jannings, Dirty Money, Joey Matthews, Christian York, Julio Dinero, Wrestling/AJStyles and Amazing Red. Wrestling/{{Raven}} through his {{brainwashing}} and Wrestling/CMPunk. Mickie had Wrestling/KofiKingston in WWE, then Caleb Konley and Cedric Alexander.
24	* BattleCouple: Mickie and [[Wrestling/NickAldis Magnus]] against James Storm and whoever else, such as Serena Deeb in TNA, after Storm attempted to kill Mickie by pushing her in front of a train while she was still pregnant. Less personally they also went on an international tour that saw them face off against Blue Nikita with Crazy Sexy Mike, Ray Lyn with Dylan Bostic and Viper with [[Wrestling/KenAnderson Mr. Anderson]].
25	* BattleStrip: James was attacked by Shelly Martinez five minutes before the intermission of the May 2015 Big Time Wrestling Show was supposed to end and thus wasn't dressed for a match. But James gained the advantage, threw Martinez in the ring and threw off her excess clothing.
26	* BetaBitch: When paired with Wrestling/AlexaBliss, herself a class-A AlphaBitch. She tends to just go along with whatever nasty thing Alexa's doing that week and being her cheerleader and crony, seldom picking her own fights other than briefly feuding with Wrestling/BeckyLynch, who she saw as trying to erase her accomplishments in the years prior to the Women's Revolution.
27	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Nikki Wrestling/{{Bella\|Twins}} described Mickie as an ideal locker room leader, saying she was the kind of person who was "super sweet but would still keep you in check", and that the environment suffered when she left.
28	* BigEntrance: She rode to the ring on an ATV at American Revolution Wrestling's outdoor shows.
29	* BoredWithInsanity: Unlike [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]], her change in behavior was addressed. Specifically, a single day of Trish acting the way Mickie had been most of the year made Mickie realize she had lost herself in obsession. But a lot of fans still didn't like it and considered her to have degenerated into a Wrestling/TrishStratus clone.
30	* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Played up her Native American heritage in both WWE and TNA.
31	* TheBusCameBack: After six years she returned to WWE to face Asuka for the NXT Women's Championship, and then appeared on ''[=SmackDown=]'' as a sidekick to Alexa Bliss.
32	* BuxomBeautyStandard: Once she got her breast implants. She rivaled Jillian Hall as the most over woman in Ohio Valley, but neither of them got WWE's attention until they went under the knife.
33	* ByTheHair: Yanked Marti Belle around this way in American Revolution Wrestling. It was only after fans spent about three minutes {{c\|rowdchant}}hanting "grab her hair", but James made a point to do so at least once in every ARW match they had afterward.
34	* CainAndAbel: Alexis Laree was the Able to Valentina's Cain (despite what Valentina had to say). The feud was started by Valentina's envy over big sister's success.
35	* CelebrityEndorsement: Eventually got a deal with Dr. Pepper.
36	* CelebrityResemblance: The Miz compared her to Rachael Ray to emphasize how much better looking he thought Maryse was. Voice-wise, she sounds almost exactly like Creator/ElizaDushku.
37	* ChainPain: {{Discussed\| Trope}} when Mickie James laid out challenger to her Covey Pro Women's title belt Jessie Belle Smothers, who had hidden a chain in her shirt, causing the ref to suspect Mickie had used it. Jessie rolled up Mickie while tried to explain what had really happened.
38	* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: {{Subverted\|trope}} in the United Wrestling Federation when Mistress Belmont threw a chair at James, who simply unfolded and sat on it.
39	* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: It was revealed to be her interfering on Alexa Bliss's behalf as 'La Luchadora'.
40	* ComedicSpanking
41	** Laree got ridden by G.I. Ho at a DWOW show.
42	** James gave one to Mistress Belmont, who was being a particularly bad sport at a United event.
43	* CoolTeacher: She's ran some training sessions for WWE's FCW/NXT.
44	* CostumeCopycat: It started out subtle but then she started looking ''really'' like Trish, as part of her apparent SanitySlippage.
45	* CountryMouse: Played up more in TNA, emphasising her country roots.
46	* CountryMusic: Dived into after leaving WWE, her theme "hardcore country" being self done.
47	* CutShort: Her run as CSWF Women's Champion, due to her WWE developmental delaying title defenses. The belt was vacated, then taken by Trinity after she defeated April Hunter during TNA's invasion of the promotion.
48	* CuteBruiser: Especially with the childish persona she displayed in BBOW. She may have been kind and bubbly but pushing her buttons may lead to getting one of the best punches in the business. It remained, as Mickie James knocked out [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Winter]] during a 2011 TNA live event in San Francisco.
49	* DareToBeBadass: On the August 25th 2011 TNA Impact, Mickie reached the peak of her frustration with Winter's tricks, announced her intentions to leave everything in the ring and dared Winter to see if she could keep up. That Mickie wore a [[MartialArtsHeadband new head piece]] and [[BadAssLongCoat long coat]] for added effect made it all the better when despite Wrestling/AngelinaLove's efforts, this ploy worked.
50	* DeadStarWalking: On ''Series/{{Psych}}'' episode ''Lethal Weapon''.
51	* DirtyCoward: For her 2013 Heel turn, she started doing everything she could to avoid getting into a rematch with Wrestling/VelvetSky for the Knockouts Title, when she had previously treated Velvet as a WorthyOpponent.
52	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: "Hardcore Country," in TNA. The title is also her RedBaron.
53	* DudeWheresMyRespect: Her reasoning behind her FaceHeelTurn siding with Alexa Bliss in 2017 is that the "shoved-down-your-throat" corporate branding of the WWE Women's Revolution completely overlooked Mickie's career and previous sacrifices, and Alexa was the only one of the new girls who approached Mickie and remembered all her accomplishments. She took a particular dislike to Wrestling/BeckyLynch and went so far as to accuse her of being a pretender to her throne; Lynch was angered and hurt by this, as [[BrokenPedestal she looked up to and respected James ever since she was young]].
54	* {{Eagleland}}: A favorably viewed "Guapa Americana" in WWC against [[Wrestling/JessicaKresa ODB]], who embodied all the negative aspects of the trope.
55	* EmotionalBruiser: She cried more than any of the other WWE Divas, which was mocked by Wrestling/BethPhoenix and a source of entertainment for Wrestling/{{Laycool}}. Neither was without consequence as they both had title reigns ended by Mickie.
56	* EnemyMine
57	** Beth Phoenix and Passion joined forces to take Alexis Laree out of OVW. Later, Passion and Alexis put their differences aside to fight Wrestling/JillianHall and her bodyguard, Melissa Coates.
58	** With Sweet Saraya in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} over the common ground that was Nicole Matthews and the fact Matthews was being backed up by The Kimber Bombs, James starting to develop a rivalry with Wrestling/KimberLee.
59	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: She would often dye her hair dark blond or light brown in WWE, which she stopped doing a few months before she left.
60	* {{Expy}}: Has one in [[Wrestling/AJLee Psycho!AJ Lee]]. The only real difference is that AJ's gimmick has actually managed to get over as heel, in comparison to Mickie who was never booed in WWE. As far as angles themselves, Victoria eventually decided and set out to prove Mickie was an inferior imitation of herself.
61	* {{Face}}: Mickie James is primarily a babyface wherever she goes. Due to being a {{Plucky\|Girl}}, GenkiGirl and natural likeability, she plays the role easily. She had a heel run in WWE but was cheered the whole time. She turned heel in TNA but left shortly after. On the indies, Mickie will always be booked as a face. That being said, upon her 2017 return to WWE, she did so as a heel accomplice to Wrestling/AlexaBliss, but she eventually turned on Alexa, seemingly returning to being a face, albeit a GoodIsNotNice version.
62	* FaceHeelTurn: In TNA it was teased a few times but it was ages before she finally turned, taking advantage of Velvet Sky's injured leg to win the Knockouts Championship.
63	* FinishingMove: The Implant DDT. Mickie added a crossed legged STF to her arsenal during her second TNA run. Alexis Laree had an inverted DDT up until she went into OVW and began to develop her five moves of doom. The Long Kiss Goodnight could also qualify; Mickie grab her opponent's head, lays one on them, then immediately hits a reverse roundhouse kick.
64	* FireForgedFriends
65	** She and Melina were initially rivals, but Mickie started to feel sorry for her after Beth turned on Melina. This progressed to Mickie shielding an injured Melina from a double team at the hands of Victoria and Natalya. Melina was Mickie's most powerful ally in the Survivor Series match at the 2009 event.
66	** She and Tara found common ground in TNA, mutual disdain for Madison Rayne. This lead to Mickie helping Tara get out of her contract to Madison. When they met up in Maryland Championship wrestling Tara chose Mickie over Melina when Melina interrupted Mickie's ladies night match against Amber Rodriguez, so at the very least there was a degree of respect.
67	* FiveMovesOfDoom: Jumping clothesline, Thesz press, back elbow, corner headscissors, implant DDT. Initially most of these moves, among some others, were occasionally used or at least recently at the time used by Trish and Mickie made them her signature moves, to show she was borrowing from her idol but adapting her own style. She later settled on those for her sequence.
68	* FoeRomanceSubtext: With "The Giant Killer" Mike Mondo, which Alexis recognized and was disgusted by.
69	* FootFocus: Alexis Laree had a pair of "monkey socks", so she could wave at her fans during promos with her feet.
70	* ForceFeeding:
71	** [[DiscussedTrope Expressed a desire]] to feed people Wrestling/JeffJarrett's balls while part of The Gathering.
72	** Michelle [=McCool=] also force fed her a pig cake and poured punch all over her during the Piggy James storyline. Mickie would get revenge at the 2010 Royal Rumble event after beating [=McCool=] for the WWE Women's Championship by force feeding her and Layla a cake while the other Divas held them.
73	* ForYourOwnGood: Alexis didn't mind Valentina being in SCW or TNA too much but objected to her joining Women's Extreme Wrestling, which was full of nudity and {{garbage wrestling}}
74	* GenkiGirl: Discussed by the OVW commentary team who said the last thing Alexis needed was caffeine.
75	* GimmickMatches
76	** A strange example, boxing matches were practically Alexis Laree's signature gimmick match BBOW. In a more straightforward example, she wrestled Riptide in a ladder match. In a really strange example, an out of the blue "taped fist" match with Wrestling/{{Sar\|ahStock}}ita in TNA.
77	** During the lead up to Wrestling/{{Lita}}'s retirement match, Mickie James kept being given one sided stipulations to wrestle under, having to face Lita while having an arm tied behind her back, her feet shackled together or a bag over her head.
78	* GirlOnGirlIsHot
79	** When she kissed Trish under the mistletoe, gaining an Earth-shattering pop from the audience.
80	** {{Invoked\| Trope}} when with the goodnight kiss/of death and earlier on in Ring Of Honor with Allison Danger, who kissed her both to taunt all the guys who liked Alexis Laree but wouldn't be getting any and Alexis herself for her optimistic ideal of the promotion. But then Allison decided she liked it began stalking Alexis for more.
81	* GirlishPigTails: They looked significantly less girlish when Laree wrestled with a [[BadassesWearBandanas bandana]] in between them. Still, she had a childlike gimmick so it counts.
82	* GlassJawReferee: [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] was allowed to use referees as [[GrievousHarmWithABody weapons]] or [[HumanShield shields]] in her mission to keep the Pro Wrestling Syndicate's "Bombshells" title belt away from Missy Sampson, [[EnforcedTrope by order]] of [[BadBoss the commissioner himself]]. Mickie James [[DefiedTrope wouldn't play along though]].
83	* GoodVersusGood: Vs Wrestling/BlackRose during WWC's Aniversario tour-the only such showdown with an off islander Black Rose had in WWC by virtue of Wrestling/{{Sar\|ahStock}}ita [[HateSink taking all the heat]] with Shawn Hernandez in her corner.
84	* GroinAttack
85	** While in Ring Of Honor she caught The Christopher Street Connection's Mace in the balls when he decided to titillate Allison Danger by sticking his crotch in her face. He went down pretty quickly after that and Alexis still maintained the {{code of honour}} by shaking his hand.
86	** Did this to ''Wrestling/TrishStratus'' at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 22''. However, unlike every time this had been done before in pro wrestling, this was meant as sexual, topped off by her licking in between her fingers to a huge pop from the crowd. It was edited out of the [=DVD=] release because [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] just didn't like it. It is also similarly edited on the WWE Network stream of Wrestlemania 22 as when the moment comes up, the stream cuts to an obligatory crowd shot, likely crushing many {{fan girl}} hearts.
87	** During Insane Championship Wrestling's 2015 "Come As You Are"James did this to Kay Lee Ray in the first round of the women's title tournament.
88	* HalloweenCosplay:
89	** As Wrestling/TrishStratus herself in a 2005 costume contest.
90	** As {{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}} at Cyber Sunday 2007.
91	** And as [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] at the 2008 event. This one won her the contest.
92	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Her second WWE run has been this. Debuted in NXT as a face, turned heel and joined forces with Alexa Bliss on [=SmackDown=], turned on Alexa and became a face shortly before moving to RAW, then a few months later, turned heel and rejoined Bliss.
93	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The Tiny Girl to Nick Aldis's Huge Guy.
94	* HumiliatingWager: Put her hair on the line against Madison Rayne's title for 2011's Lockdown PPV. She won the match in a few seconds, even with a partially separated shoulder.
95	* {{Hypocrite}}: After the "Piggy James" incident, one wouldn't think Mickie would joint Wrestling/AlexaBliss in fat-shaming Wrestling/NiaJax, but she did(unless you saw her in Wrestling/{{AAA}}'s Sociedad, where they all picked on Mari Apache).
96	* IHaveManyNames: Besides Alexis Laree, Mickie James has also gone by Vickie Adams and Super Ball
97	* ImprovisedWeapon: When Mickie's chances against Lita looked hopeless, since she could not keep up with her feet shackled, Wrestling/DGenerationX slipped her an [[EdibleBludgeon over sized sausage]] to level the playing field.
98	* InformedFlaw: A sympathetic example of HollywoodPudgy but fans were pissed because it reminded them of all the women who weren't treated sympathetically, such as Wrestling/MollyHolly. This was also an example of RippedFromTheHeadlines. Numerous fans on the internet had been calling her fat for ages, among other things. When she was being teased by the Miz, Mickie retorted that he was always using the net to get his insults.
99	* IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney: Her explanation and feelings over her multiple, explicit nude shoots while trying to make it in wrestling. In Ring Of Honor, this was her opinion about a lot of promotions she had previously worked for, being so happy to finally be able to show what she could do in {{serious\| business}} company with a code of honor. [[YankTheDogsChain Then Allison Danger subjected her]] to a [[KinkySpanking spanking]]. This lead to Alexis cutting ties with Julio Dinero, who did not seem to understand why this made her so upset all of the sudden.
100	* {{Jobber}}: Her second run in WWE largely consisted of her losing to the up-and-coming stars. Unlike other veterans in such a position, who are occasionally given wins in order to maintain some degree of credibility, Mickie very seldom won any matches at all.
101	* KickChick: In her WWE run Mickie was known for a spinning back kick, a reverse spin kick and Trish's Chick Kick (Mick Kick when she used it).
102	* KissOfDeath: One of her sort of finishing moves, it's really the capoeira kick that comes after the kiss that is the finishing move.
103	* {{Leitmotif}}:
104	** Icebreaker in TNA, prior to singing her own song anyway.
105	** Obsession in WWE and Wrestling/{{WSU}}
106	* LoonyFan: To Trish Stratus, which became PsychoLesbian during her feud with Ashley Massaro and then StalkerWithACrush after her FaceHeelTurn.
107	* LoserLeavesTown: Beat Nikita Fink in a loser leaves OVW match.
108	* MadeOfIron:
109	** She took a few bumps that had or would have put others out, such as a fall on her neck from the ring she took in a [[NoPunIntended falls]] count anywhere match that lead to a rushed finish with Wrestling/{{Melina}} as the champion...but Mickie proved to be not too injured to continue. Melina stated Mickie nearly killed herself in that match and called her crazy for continuing to wrestle instead of taking time off for her neck. Wrestling/{{Tazz}} pointed out this trait when [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Winter]] dumped her onto concrete in TNA.
110	** At ''TNA Lockdown 2011'', April 17, 2011, she {{Squash\|Match}}ed Wrestling/MadisonRayne for the TNA Knockouts Title in a Hair vs. Hair Cage Match in '''34 SECONDS''' with ''her arm in a sling!'' It was put in a sling after being run over with a motorcycle!
111	* MalevolentMaskedMen: Returned on the January 17, 2017 edition of ''Smackdown'' as the villainous La Luchadora; attacking Becky Lynch and helping Alexa Bliss beat Lynch in a steel cage match.
112	* MiniDressOfPower: Much like Melina, she debuted in a skirt and continued to wear skirts for a little while into her WWE career before deciding she'd be taken more seriously in shorts or tights. In later TNA runs she got [[Comicbook/WonderWoman a little blue skirt with white stars, which went nice with a red top, red boots and a little gold.]]
113	* MsFanservice: Well conditioned, flexible, strong and willing to wear very little clothing. That's before one looks at some of her personally specific antics.
114	* MyGreatestFailure: A match she lost to Devin Sturgis that lead to him taking control of the KYDA promotion.
115	* OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain
116	** In her feud with Trish, she was the young villain in her first year with the company, while Trish was in her last.
117	** She feuded over the Divas' Championship at the age of thirty, with Wrestling/AliciaFox who was just twenty-three.
118	** Madison Rayne teased her for being old, even though Mickie was younger than Tara, who Rayne was sending after her. Still older than Madison, so it counts.
119	** Her feud with Alexa Bliss on ''Raw'' seems to be a rehashing of "Piggie James" only with Mickie's age being mocked instead of her weight. At 38, she is the second oldest woman wrestler on the roster (the oldest being Tamina, and only by a few months), but is actually younger than both AJ Styles and John Cena (both 40), two of WWE's top male stars. DoubleStandard much?
120	* PerkyFemaleMinion: To Shorty Smalls, Jake Damien and Wrestling/TommyDreamer in KYDA.
121	* PintSizedPowerhouse: She's only 5'4", but she'll kick your ass back to it's roots.
122	* PowerStable: (as Alexis Laree):
123	** (in TNA): The Gathering, with Wrestling/{{Raven}}, Wrestling/CMPunk and Julio Dinero, which itself was a stable within a larger stable, [[FunWithAcronyms Sports Entertainment Xtreme]] (led by Wrestling/VinceRusso)
124	* PowerTrio
125	** The Amazing Phenomenon with AJ Styles and The Amazing Red
126	** Team Original Divas Revolution with Victoria and Jazz in Chikara
127	* PutOnABus: To [=TNA=], following an incident on an overseas tour. Ironically the incident in question involved a bus.[[note]]She caused several tour buses to be late to the arena[[/note]] WWE.com eventually came up with an explanation for Mickie's departure months later in an article where they said [=LayCool=] and their taunting caused her to have a breakdown and eventually leave.
128	* RealWomenHaveCurves: Said to Wrestling/LayCool "This is what a real woman looks like". Cue a massive pop from the ''[=SmackDown=]'' audience. Though she ''did'' admirably say that a woman was beautiful no matter what her body type - whether she was large or skinny. [[{{Hypocrite}}Though she seems to have forgotten this in 2017]], as she continuously refers to the thicker Wrestling/AlexaBliss as "biscuit butt" in retaliation for the old lady jokes.
129	** She seems to have completely forgotten the whole Piggy James ordeal by 2018, when she teamed up with Bliss to bully the much larger Nia Jax (a former plus-size model)
130	* RedBaron: "The First Lady Of KYDA Pro" in her managerial days. Wrestling/JimRoss frequently called her "The Virginia Farm Girl" in her first WWE run. She got "Hardcore Country" in TNA. Her second WWE run saw her try to get "The Seasoned Savage" over.
131	* TheRival
132	** Candie was first a rival valet (and had some of the same clients like Julio Dinero and Joey Matthews), then a rival wrestler. Eventually they became a tag team. She had the same dynamic with Wrestling/DawnMarie, whom never became her partner but did face her in some of her favorite WWE matches ([[OffScreenMomentOfAwesome dark matches]], unfortunately)
133	** When asked at Glory, Alexis named Persephone and Wrestling/SumieSakai to be her toughest foes but bared no animosity toward them. Didn't have the positive attitude about Persephone until Simply Luscious pulled an EvilerThanThou at Ring Of Honor though.
134	** Lexie Fyfe thought of Laree as worse than a rival, believing herself to have been personally wronged by Alexis and the officials of Florida Championship Wrestling, but despite having been knocked out with her own belt by a thieving Lexie, Alexis did not seem to know how strong that grudge was [[TheCon when she accepted the PGWA's offer for a title shot at Fyfe.]]
135	** [[Wrestling/KaraDrew Kara Slice]] was once her most hated enemy, but the two eventually learned to coexist and even managed the same guy (Julio Dinero).
136	** Melina Perez in WWE. The two were enemies from the start, there were times Mickie would try to be civil but Melina was unreceptive up until Mickie put her health on the line to protect Melina from Victoria and Natalya. Then they were the best of friends but that did not keep them from ending up as opponents every so often.
137	** Speaking of Victoria, she was a given since Mickie started out as an ally of Trish Stratus. Trish theoretically becoming a "common enemy" just made them fight for a shot at her. Victoria, or Tara in the Impact Zone, was usually more of a distraction to Mickie though, only being her main enemy once. On the independent circuit they tag together as often as they are opponents.
138	** Prior to WWE Alexis was rivals with Jillian Hall ever since she won a $1000 prize match in OVW and post WWE it continued in National Wrestling Superstars (and elsewhere) as Hall went out of her way to show up Mickie James and undermine her music career.
139	* SanitySlippage: The defining trait of her feud with Trish Stratus. Mickie's admiration for her developed from fandom to a crushm, but Trish kept turning her down, gently first. However, Mickie kept pushing and pushing, leading to an unwanted kiss under the mistletoe and her seeing Trish naked when it clearly made her uncomfortable. Eventually Trish got a little more forceful and finally told Mickie to stay away from her. This led to a StalkerShrine, kidnapping Trish's kayfabe boyfriend, and finally beating Trish for the Women's Title at ''[=WrestleMania=]'' 22. However, it didn't stop there. Mickie decided that instead of wanting Trish, she wanted to ''be'' Trish, stealing her look, moves, music et al. Trish of course responded in kind, emulating Mickie to a T. While Trish won by DQ in their rematch, Mickie eventually stopped it, saying that seeing Trish act like her put things in perspective and cured her of her obsession.
140	* ShoutOut: Frequently kips up after doing moves, something her idol Wrestling/{{Lita}} did often as well. In her feud with Wrestling/TrishStratus, using the Stratusfaction and the "Mick Kick" were intentional examples.
141	* SmoochOfVictory: Parodied at a TNA live event where she and Earl Hebner nearly passed out during a kiss celebrating her defeat of Winter.
142	* SpikesOfVillainy: Wore [[Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors Road Warrior]] gear when she went bad, during her SCW and BBOW runs.
143	* SquashMatch:
144	** At ''ROH Epic Encounter,'' April 12, 2003, she defeated Ariel of The Christopher Street Connection in 35 seconds. Since Becky Bayless was just a manager, theirs likely would have ended even faster if the entirety of Special K had not put the boots to Alexis [[EasilyDistractedReferee while the referee's back was turned.]] Still, pinned Bayless in under two minutes.
145	** In OVW she pinned Ms. Blue of Bolin Services in 38 seconds.
146	** She seems to do this at least once everywhere she goes. Along with the TNA example under MadeOfIron, at ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2010'', January 31, 2010, she flattened AlphaBitch [[Wrestling/{{LayCool}} Michelle [=McCool=]]] for the WWE Women's Title in '''20 seconds!''' This was followed by Mickie and the other Divas joining forces to shove Michelle's face into a cake.
147	* StalkerShrine: Images of Mickie James [[LaughingMad cackling]] over one were revealed after she turned on Trish Stratus for winning a tag team match without tagging her on ''Saturday Night Main Event''.
148	* StepfordSmiler: Her heel turn in TNA revealed she was a Type C, not that her being mad was unprecedented by then.
149	* TeamMom: After Lita and Trish Stratus left, other Divas claim that Mickie became the locker room leader.
150	* TomboyishName: Mickie is not a nickname, it's her full first name.
151	* [[WildCard Tweener]]: To DracoInLeatherPants levels, this was the worst she ever got in WWE. Mickie was never able to get lasting heel heat, not even after she abducted Trish's protegee, busted Trish open when Trish tried to make the save, then licked the blood off her hands. Even during the ''ECW vs WWE Head to Head'' TV special when the rest of the WWE side was booed, she was cheered against [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]]. Her gimmicks as Alexis Laree did manage to get over as a heel though, as well as her heel run in TNA against Velvet Sky. Even during that time though, she got as many wild cheers as she did boos in AAA.
152	* TwoFirstNames: Mickie James.
153	* UnderTheMistletoe: To sneak a kiss on Trish.
154	* UrExample
155	** The first holder of Southern Championship Wrestling Diva's Championship belt, which is not to be confused with the Southern Championship Wrestling Florida Women's belt, which Lexie Fyfe was the first holder of (but sometimes is since Fyfe was also the last holder of the SCW Diva's belt before being the first of the SCW FW).
156	** The first Florida Championship Wrestling Ladies Champion. While all three belts used the same promotion to cement their legitimacy, her title (alternatively referred to as the FCW Women's or NAWF Ladies title belt) has no continuity with the NWA Florida Women's title (defended in Championship Wrestling From Florida, which had to change its name to FCW, first champion, Wrestling/MaeYoung) nor the FCW Divas Championship (defended in WWE's FCW revival, first champion, Wrestling/{{Naomi\|Wrestler}} Knight)
157	* UseYourHead: During a triple threat matach against Bayley and Dana Brooke on RAW, she exchanges strikes with Bayley on the top rope before knocking her down with a headbutt.
158	* WeUsedToBeFriends: Alexis Laree and Jillian Hall were tag team partners in OVW prior to Jillian losing a prize money match and getting a botched boob job which (somehow) damaged her psyche. Alexis tried to stage an intervention but got beat up for it.
159	* [[{{Manchild}} Woman Child]]: Alexis Laree had her moments, such as in BBOW when she pestered her tag team partner Candie for her birth control pills because she thought they were candy.
160	* {{Yandere}}: Could be this at times as a face, as well as a heel.
161	* YouAreFat: What Mickie James had to say of AAA's Reina De Reinas Champion Mary Apache after she and Sexy Star defeated her and sister Faby for the second time in the summer of 2011. Hanging out with Star and Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople in [[LegionOfDoom La Sociedad]] wasn't having the best effect on her.
162	* YouGoGirl: At [[http://www.icwzone.com/ Impact Championship Wrestling]]'s [[http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=9663 May 16, 2003 show]], she defeated [[http://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=439 ICW Junior Heavyweight Champion]] Billy Reil AND Joey Matthews in a three-way match for the title.

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