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* '''[[Edge]] AND [[Lita]].''' In 2005 word got out about the two having an affair, [[Your Cheating Heart|cheating on]] Edge's second wife and [[Matt Hardy]] respectively. This and Matt's reaction which got him fired over it caused a lot of fan backlash towards both of them at the time, which [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] decided to [[Real Life Writes the Plot|make into an angle]] (first involving Lita's storyline husband [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]], then rehiring Matt) to take advantage of the situation. This especially lingered on with Lita to the point it played a hand in her decision to retire toward the end of 2006, receiving a less-than-admirable sendoff from the company on the way out. In the years since then, Edge has entered a [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|Screw the Rules, I Have]] [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]] storyline with [[Mrs. Robinson|Vickie Guerrero]] for about a year or so which worked to the point that if Lita had returned to take Edge back it would've been a '''[[Heel Face Turn]]''' less than two years later. Hardy has increasingly gone [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] as a career-midcarder, and began excusing his brother and friends' every mistake while taking '''four years''' to clearly define that his legit heat with Edge was over. Edge has become a modern day legend through great feuds and matches with the likes of [[The Undertaker]], [[John Cena]], [[CM Punk]], [[Jeff Hardy]], [[Shawn Michaels]], [[Triple H]], [[Batista]], [[Randy Orton]], so on and so forth, still being the generally all-around [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|awesome guy]] backstage. (Seriously. Even Cena has the rare dirt sheet article or shoot interview saying he's treated someone like crap. Edge? NOTHING outside the love triangle scandal. In fact, Curt Hawkins and [[Zack Ryder]] still praise him on Twitter a fair deal for helping them in their formative WWE years, and Hawkins has had a subtle nod to Edge's "Easy Bein' Sleazy" shirt as the logo on his ring jacket.) The WWE Women's/Divas Division has plummeted into 2/3-minute snooze-fests on Raw and Smackdown, and took such disrespect at ''WrestleMania XXV'' that Lita and [[Trish Stratus]] refused to be among the returnees for that night's show because they saw it coming.
** Edge is a first ballot Hall of Famer living a mostly quiet life and loving every minute. Lita has people begging for her return after just showing up at Axxess. Matt Hardy is widely derided as a [[Hollywood Pudgy]] [[Attention Whore]], has been arrested on drunk driving charges multiple times in 2011, and got fired from '''[[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling]]''' after the first of said DUIs (and not just ''for'' the DUI, as Angle and [[Christopher Daniels]] are still employed there after all). [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] Edge gave Hardy in 2005 in response to his return promo would never have been listed for long without a counter-point back then even if this wiki had been as huge as it is now, but now it's taken (along with Lita's statement in one ''Byte This!'' interview that [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery|something had to be wrong for her to go to another man]]) as a prophetic [[Deconstruction]] of everything about Matt.

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