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| 11 | [[quoteright:350:[[Film/MeanGirls https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mg_gp.png]]]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:350: [- "[[MakeWayForThePrincess Out of the way]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitches!]] We're hot and popular - you're ''not''." [[note]]'''From left to right:''' The NaiveNewcomer, the BrainlessBeauty, the AlphaBitch, and the BetaBitch.[[/note]] -] ]] |
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| 14 | ->''"They ruled the high school. Decided what was in, who was popular... it was kind of like the Soviet Secret Police if they cared a lot about shoes."'' |
| 15 | -->-- '''Series/{{Angel}}''', [[Recap/AngelS01E05RmWAVu "Rm w/a Vu"]] |
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| 17 | In a HighSchool series, there's pretty much always a {{jerkass}}, if not evil, popular girl. We'll call her the AlphaBitch and give her an entry of her own, otherwise she might tell all the cute boys that we have smelly man feet [[note]]Which is [[BlatantLies categorically not true]] [[/note]]. Older girls might count if they're part of a [[SinisterSororitySisters sorority.]] |
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| 19 | She always has a posse of well-dressed, mean girls with her (two to four girls at the minimum), who [[FlatCharacter don't really say anything]] except to parrot her opinions and attitudes--sort of the high school version of EvilMinions meets SatelliteCharacter. If the posse members are slightly more developed, expect at least a [[BetaBitch devoted second-in-command]] (who may or may not [[HiddenDepths be an insecure mess]]), [[BrainlessBeauty a pretty but dimwitted follower]] (who occasionally overlaps with the second-in-command), and possibly [[NaiveNewcomer a new girl]], who will be briefly suckered in by the AlphaBitch. |
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| 21 | The posse members might be just as nasty as the leader (if not secretly more so), because PopularIsEvil. Or they could be a PeerPressuredBully who joins in on the harassment of less popular students to stay on the queen bee’s good side, and thus keep her school status. |
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| 23 | They are often GossipyHens as well. They are very unlikely to be AFriendInNeed, [[NoHonorAmongThieves even to each other]]. May also overlap with TerribleTrio[[note]]which has the AlphaBitch, the BetaBitch, and the BrainlessBeauty[[/note]], NiceMeanAndInbetween (If the BrainlessBeauty is a TokenGoodTeammate and KindheartedSimpleton), and always a FreudianTrio. |
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| 25 | It's also possible for a Girl Posse led by a LovableAlphaBitch to be portrayed positively, or at least neutrally, although this is pretty rare. If sorority women are portrayed as an older Girl Posse, see SinisterSororitySisters. |
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| 28 | !!Examples: |
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| 32 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 33 | * Chieko has a pair of them in ''Anime/AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku'' ''TV''. Except for one LowerDeckEpisode, all they did was pop up behind her saying, "Yes, what Chieko said is right." They had names, but it only highlighted how unimportant they were; "Hidariko" and "Migiko" translate to just "left-girl" and "right-girl". |
| 34 | * ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'' has Mizuchi the harlequin rabbit and her two friends. They torment Haru constantly for her pride and promiscuity. |
| 35 | * Asai Yuriko, Yamano Minako, and Ayuhara Erika from ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'', though they don't have nearly the popularity or influence that the F4 does. |
| 36 | * In ''Manga/CandyCandy'', Eliza has a two-person one in the BoardingSchool arc. It's formed by BetaBitch Louisa and a redheaded fat girl who [[NoNameGiven is never named in the story]]. |
| 37 | * Megumi Furuta and Miyuki Sonobe from ''Manga/DearBrother'', companions to [[AlphaBitch Aya Misaki]]. [[spoiler: Episode 30, however, gives them some HiddenDepths since they truly like and support Aya... and the Sorority seniors try to use their affection for her to their own benefit.]] |
| 38 | * Akina Shinozaki of ''Manga/DontBecomeAnOtakuShinozakiSan'' was part of one in her middle school years. Her hopes to become part of a new one in high school were dashed when she was ill the first full week and all the cliques and posses had already formed by the time she could attend. She instead befriends otaku Kaede with the intent of making her "normal" only to become more of an otaku herself. |
| 39 | * Subverted in ''Anime/DualParallelTroubleAdventure'', where Mitsuki Rara's posse are nice girls, they even perform a HeelFaceTurn later in the series. |
| 40 | * Yuki's fanclub in ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. The president of the club is Motoko, the AlphaBitch. They're intensely jealous of main character Tohru since she's friends with Yuki and constantly plot to get rid of her, but their schemes never get very far since they're scared of Tohru's friends [[FormerTeenRebel Uotani]] and [[PsychicPowers Hanajima]]. |
| 41 | * Miyabi's teacher-hating schoolgirl gang in ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka''. |
| 42 | * The very first ''Anime/HellGirl'' episode deals with this topic, as the AlphaBitch Yoshimi Kuroda uses hers to make her rival Mayumi Yamaguchi's life total Hell. |
| 43 | * Subversion: [[GossipyHens Julie and Charlotte]] attempt to become Layla's Girl Posse in ''Anime/KaleidoStar'' to get back at Sora for being TheFool, but thanks to some bits of CharacterDevelopment midway through the first season, not only they start being nicer to Sora, but they start helping Layla for ''selfless'' reasons and not to suck up to her. |
| 44 | * ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'': AcademicAlphaBitch Diana Cavendish is usually followed and surrounded by her roommates, Hannah England and Barbara Parker, who are very loyal to Diana and tend to mock and bully anyone they perceived as being below them and Diana, Akko being their most frequent target. In fact, in the [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 TV series]], [[BetaBitch they're often worst than Diana]]. Daryl Cavendish, Diana's EvilAunt, also has a posse of her own via her daughters, who are just as [[LikeMotherLikeDaughter bad as their mother]]. |
| 45 | * In the beginning of the series, Sae from ''Manga/PeachGirl'' basically has the ''whole school'' under her finger. Most of the guys are head over heels for her, and some of the girls would frequently compliment her and follow her around. |
| 46 | * In ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'', the Princess' only friends are these, and once she ditched them over a fight. They then received powers from the dark Z rays, which made them posse anyone they wanted, inflating their ego and making them selfish, and when using their powers in conjunction with Princess' they actually made her stronger. |
| 47 | * ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': |
| 48 | ** Nanami's trio of flunkies, although they are more independent than usual (specially Keiko). |
| 49 | ** That's for the anime only. Nanami doesn't appear in the manga in person (only in a photo), and the role of the posse is taken over by some real bitches. |
| 50 | * Natsumi, Minami and Kumi, the "partners-in-crime" of the UnluckyChildhoodFriend Otome Katou in ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays''. Otome herself is a subversion (she's popular at school, but is more of a [[YouGoGirl sportswoman]] than a cheerleader or RichBitch), but boy do these four act like school bullies when they're together and poor [[{{Ojou}} Kotonoha]] is near... |
| 51 | * Mihaya, Miyoko and Hiroka from ''Manga/ShadowStar'' are under the "orders" of one ''really'' nasty AlphaBitch named Aki Honda. [[spoiler: When one of their victims, Hiroko, gets sick of it and acquires a "mon" named Oni... Aki and Mihaya die in very gruesome manners, Hiroka gets thrown out a window, and Miyoko survives, but loses a leg.]] |
| 52 | * Kafuko from ''Anime/SpacePirateMito'' has a two-girl posse, who not only carry out her orders, but occasionally carry her and/or props for dramatic effect, and in one instance even gave a NoblewomansLaugh for her. |
| 53 | * The Gambee pilots of ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry''. |
| 54 | * Even though they were clearly created with this trope in mind, Tenjouin Saki of ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' and her two followers are not left out of the characters given backgrounds to create decently well-rounded characters by themselves. Saki starts out as an {{Ojou}} antagonist, and then develops into her own character with her love interest outside of the main UnwantedHarem even. |
| 55 | * Subverted in ''Literature/{{Toradora}}''. Ami picks up a posse as soon as she transfers to the school, but they're both nice girls who get along with the protagonist clique, and even tell Ami to dial it back when she gets bitchy. |
| 56 | * ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Ange's classmates during her time at St. Lucia Academy. |
| 57 | [[/folder]] |
| 58 | |
| 59 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 60 | * AlphaBitch Elle Diablo leads the clique of popular girls who set out to make Becca's life at her new school hell in ''ComicBook/AllGhoulsSchool''. |
| 61 | * ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'': "Imaginary Enemies" introduces Veronica Stackmore, daughter of the Mayor of Leadworth, [[AlphaBitch queen of Leadworth Primary School]], and ringleader of the gang that teases Amelia for her belief in [[NotSoImaginaryFriend the Raggedy Doctor]]. |
| 62 | * ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'': {{Rich|Bitch}} AlphaBitch Pamela Smuthers has a posse of girls who follow her and obey her every whim. |
| 63 | * ''ComicBook/SonicX:'' Milan Ramada's two-girl "entourage". They just follow her around while she tries to make others feel miserable. |
| 64 | * Diana and her followers in ''ComicBook/ZodiacStarforce'', which Josh describes as "a coven of [[Film/MeanGirls mean girl]] witches". |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 68 | * Lucy, [[ThoseTwoGuys Patty, Violet]] and occasionally Frieda were an elementary-school version of this trope in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. |
| 69 | * The aptly named "Posse" (Zuma, Redondo, and [=LaJolla=]) in ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'', although they tend to be gossips more than bullies. |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
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| 72 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 73 | * The Brat Pack from Fanfic/SeventyTwoHours. |
| 74 | * ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived'': Three popular girls in District 9 trick a disfigured classmate into volunteering for the Hunger Games by acting like they're all going to raise their hands to, and find the whole thing hilarious. |
| 75 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9406757/12/One-Misfired-Spell-Later One Misfired Spell Later]]'' Fleur Delacour has one at Beauxbatons. |
| 76 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6208221/1/Velma-Dinkley-s-Beginning Velma Dinkley's Beginning]]'', [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma]] is being bullied by a group of popular girls, led by [[WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo Red Herring]]'s [[HalfIdenticalTwins twin sister]] [[AlphaBitch Jessie]], because a nerd like her talked to their friend Daphne and crush Fred. Shaggy warned that they beat up anyone who tries to befriend Daphne. They even threaten to have Red beat up Shaggy if she doesn't stay away from them. |
| 77 | -->'''Jessie:''' Look [[MaliciousMisnaming Dorkley]], I don't know how you talk to Freddie without him ignoring you but that stops now. If you ever go near Freddie again, you're dead. |
| 78 | * Cho is almost constantly surrounded by Lavender and Pansy in ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'', taking the place of her canonical GirlPosse of Ravenclaws in [[Literature/HarryPotter canon]]. |
| 79 | * ''FanFic/TheVictorsProject'': |
| 80 | ** Ermine clashes with a particularly sociopathic group of wealthy and attractive female bullies at the [[AcademyOfEvil DAEYD]], who [[spoiler:kill her best friend, presumably out of jealousy for her performance at the Showing]]. Ermine responds with [[spoiler:a RoaringRampageOfRevenge that ends with two of the posse members dead and a third one maimed]]. |
| 81 | ** ''The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf'' features a [[InvertedTrope non-bullying version]] in the 57th Games when Blight's district partner Charlie teams up with two other outlier girls, Bobbi and Qin Li, dubbed "the three princesses" by the Careers, throughout training and the Games. None of them are particularly skilled combatants (except against a few mutts) and at least one (Charlie) had a relatively upper class upbringing (being the Mayor's daughter). They manage to avoid playing the Games and lay low until the field is narrowed more than halfway down and [[spoiler:Bobbi tries to betray and [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poison the other two's soup]], [[HoistByHerOwnPetard only to end dead herself when Charlie pours some of her soup into Bobbi's bowl out of concern that she isn't eating enough]].]] |
| 82 | [[/folder]] |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 85 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheBarbieDiaries'', Dawn and Regan serve as this for Franchise/{{Barbie}}'s AlphaBitch rival Raquelle, being her cronies who follow her around everywhere. They're portrayed slightly more sympathetically than is usual for the trope: Barbie briefly befriends them, and when they call her out for discussing their confidences to her on air for the school news report, it serves as Barbie's wake-up call to reconcile with her own friends. |
| 86 | * ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' gives us Mertle Edmonds and her droogs. Further showcased in ''The Series''. |
| 87 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'': |
| 88 | ** Main antagonists the Dazzlings look and act like one, with Adagio Dazzle as the AlphaBitch, Aria Blaze as the BetaBitch, and Sonata Dusk as the BrainlessBeauty. However, they're actually extradimensional EmotionEater sea creatures, so they're more sinister than usual for this trope. They're also AmbiguouslyRelated and might be sisters. |
| 89 | ** Photo Finish and Trixie Lulamoon have two cronies each respectively, and are also antagonistic in this movie, although this is mostly the result of the Dazzlings' HatePlague. Without this, they are more or less ordinary girls. |
| 90 | * Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''. Stacy Frick and her friends are set up to be this, but they're never actually seen bullying anyone. When Stacy and her friends come across Mei in red panda form in the bathroom, [[spoiler:[[NiceGirl they go the exact opposite way]], saying that the panda is the cutest thing they've ever seen. This is what inspires Mei and her friends to hustle the panda for concert tickets]]. |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 94 | * Tiffany and Brooke are this to AlphaBitch Danielle in ''Film/BadgirlsFromValleyHigh''. Tiffany is the BetaBitch, while Brooke is the TokenGoodTeammate who is kind but is easily intimidated and manipulated by Danielle and Tiffany. |
| 95 | * ''Film/Blame2017'': Sophie and Ellie follow [[AlphaBitch Melissa]] around, doing as she does at all times. Ellie however abandons her after being wronged by Melissa. |
| 96 | * ''Film/BoyEatsGirl'': Shallow popular girls Cheryl, Glenda and Charlotte generally stick together both before and after the ZombieApocalypse starts. |
| 97 | * ''Film/BringItOn'' (and more of its sequels) have the protagonist move in and out of this sort of clique. |
| 98 | * ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy and her fellow boy-obsessed, academically challenged mallrats Nicki, Kimberly and Jennifer. The group breaks up due to the secrecy Buffy has to engage in and her own character growth. |
| 99 | * ''Film/Candyman2021:'' Candyman attacks a clique of five unpleasant popular girls in the bathroom, although they're less stereotypically GirlyGirl than most examples of the trope (one of them dresses kind of like a {{Tomboy}} and another is an androgynous stoner with a shaved head). |
| 100 | * ''Film/CantHardlyWait:'' Amanda hangs out with a trio of shallow, pop-culture fixated girls who date {{Dumb Jock}}s. They aren't exactly TrueCompanions, but they at least make an effort (telling Amanda they think she's prettier than Creator/GwynethPaltrow, then admitting that isn't true once she's out of earshot). |
| 101 | * Shelby's "ladies-in-waiting" in ''Film/ACinderellaStory'' seem to include the school's cheerleaders, notably Caitlyn and Madison, as well as Sam's stepsisters. |
| 102 | * In ''Film/TheCraft'', Nancy's posse subverts this trope in terms of their low social standing, but plays it entirely straight in terms of organizational structure and clique mentality. While Nancy is the clear AlphaBitch and Sarah is the obvious NaiveNewcomer, neither Bonnie or Rochelle fit any obvious tropes connected with TheDitz - another position usually utilized with this trope - and instead share the spotlight as dual [[BetaBitch Beta Bitches]]; one of which has a severe case of IJustWantToBeBeautiful, and the other just wants to give a racist bully [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine A Taste of Her Own Medicine]]. |
| 103 | * This dynamic was [[AffectionateParody affectionately parodied]] in Creator/JohnWaters's ''Film/CryBaby''. Despite coming from rather damaged backgrounds, the "Drakes" are completely tolerant and well-meaning while the "squares" border on sociopathic. Accordiing to John Waters, there [[TruthInTelevision actually were]] both "Squares" and "Drakes" in Baltimore around that time. |
| 104 | * Arguably deconstructed in ''Film/DanceTogether'': Main character Holly is part of one with some of her fellow dance students, but they don't seem to bully anyone except Holly herself after she hurts her leg and has to stop. AlphaBitch stand-in Zoey is motivated by jealousy and [[WellDoneSonGuy feeling pressured by her parents to get a scholarship that Holly seemed like a shoe-in for]] while their friends Tiffany and Tia are revealed to feel highly conflicted about the whole thing due to their long-term friendship with Holly and want to break ranks with Zoey, but realize that it would also break up their dance team before a competition. [[spoiler: In the final act, one by one, they ultimately reconcile with Holly, and also start hanging out with Holly's new friends]]. |
| 105 | * ''Film/DarbyAndTheDead'': Bree, Piper and Taylor were Capri's friends (though it turns out they didn't care too much about her), following her around everywhere while she was alive. |
| 106 | * ''Film/TheFinal'' has the bitch trio of Heather, Bridget and Kelly. Heather is the ringleader and main tormentor, Kelly is her just-as-bad [[TheDragon Dragon]] (although she is redeemed by the end, [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide killing herself]] -[[UncertainDoom or at least trying to]]- [[RedemptionEqualsDeath over what happens]] [[SurvivorGuilt to her friends]]]]), and Bridget eventually turns out to be much more sympathetic than the other two. |
| 107 | * The Pink Ladies in ''Film/{{Grease}}'', to a degree. This movie had ''two'' sets of such posses (actually four, if you count both male and female). On the one side for each sex was the contingent of more prototypically 1950s kids who dress like model students, act (superficially) polite, and suck up to all the authority figures they can. Then there are the Pink Ladies and their male counterparts, the T-Birds, who wear tight pants and pink jackets, smoke, swear, play mean-spirited pranks, and generally act rude. Both cliques are shown to be flawed, but it's implied that [[SlobsVersusSnobs the Pink Ladies are somewhat less flawed]] [[AtLeastIAdmitIt because they're at least honest about their shortcomings]]. The lesson, I guess, is that it's not really fashion or attitude that makes you cool, but a lack of hypocrisy. |
| 108 | * ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' is named after the girl posse in the film, of which three out of four girls all have the given name "Heather". H. Chandler is the AlphaBitch, H. Duke is jealous of Chandler's power, H. [=McNamara=] is a meek follower, and Veronica is the newcomer who actually hates being part of the group and did it solely to become InWithTheInCrowd. |
| 109 | * ''Film/{{Holidays}}'': Heidi in "Valentine's Day" has a gaggle of followers who never initiate the teasing of Maxine, but always join in once Heidi starts. |
| 110 | * ''Film/{{Jawbreaker}}'' is about how one of these fell apart. |
| 111 | * A majority of the plot of ''Film/MeanGirls'' (who provide the page image) deeply delved into the phenomenon. ManipulativeBitch Regina George rules over the school, with ProfessionalButtKisser Gretchen and DumbBlonde Karen as her sidekicks. |
| 112 | * Kirsten, Ginny, and Kristen from ''Film/NeverBeenKissed'' are dumb, mean, interchangeable popular girls. |
| 113 | * ''Film/TheNewGuy:'' Cheerleaders Danielle, Courtney and Carmen hang out together a lot and serve as lust objects for most of the boys. Danielle is a subversion of the AlphaBitch type in general, being actually level-headed and humble from the get-go. Courtney and Carmen are a little less smart and a lot more flirty, but ultimately pleasant enough and even at their worst don't actively bully anyone. |
| 114 | * In ''Film/PromNight2008'', the blonde AlphaBitch Crissy has a pair of brunette side girls who follow her everywhere. |
| 115 | * ''Film/PromWars'': Diana, Jen B., Jen L., Tess, Meg, and Alex are beautiful and popular student government leaders who hang around each other a lot and can get the entire senior class to follow their lead in strange activities. There is some dissent between them about which of the rival boys’ schools they favor, but the six girls usually get along and all of them have GiveGeeksAChance moments. Tess, Meg, and Alice seem to have their own smaller posse within the group and are sometimes seen hanging out and enforcing contest rules without their leader Diana or the Jens. |
| 116 | * The A Group from ''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion''. Sadly, only one of them actually made something out of herself. When the leading AlphaBitch tries to embellish the success of her and the other members, the one who is successful lets out a YouKeepTellingYourselfThat. |
| 117 | * ''Film/SafetyPatrol:'' Hannah is often accompanied by her fellow cheerleaders who don't get much development and have a tough air about them. Unusually for the trope, Hannah and her friends are heroic characters who stand up to the local bullies. They're also the middle school's {{Goth}}s. |
| 118 | * ''Film/TheSisterhoodOfNight'' gives us Mary Warren's Sisterhood. |
| 119 | * Penny from ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' is an entire Girl Posse unto herself ([[SelfDuplication she can make copies of herself]]). |
| 120 | * ''Film/TheWoods'': AlphaBitch Samantha is sometimes followed around by five or six scowling cronies when she bullies Heather. [[spoiler:Interestingly, Samantha is shown to have been GoodAllAlong and secretly resisting the witches who control the school, whether or not her cronies are as well is unclear.]] |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
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| 123 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 124 | * ''Literature/FourKidsInFiveEAndOneCrazyYear'': Destiny, Ah Kum, Ashley (who some students compare to a Disney Princess), Amber, Chelsea, and later Natalia,Carmen, Dalma, and Tiffany are a close-knit group of popular girls who spend a lot of time gossiping about stuff like crushes and fashion, passing notes, and (before coming to 5E and find a teacher and subject matter they can respect) cutting class, although they are a multicultural group who enjoy art and writing and don't bully anyone, even if some of their classmates initially find them annoying. |
| 125 | * In Michael C. Bailey's ''Literature/ActionFigures - Issue One: Secret Origins'', Carrie has been in one. They had no sympathy when her parents divorced, and she dropped them. |
| 126 | * The protagonist of ''Literature/AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret'' unwittingly becomes a part of one. This isn't that noticeable until [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]] 19. Her first friend at her new neighborhood is Nancy, a [[AlphaBitch rather manipulate and mean rich girl]] that [[BitchInSheepsClothing seems nice at first glance]]. Nancy convinces Margaret to join her "Secret Club" of specific female classmates. Nancy and the others like to make fun of a HugeSchoolgirl and spread rumors behind her back. It isn't until the girl gets mad at Margaret that Margaret [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes her errors]]. |
| 127 | * In ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' there is Grace and Bebe for Cokie Mason and Jannie and Leslie for Pamela Harding. |
| 128 | * ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'': {{Goth}} AlphaBitch Kelly is accompanied by a group of unnamed interchangeable sidekicks who Vivian calls "the gigglers," although they come across as being noticeably nicer than their leader. |
| 129 | * In [[Creator/JudyBlume Judy Blume]]'s ''Literature/{{Blubber}}'', AlphaBitch Wendy turns the entire class against overweight, awkward Linda, but appoints a Girl Posse of Beta Bitches, including Caroline, Donna, and narrator Jill, as Linda's principal tormentors along with herself. Later on, Jill, after challenging Wendy's authority, is demoted to the class's ButtMonkey and Linda takes Jill's place in the Girl Posse, more than willing to participate in bullying her former bully. |
| 130 | * Among the minor vampires in the ''Franchise/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' novel ''Mortal Fear'' are a trio of of former cheerleaders who spend most of their brief page time insulting each other's weight and [[AllWomenLoveShoes ogling a pile of shoes]]. |
| 131 | * ''Charlie's Story'', by Maeve Friel, has Charlotte "Charlie" Collins, a student in an Irish girls' school, bullied and harassed in exceptionally cruel ways by pretty, smart, and popular AlphaBitch Lorna and [[BetaBitch Beta Bitches]] Tara, Natalie and Monica, who single Charlie out for torment simply because Charlie's mother abandoned her as a baby and Charlie's family is allegedly the Irish version of white trash. |
| 132 | * Sherrie Adams in ''Literature/CircleOfThree'' is the alpha girl of "The Graces," though the group slowly breaks apart throughout the series. |
| 133 | * The whole point of ''Literature/TheClique'', also known as The Pretty Commitee with Massie Block as the leader with her friends, Alicia Rivera, Dylan Marvil, and Kristen Gregory. |
| 134 | * Melodía of ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'', as a princess of Nuevaropa, is forced to have one, composed of her fellow noblewomen. While they're not quite stereotypical (one's a DramaQueen, the other's TheCynic, yet other a ConspiracyTheorist), she's not happy to have them. |
| 135 | * In ''Literature/DontLookBack'', Sam and her deceased friend Cassie had this in the form of Veronica, Candy, and Lauren. Their personalities are slightly more varied than the typical example: Veronica is a {{Jerkass}} and Candy is a BrainlessBeauty, but Lauren is a kind ShrinkingViolet and the only one to continue being friends with Sam, even after she disavows the other two. |
| 136 | * [=MacKenzie=], the AlphaBitch of ''Literature/DorkDiaries'', has one, the most prominent member being her best friend Jessica. |
| 137 | * Shay from ''Literature/FishInATree'' has a group of girls who join her in her bullying of Ally. [[spoiler:Later in the book, however, they stop hanging out with her.]] |
| 138 | * Subverted in ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky'': the teenage coven starts off looking like a Girl Posse to Anagramma, but gradually realise what a bitch she is, and start taking more of their lead from Tiffany, to the extent that Tiff has to persuade them to help Anagramma in ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}''. |
| 139 | * In ''Literature/NighttimeIsMyTime'' there were a group of seven girls in the same graduating class at Stonecroft Academy, who were close friends and sat together at lunch every day. Most of these girls were considered some of the brightest and most popular students at Stonecroft; unfortunately some of them were also bullies, especially ringleader Alison Kendall and her best friend Laura Wilcox. Over the past twenty years, [[BigBad the Owl]] has been killing each girl in the order they sat at the lunch table and now there are only two remaining. |
| 140 | * ''{{Literature/Chrysanthemum}}'': Victoria is the most vocal about teasing Chrysanthemum for her long name, while her friends Jo and Rita follow her example. |
| 141 | * ''Literature/TheSecretCircle'': Faye, Deborah and Suzan (the later two of whom are AdaptedOut of the [[Series/TheSecretCircle TV adaptation]] form one of these, although their more feared than popular due to their witch powers and mischievous streaks. Unusually, rather than being their own unit, the three are part of a larger circle of friends/fellow witches who are a lot more down to Earth, and Suzan (and eventually Deborah) show nicer sides to the protagonist. Cassie, the protagonist, joins a second trio of girls from the circle, who are more ethereal and kind-hearted (although no less feared by their normal classmates), although she ends up being caught between the two groups. |
| 142 | * ''Literature/TheSecretRunnersOfNewYork'' features a quartet of psychopathic prep school girls who engage in time travel for thrill-seeking. They kidnap classmates who get them mad (a friend of theirs who outshined the eldest girl in a debutante showing, a girl with Down's Syndrome who the BetaBitch got into trouble for bullying, etc.) and strand them in the BadFuture to be killed by cannibals. They have several male friends, but the boys don't know about the murders. The narrator (a NewTransferStudent) becomes the TokenGoodTeammate of the group's female members. |
| 143 | * ''Literature/SecretSanta2007'': Each book features a beautiful but insufferable AlphaBitch with a couple of more likable sidekicks. Typically, the posse breaks up near the end of the book when the sidekicks assert themselves (due to CharacterDevelopment in the first two books and BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch for her boyfriend in book 3), leaving a vacuum open for a new girl posse to show up in the next book. |
| 144 | * ''Literature/SpySchool'': From Ben's old middle school, Elizabeth Pasternak and her friends Kate and Chloe seem to have one, although they aren't bullies and don't seem particularly shallow. |
| 145 | * Jessica Wakefield and her pals in the ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' books and TV series, and more specifically The Unicorn Club in the ''Sweet Valley Twins'' book series. |
| 146 | * ''Literature/TheseBrokenStars'': Lilac is well-known in the tabloids for travelling with an entourage of similarly well-dressed girls. What's less well-known is that they're bodyguards. And that they report back to [[PapaWolf her father]]. |
| 147 | * In ''Literature/TwoCanKeepASecret'' (by the author of ''Literature/OneOfUsIsLying'') there's Katrin, Brooke and Viv (a BlondeBrunetteRedhead group no less), who hang out together shopping a lot, cheerleading and are the homecoming queen front runners. Interestingly, Viv is arguably the most bitchy, and that's more from insecurity about being less popular than the other two. The three are the most catty with each other instead of the unpopular students). By the end of the book it's revealed that each of the three has a DarkSecret. [[spoiler:Brooke is having an affair with Katrin's dad and witnessed him commit a hit-and-run, for which he later killed her. Katrin suspects that her dad killed Brooke and is protecting him. Viv is behind some malicious graffiti, vandalism and threatening notes simply to provide a news story for herself to write about in the school paper.]] |
| 148 | * In Creator/LaurenKate novel ''Unforgiven'' the [[AlphaBitch most popular girl]] at school, Chloe King (daughter of a media mogul and generally a RichBitch) has a bubblegum pop band "Perceived Slights", whose members Kara, June and Teresa are always around, wear similar clothes (eg. suede minidresses of different pastel colours) and generally follow her lead. |
| 149 | * ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'': Upon starting at Shiz University, Galinda joins a posse that consists of Milla, Pfannee, and Shenshen. They're rich, snobby girls who enjoy teasing Galinda's roommate Elphaba. This all changes when Galinda befriends her Elphaba and ends her friendship with the posse. |
| 150 | * ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': The villainous witch Lily has one even at the very beginning of her first term at her new school. When Emily first meets her, she sees about a half-dozen girls grouped around Lily and supporting her as she picks on the poorer Medina twins. |
| 151 | * In a few scenes of ''Literature/TheWorstClassTripEver by Creator/DaveBarry'', ClassPrincess Suzana Delgado is accompanied by a group of other popular kids who the narrator once refers to as the "hot girl pack." |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 155 | * The Mindettes in ''Series/OneHundredThingsToDoBeforeHighSchool'' are minions to AlphaBitch Mindy Minus. They dress like Mindy and follow her every command. |
| 156 | * ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' skit, The Girls' Room has Amber (the popular Alpha Bitch leader), Sheila (the tough mean girl), Tammy (the exchange student from - whom she was born in - Tennessee and moved to a new state), and Debbie (a girl who likes eggs and is a dumb brunette). |
| 157 | * ''Series/AmberBrown2022'': Hannah, the school's AlphaBitch, is always seen with four other girls doting on her. One even repeats back what she says to other girls. |
| 158 | * ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': The Boosters in the Season 4 episode "Today I Am a Freshman," the group Marcia wants to join. She ultimately doesn't--in part because she failed her initiation (thanks to Peter's volcano) and because she ultimately saw that this Girl Posse isn't whom she wanted to be associated with. |
| 159 | * Cordelia in early episodes of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had a group of yes-girls, the Cordettes, which included future vampire Harmony. As shown in the quote, Angel later likened them to the [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]], but with nicer shoes. Cordelia's "friends" give her a taste of her own medicine when she starts to date Xander. |
| 160 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'' gave this trope a great sendup in the episode "The Aerodynamics of Gender". Britta, Annie, and Shirley decided to take a Women's study course for some girl time, but are taken aback when Abed says he wants to go too. A Girl Posse of 3 {{Alpha Bitch}}es (One of which is played by Music/HilaryDuff) start harassing them, and Abed quickly zings them back without breaking a sweat. [[spoiler: Rather than thank him and call it a day, Britta, Annie, and Shirley decide they can use this to their advantage and send Abed to insult every girl in school that has ever been mean to them. Eventually, Britta, Annie, and Shirley's egos completely swell and they become the ruling Girl Posse of {{Alpha Bitch}}es themselves.]]. Also, because it's Abed, there's a parody of Franchise/{{Robocop}} in there. But Britta thinks he's saying "Rowboat Cop". |
| 161 | * ''Series/ControlZ'': The girl trio of the popular clique: Isabela is the AlphaBitch, Natalia is a kind of BetaBitch acting like an alpha one and Maria subverts the BrainlessBeauty trope, being more an InnocentBetaBitch. |
| 162 | * Christine, the AlphaBitch of ''Series/DeadGorgeous'', has a band of loyal sycophants. |
| 163 | * Nicely subverted on ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks''. Vicki Applebee is the show's resident AlphaBitch, but even most of the other popular girls at [=McKinley=] High (including Cindy Sanders) have a problem with her. And Cindy, probably one of the most popular girls at [=McKinley=] herself, is nice to everyone on the social totem pole. |
| 164 | * ''Series/{{GCB}}'': "The Foxes" are the popular clique at the High School. When she was younger, Amanda was the head of [[AlphaBitch the Foxes]]. The current generation of Foxes is lead by Cricket's daughter Alexandra. Amanda initially worries that her daughter might be labeled a "Javelina" (ugly) by the Foxes, but it turns out she's welcomed into their group [[GenerationXerox like her mother]]. |
| 165 | * Some of these appear as one-off characters in ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow''. One of the earlier ones were a trip of girls whom Carmen and her friend Toby tried to befriend--[[KidsAreCruel they were mercilessly cruel to Toby]] and even made Carmen turn against her so she could be popular like them. [[FalseFriend And no, they weren't even nice to Carmen either.]] |
| 166 | * Paris in ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' had her two sidekicks, Madeline and Louise, whilst she and Rory were at Chilton Academy. |
| 167 | * ''Series/{{Glee}}'' had the TerribleTrio version. In Season 1 when Quinn was the AlphaBitch, Santana (BetaBitch) and Brittany (BrainlessBeauty) were her main right hand bitches. When Quinn became pregnant and kicked off the Cheerios, Brittany and Santana [[DivergentCharacterEvolution got their own distinct personalities]] and became beloved characters in their own right. |
| 168 | * ''Literature/GossipGirl'' both plays this one straight (Kati, Isabel, Hazel, Penelope) and subverts it (The bespectacled Asian nerd who routinely receives the highest test scores of anyone in the school eventually becomes one of Blair's henchmen). |
| 169 | * Trisha Yates, Pamela Cartwright and Susi MacMahon in ''Series/{{Grange Hill}}'' |
| 170 | * Kate and her one-dimensional interchangeable cheerleading squad from ''Series/LizzieMcGuire''. |
| 171 | * Played with in ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': the four main characters were the girl posse to Alison [=DiLaurentis=], who is, of course, [[DeathByOriginStory dead]]. Now, the other four effectively remain this, but without a clear leader. Also, the four of them increasingly become social outcasts as the story progresses. |
| 172 | * In ''[[Series/RenegadepressDotCom renegadepress.com]]'''s "Giving Yourself Away", this is {{Deconstructed}}; Crystal is torn when she discovers that in order to join the cool clique in school, she has to perform oral sex. |
| 173 | * [[AlphaBitch Libby]] and her [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional interchangeable]] goon squad from ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. |
| 174 | * ''Series/SchittsCreek'': In Season 4, Klair, an old acquaintance of Alexis, shows up in town with her posse of sycophants. Klair is manipulative and even downright abusive to her posse, but she offers Alexis a PR job and the chance to join the posse and live in New York. Alexis sees Klair for what she is and decides to stay in Schitt's Creek. |
| 175 | * ConversationalTroping: Given the name "Blonde-tourage" in an episode of ''[[Franchise/TheMuppets Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony]]''. |
| 176 | * ''Series/SummerHeightsHigh'' has its version of the popular {{Alpha Bitch}}es who dubbed themselves [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owolyDIQ4NQ "The Hot Girls"]]. |
| 177 | * Alana Rivera in ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' and its spin-off ''Series/RavensHome'' has her number-two follower Muffy, and the gigantic LargeHam Loca. |
| 178 | * Gigi's friends in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace.'' They suck up to Gigi so much that they actually get plastic surgery so that their noses will look like hers. |
| 179 | * In ''Series/TheWorstYearOfMyLifeAgain'', Nicola Grey has one. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 183 | * The ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Creepy Town'' has one dubbed [[Film/MeanGirls The Plastics]] and consisting of Katie, Stacey, and Veronica (though Stacey is somewhat nicer than the others). |
| 184 | [[/folder]] |
| 185 | |
| 186 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 187 | * The Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew, The Radiant Rain and The Lovely Lacey, perhaps putting on their best display of this trope Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} where they picked up a third member in "Coventry's Loudest" Jetta and became the International Home Wrecking Crew. Rain, Lacey and Jetta each think of themselves as the closest thing to perfect in all possible ways, and in fact have fought about it several times, so what exactly holds their friendship together, or keeps them coming back together, varies from promotion to promotion(in IWA Mid-South it was hatred of Mickie Knuckles, in FIP it seemed to fatigue with fighting one another, in Wrestling/{{ROH}} it was [[WellIntentionedExtremist the betterment of society]] through Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and his Age Of The Fall, in SHIMMER it [[AmbiguouslyGay may]] have been lesbianism or [[HeterosexualLifePartners habituated attachment]], etc). This ''didn't'' apply to their Wrestling/{{WSU}} expansion into Rain's Army, as Rain [[AxCrazy was apparently off her meds]] and [[DarkerAndEdgier seemed more intent]] on battering WSU's roster until no one was left than tormenting people, though when the army disbanded after Wrestling/MercedesMartinez got Rain to calm down, the crew returned to form. For years Martinez mistook "no longer trying to kill me" with "close friends", as they still disliked and talked bad about her. |
| 188 | * The Home Wrecking Crew would later encounter a rival SouthernBelle posse in Team Blondage, made up of Amber O'Neal, Krissy Vaine, Lollipop and [=GeeStar=]. They were the first in pro wrestling to be based on ''Film/MeanGirls''. Luckily for those sharing locker rooms with them, Blondage are rarely encountered in larger numbers than two. (O'Neal and [=GeeStar=] [[TheRival don't always get along]]) |
| 189 | * Vince's Devils, Wrestling/TorrieWilson and Wrestling/CandiceMichelle were already hanging out like best friends by the time they moved to ''Raw'' (from ''[=SmackDown!=]'') and underwent a FaceHeelTurn. They teamed up with [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] for the sole purpose of tormenting the new girl from the Diva search, Wrestling/AshleyMassaro. There was some HoYay between Victoria and Candice and Torrie bought a dust mop dog, so she could rub its ass in the faces of their opponents. When not acting as a bully posse they also served as [[TheMistress mistresses]] to the boss, hence the name. |
| 190 | * In a rare example of a gimmick that Wrestling/{{TNA}} has done to perfection, Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople are a stunning example of the trope in wrestling. Started with Wrestling/AngelinaLove as the AlphaBitch, Wrestling/VelvetSky as the BetaBitch and Wrestling/MadisonRayne as their personal butt kisser (Omega Bitch perhaps?). Later Love got deported so Sky and Rayne became co Alpha Bitches with Lacey Wrestling/{{Von Erich|Family}} in the role of the BrainlessBeauty who follows the other two. A [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot pornstar sorority]] whose mission is to eliminate the ugly, they were initially baby face duo Velvet Love Entertainment until they attacked Roxxi Laveaux for turning down their offer to give Laveaux a makeover. |
| 191 | * Though it's only two people, this is still more or less the gimmick of Team Wrestling/LayCool (Layla and Michelle [=McCool=]) in the Wrestling/{{WWE}}. They make fun of everyone's "flaws" and then question their lack of friends |
| 192 | * Essentially what [[Wrestling/BellaTwins Team Bella]] became, after the twins, who were dedicated to holding down every other woman around them, more or less making Wrestling/AliciaFox their minion. |
| 193 | * Fellow Diva revolutionaries Team B.A.D. and Team PCB could count as well, as they were put together as "counter balances" to Team Bella but only the latter turned out more likable. |
| 194 | * Following in the wake of {{power stable}}s like Valkyrie, Valifonria and [=C4=] was the Cutie Pie Club, Shine Wrestling's first girl posse. Not only did they immediately prove to be [[ButtMonkey less threatening]] than the three groups that came before them, they also proved to be one of the most dysfunctional girl posses in pro wrestling. All the same, Candy Cartwright is an alpha bitch through and through. A screaming AttentionWhore, she is primarily concerned with her own looks, advancement and whatever luxuries she can indulge in. Kiera Hogan, whom the group is technically named after, is firmly in the role of the beta bitch, being the only person Cartwright seems to genuinely consider a friend but usually happy to go along with whatever Cartwright is doing and not assertive enough to voice contrary opinions when they do become apparent. Aria Blake is the omega bitch, whom Cartwright seemingly keeps around to abuse and belittle but ''is'' sometimes willing to speak against her and Dementia D'Rose is TheBrute who is basically there [[PragmaticVillainy because her singles record in SHINE wasn't very good]]. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 198 | * The Sisterhood of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'''s Bathurst High, most of them probably having about the same AlphaBitch levels. V3 character Melina Frost's profile refers to her having been the leader of a similar group at Southridge, but this never came up. |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 202 | * Charlotte, Cassie, and Molly in ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}'' serve as this for Kendra and [[AlphaBitch Lucy]] |
| 203 | * ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'': This play is not set in high school, but De Guiche has the SpearCounterpart to the Girl Posse: The Cool Crowd, a crowd of hangers-on who bow to his every whim and help him victimize whomever he decides to pick on (or, in the case of Viscount De Valvert, they at least try to help De Guiche victimize Roxane and Cyrano). Lampshaded by the Marquises in Act I, Scene III, when one of them recognizes they don't like De Guiche, but it's best to make their bow to him: |
| 204 | -->'''First marquis:''' (''watching De Guiche, who comes down from Roxane's box, and crosses the pit surrounded by obsequious noblemen, among them the Viscount de Valvert'') He pays a fine court, your De Guiche!\ |
| 205 | '''Second Marquis:''' Faugh!... Another Gascon!\ |
| 206 | '''First Marquis:''' Ay, but the cold, supple Gascon -- that is the stuff success is made of! \ |
| 207 | Believe me, we had best make our bow to him. |
| 208 | * ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'' has the Heathers and Veronica, with Heather Chandler as the AlphaBitch, Heather Duke as the BetaBitch [[spoiler: until Heather Chandler is murdered and Duke takes her place as the alpha]] and Heather Mcnamara as the BrainlessBeauty. Veronica has shades of the BetaBitch when she is tempted into joining the Heathers, but later she subverts it when she ditches them. |
| 209 | * The bird girls in ''[[Theatre/{{Seussical}} Seussical The Musical]]'' are Mayzie's girl posse as well as being a GreekChorus |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 213 | * Raspberyll has one of these in the form of Asuka and Kyoko in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}'' - Of course, since ''Disgaea'' demons believe in BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad, the posse's decided that they'll earn their delinquency points by being the biggest goodies-two-shoes they can hope to be. |
| 214 | * ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'' has one of these in Alicia, bully who leads the popular clique around. |
| 215 | * ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' has [[MafiaPrincess Musume]] [[SpoiledBrat Ronshaku]] and her [[GangOfBullies group of friends]], [[CuteIsEvil Kokoro]] [[WickedHeartSymbol Momoiro]], [[GossipyHens Kashiko]] [[ItAmusedMe Murasaki]], [[GreenAndMean Hoshiko]] [[TokenEvilTeammate Mizudori]] and [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex Hana]] [[GamerChick Daidaiyama]]. They're a group of popular {{Gyaru Girl}}s, with the same style of clothing and accessories, who [[AlphaBitch bully unpopular students]]. More specifically, Musume is the one who actively bullies someone while the others point out and laugh. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 219 | * ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' has the softball juniors for [[{{Ojou}} Sasami]]. Each time Rin fights with Sasami, she must battle them first: they're weak, and hold half-eaten food owned by Sasami to heal themselves. Apart from this and, at one point, [[KickTheDog kicking a cat]] to enrage [[KindheartedCatLover Rin]], they do exactly nothing plot-worthy. Riki even refers to them as minions at one point. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 223 | * In ''WebAnimation/TheCrazyKidsOfGrade5'', Kelly is surrounded by her posse of Shelley and Nelly. |
| 224 | * In ''WebAnimation/EverySimsMachinimaEverParody'', the posse consists of Madylynne, her explicitly [[TokenMinority token black friend]] Jessica, and Ella's former best friend Chloe. They all just make mean comments at Ella's appearance, to the point where she gets plastic surgery and a tan. |
| 225 | * ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': |
| 226 | ** Mackenzie, Brittnay, and Trisha. |
| 227 | ** Shay, Cameron, and Mikayla. |
| 228 | ** Tanya, Taylor, and Trisha 2. |
| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 232 | * ''Webcomic/AliceAndTheNightmare'' has Elsie, Tillie and Lacie of the "mean girl" variety - they latch onto Alice as the Queen's protege and practice FantasticRacism against Edith. |
| 233 | * ''Webcomic/BittersweetCandyBowl'': Daisy briefly falls in with one of these, but is dumped by them later on. Subverted in that a few members of the group later reveal that the "leader" of the posse was not much liked by THEM either, so they continue to hang out with Daisy. |
| 234 | * Subverted in ''[[http://cheer.thewotch.com/index.php?date=20051027 Cheer!]]'' twice: The Ekaltsew Cheer team, who are shown as buffoonish and stupid would-be enemies of the Tandy Cheer team, and with Sarah and Karen, who eventually abandon their leader, Tamara, after one hare-brained revenge scheme too many. |
| 235 | * ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=413 from left to right]]: [[TheHeart Kyo]], [[LovableAlphaBitch Chrys]], [[EmotionlessGirl Naal]], [[ServileSnarker Shinae]], and [[TheLadette Kiel]]. Subverted when [[spoiler: Chrys and Kyo are wrongfully imprisoned, Naal turns out to be ill, Shinae is shown to be a JerkassWoobie, and Kiel's [[HeroWithAnFInGood dream]] job is to be the [[FourthWallObserver series]]' KnightInShiningArmor.]] |
| 236 | * ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'': Melissa Hellrune ([[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/(chapter_9)_big_girls_do_not_cry pictured here]]) is the leader of her own clique [[AllGhoulsSchool at Charybdis Heights.]] As seen, she antagonizes Layla Delacroix, by trying to dethrone her as the school's most popular girl and [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/(preferably_me) plots to steal her boyfriend]] while she is at it. |
| 237 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Lucy and Rhoda are flunkies to queen bee Diane at Moperville South HS as seen [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-12-08 here]]. Mildly subverted in Lucy's downright flippant and sarcastic manner towards Diane and Diane actually caring about Rhoda. |
| 238 | * In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', Goldie was the queen of Jane's high school. The trope is somewhat subverted in that Goldie seemed to be a benevolent despot. Jane was set to inherit the title during her senior year [[spoiler:until she dropped out of school]]. |
| 239 | %%* The high school of ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'' also has them. See [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/430 this strip]]. |
| 240 | %%* Felicia Laine, with her unnamed cat and squirrel, in ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie''. |
| 241 | * ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'' has Penny's group consisting of Sara, Michelle, and later also Katy-Ann and Brandi, who [[SubvertedTrope Subverts]] the trope since the girls actually care about each other. It is however PlayedStraight with Karen's Meg, Samantha, Charlotte and Cyndi. |
| 242 | %%* In ''Webcomic/{{Dreamkeepers}} Prelude'', [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=159 objecting to Lilith]]. |
| 243 | * Before her fall from grace, Morita in ''Webcomic/RedString'' had a couple of lackeys -- one with pigtails and one with short black hair. They followed her around and almost never said anything, but giggled and smirked at Morita's cruelty. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 247 | * Sooni of ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' got her CatGirl Girl Posse the old fashioned way: daddy bought them for her. |
| 248 | * Ami, Emi, Umi, and, at least in the beginning, Aki in ''Literature/SailorNothing''. |
| 249 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' examples: at SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy, Solange has her Girl Posse of Flicker and Fade. Hekate has her own posse of Spellbinder and Conjure [[spoiler: until she's forced to flee from a Sidhe curse]], and the Yellow Queen has the rest of the Whateley Martial Arts Cheerleaders (even though Whateley has no intermural sports teams). |
| 250 | * ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' has Emma, Sophia, and Madison, three girls who managed, through a prolonged campaign of abuse, to drive the protagonist Taylor into a nervous breakdown and TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening before the events of the story, and continue this abuse throughout. |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 254 | * ''WebVideo/YouthAndConsequences'': LovableAlphaBitch Farrah leads one with Plain, Jayne and Hurley. Stacey was a [[FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch former member]] and forms one herself later. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 258 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' made the interesting choice of being a series about a girl posse, with Sasha Waybright being the manipulative, bossy and mean Alpha Bitch, Marcy Wu being the smart BetaBitch that ends up being a betrayer of the group and main character Anne Boonchuy being third member who is neither particularly smart or mean. |
| 259 | * The show ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'' has Nanette Manoire and the Copy-Cat Clone Club, who, whenever Nanette came up with a plan, the first would typically say, "That's a great idea!" And the second would parrot, "Well, I think that's a great idea EVEN MORE". |
| 260 | * In ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' things are turned on their heads a little, while Courtney Gripling is the leader of the Lucky Junior High girl posse it is her second-in-command, Miranda Killgallen, who acts like the AlphaBitch. Courtney herself is the LovableAlphaBitch who has several satellites following her around. Mipsy Mipson counts as a BetaBitch who usually fills in for Miranda when she is unavailable, though ironically she's even ''meaner'' than Miranda is. |
| 261 | * ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'''s Penelope Lang has her own posse in the form of two girls named Megan and Sarah who sycophantically toady up to her all the time. |
| 262 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' both uses this and subverts it. |
| 263 | ** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula's]] posse are fully realized characters in their own right, and [[LadyOfWar Mai]] and [[CloudCuckooLander Ty]] [[SheFu Lee]] are not [[PsychoSupporter exactly enthusiastic supporters]]. In fact, they ''have'' largely been told by the would-be-future ruler of the world that they have no choice, Mai's [[EmotionlessGirl boredom with life]] aside. Despite this, and their eventual, perhaps inevitable break with her, they ''are'' a [[DarkActiongirl terrifically efficient fighting force]], and are wise enough to keep their ruthless leader happy, as far as she can be. To their opponents, their front must seem incredibly unified and as intimidating as any group of mindless minions, even when the target is not cornered by a locker or such. |
| 264 | ** Another (very minor) Girl Posse appears in the episode "Tales of Ba Sing Se", where they pick on Toph and call her ugly. Though Toph and Katara deal with them and send them packing in the end. |
| 265 | * The Cute Dolls from ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight''. All of them are pretty stuck-up and snobby. |
| 266 | * The Fashion Club from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' is an atypical example, for a few reasons. For one, DivergentCharacterEvolution kicked in so that each of the four girls eventually had a distinct personality, and to a degree, CharacterDevelopment (especially Quinn, who is the title character's sister, and in the last season Stacy). Furthermore, they usually had their own subplots instead of being antagonists; instead of bullying less popular students, they tended to focus on [[WithFriendsLikeThese each other]]. |
| 267 | * The Glamazons in ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'', led by AlphaBitch Kimmie. Her BetaBitch, Brandy, actually [[SubvertedTrope turns out]] to not be so bad and [[HiddenDepths a good friend]], and even Kimmie gets [[CharacterDevelopment developed]] later. |
| 268 | * ''WesternAnimation/GetAce'': [[AlphaBitch Tina DeVeer]] and her two friends, the SingleMindedTwins Emma and Gemma. The twins act like servants to Tina at times and [[YesMan always agree with whatever she says]], only rarely showing independent thought, mostly because it's implied they're afraid of upsetting her. |
| 269 | * Paige Logan from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'' is usually accompanied by a pair of sidegirls. In one episode, she orders them to floss her teeth (to their credit, they refuse). |
| 270 | * Subverted with The Misfits in ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. Pizzazz is clearly the musical equivalent of the AlphaBitch and Roxy is the BetaBitch, but all three of Pizzazz's band mates have characterization beyond being her lackeys. In this case, the girls are members of a music band, and nearly all of them have had problematic family lives and friendless backgrounds. There is plenty of in-fighting in the band, but the band members function as each other's surrogate family. |
| 271 | * ''WesternAnimation/KennyTheShark'' has this with the Phoebes, with the blonde Phoebe being the leader. |
| 272 | * Averted in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' -- there, neither the AlphaBitch Bonnie nor head cheerleader Kim has any kind of girl posse. Though some fanfics tend to place the cheerleaders [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110205041545/kimpossible/images/0/00/Hope.jpg Hope]] and [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110205043706/kimpossible/images/1/1b/Jessica.jpg Jessica]] as Bonnie's posse. |
| 273 | * {{Gender Inverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': When holding the VillainBall, [[Characters/KingOfTheHillDaleGribble Dale Gribble]] acts as the AlphaBitch leading a clique and even commanding his cronies with a snap of his fingers and a “S’go!” In these scenarios, Bill Dauterive acts as the BetaBitch who parrots Dale and mirrors his body language, while Boomhauer does little more than stand next to Dale and look handsome. |
| 274 | * ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': Mertle has possibly the youngest posse, who take the "parrot her opinions" duty to the extreme - Mertle insults Lilo, they say in unison, "''Ye-e-e-ah.''" |
| 275 | * [[GangOfBullies Portia, Gwen and Penny]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB''. |
| 276 | * A darker, more sinister than usual example in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'' is antagonist trio the Dazzlings; with Adagio Dazzle as the AlphaBitch, Aria Blaze as the BetaBitch, and [[TrademarkFavoriteFood taco loving]] Sonata Dusk as the BrainlessBeauty. In this case, they are mythological sirens posing as high school girls. They are less interested in popularity, and more interested in manipulating the desires and emotions of the other students. |
| 277 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' features a deconstruction: AcademicAlphaBitch [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]] has a posse of several other girls, but most prominently Boscha and Skara, and Amity's first appearance sees her being mean to her nerdy, less-skilled ex-best friend Willow. However, the more the audience sees of Amity, the more it becomes clear that her mean attitude is a façade that she genuinely feels bad about, and she [[LonelyAmongPeople doesn't seem particularly enthused about being in the company of her posse]]. In "Understanding Willow", it's revealed that [[spoiler:Amity's high-society parents coerced her to end her sincere friendship with Willow against her will, under threat of making sure that Willow could never attend magic school if Amity didn't, and instead made their daughter become "friends" with Boscha and Skara (whom Amity dislikes because they actually ''are'' mean) because they're more "suitable companions" for a Blight. Essentially, Amity only has her girl posse because her parents forced her to, and has to silently endure their company while watching them mistreat people she actually likes and would prefer to be friends with, luckily [[LoveInterest Luz's]] influence eventually gives her the courage to ditch them for '''''real''''' friends]]. |
| 278 | --> '''Boscha''': "You just destroyed your social life." |
| 279 | --> '''Amity''': "Na, I think I made it better." |
| 280 | * In ''WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie'', AlphaBitch Suzi has a pair of side girls whose sole function is to attempt to agree with Suzi more than the other. |
| 281 | * Eve and Tori are the Girl Posse of [[CruelCheerleader Beth]] in the ''Toys/PollyPocket'' animated movies. The pre-cutant ones, at least. While they don't have any ill feelings towards Polly and her friends and even question Beth on why she hates Polly, they let her boss them around. To their credit, [[spoiler: when Polly's band got to play on a school event despite Beth's efforts to prevent it from happening, they decided to enjoy the show instead of put up with Beth's rants.]] Too bad it didn't keep them from helping her in subsequent movies. |
| 282 | * The Ashleys in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', with Ashley A. (usually) as the AlphaBitch. |
| 283 | * Sierra leads one of these in ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements''. |
| 284 | * ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'': Gem is usually accompanied by a group of girls, and likes to yell orders to them. |
| 285 | * From ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'', Amber, Clio, and Hildegard are almost always seen together in school or at hangouts. Clio and Hilde are just as prissy as Amber, and they join her in bullying Sofia. However, they grow to become {{Lovable Alpha Bitch}}es over the course of the series. |
| 286 | * The Cheerleaders (including [[AlphaBitch Kimmy]]) in ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''. Ilana attempts to join their cheerleading squad, to which they snide at her. She ends up being the one to help them hide when a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Mutraddi]] invades the high school. Kimmy is still mean to Ilana, but her friends point out that Ilana ''is'' helping them. After Kimmy hooks up with Octus, some of her posse also gradually acts nicer toward the trio. |
| 287 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'': Heather's alliance with Lindsay and Beth qualifies as one, although unlike Heather, Lindsay and Beth are very nice girls who largely follow Heather in hopes of making it to the final three. Both of them ultimately leave the alliance at different points after realizing Heather does't really care about them. |
| 288 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': [[AlphaBitch Mandy]] and her [[FlatCharacter two best friends]], Dominique and Caitlin. Mandy didn't seem to have any friends outside of them, because whenever she wasn't with either one or both of them, she didn't really hang out with anyone else (Dominique and Caitlin seemed closer to each other than to Mandy). [[spoiler:Dominique and Caitlin got written out of the series after the first episode of the fifth season (due to high school graduation), and got replaced by Mandy's cousin, ''Mindy'', who's basically just like Mandy, except she's a dark-skinned blonde with a Southern accent]]. |
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