After a four-month hiatus, Banks returned on the August 12, 2019, episode of Raw as a heel, where she attacked a kayfabe injured Natalya. Banks donned a new blue hair color beneath a purple wig and went on to attack Becky Lynch with a steel chair, after the latter tried to make the save for Natalya. In September, Banks reunited with Bayley, when the latter also turned heel, and the two attacked both Lynch and Charlotte Flair. Upon her return, Banks reignited her feud with Lynch, which led to a match between the two at Clash of Champions for Lynch's Raw Women's Championship on September 15. At the event, Banks took a win via disqualification after Lynch inadvertently attacked the referee with a steel chair. After the match, the two continued to brawl inside the arena. The feud between the two women eventually led to the second-ever women's Hell in a Cell match, which took place on October 6, at the namesake pay-per-view, in which Banks was unsuccessful in capturing the title. Banks was drafted to SmackDown as part of the 2019 WWE Draft. Banks then went on another brief hiatus from TV due to injuring her tailbone, and was not cleared to compete. Banks did however, come to SmackDown on October 18, as Bayley was being interviewed by The Miz. On the November 8 episode of SmackDown, Banks debuted a new remixed theme featuring her cousin Snoop Dogg. On the same episode, it was announced that Banks would be the captain of the SmackDown women's team leading into Survivor Series. At the pay-per-view, Banks was the last woman standing for the SmackDown brand in the Women's Survivor Series match, however lost to Rhea Ripley from Team NXT, who performed a Riptide on Banks to win the match after interference by Io Shirai and Candice LeRae. On the November 29 episode of SmackDown, Banks and Bayley stated that they didn't lose at Survivor Series because Team NXT was better, but because the rest of Team SmackDown let them down. Banks and Bayley criticized each member of Team SmackDown with Lacey Evans being last, coming out to confront them and delivering a Woman's Right to Banks, marking Evans' face turn. The three proceeded to feud through the next two months, culminating with a title match between Bayley and Evans at the Royal Rumble, which Bayley won.
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