Trivia / Stephanie McMahon

• Creator Couple: Stephanie is currently an on-air talent, used to be the creative director for WWE and is now Chief Brand Officer. Hunter is more active in front of the camera as well as with the showrunning aspect of WWE NXT).
• The Danza: Kinda, in storyline her legal name is Stephanie McMahon Helmsley, in Real Life it’s Stephanie McMahon Levesque, but she’s usually just referred to as Stephanie McMahon in and out of Kayfabe.
• Executive Meddling:
  • Apparently didn't want to do that match with Vince in 2003. So much so that when he made her go through with it, he was uninvited from her wedding.
  • When she was pregnant with her first daughter, Vince tried to make an incest storyline out of it with him as the father. Stephanie, understandably, protested it immediately. So he tried to amend it so Shane would be the father instead. Both kids refused this time, putting their foots down, and the storyline was promptly axed to oblivion.
• Playing Against Type: In 2002-2003 as the Smackdown General Manager, Stephanie instead was a Face and Reasonable Authority Figure in contrast to Eric Bischoff as GM of the Raw brand. She's best known as one of the biggest Heels in the business.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: A famous WWE urban legend is that Stephanie was apparently in a relationship with Randy Savage when she was only sixteen (he would have been forty!) - and this was allegedly the reason Vince refused to allow a Randy Savage return in 2000 when he teased one. Hardcore Holly of all people believed it to be true. It has never been confirmed, and any evidence towards it is mostly circumstantial.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: By 2005, everyone and their brother knew she was married to Triple H. This lead to various angles - most notably DX making rampant and gleeful speculation on who the father of her baby was - and references to their marriage and family.
  Triple H: (dressed as Vince) When I pass, I'm gonna hand my company to my beautiful daughter, Stephanie...and to whoever that guy is that knocked her up!
• Romance on the Set: How her relationship with Hunter started.
• What Could Have Been: According to Triple H's book, the original plan for Armageddon 1999 was for Vince to defeat Triple H, which would have led to his kayfabe marriage to Stephanie being anulled. At the house shows leading up it, fans were booing the hell out of Stephanie instead of sympathizing with her, so they decided to roll with it and did her Face–Heel Turn.