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Snide, snotty and ever-so-superior to coworkers or neighbors, the [['''Rich Bitch]]''' is the character you love to hate. She has social position and/or money, and never lets ''anyone'' around her forget it; and if she can make you feel like dirt, she'll do it just to amuse herself. She can be especially vicious to men pursuing her who are not up to her sometimes impossible standards. Too much money has made them evil.

[['''Rich Bitch]]''' is what the [[Alpha Bitch]] and the [[Spoiled Brat]] often become when they grow up, and their motto is "[[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]" Compare [[Gold Digger]], [[Grande Dame]]. Contrast [[Spoiled Sweet]], [[Uncle Pennybags]], [[Mock Millionaire]] and the [[Ojou]]. Can be [[Truth in Television]].

* ''[[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]].<br /><br />At the beginning of the series, Domyoji himself could qualify as a male example. Luckily he mellows out a bit.

* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'': Dorothy Catalonia starts off looking like a [[Rich Bitch]] who gets into ideological squabbles with [[The Ojou|Relena]] all while [[Femme Fatale|making subtle passes at Heero, Quatre, Zechs]], [[Les Yay|and even Relena]]. Later on it's revealed that she's a [[Broken Bird]] with [[Parental Abandonment|issues]], and official sequels depict her as much nicer, but still playful and flirty. She's got her gold-plated limousine, space shuttle, and, in ''Endless Waltz'', transport carrier.

** A real [[Rich Bitch]], Reika Yotsui, does appear in a two-part case, in which the Mouris and Conan are invited to her birthday party after they find her lost puppy. {{spoiler|Guess what, she's one of the two murder victims in the case, alongside one of the guys in her [[Unwanted Harem]] (Youji Nikaido). And they're killed by ''another'' member of the bitch's "harem", Takashi Ichieda, since they killed the girl he loved (the Yotsui landlady's granddaughter, Yaeko) to save their own lives some time ago.}}

* 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]].<br /><br />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}}.<br /><br />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]]...

* Similarly, ''[[Bring It On]]'' is a mostly typical sports movie -- exceptmovie—except it's from the point of view of the (usually evil) rich bitch team. Their uniforms even have "RCH" spelled out across their chests.

* ''[[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.<br /><br />Austen also has textbook examples in Fanny Dashwood and Elizabeth Elliot, and, of course, Lady Catherine du Burgh, who ''defines'' this trope.

* "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase's motto was that everybody had a price. He regularly pulled a Screw The Rules, I have Money.<br /><br />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.

* 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|Public Domain Artifacts]]s at the target (most Servants have one or two that they treasure), 'cause he owns all of them, and all the prototypes. He also is a massive [[Jerkass]] who wants to marry and/or rape (doesn't care which) [[Lady of War|Saber]].

* 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 [[Rich Bitch]] behavior [[Stepford Smiler|is a mask]] to hide [[Broken Bird|her serious abandonment issues]].}}

* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'': Male version -- Montanaversion—Montana Max.