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If there is a low-cut outfit, then there is '''Absolute Cleavage'''. This is when a dress or top is specifically cut to show the entirety of the wearer's cleavage and the top bit of her stomach. Or the bottom bit, if they really want to court tabloid immortality.

 

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* The female characters in [[Orangina]] feature both this and [[Sideboob]].

 

* In ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', one of Urd's signature dresses features this, her being the seductress of [[The Three Faces of Eve]]. She apparently got her dress sense from her mother, demon queen Hild.

* ''[[Blue Drop]]'': Pretty much all of the Arume uniforms.

* Nyuu/Lucy from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', though her breasts are much smaller in the anime.

* Vorona from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' can't seem to find the energy to zip up her biker suit...

* In ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', Oyuki usually sports a white Kimono, but for informal events she'll often take it off revealing an orange Absolute Cleavage swimsuit-type outfit.

* Adelheid Suzuki from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' has this after activating her Shimon Ring.

* In the second ''[[Ranma ½]]'' movie Nabiki was [[Go-Go Enslavement|forced into a dress]] with cleavage like this.

* Pirotess in ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''.

* In ''[[The Familiar of Zero]]'' [[Ms. Fanservice|Kirche]] usually wears rather revealing outfits, [[The Familiar of Zero/Characters#Kirche Augusta Frederica von Anhalt Zerbst|as seen on the cast page]]. So when in volume 2 she tries to outdo herself, the cleavage stops a little shy of her navel and consists of two leaf-shaped pieces of cloth that stick upward providing more support than cover and [[Theiss Titillation Theory|made to look like they're peeling away]] on the inner edges...

{{quote|'''Saito''': ([[Jaw Drop]]) Kirche!

'''Kirche''': [[Say It with Hearts|Hehehe. <3]] Isn't this gown pretty? (points with a hand, almost groping herself) [[Understatement|The chest area is specially adjusted]].

'''Saito''': ([[Luminescent Blush|blushing profusely]]) Wa- Ah- Ah! [[Most Common Superpower|Very grand]]! }}

 

* ''[[The DCU]]'': Arisia, Starfire, Donna Troy, and several other characters.

* [[Marvel Universe|Marvel Comics']] [[Classy Cat Burglar|Black Cat]]. After years of poorly defined powers she, like most comic book Heroines/Villainesses, acquired the [[Most Common Superpower]]. Naturally, this renders her [[Spy Catsuit|Cat-Suit]] [[Zip Me Up|unzippable]] above the navel (that is, when she's drawn by Terry Dodson). When Tommy Ohtsuka drew her in the Marvel Mangaverse, the zipper (if there even was one) rests eight centimeters ''below'' the belly button.

* The costume worn by Dagger in the [[Marvel Universe]] team of "[[Cloak and Dagger (comics)|Cloak and Dagger]]" has Absolute Cleavage in the shape of a dagger.

* The [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]]—later revived by [[Eclipse Comics]]—series ''[[Airboy]]'' included former villainess Valkyrie.

* Lampshaded/double-subverted/played for horror/who friggin' even knows in ''[[The Boys]]'', where upon discovering that [[Justice League of America]] analogues the Seven are super-pricks, their newest member Starlight is told that their corporate sponsors are redesigning her much-less-revealing outfit into this—via the medium of Superman analogue the Homelander ''drawing the new outline on her current costume'' with a Sharpie. ''While she's wearing it.''

* ''[[Vampirella]]'''s signature red outfit, bordering on the [[Stripperific]].

* The attire of Bêlit, the she-pirate that accompanies Conan in several stories from Marvel's ''Conan the Barbarian''.

* ''[[Durham Red]]'', particularly in later strips.

 

* ''[[My Immortal]]'': Ebony wears dresses like this.

 

* ''[[Arachnophobia]]'' - there is a shower scene where a well-endowed heroine is entirely oblivious of the sinister lethal spiders making their way into the house. One prolonged scene shows nothing but her cleavage in the shower - ''the whole movie screen'' shows nothing but the Absolute Cleavage between her breasts, (but without even a hint of nipple - on a cinema screen this must have been truly absolute). The result is one enormous canyon for a particularly adventurous spider to navigate...

* ''[[Casino Royale]]'': Vesper Lynd wears such a dress, which ends up ruined when she [[Shower of Angst|takes a shower]] fully clothed after a fight scene. Bond states earlier that the point of the outfit is [[Show Some Leg|to distract the other players]].

* ''[[Yesterday Was a Lie]]'': The dresses worn by Hoyle and Singer in the art museum.

* Ghanima's wedding dress in the miniseries of ''Children of Dune''.

 

* YT from ''[[Snow Crash]]'' wears a zipper-front jumpsuit, and unzips it further than modesty would have suggested to discomfit a (slightly) [[Dirty Cop]] who's not sure if he's up for some [[Prison Rape]] or not.

{{quote|'''YT:''' Make up your fucking mind.}}

* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'': The attire of Bêlit, the she-pirate in one of the most classic tales by Robert E. Howard, ''[[Queen of the Black Coast]]'', is described as being only a "broad silken girdle", i.e. she is a rare case of a female [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]. This was obviously not carried over to the comics adaptations by Roy Thomas and John Buscema for Marvel comics, where she wears something similar to the description of this trope. Whereas in the Finnish comic adaptation by Petri Hiltunen, her attire is faithful to Howard's text.

 

* Grace from ''[[Will and Grace]]'' has an outfit or two like this. Except her lack of, er, endowments come up.

{{quote|'''Will:''' "What are you dressed for? Open-heart surgery?"}}

'''Elvira:''' "It's me again, yours truly, Elvira, the gal with the enormous...uh...''ratings''" }}

* Unsurprisingly, ''[[Manswers]]'' once asked how skimpily a woman can dress before she's legally naked. The absolute limit consisted of two vertical ribbons in front and one slender thong in back; the ribbons' elongated-vee arrangement constituted [[Up to Eleven|this trope]].

*** Look up a Google image search for "sling bikini."

* [[Ms. Fanservice|Trillian]] wears a top with this in [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (TV series)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]

* Margaery Tyrell in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' on her first appearance in Renly's encampment wears a dress which leaves very little of her cleavage to the imagination.

* Serena "[[Ms. Fanservice]]" van der Woodsen airs said cleavage rather a lot on ''[[Gossip Girl]]''.

 

* [[Celine Dion]] (yes, Celine Dion) wears a futuristic outfit that features this in the music video for "Then You Look At Me", the [[Award Bait Song]] from ''[[Bicentennial Man]]''.

* [[P!nk]] has one in the start of the video for "Just Like a Pill".

* Trina in the music video for "Pull Over".

 

* This is played very frequently in WWE and TNA.

** Of all people, [[Stephanie McMahon]] did this as frequently as any other WWE Diva.

** [[Lita]], after she hooked up with [[Edge]], started wearing this sort of tops. Even her "wedding dress" was made this way.

 

* ''[[Elisabeth]]'': Frau Wolf, the brothel madam, in the Essen and Stuttgart productions wears the lacy-bra variant with an otherwise Victorian dress.

 

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'': Sniper Wolf was dressed this way. ([[Lampshaded]] and [[Justified]] in ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]''. It turns out that her then reasonable jumpsuit shrunk in the wash (which may or may not have been done on purpose by Decoy Octopus). She was pissed because they were at Shadow Moses and she was freezing with it on. Later, there was The Boss during the final battle in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' and EVA during almost the entire game. Though in the case of The Boss, her open suit wasn't meant to emphasize her cleavage, but rather {{spoiler|to show off the scar she got from when she performed a C-section on herself to deliver her child (who was Ocelot) in order to demonstrate her devotion to her country (since she had to give that child up).}} Also, Naomi and Big Mama in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' (though since Big Mama was {{spoiler|EVA, to the surprise of some}}, this somewhat makes sense).

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'': [[Black Magician Girl|Morrigan's]] outfit, consisting of an oddly patched-together skirt and a wide scarf draped over her shoulders.

* Azura's statue in [[Skyrim]] has this. Which is a bit odd, considering the two [[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind|previous]] [[Oblivion|games]] followed her appearance in ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall|Daggerfall]]'' and had her statues show her topless, and her actual appearances in Morrowind had her dressed more modestly. Nocturnal wears a robe that shows off her cleavage, split down to her waist.

* [[Lost Odyssey]]'s Ming has a leather corset-thing under a cropped top that features a wide expanse of her cleavage almost down to her navel. How her cleavage doesn't pop right out is a mystery. We even get a cutscene that could be an excuse for a closer look.

 

* ''[[Looking for Group]]'': Benny sports this sort of outfit all the time. How does she keeps it from slipping? [[A Wizard Did It]]. Probably Benny.

* ''[[Erfworld]]'': Resident [[Ms. Fanservice]] Wanda once showed up wearing this. {{spoiler|She's wearing the outfit from Thriller, and didn't zip it up all the way.}} Later, her evil sorceress outfit qualified too.

* In ''[[The KAMics]]'' when Gertrude & Brunhilda got some "space suits", Gertrude's outfit demonstrated this trope.

 

* Obligatory ''[[Gaia Online]]'' example in Sam's old outfit, a set of coveralls unzipped in the front to show her bra. Handwaved as "They didn't have any in my size."

 

* Vixen wears this kind of outfit as her superhero uniform (true to her comic book origins, as mentioned above) in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]].''

* Dr. Mrs. The Monarch in season 3 of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''; also Molotov Cocktease.

{{quote|'''Sideshow Mel:''' ''"The collective will of every man in this room!"''}}

* Miss Bellum from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' was supposed to be dressed this way... until [[Cartoon Network]] complained and she had to be re-designed.