Rated T for TeenLooking for movies and TV shows that are rated T for Teen? These lists feature great movies and TV programs about teens, enjoyed by people of all ages.
Updated June 15, 2019 3.9K votes 841 voters 32.4K views
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HBIC. Head. Bitch. In. Charge. For decades, these enigmatic encapsulations of bitchery have ruled high school hallways with a perfectly manicured iron fist. They've cut the chaff from cheer squads. They've thrown lesser mortals off prom committees. They've told wannabes they can't sit with them at lunch. Sure, they’re bitches, but they're the most loveable bitches in cinema. Yes, indeed, these are bad bitches you love to hate.
You love and loathe boss-ass bitches in teen movies. They're the ones you can't stop talking about after the credits roll. This movie archetype is as prevalent as the maverick cop who doesn't play by the rules or the underdog who takes down his adversary when the odds are against them. So why not revel in reprehensible behavior and bask in the boss-ass bitchiness?
Head Bitches are cunning, devious, manipulative… Okay, that seems like a bunch of bad qualities, but you can't help "yas queen"-ing along to their bitchy on-screen smack-downs. They're bad bitches we love to hate. Brush up on the best HBICs of all time and check out these chicas diablas. Then, leave your two cents in the comments section below.
Like it or not, Mean Girls is a generation-defining film. Depending on your circle of friends, it's possible not a single day goes by you don't hear a quote from this movie. But can a movie really be considered classic without a great movie villain? Enter Regina George, played to peak-bitch perfection by Rachel McAdams, who makes a hell of an entrance. As in, slow-motion walking down the school hall while boys slam their bodies into lockers out of admiration and fear.
Regina George has become synonymous with Head Bitch in Charge. For millennials, she's the first face that springs to mind when you're asked to picture a high school mean girl. She's a master manipulator and it took a team of teens, plus a school bus, to bring her down. There aren't many queen bees with such a death grip on the high school crown.
Two words: Cocaine. Crucifix. That's all you need to know about why Kathryn Merteuil earns her place on this list of the baddest bitches in the teen movie game. Kathryn, played with sexy coke-sniffing aplomb by Sarah Michelle Gellar, hides her drug addiction in her crucifix necklace, which she unscrews and takes bumps.
No one's endorsing a realcocaine habit. But fictional teen movie cocaine habits hidden in secret religious necklaces? That's something any HBIC aficionado can get behind. Kathryn is a classic teen movie HBIC to the motherf*cking max. To break it down:
First, she makes a bet with her stepbrother about seducing an innocent peer, but during the process of said bet, he develops feelings for the mark. That's a teen movie staple. The stakes of the bet? He can do butt stuff to her (his stepsister, btw) if he wins. Second, she uses religious devotion as a means of masking her evil streak. This HBIC move pops up again on this list. But Kathryn, well, she's an OG.
Picking up where Heathers and its death toll left off, Jawbreaker starts off with a mean girl clique, headed by Courtney (Rose McGowan), accidentally killing the fourth member of their gang with a jawbreaker. The cold, calculating Courtney uses her head instead of losing it; they cover up the murder, while bribing the school geek/manslaughter-discoverer with the promise of popularity to keep the murder on the DL.
Does Courtney show any remorse when faced with a death she inadvertently caused? Not really. She's an expert in practicality and compartmentalizing. Courtney may just be the coldest, hardest, meanest HBIC on this whole list. She killed a girl so…
It's a damn crime Jennifer's Body is as unappreciated as it is. There's a body pun in there somewhere. Megan Fox isn’t hurting for body appreciation. This little-seen marriage of teen movie and horror flick gave us a queen bee who goes beyond high school evil to real evil. Megan Fox's Jennifer Check is a monster. No – a literal monster.
After she's mistaken for a virgin by an alt-rock band and sacrificed in a Satanic ritual meant to fuel the band's success, not-a-dead-and-not-a-virgin Jennifer develops a taste for human flesh, specifically teenage boys. Jennifer is like a paranormal progression for the mean girl archetype. And it's damn fun to watch.
Oh, Heather Chandler, we barely knew ye. You bit it, or rather drank it, "it" being bleach, so early into 1988 cult-classic Heathers, we can only imagine the HBIC heights you would have risen to were you allowed to live until the third act. Hopefully, Heather got busy becoming HBIC in Hell as soon as she arrived. God, she was a massive bitch.
In Heathers, Heather Chandler, leader of the Heathers (the high school clique that set the template for Mean Girls's Plastics), is killed off by a member of her gang. During her short on screen tenure, actress Kim Walker imbues Chandler with such ferocious bitchery and popularity-climbing ambition, she leaves an impression that far outlasts the film's length
Does Isis even have a surname? Apparently not. Whether this is an example of writers disregarding the home life of a person of color, or whether the character is so perfect and absolute she has the single name recognition of your Chers, Shakiras, and Madonnas, is unclear. Regardless, Isis is a boss. Pure and simple.
Isis does not take the theft of her team's cheers lying down. She takes the fight to her rival school grounds and, Jesus, does she go in. Isis earns her place on this list by being unapologetic, determined and also, she's literally a Head Bitch in Charge. She's head cheerleader. It doesn't get more Head Bitchy than that.
