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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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* 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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