In Riverdale, Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) is the head cheerleader of the River Vixens and the self-proclaimed queen bee of Riverdale High School. Rich, entitled, and manipulative, she is the typical mean girl, and good friends with Josie McCoy.

Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray) is the lead singer in Riverdale’s own Josie and the Pussycats, and an ambitious musician in her own right. After the Pussycats won Rockland County’s Battle of the Bands, Josie decided to take music even more seriously and create a signature look for the band – hence the iconic cat ears and leopard print.

Riverdale’s new girl, Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), is a self-professed recovering mean girl. After she and her mother moved from New York, Veronica quickly befriended Archie (KJ Apa) and Betty (Lili Reinhart), and shortly also joined the high school’s cheerleading team and Josie McCoy’s (Ashleigh Murray) band, Josie and the Pussycats. Veronica can usually be seen wearing some form of a pearl necklace as her signature piece.

The childhood friend of Archie Andrews (KJ Apa), Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) is your classic girl-next-store with her good grades, cheerleader status, and her being the editor of her high school’s yearbook. In the time after the mysterious death of a classmate, Betty became the best friend of new girl Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), and began dating Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse). She wears a lot of classic silhouettes in pastel colors like baby pink or blue.

In Archie Comics, Archibald “Archie” Andrews is a typical small-town teen who attends Riverdale High School. He has a dog named Spotty, a best friend named Jughead Jones, and crushes in Veronica Lodge and Betty Cooper, tangling him in a love triangle.

On The CW’s adaptation of the classic Archie comics, Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) is the story’s narrator and one of the main characters. The series begins after the murder of a classmate, the dissolution of a friendship between himself and Archie (KJ Apa), and the entrance of a new girl at school. Jughead and Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) start a relationship partway through Season 1. He’s rarely seen without his signature beanie.