Line #70 Wrestling/SoloDarling


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/solodarlingwxw_8.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:As [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=693 WXW Women's Champion]]]]
3	[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/solo_darling_roh.jpg]]
4	[[caption-width-right:150:Squirrel of Honor]]
5	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/solodarling18.jpg]]
6	[[caption-width-right:350:She's coming for your legs]]
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8	Christina Solomita (born February 19, 1987) is a Streamer, Content Creator, Writer, Gear Designer, {{Professional Wrestl\|ing}}er and trainer, from [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity The Bronx]], NY. She has in turn gotten training from Bobcat, Wrestling/AlSnow, Rip Rogers, Wrestling/NickDinsmore and Lexie Fyfe, among many others.
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10	She is best known in professional wrestling by the ring name Solo Darling. Aside from the times when she went by "Christie Belle" and claimed to be an illegitimate daughter of Tracy Smothers, or when she adopted Wrestling/DaffneyUnger's old "Shark Girl" mask, the ring name has stuck, but the image and persona associated with Darling have still varied wildly. Depending on who one asks, Darling can be described as an evil hedonist, a clawing cat, a vain would be fitness model, a pandering squirrel, a superhero, a straight laced submission specialist...or a bee.
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12	Since her debut in 2009 Solo Darling has worn a circular path through six countries, having wrestled for Wrestling/{{WSU}}, Wrestling/{{CZW}}, Full Impact Pro, Shine, Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}, Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Ohio Valley Wrestling, some Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance promotions such as Florida Underground and Ring Warriors, Wrestling/ImpactWrestling, northern Championship wrestling Femme Fatales, Wrestling/{{Chikara}}, Sendai Girls, Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam, EVE, British Empire Wrestling, Atlas, Svensk Wrestling Syd, and numerous others.
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14	As partially evident by the pictures, she is a former WXW ([[Wrestling/TheWildSamoans Wild Samoan Afa]]'s promotion) Women's Champion, a Ring Warriors Battling Bombshells TagTeam Champion with Brittney Savage, a Feast Champion of Beyond Wrestling, and a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-t.html CHIKARA Campeon de Parejas]], first with Travis Huckabee as The Rumblebees, then with Willow Nightingale as The Bird and The Bee.
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16	!! "She's coming for your tropes":
17	* ActionGirl: She won the Infinite Gauntlet at ''The Eleventh Hour'' and has challenged for the CHIKARA Grand Championship.
18	* AffectionateParody: Her ''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 Night of the Living Sugar Creature]]'' [[https://www.instagram.com/p/tn62YyCaqW/ T-shirt]].
19	* AmazonianBeauty: Solo Darling's most muscular feature is actually her ''back'', and attention has been called to this several times by commentatary. She's even been nicknamed "Swolo" at times.
20	* AnimalMotifs: Originally squirrels, complete with a tail. Switched to killer bees as part of The Rumblebees and afterwards. Sometimes wrestles [[LegacyCharacter as]] a Shark Girl after Wrestling/DaffneyUnger retired.
21	* BigThinShortTrio: Christie Belle Smothers was the short to the big Isabella Smothers and the comparatively thin Jessie Belle Smothers.
22	* BreakTheCutie
23	** Nevaeh was unique among Valifornia in that she did not seem to give a damn about Solo Darling. Better Than You had it out for The Buddy System months before they actually had a match and even after winning took particular glee in torturing Heidi Lovelace, whom Darling thought was as awesome as her wingspan, in font of Darling, not only going so far as to have her restrained while they broke Lovelace's leg but also [[EvilIsPetty severing the head of a doll Solo got for Christmas.]] [=SoCal=] Val sicked her hired enforcer Andrea on Solo Darling and Luscious Latasha simply because Wrestling/IvelisseVelez, whose connections to Darling were so obscure you'd need to read a specific corner of a website bio to know them, was not around at the time. Andrea apparently liked this enough to bully the two of them probono. And when the All-Star Squad did start winning against and hold a prolonged advantage over Valifornia, they decide to take out their frustrations by putting Solo through a table, even though Crazy Mary Dobson was more responsible for the Squad's change in fortune.
24	** Travis Huckabee's betrayal led her to adopt a much more serious, subdued attitude.
25	* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: "S D" on her kick pads.
26	* BullyingADragon: Solo made a point to antagonize the seven inch taller and [[TheGiant nearly]] two hundred pound heavier Calypso in Ring Warriors because she beat Solo in a match. She eventually teamed up with Cherry Layne, which made no difference, but Angel Rose volunteered to 'even the odds' anyway.
27	* [[AssKicksYou Butt Kicks You]]: Utilizes a hip attack as one of her signature moves.
28	* ChainedByFashion: "Squirrel Of Honor" Darling had a chain collar, for some reason.
29	* [[CheapHeat Cheap Pop]]: Almost literally in Wrestling/{{WSU}}, where she was given a gun that shoots sweets.
30	* CombatCommentator: She did the commentary for some of '' Flying V Fights: Sweet Summer Heat'' and has done commentary for Chikara.
31	* CuddleBug: A source of [[TheGlomp spontaneous]] and often [[BearHug excessively forceful hugs]]. Daffney likened her to a younger [=LuFisto=] and thought one of those could be useful. Taking her under her wing, Solo eventually developed a hugging finishing move.
32	* DamselInDistress: After Darling suffered a decisive loss to Wrestling/MercedesMartinez, Valkyrie ambushed and kidnapped her while she was recovering [[FriendOrIdolDecision in order to]] lure Wrestling/AmazingKong away from the ring, where she was wrestling their leader Radiant Rain for the Shine Championship belt.
33	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Lots and lots.
34	** The first picture was from before she adopted her squirrel persona.
35	** Her run as Tracy Smothers' [[UnrelatedBrothers "daughter"]] Christie Belle-Smothers.
36	** During her time in NWA Ring Warriors, her gimmick was focused on hedonism, {{Lust}} in particular. "Sugar Fueled Seductress" does roll off the tongue but it's otherwise pretty hard to reconcile this run with any of the others.
37	* FinishingMove: The Hug Factor, the [[Wrestling/BretHart Sharpstinger]](a cloverleaf).
38	* GenkiGirl: Would you expect anything else from someone who loves sugar?
39	* GoodVersusGood: After Daffney brought her and Nikki Roxx together to keep the miscreants of SHINE in check, their first order of business was defeating The West Coast Connection, who had reunited for the same reason. Solo Darling would even split a singles series with Wrestling/SuYung.
40	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: If she's a {{Face}} and hasn't dyed her hair. She's been called a "platinum bombshell".
41	* HammyHerald:
42	-->"From The Enchanted Forest, she's taller than a stack of pancakes, leaner than a pint of ice cream, Solo Darling!"
43	* HeroicSecondWind: Her sugar rush, first discovered after Daffney and Heidi Lovelace had spent a month trying to keep Solo away from sweets, only for Darling to get some of Daffney's punch and launch a frenzied assault on their opponents.
44	* KidAppealCharacter: In her squirrel girl and killer bee modes.
45	* LikeBrotherAndSister: How she saw her team with Travis Huckabee, even though fans on Website/YouTube seemed to want romance between them.
46	* ManiacTongue: Much like her former tag team partner Heidi Lovelace, as seen [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BoxQas8A5jU/ here]].
47	* {{Mascot}}: She seems to have adopted Officer Warren Barksdale's dog Officer Magnum, going by [[http://instagram.com/regulationsolodarling her Instagram]]. Oh, and he's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=appeWiVrpBY over]] with the crowds.
48	* PartsUnknown: "The Enchanted Forest." Assuming she isn't talking about Forest Hills New York... after dropping the squirrel gimmick Solo was announced from "Savage Garden EF"...EF presumably being Enchanted Forest.
49	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Using Brittney Savage and Heidi Lovelace as references, Darling's probably smaller, certainly shorter, than she's billed. She's billed at 5'3, around 130 lbs., and during her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=appeWiVrpBY match]] with Australian male wrestler,6ft 220lbs [=JXT=] at ''Beyond Uncharted Territory Episode 12'', she hit him with a Death Valley Driver on the apron, and the crowd chanted "Superhuman! Superhuman! Superhuman!" The commentators said that she deadlifts almost ''500 lbs.'' She won, making this a case of [[DavidVersusGoliath Davita Versus Goliath]].
50	* PowerStable:
51	** (in SHINE): She was The Heir Apparent in the first incarnation of Wrestling/{{Daffney\|Unger}}'s All Star Squad (Daff's A.S.S.), and The Buddy System (herself and Heidi Lovelace) were the Centerpieces of the second incarnation.
52	** (in CHIKARA): The Furies
53	* PowerTrio
54	** Smothers's Twisted Daughters in Ohio Valley Wrestling with Jessie Belle and Isabella, however said daughters went back to being a tag team without her
55	** An incarnation of Team SHIMMER with fellow All Star Squad member Crazy Mary Dobson and Wrestling/CandiceLeRae
56	** The Sisters Of Mighty with Aja Perera and [[Wrestling/MollyHolly Mighty Molly]]
57	** Land of the Lost with Jungle Boy and [=LuchaSaurus=]
58	** Freddie Mercurio joined Darling and Nightingale to form "The Queens"
59	* RedBaron: Platinum Bombshell, Sugar-Fueled Seductress, Woodland Warrior, Archduke Of The Apron, The Swoll Proprietor Of The Sharpstinger, Limb Reaper.
60	* TheRival: Prior to Chikara, Darling's main rivals were her former partners Jessie Belle Smothers and Mickie Knuckles, as welld Wrestling/VedaScott. She and Jessie ended up against each other before she dropped the Christie Belle ring name and illegitimate daughter of Tracy gimmick. Darling and Nightingale also had a tag team rivalry with The Blue Nation Floozies, Darling in particular having it out with Jessica Troy. Since joining Chikara though Darling's most common opponents became Los Ice Creams by far, no matter who Darling happened to be teaming up with.
61	* SheIsTheKing: No not duchess, Darling is the ''Archduke''
62	* ShoutOut
63	** One of her big moves is the {{VideoGame/Candy Crush\|Saga}} Bulldog.
64	** Her [[https://shop.solodarling.com/ merchandise page]] has a logo based on that of ''Film/{{Solo}}''.
65	** If it is cold in the arena she might dress her dog Magnum up like a pineapple...or like [[Videogame/PokemonRedAndBlue Bulbasaur]].
66	* SignatureMove: Tornado suplex, power hug(spear), regulation stranglehold(stranglehold gamma to you Wrestling/KensukeSasaki fans), Bioelectric Blast(cross leg brain buster), long bow(bow and arrow)
67	* SuperHero: Molly and Aja at least had superhero gimmicks in the past, but it was a first for Solo when they entered Chikara's ''King Of Trios''.
68	* SweetTooth: And how. Trying to keep her sugar levels down proved difficult for Daff's A.S.S. since Ms. Darling could just cook up her own sweets. She even wanted to eat Los Ice Creams.
69	* TagTeam:
70	** (in CHIKARA): The Rumblebees with Travis Huckabee, until he turned heel.
71	** (in Beyond Wrestling[=/=]Women's Wrestling Revolution) The Bird and The Bee, with Willow Nightingale. Their FinishingMove is called TheTalk.
72	** (in SHINE): The Buddy System, with [[Wrestling/RubyRiott Heidi Lovelace]]
73	* TailSlap: Squirrel Solo created a "new" move in SHINE in the same manner [[Manga/DragonBall Goku did in his fight with Nam]], and it had [[AwesomeButImpractical pretty much the same result]]. Darling later refined this into the "tail spin DDT".
74	* TookALevelInBadass
75	** Came into Chikara as a comedic sugar-crazed squirrel girl. Improved to a top submission wrestler.
76	** On a meta level too. Pre-CHIKARA she was seen as a sub-mediocre wrestler who only stood out at all because of her squirrel girl gimmick, which came with a low ceiling. She improved drastically in CHIKARA and after moving on, began improving even faster, and is now seen as one of the better women on the US Indy circuit.
77	* TournamentArc: During their time in Women's Wrestling Revolution The Bird and The Bee defeated The Twisted Sisterz (Wrestling/{{Holidead}} and Thunder Rosa) to win the ''WWR Tournament For Tomorrow 2018'' on December 30, 2018.
78	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: When Solo first turned face it was "baked bacon put in fried pancakes". As the squirrel it was fruit punch. Post squirrel Darling likes pineapples.
79	* UrExample: One half of Ring Warriors' inaugural Battling Bombshells TagTeam Champions with Brittney Savage, beating out Luscious Latasha and Renee Michelle.
80	* UseYourHead: Would sometimes do this, even combining the headbutts with her gimmick and delivering them after jumping into her opponent's arms. She learned this from her friend Mickie Knuckles, who was ''[[PaperThinDisguise not]]'' her old rival Isabela Smothers in disguise.
81	* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Travis Huckabee, via him turning heel on her after they failed to win the Tag World Grand Prix.

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