History Wrestling / LunaVachon

Sadly, she was found dead of a drug overdose after years of suffering with UsefulNotes/BipolarDisorder on August 27, 2010.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Taken UpToEleven. Watch any promo and then note that she was one of the most, if not, ''the'' most accessible and friendly WWF Divas, although she was never actually promoted as one, and very popular with fans at conventions and public appearances. Her old teacher, Moolah, in fact used to yell at her all the time about how she'd never make it in the business because she was too nice.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Both of her {{finishing moves}}, the "Luna Bomb" and Luna Eclipse, were top rope splashes. So in rare event one of them did not work you'd see Luna scale the ropes multiple times.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Both of her {{fining moves}}, the "Luna Bomb" and Luna Eclipse, were top rope splashes. So in rare event one of them did not work you'd see Luna scale the ropes multiple times.

* PerkyFemaleMinion: To Kevin Sullivan Wrestling/BullNakano, The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust and the Oddities, though she was more like a manager and in the former case, ''Bull Nakano'' was usually the perkier.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Subverted - even though she participated in the odd 'glamour' photoshoot, she always did so wearing some kind of costume that would fit in with her gimmick. After donning the Luna Vachon gimmick in the first place, she never took it off. The closets you'd see to a "cleaned up" Luna was not shaving the sides of her head.

She began training at the age of 16 with her aunt Vivian and Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah before beginning her career in earnest by 1985. Her first on-screen role was as a [[HotScoop TV reporter]] named '''Trudy Herd''', who was in Florida to interview FCW wrestler Wrestling/KevinSullivan. Sullivan instead brainwashed her into becoming "Luna", a {{cult}}ist in his "Army of Darkness", resulting in her [[MadnessMakeover bizarre makeover]] and trademark statico voice. Luna was teamed with the Lock (formerly Winona Littleheart), forming the Daughters of Darkness. When that team broke up, she knocked around the independent circuit as a manager, forming the aptly-named Black Harts, Apocalypse (alongside Wrestling/DavidHeath) and Destruction (w/ Tom Nash.) She made her [=PPV=] debut in the ''Street Fight Lingerie Battle Royal'' at the ''[[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation AWA]]'s [=SuperClash=] III''.

She began training at the age of 16 with her aunt Vivian and the Fabulous Moolah before beginning her career in earnest by 1985. Her first on-screen role was as a [[HotScoop TV reporter]] named '''Trudy Herd''', who was in Florida to interview FCW wrestler Wrestling/KevinSullivan. Sullivan instead brainwashed her into becoming "Luna", a {{cult}}ist in his "Army of Darkness", resulting in her [[MadnessMakeover bizarre makeover]] and trademark statico voice. Luna was teamed with the Lock (formerly Winona Littleheart), forming the Daughters of Darkness. When that team broke up, she knocked around the independent circuit as a manager, forming the aptly-named Black Harts, Apocalypse (alongside Wrestling/DavidHeath) and Destruction (w/ Tom Nash.) She made her [=PPV=] debut in the ''Street Fight Lingerie Battle Royal'' at the ''[[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation AWA]]'s [=SuperClash=] III''.

* GimmickMatches: [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] member Vendetta Pro Wrestling gathers women wrestlers to compete in anything from a fatal four way up to a full on battle royal to honor her memory, with the winner being awarded the "Lunacy Cup".

* OvershadowedByAwesome: The fact that she was the second woman to crack Pro Wrestling Illustrated's top 500 list is often forgotten due to the fact her [[Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}} Miss Texas]] had beaten her to it.
** Although Luna got to be the very first woman playable in a WWF/E game ever.

* PerkyFemaleMinion: To Bull Nakano, The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust and the Oddities, though she was more like a manager and in the former case, ''Bull Nakano'' was usually the perkier.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Subverted - even though she participated in the odd 'glamour' photoshoot, she always did so wearing some kind of costume that would fit in with her gimmick. After donning the Luna Vachon gimmick in the first place, she never took it off.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: While she herself was not particularly small, it looked that way during her time as BamBamBigelow's valet, or "main squeeze".

** Although Luna got to be the very fisrt woman playable in a WWF/E game ever.

* SquashMatch: Flattened the debuting [[Characters/WWEAttitude "Gillberg"]] on the January 11, 1999 ''Raw'' in a brisk '''1:04.'''

* DownerEnding: Her death due to a drug overdose at the age of 48.

* FauxActionGirl: Against Sable. Sable had too much plastic surgery to the point where she couldn't get roughed up by anybody. Her most effective offense was pulling Sable around during a [[GimmickMatches strap match]].

* GorgeousGorgon: She certainly didn't look like most divas, but was hardly the ugly monster they made her out to be.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Her main {{Finishing Move}}s, the Luna Bomb and the [[PunnyName Luna Eclipse]], were top rope splashes.
* ImprobableHairstyle: Hair down to her hips, but shaved off on the sides of her head.

* TaintedVeins[=/=]TwoFaced: What her makeup is supposed to emulate.

* {{Badass}}: Along with Jacqueline, one of the first women who could believably hold her own against male wrestlers.

* TheRival: Vanessa Harding, who had a hard time getting over a loss to Luna. It might reach to UnknownRival territory, considering Harding is sits a top very few pecking orders, few of which were in Vachon's stomping grounds.

* FauxActionGirl: Against Sable. Sable had too much plastic surgery to the point where she couldn't get roughed up by anybody.

* TheRival: Vanessa Harding, who had a hard time getting over a loss to Luna.

'''Gertrude Elizabeth Vachon''', better known by her ring name '''Luna Vachon''' (January 12, 1962 – August 27, 2010), was a UsefulNotes/{{Canad|a}}ian-[[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates American]] {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and manager originally from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, Georgia. Among her in-ring achievements, she was a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-wm.html USWA Women's Champion]], the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/awf-wm.html American Wrestling Federation Women's Champion]], Great Lakes Championship Wrestling Ladies title holder, Sunshine Wrestling Federation Women's Champion, WWOW Televsion Champion, LMLW World Champion and POWW Tag Team Champion.[[note]]With Hot Rod Andie[[/note]] She was inducted into the Wrestling/{{WSU}} Hall of Fame in 2011.

* ArchEnemy: Picked fights with Sensational Sherri when she first debuted, intending to dethrone her as the WWF's dominant woman. Sherri's first response was basically ''"Dear Luna, your first error is in thinking I GAF about you, even for a second. Because I don't, is what I'm saying. I can't count on you to get it without me spelling it out"'', before [[TalkToTheFist kicking her in the throat]]. They feuded for awhile before both left the Federation due to health concerns.

** Madusa[=/=]Alundra Blayze, combining Memphis, WWE and WCW. Nope, no love lost between these two, either; Miceli had friends in high places (Wrestling/EddieGilbert, Wrestling/RickRude, and Wrestling/KevinNash) whereas Luna did not. There's an old interview with Luna in ''WWF magazine'', and within her tirade of insults towards "[[strike:[=MaDOUCHEa=]]]" Alundra, she even refers to her as a ring rat.

* [[BashBrothers Bash Brothers and Sisters]]: The Lock, the Black Harts, Tommy Dreamer, Bam Bam Bigelow, TAFKA Goldust, Hot Rod Andie

* CheapHeat: Her challenging Sable to an Evening Gown Match at ''Backlash 1998'', and the subsequent match itself, got the fans ''very'' much on her side, if only for one night, for obvious reasons. Still, it's better than [=X-Pac Heat=], or no heat at all.

** The Oddities' original {{Heel}} carnival sideshow gimmick.
** The Jackyl {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d any similarities between the gimmick and the movie ''Film/{{Freaks}}'' (see below under VideoFullOfFilmClips) during the Golga-Thrasher match that marked its debut when he, on commentary, said, "These people are normal compared to people like you (Wrestling/MichaelCole) and Wrestling/JimRoss."

* DownerEnding: Her suicide at the age of 48.

* FacialMarkings: Which looked like veins
* FauxActionGirl: Against Sable, sadly. (Sable had too much plastic surgery to where she couldn't get roughed up by anybody.)

* GimmickMatches: Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA member Vendetta Pro Wrestling gathers women wrestlers to compete in anything from a fatal four way up to a full on battle royal to honor her memory, with the winner being awarded the "Lunacy Cup".

* ICouldaBeenAContender: She returned at precisely the ''wrong'' time to the WWF--which was ironically the Wrestling/AttitudeEra--and was far too thin-skinned for pro wrestling in any case. Politically Luna was completely swamped by the other Divas and never held the women's title despite being screwed out of it 3 or 4 times. The whole affair tainted her career and left her with a ton of bitterness. It's telling that her principal mourners were people like Sullivan, [[Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels Daniels]], {{Wrestling/Daffney|Unger}} and Foley. [[Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie Brian Heffron]] called her the [[TeamMom "den mother"]] of the undercard.

* InsistentTerminology: Not "Moonsault", "Lunasault"

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Taken UpToEleven. Watch any promo and then note that she was one of the most, if not, ''the'' most accessible and friendly WWF Divas, although she was never actually promoted as one, and very popular with fans at conventions and public appearances.
** Her old sensei, Moolah, used to yell at her all the time about how she'd never make it in the business because she was too nice. FWIW, [=Vince McMahon=] [[ARealManIsAKiller doesn't see that as a positive]], either, but rather a sign that you're not hungry enough for WWE.

* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: She's a bandit from the wild untamed future, a place that was before and will be again, whatever that meant. A pity she never had screentime with Warrior.

* NoIndoorVoice: Cocaine™ had the best ads ever back then.

** The Army Of Darkness

* TheRival: Vanessa Harding, who had a hard time getting over a loss to Luna

* TropeCodifier: WWE do love their crazy female heels. Luna was undoubtedly the first of these to pop up in the company. Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron, Wrestling/MickieJames, Wrestling/AJLee and {{Wrestling/Paige}} have definitely felt her influence.

-->--'''[[http://uproxx.com/prowrestling/2015/03/the-best-and-worst-of-wwf-monday-night-raw-41293-look-to-la-luna/3/ Brandon Stroud]]''', "Look to La Luna"

'''Gertrude Elizabeth Vachon''', better known by her ring name '''Luna Vachon''' (1962-2010), was a UsefulNotes/{{Canad|a}}ian-[[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates American]] {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and manager originally from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, Georgia. Among her in-ring achievements, she was a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-wm.html USWA Women's Champion]], the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/awf-wm.html American Wrestling Federation Women's Champion]], Great Lakes Championship Wrestling Ladies title holder, Sunshine Wrestling Federation Women's Champion, WWOW Televsion Champion, LMLW World Champion and POWW Tag Team Champion[[note]]With Hot Rod Andie[[/note]]. She was inducted into the Wrestling/{{WSU}} Hall of Fame in 2011.

* WrestlingFamily: The adopted daughter of Butcher Vachon and adopted niece of Mad Dog and Vivian Vachon.

* ICouldaBeenAContender: She returned at precisely the ''wrong'' time to the WWF--which was ironically the Wrestling/AttitudeEra--and was far too thin-skinned for pro wrestling in any case. Politically Luna was completely swamped by the other Divas and never held the women's title despite being screwed out of it 3 or 4 times, which tainted her career and left her with a great deal of bitterness. It's telling that her principal mourners were people like Sullivan, [[Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels Daniels]], {{Wrestling/Daffney|Unger}} and Foley. [[Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie Brian Heffron]] called her the [[TeamMom "den mother"]] of the undercard.

** According to Luna, her old sensei Moolah used to yell at her all the time about how she'd never make it in the business because she was ''too'' nice. FWIW, [=Vince McMahon=] [[ARealManIsAKiller doesn't see that as a positive]], either, but rather a sign that you're not hungry enough for WWE.

* CutShort: Her feud with Riptide over the "Universal Women's Hardcore Title" in the PGWA due to scheduling conflicts.

'''Gertrude Elizabeth Vachon''', better known by her ring name '''Luna Vachon''' (1962-2010), was a UsefulNotes/{{Canad|a}}ian-[[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates American]] {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and manager originally from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, Georgia. Among her in-ring achievements, she was a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-wm.html USWA Women's Champion]] and the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/awf-wm.html AWF Women's Champion]]. She was inducted into the Wrestling/{{WSU}} Hall of Fame in 2011.

* [[BashBrothers Bash Brothers and Sisters]]: The Lock, the Black Harts, Tommy Dreamer, Bam Bam Bigelow, TAFKA Goldust

* CurbStompBattle: Two years later, Jessicka Havok was the one trashing people, but when she met Luna Vachon in 2007, she was hit with a [[ImprovisedWeapon refrigerator shelf]], {{force fe|eding}}d nachos, showered with beer and given a DDT onto concrete. Wrestling/JakeRoberts knocked out Wrestling/RickySteamboat with that last one. Luna, on the other hand, still had a finishing move to deliver...

* TournamentArc: The Annual Lunacy Cup in Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA member Vendetta Pro.

** According to Luna, her old sensei Moolah used to yell at her all the time about how she would never make it in the business because she was ''too'' nice. FWIW, [=Vince McMahon=] [[ARealManIsAKiller doesn't see that as a positive]], either, but rather a sign that you're not hungry enough for WWE.

** According to Luna, her old sensei Moolah used to yell at her all the time about how she would never make it in the business because she was ''too'' nice. FWIW, [=Vince McMahon=] doesn't see that it as a positive, either, but rather a sign that you're not hungry enough for WWE.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Taken UpToEleven. Watch any promo and then note that she was one of the most, if not, ''the'' most accessible and friendly WWF Divas, although she was never actually promoted as one, and very popular with fans at conventions and public appearances.

* ICouldaBeenAContender: She arrived at precisely the ''wrong'' time in the WWF--which is ironically the Wrestling/AttitudeEra--and was far too thin-skinned for pro wrestling in any case. Politically Luna was completely swamped by the other Divas and never held the women's title despite being screwed out of it 3 or 4 times, tainting her career and leaving her with a great deal of bitterness. It's telling that her principal mourners were people like Sullivan, [[Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels Daniels]], {{Wrestling/Daffney|Unger}} and Foley. [[Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie Brian Heffron]] called her the [[TeamMom "den mother"]] of the undercard.

* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: She a bandit from the wild untamed future, a place that was before and will be again, whatever that meant. A pity she never had screentime with Warrior.

** Madusa[=/=]Alundra Blayze, combining Memphis, WWE and WCW. Nope, no love lost between these two, either; Miceli had friends in high places (Wrestling/EddieGilbert, Wrestling/RickRude, and Wrestling/KevinNash) whereas Luna did not. There's an old interview with Luna in ''WWF magazine'', and within her tirade of insults towards [[strike:[=MaDOUCHEa=]]] then-Alundra, she even refers to her as a ring rat.

** Madusa[=/=]Alundra Blayze, combining Memphis, WWE and WCW.