History Main / SouthernBelle

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Deep South", Fry meets a ''mermaid'' Southern Belle in the ruins of the legendary lost sunken city of UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}. Her father is a rich merman in a white suit. She's has the accent, she's sweet and welcoming and is immediately smitten with Fry. Fry even settles in to enjoy his life with Umbriel deep down under the ocean, but upon encountering the MermaidProblem, he runs to try to catch his friends.

* Blanche from ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' is the rare Mauvaise Belle in a modern work; her promiscuity is a RunningGag throughout the show. However, her Southern-ness is distinctly old-school compared to her children when they've appeared.

%%* Blanche Devereaux on ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''.

''Modern'' Southern Belles are an entirely different creature; the term is used to describe a woman from the rural South in a non-Southern setting [[note]]Or a Southern but urban setting, such as Dallas or Atlanta, if the character is originally from the boonies.[[/note]] who's proud of her heritage, and usually has a sweet nature but a feisty temper. Her southern accent and sensibilities may mark her as a CountryMouse to those not close to her, but it gives her a unique charm and she may very well be academically smart and resourceful even if others underestimate her.

''Modern'' Southern Belles are an entirely different creature; the term is used to describe a woman from the rural South in a non-Southern setting [[note]]Or a non-rural setting, such as Miami or Atlanta, if the character in question is from elsewhere in the South[[/note]] who's proud of her heritage, and usually has a sweet nature but a feisty temper. Her southern accent and sensibilities may mark her as a CountryMouse to those not close to her, but it gives her a unique charm and she may very well be academically smart and resourceful even if others underestimate her.

* ComicBook/{{Rogue}} in the hands of Creator/ChrisClaremont was originally supposed to be of lower-class and a tomboy, and her youth on the Mississippi made her more similar to Huckleberry Finn than anything. Later in the story she only dreams of being a Scarlett O'Hara-type belle, while in her everyday life she wears pretty unladylike, sometimes masculine clothes and leads the life of a superhero.

%%* Charlotte from ''Series/PrivatePractice'' starts off as the mauvaise variation. And [[ConsummateLiar continues]] and [[YourCheatingHeart continues]] and [[{{Jerkass}} continues]]...

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%% * Charlotte from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''. Bonne, if a bit {{spoiled|Sweet}}.

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* ''Film/InThisOurLife'' featured Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland playing two sisters that fill these roles in TheGreatDepression setting.

* ''Film/HushHushSweetCharlotte'' features Bette Davis playing an OldMaid who was once a Southern Belle. When her lover was murdered, she was suspected of it and stayed shut up in her house. She still [[AgeInappropriateDress dresses in her old debutante gown]] and [[TheOphelia steadily goes mad]].

%% * Cho Chang in ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' and ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel''.
%% * Miss Cooter in ''Theatre/MeAndMyDick''.

%% * ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAm'' has Bunnie. Although more of a tomboy then most examples, she still counts.

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%% * In one episode of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', James returns home to his blue-blooded family, who promptly inform him of [[spoiler:his engagement to]] a woman named Jessiebelle who is a Mauvaise Belle and a domineering bitch - one of the reasons that led James to run away from home in the first place.

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%% * Moxxi develops this persona in ''VideoGame/Borderlands3''. Or at least, the Pandoran equivalent. ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' and ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', she hated being seen out-of-character[[note]] The OOC side of her being a WrenchWench with [[DeepSouth an Appalachian accent]], as opposed to the showgirl with a clown motif that she publicly presents[[/note]], and threatens anyone who catches her out-of-character with [[BuriedAlive a live burial in a shallow grave]] by one of her offspring. It's evident that she's made some peace with who she is.

%% * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
%% ** Luanne and Nancy are modern takes on the belle. But while Luanne is definitely on the Bonne end of the spectrum.
%% ** Nancy combines aspects of both.
%% ** Bill Dauterive's relatives qualify.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not a]] version of [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] from the DeepSouth.

%% * Charlotte from ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''. Bonne, if a bit {{spoiled|Sweet}}.

** ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'': Blanche is a Southern Belle in the 20th century, a fading relic of a bygone age. Blanche is living in a world that doesn't really exist anymore and her ideals are hopelessly out of date. Blanche has to deal with the loss of their mansion house Belle Reve in the South, having no money or prospects. She lives off Stanley as a guest at her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley but expects to be waited on and treated like queen. She's constantly flirting with every man around, pursues young men and boys even, and keeps fishing for compliments. She looks down on (third-or-second-generation) immigrants and treats Stanley as if he were a primitive. She's insufferable but her fate is absolutely tragic.

A character archetype of an upper class rich girl from the DeepSouth -- or SweetHomeAlabama. She usually wears a PimpedOutDress to every [[DancesAndBalls dance or party]], carries a ParasolOfPrettiness in the daytime, and speaks in the most profound [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Dixie]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench accent]]. May be subject to {{fainting}} or saying, "Well, I do declare!"

* One such beauty greets the player near the beginning of ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}''. Early in the game, you meet a Southern Belle in a gorgeous dress, or certainly she looks like one from the back, described to be similar to Scarlett O'Hara. Unless you do ''one'' certain thing and made preparations beforehand, however, she will reveal her face being devoid of flesh and there's nothing but skull in her head, and she starts ripping you away while screaming maniacally.

* Calvin Candie's sister Lara Lee in ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is a {{Deconstruction}} of this type of character. While she does appear to be polite and dedicated to her brother, she is also approving of slavery and has a FateWorseThanDeath organized for a main character at the end, putting her in stark contrast to how she might otherwise be.

%% * Amber O'Neal, when not playing up her love of motor cycles or rap music, such as her Wrestling/WOWWomenOfWrestling {{tag team}} "The {{All American| face}} Girls" with Santana Garrett, who is also from the South but more [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippie]] than "Belle". While she's a "good girl" in WOW(where O'Neil's FaceHeelTurn involved turning on her roots and becoming "The Beverly Hills Babe" with Lana Star), she's usually of the bad beauty mold, especially after aligning with Wrestling/BulletClub.
%% * Krissy Vaine, with whom Amber teamed in Team Blondage, played this up in some gimmicks. She portrayed a prissy AlphaBitch in DSW. In Wrestling/{{WSU}} she underwent a metamorphosis into enlightened New Age Princess Kristen Astara, but changed surprisingly little about her. She was still a bitchy Southern Belle when she got done meditating.
%% * Lollipop often acted as a substitute for Vaine in Team Blondage, was kind of a "good" beauty who happened to bad things either because of her partner's bad influence or because her own sense of "fun" sometimes became a mischievous streak. [=GeeStar=] often acted as a substitute for O'Neal in Team Blondage was another usually "good" beauty easily influenced by her nefarious partner, or just sometimes failed to restrain her own love of scrapping.
%% * Lady D's gimmick, being a classy lady who loved everyone and everything. Simply D'Vyne instead identifies with Philadelphia (and [[TookALevelInJerkass is a lot less loving]])

%%* IPW:UK's first women's champion, Tennessee Honey.
%% * Wrestling/AlexaBliss was originally going to debut with this type of character. Her name was even thought up as a pun on the southern StealthInsult "bless your heart". She worked a couple of live events playing the girlfriend of [[Wrestling/TheRevival Scott Dawson]], but had a completely different gimmick by the time she actually debuted.

* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'':
** Scarlett O'Hara is the TropeCodifier of the Mauvaise Belle. She is vain, self-centered, and very spoiled by her wealthy family. She can also be insecure, but is very intelligent, despite her fashionable pretense at ignorance and helplessness around men. Her family owns the O'Hara plantation and her father becomes traumatised by the hardships of the Civil War (especially the pillaging of by Union soldiers). After the war, Scarlett shows qualities very unbecoming to a classic belle, such as readiness to do hard work herself and an almost Yankee-like business sense and enterprise.
** Scarlett's [[TheRival rival]] Melanie is her contrast, Proper Lady-like Bonne Belle. She's naive and a perpetual ingenue. She is filled with kindness, loyalty, love and determination. As kindhearted and good as she is, she holds some incredibly racist views of blacks and sexist views of women. Her beliefs are of the "paternal" type, because she believes blacks are too inferior to take care of themselves and it's duty for whites to look after them.

%%* Melanie Hamilton (Bonne Belle) and Scarlett O'Hara (Mauvaise Belle) in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''.

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A {{trope}} that grew out of the South during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, there are two versions of the historic Southern Belle: the '''[[ProperLady Bonne Belle]]''' ("good beauty" in French), who is loyal to her husband and family even as she sees them off to war, and the '''[[TheVamp Mauvaise Belle]]''' ("bad beauty" in French), who is selfish and vain and manipulates those around to her to get what she wants. In terms of behavior, the Belle of either flavor exhibits an outgoing and gregarious personality, in contrast to her stoic foreign counterparts the YamatoNadeshiko and the EnglishRose. Southern hospitality is essential, with the Belle always willing to offer a nice pitcher of sweet tea or mint juleps to any guests that might arrive. She is witty and charming, but never oversteps the boundaries of her station, gender, or race. While always polite, she will not hesitate to call someone out for violating the rules of the cotillion.

In RealLife, they sometimes go by (according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki) "Ya Ya Sisters," "Sweet Potato Queens," and "[[FunWithAcronyms GRITS (Girls Raised In The South)]]." [[note]]For people who don't get that one, grits is a popular porridge-like hot cereal/side dish made from maize that's particularly associated with the American South. Europeans in particular should think of thin polenta.[[/note]] Another nickname is "Georgia Peach" for examples specifically from Georgia.

* ''Film/InThisOurLife'' featured Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland playing two sisters that fill these roles in TheGreatDepression setting. Stanley is the Mauvaise Belle - vain, superficial and manipulative towards everyone. Roy is the Bonne - dignified, ladylike and kind.
* ''Film/HushHushSweetCharlotte'' features Bette Davis ([[TypeCasting again!]]) playing an OldMaid who was once a southern belle. When her lover was murdered, she was suspected of it and stayed shut up in her house. She still [[AgeInappropriateDress dresses in her old debutante gown]] and [[TheOphelia steadily goes mad]].

* Amber O'Neal, when not playing up her love of motor cycles or rap music, such as her Wrestling/WOWWomenOfWrestling {{tag team}} "The {{All American| face}} Girls" with Santana Garrett, who is also from the South but more [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippie]] than "Belle". While she's a "good girl" in WOW(where O'Neil's FaceHeelTurn involved turning on her roots and becoming "The Beverly Hills Babe" with Lana Star), she's usually of the bad beauty mold, especially after aligning with Wrestling/BulletClub.
* Krissy Vaine, with whom Amber teamed in Team Blondage, played this up in some gimmicks. She portrayed a prissy AlphaBitch in DSW. In Wrestling/{{WSU}} she underwent a metamorphosis into enlightened New Age Princess Kristen Astara, but changed surprisingly little about her. She was still a bitchy Southern Belle when she got done meditating.
* Lollipop often acted as a substitute for Vaine in Team Blondage, was kind of a "good" beauty who happened to bad things either because of her partner's bad influence or because her own sense of "fun" sometimes became a mischievous streak. [=GeeStar=] often acted as a substitute for O'Neal in Team Blondage was another usually "good" beauty easily influenced by her nefarious partner, or just sometimes failed to restrain her own love of scrapping.

* A horrible, horrible subversion greets you near the beginning of ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}''. For the uninitiated ones... well... early in game, you meet a SouthernBelle, or certainly looks like it from the back, described to be similar to the aforementioned Scarlett O'Hara. Unless you do ''one'' certain thing and made preparations beforehand, however, she will reveal her face being devoid of flesh and there's nothing but skull in her head, and she starts ripping you away while screaming maniacally. Satisfied yet?

* The President of the United States in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', if you pick Female Voice 3.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'':
** Princess Peach herself seems to have shades of this, with her [[ProperLady extremely polite mannerisms]] and ParasolOfPrettiness. However, it's much more obvious with Princess Daisy, whose voice takes a lot of inspiration from Southern dialects like Dixie, Ebonics, and ValleySpeak. Naturally, this helps contrast them from [[BigApplesauce Mario]] [[BrooklynRage and]] [[GratuitousItalian Luigi]] themselves.
* Moxxi develops this persona in ''VideoGame/Borderlands3''. Or at least, the Pandoran equivalent.
** In [[VideoGame/Borderlands2 previous]] [[VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel installments]], she hated being seen out-of-character[[note]] The OOC side of her being a WrenchWench with [[DeepSouth an Appalachian accent]], as opposed to the showgirl with a clown motif that she publicly presents[[/note]], and threatens anyone who catches her out-of-character with [[BuriedAlive a live burial in a shallow grave]] by one of her offspring. It's evident that she's made some peace with who she is.

* Charlotte Bishop in [[http://lostcausewebcomic.com/ Lost Cause]]. Born in southern Missouri, Charlie defines the Southern Belle with her elaborate outfits, white plantation house, lilting accent and wealth.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' episode ''The Trouble With Truffles'', Truffles is made aware that her voice scares people, so she obtains a dialing knob that changes it into that of calm refined Southern woman. It turns out to work too well because everyone begins to take her less seriously and gradually turn into cacemen.

* ComicBook/{{Rogue}} in the hands of Creator/ChrisClaremont was originally supposed to be of lower-class and
a tomboy, and her youth on the Mississippi made her more similar to Huckleberry Finn than anything. Later in the story she only dreams of being a Scarlett O'Hara-type belle, while in her everyday life she wears pretty unladylike, sometimes masculine clothes and leads the life of a superhero.

%%* An episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' entitled ''Jess-Belle'', has examples of both. [[MeaningfulName Jess-Belle]] would be Mauvais, while her rival Ellwyn would be an example of Bonne.

* In the ''Series/FrontierCircus'' episode "The Courtship", the T & T Circus arrives in New Atlanta, a town run by a pair of aging southern belle sisters, one of whom attempts to inveigle Casey into marriage. Definitely Mauvise Belles.

* Miss Peach, a member of the ExtendedUniverse of the TabletopGame/{{Clue}}do series. While she pretends to be the Bonne Belle, most of Miss Peach's appearances point out that she is a pathological liar, and something of a temptress to rival Miss Scarlet, making her a true Mauvaise Belle.

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* Mister Gently Benevolent posed as one in ''Radio/BleakExpectations''. Not a spoiler because he wasn't even bothering with the accent most of the time...
* ''I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again'' did a parody of ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' featuring Lady Constance as "a real Southern Belle", leading to the pun: "She shore is shaped like one!"

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* Miss Peach, a member of the ExtendedUniverse of the TabletopGame/{{Clue}}do series. While she pretends to be the Bonne Belle, most of Miss Peach's appearances point out that she is a pathological liar, and something of a temptress to rival Miss Scarlet, making her a true Mauvaise Belle.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', Josephine is a mellow, kind and very pretty Southern belle. [[BitchInSheepsClothing It's all an act.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
** Luanne and Nancy are modern takes on the belle. But while Luanne is definitely on the Bonne end of the spectrum, Nancy combines aspects of both.
** Bill Dauterive's relatives qualify.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'', Buster and Babs meet three Southern belle alligators. They all try to marry (and possibly eat) Buster.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Deep South", Fry meets a ''mermaid'' Southern belle in the ruins of the legendary lost sunken city of UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}. Fry settles in to enjoy his life with Umbriel, but upon encountering the MermaidProblem, he runs to try to catch his friends.

* Penelope Pitstop, first in ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' and then in her own series ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop''.
* Clarice Cow in ''WesternAnimation/ScienceCourt''. Granted, Clarice is a puppet that one of the main cast uses for their in-universe children's show.
* Annabelle in ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat''.
* Creator/TexAvery's WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood was depicted as a Southern belle in the cartoon "Uncle Tom's Cabana".
* [[MeaningfulName Tara Belle]] in ''WesternAnimation/BeverlyHillsTeens''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', one of Bloo's {{Imagine Spot}}s portrays Frankie as one, much to her confusion.
* Truly from ''Franchise/MyLittlePony''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Rarity herself has slight shades of this, although her [[IAmVeryBritish accent]] seems to lean more towards ProperLady.
** Cherry Jubilee.
** Applejack once pretends to be one ("Apple Jewel") in response to Rarity pretending to be a country bumpkin.
** [[WholesomeCrossdresser Her brother Big Macintosh]] also pretends to be one ("Orchard Blossom") to participate in the Sisterhooves Social with Apple Bloom.
* Bones' cousin Lucy Belle in the Donkey Kong Jr cartoon "Double Or Nothing" from ''WesternAnimation/SaturdaySupercade''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'': Alice Tompkins has a sister named Miranda who acted like this. It didn't do her much good in New York.
* In 1940s WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''Confederate Honey'', Elmer Fudd tries to woo one of these.
** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny [[WholesomeCrossdresser disguises himself as one]] in both "Mississipi Hare" and "Southern Fried Rabbit".
* ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAm'' has Bunnie. Although more of a tomboy then most examples, she still counts.
* Veronica Lodge is portrayed this way in ''WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow''.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' has two southern belle cousins, Scooby-Dee, an actress whom he and Scooby-Dum fall for, and Dixie Doo, a showboat singer.
* The WesternAnimation/MightyMagiswords episode, "Flirty Phantom" has a Penny Plasm, a {{yandere}} [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] southern belle.
* Zombie girl Blanche in ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'', her name is even a reference to Blanche Du Bois.

* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'': In "Fire in a Crowded Workshop", a RashomonStyle episode, Amy Rose's story depicts Perci as one of these, using her wiles to seduce Sonic and Knuckles.

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* A [[AccentAdaptation southern accent]] turned [[{{Ojou}} Shizuru Fujino]] into one in ''Anime/MaiHime'' and ''Anime/MaiOtome'''s English dub.
* The same goes for [[AlphaBitch Ranamon]] in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier''.
* Kiel Heim & Lilly Borjarnon from ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' appear to have been designed after this archetype.
* In one episode of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', James returns home to his blue-blooded family, who promptly inform him of [[spoiler:his engagement to]] a woman named Jessiebelle, a perfect example of this trope. Or at least she would if she wasn't such a domineering bitch - one of the reasons that led James to run away from home in the first place.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', the alcoholic and uncouth Cana Alberona's [[BizarroUniverse Edolas counterpart]] is like this.
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* ComicBook/{{Rogue}} in the hands of Creator/ChrisClaremont originally was an aversion, as her lower-class origins and tomboy youth on the Mississippi made her more similar to Huckleberry Finn than anything. In later story she still subverted the trope as she only dreamed of being a Scarlett O'Hara-type belle, while in her everyday life wearing pretty unladylike, sometimes masculine clothes and leading the life of a superhero.
* Bunnie Rabbot from the ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' is said to be this. There was a scrapped plotline about her origins that would have revealed her real name as Scarlet O'Hare. While that went nowhere, it's become official canon that while the name has always been spelt "Rabbot", it's actually pronounced [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay "Rah-boh"]]. Nobody calls her that because A: it's only evident in Bunnie's Dixie-ish accent, B: it's spelt Rabbot, and C: her HollywoodCyborg nature makes "Rabbot" too much of a pun to pass up. Her uncle, also a HollywoodCyborg, notes his name got the same treatment.

** Scarlett O'Hara is quite possibly the definitive example of the ''mauvaise''. Scarlett turns out to be a bit of a subversion later on, as after the war she shows qualities very unbecoming to a classic belle, such as readiness to do hard work herself and an almost Yankee-like business sense and enterprise.
** Scarlett's [[TheRival rival]] Melanie providing the definitive example of the ''bonne''.

* William Faulkner is especially fond of this trope, although his characters tend to be deconstructions.
* Zin of ''Literature/{{Everwild}}'' is the inverted version of this.
* Claire Goodman of Lynn Austin's Refiner's ''Fire'' trilogy is a Mauvaise Belle.
* Aramat Drawdes in one short novel in Caitlin R. Kiernan's ''Alabaster'' is an especially dangerous (and insane) Mauvais Belle.

* Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Creator/KyraSedgwick) in ''Series/TheCloser''. She's a Southern Belle detective from Georgia who really stands out working in the Los Angeles police department. Her Southern charm and accent are actually a part of her interrogation tactic on suspects - although, as her husband Fritz points out, at heart she's "a bit of an old-fashioned girl."

* Lady D's gimmick, being a classy lady who loved everyone and everything. Simply D'Vyne instead identifies with Philadelphia (and [[TookALevelInJerkass is a lot less loving]])
* The Southern Belles of ''Wrestling/{{Wrestlicious}}'', Charlotte and Savannah, were [[CaptainErsatz a deliberate pastiche]] of the earlier GLOW team.

* Wrestling/AlexaBliss was originally going to debut with this type of character. Her name was even thought up as a pun on the southern StealthInsult "bless your heart". She worked a couple of live events playing the girlfriend of [[Wrestling/TheRevival Scott Dawson]], but had a completely different gimmick by the time she actually debuted.
* Lacey Evans, to the point that her RedBaron on the main roster is "The Sassy Southern Belle". Openly Mauvaise, describing herself as knowing how to "curry favor" to get her way.

** ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'': Blanche is a Southern Belle in the 20th century, a fading relic of a bygone age.

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* The [[http://cdn2.thegloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dolls-490x367.jpg "Cupcake Dolls"]] of TheNineties evoked this image when they weren't in "cupcake mode."
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* Bree Kay in ''Webcomic/{{Kurami}}'' is a more modern Southern belle. It was hard to tell until September 2015, when she was given a mild FunetikAksent to make it more obvious.

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* Cryssi of ''Website/DivaDirt'' titled her column 'Southern Belle Smack' and was prone to adding in a few "y'all"s and other southern expressions in her writing.

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* In ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', Sophie Devereaux pretended to be one in "The Two Horse Job."
* In ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', Drew dates a Southern Belle in the later seasons.
* Charlotte from ''Series/PrivatePractice'' starts off as the mauvaise variation. And [[ConsummateLiar continues]] and [[YourCheatingHeart continues]] and [[{{Jerkass}} continues]]...
* Blanche Devereaux on ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''.
* The ladies of ''Series/DesigningWomen''
* An episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' entitled ''Jess-Belle'', has examples of both. [[MeaningfulName Jess-Belle]] would be Mauvais, while her rival Ellwyn would be an example of Bonne.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Aeryn is one of these in an AU episode. It is freakin' ''terrifying''.

* Maude Standish in ''Series/TheMagnificentSeven''- although, since she is a con artist, her credentials may be slightly suspect.
* Calleigh Duquesne from ''Series/CSIMiami'' has elements of this.
** As does another character played by Emily Proctor - [[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten Ainsley Hayes]] of ''Series/TheWestWing''.
* "Colonel Daddy's daughter" on ''Series/HeeHaw''.

* ''[[Series/HouseOfCardsUS House of Cards]]'' (US): Claire Underwood is a Texas Belle. Nonetheless, she buries her accent quite effectively.[[note]]Not that hard when [[HowsYourBritishAccent you're a native Texan raised in Southern California]].[[/note]]

* ''Wrestling/{{GLOW}}'' once featured a [[TagTeam team]] called the Southern Belles. Their names were [[Literature/GoneWithTheWind Scarlett and Tara]].

** In ''Theatre/TheGlassMenagerie'', Amanda (the mother) is a former washed-up Southern Belle. Because the present is so depressing (she has a fragile unmarried daughter and a moody son, and she lives in the Depression-era while her husband ran away from them) She chooses to live in the past and tries to think of her glory days, especially dancing and having her gentlemen callers whom she entertains with stories.

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* April Kane from ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates'' is a junior version.

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* Becky Thatcher from ''[[WesternAnimation/TomSawyer2000 Tom Sawyer]]''.
* Charlotte from ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''. Bonne, if a bit {{spoiled|Sweet}}.
* Rosetta in the ''Franchise/DisneyFairies'' (a.k.a. ''Tinkerbell'') movies.
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* Julie Marsden (Creator/BetteDavis) in ''Film/{{Jezebel}}''. Very much mauvaise [[spoiler: until her HeelFaceTurn at the end.]]
* Everyone from Venus in ''Film/TheAmericanAstronaut'', seriously.
* Rosemary Bartlow in ''Film/TheBadAndTheBeautiful''.

* Melanie Hamilton (Bonne Belle) and Scarlett O'Hara (Mauvaise Belle) in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''.

* Lemon Breeland on ''Series/HartOfDixie''.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Harriet Sim's mother Lydia Beaumont Sims.
* One appears on ''Series/GoodEats'', and shares her (breakfast) grits with an Italian man who is enjoying some polenta (which she calls "dinner grits.")

* IPW:UK's first women's champion, Tennessee Honey.

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* Played with in ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. Blanche is a SouthernBelle in the 20th century, a fading relic of a bygone age.
* Every Tennessee Williams play? Or at least every second Tennessee Williams play? In ''Theatre/TheGlassMenagerie'' Amanda (mother) is a former washed-up Southern Belle.

* Magnolia in ''Theatre/ShowBoat''.
* Cindy Lou Bethany in ''{{Kiss the Boys Goodbye}}''.
* Cho Chang in ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' and ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel''.
* As is Miss Cooter in ''Theatre/MeAndMyDick''. Same actress even.

* Alche-Miss from ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'' is SouthernBelle crossed with Dirty Hippie in a hilarious manner.

* [[VideoGame/BackyardSports Billy Jean Blackwood]].
* Franchise/{{Pokemon}} has [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Lilligant_(Pokémon) Lilligant]], a ''plant'' Mon that looks like one. It's [[OneGenderRace always female]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Chowder'' episode ''The Trouble With Truffles'', Truffles is made aware that her voice scares people, so she obtains a dialing knob that changes it into that of calm refined Southern woman. It turns out to work too well because everyone begins to take her less seriously and gradually turn into cacemen.