Line #86 Main/CruelCheerleader


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18	->'''Sabrina:''' Oh! I'm glad you guys are home, I'm really worried about Valerie. She's fallen in with a bad crowd.\
19	'''Zelda:''' Trekkies?\
20	'''Sabrina:''' No, worse ... she's trying to become a cheerleader.
21	-->-- ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', "The Pom-Pom Incident"
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23	In any HighSchool setting, no StockCharacter is portrayed as harshly as the cheerleader. [[BeautyIsBad Cheerleaders are often depicted as outright evil or mean]], with the AlphaBitch as their leader. If the girls aren't evil they might just be {{Brainless Beaut\|y}}ies, following their AlphaBitch leader out of ignorance or a desire for [[PopularIsDumb her approval]]. The Captain, if not the whole squad, will usually be portrayed as ReallyGetsAround and/or a HormoneAddledTeenager. From evil to slutty to dumb, any cheerleader in North American media can be expected to be portrayed as [[PopularIsEvil shallow and superficial, because popularity is her first and only concern]].
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25	This trope is a combination of VanityIsFeminine, BeautyIsBad, and PopularIsEvil given that cheerleaders are typically at the top of the PopularityFoodChain. Cheerleaders, who are traditionally predominantly women, are almost required to adhere to the highest of beauty standards since part of their job is to act as [[MsFanservice eye candy]] for the predominantly male audience of the games they cheer at. Male cheerleaders are the minority in real life and sufficiently rare in fiction outside of works that are specifically about cheerleading. That said, even they may not escape the negative portrayal, and in fact may prove to be even meaner than the rest if they are coded as or explicitly are gay in-universe, since [[CampGay gay is often equated with femininity]] and thus they get all of the negative associations to femininity and ''then some''.
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27	If a sympathetic, smart character is a cheerleader, she will probably end up quitting the squad as part of her "growth" or do a HeelFaceTurn and try to reform her mean past. A good girl might want to join the squad, but her friend will think that cheerleading is inherently bad and try to stop her, leading to a lesson on how a person should get to do what makes her happy.
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29	This trope ended up weakening over time (if only slightly), perhaps due to the popularity of things like the ''Film/BringItOn''-series. A sympathetic depiction is still more the exception rather than the rule, however. In fact, media with positive depictions of cheerleaders will often feel the need to go out of their way to explain to the audience (often [[MrExposition via an outsider POV character]]) that cheerleaders can be good people too, as well as show that cheerleading in real life isn't even close to being how it's portrayed in pop culture. See the analysis page for more on that.
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31	Compare JerkJock, AlphaBitch, and PopularIsDumb. Contrast with the positive CuteSportsClubManager, the cheerful PomPomGirl, and the LovableJock. Even though these characters can be downright nasty, this trope can and frequently does overlap with AllGuysWantCheerleaders. A cheerleader also has a better-than-average chance of being a DumbBlonde, but this isn't required. They can be TheFashionista, but often suffer from a LimitedWardrobe: at least during school hours many cheerleaders never wear an outfit ''other'' than their uniforms.
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33	They may wear midriff-baring clothing to show off their [[BareMidriffsAreFeminine femininity]], athleticism, and often for pure {{Fanservice}}.
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40	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
41	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Mariko Konjo is mean, using [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Martial Arts cheer leading]] to sabotage the opposing team -- and even [[SlippingAMickey poisoning]] her own team if they're up against the boy she likes.
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44	[[folder:Comic Books]]
45	* ''ComicBook/{{Chassis}}'' included a cheerleader named Twist who became so obsessed with her favorite racer that she started killing his rivals.
46	* The image for this trope comes from ''Murder Can Be Fun'', an anthology series about the [[CrapsaccharineWorld dark underbelly of life]].
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49	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
50	* ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'': Tiffany played the trope completely straight during the high school years. Bitchy, stupid, shallow, and slutty (as much as permitted in a G-rated comic). Also the most popular girl in school ([[InformedAttribute supposedly]]). It's notable that her CharacterDevelopment didn't begin until long after she was kicked off the squad. A rare case of SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome there: the school faculty didn't take kindly to one of their cheerleaders mercilessly bullying another student.
51	** Stef has replaced Tiffany as this now that the cast is in college.
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54	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
55	%% * In ''Film/ArtOfTheDead'', Tiffany, the AlphaBitch at Donna's school, is also the head cheerleader.
56	* Reagan in ''Film/AssassinationNation'' is a PerkyGoth example, a punk chick with [[NonconformistDyedHair blue hair]] and lots of dark-colored clothing who's also on the cheerleading squad. She expresses NoSympathy for victims of a data hack and [[BlamingTheVictim blames them]] for taking incriminating photos in the first place, and when nude photos of her [[WithFriendsLikeThese supposed]] best friend Grace come up in the hack, she sends them to all the boys in school. [[spoiler:Grace [[KarmicDeath beats her to death]] with a [[BatterUp baseball bat]] for it, and the rest of the student body (including many of Reagan's fellow cheerleaders) [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing rejoices]].]]
57	* Subverted in ''Film/BarelyLethal''. Agent 83/Megan is a TeenSuperspy on the run posing as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent whose only knowledge of normal high school life comes from teen movies, so when the cheerleaders invite her to sit with them in the cafeteria, she assumes that they're {{Alpha Bitch}}es trying to set her up and insults them. Turns out they were genuinely nice people, and are extremely puzzled by her reaction.
58	%% * In ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', all the cheerleaders (including Buffy herself at the start of the movie) are shallow, nasty, and stupid. When Buffy becomes the Slayer and gets CharacterDevelopment, she stops being a cheerleader. The episode of the show was sort of a ContinuityNod.
59	* In ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', Shelby likes ruining the life of Sam, the nerd. She's portrayed as self-absorbed, bitchy, and spiteful.
60	* ''Film/DarbyAndTheDead'': Capri. She's a cheerleader and steals Darby’s clothes during gym just for the hell of it. Later, upon dying she also coerces Darby into helping with her plans.
61	* [[Film/DeathNote2017 Netflix's adaptation of]] ''Manga/DeathNote'' has Mia, a cheerleader who kills people and feigns interest in Light to get at his notebook, in much the same way that Light manipulated Misa in the original series.
62	%% * The Panthers from ''Film/FiredUp'', who are clearly evil.
63	* Jessica Spencer (played by Creator/RachelMcAdams), the protagonist of ''Film/TheHotChick'' starts as one of these. She torments Hindenburg, the one fat member of the cheer team.[[note]]At the beginning of the movie we see her lying to Hindenburg to get her to dress in the cheer uniform from their rival school, just so Hindenburg will get things thrown at her by fans in the bleachers during her part of the cheer routine.[[/note]] Is rude and dismissive to retail staff. Steals from stores in the mall. She is actually somewhat oblivious to how many people hate her and how cruel she's being until she gets [[FreakyFridayFlip body swapped]] with a 40-something year old [[GenderBender male]] criminal played by Creator/RobSchneider which gives her the chance to see things from another point of view and get some CharacterDevelopment.
64	%% * Breanna in ''Film/ItsABoyGirlThing'' is a trifecta of dim, evil, and slutty.
65	%% * Heather in ''Film/JohnTuckerMustDie'' isn't ''totally'' evil, but she's still bitchy, shallow, and vain. Then again, so are most of the girls.
66	%% * ''Film/NinjaCheerleaders'' gives us April and Courtney, both of whom get quite nasty, but it's only in the line of duty (or whenever Courtney decides to insult the Y chromosome). Monica, the third girl, is the ditzy one, but none of them are actively shallow.
67	%% * Priscilla (Creator/JaimePressly) in ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'' embodies this trope. She's even labeled on the DVD front cover as 'The Nasty Cheerleader'.
68	* ''Film/PowerRangers2017'': Kimberly was previously on the cheerleading squad and she's ostracised by her friends at the start, making it seem as if they are cruel. But it's later revealed that [[spoiler:she shared a nude photo of her friend around to the whole school]], meaning that Kim herself was an example of the trope.
69	%% * The cheerleaders may be the protagonists of ''Film/SatansCheerleaders'', but they still manage to embody many of the cheerleader stereotypes: from the AlphaBitch (Chris) to ReallyGetsAround (Debbie) to the TheDitz (Sharon).
70	* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'': Penny is a cheerleader who uses her [[MesACrowd powers of self-duplication]] to be the entire cheer team. She is judgmental and mean spiritied from the start, making fun of the students in the sidekick classes, which makes you wonder why class president and most popular girl in school Gwen Grayson even hangs out with her, since she's much nicer. [[spoiler:It's because it's all an act and Gwen is the BigBad of the film. Penny is genuinely evil and acts as TheDragon]].
71	* Mercedes in ''Film/TeenageSorcery'' is not only a mean cheerleading captain but also a powerful evil [[VainSorceress witch]]. Her pranks in the movie include making food disappear for a bunch of boys one of whom accidentally drops some water on her skirt, hazing a freshman by making him vanish into nothing, and other similar magical shenanigans.
72	* ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'': Blaire has a cheerleading trophy on her shelf but comes off as a likable GirlNextDoor, [[spoiler: until she's revealed to be a sociopath who betrayed her best friend and bullied her into suicide, which makes it clear the trope is being played straight]].
73	* Tina and Diane, the co-captains of the cheer squad in ''Film/VarsityBlood'', best fit the stereotype of the cheerleader, being a pair of promiscuous {{Alpha Bitch}}es who are obsessed with status, constantly demean the other girls on the squad, and expect their slightest whim to be obeyed. Hannah, Heather, and Linda come across as more reasonable human beings, albeit with quirks of their own.
74	%% * In ''Film/WhipIt'' the HighSchool age heroine has a feud with the local AlphaBitch. Said Alpha Bitch is a very minor character in the film but we do learn that she is a cheerleader, much to the heroine's contempt.
75	%%* ''Film/YouAgain'' gives two examples, spanning two generations. Joanna (Creator/OdetteAnnable's character) was Head Cheerleader and a particularly cruel and arrogant version of the AlphaBitch. Gail (Creator/JamieLeeCurtis' character), also a former Head Cheerleader wasn't nearly as bad but was apparently pretty insensitive towards her less popular friends. Interestingly both characters matured into genuinely kind-hearted, pleasant people after school. Maybe it's the uniform.
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78	[[folder:Literature]]
79	%% * ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'' gives us Marcia, the AlphaBitch hero sidekick with a cheerleader theme. Claire is an AffablyEvil VillainProtagonist and is also a cheerleader.
80	* In the ''Sweet Valley Twins'' (a prequel to ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'') book #4 ''Choosing Sides'' Elizabeth doesn't like learning that her best friend Amy wants to be on the cheerleading squad, especially since it's been started by and consists mainly of the Unicorns, the school's snobby group of [[AlphaBitch alpha bitches]], fearing that they will ridicule and bully her because of her tomboyish ways. They do, but Amy toughs it out and does such a fantastic job that they have no choice but to accept her.
81	* ''Literature/{{Spinetinglers}}'': Book #25 (''The Curse of the Cheerleaders'') is about a group of elementary school cheerleaders with the power to make anything they cheer come true. [[spoiler:It's actually their uniforms that gives them this power]]. Naturally, the leader of the group wants to use this power to get whatever she wants while the protagonist and the newest recruit is horrified and tries to stop her before someone dies.
82	%% * ''Literature/SecretSanta2007'': It's briefly mentioned that insufferable AlphaBitch Amber and her reluctant sidekick friend Shawna are on the cheerleading squad.
83	%% * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': From "The Secret of the Forger's List (Chapter 1)", the Whateley Academy cheerleaders are implied to be mean
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86	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
87	* One of these, Pamela, is both the AlphaBitch and the AssholeVictim in ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'''s episode "Pam-Caked!". She's so jealous of her LovableJock rival Amber that she drops her in the middle of a presentation and makes her fall to the ground hard AND head-first... only to be [[TrampledUnderfoot accidentally trampled to death]] by the whole football squad [[TooDumbToLive because she stood up to brag about what she had done -- in front of the school banner, where the dudes couldn't see her.]]
88	* Cheerleader Susie in "The Joker Goes To School" episode of ''Series/Batman1966'' joins The Bad Pennies and becomes The Joker's henchwoman.
89	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
90	** "Witch" was the same episode that had an ex-cheerleader turned witch as the ''villain''. Notably her daughter (who she is possessing) didn't want to be a cheerleader and doesn't join the squad once she's freed.
91	%% ** Cheerleader Cordelia Chase was initially characterized as shallow, vain, self-centered, mean spirited, and a bit of an airhead. She eventually became a friend of the protagonists, but until her CharacterDevelopment on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' was still portrayed as self-centered and brutally honest in a hurtful way.
92	* ''Series/ColdCase'': In "Stand Up and Holler", the victim was a pretty intelligent and well-liked girl who joins her school's cheerleading squad. On the advice of the AlphaBitch -- who is the captain of the cheerleaders -- she starts to hide her intelligence and focuses more on being cool. Before she is accidentally killed [[spoiler:by the AlphaBitch and the murder is covered up by the victim's best friend]], she starts hanging out with an outcast boy and decides to quit the squad.
93	%% * ''Series/{{Degrassi\|TheGeneration}}'' provides several teenagers on the Spirit Squad or Power Squad. Not all of them are evil, but a few do reach for this trope on occasion. Paige, Hazel, Holly J, and Chantay most often. Like in Sabrina, there's an entire episode based around Emma freaking out over her best friend looking to join the squad (she too gets over it but from her reaction, you'd think Manny had joined a cult).
94	* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'':
95	** Susan was a popular cheerleader in high school and though she claims she was perfectly nice she did 'accidentally' steal another girl's boyfriend and lumber her with an unfortunate nickname, implying that she's an UnreliableExpositor and was more likely more cruel than she lets on. Mike calls her on her seemingly selective memory.
96	%% ** A later episode also retroactively makes Bree's bitchy, slutty, dim daughter Danielle a cheerleader.
97	%% * Rachel in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' was a cheerleader in high school. Sure, she's fairly likable as an adult but by all accounts, she was an AlphaBitch during her teen years.
98	%%* The Cheerios in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' manage to hit nearly every stereotype on the list.
99	%%** Quinn is originally an AlphaBitch but also smart and though she gets pregnant it's from having sex once (whilst cheating on her boyfriend, but she still doesn't [[ReallyGetsAround Really Get Around]]). She eventually turns into a FallenPrincess and [[spoiler:after gaining sympathy, rejects cheerleading]].
100	%%** Santana is bitchy and ReallyGetsAround but doesn't seem to be dumb. [[spoiler:As of ''Sexy'', it also appears that this is just part of her [[ArmouredClosetGay armoured closet]]]].
101	%%** Terri is an adult former cheerleader and while dumb and bitchy, also was not a slut (marrying her HighSchoolSweethearts).
102	%%** Sue Sylvester, the coach, is unbelievably cruel but is far from dumb.
103	%%** Becky Johnson is consistently shown to be very bright...and also very bitchy, and very sneaky.
104	* Subverted by Savannah in ''Series/{{Hellcats}}'': She does briefly butt heads with Marti prior to the latter joining the Hellcats, but even Marti acknowledges that she was at fault for the conflict by taking out her bad day on Savannah. The two quickly patch things up, but even before that, Savannah voted to allow her on the squad because of her skills. Alice, on the other hand, played the trope straight, feeling that Savannah was taking her place.
105	%% * ''{{Series/Heroes}}'': The head cheerleaders from seasons 1 and 2. Claire's fellow cheerleaders in season 1 are only background characters and the ones in season 2 are more afraid of the AlphaBitch who's the head cheerleader rather than being cruel or bitchy themselves.
106	%% * Miu of ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' was the leader of the cheerleader squad, the AlphaBitch ''and'' girlfriend to JerkJock Shun. She was pretty much the queen of the school. However, after she's nearly killed before the prom and having to be saved by Gentarou, Miu ends up having a HeelRealization, quits the cheerleader squad, breaks up with Shun, and joins the Kamen Rider Club. As president, of course. Old habits die hard.
107	%% * The VillainOfTheWeek in one ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode is a former cheerleader; however, their client is the coach of a cheerleading squad who is very concerned about the welfare of her team, all of whom appear to be normal kids doing something they love.
108	* [[AlphaBitch Kate]] from ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' was the captain of the cheerleading squad and led a group of really mean girls, including her GirlPosse of stupid girls. She victimized Lizzie as much as possible, singing a "U-G-L-Y, You ain't got no alibi, you ugly" cheer to her in front of the whole school.
109	* In the "Lois Strikes Back" episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', four cheerleaders pull an evil prank on Reese by pretending that he has a secret admirer and then drop off a pig at his front door, sending Reese into a depression. Lois... [[MamaBear well, she strikes back HARD]].
110	%% * The cheerleaders on ''Series/TheMiddle'' play this trope straight being pretty but shallow and being stupid [[AlphaBitch mean girls]] by being so self-centered.
111	* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': AlphaBitch Libby is a cheerleader who takes every opportunity to belittle Sabrina by telling her she is an uncool loser. The series as a whole tends to treat cheerleaders as AlwaysChaoticEvil until proven otherwise. An entire episode was based around Sabrina freaking out over her best friend looking to join the squad (she gets over it but from her reaction, you'd think Valerie had joined a cult).
112	%% * In an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' when Elliott is being ostracised by the nursing staff, JD has an ImagineSpot of her as a band member, Carla as the AlphaBitch head cheerleader, and the nurses as her GirlPosse.
113	* An episode of ''Series/TwoOfAKind'' has Ashley wanting to join the cheerleading squad because "Being a cheerleader would make me really ''really'' popular]]." They're rather disgusted at her sister Mary-Kate hanging out with a {{Goth}}, so they make her spray paint said {{Goth}}'s backpack in a cruel prank. [[spoiler:She does the deed, but feeling sorry for how {{Goth}} feels about her treatment, tells the AlphaBitch: "I wanted to be a cheerleader, but not this bad" before offering to buy {{Goth}} a new backpack. In black, of course]].
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117	[[folder:Music]]
118	* The Music/CheerUpCharlieDaniels song "Pig Tails" is about a guy realizing that his girlfriend is a mean cheerleader. He notes that she 'used to be sweeter', indicating that she may have been nicer before. It's [[TearJerker surprisingly sad]].
119	* In the music video for Music/{{Lordi}}'s "Hard Rock Hallelujah" the metalhead girl is bullied and ostracized by a cheerleading squad... before Lordi shows up and [[spoiler:kills them. And then raises them as zombie thralls, which the metalhead girl then leads against the rest of the high school]]. It's pretty much every high school goth kid's fantasy.
120	%% * Music/TaylorSwift: ''You belong with me'' has the girlfriend of the boy that the narrator likes as a cheerleader and a nasty, selfish bitch... who ''of course'' is rebuffed and dumped and humiliated by the main girl and the guy.
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124	%%* Tiffany from ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'' played the trope completely straight during the high school years. Bitchy, stupid, shallow, and slutty (as much as permitted in a G-rated comic). Also the most popular girl in school ([[InformedAttribute supposedly]]). She was the strip's resident HateSink until after she was kicked off the squad, and only then did she start receiving some CharacterDevelopment.
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128	* In the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Creepy Town'', Stacy Quartermain is the head cheerleader. She's slightly nicer than fellow cheerleader [[AlphaBitch Katie]], but she'll happily throw insults at people she doesn't like.
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131	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
132	%% * Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa debuted in the role of a valet and was a straight example, as far as "cheerleaders are mean" goes. She remained mean but later let up on attempting to lead cheers.
133	* HBIC was an evil cheerleader in Ultimate Pro Wrestling and [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] was the entitled cheerleader of the evil commissioner Steve Bradley and all athletes affiliated with him in Memphis Championship Wrestling.
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136	[[folder:Video Games]]
137	* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'': Not only is Mandy Wiles, the team captain and AlphaBitch, a jerk, but the other three girls (Pinky, Christy, and Angie) on the squad are much nastier while in uniform than when they're not.
138	* ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': Enablers are an enemy type that cheers on other mental enemies, giving them perfect damage resistance and a power boost [[ShootTheMedicFirst while the enabler is still breathing]]. They also look like gremlin marching band drummers and have peppy, upbeat voices.
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141	[[folder:Web Animation]]
142	* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': [[ManipulativeBitch Mackenzie Zales]], [[HairTriggerTemper Brittany Matthews]], and their rivals Tanya Berkowitz and Taylor [=McDevitt=] are ''damn proud'' of being bitter and bitchy cheerleaders. Trisha Cappelletti and Trisha 2 avert this by being some of the nicest characters in the show, despite both being rather ditzy {{Woman Child}}ren.
143	* Cheerleader in ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'' is often shown to be domineering toward the other characters. In one episode where she gets killed early on, the others are overjoyed at her "tyranny" being over, revealing that she'd interfered with their lives by forcing So-and-So to stop overachieving in school, What's Her Face to break up with her nerdy boyfriend, and The Ugly One to [[ThePigPen shower]]. Though, she's not always an actual cheerleader -- when questioned about why she's not leading cheers during a football game, she claims, "I'm more of a cheerleader [[PomPomGirl in the way I dress]] [[AlphaBitch and in the way I treat other girls]]". On the other hand, another episode has her claim that she is "off duty!" when Cheerleader Brian lifts her into the air at the prom, and she will perform a cheer when given a megaphone in ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople''. If anything, this suggests that she became a cheerleader primarily because she believes that AllGuysWantCheerleaders.
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146	[[folder:Webcomics]]
147	* Whilst the Tandy Gardens cheer squad who make up the main cast of ''Webcomic/{{Cheer}}'' are nice[[note]]though back when they [[GenderBender were guys on the football team]] in ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' they were jerks[[/note]] their rival squad from Elaktsew High School are this. Not only do they call the Tandy Garden's squad "losers" and belittle them whenever they see them. [[http://cheer.sailorsun.org/?comic=cheer-054 They don't cheer for their sports teams]], they just big up ''themselves'' and when a member of the Boy's Varsity Basketball Team from their own school is points out to their leader, Felicia, she just tells him that "nobody is here to see ''you''".
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150	[[folder:Western Animation]]
151	* Mazuma from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' isn't an actual cheerleader, but looks like one. She still qualifies for this trope as she supports [[AttentionWhore Billy]] in his schemes to get rid of [[TheHero Ben.]]
152	* Sissi from ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''. Partially subverted in that while she can act dumb and be mean on occasion, she also gets some CharacterDevelopment as a LovableAlphaBitch and a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Also, she doesn't ReallyGetsAround that much, since she only has eyes for [[BigManOnCampus Ulrich]], who [[AllLoveIsUnrequited couldn't be less interested]].
153	* Paulina Sanchez in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is a cheerleader -- though most episodes focus on her just being a general AlphaBitch out-of-uniform at school. She does petty things like invite Danny and friends to parties just so she can uninvite them, looks down on her former-friend Valerie just because Valerie became poor. She belittles Danny Fenton for his crush on her [[LovesMyAlterEgo but has a crush on his super heroic ghostly form Danny Phantom]].
154	* ''WesternAnimation/GrooveSquad'':
155	** Star Nightingale, the Groove Squad's main rival at their high school (more so to Chrissy than Ping or Mac), seems to be the only true mean-spirited cheerleader on their squad--her dad's the main villain in the movie, and Star's arguably just as evil as he is (though Star's more "high school evil" than "regular evil").
156	** In the case of Stacy and Roxanne, Star's best friends/sidekicks, however, the trope is downplayed. They really don't seem all that evil--while they're certainly very eager-to-please Star and are always in on her plans to take Chrissy's place as their high school cheerleading captain, [[MinionWithAnFInEvil they actually seem like genuinely nice girls.]] They seem more "easily manipulated" than straight-up "evil."
157	* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'' gives us true demonic cheerleaders. In one episode Brad is tricked into thinking he's in a real relationship with the beautiful Kelly, only for the viewers (and Kick) to find out that it's a part of the initiation ceremony of becoming a cheerleader -- to date a loser. [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Even when we think Kelly is going to show sympathy, she shows her true evil cheerleader colours with the rest of them]].
158	* Bonnie Rockwaller from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''; while Kim herself is the captain of the cheerleading squad and most of the cheerleaders can be a bit snobby at times but are generally nice girls, Bonnie is the only truly mean-spirited member and constantly tries to upstage Kim in both cheerleading and other school activities. It is hinted at that the reason for this is that [[TroubledAbuser Bonnie herself is tormented by her older sisters]] so then takes this out on Kim and Ron.
159	* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode, "Lupe's Revenge", a female police officer claims to have been a cheerleader back in high school. While it's never shown what she was like back then, the fact that she's shown [[DirtyCop badly abusing her power]] in the present doesn't exactly defy the stereotype, now does it.
160	%% * Beth, in the pre-cutant animated ''Toys/PollyPocket'' movies, is a cheerleader. She's Polly's main High School rival.
161	%% * In ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'', the HighSchool that the heroes attend includes a troupe of mean cheerleaders.
162	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Amy of ''Pahkitew Island'' is a cheerleader and a nasty piece of work who bullies her twin sister Samey for minor reasons. She is also rude to Jasmine, who stands up for Samey, and Rodney, who she punches in the gut.
163	* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Lois was a cheerleader in her high school days and was every bit as bitchy, mean, and cruel as this trope often is. In the present day, she's often a BitchInSheepsClothing. The present day also has [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]], who constantly bullies [[ButtMonkey Meg]] and serves as a HateSink, though she's also suffered LaserGuidedKarma from not only Meg but almost all of the Griffins.
164	* Lexi's backstory from ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' reveals that she tried out for a cheerleading squad before she got her powers, and even though she impressed most of the squad with her moves, the head cheerleader still rejected her, moslty out of jealousy.
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