History Main / GirlPosse

They are often GossipyHens as well. They are very unlikely to be AFriendInNeed, [[NoHonorAmongThieves even to each other]]. May also overlap with TerribleTrio,[[note]]which has the AlphaBitch, the BetaBitch, and the BrainlessBeauty[[/note]] and always a FreudianTrio.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' made the interesting choice of being a series about a girl posse, with Sasha being the manipulative, bossy and mean Alpha Bitch, Marcy being the smart BetaBitch that ends up being a betrayer of the group and main character Anne being third member who is neither particularly smart or mean.

** Azula's posse are fully realized characters in their own right, and [[LadyOfWar Mai]] and [[CloudCuckooLander Ty]] [[SheFu Lee]] are not [[PsychoSupporter exactly enthusiastic supporters]]. In fact, they ''have'' largely been told by the would-be-future ruler of the world that they have no choice, Mai's [[EmotionlessGirl boredom with life]] aside. Despite this, and their eventual, perhaps inevitable break with her, they ''are'' a [[DarkActiongirl terrifically efficient fighting force]], and are wise enough to keep their ruthless leader happy, as far as she can be. To their opponents, their front must seem incredibly unified and as intimidating as any group of mindless minions, even when the target is not cornered by a locker or such.

* {{Gender Inverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': When holding the VillainBall, Dale Gribble acts as the AlphaBitch leading a clique and even commanding his cronies with a snap of his fingers and a “S’go!” In these scenarios, Bill Dauterive acts as the BetaBitch who parrots Dale and mirrors his body language, while Boomhauer does little more than stand next to Dale and look handsome.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' features a deconstruction: AcademicAlphaBitch Amity Blight has a posse of several other girls, but most prominently Boscha and Skara, and Amity's first appearance sees her being mean to her nerdy, less-skilled ex-best friend Willow. However, the more the audience sees of Amity, the more it becomes clear that her mean attitude is a façade that she genuinely feels bad about, and she [[LonelyAmongPeople doesn't seem particularly enthused about being in the company of her posse]]. In "Understanding Willow", it's revealed that [[spoiler:Amity's high-society parents coerced her to end her sincere friendship with Willow against her will, under threat of making sure that Willow could never attend magic school if Amity didn't, and instead made their daughter become "friends" with Boscha and Skara (whom Amity dislikes because they actually ''are'' mean) because they're more "suitable companions" for a Blight. Essentially, Amity only has her girl posse because her parents forced her to, and has to silently endure their company while watching them mistreat people she actually likes and would prefer to be friends with, luckily [[LoveInterest Luz's]] influence eventually gives her the courage to ditch them for '''''real''''' friends]].

* The Mindettes in ''Series/OneHundredThingsToDoBeforeHighSchool'' are minions to AlphaBitch Mindy Minus. Thhey dress like Mindy and follow her every command.

%%* In ''Webcomic/{{Dreamkeepers}} Prelude'', [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=159 objecting to Lilith]].
* ''Webcomic/AliceAndTheNightmare'' has Elsie, Tillie and Lacie of the "mean girl" variety - they latch onto Alice as the Queen's protege and practice FantasticRacism against Edith.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': [[AlphaBitch Mandy]] and her [[FlatCharacter two best friends]], Dominique and Caitlin. Mandy didn't seem to have any friends outside of them, because whenever she wasn't with either one or both of them, she didn't really hang out with anyone else (Dominique and Caitlin seemed closer to each other than to Mandy). [[spoiler:Dominique and Caitlin got written out of the series after the first episode of the fifth season (due to high school graduation), and got replaced by Mandy's cousin, ''Mindy'', who's basically just like Mandy, except she's a dark-skinned blonde with a Southern accent]].
* The Ashleys in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', with Ashley A. (usually) as the AlphaBitch.
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': Mertle has possibly the youngest posse, who take the "parrot her opinions" duty to the extreme - Mertle insults Lilo, they say in unison, "''Ye-e-e-ah.''"
* In ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' things are turned on their heads a little, while Courtney Gripling is the leader of the Lucky Junior High girl posse it is her second-in-command, Miranda Killgallen, who acts like the AlphaBitch. Courtney herself is the LovableAlphaBitch who has several satellites following her around. Mipsy Mipson counts as a BetaBitch who usually fills in for Miranda when she is unavailable, though ironically she's even ''meaner'' than Miranda is.

* Sierra leads one of these in ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'': Heather's alliance with Lindsay and Beth qualifies as one, although unlike Heather, Lindsay and Beth are very nice girls who largely follow Heather in hopes of making it to the final three. Both of them ultimately leave the alliance at different points after realizing Heather does't really care about them.
* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' -- there, neither the AlphaBitch Bonnie nor head cheerleader Kim has any kind of girl posse. Though some fanfics tend to place the cheerleaders [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110205041545/kimpossible/images/0/00/Hope.jpg Hope]] and [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110205043706/kimpossible/images/1/1b/Jessica.jpg Jessica]] as Bonnie's posse.

* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'''s Penelope Lang has her own posse in the form of two girls named Megan and Sarah who sycophantically toady up to her all the time.
* Eve and Tori are the Girl Posse of [[CruelCheerleader Beth]] in the ''Toys/PollyPocket'' animated movies. The pre-cutant ones, at least. While they don't have any ill feelings towards Polly and her friends and even question Beth on why she hates Polly, they let her boss them around. To their credit, [[spoiler: when Polly's band got to play on a school event despite Beth's efforts to prevent it from happening, they decided to enjoy the show instead of put up with Beth's rants.]] Too bad it didn't keep them from helping her in subsequent movies.

* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'': Gem is usually accompanied by a group of girls, and likes to yell orders to them.
* The Glamazons in ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'', led by AlphaBitch Kimmie. Her BetaBitch, Brandy, actually [[SubvertedTrope turns out]] to not be so bad and [[HiddenDepths a good friend]], and even Kimmie gets [[CharacterDevelopment developed]] later.
* ''WesternAnimation/GetAce'': [[AlphaBitch Tina DeVeer]] and her two friends, the SingleMindedTwins Emma and Gemma. The twins act like servants to Tina at times and [[YesMan always agree with whatever she says]], only rarely showing independent thought, mostly because it's implied they're afraid of upsetting her.
* Subverted with The Misfits in ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. Pizzazz is clearly the musical equivalent of the AlphaBitch and Roxy is the BetaBitch, but all three of Pizzazz's band mates have characterization beyond being her lackeys.
* The Cute Dolls from ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight''. All of them are pretty stuck-up and snobby.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie'', AlphaBitch Suzi has a pair of side girls whose sole function is to attempt to agree with Suzi more than the other.
* ''WesternAnimation/KennyTheShark'' has this with the Phoebes, with the blonde Phoebe being the leader.
* {{Gender Inverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': When holding the VillainBall, Dale Gribble acts as the AlphaBitch leading a clique and even commanding his cronies with a snap of his fingers and a “S’go!” In these scenarios, Bill Dauterive acts as the BetaBitch who parrots Dale and mirrors his body language, while Boomhauer does little more than stand next to Dale and look handsome.
* A darker, more sinister than usual example in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'' is antagonist trio the Dazzlings; with Adagio Dazzle as the AlphaBitch, Aria Blaze as the BetaBitch, and [[TrademarkFavoriteFood taco loving]] Sonata Dusk as the BrainlessBeauty.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' features a deconstruction: AcademicAlphaBitch Amity Blight has a posse of several other girls, but most prominently Boscha and Skara, and Amity's first appearance sees her being mean to her nerdy, less-skilled ex-best friend Willow. However, the more the audience sees of Amity, the more it becomes clear that her mean attitude is a façade that she genuinely feels bad about, and she [[LonelyAmongPeople doesn't seem particularly enthused about being in the company of her posse]]. In "Understanding Willow", it's revealed that [[spoiler:Amity's high-society parents coerced her to end her sincere friendship with Willow against her will, under threat of making sure that Willow could never attend magic school if Amity didn't, and instead made their daughter become "friends" with Boscha and Skara (whom Amity dislikes because they actually ''are'' mean) because they're more "suitable companions" for a Blight. Essentially, Amity only has her girl posse because her parents forced her to, and has to silently endure their company while watching them mistreat people she actually likes and would prefer to be friends with, luckily [[LoveInterest Luz's]] influence eventually gives her the courage to ditch them for '''''real''''' friends]].
--> '''Boscha''': "You just destroyed your social life."
--> '''Amity''': "Na, I think I made it better."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' made the interesting choice of being a series about a girl posse, with Sasha being the manipulative, bossy and mean Alpha Bitch, Marcy being the smart BetaBitch that ends up being a betrayer of the group and main character Anne being third member who is neither particularly smart or mean.

* ''Charlie's Story'', by Maeve Friel, has Charlotte "Charlie" Collins, a student in an Irish girls' school, bullied and harassed in exceptionally cruel ways by pretty, smart, and popular AlphaBitch Lorna and [[BetaBitch Beta Bitches]] Tara, Natalie and Monica, who single Charlie out for torment simply because Charlie's mother abandoned her as a baby and Charlie's family is allegedly the Irish version of white trash.
* ''Literature/TheSecretRunnersOfNewYork'' features a quartet of psychopathic prep school girls who engage in time travel for thrill-seeking. They kidnap classmates who get them mad (a friend of theirs who outshined the eldest girl in a debutante showing, a girl with Down's Syndrome who the BetaBitch got into trouble for bullying, etc.) and strand them in the BadFuture to be killed by cannibals. They have several male friends, but the boys don't know about the murders. The narrator (a NewTransferStudent) becomes the TokenGoodTeammate of the group's female members.
* ''Literature/TheseBrokenStars'': Lilac is well-known in the tabloids for travelling with an entourage of similarly well-dressed girls. What's less well-known is that they're bodyguards. And that they report back to [[PapaWolf her father]].
* In ''Literature/TwoCanKeepASecret'' (by the author of ''Literature/OneOfUsIsLying'') there's Katrin, Brooke and Viv (a BlondeBrunetteRedhead group no less), who hang out together shopping a lot, cheerleading and are the homecoming queen front runners. Interestingly, Viv is arguably the most bitchy, and that's more from insecurity about being less popular than the other two. The three are the most catty with each other instead of the unpopular students). By the end of the book it's revealed that each of the three has a DarkSecret. [[spoiler:Brooke is having an affair with Katrin's dad and witnessed him commit a hit-and-run, for which he later killed her. Katrin suspects that her dad killed Brooke and is protecting him. Viv is behind some malicious graffiti, vandalism and threatening notes simply to provide a news story for herself to write about in the school paper.]]
* In ''Literature/NighttimeIsMyTime'' there were a group of seven girls in the same graduating class at Stonecroft Academy, who were close friends and sat together at lunch every day. Most of these girls were considered some of the brightest and most popular students at Stonecroft; unfortunately some of them were also bullies, especially ringleader Alison Kendall and her best friend Laura Wilcox. Over the past twenty years, [[BigBad the Owl]] has been killing each girl in the order they sat at the lunch table and now there are only two remaining.
* ''{{Literature/Chrysanthemum}}'': Victoria is the most vocal about teasing Chrysanthemum for her long name, while her friends Jo and Rita follow her example.

* In ''Renegadepress.com'''s "Giving Yourself Away", this is {{Deconstructed}}; Crystal is torn when she discovers that in order to join the cool clique in school, she has to perform oral sex.

* [[AlphaBitch Libby]] and her [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional interchangeable]] goon squad from ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''.
* Kate and her one-dimensional interchangeable cheerleading squad from ''Series/LizzieMcGuire''.
* Gigi's friends in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace.'' They suck up to Gigi so much that they actually get plastic surgery so that their noses will look like hers.
* ''Literature/GossipGirl'' both plays this one straight (Kati, Isabel, Hazel, Penelope) and subverts it (The bespectacled Asian nerd who routinely receives the highest test scores of anyone in the school eventually becomes one of Blair's henchmen).
* Paris in ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' had her two sidekicks, Madeline and Louise, whilst she and Rory were at Chilton High.
* Trisha Yates, Pamela Cartwright and Susi MacMahon in ''Series/{{Grange Hill}}''
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' had the TerribleTrio version. In Season 1 when Quinn was the AlphaBitch, Santana (BetaBitch) and Brittany (BrainlessBeauty) were her main right hand bitches. When Quinn became pregnant and kicked off the Cheerios, Brittany and Santana [[DivergentCharacterEvolution got their own distinct personalities]] and became beloved characters in their own right.
* ''Series/SummerHeightsHigh'' has its version of the popular {{Alpha Bitch}}es who dubbed themselves [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owolyDIQ4NQ "The Hot Girls"]].
* Christine, the AlphaBitch of ''Series/DeadGorgeous'', has a band of loyal sychophants.
* Some of these appear as one-off characters in ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow''. One of the earlier ones were a trip of girls whom Carmen and her friend Toby tried to befriend--[[KidsAreCruel they were mercilessly cruel to Toby]] and even made Carmen turn against her so she could be popular like them. [[FalseFriend And no, they weren't even nice to Carmen either.]]

* Nicely subverted on ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks''. Vicki Applebee is the show's resident AlphaBitch, but even most of the other popular girls at [=McKinley=] High (including Cindy Sanders) have a problem with her. And Cindy, probably one of the most popular girls at [=McKinley=] herself, is nice to everyone on the social totem pole .
* Played with in ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': the four main characters were the girl posse to Alison [=DiLaurentis=], who is, of course, [[DeathByOriginStory dead]]. Now, the other four effectively remain this, but without a clear leader. Also, the four of them increasingly become social outcasts as the story progresses.
* In ''Series/TheWorstYearOfMyLifeAgain'', Nicola Grey has one.
* ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' skit, The Girls' Room has Amber (the popular Alpha Bitch leader), Sheila (the tough mean girl), Tammy (the exchange student from - whom she was born in - Tennessee and moved to a new state), and Debbie (a girl who likes eggs and is a dumb brunette).
* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': In Season 4, Klair, an old acquaintance of Alexis, shows up in town with her posse of sycophants. Klair is manipulative and even downright abusive to her posse, but she offers Alexis a PR job and the chance to join the posse and live in New York. Alexis sees Klair for what she is and decides to stay in Schitt's Creek.

* ''Series/AmberBrown2022'': Hannah, the school's AlphaBitch, is always seen with four other girls doting on her. One even repeats back what she says to other girls.

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* ConversationalTroping: Given the name "Blonde-tourage" in an episode of ''[[Franchise/TheMuppets Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony]]''.
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* The bird girls in ''[[Theatre/{{Seussical}} Seussical The Musical]]'' are Mayzie's girl posse as well as being a GreekChorus

* ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'' has one of these in Alicia, bully who leads the popular clique around.

* In ''WebAnimation/EverySimsMachinimaEverParody'', the posse consists of Madylynne, her explicitly [[TokenMinority token black friend]] Jessica, and Ella's former best friend Chloe. They all just make mean comments at Ella's appearance, to the point where she gets plastic surgery and a tan.

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* Before her fall from grace, Morita in ''Webcomic/RedString'' had a couple of lackeys -- one with pigtails and one with short black hair. They followed her around and almost never said anything, but giggled and smirked at Morita's cruelty.

* Subverted in ''[[http://cheer.thewotch.com/index.php?date=20051027 Cheer!]]'' twice: The Ekaltsew Cheer team, who are shown as buffoonish and stupid would-be enemies of the Tandy Cheer team, and with Sarah and Karen, who eventually abandon their leader, Tamara, after one hare-brained revenge scheme too many.

%%* Felicia Laine, with her unnamed cat and squirrel, in ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie''.
%%* The high school of ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'' also has them. See [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/430 this strip]].
* [[Webcomic/BittersweetCandyBowl Daisy]] briefly falls in with one of these, but is dumped by them later on. Subverted in that a few members of the group later reveal that the "leader" of the posse was not much liked by THEM either, so they continue to hang out with Daisy.
* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', Goldie was the queen of Jane's high school. The trope is somewhat subverted in that Goldie seemed to be a benevolent despot. Jane was set to inherit the title during her senior year [[spoiler:until she dropped out of school]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=413 from left to right]]: [[TheHeart Kyo]], [[LovableAlphaBitch Chrys]], [[EmotionlessGirl Naal]], [[ServileSnarker Shinae]], and [[TheLadette Kiel]]. Subverted when [[spoiler: Chrys and Kyo are wrongfully imprisoned, Naal turns out to be ill, Shinae is shown to be a JerkassWoobie, and Kiel's [[HeroWithAnFInGood dream]] job is to be the [[FourthWallObserver series]]' KnightInShiningArmor.]]

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* The Gambee pilots of ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry''.
* Chieko has a pair of them in ''Anime/AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku'' ''TV''. Except for one LowerDeckEpisode, all they did was pop up behind her saying, "Yes, what Chieko said is right." They had names, but it only highlighted how unimportant they were; "Hidariko" and "Migiko" translate to just "left-girl" and "right-girl".

* Subversion: [[GossipyHens Julie and Charlotte]] attempt to become Layla's Girl Posse in ''Anime/KaleidoStar'' to get back at Sora for being TheFool, but thanks to some bits of CharacterDevelopment midway through the first season, not only they start being nicer to Sora, but they start helping Layla for ''selfless'' reasons and not to suck up to her.
* Yuki's fanclub in ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. The president of the club is Motoko, the AlphaBitch. They're intensely jealous of main character Tohru since she's friends with Yuki and constantly plot to get rid of her, but their schemes never get very far since they're scared of Tohru's friends [[FormerTeenRebel Uotani]] and [[PsychicPowers Hanajima]].
* Asai Yuriko, Yamano Minako, and Ayuhara Erika from ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'', though they don't have nearly the popularity or influence that the F4 does.

* Subverted in ''Anime/DualParallelTroubleAdventure'', where Mitsuki Rara's posse are nice girls, they even perform a HeelFaceTurn later in the series.

* In ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'', the Princess' only friends are these, and once she ditched them over a fight. They then received powers from the dark Z rays, which made them posse anyone they wanted, inflating their ego and making them selfish, and when using their powers in conjunction with Princess' they actually made her stronger.
* Miyabi's teacher-hating schoolgirl gang in ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka''.
* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Ange's classmates during her time at St. Lucia Academy.

* Megumi Furuta and Miyuki Sonobe from ''Manga/DearBrother'', companions to [[AlphaBitch Aya Misaki]]. [[spoiler: Episode 30, however, gives them some HiddenDepths since they truly like and support Aya... and the Sorority seniors try to use their affection for her to their own benefit.]]
* In ''Manga/CandyCandy'', Eliza has a two-person one in the BoardingSchool arc. It's formed by BetaBitch Louisa and a redheaded fat girl who [[NoNameGiven is never named in the story]].
* Akina Shinozaki of ''Manga/DontBecomeAnOtakuShinozakiSan'' was part of one in her middle school years. Her hopes to become part of a new one in high school were dashed when she was ill the first full week and all the cliques and posses had already formed by the time she could attend. She instead befriends otaku Kaede with the intent of making her "normal" only to become more of an otaku herself.
* ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'': AcademicAlphaBitch Diana Cavendish is usually followed and surrounded by her roommates, Hannah England and Barbara Parker, who are very loyal to Diana and tend to mock and bully anyone they perceived as being below them and Diana, Akko being their most frequent target. In fact, in the [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 TV series]], [[BetaBitch they're often worst than Diana]]. Daryl Cavendish, Diana's EvilAunt, also has a posse of her own via her daughters, who are just as [[LikeMotherLikeDaughter bad as their mother]].

* AlphaBitch Elle Diablo leads the clique of popular girls who set out to make Becca's life at her new school hell in ''ComicBook/AllGhoulsSchool''.
* Diana and her followers in ''ComicBook/ZodiacStarforce'', which Josh describes as "a coven of [[Film/MeanGirls mean girl]] witches".
* ''ComicBook/SonicX:'' Milan Ramada's two-girl "entourage". They just follow her around while she tries to make others feel miserable.

* Lucy, [[ThoseTwoGuys Patty, Violet]] and occasionally Frieda were an elementary-school version of this trope in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.

* The Brat Pack from Fanfic/SeventyTwoHours.
* ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived'': Three popular girls in District 9 trick a disfigured classmate into volunteering for the Hunger Games by acting like they're all going to raise their hands to, and find the whole thing hilarious.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6208221/1/Velma-Dinkley-s-Beginning Velma Dinkley's Beginning]]'', [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma]] is being bullied by a group of popular girls, led by [[WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo Red Herring]]'s [[HalfIdenticalTwins twin sister]] [[AlphaBitch Jessie]], because a nerd like her talked to their friend Daphne and crush Fred. Shaggy warned that they beat up anyone who tries to befriend Daphne. They even threaten to have Red beat up Shaggy if she doesn't stay away from them.
-->'''Jessie:''' Look [[MaliciousMisnaming Dorkley]], I don't know how you talk to Freddie without him ignoring you but that stops now. If you ever go near Freddie again, you're dead.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' gives us Mertle Edmonds and her droogs. Further showcased in ''The Series''.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' is named after the girl posse in the film, of which three out of four girls all have the given name "Heather". H. Chandler is the AlphaBitch, H. Duke is jealous of Chandler's power, H. [=McNamara=] is a meek follower, and Veronica is the newcomer who actually hates being part of the group and did it solely to become InWithTheInCrowd.
* ''Film/TheSisterhoodOfNight'' gives us Mary Warren's Sisterhood.
* A majority of the plot of ''Film/MeanGirls'' (who provide the page image) deeply delved into the phenomenon. ManipulativeBitch Regina George rules over the school, with ProfessionalButtKisser Gretchen and DumbBlonde Karen as her sidekicks.

* ''Film/{{Jawbreaker}}'' is about how one of these fell apart.
* The Pink Ladies in ''Film/{{Grease}}'', to a degree. This movie had ''two'' sets of such posses (actually four, if you count both male and female). On the one side for each sex was the contingent of more prototypically 1950s kids who dress like model students, act (superficially) polite, and suck up to all the authority figures they can. Then there are the Pink Ladies and their male counterparts, the T-Birds, who wear tight pants and pink jackets, smoke, swear, play mean-spirited pranks, and generally act rude. Both cliques are shown to be flawed, but it's implied that [[SlobsVersusSnobs the Pink Ladies are somewhat less flawed]] [[AtLeastIAdmitIt because they're at least honest about their shortcomings]]. The lesson, I guess, is that it's not really fashion or attitude that makes you cool, but a lack of hypocrisy.

* The A Group from ''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion''. Sadly, only one of them actually made something out of herself. When the leading AlphaBitch tries to embellish the success of her and the other members, the one who is successful lets out a YouKeepTellingYourselfThat.
* ''Film/BringItOn'' (and more of its sequels) have the protagonist move in and out of this sort of clique.
* Penny from ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' is an entire Girl Posse unto herself ([[SelfDuplication she can make copies of herself]]).

* ''Film/CantHardlyWait:'' Amanda hangs out with a trio of shallow, pop-culture fixated girls who date {{Dumb Jock}}s. They aren't exactly TrueCompanions, but they at least make an effort (telling Amanda they think she's prettier than Creator/GwynethPaltrow, then admitting that isn't true once she's out of earshot).
* Shelby's "ladies-in-waiting" in ''Film/ACinderellaStory'' seem to include the school's cheerleaders, notably Caitlyn and Madison, as well as Sam's stepsisters.
* In ''Film/TheCraft'', Nancy's posse subverts this trope in terms of their low social standing, but plays it entirely straight in terms of organizational structure and clique mentality. While Nancy is the clear AlphaBitch and Sarah is the obvious NaiveNewcomer, neither Bonnie or Rochelle fit any obvious tropes connected with TheDitz - another position usually utilized with this trope - and instead share the spotlight as dual [[BetaBitch Beta Bitches]]; one of which has a severe case of IJustWantToBeBeautiful, and the other just wants to give a racist bully [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine A Taste of Her Own Medicine]].

* ''Film/BoyEatsGirl'': Shallow popular girls Cheryl, Glenda and Charlotte generally stick together both before and after the ZombieApocalypse starts.
* Arguably deconstructed in ''Film/DanceTogether'': Main character Holly is part of one with some of her fellow dance students, but they don't seem to bully anyone except Holly herself after she hurts her leg and has to stop. AlphaBitch stand-in Zoey is motivated by jealousy and [[WellDoneSonGuy feeling pressured by her parents to get a scholarship that Holly seemed like a shoe-in for]] while their friends Tiffany and Tia are revealed to feel highly conflicted about the whole thing due to their long-term friendship with Holly and want to break ranks with Zoey, but realize that it would also break up their dance team before a competition. [[spoiler: In the final act, one by one, they ultimately reconcile with Holly, and also start hanging out with Holly's new friends]].
* ''Film/{{Holidays}}'': Heidi in ''Valentine's Day'' has a gaggle of followers who never initiate the teasing of Maxine, but always join in once Heidi starts.
* ''Film/TheNewGuy:'' Cheerleaders Danielle, Courtney and Carmen hang out together a lot and serve as lust objects for most of the boys. Danielle is a subversion of the AlphaBitch type in general, being actually level-headed and humble from the get-go. Courtney and Carmen are a little less smart and a lot more flirty, but ultimately pleasant enough and even at their worst don't actively bully anyone.

* ''Film/TheWoods'': AlphaBitch Samantha is sometimes followed around by five or six scowling cronies when she bullies Heather. [[spoiler:Interestingly, Samantha is shown to have been GoodAllAlong and secretly resisting the witches who control the school, whether or not her cronies are as well is unclear.]]
* ''Film/Blame2017'': Sophie and Ellie follow [[AlphaBitch Melissa]] around, doing as she does at all times. Ellie however abandons her after being wronged by Melissa.

* ''Film/Candyman2021:'' Candyman attacks a clique of five unpleasant popular girls in the bathroom, although they're less stereotypically GirlyGirl than most examples of the trope (one of them dresses kind of like a {{Tomboy}} and another is an androgynous stoner with a shaved head).
* ''Film/DarbyAndTheDead'': Bree, Piper and Taylor were Capri's friends (though it turns out they didn't care too much about her), following her around everywhere while she was alive.
* Tiffany and Brooke are this to AlphaBitch Danielle in ''Film/BadgirlsFromValleyHigh''. Tiffany is the BetaBitch, while Brooke is the TokenGoodTeammate who is kind but is easily intimidated and manipulated by Danielle and Tiffany.

* Among the minor vampires in the ''Franchise/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' novel ''Mortal Fear'' are a trio of of former cheerleaders who spend most of their brief page time insulting each other's weight and ogling a pile of shoes.

* Jessica Wakefield and her pals in the ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' books and TV series, and more specifically The Unicorn Club in the ''Sweet Valley Twins'' book series.

* In ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' there is Grace and Bebe for Cokie Mason and Jannie and Leslie for Pamela Harding.

* Subverted in ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky'': the teenage coven starts off looking like a Girl Posse to Anagramma, but gradually realise what a bitch she is, and start taking more of their lead from Tiffany, to the extent that Tiff has to persuade them to help Anagramma in ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}''.

* In Michael C. Bailey's ''Literature/ActionFigures - Issue One: Secret Origins'', Carrie has been in one. They had no sympathy when her parents divorced, and she dropped them.
* In Creator/LaurenKate novel ''Unforgiven'' the [[AlphaBitch most popular girl]] at school, Chloe King (daughter of a media mogul and generally a RichBitch) has a bubblegum pop band "Perceived Slights", whose members Kara, June and Teresa are always around, wear similar clothes (eg. suede minidresses of different pastel colours) and generally follow her lead.
* Melodía of ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'', as a princess of Nuevaropa, is forced to have one, composed of her fellow noblewomen. While they're not quite stereotypical (one's a DramaQueen, the other's TheCynic, yet other a ConspiracyTheorist), she's not happy to have them.
* The protagonist of ''Literature/AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret'' unwittingly becomes a part of one. This isn't that noticeable until [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]] 19. Her first friend at her new neighborhood is Nancy, a [[AlphaBitch rather manipulate and mean rich girl]] that [[BitchInSheepsClothing seems nice at first glance]]. Nancy convinces Margaret to join her "Secret Club" of specific female classmates. Nancy and the others like to make fun of a HugeSchoolgirl and spread rumors behind her back. It isn't until the girl gets mad at Margaret that Margaret [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes her errors]].
* ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'': Upon starting at Shiz University, Galinda joins a posse that consists of Milla, Pfannee, and Shenshen. They're rich, snobby girls who enjoy teasing Galinda's roommate Elphaba. This all changes when Galinda befriends her Elphaba and ends her friendship with the posse.

* In [[Creator/JudyBlume Judy Blume]]'s ''Literature/{{Blubber}}'', AlphaBitch Wendy turns the entire class against overweight, awkward Linda, but appoints a Girl Posse of Beta Bitches, including Caroline, Donna, and narrator Jill, as Linda's principal tormentors along with herself. Later on, Jill, after challenging Wendy's authority, is demoted to the class's ButtMonkey and Linda takes Jill's place in the Girl Posse, more than willing to participate in bullying her former bully.

In a HighSchool series, there's pretty much always a {{jerkass}}, if not evil, popular girl. We'll call her the AlphaBitch and give her an entry of her own, otherwise she might tell all the cute boys that we have smelly man feet [[note]]Which is [[BlstsntLies ''categorically'' not true]] [[/note]]. Older girls might count if they're part of a [[SinisterSororitySisters sorority.]]

In a HighSchool series, there's pretty much always a {{jerkass}}, if not evil, popular girl. We'll call her the AlphaBitch and give her an entry of her own, otherwise she might tell all the cute boys that we have smelly man feet. Older girls might count if they're part of a [[SinisterSororitySisters sorority.]]

It's also possible for a Girl Posse led by a LovableAlphaBitch to be portrayed positively, or at least neutrally, although this is pretty rare.

* Subverted in ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}''. Ami picks up a posse as soon as she transfers to the school, but they're both nice girls who get along with the protagonist clique, and even tell Ami to dial it back when she gets bitchy.

* From ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'', Amber, Clio, and Hildegard, the most popular princesses at Royal Prep; [[LovableAlphaBitch Nicer than]] [[DownplayedTrope most examples though]].

In a HighSchool series, there's pretty much always a {{jerkass}}, if not evil, popular girl. We'll call her the AlphaBitch and give her an entry of her own, otherwise she might tell all the cute boys that we have smelly man feet.

* The Fashion Club from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' is an atypical example, for a few reasons. For one, DivergentCharacterEvolution kicked in so that each of the four girls [[AlphaBitch eventually]] [[LovableAlphaBitch had a]] [[AsianAirhead distinct]] [[ExtremeDoormat personality]], and to a degree, CharacterDevelopment (especially Quinn, who is the title character's sister, and in the last season Stacy). Furthermore, they usually had their own subplots instead of being antagonists; instead of bullying less popular students, they tended to focus on [[WithFriendsLikeThese each other]].

* ''The Secret Runners of New York'' by Creator/MatthewReilly features a quartet of psychopathic prep school girls who engage in time travel for thrill-seeking. They kidnap classmates who get them mad (a friend of theirs who outshined the eldest girl in a debutante showing, a girl with Down's Syndrome who the BetaBitch got into trouble for bullying, etc.) and strand them in the BadFuture to be killed by cannibals. They have several male friends, but the boys don't know about the murders. The narrator (a NewTransferStudent) becomes the TokenGoodTeammate of the group's female members.

* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=413 from left to right]]: [[TheChick Kyo]], [[LovableAlphaBitch Chrys]], [[EmotionlessGirl Naal]], [[ServileSnarker Shinae]], and [[TheLadette Kiel]]. Subverted when [[spoiler: Chrys and Kyo are wrongfully imprisoned, Naal turns out to be ill, Shinae is shown to be a JerkassWoobie, and Kiel's [[HeroWithAnFInGood dream]] job is to be the [[FourthWallObserver series]]' KnightInShiningArmor.]]

* A few of these appear in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', though they have little bearing on the plot, and usually only the leader of the group is named.
** [[AlphaBitch Pansy Parkinson]] is often described as being surrounded by a gang of Slytherin girls, though we never learn the names of the other members.
** Cho Chang also has a group of friends like this; however, she is much more sympathetic. True to form, all of Cho's friends scatter when she's distraught over [[spoiler: Cedric's death]] with the exception of Marietta Edgecombe.
** There's also Romilda Vane, a minor character in the sixth book who has a group of friends that plot to spike Harry's food with love potions. Good thing Hermione warns him.
** Lily (Harry's mom) was briefly shown to have been a part of one during her student years. Considering that Lily was a member it's unlikely that these girls were malicious in any way, however they did seem to disapprove [[spoiler: her friendship with Severus Snape.]]
** Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle are possibly a male version of this trope - while Crabbe and Goyle are intimidatingly bulky, they spend most of their time flanking Malfoy, who's better at smug remarks than violence.
** Harry lampshades the entire concept when forced to ask a girl to the Yule Ball.
-->'''Harry:''' Why do they have to move in packs? How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask one?\\
'''Ron:''' Lasso one?

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': [[AlphaBitch Mandy]] and her [[FlatCharacter two best friends]], Dominique and Caitlin. Mandy didn't seem to have any friends outside of them, because whenever she wasn't with either one or both of them, she didn't really hang out with anyone else (Dominique and Caitlin seemed closer to each other than to Mandy). [[spoiler:Dominique and Caitlin got written out of the series after the first episode of the fifth season (due to high school graduation), and got replaced by Mandy's cousin, ''Mindy'', who's basically just like Mandy, except she's a DarkSkinnedBlonde with a Southern accent]].

* The Fashion Club from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' is an atypical example, for a few reasons. For one, DivergentCharacterEvolution kicked in so that each of the four girls [[AlphaBitch eventually]] [[LovableLibby had a]] [[AsianAirhead distinct]] [[ExtremeDoormat personality]], and to a degree, CharacterDevelopment (especially Quinn, who is the title character's sister, and in the last season Stacy). Furthermore, they usually had their own subplots instead of being antagonists; instead of bullying less popular students, they tended to focus on [[WithFriendsLikeThese each other]].

* In ''Machinima/EverySimsMachinimaEverParody'', the posse consists of Madylynne, her explicitly [[TokenMinority token black friend]] Jessica, and Ella's former best friend Chloe. They all just make mean comments at Ella's appearance, to the point where she gets plastic surgery and a tan.