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{{trope}}
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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]]''}}
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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]]. [[It's a Costume Party, I Swear]], the [[Prank Date]], and the [[Party Scheduling Gambit]] are just some of the many nasty tricks she plays. Often receives her comeuppance at the hands of a member of her own [[Girl Posse]] in a [[Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch]] moment.
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
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Nanami Kiryuu from ''[[
* ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[
* Tamaki Reika from ''[[
* Aki Honda from ''[[
* There's also Eliza Reagan 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-Deprecation|insecurities and self-hate]]) ''and'', by almost the end, she pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
** {{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 ''[[
* Anna Maria from ''[[Blood+
* Kafuko from ''[[
* Reiko Komori, one of Mamoru's friends in ''[[GaoGaiGar
* 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, Yoshimi Kuroda. She not only bullies her rival Mayumi Hashimoto, but she frames her for embezzlement, forces her into [[Compensated Dating]], and ''blackmails her with photos of her "illegal/immoral behavior"'' {{spoiler|She doesn't live to tell, obviously}}.
** 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 ''[[
* ''[[
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* 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 ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'' proves the platonic ideal of this trope down to the [[Freudian Excuse]] (she was a frumpy black girl in a high school filled with hellishly gorgeous blond bitches, and wound up [[Deal
* 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.
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== Comic Strips ==
* ''[[
** 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.
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== 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 [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.]]}}
* 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 ''[[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 [[
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* 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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* [[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 13th (
* Kathryn from ''[[Cruel Intentions]]''.
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== 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 times -- though Crabbe and Goyle aren't the stereotypically slightly less pretty posse members. Plus, he dates Pansy, as mentioned above.
** 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 way -- it would certainly be in-character for her.
* 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.
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* 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 ''[[Discworld
* 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.
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** 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.
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* 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 crowd -- but later episodes reveal that, despite what the Geeks fear, she's still friendly towards them.
* 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 ''[[30 Rock
* ''[[
** 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}}.
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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 ''[[
* 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.
* ''[[
* 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 Del Ocho]]'', is thought by some to be an older version of this trope.
* 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.
* ''[[
* 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 [[ANT 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 ''[[
== 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.
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== Theater ==
* How Glinda initially appears in ''[[Wicked (
* 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 (
* 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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== Video Games ==
* Etoile Rosenqueen from ''[[
* 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.
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== Visual Novels ==
* ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* Subverted by ''[[
* 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 [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 ''[[
* 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 Misty -- an Alpha Bitch that crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Her mother possibly was one in the past, but it's not sure.
* 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 ''[[
* ''[[
** s [http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20100721.html Melissa Hellrune], a classic Alpha Bitch, except she's not a ditz.
** The ''[[Spin-Off]]'' comic ''[[
* 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.
* ''[[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'.
* ''[[
== 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.
* ''[[Thalias Musings]]''
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* 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-Hero School|Whateley Academy]] before her downfall.
* 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 ''[[
* Tami from the sequel show ''[[
* Paulina from ''[[
* Rhonda Wellington Lloyd comes between this and [[Rich Bitch]] in some episodes of ''[[
* Gemini Stone from ''[[
* The Ashleys in ''[[Recess]]''. Despite having some moments where they aren't a bunch of [[Rich Bitch|Rich Bitches]], they spend the majority of the series wanting to screw with everyone for the sake of being mean.
* Sierra McCool in Disney's ''[[The Replacements (
* ''[[
* Mindy from ''[[
* 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]]''.
* ''[[
** 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-Student Clique]], even mercilessly mocking fellow clique-member Flash Thompson when his [[Hero Worshipper|hero]], Spider-Man, appears to be committing robberies. Slightly subverted when Peter's aunt has a heart attack as Flash mentions that even Sally feels sorry for him, although she is not as forthcoming with her sympathies as his friends are. Both she and [[Jerk Jock|Flash]] have gone through a bit of [[Character Development]]. When she thinks that Peter's been killed, Sally is horrified. She does ''say'' it's because she'll have to tell Liz and Liz "looks awful in black", but when she sees that Peter's okay, she performs a textbook [[Anger Born of Worry]]. A bit later, she tells him that no, she doesn't care, but she doesn't want him to be blown to bits, she's not a monster.
* ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* Penelope Lang in ''[[
* Tricia from ''[[Sixteen
* ''[[
** 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.
* ''[[
** 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-Guided Karma|karma has bitch slapped her several times]], she still goes around making everyone miserable at school.
** Lois Griffin was one back in high school, pulling a [[Carrie|Chris Hargensen]]-level prank on a chubby girl. Interestingly, her subsequent life turned out much like Brian's aforementioned prediction of Connie's life.
* 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|Spoiled Brats]] who tease [[Plucky Girl|Apple Bloom]] about [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|not developing a cutie mark yet]]. Later episodes have hinted that Diamond Tiara is the real alpha of the two, with Silver Spoon nicer but quick to knuckle under when Diamond does anything.
** 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.
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* Sencarity from ''What About Mimi?''.
* Cleo from ''[[Clone High]]''.
* Victoria Best from ''[[
* Gretel from ''[[Staines Down Drains]]''.
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