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Examples of Betty and Veronica in Western Animation!
- Pictured above: Voltron: Legendary Defender takes Keith out of the original Voltron's BAV situation and switches him with Lance (good-hearted, awkward, pushy at times Betty), while keeping around Prince Lotor (handsome, charming, Anti-Heroic Veronica) and Princess Allura (emotional, kind, Hot-Blooded Archie). (Hilariously, Lance has a sister named Veronica - and she ships him with Allura.)
- Clone High pushes this one to its logical extremes: Abraham Lincoln is madly in love with demanding, selfish, spoiled, slutty, gorgeous, popular Cleopatra (Veronica), while remaining completely clueless to the devotion of his best friend, spunky, intelligent, independent, creative, semi-goth Joan of Arc (Betty). Of course, in the end he realises that he really loves Joan, etc.
- To a much lesser extent, Joan could be considered to be the Archie to Abe's Betty and JFK's Veronica.
- Applies to Danny Phantom, where Danny is infatuated with Paulina, the shallow, beautiful "Veronica" of the school, ignoring the pretty, intelligent "Betty" at his side, Samantha Manson. The love triangle isn't clear at the beginning of the show, when Samantha and Danny are Just Friends, but eventually their feelings do grow for each other.
- Later on, Danny's crush on Paulina fades, and one of his arch-enemies, Valerie, becomes the "Veronica" instead. A bit of a subversion, in that the biggest strike against Valerie is that she's trying to kill Danny, though she likes his secret identity just fine.
- Parodied not subtly at all in South Park. In the two parter "Do the Handicapped Go To Hell?"/"Probably", Satan has to choose between his two gay lovers, and the Veronica happens to be Saddam Hussein. And the two rivals keep killing each other, but they're in Hell already, so they just keep coming back. Eventually, Satan just says "forget it" and dumps them both, deciding to forgo having relationships at all for a while. Based on advice from God.
- Disney's Pocahontas also genderswaps this with Kocoum as the Betty and John Smith as the Veronica, although the contest clearly ends when Kocoum dies.
- Though this is also subverted as Pocohontas isn't torn between the two, she clearly doesn't want to marry Kocoum, it's more of a choice between her fathers's wishes and her own desires.
- The sequel adds John Rolfe as a new Betty, though John Smith is largely absent anyway. In the end, Pocahontas follows the history books in winding up with John Rolfe.
- In The Fairly Odd Parents, Tootie is the Betty and Trixie is the Veronica to Timmy Turner's Archie.
- Ironically, the character who is actually named Veronica (and has a crush on Timmy too) was sidelined pretty quickly. Probably because she was a nutcase who wanted to take Trixie's place in Timmy's affections.
- Ace Lightning has Heather and Sam who both date Mark at one point or another and have seemingly conflicting personalities and yet are best friends. Kind of like the original Betty and Veronica, really.
- The Spectacular Spider-Man has Gwen Stacy as the Betty, similar to some of her comic book presentations, but it is Liz Allen who is given the status of the Veronica whom Peter goes out with first. Mary Jane only fits the Veronica role for a quick bit of Ship Tease—she went on one blind date with Peter, but during the first and second seasons at least she doesn't harbor much serious interest in him other than as a friend. Whether this would have changed if the show had continued is unknown.
- Which is pretty true of the original Amazing Spiderman comic book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
- One could argue that leading up to the dance Gwen was the Betty and Betty (ironically) was the Veronica, being the unattainable older woman. Black Cat might also count as the Cheryl Blossom.
- Even though she has a few things in common with Veronica (being rich and a bit uppity), Lola from Robotboy still plays the part of Betty to Bambi's Veronica and Tommy's Archie.
- Archie's Weird Mysteries, natch. In one episode, a sea monster tries to woo Archie by taking on the guise of a girl combining Betty and Veronica's best features, prompting Betty and Veronica to form an Enemy Mine as they think they're the only ones who will fight for Archie. In the finale, a time-travelling future version of Archie is about to tell his past self who he finally got together with, only to be zapped away at the last moment.
- In The Critic episode "Lady Hawke", Jay Sherman (the Archie) got into a triangle with Alice (the Betty) and his best friend Jeremy's twin sister Olivia (the Veronica). He chooses Alice at the end of the episode.
- In Total Drama World Tour, Gwen is the Betty and Courtney the Veronica to Duncan's Archie.
- Also, Cody could be the Betty and Trent the Veronica for Gwen in season one, and Trent the Betty and Duncan the Veronica in season two.
- Also in World Tour, Cody is the Betty and Duncan is the Veronica to Gwen. And then you have Sierra forming another love triangle with Cody...it's quite the Love Dodecahedron, really.
- In Revenge of the Island, Zoey is the Betty and Anne Maria is the Veronica to Mike's Archie
- In The Secret Saturdays, Doc Saturday could to be the Betty and Leonidas Van Rooke the Veronica for Drew Saturday.
- In Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Tony has Pepper (Betty) and Whitney (Veronica). Pepper has Tony (Betty) and Gene (Veronica).
- In X-Men: Evolution, arguably Jean Grey is the Betty and Rogue the Veronica for Scott Summers/Cyclops.
- Also, Cyclops could be said to be the Betty and Gambit the Veronica for Rogue in this series.
- In Kappa Mikey, Mitsuki is the Betty and Lily is the Veronica to Mikey's Archie.
- Hey Arnold has Arnold having a crush on Lila (Betty) and admired by Helga (Veronica). Sd The Jungle Movie ultimately stated, he chose the Veronica.
- In "Arnie visits Arnie", Arnold is admired by Arnie's girlfriend Lulu (Veronica) and falls in love with Hilda (Betty). In turn, Arnold is the Betty to Arnie's Veronica for Hilda.
- This occurs a few times in The Simpsons. In 'The Last Temptation of Homer', Homer almost has an affair with Mindy (Veronica), but chooses Marge (Betty). He also choose Marge over another Veronica, Lurleen Lumpkin, in 'Colonel Homer'. A gender subversion occurs when Marge chooses Homer (Betty) over an affair with Jacques (Veronica) in 'Life on the Fast Lane'.
- Monster Allergy has Elena the Betty and Lay the Veronica when it comes to Zick. Lay has this with Zick as Betty and Teddy as Veronica.
- Jimmy Timmy Power Hour has Jimmy as Betty and Timmy as Veronica to Cindy.
- Spider-man: The Animated Series. Rich popular snobbish born with a silver spoon in her mouth Felicia Hardy as the Veronica and down-to-earth girl next door Mary Jane as the Betty. And then Felicia gets Character Development, a convoluted deal with Morbius... and becomes Black Cat.
- Justice League Unlimited would have Hawkgirl and Vixen in these roles... but the challenge here is to determine who's who to John Stewart's Archie. On one hand Mari/Vixen is a world famous fashion model, very beautiful and glamorous while Shayera/Hawkgirl is a more down-to-earth character and kinda One of the Boys. On the other, Hawkgirl is a redhaired alien woman with wings, which makes her a lot more exotic than the Earth-born Vixen will ever be. Also they play this trope a step further making them frenemies rather than downright rivals... to the point that Mari is Genre Savvy enough to rescue herself and Hawkgirl from some enemies... via pretending that she wants to Murder the Hypotenuse.. The actual results are mixed: John and Shayera find out that they have a Reincarnation Romance deal and that they will have a son in the future (Rex aka Warhawk), but John makes clear that even with all of this, he won't just leave Mari, who had been severely wounded in battle, to be with Shayera. She's understandably disappointed, but doesn't insist and instead goes talk to Batman about Warhawk.
- In Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes, both quiet, reliable Jane Foster and sexy, dangerous Enchantress seem to love Thor. However, he just doesn't like the Enchantress.
- Robbie the Reindeer has Donna (kind, sensible and voiced by Jane Horrocks) as Betty and Vixen (who lives up to her name) as Veronica.
- Codename: Kids Next Door has an example of this, combined with Sibling Triangle. Hoagie/Numbuh 2 gets torn between Abby/Numbuh 5 (Betty) and her older sister Cree (Veronica). Both girls fit the stereotypes perfectly, with the former being his close, rough but kind teammate; while the latter is an evil teenager who treats him with scorn and disgust. Interestingly played with in that his affection for the former was shown in rather subtle hints. True to the trope, he chooses Abby at the end, being Happily Married to her in the Distant Finale. It's also implied his crush on Cree was only based on her gorgeous physique and similarity to Abby.
- Played with in the case of Nigel with his girlfriend Lizzie (Betty) and KND leader Rachel/Numbuh 362. Lizzie is seen as the Betty by being his homely girlfriend, but she's also a Clingy Jealous Girl bordering on Yandere. Rachel is the "unattainable beauty", but she's also a Reasonable Authority Figure who is nicer and more understanding. Lizzie breaks up with Nigel almost at the end, and he leaves to space without either Love Interest.
- In Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, you have Marina, who is engaged to be married to Proteus (the Betty), but develops a romantic interest in his old roguish friend Sinbad (the Veronica). While she may not have been in love with Proteus, she cared about him enough to go with Sinbad to ensure that he retrieves the Book of Peace from Eris so that Proteus won't have to die for his screw-up. In the end, when Proteus realizes that Marina loves Sinbad, he privately breaks off the engagement and lets her leave Syracuse with Sinbad and his crew.
- Adventure Time has the sweet scientist Princess Bubblegum as the Betty and the radical musician Marceline the Vampire Queen as the Veronica to Finn's Archie. However, things get a little more complicated with the introduction of the quick-to-anger Flame Princess as the Cheryl Blossom. At the end, the Betty and the Veronica rekindle their old romance.
- The Legend of Korra puts Mako in the Archie position, choosing between Korra (the Veronica) and Asami (the Betty). Interestingly, a lot of the traits usually associated with each side are swapped around; ie. Asami is the richer, more traditionally beautiful one, while Korra is naive and from the country. In the end, the Betty and Veronica fall in love with each other while the Archie remains single and good friends with both of them.
- Korra is the Archie to Mako's Veronica and Bolin's Betty in season 1, though Betty is knocked out of the running rather quickly. He later has his own love deals to be busy with, and his ultimate girlfriend, Opal, is pretty Betty-ish.
- In King of the Hill, Nancy Hicks-Gribble has been carrying on an affair with Veronica, John Redcorn, while married to her Crazy Survivalist husband Dale (the Betty).