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As Magnificent Ladies of Wrestling Champion. This is how she looked before Sweet Sarayanote  pushed her over the edge.
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As QOC Champion and as the inaugural Girl Fight Champion

Vannarah Riggs (b. June 30, 1989) is an American valet turned manager turned Professional Wrestler from Seattle, usually working under the ring name Su Yung. She debuted in 2007 after training in Memphis, Tennessee under Bill Dundee and Kevin White. She spent most of her debut year working for Memphis Wrestling supporting athletes at ring side before deciding to start a career in between the ropes but when she did Yung was named the 2008 Memphis rookie of the year.

She also served as the ring announcer "Vannah" on the 2007 revival of Florida Championship Wrestling before accepting a developmental deal for more professional wrestling training as "Sonia". Although developmental did not pan out Su Yung has since wrestled all over the world in promotions such as Spain's Revolution Championship Wrestling, the Canadian version of SMASH, Pro Wrestling EVE in the UK and Japan's World Wonder Ring ST★RDOM. Su Yung is best known for her work for SHIMMER, its spin offs SHINE and RISE (where she was deemed the 2018 debut of the year), as well as RISE's partner Impact Wrestling, where she has separate gimmicks as "Susie", that served as a cast member of Tommy Dreamer's parody "reality show" within a show Wrestle House, and "Susan", a depraved entrepreneur.

Along with her QOC and Girl Fight Titles, she is a former 2x ACW (Anarchy Championship Wrestling) American Joshi Champion, a former PW2.0 (Florida) Women's Champion, a former WSU Spirit Champion, a former WSU Tag Team Champion (with Ruthless Lala), a former FEST Wrestling Champion, a former Uce Wrestling Women's Champion, a former Impact Knockouts Champion, the ICW (Florida) Women's Champion and a former Kaiju Double Danger Tandem Champion with Hell Monkey.


"Bloody, Undead Tropes":

  • A Lighter Shade of Grey: Yung is always the nominal face at least when facing Legendary(Brandi Wine and Malia Hosaka), being a A Lighter Shade of Black at worst when she had taken on some of Tasha Simone's cheating ways while feuding with her and Wine in Memphis Ladies Wrestling or later enthralled by Saraya. Yung went on to try and clean up her act and even partnered with Hosaka in Queens Of Combat, but no amount of good will she shows them does her any good long term.
  • Action Girl: Obviously, but at first she was just a valet, and then a manager, only deciding to become a wrestler when she learned Jerry Lawler's Memphis Wrestling was getting a woman centered spinoff. She was thrown into the deep end pretty quickly by Tasha Simone, who didn't want to see any new women wrestlers.
  • Always Someone Better
    • The basis of her feud with Athena. Su had finally become champion of Memphis Ladies Wrestling, where she wrestled her first matches, where she was a local television star, and then a little lady from Texas came in and beat her, again, and again, often in embarrassing ways. So Yung went to Athena's hometown, for Anarchy Championship Wrestling and Metroplex Wrestling. Yung found a good deal of success in Anarchy in particular, but kept losing to Athena.
    • The basis of her feud and partnership with Tracy Taylor, prior to being enthralled by Saraya. Even in Main Event Championship Wrestling, where Yung did beat Taylor, it was due to cheating. Taylor was still the better wrestler, Yung knew it, and Yung's tricks only worked once. As a tag team Yung intentionally tried to follow in Taylor's footsteps, to become as skilled and courageous as her. That not working is what made Su susceptible to Saraya's enthralling. After that, Yung was basically Taylor's equal at the cost of serving the enemies she had been unable to face with the same competence as Taylor...
  • Amnesiac Dissonance: Neither "Susie" nor "Susan" were very happy to learn about what they had previously been up to as Su Yung, but while "Susie" wanted to be a better person going forward, "Susan" simply views Yung's more hands on approach, use of the poison fog and tendency to get in garbage matches as beneath her, preferring to have others do those things in her place.
  • Arch-Enemy:
    • Prior to becoming a wrestler, her career was dedicated to ruining Jerry Lawler's.
    • From the start of Yung's in ring career, a shadow named Tasha Simone loomed over her, and nothing Yung tried could make Simone leave her be for long.
    • During Simone's brief retirement, Yung got some relief, but then met Hudson Envy, who was then overshadowed in this regard by Sinister Minister.
  • As Long as It Sounds Foreign
    • After becoming Memphis Ladies Champion Yung was conflicted between taking the belt to Tokyo or Okinawa. While they are different places, Yung never made it clear why she was comparing an island with a city...
    • Both members of Kodokushi Death Squad are Chinese, but take their team name from a Japanese concept.
  • Ascended Extra: Spent a little while in Sparkle dark matches before showing up on the SHIMMER shows proper.
  • Be Yourself: Yung's advice to a young Jessicka Havok when they first met(thanks, Su!). Needless to say, Havok wasn't impressed with what Yung had allowed Sweet Saraya to do to her in Shine, calling Yung a hypocrite.
  • Berserk Button: Like most of Saraya's thralls, Yung took slaps to the face especially poorly if they came from anyone other than Saraya while she was in Valkyrie. It was one of the more reliable ways to get her motivated when Saraya's absensce was negatively affecting her drive.
  • Best Served Cold: Radiant Rain called her a "vampire demon dead zombie thing" as Yung tried to "eat her face" during a FEST Title defense. Rain's mayhem with Valkyrie was one of the biggest causes of Yung's Sanity Slippage, and while Rain had been forced out of the group before Yung was zombified, Rain was the one who hired Saraya. Saraya lead Su to Valkyrie, where Su was then abused and exploited for two years, in response to Rain leaving. Rain's callousness and carelessness lead to Su Yung becoming a monster, then a title belt brought Rain to Yung.
  • Blood from the Mouth: Enthralled Yung would sometimes attempt to afflict this on opponents who slapped her, in place of her usual purge, though just from the mouth rather than deeper internal injuries.
  • Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: After defeating Vanessa Kraven in a "Monster's Ball", Yung invited LuFisto to a wedding. LuFisto was shocked to see it wasn't the kind where people get married before her Garbage Wrestler instincts kicked in. A blood stained dress has since became Yung's signature.
  • Blush Sticker: She likes to wear a Pikachu hat in Anarchy, and paint her cheeks red to match.
  • By the Hair: Yung got sick of tagging and pulled her own partner, SIS, into the ring by the hair in CWF Mid-Atlantic. Even though they won, SIS didn't appreciate this treatment and the team did not last.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Inverted, as "Susan" resulted from Deonna Purrazzo and Father James Mitchell attempting to make Su Yung more sane before conditioning her to serve them. It didn't work out completely, as while "Susan" is more sane than Su Yung and more willing to work with Purrazzo than "Susie", she also wasn't very successful, so Purrazzo dumped her. Played straight when Kimber Lee contacted Mitchell in an attempt to bring Su Yung back but "Susan" found out and had Lee brainwashed into a minion instead.
  • Bring My Red Jacket: Inverted, as even when Yung wrestles in a redish or stained dress she tends to remove it before attempting something likely to make her bleed.
  • Captain Ersatz: To herself, twice. In Impact, "Susie" is one to Yung's gimmick before being enthralled by Sweet Saraya, particularly as one half of The West Coast Connection, while Susan is one to Yung's time as Primier Athlete Brand's secretary. Alternatively they are call backs, depending on how much of Yung's career Impact is willing to acknowledge.
  • Cheap Pop: The Undead Bride will toss black flower bouquets into the crowd for one. Didn't really work in FEST, but people still tried to catch it.
  • Cleavage Window: One that isn't always open. Yung sometimes wrestles in a black shirt with slits in it. How much it applies depends on how she moves.
  • Combination Attack: Coast To Coast with Tracy Taylor; one does "sole food" and then the other does a variation of it from behind.
  • Crossover: She was champion at the time and thus obligated to be at RISE 9: RISE Of The Knockouts, where Saraya was waiting for a rematch
  • Crowd Surfing: The Red Shirt Army Leva Bates was using in her "purge" of Shine saved Su when Jessicka Havok pushed her off of a balcony at SHINE 26.
  • Dance Sensation: While still part of the West Coast Connection Yung started the Harlem Shake at a Shine event, to the confusion of usual dancer Tracy Taylor and usual goofball Nikki Roxx, with Mia Yim cheering her on. She even got Amazing Kong and Lexie Fyfe to join in(which is how WWN got 100 thousand views while admitting their version wasn't even close to the original, although Yung's individual start was better than most imitators)
  • Dark Action Girl: Su Yung is one of the most hated wrestlers in FEST and one of the few female wrestlers the fans don't treat as a face by default when she wrestles a man. Most appropriately it was "feminist icon" Effy to finally end her reign of terror. His willingness to hit women is usually viewed negatively, but in front of the punk rock fest crowds with a "gothic" target like Yung, he got a pass.
  • Defeat Means Friendship
    • She tried being Tasha Simone's friend after a month or so of failing to beat the surly, more experienced wrestler in the ring. It didn't work very well for very long. She got more success with Tracy Taylor, but tended to measure herself against Taylor to an unhealthy degree. Then there was La Rosa Negra, who Yung befriended after their first match, outside of matches. In matches Yung would usually mercilessly batter La Rosa in unsporting manners until the match ended, then go back to being her buddy. Friendship with Taylor and Negra was then ended by Saraya.
    • Invoked and defied after Su defeated Kimberly at SHINE 2. Kimberly later approached Su to end her Shine losing streak, on the reasoning she was a better tag team wrestler but Su said Tracy was her partner, then urged Kimberly to "Go Away" behind her back, adding that Kimberly was crazy once she was out of sight.
  • Dragons Up the Yin Yang: She has a couple of singlets with a yin yang on top of two dragons design. She considered her fancier white one good luck after she won her first "title"(rookie of the year) in it.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: She made a one night appearance at a TNA Knockouts Knockdown pay per view where she lost to Taryn Terrell, three years before she got a long term contract with Impact Wrestling.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness
    • She presented herself as utterly normal prior to her zombie gimmick.
    • She was a Sexy Secretary for Premier Athlete Brand in Dragon Gate USA. The Brand successfully, if temporarily, reverted Yung from her zombie state during WWN's China tour, which made her less viscous but also more resistant to the usual abuses of Valkyrie stablemate Allysin Kay.
  • Evil Laugh: Before Yung was a zombie this often accompanied her villainy. As a zombie she still sometimes laughs during matches, but it's moreso Laughing Mad randomly than enjoying mischeif.
  • Evil Minions: She has an army of bridesmaids, who are mostly there to do basic tasks for Yung. Some are combative enough to be mooks and the "legionnaires" of RISE are theoretically her equals.
  • Face–Monster Turn: A half example. Exactly why the enthralling process made Yung into a zombie, and why Yung did not revert back to her previous mannerisms when she overcame Sweet Saraya's control never got explained, but Yung did successfully return to face status.
  • Facial Markings: After becoming one of Sweet Saraya's thralls, she started going white faced. More markings were added after breaking free of Saraya, as seen above.
  • Fighting Your Friend: Her first sign of reluctance in Valkyrie was when she was pitted against former partner Tracy Taylor. Taylor was much more eager to throw down, and learned just how dangerous Yung had become, but Yung was crying after doing what she needed to defeat Taylor.
  • Finishing Move: She uses a Mandible Claw that she calls The Purge. Also a Samoan Driver known as The Panic Switch.
  • Forced to Watch: Her undead bridesmaids held Allie still while Yung beat up Rosemary and shoved her into a coffin, which Yung later lit on fire.
  • Garbage Wrestler: Subverted: "Undead" Yung has gained a reputation for being a hardcore brawler thanks to her matches with Jessicka Havok and Vanessa Kraven. Watching said matches reveals she's not at all. Being able to No-Sell takes her a long way, but she struggles to beat genuine garbage wrestlers at their own game.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: After Yung was unable to defeat Taya Valkyrie for the Knockouts title belt, Yung turned on Tag Team partner Jessicka Havok when it looked liked Havok would succeed where Yung failed.
  • Heart Symbol
    • One of her pants belts has a heart shaped buckle and one of her bras has the same shaped buckle that pokes through the slits of her black shirt.
    • She has a bright purple set with silver heart symbols around her legs.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door
    • On general Ring Warriors shows Su Yung was the good, La Rosa Negra was the bad and Sienna Duvall was the evil, but on shows dedicated to Ring Warriors' Battling Bombshells division Negra was good, Yung bad and Duvall...still evil. Even then, Yung was really only "bad" on the women focused shows when wrestling Negra.
    • In FIP and DGUSA she was Premier Athlete Brand's evil secretary, and came into conflict with BXB Hulk's manager, Christina Von Eerie. In Shine both Yung and Von Eerie were faces against Valkyrie...but Von Eerie still attacked Yung for the things Yung was doing in DGUSA.
  • High-Heel–Face Turn: Faked. Premier Athlete Brand "fired" her as a setup for Rich Swann.
  • I Have Many Names: She was "Sonia" in WWE's Florida Championship Wrestling revival. More literal in Ice Ribbon, where she was initially billed as "Vannah" before they conformed to the other Joshi feds and went with "Su Yung". "Disguised" herself as the luchadora "Lechuza" after losing to Heidi Lovelace in the FEST Title Tournament for a match against Mr. 450, also against Los Bendejos disguised as luchadores Oraculo and Serpentico.
  • Incendiary Exponent: Subverted in FEST when she lit a kendo stick on fire. It was Yung's good fortune that the flames went out on the first swing.
  • Interchangeable Asian Cultures
    • Yung being Chinese was fairly important for different reasons in Jerry Lawler's Memphis Wrestling, Memphis Ladies Wrestling, Diana, Ring Warriors, STARDOM and Ice Ribbon, but PGWA billed her as an envious Japanese woman after Tracy Taylor and Tasha Simone(ignoring that Simone started it). Even in Memphis Ladies Wrestling she was sometimes "shown" to be Japanese instead and sometimes described herself as an "intercontinental" pan Asian representative.
    • When Su Yung spoke for the first time in Impact, many in the comments identified her words as either Laotian, Thai or Khmer hinting ancestry in one of the three.
  • Jive Turkey: "Bitches Be Trippin!"
  • Kaleidoscope Hair: Su Yung's hair is usually brown, but what shade of brown is anything but consistent. Sometimes there is a blonde streak somewhere and sometimes it is multiple shades of brown at once. As the undead bride her hair colors became consistent but an unnatrual mix of red, brown and white. And this lead to her sometimes having white streaks even when not working that gimmick.
  • Leaving You to Find Myself: Non romantic version, as Tracy is married to Michah Taylor, but depending on which promotion you watched Yung either went to Japan to become good enough to defeat Tracy Taylor, or to become a better tag team partner for Taylor. In the latter case, Su really didn't take the fact the losing pinfall against Made In Sin was on her again after returning to the States, despite Taylor's best efforts to console her.
  • Legion of Doom: Besides VALkyrie there was also the Legion Of Undead Brides in RISE with Elayna Black, Hawlee Cromwell, and Kimber Lee
  • Limp and Livid: She continued to deteriorate under Valkyrie's care to the point she would drag her feet to the ring. Even further in CWF Mid-Atlantic, where she came to the ring on all fours! As FEST Champion Yung tended to slump in the corner while jealously clutching the belt.
  • Lucky Charms Title: To keep up the act that she was supporting Rich Swann, Yung wore a pair of pants with the "word" SW*NN on them.
  • Mood-Swinger: When working for Valkyrie Yung would sometimes seem confused, scared or apathetic at the start of a match only to suddenly snap into cackling sadism or unstoppable rage.
  • Morality Chain: It was Susie's own Amnesiac Dissonance that caused her to try and abandon who she was as Su Yung, but Kylie Rae is the only reason Susie was successful for any length of time since Taya Valkyrie, Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz weren't about to just let everything Yung did go.
  • Motor Mouth: Uncharacteristically so when she filled in for Lenny Leonard on commentary at SHINE 15
  • No-Sell
    • Like most zombie wrestlers Yung might sit up at any moment, as if whatever put her down really wasn't anything. This even freaked out Vanessa Kraven the first time she saw it after power bombing Yung. It left Madison Eagles screaming "What do I do?"
    • When she lost the FEST Title belt she had managed to sit up and shove the referee and challenger Effy away, after the ref already counted to three. Effy had technically pinned Yung's legs, but her shoulders were still down so she ended up accepting it.
  • Parts Unknown: As "The Undead Bride," she is billed from "Off The Grid".
  • Power Stable:
    • Occasionally represented The Business in matches for Anarchy Championship Wrestling
    • She was a Manager for Premier Athlete Brand in EVOLVE.
    • (in SHINE): She was The Point Man for Valkyrie's second incarnation, and she and Andrea were The Muscle for VALkyrie.
    • The Reckoning in WSU
  • Red Baroness: "The Undead Bride", after breaking away from Saraya and defeating Vanessa Kraven
  • Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Yung has about four core gimmicks. One of them is Japanese, one of them is a zombie, and one of them is black.
  • Rust Proof Blood: In a business where most of the blood is real, including that Yung draws from her opponents and that opponents draw from Yung, the fact her dresses remains red and pink instead of brown shouldn't be overlooked.
  • Sanity Slippage
    • Starting in 2009 due to an inferiority complex regarding Tracy Taylor, eventually turning her into what you see above in 2016. 2016 was when she made a bit of a recovery in fact, with her lowest being 2014-15.
    • SHINE commentator Daffney Unger had issued a Beware the Nice Ones warning about Su, leading to Sweet Saraya pushing her over the edge. That's specifically why 2014-15 was Su's lowest.
    • Expect aspects of Su to bleed through "Susie's" ultra-naive persona. Not even Kylie Rae's influence could stop the Undead Bride from reemerging at Bound For Glory after Deonna Purrazzo broke her arm at Victory Road.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: Sienna Duvall claimed Yung and La Rosa Negra got into the number one contention spot she fought for just because they were pretty. While Negra actually got it by defeating Duvall in an empty arena exhibition after crashing the first Ring Warriors Bahamas show in Nassau, Yung did basically become one of the three original number one contenders basically by being. Yung got at least two more title shots after that even though she only earned one.
  • Shout-Out: Her enthralled gimmick has been compared on here to the film Ju-on. Her later development into the undead bride has even more similarities.
  • Signature Move: Yung likes her swinging neck breakers, and baby swings, and a head scissors to the turnbuckle(aracnarana), a full nelson into a La Reienera like stretch, a head scissors arm bar(yellow fever) and the Koji clutch
  • Spiteful Spit: Her grudge in CWF Mid-Atlantic was with Amanda Rodriguez, as their tag team was a failure, but it was Rodriguez's new partner Super Model Amy Love's face Yung spat in. No stored mist, just plain spit.
  • Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Uncanny Valley Makeup, Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress, red mist, stringy hair partially covering her face, the whole routine.
  • Super Spit: She has used the "Asian Mist."
  • Tactical Withdrawal: Yung ran out to help during Valkyrie's first attack on Shine, but realized she was in over her head and ran off to call Tracy Taylor.
  • Tag Team
    • The West Coast Connection, with Tracy Taylor, in SHINE.
    • Creepy As Fuck with Blackwater in WSU
    • Dead Or Alive with Maho Kurone in Tokyo Joshi Pro
    • Kodokushi Death Squad with Zeda Zhang in Major League Wrestling
  • Team Pet
    • Allysin Kay derisively referred to Yung as Valkyrie's attack dog, though Kay initially acted as if she was Yung's only friend in the group. Partly because she initially didn't care who beat Velez and wanted everyone at their best, and partly just for the fun of taking Yung by surprise after luring her into a false sense of security. April Hunter even put Yung on a leash.
    • After Rosemary defeated Su Yung in a dog collar match on Impact, Rosemary decided to "keep" Su as a pet, though Yung was eventually let free by Jessicka Havok.
  • Technically-Living Zombie: Zombie Su's longing obedience to Sweet Saraya and exploitation by Valkyrie heavily resembles a Voodoo Zombie, which usually are technically alive, but there were no drugs or bokor hoodo magic involved in her conversion as far as anyone can tell, just breaking her with forceful demands that played to Yung's own desires. She's shown more "undead" traits since breaking free of Saraya, but these are probably mind games.
  • The Atoner: After "Susie" regained her memory she decided to "stay" Susie and put all the bad things she did as Su Yung behind her.
  • The Corrupter: To Allie (Cherry Bomb) in Impact, turning her against Kiera Hogan. When a machiavellian serial kidnapper like Rosemary is a better influence in someone's life, you know Su doesn't have someone's best interests at heart.
  • The Dog Bites Back: After Valkyrie's unofficial member Sweet Saraya turned Su into one of her thralls, she turned Su over to the official members and only checked on Su periodically. While the enthralling process was physically abusive, Saraya was mostly guilty of neglect after it was complete, as Su eagerly looked to her for further instructions. The other Valkyrie members were more abusive of Yung, physically and mentally, than Saraya was but Su obeyed them for two years. When SoCal Val took over and merged Valifornia with Valkyrie, she was so bad Su finally turned against the group and not even Saraya could stop her.
  • The Rival
    • Yung initially had a poor track record against Tracy Taylor, one win against half a dozen loses, but in Shine Yung looked up to Taylor as her tag team partner. Unfortunately The West Coast Connection was not particularly successful, Su blamed herself for it, and started gravitating towards Sweet Saraya, who apparently wanted to bring out the "best" in Su. This ended up with Yung and Taylor against one another again, only with Taylor on the losing side. But then Taylor returned to Shine after an intense training regimen specifically for defeating Yung, and did by making Yung choke on her own mist.
    • After leaving the FCW revival, Su Yung began training for Ring Warriors and immediately entered a war of words with the top two wrestlers of its Battling Bombshells division. Sienna Duvall was offended by Yung's signing, since being in the FCW revival had given Yung the "diva" taint in Duvall's eyes, and while defending herself Yung mistakenly attributed some of Duvall's insults to La Rosa Negra, who actually didn't care about Yung and just wanted Duvall's undivided attention. Eventually learning both this and that Negra had a counter for every move Yung could think to use in their first match, Yung sought Negra's friendship...until Yung was forcibly drafted into Valkyrie at Shine show and Negra happened to be one of the wrestlers trying to save Ivelisse VĂ©lez from them. Since then Yung's been cold to Negra even in promotions where she doesn't use the zombie gimmick.
    • After Yung signed to Ring Warriors Santana Garrett immediately expressed a desire to wrestle her, despite being in a tournament to decide the first battling bombshells champion. Yung ended up by passing the tournament to number one contention, twice, the first time completely by passing Garrett too, the second time getting into a four way dance and outlasting Garrett(along with Silvie Silver and Melissa Coates). After that though, a loss to The American Sweet Hearts, Garrett's team with Amber O'Neal, is what helped kill Yung's team with Amanda Rodriguez in CWF Mid-Atlantic. Garrett and Yung themselves were still on good terms, joining together to try and stop Valkyrie...until Sweet Saraya swooped in and soon enough Su was helping Valkyrie dispose of Santana and get the Shine belt on Taylor Made. After that Garrett proceeded to kick Yung's ass everywhere she could find it. After winning Costal Championship's women's title from Yung they entered an Enemy Mine against Grace Storm and MJ Knight, but then Santana decided to work with her student Gabi Castrovinci and fellow Yung victim Violet Payne instead.
    • Ivelisse Velez and Mia Yim across FIP, Dragon Gate USA, EVOLVE and SHINE. If it wasn't Valkyrie driving the conflict, be it when Velez or Yung was a member, it was Premier Athlete Brand acting as the catalyst. Given both their Valkyrie histories and the fact Velez contributed to Yim's Rage Quit out of Shine, Velez was Yung's more frequent rival on WWN family shows but Yung also bugged Yim in Premiere Wrestling Xperience and Yim opposed The Reckoning, another stable Yung was a part of, in WSU.
    • Jessicka Havok was known as "The Zombie Hunter" for taking down wrestlers like Lady Poison but found herself being hunted by what she described as a "zombie" in Yung thanks to Sweet Saraya and Allysin Kay in Shine. After returning from TNA Havok decided to return the favor by joining Leva Bates's efforts to "Purge" Shine and save Yung from Valkyrie, only Havok didn't care so much for Yung's well being, forcing Bates's own minions to save Yung from her. Even after Yung left Valkyrie the two continued to fight up and down the East Coast, be it for title belts (FEST) or personal reasons (Battle Club Pro), but they teamed up in midwest All American Wrestling and continued to in Impact Wrestling for a couple years before turning on one another after a four way Monster's Ball.
    • Su Yung and Leva Bates seemed to be pretty good friends, but they happened to have their eyes on the same title belts across the US. Leva showed the most concern when Su was enthralled by Sweet Saraya and though her efforts were unsuccessful Bates was the first wrestler to successfully(if barely) resist Yung's purge. Bates was also the one organizing WSU's wrestlers against The Reckoning Yung was a part of.
    • Su Yung and Kiera Hogan were partners in Why We Wrestle but opponents in the neighboring Atlanta Wrestling Entertainment. They slid more and more towards "opponents" as they went through the south, especially in Impact Wrestling, even up north in WSU and out west in Reality Of Wrestling.
  • The Worf Effect
    • After Jessicka Havok successfully defeated Allysin Kay in her "last stand", Kay sicked Yung on Havok to ensure Havok would not leave Shine on her own two feet. Yung would have succeeded had Ivelisse Velez not managed to get through the door the rest of Valkyrie were barricading. From then on, Yung was nigh unstoppable in Shine, with only champions Velez and Yim being able to defeat her one on one. Yung even held on against original Valkyrie target Amazing Kong(Nevaeh outsmarted Yung and Kong by sneaking up on them while they were fighting each other). That was until Havok herself returned from TNA seeking revenge on Yung, and the role of "Worf" flipped.
    • While one can certainly make case for Yung earning it, you'd have a hard time figuring out how she got a title shot at Nicole Savoy on volume 103, or why anyone feared Yung at all, if you only watched SHIMMER. Even volume 59, which helped along Su's angle with Saraya, ultimately used them to put over Christina Von Eerie.
  • Tournament Arc: She won Anarchy Championship Wrestling's (Austin, TX) American Joshi Queen of Queens Tournament in 2014 and 2019, the tournament to become the inaugural Girl Fight Champion, and she and Blackwater won WSU's Queen and King of the Ring 2017. (WWE ripped off this idea for the WWE Mixed Match Challenge.)
  • Trauma-Induced Amnesia: As punishment for costing her the Knockouts Title belt, Jessicka Havok put a noose around Yung and hung her. While Yung's neck didn't break she was still suspended until she passed out and didn't remember anything when she woke up. Father James Mitchell took this opporitunity to mold "Susie" to his liking, and Havok joined in the fun, but Susie's memory returned when Rosemary came after her with a noose to forcibly make her her relive the traumatic experience.
  • Ungrateful Bastard
    • While a wrestling ring wasn't the best place to try and bury the hatchet, Yung never the less displayed no gratitude when Santana Garrett found the teddy bear Yung had been crying about in Queens Of Combat.
    • Yung ultimately showed a surprisingly lack of loyalty towards Jessicka Havok after Havok liberated Yung from Rosemary
  • Unnecessary Roughness: Yung had a bad habit of making opponents pass out to the yellow fever(head scissors arm bar) after they had already tapped to the purge.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Yung's feud with Rosemary was deliberately extended by Father James Mitchell for his own purposes, with the ultimate plan of sacficing the loser. Though Mitchell decided Yung didn't have to die to be made "holy" after she suffered Trauma-Induced Amnesia from Jessicka Havok.
  • Ur-Example: Her winning the Kaiju Big Battel tag titles with Hell Monkey made her the second regular wrestler, after Kota Ibushi, who held the KBB Hashtag Title for less than a day, and the first woman to hold a KBB Title.
  • Wolverine Publicity: She was on the SHINE 23 poster despite not being on the show. Thankfully this was not a regular thing.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Yung faked an ankle injury to set up Athena for a collision with a chair at the 2012 ACW American Joshi Queen Of Queens tournament.
  • Yes-Man: She and Rebecca Knox were reduced to this to Sweet Saraya.
  • Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Zig-zagged.
    • At FEST Wrestling Pickle In The Tree, December 4, 2016, she won the 7-way #1 contendership ladder match and cashed in her shot and defeated Heidi Lovelace for the title after Heidi had just defeated Caleb Konley.
    • She defeated Angel Blue for the ACW American Joshi Title in the semi-final of the 2017 American Joshi Queen of Queens Tournament, June 18, 2017, and lost it to Sage Sin Supreme in the final that same night.
  • You Have Failed Me: She took Braxton Sutter away from Allie right as he was going to propose to her, but after Sutter failed to help Yung win the Impact Knockouts title belt she spat mist in his face and abandoned him.

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