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[[caption-width:225:[[IncrediblyLamePun Bubble-headed]] [[PrecisionFStrike bitch]].]]

->''I take it as a rule of nature that all American high schools are ruled by a pack of snobs, led by a supremely confident young woman who is blond, superficial, catty, and ripe for public humiliation. This character is followed by two friends who worship her, and are a little bit shorter. Those schools also contain a group of friends who are not as popular and do not think of themselves as pretty, although they are smarter, funnier and altogether more likeable than the catty-pack.''\\
-- '''RogerEbert''', review of ''{{Sleepover}}''

->'''Veronica''': Heather, why can't you just be a friend? Why do you have to be such a mega-bitch?\\
'''Heather Duke''': Because I can be.\\
-- ''{{Heathers}}''

In every HighSchool, our heroes will have to deal with The Libby. See that [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders attractive]] [[BlondesAreEvil blonde]] [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders cheerleader]] looking down her nose and sneering at the [[HollywoodHomely frumpy girl]] [[BeautifulAllAlong in glasses]]? That's her.

The Libby is the girl who, with an iron fist of terror wrapped in a leather glove from Prada, dominates those around her in a way that would make JosefStalin blanch. Despite being an unpleasant, bullying and mean-spirited snob determined to put down everyone except an elite few deemed worthy of her goodwill -- and she's usually still pretty snide even to them -- the Libby is somehow the most popular girl in school, and she aims to keep it that way. Usually a junior RichBitch, the Libby is a SpoiledBrat possessing an out-of-control sense of entitlement and a ruthless aim to demolish all perceived competition with catty remarks, backhanded compliments, cruel pranks and manipulation -- and the heroine, especially if she's a CoolLoser, will inevitably find herself in the role of chief rival. Expect conflict to form around rivalry and [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] over possessions, boyfriends or roles in the school environment.

The Libby is usually at the centre of a fawning GirlPosse who suck up to her and act as her faithful minions. She is always somehow elected Homecoming or Prom Queen, which may seem mystifying considering how horrible she is to almost everyone whose votes she depends on -- she usually uses her position as sex symbol and devious, underhanded tactics to secure the title. Her boyfriend will be the most popular and handsome boy in school, ensuring the envy of all the other girls; either the athletic JerkJock or the suave BigManOnCampus. She'll also be head cheerleader, which ensures that [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders every guy in school is automatically programmed to lust after her]]. Of course, she'll reject any guy she considers beneath her, whether through blunt dismissal (“Ewww, as ''if'', loser!”) or, in particularly heartless cases, through a cruel PrankDate. In a BettyAndVeronica situation, she will usually be "Veronica"

The Libby is usually not very bright -- PopularIsDumb, after all -- and, in contrast to the smart, savvy heroine, will be a mean-spirited version of TheDitz or the BrainlessBeauty. However, she understands people, and can [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate them with an insight that would terrify Machiavelli himself]]. Whilst she may be a cruel, horrible bitch-queen from Hell to anyone unfortunate enough to get in her bad books, she will be a DevilInPlainSight to authority figures, as sweet as sugar to anyone who could punish her for her behaviour.

A common subversion / FreudianExcuse for the Libby is that she is, deep down, actually quite insecure, tragic, sympathetic or even nice. Often, she'll have been spoiled rotten either because she's either the apple of Daddy's eye and his indulgence of her has gotten way out of hand, or because her parents are cold, selfish and distant types more interested in themselves than raising a child, and have substituted material goods for actual affection. She'll often live in a superficial environment, usually raised and bullied by a mother who is herself an ex-Libby and who [[MyBelovedSmother forces her daughter to follow the same path]] in order to compensate for her own failed and wasted life. Expect this to prompt a BrokenAesop on the heroine’s part [[IfYouTauntHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim about pitying/respecting/trying to befriend her]] because of the FreudianExcuse. She may also be the subject of a VerySpecialEpisode about anorexia or bulima. Do not expect this revelation [[StatusQuoIsGod to make the Libby any nicer or cut the heroine any more slack]]; if it does, she may become a FallenPrincess. Even more rarely, the Libby and the heroine may decide to bury the hatchet, or even become friends.

Like the JerkJock, if the Libby ever receives [[BreakTheHaughty comeuppance]], it'll be with such vicious delight that it seems the writers are [[CreatorBreakdown working through their own high-school issues]] in the process. A grown-up Libby is usually likely to end up a frumpy, failed housewife, a puddle-shallow StepfordSmiler trapped in a [[LonelyAtTheTop failed, empty and lonely life]] with an obsession with living the 'perfect' life and a [[LadyDrunk a bit too much fondness for booze]], or a just-as-nasty but more bitter grown-up RichBitch, often with BlondeRepublicanSexKitten tendencies. She will often be unhappily married to the former JerkJock, an equal victim of bad karma. And to add insult to injury, the people she so cruelly bullied in high school will have become more successful ''and'' [[SheIsAllGrownUp attractive]] than she is.

She is unlikely to be a FilleFatale. She's too outwardly mean for that. Frequently on the Snob end of SlobsVersusSnobs. ItsACostumePartyISwear, the PrankDate and the PartySchedulingGambit are just some of the many nasty tricks she plays.

Named after the character from ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''.

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Nanami Kiryuu from ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' is a particularly subtle and cruel anime example.
** This troper is baffled for seeing the word "subtle" in the same sentence as "Nanami Kiryuu". The few times she even tried subtlety backfired horribly on her. She can be pretty damn cruel at times, but seems to grow at least partially out of it through the series.
* ''SoukouNoStrain'' adds Isabella to the list of characters that it [[AnyoneCanDie kills off]], but her even worse successor, Mariette, makes it through to the end of the series.
* Subverted in ''RedGarden''. One of the StudentCouncil members constantly complained about how the protagonist was being treated with kid gloves for her constant absences and tardies and is seen several times spying, as if to blackmail the protagonist... then, in an emotional scene, she reveals that she's been ''worried'' about the protagonist for a long time, and wants to help her with whoever is hurting her.
* Tamaki Reika from ''OjamajoDoremi'', though she has a bit of a FreudianExcuse. ([[spoiler:After she got serious burns as a baby thanks to her BumblingDad leaving a cup of hot coffee within her reach, he swore to never again make Reika cry... [[SpoiledBrat but ended up]] [[DaddysGirl spoiling her rotten.]]]])
* Aki Honda from ''{{Narutaru}}'', despite not being rich like most Libbies, is just about the [[CompleteMonster cruelest and most horrible Libby]] ''ever'' created, graduating from criminal harassment to [[spoiler:full on ''rape'']]. She meets a very nasty end when her favorite victim, [[spoiler: local LonelyRichKid Hiroko Kaizuka]], gets her [[{{Mon}} Shadow Dragon]] and ''brutally'' murders Aki and her GirlPosse in what proves to be her StartOfDarkness.
* Sae from ''PeachGirl''. She's Momo's main love rival, and is especially good at doing nasty things to Momo while [[WoundedGazelleGambit making herself look innocent]].
* Shiho Huit fills this role in ''{{Mai-Otome}}'', playing tricks on Arika and the other Corals and looking down on them because of their status.
** Tomoe Marguerite is a more traditional Libby, though, with a young hanger-on named Miya whom she verbally and physically abuses [[DevilInPlainSight when no one else is looking]]. She's even tried to [[spoiler: kill Arika and her friends]] on a few occasions.
** The Show also has Queen Mashiro a RoyalBrat who isn’t even a student at the academy but will skirt her administrative duties and visit there just too mock and laugh at Arika whenever she does something wrong.
* Motoko Minagawa from ''FruitsBasket'', complete with [[StalkerWithACrush obsessive crush on]] [[TheWhitePrince Yuki Sohma]] and a GirlPosse that harasses Tohru after she goes to live with Yuki and Shigure. [[spoiler: In the manga, however, Motoko actually grows up and gives up on Yuki]].
* Mao, an anime-only character in ''{{Kekkaishi}}'', was apparently created to serve as TheLibby for leading girl Tokine in that she flaunts her wealth and makes catty comments about the latter. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because Tokine isn't really affected by her snarky comments.
* Aya Misaki from ''OniisamaE'', in all her bitchy, slanderous "glory". Poor Nanako and Mariko.
** [[spoiler: Ichinomiya Fukiko(Miya-sama), whose minions include, oh, the entire snotty sorority]] is another example, though her bitchy-ness doesn't show until the later chapters.
* Michiyo in ''{{Mahoraba}}'' acts like a {{Libby}} {{Ojou}} to Asami [[spoiler:out of insecurity. She really wants to be friends with Asami.]]
* Ami of ''{{Toradora}}'', who usually hides her bitchiness behind a saccharine mask of sweetness until she feels she can get away with it. She does get CharacterDevelopment though.
* Maho Izawa from ''KareKano'' fits this trope... at least, she did during the one episode she went out of her way to cause trouble for Yukino, specially by alienating her classmates away from her. After that, though, they become friends, but it's more natural and heartwarming compared than other similar instances of the main girl forgiving The Libby. So, she's actually one of the few Libby-like characters who are actually [[CharacterDevelopment layered and likable in their own rights]].
** Given Yukino Miyazawa herself used to hide her emotions and try to "delude" everybody into thinking she's such a great person and given Maho is just her moral mirror image with different personal attributes then Maho can't possibly be [[TheLibby the Libby]]. Not even a multi-layered Libby. In fact, ''{{Kare Kano}}'' is at all times too sympathetic with each character's individual traits and internal struggles for the viewer to be able to pin down any character as a character type, much less an "evil" character type. That's ''{{Kare Kano}}'''s strength, of course.
* Katherina Sforza from the Nunnally-centered ''CodeGeass'' manga ''Knightmare of Nunnally''. She and the GirlPosse get [[HumiliationConga embarrassingly]] punished by Nunners's classmate [[spoiler: and the local ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl]] Alice, though.
* Tenjouin Saki of ''{{To LOVE Ru}}'' is something of a subversion; while she meets almost all of the standard Libby traits, right down to the [[NoblewomansLaugh noblewoman's laugh]] and [[PrincessCurls princess curls]], she has a very human side; she obtained one of the girls in her [[GirlPosse girl posse]] by rescuing her from bullies. She is legitimately kind to her friends, and even to her servants.
* Anna Maria from ''BloodPlus'' is a poster girl for this trope, despite not having a very large part in the series. A RichBitch complete with PrincessCurls, her own posse of female followers, and being unreasonably rude and bullying. Naturally, she gets a slap to the face when [[PrinceCharming Solomon]] invites Saya to dance instead of her.
* Kafuko from ''SpacePirateMito'', complete with GirlPosse, [[RichBitch sense of entitlement]], and [[{{Tsundere}} not-so-secret crush]] on the protagonist.
* Reiko Komori, one of Mamoru's friends in ''{{GaoGaiGar}}'', seems to be a younger, nicer version of this. The claws only come out on Sunou, one of their other friends, to one-up him whenever he starts bragging.
* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'', after Yue gets LaserGuidedAmnesia, she ends up enrolling in a Magic School and has to deal with one of these. They [[FireForgedFriends get along better after that]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome incident with the griffin dragon.]]
* Kurumi from ''KimiNiTodoke'' gossips about, befriends, and manipulates the kindhearted and naive protagonist to get a boy to like her. Her comeuppance arrives when a comic relief P.E. teacher thinks Kurumi has the hots for him.
* Otome Kato from ''SchoolDays''. Slightly subverted as she's a sports idol and not a RichBitch or cheerleader.
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[[folder:Comics]]
* ''{{Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane}}'' presents a subversion; through the series, it appears that Liz Allen is TheLibby of the school, and certainly possesses the usual qualities -- head of the cheer-leading squad, bitchy and snobby, dating the head football jock, obsessed with becoming Homecoming Queen, so on and such. However, come the night of the Homecoming Dance, it's revealed that Mary Jane -- the nicer, sweeter, and more easy-going and modest protagonist, and Liz's best friend -- is actually far more well-liked, and is voted Homecoming Queen (despite having not even run for it), much to both girl's surprise and, for different reasons, horror. After a big fight between them, Liz later admits that she's always been jealous of Mary Jane, more than aware that she's always been the more popular of the two, thus explaining Liz's desperate need to win the Homecoming Queen crown.
* ''Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.'' may be a bit of a subversion: Courtney is the ''blonde'' newcomer who ends up gaining popularity against a brunette Libby. Of course, said enemy is also a supervillain and the daughter of the series' BigBad, and once that gets out, the cliques are bound to change.
* Replace "High School" with "Super Hero Team" and Sistah Spooky from ''{{Empowered}}'' proves the platonic ideal of this trope down to the FreudianExcuse (she was a frumpy [[LeastCommonSkinTone dark-skinned]] girl in a high school filled with [[TheLibby hellishly gorgeous blond libbies]], and wound up [[DealWithTheDevil selling her soul for looks]]).
* Replace "High School" with "Super Hero Team" again, and you will get ''IHateGallantGirl'', with Gallant Girls as an Libby.
* A rare black Libby and among the first to be a protagonist is ''Generation X's'' Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix ([[OverlyLongName yes that's her full name]]), also known as M. She's gorgeous, wealthy, and brilliant, with FlyingBrick powers ''plus'' telepathy and accelerated learning aptitude. Par for the course was a heated rivalry with Jubilee and a more subtle one with Emma Frost. Being Ms. Perfect has backfired at least once, however. When the Massachusets Academy started admitting human students, nobody asked Monet to the dance because all the boys thought she was out of their league. Thankfully, the many sobering events in the X-Men's world have kept her from becoming a RichBitch for the most part.
* [[SpiderGirl Spider-Girl]] gave us Heather Noble -- she was acting like a Libby until [[TomDeFalco writer]] didn't get the idea of making her falling in love with main character's {{geek}} friend. Later he created Simone DeSantos, full-scalled Libby.
* A Libby is seen tormenting a unpopular girl in ''[[{{Batman}} Joker's Aslyum]]: The Scarecrow''. Unfortunaly, the girl's psychologist turns out to be Jonathan Crane a.k.a. the Scarecrow. Having been bullied himself, Scarecrow attacks the Libby's party and traps her and all her friends into their own personal nightmares.
*Veronica from ArchieComics.
**Cheryl, too.
* Under Geoff Johns, Batman has become the male version of "The Libby" in the Justice League, with Hal Jordan being positioned as his chief rival, due to the fact that Hal is the only JLA member who isn't afraid of Batman (indeed, going so far as to punch Batman unconscious when Batman's ego led him to try and prevent Hal from stopping the Paralax entity).
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[[folder:Films]]
* Regina in the movie ''MeanGirls''. Her MeaningfulName is Latin for "queen". The entire movie is basically a deliberate embodiment and analysis of this trope.
** Hell, the whole movie is about this trope. However, argueably, it could also bee seen as a variation, as the main character (LindsayLohan), basically BECOMES the third one of the "two friends who worship her, and are a little bit shorter" as Ebert describes them at the top of this page.
** The trope is subverted in the end though, where after Regina gets hit by a bus she starts playing sports to channel her anger (and it also helps that her fellow teammates aren't scared of her tough attitude), and she ends up being on friendly terms with the CoolLoser Heroine.
* Subverted in ''{{Clueless}}'' -- Cher Horowitz is unquestionably one of the most popular girls in school, but she's also a genuinely nice person (if a bit spoiled, shallow and [[TheDitz airheaded]]).
** Her rival Amber Mariens is a bit closer in spirit to The Libby, but is less popular than Cher and her sluttiness and airheadedness make her more like TheBrainlessBeauty (albeit a mean-spirited one).
* Mandy Moore's "Stupid Cupid"-singing cheerleader Lana Thomas in ''ThePrincessDiaries''. Notable mainly for the fact that director Garry Marshall explicitly pointed out that Lana was this character on the DVD's supplemental material.
** This troper was frankly very happy when she was "coned" (by Mia pushing an ice-cream cone into her shirt) and told off in front of the entire school. Sweetened by the fact that when Lana tries to get Mia in trouble with a teacher for it, the teacher does NOTHING.
* Christie Masters (played by Julia Campbell) in ''Romy and Michele's High School Reunion''.
* Also played by Mandy Moore, Hilary Faye in ''{{Saved}}''!
* Amber Von Tussle from ''{{Hairspray}}'', played by Colleen Fitzpatrick in the 1988 version, and Brittany Snow in the 2007 version.
* Heather Chandler (and later Heather Duke) in ''{{Heathers}}''.
** Played a bit non-standardly, because the protagonist isn't her unpopular rival but in fact a member of her GirlPosse, albeit an increasingly uncomfortable one.
* Parodied and subverted in ''NotAnotherTeenMovie'' with the character Priscilla.
* Subverted in ''{{Napoleon Dynamite}}'', in which the Libby turns out to be [[PetTheDog not so bad]].
* Sharpay Evans in ''HighSchoolMusical'' fits the part pretty well, but the movies' upbeat tone means that she's always redeemed by the end.
* Jane Mitchell in ''Zapped!'' who gets a ''Carrie'' comeuppance in the end.
* Taylor Vaughan in ''She's All That''.
* Subverted in ''LegallyBlonde'', where the Libby Vivian is actually the HollywoodHomely [[BrainyBrunette smart girl]] who torments the blonde, bouncy, popular, rich girl Elle. [[spoiler: And she has a HeelFaceTurn in the end]]
* Babs in ''AnimalHouse'' is a collegiate version.
* Roger Ebert summed it up best (see page quote) for ''Sleepover''.
* Played with in ''{{Grease}}''. Betty/Rizzo is TheLibby of the school, but she's also the "bad girl" and so is her GirlPosse, nicknamed "the Pink Ladies" (except for Frenchie, who's more of a NaiveEverygirl). She ''does'' [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold soften up a bit]] in the end, though, [[spoiler: after she believes she's pregnant and almost falls out of grace.]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Nellie Oleson from ''{{Little House on the Prairie}}''. Nellie first appeared in the 1937 book ''On the Banks of Plum Creek''.
* Amy's rivals April Snow and May Chester of ''LittleWomen'', making it OlderThanRadio.
* Ethel Hallow from ''TheWorstWitch''.
* Pansy Parkinson in the ''HarryPotter'' books seems to be one. We don't see much of her, but she acts snotty whenever she shows up and, of course, dotes on her boyfriend Draco Malfoy. Also, she is mentioned to have a GirlPosse and all the "good" female characters hate her with a passion.
** Romilda Vane, Harry's StalkerWithACrush from the sixth book, also had some Libby tendencies, possessing her own GirlPosse and telling Harry that he didn't have to hang out with kids as "uncool" as Neville and Luna.
** Although clearly not {{JK Rowling}}'s intention, Ginny Weasley is often accused of being this character due to the fact that she is "popular" in the latter books and has a rather blunt personality. (In fairness to her, good social skills do seem somewhat rare in the PotterVerse.)
** Draco Malfoy is possibly a male version of The Libby different from the JerkJock. He's blond, rich, snobbish, presumed evil, and comes complete with two other boys flanking his sides at all times -- though Crabbe and Goyle aren't the stereotypical slightly less pretty; they are anything but. Plus he dates Pansy, mentioned above.
*** He also shares with Cordelia on ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'' the sub-trope that he first attempts to recruit the hero into his posse but is rebuffed and thereafter becomes the hero's arch-enemy.
**** Sorry, "arch-enemy"? Only for the schooling aspect. This troper has a feeling there was someone a little more important than Malfoy in the series who takes [[BigBad that role...]]
* Christine Hargensen, Carrie's nemesis in Stephen King's book and film ''Carrie''. She and her GirlPosse are banned from the senior prom because of a ''very'' nasty incident in the girl's locker room involving them terrorizing Carrie, who was having her first period at the time and was under the impression that she was bleeding to death, by throwing tampons and other feminine hygiene items at her and chanting "Plug it up! Plug it up!" Chris then pulls a cruel prank on Carrie by dumping pig's blood on her head when she is voted as Prom Queen (This scene is considered a classic in movie history, very memorable) which leads Carrie to freak out. Christine becomes one of many victims in the ensuing RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
** Averted by Sue Snell, who gets her boyfriend to take Carrie to the prom not to set her up for humiliation, but to genuinely atone for what she did.
* Lara from Cherie Bennett's execrable ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Life-Lane-Books-Young-Readers/dp/0440220297/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211580386&sr=8-1 Life in the Fat Lane]]'' is something of a failed subversion: She starts out much like Cher from ''Clueless''—the rich, shallow and naïve, but basically sweet (and ''supposedly'' intelligent) homecoming queen. Then she (suddenly) gets fat and becomes a social outcast. (Of course, her immediate descent into {{Wangst}} upon gaining the first ''ten pounds'' had ''nothing'' to do with it...) Enter not one but at least ''two'' textbook incarnations of TheLibby...and a few of their male counterparts.
* Carmelita Spats in ''{{A Series of Unfortunate Events}}'' is a self-entitled and spoiled young girl who looks down upon and bullies the protagonists simply because of her irrational dislike of orphans. Though this troper can't quite recall Carmelita being involved with any sort of posse, she was well liked by the school's conceited vice principal, Nero.
* Massie Block, the main character of the ''Clique'' series of novels.
* Lana is an even more cliched version of this in the books ''ThePrincessDiaries'', as well as being a DevilInPlainSight. Of course, Mia often retaliates.
* The young woman who snubbed Will Laurence at his parents' house when he stopped by on the way to the training grounds -- ThisTroper sadly cannot remember her name at this time -- was only a mild Libby... until at the end of the book, she "revealed" (Laurence had already heard) during the celebrations that Laurence's childhood sweetheart had gotten married.
* Lila Fowler in the ''SweetValleyHigh'' series.
* Holly and Heather Mayflower of the ''DRAMA!'' series by Paul Ruditis.
* Cokie Mason from ''TheBabySittersClub'' is a middle school version.
* MercedesLackey's ''Jinx High'' has the Libby from hell: she's actually a two-hundred-year old [[GrandTheftMe bodysnatching]] witch who enforces her will with mental control and fatal "accidents".
*Clarisse from PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians, who actually dunks kids' heads in toilets. [[spoiler:Though it eventually fades.]]
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Libby from ''{{Sabrina the Teenage Witch}}'' [[TropeNamer (obviously)]].
* Paige Michalchuk on ''DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' is, strangely, a RichBitch who isn't rich. She's the head cheerleader (who takes credit for other girls' work), and she's a horrendous snob toward anyone less popular than her. But when school is out, she has to work a minimum-wage job.
** Paige became a subversion of this trope. It was pulled off arguably well (as in more tastefully than this editor expected).
** Her replacement after she's graduated is Holly J. who followed this pretty much to a T. Rich, pretty, snobbish beyond logic and reason, mercilessly cruel. However the trope is subverted as it turns out the school actually hates her guts. Then she becomes poor and a FallenPrincess.
* Cordelia Chase on ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' started out as this kind of character and rapidly became the FallenPrincess version.
** Her sidekick Harmony proceeded to take this position up until being killed and turned into a vampire; then she became the IneffectualSympatheticVillain.
** Buffy herself started out as the Libby of Hemery High in the original movie.
* Veronica [=DiAngelo=] on ''TheSaddleClub''.
* Stephanie Kaye from the 1980s ''DegrassiJuniorHigh'' is a rare case where The Libby is one of the protagonists. As a result, she has frequent PetTheDog moments in between her bullying.
* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Jackie is a stereotypical example of this trope (although when ''her'' karmic retribution comes, it's a bit more severe than growing up to lead an unfulfilled life). The second season has Debbie, who is a copy of Jackie right down to being the blond head cheerleader.
* Missy Meany in ''NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' -- The Libby with ThemeNaming.
* ''SummerHeightsHigh'' features a parody of this trope, in the form of Ja'mie (played by a man doing a convincing impression), and to a much lesser extent, her "friends" (played by real girls).
* Chelsea Breur in ''NaturallySadie''. Replaced in second season by Arden Alcot.
* From ''VeronicaMars'', three words: Madison Freaking Sinclair.
* ''[[ThatsSoRaven That's So Raven]]'': The one-time character Nicki.
* ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' has Gigi. Inverted with Alex: We see her as the protagonist, but there's no denying that she has Libby qualities.
** It might actually fit better to classify Alex as an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist and Gigi as a SitcomArchNemesis.
* Amber in ''HannahMontana''. She's not a ditz, though her sidekick Ashley fills that purpose.
*When ''{{The Secret World of Alex Mack}}'' started the Libby was a girl named Jessica (played JessicaAlba) who would mock and pick on Alex however she disappeared after a few episodes because she got a more prominent roll on the remake of {{Flipper}} and was replaced by a similar character named Kelly
** A one-shot character who also fit this type was actually named Libby, a year before ''Sabrina''. The Freudian Excuse was somewhat subverted; Libby claimed that she has to worry about being popular, and that she really admires Alex, but she was ''manipulating'' Alex into feeling sympathy for her, and she wasn't really sensitive or sympathetic at all.
* The killer in the ''ColdCase'' episode "Stand Up and Holler" was one of these. In the present day, she had two failed marriages (and was working on her third) and was desperately clinging to her glory days when she was the most popular girl in school.
* Amanda Tanen in ''UglyBetty''
* Cassie Lynn Nubbles from ''FamilyMatters''. As Steve Urkel put it, she wa s "the poster child for useless people."
* ''{{Freaks and Geeks}}'' initially depicts Vicki Appleby as one of these, but it's subverted in "Smooching and Mooching", when she opens up to Bill in a TenMinutesInTheCloset session.
* Twist from ''{{Spaced}}'', a post-high school version. Twist is attractive and fashionable, but she works in a dry cleaners and seems to have only one "friend," Daisy, whom she showers with back-handed compliments. Daisy doesn't seem to notice that Twist is an awful friend until the end of the show.
* Subverted in ''[[{{ptitleolsdue4jfzga}} 30 Rock]]'', where Liz Lemon dreads meeting her Libby at her ClassReunion. As it turns out, that school's Libby was in fact a nice popular girl, whereas all of her classmates regarded her as a [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp bully]] because of her cruel putdowns.
* Quinn starts out as this on ''{{Glee}}'' and her only subversion is that she's also deeply religious and president of the celibacy club. She quickly turns into a FallenPrincess when she reveals that she's pregnant and is kicked off the cheerleading squad.
* Miu From EngineSentaiGoOnger, she comes from a rich family!
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[[folder:Music]]
* The song "Roses" by Outkast is basically a long TheReasonYouSuckSpeech directed at a [[TheLibby Libby]] named Caroline. In the music video she doesn't really seem to mind.
* The music video to Avril Lavigne's song, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmncLYiFyGQ&fmt=18 Girlfriend]]", has her acting aggressively bitchy against the nerdy girlfriend of a boy she fancies. Apparently, the rest of the album has the same tone.
** Having actually listened to the album, this troper can tell you that isn't the tone, and the song in question is actually a song that is parodying the "Libby", [[MisaimedFandom though many real-life Libbies have not understood the point of the song and taken it as a theme song for themselves]].
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[[folder:Theater]]
* How Glinda initially appears in ''Wicked'', down to the dizziness, fashion obsession and sheeplike GirlPosse. It's only much later we learn she's made of awesome.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Etoile Rosenqueen from "Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure", the first part of the ''Marl Kingdom'' games.
** Etoile [[spoiler:has HiddenDepths, though; she's secretly an ActionGirl who hides pistol behind her frilly pink fan.]]
* Kyoka (called [[MarieAntoinette "Antoinette"]] by the main character, after the infamous French queen whose extravagant spending on things such as mansions and the like ([[HistoricalVillainUpgrade although a lot of it was exaggerated by enemies]]) while people were starving out on the fields was a prime example of the kind of thing that led to the French Revolution) is the antagonist of Aeka's route in ''YumeMiruKusuri''. Something that's kind of odd to this trope is that she had a crush on the lead from the beginning and tries to get with him several times, though the lead just finds her annoying. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop her from targeting him along with Aeka once it becomes official that the two are going out, though. It gets pretty brutal. This goes for the backlash, as well, which sees Kouhei and Aeka turn the tables on and nearly kill Kyoka when she decides to have her friends pin down Kouhei so that he can watch Kyoka's boyfriend rape Aeka.]]
* Mandy Wiles in ''{{Bully}}''. Head cheerleader and self-proclaimed most popular girl in school, who mercilessly torments {{nerd}} girl Beatrice and humiliates people for her own amusement. A subversion, though, in that her friends claim she's actually nice once you get to know her. And then late in the game she gets a PetTheDog moment.
* Ai Ebihara of ''{{Persona 4}}'', that is until you befriend her and she goes through CharacterDevelopment.
* Mira Kagami from ''Tokimeki Memorial'' is this, to a degree. She's haughty, beautiful, followed by ''lots'' of boys... [[spoiler: and a BrokenBird {{Kuudere}}, if she becomes your love intrest]].
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* Subverted by ''ElGoonishShive''; Diane fits the stereotype perfectly, but shy, artistic lesbian Nanase keeps brushing off ''her'' attempts to get her into the GirlPosse. In [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-02-01 this]] comic, Diane is shown to be caring, implying that [[JerkassFacade her Libby-ness is a façade]].
* Subversion: In ''{{Penny and Aggie}}'', Penny is a popular girl, and seems like a Libby at first (in contrast to the independent-minded Aggie). As the story progresses, however, Penny turns out to be a decent, observant, intelligent person, with most of the conflicts between her and Aggie being initiated by the latter.
* On the other hand, Carrie of ''{{Loserz}}'' is the epitome of this trope, or is at least trying to be. See [[http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=144 here]].
* ''SluggyFreelance'' briefly features [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060929 Cindi]]. Subverted when she wanders rather badly out of her league in [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=061005 this strip]].
** And that's done brilliantly in that even though that's the third strip she's appeared in, you'll already want exactly that to happen to her. And you could leave out the middle one of the strips and still get the same effect.
* Sayuri Morita in ''RedString''. However, her nastiness eventually comes back to bite her, and the main characters actually ''haven't'' gone and befriended her yet.
* Kharisma in ''SomethingPositive''. Oh ''Lawdy'' does she get her comeuppance. And then some.
* Felicia Laine in ''{{Ozy and Millie}}'' fits most of the characteristics of a Libby, despite being in elementary school. In subversion of the trope, however, she's not stupid (as much as she acts the part), nor does she have any attraction to the strip's JerkJock Jeremy (indeed, they've never even met). Her infatuations are mostly directed at the members of boy band ''du jour''.
* You'd think that with cheerleaders as protagonists, ''[[TheWotch Cheer!]]'' would be free of Libbies. [[http://cheer.thewotch.com/index.php?date=20051001 You'd be wrong]].
* Sarah and Cass from ''YuMeDream'', though Sarah and Fiona were childhood friends.
* Emily's pre-misfile friend Molly in ''{{Misfile}}''. The [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1188 current arc]] has Emily going to her for advice on how to deal with TheRival, Missi.
** Jenny Jr. shows many characteristics of The Libby as well.
* ''{{Shadowgirls}}'' gave us Misty -- Libby that crossed MoralEventHorizon. Her mother possibly was one in the past, but's not sure.
* In ''{{Blip}}'', Mary is a narcissistic, shallow, vain robot. Her Libby-ness notwithstanding, she does seem to care about K and her friends. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Maybe.]]
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* Ami from ''SailorNothing''.
** Aki starts off as the HiddenDepths version, with a lack of confidence in her own abilities and secretly happy that [[TheWoobie Himei]] is acting a lot less depressed ([[NotSoFastBucko for about two minutes]], but meh). An encounter with an EnemyWithout is enough to convince her that she's becoming a StepfordSmiler, and she drops out of the GirlPosse and becomes the first member of Himei's PowerTrio.
* Sooni from ''{{Tales of MU}}'' both uses and subverts the trope. While she starts out appearing to be a textbook Libby, it quickly becomes clear that she's trying to live out a fantasy, with a GirlPosse made up of virtual slaves and little actual popularity.
* There are several candidates for TheLibby in the ''WhateleyUniverse'' stories, but the best is probably Solange (Tansy Walcutt, from one of the richest families in America). She's blonde, beautiful, shallow, cruel, followed by her equally blond sidekicks Flicker and Fade, and always looking for ways to mistreat the less fortunate. Since she has psychic powers, she has a LOT of ways to do just that. Before her powers kicked in, she was the fat, ugly, braces-wearing, pimply loser who was picked on, and now she gets to dish it out. After she literally absorbs one of the main characters for a week, the other main characters turn their attentions her way, and her life goes rapidly downhill. She doesn't learn a lesson from this.
* Helena van Garrett (v1) and the Sisterhood (v2) from ''{{Survival of the Fittest}}''.
* (Not sure if this goes here or in TroperTales) [[GuestOfDishonour This Troper]] is actually playing as one on a [[PlayByPostGames PlayByPostRPG]] I made. ''Heavily'' subverted, possibly deconstructed. Although she's pretty and talented her JerkAss RichBitch attitude ensures that practically nobody likes her (she constantly wonders why nobody will talk to her). She also has an unhappy home life, her earliest memories are of a messy divorce between her parents and the death of her beloved stepmother, and the less said about her father the better. The entire plotline is a result of an attention-grabbing scheme of hers going horribly, ''horribly'' wrong.
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* Bonnie Rockwaller on ''KimPossible'', except she tries (repeatedly and in vain) to usurp the role of captain from the cheerleading heroine. Bonnie did eventually become cheerleading captain in one episode, and much to Kim's initial dismay, proves to be exceptionally competent and dedicated to the job. (Though she doesn't become any less bitchy.) Kim eventually decides to not fight it, as she's sure Bonnie will get sick and tired of all the hard work involved with being squad captain. And she's right; the next episode showing the cheerleading, Kim's clearly back in charge.
* Mandy from ''TotallySpies!'' Extra points for being [[IncrediblyLamePun totally shallow]].
* Paulina from ''DannyPhantom''.
* Gemini Stone from ''{{Sabrina the Animated Series}}''.
* Princess Morbucks from ''ThePowerpuffGirls''.
** More just a RichBitch since she doesn't have a posse and doesn't seem particularly popular.
* Sierra [=McCool=] in Disney's ''TheReplacements''.
* ''TheOblongs'' has Debbie Klimer and her posse of identical Debbie clones.
* Mindy from ''{{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}}'' is a much younger Libby, as well as an [[PsychoLesbian incredibly obsessive one.]] For example, she loses her head cheerleader position to Mandy (who just shouts the game plans to the team) and after consulting the "patron saint of cheerleading" (a trophy she thinks is talking) decides the best solution is to incapacitate her in some way in the middle of the match, or, failing that, ''blowing her up''.
* Miranda Kilgallen in ''{'As Told by Ginger}}'', however she is the second-in-command to GirlPosse leader and [[TheBrainlessBeauty Brainless Beauty]] Courtney Gripling.
** She also [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts a little.]] She never exactly becomes friendly, but she's a lot worse at the start than she is at the end.
* Élisabeth "Sissi" Delmas in ''CodeLyoko'' is a strange version of this. In the first season, this is played straight, with the exception of a few scenes in only a few episodes. However, her assistance to the heroes in later seasons, particularly the second and fourth, is often offered without second thought or a specific request for a reward, though this can happen quite a bit in a life-or-death situation. It seems that [[DependingOnTheWriter her personality alternates between seasons]], from a straight Libby in Seasons 1 and 3 to a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in Seasons 2 and 4. The grand irony of the heroes' attitude toward her is that it is not based on her personality, but actually mistrust. [[spoiler:She MissedTheCall in the prequel when she was too afraid to enter the scanner on the first night, and lost the groups trust permanently when she did the right thing and told the secret of Lyoko to the adults to prevent further possible catastrophes.]] The group distrusts her to the point that she became particularly mean toward them, creating a kind of vicious circle of animosity between the Lyoko Warriors and herself. This is mainly persisted by Ulrich, whom Sissi has a crush on, and is rightfully rectified by him when he makes her part of the group in the last episode of the series (as of now still unaired stateside).
* Patty Smirnov and Mattie O'Hare, the [[SchoolNewspaperNewshound school journalists]] in ''MonsterAllergy''.
* On ''WinxClub'', a girl from Bloom's old home town named Mitzi definitely fit the bill despite only appearing a few times. On the Halloween episode, she invited the Bloom and her friends to a party - which turned out to be an elaborate scheme to humiliate the girls. She bought and rigged a house, made up an elaborate legend, hired actors to pose as party guests (complete with scripts), and set up elaborate special effects around the house, just to pull a prank on someone she had barely seen in two years, along with four girls she had never met.
** Mitzi gets a more prominent role in some episodes of the fourth season: [[spoiler: she lays her eyes on Brandon and wants to take him from Stella]]. Later, [[spoiler:the Wizards of the Black Circle temporarily turn her and two friends into evil fairies.]] After that, she's practically PutOnABus.
* In ''{{The Spectacular Spider-Man}}'', [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders Cheerleader]] Sally Avril is the most abusive girl in M³'s SixStudentClique, even mercilessly mocking fellow clique-member Flash Thompson when his [[HeroWorshipper hero]] Spider-Man appears to be commiting robberies.
** Slightly subverted when Peter's aunt has a heart attack as Flash mentions that even Sally feels sorry for him, although she is not as forthcoming with her sympathies as his friends are.
** Both she and [[JerkJock Flash]] have gone through a bit of CharacterDevelopment. When she thinks that Peter's been killed, Sally is horrified. She does ''say'' it's because she'll have to tell Liz and Liz "looks awful in black", but when she sees that Peter's okay she performs a textbook FearLeadsToAnger. A bit later she tells him that no, she doesn't care, but she doesn't want him to be blown to bits, she's not a monster.
* Sandi Griffin in ''{{Daria}},'' who is outright emotionally abusive even to the other members of her own clique (Stacy Rowe in particular). It isn't until the series' final season that her position of control is finally first slowly undermined by both Quinn starting to distance herself from the group and Stacy gaining a sense of self-confidence, and then then finally lost when the other three members of the Fashion Club all agree to dissolve the group and she agrees last, as a face-saving measure.
* Trixie Tang of ''TheFairlyOddparents'' is rich and popular AND lusted after by everyone, including Timmy, the main character. However, in the episode The Boy Who Would Be Queen, a genderbended Timmy learns that there is another side to Trixie -- a boyish side that likes comics and video games, which would shock all of the people who worship her. She says that all she wants for her birthday is a friend who understands this, but when Timmy arrives at her party and makes the offer, she saves face by rejecting him.
* Penelope Lang in ''AtomicBetty'', who coincidentally also looks Asian. Her two cohorts are a pair of sycophantic nerds. [[spoiler:Is the increase in Asian Libbys some sort of TakeThat by [[HarryPotter Cho Chang haters]]?]]
* Tricia from ''[[{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]''.
* Heather the "Queen Bee" from ''TotalDramaIsland'' has pulled this off quite well in a non-highschool setting.
* Tiff and Brit,the Krust Cousins from ''{{My Life as a Teenage Robot}}''.
* B.B. Bluff from ''{{Doug}}'' is a subversion. The richest (their middle school was named after her by her Dad), most popular, and somewhat snobby and spoiled, she was actually quite nice to everyone despite these character traits. She even ended up being Doug's FirstKiss in a sweet way.
* Angelica became this in the transition from ''{{Rugrats}}'' to ''AllGrownUp'', though she's admittedly less of a jerk than she used to be. Maturity can do that to you sometimes...
* ''MonsterBusterClub'' gives us a subversion of the AlwaysFemale rule. Resident [[TheLibby Libby]] Mark is a ''male'' Spoiled Blond Rich Kid who delights in insulting and generally being less than pleasant with the four [[KidHero kid heroes]], apparently for no reason. He may in fact be this show's answer to Sissi from ''CodeLyoko''; as it has been pointed out, ''Monster Buster Club'' [[ShallowParody rather seems to take after it.]]
* On the show ''{{Horseland}}'', we have sisters Chloe and Zoey Stilton, who are basically Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan in appearance. They're definitely Libbies, also RichBitch material... odly enough they seem to have bigger "boobs" than the other girls. That's not accurate, let me rephrase... none of the girls, who are about 13, have "boobs" they have "bumps". But Chloe and Zoey seem to be drawn a little bigger. SoYeah...
* Similarly on the show ''{{WITCH}}'' there are three resident Libbies: one is WITCH team member Cornelia Hale, who is a bratty rich blonde, though generally considered to be a pretty and popular girl. More of a RichBitch but with a touch of TheLibby. Cornelia's certainly rather bitchy and ''exceedingly'' bossy, but she's also a superhero so she's not all bad. Then you have the Grumper Sisters, twin redheads who are also pretty and popular, but unlike Cornelia, are not superheroes and just bitchy.
* Miss Montagu, a minor character from the ''{{Temeraire}}'' series, is what a Libby would be if she were in the early 19th century Britain and out of school.
* Claire Brewster in ''{{Beetlejuice}}'' (Cartoon series, not movie).
* Connie D'Amico from ''FamilyGuy''. Especially glaring since not only is she mean to Meg, but Brian [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome spells out how her life is going to turn out (as described at the top of this page), and predicts she'll "hit the wall" at age 19]]. This sends her running off crying.
* Subverted on ''AmericanDad'' where the "hottest girl in school" and head cheerleader appears willing to go out with the nerdy Steve and is surprisingly understanding when the shows antics keeps messing up the planned dates.
* Nanette Manoir from ''AngelaAnaconda''.
* Paige Logan from ''{{Grossology}}''.
* Nina Harker from ''{{Braceface}}''. Interesting, though, in that she and the protaganist, Sharon Spitz, where actually best friends when they were little. But a mishap with one of Nina's dolls that got its head popped off ended their friendship when she accused Sharon of being the culprit. So her bullying Sharon is more or less out of spite. They do somewhat reconcile as the series goes on.
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