Tropescilloscope: Alpha Bitch

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

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