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* Male Cheerleader Bryce Benjamin took up this role after the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA All-stars turned face...when he wasn't wrestling himself anyway.

* ''Film/{{Descendants}}'': The Auradon cheerleaders are mostly background characters, but are deeply invested in cheering for the team and (aside from their passive aggressive captain, Audrey) have no problems cheering for the villains' kids, even before most people start thawing toward them.

* ''Series/ColdCase'': Rainey Karlsen from "Stand Up and Holler" and Felicia Grant from "Almost Paradise" are both nice, intelligent cheerleaders who view popularity as a curse rather than as something that entitles them to belittle others. Rainey's fellow cheerleaders fit the more [[CruelCheerleader negative stereotype of the sport, though.]]

** In ''The Zucchini Warriors'', a group of cheerleaders from an opposing team are {{Graceful Loser}}s and have pizza with the opposing team. * ''Literature/PrincessHolyAura'': Cordy is a key member of the Whitney High cheerleader squad, though she later admits that she was worried that she might have turned into a CruelCheerleader.

* ''Series/HangTime'': Each of the three head cheerleaders in the show is a good friend of the basketball players and has many positive traits. Mary Beth is a LovableAlphaBitch who mellows out and is a PluckyComicRelief character and sometimes ExtracurricularEnthusiast who eventually takes over managing the basketball team, Amy is a NaiveEverygirl, and Kristy is TheCutie and a ButtMonkey.

* ''VideoGame/BlueArchive'': The Engineering Club wear cheerleading outfits in the ''On Your Mark Millennium'' event. Utaha is the sole exception who dons a ''gakuran''; Kotori more or less does fine in hers, but the [[ShrinkingViolet already shy and quiet spoken Hibiki]] wears one a size too small that'll have her flipping her skirt with every shake of her pom-poms.

* ''VideoGame/BlueArchive'': The Engineering Club wear cheerleading outfits in the ''On Your Mark Millennium'' event. Utaha is the sole exception who dons a ''gakuran''; Kotori more or less does fine in hers, but the [[ShrinkingViolet already shy and quiet spoken Hibiki]] wears one a size too small that'll have her flipping her skirt [[Moe with every shake of her pom-poms]].

* In ''The Twinkie Squad'', this is both played straight and [[CruelCheerleader subverted]]. Head cheerleader Beverly Busby is an incredibly condescending AlphaBitch whose easily fooled by the {{Cool Loser}}s even while viciously insulting them (although she is also the student council president and a lead in the school play, so she isn't lazy or completely stupid). Her friend Carol comes across as a pom-pom girl, being a good deal nicer, finding the humor in things which Beverly finds insulting, and generally being the OnlySaneMan to their group of {{Jerkass}}es and sycophants (not that Beverly listens to her logic much).
* ''Literature/WhaleTalk:'' TJ's girlfriend Carly spent a few months as a cheerleader before deciding she liked basketball better. Her best friend Kristen is still a cheerleader and is an ExtremeDoormat DomesticAbuse victim who never looks down on the {{Cool Loser}}s.

* ''Film/DeadBeforeDawn:'' The Eagles cheerleading team are portrayed as being heavily invested in their team and during the championship game, they all turn and lift up their skirts at the opposing team (the Wildcats) while wearing GoofyPrintUnderwear that says "Wildcats suck." Lucy, the only cheerleader to have a name and significant role, is a BrainlessBeauty, but doesn't go out of her way to be mean. While she reacts with disgust and annoyance when CoolLoser Seth crudely hits on her, she reacts the same way toward HandsomeLech and JerkJock Patrick later on.

* ''Film/ZoomAcademyForSuperheroes'': Initially [[CruelCheerleader subverted]], then zigzagged. Three of the four cheerleaders at CoolLoser and future superhero Summer's school pick on her with no provocation in her introductory scene. However, in the final scene, Summer has joined the cheerleading squad herself, cheers enthusiastically, and uses her powers to help make a more impressive pyramid.

* In ''Film/AmericanBeauty'', both Jane and Angela are cheerleaders. While Angela is incredibly vapid and self-obsessed, we get to see her HiddenDepths and she seems good-natured enough. Jane in any other film would be a CoolLoser but is mentioned to genuinely care about cheerleading.