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Sadie Saxton is a fictional character from the teen comedy television series Awkward., which airs on MTV in the United States. The character was created by series' producer Lauren Iungerich, and is portrayed by Molly Tarlov. She is the series' antagonist.

Characterization
Saxton has been described as not "the typical perfect skinny girl" but "an overweight cheerleader who is popular only thanks to her parents." Sadie is know for her infamous catchphrase is a very sarcastic and distinctive "You're welcome," that she normally says after a rude comment. She is known to be cruel, spoilt and occasionally bitchy, but she is also self-conscious about her weight.

Relationships
She was notably romantically linked to Austin Welch (Shane Harper) with them being shipped as "Sadstin" or "Welchton". Sadie initially rebuffs his advances though she eventually caves. She also had an secret crush on nemesis Jenna's on and off main love interest Matthew "Matty" McKibben (Beau Mirchoff), which was mainly the reason why she hated Jenna, but in the season two premiere, she hooks up with him at a New Year's Eve party and realizes that he's nothing special. Saxton was romantically linked to Ricky Schwartz (Matthew Fahey) when she kissed him, following her failed hookup with Matty, which leads to a secret relationship. Her and Ricky's secret relationship soon ends when she finds him kissing Clark.

Rivalries and friendships
Nikki is known for her rivalries with Jenna Hamilton (Ashley Rickards), Tamara "T" Kaplan (Jillian Rose Reed), Clark Stevenson (Joey Haro) and Eva Mansfield (Elizabeth Whitson). Sadie is best known for her feud with the show's protagonist, Jenna Hamilton. Sadie was also had an notable feud with Eva Mansfield, their feud challenged Sadie to new levels when she has strip in order to out do Eva as well as causing her and Austin to break up when Eva blackmails her, causing Sadie to team up with Jenna to find out that Eva is actually Amber Horne who is a violent, compulsive liar with an obsession towards Matty and the sabotage of her classmates.

Amid her rivalries with most of the female characters, Sadie is very close to Lissa Miller (Greer Grammer). When Jake breaks up with her, she realizes Sadie destroyed her relationship with Jake due to her constant meddling, and ends their friendship. In the beginning of the second season, she decides to take Sadie back, because she believes that God put Sadie in her life as a test. Despite her mean nature, she is generally nice with good friend, Matty McKibben.

Storylines
Sadie is introduced in the Pilot during Jenna's first day of sophomore year. While Jenna is in a bathroom stall, Sadie and her best friend Lissa talk about her and her alleged suicide attempt. Even going so far as saying that Jenna wants people to talk about her because she must be desperate for attention. Later on, Sadie is chosen to play with Matty for a pep rally game. For the other team, Jenna volunteers since everyone was staring at her anyway. Jenna went first to spin the wheel of pep and it landed on Sex Exchange, a game in which the team members had to swap clothes with each other and who ever does this the fastest wins. Jenna wins, but finds out that the reason Matty and Sadie lost was because Sadie couldn't fit into Matty's clothes. Jenna tries to apologize to Sadie for making her feel bad, but Sadie claims that she picked the Sex Exchange Game on purpose. She then says she fine since she's not like she's going to kill herself.

In the episode "Knocker Nightmare", while changing in the girl's locker room, Sadie convinces Lissa to take a naked picture of Jenna in order to stop her from stealing Lissa's boyfriend Jake. The picture is then sent to the entire school. When the photo is traced back to Sadie's phone, she takes responsibility for taking the picture in order to protect Lissa, but is able to weasel her way out of getting punished by the school's guidance counselor Valerie Marks. In the episode "The Way We Weren't", during a kickback party hosted at Lissa's house, Sadie is upset when Jenna and her best friend Tamara show up. Especially when Matty says that he invited them. When Lissa decides to let everyone inside her family's hot tub despite Sadie's adversion to swimsuits, she takes a piece of Lissas's dogs poop and throws it into the hot tub when no one's looking. In the episode "The Scarlet Eye", when a majority of the partygoers are infected with pink eye, a rumor starts going around that there was an orgy in Lissas's hot tub. Tamara sees that Sadie was infected as well, but is convinced that she is faking it in order to look cool. She confronts Sadie at the homecoming pep rally, but she monks Tamara for being a poser. Tamara then steals the school's fire hose and sprays it all over Sadie. Revealing that her pink eye was actually make-up.

In Queen Bee-atche, Jenna is forced by her mother Lacey  to attend a social event in hopes of joining an elite mother-daughter charity group called "The Knick-Knackers". As it turns out, the event is being hosted in Sadie's house, and her mother Darlene is the group's president. After she mutters the phrase, "You have to be cruel to be kind", Jenna and Tamara believe that Sadie wrote the carefrontation letter since that was listed as the seventh suggestion. When Sadie is later caught eating junk food by her mother, she tearfully breaks down about how insecure she feels about her weight, and that she will end up alone beacause of it. Darlene barely shows any compassion for Sadie, and tells her that the only way for her to lose weight is to write down everything she eats in her food journal. Which was secretly taken by Jenna and Tamara during the charity event. After Jenna reveals to Sadie that she has the journal, she blackmails her into securing a spot for Lacey in the Knick-Knackers. While returning the journal, Jenna briefly mentions the letter to Sadie, but she quickly denies it. It's later revealed through Darlene that Sadie convinced her to accept Jenna and her mother into the group since as a charity organization they should have a "charity case".

Reception
John Kubicek of BuddyTV website wrote "One of the things that distinguishes Awkward, however, is the show's "villain," Sadie. Sure, she's a mean, rich, popular cheerleader, but she's also overweight, and without her family's money, she would easily get teased every bit as much as Jenna. The character is rather one-dimensional to start with, but it's easy to see the potential for how Sadie might break the mold. It's nice to see something other than the perfect, skinny blonde girl as the mean one".