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{{quote|'''Taokaka:''' Hey, it's lacking lady!

 

In many cultures, [[Buxom Is Better|large busts are usually more popular with men than small ones]]. But not all girls can be that well-endowed, and while [[Petite Pride|some wear the "ironing board" title with pride]], others have low self-esteem as a result of their conspicuous lack of cleavage.

 

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* In [[Real Life]] this is common enough among Japanese girls that weekly or monthly shojo manga publications more likely than not include breast enlargement ads, or at least diet ads that promise to not take anything off the rack. Aside from the usual before-after photos, exciting exclamations and shiny products, there are specific ad mangas: 8 to 12 pages of A-Cup Angst and [[Buxom Is Better]] played straight enough to put a ruler to shame with no other content.

** Ad for ''Chasteberry E'': Meet miss Pettanko. Her life sucks. The boys don't even know she exists. She attempts to ask her crush out, he awkwardly evades. She ''knows'' the solution is to develop breasts. Cue desperate attempts, and finally success when a friend tips her off about the product. 3 months later she has gone from zero to cup E or so, attracts the [[Male Gaze]] wherever she goes, and is happily together with her crush.

 

* Any female in any anime or manga who gets upset when told that a kimono looks good on her is suffering from A-Cup Angst, no matter how well-endowed she might actually be.

* The OVA of ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' gives [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess]] Ayeka a little of this when she realizes that Sasami will grow up to look like Tsunami.

** Her arch-rival Ryoko also rarely misses a chance to tease Ayeka about her breast size. Which is not, in fact, small. It's just that nearly every other adult female in the series has very noticeably larger breasts.''Especially'' her own mother, Misaki.

* Mahoro from ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' longs for bigger breasts; it's an inferiority complex fueled by Suguru's fondness for porn and Ms. Shikijo's endless taunts. Since she's a [[Robot Girl|combat android]], her flat chest was probably just a practical design choice. In fact, to her chagrin, it's actually the deciding factor in one fight (she body-slams her opponent, shouting "Bitty booby attack!").

** The Triomatic girls poke fun at Mahoro's small chest at one point in the end theme of season one. The second-season end theme is all about chest size, but this time it's Minawa they're hassling, and they're a bit more subtle. ("If you worry about every little thing, you can't live your life"). Actually, Miyuki and Chizuko are in the same boat—Rin decidedly isn't, as she occasionally reminds them.

* Chika Ogiue in ''[[Genshiken]]''. In the [[Hot Springs Episode]], Sue (who speaks almost entirely in anime quotes) pulls the "Status symbol!" gag while pointing at her, quoting [[SHUFFLE!|Mayumi]].

* Aimi of Love Pheromone from ''[[Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge]]''. She's destroyed entire buildings over being called flat-chested.

* Tomo from ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' uses her lack of endowment relative to [[Huge Schoolgirl|Sakaki]] to get a handicap when competing against her in a footrace, claiming that Sakaki had an eight centimeter advantage (Tomo still loses). Later on, Yomi mocks her size in a locker room scene, much to Tomo's anger. However, Tomo's definitely ''not'' the least endowed girl of the group (that distinction going to Osaka and, obviously, Chiyo-chan), just the one who gets jokes made about it.

* The main girl of the manga ''D-cup Hunter'' is a Pettanko that dresses up as a superheroine and [[Black Comedy Rape|sexually assaults and humiliates innocent big-breasted women]] because the boy she liked told her, to her face, that he wouldn't date a girl without big hooters.

** In episode 2 of the third series, Louise goes into an over-the-top extended rant denouncing large breasts.

*** Let's -not- forget [[Rizelmine]], shall we?

*** There's also [[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu|Touka]], [[Saki (manga)|Yuuki]] and arguably even [[Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka|Yuuhi]] (Not loli, but otherwise applies). Seems the woman voices either this kind of character or someone who is the exact opposite (Like Shannon from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'').

* The [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|eternal loli]] Vita of ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'', who got the label of "flat chest" on an official sketch and has had her moments of snippiness in regards to breast size in the [[All There in the Manual|Sound Stages]]. Seriously, calling your leader a Boob Demon with a follow-up on how the size of a woman's breasts are inversely proportional to the size of her heart?

** There's a [[Demotivator]] that shows her drinking milk while fantasizing about developing a voluptuous figure. "DREAMS. Everybody has them."

* Like Lina Inverse above, Akane Tendo from ''[[Ranma ½]]'' isn't really flat; she's actually well-proportioned for a 16 year-old. However, she has ''extremely deep'' insecurities about her bust size, especially when her sisters, her rivals and even [[Gender Bender|her fiance]] all make her look small by comparison (and he even flaunts it.) Naturally, this is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|milked]] for all the humor possible.

** Those insecurities get even worse when Ranma asks her if ''she's gotten smaller.'' Cue Akane breaking out the magazines that show you how to "get a bigger bust through exercise."

** In one Doujin, when she goes to retrieve her ribbon [http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7954/0000196k.jpg from the "Lost Object Office For The Things Fan Artists Forget to Draw"], she goes near to a "boing" sound effect of the type used to emphatise large-breasted characters. The "boing" effect ''runs away from her''.{{broken link}}

** Brought up again in the fourth manga volume. Not only she's seen interacting with the more boobielicious Hungary and [[Gag Boobs|Ukraine]], but one of the national dresses discussed is the infamous Crete dress code that [[Absolute Cleavage|let the Minoan women expose their milkmakers]]. Cue the [[Oh Crap]] from Liech.

** Japan's [[Gender Flip|Nyotalia self]] is often portrayed this way too, especially since the canon sketches of her don't exactly emphasize her assets the way sketches of many other Nyotalia nations do. In [http://i56.tinypic.com/f51ulx.jpg one Pixiv fanart]{{broken link}}, she's shown weeping about having no chest compared to the extremely well-endowed Greece's.

** Taiwan isn't ''as'' super flat as Liechten, but she seems to be [[Oh Crap|rather... troubled]] when she sees that the European females (save for Liechtenstein) are not only well-endowed, but not afraid to show it...

* Poor Meru from ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' has major issues both with speaking to other people out loud and with her flat chest. She compensates for the former through spiteful, abusive emails, and the latter with {{spoiler|an inflatable bra, which blows up on first use}}.

** Chiri has this as well. In one manga chapter, she comes to clean Nozomu's house, and wants to straighten things so there is less "dead space". Nozomu comments that she has her own dead space, wearing a bra that's too large for her. She responds that she [[Victoria's Secret Compartment|uses the space effectively]] and pins him to the wall with knives. In another instance, Majiru is advised to inoculate himself against groping women later in life by doing so now, and is told to go for small breasts. He chooses Chiri and has a [[Color Failure]] when she turns her terrifying [[Game Face]] on him.

* Kiko from ''[[Darker than Black]]'', as her boss Gai Kurosawa is ever-so-helpful to point out. She responds by threatening to sue him for sexual harassment.

** Suou in the 2nd Series counts as well

** And while Kenichi's sister Honoka is a bit too young (13) to be worrying that she'll be flat forever, she is nonetheless self conscious over it. Then again, if most of the girls you knew looked like ''Miu''...

*** She won't have to worry, her mom is pretty busty herself.

* Seika of ''[[Princess Lover]]'' thinks she doesn't have a chance to win the guy. Considering her opponents I guess it's noticeable.

** In the pilot episode, Ken tricks Kurimu (through [[Duck Season! Rabbit Season!]] dialogue) into saying pettanko. After crying into her friend Chizuru's [[Ship Tease|bigger chest]] for comfort, it only made her feel worse.

* ''[[Kamen no Maid Guy]]'' has Liz, who hates Naeka solely because Naeka has [[Gag Boobs|enormous boobs]].

* In ''[[Crayon Shin-chan]]'', a running gag is the constant competition on anything between two of the schoolteachers Midori Yoshinaga and Ume Matzuzaka. A running gag within the running gag is their cup size rivalry, for example during a swimming class, laying down side by side on the floor and trading insults as to who was more like plains (as opposed to mountains).

'''Sae:''' *[[Head Desk]]* ... Sae is 2D ... }}

* Erutis from ''[[Demon Diary]]'' is quite flat-chested, and [[Rage Against the Author|complains about it]] in an [[Omake]] which also includes a picture of her with an arrow pointing to her chest and the label "no bosom" (and one pointing at her legs: "stubby legs"). She says that this is the reason she was [[Viewer Gender Confusion|mistaken for a guy]] at first by many readers. The peculiar thing is that her chest doesn't really look all that flat; she's easily a B-cup. She just wears a baggy top.

* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' has [[Moe|Ranka Lee]], who while normally not very angst driven about it, does start to get worried at the [[Beauty Contest|Miss Macross Contest]] when she's surrounded by so much [[Buxom Is Better]] and [[Gainaxing]] that she really starts to sweat it. It doesn't help that her best friend, who is the most well-endowed character on ''the entire show'', then tells her [[Hypocritical Humor|size doesn't matter]].

** The Movie also Plays with this. At one point Ranka is making a photoshoot for a construction company, [[Fan Service|wearing a swimsuit.]] The suit is modeled after the company, including its slogans. So, naturally, the phrase "Under development!" is [[Stealth Pun|written upon Ranka's left breast.]]

* Inami-chan of ''[[Working!!]]'' is put out by her small chest, but it isn't that notable until Takanashi's crossdressing is larger than her that she begins to be bugged by it. Quite notably.

* "Bare and Slippery" Fumika from ''[[Seikon no Qwaser]]''. She goes to a [[Corner of Woe]] after an amnesiac Sasha asks if she was a girl cursed to be a boy too.

* Marin and Moe of ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]]'' are both anxious about their nearly non-existent bosoms. (Given that they're in their first year of middle school, they have time to develop.)

* In ''[[Steel Angel Kurumi]]'', there is a variation where both Karinka and Kurumi are jealous of each other. Karinka wants to have big breasts like her sister, but Kurumi wishes hers were smaller (and she even mentions back pain which is common in real-life women with large breasts).

* In episode 12 of ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]] Purezza'', Alice-chan had a moment of this. A ping-pong ball had got caught in Haruka's cleavage. When it was finally out, Alice picked up the ball and dropped it onto what would be ''her'' cleavage if she weren't a grade-schooler (or at least having the body of one). Her sigh and expression of disappointment when the ball just fell to the floor....

* Inverted in ''[[One Piece]]''. Kuina, Zoro's childhood rival, had angst for developing breasts at all, because it reminded her that she was becoming a woman.

* Nanael from ''[[Queen's Blade]]'' is essentially the only female in the world without a bustline, and it bothers the hell out of her. Especially once she has to room with a priestess whose breasts are almost the size of Nanael's ''body''.

 

* Jubilee of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' sometimes takes this role. In ''Generation X'', which focused on the younger and less well-known of Xavier's students, her modest figure was used to contrast her against the model-esque [[Alpha Bitch|Monet St. Croix]]. Sometimes Kitty Pryde takes this role, too. But much like Swift above, when Jubilee transitioned into the ''[[New Warriors]]'' relaunch, she lost her mutant powers, but gained two cup sizes in the bargain. (Granted, she was 13-14 for most of her comic history.)

** [http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5717/002b4g7c.jpg Entertainingly lampshaded] in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #268 - Jubilee is listening in to a conversation between Wolverine and the [[Most Common Superpower|more commonly-endowed]] Psylocke and Black Widow. She glances up at the two women in their skintight costumes, peers down her vest to see how she matches up, and then drops her head in her hands with a frustrated expression.

* Yelena Rossini from ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' is just a bit touchy on the subject, which makes a certain amount of sense when you consider that she spends most of her time in close proximity to [[Boobs of Steel|Channon.]]

* Vanessa, a teenage supporting character in the old ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' comics, tended to bemoan her lack of breasts and was stated on one occasion to stuff her shirt.

** Subverted with Cornelia. Even if Irma often laugh at her for being flat-chested, she doesn't mind—after all boys agree she is the prettiest in the group. Not coincidently, she is the only who ''stays'' flat-chested in her "magical" form.

{{quote|"I can't be a goody-goody heroine 'cause I don't have a nice, big rack! *urrp* Can't be a ''good girl'' without a ''good set'', right?"}}

 

 

* Kitten Braden, the heroine of ''[[Breakfast On Pluto]]'', although she prefers to call herself a "svelte gamine," as she indignantly informs the peep show customer who complains about her lack of endowment. Although in Kitten's case, this is only to be expected, since she's [[Transgender|biologically male]] and not on any sort of hormone therapy.

* In ''[[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark]]'', one of the town residents is this. She uses a variant of bra stuffing to make herself seem otherwise and keeps her small breasts a secret from the entire town.

* In the medieval comedy ''Gladiatrix'', the heroine's newly acquired French husband is disappointed over her lack of breasts. When she magically acquires breasts during the course of the movie, she's able to return home and tell her husband to carry out numerous household tasks.

* ''They Call Me Bruce?'': The title character comments on the fact that the nude woman sent to massage him has "breasts like a boy". She seems rather embarrassed by this.

* Samantha "Sam" Baker from [[John Hughes]]' ''[[Sixteen Candles]]''. According to his little brother, she's "only eating carrots to increase the size of her breasts." Sam later says about her bridesmaid dress: "I don't have one-tenth of the bod to fill the stupid bust up."

** They're so perky!

* Thora Birch in ''[[American Beauty]]'' is seen early in the movie looking up breast augmentation on the internet. This is a peculiar example because she's shown to be quite amply endowed later in the film. (The script was likely written well before the actress was cast. It's never explained—perhaps her "angst" is less about the size than about the shape or natural asymmetry of her breasts, which are other reasons women get surgery).

* Cameron Diaz's character in ''[[Bad Teacher]]'' suffers from this.

 

== Jokes ==

* There's a mean-spirited prank plays off this trope in [[Real Life]]:

{{quote|I just heard a joke so funny it'll [[Incredibly Lame Pun|knock you flat]]! [looking at chest] Oh, I see you've already heard it.}}

 

== Literature ==

** Granted, {{spoiler|by the end of the series she has C-cups.}}

* [[Based on a True Story]], Catalina, the teenaged protagonist of the Colombian novel, later [[Multi National Shows|international franchise]] "''Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso''" is a dark play on this trope. Catalina's real reason for wanting a bigger chest is to catch a rich boyfriend who'll buy her luxuries and get her out of her poor neighborhood, like the ones her bustier friends have. The catch is that those "rich boyfriends" are drug dealers and traffickers. She tries to approach that "rich world" by becoming a prostitute, but her beginnings are harder because most of her potential clients prefer chicks with "[[Gag Boobs|more meat]]". She eventually gets a bust augmentation from a [[Back-Alley Doctor]] and marries a minor boss of a Cartel, but she's still under her pettanko complex, {{spoiler|by that point she has lost her True Love and any chance of escape, and eventually the brutal reality of the shady world she has gotten into hits her ''hard''. When she is forced to reverse her boob job in a [[Life or Limb Decision]], it's become the last straw for her, so she arranges a [[Suicide by Cop|Suicide by Hitman]] to end her suffering. [[Anvilicious]] much?}}

** In the animated ''Wyrd Sisters'', Magrat fits neither qualification-her breasts are roughly B-cups and her hair is long and straight. In deference to Pratchett's constant descriptions which paint her as less than ideal if looks are your thing, the animators gave her a big nose. Also she has a rather dull voice not given to expressing emotion, although this has little if anything to do with physical appearance at all.

* Lisbeth Salander in the first book in Stieg Larsson's ''[[The Millennium Trilogy|Millennium]]'' series. Because of her flat chest and the fact that she's short and skinny, she is often mistaken for a 14 year-old. Her legal guardian even uses this fact to his advantage when he {{spoiler|drugs and rapes her. He claims no one will believe he raped her since her small cup-size [[Too Dumb to Live|means she's not a turn-on]] (yeah, he's a jerk)}}. In the second book though Lisbeth has gotten breast implants.

** Benny's creator, Paul Cornell, had a character describe her (in dialogue) as having "no tits".

* Jame in P.C. Hodgell's ''[[Chronicles of the Kencyrath]]'' is flat-chested and self-conscious about it. She's flat to the point of being mistaken for a boy all the time (being rather tomboyish doesn't help, of course). The master thief she's apprenticed to in the first book thinks she's a boy the whole time, '''even when she strips to the waist in front of him'''. After that, she gives up trying to tell him otherwise; granted, he's eccentric and has bad eyesight, but still. She also doesn't ever understand the crushes other characters have on her, convinced that there's nothing worth looking at in her. (One suspects she's rather blind to what she ''does'' have...)

* In the fourth book of ''[[The Belgariad]]'', ''Castle of Wizardry'' Princess Ce'Nedra has a suit of armor made for herself, and makes a point of trying to get a [[Breast Plate]] much larger than her actual chest. She settles for one just breasty enough that she won't be mistaken for a boy in armor.

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: At the end of [[The Bible|the Song of Solomon]]. "I have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What will we do for her on the day she's spoken for?" The speaker, however, says [[Gag Boobs|"my breasts are like towers"]].

* This is practically the entire focal point of ''[[Girl, Fifteen, Charming but Insane]].''

* Hilda in [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' also refers to her regrets at her lack of, er, development at many points, especially in comparison to stepdaughter Deety, who has the [[Most Common Superpower]].

* In S.L. Viehl's ''Blade Dancer'', Jory isn't sure why people are staring at her tits when she takes her shirt off to treat an injury, and [[Buxom Is Better|compares herself unfavorably]] to [[Half-Human Hybrid|full-blooded Jorenian women]] in that regard.

 

* Dialog from the ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' episode "Meet John Smith," where Veronica is trying to change her flat tire:

{{quote|'''Troy:''' Flat?

{{quote|'''Carly:''' I'm not a twig. I'm getting curvier every day.

'''[[Dogged Nice Guy|Freddie]]:''' I know.

* Apparently, ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'', [[Alpha Bitch|Kate]] ditched Lizzie and Miranda as friends once she "developed", only lending to Lizzie's insecurity regarding her size. Many episodes made reference to bras, Lizzie's lack of curves, etc., which seemed unlikely towards the end of the show, when [[Hilary Duff]] got older and obviously well-endowed.

* [[Spear Counterpart]]: On [[Degrassi the Next Generation]], J.T. Yorke has a ''really'' small penis.

* In the 'Spin the Bottle' of [[Angel]], a mistaken spell has all of the characters reverting to their teenage minds, but realizing they are in their adult bodies:

'''Jack:''' Never mind that. Do you have any money? }}

* Eun Bi from ''[[Flower Boy Ramyun Shop]]'' gets upset when Chi Soo justifies touching her chest as it's not much different from his.

 

== Theater ==

* Seems to be a trope common to [[Nippon Ichi]]'s Tactical [[RPG]]s in general. Either you're a washboard or an ''[[Eiken]]'' character, and of the main female characters, only Prier from ''[[La Pucelle]]: Tactics'', Rozalin from ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'', and Artina from ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'' are on the other end. The only average girl is Asagi. It's worth noting that between ''La Pucelle'' and ''Disgaea'', there was a noticeable change in character design, mostly due to lead artist Takehito Harada taking the place of former lead Ryoji Majima, which evidently switched the direction of the [[Author Appeal]].

** ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' features an entire race of aquatic pettanko.

** The manga adaptation of ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories|Disgaea 2]]'' adds the Dimension Guide Friday to this list. She's a member of the absolutely flat Archer class. Just ''how'' absolute this is is shown in a series of [[Yonkoma]] at the end of the book.

** Their parent company, [[Nippon Ichi]] is personified in ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]''. She is, of course, flat as a board and angry about anyone who mentions it.

** For that matter, Arche in ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' and Anise in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' (though Anise may be excused for only being 13).

*** To be fair, though, Arche only calls herself flat-chested in the game when compared to Mint. It doesn't seem like a fair comparison when Arche tells Mint that she "has the biggest tits [she's] ever seen!"

** Estelle of ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'', while not exactly flat chested, still wishes to be more like [[Buxom Is Better|Judith]]. Rita, [[Petite Pride|on the other hand...]]

{{quote|'''Estelle''': "[[Gainaxing|They're...bouncing.]]"

*** But Rachel has the overall proportions and look of a young child. Noel's figure is lacking only in the chest.

** Even though Tsubaki has way bigger breasts than Noel, she does get into a bit of this when Taokaka gropes her breasts and calls them "average".

*** If Relius' gag reel is to be trusted, Makoto is ''very'' aware of Kokonoe's breast envy.

{{quote|'''Makoto {{spoiler|as Ragna}}''': "Kokonoe, did you steal my boobs?"}}

* Mayu Uzaka of ''[[Lightning Legend Daigo no Daibouken]]'' is ''very'' conscious about her cup size, and demeaning her this way is her [[Berserk Button]]. Of course, this is used for maximum comedy during her encounters with resident snarky [[Gag Boobs]] character Misa Atago. There's even [[Unlockable Content|an unlockable concept art]] where Mayu and Misa are wearing swimsuits, and in which Mayu has a jealous look towards Misa's rack.

 

* [[Key Visual Arts]] games seem to like this. In her own H-scene, Ayu of ''[[Kanon]]'' starts apologizing because her chest isn't as big as Nayuki's.

* Kyoko from ''[[Crescendo]]'' generally holds this attitude about herself.

** Granted, she's not small-chested at all, so it just ties into her [[Huge Schoolgirl|other body issues]].

*** Added irony: Akiha and [[Fate/stay night|Saber]] have the same bust size. Saber, however, is more likely to have her breasts ''over''stated. Rank B Charisma can go a long way.

* Rika Furude of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' berates herself for this, despite being twelve years old. {{spoiler|Rika's technically centuries old. The constant [[Reset Button|time loop]] that she goes through keeps reverting her physical body back to a younger time point, and she never reaches puberty}}. Near the end of the series, she resolves to grow up to have huge breasts, which is a lot more poignant than funny, given the context.

* Setsuna Kiyoura from ''[[School Days]].'' It doesn't help that ''both'' her best friend {{spoiler|(and half sister, in the games)}} Sekai Saionji and her love rival Kotonoha Katsura are ''[[Gag Boobs|much]]'' better endowed.

* Kazuna in ''[[Kara no Shoujo]].'' Reiji jokes that while her belly may be big due to pregnancy, her chest is as flat as ever.

 

* Missi Fuller from ''[[Misfile]]'' is by far the flattest member of the cast and frequently complains about it. [[Informed Ability|(though she may be the only character to fit this description to have nipple rings).]] This culminated in an [[Imagine Spot|amusing fantasy sequence]]<ref>Which provides the page picture for [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]</ref> where [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=888 she imagines what she'd do if she was built like Ash].

** Emily actually manages to [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1067 tease Missi very effectively] on this point, though she gets Emily back good [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1069 a few strips later].

* Blossom from ''[[Rhapsodies]]''

{{quote|[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p{{=}}951 "There's lots a successful ladies out there with a nothin' but washboards for chests."]}}

** Though Giancarlo uses her small bust as an insult, Cecil seemed to be at least slightly interested. If only for verification.

* Secret from ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' displays elements of this, particularly around Marena.

* ''[[Megatokyo]]'': Although she doesn't seem ''too'' self-conscious about it, it's been noted that Nanasawa Kimiko is rather flat-chested - both in her initial appearance at Anna Miller's, when she apparently was wearing inserts to work, and again during Piro's conversation with [[Put on a Bus|Tsubasa]] over the internet after Kimiko's radio outburst makes her an instant star.

* In ''[[The Magnificent Milkmaid]]'', one villain (JuGGGz) fought in an early adventure starts out like this. Made fun of by everyone else, rejected by a boy she has a crush on, incredibly insecure. The series bible outright says that, in her mind, breast size determines a "woman's worth" and she despises being puny. So naturally she gets help from a mad scientist to grow [[Gag Boobs|breasts bigger than her entire torso and then some]] which she can [[Breast Expansion|make larger still, at will]]. Brutally, cruely subverting [[Bigger Is Better]], her supervillain career is brought to a close when the boy she had a crush on actually ''laughs'' at her new physique, and calls her "grossly oversized". As if that weren't enough to crush her hubris, she tries later to take down another villain, a lesbian teen vampire (don't ask) and is handily overpowered and sexually humiliated in public.

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Zoe's [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19970923 first appearance] has her wondering if she should get a push-up bra after a rather buxom lass pulls [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]] on Riff and Torg. [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080729 Judging] [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090731 by] [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19980701 later] [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19980712 appearances], she either got that push-up bra or [[Breast Expansion|hit a second puberty]].

* Sarah from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' doesn't normally seem bothered by her relative lack of endowment, but [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-04-21 sometimes] it becomes an issue....

* Kiley from ''[[Ménage à 3]]'', so much so that when she dreams of being a professional therapist, she also dreams of having large breasts to go along with it, and when [[Does Not Like Men|Yuki]] mentioned that her girlfriend had small breasts too, she cried tears of joy.

* Abigail in ''Dangerously Chloe'' had a rather amusing [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/calm_down reaction] when a [[Succubus]] shapeshifted into more buxom form right before her eyes. Later, [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/really_really_interested when she meets Naomi], Abby's gaze gives away her persistent interest in this matter.

** Pandora isn't as well-endowed as some other succubi, but looks fine... with her own figure. However, [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/do_they_retract when she tried to pass as Chloe] the difference becomes obvious... and we learn that "[[Bigger Is Better]]" principle ''also'' applies to the horns. She looked like chewing on a lemon. Though normally she is confident and doesn't think of it as a problem, especially compared to non-succubi: Pandora isn't jealous of e.g. [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/prankster Charity's greater "assets"], it's Charity who [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/they_are_all_tricksters gets to be jealous] despite her best efforts.

{{quote|'''Danalach''': ''Don't judge me!'' }}

* The artist of ''Living With Hipster Girl and Gamer Girl'' once drew a lineup of the comic's four named females: title characters Sophie and Erika, both D-cups, in 1st and 2nd place, B-cup Clara in 3rd, '''a rough sketch of Artur (yes, a male) in 4th''', and 5th-place A-cup Elly glaring out toward the reader and saying, "Ha, ha, Very funny..."

 

== Web Original ==

{{quote|'''Roker(sic) Travis''': All the small things...

'''Foxy''': Hey, I’m not that old, I know I’ll fill out later }}

 

== Western Animation ==

* An amusing variant happens on ''[[Family Guy]].'' When Peter is feeling self-conscious about his own less-than-average endowment, Lois tries to reassure him by saying, "I care about the size of your penis as much as you care about the size of my breasts," to which he runs out of the room crying.

* Subtly lampshaded in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. Candace goes to Jeremy's pool party, but when she sees him there, he's chatting with a blonde, busty, curvy girl who's wearing the same swimsuit as she does. When Stacy tries to calm her down after she freaks out, Candace responds with "She wears [the swimsuit] better!".

 

== Real Life ==

* [[Keira Knightley]] doesn't have much in the way of boobs ''or'' hips; the best word for her figure is "boyish". Evidently it bugs ''someone'', because in all the promo material for that King Arthur movie she was in, she's been Photoshopped into a D-cup.

** It clearly doesn't bother Keira herself though. She was publicly very angry about the decision to photoshop her breasts and has been disparaging of US magazine covers, which she claims she cannot be on 'without at least a C cup because it "turns people off."'

* In the ''[[True Life]]'' episode, "I Hate My Small Breasts", they had a woman who was an A cup but worked as a go-go dancer and pole dancer. Of course, this led to her wanting to get breast implants...

* The Thai government is concerned about nationwide A-Cup Angst that compels many women to go under the knife. In response, they have endorsed an alternative to breast enlargement surgery known as the "Thailand Breast Slap" said to enlarge feminine assets by one to four inches. [[All Men Are Perverts|For those of you that would like to know]], four inches of growth would enlarge small A cups to full D cups.

 

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