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* ''VisualNovel/BeingADIK'': Eta Omicron Tau, primarily due to Quinn's influence. At the start of the game, when Sage has essentially handed over most of her presidential responsibilities to Quinn due to her senior year responsibilities, Quinn has been running prostitution (and, as Mona's involvement in the Stephen Burke fiasco shows, UnproblematicProstitution is subverted) and drugs from the [=HOTs=], and Quinn often indulges her more sadistic impulses on pledges she doesn't like, as seen when Maya is trying to join the [=HOTs=]: Quinn spreads the rumour of free tuition for [=HOTs=] sisters, enticing Maya and Mona, exploiting Maya's desperation by ordering her (and later [[spoiler:Josy]]) to record sexual acts for the scavenger hunt. That said, the trope is zigzagged somewhat: when Sage takes a more active role in the sorority's activities, the sorority is not as bad.
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* ''VisualNovel/BeingADIK'': Eta Omicron Tau, primarily due to Quinn's influence. At the start of the game, when Sage has essentially handed over most of her presidential responsibilities to Quinn due to her senior year responsibilities, Quinn has been running prostitution (and, as Mona's involvement in the Stephen Burke fiasco shows, UnproblematicProstitution is subverted) and drugs from the [=HOTs=], and Quinn often indulges her more sadistic impulses on pledges she doesn't like, as seen when Maya is trying to join the [=HOTs=]: Quinn spreads the rumour of free tuition for [=HOTs=] sisters, enticing Maya and Mona, exploiting Maya's desperation by ordering her (and later [[spoiler:Josy]]) to record sexual acts for the scavenger hunt. That said, the trope is zigzagged somewhat: when Sage takes a more active role in the sorority's activities, the sorority is not as bad.
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* ''Film/SororityMurder'': Beta Sigma Eta is headed by AlphaBitch bully, Breanne, who is murdered by [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDidIt Carly, Alex, Natalie, and Gabrielle]]]] after video evidence is discovered of her severely look-shaming and weight-shaming the other girls, paying particular disrespect to her deputy Carly. As if that wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler:the apparently "nice" sisters only invited Jen to the sorority to exploit the tensions between her and Breanne, and then frame her for murder. When Alex feels bad and tries to confess to Jen, the other sisters murder her.]]
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* A popular LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek premise, with the trope image source ''Film/SororitySecrets'' being an exceptional example, in which NaiveEverygirl Cassie joins Kappa Eta Lambda, unaware that wealthy male alums are using it as a source for young, hot mistresses, and then Lambda sisters start getting murdered.
** Creator/{{Lifetime}}'s most sordid example may be ''Film/SororityMurder'': Beta Sigma Eta is headed by AlphaBitch bully, Breanne, who is murdered by [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDidIt Carly, Alex, Natalie, and Gabrielle]]]] after video evidence is discovered of her severely look-shaming and weight-shaming the other girls, paying particular disrespect to her deputy Carly. As if that wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler:the apparently "nice" sisters only invited Jen to the sorority to exploit the tensions between her and Breanne, and then frame her for murder. When Alex feels bad and tries to confess to Jen, the other sisters murder her.]]
** Creator/{{Lifetime}}'s most sordid example may be ''Film/SororityMurder'': Beta Sigma Eta is headed by AlphaBitch bully, Breanne, who is murdered by [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDidIt Carly, Alex, Natalie, and Gabrielle]]]] after video evidence is discovered of her severely look-shaming and weight-shaming the other girls, paying particular disrespect to her deputy Carly. As if that wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler:the apparently "nice" sisters only invited Jen to the sorority to exploit the tensions between her and Breanne, and then frame her for murder. When Alex feels bad and tries to confess to Jen, the other sisters murder her.]]
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* ''Film/SydneyWhite'': Sydney initially wants to join her mother's sorority, Kappa Phi Nu. However, she finds that the sorority is run by RichBitch Rachel Witchburn. Rachel enjoys abusing her power over her fellow sisters and blocks Sydney from joining the sorority for fear that she would outshine her. Rachel is also head of the student council and uses her power to ensure that the Greek organizations get preferential treatment. When her power is threatened, she isn't afraid to use underhanded tactics to get what she wants.
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* ''Film/SydneyWhite'': Sydney initially wants to join her mother's sorority, Kappa Phi Nu. Nu, which her mother was president of. However, she finds that the sorority is now run by RichBitch Rachel Witchburn. Rachel enjoys abusing her power over her fellow sisters and blocks Sydney from joining the sorority for fear that she would outshine her. Rachel is also head of the student council and uses her power to ensure that the Greek organizations get preferential treatment. When her power is threatened, she isn't afraid to use underhanded tactics to get what she wants.
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Because AllGuysWantSororityWomen, sororities are SeriousBusiness in personal and professional life. But also because PopularIsEvil, it's not a fun environment. Naturally, AllWomenHateEachOther, and they're going to make sure everybody knows it. There will be an AlphaBitch and a BetaBitch, and though they'll both be equally [[BeautyIsBad beautiful]] and [[VanityIsFeminine vain]], they will seek to make other girls' lives a misery whether or not they're in the GirlPosse. The InitiationCeremony will be a particular hotbed for cruelty, especially the DeadlyPrank or the PrankGoneTooFar. Though SnipeHunt is mostly associated with fraternities, it may occasionally arise here. See also the subgenre of [[https://www.wired.com/2015/09/scream-queens-sorority-horror-dna/ sorority horror]], where [[SlashersPreferBlondes murderers strike attractive]], [[SexSignalsDeath sexually-active]] young women.
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Because AllGuysWantSororityWomen, sororities are SeriousBusiness in personal and professional life. But also because PopularIsEvil, it's not a fun environment. Naturally, AllWomenHateEachOther, and they're going to make sure everybody knows it. There will be an AlphaBitch and a BetaBitch, and though they'll both be equally [[BeautyIsBad beautiful]] and [[VanityIsFeminine vain]], they will seek to make other girls' lives a misery whether or not they're in the GirlPosse. The InitiationCeremony will be a particular hotbed for cruelty, especially the DeadlyPrank or DeadlyPrank, the PrankGoneTooFar.PrankGoneTooFar, or some DeadlyHazing. Though SnipeHunt is mostly associated with fraternities, it may occasionally arise here. See also the subgenre of [[https://www.wired.com/2015/09/scream-queens-sorority-horror-dna/ sorority horror]], where [[SlashersPreferBlondes murderers strike attractive]], [[SexSignalsDeath sexually-active]] young women.
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* ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'': In [[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS1E11ReunionWithMurder "Reunion with Murder"]], the murder victim brings up a cruel prank where Amanda and her fellow sorority sisters teased a girl for being overweight, and plans to put it in her book. This is suggested to be Amanda's motive for murder. It's also revealed that the ultimate motive for murder was that her book would've exposed that another sorority sister, Bobbie Burton, had murdered her professor, with whom she was having an affair. So Bobbie killed her, too.
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* ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'': In [[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS1E11ReunionWithMurder "Reunion with Murder"]], the murder victim brings up a cruel prank where Amanda and her fellow sorority sisters teased a girl for being overweight, and plans to put it in her book. This is suggested to be Amanda's motive for murder. It's also revealed that the ultimate motive for murder was that her book would've exposed that another sorority sister, Bobbie Bobbi Burton, had murdered her professor, with whom she was having an affair. So Bobbie Bobbi killed her, too.
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* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS05E03Pissters "Pissters"]], it's revealed that Linda was responsible for her tyrannical sorority sister Megan's death. Megan was an AlphaBitch who demanded that Linda go with her because she wanted to pee outside. Despite Megan being clearly intoxicated, Linda ditched her, and she froze to death outside in the snow. When the cops come, Linda immediately cries CrocodileTears, gets let go, and becomes just as much of a tyrant as Megan.
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* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS05E03Pissters "Pissters"]], "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS05E03Pissters Pissters]]", it's revealed that Linda was responsible for her tyrannical sorority sister Megan's death. Megan was an AlphaBitch who demanded that Linda go with her because she wanted to pee outside. Despite Megan being clearly intoxicated, Linda ditched her, and she froze to death outside in the snow. When the cops come, Linda immediately cries CrocodileTears, gets let go, and becomes just as much of a tyrant as Megan.
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* {{Implied|Trope}} and PlayedForLaughs in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''. Lucrezia Mongfish and Francisia Mohanan are two {{Mad Scientist}}s who happened to be sorority sisters in the past. Francisia mentioned that she tested highly dangerous chemicals on human subjects, and Lucrezia's immediate response was: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220110 "Oooh! Just like our sorority initiation!"]]
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* Alpha Nu Gamma is a sorority that is also an evil coven of [[SerialKiller serial killing]] witches in ''Film/TheInitiationOfSarah''. Alpha Nu Gamma's head, Corrine, sacrifices goats and virgins, and every member are also her minions in pursuit of [[VanityIsFeminine youth.]]
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* ''Film/SororityMurder'': Beta Sigma Eta is headed by AlphaBitch bully, Breanne, who is murdered by [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDidIt Carly, Alex, Natalie, and Gabrielle]]]], after video evidence is discovered of her severely look-shaming and weight-shaming the other girls, paying particular disrespect to her deputy Carly. As if that wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler:the apparently "nice" sisters only invited Jen to the sorority to exploit the tensions between her and Breanne, and then frame her for murder. When Alex feels bad and tries to confess to Jen, the other sisters murder her.]]
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* ''Film/SororityMurder'': Beta Sigma Eta is headed by AlphaBitch bully, Breanne, who is murdered by [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDidIt Carly, Alex, Natalie, and Gabrielle]]]], Gabrielle]]]] after video evidence is discovered of her severely look-shaming and weight-shaming the other girls, paying particular disrespect to her deputy Carly. As if that wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler:the apparently "nice" sisters only invited Jen to the sorority to exploit the tensions between her and Breanne, and then frame her for murder. When Alex feels bad and tries to confess to Jen, the other sisters murder her.]]
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* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': Parodied in [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS6E14TickingClocks "Ticking Clocks."]] The Nine Nine have a whole sorority in lockup due to being drunk and disorderly. They are famed for their cutting, vicious putdowns to anyone who gets close. The Nine-Nine are afraid to walk past them because they're so mean. They put Knox - who's a corrupt murderer - in a holding cell with them at the end, which is presented as a fitting punishment.
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** In the episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E10Consent Consent]]", a college student is drugged and raped. It is discovered that this was masterminded by two sorority sisters who wanted revenge after she unknowingly flirted with one of their boyfriends. They pretended to be her friends and then drugged her. The other sisters are also aware of the revenge plot, but are scared into not saying anything.
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** In the episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E10Consent Consent]]", a college student is drugged and raped. It is discovered that this was masterminded by two sorority sisters who wanted revenge after she unknowingly flirted with one of their boyfriends. They pretended to be her friends and then drugged her. The other sisters are also aware of the revenge plot, plot but are scared into not saying anything.
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* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS05E03Pissters "Pissters"]], it's revealed that Linda was responsible for her tyrannical sorority sister, Megan's, death. Megan was an AlphaBitch who demanded that Linda go with her because she wanted to pee outside. Despite Megan being clearly intoxicated, Linda ditched her, and she froze to death outside in the snow. When the cops come, Linda immediately cries CrocodileTears, gets let go, and becomes just as much of a tyrant as Megan.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': In [[Recap/PsychS01E15ScarySherryBiancasToast "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast"]], Doreen's death is a genuine accident because of a DeadlyPrank during an InitiationCeremony. However, all of the sorority sisters are portrayed as extremely dumb, except the AlphaBitch Betty, who is also portrayed as the meanest and most cunning. None of them seem to feel bad for Doreen's death, with Betty and Bianca mocking Doreen's adopted sister Alice for having unwashed hair days after her sister and best friend died. Juliet is shown to be the nicest sister, which also tracks, because she's not actually a member.
* ''Series/ScreamQueens2015'': Kappa Kappa Tau is a sorority mentioned to have a long history of "mean girl" behavior, and at the start of the show it is run by the heinous and misanthropic queen bee, Chanel #1. Chanel is so self-centred she forces her sisters to also rename themselves Chanel, and she is ''too'' blase about her sorority sisters and pledges getting offed by a serial killer, and [[spoiler:one of the killers is her new recruit.]]
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': In [[Recap/PsychS01E15ScarySherryBiancasToast "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast"]], Doreen's death is a genuine accident because of a DeadlyPrank during an InitiationCeremony. However, all of the sorority sisters are portrayed as extremely dumb, except the AlphaBitch Betty, who is also portrayed as the meanest and most cunning. None of them seem to feel bad for Doreen's death, with Betty and Bianca mocking Doreen's adopted sister Alice for having unwashed hair days after her sister and best friend died. Juliet is shown to be the nicest sister, which also tracks, because she's not actually a member.
* ''Series/ScreamQueens2015'': Kappa Kappa Tau is a sorority mentioned to have a long history of "mean girl" behavior, and at the start of the show it is run by the heinous and misanthropic queen bee, Chanel #1. Chanel is so self-centred she forces her sisters to also rename themselves Chanel, and she is ''too'' blase about her sorority sisters and pledges getting offed by a serial killer, and [[spoiler:one of the killers is her new recruit.]]
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* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS05E03Pissters "Pissters"]], it's revealed that Linda was responsible for her tyrannical sorority sister, Megan's, sister Megan's death. Megan was an AlphaBitch who demanded that Linda go with her because she wanted to pee outside. Despite Megan being clearly intoxicated, Linda ditched her, and she froze to death outside in the snow. When the cops come, Linda immediately cries CrocodileTears, gets let go, and becomes just as much of a tyrant as Megan.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': In [[Recap/PsychS01E15ScarySherryBiancasToast "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast"]], Doreen's death is a genuine accident because of a DeadlyPrank during an InitiationCeremony. However, all of the sorority sisters are portrayed as extremely dumb, except the AlphaBitch Betty, who is also portrayed as the meanest and most cunning. None of them seem to feel bad for Doreen's death, with Betty and Bianca mocking Doreen's adopted sister Alice for having unwashed hair days after her sister and best friend died. Juliet is shown to be the nicest sister, which alsotracks, tracks because she's not actually a member.
* ''Series/ScreamQueens2015'': Kappa Kappa Tau is a sorority mentioned to have a long history of "mean girl" behavior, and at the start of theshow show, it is run by the heinous and misanthropic queen bee, bee Chanel #1. Chanel is so self-centred she forces her sisters to also rename themselves Chanel, and she is ''too'' blase about her sorority sisters and pledges getting offed by a serial killer, and [[spoiler:one of the killers is her new recruit.]]
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': In [[Recap/PsychS01E15ScarySherryBiancasToast "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast"]], Doreen's death is a genuine accident because of a DeadlyPrank during an InitiationCeremony. However, all of the sorority sisters are portrayed as extremely dumb, except the AlphaBitch Betty, who is also portrayed as the meanest and most cunning. None of them seem to feel bad for Doreen's death, with Betty and Bianca mocking Doreen's adopted sister Alice for having unwashed hair days after her sister and best friend died. Juliet is shown to be the nicest sister, which also
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* ''Series/SweetVicious'': In "Tragic Kingdom" the Kappa Kappa Phi sorority initially seems another exclusive and elitist house Darlington University's campus. However, it turns out their actual behaviour is much darker. With them regularly subjecting dozens of poor pledges to incredibly cruel and sadistic hazing rituals on a weekly basis, and has been doing so for decades. Said rituals include forcibly stripping, being forced to consume massive amounts of cigars and alcohol, extreme verbal and physical abuse and even sexual assault. To top it all off its revealed their leader [[AlphaBitch Chloe Freeman]] secretly films all their abuses, and sells it to a torture porn website for profit; and is likewise perfectly happy to use violence and intimidation on anyone who gets in their way.
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': The episode "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS5E7HouseOfHorror House of Horror]]" features the Delta Omega Alpha sorority. [[spoiler: There's a reason their initials spell "D.O.A.". They're an all ghoul sorority!]]
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': Lilith House are a StrawFeminist sorority that pretend to be feminist and open-minded but is in fact trying to frame the fraternity of Hearst College for a series of brutal rapes happening on campus, by shaving their members' heads, which stops the actual rapist from getting caught. They also perform an AssShove on Chip Diller, the fraternity's head, hide weed for their sorority mother, and run scams to get free food from campus.
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* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': Lilith House are a StrawFeminist sorority that pretend to be feminist and open-minded but is in fact trying to frame the fraternity of Hearst College for a series of brutal rapes happening on campus, by shaving their members' heads, which stops the actual rapist from getting caught. They also perform an AssShove on Chip Diller, the fraternity's head, hide weed for their sorority mother, and run scams to get free food from campus.
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->'''Dean Munsch:''' Now, Dean Reynolds' oversight of Greek life at this school was so negligent that it bordered on criminal. And Kappa is the source of rampant reports of alcoholism, prescription drug abuse, racism, as well as allegations of bestiality...
->'''Chanel #1''': No one forced that goat to get as drunk as it got.
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CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2. With this in mind, it probably shouldn't be a surprise that sororities are frequently depicted as the worst places for women to be at college, in everything from petty bitching and backstabbing to institutionalized sexual assault and murder, just like the "popular" cliques in high school. At least, in fiction.
Because AllGuysWantSororityWomen, sororities are SeriousBusiness in personal and professional life. But also because PopularIsEvil, it's not a fun environment. Naturally, AllWomenHateEachOther, and they're going to make sure everybody knows it. There will be an AlphaBitch and a BetaBitch, and though they'll both be equally [[BeautyIsBad beautiful]] and [[VanityIsFeminine vain]], they will seek to make other girls' lives a misery. The InitiationCeremony will be a particular hotbed for cruelty, especially the DeadlyPrank or the PrankGoneTooFar. Though SnipeHunt is mostly associated with fraternities, it may occasionally arise here. See also the subgenre of [[https://www.wired.com/2015/09/scream-queens-sorority-horror-dna/ sorority horror]], where [[SlashersPreferBlondes murderers strike attractive]], [[SexSignalsDeath sexually-active]] young women.
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* ''Film/TwentyOneAndOver''. Played with. Miller and Casey find an initiation going on at the sorority house, in which Miller participates. Upon discovering this, the vengeful [[SpicyLatina Latina]] sisters track him down and kidnap him and Casey, humiliating them in a drawn-out ritual.
* ''Film/HappyDeathDay'': Tree's fellow sorority sisters, especially [[AlphaBitch Danielle]], are shown to be vindictive and bitchy, with Danielle shaming them all for being "fat" and bullying the others. Tree herself is shown to be bitchy and unpleasant before she TookALevelInKindness throughout the movie. Even the TokenGoodTeammate, Tree's roommate, Lori, is [[spoiler:working with the SerialKiller to kill Tree.]]
-->'''Danielle''': Lori's little plot was super lame. Poisoning a cupcake? Really? We're Kappas. We don't eat cupcakes.
* ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow'': Though house mother Mrs Slater is a {{jerkass}}, the girls still accidentally kill her and cover it up, and a sizeable majority of them don't want to come clean about it. A lot of them are also very bitchy and unpleasant to each other.
* Alpha Nu Gamma is a sorority that is also an evil coven of [[SerialKiller serial killing]] witches in ''Film/TheInitiationOfSarah''. Alpha Nu Gamma's head, Corrine, sacrifices goats and virgins, and every member are also her minions in pursuit of [[VanityIsFeminine youth.]]
* ''Film/JurassicCity'': Downplayed. Stephanie is an AlphaBitch pledge master who is responsible for getting the girls arrested in the first place.
* ''Film/Neighbors2014'': In the sequel, Kappa Nu are idiotic {{straw feminist}}s, who kick out Teddy, who helped them to start the sorority, because "guys are idiots". They're pretty dumb themselves, and when they need money, [[spoiler:they become drug dealers, sending all their competition on campus to prison.]] Even then, they don't do their own dirty work, but get minions to do it for them.
* ''Film/TheRow'': Downplayed in that they do regret it (and, while their other initiations are shown to be humiliating, such as stripping down to their underwear), Phi Lambda's old prank involved letting a girl think she had been raped. [[spoiler:This caused her suicide and her brother comes to seek revenge.]]
* ''Film/SistersOfDeath'': The sorority has witnessed the accidental death of a girl during a hazing ritual gone wrong, and [[spoiler:one of the sisters, Judy is revealed to be the real killer hunting them down.]]
* ''Film/SororityMurder'': Beta Sigma Eta is headed by AlphaBitch bully, Breanne, who is murdered by [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDidIt Carly, Alex, Natalie, and Gabrielle]]]], after video evidence is discovered of her severely look-shaming and weight-shaming the other girls, paying particular disrespect to her deputy Carly. As if that wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler:the apparently "nice" sisters only invited Jen to the sorority to exploit the tensions between her and Breanne, and then frame her for murder. When Alex feels bad and tries to confess to Jen, the other sisters murder her.]]
* ''Film/SororityRow'': The sisters participate in a prank to scare Garrett for cheating on Megan by faking her death and convincing Garrett it was all his fault. This is in spite of the fact that Megan cheated on him first, and the prank [[DeadlyPrank goes wrong, killing Megan.]] When Cassidy tries to object, the other girls (who are mainly assholes) threaten to pin the murder on her if she doesn't comply.
* ''Film/SydneyWhite'': The protagonist Sydney initially wants to join her mother's sorority, Kappa Phi Nu. However, she finds that the sorority is run by RichBitch Rachel Witchburn. Rachel enjoys abusing her power over her fellow sisters and blocks Sydney from joining the sorority for fear that she would outshine her. Rachel is also head of the student council and uses her power to ensure that the Greek organizations get preferential treatment. When her power is threatened, she isn't afraid to use underhanded tactics to get what she wants.
* ''Film/VHS99'': In ''Suicide Bid'', Lily is a sweet young woman who [[IJustWantToHaveFriends only wants to have friends.]] She joins a sorority to try and make friends, with the warning that she's going to be a complete pariah if she doesn't make it in. They pull a cruel InitiationCeremony for the sorority, burying her alive in a graveyard. When the coffin floods due to heavy rain, the other sisters abandon her to a slow and protracted death and don't alert the campus police, who are searching. As if that wasn't bad enough, they also encourage her to open a box when she gets most terrified, telling her that it will comfort her. It turns out to be full of spiders. Lily then gets visited by a demon and, as part of the pact, she kills the sorority sisters.
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* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': Parodied in [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS6E14TickingClocks "Ticking Clocks."]] The Nine Nine have a whole sorority in lockup due to being drunk and disorderly. They are famed for their cutting, vicious putdowns to anyone who gets close. The Nine-Nine are afraid to walk past them because they're so mean. They put Knox - who's a corrupt murderer - in a holding cell with them at the end, which is presented as a fitting punishment.
* ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'': In [[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS1E11ReunionWithMurder "Reunion with Murder"]], the murder victim brings up a cruel prank where Amanda and her fellow sorority sisters teased a girl for being overweight, and plans to put it in her book. This is suggested to be Amanda's motive for murder. It's also revealed that the ultimate motive for murder was that her book would've exposed that another sorority sister, Bobbie Burton, had murdered her professor, with whom she was having an affair. So Bobbie killed her, too.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E10Consent Consent]]", a college student is drugged and raped. It is discovered that this was masterminded by two sorority sisters who wanted revenge after she unknowingly flirted with one of their boyfriends. They pretended to be her friends and then drugged her. The other sisters are also aware of the revenge plot, but are scared into not saying anything.
** The episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E20GirlDishonored Girl Dishonored]]" begins with new pledges of a sorority being stripped down to their underwear, having the word "fat" written on their bodies in Sharpie, and being forced to eat cat food as part of a hazing ritual while the sisters laugh at them.
* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS05E03Pissters "Pissters"]], it's revealed that Linda was responsible for her tyrannical sorority sister, Megan's, death. Megan was an AlphaBitch who demanded that Linda go with her because she wanted to pee outside. Despite Megan being clearly intoxicated, Linda ditched her, and she froze to death outside in the snow. When the cops come, Linda immediately cries CrocodileTears, gets let go, and becomes just as much of a tyrant as Megan.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': In [[Recap/PsychS01E15ScarySherryBiancasToast "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast"]], Doreen's death is a genuine accident because of a DeadlyPrank during an InitiationCeremony. However, all of the sorority sisters are portrayed as extremely dumb, except the AlphaBitch Betty, who is also portrayed as the meanest and most cunning. None of them seem to feel bad for Doreen's death, with Betty and Bianca mocking Doreen's adopted sister Alice for having unwashed hair days after her sister and best friend died. Juliet is shown to be the nicest sister, which also tracks, because she's not actually a member.
* ''Series/ScreamQueens2015'': Kappa Kappa Tau is a sorority mentioned to have a long history of "mean girl" behavior, and at the start of the show it is run by the heinous and misanthropic queen bee, Chanel #1. Chanel is so self-centred she forces her sisters to also rename themselves Chanel, and she is ''too'' blase about her sorority sisters and pledges getting offed by a serial killer, and [[spoiler:one of the killers is her new recruit.]]
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': The villains of [[Recap/SmallvilleS05E05Thirst "Thirst"]] are a sorority of vampires. They turn Lana into a vampire as part of her initiation which involves draining Clark but she turns on them and is cured by Clark.
* ''Series/SweetVicious'': In "Tragic Kingdom" the Kappa Kappa Phi sorority initially seems another exclusive and elitist house Darlington University's campus. However, it turns out their actual behaviour is much darker. With them regularly subjecting dozens of poor pledges to incredibly cruel and sadistic hazing rituals on a weekly basis, and has been doing so for decades. Said rituals include forcibly stripping, being forced to consume massive amounts of cigars and alcohol, extreme verbal and physical abuse and even sexual assault. To top it all off its revealed their leader [[AlphaBitch Chloe Freeman]] secretly films all their abuses, and sells it to a torture porn website for profit; and is likewise perfectly happy to use violence and intimidation on anyone who gets in their way.
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': The episode "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS5E7HouseOfHorror House of Horror]]" features the Delta Omega Alpha sorority. [[spoiler: There's a reason their initials spell "D.O.A.". They're an all ghoul sorority!]]
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': Lilith House are a StrawFeminist sorority that pretend to be feminist and open-minded but is in fact trying to frame the fraternity of Hearst College for a series of brutal rapes happening on campus, by shaving their members' heads, which stops the actual rapist from getting caught. They also perform an AssShove on Chip Diller, the fraternity's head, hide weed for their sorority mother, and run scams to get free food from campus.
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->'''Dean Munsch:''' Now, Dean Reynolds' oversight of Greek life at this school was so negligent that it bordered on criminal. And Kappa is the source of rampant reports of alcoholism, prescription drug abuse, racism, as well as allegations of bestiality...
->'''Chanel #1''': No one forced that goat to get as drunk as it got.
-->-- ''Series/ScreamQueens2015''
CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2. With this in mind, it probably shouldn't be a surprise that sororities are frequently depicted as the worst places for women to be at college, in everything from petty bitching and backstabbing to institutionalized sexual assault and murder, just like the "popular" cliques in high school. At least, in fiction.
Because AllGuysWantSororityWomen, sororities are SeriousBusiness in personal and professional life. But also because PopularIsEvil, it's not a fun environment. Naturally, AllWomenHateEachOther, and they're going to make sure everybody knows it. There will be an AlphaBitch and a BetaBitch, and though they'll both be equally [[BeautyIsBad beautiful]] and [[VanityIsFeminine vain]], they will seek to make other girls' lives a misery. The InitiationCeremony will be a particular hotbed for cruelty, especially the DeadlyPrank or the PrankGoneTooFar. Though SnipeHunt is mostly associated with fraternities, it may occasionally arise here. See also the subgenre of [[https://www.wired.com/2015/09/scream-queens-sorority-horror-dna/ sorority horror]], where [[SlashersPreferBlondes murderers strike attractive]], [[SexSignalsDeath sexually-active]] young women.
As both a morality trope and a stereotype trope, '''no real-life examples please!'''
!! Examples
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* ''Film/TwentyOneAndOver''. Played with. Miller and Casey find an initiation going on at the sorority house, in which Miller participates. Upon discovering this, the vengeful [[SpicyLatina Latina]] sisters track him down and kidnap him and Casey, humiliating them in a drawn-out ritual.
* ''Film/HappyDeathDay'': Tree's fellow sorority sisters, especially [[AlphaBitch Danielle]], are shown to be vindictive and bitchy, with Danielle shaming them all for being "fat" and bullying the others. Tree herself is shown to be bitchy and unpleasant before she TookALevelInKindness throughout the movie. Even the TokenGoodTeammate, Tree's roommate, Lori, is [[spoiler:working with the SerialKiller to kill Tree.]]
-->'''Danielle''': Lori's little plot was super lame. Poisoning a cupcake? Really? We're Kappas. We don't eat cupcakes.
* ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow'': Though house mother Mrs Slater is a {{jerkass}}, the girls still accidentally kill her and cover it up, and a sizeable majority of them don't want to come clean about it. A lot of them are also very bitchy and unpleasant to each other.
* Alpha Nu Gamma is a sorority that is also an evil coven of [[SerialKiller serial killing]] witches in ''Film/TheInitiationOfSarah''. Alpha Nu Gamma's head, Corrine, sacrifices goats and virgins, and every member are also her minions in pursuit of [[VanityIsFeminine youth.]]
* ''Film/JurassicCity'': Downplayed. Stephanie is an AlphaBitch pledge master who is responsible for getting the girls arrested in the first place.
* ''Film/Neighbors2014'': In the sequel, Kappa Nu are idiotic {{straw feminist}}s, who kick out Teddy, who helped them to start the sorority, because "guys are idiots". They're pretty dumb themselves, and when they need money, [[spoiler:they become drug dealers, sending all their competition on campus to prison.]] Even then, they don't do their own dirty work, but get minions to do it for them.
* ''Film/TheRow'': Downplayed in that they do regret it (and, while their other initiations are shown to be humiliating, such as stripping down to their underwear), Phi Lambda's old prank involved letting a girl think she had been raped. [[spoiler:This caused her suicide and her brother comes to seek revenge.]]
* ''Film/SistersOfDeath'': The sorority has witnessed the accidental death of a girl during a hazing ritual gone wrong, and [[spoiler:one of the sisters, Judy is revealed to be the real killer hunting them down.]]
* ''Film/SororityMurder'': Beta Sigma Eta is headed by AlphaBitch bully, Breanne, who is murdered by [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDidIt Carly, Alex, Natalie, and Gabrielle]]]], after video evidence is discovered of her severely look-shaming and weight-shaming the other girls, paying particular disrespect to her deputy Carly. As if that wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler:the apparently "nice" sisters only invited Jen to the sorority to exploit the tensions between her and Breanne, and then frame her for murder. When Alex feels bad and tries to confess to Jen, the other sisters murder her.]]
* ''Film/SororityRow'': The sisters participate in a prank to scare Garrett for cheating on Megan by faking her death and convincing Garrett it was all his fault. This is in spite of the fact that Megan cheated on him first, and the prank [[DeadlyPrank goes wrong, killing Megan.]] When Cassidy tries to object, the other girls (who are mainly assholes) threaten to pin the murder on her if she doesn't comply.
* ''Film/SydneyWhite'': The protagonist Sydney initially wants to join her mother's sorority, Kappa Phi Nu. However, she finds that the sorority is run by RichBitch Rachel Witchburn. Rachel enjoys abusing her power over her fellow sisters and blocks Sydney from joining the sorority for fear that she would outshine her. Rachel is also head of the student council and uses her power to ensure that the Greek organizations get preferential treatment. When her power is threatened, she isn't afraid to use underhanded tactics to get what she wants.
* ''Film/VHS99'': In ''Suicide Bid'', Lily is a sweet young woman who [[IJustWantToHaveFriends only wants to have friends.]] She joins a sorority to try and make friends, with the warning that she's going to be a complete pariah if she doesn't make it in. They pull a cruel InitiationCeremony for the sorority, burying her alive in a graveyard. When the coffin floods due to heavy rain, the other sisters abandon her to a slow and protracted death and don't alert the campus police, who are searching. As if that wasn't bad enough, they also encourage her to open a box when she gets most terrified, telling her that it will comfort her. It turns out to be full of spiders. Lily then gets visited by a demon and, as part of the pact, she kills the sorority sisters.
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[[folder: Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': Parodied in [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS6E14TickingClocks "Ticking Clocks."]] The Nine Nine have a whole sorority in lockup due to being drunk and disorderly. They are famed for their cutting, vicious putdowns to anyone who gets close. The Nine-Nine are afraid to walk past them because they're so mean. They put Knox - who's a corrupt murderer - in a holding cell with them at the end, which is presented as a fitting punishment.
* ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'': In [[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS1E11ReunionWithMurder "Reunion with Murder"]], the murder victim brings up a cruel prank where Amanda and her fellow sorority sisters teased a girl for being overweight, and plans to put it in her book. This is suggested to be Amanda's motive for murder. It's also revealed that the ultimate motive for murder was that her book would've exposed that another sorority sister, Bobbie Burton, had murdered her professor, with whom she was having an affair. So Bobbie killed her, too.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E10Consent Consent]]", a college student is drugged and raped. It is discovered that this was masterminded by two sorority sisters who wanted revenge after she unknowingly flirted with one of their boyfriends. They pretended to be her friends and then drugged her. The other sisters are also aware of the revenge plot, but are scared into not saying anything.
** The episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E20GirlDishonored Girl Dishonored]]" begins with new pledges of a sorority being stripped down to their underwear, having the word "fat" written on their bodies in Sharpie, and being forced to eat cat food as part of a hazing ritual while the sisters laugh at them.
* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS05E03Pissters "Pissters"]], it's revealed that Linda was responsible for her tyrannical sorority sister, Megan's, death. Megan was an AlphaBitch who demanded that Linda go with her because she wanted to pee outside. Despite Megan being clearly intoxicated, Linda ditched her, and she froze to death outside in the snow. When the cops come, Linda immediately cries CrocodileTears, gets let go, and becomes just as much of a tyrant as Megan.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': In [[Recap/PsychS01E15ScarySherryBiancasToast "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast"]], Doreen's death is a genuine accident because of a DeadlyPrank during an InitiationCeremony. However, all of the sorority sisters are portrayed as extremely dumb, except the AlphaBitch Betty, who is also portrayed as the meanest and most cunning. None of them seem to feel bad for Doreen's death, with Betty and Bianca mocking Doreen's adopted sister Alice for having unwashed hair days after her sister and best friend died. Juliet is shown to be the nicest sister, which also tracks, because she's not actually a member.
* ''Series/ScreamQueens2015'': Kappa Kappa Tau is a sorority mentioned to have a long history of "mean girl" behavior, and at the start of the show it is run by the heinous and misanthropic queen bee, Chanel #1. Chanel is so self-centred she forces her sisters to also rename themselves Chanel, and she is ''too'' blase about her sorority sisters and pledges getting offed by a serial killer, and [[spoiler:one of the killers is her new recruit.]]
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': The villains of [[Recap/SmallvilleS05E05Thirst "Thirst"]] are a sorority of vampires. They turn Lana into a vampire as part of her initiation which involves draining Clark but she turns on them and is cured by Clark.
* ''Series/SweetVicious'': In "Tragic Kingdom" the Kappa Kappa Phi sorority initially seems another exclusive and elitist house Darlington University's campus. However, it turns out their actual behaviour is much darker. With them regularly subjecting dozens of poor pledges to incredibly cruel and sadistic hazing rituals on a weekly basis, and has been doing so for decades. Said rituals include forcibly stripping, being forced to consume massive amounts of cigars and alcohol, extreme verbal and physical abuse and even sexual assault. To top it all off its revealed their leader [[AlphaBitch Chloe Freeman]] secretly films all their abuses, and sells it to a torture porn website for profit; and is likewise perfectly happy to use violence and intimidation on anyone who gets in their way.
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': The episode "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS5E7HouseOfHorror House of Horror]]" features the Delta Omega Alpha sorority. [[spoiler: There's a reason their initials spell "D.O.A.". They're an all ghoul sorority!]]
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': Lilith House are a StrawFeminist sorority that pretend to be feminist and open-minded but is in fact trying to frame the fraternity of Hearst College for a series of brutal rapes happening on campus, by shaving their members' heads, which stops the actual rapist from getting caught. They also perform an AssShove on Chip Diller, the fraternity's head, hide weed for their sorority mother, and run scams to get free food from campus.
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