History Wrestling / DamageCTRL

* TranslatorBuddy: Dakota Kai has taken over this role between Bayley and the rest of the members, who have taken to [[LanguageBarrier speaking mostly in Japanese with their countrywomen]], often locking Bayley out of the loop. (Or so we thought...)

Damage CTRL is a professional wrestling stable in Wrestling/{{WWE}}, at one time consisted of Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]], [[Wrestling/IoShirai Iyo Sky]], [[Characters/WWEDivas Dakota Kai, and Kairi Sane]]. They primarily appear on the [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] brand. The group made their debut on July 30, 2022 at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam'', attacking Wrestling/BiancaBelair and Wrestling/BeckyLynch and quickly making a name for themselves. Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai are former WWE Woman's Tag Team Champions with Iyo Sky currently the WWE Women's Champion. Bayley herself would add to the group's ranks by winning the 2024 Royal Rumble, while Sane and Asuka won the group their 3rd Tag Team Championship a night prior.

On the February 2nd, 2024 edition of [=SmackDown=], after months of building internal friction, Bayley's attempt to confront the rest was met by an attack by her teammates. Already pushed to the edge, this attack would drive Bayley to call her [=WrestleMania=] title shot for Iyo's title, making a HeelFaceTurn and severing ties with the group. A week later Dakota Kai decided to side with Bayley.

* MultinationalTeam: Wrestling/{{Bayley}} is Mexican-American, Dakota Kai is Samoan-New Zelander, and [[Wrestling/IoShirai Iyo Sky]], [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] and Kairi Sane are all Japanese.

Damage CTRL is a professional wrestling stable in Wrestling/{{WWE}}, consisting of Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]], [[Wrestling/IoShirai Iyo Sky]], [[Characters/WWEDivas Dakota Kai, and Kairi Sane]]. They primarily appear on the [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] brand. The group made their debut on July 30, 2022 at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam'', attacking Wrestling/BiancaBelair and Wrestling/BeckyLynch and quickly making a name for themselves. Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai are former WWE Woman's Tag Team Champions with Iyo Sky currently the WWE Women's Champion. Bayley herself would add to the group's ranks by winning the 2024 Royal Rumble, while Sane and Asuka won the group their 3rd Tag Team Championship a night prior.

* PowerStable: Originally Damage CTRL had Bayley, Iyo, and Dakota as the main group, but in later 2023 a returning Kairi Sane along with Asuka turned the stable into a more powerful group and threat to the entire Smackdown's women roster. Their current dynamic is:

** The Hanger-On (while injured): Dakota Kai

On the February 2nd, 2024 edition of [=SmackDown=], after months of building internal friction, Bayley's attempt to confront the rest was met by an attack by her teammates. Already pushed to the edge, this attack would drive Bayley to call her [=WrestleMania=] title shot for Iyo's title, making a HeelFaceTurn and severing ties with the group.

On the February 2th, 2024 [=SmackDown=] after months of building internal friction, Bayley's attempt to confront the rest was met by an attack by her teammates. Already pushed to the edge, this attack would drive Bayley to call her [=WrestleMania=] title shot for Iyo's title, making a HeelFaceTurn and severing ties with the group.

* BigBad: Wrestling/{{Bayley}} currently serves as the leader of the group.

* TranslatorBuddy: Dakota Kai has taken over this role between Bayley and the rest of the members, who have taken to [[LanguageBarrier speaking mostly in Japanese with their countrywomen]], often locking Bayley out of the loop.

Damage CTRL is a professional wrestling stable in Wrestling/{{WWE}}, consisting of Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]], [[Wrestling/IoShirai Iyo Sky]], [[Characters/WWEDivas Dakota Kai, and Kairi Sane]]. They primarily appear on the [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] brand. The group made their debut on July 30, 2022 at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam'', attacking Wrestling/BiancaBelair and Wrestling/BeckyLynch and quickly making a name for themselves. Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai are former WWE Woman's Tag Team Champions with Iyo Sky currently the WWE Women's Champion.

* EasilyForgiven: Kairi Sane immediately joins the group following her WWE return, despite the fact that [[{{Kayfabe}} the reason]] she was gone for three years was because of Wrestling/{{Bayley}} attacking her. This is also true for [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]], who was Kairi's TagTeam partner during that time and has feuded with Bayley and Wrestling/SashaBanks since for that very reason. Bayley, on her part, was initially horrified upon seeing Kairi again; the others would invoke this trope just to put her at ease.

* EasilyForgiven: Kairi Sane immediately joins the group following her WWE return, despite the fact that [[{{Kayfabe}} the reason]] she was gone for three years was because of Wrestling/{{Bayley}} attacking her. This is also true for [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]], who was Kairi's TagTeam partner during that time and has feuded with Bayley and Wrestling/SashaBanks since for that very reason. Bayley, on her part, was initially horrified upon seeing Kairi again, and the others would invoked this trope just to put her at ease.

* EasilyForgiven: Kairi Sane immediately joins the group following her WWE return, despite the fact that [[{{Kayfabe}} the reason]] she was gone for three years was because of Wrestling/{{Bayley}} attacking her. This is also true for [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]], who was Kairi's TagTeam partner during that time and has feuded with Bayley and Wrestling/SashaBanks since for that very reason. Bayley, on her part, was initially horrified upon seeing Kairi again.

* TookALevelInBadass: Despite an eventful debut, Damage CTRL rarely picked up any significant wins aside from Iyo's MITB cash-in, left almost constantly on the losing side through 2022 and 2023. The addition of Asuka and Kairi Sane in November 2023 would give the faction the numbers and power advantage to finally cement itself as the dominant PowerStable it [[NotSoHarmlessVillain struggled to be to that point]].

* TookALevelInBadass: Despite an eventful debut, Damage CTRL rarely picked up any significant wins, left almost constantly on the losing side through 2022 and 2023. The addition of Asuka and Kairi Sane in November 2023 would give the faction the numbers and power advantage to finally cement itself as the dominant PowerStable it [[NotSoHarmlessVillain struggled to be to that point]].

* ThreePlusTwo: Originally a PowerTrio of Bayley, IYO SKY and Dakota Kai, until the former Kabuki Warriors Asuka and Kairi Sane join the following year.

!! Damage [=CRTLing=] Tropes:

* PowerStable: Originally Damage CTRL had Bayley, Iyo, and Dakota as the main group, but in later 2023 a returning Kairi Sane along with Asuka turned the stable into a more powerful group and threat to the entire Smackdown's women roster.

* PowerTrio: Originally Damage CTRL had Bayley, Iyo, and Dakota as the main group, but in later 2023 a returning Kairi Sane along with Asuka turned the stable into a more powerful group and threat to the entire Smackdown's women roster.

* UrExample: They are WWE's first female PowerStable.

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Damage CTRL is a professional wrestling stable in Wrestling/{{WWE}}, consisting of Wrestling/Bayley, Wrestling/KanakoUrai ( Asuka ), Wrestling/IoShirai ( Iyo Sky), [[Characters/WWEDivas Dakota Kai, and Kairi Sane]]. They primarily appear on the [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] brand. The group made their debut on July 30, 2022, at [[Wrestling/SummerSlam Summerslam]] attacking [[Wrestling/BiancaBelair Bianca]] and quickly making a name for themselves. Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai are former WWE Woman's Tag Team Champions with Iyo Sky currently the WWE Women's Champion.

* BigBad: Bayley currently serves as the leader of the group.

* MultinationalTeam:
* PowerTrio: Originally Damage CTRL had Bayley, Iyo, and Dakota as the main group, but in later 2023 a returning Kairi Sane along with Asuka turned the stable into a more powerful group and threat to the entire Smackdown's women roster.