YMMV / Madusa

• Audience-Alienating Era: Her WCW run in the late 90s was so badly booked and reduced her to awful storylines that it made people forget she was a respected women's wrestler for a while.
• Badass Decay: It's frankly ridiculous how Madusa never got a push in WCW after all she'd done for them. Getting beat up by misogynist heels? Wilting and weeping in the presence of... Paul E.? Feuding with Sherri because she was about to marry Colonel Parker, who was actually Madusa's boy toy? Not one second of it rings true, and this is before the "Oklahoma" crapola to follow.
  Cewsh: There is not a male wrestler on the WCW roster who couldn't have beaten Colonel Parker by whipping their dick out and flapping it in his general direction, and yet here he effortlessly tosses Madusa around like a rag doll because HE IS MAN AND MAN IS MIGHTY.
• Broken Base
  • In 2011 she leaned in to discuss how unimpressed with Eve Torres she was, after Torres had had what was likely the best match of her career to that point against Beth Phoenix at the Vengeance pay per view. The breaking point there was whether it was deserved and constructive or overly critical of someone who was at least getting better.
  • Reaction to the new direction she described for World Wonder Ring STARDOM, the need of tighter in ring work, that the promotion would no longer be for pretty faces, that more serious wrestling would be coming, is best described as varying degrees of confusion. On the negative side are accusations of ignorance or delusion based on how well the skeptic thinks Madusa actually knows the promotion. Those with a positive attitude are delighted by her genuine passion, some suggesting she should know exactly what the promotion needs. Then there are those who think she's towing the company line and responses are overblown just because it's Madusa.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Her 2015 Hall of Fame induction. Her speech is beautiful and classy, and how does she top it off? By bringing out a trash can and fishing the Women's Championship out of it, saying that the title was finally home.
  • In her interview with Ring the Belle, she gives credit to the 80s and early 90s women such as Wendi Richter, Bull Nakano and especially Heidi Lee Morgan (who she defeated to win the vacant Women's title) - pointing out that they need to be recognised just as much as the Attitude Era stars.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In WCW, she refused to wrestle an Evening Gown match against Mona, reflecting how fed up she was with T&A in wrestling. Years later, with Mona in the WWE as Molly Holly, she'd be on the other end as the serious wrestler trying to get rid of Fanservice.
• Hollywood Homely: Her initial tenure in WCW was spent in a valet role. The gimmick? How homely she was compared to the non-wrestler females.
• Mis-blamed: No, Madusa didn't quit WWE with a belt in hand and then decide to dump it on her first night in WCW. WWE decided not to renew her contract, and then Bischoff made a phone call. She was going to Fed-Ex the belt back to WWE until Bischoff gave her a better idea.
• Never Live It Down: The only two people in the world that cared about Madusa trashing the Women's title were Vince McMahon and Eric Bischoff, a sentiment which benefited WCW a lot and Madusa very little. (Although since she was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015, it seems she has lived it down somewhat.)
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Will be remembered not for her wrestling ability, but the time she threw the Women's belt in a trashcan on Nitro,^note Though in all fairness, she was released from her WWF contract without ever having to drop the title in a match first killing off the division until 1998. She proceeded to have a very slow-moving feud with manager Sonny Onoo and whichever wrestler he was managing (first Bull Nakano, then Akira Hokuto). This finally ended when she lost a Title vs Career match for the WCW Women's Championship to Hokuto in June 1997.
• Testosterone Brigade: Despite being a respected wrestler, Madusa did have a crop of male admirers and catered to some of them in sexy photoshoots. She even posed for Playboy (because she needed the money).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: They put Aja Kong over Alundra Blayze at the 1995 Survivor Series, spelling out a potential feud between the two. What could have resulted in some excellent matches ended up stopped due to budget cuts - and the entire women's division being cancelled.
• Tough Act to Follow: For some, her matches against Bull Nakano were so intense and unlike anything that had been seen in 90s WWE that her subsequent feud with Bertha Faye just couldn't live up to it. Also partly because the latter was being severely handicapped on what moves she wasn't allowed to use.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Madusa herself towards Vince and the WWE. When she was hired by Vince to reboot the Women's Division, she was homeless, living in her car, and owed $80,000 to the IRS. Vince not only hired her on the spot, he cut her a check for her entire debt. And then she goes and throws the belt in the garbage.
• Vindicated by History: Behind the belt in the trash, the thing most people remember about her WCW run was becoming Cruiserweight Champion. Who she feuded with for it is generally forgotten, as are the times she was beaten up by Miss Elizabeth. She's also been contacted several times by WWE in The New '10s and was eventually inducted into the 2015 Hall of Fame. She's far more respected for her wrestling accomplishments now, and her matches against Bull Nakano in particular are fondly remembered.

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