Tropescilloscope: Alpha Bitch

The most popular and least bearable girl in school. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Bloodless Carnage Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Damsel in Distress Action Prologue The Smart Guy Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Ambiguous Ending The '90s Back from the Dead Cool Old Lady Crazy-Prepared Fiery Redhead Foreshadowing Ship Tease Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Dying Moment of Awesome Credits Gag Shell-Shocked Veteran Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Epic Movie Reality Is Unrealistic Break the Haughty Reality Ensues Animated Credits Opening Self-Deprecation Faking the Dead Meaningful Background Event For the Evulz Parental Neglect Science Fiction Films Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Catapult Nightmare An Arm and a Leg The '50s Kill 'em All Fantasy Films Dogged Nice Guy Japanese Films Not So Different Psychopathic Manchild Killed Mid-Sentence The Bad Guy Wins Ironic Echo Half the Man He Used to Be Artistic License – Biology Red Right Hand Beta Couple Random Events Plot Character Development Butt-Monkey Hidden Depths Nice Hat Armor-Piercing Question Russian Films Important Haircut Ungrateful Bastard Action Genre All There in the Script Have a Gay Old Time Undying Loyalty Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Mistaken for Gay Revenge Slap-Slap-Kiss Ominous Latin Chanting Evil Counterpart Stock Footage Adaptational Villainy The Alleged Car Manchild Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Groin Attack The '70s Manic Pixie Dream Girl Guns Akimbo Pragmatic Villainy Grievous Bottley Harm Disney Death Logo Joke Betty and Veronica Get Out! Determinator aka: The Determinator Suddenly SHOUTING! La Résistance Badass Grandpa Our Vampires Are Different Frame-Up Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Earn Your Happy Ending Straight Gay Bland-Name Product Badass Bookworm Fire-Forged Friends Spiritual Successor Trailers Always Spoil Homage Shower Scene Cool Old Guy My Beloved Smother Large Ham No OSHA Compliance Ghost Fiction Sacrificial Lion The Chick Face–Heel Turn Interrupted Suicide Scenery Porn Blood from the Mouth What You Are in the Dark Hero Antagonist The Cavalry Pragmatic Adaptation BFG I Did What I Had to Do Shout-Out Fate Worse than Death Yandere You Killed My Father Rewatch Bonus Not Quite Dead Drill Sergeant Nasty NO INDOOR VOICE Mundane Made Awesome Easily Forgiven Dull Surprise Breaking the Fourth Wall Hypocrite Narrator Line-of-Sight Name Slashed Throat Apocalypse How Broken Pedestal Henpecked Husband I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Ripped from the Headlines Dark Reprise Evil Plan Arc Words Those Wacky Nazis Scenery Gorn No-Sell Hoist by His Own Petard Only in It for the Money No Name Given Off with His Head! Fun with Acronyms Offscreen Teleportation Friend to All Children Due to the Dead Children Are Innocent Dressing as the Enemy Despair Event Horizon Blackmail Worthy Opponent Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Rousing Speech Genre Savvy He Knows Too Much Black Comedy Rape Gilligan Cut Film Noir Rule of Three Improbable Aiming Skills Rasputinian Death You Have Failed Me Tranquil Fury British Films Taking You with Me Animal Motifs Twist Ending Ambiguously Gay Gratuitous English Thriller The Lost Lenore Does This Remind You of Anything? Neck Lift Author Appeal Dirty Old Man French Films Military and Warfare Films Badass Longcoat An Axe to Grind Reality Has No Subtitles Artistic License – Physics In Medias Res Adaptational Attractiveness Arch-Enemy Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Bully Vitriolic Best Buds Sealed Evil in a Can Smug Snake Bloody Hilarious Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Running Gag Mythology Gag N-Word Privileges Really Gets Around The Un-Reveal Made of Iron Drowning My Sorrows And I Must Scream Totally Radical Eyepatch of Power Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Oh, Crap! Informed Ability Almost Kiss Ass Shove Gold Digger Historical Villain Upgrade Truth in Television Face Death with Dignity Gender Flip '80s Hair The Casanova Naked People Are Funny Here We Go Again! Scare Chord Not What It Looks Like Coming-of-Age Story Dramatic Irony Overly Long Gag The Great Depression Paper-Thin Disguise Wham Line Fanservice The Oner Ms. Fanservice Meaningful Echo Bittersweet Ending Villain with Good Publicity Names to Run Away from Really Fast Vomit Discretion Shot Visual Pun Nice Guy The Mafia Bound and Gagged Insistent Terminology Mexican Standoff Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bavarian Fire Drill Say My Name Woman in White Left the Background Music On Missing Mom Abhorrent Admirer War Is Hell Training Montage Fatal Flaw Kids Are Cruel Gone Horribly Right All for Nothing Redemption Equals Death Aluminum Christmas Trees Beware the Nice Ones And Starring Final Girl Batman Gambit Kick the Dog Knight Templar Expository Hairstyle Change Our Zombies Are Different Exact Words Major Injury Underreaction Big-Bad Ensemble Heroes Want Redheads Early-Bird Cameo Mind Screw Re-Cut Vacation Films Every Car Is a Pinto The Film of the Book Parental Substitute Imagine Spot The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Even Evil Has Loved Ones Pretty in Mink Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Dirty Cop Animal Title Index Martial Arts Movie Posthumous Character Defiant to the End Maybe Ever After Disappeared Dad Blatant Lies Suspiciously Specific Denial After the End Arranged Marriage Rated M for Manly Didn't Think This Through Your Head A-Splode Take a Third Option Wounded Gazelle Gambit Death of a Child Rule of Funny Hollywood Law Men Are the Expendable Gender The Atoner Good Is Not Nice Anachronism Stew Heroic BSoD The Dreaded Real Life Eiffel Tower Effect The Stoic Casting Gag Slasher Smile The Stoner Cold-Blooded Torture Big Eater Silence Is Golden Sports Stories Manipulative Bastard Not So Stoic Creepy Child A Date with Rosie Palms Dumb Blonde Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Karma Houdini The End... Or Is It? Black Comedy Suspiciously Similar Substitute Evil vs. Evil Big Applesauce Faux Affably Evil Boom, Headshot! Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Product Placement Retcon Humiliation Conga Amusing Injuries Establishing Character Moment Jump Scare Artistic License – Military Woman Scorned Not Even Bothering with the Accent Stalker with a Crush Artistic License – History Mood Whiplash Bilingual Bonus Card-Carrying Villain Meaningful Name Poor Communication Kills Monumental Damage Creative Closing Credits Accidental Murder Television Movie Index Big Bad Duumvirate Unspoken Plan Guarantee Double Entendre Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Auto Erotica Historical Hero Upgrade Danny Peary Cult Movies List Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Motor Mouth Cool Car Chase Scene Stepford Smiler Retired Badass Air-Vent Passageway Fanservice Extra Broken Bird Insane Troll Logic Big "NO!" Deliberate Values Dissonance Not So Above It All Shirtless Scene Evil Brit Award-Bait Song Christmas Movies Index Affectionate Parody One-Man Army Rich Bitch Video Credits Market-Based Title Star-Crossed Lovers Amoral Attorney Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Leitmotif Pet the Dog Properly Paranoid Early Installment Weirdness The Reveal Exactly What It Says on the Tin Mad Scientist The Place Adapted Out Man on Fire Show Within a Show Contrived Coincidence Wrong Genre Savvy Book-Ends Corpsing Pay Evil unto Evil Cowboy Cop The Ghost Facial Horror Destination Defenestration Morality Pet Sir Swears-a-Lot Mooks Drives Like Crazy Genre Shift Black Dude Dies First Hate Sink True Companions World of Ham Only Known by Their Nickname Greater-Scope Villain Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Mole Wham Shot Only Sane Man Fainting Evil Sounds Deep Funny Background Event Unresolved Sexual Tension Closed Circle Did Not Get the Girl Sequel Escalation Obfuscating Stupidity Mr. Fanservice Dark Is Not Evil It's All About Me Token Minority Light Is Not Good Never Found the Body Adaptation Dye-Job Romantic Comedy Bury Your Gays The Vamp Loads and Loads of Characters Disproportionate Retribution All There in the Manual The Musical The Quiet One Gory Discretion Shot The Faceless No Ending As You Know Love Triangle Camp Gay Screw the Money, I Have Rules! How We Got Here Hell Is That Noise Word of God Kick the Son of a Bitch Small Name, Big Ego Chekhov's Gunman Green-Eyed Monster Adult Fear Riddle for the Ages Politically Incorrect Villain It Will Never Catch On Tap on the Head Cain and Abel Heel–Face Turn Badass Boast Sole Survivor Everyone Has Standards Room Full of Crazy Mercy Kill Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Intrepid Reporter Noodle Incident Handicapped Badass Composite Character Asshole Victim Idiot Ball Fake Shemp Authority Equals Asskicking Eye Scream Fish out of Water A God Am I Eagleland All Just a Dream Bar Brawl Gainax Ending Your Cheating Heart Antagonist Title Playing Gertrude Big Fancy House Jerk with a Heart of Gold Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Make It Look Like an Accident Spanner in the Works Pretty Little Headshots Big Damn Heroes Laser-Guided Karma The Starscream Instant Death Bullet Wretched Hive Freeze-Frame Bonus Chewing the Scenery Artistic License – Geography Combat Pragmatist Shown Their Work Big Bad Stylistic Suck Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Blood Knight One-Word Title She's Got Legs Time Skip Anti-Hero Aside Glance The '80s A Minor Kidroduction Hooker with a Heart of Gold Vampire Fiction Obstructive Bureaucrat Chiaroscuro Defrosting Ice Queen Red Shirt Conspicuous CG Moment Killer Death Glare Double-Meaning Title The Chessmaster Tagline Nothing Is Scarier Together in Death Precision F-Strike Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Canon Foreigner Celebrity Paradox Adorkable Hair-Trigger Temper Lock and Load Montage Pre-Mortem One-Liner Skewed Priorities Mystery and Detective Films Jerkass Shut Up, Hannibal! Domestic Abuse Eureka Moment Calling the Old Man Out Dwindling Party Red Eyes, Take Warning Dramatic Gun Cock Death Seeker As the Good Book Says... Horror Comedy Extreme Doormat Daylight Horror Corrupt Corporate Executive Bunny-Ears Lawyer timeperiod Would Hurt a Child Never My Fault Leaning on the Fourth Wall Dark Action Girl Getting Crap Past the Radar Retirony Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Villain Protagonist Hypocritical Humor "Shaggy Dog" Story Creator Cameo Irony And the Adventure Continues Adaptational Heroism What Happened to the Mouse? Reasonable Authority Figure Public Domain Feature Films Vomit Indiscretion Shot Darkest Hour Dutch Angle Lampshade Hanging Insult Backfire Four-Temperament Ensemble Unusually Uninteresting Sight Driven to Suicide Extremely Short Timespan Bad "Bad Acting" Older Than They Look Determinator Villain Opening Scene Made of Explodium Psychological Thriller Only a Flesh Wound Punch-Clock Villain Dissonant Serenity Sequel Hook Bullying a Dragon More Dakka There Is No Kill Like Overkill Race Lift A Father to His Men Hope Spot Darker and Edgier Honor Before Reason I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Based on a True Story Genre Throwback Sadistic Choice Last-Name Basis Whole Plot Reference No Celebrities Were Harmed Deadpan Snarker Jerkass Has a Point Throwing Your Sword Always Works Zombie Stories Italian Films Death by Irony B-Movie Grey and Gray Morality Brainless Beauty Cassandra Truth He Who Fights Monsters Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Stuff Blowing Up Cat Fight Even Evil Has Standards Index of Film Westerns Heterosexual Life-Partners Death by Sex Biopic Enemy Mine Fingore Malevolent Masked Men May–December Romance Red Herring Expy The Lancer Catch-Phrase Pimped-Out Dress Badass in a Nice Suit Fan Disservice Silent Movie Death by Adaptation Sanity Slippage Took a Level in Jerkass Not Using the "Z" Word Becoming the Mask The Cameo Crazy Jealous Guy Anachronic Order Film Series Novelization For Want of a Nail Translation Convention Beard of Evil Deal with the Devil Fantastic Racism Adaptation Distillation Put on a Bus Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Jerk Jock MacGuffin Villain Song Advertised Extra Cloudcuckoolander Bald of Evil Parental Abandonment Plucky Comic Relief Call-Forward Dramedy Disney Villain Death It's Personal Author Avatar Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The '60s Documentary Mr. Exposition Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Sociopath Cluster F-Bomb Actually Pretty Funny Crapsack World Call-Back Spiteful Spit Freudian Excuse Bi the Way Reckless Gun Usage Adaptation Expansion Berserk Button As Long as It Sounds Foreign Historical-Domain Character Humans Are Bastards Bloodier and Gorier Kill It with Fire Big Brother Instinct Does Not Like Shoes All Girls Want Bad Boys Needs Wiki Magic Love Affably Evil Adaptation Name Change Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Cool Shades The Brute Naïve Newcomer "The Reason You Suck" Speech Only One Name Central Theme No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Cool Guns Victoria's Secret Compartment Fat Bastard Hong Kong Films Foil Distracted by the Sexy Music Stories My God, What Have I Done? Male Gaze Camera Abuse Mugging the Monster Funny Foreigner Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Actor Allusion Lighter and Softer Outrun the Fireball Same Language Dub Refuge in Audacity The Dragon Mighty Whitey Race Against the Clock Covers Always Lie Up to Eleven Bond One-Liner Fatal Family Photo Guile Hero Psycho for Hire Shoot the Shaggy Dog Happily Married Protagonist Title Costume Porn Wicked Cultured Laughing Mad Decoy Protagonist Works Set in World War II This Is Gonna Suck Serious Business Red Oni, Blue Oni Chekhov's Skill Heel Realization Hero of Another Story Bowdlerise Punny Name Immune to Bullets Rape as Drama Mama Bear Curb-Stomp Battle Brick Joke Deconstruction Love at First Sight Adults Are Useless Babies Ever After Beauty Is Never Tarnished Abusive Parents Black Best Friend Those Two Guys Brother–Sister Incest Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Sinister Minister Sassy Black Woman From Bad to Worse Demonic Possession O.O.C. Is Serious Business As Himself Break the Cutie Tempting Fate Alpha Bitch Bare Your Midriff Chekhov's Gun Spared by the Adaptation Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Title Drop An Aesop Bad Boss Scary Black Man Leave the Camera Running Storming the Castle "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue A.I. Is a Crapshoot Captain Obvious The Ace Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Never Trust a Trailer Daddy's Girl Artistic License – Gun Safety Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Male Frontal Nudity Rule of Cool Famous Last Words Belligerent Sexual Tension Cat Scare Badass Normal You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Deus ex Machina Off-into-the-Distance Ending Australian Movies Curse Cut Short Shipper on Deck Depraved Bisexual Let's Get Dangerous! Real Life Writes the Plot Action Survivor Jitter Cam The Hero Dies Attempted Rape No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Kubrick Stare Body Horror I Need a Freaking Drink Anyone Can Die Alliterative Name Action Girl Age Lift Redshirt Army Diabolus ex Machina Recycled IN SPACE! Alas, Poor Villain Intergenerational Friendship Bring My Brown Pants Hollywood Darkness Better to Die than Be Killed Disguised in Drag Bottomless Magazines German Films No Antagonist Failed a Spot Check In the Back Villain Ball Continuity Nod Bond Villain Stupidity Knife Nut The Smurfette Principle Canadian Movies Ambiguous Disorder Villainous Breakdown Karmic Death Rule of Symbolism Unusual Euphemism Sci-Fi Horror Unreliable Narrator Neck Snap Stealth Pun Developing Doomed Characters Match Cut Empathic Environment Crucified Hero Shot The Load All Men Are Perverts Smoking Is Cool Well-Intentioned Extremist Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Toplessness from the Back Agony of the Feet The Dog Bites Back Artistic License – Law I'm a Humanitarian Horror Films Once More, with Clarity! Broken Aesop Taking the Bullet The X of Y Soft Glass Super Strength Film Noir Index Papa Wolf Gorn Manly Tears "Well Done, Son!" Guy Be Careful What You Wish For Dies Wide Open In Name Only Demoted to Extra Bolivian Army Ending Flipping the Bird Romantic False Lead Offscreen Moment of Awesome Evil Is Petty Improbable Weapon User Car Fu The Big Guy Dark and Troubled Past Awesome, but Impractical Framing Device Evil Is Hammy Parental Incest Downer Ending Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Obviously Evil Deliberately Monochrome Historical In-Joke She Cleans Up Nicely Take That! Too Dumb to Live 20 Minutes into the Future Foregone Conclusion The Stinger The Hero Drugs Are Bad From Nobody to Nightmare What the Hell, Hero? Black and Gray Morality Annoying Younger Sibling Madness Mantra Five-Man Band Country Matters Cruel and Unusual Death Police are Useless You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Those Two Bad Guys Anguished Declaration of Love Unwitting Instigator of Doom Ax-Crazy Adaptational Badass Implacable Man folderlabel It Can Think Fourth Date Marriage Femme Fatale One Steve Limit Evil Laugh Department of Redundancy Department Overprotective Dad Police Brutality Serial Killer Setting Update Loophole Abuse Would Hit a Girl The Power of Love Sexy Discretion Shot Flashback Dropped a Bridge on Him My Greatest Failure Soundtrack Dissonance The Voiceless Spell My Name with an "S" Superhero Eldritch Abomination Meet Cute Brutal Honesty Plot Hole Roaring Rampage of Revenge Took a Level in Badass Pyrrhic Victory Accidental Misnaming The Remake Epic Fail "Awesome McCool" Name Comically Missing the Point Improvised Weapon Evil-Detecting Dog The Ditz Heroic Sacrifice Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dirty Coward Stealth Hi/Bye Married to the Job Anti-Villain I Have Your Wife Peek-a-Boo Corpse Captain Ersatz Bait-and-Switch The Alcoholic Non-Indicative Name Dual Wielding Ascended Extra Slasher Movie