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The pinball machine:

  • Cult Classic: Didn't get a whole lot of attention when released but consistently managed to keep that same amount of attention over the years, rather than fade away like with most others.
  • Game-Breaker: Double Broadside is far and away the most lucrative mode in the entire game, with the potential to score up to 32 million points per Broadside shot and hundreds of millions of points overall in a game where most other shots and modes award two or three million points at most. This wouldn't be quite so bad were it not for the Broadside being a rather easy, safe, and repeatable shot due to it serving up a perfect cradle on the right flipper more often than not. Then you have the fact that Double Broadside is typically the very first Locker mode awarded. Pretty much for this reason alone, Black Rose almost never sees play in the professional scene since competitive matches tend to be decided solely by this single mode, seeing how nothing else in the game comes even remotely close to awarding such massive scores with as much ease as Double Broadside.

The Wrestler

  • Badass Decay
    • La Rosa Negra was able to get a shot at the SHINE Title but it wasn't at a SHINE event, as her run in the promotion itself had not been the highlight of her career, which she acknowledged before the 21st show, saying she had gotten tired of people asking about it. The fact she is even noticeable enough on a roster she was a last minute addition on to get this reaction says something all its own but it's largely thanks to Noemi Bosques that she's avoided jobber status.
    • It was coming to a halt after she interjected herself into the affairs of Made In Sin, who tried to reverse their own stable's badass decay at her expense. More so when she defeated Thunderkitty after Legendary's expansion. Getting two wins over Taylor Made in spite of April Hunter's interference was something considering the first time La Rosa tried anything with Valkyrie around she was immediately laid out by April Hunter. The TK match was her first victory without Bosques's help. Noemi was trying to help but unintentionally hindering her the whole way. Nothing got easier though as Legendary proved even worse without Bosques acting as a deterrent to more overt interference and Valkyrie, who in fact drove Bosques off before Negra's decisive victory over Made, were still able to use the momentum generated by their feud to make Taylor Made SHINE's Champion. Then La Rosa got injured, and burned, and became the designated victim of Las Sicarias, even after she could wrestle again. Then the fact she was a member of Las Sicarias seemed to be forgotten altogether after ACR stopped getting booked.
  • Fan Nickname
    • "La Blackie", a few wrestlers like Raeven Marie call her "Blackie" online too.
    • "NONO" for Noemi Bosques
    • "Demon Abuser" for her tag team with Janai Kai.
  • Moment of Awesome: She did end up scheduling surgery but self rehabbed well enough to get back the ring, lack of ACLs being noticeably more detrimental to her dancing than her wrestling. The show of support from other wrestlers and promoters, which helped make both the self rehab and the eventual surgery successful, in response to her injury and burns, doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: To reiterate, her pops in SHINE grew to be just a little behind the baby face champions (that being three). She got an ovation on show 18 despite remaining win less and losing for a fifth time.
  • Fashion-Victim Villain: During her first STARDOM Oedo~tai run, Agua Puro described La Rosa Negra as a "weirdo" with "one of the worst looks in wrestling". At the time it tended to consist of really short shorts, a piece of fabric that could charitably be called a skirt, MMA style finger less gloves, a small top decorated in rose designs, black lipstick, a bright tongue piercing she liked to show off as much as possible and cornrow braided pigtails.
  • Fridge Brilliance: At first it seems strange La Rosa Negra bared no animosity towards Malia Hosaka at the Cauliflower Alley Club, considering Hosaka put Negra out of Shine with an injury that apparently required hospital care. But then you remember that while La Rosa Negra was in STARDOM she actually did receive an injury that required hospital care. And when her insurance wouldn't pay for it, Hosaka started a go fund me campaign for Negra. So a seemingly random match happens in which Hosaka cheats to win, precisely to give them reason to feud again since the original had been compromised. It didn't quite work, as no bookers in the states were willing to bite, or book La Rosa in any programs. A year later Southwest Wrestling Entertainment did book the two in a cold match, where the two showed mutual hostility, though a program continued to elude them.
  • Funny Moments
    • It's hard to choose one, so lets go with two of her Ice bucket challenges.
    • If we stick to her ring work then it's safe to go with the tournament finals to crown the first women's champion of Knockout Room. La Rosa Negra threw Dynamite Didi out of the ring and was about to swing a chair at her when a fan slapped La Rosa on the ass, causing her to immediately drop the chair and slap him back in the chest. The other fans in attendance berated her for not using the chair while the distraction allowed Didi to escape.
  • Growing the Beard: Despite being accomplished in multiple sports and performance arts already, Black Rose's transition from manager to wrestler was not so smooth, with a lot her early matches being a lot of slapping. She (and her opponents) got better but even then, WWC only had about three people for her to face (Carmen, Destiny and Genesis). It was about three years before a serious division emerged and she really took off as a wrestler.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Sienna Duvall's threat to stop La Rosa's dancing by dropping her on her head became less funny after Su Yung accidentally injured her that way.
  • Love to Hate: This basically got her shot into the main event at U Know Pro, where on a roster featuring bullies, backstabbers, cowards, chauvinists and foreigners, she became one of the most booed and heckled wrestlers they had. After coming in as a glorified lackey to one of her own students no less.
  • Rooting for the Empire
    • She was cheered right at her entrance during her Mission Pro Wrestling debut at Hell Hath No Fury, despite refusing to high five any fans. The crowd did start booing her while she was beating up Big Swole, but when La Rosa demanded they start cheering her again, they immediately complied. This continued into the next show, where she refused to stay in the arena if people weren't cheering her entrance and they again immediately complied.
    • Reached surreal levels, where La Rosa Negra did pretty much everything short of slap a kid at, literally, to get heat at MPW's Run It Back and the crowd not only cheered her more than Lacey Ryan, booed when the referee didn't give La Rosa the winning three count, but went so far as to yell for La Rosa to "look out behind you!" as Ryan recovered while Negra argued with the referee. At that point the only baby face who could get the "proper" reaction was Madi Wrenkowski...unless one expected her to wrestle The Twisted Sisters. Judging by the pitches from split crowds during her matches with Madi, it seems it is the women and children who are most behind La Rosa.
    • Raychell Rose has similar issues getting heel heat in Mission Pro, until she went against La Rosa Negra. The crowds that had literally bent their knees at Raychell's command immediately turned on their "queen" and La Rosa's Heel–Face Turn was more or less complete.
  • Smurfette Breakout: In circles that don't speak much Spanish, she is the best known member of the Dominican Revolution and more known than either member Los Fugitivos de la Calle or Los Compadres, whom she managed. This is something of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, as a sudden lack of opportunity for her in the Caribbean promotions compared to her male partners likely gave Black Rose more motivation to seek out other areas than them. There is one exception in Carlos Omar Cotto Cruz, who may be recognized for his and his family's status in boxing by fans who wouldn't know what "El Chico Illegal Chicano" has done in pro wrestling.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Gnarly Pop Productions putting La Rosa Negra and ACR back together just to immediately break them up again wasn't its best decision. That could be hindsight, as La Rosa had pulled off the headbutting partners angle with La Morena and Dynamite Didi, but in this case coming out to a face reaction, suddenly working heel in what seemed to be an attempt to appease ACR, constantly fighting over tags and pin falls, along with the question of just who was legal made the match messier than it had to be. It was wrestled well enough, when the wrestlers stopped everything else and wrestled, giving the impression straight face vs face or face vs heel against Laynie Luck and Dominique Fabiano, with a break up after the bell, may have been better. That switching partners and putting La Rosa and ACR on opposite sides from the start may have been better.
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Her attempt to be an evil Boriqua in LLF falling flat probably had something to do with her first opponent, Lady Jaguar, being a ruda herself at the time. Regardless, La Rosa Negra is just one in a long line of evil foreigners who found themselves getting a hero's welcome from the LLF fans and her attempts to "correct" the response just resulted in silence until she embraced the fact fans liked her. STARDOM booked her in several heel vs heel matches not long afterwards without losing the audience.

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