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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', after [[HighHeelFaceTurn Nico Robin]] joins the crew, Nami is the first of the crew members to voice her objection over Robin forcing herself into the crew. Robin manages to win Nami over quickly by giving her money, and later she refers to Robin as her CoolBigSis. Of course, Nami's objections were less about Robin's gender, and more because she was TheDragon of the previous ArcVillain. The fact that Nami had an "older sister" type friendship with Vivi -- the princess whose kingdom went through intense turmoil because of Robin's actions -- and probably had the most empathy of anyone in the crew for the pain she went through probably had something to do with it as well.
** Speaking of Princess Vivi, it should be pointed out that Nami had no objections to letting her travel with the crew back when she was still the only woman in it. In fact, it was ''her'' idea.

* Inverted in ''WebOriginal/GetsuyoubiNoTawawa''. It's all the other men in the office that are suspicious of the pretty saleswomen who try selling insurance, because since they're already used to Kouhai's good looks, they can see the women's offers for what they really are.

* {{Subverted}} on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010.'' [[TheChick M'gann]] actually tried to befriend [[AffirmativeActionGirl Artemis]], but the latter ignored her efforts and openly ogled ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, M'gann's crush. M'gann was clearly aggravated, but after some light bickering, decided to keep being friendly anyway. Sure enough, the two become close friends. Also {{Averted}} later when ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} and then [[ComicBook/{{Icon}} Rocket]] show up.

* Bizarrely inverted in the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E6BartStar Bart Star]]" where Lisa tries to pull off a JackieRobinsonStory and announces she's joining the football team. Only when she gets there she finds out there's three other girls on the team already and the coach is welcoming. Enraged she can't be the only girl on the team (or protest the use of pigskin footballs since they're entirely synthetic and the producing company donates to charity), she runs off crying.

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', when Agent Tex first met Sister, she was rather hostile toward her, even going so far as to lay down the law in a private conversation (which Sister, who is one of the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s of the series, mistook as "you know, girl stuff").

A subtrope of TheSmurfettePrinciple and DislikesTheNewGuy. Compare to the AlphaBitch (who's just a territorial female, [[NoPunIntended period]]). Almost AlwaysFemale, though a gender inversion may occur, especially in series that use TheOneGuy.

--> Jackie: How ''dare'' she come into our town, and try to out-hot ''us''?
* With ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyinPhiladelphia'' Dee often acts this way. In particular, when Mindy Kaling guests for one episode and Dennis comes back, Dee throws her under the bus

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* The women of the Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy tend to not get along. In the first film, Nebula and Gamora compete with each other for mercenary assignments, to the point where Nebula would rather cut off her own hand rather than ever cooperate with Gamora. In [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the second film]], Gamora trusts Mantis the least of the team and is hostile whenever she approaches. However, she learns her competitive streak has consequences when she hears Nebula tell her how Gamora constantly beating her in battle caused their captor Thanos to continually torture Nebula. This prompts a HeelRealization in Gamora that leads to the two women beginning to patch their relationship.

* Parodied in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade]]''. Serra is at first super bitchy to a VERY pretty new member of the group... [[UnsettlingGenderReveal who turned out]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady to be a girly-looking guy.]]

* Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}''. Ann, the first female Phantom Thief, initially dislikes Makoto, the StudentCouncilPresident, because Ann believes that Makoto willingly turned a blind eye to Kamoshida's crimes (including those against Ann and her best friend, Shiho), but the truth is that Makoto believed she couldn't do anything and feels guilty. Once Makoto joins the team, she and Ann have a heart-to-heart talk that results in them exchanging apologies and getting on a FirstNameBasis, and Ann even says she's glad to have another girl on the team.
* Also averted in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', where the first person to join the Investigation Team after Chie is Chie's best friend, Yukiko. Chie sometimes worries about Yukiko but is glad to have her around.
* Played with in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''. While Mitsuru, one of the founders and the first female member of SEES doesn't dislike Yukari, Yukari isn't fond of Mitsuru's distant attitude and tendency to keep secrets at first. The two girls become closer over time, though, and are best friends by the end of the game.

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* {{Subverted}} on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice.'' [[TheChick M'gann]] actually tried to befriend [[AffirmativeActionGirl Artemis]], but the latter ignored her efforts and openly ogled ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, M'gann's crush. M'gann was clearly aggravated, but after some light bickering, decided to keep being friendly anyway. Sure enough, the two become close friends. Also {{Averted}} later when ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} and then [[ComicBook/{{Icon}} Rocket]] show up.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Riruka Dokugamine behaves rather harshly towards Orihime Inoue when she comes into the X-Cution headquarters. Orihime doesn't take the bait, and Riruka softens up to her anyway. ([[{{Tsundere}} Sorta]])

A subtrope of TheSmurfettePrinciple. Compare to the AlphaBitch (who's just a territorial female, [[NoPunIntended period]]). Almost AlwaysFemale, though a gender inversion may occur, especially in series that use TheOneGuy.

* From WebVideo/{{Phelous}}'s review of Film/StayAlive: "I'm jealous of her cause I'm a girl."

* Zig-zagged in ''LightNovel/SorcererStabberOrphen Revenge''. Cleao and Lycoris don't get along at first, but it's less about romantic/sexual jealousy and more because of [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl their personality clashes.]] [[spoiler:And the first time they fought, the actual cause was a doppelganger that tricked Cleao into believing that Lycoris was TheMole.]] Once they have to go through TeethClenchedTeamwork and understand each other better, they become [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship very close friends.]]

* Boom-Boom/Tabitha is the only girl in the Brotherhood house in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' and when [[spoiler:Mystique]] arrives back she leaves saying "too many girls in this house". Then again, Boom-Boom tended to get along well with ''other'' girls as proved by her RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with Amara, and she never really ''fit'' in the Brotherhood too well. [[spoiler:And considering the stuff Mystique did later...]]

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': [[ActionGirl Yoko]] has some difficulty dealing with [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Nia]] when she joins Team Dai-Gurren, more because her {{Moe}}-ness wins over the guys than because of her being the {{Big Bad}}'s daughter. Possibly justified in that, back then, she considered Nia dead weight: they were fighting a rebellion, and Nia had no combat skills. Then Nia won Yoko over via showing her SilkHidingSteel side, specially via not even blinking when Yoko released her from a monster via ''shooting said monster when it was holding Nia hostage''. It was sealed when Nia asked Yoko to give her an ImportantHaircut (as [[CloseCallHaircut she lost a bit of hair in the rescue process]]) and when Yoko was cleaning it up, she asked why Nia just closed her eyes and looked content. Nia answers that Yoko is a master with a rifle, showing she had complete trust in Yoko. Yoko [[JerkassRealization realizes that she was being a jerk]] and ends up becoming a CoolBigSis to Nia.
** It may not entirely count anyway, as there ''were'' other females in the team already before Nia joined. (Kittan's sisters, anyone?)

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': One episode featured a tribe of [[TheSmurfs Smurf]] [[{{Expy}} expies]] and Grim tried to capture them. One of his attempts consisted of disguising himself as a female of their species, resulting in him getting a beating from ''their'' Smurfette, which was quite larger than them.

Congratulations! You just received a new team member; and [[SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality against all odds... it's a girl]]! Everyone on the team is happy to finally have a new girl to help balance out the gender ratios... everyone except for the sole girl already on the team! She isn't happy about the equaling of the gender ratio. Turns out, she actually took pride in the fact that she was the only girl on the team. Like the queen bee in a beehive,[[note]]As worker bees are female, the queen is actually part of a majority gender-wise. She might be considered a Smurfette fertility-wise, as the worker bees are infertile.[[/note]] [[TheSmurfettePrinciple The Smurfette]] doesn't take kindly to her male teammates gushing over the new girl, and takes great exception to her presence. As luck will have it, however, the Smurfette will end up being accused of [[CommanderContrarian just being catty because the new friend is a girl]].

* In ''Literature/LockwoodAndCo'', [[GreenEyedMonster Lucy]] is incredibly jealous of new colleague Holly for her beauty, brains and competence and ''especially'' for the attention Lockwood pays her. Though she gets better later in the series, [[ClingyJealousGirl Lucy's]] attitude towards Holly is so vitriolic at first that she very nearly drives Holly to resign. And Holly isn't even ''interested'' in Lockwood that way.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]], Rose quickly becomes jealous of Sarah Jane when she temporarily rejoins the Doctor and his companions; the feeling is mutual. This is somewhat more understandable as they both have a close relationship with the Doctor, yet the Doctor never even mentioned Sarah Jane existed, while Sarah Jane spent decades not knowing if the Doctor was alive only to find him running around with a new companion. The two women are passive aggressive towards each other, culminating in a shouting match where they each try to outdo each other in the cool things they've seen on their adventures. [[SubvertedTrope Then they realize how ridiculous they're being and become friends]]. By the end of the episode, Rose actually seems disappointed when Sarah Jane declines the offer to travel with them.

** Season 10 has the love triangle between Frasier, Roz and Julia Wilcox, with Roz taking an instant dislike to the rude, pushy and just generally obnoxious Julia apparently because of an attraction to Frasier, which eventually culminates at the end of the season with Roz demanding he chose between them, and threatening to walk away if he chooses Julia. This... didn't go over well, so season 11 begins with utterly dumping that idea, and Roz mocking the idea she has any sort of romantic feelings for Frasier whatsoever. Julia is given the boot an episode later.

* Averted with the original cast of ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', but played straight in later seasons when Jess is initially the only girl of the group consisting of her, Finn, Rudy and Curtis and in ''two'' [[LoveTriangle Love Triangles]] with Alex and Finn, then Finn and Rudy. When Abby joins them, Jess is the only one who outright dislikes her, calling her a "slut" for sleeping with Finn once (which Abby outright states she didn't find particularly enjoyable and she just did it to see if it would jog her memories at all) and a freak multiple times and on a couple of occasions, to her face. Abby doesn't especially care but it's still quite jarring how needlessly rude the otherwise OnlySaneMan Jess is to her.

* Ashley of ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' is critical toward Liara joining the squad. Though in this case, it was not specifically because Liara was female ([[OneGenderRace ...sort of...]]), but because she was the daughter of a major enemy agent. However it's played a little more straight in that there can be a little bit of jealousy regarding a romanced Liara, as well as a bit of hostility at other points (Ashley once snaps at Liara for speaking up during a strategy meeting, accusing Liara of overstepping her bounds). Additionally, by this point, Tali, the other female squad member, will have joined. It is also subverted in that Shepard might also be female. [[FantasticRacism Her primary issue however is the fact that Liara isn't human]] serving on the most advanced ship in the Alliance fleet. By ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if she survives, she's not only gotten over it and, assuming you take the correct steps, not only fights alongside Liara, Tali, and EDI but is even very forgiving if a male Shepard left her for Tali in the second game.

* Bizarrely inverted in the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E6BartStar Bart Star]]" where Lisa tries to pull off a JackieRobinsonStory and announces she's joining the football team. Only when she gets there she finds out there's three other girls on the team already and the coach is welcoming. Enraged she can't be the only girl on the team (or protest the use of pigskin footballs since they're entirely synthetic and the producing company donates to charity) she runs off crying.

** In a {{filler}} arc from the first TV series, Sanae also shows jealousy of [[CanonForeigner Rika Oosawa]] -- to the point that [[spoiler: when Tsubasa's mother Natsuko decides to go to ''France'' (where Tsubasa and Rika actually are, alongside the Japanese Team), Sanae tags along with her ([[MyFriendsandZoidberg and Manabu]]) ''all the way from Tokyo to Paris''.]] Even when Rika does ''not'' have any kind of ShipTease with Tsubasa. Again, it's totally PlayedForLaughs and Sanae is supposed to be seen as [[ClingyJealousgirl immature and clingy]] for it.

* Zig-zagged in ''LightNovel/SorcererStabberOrphen Revenge''. Cleao and Lycoris don't get along at first, but it's less about romantic/sexual jealousy and more because of [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl their personality clashes.]] [[spoiler: And the first time they fought, the actual cause was a doppelganger that tricked Cleao into believing that Lycoris was TheMole.]] Once they have to go through TeethClenchedTeamwork and understand each other better, they become [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship very close friends.]]

* Subverted in ''Film/IronMan2''. Tony Stark ''expects'' this to happen with Pepper and the new aide Natalie Rushman, but the two of them actually get along fine. Pepper lampshades the trope when she takes it as a sign of Tony's arrogance that he'd assume another LoveTriangle would form over him. Pepper does ''once'' snap at Natalie, but it had nothing to do with her being a woman or any LoveTriangle, but because of the very correct observation that things seemed to go bad whenever Natalie was in the area (since Natalie [[spoiler: aka Natasha Romanova aka Black Widow]] is actually an undercover agent of S.H.I.E.L.D). By their next scene together, Pepper has calmed down and made up with Natalie.

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Annabeth acts this way towards Rachel Elizabeth Dare, [[spoiler: though it's mostly out of jealousy because Percy has clearly fallen for her.]]

* As ferals on ''Series/MutantX'' are notoriously territorial, Shalimar did not take kindly to another feral joining the team. Per the trope, the new girl was a joy bringer everyone else liked. Worse, Shalimar was ordered to stay at Home Base due to an injury but was normally the ICanStillFight type without two layers of jealousy for extra motivation. [[spoiler: It turned out the new feral was even more territorial. She staged the accident that injured Shalimar then joined the team to finish her off.]]

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', when Agent Tex first met Sister, she was rather hostile toward Sister, even going so far as to lay down the law in a private conversation (which Sister, who is one of the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s of the series, mistook as "you know, girl stuff").

** Happens ''again'' in the sequel series, ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles'' between Kimiko and Willow. [[spoiler: And once again, the new addition is actually evil and ends up leaving so that Kimiko remains the sole female on the team.]]
* Boom-Boom/Tabitha is the only girl in the Brotherhood house in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' and when [[spoiler: Mystique]] arrives back she leaves saying "too many girls in this house". Then again, Boom-Boom tended to get along well with ''other'' girls as proved by her RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with Amara, and she never really ''fit'' in the Brotherhood too well. [[spoiler: And considering the stuff Mystique did later...]]

* ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'': Princess Leia shows signs of this when a {{Fiery Redhead}}ed wingmate of Luke's, one Shira Brie, starts flirting with him, although she gets over it. Then Luke discovers that she was an Imperial DeepCoverAgent after unwittingly shooting her down during a mission; she survives, and eventually returns as [[DarkActionGirl "Lumiya"]].

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', after [[HighHeelFaceTurn Nico Robin]] joins the crew, Nami is the first of the crew members to voice her objection over Robin forcing herself into the crew. Robin manages to win Nami over quickly by giving her money, and later she refers to Robin as her CoolBigSis. Of course, Nami's objections were less about Robin's gender, and more because she was TheDragon of the previous ArcVillain. The fact that Nami had an "older sister" type friendship with Vivi - the princess whose kingdom went through intense turmoil because of Robin's actions - and probably had the most empathy of anyone in the crew for the pain she went through probably had something to do with it as well.
** Speaking of Princess Vivi, it should be pointed out that Nami had no objections to letting her travel with the crew back when she was still the only woman in it. In fact, it was ''her'' idea.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': [[ActionGirl Yoko]] has some difficulty dealing with [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Nia]] when she joins Team Dai-Gurren, more because her {{Moe}}-ness wins over the guys than because of her being the {{Big Bad}}'s daughter. Possibly justified in that, back then, she considered Nia dead weight: they were fighting a rebellion, and Nia had no combat skills. Then Nia won Yoko over via showing her SilkHidingSteel side, specially via not even blinking when Yoko released her from a monster via ''shooting said monster when it was holding Nia hostage''. It was sealed when Nia asked Yoko to give her an ImportantHaircut (as [[CloseCallHaircut she lost a bit of hair in the rescue process]]) and when Yoko was cleaning it up, she asked why Nia just closed her eyes and looked content. Nia answers that Yoko is a master with a rifle, showing she had complete trust in Yoko. Yoko [[JerkassRealization realizes that she was being a jerk]] and ends up becoming a CoolBigSis to Nia.
** It may not entirely count anyway, as there ''were'' other females in the team already before Nia joined. (Kittan's sisters, anyone?)

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Riruka Dokugamine behaves rather harshly towards Orihime Inoue when she comes into the X-Cution headquarters. Orihime doesn't take the bait, and Riruka softens up to her anyway. ([[{{Tsundere}} Sorta]])
* Zig-zagged in ''LightNovel/SorcererStabberOrphen Revenge''. Cleao and Lycoris don't get along at first, but it's less about romantic/sexual jealousy and more because of [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl their personality clashes.]] [[spoiler: And the first time they fought, the actual cause was a doppelganger that tricked Cleao into believing that Lycoris was TheMole.]] Once they have to go through TeethClenchedTeamwork and understand each other better, they become [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship very close friends.]]

* In ''Manga/AkatsukiNoAria'', Ayako Nishimikado and Aria Kanbara ''don't'' get along since Ayako is a bit of a SpoiledBrat and Aria is the family's HeroicBastard... but when Natsuo's [[ArrangedMarriage arranged girlfriend]] [[RichBitch Beniko]] arrives at the scene, ''both'' girls hate her pretty much at first sight.
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Kallen is miffed when C.C begins hanging around with the Black Knights, mainly because she feels jealous about C.C's evident closeness with their leader Zero, who Kallen has an obvious crush on. She eventually gets over it and she and C.C become LovelyAngels VitriolicBestBuds (the vitriol due to C.C being an incorrigible {{Troll}}.)
* Played with in ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'', as when Chiyu asks Taku to install Brain Burst on her Neurolinker so she can join him and Haru, she's hesitant to join up with Kuroyukihime, since things are somewhat tense between them at this point, due to shared jealousy over Haru. Kuroyukihime doesn't have any objections to Chiyu joining, although she does find it somewhat unlikely that Chiyu would be able to qualify. In fact, the old Nega Nebulus was mostly female, so it's not as though Kuroyukihime has a problem with other girls being around.

* Subverted in ''Film/IronMan2''. Tony Stark ''expects'' this to happen with Pepper and the new aide Natalie Rushman, but the two of them actually get along fine. Pepper lampshades the trope when she takes it as a sign of Tony's arrogance that he'd assume another LoveTriangle would form over him. Pepper does ''once'' snap at Natalie, but it had nothing to do with her being a woman or any LoveTriangle, but because of the very correct observation that things seemed to go bad whenever Natalie was in the area (since Natalie [[spoiler: aka Natasha Romanova aka Black Widow]] is actually an undercover agent of S.H.I.E.L.D). By their next scene together, Pepper has calmed down and made up with Natalie.

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Annabeth acts this way towards Rachel Elizabeth Dare, [[spoiler: though it's mostly out of jealousy because Percy has clearly fallen for her.]]

* Vin tends to behave like this in ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'', mostly notably in ''The Well of Ascension'', as she's the only plot-relevant female of ''The Final Empire''. But in the sequel she is immediately hostile towards Tindwyl and Allrianne, though she does soften up to the former as she gets to know her, she remains needlessly rude and hostile to the latter.

* Carla toward Dr. Clock in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. Mainly because as a psychiatrist Clock was just as good, if not better, at being TheChick and began solving everyone else's problems (while, ironically enough, doing a study into exactly the same sort of workplace hostility while being unaware of Carla's grudge).
** Carla does this with other women a lot. She and Elliot were at each other's throats in Season One until Turk and J.D managed to bring them together and they became good friends after that, she and Jordan didn't get along for a while as they were in something of a LoveTriangle with Doctor Cox and Carla refused to invite Dr. Miller to her wedding because she was "too pretty". The only woman she consistently liked and respected from the beginning was [[SassyBlackWoman Laverne.]]
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Penny acts like this a couple of times toward an attractive GirlOfTheWeek who will usually be using one of the boys for something. When more permanent members Bernadette and Amy join, though, she's very friendly and bonds with them quickly. Even afterward she ends up this way toward Raj's sister Prya for a while but ends up befriending her as well (bonding, ironically enough, over their sex life with Leonard.)
* Averted in an episode of ''Series/TheOfficeUS''. When a purse saleswoman comes into the office to sell her products, Michael jokes that Pam will be catty to her since she [Pam] is no longer the hottest woman in the office. Both women are understandably repulsed by Michael's statement.
* As ferals on ''Series/MutantX'' are notoriously territorial, Shalimar did not take kindly to another feral joining the team. Per the trope, the new girl was a joy bringer everyone else liked. Worse, Shalimar was ordered to stay at Home Base due to an injury but was normally the ICanStillFight type without two layers of jealousy for extra motivation. [[spoiler: It turned out the new feral was even more territorial. She staged the accident that injured Shalimar then joined the team to finish her off.]]
* Chiana in ''{{Series/Farscape}}'' tolerated Aeryn, even seeing her as something like a sister (Aeryn was also on the ship before Chiana was) but reacted this way toward both Jool and Sikozu when they came aboard.

* In ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', Wade Wells's character does not respond well to the adding of Maggie Beckett to the group. Wade was the only woman in the first seasons.

* Ashley of ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' is critical toward Liara joining the squad. Though in this case, it was not specifically because Liara was female ([[OneGenderRace ...sort of...]]), but because she was the daughter of a major enemy agent. However it's played a little more straight in that there can be a little bit of jealousy regarding a romanced Liara, as well as a bit of hostility at other points (Ashley once snaps at Liara for speaking up during a strategy meeting, accusing Liara of overstepping her bounds). Additionally, by this point, Tali, the other female squad member, will have joined. It is also subverted in that Shepard might also be female. [[FantasticRacism Her primary issue however is the fact that Liara isn't human]] serving on the most advanced ship in the Alliance fleet. By ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if she survives, she's not only gotten over it and, assuming you take the correct steps, not only fights alongside Liara, Tali, and EDI but is even very forgiving if a male Shepard left her for Tali in the second game.

* In ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', Ki, the "Smurfette" of the eponymous company, takes an instant dislike to Trudy when the latter is hired, largely because Trudy's a BitchInSheepsClothing who's only nice to Dwayne (her boss), and Nick (the guy she likes), although she does say that it's nice to have another woman at work. Since Ki also likes Nick, there's an element of jealousy at play, and Nick, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter who's more trusting of Trudy than most]], suspects that Ki's hatred of Trudy is irrational. Of course, when Sharon gets hired, she and Ki become close friends.

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', when Agent Tex first met Sister, she was rather hostile toward Sister, even going so far as to lay down the law in a private conversation (which Sister, who is one of the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s of the series, mistook as "you know, girl stuff").

* {{Subverted}} on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice.'' [[TheChick M'gann]] actually tried to befriend [[AffirmativeActionGirl Artemis]], but the latter ignored her efforts and openly ogled ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, M'gann's crush. M'gann was clearly aggravated, but after some light bickering, decided to keep being friendly anyway. Sure enough, the two become close friends. Also {{Averted}} later when ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} and then [[ComicBook/{{Icon}} Rocket]] show up.
* Kimiko from ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' reacted poorly to the addition of the mermaid Dyris to the team, mainly because Dyris had no problem flirting with the boys to get them to do things for her. [[SubvertedTrope Then Dyris taught Kimiko the same trick and they became great friends...]] but it was discovered later that Dyris was actually evil and that went out the window.
** Happens ''again'' in the sequel series, ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles'' between Kimiko and Willow. [[spoiler: And once again, the new addition is actually evil and ends up leaving so that Kimiko remains the sole female on the team.]]

* Boom-Boom/Tabitha is the only girl in the Brotherhood house in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' and when [[spoiler: Mystique]] arrives back she leaves saying "too many girls in this house". Then again, Boom-Boom tended to get along well with ''other'' girls as proved by her RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with Amara, and she never really ''fit'' in the Brotherhood too well. [[spoiler: And considering the stuff Mystique did later...]]

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': One episode featured a tribe of [[TheSmurfs Smurf]] [[{{Expy}} expies]] and Grim tried to capture them. One of his attempts consisted of disguising himself as a female of their species, resulting in him getting a beating from ''their'' Smurfette, which was quite larger than them.

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* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': [[ActionGirl Yoko]] has some difficulty dealing with [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Nia]] when she joins Team Dai-Gurren, more because her {{Moe}}-ness wins over the guys than because of her being the {{Big Bad}}'s daughter. Possibly justified in that, back then, she considered Nia dead weight: they were fighting a rebellion, and Nia had no combat skills. Then Nia won Yoko over via showing her SilkHidingSteel side, specially via not even blinking when Yoko released her from a monster via ''shooting said monster when it was holding Nia hostage''. It was sealed when Nia asked Yoko to give her an ImportantHaircut (as [[CloseCallHaircut she lost a bit of hair in the rescue process]]) and when Yoko was cleaning it up, she asked why Nia just closed her eyes and looked contnet. Nia answers that Yoko is a master with a rifle, showing she had complete trust in Yoko. Yoko [[JerkassRealization realizes that she was being a jerk]] and ends up becoming a CoolBigSis to Nia.

** Played straight and [[PlayedforLaughs for absolute comedy]]: in Yayoi's first apparition in the elementary school arc, Sanae was ''pissed'' and openly jealous. It's not helped by a totally oblivious Yayoi revealing her past with Tsubasa and, well, by both of the being little girls back then. (They're hinted to have become good friends as teenagers.)

* Zig-zagged in ''LightNovel/SorcererStabberOrphen Revenge''. Cleao and Lycoris don't get along at first, but it's less about romantic/sexual jealousy and more because of [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl their personality clashes.]] [[spoiler: And the first time they fought, the actual cause was a doppelganger that tricked Cleao into believing that Lycoris was TheMole.]] Once they have to go though TeethClenchedTeamwork and understand each other better, they become [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship very close friends.]]

* In ''Manga/AkatsukiNoAria'', Ayako Nishimikado and Aria Kanbara ''don't'' get along since Ayako is a bit of a SpoiledBrat and Aria is the family's HeroicBastard... but when Natsuo's [[ArrangedMarriage arranged girlfriend]] [[RichBitch Beniko]] arrives to the scene, ''both'' girls hate her pretty much at first sight.

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** In the same series, Leia also dislikes Dani, a Zeltron woman who travels with them on several occasions and also has a thing for Luke. But after they work together on a mission this dislike largely fades.

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* The women of the Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy tend to not get along. In the first film, Nebula and Gamora compete with each other for mercenary assignments, to the point where Nebula would rather cut off her own hand rather than ever cooperate with Gamora. In [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the second film]], Gamora trusts Mantis the least of the team and is hostile whenever she approaches. However, she learns her competitive streak has consequences, when she hears Nebula tell her how Gamora constantly beating her in battle caused their captor Thanos to continually torture Nebula. This prompts a HeelRealization in Gamora that leads to the two women beginning to patch their relationship.

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* Alyss treats Evanlyn this way in ''Literature/RangersApprentice,'' because she thinks that the princess is into Will. While there was significant ShipTease between them in earlier books, the reader knows that it's entirely died out by now, and that she's only interested in Horace. Whether or not Alyss' jealousy is unreasonable is left up to the readers to decide.

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* Carla toward Dr. Clock in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. Mainly because as a psychiatrist Clock was just as good, if not better, at being TheChick and began solving everyone elses problems (while, ironically enough, doing a study into exactly the same sort of workplace hostility while being unaware of Carla's grudge).

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Penny acts like this a couple of times toward an attractive GirlOfTheWeek who will usually be using one of the boys for something. When more permanent members Bernadette and Amy join, though, she's very friendly and bonds with them quickly. Even afterward she ends up this way toward Raj's sister Prya for a while, but ends up befriending her as well (bonding, ironically enough, over their sex life with Leonard.)

* This is ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s initial reaction to Faith's arrival in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E3FaithHopeAndTrick Faith, Hope and Trick]]". There are female Scoobies, but none of them is a Slayer. To her credit Buffy gets over this issue quickly, which is just as well because Faith [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil has some issues of her own]].

* In ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', Wade Wells character does not respond well to the adding of Maggie Beckett to the group. Wade was the only woman in the first seasons.

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* Ashley of ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' is critical toward Liara joining the squad. Though in this case, it was not specifically because Liara was female ([[OneGenderRace ...sort of...]]), but because she was the daughter of a major enemy agent. However it's played a little more straight in that there can be a little bit of jealousy regarding a romanced Liara, as well as a bit of hostility at other points (Ashley once snaps at Liara for speaking up during a strategy meeting, accusing Liara of overstepping her bounds). Additionally, by this point, Tali, the other female squad member, will have joined. It is also subverted in that Shepard might also be female. [[FantasticRacism Her primary issue however is the fact that Liara isn't human]] serving on the most advanced ship in the Alliance fleet. By ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if she survives, she's not only gotten over it and, assuming you take the correct steps, not only fights alongside Liara, Tali and EDI, but is even very forgiving if a male Shepard left her for Tali in the second game.

* Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}''. Ann, the first female Phantom Thief, initially dislikes Makoto, the StudentCouncilPresident, because Ann believes that Makoto willingly turned a blind eye to Kamoshida's crimes (including those against Ann and her best friend, Shiho), but the truth is that Makoto believed she couldn't do anything, and feels guilty. Once Makoto joins the team, she and Ann have a heart-to-heart talk that results in them exchanging apologies and getting on a FirstNameBasis, and Ann even says she's glad to have another girl on the team.
* Also averted in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', where the first person to join the Investigation Team after Chie is Chie's best friend, Yukiko. Chie sometimes worries about Yukiko, but is glad to have her around.

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* GenderFlipped and PlayedForLaughs in ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad:'' in a bonus scene to the Prom episode, Tompkins (who was apparently intended to be TheOneGuy when he was introduced) grumbles that if [[SpearCounterpart the Four Gregs]] hadn't came along, ''he'' could have been massacred as one of the girls' dates. (He is then massacred by something unrelated.)

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* Averted on ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Katara and Toph clashed after Toph joined, but this had nothing to do with gender (Katara even liked having another girl around) and everything to do with Toph's standoffish attitude. Plus the fact that the entire Gaang was sleep-deprived at the time kept everyone on edge.

* {{Subverted}} on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice.'' [[TheChick M'gann]] actually tried to befriend [[AffirmativeActionGirl Artemis]], but the latter ignored her efforts and openly ogled ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, M'gann's crush. M'gann was clearly aggravated, but after some light bickering, decided to keep being friendly anyway. Sure enough the two become close friends. Also {{Averted}} later when ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} and then [[ComicBook/{{Icon}} Rocket]] show up.

** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E17ForgetMeNot Forget-Me-Not]]" [[spoiler:Stewie puts Peter, Brian, Joe and Quagmire in a simulation where they all have amnesia and are the only people around due to Stewie believing Peter and Brian were only friends from circumstance. Aside from [[ItMakesSenseInContext a misunderstanding that leads the others to believe Peter destroyed everyone else on Earth]] they get along fairly well and Stewie admitted to being wrong when Brian took a bullet for Peter after defending him from accusations over said misunderstanding. In the end we see Stewie has done the same thing with Meg, Lois and Bonnie. They started clawing at each other's throats after just a few minutes.]]

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': One episode featured a tribe of [[TheSmurfs Smurf]] [[{{Expy}} expies]] and Grim tried to capture them. One of his attempts consisted on disguising himself as a female of their species, resulting on him getting a beating from ''their'' Smurfette, which was quite larger than them.

* This is ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s initial reaction to Faith's arrival. There are female Scoobies, but none of them is a Slayer. To her credit Buffy gets over this issue quickly, which is just as well because Faith [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil has some issues of her own]].

** In the episode "Forget-Me-Not" [[spoiler:Stewie puts Peter, Brian, Joe and Quagmire in a simulation where they all have amnesia and are the only people around due to Stewie believing Peter and Brian were only friends from circumstance. Aside from [[ItMakesSenseInContext a misunderstanding that leads the others to believe Peter destroyed everyone else on Earth]] they get along fairly well and Stewie admitted to being wrong when Brian took a bullet for Peter after defending him from accusations over said misunderstanding. In the end we see Stewie has done the same thing with Meg, Lois and Bonnie. They started clawing at each other's throats after just a few minutes.]]

* Bizarrely inverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where Lisa tries to pull off a JackieRobinsonStory and announces she's joining the football team. Only when she gets there she finds out there's three other girls on the team already and the coach is welcoming. Enraged she can't be the only girl on the team (or protest the use of pigskin footballs since they're entirely synthetic and the producing company donates to charity) she runs off crying.