History Main / RichBitch

* ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'': Carmen and her husband Richard are both rich, cold people, with her expressly being rude to other people and preventing her son Roy from going out with his friends because they are deemed "plebeians".

* Aria of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rollbots}}'' is the mayor of Flip City, is rich, and can't even remember the names of the people she knows.

* [[CruellaToAnimals Cruella de Vil]] from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Scrooge usually isn't this, though his miserly nature shines through from time to time. He plays it up intentionally in "Rumble for Ragnarok", playing a {{Heel}} who takes taxes from the audience and seemingly stabs his family in the back to win.

* ''WebAnimation/MangaWaido'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKYWeT5qrVM Sanae Kitagawa]] bullied Hiroyuki Saito for being poor and his friend Mika Kudo for defending him. Years later she flattered Saito once he became a doctor and saved her father's life. However, he rejects Kitagawa and remarks on her refusal to get a job well into her thirties and marries Kudo instead. Afterward, Kitagawa got kicked out of the house when her father's business ended up tanking.

* ''WebAnimation/RefreshingStories'':
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61UZGUnsP50 Marie]] is a rich girl who buys the latest kimono designs. She treated Rin horribly and even cut her dress during a coming-of-age ceremony because she thought it was cheap. The kimono turned out to be worth ''30 million yen'' and Rin's father cut off all ties with Marie's father's company.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNTscRJXyE Misaki]] is a rich girl whose dad owns all the islands. She treated everyone like slaves and threatens to get her dad to fire their dads and the teachers won't do anything. When Kyosuke's company bought Misaki's father's company he kicked him out of his own company and he was forced to work as a street performer while Misaki was forced to work at a factory.

* Veronica from ComicBook/ArchieComics, although she's often been portrayed as really having a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold]] deep down, with enough PetTheDog moments that a nastier rich bitch character has been introduced by the name of Cheryl Blossom. It's {{discussed|trope}} in "Bringing Up Daughter", a story from the '80s, when Mr. Lodge regrets having spoiled her into one as a child and thus enrolled her in a regular high school so she'd make friends with normal middle-class people and, hopefully, lighten up a bit. While he regrets that [[GoneHorriblyRight the friends she made are obnoxious and drive him up the wall]], having her tell him she can't go with them to visit a rich family because she's volunteered to help her friends with a food drive to help feed the needy makes him thankful that she's indeed [[SpoiledSweet become a far better person thanks to them]].
* Lola Palooza from ''Cherry Comics''.

* ComicBook/TheWasp started out as a downplayed example of this in the original [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] reality, spending most of her time being flighty and inane, though usually any bitchiness was for comic relief. This became deconstructed after the Yellow Jacket fiasco where she blamed herself for her husband's breakdown because she wasn't paying attention to his obvious mental problems, so she grew up and took superheroing much more seriously. Nowadays, she's cast as a somewhat jokey woman who is nonetheless a highly skilled businesswoman and people-person. The ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Wasp fell into the same trap, being written as a bitchy and vapid. In the ComicBook/MarvelAdventures 'verse, Janet (Giant Girl in this continuity) avoids this entirely, coming off more as a SpoiledSweet if anything. This is probably why she has a ''much'' bigger fanbase than any of her other incarnates.
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': Ava Lord turns out to be [[spoiler: manipulative and pure evil as well. She ends up tricking Dwight into killing her husband so she can not only get his estate but his criminal organization as well.]]
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': ComicBook/EmmaFrost started out as a villain, so her bitchiness was from extreme ambition. Now her bitchiness is from being spoiled and bratty.
* ''ComicBook/SonicX'': When Milan Ramada and her entourage can't sit at their favorite table at the local ice cream parlor and must either sit elsewhere or wait until the customers at the table leave, she threatens to have her father build another ice cream parlor across the street just to drive it out of business.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Even before she created the identity of the ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} Priscilla Rich was not a nice lady. She tried to murder Wonder Woman the first time they met by sabotaging the escape act she was putting on for charity just because she was furious that Diana's poise and grace were garnering more attention than Priscilla was getting. She was also already gathering as much classified intel as she could to try to sell it to the highest bidder.
** ''ComicBook/{{The Legend of Wonder Woman|2016}}'': [[ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} Priscilla Rich]] is a wealthy socialite who has willingly allied herself with the Nazis and thinks hesitating to kill hundreds with an explosion is ridiculous.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheEnchantress Amora the Enchantress]] from ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' often acts in a manner reminiscent of this, albeit filtered in the style of a medieval fantasy figure, though she plays it more straight whenever she visits Earth. Unlike most examples, Amora's haughty attitude comes from the fact she had to claw her way up to this position, having been born a commoner among the Asgardians before seeking out magical training, sometimes outright using her body to trade for tutoring in the magic arts, and her wealth is largely generated through her status as a ridiculously beautiful sorceress. With what she went through to get to where she is, she's developed a ruthless mean streak that, at the very least, makes her come off as spoiled and rude.

* ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'' has Alexis Lois "Lexi" Luthor. The granddaughter of the infamous ComicBook/LexLuthor, she happily shoves a reporter's microphone into his mouth for interrupting her manga reading time. She also has no qualms with threatening Izuku and his entire family and generally treats everyone aside from him and her chauffeur [[OnlyFriend Mercy]] with complete disdain or indifference.

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* Ayame Yatsuhashi from ''Manga/AiKora'' is [[StalkerWithACrush obsessed with winning over Maeda]], and is willing to use [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney all the money and influence she can bring to bear]] to get his attention away from the other girls and towards her.
* ''Anime/AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku TV'' gives us Chieko [[RunningGag Shikaraba...er, Shakariba, no, um... ah! Shirakaba]]. Oddly enough she goes to a public school, but she sure qualifies from the sheer amount of random wealth and bitchiness. Even her two "friends" sing about how bitchy she is in the MusicalEpisode.
--> "She's right! She's right! [[YesMan What Miss Chieko says is right!]]"
* More than one character in ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'', especially Fernando's aunt Simone. Subverted by Marianne Hamilton, who is [[BrutalHonesty selfish and blunt]] but truly cares for Francis and doesn't use her riches to make herself look better than she truly is.
* ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'':
** Domyouji's mother Kaede is the rich bitch "villain" of the series. She is constantly throwing her money about to ruin the lives of Makino and those she knows to keep her away from the Domyouji family. Also, every girl in Makino's school is a rich bitch, excluding [[ShrinkingViolet Makiko]] but including Sakurako, who [[HeelFaceTurn eventually becomes Makino's friend]] but [[GoodIsNotNice does not lose her nasty mannerisms]].
** At the beginning of the series, Domyoji himself could qualify as a male example. Luckily he mellows out a bit.
* ''Manga/CandyCandy'': Eliza Reagan. ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney? Check. Being the AlphaBitch? Check. Constantly abusing Candy, who can be counted as some sort of CountryMouse? Check. Did it all [[ForTheEvulz for her own amusement]]? Big check. Taking joy in all of them? '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis REALLY. BIG. CHECK.]]'''
* ''Manga/CaseClosed'':
** A real example, Reika Yotsui, does appear in a two-part case, in which the Mouris and Conan are invited to her birthday party after they find her lost puppy. [[spoiler:Guess what, she's one of the two murder victims in the case, alongside one of the guys in her UnwantedHarem (Youji Nikaido). And they're killed by ''another'' member of the bitch's "harem", Takashi Ichieda, since they killed the girl he loved (the Yotsui landlady's granddaughter Yaeko) to save their own lives some time ago.]]
** There's also Asuka Shibazaki and Ema Anzai from another two-part case. They are beautiful (Asuka works as a top model), they come from powerful families and they are really nasty bitches. [[spoiler: In the past, they framed a girl named Sakurako Suzuka for the drug trades their families were involved in and [[BreakTheCutie destroyed her life in the process]]. Sakurako, unable to prove her innocence, [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself by throwing herself off the university's roof]].]] Their actions come to bite them in the ass a few years later when [[spoiler: they were killed by her older sister Eri Akechi aka Chieri Aki in the hot springs inn they were staying in.]]
** In a more recent case, the AssholeVictim was the very haughty businesswoman Ritsuko Sashibara. She was introduced by being a horribly stuck-up asshole to her BeleagueredAssistant Ayami, the shop assistant Reia [[note]](who refers to Ritsuko with [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics the VERY respectful "Sashibara-sama"]] due to her high status)[[/note]] and a woman with serious allergies, Tomoyo, in front of Conan... and less than an hour later, she was found strangled to death in a changing room. [[spoiler: The killer was Ayami, [[TheDogBitesBack who was sick of Ritsuko's horribly abusive behavior]] ''and'' was trapped as her assistant because of her debts.]]
* ''Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' -- has a male example at first. No, not the title character, the [[UsefulNotes/TheBorgias extremely wealthy illegitimate son]] of [[UsefulNotes/PopeAlexanderVI the next pope]], but his classmate, Giovanni de'Medici. Giovanni has an EstablishingCharacterMoment in the first chapter when he forces ScholarshipStudent Angelo onto a MoodyMount in retaliation for upstaging him in class. But by volume 3, Giovanni drops that facade, admits his insecurities, accepts help from Cesare, and befriends both him and Angelo.
** Cesare's brother, also named Giovanni (really Juan), is both wealthy and a BastardBastard, though in the scope of the series, he's simply an AnnoyingYoungerSibling.
* ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': Reiko looks down on those not from wealthy families like her. She asked Kazuya to open a car door for her, as if he was a valet, instead of doing it herself. Her UpperclassTwit attitude earned her an ArchEnemy in Nana.
-->'''Reiko:''' ''"Spending time with people of the lower classes can make for some quality entertainment!"''
** This makes her crush on Kyoushiro '''deeply''' ironic considering he quoted Creator/KarlMarx in episode 4.
-->'''Kyoushiro:''' ''"As Marx said, doubt everything"''.
* ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'' has Princess Catine, the AlienPrincess of Proxia who mocks Sanae for having the clothes of "a servant girl" and only is interested in Kento because she heard he's the heir to the Heliosian throne.
* Aya Misaki from ''Manga/DearBrother''. Her father is a famous lawyer and she's got money, looks, and a good family, so when she doesn't get a spot in the Sorority, she begins to abuse Mariko and Nanako for getting in instead of her. [[spoiler: Slightly subverted in the anime, where [[ADayInTheLimelight episode 30]] gives some insight into her train of thoughts, and [[HeroicSelfDeprecation it's not pretty]]. She ends up having a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* Kyoko Aoi in ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'' is the owner of her racing team. She adopts a "win or else" attitude towards racing by finding only the best racers, antagonizes rival team Sugo Asurada at every turn, and [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity fires her engineers whenever they make a mistake]], ''even'' if it's a small one. She mostly gets over it in the last 3 [=OVA=]s.
* An example of a Rich Bastard is Shute Sutherland from ''Literature/HarukaNogizakasSecret'', which could be summed up as a male [[Manga/CandyCandy Eliza]]... only with ''more'' comeuppance in every one of his acts to belittle whoever is of the lower status compared to him.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': A parody example is Switzerland. He's a Miser, as well as being [[ConspiracyTheorist paranoid]], HotBlooded, xenophobic, and TriggerHappy... though he's still got some PetTheDog moments when he interacts with his sister, the little girl Liechtenstein (and his memories of his [[HeterosexualLifePartners past friendship with Austria]], [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend no matter how often he denies it]]).
* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': Kitty's father is the Chairman of the British conglomerate Shearer & Co. She's horrible to everyone around her, particularly Sandybell, because Marc likes her, and looks down on the fact that she's poorer than them. When she applies for a job at the newspaper company where Sandybell and Alec work, she gets her dad to [[{{Nepotism)) pull some strings]] and ensure she gets a high position.
* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': {{Subverted}}. Though Saya comes from wealth and status, she resented her parents, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqKWv5Kd7p4 because she felt pressured ]]to live up to their expectations. Which is [[TheResenter the reason]] she developed [[{{Tsundere}} such an abrasive personality.]] It took a sharp slap and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9fX6hihnSc a stern lecture]] from her mother to finally set her straight.
* Kanon Mizushiro, the protagonist of ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine'', comes from a rich family, and is arrogant, confident, and snobbish, though her wealth is almost never brought up. She does mellow out a little as the show goes on.
* Kazutaka Hyōdō from ''Manga/{{Kaiji}}'', the BigBad of the series, takes this trope to extreme, disturbing degrees. His favorite thing is to watch the broke and desperate dregs of society squirm, break, and give in to despair, so he sets up numerous {{Absurdly High Stakes Game}}s for people buried in debt, where the punishment for failure is anything from mutilation, to a very short lifetime of indentured servitude in hazardous conditions, to outright death. And he doesn't treat his subordinates much better, either.
* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Madeleine is a NoveauRiche Englishwoman who has two {{Spoiled Brat}}s for children. She's absolutely horrible to Lynn, her would-be stepdaughter and tells her that she would be better off without her. She wants to marry George to become a full-blooded noblewoman and acts as if Marble Mansion is already hers.
* In ''Anime/ALittleSnowFairySugar'' Greta ''tries'' to be this to Saga, except that Saga [[UnknownRival refuses to pay any attention to her attempts]]. Or maybe Saga [[SelectiveObliviousness genuinely just doesn't notice]].
* [[spoiler:Eventually subverted by]] Genevieve Van Heusen from ''Manga/LoveIsInTheBag''.
* ''Anime/LucyMayOfTheSouthernRainbow'': Mr. Pettywell believes that him having extraordinary wealth means he gets a free pass to do whatever he likes (his EstablishingCharacterMoment is using it to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney cut the line]] on the ship carrying the immigrants). He's completely oblivious as to why his obnoxious personality results in people disliking him.
* More than a few minor villains in ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic''. Especially Abhmad the king of Balbadd. When Abhmad is approached by Alibaba [[spoiler: his half-brother and leader of the Fog Troupe, a rebel organization that has been making Abhmad's life miserable]] he refuses to even speak to him, on the grounds that [[spoiler: Alibaba is only half royalty, as his father was the previous king, and his mother was a prostitute from the slums]]. Even worse, we later learn that Abhmad [[spoiler: intends to sell the citizenry of his kingdom into slavery, so that he can keep enjoying his hedonistic lifestyle]].
* Umi Ryuuzaki from ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' exhibits this early on in the series. But eventually, her situation [[CharacterDevelopment forces her to mature]] (including the [[TearJerker heartwretching]] first-season finale), and she ends up as a respectable, formidable LadyOfWar.
* Flay Allster from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' started as a sort-of space version of the AlphaBitch, but later she manipulated Kira for a good chunk of the series as "revenge" since he didn't save her father, George, from a ''really'' nasty death in space. Which she ''witnessed'' from the bridge of the ''Archangel''. [[spoiler: She eventually ''did'' fall for Kira for real and attempted to redeem herself, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath only to die as a result]].)]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'': Dorothy Catalonia starts off looking like a Rich Bitch who gets into ideological squabbles with [[TheOjou Relena]] all while [[FemmeFatale making subtle passes at Heero, Quatre, Zechs]], [[LesYay and Relena]]. Later on, it's revealed that she's a BrokenBird with [[ParentalAbandonment issues]], and official sequels depict her as much nicer, but still playful and flirty. She's got her gold-plated limousine, space shuttle, and, in ''Endless Waltz'', transport carrier.
* Eva Heinemann of ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', the medical big-wig's daughter, starts out consoling the (surgeon) hero's angst over choosing who lives and who dies by assuring him that ''human lives aren't equal'', and just gets bitchier from there. Though, as the series progresses, Eva evolves into something more along the lines of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and the viewer begins to sympathize with her. [[spoiler:In the end, she's redeemed, and the hero reconciles with her.]]
* Mashiro in ''Anime/MyOtome'' fits this description nicely, complete with Arika, the CountryMouse, being her favorite target. Since this is a rather idealistic series, her heart of gold [[CharacterDevelopment manifests itself]] after she becomes a FallenPrincess, meets the very homeless people she used to despise, and learns AnAesop about abusing her position. Awww, how touching.
* Ayaka Yukihiro of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' looks like this at first glance, but it's subverted when it turns out that she's really SpoiledSweet and simply doesn't get along well with Asuna. At least, [[VitriolicBestBuds not that they would admit.]]
* Haru in ''Manga/{{Ojojojo}}'' is a deconstruction. Because of her incredibly snobby attitude, she's alienated herself from everyone around her and constantly has to transfer schools. [[spoiler: The worst part is that she only adopted that persona because her original friends refused to associate with her because of her status.]] She does slowly get better as the manga progresses, but she still calls her friends "commoners" out of force of habit (much to her own frustration).
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Seika Ayanokouji and Éclair Tonnerre (who's also a bit of a ClingyJealousGirl), but none of the other rich girls surprisingly enough. [[spoiler: With some bits of CharacterDevelopment, Eclaire turns out to be quite a decent person, and ultimately she lets go of Tamaki. She's more selfish and ''very'' naive in regards to love than truly bitchy.]]
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Several examples in one-off characters, but perhaps most memorable is Jessiebelle, James' fiancée (and the IdenticalStranger of Jessie).
* Platinum Berlitz from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' is a little bit of this at the beginning of the ''Diamond/Pearl/Platinum'' arc, until she warms up to Diamond and Pearl.
* ''Anime/ProjectAKo'': B-ko Daitoukuji is used to getting what she wants, because of her family's status and because she's a [[spoiler: [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower super empowered]] super [[GadgeteerGenius genius]]]]. So she's not about to start taking "no" for an answer now. This means A-ko's gotta go since she's keeping C-ko to herself.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': While Kodachi Kuno ''is'' a snob, that isn't the problem. She's batshit insane, has no scruples, and will stop at nothing to get what she wants, especially where Ranma is concerned.
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}} NEXT'' gives us Martina, who starts the show off like this, but then Lina blows up her town and she becomes [[FallenPrincess a poor girl obsessed]] with revenge. She's still a bitch, though. [[spoiler:Until almost the end.]]
* Ayeka from ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' also possesses these qualities from time to time, especially when dealing with [[TheRival Ryoko]]. When not ticked off, she's more like TheOjou.
* Minto in ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'', who is also good at heart, and also gained a snobbier rival in a {{filler}} episode.
* Altessa from ''Anime/TwinPrincessOfWonderPlanet'', although she stopped being so AlphaBitch-ish later on and became a main character.
* Sayuri in ''Manga/SilverPlanToRedoFromJK'' used to be a textbook example of this, treating most other people like trash and coasting by on her family's money. This left her completely unprepared for when the money was gone. She ended up homeless and unable to hold on to a job. When she reincarnates into her own younger self, she does everything she can to avert this trope.
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[[TruthInTelevision Rich bitches do exist in real life]], but it's best that [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease we don't list any real life examples here.]].