Basic Trope: A usually female Control Freak obsessed with her education.
- Straight: Alice constantly tells on her classmates for the smallest discretions to ensure they get out of her way and no one comes close to surpassing her grades.
- Exaggerated: Alice runs the school like a police state.
- Downplayed: Alice is an Insufferable Genius, but doesn't take it out on her schoolmates.
- Justified:
- Alice is a Hall Monitor, Student Council President, or another position of power that she may or may not be abusing.
- Alice is the daughter of a teacher or principal, who may or may not be giving her help from the inside.
- Alice has a severe Education Mama that demands perfection or she will be disowned as an embrassment to her family.
- Inverted: Alice is a basic Popular Is Dumb Alpha Bitch.
- Gender Inverted: Bob is an Insufferable Genius and a tattletale.
- Subverted: Alice is actually just a prop for a lesson...
- Double Subverted: ...based off of Alicia, an even worse version of Alice.
- Parodied:
- Even the nerds shun Alice for being so bossy.
- Alice can detect any misbehavior happening in her school through smell or hearing, just like an actual canine. She also tends to chase after delinquents on all fours.
- Zig Zagged: Alice is the smartest person in school but isn't mean about it.
- Averted: Alice doesn't push anyone around.
- Enforced:
- Most people assume audiences believe that Good Is Dumb.
- The author knew sticks in the mud like this growing up and wanted to get back at them.
- Defied:
- Alice refuses to let power get to her head; She prefers to lead by example.
- The teachers refuse to let Alice get away with such behaviour.
Mr. Smith: While I want you to succeed, Alice, the way you act is not going to fly here. If you insist upon it, I am - Played for Drama:
- Alice was raised by her Education Mama to be perfect and fears not being up to par in school.
- Alice's snobby, bullying ways lead her to be Hoist by her Own Petard after she graduates, not helped by them meaning she has burnt bridges with so many people, from her classmates who still remember her, her teachers, to even her parents who view her as a liability.
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