Tropescilloscope: Alpha Bitch

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

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