Trish Stratus is a former wrestler and manager who competed in WWE, where she portrayed a villainess. Trish was a very seductive villainess who would use her assets to help her get what she wanted. She would also use them to distract other wrestlers so she could help the men she was managing win their matches. She also had a very cruel and bitchy personality.
She debuted in March 2000 as the evil valet for the tag team of Test and Albert. A few months after debuting she would fued with Lita, who she tormented and attacked in various ways, including pushing her off the top of a ladder through a table. She also seemed to take great pleasure in whipping Lita whenever she got the chance, using belts and straps to carry out her cruel attacks. Trish and Lita would spend most of 2000 fighting each other in and out of the ring. Trish challenged Lita for her Women's Championship a few times, but always failed to defeat her and capture the title.
At the start of 2001, Trish and Albert betrayed Test, with Trish pushing Test off the top rope during a match, causing him to lose. Days later Test seeked revenge, but Trish managed to use her womanly ways on Vince McMahon so he would allow her to choose the 400lb Rikishi as Test's opponent in a match on Smackdown. Rikishi defeated Test and squashed him under his weight after the match, as the evil Trish looked on with great pleasure.
It was during this time that Trish began a short feud with the evil Stephanie McMahon over Trish’s affair with Stephanie’s father Vince McMahon. The two bad girls humiliated each other, managing to take turns in covering each other in mud, and eventually had a match at No Way Out 2001 which Stephanie ended up winning.
In March 2004 at Wrestlemania 20 Trish betrayed her supposed love interest Chris Jericho for his former friend and rival Christian. Trish and Christian would gloat about their relationship and torment Jericho for weeks. At Bad Blood, Trish won her 5th Women's Championship by defeating Lita, Gail Kim, and the champion Victoria. She would then resume her feud with Lita not long after, and made fun of Lita for being pregnant with Kane's baby. She even resorted to holding a mock baby shower with other villainesses. Lita ended up losing her baby, and Trish showed little sympathy; instead she took cruel pleasure in mocking her further. Trish called her "The Walking Kiss of Death" and "chubby" for supposedly still having pregnancy weight, which caused Lita to challenge her for her Women's Championship. At Survivor Series, Trish ended up retaining her title by DQ due to Lita beating her up with a chair and breaking her nose, which caused her to have to wear a face mask for weeks. After another failed attempt at capturing the Women's Championship, Lita finally defeated Trish on RAW in December 2004 and became the new Women's Champion.
However, in January 2005 at New Year's Revolution, Trish defeated Lita to win the Women's Championship again. During the match Lita badly injured her knee and was barely able to stand up. Trish took advantage of this and completely dominated the rest of the match, after the match she gloated about her title win and mocked Lita's injury, laughing about it. Shortly after, 2004 Diva Search winner Christy Hemme became her next target. Trish humiliated the rookie by kicking her in the head and then spray painted the word SLUT on her back. This led to Christy challenging Trish for her title at Wrestlemania 21. In the build up to the show, Trish mocked Christy by saying she could never beat her, but Christy revealed that Trish's nemesis Lita had been training her. However, despite all of the training, Trish still defeated Christy at Wrestlemania 21 to retain her title.
Trish insisted on a rematch the following night on RAW, only to end up kicking Christy in the head like she did weeks prior, so she could humiliate her again. Lita became furious and the two started brawling, which ended up with Trish kicking Lita in her injured knee and bending it to cause her pain and agony. The following week on RAW, Trish teamed up with fellow villainess Molly Holly in a tag team match against Christy and Victoria, with the latter team coming out victorious. After the match Kane, Lita's husband, came out to attack Trish for further injuring Lita the week prior, an attack which caused Lita to have to use a crutch to walk. Trish escaped from the attack and now realised she was in danger. She tried to make up with Lita but was rejected.
After Kane went after Trish again, Viscera came to Trish's aid and beat down Kane. Viscera revealed he'd like to have relations with her, but Trish is visibly disgusted by him, but still uses the promise of sex on him if he destroys Kane for her. At Backlash 2005, Kane and Viscera faced off, with Lita in Kane's corner and Trish in Viscera's. During the match, Trish tried to hit Kane with a chair, but Lita stopped her and hit the chair with her crutch, resulting in the chair hitting Trish's head. Kane defeated Viscera, and afterwards Trish berated Viscera for losing the match and publicly humiliated him. She confesses that even if Viscera had won the match, she would never have slept with him. This angers Viscera and he retaliates by bear hugging her and body slamming her, resulting in her having to be taken out on a stretcher.
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- Trish Stratus later appeared in the 2015 film, Gridlocked, as heel SWAT officer Gina.