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What is Emma's gimmick?

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#1 ·
I have been trying to figure this out for months: what exactly is Emma's gimmick supposed to be? She is prob. my favorite wrestler in NXT atm, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what her character is. Face Emma was a clumsy dancer, Heel Emmer wears Cobra shades and half-gloves???

Do you guys ever miss the 'old' Emma?
 
#3 ·
I haven't watched for a couple weeks, but I understood that her story was this nice girl like Bayley, who went to the main roster, went nowhere, got bitter, turned heel, started feuding with Bayley because Bayley represent the nice girl Emma was who went nowhere. She basically tried to turn Bayley heel like her. I like that story and think they should have revisited it, and had Emma take the title off Bayley as proof that Bayley's nice ways don't work. Then feud Emma with Asuka, while Bayley hits the main roster

But I don't know what they are actually doing with Emma now.
 
#5 ·
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#6 ·
Never was a fan of her, but IIRC it was at late 2014 after a match when Nikki squashed her in around a minute when that movement ''give divas a chance'' and months later that ''revolution'' as they called the debuts of Becky, Charlotte and Sasha ocurred.

So I guess we must thank a bit Emma and Nikki for squashing her for that...:laugh:

And she should keep being a face just for that too.
 
#7 ·
She's supremely talented, she's constantly overlooked by people when they're naming the best female talent in the company, she is right up there. Her gimmick is "it's all about me" basically the typical smug heel gimmick, nothing that original but she does it really well.
 
#38 ·
Shawn does it really wel too by the look of it.:steebiej
 
#10 ·
WWE is like Halloween:

Emma is "Sexy Cop"
Dana is "Sexy Body Builder"
Asuka is "Sexy Geisha"
Eva is "Sexy Whore"
Nikki/Brie are "Sexy Twins"
Nattie is "Sexy Canadian"
Charlotte is "Sexy Witch"
Sasha is "Sexy Boss"
Bayley is "Sexy Jail Bait"
Carmella is "Sexy Boston Girl who says shes is a New Yorker"
Bliss "Sexy Cheerleader"
Foxy "Sexy Black Chick"

And best for last:
Becky Lynch "Sexy Wrestler"
 
#11 ·
I don't think they went as far as they should've with Bayley v Emma. Maybe they revisit it in the future but going to the trouble of having Emma trying to push Bayley's buttons and have Emma complete a full heel turn, only to be paired with Dana Brooke and not really go anywhere with it because at the time, Charlotte, Sasha and Becky were still in NXT was kinda...oh.

It was also weird to accept because she was still making some main roster appearances as a babyface and getting squashed at live events, or at best teaming with Natalya. One day she's wrestling against Bayley and Charlotte as a heel alongside Dana at NXT Takeover, then a matter of days later she's teaming up with Charlotte at WWE live events. That to me shows they didn't have a plan for her or just didn't really care.

It's more believable now she's only doing NXT shows, but if they had timed her heel turn for after Sasha, Becky and Charlotte had moved up to the main roster, she could've had a great feud with Bayley. Doesn't seem to be any hint of Emma and Dana splitting anytime soon, so I'm not sure what she's going to do going forward.
 
#18 ·
Emma's gimmick alongside Dana is your basic everyday bully duo. Her character image looks fantastic compared to her Face look and her wrestling is so much more appealing now because she adds that aggressive demeaning attitude, imo she should be who takes the title from Bayley because, with Dana by her side, the Heel win tactics would be a refreshing angle from the Babyface title-run the NXT crowd are used to now.
 
#20 ·
Her character is sooo simple yet Emma pulls it off a lot better than most could. Emma & Dana are the highlights of NXT for me definitely. I hope she win's the NXT Women's Champion because she should have a long time ago. Fuck Asuka, she has more time to win it.
 
#23 ·
Emma is a good example of what's wrong with WWE...even in a relatively good promotion like NXT. Emma has an actual story arc, and they are just letting it sit there.

If only she where in Lucha Underground....

She needs to win the NXT Women's title and be vindicated, proving that she's not a nobody whose career is in the dumps, and proving that she was right and Bayley was wrong. Then she needs to return to a Monday Night Raw show with the NXT title just to rub it in everyone's faces that hey, I AM a somebody now. And to erase the memory Raw viewers have of the joke character she was with Santino. She should challenge Charlotte to a non title match and beat her and just do the Kevin Owens thing of my title is better than yours. Then you replay a video of that victory on the next 3 or 4 NXT shows and let her brag about it.

...then Asuka comes out.
 
#24 · (Edited)
Gimmicks today are terrible most of them are half ass or recycled from different eras. To me the best gimmicks were in the attitude era. Gimmicks today I just don't get because wwe has garbage on their creative team and it shows. Not to mention half the wrestlers go from heel to face, heel to face, heel to face. Enough with that shit already. Its ok to change but at least let it last a while. I hate how Emma needs a push and instead she's teamed up with the lackluster Dana Brooke. This is what I mean by saying WWE has no clue what to do with their talent... I say it all the time in this forum.
 
#27 ·
A lot of people will say she's just a "mean girl." And that's true, but what is most important and an answer to the OP's question is how she got there.

The story they have told us since Emma returned to NXT after flopping on the main roster (which you can't blame fully on her) is that she used to be a nice girl that loved the fans and that got her nowhere and thus underwent a character transformation in hopes of becoming more successful.

We've seen that story done dozens of times. It will never wins points for originality. But it will always work if executed properly. And I believe it was. As for her shades and her gloves, just things to spice her up, and they work IMO. Honestly, as much as I adored bubbly babyface Emma, I'm even more of a fan of sexy evil vixen Emma.
 
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