Dot Cotton

Dot Cotton is a Launderette Assistant, later owner, professional wrestler, and former hitman who is originally from the BBC soap EastEnders. She appears in WWE 2K17 where she feuds with Shaggy Rogers, her most famous bout. She also appears in YMM's video game Mortal Qombat, as the leader of the Good Guys, acting as the final boss for the Pure-Evil Guys.
== Biography ==
=== Appearance ===
Cotton in her early years, aged 16-24, was a slim, well-defined woman, owing to her early interest in sports and athletic competitions, oftentimes attempting to race her male peers at school. She stood at 5'4".
After being administered a series of drugs by the British Government, she quickly grew to 6'1", and her body became unrecognisable from what it was before.
Only now at her advanced age, is her hair finally greying, and she's now slowly losing the muscle mass she retained for 40-50 years, owing to her reluctance nowadays to continue her hitman career and leaving the professional wrestling industry.
=== Personality ===
Cotton has a varied personality over the decades. Growing up, she was a kind and considerate child. Her upbringing instilled traditional Christian values into her. As such, she has a strong sense of justice and fairness and is ultimately an optimistic person, citing faith as one of the reasons to stay strong in the face of such adversaries.
She also has a selfish streak, owing to the abandonment issues she faced in her teenage years and early 20s, as well as the maltreatment she experienced while working at the launderette, with its owner oftentimes "forgetting" to pay her what she was owed. She became a hypochondriac, not helped by the cigarette smoking she picked up as a consequence to the stress of being a hitman and secret agent.
== History ==
=== Childhood and Early Life ===
Dot Cotton was born in the East End of London in 1935. During her early childhood, the Second World War began, forcing her family to flee London to Wales for safety, after London was undergoing the Blitz. Upon returning to London after the war had ended, she began work as a launderette assistant, a job she would return to many years later. When she turned 16 in 1951, she was recognised for her dexterity and athletic abilities and was approached by the British Government to become a spy abroad. During this period of training, at the age of 18 in 1953, she was married to a man who took a liking to her sister as well, which at the time, Dot had no knowledge of.
Cotton was quoted as being a natural at physical and firearm-based combat, so after the two years of training, she was sent Italy to spy on the crime-lord Hans Goremeisen, who had escaped from Germany to lay low while the continent was embroiled in war, and to later continue his criminal activities afterwards. While in Italy, she took out most of his henchmen over the span of three weeks, before finally confronting him atop the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. After a fight lasting 15 minutes, she managed to out manoeuvre an attack that would have certainly led to Dot plummeting to certain doom, but dodged Goremeisen, causing him to fall instead. 
Cotton returned to London to accept another mission. She had to explain what she had done in Italy to the amazement of the government, where she received all manner of medals and awards for what she had done, from Britain and Italy. She was given the opportunity now to accept a series of new powerful drugs which would give her heightened abilities, and would allow her to gain massive muscle mass, in essence, becoming superhuman. Cotton would have accepted this new course of drugs, but was told she could not have them, as she had fallen pregnant with her son. Her husband had left her while she was in Italy, so it was up to her to care for the child by herself. She gave birth to a son, Nick Cotton, who would grow up to be criminal and drug addict, just like his father, who had reappeared and later disappeared again when Nick was still young.
=== Superhuman Abilities and Hitman Career ===
After giving birth to her son, the government decided to allow Cotton to care for her him until he was in full time education, at age 4. She returned in late 1958 after he turned 4 to accept the new experimental drug. This greatly transformed her figure to what could be considered a man’s body, developing an exceptionally large amount of muscle mass for a woman. Her abilities rapidly increased.
Another subject, Phil Mitchell, and another East Ender, was also subject to the same drug, giving him some strange superhuman abilities, as well. The scientists behind this drug decided to use Cotton and Mitchell as human weapons in foreign environments, combating small insurgent forces in places like Latin America and the Middle East. After a few years being used as human weapons, they were retired back to Britain due to growing concerns that what the government was doing to Cotton and Mitchell was unethical. After intense testing of their well-being, it was deemed that they could be released into the public where they made the decision to seclude themselves deep within the mountains, away from the general public, and adopting a nomadic lifestyle. During this period of isolation, they developed greater and greater violent energies which they both knew they needed to release, or they would have likely died in the wild.
This led to the incredible battle between Dot Cotton and Phil Mitchell, which resulted in the supposed death of Mitchell, where in reality, Cotton used most of her superhuman abilities to remove his, explaining why Phil Mitchell was dishevelled and miserable in the 2010s. It was later discovered that Mitchell had in fact become Ruined Phil Mitchell, further explaining his later lifestyle and appearance. He does not hold this fact against her, and in fact they are still on very fair terms, for he knew that this drug had its extremely negative, aggressive side-effects. After the fight, their bodies returned to a state of normalcy, despite Cotton still exhibiting violent tendencies, they were considerably less violent than what they were prior to the immense exertion from the face-off.
Cotton later joined forces with Mitchell once again and fought against Numen Norris, successfully overpowering him, and stopping a potentially world-ending scenario, in which he would have ruled over earth with an iron fist- terminating anyone who didn't fit his strict specifications of what a "perfect human" was.
Three years after leaving the British Government, after losing a large amount of her superhuman power, she decided to pursue a career as a hitman, given that she still wanted to contribute positively to society. Not unlike how she defeated, at the time, one of the biggest crime syndicates in Europe almost single-handedly. Her decision would last a very long time, around 26 years of her life, in which she would accept contracts to take out a large variety of different people of dubious virtue. Estimates of up to 700 people have been taken out by Cotton during this time, earning Dot a very large sum of money, most of which would go back into the career itself, with Cotton eventually buying and owning Pop's Launderette, the place she once worked at so that she could build a base-of-operations, gymnasium and training facility beneath it. She would continue to use the gymnasium to this very day between wrestling matches to maintain her physique and to vent any built-up energy.
=== The Murder of Nick Cotton ===
In 2015, Dot had reached her wits end regarding her relationship with her son, a killer and criminal himself, and decided to shoot him while he was using drugs. She felt it was the most humane way to take him out when he was in this state.
When pressed on the matter, she justified his death by explaining the net positive brought to the local community with him gone, a heavy consumer of drugs and drink, they often had an adverse effect on his behaviour, oftentimes leading him to attack innocent people for no reason whatsoever. Nick’s actions did not go unnoticed in the world of criminal enterprise, for he was viewed as a threat and competition to certain streams of revenue, so they reasoned to interfere with Nick’s life by kidnapping or harassing family members as a bid to silence him. The plan backfired when it became apparent that Nick only wanted to serve his own selfish interests, so it was up to Dot to protect the family from other criminals because of Nick’s actions.
Because of the large amount of enemies Nick had accrued over the years, any single one of them were considered to be the killer, allowing Dot to get away with the crime as she was not suspected, even after knowledge of her hitman career was known, they did not think Dot would kill her own son.
=== Later Life and Wrestling Career ===
During the late 90s, she decided to cease her duties as a hitman to settle down and work full-time at Pop's Launderette in the East End. In 2005, Cotton opened up the gymnasium underneath to a select few that wish to be trained in the same vein Dot was, sans special drug. This led to a few individuals known as the Disciples of Dot, which would later relocate to the location of the battle between Mitchell and Cotton to set up a temple and to accept students themselves to also learn her ways.
In 2K17, she made the decision to join the WWE under its experimental YMM-owned WWE brand Thursday Night Throwdown, although she made brief appearances in SmackDown and Raw, too. Here, she goes by the stage name Dorothy Cottonbelly. Dot herself chose the name because she viewed the wrestling business as a funny carnival environment, and thought her new name was appropriate. Everyone still calls her “Dot Cotton”, though. Dot cared little for the female roster, instead setting her sights on the Manly McMahon, Universal and Heavyweight titles.
During this time at the WWE, she began a feud with Shaggy Rogers, culminating in the pay-per-view main event at Survivor Series. Here, she was backed up by Indiana Jones, while Shaggy was backed up by Bad Manager.
She decided to leave the WWE, once Thursday Night Throwdown was usurped by Sgt AJ Shepherd and consolidated into his business portfolio, at the end of 2017.
=== Mortal Qombat ===
Cotton appears in Mortal Qombat, serving as a boss character to the characters in the Pure-Evil Guys. She forms an unlikely alliance with a group of like-minded individuals, collectively referred to as the "Good Guys". Alongside East-Ender, Phil Mitchell, she joined forces alongside Brad, Gayek of Simpa, Jumangi Jr., Mutahar, Rolf, Ugly Man and Pingovski Pizmu.
== Powers ==
=== Super Strength ===
Due to the British Government administering the experimental drugs, BMDx, amongst others, Cotton had her biology changed, with her gaining massive muscle mass, allowing her to deal and take much more damage than before.
Even after her abilities were, she was still as strong as a fair few men, and decided to sign up to the WWE to maintain her physique, opting for the male's division to stop her from brutalising the female roster.
=== Heightened Reflexes ===
Cotton's senses, reaction times and spatial awareness were drastically improved- another effect that the experimental drug provided. Before being even administered the drug, she was already very competent when it came to fighting and using firearms. Having the drugs in her body allows for her to perform well above what is expected of many men her age. 
=== Power Sapping ===
A skill developed independently from the British Government, and one learned through spiritual means, this ability was used on Phil Mitchell during the showdown between them. At the climax of the battle, seeing that Mitchell could very well accidentally destroy the two of them, Cotton decided to use most of her superhuman ability to steal his power. This lead to Phil Mitchell becoming Ruined, and with both Cotton and Mitchell losing significant amounts of their muscle mass and superhuman abilities.
=== Martial Arts Mastery ===
Having an interest in physical activities since a young age, Cotton decided to partake in athletic competition during her formative years in secondary school, competing against her more boisterous male peers. Amongst the various physical activities she partook in were wrestling, which she saw little success because of her small stature and relatively little strength. She decided to work smarter, rather than harder, by learning the various ways to take someone down tactically, rather than simply overpowering the opponent, which is what she gathered was the case for many of her opponents in her school. It was this realisation when she started finally winning bouts against her stronger opponents, exploiting their weaknesses to win. She later decided to train outside of school, after the British Government commended her abilities to fight those stronger than herself with relative ease and figured she should be a potentially useful asset to the government.
=== Marksmanship ===
As well as physical competition, Cotton also had an interest in game shooting, a trait inherited by her father and his friends, who would take Cotton on hunting trips in the summer during her childhood. This had led to Cotton knowing how to use hunting rifles from a young age. She would later exhibit this knowledge when she was approached by the government to undergo training to become a spy.
== Relationships ==
=== Nick Cotton ===
The relationship between Dot Cotton and her son Nick was long and strenuous. Growing up without a father, Nick had always thought that his life was missing something. What Nick saw were children around him with one or two loving parents, whereas he viewed Dot as someone who abandoned him to his government-payed carers. Dot was a very busy woman, including when Nick was in his formative years. This meant that for extended periods of his life, he had no strong role models to call his own- a fact that Dot herself regrets, having wished that she went through with the governments experimental drug program at a much later age, when Nick would have been 12-13 instead of 4. Despite their best efforts, Nick would never properly get on with his carers, who would babysit Nick from when he was very young to his early teenage years, where he was expected to take care of himself.
Nick as soon as he could, became a child of the streets, coming home in the early hours of the morning, having wreaked havoc through East London. This lifestyle would eventually turn him into a petty criminal, with him dropping out of secondary school and turning to casual drug-use, later heavy-drug use in his late teens to early twenties. He would cite in conversations how he didn't feel as if his mother loved him because she was never there when he needed her. 
Dot tried to make it up to her son by helping him get off of his feet and to help him find his first home, at the age of 22. This gesture was appreciated for about two months, before Nick began to realise once more the void of not having close parental figures in his life, and relapsed into more harsher crimes, getting into brawls with seemingly random individuals and forming an extremely violent gang. Members of this gang had even run into Dot, when she was tasked with taking one into custody because of rumours of drug and human trafficking. These rumours turned out to be true, and she learned that her son played a part in what she viewed as "extremely heinous crimes worth the Lord's punishment".
=== Phil Mitchell ===
Cotton has known Phil Mitchell for a long time, with both of them originating in the East End of London and with both being administered the experimental drugs essentially granting the two of them superpowers.
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In their isolation Phil and Dot's violent energies continued to grow. This lead to an intense battle between Phil and Dot. One day during their isolation, Phil's violent energies eventually overcame him, after shouting "Eh?" an extremely negatively powered Phil lashed out at Dot. Each exchange of punches shook the mountains and their incredible speed caused the air around them to heat up so much that it began to glow. The fight lasted for many hours before Dot managed to momentarily subdue Phil by reminding him of his family, during this brief window in which Phil had control over himself, he asked Dot to remove his powers. The cost of removing Phil's powers was high for Dot, she lost a large amount of her own power in the process. Afterwards their bodies returned to a state of normalcy, despite Cotton still exhibiting violent tendencies, they were considerably less violent than what they were prior to the immense exertion from the face-off.
They both reunited to take on Numen Norris, who also had the experimental drugs, but an unfinished prototype, an earlier, unrefined version of the more successful mix given to Cotton and Mitchell. After an intense battle with what would appear to be a god amongst men, Cotton and Mitchell were successful in destroying him, before he destroyed anything else. Norris was left brain-dead after the confrontation, with him eventually passing after a month in a coma.
=== Shaggy Rogers ===
While in the WWE, she had a feud with Shaggy Rogers. In their first encounter, Rogers managed to pin Cotton cleanly. Their second encounter was more chaotic, with Rogers backed up by Bad Manager, with a plan to "destroy Cotton once and for all". Cotton managed fend off Rogers, before being disqualified for attacking Bad Manger "illegally". After much deliberation and training, and after various backstreet brawls with Rogers, Cotton successfully won over Rogers during their third match. At that year's Survivor Series, and with their fourth encounter, Cotton finally proved herself by pinning Rogers and beating away Bad Manager with the help of Indiana Jones.
=== Indiana Jones ===
Cotton developed a close working relationship with Indiana Jones while they both worked in the WWE in 2017. Outside of the ring, they would often work together finding ancient relics.
=== The "Good Guys" ===
Because of Cotton's largely positive attitude towards the world, and a burning hatred for criminality at large, she forms "The Good Guys" in Mortal Qombat, with the intended goal to eliminate each of the "Pure Evil Guys", lead by Pickle Gherkin. Cotton personally does not have many ties to anyone within the Good Guys, besides Phil Mitchell, and those she worked alongside while she once worked in the WWE, such as Brad.
== Wrestling Profile ==
Dot Cotton appears in YMM's wrestling videos. Here, she is found feuding with the likes of Shaggy Rogers and teaming up with Indiana Jones.
=== 2K17 Wrestling Profile ===
A surprise entry, Dot Cotton was introduced during the 2K17 WWE Draft.
== Trivia ==
* Dot Cotton is technically a male wrestler, given that in WWE 2K17 and 2K19, Intergender Matches aren't a thing, so that means she would have to exclusively fight female wrestlers which does not seem as brutal as taking on the likes of Death. Female wrestlers, as well cannot be as muscular as the original image Dot Cotton was based off of, to achieve this, a male wrestler was used instead. For all intents and purposes, however, Dot is a female.
* A lot of the lore mentioned on this Wiki page is adapted from the original character's backstory from EastEnders. The same goes for fellow East-Ender, Phil Mitchell. Some information was... embellished, and adapted from the original, as to make the character more of a YMM creation, and not a carbon copy of the EastEnders character.
* Dot Cotton is played by actress June Brown in EastEnders.
* Even though it's impossible to add custom themes to WWE 2K17 and 2K19, her theme is actually a remix of soundbytes of the character from Eastenders, found here on YouTube.
* Her favourite brand of cigarettes are Red Rich, and is seen smoking exclusively them.
== Gallery ==
BuffDotCotton.jpeg|Dot Cotton lifting weights and smoking a cigarette, two of her favourite pass-times
== External Links ==
* Dot Cotton on Wikipedia
* Dot Branning on EastEnders Wiki
* Dot Branning on the BBC EastEnders website
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