History Main / AcademicAlphaBitch

* ''Fanfic/MiraculousThePhoenixRises'' gives us Kiku Yoshikuro, head of the student council and all-around GoGetterGirl. Her HiddenDepths reveal her to be someone resentful of the heavy expectations placed on her.

* ''LightNovel/ClassroomOfTheElite'': Suzune is an exceptional student and she knows it, but her brother indicates that she's been assigned to Class-D because she can't work with others. She does [[PetTheDog try an intervention with the three dumbest students]], but because she's constantly insulting them, they walk out, and she immediately decides to let them fail out of the school and stop dragging on Class-D as a whole.

* ''WebAnimation/ETUAnimatedStories'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3q4RtGWvWg Bree]] has the highest grade in her class. She bullied Jacob for his low grades. After she tried to destroy his reputation, Bree was no longer asked by anyone to the prom, so she was forced to take along Jacob. But when Jacob took a babysitting job with a teenager daughter and a younger son, it is revealed that Bree is the teenager, and she broke up with him.

* AintTooProudToBeg:

* ''Series/ColdCase'': In [[Recap/ColdCaseS7E9Forensic Forensics]], OneShotCharacter Alyssa is a preppy, confident, skillful, and ''very'' arrogant debater who angrily, but not seriously, threatens a teammate's life once he costs them a round. Deconstructed with the reveal that she's a C student who views a successful debating career as her only hope of getting a good scholarship.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Lisa prides herself on her intelligence and always coming top of the class with straight 'A's. One episode has her world collapsing when she [[TheBGrade gets her very first B]]; another deals with an even brighter girl joining her class and Lisa's utter ''jealousy'' of her, and another when she skipped a grade and was no longer the big fish in a small pond. As the series went on, she also developed a rivalry with fellow smart student Martin Prince to the point that in the episode "Dial 'N' for Nerder", when Martin is [[NeverFoundTheBody apparently killed]] [[DeadlyPrank by a prank of Bart gone wrong]], she instantly assumes that said rivalry will be seen by the police as motive enough to commit murder.

* ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'' has Diana Cavendish. She is the top student of Luna Nova and an incredibly intelligent and powerful witch from an old and prestigious family and is capable of solving problems that even the teachers couldn't. However, she is also an incredibly haughty, cold and stuck up {{Jerkass}} who tends to berate and look down on others for not living up to her standards of a witch (Akko being her most frequent target), on top of frequently putting herself on a pedestal and thinking she knows best due to her background. That said, she is a LovableAlphaBitch who does have a noble side to her and deep down, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold care greatly about her peers]], including Akko, even if her snobbish attitude hides it. She does become much [[AdaptationalNiceGuy nicer]] in the [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 TV series]] (especially in the later episodes thanks to CharacterDevelopment), even if she remains a bit stuffy and reserved.

* ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'' has Diana Cavendish. She is the top student of Luna Nova and an incredibly intelligent and powerful witch from an old and prestigious family and is capable of solving problems that even the teachers couldn't. However, she is also an incredibly haughty, cold and stuck up {{Jerkass}} who tends to berate and look down on others for not living up to her standards of a witch (Akko being her most frequent target), on top of frequently putting herself on a pedestal and thinking she knows best due to her background. [[AdaptationalNiceGuy It's toned down in the]] [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 series adaptation]] where she's more reserved, but still aloof and condescending to Akko (at least, until [[DefrostingIceQueen she warms up to her later]])

* Subverted by [[StudentcouncilPresident Makoto]] [[WellDoneSonGuy Nijima]] from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', who ''isn't'' one but is mistakenly believed to be (which includes the Protagonist and his companion Ann Takamaki). For example, the Protagonist can hear some girls gossiping about how she knew what [[SadistTeacher Kamoshida]] was doing but hid it because she's only pretending to care about the student body. (The truth is that she was ''furious'' and [[ItsAllMyFault blamed herself]] for him being unpunished for so long, but felt she didn't have the power to do anything, as the series also subverts AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil.)

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' has Diana Cavendish. She is the top student of Luna Nova and an incredibly intelligent and powerful witch from an old and prestigious family and is capable of solving problems that even the teachers couldn't. However, she is also an incredibly haughty, cold and stuck up {{Jerkass}} who tends to berate and look down on others for not living up to her standards of a witch (Akko being her most frequent target), on top of frequently putting herself on a pedestal and thinking she knows best due to her background. [[AdaptationalNiceGuy It's toned down in the]] [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 series adaptation]] where she's more reserved, but still aloof and condescending to Akko (at least, until [[DefrostingIceQueen she warms up to her later]])

* ''Film/FearStreet Part One:1994'': Kate, who is both the valedictorian and TheCheerleader, and is selling drugs to make enough money to leave Shadyside. Played with however in that she's the protagonist's best friend, and even happily hooks up with her nerdy younger brother (and being best friends with an out lesbian in 1994 makes her quite progressive for her day).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has Amity Blight, a young witch-in-training who seems deliberately patterned off of Diana Cavendish of ''Little Witch Academia'' fame in everything from her attitude toward those she sees as inferiors to the moments where her HiddenHeartOfGold comes through.

* Johnny Worthington from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' is a male version. He’s the president of Roar Omega Roar, the most elite fraternity on campus, but he isn’t a stereotypical {{Fratbro}} as RΩR pride themselves on being the best scarers, which is a challenging academic program. He threaten’s Sully’s place in the frat if he can’t keep his grades up and eventually kicks him out when he’s dropped from the scaring program.

* ''Film/FearStreet Part One:1994'': Kate, who is both the valedictorian and TheCheerleader, and is selling drugs to make enough money to leave Shadyside.

** Courtney Crimsen. She's focused on academics, popular, and organizes many events in school. On the exterior, she seems to be a sweet GoGetterGirl but, like Marcus, is actually a selfish BitchInSheepsClothing who willingly harms others to protect her reputation. She even pulls some typical AlphaBitch moves like starting rumors and excluding people.

* ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'': The TV series adds an original character, Deirdre Swoop from the rival Pentangles Academy. She's the prize student and helps the school win numerous competitions, which she doesn't fail to rub everyone else's noses in. Fortunately, she mellows out by the time she appears in the spin-off ''Weirdsister College'' - and becomes a teacher at Cackle's later in her life.

''Fanfic/MiraculousThePhoenixRises'' gives us Kiku Yoshikuro, head of the student council and all-around GoGetterGirl. Her HiddenDepths reveal her to be someone resentful of the heavy expectations placed on her.

* Literature/GhostsOfFearStreet'': Emily from ''How To Be A Vampire'' is always talking down to her little brother Andrew (the protagonist) about how much smarter and more sophisticated she is for reading more advanced books than he does. Even when she agrees to help cure his vampirism, she makes it clear that [[ItsAllAboutMe is only helping him because she thinks having a vampire brother would be embarassing.]]

* in ''Literature/MyWeirdSchool'', Andrea Young is the smartest of the class, but is also the meanest and bossiest. She is the leader of a GirlPosse, with her friend Emily as the BetaBitch.

* The Two Time, Two Time All American American Wrestling/JackSwagger is not only an All American twice over, but is both an athletic and academic All American. And he's a tall, natural blond This makes him better than you in every conceivable way.

* Daniel "The Progressive Liberal" Richards loves to trace the problems of whatever area he happens to be wrestling in to the lack of higher education among it's adult residents and urge them to push their children to pursue what they neglected. His degrees are also what apparently allow him to win so many matches.[[/folder]]

* Subverted by [[StudentcouncilPresident Makoto]] [[WellDoneSonGuy Nijima]] from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', who ''isn't'' one but is mistakenly believed to be (which includes the Protagonist and his companion Ann Takamaki). For example, the Protagonist can hear some girls gossiping about how she knew what [[SadistTeacher Kamoshida]] was doing but hid it because she's only pretending to care about the student body. (The truth is that she was ''furious'' and [[ItsAllMyFault blamed herself]] for him being unpunished for so long, but felt she didn't have the power to do anything.)

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* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Jessie Spano is enough of one that she's willing to pop pills to keep up.
* ''Series/School2013'': Gil Eunhye and Nam Kyungmi's group. Hakyung is a more likable example.

* ''Series/Series/TeenageBountyHunters2020'': April is more an alpha bitch than Sterling but both are fiercely devoted to their studies.

* ''Series/TeenageBountyHunters'': April is more an alpha bitch than Sterling but both are fiercely devoted to their studies.
* Sam's rival Amanda in ''Series/{{Wishbone}}''. She spends most of one episode gloating over how her team is going to win the class spelling bee.

* ''Literature/AmericanGirlSamantha'': Edith is the smartest girl in Samantha’s class, and thus acts superior to her classmates.

* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Jessie Spano is enough of one that she's willing to pop pills to keep up
* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': Dev and Ben are fiercely competitive and their rivalry brings out the worst in each other
* ''Series/{{TeenageBountyHunters}}'': April is more an alpha bitch than Sterling but both are fiercely devoted to their studies.

* ‘’Series/MrIglesias’’ has Whitney Carson, an honors student who looks down on the underprivileged kids in Mr. Iglesias’s class. She’s [[RichBitch rich, too, and uses her money to get perks]] to get ahead of her classmates in tests and grades.

* Series/School2013'': Gil Eunhye and Nam Kyungmi's group. Hakyung is a more likable example.