Brooklyn Von Braun

**Brooklyn Von Braun** is an American former MMA fighter and professional wrestler, first appeared in *WWE 2K20* as the main antagonist of MyPlayer mode.

She was once a school bully and the leader of Fulton High School Wrestling club who resides in the same high school as RED and Tre, now a successful MMA fighter as the self-proclaimed American Hero. Her main objective is to make RED's life a living hell by any means necessary and expose her secret of what happened to Tre's birth parents.

## History

### *WWE 2K20*

#### Background

Brooklyn attended in the same high school as RED and Tre as the captain of the high school wrestling team. During this time, she established herself as a self-absorbed and narcissistic bully and became the catalyst for RED and Tre's nicknames, due to RED's hot headedness and Tre inadvertently slipping on a lunch tray when he tried to find a teacher to break up a fight. As years passed, she went to mixed martial arts competition with the title "American Hero" and has been "undefeated", losing only two fights due to gouging her opponents' eyes.

She later returns home to Fulton at the same time RED and Tre are there for a wrestling event and has the high school gym changed in her name along with the mural she set up in her image. Upon learning that Kurt Angle already had a claim to the American Hero moniker, she threatens to sue it off of him just to satiate her ego. During RED's match against Josie Jane, she provides a distraction, giving Josie the victory.

Later on, she auditioned for a role of "Rank and File 4". She secures the spot of female lead but is unable to do the movie with Tre's around, due to him replacing The Miz as male lead. After getting the production halted when she sneaks Miz onto the set to attack Tre, Brooklyn causes a distraction during Tre and RED's mixed tag team match against The Miz and Maryse on the final Raw before SummerSlam, getting Miz and Maryse the victory. At SummerSlam, she unsuccessfully attempts to prevent Tre from winning the "Lights, Camera, Action" ladder match when she was stopped by RED.

#### WWE

##### SmackDown General Manager

Following Big Show relinquishing his role as General Manager of SmackDown Live, she took a hiatus from MMA and was named as the new General Manager of SmackDown Live by the WWE Board of Directors. She booked the then-SmackDown Women's Champion, RED, Tre, and the New Day to a "Best Out of 5" series against Becky Lynch and her Savages for RED's title, which Lynch and her Savages won after Samoa Joe, having been secretly rehired by Brooklyn, returns and interferes in Tre's match at her behest.

The next week on SmackDown, she was forced to drop the trademark lawsuit after the rehired Samoa Joe lost to Kurt Angle, following a distraction from Tre. She would give Tre a shot against Adam Cole for the WWE title, which he wins after Samoa Joe attacks both of them and forces Tre to pin Adam so he can take the WWE title from him out of revenge of Tre taking the Universal title from him years prior.

During the Mixed Match Challenge tournament, she didn't assign RED a partner until moments before the match, only giving her the options between Curt Hawkins (the man with the biggest losing streak), Reilly Flash (their teacher from his Wrestling Academy), and Drew McIntyre (one of Becky's savages who beats Tre for RED's SmackDown women's title). With Tre's mixed match partner, Ronda Rousey, was injured during a match, she gave up her GM position, her MMA career and her Hollywood fame to become an active WWE superstar and joined Tre in the Mixed Match tournament. Their final opponents are RED and a partner of her choosing, and whoever wins the finals is depending on the player.

##### Divas Champion; Last Ditch Effort

In preparation of Tre's submission match title defense against Samoa Joe, Brooklyn starts training him with a secret technique to break Joe's Coquina Clutch submission move. However, she dupes Tre by informing Joe of this prior to the match, allowing him to maneuver himself into a position to block the plan allowing him to win the title. During her segment of how she fooled Tre after the Mixed Match Challenge, she names herself the new champion of the returning Divas title, having found out it was one of the last achievements RED had yet to cross off the list and 'convinced' the Board of Directors to award her the title in order to spite her. At Royal Rumble, she lost the Divas title to RED. Unable to accept RED became the new Divas champion, Brooklyn would blackmail her into retirement, or she'll expose a secret she's been hiding from Tre, in which RED accepts, leading to Tre to retire also.

She thought that she successfully got rid of RED and Tre for good, but she is startled to hear that both RED and Tre are going to WWE Hall of Fame, which made her furious. After unsuccessfully getting Triple H to prevent them from going in, she began a plan to put a stop to this as she rushes to the hotel.

Earlier in MyPlayer mode, she pretends to bury the hatchet with them as they get inducted into the Hall of Fame. On the way to the ceremony, she hired two people to pose as Tre's birth parents and placed a letter on their door just to fool him.

Just as RED and Tre were about to cross entering the Hall of Fame off their list, she grabs a microphone and exposes her secret to Tre and the entire audience about Tre's birth parents: they had died long before they were in high school, and RED has been stringing him along all those years after forging an apology letter from them explaining why they abandoned him. With the help of Samoa Joe, along with RED's past adversaries, Rhea Ripley and Becky Lynch, Brooklyn got their list in the palm of her hand and tears it to pieces. Brooklyn and Samoa Joe later learn that RED and Tre had challenged them to a match at WrestleMania 2029, which they accept on the condition that they get RED and Tre's Hall of Fame spots should they win.

At WrestleMania 2029, they were unsuccessful of beating Red and Tre, thus retaining their Hall of Fame spots, and Brooklyn is visibly seen ending any future business with Samoa Joe.

### *WWE 2K22*

Brooklyn returns as a non-playable superstar for the women's division in MyRise. She is one of two opponents chosen by her friend, Shayna Baszler, along with Odyssey Rift, for an MMA rules match, if the female player's background is MMA.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ Spinning backfist
	+ Sit-out suplex

* **Signature moves**
	+ Ankle lock
	+ Package piledriver
	+ The *Dominator* (Inverted powerbomb)

## Championships and accomplishments

* WWE Divas Championship (1 time)
* Mixed Match Challenge (Season 3) – with Tre (determinant)

## Trivia

* Brooklyn has a total of six attires in *WWE 2K20*. However, only four attires that are playable in gameplay (e.g., Hall of Fame, WrestleMania 2029, street clothes).