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* Shute Sutherland is a male example in ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]]''. He's hardly seen without his [[Girl Posse|Boy Posse]].
* Manami Anzai from ''[[Life (manga)|Life]]'', and her [[Girl Posse]].
* [[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 (disambiguation)|the Slasher]] decided to target them}}?
* ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'' has quite a few of them, but Miyabi Aizawa tops them all.
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* May Phelps (played by Laura Aikman) on ''[[Casualty]]'', who also has elements of the [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] trope too.
* Banning Miller in the ''[[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.
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* Taylor from ''[[Caitlin's Way|Caitlins Way]]'', although every once in a while she and Caitlin managed to actually get along.
* ''[[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|Freudian Excuses]] or redeeming qualities.
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* 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.
* Lucy in ''[[
* 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''.
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