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{{quote|''"[[Genre Savvy|I take it as a rule of nature]] that all American high schools are ruled by a pack of snobs, led by a supremely confident young woman who is blond, superficial, catty, and ripe for [[Humble Pie|public humiliation]]. This character is followed by [[Girl Posse|two friends who worship her, and are a little bit shorter]]".''|'''[[Roger Ebert]]''', review of ''[[Sleepover]]''}}
Take your typical setting involving teenagers—say, a [[High School]]—wait an establishing scene or two or three, and there she is. See that [[Evil Is Sexy|attractive]] [[Blondes Are Evil|blonde]] [[The Cheerleader|cheerleader]] looking down her nose and sneering at the [[Hollywood Homely|frumpy girl]] [[Meganekko|in glasses]]? That's
The [[Distaff Counterpart]] to the [[Jerk Jock]] and sometimes his girlfriend; what he does with his fists, she does with a sharp tongue and sharper [[Manipulative Bitch|manipulation]]. Despite being a [[Popular Is Dumb|not-too-bright]], [[Jerkass|unpleasant, bullying, and mean-spirited excuse-for-a-human]] determined to put down everyone except an elite few deemed worthy of her goodwill -- [[Bad Boss|and she's usually kind of a bitch even to them]]—she will still be the most popular girl in school, surrounded by a fawning [[Girl Posse]] who suck up to her and act as her faithful minions. Rare male Alpha Bitches do exist, but they're just that - rare. They're distinct from the [[Jerk Jock]] in that they're mainly catty and manipulative, rather than physically threatening.
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* A rare black Alpha Bitch, and among the first to be a protagonist, is ''[[Generation X]]'''s Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix ([[Overly Long Name|yes, that's her full name]]), also known as M. She's gorgeous, wealthy, and brilliant, with [[Flying Brick]] powers ''plus'' telepathy and accelerated learning aptitude. Par for the course was a heated rivalry with Jubilee, and a subtler one with Emma Frost. Being Ms. Perfect has backfired at least once, however. When the Massachusets Academy started admitting human students, nobody asked Monet to the dance because all the boys thought she was out of their league. Thankfully, the many sobering events in the X-Men world have kept her from becoming a [[Rich Bitch]] for the most part.
* Veronica from [[Archie Comics]] at her worst. Cheryl, too.
* Under [[Geoff Johns]], ''Batman'' has become the male version of the Alpha Bitch in the ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League]]'', with Hal Jordan being positioned as his chief rival, because Hal is the only JLA member who isn't afraid of Batman (indeed, going so far as to punch Batman unconscious when Batman's <s>ego</s> <s>sane and rational concern about someone who was not that long ago an unstable lunatic</s> doubts about Hal led him to try to prevent Hal from stopping the Parallax entity). Ironically, in the ''Justice League'' of the New 52 Universe—and written by the same Geoff Johns—it's '''Hal Jordan''' who acts like a male Alpha Bitch.
* Jordanna in ''[[Batgirl]]'' tends to take on this sort of role towards Stephanie Brown, the main character. Since Stephanie's a pretty laid-back sort (and Batgirl, meaning she usually has bigger fish to fry anyway), her usual reaction to Jordanna's antics is along the lines of amused indifference.
* [[Supergirl|Linda Lee/Supergirl]] from ''Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th grade'' is her school's geeky [[Strange Girl]], so her bizarro counterpart, Belinda Zee, is an Alpha Bitch.
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* Mertle from ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|Liloand Stitch]]'' (and its subsequent TV series), all because Lilo is 'too weird' for her. That, and she's spoiled rotten by her mother. It's implied that she gets her nasty side from her aunt, and has an inferiority complex. In an interesting variation, she looks more like a stereotypical nerd than Lilo.
* Giddy, Prissy, Fidgety, and ''especially'' Matriarch the elephants to [[Dumbo]] and his mother.
* Chelsea zigzags this all over the place in ''[[Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken]]''. In her [[Establishing Character Moment]], she seems to be an exaggerated version of the trope, standing on a fountain to use as a pedestal while ranting on how great she is, literally stepping on the backs of her fawning admirers to step down from the fountain. Then after revealing herself to be a mermaid, she seems to evolve into a [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]], befriending Ruby and encouraging her to make the most of her potential. Then she commiserates to Ruby on how she mourns the lives lost in the [[Forever War]] between mermaids and krakens, suggesting that her Alpha Bitch behavior is an act by an insecure girl who just wants to have friends and make peace between the two races. {{spoiler| Sadly, however, all of that is an act. Chelsea wants neither friends nor peace, and is, in fact, a literal monster, her motivation and goals far more evil than anything the typical Alpha Bitch could muster.}}
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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* Hattie from ''[[Ella Enchanted]]''. She not only messes around with Ella's life, but orders her to hand over the necklace that her ''mother'' used to wear simply because she fancied it, and she also steals Ella's breakfast after claiming that it's "too rich for her". In the movie, she's even worse, as she and Olive actually get Ella ''arrested'' after inadvertently discovering her "gift", have her blame her friend for it, and tell her to never speak to her again and, just to add a bit of [[Fantastic Racism]] to the mix, tell her to say that she could never be friends with an Ayorthian.
* Clarissa from the ''[[Bloody Jack]]'' series. Also overlaps with [[Rich Bitch]]. She gets better in the later books though.
* Not a school-related example, but Diamanda from ''[[
* Blair from ''[[Gossip Girl]]'', arguably more so in the books than in the TV series. On the show, she's just a [[Rich Bitch]] with an [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]; in the books, her behavior actually borders on sociopathic/bipolar/just plain crazy.
* Carleen [[Tastes Like Diabetes|Lovejoy]] dominates the school and antagonizes the narrator in Richard Peck's ''A Year Down Yonder''.
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* The BBC TV series ''[[New Tricks]]'' has an episode where Detective Superintendent Sandra Pulman was afraid to go to her High School re-union, eventually revealing that it was because she was the school Alpha Bitch. A colleague persuaded her to go, assuring her that people forget these things over the years. However, when she arrived, someone had drawn a devil's horns & beard in red lipstick on her photo in the lobby and she left in a hurry!
* ''[[Neighbours]]'' had Jessica Wallace.
* ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' had a very ''dark'' use of the Alpha Bitch in the episode "Unleashed". In it, the Homecoming Queen, as well as her cheerleading squad, in retribution for the Homecoming King dumping her for Maria, ended up posting obscene messages towards Maria, the victim of the day, through the internet in huge numbers. If that wasn't enough, they also ended up uploading a viral video of Maria allegedly saying "slut" and "whore" on the web, and managed to post a website featuring Maria's face on a mule claiming that she's a bitch, eventually garnering over 1,000,000 hits. This doesn't end well for Maria at all, as she eventually broke down from this and other extremely tragic circumstances and committed suicide, nearly taking her developing baby with her, had the Las Vegas police not been there, discovered that she was pregnant, and performed a c-section surgery on her. The Alpha Bitch and her friends ended up paying dearly for it by going to jail.
* A truly monstrous Alpha Bitch is the [[Victim of the Week]] in the ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' episode "Stoned Cold". She ends up being stoned to death by ''{{spoiler|the parents of}}'' the people she tormented.
* ''[[CSI New York]]'': a girl named [[Trope Namer|Libby]] was pretty nasty: {{spoiler|she pretended to make friends with homely girls, dolled them up, had her boyfriend take their virginity, wrote all about it online, and gave the girls big necklaces so everyone would know. The sister of one of her victims strangled her, and then part of her house fell on her. Incidentally, that was the second time that week the killer on a ''CSI'' show said "I killed them and I'm not sorry" (the other time was on ''CSI'' where a kid shot his abusive dad).}}
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** Angelica became this in the transition from ''Rugrats'' to ''[[All Grown Up!]]'', though she's admittedly ''less'' of a jerk than she used to be, being a rather [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] instead of an [[Enfante Terrible]]. Maturity can do that to you sometimes...
** She's ''less'' of an Alpha Bitch compared to Savannah Shane, a girl whom even Angelica can't stand (and yet, she always seemed to be trying to get in her good graces). A particularly strong example comes from the episode when Savannah plans a party on the same day as Angelica's thirteenth birthday party, and it's found out that she did it on purpose to "teach Angelica a lesson" after sitting at her lunch table.
* ''[[Monster Buster Club]]'' gives us a subversion of the [[Always Female]] rule. Resident Alpha Bitch Mark is a ''male'' Spoiled Blond Rich Kid who delights in insulting and generally being less than pleasant with the four [[Kid Hero
* On the show ''[[Horseland]]'', we have sisters Chloe and Zoey Stilton, who are Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan in appearance. They're definitely Alpha Bitches, and also [[Rich Bitch]] material... oddly enough, they seem to have bigger "boobs" than the other girls. That's not accurate, let me rephrase... none of the girls, who are about 13, have "boobs", they have "bumps". But Chloe and Zoey seem to be drawn a little bigger.
* Carla Cabrera & Melanie Melisma from ''[[Growing Up Creepie]]''.
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* Nina Harker from ''[[Braceface]]''. Interesting, though, in that she and the protagonist, Sharon Spitz, where actually best friends when they were little. But a mishap with one of Nina's dolls that got its head popped off ended their friendship when she accused Sharon of being the culprit. So her bullying Sharon is more or less out of spite. They do somewhat reconcile as the series goes on. Especially by season 3 when {{spoiler|its revealed that Sharon was indeed innocent of the doll incident. Nina's cousin was the cause of that.}}
* Dawn from ''[[The Buzz on Maggie]]''.
* ''[[The Mighty B!]]''{{'}}s Portia is the stuck-up, [[Valley Girl]], blonde Alpha Bitch, with front teeth that are even uglier than the main protagonist's. Her cousin and mother are even worse.
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' has two: Blade, who doubles as [[Rich Bitch]], and Chelsea, who [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|is usually
* ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'' has Kendall Perkins, a strange and unique case of an Alpha Bitch who likes going to school and learning.
* Angela, from ''[[Mona the Vampire]]''.
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