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1%%* Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s evil stepsisters could well have been the UrExample.
2%%* Carmelita Spats in ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.
3* ''Literature/AngelaNicely'': Tiffany is Angela’s snobby rival classmate, with an obsession with being the best at everything and who's occasionally said to be popular.
4* ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'':
5** Sansa Stark starts out as one among the girls of Winterfell, as the highest-ranking and most beautiful girl in the castle and favoured by their teacher Septa Mordane. She and her BetaBitch, the lower-born Jeyne Poole, bully Sansa's little sister Arya for being unladylike. Sansa's behavior only gets worse after she's betrothed to the Crown Prince and expects to become Queen, and at one point outright tells Arya that she wishes she died and she's so ugly she'll have to marry the disabled stableboy. Sansa does sometimes try to cover for Arya against Mordane and they have fond childhood memories, but the bullying was bad enough that a now runaway and starving Arya is still upset by it years later, and Theon Greyjoy -- who was several years older than the girls -- recalled Sansa and Jeyne's behaviour.
6--->'''Arya's thoughts:''' To her sister and sister's friends and all the rest, she had just been Arya Horseface.
7** [[spoiler: Averted after war breaks out and Sansa becomes a prisoner of the royal family and loses all her friends and loyal household servants, though she does become a much kinder person because of it.]]
8* ''Literature/AriaOfTheSea'' has Elliana Nautilus, a noble acknowledged as the best in her class (but the oldest, meaning she [[BrilliantButLazy doesn't put in enough effort]] to advance to her proper class) at the School of Royal Dancers. She skates by on her beauty, status and minimal effort, especially since her red hair grants her a resemblance to the Sea Maid, the kingdom's goddess, and she treats the commoner student Cerinthe Gale with contempt. Her bullying and spiteful tricks only worsen when Cerinthe outshines her in class, and although she does [[HiddenDepths love dancing]] enough to [[TeethClenchedTeamwork ask Cerinthe for help]] with coming up with her own choreography for an assignment (as Elliana doesn't know how to create her own dances), when Cerinthe is cast in a major ballet role Elliana assumed would be hers, she retaliates by presenting Cerinthe's choreography (a tribute to the Sea Maid) as her own.
9* Anya Risdell in ''Literature/BrokenLoveSeries'' does her very best to belittle and bully the heroine, who is her romantic rival. When the verbal attacks fail she conspires to have her kidnapped.
10%%* One of the rare male examples of this trope is Eheca, a pipiltin (noble) companion and rival of Quetza in the Aztec [[HighSchool Calmécac]], in the novel ''Literature/ElConquistador''.
11* The ''Literature/GemmaDoyle'' trilogy: at first, it seems like this will be Felicity's designated role, but she and Gemma wind up bestest buddies. The role is instead taken by Cecily Temple, who is jealous that the aforementioned event happened.
12* ''Literature/BadGirls'': Kim is a primary school version of this, however, she fits this trope like a glove. She's popular, confident and VERY spiteful, particularly towards the main character Mandy.
13* In ''Literature/DontLookBack'', the amnesiac protagonist Sam finds out that she turned into this after her (now deceased) friend, Cassie Winchester, first moved into town. Their toxic friendship influenced Sam into becoming the quintessential mean, bullying popular girl, complete with a GirlPosse, and she cut ties with her old friends because of it. She's embarrassed and ashamed when she finds this out, and spends the rest of the book trying to make amends for her past behavior in addition to recovering her memories.
14* ''Literature/GhostGirl2021'': Nellie Bloom is a preteen version of this at first, but she [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness]] as the book goes on.
15* Monique de Pelouse in "Literature/TheFinishingSchoolSeries'' has the attitude down to pat. The instructors at the school try to curb these tendencies but fail to have much success. She has a minion in the form of FilleFatale Preshea.
16* Shay in ''Literature/FishInATree'' takes great joy in bringing down Ally's mood every chance she gets.
17* Aurelia in ''Literature/FeliksNetAndNika''. She's probably the richest kid in school, has her GirlPosse and mocks people for being not slim enough, or not fashionable enough or not rich enough. She picks up at Nika immediately, but Nika fights back rather hard (not physically, of course).
18* Nellie Oleson from the ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' series thinks that she's one. In reality, she's nowhere near as Alpha as she'd like to be. Nellie first appeared in the 1937 book ''On the Banks of Plum Creek''.
19* ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'' includes a short story that features Callie: an alpha bitch who was forced to leave her old life and throw in with a pack of psychic terrorists. She's not terribly thrilled about it.
20* OlderThanRadio: Amy's rivals, April Snow and May Chester, of ''Literature/LittleWomen''.
21* As the ''Literature/ChaletSchool'' series is about a girls' school, it's no surprise that there's a good few Alpha Bitches around.
22** Betty Wynne-Davies becomes one by the time of ''Highland Twins at the Chalet School'', due to breaking away from former best friend Elizabeth Arnett and taking a level in bitchiness as a result.
23** In the Switzerland part of the series, there's Jack Lambert, particularly in ''Jane and the Chalet School''. She has her own clique and as a result, new girl Jane Carew is alienated by her form as a result of Jack's bullying.
24** A milder example is Lysbet Alsen in ''Two Sams at the Chalet School'', who takes an instant dislike to Samaris Davies due to her actually wanting to pull her finger out and do well, rather than slacking off like the rest of the form. Similarly, there's Eilunedd Vaughan in ''Peggy of the Chalet School'', who is not pleased about Peggy being Head Girl and makes trouble for her.
25* Ethel Hallow from ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'', who is hated because she ''knows'' she's the best at everything and rubs it in their faces, as well as frequently ratting the other girls out to the teachers. The TV series gives her a rich father and stresses that she has only one friend (who even pulls off a HeelFaceTurn towards the end).
26* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
27** Rachel is seen as this by people who don't know her. [[BloodKnight The truth]] is rather scarier.
28** Played straight with Taylor, a [[TheQuisling voluntary]] Human-Controller. She used to be the most beautiful and popular girl at her school, until a fire left her crippled and hideous. Desperate to regain the life she had, Taylor agrees to voluntary infestation in exchange for the Yeerks using their advanced technology to make her a {{Cyborg}} and restore her beauty. Though it's not her assignment at all, the Yeerk who infests her falls in love with Taylor's life and willingly plays it out after the infestation.
29* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has quite a few:
30** Pansy Parkinson seems to be one. You don't see much of her, but she acts snotty whenever she shows up and dotes on her boyfriend Draco Malfoy. Also, she is mentioned to have a GirlPosse, and all the "good" female characters hate her with a passion. The author seems to really dislike her and [[spoiler:she doesn't even marry Draco in the end.]] [[WordOfGod J. K. Rowling]] has stated that she embodied every girl who was mean to Rowling in school.
31** Romilda Vane, Harry's StalkerWithACrush from the sixth book, also had some AlphaBitch tendencies, possessing her own GirlPosse and telling Harry that he didn't have to hang out with kids as "uncool" as Neville and Luna. Unusually, she is fourteen, younger than Harry, when the AlphaBitch is normally older than or the same age as the protagonist.
32** Possibly Olive Hornby, the girl who teased Moaning Myrtle about her glasses. But there no way to know for sure. It could have been friendly teasing which Myrtle took the wrong way -- it would certainly be in-character for her.
33* Elena Gilbert and Caroline Forbes from ''Literature/TheVampireDiaries''. However, Elena was only this during the beginning of the series. Elena started off as a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]], [[{{Narcissist}} vain]], [[ProudBeauty proud]], [[IceQueen icy]], and [[SpoiledBrat spoiled]] individual. However, as the series progresses she becomes a [[CharacterDevelopment significantly better person]] mostly after meeting Stefan. Elena becomes more of a LovableAlphaBitch. Caroline, on the other hand, never really changes from this.
34* Creator/StephenKing's book ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', as well as the film adaptations:
35** [[Characters/CarrieChrisHargensen Christine "Chris" Hargensen]], Carrie's nemesis. She gets banned from the senior prom when, after gym class in the locker room, she and her friends pull an exceptionally cruel prank on Carrie by pelting her with tampons and other feminine hygiene items while chanting "plug it up!" (Carrie was having her first period at the time, and was under the impression that she was bleeding to death.) Chris then tops herself by rigging the ballots for Prom King and Queen so that Carrie and her prom date win, [[PromWrecker then dumping a bucket of pig's blood on her head when she takes the stage]]. [[spoiler:This finally drives Carrie over the edge, causing her to use her [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]] to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, of which Chris is one of many victims.]] Creator/NancyAllen, who played her in the [[Film/Carrie1976 1976 adaptation]], actually didn't realize she was playing an Alpha Bitch until she saw the finished film, assuming that Chris and her boyfriend/accomplice Billy (played by a young Creator/JohnTravolta, who felt the same way) were comic relief characters.
36*** The book takes her cruelty to the point of juvenile {{delinquen|ts}}cy. In the book, it's revealed that Chris had been sent to detention seventy-three times over the years, twenty of them for bullying, and that she skipped most of them. In addition, during JuniorHigh, she had once put a firecracker into a girl's shoe and nearly blew off two of her toes. The principal actually tells Chris's father outright that they could easily have Chris thrown in prison for some of her actions. Her boyfriend Billy is himself a {{greaser delinquent|s}}, and their relationship is [[BelligerentSexualTension quite abusive on both ends]].
37** Averted by Sue Snell, who gets her boyfriend to take Carrie to the prom not to set her up for humiliation, but to genuinely atone for what she did. Though some viewers of the first film (who hadn't read the book) thought Sue was in on the prank.
38* From [[Creator/SharonDraper Sharon M. Draper]]'s bestselling novel ''Literature/OutofMyMind'', we have [[MakeupIsEvil makeup-obsessed]] [[GossipyHens gossip girl]] Claire, who [[BullyingtheDisabled constantly bullies and picks on Melody (who is literally a girl with cerebral palsy)]] with her [[BetaBitch right-hand-girl]] Molly.
39* Lara from Cherie Bennett's ''Literature/LifeInTheFatLane'' is a weird example: she starts out much like Cher from ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' — the rich, shallow and naïve, but sweet (and ''[[InformedAbility supposedly]]'' intelligent) homecoming queen. Then she (suddenly) gets fat and becomes a social outcast (her immediate descent into [[{{wangst}} self-loathing]] upon gaining the first ''ten pounds'' had ''[[SarcasmMode nothing]]'' to do with it...). Enter at least ''two'' examples played straight...but wait—''here's'' a girl who's at very least InWithTheInCrowd, but is [[SubvertedTrope sweet to everyone]], even fat people... but wait—[[DoubleSubversion she's actually obnoxious and condescending and just trying to play the role of ideal homecoming queen]].
40* Massie Block, the main character of ''Literature/TheClique'' series of novels. The leader of the [[GirlPosse "Pretty Committee"]], she can be spoiled sometimes.
41* Lana is a more cliched version of this in the books ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'', as well as being a DevilInPlainSight. Mia often retaliates. Later in the series, though, Lana extends the olive branch to Mia, and her friend Trisha enters Mia's group of friends. She becomes much more a LovableAlphaBitch after this as she still retains a couple {{Jerkass}} tendencies.
42* From ''[[Literature/{{Temeraire}} His Majesty's Dragon]]'': Miss Montagu, who snubbed Will Laurence at his parents' house when he stopped by on the way to the training grounds, was only a mild Alpha Bitch... until at the end of the book, when she "revealed" (Laurence had already heard), during the celebrations, that Laurence's childhood sweetheart had gotten married.
43* ''Literature/SecretSanta2007'': Amber is a SpoiledBrat whose fashion designer mother buys her anything she wants. She relishes flaunting what she has and insulting her classmates. Even her followers Celia and Shawna secretly dislike her for the most part.
44%%* Lila Fowler in the ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' series.
45%%* Holly and Heather Mayflower of the ''[[Literature/DramaSeries DRAMA!]]'' series by Paul Ruditis.
46%%* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'':
47%%** Cokie Mason is a middle school version.
48%%** Cokie's friend Grace.
49%%** Shawna Riverson also, though she didn't appear as often.
50%%** In the ''Little Sister'' spinoff, Pamela Harding.
51%%* ...and so is Heather Fox from the ''Literature/CanterwoodCrest'' series.
52* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/JinxHigh'' has the Alpha Bitch from hell: she's actually a two-hundred-year old, [[GrandTheftMe bodysnatching]] witch who enforces her will with mental control and fatal "accidents".
53* Subverted in ''Literature/ThirteenReasonsWhy'', by Jay Asher. Hannah says that Courtney Crimsen could have been this, but instead spends her time making it seem like she is a genuinely nice person.
54* Lavinia of ''Literature/ALittlePrincess''. She was the best-dressed girl at her boarding school and the headmistress’s favorite student until Sara Crewe came and won everyone over with her fine dresses, heart of gold, exotic background, and money from her father that paid for special privileges. She slaps a ''four-year-old girl'' in the face for apparently no reason, and she takes delight in [[FallenPrincess Sara’s downfall]], even tattling on her and her friends when they sneak treats.
55%% *Aphrodite from ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'', until Zoey arrives. Later develops into LovableAlphaBitch.
56%%* Hatsumomo of ''Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha''.
57* Hattie from ''Literature/EllaEnchanted''. She not only messes around with Ella's life, but orders her to hand over the necklace that her ''mother'' used to wear simply because she fancied it, and she also steals Ella's breakfast after claiming that it's "too rich for her". She also orders Ella not to eat anything for days and because of her curse, Ella is starved almost to collapsing.
58* Clarissa from the ''Literature/BloodyJack'' series. Also overlaps with RichBitch. She gets better in the later books though.
59* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
60** Diamanda from ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' and Annagramma from the [[Literature/TheWeeFreeMen Tiffany Aching]] books start out as near-carbon copies of each other. Both exhibit the Alpha Bitch tendency to surround herself with envious admirers who aren't as good-looking, and then treat those girls like dirt.
61* Blair Waldorf from ''Literature/GossipGirl'', arguably more so in the books than in the TV series. On the show, she's just a RichBitch with an UnlimitedWardrobe; in the books, her behavior actually borders on sociopathic/bipolar/just plain crazy.
62* ''Literature/AYearDownYonder'': Carleen Lovejoy dominates the school and antagonizes the narrator.
63* In Creator/AaronAllston's ''Literature/GalateaIn2D'', Roger [[ArtInitiatesLife falls into some paintings]] he made as a teenager and find his hopeless crush in high school, [[MagicalGirlfriend crazy about him]] but as shallow as she had ever been. (He notes that she had grown up when he met her at the reunion.)
64* Constanza Grayfoot from ''Literature/{{Midnighters}}'' is the fashion-obsessed queen of the school who struts about with her girl posse and dreams of being an actress in L.A. She's part Native American, not blonde, and is more harmlessly superficial than actually evil, but instead of reading like an interesting variation on the trope, she reads like a watered-down copy of [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Cordelia Chase.]] She is, however, different from most Alpha Bitches in that she is genuinely nice to and supportive of Jess, including slapping a boy who tried to sexually assault her and giving her advice about her relationship with Jonathan.
65* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'':
66** Lauren Mallory is apparently supposed to be a Alpha Bitch. However, this is something of an InformedFlaw. She has the usual indicators of being blonde and popular, but all she ever does is get jealous of Bella (at least according to [[UnreliableNarrator Bella herself]]) and complain about her behind her back. If anything, it's Bella herself who has more of the Alpha Bitch qualities since she looks down on everyone else.
67** Rosalie Hale of the Cullen clan is actually more of a LovableAlphaBitch. The same could be said for Leah Clearwater, though most of that is unintentional, and she's under a huge pile of stress that is in no way her fault.
68** Rosalie Hale is redeemed in ''Eclipse'', [[spoiler: where she reveals her tragic backstory (she always wanted children, but could never have one because she is a vampire, and her fiance and his friends gang-raped her and killed her to cover it up), and starts fawning over Bella and her child.]] While Leah makes good in ''Breaking Dawn'', when she and her brother Seth are the first wolves to join Jacob in protecting the Cullens from Sam and the pack.
69* Kelly Peters in Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''Literature/TheChangeling1970''. A spun-sugar nightmare with a cute face and golden curls. It makes more sense to walk into an operating buzz saw than to have anything to do with her. Most of these types are KarmaHoudini, but Kelly actually gets taken down a notch or two (not much) toward the end of the book.
70* Sandra "Sandi" Mitchell from ''Literature/TheBaileyGame''. She's pretty and popular, but she's also arrogant and vain and leads her [[GirlPosse group of friends]] in ostracising the main characters.
71%%* Cheyenne Martin from ''Literature/{{Private}}''.
72%%* The titular character from Creator/LaurenKate's ''Literature/TheBetrayalOfNatalieHargrove''.
73* Also from Creator/LaurenKate, Chloe King in ''Literature/{{Unforgiven}}''. Her father is a rich media mogul, she is good-looking, well-dressed, surrounded by GirlPosse composed of members of her pop group, she leads several school clubs and is a candidate for prom queen. And in a moment of sincerity, she claims that people generally do not like her - they are just afraid of her. One interesting twist - she's black (although the author generally does not stress the fact).
74* In the ''Literature/AmberBrown'' books, Hannah Burton. Generally regarded as the prettiest girl in Amber's class, she seems to dislike Amber for no good reason (though possibly simply because she finds her silly). She takes every opportunity to tease her and otherwise make snide comments at her and is generally just thoroughly unpleasant even though Amber has never really done anything to her at all, other than sometimes complain about her to her friends and parents ''because'' of the things she's done. It all comes to a head in ''Amber Brown Horses Around'' when the two are forced to share a tent with several other girls at summer camp. Amber gets so tired of Hannah's mean behavior and apparent pranks that she teams with the other girls to plan an elaborate prank of her own, which blows up terribly when Hannah twists her ankle after trying to run when hearing a spooky voice on a tape played as part of the prank. After this, it transpires that Hannah was ''not'' responsible for the pranks that Amber thought she was, though everyone still agrees that Hannah has been awful to Amber ever since they got to camp. In order to keep things harmonious at camp, the two decide to start making an effort to try not to be so mean to each other and take the time to think about how their behaviors and words effect each other and it seems at the end of the story that even if they could never be friends, they could possibly at least reach the point of becoming frenemies.
75* In ''Literature/TheGodsAreBastards'', these have twice turned up out of the blue to harass one of the main characters. [[BullyingADragon This is not generally a good idea]].
76* In ''Literature/{{Uprooted}}'', Agnieszka the woodcutter's daughter runs into these when she goes to the capital. Primarily it's a young noblewoman named Alicja who mocks her through loud, sarcastic "compliments" which Agnieszka initially doesn't recognize (people in her village were very straightforward). When she does, she uses minor magic to turn it on Alicja but is disgusted when all of Alicja's "friends" congratulate her. Agnieszka concludes that Alicja is more pitiable than anything, being raised as a snake in a nest of vipers.
77* Mackenzie Hollister from ''Literature/DorkDiaries''. She is the self-acclaimed Queen of Westchester Country Day Middle School, and seems to live solely for making the protagonist Nikki miserable. She’s publicly humiliated Nikki at school several times, cyber bullied her, tried to turn her friends against her, blackmailed her a few times, and has even tried to get her expelled TWICE.
78%%* ''Literature/TheTruthOfRockAndRoll'': Mona Southton. It doesn't work out well for her.
79%%* Mia St. Claire from ''Literature/GossipFromTheGirlsRoom''.
80* ''Literature/TalesOfTheFrogPrincess'' Emma's ancestor Princess Hazel turns out to be this: a powerful nature witch, and beautiful, blonde, and delicate as a flower, she's also bossy, mean, selfish, and only cares about herself. It's also hinted that she threatens her parents with her new magical powers.
81** Emma's mom Queen Chartreuse is also this, especially in the Prequel ''Salamander Spell''. Also blonde and beautiful, she's at best unpleasant and at worst outright antagonistic to her daughter and her sister, although she does love them.
82* The third book in James Patterson's ''Literature/MiddleSchool'' series, ''Literature/MyBrotherIsABigFatLiar,'' (co-authored by Lisa Papademetriou) features a trio of snobs known as The Princess Patrol. They are described by the book's protagonist, Georgia Khatchadorian, as "girls that wear the latest fashions, have radiant skin and glowing hair that smells like strawberries." They are led by the alpha bitch, Missy Trillin [[spoiler:who receives two well-deserved comeuppances]].
83* In ''Literature/TheSecretPlace'', a boy from a boys' school is found dead on the grounds of a nearby school for girls. Naturally, the investigators also encounter the resident AlphaBitch. In addition to the usual bullying of less popular girls she also [[spoiler: is so jealous she threatens the girl with whom her ex boyfriend hooked up with getting her expelled from school if she doesn't stay away from him. Going so far to tell the girls' friends that she will hold them responsible for making sure her order is complied with.]]
84* The nonfiction book ''Queen Bees and Wannabes'' by Rosalind Wiseman describes the lives of modern teenage girls. Wiseman discusses in great length the politics of girl cliques and how the "queen bees" stay in charge of them. One chapter is entitled "Mean Girls", and the movie ''Film/MeanGirls'' was loosely adapted from this book.
85* Danya and her GirlPosse in ''Literature/{{Parrotfish}}'' enjoy picking on Grady for being UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}. Danya goes as far as telling him that if she was in his place she'd [[DrivenToSuicide kill herself]]. [[spoiler:She gets suspended after she tries to prank Grady. He learns about the prank and pranks her instead]].
86* ''Literature/StarDarlings'' has Vivica, who is mean to everyone in the main cast, heads an OpposingSportsTeam band, and eventually joins forces with the main villain out of a desire to be appreciated. She eventually has an IgnoredEpiphany, temporarily remembering how happy she was at the start of the school year before deciding nothing's changed and she still needs to bring the Star Darlings down. Canceled books would have given her a more sympathetic role, as TheHero Sage would leave her behind on Earth and slowly turn into a Dark Starling as a result, with Vivica forgiving her to free her from corruption.
87* ''{{Literature/Chrysanthemum}}'' has Victoria, and her two friends, Jo and Rita, who all pick on the titular character because of her long name.
88* In ''Literature/PrincessAcademy,'' Katar appears to be one at first. She is rude, cold, and arrogant, picks on Miri constantly, has a GirlPosse in Bena and Liana, and is one of the smartest students at the academy. But it turns out that because of her cold attitude, the other girls actually don't like or respect her at all. During the final exam, when everyone has to answer a question from the teacher in turn, the girls secretly give each other answers using quarry-speech (a kind of telepathy), but when Katar can't answer her question, nobody gives her any help except Miri. Indeed, later that night, the other girls vote for Miri to be academy princess instead of her, because of how she helped them in the exam.
89* ''Literature/FamilySkeletonMysteries'': Book 3 had a quartet of them. [[spoiler: They were a group of high school girls who made a game of viciously trolling anyone they could online, and operated under the name "The Devil's Divas." And there's emphasis on '''vicious''', like posting homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs, and going as far as telling a girl in a wheelchair that her mother should've aborted her. One of them bullied a girl so badly she killed herself, and then years later when she tried to atone for her actions, she confessed to the girl's sister... who then murdered her not because of her sister's death, but because her sister's death messed up her college dissertation's completion. To further drive the point home, none of them actually believed the bile they spread, as one was Jewish and another bisexual. Luckily, at least one person knew better than to listen to their comments - they tried to harass Madison at one point, but gave up when she ignored them.]]
90%%* Jessica in ''Literature/TimeOutOfTime'' acts this way towards Timothy at school. In reality, she's really nice.
91* ''Literature/TheWinnieYears'': Gail and Malena are popular girls who are nasty to others. Mindy also qualifies; she exerts power over other girls by forming a secret club in which she and her best friend choose girls with the "right" style to join them in being mean to others.
92* In ''Literature/HowToBeComfortableInYourOwnFeathers'', Hummingbird is mean to the other birds for not being able to flutter like her and she's the most popular bird in school.
93* ''Literature/TheAnderssons'':
94** Karin and Ragnhild lead the bullying against Rebecka in "Drömmar av glas". Both of them also come from prestigious local families (Karin's father is a merchant; Ragnhild's father is a priest), which makes it easy for them to taunt a less fortunate underdog.
95** Monica is the school nemesis to Rebecka's daughter Cecilia in "Spränga gränser". Her father is rich and clearly spoils her rotten, which makes her feel that she has the right to taunt Cecilia for having working-class parents.
96* ''Literature/{{Rogue}}'': When Kiara tries to sit at the popular kids' table, Melanie Prince-Parker pushes her tray to the floor, ruining her lunch. Kiara loses her temper and smashes the tray into Melanie's face, giving her a bloody nose and getting herself expelled.
97* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': Tina Welter is a pre-teen version of this, and isn't shy about mocking Rilla about her family's lifestyle and anything else she can think of. She mellows out a lot between books 3 and 4 though.
98* ''Literature/CursedWorld'': Chloe Nichols is intially presented as an Alpha Bitch, [[spoiler: but in fact is the bottom of the pecking order of a group of proper alpha bitches that her parents forced her to hang out with. She's suffered under them for so long that she's convinced that slams and put-downs are genuine displays of affection and doesn't even comprehend that she and Rei, the main character, aren't friends anymore.]]
99* ''Literature/AnimalInn'': Lila Bascombe, the snobbish daughter of one of the richest families in town and also one of the biggest jerks.
100* ''Literature/JustJuliet'': Claire is this for Bridgewood Academy, whom Lena calls “Princess Bitch”. She solely interacts with Lakyn and Juliet simply to insult them. She also has a GirlPosse whom Lena dubs [[Creator/DrSeuss Thing One and Thing Two]], while they all have near identical styles. Lena thinks every school has beautiful, popular girls like them, who occupy themselves mostly by sneering at others.
101* Osthorne Academy of ''Literature/MagicForLiars'' has Alexandria, who bounces between using magic to control the emotions of her peers to blackmailing teachers. The intensity of her aggression makes her a suspect in the murder investigation.
102* ''Literature/TheWaterAndTheWild'': Pen Bloomfield is a girl in [[TheProtagonist Lottie]]'s class who just seems to [=LOVE=] putting her and Eliot down any chance she gets.
103* ''Literature/CanYouSeeMe'': Skye from ''Do You Know Me?'' is a popular, "fun" girl with rich parents who makes fun of weird kids like Tally, Jade, and Gregory. She almost gets kicked out of camp after she steals some other kids' letters to their parents to make fun of them, but is allowed to stay after her lawyer dad threatens to sue.
104* In ''Literature/OnTheSpectrum'', Avril is the most popular girl at Clara's private school. She once bullied three girls into leaving school in the same year.
105* ''Literature/SchooledInMagic'': Alassa, who's blonde and the [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman most beautiful girl anyone's ever seen]] begins as this, TheBully to Emily and others who is constantly flanked by a GirlPosse. This escalates to the point that they get into a WizardsDuel where Emily nearly kills her accidentally. After she's punished, the school makes them work together and they grow into friends. Alassa becomes [[TookALevelInKindness much nicer starting from here over the subsequent books]].
106* ''Literature/{{Slacker}}'': Jennifer Del Rio is the uncompromising and self-centered head cheerleader, and Homecoming Queen, and runs the high school's good deeds club. The last of these ''would'' make her a LovableAlphaBitch, except she's doing it to look good on her Harvard application and will sabotage other do-gooders who are stealing charity work opportunities from her. She does get some PetTheDog moments at the end of the book, but Cam is relieved to see her leave for college and get out of his life.
107* ''Literature/NighttimeIsMyTime'': Alison Kendall was this in high school; she was well-known and even admired by some students for her beauty and wit, but she had a cruel streak and enjoyed making cutting remarks and mean jokes about other students, especially the less-popular kids. Some of her former classmates state that most of the "nerds" tried to stay out of her way and that a few may have resented her enough to want to hurt her. In adulthood, she apparently wasn't much better, to the point few people are genuinely upset when she's murdered.
108* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': Lily is a perfect example. She's a wealthy, popular witch who already has a small clique formed around her even before orientation is complete and who is pointedly cruel to poorer witches (like the Medina twins) and unknown ones (like the protagonist Emily).
109* Camilla from ''Literature/ByAnyOtherName2013'' is the most popular girl in school because her dad owns a hotel complex, and because she used to live in America. At first Holly tries to join her friend group, but after they get in a fight, Camilla creates a hate page on Facebook called 'Holly Latham is a Ho'. Other girls post pictures of Holly that they secretly took in school. Joe reports the page and has it taken down, but Holly is in WitnessProtection and worries the criminals saw her picture and could track her down.
110* In ''Literature/NoOneNeededToKnow'', Jackie is the most popular girl in sixth grade, and the one who spearheads the harassment campaign against Heidi for having a special needs brother. She's also [[spoiler:the only one of Heidi's bullies who doesn't eventually feel remorse]].
111* In ''Literature/ZenobiaJuly'', popular girl Natalie Davenport and her GirlPosse make fun of Zen whenever she walks by their lunch table. Once Natalie edits googly eyes and feelers onto a photo of Zen's eyebrows to make fun of how bushy they are, then sends the picture to the whole school.

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