The Biggest Bitches on TV and Movies

The television is where the biggest parties of angels and bitches happen.

We all have our favourite antagonists — yes, those evil characters we secretly relate to and admire from a distance.

We curse them, promise to hate them for all eternity and never set eyes on them again, then we wait in vain for the next episode. These bitches can be quite addicting. Who’s your bitch? We rounded up the biggest one on TV and the movies, so see if your pet peeve or your best-loved bitch is on our list.

1. Clair Underwood (House of Cards)

“We’re murderers, Francis.”

Clair is the kind of wicked character that gets you glued on TV. She has a dagger for a tongue and clothes that can kill you with envy. We looked around and checked when people thought she was the most evil and a lot of people agreed it was this line that made her the biggest ‘B’ on TV: “I’m willing to let your child wither and die inside you if that’s what’s required.”

2. Karen (Will & Grace)

“If it has genitals on the outside, it’s hiding something on the inside.”

Even if you go blind, Karen will continue to live inside your head. You can keep your eyes closed throughout a Will and Grace episode and not miss out on the fun for as long as she’s around. A boozer has never looked this hot, and we don’t think anyone could ever replace her if they tried.

3. Cersei (Game of Thrones)

“Everyone who isn’t us is an enemy.”

She’s one of the most power-hungry characters we know and she’s done the most vicious things. There’s incest, assault of an infant and murder of her best friend, to name a few. The list can go on, but we think we’ve said enough.

4. Regina George (Mean Girls)

“Boo, you whore!”

“Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by Regina George.” This is the reason why you’ve watched Mean Girls for the 875th time. Regina is the character you love to hate and you hate to love. There was this one scene — one scene– when she was actually nice and it was deleted, that’s why you never got to see it. We’re sure it wasn’t worth your time anyway.

5. Pam De Beaufort (True Blood)

“You smell like dinner.”

RBF, as in the Resting Bitch Face syndrome, is what Pam is known for. Whether she’s happy or mad, she keeps the same expression. Pam is a well-loved bitchy vampire for her immortal one-liners. Our favourite was this: “Did we join a book club and read some queer chicklit memoir so now we’re bonded together by oestrogen or sisterhood or some other feminist drivel?” Some sass!

6. Victoria Grayson (Revenge)

“To Emily.  Who would have thought that after all was said and done, you and I would die together?”

When the tough gets going, Victoria will remind you to your face that she has all the money and therefore all the power anyone could ever want in the world. End of story.

7. Miss Piggy (The Muppets)

“There’s only room for one diva in Oz, and that is moi!”

The karate pig was set out to conquer the world and succeeded. Since Miss Piggy’s first appearance in the 1970s, no other character has consistently been this go-getter, and that primadonna complex she has? Oh, it is way beyond us. Her cover of Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money” got fans all over the world cheering for her.

8. Jenny Gump (Forrest Gump)

“Run Forrest, Run!”

She broke the adorable Forrest Gump’s heart so many times that people found it so easy to hate her.  She was dealing with her own childhood trauma so running away from Forrest proved to be the only thing that would protect him from her. Was she really a bitch? Yes, because nobody should ever break an innocent man’s heart. Ever. Hope you’re getting this from heaven, Jenny.

9. Rosalie Hale (Twilight)

“I dont hate you. I don’t particularly like you either.”

Her loyalty was often overridden by her narcissism and envious character. Rosalie was willing to trade anything just so she could go back to being human, which probably explains the temper. A horrible experience of being gang-raped as a human then unwillingly turned into a vampire would also mess our oestrogen up, so yes, we dig you, Rosalie.

10. Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmatians)

“There is an explanation of course. You see…. I’m a really terrible person.”

You seriously can’t live this lifetime not experiencing the wicked ways of Cruella. Her name is pure genius that we want to name all our dogs after her. When she said, “I live for fur, I worship fur. After all, is there a woman in all this wretched world who doesn’t?”, you didn’t really agree, but you couldn’t disagree either.

11. Kathryn Mertueill (Cruel Intentions)

“But unfortunately, I don’t fuck losers.”

Gorgeous sociopaths get excused sometimes, but they’re never spared from hate. There’s a love-hate bond between Kathryn and her fans because it’s difficult to ignore an intelligent woman who has all the right looks. Agree?

12. Veruca Salt (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)

“I want an Oompa Loompa Daddy.”

The most adorable bitch and the biggest all-time brat who will do anything and everything to get everything done as she pleases. Oh, why do we even think that she’s charming as she is a bitch? It’s because there is that one character who’s exactly like her in all of our lives.

13. Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)

“Please, bore someone else with your questions. That’s all.”

Female bosses are most likely hated not only by men, and Miranda is the embodiment of a lady boss who’s cruel, inconsiderate and temperamental — nothing that we haven’t seen in real workplaces anyway.

14. Marcia Brady (The Brady Bunch)

“She’s lucky I even let her breathe the same air I do!”

The eldest of the brood, the most popular girl in school, the most admired by boys and the most irritating for anyone watching her on TV. She could be overbearing and unbelievably conceited and was too self-absorbed. No wonder she was the nemesis of her sister Jan.

15. Betty Draper (Mad Men)

“Jesus Henry, just once could you take my side!”

Blonde and beautiful but emotionally shallow, Betty was the wife of lead character Don Draper, the philandering advertising executive secretly living under a false identity. Betty struggles with depression, parenting their children, and her husband’s infidelity (who doesn’t?). After having enough of his lies, the bitch ditches her husband and runs off with an older man.

16. Patsy (Absolutely Fabulous)

“I hate gynaecologists! A man who can look you in the vagina, but never in the eye!”

Always stylishly dressed, and wears her hair in a characteristic blonde beehive, Patsy walks the walk as a well-paid, do-nothing fashion director for a magazine, which she received after sleeping with the publisher. Suspected to be involved in adult films, which makes her a bitch to the core, Patsy has a vulnerable side, which we see in flashbacks of her bleak past.

17. Alex (Orange is the New Black)

“I’m coming, I’m coming… I’m coming!”

Could you single out one antagonist in a setting such as the prison? Alex is a two-timing drug dealer who dragged her partner into the drug-dealing business. After just a few seasons, she’s rightfully earned the title “master manipulator” although some fans insist that she’s just completely misunderstood.

18. Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)

“Well I’d rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.”

Lucille Bluth is the fiery martini-fueled grandmother in Arrested Development played by Jessica Walter (who is also the voice of Malory Archer in Archer). She is an alcoholic (rarely seen without a drink in her hand) and has been known to spend time in rehab.  She is extremely critical and a manipulative bitch! She is also a very harsh elitist and is in denial about her real age!

19. Blanche Devereaux (Golden Girls)

“You know Dorothy, there’s a thin line between having a good time and becoming an obvious wanton slut.”

Remember the Golden Girls? Blanche is the man-hungry spoilt brat that never really grew up. She was in denial about her dead husband’s faked death to escape prosercution for fraud. She is promiscuous, elitist, and proud of her ‘inter-racial sex tryists’.

20. Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)

“Don’t be so dramatic. That’s my thing, and if you take it away, I will kill myself and then you.”

Jenna was conceived in a Florida bathroom in a town called ‘Toilet Swamp Cove’. She revealed that she is an Ashkenazi Jew with an extra chromosome and has had ‘hand reduction surgery’. Always in a dysfunctional relationship, she has been in two three-ways with Tom and Roseanne Arnold and another with two of the Backstreet Boys. Jenna has an obvious need for attention, is vain, self-centred, amoral and is emotionally abusive to everyone that cares about her. But we love to love her anyway.

21. Helen Harris III (Bridesmaids)

“Everyone should experience first class at least once in their lives…”

Helen Harris III is the second wife of the groom’s boss in Bridesmaids. She is the picture of success. Poised, groomed, dressed to the nines, but also incredibly lonely and vulnerable. Always trying to outdo everyone else so that she can get some of the limelight – she doesn’t intentionally mean to be a bitch, but does it with aplomb!

22. Aubrey Posen (Pitch Perfect)

“My father always said, “If you’re not here to win… get the hell outta Kuwait.”

Aubrey is the self-appointed leader of the Barden Bellas, a singling acapello group. She is uptight, dominant and a perfectionist who vomits when she is nervous. You just love to hate her.

23. Risso (Grease)

“Some people are so touchy…”

Risso was ahead of her time. Sassy, sexually free, she knows what she wants and isn’t afraid of getting it, no matter what society tells her to do. It’s her pure sass that makes her such a loveable character.

24. Scarlet O’Hara (Gone with the Wind)

“And now I find myself in a world which for me is worse than death…”

Scarlett O’Hara has always been quite frankly a spoilt little brat. And she got what she deserved in the end. With the best ‘Resting Bitch Face’ of all time, it’s good to see a bad girl not get what she wanted. Boo Scarlett O’Hara, boo!

25. Kat (10 Things I Hate About You)

“I guess in this society being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time.”

Based on ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, Kat just is a girl standing up for herself, who takes no shit and gives no fucks. I like Kat. Be like Kat.

26. Jackie Burkhart (That 70’s Show)

“It’s better to have loved and lost than to be butt-ugly.”

Jackie is a self-aborbed snob who has money and looks – the worst kind of person! She is used to getting what she wants, or will whinge until she gets it. Totally superficial and irritating, her friends tend not to listen to her verbal diarrhoea. Like all pretty girls, she is very insecure and needs to always have a man on her arm.

27. Dr Julia Harris D.D.S. (Horrible Bosses)

“Are you gonna slap me in the face with your cock?”

Dr Julia Harris is a sleazy sex-crazed dentist who can’t get enough cock. She sexually harrases all her employees, and her employees’ friends and family – actually pretty much every man she meets. It’s good to see a woman play the sleaze for once – and Aniston rocks this role!

28. Viola Fields (Monster In Law)

“I thought you were dead, but evil doesn’t die so easily.”

Viola is the overprotective mother-in-law that fears losing her son to his new fiance. From some of the stories I’ve heard about mother-in-laws, this could be a documentary.

29. Gemma Teller Morrow (Sons of Anarchy)

“You gonna say something or just stare at my tits?”

After her husband died from being hit by a semi-truck, Gemma remarried her husband’s friend, Clay Morrow. She’s a pro at scheming and will do anything for her son and grandson and is already overlooking their control over SAMCRO. She’s a villain that you either love or hate, no in betweens. She was previously raped by Sons of Anarchy rival, AJ Wilson, but this biker chick will kick your arse.

Who’s your favourite lady villain?