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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 herthe '''Alpha Bitch'''.
 
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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Contrast with [[Spoiled Sweet]], where a girl is made out to be the '''Alpha Bitch''', but is instead quite a sweetheart. Compare and Contrast with [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] who is [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|this trope with a heart of gold]]. This trope is probably so common [[Truth in Television|because everyone who wasn't homeschooled knew someone like this... or was one]].
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== Anime &and Manga ==
* Nanami Kiryuu from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''. In the manga, Nanami only appears in a photo, so Juri takes her place as Alpha Bitch.
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' adds Isabella to the list of characters that it [[Anyone Can Die|kills off]], but her even worse successor, Mariette, makes it through to the end of the series. Oddly, Lavinia, who is named after the Alpha Bitch of ''[[A Little Princess]]'', is the furthest thing from being an Alpha Bitch herself, being head-over-heels for protagonist Sarah.
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* Ami of ''[[Toradora!]]'', who usually hides her bitchiness behind a saccharine mask of sweetness until she feels she can get away with it. She does get [[Character Development]], though, switching to [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]. Being a very popular teen model, she's used to various people fawning over her and such. But, ''because'' she's a model, they expect her to be the cute, sunny, eternally bubbly girl she's often portrayed as. [[Knight in Sour Armor|And she's sick of it.]]
* Katherina Sforza from the Nunnally-centered ''[[Code Geass]]'' manga ''[[Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally|Code Geass Nightmare of Nunnally]]''. She and the [[Girl Posse]] get [[Humiliation Conga|embarrassingly]] punished by Nunners's classmate {{spoiler|and the local [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]}}, Alice, though.
* Tenjouin Saki of ''[[To Love LOVE-Ru]]'' is a stark subversion: while she meets almost all of the standard Alpha Bitch traits, right down to the [[Noblewoman's Laugh]] and [[Princess Curls]], [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|she has a very human side]]; she obtained one of the girls in her [[Girl Posse]] by [[Pet the Dog|rescuing her from bullies]]. She is legitimately kind to [[True Companions|her friends]], and to [[Morality Pet|her servants]].
* Anna Maria from ''[[Blood+|Blood Plus]]'' is a poster girl for this trope, despite not having a very large part in the series. A [[Rich Bitch]] complete with [[Princess Curls]], her own posse of female followers, and being unreasonably rude and bullying. Naturally, she gets a slap to the face when [[Prince Charming|Solomon]] invites Saya to dance instead of her.
* Kafuko from ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'', complete with a [[Girl Posse]], [[Rich Bitch|a sense of entitlement]], and [[Tsundere|a not-so-secret crush]] on the protagonist.
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* [[Terrible Trio|The Ganguro Girls]] from ''[[Durarara!!]]''. While they're not rich (if episode 6 is anything to go by, they're dirt ''poor''), they have all the traits of this character; they take delight in tormenting the female lead Anri Sonohara, are catty and rude to everyone they meet, and are all around nasty and unlikable people. {{spoiler|Is it any wonder that [[Yandere|the Slasher]] decided to target them}}?
* ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'' has quite a few of them, but Miyabi Aizawa tops them all.
* 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 ==
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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.
* ''[[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]].
 
== Comic Strips ==
* ''[[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''.
 
 
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* Sakura of ''[[Pretty Cure Full Color]]'' is a reformed Alpha Bitch. She gains her powers only when she fully accepts and befriends the people she used to make fun of.
* Omemi Emiru from ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon]]'' is a variation on the concept. Rather than a beautiful blonde who stands out from the crowd (that would be Seira, a member of her [[Girl Posse]] whom she strictly keeps in line), Emiru has short green hair and [[Scary Shiny Glasses]], and prefers to watch (and gossip) from the shadows. This understated approach has allowed her to obtain blackmail on nearly every girl in school, and by the time the story starts, they know it and bend to whatever she says. Considering [[I Am What I Am|one of the main themes of the story]], eventually, this isn't enough for her...
* 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.
{{quote|'''Cho:''' Come on girls, let's go show Moaning Myrtle our ball gowns and [[Kick the Dog|make fun of her because she can't go.]]}}
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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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* Jane Mitchell in ''Zapped!'', who gets a ''[[Carrie]]'' comeuppance in the end.
* Taylor Vaughan in ''[[She's All That]]''.
* Subverted in ''[[Legally Blonde (Filmfilm)|Legally Blonde]]'', where the Alpha Bitch Vivian is actually the [[Hollywood Homely]] [[Brainy Brunette|smart girl]] who torments the blonde, bouncy, popular rich girl, Elle. {{spoiler|And she has a [[Heel Face Turn]] in the end}}.
* Babs in ''[[Animal House]]'' is a collegiate version.
* [[Roger Ebert]] summed it up best (see page quote) for ''[[Sleepover]]''.
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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 ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'' and Annagramma from the Tiffany Aching books botheach exhibit Alpha Bitch tendency to surround herself with envious admirers who aren't as good-looking, and then treat these other girls like dirt.
* 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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* Pinky (played by [[Jennette McCurdy]]), on ''[[True Jackson, VP|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: 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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* ''[[Raising Hope]]'': Virginia's cousin Delilah is an Alpha Bitch who never grew out of it.
* Sadie in ''Awkward''
* Lexi Reed on [[ANTA.N.T. Farm]], though she's gradually become [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|more likeable]].
* 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 ''[[The Finder]]'' Willa went to a beach party with a bunch of rich kids. The girls there in one exchange fit this trope and [[Girl Posse]] to a T, being catty and snobbish to Willa's more down to earth style of dress. ...Willa then ''borrowed'' the Alpha's car on her way out of there.
* 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 ==
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* 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]]. It gives rise to the [[Alternative Character Interpretation|possible interpretation]] that the protagonist is actually just insecure and jealous of a girl more popular than she is, and that the popular girl isn't a bad person at all.
* 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 [httphttps://wwwweb.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.
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''You can't handle what I've got.}}
 
== ProNewspaper WrestlingComics ==
* ''[[Peanuts]]''
* 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 [http://squashberry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/mickieJames.jpg Mickie James] and [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 [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.
** 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''.
 
== Professional Wrestling ==
* 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''.
 
== TheaterTheatre ==
 
== Theater ==
* 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]].
* 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.
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* 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 ==
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* Linda and Nicole, from ''[[Snowboard Kids]] Plus''.
 
=== Visual Novels ===
 
== Visual Novels ==
* ''[[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 ==
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* Subverted by ''[[Footloose (webcomic)|Footloose]]''; Sparkle is very intelligent and somewhat [[Genre Savvy]]. {{spoiler|She still gets her comeuppance though.}}
* 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 ''[[Annyseed]]''. She displays all the common character traits, yet later, it is revealed that she's not the most popular girl in the school and hasn't exactly been spoiled by her parents. Will she get her comeuppance? All will eventually be revealed.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' briefly features [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060929 Cindi]. Subverted when she wanders rather badly out of her league in [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=061005 this strip].
* 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 *Positive]]''. Oh ''Lawdy'' does she get her comeuppance. And then some.
* Felicia Laine in ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' fits most of the characteristics of an Alpha Bitch, despite being in elementary school. In subversion of the trope, however, she's not stupid (as much as she acts the part), nor does she have any attraction to the strip's [[Jerk Jock]] Jeremy (indeed, they've never even met). Her infatuations are mostly directed at the members of boy band ''du jour''.
* You'd think that with cheerleaders as protagonists, ''[[The Wotch|Cheer!]]'' would be free of Libbies. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080911230816/http://cheer.thewotch.com/index.php?date=20051001 You'd be wrong].
* Sarah and Cass from ''[[YU+ME: dream]]'', though Sarah and Fiona were childhood friends.
* ''[[Misfile]]''
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* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]''
** [http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20100721.html Melissa Hellrune], a classic Alpha Bitch, except she's not a ditz.
** The ''[[Spin-Off]]'' comic ''[[Magick Chicks]]'' starts turning Cerise into the Alpha Bitch, much to Melissa's chagrin. And their new school already has an Alpha Bitch that they want overthrow. Faith is a [[Schoolgirl Lesbian]] and [[Telepath]] who uses [[Emotion Control]] to make herself queen of a neglected and poorly used (but vigorously defended when there's a threat) harem at their all-girl school. She seriously dates a boy from outsidethe [[Spear Counterpart|counterpart boy school]] as sort of [[Worthy Opponent]], and treats girls as disposable conquests. The main plot of ''Magick Chicks'' is transfer Alpha Bitch v. current Alpha Bitch v. wannabe Alpha Bitch.
* In the ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' [[Spin-Off]] ''Giant Days'', where Esther de Groot goes to university, she meets three former head girls, each of whom was probably the Alpha Bitch back at their respective schools. Although instead of (or perhaps "in addition to") cheerleading, each of them knows a specific style of [[Dark Action Girl|martial arts]].
* ''[[Khaos Komix]]'' gives us Natalie Geln, who is probably [[Up to Eleven|even more cruel]] than your standard Alpha Bitch.
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* ''[[Zodiac Blues]]'' gives us Lia, who calls even her boyfriend a 'loser'.
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has Vriska, who uses violence, intimidation and ''actual mind control'' to secure her status as a high-ranking and powerful SGRUB player.
* ''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 ==
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* Ami in ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'' is one. She eventually pays ''dearly'' for it, becoming an instant [[Woobie]] in a [[Shoot the Dog|single scene]] that's so horrific it makes [[I Wished You Were Dead|the protagonists feel guilty for hating her]]. Aki is a subversion: she's pretty, popular and head of the Fashion Club, but she is (secretly) friends with the class weirdo and feels trapped by the superficiality of her life. After she's publicly humiliated and dethroned, she realizes it's the best thing that ever happened to her and turns out to be a [[Spoiled Sweet|pretty nice person]].
* 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 ''[[Kim Possible]]'', except she tries (repeatedly and in vain) to usurp the role of captain from the cheerleading heroine. Bonnie did eventually become cheerleading captain in one episode, and much to Kim's initial dismay, proves to be exceptionally competent and dedicated to the job (though she doesn't become any less bitchy). Kim eventually decides to not fight it, as she's sure Bonnie will get [[Wanting Is Better Than Having|sick and tired of all the hard work involved with being squad captain]]. And she's right; the next episode showing the cheerleading, [[Status Quo Is God|Kim's clearly back in charge]].
* Mandy from ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' Extra points for being shallow.
* Tami from the sequel show ''[[The Amazing Spiez]]'' too, albeit [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|frequently more likeable]].
* Paulina from ''[[Danny Phantom]]''.
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* Sierra McCool in Disney's ''[[The Replacements (animation)|The Replacements]]''.
* ''[[The Oblongs]]'' has Debbie Klimer and her posse of identical Debbie clones.
* Mindy from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' is a much younger Alpha Bitch, as well as an [[Psycho Lesbian|incredibly obsessive one.]] For example, she loses her head cheerleader position to Mandy (who just shouts the game plans to the team) and, after consulting the "patron saint of cheerleading" (a trophy she thinks is talking), decides the best solution is to incapacitate her in some way in the middle of a match, or, failing that, ''blow her up''. If she sees Mandy with anyone aside from Billy or Irwin or the like, she walks up to them, puts on an obscenely perky face, and says "You're my ''best'' friend!"
* Miranda Kilgallen in ''[[As Told by Ginger]]'', however, she is the second-in-command to the [[Girl Posse]] leader and [[The Brainless Beauty|Brainless Beauty]] Courtney Gripling. She also [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defrosts a little.]] She never exactly becomes friendly, but she's a lot worse at the start than she is at the end.
** 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 ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' is a strange version of this. In the first season, this is played straight, with the exception of a few scenes in only a few episodes. However, her assistance to the heroes in later seasons, particularly the second and fourth, is often offered without second thought or a specific request for a reward, though this can happen quite a bit in a life-or-death situation. It seems that [[Depending on the Writer|her personality alternates between seasons]], from a straight Alpha Bitch with several [[Pet the Dog]] moments in Seasons 1 and 3 to a more [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] in Seasons 2 and 4. And odder, her Alpha Bitch persona was caused by the heroes themselves. {{spoiler|In the origins episode in Season 3, it's revealed that she was with them when they found the supercomputer, but broke their secret out of concern for their welfare. After the [[Reset Button]] is pushed the first time, the heroes decide to give her the cold shoulder so they can continue helping Aelita. So this does explain her flip-flopping behavoir a bit. By the end of the show, they've clearly come to think better of things and re-accept Sissi as their friend.}}
* 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.
* ''[[Winx Club]]''
** 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 on a Bus]].
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** 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 Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' is rich and popular AND lusted after by everyone, including Timmy, the main character. However, in the episode The Boy Who Would Be Queen, a genderbended Timmy learns that there is another side to Trixie—a boyish side that likes comics and video games, which would shock all of the people who worship her. She says that all she wants for her birthday is a friend who understands this, but when Timmy arrives at her party and makes the offer, she saves face.<ref>It's possible that this side of her personality is hinted at in ''The Big Superhero Wish!'' and ''Wishology''. In both specials, she apparently enjoys being in action scenes</ref>
* Penelope Lang in ''[[Atomic Betty]]'', [[Asian Airhead|who coincidentally also looks Asian]]. Her two cohorts are a pair of sycophantic nerds.
* Tricia from ''[[Sixteen|6teen]]''.
* ''[[Total Drama Island]]''
** Heather has pulled this off quite well in a non-high-school setting.
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** 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]].
* ''[[Rugrats]]''
** 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|kid heroes]]es, apparently for no reason. He may, in fact, be this show's answer to Sissi from ''[[Code Lyoko]]''; as it has been pointed out, ''Monster Buster Club'' [[Shallow Parody|rather seems to take after it.]]
* 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 alota lot more sympathetic]].
* ''[[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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* Victoria Best from ''[[Word Girl]]''.
* Gretel from ''[[Staines Down Drains]]''.
 
 
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