YMMV / Charlotte Flair

• Angst? What Angst?: After her father was attacked by Batista during his birthday celebration on the February 25, 2019 episode of Raw, Charlotte doesn't even acknowledge it at all the next day on SmackDown. In fact, she didn't even appear during the birthday segment. Though, to be fair, this wouldn't be terribly OOC for her heel persona, as her last interaction with him in that persona saw her run him down and even slap him in the face with disdain.
• Arc Fatigue:
  • Like Nikki Bella before her, people got sick of Charlotte's cumulative reigns as Divas/Women's Champion (which has actually exceeded Nikki's when combining her title reigns). While it looked to be building to Sasha or Becky dethroning her at WrestleMania 32, this ultimately did not happen instead, with it instead continuing with most of her matches eventually devolving into false finishes and cheap endings.
  • The 2016 Raw brand incarnation of her feud with Sasha Banks definitely became this after a short while. Though there were a lot of pauses and mini-feuds with other competitors during this time, the feud was drawn out for essentially the entire year. It was a feud many fans had long grown exhausted of and were waiting for it to simply end and for both women to move on from each other. The feud had been continued by means of rematch clause after rematch clause, with the two having traded the Raw Women's Championship between each other a total of six times in five months. By the end of the feud, Charlotte had become a four-time champion and Sasha a three-time champ when they'd only been on the main roster a little over a year and the belt itself wasn't even a year old.
  • Most of her title reigns on the main roster are this. Each reign lasted for months and by WrestleMania 34, Charlotte had not only won every women's title to the company (with the exception of the original Women's Championship), she also had defeated every woman in the main roster, with the latest victory against then-undefeated Asuka. By SummerSlam 2018, she had become a seven-time women's champion, 3 years faster than it took Trish Stratus to accomplish so. At this point, the fans had enough of her numerous victories and booed her; when fan-favorite Becky Lynch turned heel and attacked Charlotte moments after that seventh win, the fans promptly treated Becky like the hottest face in the company and Charlotte as the biggest heel.
  • From a general perspective, just when you think after losing her championship and/or feud will make Charlotte be push to the back of the line to allow other women to compete for the title, she will immediately return again to recapture the title. Her feud with Becky Lynch for example was supposed to end after Becky beat her at Evolution but ended up restarting after Survivor Series, with Becky still coming on top of Charlotte. Even after WrestleMania 35, in which Becky defeated both Charlotte and Ronda Rousey, the feud continued with Charlotte once again being the number one contender. In fact, from the summer of 2018 to the spring of 2019, Charlotte had almost ten championship matches, more than half of those involved Becky Lynch. In addition to this, Asuka (whom Charlotte defeated to win the Smackdown Women's Championship in a decision that was widely panned) did not receive a proper rematch, compared to Charlotte's multiple opportunities. Because of this, every other woman on the SmackDown brand has been Demoted to Extra, with most if not all of them losing their momentum (including the former champions themselves). At Money in the Bank, fans pondered that Charlotte managed to beat Becky to claim her ninth title but fortunately for them (and unfortunately for Charlotte), Bayley immediately cashed in her recently won Money in the Bank contract to dethrone the Queen.
• Awesome Music: Her former theme, "Recognition", remixes her father's.
• Base-Breaking Character: Has quite a few fans, but a growing number of detractors. Her fans believe she's a good worker and a naturally talented athlete with a lot of physical charisma who's being held back by poor booking and bad storylines. Her detractors criticize her quick Diva's Championship push and blame it on nepotism due to her father, believing that she's too green to hold the title when compared to Sasha Banks, Becky Lynch, Paige and even the Bella Twins. Her mic skills are also commonly criticized. Though the divisiveness largely died down when she turned face and was drafted to Smackdown, it came back hard following the 2018 SummerSlam.
• Creator's Pet: Probably the most notorious in modern wrestling, rivaled only by her Spear Counterpart, Roman Reigns. Due to her father's influence and fitting Vince McMahon's vision of what a women's champion should be and look like, Charlotte has received and won multiple titles since her debut to the point it's painfully obvious that WWE is trying to make her a 16-time champion like her dad. It's made worse that Charlotte is highly protected by the company to the point that she rarely loses any matches, let alone cleanly (in addition to rarely being the person pin/submitted in non-single matches).
  • Charlotte's title reigns from 2019 onwards receive a lot of criticism as while they tend to be shorter than her initial reigns, she nevertheless has won more titles than any other women in the company and just so she can reach her father's record faster. Case in point, the person who won the most championship after Charlotte was Trish Stratus herself with seven.
  • Was accused of this following her big push as soon as debuted on the main roster. It would have been logical for her to be pushed for the title had she debuted on her own. But she debuted alongside two very over women in Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks. And as weeks went on, it was clear that both of them were far more over than she was. While the early days of her reign were attributable to bad booking (being forced to play a Face when she was more suited to a heel), as her reign got longer and longer she continued to dominate air time. She abruptly ended Sasha Banks's undefeated streak in mid-2016, and WWE out of nowhere kept putting Charlotte over to promote an undefeated PPV streak. This led to her killing all of Sasha's momentum and making Charlotte a four-time champion when she had only been on the roster for roughly a year and a half.
  • She fell into this again in the eyes of some after being inserted into the match between Carmella and Becky Lynch for the Smackdown Women's Championship at SummerSlam 2018. While her inclusion would likely improve the match quality, many were upset at what they saw as Charlotte stealing the spotlight from what was supposed to be a redemption story for Becky, who has been Demoted to Extra to the point of frustration for many fans. Add this to the fact that in the same year she was the one to defeat Asuka (At WrestleMania no less), who also suffered from being Demoted to Extra as well as Badass Decay since, some fans began to see her as the Distaff Counterpart to Roman Reigns. Indeed, Charlotte won the title on Summerslam but it was Becky who the fans cheered for, even when she attacked Charlotte after the match. Even after dropping the title a month later to Becky, Charlotte was still treated as the face of the women division on SmackDown, being chosen as AJ Styles' partner for the second Mixed Match Challenge, being on the center of the Evolution PPV poster, over the likes of Ronda Rousey and even Trish Stratus, and being chosen as captain of Team SmackDown that year without a match before replacing Becky as Ronda Rousey's Survivor Series opponent after Becky suffered an injury one week before said PPV.
  • Ever since Ronda Rousey's debut, it became clear that WWE wanted Charlotte to one day face Ronda. Becky Lynch's sudden rise in popularity somewhat complicated things and it became clear that the fans wanted her to face Ronda instead of Charlotte. However, Becky's unexpected nose injury a week before the 2018 Survivor Series forced her to be replaced with Charlotte. This in turn began a three-way feud between Ronda, Becky and Charlotte, with Charlotte in-storyline clearly trying to piggyback on Becky's popularity and clearly being treated as the heel of the angle, playing into the backlash against her as it had become too great to ignore. This culminated with Vince McMahon's favoritism coming to play by having him suspend Becky for 60 days (5 days after WrestleMania) and replacing her with Charlotte as Ronda Rousey's opponent, even though Becky had won the rights to said match by winning the 2019 Royal Rumble. This created even more panic about Charlotte being favored over Becky, although it seemed this was the Intended Audience Reaction, especially as Becky would eventually find her way back to the match, turning it into a Triple Threat.
  • The criticism absolutely exploded again when, already being added into the first women's main event at WrestleMania 35, Charlotte added another accomplishment to her already long list by winning the SmackDown Championship a third time and breaking the record for most championships won by a woman, ending Asuka's championship reign in a match which not only wasn't even announced beforehand, but saw the champion herself come out for it during the commercial break. This had the side effect of not only destroying Asuka's title run, which had already been criticized for being treated as so unimportant it was second fiddle to the Raw Women's Championship storyline on its own show, but also shafting four women from the SmackDown Live roster who were slated to be next in a #1 contender's match for said title, all as a means to make Charlotte shine next to Becky and Ronda. Although, WWE later confirmed that Charlotte would defend her championship in the triple threat match and make it a winner takes all match, which ultimately only ensured that Becky ended up with both belts. Even after WrestleMania 35 she STILL continued to be in the championship picture, being given a SmackDown Women's Championship match at Money in the Bank 2019 and winning the title at said PPV, with the other women of SmackDown being completely ignored to the point that they were reduced to compete for the Women's Tag Team Championship. It says something that some were more looking forward to Lynch's feud with newcomer Lacey Evans just by virtue of not being yet another Charlotte-Becky match-up (with even Becky herself in-storyline stating that she was completely done with feuding with Charlotte). Even after she was phased out of the title scene, many fans were still irritated by Charlotte's constant presence on TV.
  • By the end of the 2010s, Charlotte had won a total of 11 championships and is ranked sixth of most championships won in the decade but unlike the rest of the people in that list, she has only been in the company for five years.
  • When Charlotte won the 2020 Women's Royal Rumble (having eliminated the fearsome Shayna Baszler who most fans had considered a shoe-in for the win), there once again was another major backlash, with the booking being instantly lambasted as being on par with the infamous 2015 Men's Rumble in terms of absolutely dead-blind booking. The next day, Dave Meltzer would report that supposedly Shayna was the original winner, but it was changed to Charlotte shortly beforehand (ironically he also reported that Roman was supposed to be the original winner of the Men's Rumble before the winner was similarly changed to Drew McIntyre instead, possibly because WWE wanted to avoid the exact kind of backlash for Roman that Charlotte ended up getting).
    • People became less sour on the booking decision when Charlotte decided to use her title shot from winning the Rumble to challenge Rhea Ripley for the NXT Women's Championship, which wouldn't have made any sense for Shayna, who was still technically in NXT at the time. With that in mind, Charlotte winning the Rumble made much more sense. The heat, however, returned HARD when Charlotte defeated Ripley for the title. Instead of giving the younger Ripley the huge rub, yet another pointless accolade had been added to Charlotte's LONG achieved Hall of Fame worthy status. To make matters worse, Charlotte began to appear sporadically in all three brands despite the Wild Card rule having long been lifted, and was herself a Wild Card in terms of face-heel alignment based on whoever she was taking on from night to night. It is as if WWE is trying to make Charlotte their poster girl despite the backlash she received and others like Becky Lynch being more popular than her. With a variation of the Wild Card Rule being introduced in May 2020, this is only further exasperated despite being the NXT Women's Champion.
    • The last straw came with the end of her NXT title reign where (after doing virtually nothing on the brand for two months) the title was finally won off her by Io Shirai (considered by many to be the single best female wrestler in the entire world)... in a triple threat match between Charlotte, Io and Rhea Ripley (the champion Charlotte had utterly killed the momentum of in the first place) where Io pinned Rhea to win. Meaning that after derailing the popular champion Rhea and burying the entire NXT women's division, Charlotte didn't even have the decency to (or, to be fair, probably wasn't allowed to) put her successor over on her way out, dropping the title to Io without ever being pinned or made to submit.
  • After a six-month hiatus, Charlotte returned at the 2020 TLC as Asuka's unannounced tag team partner, replacing the injured Lana, and winning the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship. Not only did Charlotte again receive a championship match without having earned the opportunity, she also replaced someone who has never won a championship before. Many also see this as an excuse just to make Charlotte a Grand Slam Champion. Many were also angry at the fact that the champion Asuka was forcibly being inserted into the tag team division, not only meaning that she hardly was defending the Raw Women's Championship anymore but had essentially become Charlotte's sidekick. It wasn't long until people realized that Charlotte was poised to be in the championship match at WrestleMania 37. While this never came to fruition due to Charlotte testing positive for COVID-19 shortly prior to the event, she was instantly placed back into the title picture and afterward won another three championships by the years-end.
  • Charlotte's sixth SmackDown Women's title reign has probably become her most disliked run so far, as she rarely defended the title and mostly appeared just to insult and humiliate the other women of the roster. There was also the decision of reviving her feud with Ronda Rousey for WrestleMania 38, drawing a lot of criticism due to neither woman being particularly likable and due to taking the spotlight off of the much more interesting and better received Becky Lynch/Bianca Belair feud over on Raw. While the match wasn't considered to be bad by any means, it still was thought to be underwhelming when compared to the Becky/Bianca match held earlier in the night. The two have a rematch a month later at WrestleMania Backlash 2022 in which Charlotte lost. Following her loss, Charlotte took a leave of absence for several months until the end of the year where she makes an unexpected return, immediately challenges and defeats Ronda for the SmackDown Women's Championship in a short match, after Ronda's match with Raquel Rodriguez.
  • Though Charlotte reclaiming the SmackDown Women's Championship from Ronda Rousey at the end of 2022 was well received, considering the latter's controversy in recent months, critics once again ponder that she once again handed another title shot after months of absence and right after Ronda had just defended the Championship against Raquel Rodriquez. Much like her previous reign, Charlotte rarely competes in any matches, let alone defending her title, having only three matches before WrestleMania 39, just to drag her title reign longer. Her feud with the 2023 Royal Rumble Winner, Rhea Ripley, was also considered dull due to both women spewing out the same speech for the past few months ^note Rhea trying to avenge her previous two defeats by Charlotte and Charlotte going on with her usual boasting of her father's legacy and her numerous accomplishments, Rhea being more focused on Dominik Mysterio's feud with his father and Charlotte doesn't seem to be motivated to fight someone she had already beaten twice. Fortunately, not only did Charlotte loss the championship, their match is among the main highlight of the first night of WrestleMania, with some considering it the best women's match of all time, an improvement from Charlotte's dull match with Ronda the previous year.
• Designated Hero:
  • Whenever Charlotte has a Heel–Face Turn, it was simply because she was attacked by a heel and not because she has a change of heart. As a result, her turn was at best an Enemy Mine with other face wrestlers or a High-Heel–Face Turn at worst. Charlotte herself never really received any form of karma when she was a heel (aside from losing her championship) and the people she feuded with easily forgave her. As a face, her actions are mostly superficial and for the sake of publicity and rarely has any Big Damn Heroes or Pet the Dog moment. In fact, she continues to act as an arrogant Alpha Bitch who continuously weasel her way into a title match even when she is a face. Fans perceive that Charlotte acted more natural as a heel and cringed at her attempts at being a babyface.
  • Her return during the summer of 2018 following a surgery saw her very quickly reclaim the Women's Championship, angering fans who had believed Becky Lynch was poised for another title run. During the moment when Becky turned on Charlotte, the angle had attempted to make her a sympathetic figure by having the camera glancing over a crying Charlotte, heartbroken over how her best friend had betrayed her (despite the fans chanting "YOU DESERVE IT") and had the babyfaces consoling her two days later. Two weeks later, Charlotte berated Becky during an interview for betraying her and destroying their friendship. Again, the angle completely left out Charlotte's heel turn two years ago when the roles were reversed. For the next few months until Survivor Series, WWE continued to make Charlotte more sympathetic and Becky more villainous (Charlotte portraying as a role model to children and being the one who valued friendship while Becky ambushed her several times, insulting Edge when he gave her an Even Evil Has Standards and attempted to leave matches in a Dirty Coward fashion) to no avail. Ultimately, due to Becky's popularity, WWE gave up and both women had a Face/Heel Double-Turn by the end of the year.
  • Following WrestleMania 35 Charlotte has undergo multiple turns but whenever she is a Face, she doesn't act differently than when she is a heel, and she can be an even bigger bully than the supposed heel. For example, in 2021, she provoked the Kabuki Warriors first, yet they were the heels since they tend to gang up on their opponents. Then, on the Road to WrestleMania 39, Charlotte, who is feuding with the heel Rhea Ripley, continues to keep Figure-Eight on Shotzi even after the latter has already tapped out. A few months after that, in a four-way feud between herself, Bianca Belair, Asuka, and Damage CTRL, she regularly provokes Bianca, the other Face of the feud, and even tells her to go back in the Women's World Championship line despite Bianca being the previous champion.fi
  • In early 2021, Charlotte and her father entered an angle in which Ric favored Charlotte's opponents over his daughter, even interfering in her matches and causing Charlotte to lose. As with the case of Becky in 2018, the angle never brought up Charlotte betraying Ric in 2016 and Charlotte is once again being portrayed as the one who cherishes family.
• Foe Yay Shipping: Despite their intense rivalry in the ring, a lot of fans ship Charlotte with Becky Lynch online and there are loads of fanfics for the two together.
• Growing the Beard: Her 2016 heel run gained considerable momentum once she began to feud with Sasha Banks in the middle of the year.
• Hype Backlash: Inevitably after the great press her match against Natalya received. She's often thought to be the odd Diva out in the 'Four Horsewomen' of NXT (Sasha Banks, Becky Lynch, Bayley) - with those three being girls that trained on the indies while she was only trained in the company. There is some inevitable resentment from the speed with which she received her title push (within seven months of her debut) compared to Sasha, who didn't get pushed until she had been on NXT for two years.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Boo the Woo!" ^note Becomes more apparent in 2018 during Charlotte's feud with Becky Lynch in which the fans refused to boo the latter due to her massive popularity.
  • THE OMNIFLAIR! *fart*^note A reference to Charlotte's all-pervasiveness in WWE- after Charlotte won the NXT Championship and started appearing on all 3 brands with it, wrestling news channel WrestleTalk, particularly frontman Oli Davis, would always refer to her as this at least Once per Episode whenever she came up in the news, accompanied by an image of Charlotte in her white robe portrayed against a radiant background with angelic chanting, with a grinning Oli rising up in the background and farting.
• Narm: Charlotte's promos upon first arriving to the main roster were a veritable fountain of Narm, due to her slow way of speaking and the fact that she puts emphasis on the wrong words. Smarks tore her apart for it. The criticism towards her mic skills wouldn't die down until midway into 2016.
• Narm Charm:
  • Her debut promo on SmackDown. She says that the people in power haven't given her a title match because they're busy binge-watching The Fast and the Furious, and that she's "fastly getting furious" about it. The pun was So Bad, It's Good, it prompted fans to wonder if Becky Lynch was writing her promos.
  • Her transition into full-blown heel during her three-way feud with Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey had her doing trollish things such as still calling Becky her "best friend" (albeit clearly in a sarcastic tone) and mocking Becky's chants. It's as grating as it sounds, but for fans who had to see WWE's attempts at portraying Charlotte as a face after Becky's Face–Heel Turn backfired big time and Becky ended up being the one with the fan support, it's refreshing to see them lean into the reaction and Charlotte portray the heel role with such gusto.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
  • As polarizing as Charlotte's reputation became to be on the main roster, most, if not all fans, give credit in that she is one of the strongest in-ring competitors in all of WWE. This makes it surprising to some that Charlotte was widely held up as one of the more useless Divas on upon her debut NXT (especially compared to stronger workers and characters like Emma, Bayley and Sasha Banks). But then when she had her widely acclaimed match with Natalya at the inaugural NXT TakeOver, her standing began to rapidly improve, with many fans soon applauding her talent and predicting her to become one of the company's leading faces in the coming years.
  • Was rescued again with her Ric Flair-influenced Face–Heel Turn playing off fans' opinion of her and translating it into heel heat. These days she's more of a Base-Breaking Character, as many agree that she's gotten exceptionally good for her short tenure in the business by virtue of being a fast learner and a natural athlete, but still consider Sasha, Becky, and Emma better than her as overall performers and thus more worthy of being champion. That being said, many praise the fact that she is one of the few heels who have really managed to get heel heat — she definitely has her father's talent in that regard.
  • By the summer of 2016, Charlotte is seen as one of the most vastly improved wrestlers of the year, after getting rid of Ric and has started growing more ruthless by treating Dana more as an assistant then an actual protege. She has notably settled more into her role as the top heel of Raw, with her mic skills having been praised over their improvement from how they were just a couple of months ago. And as mentioned already, being one of the few heels getting actual heat is appreciated by many. While not universally beloved, a lot more people are regarding her as even above some of her fellow horsewomen in terms of how good they are.
  • After Becky won their feud and Charlotte subbed for Becky at Survivor Series 2018 after Nia Jax broke her face, Charlotte's heel-turn DQ loss and subsequent beat-down of Ronda Rousey (a Creator's Pet herself) had everyone celebrating the return of the evil Queen, and awakening again the prospects of a proper confrontation between Charlotte and Ronda (which was already rumored when Ronda debuted in WWE). However, this only lasted until the end of the year, with the fans returning to booing her come the beginning of 2019.
• Rooting for the Empire:
  • She does tend to inspire this reaction from time to time, since she's more of a tweener than a straight-up babyface. The crowd were all behind Sasha in their first title match and in the Fatal 4 Way, Charlotte was the only Diva to get audibly booed during her entrance. And for her title match against Nikki Bella, Nikki got a bigger pop for her introduction and was cheered upon retaining the title. Eventually, WWE took note of this and turned her heel on the main roster - which the lady herself agreed she was more suited to.
  • She finally got a moment of this at Survivor Series 2018, where she faced Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey. On top of Charlotte filling in for the overwhelmingly-popular Smackdown Women's Champion, Becky Lynch—who was supposed to face Rousey in the show's most-advertised match until Nia Jax gave Becky a concussion just six days before the show—the audience turned out to be overwhelmingly pro-Smackdown that night. With Raw already up 4-1 in interbrand matches that night and the scoreboards not even counting Smackdown's win because it happened on the pre-show, the suspense of which brand would win was already gone, and the fans became desperate for anything resembling a Smackdown victory. So when Charlotte snapped and started beating the shit out of Ronda with kendo sticks and chairs, the crowd went bananas. It didn't even matter that Raw had won yet again by disqualification; just seeing Charlotte take out all the crowd's frustration with Smackdown's poor treatment that night on one of Raw's top stars was enough.
  • Charlotte's end-of-year return in 2022, despite her reputation and still mostly heel character, sparked the biggest instance of this yet. On 99% of occasions, getting a title shot literally the same night as her return for no easily-discernible reason and then smashing the reigning champion in less than three minutes would have had fans booing Charlotte out of the city—unless said opportunity was against the, at the time, vastly more hated Ronda Rousey, who fans had almost universally written off as a lazy, greedy outsider who couldn't care less about wrestling any more. So instead of mass scorn, Charlotte's surprise Hoganesque victory was seen as a return to sanity for the wrestling business, and a pleasant reset going into 2023.
• Take That, Scrappy!:
  • At SummerSlam 2018, Charlotte was attacked by her best friend, Becky Lynch after winning the SmackDown Women's Championship. While this is normally a Tear Jerker moment, the fans instead cheered for Becky when she attacked Charlotte, even chanting "You deserve it!" to the latter due to Charlotte's winning a match that was supposed to be Becky's redemption after being left out for almost a year.
  • On the February 5, 2019 episode of SmackDown, Triple H told Charlotte to leave the ring during a segment with Becky Lynch as it doesn't concern her, which fans took as a reference to how Charlotte is constantly getting involved into every single one of Becky's storylines.
  • At Money in the Bank 2019, she won Becky Lynch's Smackdown Women's Title off her, to the fury of the crowd... and then her own Bond Villain Stupidity led her to needlessly antagonize Bayley (who ran down to make the save for Becky after Charlotte kept attacking her after their match with the help of Lacey Evans), who had won the Money in the Bank ladder match earlier that evening, and Bayley promptly took the belt off her.
  • At WrestleMania Backlash 2022, Charlotte was forced to say "I quit" after Ronda Rousey applied an armbar with a steel chair. Once again, her Bond Villain Stupidity has really caught up to her, and the fans praised that they were happy that they don't want to see Charlotte continue her reign as champion.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: Much has been made of Charlotte's inflated resume of 12 (technically 15) championships and counting, but closer examination reveals that she comes up short to other girls in total days with each championship (to the point that on both brands, there is someone with one or two reigns that has held the belt for longer in total than Charlotte's 6 on RAW and 5 on Smackdown.) On average, Charlotte holds a belt for about 6-7 weeks. WWE has her win the title a lot, but also has her drop it in fairly short order. It's resulted in an odd phenomenon of Charlotte being seen as an Invincible Villain while simultaneously being quite beatable, and being protected by WWE far better when she's chasing a belt than when she's wearing one.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Downplayed. Following Becky Lynch's unexpected popularity in the second half of 2018, WWE had Charlotte emulate most of Becky's new personality, even beginning to wear similar color outfits and make up as Becky, in hopes of Charlotte receiving the same kind of cheers. She was even put into the Becky vs Ronda Rousey feud after replacing the former, making it now a three-way feud. While Charlotte did receive loud cheers during her match with Ronda at Survivor Series 2018, it was not the same level as Becky, and WWE seemed to instead opt to have Charlotte become an over-the-top heel.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Initially, as Charlotte turning heel on Bayley and joining Summer Rae and Sasha Banks had no real pay-off. Charlotte was taken off TV to get a boob job and did not return until months later when all the momentum from her turning on Bayley had gone. Still, they did feud eventually and referenced their history, which was well-received.
• X-Pac Heat:
  • Began getting major doses of this after becoming a two-time Smackdown Women's Champion. After making her way into the championship match at the 2018 SummerSlam (originally between Becky Lynch and Carmella), not many had predicted that Charlotte would be leaving with the title. Becky had been heavily favored to win the title with many fans clamoring for her to do so. After Charlotte shockingly won the match, Becky turned on her and viciously attacked her throughout the ringside area. Despite this supposedly being a heel turn, Becky was on the end of receiving some of the loudest cheers of the night. Charlotte was outright booed after she left, with many fans at this point tired of her constantly being at the center of the title picture. The following months saw Becky become one of the most popular people in the company (despite her increasingly aggressive and irreverent behavior) while Charlotte arguably became one of the most polarizing competitors on the main roster. She briefly broke out of it at the 2018 Survivor Series though the heat came back hard in February 2019 after she was chosen by Vince McMahon to replace Becky Lynch as Ronda Rousey's opponent at WrestleMania. To put that into perspective, the video for that specific segment quickly became the most disliked WWE YouTube video of all time.
  • Charlotte came in for some very strong criticism following TLC 2019 where she and Becky Lynch failed to capture the Women's Tag Team Championships from the Kabuki Warriors, Asuka and Kairi Sane, in the main event. During the match, a botched move legitimately concussed Kairi Sane (now believed to be Charlotte botching a suplex on Kairi to the barricade), leaving her in no state to perform, something that Becky and Asuka apparently noticed but Charlotte somehow failed to. The match inexplicably continued despite Kairi's condition, with Kairi continuing to take some really ugly bumps, as well as failing to properly sell a Spear from Charlotte, which apparently infuriated her enough to slap Kairi in the face and curse her out. Later, Charlotte forcibly powerbombed a visibly sandbagging^note refusing to work with the opponent to take a move properly Kairi through a table. Becky and Asuka did their best to cover for Kairi and finished the match (at one point Becky was seen rolling Kairi underneath the ring to get her out of harm's way), but arguments erupted afterward about how much of Charlotte's behavior was just Kayfabe towards an opponent and how much was real frustration, and whether Charlotte (somehow) genuinely failed to notice that Kairi was hurt, or whether she did and just didn't care. The harshest critics lambasted her as unprofessional and outright dangerous to work with, which is a very serious accusation in an industry built on trusting your coworkers as much as wrestling.
  • Go ahead, try and find a single person who likes the way Charlotte killed the rise of Rhea Ripley as NXT champion while still somehow showing up on both Raw and Smackdown every week.
  • Into 2021, Charlotte still continued to have significant heat with audiences due to her still receiving multiple title opportunities and reigns. Her presence in the title picture has once again caused much of the women's roster to be thrown aside and left irrelevant. It didn't help that she became involved in an infamous shoot match with Nia Jax, who was already notorious for being an unsafe worker and prone to botching. To sum up, the match itself was a botch fest full of stiff blows, missed spots, and no-selling, with both women becoming visibly agitated at each other (so much that it resembled more of a fistfight than a wrestling match).
  • While wrestling fans were still angry at Flair because of the various burials of promising talents (most recently people like Rhea Ripley and Nikki A.S.H), it was now speculated that Charlotte had legitimate heat with the locker room as well. Reports regarding this began to emerge following a segment in October where she and Smackdown Women's Champion Becky Lynch had to exchange titles due to swapping brands in the 2021 draft. In real-life, both disagreed with the booking of the segment, with Charlotte being so critical of it that she went off-script during the trade-off and dropped her title on the mat while Becky was reaching for it. WWE official Sonya Deville made her pick it up and hand it to Becky, who ended up throwing her title at Charlotte. ^note  While the latter was later revealed to have scripted, it still definitely made for an awkward moment given how obviously frustrated Becky had become. Becky and Sonya were then said to have had a legitimate confrontation with Charlotte backstage after the show went off the air, which apparently was so heated that Charlotte was escorted out of the arena. Her fiancé Andrade's tweet after that happened also led to some speculations that Charlotte was unhappy working in WWE despite being one of the most successful superstars in the company.

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