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# Type One: "The Tipton", with the character from ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' being the most prominent example. This is the combination of the [[Alpha Bitch]] with this stereotype: A pretty, popular, usually rich Asian girl fawned after by boys but presented as being vain and petty at the same time. Often played by [[Brenda Song]].
# Type Two: "The Cutie", a more benign, less in-your-face version of this with the [[Alpha Bitch]] qualities largely or totally removed. This leaves only the looks, money and popularity, and the stupidity which is made more excessive. The character in this case is neither unattractive nor unpopular, nor is she socially inept, so to make her bad qualities obvious she is made functionally retarded, easily manipulated and largely incapable of handling herself without assistance (usually from a [[Asian Gal
Note: male examples of this are tremendously rare. It is almost [[Always Female]].
Compare [[Valley Girl]]. [[Asian Gal
Contrast with the [[Stereotype Flip|usual]] [[Asian and Nerdy|"nerdy" portrayal of Asians in media]], which this trope subverts, and [[Dragon Lady]]. Also contrast [[The Ojou]], who generally tends to be smart and rich (and usually pleasant in personality.) Compare to [[Brainless Beauty]] (Type Twos), the [[Alpha Bitch]] and [[Rich Bitch]] (Type Ones).
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* A borderline example is Jennifer Chen in the ''[[Spy High]]'' series by A.J. Butcher, who isn't too concerned with popularity (as her school is a training ground for professional spies) but is portrayed as vain and self-obsessed, more so than [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]] Lori.
* Taylor from the ''[[Gone]]'' series. Her name is generic, but the first thing that the main characters notice about her is that she is Asian. She is rich enough for her parents to have sent her to Coates Academy, an exclusive boarding school for problem kids. She doesn't play a big part in the first two books, and seems to be a generic, slightly annoying, and airheaded girl. In book 3, she often acts rude to the other characters, considers that her powers would make her an excellent thief, and schemes about how to win Sam's affection while he's fighting with Astrid. Penny, the new [[Dark Action Girl]] from Lies, could also count. She also has a generic first name with no surname, but she is specified as being Chinese. She also went to Coates, and is therefore from a wealthy family, plots to steal the Caine's affection from Diana, and seems to be cruel but not very smart.
* In ''[[
** To give Drew some credit, she's not totally stupid, she's just a bitch.
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** To give Disney just a little credit, they don't much care about who plays which part, beyond whoever has their name in the title. The role was not written for an Asian girl, as it's supposed to be a parody of Paris Hilton. In fact, Ashley Tisdale was originally going to play London with [[Brenda Song]] in the Maddie role, but they ended up being switched because the girls played the parts better.
*** This is referenced in the [[A Day At the Bizarro|alternate dimension]] episode, where the girls are their original intended roles.
** That said, [[Brenda Song]] basically plays this part in every Disney channel show she's ever worked on. She played a ''vaguely'' competent person in her own movie ''[[Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior]]''. Key word there being [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|vaguely.]] Who still ended up blowing off saving the world in favor of being crowned 'Homecoming Queen'. Although, she eventually saw the light after a very mild metaphorical slap across the face. She wasn't too stupid in ''Stuck in the Suburbs'' either. Her breakout role on Nickelodeon's ''[[
** Her character in [[The Social Network]] is basically an Asian Airhead with [[Cute and Psycho]] tendencies.
* On the show ''[[Salute Your Shorts]]'', the de facto [[Alpha Bitch|queen bitch of camp]], was Dina Alexander. Played by Chinese-American actress Heidi Lucas, she was in effect a mirror image of London Tipton years before the latter character was created. Dim witted, easily manipulated, vain and yet also universally considered beautiful and popular by her peers. Also a [[Rich Bitch]], she gets some [[Defrosting Ice Queen|minor development]] on a pity date with the hoggish [[Butt Monkey]] of the show. Subverted in that she's not a total [[Alpha Bitch]] and lacks prominently Asian features or even an Asian surname.
* [[Anna Maria Perez De Tagle]] has this in her resume when she started. A list of her characters with this trope:
** The show ''[[
** The same actress who played Miracle also played Ashley Dewitt on ''[[Hannah Montana]]''. Basically the same character, but much stupider, with a different name.
** Same idea, same actress with her ''[[Camp Rock]]'' role. It's a miracle there haven't been mass protests at Disney yet.
* Cheerleader Candy Cho from [[Shake It Up]], who makes up for her airheadedness with the ability to come out on top in ''everything''.
* Sui Blake from ''One World.''
* Piper Bauman from [[Married...
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** She was shown to have depth at one point. [[Flanderization]] put a stop to that.
* Savannah Shane from ''[[All Grown Up]]'', who is a Chinese-American [[Alpha Bitch]] and Angelica's rival.
* ''[[
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* At the end of ''[[Mean Girls]]'', the members of the primary [[Girl Posse]], the Plastics, have broken up. In the case of Gretchen, she finds herself a new [[Girl Posse]] composed of stylish Asian girls. The last scene shows Gretchen ass-kissing in Vietnamese.
** The Asian girls who also had a [[Cat Fight]] after finding out [[Unfortunate Implications|they were all secretly sleeping with the coach.]] The movie also noted that "Asian nerds" and "cool Asians" were separate cliques at that school.
* Knives Chau from [[
== Literature ==
* Claudia Kishi of ''[[The
** In most of the books, though, it's indicated that while Claudia [[Book Dumb|isn't very good at school]], she is, in fact, intelligent. Mostly. Spelling, one of her defining not-too-bright traits, improved for awhile, before [[Flanderization|plummeting to near elementary-school-levels]] in the later books, to the point that it became a fandom joke.
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* ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' had [[Victim of the Week]] [[The Ojou|Hime]][[Meaningful Name|ka Yukimura]], a pretty young woman who refers to any man who treats her nicely as her "fated prince". This is exactly ''why'' she's the Victim: the [[Monster of the Week]] has a crush on her and uses his powers to eliminate the competition. At the end of the story arc, we see [[Aesop Amnesia|she's still doing it, and still has a crowd of enchanted young men following her]].
* Cassie Chan of ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'' fame, whose character seemed based around fawning over the Phantom Ranger and jutting prominently. She's gorgeous, but airy and fickle, of course.
* Jamie Chung's stint on ''[[The Real World]]'' has led her to run the gamut with this trope. She plays a type two in ''[[Samurai Girl]]'', ''[[
** She plays a type one in an episode of ''[[Greek]]''.
** Her roles in ''[[Grown Ups]]'' and ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' were an exception to this trope.
* Lulu, from ''[[True Jackson, VP]]'', played by Filipino actress Ashley Argota, is highly intelligent and can pick stock better then most Wall St day traders... but is incredibly annoying, even more ditzy, and seems to be on a nonstop sugar high.
* Keiko of the ABC reality show ''Conveyor Belt of Love''.
* ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' once had a model named Natasha Yi, who would go on to become an Internet celebrity. Something about the way she acted reeked of this trope.
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== Western Animation ==
* Hay Lin from ''[[WITCH (
* Amy Wong of ''[[
{{quote| '''Professor Farnsworth:''' I'm sure I don't need to explain that all dark matter in the universe is linked in the form of a single non-local meta-particle.<br />
'''Amy:''' Guhh! Stop patronizing us. }}
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** It should be noted that most of the school agrees with whatever any of the top dogs in the Fashion Club say.
** She was also the ''dumbest'' character of the Fashion Club; she, literally, agreed with whoever spoke last, lost her place on a piece of paper three sentences in, and just so you know, that isn't how fast she speaks, that's how fast ''she thinks''.
* Kuki Sanban (a.k.a. Numbuh 3) of ''[[Codename
** Of note is that she was voiced by Lauren Tom, the same actress who provides the voice for Amy Wong in ''Futurama''. In fact, one of the only young, popular characters she voices that ''doesn't'' fit into this trope in some manner is Kahn "Connie" Souphanousinphone, Jr. from ''[[King of the Hill]]''.
** [[That Other Wiki]] says the she is only acting stupid so she doesn't feel sad.
* Ami of ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' is the girly, sweet, distinctly [[Moe|moe-moe]] half of a two-girl singing group. She's the fun, happy, friendly one who dresses and is a Japanese idol singer. She's supposed to be the "stupid one". (Note, however, that Yumi is ''also'' a Japanese idol singer.)
* In ''[[
** Much to her parents' chagrin: "I mean can you believe it? An asian girl who can't do math?!"
* Stacy Hirano, Candace's best friend, from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''.
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'''Stacy:''' Thanks. Could you call my mother and tell her that? }}
** She's at least ridiculously [[Book Dumb]], since she thinks the pyramids are in France.
* ''[[
* Lee Lee, one of Dee Dee's friends in ''[[
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