10 Best Becky Lynch Tweets

5. THIS Is Comedy, Vince

This is incredible, because it is an impulse response. It wasn't cynically drafted to push the right buttons; Becky lit up Twitter with the strike of a matchstick.

It is incredible also for its catharsis. Our cynical senses tingled over the course of that SmackDown segment, and at Survivor Series itself. By unleashing a vicious assault, glibly owning it, and then battering two heels in succession, WWE mimicked Lynch's organic career-defining arc, from babyface to heel to antihero, over the course of 72 manufactured hours. We saw through it - and so does Becky Lynch, with a withering putdown drenched in quick-fire wit so neat that you can't now un-see the orange wig over Charlotte's head.

In using this tactic, Becky makes us anticipate an onscreen response to this imitation, rather than dread the idea that she could be replaced.

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