Mean Girl is a minor recurring character featured in the series Pepper Ann. She is a sardonic, attention-seeking 12-year-old girl with a punk image who often finds herself at odds with Pepper Ann Pearson.
Background
Mean Girl is shown to attend Hazelnut Middle School, where she spends most of her time gossiping with her friend, or making snappy comments at others. She is one of many rivals to Pepper Ann Pearson, ratting her out on one occasion, insulting her on another. As shown in "A No Hair Day", Mean Girl is shown to have a crush on Craig Bean, but her petty attitude and rudeness towards Pepper Ann only earned his ire.
Mean Girl literally buys Pepper Ann's time in "Live and Let Dye" after the Auburn dyes her hair green, to convince her mother to let her buy strawberry highlights for her hair. Ironically, Mean Girl instead ends up taking Pepper Ann's green hair after she gets rid of hers and gets the same amount of shallow attention.
In "The Finale", Mean Girl is shown to be just as mean in adulthood and ends up falling victim to a bad batch of pork fried spring rolls.
Personality
As her nickname suggests, Mean Girl is sardonic, smug, shallow, and surly. She spends most of her time deriding other students or gossiping about people behind their backs. Like Shelf McClain, Mean Girl is implied to have an inferiority complex, although she is more often self-assured than the large bully. Regardless, Mean Girl is shown to be rather two-faced and opportunistic under the punk image she presents herself in; At one moment, she's willing to tear someone down, only to suck up to them (or someone else) the moment they have the upper hand. Mean Girl especially thrives off of attention, which is what mainly drives her actions. From gossiping and exaggerating a story to make her sound cooler, snitching out another student for the sake of it, or chasing trends to attract a crowd, Mean Girl will go at any length for an ego boost.
Psychical appearance
Mean Girl has tan peach skin (pale pink skin in later episodes), brown lipliner, and orange hair. She maintains a feminine punk appearance with a red spiked collar around her neck; she also dawns a pink shirt and leggings, a red and green striped skirt, a silver bracelet, and dull green boots, one of which with a silver boot bracelet.
As an adult, she doubles down on the punk look, wearing spiked bracelets and eyeshadow along with her lipliner. She now wears a red vest and a green skirt, but also keeps a similar set of pink leggings and green boots.
Mean Girl's friend
Mean Girl is often seen hanging with another, much taller girl, whom she often gossips to. In contrast to Mean Girl, her friend comes off as more aloof than mean. She has squinted eyes, blonde hair, and wears a lilac shirt with blue jeans, and white and yellow sneakers. In "A No Hair Day", she is voiced by "Lauren Tom".
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Trivia
- In production designs for "The Finale", Mean Girl is referred to as "Rode Hard Mean Girl",[1] likely a reference to the phrase "rode hard and put away wet."
- This may imply that Mean Girl might've had a rough adulthood.
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