A-Cup Angst: Difference between revisions

{{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''.

 

==Comic Books==

* 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.

{{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?"}}

* ''[[Justice Society of America]]'' has Stargirl quip to Power Girl: "Can I be you when I grow up?"

** ...Although to be honest, pretty much ''everyone'' is this in comparison to Power Girl.

 

==Fan Works==

* [[Assumptions]]: Though impossible for ponies to have breast sizes, the equivalent occurs where [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Rainbow Dash]] is rather sensitive about her "lack of curves." Along with her 'tomcoltish' nature, this leads to very [[Mistaken for Gay|unflattering]] [[Berserk Button|assumptions]].

 

==Film==

 

== 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 ''[[Discworld]]'' series, Magrat Garlick has been described several times as being a physical match for an ironing board with two peas on top of it. Although being flat is not her defining characteristic in terms of attractiveness (the author also makes note of hair which refuses to cooperate) she certainly does seem to be very self-conscious of it.

** 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.

* The Doctor's companion (later ex-companion and [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]) [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice "Benny" Summerfield]] from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novels. One could probably draw [[Author Appeal|quite a few conclusions]] about certain novel writers by counting up the number of times ''per book'' some of them have felt the need to mention her legendarily petite rack.

'''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.

{{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...

* Because of the mechanics of late-life breast growth, many [[transgender]] women have problems with breast growth - either inadequate size or immature shape, if not both - leaving them with natural breasts of the relative size of a girl in early adolescence. For many, implants are the only option for proportionally-sized or -shaped breasts.

* 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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