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22	->'''Weiss:''' I was thinking we could be on the team together.\
23	'''Pyrrha:''' Well, that sounds grand!\
24	'''Weiss:''' Great! ''[turns around with smirk and clasping hands, monologuing to self]'' This will be perfect! The smartest girl in class combined with the strongest girl in class! Together we will be unstoppable! I can see it now! We'll be popular! We'll be celebrities! We'll get perfect grades! Nothing could come between us now!
25	-->-- ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', "[[Recap/RWBYV1E4E5TheFirstStep The First Step]]"
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27	Similar to the ClassRepresentative in her concern for anything school-related, and like the AlphaBitch in how ambitious she is, this character is aggressive in her academic superiority. She will act like she's in charge and decide who gets to do what. She's no shy {{Bookworm}}. This can be a male character, but for some reason, probably because both MenAreUncultured and HigherEducationIsForWomen, you can expect a female character in the role.
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29	They'll be found in a show that has a private school or a large cast as the one who will fight to be the best but is somehow still popular. The natural StudentCouncilPresident but not necessarily the only one. Unlike a regular AlphaBitch, she is rarely glamorous and much more likely to be a friend sooner or later, like the LovableAlphaBitch. She can often be the BetaBitch.
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31	The academic subtrope of ThePerfectionist and AlphaBitch. Compare to InsufferableGenius and NerdyBully. Compare also with GoGetterGirl. These types of characters may subscribe to AcademiaElitism.
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33	The polar opposite is the KindheartedSimpleton. Also contrast GentlemanAndAScholar.
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37	!!Examples:
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41	* ''Manga/DeathNote'': [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]] is a male example, especially after he found the notebook. He is one of the best students in the country, is very popular among his peers and teachers, and is very success-oriented. He is also a ControlFreak with a [[AGodAmI god complex]] and a HairTriggerTemper.
42	* Erina Nakiri of ''Manga/FoodWars'' starts off as this. She's exceptionally beautiful, intelligent, the heiress of a very important family in the culinary world, and has the talent to back it all up. However, she is feared by most budding chefs in the country for her insanely high standard of cooking and her willingness to use her influence to crush those who fail to meet her standards, such as closing down a school club for its lack of achievements, then taking their kitchen for her own personal use despite already having plenty. She eventually [[CharacterDevelopment mellows out]] though, becoming more of a LovableAlphaBitch.
43	* ''Anime/HighschoolOfTheDead'': Prior to [[ZombieApocalypse the outbreak]], Saya was the smartest girl at Fujimi Highschool -- and ''[[MrExposition it shows]]''. Her nigh-encyclopaedic intellect and analytical ability have enabled her to quickly and accurately assess a situation on repeat occasions, which has saved Takashi and the others several times. But (in the anime) it's also made her [[InsufferableGenius almost unbearable]] at times, between lauding her intellectual superiority and being a major {{Tsundere}}.
44	* In ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'', main character Yukino Miyazawa starts as this. She aspires to be the #1 in her class and is not pleased when Arima steals her top spot, along with the admiration she feels should be hers. Later, however, Yukino becomes a BrokenAce: when she relaxes and then she and Arima start dating, she realizes that she was so focused on being the best student in her year that she hasn't made any real friends and can barely interact with other people.
45	* Kaguya from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' fits this trope to a T early on in the series, looking down on all those that she views as her intellectual inferiors. It remains a subtle part of her character even after [[DefrostingIceQueen her defrosting]], as seen by her actions when she appoints himself as Ishigami's RomanticWingman (have him obsessively study to impress Tsubame with his grades and encourage Tsubame to cruelly turn down any other potential boyfriends).
46	* ''Anime/KazeNoShojoEmily'': Rhoda prides herself in being Ms. Brownell's favourite student, and when her new teacher Mr. Carpenter starts giving the other students more attention, she tries to steal it back, to no avail. This exacerbates her hatred for Emily furthermore.
47	* StudentCouncilPresident Kiryuin Satsuki in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' takes this trope to the logical extreme; she runs the school like a SocialDarwinist totalitarian autocracy.
48	* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'' loves this trope:
49	** Mary Waverly is an elite tennis player as well as one of the wealthier pupils at the school. She views everyone else as her enemy in the race to get the Lady's Crestm and especially hates Lynn because she blames her for [[spoiler: her mother's engagement to Lynn's father failing. Though, by the end of the series, she's publicly disgraced for sabotaging Vivian by cutting the reins of her horse. Even her own grandfather, Victor Reynolds, is disgusted at her for this.]]
50	** Vivian Spencer is St. Patrick's SchoolIdol, and many people believe that she will win the Lady's Crest. She's haughty, smug and is often followed around by adoring fangirls. She is always rude to Lynn whenever they interact, but soften ups later and eventually becomes her friend. She also gifts Lynn her horse.
51	* ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'' has Diana Cavendish. She is the top student of Luna Nova and an incredibly intelligent and powerful witch from an old and prestigious family and is capable of solving problems that even the teachers couldn't. However, she is also an incredibly haughty, cold, and stuck-up {{Jerkass}} who tends to berate and look down on others for not living up to her standards of a witch (Akko being her most frequent target), on top of frequently putting herself on a pedestal and thinking she knows best due to her background. That said, she is a LovableAlphaBitch who does have a noble side to her and does genuinely [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold cares about her peers]], including Akko, even if her snobbish attitude hides it. She would later become much [[AdaptationalNiceGuy nicer]] in the [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 TV series]] (especially in the later episodes thanks to CharacterDevelopment), even if she remains a bit stuffy and reserved towards Akko.
52	* ''Anime/MagicalDoremi'' has an elementary school version in Reika Tamaki. She's a very pretty, very BookSmart, and '''very''' arrogant girl who is the ClassRepresentative of Doremi, Hazuki, and Aiko's class, and always rubs on everyone's faces how charming, cute, smart, and powerful she is.
53	%%* Character-of-the-day Giselle from episode 9 of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''.
54	* B-ko (Biko) Daitokuji from ''Anime/ProjectAKo'', although a bit downplayed because her rivalry with SitcomArchnemesis A-ko tends to be more [[StuffBlowingUp physical]] than intellectual. She has all the hallmarks of a standard AlphaBitch (beautiful, rich, bratty, self-centered, head of the local GirlPosse she uses as flunkies) but doubles down by also being a top student with a genius-level intellect (she builds ''giant robots and advanced powersuits'' in her spare time, usually to take down A-ko).
55	* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury, of all people, once showed tendencies of this in the Exam Battles specials; upon discovering that a mysterious boy named Mercurius had her same scores in all tests, she started going mad and trying to understand how it was possible, and when she accidentally mistook an hostile [[MonsterOfTheWeek Genius Loci]] for him she gleefully attacked the enemy, content of having an excuse. [[DeadpanSnarker Minako Aino/Sailor Venus]] promptly [[LampshadeHanging declared she'll stop studying for fear of being murdered by her]].
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59	* ''ComicBook/EmmaFrost'': Matilda Brant, Emma's main academic rival at the Snow Valley School for Girls. She is outraged when Emma gets a higher score than her in the midterm exam and is convinced she cheated. She's actually right even if she doesn't know how Emma did it.
60	* Park, the top student to enter the Cadet program in ''ComicBook/MechCadetYu''. She insults Yu for admiring the ceremony because he's "hired help" as a member of the cleaning staff and is confident he will never be a Cadet.
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64	* ''ComicStrip/BigNate'' gives us Gina, one of Nate's archrivals. She's the smartest girl and even beats out Nate's best friend Francis for smartest kid in some parts. She's also a notorious rule-follower and TeachersPet, partially why she and Nate clash so often. Nate's friends though think of it as a love-hate relationship.
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68	* ''Fanfic/MiraculousThePhoenixRises'' gives us Kiku Yoshikuro, head of the student council and all-around GoGetterGirl. Her HiddenDepths reveal her to be [[PainfulPersona someone resentful of the heavy expectations placed on her]].
69	* ''Fanfic/{{Returning}}'' shows that Ravenclaw is plagued with them, and Rose comes close to becoming one.
70	* ''Fanfic/RickAndMortyNewDramaAdventures'': Courtney is shown to be the best academic in school, and she knows it. She takes her classes very seriously, but, as can be seen in Chapter 7 "Summertime", Courtney is very ambitious and takes it upon herself to solve her friend's problems by suggesting to Bridgette that [[spoiler:Rick be institutionalized or arrested to "protect the poor children".]]
71	* Unlike the rest of her popular friends, Trixie Tang in ''Fanfic/SilentWish'' takes her academics very seriously. She's also bratty, though a lot of it is to hide her HiddenHeartOfGold.
72	* ''Fanfic/TheSimpsonsTeamLASH'': Simon Skinner-Chalmers is a male example. As the product of an OfficeRomance between a principal and his superintendent, he's been raised to think that his education is the single most important thing in his life. As a result, he's a ControlFreak of a [[YellowSashOfPower hall monitor]] who's constantly snitching on his classmates, [[TeachersPet sucks up to faculty members]], and is ObsessedWithPerfectAttendance to the point where he [[WorkingThroughTheCold refuses to take sick days]].
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76	* Johnny Worthington from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' is an unusual male example. He's the president of Roar Omega Roar, the most elite fraternity on campus, but he isn't a stereotypical {{Fratbro}} as RΩR pride themselves on being the best scarers, which is a challenging academic program. He threatens Sully's place in the frat if he can't keep his grades up and eventually kicks him out when he's dropped from the scaring program.
77	* ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'': Penny, although later she becomes a LovableAlphaBitch. After Sherman shows her up in class, she picks a fight with the "[[FantasticRacism dog]]" in the lunchroom. In the insurance photos, she's practically on the verge of CrocodileTears.
78	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'': Played with. While [[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSunsetShimmer Sunset Shimmer]] is a genius, having been a former student of [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia]] who underwent a FaceHeelTurn and sought to use her powers for evil, she behaves more like a traditional AlphaBitch in the first movie. Her love of and thirst for knowledge isn't prominent until the third movie in the spin-off series, by which point she has already undergone a HeelFaceTurn.
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82	* ''Film/TwoHeadedSharkAttack'': Downplayed with Lyndsey, who may not act superior but takes her high grades seriously and is quick to complain about anyone distracting her from her work.
83	* ''Film/CandyJar'': If you believe Lona's mom, Bennett's mother fell into this when she was young. If not, she was probably more of a TeenGenius like her son.
84	* Overachieving high school student Tracy Flick is running unopposed for StudentCouncilPresident in ''Film/{{Election}}''.
85	* ''Film/FearStreet Part One: 1994'': Kate, who is both the valedictorian and a cheerleader, and is selling drugs to make enough money to leave Shadyside. Played with however in that she's the protagonist's best friend, and even happily hooks up with her nerdy younger brother (and being best friends with an out lesbian in 1994 makes her quite progressive for her day).
86	* Taylor [=McKessie=] of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' is the president of the science club at East High and a member of the school's national decathlon team. She wants gifted Gabriella to join the team to beat their rivals in West High and gets involved to sabotage Gabriella's growing relationship with Troy to get rid of any distractions. She does grow out of this when she realizes what a Jerkass move she pulled and becomes nicer.
87	* ''Film/JohnTuckerMustDie'': Carrie is a classic case, excels in school and is intimidating to other students. She is also a perfectionist, an ExtracurricularEnthusiast, and a SchoolNewspaperNewsHound. Apparently she also [[CunningLinguist speaks several languages]] and is writing a children's book.
88	* When Elle gets to Harvard Law in ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' she faces Vivian Kensington, a horrible preppy girl who tries to make her look bad in front of the professor. Vivian is a threat to Elle because she's a smart, serious, law student. Later, however, Vivian and Elle start interacting more and become sort-of FireForgedFriends.
89	* ''Film/RealGenius'': Kent is a RareMaleExample - good enough to be a student teaching assistant (he teaches Dr. Hathaway's lower curriculum courses), but aggressive in his academic superiority and ruthless to anyone he perceives as a threat to this primacy.
90	-->'''Kent:''' You'll rue the day.\
91	'''Chris:''' [[AntiquatedLinguistics "Rue the day?" Who talks like that?]]
92	* ''Film/SchoolOfRock'': Summer is a mild example. She is obsessed with getting more gold stars than anyone else but just tries to get as many as possible for herself and never tries to sabotage anyone else.
93	* Harriet Bentley in ''Film/WildChild'' is a very good example, being the "head girl" of the school and making Poppy's life miserable. [[spoiler: She ends up being expelled when accidentally confessing that she was the one responsible for a fire for which Poppy was blamed]].
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97	* ''Literature/AmericanGirlsSamantha'': Edith is the smartest girl in Samantha's class, and thus acts superior to her classmates.
98	* Winifred from ''Literature/BalletShoes'' is this from a performing perspective. She's the best all-round student the academy has and is used to getting all the lead roles because of it. As such, she is ''not'' happy when she suddenly starts having to compete with the slightly more charismatic (and definitely more beautiful) Pauline Fossil. In the 2007 film, when Pauline gets cast as Alice, Winifred throws a tantrum and screams that the casting has "nothing whatsoever to do with talent!" In the original novel, though, Winifred makes the Fossil girls feel uncomfortable because she isn't jealous or bitter; she works harder than them and has a tougher home life due to poverty and illness in the family.
99	* In ''Literature/{{Bunny}}'', AlphaBitch Eleanor has fantastic grades and is loved by the school community.
100	* ''Literature/ClassroomOfTheElite'': Suzune is an exceptional student and she knows it, but her brother indicates that she's been assigned to Class-D because she can't work with others. She does [[PetTheDog try an intervention with the three dumbest students]], but because she's constantly insulting them, they walk out, and she immediately decides to let them fail out of the school and stop dragging on Class-D as a whole.
101	* ''Literature/GhostsOfFearStreet'': Emily from ''How to Be a Vampire'' is always talking down to her little brother Andrew (the protagonist) about how much smarter and more sophisticated she is for reading more advanced books than he does. Even when she agrees to help cure his vampirism, she makes it clear that [[ItsAllAboutMe is only helping him because she thinks having a vampire brother would be embarrassing]].
102	* Hermione Granger is this at first in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''. She spends most of her first scenes bragging about all the spells she's read up on in advance, and showing off in class. She undergoes CharacterDevelopment and becomes friends with Harry and Ron pretty soon, however. According to WordOfGod, there was a character planned to fill this role in the fourth book: a Weasley cousin called Mafalda who would get sorted into Slytherin and become Hermione's academic rival. She was dropped due to her age-limiting story potential; as there would be a three-year difference between the girls, they would share no classes and have few opportunities to interact.
103	* ''Literature/HatingAlisonAshley'': Erica, the main character, is this. Probably the only smart student in her ill-famed school, she is an ambitious and extremely arrogant girl who believes herself superior to all her stupid classmates. When a rich and intelligent girl named [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Alison]] is placed in her class, Erica starts hating and antagonizing her because she is jealous of how Alison outshines her academically (not just because she's rich) and is loved by all the teachers.
104	* In ''Literature/LetsGetLost'', Isabel is not only the meanest girl at her school, she's also the cleverest, which she says isn't because she's a natural genius or anything, she just put in a lot of work to be top of the pecking order.
105	* ''Literature/MaloryTowers'' by Creator/EnidBlyton has Alicia Johns, whose status as this trope is both confirmed and undermined when she collapses during an exam and is found to have come down with measles. She confesses that her head has been 'woolly' for days and that she finally understands (and sympathizes with) how difficult it is for the non-genius girls in her form.
106	* In ''Literature/MyWeirdSchool'', Andrea Young is the smartest in the class but is also the meanest and bossiest. She is the leader of a GirlPosse, with her friend Emily as the BetaBitch.
107	* In ''Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead'', Mila Rutkevich has shades of it from the beginning, and her unpleasantness skyrockets when Alice starts to outshine her in classes.
108	* ''Literature/OnTheEdgeOfEureka'': Cressida was a complete jerk before her CharacterDevelopment, but she still got really good grades.
109	* ''Literature/TheScholomance'': The WizardingSchool valedictorian Liesel Mueller is a positive example by way of GoodIsNotNice -- pragmatism, long-term planning, and willingness to bully people into line are very useful skills when organizing a group to survive mortal dangers. Even when she drops the friendly facade and explains to people's faces how she's manipulating them, they tend to concede that she's doing a great job of it.
110	* In ''Literature/{{Speak}}'', the Marthas are a group of girls led by an AlphaBitch trio, Meg, Emily, and Siobhan, who spend their time doing community service projects but are very exclusive as to who they allow to join, look down on unpopular students and are harsh towards their junior members. It's hinted that the newer members are the ones doing most of the actual work--when it's time to decorate the ballroom for the senior prom, Meg, Emily, and Siobhan delegate all the work to their juniors so they can get their nails painted and teeth whitened.
111	* Ethel Hallow of ''Literature/TheWorstWitch''. The narration describes her as "one of those lucky people for whom everything always goes right". She excels at all her classes but continuously rubs it in everyone's face. The TV series emphasises this by giving her only one friend in Drucilla.
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115	* ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'' has two particularly unlikable examples:
116	** Marcus Cole. He vies for school valedictorian, mentions his grades, Ivy League aspirations, or student body presidency in practically every scene he's in. He wants everyone to think he's TheAce (even if he's a jerk who treats girls horribly), thinks the world will end if he doesn't get to Harvard, and is willing to resort to very underhanded and cruel actions to protect his reputation, even framing people for serious crimes.
117	** Courtney Crimsen. She's focused on academics, is popular, and organizes many events in school. On the exterior, she seems to be a sweet GoGetterGirl but, like Marcus, is actually a selfish BitchInSheepsClothing who willingly harms others to protect her reputation. She even pulls some typical AlphaBitch moves like starting rumors and excluding people. Season 2 sees her undergoing a HeelFaceTurn.
118	* ''Series/APBio'': Sarika, the [[AsianAndNerdy Indian-American]] go-getter, sits at the front of the class and is consistently the most resistant student to Jack's staunch refusal to teach biology. Even her own mother believes that she needs to calm down and enjoy herself a little.
119	* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': Topanga counted up her A's for the year, and insisted that her final assignment get an A, even though it wasn't for the grade, just to ensure that she was valedictorian over Minkus.
120	* Laura in Season Two of ''Series/TheBridge2011'', who throws a tantrum because her teacher gave her a lower score than she wanted and begins blackmailing said teacher. [[spoiler:Said teacher is also her lover.]]
121	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' reveals that the stereotypical AlphaBitch Cordelia Chase scores well on standardised tests as a gag. She also did well enough academically to get into top schools.
122	--> "What? I can't have [[HiddenDepths layers]]?"
123	* ''Series/ColdCase'': In "[[Recap/ColdCaseS7E9Forensics Forensics]]", OneShotCharacter Alyssa is a preppy, confident, skillful, and ''very'' arrogant debater who angrily, but not seriously, threatens a teammate's life once he costs them a round. {{Deconstructed\|Trope}} with the reveal that she's a C-student who views a successful debating career as her only hope of getting a good scholarship.
124	* ''Series/{{Community}}'': Annie Kim, an intensely competitive student who develops a rivalry with Annie Edison. Also, hotshot debater Jeremy Simmons ("Debating 109") and high school achievers Mark, Kelly, and Scott ("The Art of Discourse") in Season 1.
125	* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'':
126	** Season one has Ashley Kerwin who is popular and is glad for her unchallenged status as StudentCouncilPresident.
127	** Seasons 5 has Liberty Van Zandt who becomes StudentCouncilPresident and then fights to be valedictorian.
128	** Holly J. Sinclair becomes StudentCouncilPresident in season nine so she can do things her way.
129	** The "mean girl" from the original series ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'', Kathleen, is one of the smartest ''and'' most obnoxious students. Among other things, she drives a science fair judge crazy by reciting every stack of facts she knows, never giving her partner a chance to talk, and is shocked when that doesn't earn her first prize. She also serves as a foil to Caitlin (the other overachieving GoGetterGirl) who can't stand Kathleen's {{Jerkass}} attitude.
130	* In ''Series/DerryGirls'', Jenny Joyce is a brown noser who gets top marks and frequently rubs her wealth in the other characters' faces. She's also quite prone to snitching.
131	-->'''Sister Michael:''' Jenny, you'll go far in life [{{beat}}] but you will not be well liked.
132	* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Mindy, an intelligent and boastful girl in the boys' class at school who is always trying to top her rival Josh. She eventually gets better from this, after she gets with Josh.
133	* ''Series/{{ER}}''. Among Kerry Weaver's many flaws was the way she'd lord it over others how much smarter than them she supposedly was, along with always striving to outdo them.
134	* ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'': Shelley Weaver, Lindsay's mathlete rival, complete with prim and proper attitude and patronizing comments.
135	* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': The first time that Rory meets Paris Geller at Chilton Academy, Paris tells her how she's going to be editor of the school paper and valedictorian, ending with, "You'll never catch up. You'll never beat me. This school is my domain and the Franklin is my domain. And don't you ever forget that." Rory does catch up, edging Paris out for valedictorian, and though Paris' personality retains its intensity, they become close friends.
136	* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': Quinn is a competitive, bitchy, and popular cheerleader who maintains a 4.0 GPA and gets early acceptance to Yale. She later becomes a DefrostingIceQueen.
137	* ''Series/GossipGirl'': Blair is a rich, popular, and ruthless overachiever who wants to destroy her rivals in both popularity and academics.
138	* ''Series/HeadOfTheClass'': Alan Pinkard is none too pleased that others in the high IQ class do as well as he does, even better sometimes. And he was ''really'' pissed that [[ChildProdigy 11-year-old Janice]] was in his high school - and more pissed that she left early to go to Harvard, which is where he wants to go. He and Darlene were neck-and-neck when it came time to declare a class valedictorian, but the school's powers that be decided to make another girl, TJ, valedictorian instead because of the challenges she'd had to overcome.
139	* In ''Series/{{Insatiable}}'', Magnolia Barnard is portrayed as a stereotypical popular girl (at least at first) as well as a straight-A student.
140	* ''Series/KenanAndKel'' has Janet, a smug brainy girl. is frequently at odds with the titular protagonists. One episode has her giving a brown-nosing book report that lasts for the entire class.
141	* ''Series/MrIglesias'' has Whitney Carson, an honors student who looks down on the underprivileged kids in Mr. Iglesias’s class. She’s [[RichBitch rich]], too, and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney uses her money to get perks to get ahead of her classmates in tests and grades]].
142	* Davina in ''Series/MyFamilyAndMe''. She was a straight-A student back in high school and a dean's list student in college.
143	* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'':
144	** Evelyn takes being the top student at Polk disturbingly seriously, to the extent that she'll physically injure you to get ahead.
145	** Male example in Lance Widget, a nerdy bully who never hesitates to insult the people he tutors.
146	* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': Dev and Ben are fiercely competitive and their rivalry brings out the worst in each other.
147	* ''Series/TheOC'': Taylor Townsend is introduced as a competitive, power-grabbing overachiever who quickly assumes the Student Social Chair position after Marissa is expelled. With her early behavior especially towards Summer, she was a combination of ManipulativeBitch and GoGetterGirl (she gets better later on when the ManipulativeBitch part is toned down).
148	* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': Libby is usually just the typical AlphaBitch cheerleader. However, there's an episode where Sabrina uses her magic to turn Libby into a nerd because she believed that it would teach her a lesson in humility and kindness. This ends up backfiring when Libby takes over the Science Club and starts bullying her old friends in the cheerleading squad. Libby also averts the ditziness usually associated with being the AlphaBitch and does occasionally mock Sabrina when she gets better grades than her. One episode where Sabrina is forced to find out more about Libby has her discovering that she works harder to improve her math homework.
149	-->'''Quizmaster''': You didn't know Libby was bad at math?\
150	'''Sabrina''': No, what surprises me is that she ''cares'' that she's bad at math.
151	* {{Deconstructed}} in ''Series/SassyGoGo'' with Kwon Soo Ah. She is shown to be abrasive and manipulative, and is even willing to [[spoiler: frame Kim Yeol for stealing the midterms]]. However, she is shown to be heavily under the influence of her [[EducationMama mother]] and clearly regrets most of her harsh actions.
152	%%* ''Series/School2013'': Gil Eunhye and Nam Kyungmi's group. Hakyung is a more likable example.
153	* ''Series/StrangeDaysAtBlakeHolseyHigh'': Corrine Baxter has a very strong competitive streak.
154	* ''Series/TeenageBountyHunters2020'': April is more an alpha bitch than Sterling but both are fiercely devoted to their studies.
155	* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Lydia is introduced as the typical snobby AlphaBitch who is dating the JerkJock but is also a TeenGenius who excels at academics and she knows it.
156	* ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'': Sam's rival Amanda spends most of the episode "[[Recap/WishboneS1E13SniffingTheGauntlet Sniffing the Gauntlet]]" gloating over how her team is going to win the class spelling bee.
157	* ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'': The 1998 series adds an original character, Deirdre Swoop from the rival Pentangles Academy. She's the prize student and helps the school win numerous competitions, which she doesn't fail to rub everyone else's noses in. Fortunately, she mellows out by the time she appears in the spin-off ''Weirdsister College'' - and becomes a teacher at Cackle's later in her life.
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161	* Wrestling/ScottSteiner comes from [[DelusionsOfEloquence a highly educated university]], so when he comes out here in front [[CheapHeat of all you white trash]], he has to dumb himself down!
162	* Not only is The Lovely Lacey better looking than you without the aid of silicone, not only is she the best wrestler in all time and space, but her family could afford to send her to a better college than yours, so she's also smarter than you! The exception was Wrestling/RingOfHonor, where she was a part of the rich kid raver [[DrugsAreBad druggie]] group Special K, and part of her HeelFaceTurn implied ''finishing'' her college degree.
163	* Christopher Nowinsky was initially a JerkJock, but when he earned a Wrestling/{{WWE}} contract and started appearing on their television programs, his graduation from Harvard became his most important trait, and he became this trope instead.
164	* The Two Time, Two Time All American American Wrestling/JackSwagger is not only an All American twice over, but is both an athletic and academic All American. And he's a tall, natural blond. This makes him better than you in every conceivable way.
165	* Wrestling/{{Ryback}}, [[DumbMuscle of all people]], became this after his FaceHeelTurn, proclaiming that Wrestling/JohnCena fans knew nothing about nutrition or education, and that [[WellIntentionedExtremist killing John Cena was the only way to save them from their path of self-destruction]]. After his inevitable loss to [[InvincibleHero Cena]] however, Ryback degenerated into a generic bully, then turned face.
166	* Niya Barela became this after completing her doctorate, claiming not only greater knowledge and higher intelligence than her peers but also boasting and attempting to prove she spoke with a "higher linguistic acumen" than they did. Or in the case of her fellow educated Puerto Rican [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]], ''better'' education and fluency in English.
167	* Daniel "The Progressive Liberal" Richards loves to trace the problems of whatever area he happens to be wrestling in to the lack of higher education among its adult residents and urge them to push their children to pursue what they neglected. His degrees are also what apparently allow him to win so many matches.[[/folder]]
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170	* Ocean O'Connell-Rosenberg of ''Theatre/RideTheCyclone''. Before her untimely death due to roller coaster derailment, she was choir president for nearly four years, student council president for two, and had gotten straight "A"'s since she was in kindergarten. She founded an improv group to help her best friend Constance Blackwood gain confidence with public speaking... except every "improv" came with a patronizingly moralistic script, and she would attack Constance's already fragile self-esteem for deviating from their rehearsed material. In life, Ocean's ambition drove her to measure her self-worth by her achievements, and she held all her "friends" in the choir to her impossibly high standards. In death she was even worse, gleefully telling the other choir members who perished in the same roller coaster accident that the only tragedy of their collective death was her own wasted potential.
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174	* In ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', the Sumeru Akademiya is filled with and run by overgrown examples of this trope, with many researchers' overinflated view of their own wisdom leading them to hold less "intellectual" subjects (such as [[CannotDream dreams]] and [[CulturePolice the arts]]) in contempt. These scholars frequently make it clear that they look down on those less educated than themselves, even arguing that laypeople ''don't have the right'' to argue with Akademiya scholars due to the education gap between them. Aside from [[TokenGoodTeammate a few exceptions like Alhaitham]], this mentality only gets worse the higher up you go in the Akademiya, with Grand Sage Azar being easily the worst of the lot. In practice, it's made clear that the Akademiya's version of "wisdom" has led to mass CreativeSterility and creates a plethora of [[KnowNothingKnowItAll Know-Nothing Know-It-Alls]].
175	* The head of the popular clique in ''VideoGame/OurDarkerPurpose'', Regan, a master of both social manipulation and dark magics. (Although only the latter is actually seen.)
176	* Subverted by [[StudentcouncilPresident Makoto]] [[WellDoneDaughterGirl Nijima]] from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', who ''isn't'' one but is mistakenly believed to be (which includes the Protagonist and his companion Ann Takamaki). For example, the Protagonist can hear some girls gossiping about how she knew what [[CreepyGymCoach Kamoshida]] was doing but hid it because she's only pretending to care about the student body. (The truth is that she was ''furious'' and [[ItsAllMyFault blamed herself]] for him being unpunished for so long, but felt she didn't have the power to do anything, as the series also subverts AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil.)
177	* Kameo from ''VisualNovel/TrueLoveJunaiMonogatari'' is a RareMaleExample, always bragging about his academic accomplishments. He's also a bit of a CloudCuckooLander at times, though.
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181	* ''WebAnimation/AttackOnMika'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzOp5doU_0A Callaco]] was the top student in her class, which drove her to bully Koki for surpassing her. Later on in the student reunion, Koki finds out her looks deteriorated.
182	* ''WebAnimation/ETUAnimatedStories'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3q4RtGWvWg Bree]] has the highest grade in her class. She bullied Jacob for his low grades. After she tried to destroy his reputation, Bree was not asked by anyone to the prom, so she was forced to take along Jacob. But when Jacob takes a babysitting job with a teenage daughter and a younger son, it is revealed that Bree is the teenager, and she broke up with him.
183	* [[Characters/RWBYWeissSchnee Weiss Schnee]] from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', who is one of the protagonists. She is also a LovableAlphaBitch.
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187	* In ''Webcomic/AnecdoteOfError'', Shimei shows off her knowledge every chance she gets, in order to stick it to Atshi whose grades are terrible even on non-magical subjects. She is personally offended that Atshi attended their school despite having no magical ability and being a [[StayInTheKitchen housekeeper]] on top of that.
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191	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Cindy Vortex is a popular, athletic, and intelligent girl, but she has a mean streak quite big and does not like Jimmy for having usurped her position as smartest kid.
192	%%* Tracy in ''WesternAnimation/AngeloRules''. Overlaps with TeachersPet, since the main teacher is her uncle. %%Does she get good grades? How is she a bitch?
193	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}'': Nina Harper is the most popular girl in her grade at her and Sharon Spitz's school, but completely averts PopularIsDumb in that she's a straight-A student, being particularly gifted in the subjects of math and science. Given how intimidating Nina can be (even some of her teachers appear to be scared of her!), no one would dare to call her "nerdy"!
194	%%* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenGotExpelled'': Evone is implied to be this on account of being class president. The fact that she's also Headmistress Gnarly's niece adds to it. %%How does she fit the bitchy part?
195	* Charity in ''WesternAnimation/ExchangeStudentZero''. While she somewhat grows out of this in the MadeForTVMovie, she reprises this role in the TV series, [[TookALevelInJerkass tenfold]]. Then again, [[AlternateContinuity the show deliberately deviates from the events that happened in the TV movie]] so her CharacterDevelopment is apparently nonexistent.
196	* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowskiSuburbanDaredevil'': Kendall Perkins, straight A student and class president, tends to be bossy and dismissive towards other people.
197	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]], a young witch-in-training who seems deliberately patterned off of Diana Cavendish of ''Little Witch Academia'' fame in everything from her attitude toward those she sees as inferiors to the moments where her HiddenHeartOfGold comes through.
198	* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'': PA's rival Alice Kane -- an arrogant overachiever who always wins the science fair and rubs her accomplishments in PA's face.
199	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
200	** [[Characters/TheSimpsonsLisaSimpson Lisa Simpson]] prides herself on her intelligence and always coming top of the class with straight 'A's. One episode has her world collapsing when she [[TheBGrade gets her very first B]]; another deals with an even brighter girl joining her class and Lisa's utter ''jealousy'' of her, and another when she skipped a grade and was no longer the big fish in a small pond. As the series went on, she also developed a rivalry with fellow smart student Martin Prince to the point that in the episode "Dial 'N' for Nerder", when Martin is [[NeverFoundTheBody apparently killed]] [[DeadlyPrank by a prank of Bart gone wrong]], she instantly assumes that said rivalry will be seen by the police as motive enough to commit murder.
201	** Marge's ex-boyfriend Artie Ziff was a male example. In high school, he was a stereotypical overachieving nerd, yet was also popular enough to get elected homecoming king and verbally bullied less intelligent students like Homer. The love triangle between him, Homer, and Marge was basically the classic story of the pretty girl dating the JerkJock while secretly having feelings for the sweet-natured geek, but with the jock and geek switching places.
202	* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': Madelyne Spaulding, a stuck-up "Little Miss Perfect" type who tried running for class president but failed to gain enough supporters to get on the ballot. Her latent abilities as a Bang Baby then manifested, which allowed her to [[MindControl control people like puppets, or "brain puppets"]], and be able [[MindProbe to read minds]]. She couldn't control Static's mind because of his electrical abilities, but she was able to enter his mind and learn his secret identity. Madelyne then used her powers to try and take over Dakota so she would definitely become student council president.
203	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has [[Characters/TotalDramaCourtney Courtney]], a stuck-up perfectionist overachiever whose motto is "If you can't come in first don't come in at all." [[TookALevelInJerkass She gets worse as the series goes on]].
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