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{{quote|"''We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.''"|'''[[wikipedia:Leona Helmsley|Leona Helmsley]]''', ''[[Fan Nickname|The Queen of Mean]]''}}
Snide, snotty and ever-so-superior to coworkers or neighbors, the
Sometimes the Rich Bitch actually has a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|heart of gold]], and her behavior is either habit or a [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defense mechanism]], but this subspecies is rare. Most of the time they're just jewel-encrusted sadists. If there is a [[Country Mouse]] in the cast, the Rich Bitch usually targets her for the worst abuse.
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Idle Rich]].
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* ''[[A.I. Love You]]'': Sayoko [[Expy]] Kimika Aso.
* Minto in ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'', who is also good at heart, and also gained a snobbier rival in a [[Filler]] episode.
* ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]'': Domyouji's mother Kaede is the rich bitch "villain" of the series. She is constantly throwing her money about to ruin the lives of Makino and those she knows to keep her away from the Domyouji family. Also, just about every girl in Makino's school is a rich bitch, excluding [[Shrinking Violet|Makiko]] but including Sakurako, who [[Heel Face Turn|eventually becomes Makino's friend]] but [[Good Is Not Nice|does not lose her nasty mannerisms]]
At the beginning of the series, Domyoji himself could qualify as a male example. Luckily he mellows out a bit.
* Flay Allster from ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' started as a sort-of space version of the [[Alpha Bitch]], but later she manipulated Kira for a good chunk of the series as "revenge" since he didn't save her father, George, from a ''really'' nasty death in space. Which she ''witnessed'' from the bridge of the ''Archangel''. {{spoiler|She eventually ''did'' fall for Kira for real and attempted to redeem herself, [[Redemption Equals Death|only to die in the end]].)}}
* Mashiro in ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' fits this description nicely, complete with Arika, the [[Country Mouse]], being her favorite target. Of course, since this is a rather idealistic series, her heart of gold [[Character Development|manifests itself]] after she becomes a [[Fallen Princess]] (literally), meets the very homeless people she used to despise, and learns [[An Aesop]] about abusing her position. Awww, how touching.
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* Eva of ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', the medical big-wig's daughter, starts out consoling the (surgeon) hero's angst over choosing who lives and who dies by assuring him that ''human lives aren't equal'', and just gets bitchier from there.
** Though, as the series progresses, Eva evolves into something more along the lines of a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] and the viewer begans to symphathize with her.
* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'': Dorothy Catalonia starts off looking like a
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': A parody example is Switzerland. He's a Miser, as well as being [[Conspiracy Nut|paranoid]], [[Hot-Blooded]], xenophobic, and [[Trigger Happy]]... though he's still got some [[Pet the Dog]] moments when he interacts with his sister, the little girl Liechtenstein (and his memories of his [[Heterosexual Life Partners|past friendship with Austria]], [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|no matter how often he denies it]]).
* Ayaka Yukihiro of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' looks like this at first glance, but it's subverted when it turns out that she's really [[Spoiled Sweet]] and simply doesn't get along well with Asuna. At least, [[Vitriolic Best Buds|not that they would admit.]]
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* In ''[[A Little Snow Fairy Sugar]]'' Greta ''tries'' to be this to Saga, except that Saga [[Unknown Rival|refuses to pay any attention to her attempts]]. Or maybe Saga [[Selective Obliviousness|genuinely just doesn't noitce]].
* ''[[Case Closed]]'': A slight subversion is Sonoko/Serena. Sure, she's flighty and a [[Brainless Beauty]], but she's a loyal friend to Ran/Rachel (if bitchy towards Shinichi/Jimmy, whom she believes isn't good enough for her) and doesn't flaunt her riches in a bitchy manner. {{spoiler|Besides, she comes to fall for karate champion Makoto, not minding how akward he can be sometimes.}}
** A real
* Eva Ushiromiya from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' might not be any richer than her siblings, but she has no problems fitting the trope, to the point where she considers herself the only one worthy of Kinzo's estate. And just look at the way she treats [[The Woobie|Natsuhi]]
Really, ''really'' not helped by [[Heir Club for Men|the shitty treatment]] she got from her brothers because of her gender. In the seventh arc, ''nobody'' expected her to be {{spoiler|pretty much [[The Messiah|the real hero]] of the story, acting as a [[Silent Scapegoat]] to protect Ange's image of her parents}}.
And also not helped by how, well, [[Inadequate Inheritor|Krauss]] is ''very'' not fit for heirloom. He's not ''evil'' okay, but it's clear that Natsuhi and Eva were the ones with more common sense, [[Horrible Judge of Character|and since he]] [[Stay in the Kitchen|doesn't listen to them]]...
* Mrs. Tachibana and Ruri from ''[[Hot Gimmick]]''.
* An example of a Rich Bastard is Shute Sutherland from ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]]'', which could be summed up as a male [[Candy Candy|Eliza]]... only with ''more'' comeuppance in every of his acts to belittle whoever is of the lower status compared to him.
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* ''[[The Blind Side]]'': Leigh Anne's snobbish salad luncheon friends.
* ''[[Clueless]]'': Amber is a classic Rich Bitch, contrasted to rich, popular but flawed main character Cher, who's for the most part kindhearted and a very likeable character. Much like [[Jane Austen]]'s original Emma Woodhouse, I suppose, who again is portrayed as being slightly stuck up but for how much money she has, she is a lot nicer than most of her counterparts, such as Mrs. Elton, the more straight version of the trope.
* Similarly, ''[[Bring It On]]'' is a mostly typical sports
* [[Cruella to Animals|Cruella de Vil]] from ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''.
* Joanna from ''[[Overboard]]'' is actually called a "rich bitch." [[Defrosting Ice Queen|She gets better, though.]]
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* Lavinia from ''[[A Little Princess]]''.
* Esme Squalor from ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. Later, her adopted "daughter" Carmelita Spats, who was originally a nasty [[Alpha Bitch]], becomes this as well.
* ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'': Caroline Bingley and her sister Louisa Hurst are prime examples of this; condescending and haughty, they're full of snide, superior put-downs to the society they find themselves in, and in Caroline's case Elizabeth Bennet in particular (which isn't help by the fact that she's Darcy's [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]). It's implied they're almost the eighteenth century equivalent of ''nouveau riche'', and are making up for their recent good fortune with excessive snobbery
Austen also has textbook examples in Fanny Dashwood and Elizabeth Elliot, and, of course, Lady Catherine du Burgh, who ''defines'' this trope.
* ''[[The House of Night]]'': Aphrodite, who later becomes somewhat of a [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]. But only somewhat.
* Clarissa from the ''[[Bloody Jack]]'' series.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase's motto was that everybody had a price. He regularly pulled a Screw The Rules, I have Money
His son, who goes by the same name, is repeatedly trying to state now that he's a very different person than this father, all while stuffing dollar bills in people's mouths, buying people off, and carrying the Million Dollar Belt around due to being unable to win one himself.
* When he first arrived in the WWF, [[Triple H]] was Hunter Hearst Hemsley, American blue blood from Greenwich.
* For that matter, all of the McMahon family have played up this trope, but especially Stephanie.
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* ''[[BioShock (series)]]'': Some of the lady Splicers act like this. Of course, the setting has degenerated ''way'' past the point where money means anything, and the Splicers are [[Ax Crazy|batshit insane]] to a man, but still.
{{quote|''[[Madness Mantra|"You call this tenderloin? If you served that in any respectable hotel in New York, they'd laugh you out of town!]]''}}
* Gilgamesh from ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' fits this perfectly. He literally owns everything in the world including (in his twisted POV), the people. [[Storm of Blades|His main attack is to spam]] [[Public Domain Artifact
* If a female Venture PC in [[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines|VTM:B]] declines to give money to a bum, he'll call her one of these.
* [[Night Trap]] has Lisa, though she's more vain than bitchy.
* Ultimately averted with [[Persona 4|Ai Ebihara]]. She initially comes off as [[Alpha Bitch|beautiful but cold-hearted]], but it's revealed that {{spoiler|her family used to be poor and she, in her own words, was a [[Fat Girl|"stinkin' fatso"]], making her [[All of the Other Reindeer|prone to mockery.]] When [[Rags to Riches|her father]] [[Nouveau Rich|struck it rich in real estate]], Ai decided to [[I Just Want to Be Beautiful|change her image so she wouldn't be mocked anymore]].}}
* Subverted with {{spoiler|Serra}} from [[Fire Emblem Elibe]]. She actually {{spoiler|is an orphan who works as a vassal for a rich noble house, and a lot of her
* Subverted with Algus from [[Final Fantasy Tactics]]. Algus is a classist, violent douchebag through and through, but because of cowardice and treachery on the part of his grandfather, his family's aristocratic status has been revoked. This gives Algus' an ambition which parallels that of Delita and Ramza. Delita wants to rise above his birth-station, Ramza wants to live up to his and Algus wants to regain one he himself never got to experience.
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* Muffy Crosswire from ''[[Arthur]]''. Although she's not as bad as most examples on this page.
* Princess from the ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' definitely deserves a mention.
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'': Male
** Roderick and Rubella Rat, as well as all the other students of Perfecto Prep. TTA really like this trope.
* ''[[Doug]]'': Averted by [[Spoiled Sweet|Bebe Bluff]] for the most part... but a possible male version in Roger, a [[Jerk Jock]] bully who won the lottery in the switch to Disney, adding a permanent case of [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]] to his already [[Jerkass|abrasive]] personality. He does show a few signs of maturity at times, though.
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