Tropescilloscope: Alpha Bitch

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

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Sir Swears-a-Lot Action Survivor From Nobody to Nightmare Smoking Is Cool Knife Nut Heel Realization Freeze-Frame Bonus Intergenerational Friendship Hypocrite Captain Obvious Noodle Incident Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Works Set in World War II Smug Snake Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Gone Horribly Right Christmas Movies Index Cat Scare Body Horror Only One Name Military and Warfare Films No Antagonist Kids Are Cruel Fatal Flaw Informed Ability Small Name, Big Ego Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass German Films Actually Pretty Funny Bilingual Bonus Broken Aesop Broken Bird Horror Films Bound and Gagged Sealed Evil in a Can It's Personal Too Dumb to Live More Dakka Worthy Opponent "Shaggy Dog" Story Epic Fail Anguished Declaration of Love All Just a Dream Death by Irony Slap-Slap-Kiss Documentary Properly Paranoid Defiant to the End Sanity Slippage Trailers Always Spoil Eagleland Chase Scene An Aesop Chekhov's Gunman The Un-Reveal Composite Character Plucky Comic Relief Pyrrhic Victory Soundtrack Dissonance Cool Guns Dressing as the Enemy Horror Comedy Fake Shemp Eiffel Tower Effect Dirty Old Man Spell My Name with an "S" Punny Name Karmic Death Non-Indicative Name Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Load Anti-Villain Japanese Films Easily Forgiven Rule of Symbolism All for Nothing Guile Hero Only in It for the Money Dies Wide Open Alliterative Name The Stoic Film Noir Retired Badass Bar Brawl Darker and Edgier Spiritual Successor Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Italian Films Older Than They Look Hidden Depths Unusual Euphemism Undying Loyalty As Himself Take That! 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Evil Laugh Mugging the Monster And I Must Scream Rich Bitch Brutal Honesty Heroes Want Redheads Real Life Writes the Plot He Knows Too Much Storming the Castle Your Head A-Splode Actor Allusion Fire-Forged Friends Sci-Fi Horror Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Needs Wiki Magic Love Spiteful Spit The Musical The '80s Black Comedy Rape Dwindling Party Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Casting Gag Getting Crap Past the Radar Adaptational Heroism Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality folderlabel Nothing Is Scarier Adaptational Villainy Animal Title Index Brick Joke Time Skip Dark Is Not Evil Humiliation Conga Reasonable Authority Figure Have a Gay Old Time A Father to His Men Unusually Uninteresting Sight Cool Old Guy Took a Level in Badass Faking the Dead Vampire Fiction Suspiciously Specific Denial Adaptation Dye-Job Tranquil Fury Anachronism Stew Match Cut Skewed Priorities Big Eater Vomit Discretion Shot Leaning on the Fourth Wall An Arm and a Leg The Lancer No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Dirty Coward Our Zombies Are Different Adorkable Psychological Thriller This Is Gonna Suck Cool Shades Evil Is Hammy Peek-a-Boo Corpse Wounded Gazelle Gambit What Happened to the Mouse? 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An Axe to Grind Crazy-Prepared The Great Depression Police are Useless You Killed My Father Man on Fire Not So Stoic A.I. Is a Crapshoot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Better to Die than Be Killed Hero Antagonist Rape as Drama Fat Bastard Credits Gag Stepford Smiler Damsel in Distress Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Creative Closing Credits The Dreaded Translation Convention Naïve Newcomer And the Adventure Continues Adapted Out Deal with the Devil Not What It Looks Like Four-Temperament Ensemble Dramedy Big "NO!" Meaningful Name Apocalypse How Framing Device Last-Name Basis The Atoner Card-Carrying Villain Not So Different Demonic Possession Our Vampires Are Different Corrupt Corporate Executive Creator Cameo Lighter and Softer Parental Incest Bloody Hilarious As the Good Book Says... Parental Abandonment Ass Shove Only Sane Man Spanner in the Works Failed a Spot Check Fan Disservice Historical-Domain Character Half the Man He Used to Be Deus ex Machina Coming-of-Age Story The Chick Gainax Ending Arranged Marriage Redshirt Army Rule of Cool Imagine Spot The Starscream Meaningful Background Event Badass Longcoat Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Hope Spot '80s Hair Leave the Camera Running Break the Cutie Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Anachronic Order Zombie Stories Shout-Out Diabolus ex Machina Artistic License – Military Ripped from the Headlines Exact Words Blatant Lies How We Got Here No OSHA Compliance Camp Gay Lock and Load Montage Ms. Fanservice Demoted to Extra What You Are in the Dark Boom, Headshot! Offscreen Teleportation Break the Haughty Stealth Hi/Bye Pimped-Out Dress Curb-Stomp Battle Jerk with a Heart of Gold Does This Remind You of Anything? The Faceless My God, What Have I Done? Accidental Murder Would Hit a Girl Black and Gray Morality You Have Failed Me Double-Meaning Title Be Careful What You Wish For Wrong Genre Savvy Real Life Sports Stories Dutch Angle I Have Your Wife Red Herring Insult Backfire Parental Neglect Arc Words Babies Ever After Re-Cut Adults Are Useless Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Love at First Sight Eye Scream Only Known by Their Nickname Ironic Echo Gilligan Cut Historical Hero Upgrade Genre Shift Pretty in Mink Mythology Gag Vomit Indiscretion Shot Fanservice Extra Reality Is Unrealistic Crucified Hero Shot Decoy Protagonist Sequel Escalation Big Brother Instinct Deadpan Snarker Evil Brit Big Fancy House Novelization Love Triangle Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Self-Deprecation Sassy Black Woman Left the Background Music On Despair Event Horizon British Films Auto Erotica Interrupted Suicide Slashed Throat Extremely Short Timespan Corpsing You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Ascended Extra Henpecked Husband Anyone Can Die Chekhov's Skill Early Installment Weirdness Hero of Another Story Plot Hole Sequel Hook She Cleans Up Nicely No Celebrities Were Harmed Gender Flip Canadian Movies Not So Above It All Immune to Bullets Foregone Conclusion All Girls Want Bad Boys A Minor Kidroduction Enemy Mine Major Injury Underreaction Obfuscating Stupidity Kick the Dog Does Not Like Shoes Laser-Guided Karma Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Villain with Good Publicity Those Two Bad Guys Here We Go Again! Daddy's Girl Captain Ersatz Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Double Entendre Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Mafia Dark Action Girl Psycho for Hire Crazy Jealous Guy NO INDOOR VOICE Market-Based Title Bolivian Army Ending Missing Mom O.O.C. Is Serious Business Greater-Scope Villain Meaningful Echo Pragmatic Villainy Random Events Plot Fourth Date Marriage The '60s Badass Bookworm Adaptational Badass Evil Plan Ambiguous Ending Funny Background Event Cloudcuckoolander Slasher Smile Eyepatch of Power Leitmotif There Is No Kill Like Overkill Good Is Not Nice Really Gets Around French Films Foil Video Credits Eureka Moment Danny Peary Cult Movies List As You Know Jitter Cam "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Bi the Way Dissonant Serenity Facial Horror Precision F-Strike Villain Song The Hero Dies Due to the Dead Sole Survivor Mistaken for Gay Index of Film Westerns Oh, Crap! 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Token Minority Ambiguously Gay As Long as It Sounds Foreign Karma Houdini Obviously Evil Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Police Brutality Depraved Bisexual It Can Think The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Car Fu The Film of the Book Ungrateful Bastard Naked People Are Funny My Beloved Smother Dogged Nice Guy Wicked Cultured It Will Never Catch On