Alpha Bitch / Film

Animated

• The Addams Family (2019) has Bethany, whose first two scenes have her hogging up a pyramid during a dance routine, then throwing a moldy sandwich and a soda cup into Parker's backpack. She eventually gets her just desserts in the next scene after Wednesday reanimates a bunch of dead frogs in biology class and sends them after her.
• Barbie movies:
  • Raquelle fulfills this role in The Barbie Diaries. She is a standard high school mean girl who goes out of her way to humiliate Barbie, and isn't much better to her boyfriend.
  • Barbie: Mariposa: Rayna and Rayla constantly demand Mariposa do their hair and dresses, send Willa off to get thistleburst which grows only in a stinky swamp, and obsess over looks and marrying the prince. They grow selfless through the course of their adventure, though.
  • Delancey in Barbie: Princess Charm School is the resident mean girl at the titular school. However, she ultimately gets better over the course of the movie — especially after she finds out that Blair is the true heir to Gardania's throne, not her. It's also heavily implied that a lot of her attitude comes from her Stage Mom pushing her.
  • Barbie In Rock N Royals has one for each camp: the Royal Brat Princess Olivia at Camp Royalty and The Prima Donna Sloane at Camp Pop. Both of them end up becoming nicer by the end of the film.
• Subverted in Encanto with Isabela. She is first shown to be a beautiful, talented, and arrogant Proper Lady who is adored within her family and throughout town, who acts cold and dismissive towards some of the younger family members, particularly Mirabel and Camilo. It's revealed that she only behaves this way to live up to the expectations of her family, and during her musical number she starts showing her true nature as a Perky Goth who is actually not that bad of a person.
• Ice Age: Continental Drift: Steffie, who often looks down upon Peaches and her family, and even has her own Girl Posse.
• Subverted in Inside Out. One of the students at Riley's school is a stereotypical "cool girl", however, she never does anything antagonistic towards Riley and mostly stays in the background. Interestingly, it's shown in the end that her main emotion is Fear.
• Lilo & Stitch, and its spin-offs: Mertle, all because Lilo is 'too weird' for her. That, and she's spoiled rotten by her mother. It's implied that she gets her nasty side from her aunt, and has an inferiority complex. In an interesting variation, she looks more like a stereotypical nerd than Lilo.
• Sunset Shimmer in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. She was actually a unicorn but lived in the human world and went to Canterlot High. She was a bully and no one was willing to stand up to her. Everyone did what she said. At least until Twilight Sparkle arrived in search of the crown Sunset stole and she and the human equivalents of her pony friends used The Power of Friendship to set her straight. In the following movie The Dazzlings and even more specifically Adagio Dazzle not only apply as this but are more worse than that.
• Polly Pocket:
  • In the direct-to-DVD movie Pollyworld, a girl named Beth is one of these. She even goes so far as to help Polly's almost future stepmother try to get rid of her by sending her to boarding school.
  • Beth has been tormenting Polly in other stories as well. In the very first one, Beth tried to prevent Polly's all-girls band from playing at a school event. In the second one, she tried to prevent Polly from making a speech. Fortunately, Polly's look-alike cousin Pia, who while disguised as Polly, could deliver the speech for her.
• Shrek the Third: Guinevere. Fortunately, she's a minor character with only a few lines.
• In Turning Red, Stacy Frick is setup to be this but when she and her friends come across Mei in red panda form in the bathroom, she doesn't bully her, and even finds her panda form adorable, leading her to inspire the main four to raise money for concert tickets.
• Wreck-It Ralph: Taffyta Muttonfudge, like everyone else in Sugar Rush, treats Vanellope's glitching as a glaring defect and bullies her profusely for it, appearing with the other racers to destroy her ad-hoc kart then later sabotaging the track to stop her from winning the race. Once the Big Bad's Laser-Guided Amnesia is cancelled, however, this personality is gone.

Live-Action

• Addams Family Values: Amanda (also appearing briefly in the first movie).
• Animal House: Babs Jansen is a collegiate version.
• Art of the Dead: Everything we hear about Donna's rival Tiffany, the head cheerleader, implies that she is this, and we get to see a bit of her in action when Donna gatecrashes her party. However, it turns out Alpha Bitch is no match for a geek empowered by Envy.
• In Bad Girls from Valley High, Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke are the three richest, most popular girls in Valley High, nicknamed "The Huns" due to the exclusive housing estate they live in, Hundred Pines.
• Batman Returns: The Ice Princess originally exemplified this trope: blonde, gorgeous, a total Ditz, and really rude to anyone who got in her way (as the actress who played her openly admitted). However, after Tim Burton had the movie's script rewritten, the character lost the more objectionable traits and became, while still annoying, a generally sweeter person — which made her fatal plunge onto the Gotham Plaza stage a bit more tragic than it otherwise would have been.
• Blame (2017): Melissa is a popular girl (she's a cheerleader, we find out) and leads other kids in mocking Abigail, who has an unspecified mental illness, plus a quaint dress style. She's less stereotypical than most however, having a punk-like dress style herself and is from a rich family as well. Otherwise though she still fits, with a girl posse who follow her everywhere.
• Bratz: The Movie: Meredith Baxter Dimly.
• The Breakfast Club: Deconstructed with Claire. She's a member of the popular clique at school, but she has a Freudian Excuse as to why she acts the ways she does — her parents are using Claire as a way to get back at each other, which Claire is painfully aware of. Also, Claire's not really the one in charge of this clique, and she feels miserably forced into the behavior she is so notorious for. As a result, Claire is constantly unhappy, since she can't find respite at home and has to put on a mask at school. In fact, Claire bitterly notes at the movie's end that it's likely she'll never talk to anybody in the Breakfast Club again due to needing to maintain her social status. Of course, in the film itself, she's considerably nicer to a nerd like Brian and even tells him there's nothing to be ashamed of if he's still a virgin at 16.
• Bumblebee: Tina is a Rich Bitch who takes kicks in tormenting Charlie, going so far as to make fun of her dead father while insulting her car. It's clearly shown that Tina's long-term bullying has an effect on Charlie, since she barely even bothers to stand up to her and just puts up with her cruelty. Thankfully, Bumblebee sets Tina straight by obliterating her car when Charlie and Memo finally decide to get even with Tina.
• Carrie (1976) has the infamously cruel Chris Hargsen and her Girl Posse Norma Watson, Helen Shyres and Sue Snell who torment the poor titular Carrie White (who has telekinesis). Subverted with Sue though as she comes to regret her bullying of Carrie and sets up her boyfriend Tommy to take Carrie to prom to redeem herself. Unfortunately at the same time Chris who’s being barred from going to the prom because of bullying of Carrie takes revenge by getting her boyfriend Billy to set up a horrendous prank during prom night involving a bucket of pig’s blood.
• Casper: Amber Whitmore, who also overlaps with Rich Bitch.
• Camp Rock: Tess Tyler, though she goes through a Heel–Face Turn.
• A Cinderella Story: Shelby is an interesting example of this. Although she does lose her boyfriend to Sam, the titular Cinderella, despite all of her best efforts, she is a borderline Karma Houdini. It's mostly justified in that it is, after all, a Cinderella story, meaning that wicked stepmother Fiona and her daughters were the main villains.
• Clueless:
  • Subverted — 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 airheaded).
  • Her rival, Amber Mariens, is a bit closer in spirit to the Alpha Bitch, but is less popular than Cher, and her sluttiness and airheadedness make her more like The Brainless Beauty (albeit a mean-spirited one).
• Carla Santini from Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
• Cruel Intentions: The film is a high school Setting Update of Dangerous Liaisons, so Merteul's counterpart is Kathryn, who is a Rich Bitch but also something of a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
• Darby and the Dead: Capri. She's the most popular girl in school, she bullies Darby when alive, and uses her newfound ghost abilities to coerce her into aiding her when dead.
• Detention: Taylor Fisher. Fortunately, the viewers only have to put up with her for five minutes.
• In Daredreamer, beautiful, popular Cindy is initially a target of Winston's affections, but she spends her time making fun of him behind his back before cruelly turning him down in public.
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Patty Ferrell was beginning to show the first signs of Alpha Bitch-itis. Granted, she was likely to evolve into an Alpha Bitch in the books and webcomics, but the movie definitely showed more of this.
• The Duff:
  • Madison. Her life seems to revolve around keeping the supposed "losers" down and getting herself a trophy boyfriend who would ensure her social status.
  • Averted with Bianca's friends Jess and Casey, who, despite being devastatingly attractive and largely popular, don't exhibit any bitchy traits.
• Easy A: Marianne Bryant. She actually holds a meeting in Libby Park.
• In the Epic Movie, the parody of Mystique can be seen as this. She and the rest of her friends think Peter is a total loser and make fun of him for it. She even responds to Peter's request of going to the homecoming dance with her with "as if!" and laughs when his lame power is revealed. Later, however, when it turns out he's going to become the King of Gnarnia, she then seduces him and has sex with him, even granting all of his shapeshifting requests such as "Big Hooters with Silver Dollar Nipples", "A Ghetto Booty, like... like a lot of junk in the trunk", ..."a monobrow" and "Big Flabby Grandma Arms"/"Bingo Wings, like a fat blue Britney Spears".
• The Final has a trio of popular girls who bully the Goth girl Emily. Heather appears to be the leader, since she walks in the middle, and is the sluttiest, happily helping Tommy cheat on Nadia.
• Stacy from the 2003 version of Freaky Friday. She and Anna used to be friends, and Tess refusing to believe that Stacy is now a vicious bully is used to show how out of touch she is with her daughter's life.
• Friday the 13th:
  • Melissa from Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood was such an uncompromisingly straight example of this that audiences cheered when she became Jason's Asshole Victim.
  • And Tamara from Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan! She must have had a checklist. Popular, nasty, blonde, manipulative... it's hard to cry when she winds up with knives in her back.
• A Game for Girls: Elena is a particularly dark example. She spends most of the movie as a typical Alpha Bitch, but when her idealistic new teacher tries to get her to change her ways, she conspires to frame him for rape, with herself as his victim, getting her own father killed in the process. And she gets away with it.
• G.B.F.: There are three in this film: Fawcett, who rules the popular kids, Caprice, who rules the minorities and performers, and 'Shley, who rules the conservative religious students. All three wield considerable influence among the student population. Subverted, though, as they are all Lovable Alpha Bitches to different degrees.
  • For a more standard example, 'Shley's Beta Bitch McKenzie, a homophobic religious fanatic, is nowhere near as lovable.
• Ginger Snaps:
  • The pretty blonde Trina Sinclair relentlessly teases Ginger and Brigitte, assaults Brigitte in gym class after she overhears the sisters making sarcastic comments about her, and acts extremely jealous towards Brigitte when she suspects that he's dating Sam. Despite her horrid behavior, she's very popular with the boys and has a Girl Posse that follows her around. That said, she was correct to suspect Ginger of kidnapping her dog, even if going to confront her and Brigitte causes her to become an Asshole Victim.
  • Ginger herself turns into this after she becomes a werewolf, literally and figuratively. She develops an animosity towards dogs and feels compelled to cow them into submission, and the curse also spurs her to become more extroverted, domineering, and sexually aggressive in her everyday life, with Brigitte, the one who has to live with her, feeling the worst of her abuse.
• Girl vs. Monster: Myra, but she does a Heel–Face Turn at the end.
• God Bless America: Chloe is heavily implied to be this. Pretty, blonde, popular, rich, mean. Lines Such as "Everyone loves me because I'm so pretty". And Roxy, who's a Social Outcast, is thrilled when she has her Karmic Death.
• Grease:
  • Played with Betty Rizzo, who's the Alpha Bitch of the school, but is also the "bad girl" and so is her Girl Posse, nicknamed "the Pink Ladies" (except for Frenchie, who's more of a Naïve Everygirl). She does soften up a bit in the end, though, after she believes she's pregnant and almost falls out of grace.
  • Goody-goody head cheerleader Patty Simcox has a bit of an Alpha Bitch streak in her; she gets an Alpha Bitch-style comeuppance at the school dance, when Kenickie throws her skirt up in front of everybody. Patty's really just there to illustrate the societal fault lines of 1950s high-school life. To the faculty and the "good kids", she is a pretty cheerleader and model student; to the "rebel" kids like the T-Birds and Pink Ladies, she is a nerd, and thus eligible for all kinds of torment. (Recall that Kenickie puts a dead frog in her sack lunch to prank her, when Patty hadn't even done anything to him!) The character isn't really intended to be sympathetic, but any Alpha Bitch qualities Patty has might just be a defense mechanism against being picked on herself. (Interestingly, her Spear Counterpart, Eugene Feldsnick, has no morally objectionable qualities at all, and is even a Hidden Badass.)
  • Worst of all is Cha-Cha DeGregorio, who doesn't even attend Rydell High and is brought to the dance by Kenickie purely out of spite after he temporarily falls out of favor with Rizzo. While Cha-Cha isn't a snob in the traditional sense (obviously lower-class and the moll for the Scorpions street gang, who are so nasty they make the T-Birds look wholesome), she is very full of herself and determined to win the dance contest no matter what the cost to anyone else. In fact, Danny Zuko comes dangerously close to the Moral Event Horizon (in Sandy's eyes, at least) by abandoning her during the dance-off so he can win the trophy with Cha-Cha.
• Hairspray:
  • Amber Von Tussle, played by Colleen Fitzpatrick in the 1988 version, Brittany Snow in the 2007 version, and Dove Cameron in the 2016 TV Musical.
  • Though in the musical, her behavior is pretty much forced on her by her racist mother Velma, the true Alpha Bitch of the film.
• The Hairy Bird: Abby, although she does a Heel–Face Turn towards the end of the movie.
• Happy Death Day: Tree's sorority is full of these and the movie's plot is centered in part around Tree herself becoming a nicer person.
• Heathers: Heather Chandler (and later Heather Duke). Played a bit non-standardly, because the protagonist isn't her unpopular rival but a member of her Girl Posse, albeit an increasingly uncomfortable one.
• High School Musical: Sharpay Evans, the main antagonist of all three films, fits the part pretty well, but the movies' upbeat tone means that she's always redeemed by the end (albeit to varying degrees in each film to prevent it from being a total case of Aesop Amnesia). Though she's a somewhat unusual Alpha Bitch in that a) she's ruthlessly determined about being the star of the school play rather than prom queen, and b) she's actually unpopular for her behavior, apparently having no friends besides her brother Ryan, though this doesn't seem to bother her.
• The Hole: Liz's story presents Frankie as a typical Queen Bee with a Girl Posse that follow her around, and is particularly vapid and ditzy, but still quite nice to Liz because she does her homework for her. The truth is that Liz herself is one, and Frankie is arguably her Beta Bitch.
• Holidays: Heidi from Valentine's Day ruthlessly and viciously mocks Maxine. It's even completed by their contrasting looks, with Heidi being a blonde athlete and Maxine an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette. As usual, Heidi gets a more attractive look, with Maxine in frumpy clothes. She's also leader of a Girl Posse.
• Gen from the film Ice Princess certainly seems to be this when she first appears in the movie but by the end she's shown to be quite a bit more than that.
• In The Initiation, Megan is the president of the sorority and in charge of hazing the pledges. She takes an especial dislike to Kelly (implicitly because of her wealth and social cachet) and endeavours to make her life an especial hell.
• Corrine in The Initiation of Sarah is the President of the Popular Sorority. Alpha Nu Gamma and also a Witch, who performs ritual blood sacrifices.
• Jawbreaker: After the Lovable Alpha Bitch Liz is killed, Courtney takes charge and becomes the school's head mean girl, ostracising Julie and later Vylette/Fern after she threatens her popularity. The narration describes her as "Satan in heels". On learning that she killed Liz, the entire school turns against her and throw things at her on stage at the prom.
• Sandra Tremaine from Jennifer is an absolutely horrific example. She's the leader of a clique of rich kids who dedicates herself to ruining the titular character's life (for exposing her as a liar when she tried to frame her for cheating.) She soon proves to be a budding psychopath who brutally kills Jennifer's pet cat to spite her, and tries to flat-out murder Jennifer herself. More than once.
• Jennifer Check, the titular villain in Jennifer's Body. She's a popular cheerleader who's also a massive bitch to everyone except Needy, her BFF since childhood who she's secretly crushing on. The other students consider her "evil", while guys trip over themselves to impress her. And this is before she gets possessed by a demon and turns into a man-eating succubus. Afterward, not even Needy is safe, as Jennifer gleefully reminds her that she goes both ways. Needy also draws a distinction between the trope when she's explaining what's happened to Chip.
  "She's actually evil. Not 'high school' evil."
• Kick-Ass 2: Brooke, who initially tries to help Mindy and remake her into a minion only to start bullying and humiliating her as soon as she accidentally proved herself a threat to her dominance over the school. Given that she bullied Mindy alias Hit-Girl, she got off easy when she was forced to puke and crap herself in public instead of being brutally murdered.
• Last Night in Soho: Jocasta, Eloise's initial roommate, quickly establishes herself as the head of a group of the new fashion students while openly antagonizing Eloise, mocking her background and bullying her in class.
• The Last Picture Show: Jacey Farrow. Overlaps with Really Gets Around.
• Legally Blonde:
  • Inverted and then subverted, where the Alpha Bitch Vivian is actually the Hollywood Homely smart girl who torments the blonde, bouncy, popular rich girl, Elle. And she has a Heel–Face Turn in the end.
  • Also inverted with the character Enid, who fits all the "cool loser" points — apart from being a bully to some of her meeker classmates, being a Know-Nothing Know-It-All and being rude to Elle for no reason at all apart from assuming Elle would be a bitch to her behind her back.
• Max Keeble's Big Move: Jenna, the main character's crush for most of the film... until the end.
• Mean Girls:
  • Regina in the first movie. Her Meaningful Name is Latin for "queen", and, despite being feared by every person in the school, every single one of them wants to be like her or be liked by her. However, the movie deconstructs this trope by making the "Queen Bee" of the school into someone to be pitied as a Jerkass Woobie instead of loved or feared. Protagonist Cady eventually becomes the new Alpha Bitch in true Macbethian fashion after Regina becomes a Fallen Princess. Cady quickly realizes that, despite thinking Regina was an unholy monster for the way she manipulated people, Cady herself cannot resist the temptation of raw power and admiration that the "Queen Bee" commands, ultimately making Cady come off as no better than Regina.
  • Her successor in the sequel is Mandi, without any redeeming qualities. She even goes as far as stealing from a charity in order to frame the protagonist. Jo Mitchell also becomes an Alpha Bitch after her Face–Heel Turn.
• Mirror Mirror (1990): Charleen, a bully running for class president, quickly targets Goth Megan when she starts at her new high school.
• My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Madison Penrose is bad enough that, at the end of the film, Final Girl Skye locks her in a basement with the killer because she feels that there isn't any discernible moral difference between the two.
• Napoleon Dynamite: Summer.
• The New Guy: Danielle is an inversion in that, while being popular, head of the cheerleading squad and equipped with a Girl Posse, she's also brunette, not rich at all, and a genuinely nice person.
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist: Tris, who mocks her sweet and lovable boyfriend behind his back for making her mix CDs before coldly dumping him, then changing her mind after seeing him move onto another girl.
• Piggy: Out of the three girls who bully and fat-shame Sara, Maca is the ringleader.
• The Princess Diaries: Lana Thomas (also played by Mandy Moore). Notable mainly for the fact that director Garry Marshall explicitly pointed out that Lana was this on the DVD's supplemental material. She does, however, get a Break the Haughty moment when Mia deliberately squishes an ice cream cone on her chest and gives her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Not only do the principal and several teachers who were sitting near the scene not do anything (a true sign of how much she's really hated) but the other students cheer Mia on. In a cut scene, a reporter also exposes her bullying on television, particularly after claiming she was friends with Mia; however, it was nowhere near as satisfying as the ice cream.
• Princess Protection Program: Chelsea is this to a T. Most DCOMs give the Alpha Bitch a Heel-Face Turn or at least some kind of redemption at the end. Not her, not even after her Beta Bitch ditches her; she's obsessed beyond any trace of goodness with becoming prom queen, down to the very end.
• Prom Night
  • Wendy from Prom Night (1980) is this right from childhood as she manipulates a group of other kids to keep an accidental death of one of their classmates a secret. She grows up to be a very straight example of this as she's openly jealous of Kim being voted Prom Queen and taking her boyfriend. She then attempts to win her man back and sabotage the prom.
  • Kelly from Hello Mary-Lou: Prom Night II is a deconstructed example of this, very popular with everyone at school except main protagonist Vicki and friends. When they're both up for Prom Queen, Kelly proceeds to be as much of a total bitch to Vicki as she possibly could, even making fun of her dead friend. However, she's nice to most everyone else, including the school computer geek, whom she attempts to bribe to rig the voting tally. Reading his typed price of fellatio, her forlorn humiliation is played poignantly straight. This, and her quiet devastation on learning she went through with it for nothing, hint a desperation for esteem and adulation.
    • Mary Lou herself is another extreme example, starting out by cheating on her prom date at the prom in 1957, and after she's killed, she manipulates Vicki 30 years later by stealing her body and her boyfriend, killing many people in the process, all as a way to become Prom Queen again.
  • Prom Night (2008): Crissy, who has been Donna and Lisa's nemesis forever. According to rumour she spent $10,000 over budget on organising the prom and her father had to write a cheque to cover it. A deleted scene has her delivering a rant to her Girl Posse about how the school owes her the honour of Prom Queen.
• Radio Rebel: Stacy. She is the Teacher's Pet who hates Radio Rebel for boosting the confidence of the less popular students, making it harder for her to feel more important than them. Near the end, she starts to be seen in a sympathetic light, as she is revealed to be very insecure due to having been bullied in her her youth and strives to be the queen bee to be in control, and finally pulls a Heel–Face Turn at the climax.
• Romy and Michele's High School Reunion: Christie Masters (played by Julia Campbell). She was head cheerleader and prom queen in her Glory Days, humiliating the titular duo every chance she got. When the titular reunion happens, she’s just as mean and spiteful as she was as a teenager, only this time, she’s no longer the top dog, but rather an unfulfilled housewife and babymama who is lying to herself that she is happy and still living off her high school days, while being in a loveless marriage with the same Jerk Jock she dated in school, who is doing just as cruddy.
• Saved!: Hilary Faye (played by Mandy Moore) is a Holier Than Thou fundamentalist Christian version of this. She is a Big Sister Bully to her wheelchair-bond brother, bullies a goth girl who's interested in witchcraft, and kicks Mary out of her Girl Posse for getting pregnant out of wedlock.
• Serial Killing 4 Dummys has Marni Greenstein, the resident rich girl whose ambition is to be CEO of Revlon and who picks on the losers like Casey and Sasha.
• She's All That: Taylor Vaughan, who dumps her Lovable Jock boyfriend Zack for a sleazy reality TV Star, and starts bullying Laney when she becomes a favorite to win prom queen over Taylor. Then, when her sleazy new beau dumps her in a similar fashion to how she dumped Zack, she tries to take him back, only to surprisingly find out that he’s no longer wrapped around her finger.
• Show Me Love: Camilla. She's a popular girl usually flanked by her female friends, mocking other girls as her main pastime. Multiple times she goes out of her way to pick on Agnes, who's a misfit tomboy lesbian.
• Sky High (2005): Penny Lent, captain and sole member of the cheerleading squad. She treats the sidekicks like servants, but Will is instant awesome after his fight in the cafeteria.
  • Gwen, Will's love interest, also acts like this in a more Bitch in Sheep's Clothing sort of way. Then we get to The Reveal and find out exactly how bad she is.
• Sleepover: Roger Ebert summed it up best. Stacy however suffers Break the Haughty and shows some Hidden Depths, suggesting that she might become nicer once she starts high school.
• Juju and her Girl Posse from the 2011 movie, Spork.
• Teen Spirit:
  • Amber Pollocks starts off as this, only to be killed by electrocution immediately after becoming prom queen. Justifiably, she's damned…unless she can get the least popular girl in school to be elected prom queen at the makeup prom a week later. This leads to her molding Lisa into another Alpha Bitch…only to have a Heel Realization and My God, What Have I Done? reaction when she sees what it did.
  • Also, Amber's Beta Bitch Carlita steps into her shoes after her death.
• Teen Witch: Randa. "Every school has one."
• Trick 'r Treat: Macy fits this trope amazingly well.
• Varsity Blood: Tina and Diane, the co-captains of the cheer squad. They are promiscuous, obsessed with status, constantly demean the other girls on the squad, mock anyone who is not a cheerleader or a jock, and expect their every whim to be instantly obeyed.
• Wild Child: Harriet Bentley is a rare example. She's the "head girl" of the boarding school, and often fights with the rich Californian protagonist Poppy. She goes so far that she caused a fire and made Poppy friendless. At the end, she is expelled and humiliated by her former sidekicks.
• Brooke in The Witch Files is a rare protagonist example. She is at the top of the food chain at Brunswick High, and specializes in putting down those beneath her.
• The World of Kanako: Kanako is type 2. She is the most popular girl in her school until she disappears. She uses this to sell her friends to molesters and torment Ogata and the narrator.
• You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah: Kym Chang Cohen is a popular and wealthy classmate of Stacy, who befriends Lydia, but acts cold to the less affluent Stacy, Tara, and Nikki.
• Young Adult: Mavis Gary was one of these in high school, and hasn't grown out of it. She writes teen-lit novels in order to recreate her Glory Days, and she's still trying to reclaim her high school sweetheart (who's now married).
• Zapped!: Jane Mitchell, who gets a Carrie comeuppance in the end.
• Zapped, the 2014 Disney Channel movie, has Taylor Dean.

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