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{{trope|wppage=Queen bee (sociology)}}
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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
The [[Distaff Counterpart]] to the [[Jerk Jock]] and
She's also usually the scion of a [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|wealthy]] and [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|influential]] family, the star of the school and / or head sister of the influential college sorority house, thus providing her a network of local celebrity, influence and wealth to exploit. She's also [[Evil Is Sexy|quite the seductress]], and consequently, all the [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders|boys]] fight amongst
Because this type generally operates almost exclusively via [[Manipulative Bitch|psychological and social intrigue]] of various kinds, as mentioned, there is usually [[Violence Is the Only Option|only one way]] to effectively [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|deal with them]]. While this virtually never happens in fiction, there are occasional [[Carrie|exceptions]]. Even on the rare occasion when this path is followed, the person doing so [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl|will never be male]].
Her natural enemy is the [[Cool Loser]] heroine. Whenever their eternal, [[Green
Usually the Veronica in a [[Betty and Veronica]] situation. Unlikely to be a [[Fille Fatale]]; she's too outwardly mean for that. Frequently on the Snob end of [[Slobs Versus Snobs]]. [[
Contrast with [[Spoiled Sweet]], where a girl is made out to be the
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== Anime
* Nanami Kiryuu from ''[[
* ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[
* Tamaki Reika from ''[[
* Aki Honda from ''[[
*
* Sae from ''[[
* ''[[
** Shiho Huit fills this role in the anime, playing tricks on Arika and the other Corals and looking down on them because of their status.
** Tomoe Marguerite is a more traditional Alpha Bitch, with a young hanger-on named Miya whom she verbally and physically abuses [[Devil in Plain Sight|when no one else is looking]]. She's even tried to {{spoiler|kill Arika and her friends}} on a few occasions.
** The show also has Queen Mashiro, a [[Royal Brat]] who isn't even a student at the academy, but will skirt her administrative duties and visit there just to mock and laugh at Arika whenever she does something wrong.
* Motoko Minagawa from ''[[
* Toka from ''[[Saki (
* Mao, an anime-only character in ''[[
* ''[[Oniisama
** Aya Misaki, in all her bitchy, slanderous "glory". Poor Nanako and Mariko. {{spoiler|Uncommonly for the trope, in the TV series she's given a [[Freudian Excuse]] (deep, ''deep'' [[Heroic Self
** {{spoiler|Fukiko "Miya-sama" Ichinomiya, whose minions include, oh, the entire snotty Sorority,}} is another example, though her bitchiness doesn't show until the later chapters. {{spoiler|Just like Aya, Fukiko is WAY more bitchy in the manga than the anime.}}
* Michiyo in ''[[
* Ami of ''[[Toradora
* Katherina Sforza from the Nunnally-centered ''[[
* Tenjouin Saki of ''[[To
* Anna Maria from ''[[Blood
* Kafuko from ''[[
* Reiko Komori, one of Mamoru's friends in ''[[
* In ''[[
* Kurumi from ''[[Kimi
* Otome Kato from ''[[
* ''[[Pokémon (
** Ursula, one of Dawn's rivals, especially in the later episodes.
** Also Giselle from one of the earliest episodes of the series, though she's a [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] by the episode's end.
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* Kanako Kawamori from ''[[
* ''[[
* Mitsuko Souma from ''[[
* Princess Millerna starts out as the Alpha Bitch in ''[[
* In ''[[Aim for
* In the ''[[
* Queen Barby from ''[[Panty
* ''[[
** The worst of them is the first one we see,
** Later, we meet Shiori Akasaka, who leaves her friend Minami and gets "chosen" to go to Hell, {{spoiler|but later, they get reconciled and try to send their rival alpha bitches to Hell instead. That does NOT end well.}}
** And later, {{spoiler|it's subverted: young Maki is being bullied by a secret stalker... and it turns out to be ''her teacher'' Kamishiro. She ends up in Hell.}}
* Saaya Yamabuki from ''[[
* Miya Koshiro (a.k.a. The "Heiress") in ''[[
* Shute Sutherland is a male example in ''[[
* Manami Anzai from ''[[Life (
* [[Terrible Trio|The Ganguro Girls]] from ''[[Durarara
* ''[[
* In the manga version of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', Seika Kohinata fills this role. Unlike most examples of this Trope, she has the skills to back up her ego; in her one duel with Judai, she honestly wasn't bad.
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane]]'' presents a subversion; through the series, it appears that Liz Allen is the Alpha Bitch of the school, and she certainly possesses the usual
** In the original comics too Liz was introduced as one, mocking Peter as much as everyone else, until a boost of Character Development after seeing him in different light turned her into his love interest. Similarly, Gwen Stacy started off not too different, and also developed into a more positive character and subsequent love interest. Arguably, his true love.
* ''[[
* An Alpha Bitch is seen tormenting an unpopular girl in ''[[Batman|Joker's Asylum]]: the Scarecrow''. Unfortunately, the girl's psychologist turns out to be Jonathan Crane a.k.a. the Scarecrow. Having been bullied himself, Scarecrow attacks her party and traps her and all her friends into their own personal nightmares.
* ''Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.'': Courtney is the ''blonde'' newcomer who ends up gaining popularity against a brunette Alpha. Said enemy is also a supervillain and the daughter of the series' [[Big Bad]], and once that gets out, the cliques are bound to change.
* Replace "High School" with "Super Hero Team", and Sistah Spooky from ''[[
* Replace "High School" with "Super Hero Team", and you will get ''I Hate Gallant Girl'', with Gallant Girl as the Alpha Bitch. {{spoiler|And a megalomaniac control freak in league with supervillains.}} Interestingly, main character Tempest's entire motivation is the fact that she competed for the chance to be Gallant Girl and was rejected for simply not being blonde.
* 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
* 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.
* ''[[Minimonsters]]'' has a [[Rare Male Example]] in the form of [[Our Zombies Are Different|Morty]] [[Rich Bastard|Vivente]], the leader of [[Gang of Bullies|Morty's Gang]] and Frank's [[The Rival|rival]]. While his motives of antagonizing Frank's Gang are atypical (he wants to get [[Brain Food|Frank's brains]]), he otherwise fits this trope to a T, being an [[Ax Crazy|unstable]], [[Faux Affably Evil|faux-pleasant]], [[The Sociopath|sociopathic]] [[Manipulative Bastard]] willing to commit atrocious deeds to get what he wants, and whom freely [[Bad Boss|abuses his minions]]. He further gets into this trope by being able to skip school when he wants [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|due to being the school principal's son]]. This is subverted in that, despite what he claims, he and his gang are [[Straw Loser|so unpopular they make their rivals look much better in comparison]].
** His [[The Dragon|second-in-command]] (and [[Unholy Matrimony|girlfriend]]) [[Perky Goth|Guillotine]] also has some of this traits, but she's more tomboyish than the standard, and proves to be more of a [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] instead.
** Subverted and deconstructed with [[The Protagonist|Victor himself]]. He does have the [[Beauty Is Bad|looks]], the [[Rich Bastard|wealth]] and the [[Jerkass|attitude]] to match this trope. However, due to [[No Social Skills|his lack of social graces]] and [[Fish Out of Water|inability to fit in the town]], he's instead regarded as a pretentious loser and is the comic's main [[Butt Monkey]].
* ''[[Peanuts (Comic Strip)|Peanuts]]''▼
** Violet is the elementary school epitome of this trope (though she has dark hair). She always leads the other catty girls in picking on Charlie Brown.▼
** Patty (not Peppermint Patty, the other one) occasionally had some of these traits in the early years as well.▼
* Tiffany from ''Luanne'', though her popularity [[Informed Ability|might be in her head]] considering ''she lost her own beauty contest''.▼
== Fan Works ==
* ''[[
** This fanfic is, in a nutshell, what you get when a story has an Alpha Bitch as its [[Villain Protagonist|protagonist]] yet [[Moral Dissonance|no attempt is made to portray what she does as bad]].
** The story itself has a Gryffindor prep named Britney who is treated as an Alpha Bitch yet doesn't actually do anything bitchy. That's reserved for ''our hero'', [[Jerk Sue|Ebony]].
* EVERY FREAKIN' BODY in ''[[
* [[The Ojou|Princess]] [[Tenchi Muyo
* Sakura of ''[[
* Omemi Emiru from ''[[
* Lucy Horowitz is this in the ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' fanfic [https://web.archive.org/web/20120407063853/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4927091/1/Girls_School Girls' School]. {{spoiler|She suffers a [[Villainous Breakdown]] at the end}}.
* Cho Chang in ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' goes from being the [[Spoiled Sweet]] in the books, to still being [[Spoiled Sweet]], but definitely having a lot of Alpha Bitchy traits. It's taken up to eleven in the sequel.
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* Tiffany in ''[[
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* In the direct-to-DVD movie ''Pollyworld'' (based on the [[Polly Pocket]] toyline), a girl named Beth is one of these. She even goes so far as to help Polly's {{spoiler|almost}} future stepmother try to get rid of her by sending her to boarding school.
** Beth has been tormenting Polly in other stories as well. In the very first one, Beth tried to prevent Polly's all-girls band from playing at a school event. In the second one, she tried to prevent Polly from making a speech. {{spoiler|Fortunately, Polly's look-alike cousin Pia could deliver the speech for her.}}
* Mertle from ''[[
* Giddy, Prissy, Fidgety, and ''especially'' Matriarch the elephants to [[
* 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 ==
* ''[[Mean Girls]]''
** Regina in the first movie. Her [[Meaningful Name]] is Latin for "queen", and, despite being feared by every person in the school, every single one of them wants to ''be'' like her or be ''liked'' by her. The movie is a deliberate embodiment and analysis of this trope. Our protagonist eventually becomes the new Alpha Bitch in true Macbethian fashion after Regina becomes a [[Fallen Princess]], and quickly realizes that, despite thinking Regina was an unholy monster for the way she manipulated people, she herself cannot resist the temptation of raw power and admiration that the "Queen Bee" commands.
** Her successor in the sequel is Regina without
* Jessica Sanders in ''[[The Hot Chick]]''.
* ''[[Clueless]]''
**
** Her rival, Amber Mariens, is a bit closer in spirit to the Alpha Bitch, but is less popular than Cher, and her sluttiness and airheadedness make her more like [[The Brainless Beauty]] (albeit a mean-spirited one).
* In [[The Movie]] of ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'', Patty Ferrell was beginning to show the first signs of Alpha Bitch-itis. Granted, she was likely to evolve into an Alpha Bitch in the books and webcomics, but the movie ''definitely'' showed more of this.
* [[Mandy Moore]]'s "Stupid Cupid" (the singing cheerleader, Lana Thomas) in ''[[The Princess Diaries]]''. Notable mainly for the fact that director Garry Marshall explicitly pointed out that Lana was this on the DVD's supplemental material. She does, however, get a [[Break the Haughty]] moment when Mia deliberately squishes an ice cream cone on her chest and gives her a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]. Not only do the principal and several teachers who were sitting near the scene not do anything (a true sign of how much she's really hated) but the other students ''cheer Mia on''.
* Christie Masters (played by Julia Campbell) in ''[[Romy and
* Hilary Faye in ''[[Saved]]'' (also played by Mandy Moore) is a [[Holier Than Thou]] [[The Fundamentalist|fundamentalist Christian]] version of this.
* Amber Von Tussle in ''[[Hairspray]]'', played by Colleen Fitzpatrick in the 1988 version, and Brittany Snow in the 2007 version.
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* Jane Mitchell in ''Zapped!'', who gets a ''[[Carrie]]'' comeuppance in the end.
* Taylor Vaughan in ''[[She's All That]]''.
* Subverted in ''[[Legally Blonde (
* Babs in ''[[Animal House]]'' is a collegiate version.
* [[Roger Ebert]] summed it up best (see page quote) for ''[[Sleepover]]''.
* ''[[Grease]]''
** Played with Betty/Rizzo, who's the Alpha Bitch of the school, but is also the "bad girl" and so is her [[Girl Posse]], nicknamed "the Pink Ladies" (except for Frenchie, who's more of a [[Naive Everygirl]]). She ''does'' [[Jerk
** [[Spoiled Sweet|Goody-goody]] head cheerleader Patty Simcox also has a bit of an Alpha Bitch streak in her; she gets an Alpha Bitch-style comeuppance at the school dance, when Kenickie throws her skirt up in front of everybody. Patty's really just there to illustrate the societal fault lines of [[The Fifties|1950s]] high-school life. To the faculty and the "good kids," she is a pretty cheerleader and model student; to the "rebel" kids like the T-Birds and Pink Ladies, she is a [[Nerd]], and thus [[Butt Monkey|eligible for all kinds of torment]]. (Recall that Kenickie puts a dead frog in her sack lunch to prank her, when Patty hadn't even done anything to him!) The character isn't really intended to be sympathetic, but any Alpha Bitch qualities Patty has might just be [[Freudian Excuse|a defense mechanism against being picked on herself]].
* Elena in the Italian film ''A Game for Girls'' is a particularly dark example. She spends most of the movie as a typical Alpha Bitch, but when her idealistic new teacher tries to get her to change her ways, she conspires to {{spoiler|frame him for rape, with herself as his victim, getting her own father killed in the process}}. ''And she gets away with it.''
* [[Deconstructed]] beautifully with Claire in ''[[
* Tris in ''[[Nick and
* Amanda in ''[[The Addams Family
* Amber Whitmore in ''[[Casper (
* Ethel Hallow in ''The Worst Witch'', possibly more so in the TV series than the movie.
* Marianne Bryant in ''[[
* Brenda in ''Teen Witch''. "[[The Nostalgia Chick
* Jenna from ''[[Max
* Macy from ''Trick 'r Treat'' fits this trope amazingly well.
* Jacey Farrow in ''The Last Picture Show''. Overlaps with [[Really Gets Around]].
* Abby in ''[[The Hairy Bird]]'', although she does a [[Heel Face Turn]] towards the end of the movie.
* Betty Childs from ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]''. She gets better, though.
* Frankie in ''[[
* Subverted in ''16 Wishes.'' Krista Cook ''acts'' a great deal like the typical Alpha Bitch, but at the end, it turns out {{spoiler|that she just held a grudge against Abby for stealing her best friend when they were children and wasn't mean to anyone but her.}} The two eventually reconcile.
* The [[Meaningful Name|Ice Princess]] in ''[[
* Mavis Gary in ''[[Young Adult (
* Melissa from ''[[Friday the
* Kathryn from ''[[Cruel Intentions]]''.
== Literature ==
* The ''[[Gemma Doyle]]'' trilogy: at first, it seems like this will be Felicity's designated role, but she and Gemma wind up bestest buddies. The role is instead taken by Cecily Temple, who is jealous that the aforementioned event happened.
* Nellie Oleson from ''[[Little House
* Amy's rivals, April Snow and May Chester, of ''[[Little Women]]'', making it [[Older Than Radio]].
* Ethel Hallow from ''[[The Worst Witch]]''.
* ''[[Harry Potter (
** Pansy Parkinson seems to be one. We don't see much of her, but she acts snotty whenever she shows up and dotes on her boyfriend Draco Malfoy. Also, she is mentioned to have a [[Girl Posse]], and all the "good" female characters hate her with a passion. The author seems to really dislike her and {{spoiler|she doesn't even marry Draco in the end.}} [[Word of God|J. K. Rowling]] has stated that she embodied every girl who was mean to Rowling in school.
** Romilda Vane, Harry's [[Stalker
** Draco Malfoy is possibly a male Alpha Bitch, different from the [[Jerk Jock]]. He's blond, rich, snobbish, presumed evil, bought his way onto the Slytherin Quidditch team, and comes complete with two other boys flanking his sides at all
** Possibly Olive Hornby, the girl who teased Moaning Myrtle about her glasses. But we don't know for sure. It could have been friendly teasing which Myrtle took the wrong
* Christine Hargensen, Carrie's nemesis in [[Stephen King]]'s book and film ''[[Carrie]]''. She and her [[Girl Posse]] are banned from the senior prom because of a ''very'' nasty incident in the girl's locker room involving them terrorizing Carrie, who was having her first period at the time and was under the impression that she was bleeding to death, by throwing tampons and other feminine hygiene items at her and chanting "Plug it up! Plug it up!" Chris then pulls a cruel prank on Carrie by dumping pig's blood on her head when she is voted as Prom Queen (this scene is considered a classic in movie history, very memorable) which leads Carrie to freak out. Christine becomes one of many victims in the ensuing [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
** Averted by Sue Snell, who gets her boyfriend to take Carrie to the prom not to set her up for humiliation, but to genuinely atone for what she did.
* Lara from Cherie Bennett's ''[http://www.amazon.com/Life-Lane-Books-Young-Readers/dp/0440220297/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211580386&sr=8-1 Life in the Fat Lane]'' is a weird example: she starts out much like Cher from ''[[Clueless]]'' — the [[Spoiled Sweet|rich, shallow and naïve, but sweet]] (and ''[[Informed Ability|supposedly]]'' intelligent) [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|homecoming queen]]. Then she (suddenly) gets fat and becomes a social outcast (her immediate descent into [[Wangst|self-loathing]] upon gaining the first ''ten pounds'' had ''nothing'' to do with it...). Enter at least ''two'' examples played straight...but wait—''here's'' a girl who's at very least [[In
* Massie Block, the main character of ''[[The Clique]]'' series of novels.
* Lana is a more cliched version of this in the books ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'', as well as being a [[Devil in Plain Sight]]. Mia often retaliates. Later in the series, though, Lana extends the olive branch to Mia, and her friend Trisha enters Mia's group of friends. She becomes much more a [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] after this as she still retains a couple [[Jerkass]] tendencies.
* From ''His Majesty's Dragon'': Miss Montagu, who snubbed Will Laurence at his parents' house when he stopped by on the way to the training grounds, was only a mild Alpha Bitch... until at the end of the book, when she "revealed" (Laurence had already heard), during the celebrations, that Laurence's childhood sweetheart had gotten married.
* Lila Fowler in the ''[[Sweet Valley High]]'' series.
* Holly and Heather Mayflower of the ''DRAMA!'' series by Paul Ruditis.
* Cokie Mason from ''[[
* ...and so is Heather Fox from the ''Canterwood Crest'' series.
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''Jinx High'' has the Alpha Bitch from hell: she's actually a two-hundred-year old, [[Grand Theft Me|bodysnatching]] witch who enforces her will with mental control and fatal "accidents".
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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''.
* Jeanine Bryant in ''[[Replica]]'' is replaced later by Simone Cussack.
* Aspeth Montgomery in ''Prep'' by Curtis Sittenfeld.
* In [[Aaron Allston]]'s ''[[Galatea in 2
* Constanza Grayfoot from ''[[Midnighters]]'' is the fashion-obsessed queen of the school who struts about with her girl posse and dreams of being an actress in L.A. She's part Native American, not blonde, and is more harmlessly superficial than actually evil, but instead of reading like an interesting variation on the trope, she reads like a watered-down copy of [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Cordelia Chase.]] She is, however, different from most Alpha Bitches in that she is genuinely nice to and supportive of Jess, including slapping a boy who tried to sexually assault her and giving her advice about her relationship with Jonathan.
* ''[[Twilight (
** Lauren Mallory is apparently supposed to be a Alpha Bitch. However, this is something of an [[Informed Flaw]]. She has the usual indicators of being blonde and popular, but all she ever does is get jealous of Bella (at least according to [[Unreliable Narrator|Bella herself]]) and complain about her behind her back. If anything, it's Bella herself who has more of the Alpha Bitch qualities since she looks down on everyone else.
** Rosalie Hale of the Cullen clan is actually more of a [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]. The same could be said for Leah Clearwater, though most of that is unintentional.
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* Cheyenne Martin from ''[[Private]]''.
* The titular character from ''The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove'' by Lauren Kate.
* ''[[
** In Avonlea, the Pyes have a reputation all over town for being mean and nasty. Josie certainly fits this to a T, though Josie certainly doesn't rule the school.
** Later, in ''Anne of Windy Poplars'', the Pringles take that place.
* Drew from ''[[
* [[Nancy Drew]] has had to deal with two of these during her long career.
** First, in the ''Nancy Drew Files'' series of the 80's and 90's, she had to deal with a girl named Brenda Carlton, who was a newspaper reporter and seemed to be an Alpha Bitch a few years out of high school.
** In the newest series, ''Nancy Drew: Girl Detective,'' a much more textbook Alpha Bitch exists in a character named Deirdre Shannon.
** Also the two "mean" girls in ''Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock''.
* MacKenzie Hollister from ''[[
* Christa from Amélie Nothomb's novel ''Antéchrista''.
* In the ''[[Hollow Kingdom Trilogy]]'', Til is the Alpha Bitch among the pages. She has an exclusive clique until Richard comes and proves to be more interesting than her. She maintains these Alpha Bitch qualities when she grows up as a snobby woman who bullies others, including her daughter, and relies on her social status.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Alison from ''[[Pretty Little Liars (TV series)|Pretty Little Liars]]''. She has her own [[Girl Posse]] - the Liars - and is at the top of the social pyramid. She's willing to do anything to stay there, including blackmail and bribery.
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]''
** Libby epitomizes this trope, she was once the [[Trope Namer]]. In one episode, she fell from popularity and wound up in the science club. She simply reinvented her look and turned the club into the same sort of clique the cheerleading squad had been. We would occasionally be given hints that Libby wasn't so bad, and that, someday, she might become a good person, but this [[Status Quo Is God|never happens]].
** According to one of the tie-in novels, she actually had ''Presidential'' aspirations, with a plan and everything. High school was just the beginning.
** In the movie version, which preceded the TV series, there's a proto-Alpha Bitch character (played by a different actress) who ''is'' blonde and is named Katie.
* Heather Chandler in ''[[Chuck]]'', played to great effect by Nicole Ritchie, is Sarah's version of this trope, tailored especially for Sarah in this case, as Heather is also a {{spoiler|Femme Fatale}} in addition to still being an Alpha Bitch as a grownup.
* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]''
** Paige Michalchuk is, strangely, a [[Rich Bitch]] who isn't rich. She's the head cheerleader (who takes credit for other girls' work), and she's a horrendous snob toward anyone less popular than herself. But when school is out, she has to work a minimum-wage job. Paige became a subversion of this trope. It was pulled off arguably well. While she had a lot of moments setting this trope up, they peppered in [[Pet the Dog]] moments to keep her from being irredeemable, mostly with Spinner, Alex, and J.T.
** Her replacement after she's graduated is Holly J., who followed this to a T. Rich, pretty, snobbish beyond logic and reason, and mercilessly cruel. However, the trope is subverted as it turns out that the school actually hates her guts. Then, she becomes poor and a [[Fallen Princess]]. Before her fall, they gave her a lot of [[Ice Queen]] moments, showing that a lot of her issues were a poor role model at home (her sister, Heather Sinclair).
** And ''her'' replacements are Katie and Marisol. Marisol is this trope played straight, Katie is friendlier but a bit of an [[Ice Queen]] and non-confrontational and will usually go with Marisol's plans. More work was put into keeping Katie friendly than Marisol, who has developed a [[The Scrappy|reputation]] with the fandom.
* ''[[
** Cordelia Chase started out as this kind of character and rapidly became the [[Fallen Princess]].
** Her sidekick Harmony proceeded to take this position up until being killed and turned into a vampire; then, she became the [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]].
** Buffy herself started out as the Alpha Bitch of Hemery High in the original movie (or as a [[Deconstruction]] of the AB, anyway).
* Veronica DiAngelo on ''[[The Saddle Club]]''.
* The nameless head bully from ''[[
* Stephanie Kaye from the 1980s ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'' is a rare case where the Alpha Bitch is one of the protagonists. As a result, she has frequent [[Pet the Dog]] moments in between her bullying.
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Jackie is a stereotypical example of this trope (although when ''her'' karmic retribution comes, it's a bit more severe than growing up to lead an unfulfilled life). The second season has Debbie, who is a copy of Jackie right down to being the blond head cheerleader.
* Missy Meany in ''[[
* ''[[Summer Heights High]]'' features a parody of this trope, in the form of Ja'mie (played by a man doing a convincing impression), and, to a much lesser extent, her "friends" (played by real girls).
* Chelsea Breur in ''[[Naturally, Sadie]]''. Replaced in second season by Arden Alcot.
* From ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', three words: Madison Freaking Sinclair.
* ''[[
* ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' has Gigi. Inverted with Alex: we see her as the protagonist, but there's no denying that she has Alpha Bitch qualities. It might actually fit better to classify Alex as an [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] and Gigi as a [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]].
* Amber in ''[[Hannah Montana]]''. She's not a ditz, though her sidekick Ashley fills that purpose.
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** When the series started, the Alpha Bitch was a girl named Jessica ([[The Danza|played by Jessica Alba]]), who would mock and pick on Alex. However, she disappeared after a few episodes because she got a more prominent role in the remake of ''[[Flipper]]'', and was replaced by a similar character named Kelly.
** A one-shot character who also fit this type was also named Libby, a year before ''Sabrina''. The [[Freudian Excuse]] was somewhat subverted; Libby claimed that she has to worry about being popular, and that she really admires Alex, but she was ''[[Manipulative Bastard|manipulating]]'' Alex into feeling sympathy for her, and she wasn't really sensitive or sympathetic at all.
* ''[[
** The killer in the episode "Stand Up and Holler" was one of these. In the present day, she had two failed marriages (and was working on her third) and was desperately clinging to her glory days when she was the most popular girl in school.
** Another episode has a former Alpha Bitch from the Fifties, who became caught up in second-wave feminism and eventually became a teacher. Her remorse over her treatment of the victim causes her to give the team a vital clue.
** "Sleepover" revolved around a [[Title Drop|sleepover]] at the house of a young Alpha Bitch who poached the victim's best friend into her girl posse. She was also a [[Creepy Child]] who killed the family pet. Her parents' form of discipline was disturbing to put it nicely.
* Maritza from ''Taina'' was one of these. She wanted to be an actress too, but she was far more ruthless than Taina and Renee. She even refers to herself as an "Evil Diva"
* Cassie Lynn Nubbles from ''[[Family Matters]]''. As Steve Urkel put it, she was "the poster child for useless people".
* ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]''
** Vicki Appleby is initially depicted as one of these, but it's subverted in "Smooching and Mooching", when she opens up to Bill in a [[Ten Minutes in
** Cindy Sanders is originally set up as the sweet [[Girl Next Door]], but once she and Sam finally get together, she turns into a shallow, vapid, Republican bitch.
** One of the episodes features a transfer student who befriends the Geeks, who try to keep her away from the popular crowd in the fear that she'll become one of these. It doesn't work, and she joins the popular
* Twist from ''[[Spaced]]'', a post-high-school version. Twist is attractive and fashionable, but she works in a dry cleaners and seems to have only one "friend", Daisy, whom she showers with back-handed compliments. Daisy doesn't seem to notice that Twist is an awful friend until the end of the show.
* Subverted in ''[[
* ''[[
** Quinn starts out as this, and her only subversion is that she's also deeply religious and president of the celibacy club. She quickly turns into a [[Fallen Princess]] when she reveals that she's pregnant and is kicked off the cheerleading squad.
** Her former minion Santana thus becomes the new Alpha Bitch. Santana is however a deconstruction of the trope. As she finds out, for all her bitchiness towards everyone, nobody save Britanny likes her. Also, her cruelty comes from her inner torment over {{spoiler|being a lesbian who is in love with her best friend}}.
** Meanwhile, Terri is heavily implied to be a former Alpha Bitch and now has an unhappy adulthood because of it.
** Oddly enough, although Rachel is nominally the heroine of ''Glee'' and (at least in season 1) Quinn's antagonist, within the glee club itself, ''she'' actually functions as the Alpha Bitch due to her unrelenting tendency to belittle, disregard, and demean the other members of the club unless forced to behave otherwise (she calls Kurt and Mercedes 'lesser glee clubbers' to their faces, and tells Tina and Mike that if a potential new recruit can dance, their contribution to the club will be 'even more insignificant than it already is', in quick succession in 2x01, and then ''sends her new rival to a crackhouse instead of the audition''). Her specialty is sweetly offering a brutal putdown and justifying it as 'honesty'. While she gets brought down to earth relatively frequently, it never seems to stick.
* On [[Everybody Loves Raymond]], there are ''two competing'' characters with
* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]''
** Subverted: Paris Geller bullies Rory (and almost everyone else) mostly out of insecurity, has two sidekicks who are taller than she is, but isn't popular and is respected only for her intelligence and dedication. She also gets brought down to earth in later seasons.
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* ''[[The Naked Brothers Band]]'' has one episode where Nat is trying to work up the nerves to kiss Rosalina. A girl (who, as she often says, is the most popular girl in their school) shows up to watch them do a music video, and makes fun of Nat because he's unable to do it. Rosalina gets a minor [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when she tells the girl off in front of both her and her posse. The girl's (rather flustered) response is "Y-You can't talk to me like that! I'm the most popular girl in school!" Rosalina responds with a loud "I DON'T CARE!"
* Season one of ''The Sleepover Club'' had Sara Tiara, and season two had Krystal Beasley.
* Christine from ''[[
* Pinky (played by [[Jennette McCurdy]]), on ''[[True Jackson, VP
* May Phelps (played by Laura Aikman) on ''[[Casualty]]'', who also has elements of the [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] trope too.
* Banning Miller in the ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' episode "Shindig" definitely qualifies, complete with posse. She is very satisfyingly put in her place by a distinguished old man in true [[Gentleman Snarker]] fashion after she sets her sights upon Kaylee in her store-bought dress.
* Rhonda from ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' (played by Bianca Lawson) was 'prom queen three years running' and consistently Alpha Bitchy until the 4th season episode 'You are so Beautiful', where the character is played by male actor Larry Wrentz to imply (to a ridiculous degree) that Rhonda had lost her looks over the summer (along with her bad attitude). The character is never heard from again a la [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]].
* 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:
* 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).}}
* Brooke McQueen in ''[[Popular]]'', despite Sam's initial beliefs, is not an Alpha Bitch, but more of a [[Spoiled Sweet]]. The distinction of Alpha Bitch truly belongs to her nominal second-in-command, the wonderfully Machiavellian Nicole Julian.
* Kate on ''[[Lizzie
* Taylor from ''[[
* ''[[South of Nowhere]]'' had Madison
* Doña Florinda from the Mexican sitcom, ''[[El Chavo
* For the third time on this page, Ethel Hallow in ''[[The Worst Witch]]''. Her two younger sisters are quite nice, though.
** In the spin-off series, ''The New Worst Witch,'' Belladonna Bindweed is an even nastier example; she's a more malicious Ethel Hallow, ''without'' any of Ethel's [[Freudian Excuse
* ''[[
* Miu Kazashiro from ''[[
* ''[[Raising Hope]]'': Virginia's cousin Delilah is an Alpha Bitch who never grew out of it.
* Sadie in ''Awkward''
* Lexi Reed on [[
* Abigail Armstrong or "Abby" of the Australian produced TV series ''Dance Academy'' is a highly competitive ballerina that will verbally assail any other student that she sees a threat to her goals sometimes outright sabotaging theirs. Despite all of this the other lead characters still put up with her in a somewhat friendly manner which softens Abigail's harsh personality very slightly. One of the leading male characters has an unconditional crush on Abby. No matter how she treats him he still seems to be in love with the alpha bitch. Abigail considers the other lead females to be her "Frienemies".
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Wednesday]]'', Bianca comes across as of this in the first few episodes, quickly becoming Wednesday's rival. Later she evolves into a [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]].
== Music ==
* The song "Roses" by [[
* The music video to [[
* Chumbawamba's "She's Got All the Friends" is a perky, poppy song loaded with backhanded compliments towards an Alpha Bitch ("She's got all the friends that money can buy", "Both her faces are so pleasing to the eye", etc.)
* [[
** Her new song "Mean" is also at least partially directed at mean girls. The song itself is simply about bullies, but the video shows two examples of mean girls, one trio of girls who ostracize another for wearing the wrong colored bow, and the other a group mocking a teenaged girl working in fast food to save up for college.
* The character Jordan Pruitt's song, "Miss Popularity", is about.
* [[
* The girl in the blue dress in the music video for [[
* In the Fleming & John song "Ugly Girl", the girl singing appears to be an Alpha Bitch who is trash-talking her ex's new girlfriend who she considers ugly.
* A [[Alternative Character Interpretation|possible interpretation]] of the singer's [[Love Interest]] in "Just The Girl" by The Click Five.
* The rival in Saving Jane's "Girl Next Door". However, it is potentially subverted in that the protagonist does have a boyfriend, seems more of a loner, naturally, and is more edgy, wanting to "hit her", when the only indication of the rival purposefully bothering her is when she pushes her books, which might be imagined in a [[Dream Sequence
* Red Union, a serbian punk band, has "I Hate Girls Like You", about the protagonist trying to teach and help the Alpha Bitch to be a better person, but being frustrated by her shallow attitude and unwillingness to learn.
* The singer in [https://web.archive.org/web/20151012145428/http://barryandthebookbinders.com/ Barry & the Bookbinders]' song "2 Hot 4 U, Part II" is very clearly an Alpha Bitch:
{{quote|''Oh my god, you little geek,
''Get away before I freak.
''I'm a babe and you are not.
''You can't handle what I've got.}}
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲** Violet is the elementary school epitome of this trope (though she has dark hair). She always leads the other catty girls in picking on Charlie Brown.
▲** Patty (not Peppermint Patty, the other one) occasionally had some of these traits in the early years as well.
▲* Tiffany from ''[[Luanne]]'', though her popularity [[Informed Ability|might be in her head]] considering ''she lost her own beauty contest''.
==
* WWE Divas Michelle McCool and Layla El were vapid, brainless co-champions (the last co-champions were over-caffeinated male cheerleaders for reference). They seemed to exist only to insult every other Diva on the Smackdown roster. They started with trying to say that [https://web.archive.org/web/20101225065023/http://squashberry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/mickieJames.jpg Mickie James] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20100210103621/http://www.rawwrestlingdivas.com/pictures/beth-phoenix-1.jpg Beth Phoenix] were fat and ugly. Eventually, they wised up and used only non-visual insults, saying that Kelly Kelly had bad body odor ("Smelly Kelly!") and just treating Rosa Mendes like dirt (although they occasionally still called [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103111454/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/images/11/19/bella-twins.jpg The Bella Twins] "The Belly Twins"). Michelle was tall and blonde, fitting the traditional visual aid for this trope; Layla, [[Salt and Pepper|by contrast]], was rather short and [[Ambiguously Brown]] (Moroccan father, English mother), making her a rare African-American example of this trope.
* Who Lay-Cool was based on, TNA's Beautiful People: Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, and Madison Rayne. Recently, however, things have changed so much that Madison is the only one who is still a heel (at least, the only heel by her own decision, anyway). Additionally, their Alpha Bitch tendency of "Cleansing the world, one ugly person at a time," has disappeared and they just genuinely hate each other.
** They also temporarily had amongst their ranks Lacey [[The Von Trope Family|Von Erich]], a third-generation female wrestler and (at least in appearance) an uncanny [[Expy]] for WWE's [[Kelly Kelly]].
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* Alberto Del Rio is another male example, acting as the brand's "Mexican Aristocrat." He lives in a swank mansion, enters arenas in (among other lavish automobiles) a Rolls-Royce with an obnoxiously loud "La Cucaracha" horn, and constantly puts down other Mexican-descended wrestlers ([[Rey Mysterio]] most of all) for not embodying the spirit of the Mexican people as well as he does. And just to drive home what a rich pussy he is, he climbs into the ring wearing a ''white scarf''.
* How Glinda initially appears in ''[[Wicked (
▲== Theater ==
* Even bearing the trope name, Alpha Bitch Michaels of Clifford Odets's ''Paradise Lost''. In [[One
▲* How Glinda initially appears in ''[[Wicked (Theatre)|Wicked]]'', down to the dizziness, fashion obsession, and sheeplike [[Girl Posse]], until undergoing [[Character Development]] in the first act. Later, as her social influence becomes outright political power, she becomes a [[Stepford Smiler]] and, finally, [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]].
* Lucy in ''[[
▲* Even bearing the trope name, Alpha Bitch Michaels of Clifford Odets's ''Paradise Lost''. In [[One Scene Wonder|typical Odets fashion]], she gets some interesting and dark depth: initially the frivilous fiancée of the Gordon family's athlete son Ben, she dumps him for his slimy social-climber "friend" who gets Ben fatally injured.
▲* Lucy in ''[[Thirteen (Theatre)|Thirteen]]'' is the stereotypical Alpha Bitch, but she's only second in command after [[The Brainless Beauty]] Kendra.
* Amber Von Tussle from ''[[Hairspray]]''. She learned it from her mother Velma, who is an Alpha Bitch grown up. They both [[Heel Face Turn|get better]] at the end though.
* Adrian in ''The Shape of a Girl''.
== Video Games ==
* Etoile Rosenqueen from ''[[Rhapsody:
* Mandy Wiles in ''[[Bully (
* Ai Ebihara of ''[[
* Mira Kagami from ''[[
* ''[[
** Black Velvetopia's supposedly perfect and gorgeous flamenco dancer Lampita turns out to be an [[Unreliable Narrator|idealized and romanticized version of a girl who crushed Edgar in high school]], who proved to be this.
** Back at camp, Kitty seems to fill this role, with Franke acting as her sidekick. Elka also has shades of this, but is generally more worried about her love life than anything else.
* Linda and Nicole, from ''[[Snowboard Kids]] Plus''.
=== Visual Novels ===▼
* ''[[
▲== Visual Novels ==
▲* ''[[Yume Miru Kusuri (Visual Novel)|Yume Miru Kusuri]]'': Kyoka -- called [[Marie Antoinette|"Antoinette"]] by the main character, after the infamous French queen whose extravagant spending on things such as mansions and the like ([[Historical Villain Upgrade|although a lot of it was exaggerated by enemies]]) while people were starving out on the fields was a prime example of the kind of thing that led to the French Revolution -- is the antagonist of Aeka's route. Something that's kind of odd to this trope is that she had a crush on the lead from the beginning and tried to get with him several times, though the lead just found her annoying. {{spoiler|This doesn't stop her from targeting him along with Aeka once it becomes official that the two are going out, though. It gets pretty brutal. This goes for the backlash, as well, which sees Kouhei and Aeka turn the tables on and nearly kill Kyoka when she decides to have her friends pin down Kouhei so that he can watch Kyoka's boyfriend rape Aeka.}}
== Web Comics ==
* Subverted by ''[[
** When she does not put an effort in posturing, well... [http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1840 Diane rants], [[Tsundere|not that she's interested in Elliot or anything]]! [http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2059 Diane is hiding] her fangirl-ishness (and maybe a little envy?) toward Nanase... poorly.
* Subverted by ''[[Footloose (
* Subversion: In ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'', Penny is a popular girl, and seems like an Alpha Bitch at first (in contrast to the independent-minded Aggie). As the story progresses, however, Penny turns out to be a decent, observant, intelligent person, with most of the conflicts between her and Aggie being initiated by the latter.
* On the other hand, Carrie of ''[[Loserz]]'' is the epitome of this trope, or is at least trying to be. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20100814160707/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=144 here].
* Charlotte Peechi from ''[[
* ''[[
* Sayuri Morita in ''[[Red String]]''. However, her nastiness eventually comes back to bite her, and the main characters actually ''haven't'' gone and befriended her yet.
* Kharisma in ''[[Something
* Felicia Laine in ''[[
* You'd think that with cheerleaders as protagonists, ''[[The Wotch
* Sarah and Cass from ''[[
* ''[[
** Emily's pre-misfile friend Molly. An [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1188 arc back in 2009] has Emily going to her for advice on how to deal with [[The Rival]], Missi.
** Jenny Jr. shows many characteristics of an Alpha Bitch as well.
* ''[[Shadowgirls]]'' gave us
* In ''[[Blip]]'', Mary is a narcissistic, shallow, vain robot. On at least two occasions, she's been accused of using her Alpha Bitchiness to mask insecurity. Notwithstanding, she does seem to care about K and her friends. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Maybe.]] At the start of the comic, she and K had a nasty falling-out, and refused to speak to each other for years. Mary makes the first reconciliatory gesture, and the two proceed to ''immediately'' bury the hatchet.
* Though a minor character, Julia Greenhilt is clearly the Alpha Bitch of her magic school in ''[[
* ''[[
**
** The ''[[Spin
* In the ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' [[Spin
* ''[[Khaos Komix]]'' gives us Natalie Geln, who is probably [[Up to Eleven|even more cruel]] than your standard Alpha Bitch.
* ''[[Bridges]]'' features head cheerleader Lana, who is controlling of her squad to a borderline psychopathic level.
* ''[[Lulu Cthulhu]]'' features three of these who have undertaken the mission to make all the losers feel accepted at Valentines' by giving chocolate to losers. They genuinely don't seem to understand why being singled out as losers doesn't make people happy.
* ''[[
* ''[[Zodiac Blues]]'' gives us Lia, who calls even her boyfriend a 'loser'.
* ''[[
* ''Young Cannibals'' (''[[Peanuts]]'' parody) presents [//www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=8027&articleNo=4 Gemma]… except not only she's airheaded, but no one respects her, including her dog. According to the author's comment later, "gemma is how I would imagine Paris Hilton would be when she was six years old".
== Web Original ==
* Sooni from ''[[Tales of MU]]'' both uses and subverts this trope. While she starts out appearing to be a textbook Alpha Bitch, it quickly becomes clear that she's trying to live out a fantasy, with a [[Girl Posse]] made up of virtual slaves and little actual popularity.
* Helena van Garrett (v1) and the Sisterhood (v2) from ''[[
* Trisha from ''[[The War Comms]]'' is an overblown caricature of this trope, which is probably why she also serves as a [[Butt Monkey]] for the saner socks.
* ''[[
** Aphrodite, though somewhat subverted in that she has no [[Girl Posse]] and is excluded from the other Olympian cliques.
** Hera is a straight example, being the queen of the gods and having her [[Girl Posse]] of Demeter and Hestia. Also she often puts down other gods and goddesses. She also often suffers humiliations due to her husband's chronic infidelities and having to put up with his bastard children on a daily basis.
* Solange (Tansy Walcutt) of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', complete with a perfect body, blonde hair, a girl posse, and sycophants. Worked her way up to queen of the Alphas at [[Super
* Heather Jones from ''[[Erikas New Perfume]]'' is a textbook example, at least, until she got [[Fountain of Youth|turned into a three-year-old]]. She did get turned back by the end of the sequel thanks to Erika, who underwent a lot of [[Character Development]].
* Ami in ''[[
* Kelly from ''The Crazy Kids of Grade 5'' is rich, spoiled, and thinks she is the leader of the 5th grade popular group.
== Western Animation ==
* Bonnie Rockwaller on ''[[
* Mandy from ''[[Totally Spies
* Tami from the sequel show ''[[
* Paulina from ''[[
* Rhonda Wellington Lloyd comes between this and [[Rich Bitch]] in some episodes of ''[[Hey Arnold
* Gemini Stone from ''[[
* The Ashleys in ''[[Recess]]''. Despite having some moments where they aren't a bunch of [[Rich Bitch
* Sierra McCool in Disney's ''[[The Replacements (
* ''[[
* Mindy from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Miranda Kilgallen in ''[[As Told
** Courtney is a nice inversion of this. She's the queen bee; pretty, rich, popular, and more than a little narcissistic, (a self-proclaimed snob), but [[Spoiled Sweet|she's a genuinely sweet person who doesn't seem to harbor any malice towards anyone]]- unlike her friend Miranda. While her sidekick Miranda is quick to insult the unpopular girls, Courtney is friendly with them.
* Elisabeth "Sissi" Delmas in ''[[
* Patty Smirnov and Mattie O'Hare, the [[School Newspaper Newshound|school journalists]] in ''[[Monster Allergy]]''.
* In ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', Shirley was unlucky enough to be in a ballet class with ''four'' girls who fit the criteria (only one - Giselle - had a name, but all four were equally nasty); naturally from Perfecto Prep (Acme Looniversity's rival) the four "stuck-up snobs" (as Babs called them) said mean things about her accent, called her an airhead, and an "ugly little mud hen", and said she isn't fit to dance with them. Worst of all, Shirley overheard, and when they realized this, they didn't care. They tried to make her look bad at a recital, although this quickly degenerated into the four of them [[Dark Action Girl|blatantly trying to crush Shirley]], leading to one of the weirdest cases of [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] on the show; who'd ever imagine that ''Swan Lake'' could be used in a fight scene? Fortunately for Shirley, Babs had her back, sabotaging their part of the recital with a variety of toon-favored weapons (banana peels, anvils and the like) giving Shirley the glory and the spotlight.
* ''[[
** A girl from Bloom's old hometown named Mitzi definitely fit the bill, despite appearing only a few times. On the Halloween episode, she invited Bloom and her friends to a party - which turned out to be an elaborate scheme to humiliate the girls. She bought and rigged a house, made up an elaborate legend, hired actors to pose as party guests (complete with scripts), and set up elaborate special effects around the house, just to pull a prank on someone she had barely seen in two years, along with four girls she had never met. Mitzi gets a more prominent role in some episodes of the fourth season: {{spoiler|she lays her eyes on Brandon and wants to take him from Stella}}. Later, {{spoiler|the Wizards of the Black Circle temporarily turn her and two friends into evil fairies.}} After that, she's practically [[Put
** The Trix themselves qualify. They bully others in school and generally boss others around before getting expelled. After episode nine, they get much, much worse, what with the multiple attempted homicides, turning [[The Cutie]] into a pumpkin for ruining one of their plans, removing the heroine's powers in a needlessly sadistic way after threatening her parents and revealing her backstory, and attempting to take over the universe. They're like Regina George, only with magical powers.
* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders|Cheerleader]] Sally Avril is the most abusive girl in M³'s [[Six
* ''[[
** Sandi Griffin, who is outright emotionally abusive even to the other members of her own clique (Stacy Rowe in particular). It isn't until the series' final season that her position of control is finally first slowly undermined by both Quinn starting to distance herself from the group and Stacy gaining a sense of self-confidence, and then finally lost when the other three members of the Fashion Club all agree to dissolve the group and she agrees last, as a face-saving measure. One of the potential futures shown at the end of the series (in place of the usual series of pictures) shows Sandi being a hostess and maintaining her queen bee attitude.
** And her ''mother'' is also as bad... given that household, it's a surprise her brothers weren't utter bitches.
* Trixie Tang of ''[[The Fairly
* Penelope Lang in ''[[
* Tricia from ''[[
* ''[[
** Heather has pulled this off quite well in a non-high-school setting.
** Courtney also qualifies as one due to her bossy, over-competitive nature.
* Tiff and Brit, the Krust Cousins from ''[[My Life
* ''[[Doug]]''
** Beebe Bluff is a subversion. The richest (their middle school was named after her by her Dad), most popular, and somewhat snobby and spoiled, she was actually quite nice to everyone despite these character traits. She even ended up being Doug's [[First Kiss]] in a sweet way.
** [[Jerk Jock]] Roger adds some Alpha Bitch traits after he becomes rich in the [[Retool]]. Although Beebe does ''not'' want to get involved with him in any way.
* Pacifica Northwest in ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' is this initially; after some [[Character Development]] reveals [[Hidden Depths]] (and horribly abusive parents) she evolves into a [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]].
* ''[[
** 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.
* ''[[
* 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]]''.
* Claire Brewster in ''[[Beetlejuice (
* Connie D'Amico from ''[[
** Connie is the walking stereotype of the Alpha Bitch. She goes out only with popular boys, bullies anyone that isn't popular like her (mostly Meg, and is willing to make an unpopular boy popular just to prove that only she can make anyone popular, and that she can be the girl who dated every single popular boy. Even though [[Laser
** Lois Griffin was one back in high school, pulling a
* Subverted on ''[[
* Nanette Manoir from ''[[
* Paige Logan from ''[[Grossology]]''.
* 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
* ''[[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.
* ''[[
* ''[[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]]''.
* Suzi from ''Pixel Pinkie''.
* ''[[My Little Pony]] Tales'' had Melody, who only occasionally drifted into [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] territory and was hands-down the most self-absorbed of the heroines.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, a pair of [[Spoiled Brat
** On the other hand, the show subverts this trope with Rarity, who displays several trademarks of the Alpha Bitch (her love of fashion and fixation on the richest boy around), but also displays generosity and genuine niceness.
** In the first two episodes of the second season, the corrupted (by Discord) Rarity and ''Fluttershy'' act like this.
** The Great and Powerful Trixie also qualifies. While she isn't a schoolyard type bully, she's still catty, rude, manipulative and obnoxious, with the added bonus of being totally full of her self and a complete and utter ''liar''.
** Gilda.
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* Raquelle from ''[[Barbie]]: A Fairy Secret'', although once the plot gets into motion, it's mostly pushed by the wayside.
* Sencarity from ''What About Mimi?''.
* Cleo from ''[[Clone High]]''.
* Victoria Best from ''[[
* Gretel from ''[[Staines Down Drains]]''.
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