Line #18 Wrestling/BillieKay


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3	Jessica "Jessie" [=McKay=] (born 23 June 1989) is an Australian {{professional wrestl\|ing}}er, who was formerly signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}} and competes under the name Billie Kay.
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5	She was trained in Australia, with the Sydney promotion PWWA and made her debut in 2007 - competing under her real name. Success came pretty quickly, as she won the PWWA Title within a year and she soon became a regular at {{Wrestling/SHIMMER}} and the various American promotions.
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7	She initially competed in a tag team known as The Pink Ladies with Madison Eagles, but both women broke out on their own and enjoyed successful singles careers. Jessie adopted her now-familiar sweetheart gimmick, nicknaming herself 'Everyone's Favourite Girlfriend', and continued to compete in America and Australia.
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9	In 2015, she was signed to WWE, alongside long-time friend KC Cassidy. The two of them would compete as the tag team The [=IIconics=] under the names Billie Kay and Wrestling/PeytonRoyce, respectively. They're 1x WWE Women's Tag Team Champions. She was unceremoniously released along with her best friend Peyton Royce and others on 15 April 2021.
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11	After being released from the company, she reunites with her best friend Cassie Lee to make their ''Wrestling/ImpactWrestling'' debut at Bound for Glory as The [=IInspiration=].
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13	!!Everybody's Favourite Tropes:
14	* AFriendInNeed: She was about the only friend who stayed around Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa when paranoia over Sweet Saraya's bounty got the best of her.
15	* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Billie Kay got to wrestle a match against Wrestling/DanaBrooke on Smackdown. Despite losing rather quickly, she still bragged about it when she went back to NXT.
16	* AlphaBitch: After the Four Horsewomen left NXT, she took this spot for herself. Even in her PowerStable with Peyton Royce, she's the clear Alpha.
17	* ArchEnemy: Kellie Skater and Sway of the PWA/PWWA "Brotherhood" stable, at first. KC Cassidy later. The Canadian Ninjas in SHIMMER.
18	* AwesomeAussie: In a different sense of the trope, the Australian women wrestlers are usually regarded as some of the best in the world, second only to Japan.
19	* BadassCape: Wears one as part of her entrance as Billie Kay. Notably she didn't start getting wins until she started wearing it to the ring.
20	* TheBully: She and Madison Eagles towards Kellie Skater in PWWA, naturally before Skater's "[[SmallNameBigEgo Rate Tank]]" gimmick got out of hand in QLD. More successfully towards Shazza [=McKenzie=], [[WhosLaughingNow at first.]] With Peyton towards the rookies Wrestling/LivMorgan and Aliyah.
21	* CastSpeciation: Presumably she was presented as a heel - in heavy contrast to her indies persona - because NXT already had a cutesy AllLovingHero babyface in Wrestling/{{Bayley}}.
22	* CatchPhrase: "[[YouhaveGOTtobekiddingme You've gotta be]] ''[[YouhaveGOTtobekiddingme joking]]'' [[YouhaveGOTtobekiddingme me!]]", introduced in a post-Royal Rumble 2019 interview, caught on with the fans like wildfire mainly due to Billie's delivery and the line's ability to make both interviewer Cathy Kelley and Peyton [[{{Corpsing}} corpse]] instantaneously. It quickly became a staple of any promo she cuts while she's upset or irritated for whatever reason.
23	** "[[Series/BananasinPyjamas Are you thinking what I'm thinking?]]", as part of the [=IIconics=].
24	** Also with the [=IIconics=], "This is the future, and the future is... [=IIconic=]!"
25	* CoolMask: She wore [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/5256caf17dd0d7e0d7cf5ec6078d9f46/tumblr_o2re4uEeLF1u9tdblo1_500.jpg one]] for a while before abandoning it.
26	* CuteBruiser: Emphasised by her moves being named things like 'Schoolgirl Crush' or 'Boyfriend Stealer'.
27	* DarkHorseVictory: [=McKay=] never had a one on one match with Sara Del Rey or Ayako Hamada that went well for her, but she pulled off an upset at ''SHIMMER Volume 34'' when she won a Triple Threat match against them for a shot at Eagles.
28	* DarkIsEvil: Billie as a heel wears outfits in varying shades of [[EvilWearsBlack black]] and [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple]]. [[BrightIsNotGood Jessie could do just fine in white and pink]], though her heel run in such could be classified as EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
29	* EvilIsPetty:
30	** She and Peyton Royce started targeting Liv Morgan for having the nerve to challenge [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] to a title match. This literally had nothing to do with her or Peyton - she just apparently felt threatened by the young upstart's confidence.
31	** The two also mocked Bayley for losing her tag-team partner Wrestling/SashaBanks, singing a modified version of her CrowdSong to rub it in further ("I wanna knoooow...[[CrossesTheLineTwice where did your partner go?]]").
32	* EvilSlinks: As a heel she slinks her way to the ring, to fit with her Femme Fatale gimmick.
33	* ExtremityExtremist: She and Peyton have a double team move, called "Sick Knee From Sidney," where Peyton throws an opponent's face right onto Billie's knee. It's very effective.
34	* FaceHeelDoubleTurn: In 2011 Athena made her ''SHIMMER'' debut as a heel to Jessie [=McKay=]'s face. In 2016 Ember Moon made her debut for NXT now as a face against a heel Billie Kay.
35	* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: Before settling on the Billie Kay character, she would appear as a face and heel {{Jobber}} at random - as usually happens with new NXT signees.
36	* FanServicePack: On the indies she was more 'cute' and wholesome, wearing long pants as her gear. On NXT she shows lots more skin, as well as getting breast implants.
37	* TheFashionista: When not wrestling, she likes showing off what her most recent shopping indulgences have brought. Even when wrestling she also color coordinates her gear with her makeup and insists on accessorizing any gear the promotion might provide her.
38	* FemmeFatale: Her NXT entrance theme is titled as such.
39	* FinishingMove
40	** Northern Lights Bomb, An Octopus Stretch called "Seven Minutes In Heaven", a sitout uranage called the "Boyfriend Stealer".
41	** Billie uses a Big Boot called the "Shades of Kay," putting her long and strong legs to work. On the indies it was only a signature move called the Schoolgirl Crush.
42	* FunnyForeigner
43	** What the Pink Ladies started out as in SHIMMER and what Jessie [=McKay=] remained while Eagles went crazy over the singles title belt.
44	** {{Exaggerated\|Trope}} when she joined with Kellie Skater and Shazza [=McKenzie=] as "Team Australia".
45	* GenkiGirl: As a face she has lots of perky, cutesy energy.
46	* GirlNextDoor: Her most consistent indie gimmick. Everybody's favorite girl friend always cleans up, but is not a temptress nor a tease.
47	* HighClassGloves: She wears them to the ring, establishing herself as the AlphaBitch. They're decorated with feathers.
48	* HotterAndSexier: Her WWE character is this to her indies persona.
49	* KickChick: She favours big boots, and various kicks in matches. Her finisher is the aforementioned "Shades of Kay."
50	* LegFocus: Jessie [=McKay=] has a fondness for wearing skirts, as she can show off her legs, and will attempt to apply Mexican head scissors whenever possible for the same reason. Billie makes use of kicks in her matches, even more frequently wears gear that shows more of her legs off and one vignette had her proclaim that she has the longest legs in NXT.
51	* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[=4ever=]'' by The Veronicas.
52	* ModestyShorts: [=McKay=] likes to dance in front of crowds and show off her skirts, but not necessarily what's underneath them.
53	* OddFriendship: [=McKay=] and Wrestling/MsChif get along surprisingly well considering the latter sings about and while beating [=McKay=] up. When Mena Libra was recruiting wrestlers against [=MsChif=] in AAW [=McKay=] declined to go with Madison and took [=MsChif=]'s side instead.
54	* PseudoRomanticFriendship: She and Peyton have known each other since they were children - and even went to school together. Still, they didn't start becoming friends until both turned up at the same wrestling school and decided they might as well bond since they knew each other already; even then the two worked as rivals on the independent circuit while their friendship largely budded behind the scenes. It was when they both came to WWE that they fully developed the inseparable on- and off-screen friendship they are known for today, to the point of working together with no issues even in a four-way NXT Women's Championship match, winning the WWE Women's Tag Championship in that title's first ever [=WrestleMania=] match, only splitting up when they lost a match where the losing team would be forced to disband, and even their ensuing "betrayal" and "feud" being a cringe moment and a friendly match. Sure enough, upon getting released, they immediately reestablished their ties as a duo in the public eye.
55	* PurpleIsPowerful: She immediately started getting more wins for herself on NXT once she switched to purple outfits.
56	* PutOnABus: She vanished for a few months in 2016 because she was having breast enhancement surgery. When she returned, she immediately started getting more wins.
57	* RedBaron: On the indies - "Everyone's Favourite Girlfriend".
58	* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: She was tempted by the offer Sweet Saraya put on the head of Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa, but ultimately decided not to cash in herself after running off her main competitors(The Canadian Ninjas) and even wrestled their SHIMMER title match clean.
59	* SignatureMove: corkscrew enzigiri, roundhouse kick, savate kick, yakuza kick, big boot, huracánrana and a whole lot of head scissors.
60	* SquashMatch: Her Wrestling/RingOfHonor debut didn't go so well, being fed to Wrestling/SaraDelRey at ''Driven''. Wrestling/DaizeeHaze also beat her rather easily at ''Ring Of [[Wrestling/NelsonErazo Homicide]] 2'', but at least gave her a sporting chance.
61	* StudentAndMasterTeam: The student half of the Pink Ladies.
62	* SuperSentaiStance: [[https://media.giphy.com/media/4KENbXTSX57Q16DbF2/giphy.gif Has one as part of the]] [=IIconics=] designed to be [[NarmCharm as over-the-top as possible]]. Doing said pose has informally been called [[PersonAsVerb "IIconicing"]].
63	* TheRival: Until her falling out with Kellie Skater at ''PWAQ Rise of the Warriors 2008'', Madison and Ryan Eagles were her biggest enemies in pro wrestling and while she befriended the former, they still had the odd match and occasional feud in between tagging together and she took a lot longer to come to terms with the latter, even facing him in matches while in Wrestling/{{CZW}}, the Maven Bentley Association and Wrestling/{{Chikara}} before '' Bash at the Beachie'' where they teamed against Madison(and Mick Moretti). Robbie is the Eagles she was least hostile with.
64	* ThereAreNoTherapists: Tom Philips once suggested that Billie and Peyton go to counselling rather than bully the other women on NXT.
65	* TomboyishName: Billie is quite tomboyish. Even her indie name Jessie is this depending on where you are; it's definitely more tomboyish than her full name Jessica.
66	* TookALevelInBadass
67	** The Pink Ladies came to the US as a jobber {{tag team}} but both proved to be competent singles wrestlers after splitting up in SHIMMER.
68	** She was a jobber for well over a year on NXT, but soon started getting wins and even managed to challenge Asuka for the Women's Championship.
69	* UseYourHead: Was fond of this form of attack during her NXT days, using it in almost every match she was in.
70	* VillainTeamUp: She and Peyton Royce decided to team up to take control of the NXT women's division.
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