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* Johnny Worthington from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' is a RareMaleExample. 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 threatens 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.

* Winifred from ''Literature/BalletShoes'' is this from a performing perspective. She's the best all-round student the academy has and is used to getting all the lead roles because of it. As such, she is ''not'' happy when she suddenly starts having to compete with the slightly more charismatic (and definitely more beautiful) Pauline Fossil. In the 2007 film when Pauline gets cast as Alice, Winifred throws a tantrum and screams that the casting has "nothing whatsoever to do with talent!" In the original novel though, Winifred makes the Fossil girls feel uncomfortable because she isn't jealous or bitter, she works harder than them and has a tougher home life due to poverty and illness in the family.

Similar to the ClassRepresentative in her concern for anything school-related and like the AlphaBitch in how ambitious she is, this character is aggressive in her academic superiority. She will act like she's in charge and decide who gets to do what. She's no shy {{Bookworm}}. This can be a male character, but for some reason, probably because both MenAreUncultured and HigherEducationIsForWomen, you can expect a female in the role.

They'll be found in a show that has a private school or a large cast as the one who will fight to be the best but is somehow still popular. The natural StudentCouncilPresident but not necessarily the only one. Unlike a regular AlphaBitch she is rarely glamorous and much more likely to be a friend sooner or later like the LovableAlphaBitch. She can often be the BetaBitch.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Light Yagami is a male example, especially after he found the notebook. He is one of the best students in the country, is very popular among his peers and teachers, and is very success-oriented. He is also a ControlFreak with a [[AGodAmI god complex]] and a HairTriggerTemper.

* 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 threatens 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.

* Weiss Schnee from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', who is one of the protagonists. She is also a LovableAlphaBitch.

The academic subtrope of ThePerfectionist and AlphaBitch. Compare to InsufferableGenius and NerdyBully. Compare also with GoGetterGirl.

* ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'': Sam's rival Amanda spends most of one episode gloating over how her team is going to win the class spelling bee.

-->-- ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''

* ''Series/ColdCase'': In [[Recap/ColdCaseS7E9Forensics 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.

* Winifred from ''Literature/BalletShoes'' is this from a performing perspective. She's the best all-round student the academy has and is used to getting all the lead roles because of it. As such, she is ''not'' happy when she suddenly starts having to compete with the slightly more charismatic (and definitely more beautiful) Pauline Fossil. In the 2007 film when Pauline gets cast as Alice, Winifred throws a tantrum and screams that the casting has "nothing whatsoever to do with talent!" In the original novel though, Winifred makes the Fossil girls feel uncomfortable because she isn't jealous or bitter, she works harder than them and has a tougher home lief due to poverty and illness in the family.

* Winifred from ''Literature/BalletShoes'' is this from a performing perspective. She's the best all-round student the academy has and is used to getting all the lead roles because of it. As such, she is ''not'' happy when she suddenly starts having to compete with the slightly more charismatic (and definitely more beautiful) Pauline Fossil. In the 2007 film when Pauline gets cast as Alice, Winifred throws a tantrum and screams that the casting has "nothing whatsoever to do with talent!"

Similar to the ClassRepresentative in her concern for anything school related and like the AlphaBitch in how ambitious she is, this character is aggressive in her academic superiority. She will act like she's in charge and decide who gets to do what. She's no shy {{Bookworm}}. This can be a male character, but for some reason, probably because both MenAreUncultured and HigherEducationIsForWomen, you can expect a female in the role.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Light Yagami is a male example, especially after he found the notebook. He is one of the best students in the country, is very popular among his peers and teachers and is very success-oriented. He is also a ControlFreak with a [[AGodAmI god complex]] and a HairTriggerTemper.

* ''Anime/HighschoolOfTheDead'': Prior to [[ZombieApocalypse the outbreak]], Saya was the smartest girl at Fujimi Highschool -- and ''[[MrExposition it shows]]''. Her nigh-encyclopaedic intellect and analytical ability has enabled her to quickly and accurately assess a situation on repeat occasions, which has saved Takashi and the others several times. But (in the anime) it's also made her [[InsufferableGenius almost unbearable]] at times, between lauding her intellectual superiority and being a major {{Tsundere}}.

* ''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 does genuinely [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold cares about her peers]], including Akko, even if her snobbish attitude hides it. She would later 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 towards Akko.
* ''Anime/MagicalDoremi'' has an elementary school version in Reika Tamaki. She's a very pretty, very BookSmart, and '''very''' arrogant girl who is the ClassRepresentative of Doremi, Hazuki and Aiko's class and always rubs on everyone's faces how charming, cute, smart and powerful she is.

* ''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.

* ''Film/FearStreet Part One:1994'': Kate, who is both the valedictorian and a cheerleader, 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).
* Taylor [=McKessie=] of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' is the president of the science club at East High and a member of the school's national decathlon team. She wants gifted Gabriella to join the team to beat their rivals in West High, and gets involved to sabotage Gabriella's growing relationship with Troy to get rid of any distractions. She does grow out of this when she realizes what a Jerkass move she pulled and becomes nicer.
* ''Film/JohnTuckerMustDie'': Carrie is a classic case, excels in school and is intimidating to other students. She is also a perfectionist, an ExtracurricularEnthusiast and a SchoolNewspaperNewsHound. Apparently she also [[CunningLinguist speaks several languages]] and is writing a children's book.
* When Elle gets to Harvard Law in ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' she faces Vivian Kensington, a horrible preppy girl who tries to make her look bad in front of the professor. Vivian is a threat to Elle because she's a smart, serious, law student. Later, however, Vivian and Elle start interacting more, and become sort-of FireForgedFriends.

* Harriet Bentley in ''Film/WildChild'' is a very good example, being the "head girl" of the school and making Poppy's life miserable. [[spoiler: She ends up being expelled when accidentally confessed that she was the responsible of a fire which Poppy was blamed]].

* Hermione Granger is this at first in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''. She spends most of her first scenes bragging about all the spells she's read up on in advance, and showing off in class. She undergoes CharacterDevelopment and becomes friends with Harry and Ron pretty soon however. According to WordOfGod there was a character planned to fill this role in the fourth book: a Weasley cousin called Mafalda who would get sorted into Slytherin and become Hermione's academic rival. She was dropped due to her age limiting story potential; as there would be a three year difference between the girls, they would share no classes and have few opportunities to interact.

* ''Literature/MaloryTowers'' by Creator/EnidBlyton has Alicia Johns, whose status as this trope is both confirmed and undermined when she collapses during an exam and is found to have come down with measles. She confesses that her head has been 'woolly' for days, and that she finally understands (and sympathizes with) how difficult it is for the non-genius girls in her form.
* 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.
* In ''Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead'', Mila Rutkevich has shades of it from the beginning, and her unpleasantness skyrockets when Alice starts to outshine her at classes.

* In ''Literature/{{Speak}}'', the Marthas are a group of girls led by an AlphaBitch trio, Meg, Emily and Siobhan, who spend their time doing community service projects, but are very exclusive as to who they allow to join, look down on unpopular students and are harsh towards their junior members. It's hinted that the newer members are the ones doing most of the actual work--when it's time to decorate the ballroom for the senior prom, Meg, Emily and Siobhan delegate all the work to their juniors so they can get their nails painted and teeth whitened.

** 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. Season 2 sees her undergoing a HeelFaceTurn.

** Season one has Ashley Kerwin who is popular and is glad for her unchallenged status for StudentCouncilPresident.

** Holly J. Sinclair becomes StudentCouncilPresident in season nine so she could do things her way.

* ''Series/HeadOfTheClass'': Alan Pinkard is none too pleased that others in the high IQ class do as well as he does, even better sometimes. And he was ''really'' pissed that [[ChildProdigy 11 year old Janice]] was in his high school - and more pissed that she left early to go to Harvard, which is where he wants to go. He and Darlene were neck-and-neck when it came time to declare a class valedictorian, but the school's powers that be decided to make another girl, TJ, valedictorian instead because of the challenges she'd had to overcome.

* Davina in ''Series/MyFamilyAndMe''. She was a straight A student back in high school and a dean's list student in college.

* ''Series/TheOC'': Taylor Townsend is introduced as a competitive, power-grabbing overachiever who quickly assumed the Student Social Chair position after Marissa is expelled. With her early behavior especially towards Summer, she was a combination of ManipulativeBitch and GoGetterGirl (she gets better later on, when the ManipulativeBitch part is toned down).
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': Libby is usually just the typical AlphaBitch cheerleader. However, there's an episode where Sabrina uses her magic to turn Libby into a nerd because she believed that it would teach her a lesson in humility and kindness. This ends up backfiring when Libby takes over the Science Club and starts bullying her old friends in the cheerleading squad. Libby also averts the ditziness usually associated with being the AlphaBitch, and does occasionally mock Sabrina when she gets better grades than her. One episode where Sabrina is forced to find out more about Libby has her discovering that she works harder to improve her math homework.
--> '''Quizmaster''': You didn't know Libby was bad at math?\\

* {{Deconstructed}} in ''Series/SassyGoGo'' with Kwon Soo Ah. She is shown to abrasive and manipulative, and is even willing to [[spoiler: frame Kim Yeol for stealing the midterms]]. However, she is shown to be heavily under the influence of her [[EducationMama mother]], and clearly regrets most of her harsh actions.

* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Lydia is introduced as the typical snobby AlphaBitch who is dating the JerkJock, but is also a TeenGenius who excels at academics and she knows it.

* Wrestling/{{Ryback}}, [[DumbMuscle of all people]], became this after his FaceHeelTurn, proclaiming that Wrestling/JohnCena fans knew nothing about nutrition or education, and that [[WellIntentionedExtremist killing John Cena was the only way to save them from their path of self destruction]]. After his inevitable loss to [[InvincibleHero Cena]] however, Ryback degenerated into a generic bully, then turned face.
* Niya Barela became this after completing her doctorate, claiming not only greater knowledge and higher intelligence than her peers, but also boasting and attempting to prove she spoke with a "higher linguistic acumen" than they did. Or in the case of her fellow educated Puerto Rican [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]], ''better'' education and fluency in English.

* Ocean O'Connell-Rosenberg of ''Theatre/RideTheCyclone''. Before her untimely death due to roller coaster derailment, she was choir president for nearly four years, student council president for two, and had gotten straight "A"'s since she was in kindergarten. She founded an improv group to help her best friend Constance Blackwood gain confidence with public speaking... except every "improv" came with a patronizingly moralistic script, and she would attack Constance's already fragile self esteem for deviating from their rehearsed material. In life, Ocean's ambition drove her to measure her self worth by her achievements, and she held all her "friends" in the choir to her impossibly high standards. In death she was even worse, gleefully telling the other choir members who perished in the same roller coaster accident that the only tragedy of their collective death was her own wasted potential.

* Kameo from ''VisualNovel/TrueLoveJunaiMonogatari'' is a RareMaleExample, always bragging about his academic accoplishments. He's also a bit of a CloudCuckooLander at times, though.

* ''WebAnimation/AttackOnMika'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzOp5doU_0A Callaco]] was the top student of her class, which drove her to bullying Koki for surpassing her. Later on in the student reunion, Koki finds out her looks deteriorated.
* ''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 not 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.

* In ''Webcomic/AnecdoteOfError'', Shimei shows off her knowledge every chance she gets, in order to stick it to Atshi whose grades are terrible even on non-magical subjects. She is personally offended that Atshi attended their school despite having no magical ability, and being a [[StayInTheKitchen housekeeper]] on top of that.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Cindy Vortex is a popular, athletic and intelligent girl, but she has a mean streak quite big and does not like Jimmy for having usurped her position as smartest kid.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}'': Nina Harper is the most popular girl in her grade at her and Sharon Spitz's school, but completely averts PopularIsDumb in that she's a straight-A student, being particularly gifted in the subjects of math and science. Given how intimidating Nina can be (even some of her teachers appear to be scared of her!), no-one would dare to call her "nerdy"!

* Charity in ''WesternAnimation/ExchangeStudentZero''. While she somewhat grows out of this in the MadeForTVMovie, she reprises this role in the TV series, [[TookALevelInJerkass ten fold]]. Then again, [[AlternateContinuity the show deliberately deviates from the events that happened in the TV movie]] so her CharacterDevelopment is apparently non-existent.

** Marge's ex-boyfriend Artie Ziff was a male example. In high school he was a stereotypical overachieving nerd, yet was also popular enough to get elected homecoming king and verbally bullied less intelligent students like Homer. The love triangle between him, Homer and Marge was basically the classic story of the pretty girl dating the JerkJock while secretly having feelings for the sweet-natured geek, but with the jock and geek switching places.

* Taylor [=McKessie=] of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' is the president of the science club at East High and a member of the school's national decathlon team. She wants Gabriella to join the team to beat their rivals in West High and does get involve to sabotage Gabriella's growing relationship with Troy to better get her in and keep the status. She does grow out of this when she realizes what a Jerkass move she pulled and becomes nicer.

* ''Malory Towers'' by Enid Blyton has Alicia Johns, whose status as this trope is both confirmed and undermined when she collapses during an exam and is found to have come down with measles. She confesses that her head has been 'woolly' for days, and that she finally understands (and sympathizes with) how difficult it is for the non-genius girls in her form.

* Subverted by [[StudentcouncilPresident Makoto]] [[WellDoneDaughterGirl 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.)

** [[Characters/TheSimpsonsLisaSimpson Lisa Simpson] 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.

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Mindy, an intelligent and boastful girl in the boys' class at school who is always trying to top her rival Josh. She eventually gets better from this, after she gets with Josh.Disambiguation

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'':

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Mindy, an intelligent and boastful girl in the boys' class at school who is always trying to top her rival Josh. She eventually gets better from this, after she gets with Josh.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'': Played with. While Sunset Shimmer is a genius, having been a former student of [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia]] who underwent a FaceHeelTurn and sought to use her powers for evil, she behaves more like a traditional AlphaBitch in the first movie. Her love of and thirst for knowledge isn't prominent until the third movie in the spin-off series, by which point she has already undergone a HeelFaceTurn.

** 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.

* ''Anime/MagicalDoremi'' has an elementary school version in Reika Tamaki. She's a very pretty, very booksmart, and '''very''' arrogant girl who is the ClassRepresentative of Doremi, Hazuki and Aiko's class and always rubs on everyone's faces how charming, cute, smart and powerful she is.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has Courtney, a stuck-up perfectionist overachiever whose motto is "If you can't come in first don't come in at all." [[TookALevelInJerkass She gets worse as the series goes on]].

* Laura in Season Two of ''Series/BronBroen'', who throws a tantrum because her teacher gave her a lower score than she wanted and begins blackmailing said teacher. [[spoiler:Said teacher is also her lover.]]

->'''Weiss''': I was thinking we could be on the team together.\\
'''Pyrrha''': Well, that sounds grand!\\
'''Weiss''': Great! ''[turns around with smirk and clasping hands, monologuing to self]'' This will be perfect! The smartest girl in class combined with the strongest girl in class! Together we will be unstoppable! I can see it now! We'll be popular! We'll be celebrities! We'll get perfect grades! Nothing could come between us now!

* ''Anime/HighSchoolOfTheDead'': Prior to [[ZombieApocalypse the outbreak]], Saya was the smartest girl at Fujimi Highschool - and ''[[MrExposition it shows]]''. Her nigh-encyclopaedic intellect and analytical ability has enabled her to quickly and accurately assess a situation on repeat occasions, which has saved Takashi and the others several times. But (in the anime) it's also made her [[InsufferableGenius almost unbearable]] at times, between lauding her intellectual superiority and being a major {{Tsundere}}.

* 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 embarrassing.]]