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(#1) Blair Waldorf
- Gossip Girl
Blair may not have originated in the character archetype, but she certainly came to define it in a post-Gossip Girl world. This HBIC doesn't just have her perfectly manicured claws dug into her private school's power structure, she also has a firm grip on all of the Upper East Side, nay, Manhattan. Who else could banish a girl, Little Jenny Humphrey, from an entire city?
Ruling a high school? Your average, run-of-the-mill HBIC can do that in her sleep. Blair takes this whole deal to another level. She's a literal 'Queen' B. When any other mean girls can claim to run a city, then maybe Blair will watch the throne, but, until then, Manhattan is Blair's to run, and nobody had better cross her.
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(#2) Alison DiLaurentis
- Pretty Little Liars
Oh? Did someone say sociopath? Allison DiLaurentis had a hold on everybody in Rosewood. Manipulation comes as easy to Allison as breathing does to mere mortals. Whether she's messing with her gay bestie who's harboring a serious crush on her, stirring the pot with her big stirring stick, or threatening to spill the town's secrets, she's always being an extremely charming betch.
The list of people she's blackmailed is as long as the cast list. She drifts around the town in soft-focus flashbacks, cornering people with their secrets, and demanding rewards for keeping quiet. Up until her Rosewood reappearance, she haunted her former clique in hallucinations. Her friends could never quite shake this HBIC.
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(#3) Chanel Oberlin From Scream Queens
No one knows how to sling a hateful line like Chanel Oberlin. One has to wonder if there's a Dorian Gray-esque portrait of her hanging in the attic of her sorority house, decaying with every torrent of scorn she lets spill from her mouth.
Chanel goes the Heathers/Jawbreaker route of leaving a body count trailing behind her. But remorse? That's not on the menu for Chanel. Though, neither is anything but alcohol and cotton balls by the looks of it.
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(#4) Cheryl Blossom From Riverdale
Like Veronica, Cheryl's been around the teen drama world for a while, though only on the page. Now she's blasting onto the small screen and boy, oh boy, does she take the betchy cake right out of Veronica's mouth. These two have had their fair show of showdowns on Riverdale.
Possible creepy cult membership-status and weird incesty vibes with her dearly departed twin notwithstanding, Cheryl has a pretty hard hold on Riverdale's head betch title. And even if Veronica comes for the crown, rest assured, Cheryl won't be giving up her throne without a fight.
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(#5) Santana Lopez
- Glee
Sure, Glee was on a deep, deep sliding scale of quality ever since its pilot aired, but the one constant, the only thing that kept a strong subset of the internet watching, was Santana Lopez. As bad as Glee got, her character went from strong to stronger.
The comebacks, the putdowns, the threats of violence... All of these pushed her ahead of anyone else in the glee club in contention for title of HBIC. No one else brought the betchery quite like Santana.
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(#6) Madison Montgomery
- American Horror Story
Emma Roberts's portrayal of Madison Montgomery is masterclass in betchery. Roberts has really carved out a niche for herself playing unrepentant sasses on Ryan Murphy properties. Say what you will about the man, but he knows how to write for mean girls.
Madison is like Chanel Oberlin, if you gave that betch magic powers. And she leaves her fair share of dead bodies in her wake too. She flips a bus full of frat boys and attempts to murder anyone in contention for the title of Supreme. Oh, and at one point in the series she comes back from the dead, meaner than ever. Perhaps, when you're both dead inside and out, there's nowhere for your personality to go other than the hellish depths of betchery.
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(#7) Mona Vanderwaal
- Pretty Little Liars
When HBICs cross over into sociopathic territory, that's when they really light up a screen. Mona is also one of the more compelling stories of high school ascension. Miss Vanderwaal started her scholastic career on the bottom of the hierarchy. Bespectacled and sweater-vested, who knew she was hiding the manipulative machinations that would lead her to be an expert tormenter and even better betch underneath the aesthetics of unpopularity?
Forget Cece, what Mona was pulling before Cece was even a glimmer in the eye of the PLL's writers' room, was grade-A tormenting. And did she do it in style! That's a real TV mean girl, the ability to enact borderline psychotic behavior and look good while doing it.
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(#8) Cordelia Chase
- Angel
Sassy, and petty, and snarky, oh my! The moment you saw Cordelia hitting the hallways of Sunnydale High, you knew she was in charge. Buffy may have been the once-in-a-gernation-Chosen-One completely adept at dealing with demons, but you can't stake a betchy head cheerleader. You've got to try and out maneuver her with harsh words and ice-cold teen girl games. And that’s maybe scarier than any Vampire.
Cordelia was so betchy that she managed to create an entire alternative universe purely from the power of her betching out Buffy.
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(#9) Georgina Sparks
- Gossip Girl
When it comes to causing chaos on the Upper East Side, Georgina Sparks very nearly disrupts Blair's near perfect reign. While Blair ensures her queendom goes uncontested, Georgina lives to cause drama. Some HBICs just want to watch the world burn.
She's a good-time girl gone horribly bad. She takes names and slays lesser betches. You wouldn't want to get in this mean girl's way. It took NYC's Queen B (not Beyonce unfortunately) to bring her down. By calling her parents no less.
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(#10) Naomi Clark
90210, the criminally underrated reboot of Beverly Hills 90210, debuted one of the best head betches of the 2000s. She came in the form of Naomi Clark. Like her fellow HBICs, she's confident; she's wealthy; and she loves revenge.
She's a petty betch that picks out the blandest, drippiest, wet lettuce to ever stroll through a high school hallway, Boring Annie, and she puts her right at the top of her hated list. She's mean; she's rich; and she's shady as all get out. And her hair is amazing.
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(#11) Paris Geller
- Gilmore Girls
Paris comes from the school of your Tracy Flick-type HBIC. She rules every school and college she attends with not just betchery but also academic excellence. And that is one powerful concoction to ensure that your place at the top of the school food chain remains unchallenged.
Whether Paris was telling someone to "Tie [their] tubes, idiot!" so the continuation of genes riddled with stupidity would be immediately halted, or menacingly hissing Shakespeare sonnets at Rory as some weird form of intimidation, Paris was always top of the heap.
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(#12) Veronica Lodge
- Archie's Weird Mysteries
No stranger to the world of betchery, Veronica probably predates every mean girl in contention for title of HBIC from her appearances in Archie comics. She originated the trope of being the bad-girl antagonist to the demure good girl. But she is a recent addition to the world of teen TV Drama.
From the moment she blows into Riverdale in a gust of all black everything and pearls for days, she attracts the attention of everyone in school. And not much else says HBIC quite like having the entire school population fall at your feet when you join their cheerleading squad.
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(#13) Paige Michaelchuck From Degrassi: The Next Generation
Before Manny Santos put on her first thong, Paige Michaelchuck was wearing crop tops with the word 'Hottie' emblazoned across the chest in rhinestones. If you want to stake your claim on the high school crown, you've got to dress to impress.
But even more than her mastery of fashion, Paige was equally adept at using her words to make sure no one dared challenge her place as the coolest girl in Degrassi. By tacking a condescending 'hun' on to the beginning of any sentence, Paige could crush anyone she deemed necessary. Paige could dress you down, waltz out of the room, and then a few minutes later, you'd realize you'd been read. You couldn’t catch this mean girl.
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(#14) Effy Stonem
- Skins
Effy's first few appearances on Skins had her cast as the largely silent kid sister of the first generation's protagonist, Tony. But even in those wordless moments, a mute Effy had the aura of a Head Betch down pat. When she deigned to speak, she was still a woman of few words. It took her next to no effort to ascend to the position of HBIC of her hard-partying, druggie group.
She didn't so much ascend as lazily glide there. Effy was probably perpetually gliding everywhere, in a cloud of cigarette smoke and even smokier eyeliner. If you attended the same Bristol sixth form as her, you'd be lucky if she so much as spoke to you, but you'd probably have to settle for her ashing her cigarette in your general vicinity.
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(#15) Ja'mie King From Summer Heights High
Thrust from the comfort and luxury of her familiar private school into what she perceives to be the hellscape of public school, 'Ju-MAAH' not 'Jamie,' quickly rises to the top of the heap, asserting herself as the HBIC on her first day.
There is no one she is not prejudiced against, not a single person she doesn’t think she's better than. She is constantly flanked by a group of minions, who buy into her Head Betch delusions and jump at the chance to do her bidding. Ja'mie manipulates her new setting and creates a whole new social hierarchy, which she promptly appoints herself to be the head of. Talk about a powerful Queen Bee.
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(#16) Manny Santos
Manny Santos wasn't always a HBIC. Oh no, for two long seasons she played second fiddle to her meddlesome, holier-than-thou best friend Emma Nelson. For too long was her shine stifled by her sanctimonious friend, a friend who did not like Manny running out from under her shadow to join the Spirit Squad or buy thongs.
But Manny had a transformation in Season 3. Sick and tired of being regarded as 'cute,' she decided she was going to emerge from her adorable cocoon to become a hot butterfly. And how does one become hot? By buying a bedazzled thong and wearing low-rider jeans that show off that whale tale. And when there are complaints about said thong, simply forego the underwear and show your crack in science class. Quite the power play, no?
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(#17) Mary Cherry
- Popular
One of the staples of the perfect mean girl character is that they are always referred to by their full name. Almost every time someone mentions Regina George in Mean Girls, it's on the first name/last name basis. The full weight and sheer magnitude of the mean girl's presence and aura are conveyed through the weighty, full, and formal moniker. She's a figure of authority. She is not to be messed with. Rather, she is to be deferred to.
And that is the case with Mary Cherry. Never once is she referred to as just 'Mary.' She's Mary Cherry all the way. And she's a nutcase. Her career aptitude test revealed that she would make the perfect serial killer, putting her alongside the HBICs that clock up the corpses. She swans around in mink, and she clubs baby seals for fun.
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Do you know what an HBIC is? Some teen girls are born to know how to become trendsetters that others want to imitate. When they are not recognized, they try to get recognization at all costs, if things are not done in their own way, they will do some crazy things. It is obvious that there is never a lack of interesting HBICs from some famous teen TV dramas.
Although many of these characters finally got rid of their mean phases, we chose to remember their naughty and devious images. The random tool lists 17 classic HBICs in different teen TV dramas, the most famous one should be Queen B in Gossip Girl.
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