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The Pretty Committee
The Pretty Committe as a whole
Claire Lyons
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the first book, Claire calls Massie a bitch when they’re alone and Massie then texts a lie to Kristen, Dylan, and Alicia that she called all of them bitches, which makes their participation in Massie’s bullying of Claire somewhat understandable: as they point out, Claire doesn’t even know them and is apparently calling them names behind their backs. In the film adaptation, however, when Claire reluctantly asks Massie why she’s acting like a bitch, the rest of the Pretty Committee are there, and begin bullying Claire purely out of clique mentality.
- Naïve Newcomer: Claire, in the beginning and to a lesser degree throughout the books.
- Nice Girl: Claire who starts off as a wide-eyed and innocent newcomer who doesn't seek out Massie's friendship as means to get ahead in the social ladder, at least not at first, but because she figured she may as well get to know the girl she's going to be living with for a year. She's still technically the nicest Pretty Committee member but even she has her moments.
- Sweet Tooth: Claire who is almost always munching on candy, namely of the fruity gummy variety.
Massie Block
- Brainy Brunette: Massie, though definitely not for the greater good. Her manipulation tactics and understanding of social hierarchies makes her quite intellectually intimidating to her fellow middle schoolers and she's not exactly a slouch in school academics either.
- Control Freak: One of Massie's many problems is her obsession with keeping an iron grip on her social circle and issuing out harsh punishments on anyone who diverts from her plans, even if they didn't do anything wrong per say. It actually finally becomes a point of conflict in later books, starting around Boys R Us.
- Driven by Envy: Massie in a massive portion of Dial L for Loser whose personally angered by Claire landing a leading role in a film that she also auditioned for. This inspires her to use her newly gained positioned as gossip news anchor to invade Claire's dressing room and embarrass them on live television. Even after the girls supposedly make up later she still temporarily kicks Claire out of the Pretty Committee in It's Not Easy Being Mean just because of her blooming popularity in the school
- Fallen Princess: Subverted. When Massie’s family loses their money in the last book, she goes through great lengths to hide that and avoid this trope so she could keep being the alpha.
- Genius Ditz: Massie is amazingly proficient with History and Sociology (Even going so far as to nicknaming Julius Caesar J.C. which causes some issues) but still doesn't see that the Pretty Committee is kind of just holding her back from doing something important and/or worthwhile with her young life.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Massie states that her favorite color is purple namely for its affiliation with royalty.
- Granola Girl: Massie has some shades of this, albeit brief ones. She definitely has a soft spot for animals like her dog and horse and stops using her signature scent, Chanel No. 5 to Chanel No. 19 because she wanted to help prevent Rosewood trees used to make the fragrance from going extinct.
Alicia Rivera
- Beta Bitch: Alicia is the Beta Bitch to Massie’s Alpha Bitch though has tried usurping her role throughout the series.
- There are also times when Olivia Ryan becomes Alicia’s Beta such as when she tries creating her own clique with knock-off members of the Pretty Committee.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Alicia, but her attempts to outdo Massie always fail.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Alicia. She often pretends to be sweet and kind to get others to trust her when often times, she can be even more of a bitch than Massie.
- Buxom Beauty Standard Alicia has huge breasts for her age, sufficiently large that it's a plot point. The boys at her school love her and shower her with affection. The other girls, including her Girl Posse, make fun of how absurd she looks at thirteen with such big breasts. Later we find out
they're implants. - Dragon with an Agenda: Alicia. She’s Massie’s Dragon as her Beta Bitch but often plots against her to take the role of Alpha. Examples include switching ballots so that she and Olivia win the fashion competition, and trying to start her own clique.
- Token Evil Teammate: Alicia. She's probably the closest to actually evil of all the Pretty Committee.
Dylan Marvil
- Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults: Dylan decides to gossip about the stars of "Dial L for Losers" in the bathroom of the set of The Daily Grind. The problem? The co-host's mic was on, so the audience (and the stars of DLFL) heard everything.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Dylan tries to claim this role as of the later books and has plans of being a plus-sized model someday. Subverted in that she was clearly never that big to begin with but that's Weight Woe for ya.
- Butt-Monkey: Dylan becomes this post-Flanderization. Even her borderline eating disorder isn't really taken seriously.
- Fiery Redhead: Dylan is certainly the more quirky Pretty Committee member, being quite chatty and emotionally driven about her supposed weight problems.
- Gasshole: Dylan burps and also farts a lot.
- Gender-Blender Name: Dylan, though a few girls in Real Life might have it.
Kristen Gregory
- Academic Alpha Bitch: Subverted in Kristen. While she is shown to be smart and is very driven, she doesn’t flaunt her academic superiority to control others.
- Determinator: After Kristen fails with the Glambition project, she turns in a bankruptcy report as her project.
- Jerk Jock: Not entirely the case with Kristen whose the only one that could be considered a jock in the Pretty Committee. She's arguably less cruel than the others but can be easily peer pressured into taking part in Massie's bullying.
- Love Dodecahedron: In P.S I Loathe You, Kristen gets into a massive one where Massie and Layne are crushing on Dempsey, Dempsey is crushing on her, and Kristen is having second thoughts on her summer crush, Dune.
- Passionate Sports Girl: Kristen whose the only Pretty Committee member who cares about sports, namely soccer.
