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  • Best Known for the Fanservice: Her infamous bodysuit at WrestleMania XV is usually brought up whenever she's mentioned.
  • Broken Base: Tori's push drew a lot of criticisms at the time from wrestling purists, who felt she was little better in the ring than Sable. Others were more considerate, feeling that she was being held back by poor booking and no attention from the creative team. These days fans are split into two camps - those who feel Tori was merely good for the era and those who feel she would have shown off more flair in the ring if she had lasted to the 2002-2004 era (where the likes of Ivory and Jacqueline really got to show what they could do).
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: As someone who wasn't really around for that long in the Attitude Era - debuting in 1999 and leaving in early 2001 (as well as spending half of 2000 injured) - it's surprising how well she's remembered. In a shoot interview, she was astonished that she had so many fan-sites.
  • Girl-Show Ghetto: The LPWA's one PPV, LPWA Super Ladies Showdown on February 23, 1992, was held at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, MN. The sports facility, the Taylor Arena, has a capacity of 7200. The PPV only drew 400.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Her first ring name was Taylor Made. There's now another Taylor Made on the indies.
  • Les Yay: In her storyline with Sable. One of the original ideas was for her to turn out to be Sable's sister, but they went with her being a Loony Fan instead. Presumably this trope was the reason why.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
    • Tori could have used her attempt to walk to the ring topless as a protest against sexism/Double Standards in re how male wrestlers are allowed to compete shirtless even if they aren't in good shape but women can't even if they are in good shape.
    • She said the same thing about her storyline as the masked Ninja, saying it could have been good but the ball was dropped on it. It started a nice mixed tag feud against Crash and Molly Holly, which gave Molly something to do since Chyna was feuding for the Women's title with Ivory. Rumours said that it was going to lead to a mixed tag at WrestleMania X-Seven, which could have been a fun match.
    • Speaking of Chyna, Tori was supposedly going to feud with Chyna in summer 2000. It would've been a mixed tag feud of Tori and X-Pac against Chyna and Eddie Guerrero. Due to her shoulder injury, the idea was scrapped. Then, when it came time for Tori to return in fall 2000, there were ideas to rekindle this plan but instead would've been Chyna and Billy Gunn since Eddie turned heel. For some reason, nothing came of it and Chyna ultimately feuded with Ivory instead. Had plans gone through, Tori would've been Chyna's first female feud opponent - and someone of her size would have believably been able to take it to Chyna.
  • WTH, Costuming Department?: The cat bodysuit she wore for her match with Sable at WrestleMania XV. She had based it off a photo shoot she had done with body paint and animal print. The theory was that it would look cool if it appeared her outfit was painted on. She reportedly knew she had bombed when she saw Vince McMahon and The Rock gawking at her while she was in the Gorilla Position backstage before the match.

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