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

'''Noel:''' Stop calling me that!

 

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.

* Mikoto Misaka of ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun]]'' is self-conscious of the fact that some of the younger students of Tokiwadai Academy have a bigger bust than she does.

* Nanako Misonou from ''[[Oniisama e...]]''. It's only mentioned once, however: when she and her close friend Mariko take a bath together, and she notices that [[Buxom Is Better|Mariko is VERY well endowed]] [[Younger Than They Look|for her and Nanako's age.]]

* Sayaka in ''[[Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'' is teased about this, even when she transforms into an adult form. She's a little worried about it, but it mostly just appears when someone else brings it up negatively.

* 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''.

* Wendy and Levy both suffer from this in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', though Wendy is more worried about being flat-chested when she's older, considering she's only 12.

* Kiyomi from ''[[Squid Girl]]'' does ''not'' let anybody see her original [[Tanabata]] wish for larger breasts, going so far as to completely ink over the side of the paper charm that she wrote it on. The viewers [[Freeze-Frame Bonus|only get to see the original wish for a fraction of a second.]]

 

* 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.

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'', Princess Mia's biggest insecurity about her appearance is her extreme lack of a chest - it was pointed out several times by [[Alpha Bitch|Lana]] that she doesn't even need a ''training'' bra.

** 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.

 

'''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 ==

* 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.

** The sorta-sequel ''Kagetsu Tohya'' features one possible path where Shiki walks in on her changing and, for some reason, is compelled to comment that her chest is "steep as a cliffside". Unsurprisingly given the nature of the characters involved, this leads to a Bad End.

*** 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.

* As pointed above, Saber from ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' also has an small chest, but canonically she isn't that bothered by it (save in one of her sex scenes), and fan artists tends to give her some extra cups in [[doujinshi]]. Then ''[[Fate Extra|Fate/EXTRA]]'', whom features an alternate Saber with an bigger chest and a borderline [[Stripperiffic]] outfit, was released, and suddenly fandom decided that FSN!Saber was afflicted by the same breasts woes that plagues Akiha.

** In the sequel/fandisk ''[[Fate/hollow ataraxia (Visual Novel)|Fate/hollow ataraxia]]'', there is a scene where Lancer crash Shirou and Saber's date in a pool. Lancer then commits the mistake of commenting on how Saber could need to fill more her bikini top. Saber's reaction is to immediately beat the guy black and blue.

* Yuko from ''[[Johnny Wander]]'' (both [https://web.archive.org/web/20131125062734/http://www.johnnywander.com/comics/55 in comic] and in real-life).

* 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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