Basic Trope: A group of girls who follow around the Alpha Bitch and tend to parrot her views.
- Straight: Lucy is the most popular girl in school, and has a small group of devoted followers: Alexia, Bonnie, Courtney and Debbie. These girls tend to follow Lucy around school, echoing her views and acting as her enforcers.
- Exaggerated:
- Alexia, Bonnie, Courtney, and Debbie follow Lucy everywhere, and each has a complimentary personality: Alexia is rumored to Really Get Around, Bonnie and Courtney are Lucy's Co-Beta Bitches that contrast each other pretty well, with Bonnie being the hypercompetent right-hand who's ultimately loyal to Lucy while Courtney being the ineffectual Number Two for Brains who's looking for any opportunity to double-cross Lucy and become the new top bitch, and Debbie is a pretty Dumb Blonde who's too oblivious to realize her friends are jerks.
- Each girl has no personality of their own or even speak following the alpha bitch around like mindless drones. They dedicated their lives from birth to follow their leader, and whenever one asks what they'll do without the Alpha Bitch around. They give a confused look.
- Downplayed: The Alpha Bitch's friends are supportive of her, but have their own personalities and question some of her more heinous deeds.
- Justified: Lucy is popular, despite her abrasive personality, so it's only natural she has several girls willing to bend over backwards to stay in her favor and be popular too.
- Inverted:
- Lucy follows a bunch of popular girls.
- Liza is either a Lovable Alpha Bitch or a Spoiled Sweet School Idol, and Amanda, Bethany, Chelsea and Dorothy are her more benevolent counterparts to Lucy's Alexia, Bonnie, Courtney and Debbie.
- Gang of Bullies.
- Gender Inverted:
- Liam is the most popular guy in school and Alex, Bob, Carl, and Derek follow him around.
- Subverted:
- Lucy is popular, but her personality keeps her 'friends' from wanting to spend too much time around her.
- Lucy and her friend reveal themselves to be more loyal to each other when one is in need.
- Double Subverted: However, a few girls decide that dealing with her all the time is a small price to pay for popularity.
- Parodied:
- Lucy is always surrounded by a gaggle of mindless girls who parrot whatever she says and carry her around everywhere... even when she sleeps.
- Lucy’s posse consists of literal parrots, and when other students say that “Lucy is great,” they repeat what was said.
- Zig Zagged: Lucy is obsessed with being pretty and popular because she's struggling to compete with the memory of her "perfect" sister— who has passed away. Lucy's best friend clings to her because her mother is an abusive alcoholic. Lucy and her friends respond inappropriately to the pressures they're under by ridiculing and bullying "unpopular" girls. Also, Lucy's friend Alice is good friends with a girl in band, but ignores her at school. Some of Lucy's victims decide to fight back, and exact a revenge much worse than any of the petty things Lucy and friends had done.
- Averted: Lucy is not usually accompanied by any more than the occasional friend.
- Enforced: The principal wants an ordinary school, so he makes sure the bratty popular girl always has a bunch of other girls around her.
- Lampshaded:
- "Hey, wait - why are we so eager to be the slaves of a person nobody really likes?"
- "So, if I get a makeover and start acting bitchy, does that mean that I'll get minons too?"
- Invoked: Lucy deliberately seeks out impressionable, easy-to-control girls so she can surround herself with them as a show of power.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Get away from me! Disgusting freaks, don't you have any minds of your own? You think I'll just let you leech off of me?!"
- Discussed: "Where did these girls even came from to begin with? How did they meet up with her?"
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Since they spend so much time hanging around Lucy, people associate all of Lucy's negative traits with them, too. They may be "popular," but only as shadows of her... and when Lucy falls from grace, so do they. Nobody bothers to get to know them, just seeing them as extensions of Lucy. They have no real friends aside from Lucy, even within their own seemingly tight-knit circle.
- Reconstructed:
- But who cares about any of that, because they're, like, popular!
- They then form a new knit of friends as each other, even if Lucy treated them nastily. That doesn't mean they should treat each other like her.
- Played For Laughs: Lucy's friends not only parrot her, but do so in a Creepy Monotone, as if lobotomized.
- Played For Drama:
- Lucy's friends are secretly terrified of invoking her wrath should they ever break from the group, efficiently chaining themselves to her.
- They are given a "The Reason You Suck" Speech for following her like mindless drones they are.
- Because they're associated with Lucy, they're seen as willing accessories by everyone. And when Lucy ends up bullying a girl that is not only taller but much stronger than her, Lucy's Girl Posse ends up getting the same retaliation as their leader.
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