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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]].

 

* 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.

** 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]].

 

 

''You can't handle what I've got.}}

 

* 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.

* 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''.

 

* 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.

* 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 ==

* Linda and Nicole, from ''[[Snowboard Kids]] Plus''.

 

* ''[[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 ==

* 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 ==

 

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