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Off duty, they're frequently romantically [[Pair the Spares|paired with minor characters]], or can be the [[Girl of the Week]]. They're invariably female, although a token male junior bridge officer may be sufficiently intimidated by them to serve as [[Plucky Comic Relief|Comic Relief]]. Token males in this position will also likely be [[Ho Yay|swinging their bat the other way]], unless someone else on the crew fills that role.

Less common in Western shows these days, where bridge personnel are more likely to be competent professional officers of ''both'' sexes. Women on the bridge aren't necessarily '''Bridge Bunnies''' ''per se'', nor are junior officers doing menial jobs... but [[Fundamentally Female Cast|a bridge]] ''~~[[Fundamentally Female Cast|~~full]]'' ~~[[Fundamentally Female Cast|~~of young, pretty female junior officers, and on which ~~all of~~ the senior officers with real authority are male]], is a textbook example of the trope (compare [[Office Lady]]).

Less common in Western shows these days, where bridge personnel are more likely to be competent professional officers of ''both'' sexes. Women on the bridge aren't necessarily '''Bridge Bunnies''' ''per se'', nor are junior officers doing menial jobs... but [[Fundamentally Female Cast|a bridge ''full'' of young, pretty female junior officers, and on which the senior officers with real authority are male]], is a textbook example of the trope (compare [[Office Lady]]).

A specialized version of [[Mission Control]], with all the twists therein possibly applicable. They occasionally serve as [[Those Two Guys|Those Two Girls]], [[Greek Chorus|commenting on the action]] and what's going to happen next.

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** ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' has a team of bunnies on the job on the Quarter, as well as Bobby, the male helmsman who is [[Camp Gay|Gay]] enough to count.

** The American-created sequel film to ''[[Robotech]]'', ''The Sentinels'', gender-flips this trope by having the Commanding officer of the SDF-3, Admiral Lisa Hayes-Hunter, select a trio of handsome ''men'' to fill the same roles on her bridge.

* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]''~~<nowiki>~~'~~</nowiki>~~s bridge crew were competent ship-runners supporting their [[Genius Ditz]] commander. [[Deadpan Loli|Ruri]] and Megumi, particularly, had several focus episodes.

* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]''{{'}}s bridge crew were competent ship-runners supporting their [[Genius Ditz]] commander. [[Deadpan Loli|Ruri]] and Megumi, particularly, had several focus episodes.

* All series of the Mazinger trilogy (''[[Mazinger Z]]'', ''[[Great Mazinger]]'' and ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'') featured Bridge Bunnies. They used to be a male trio, though, and [[Man in White|wore white uniforms]]. They performed the ordinary functions of [[Mission Control]], collecting and interpreting data and reading it to [[The Professor]] or the pilots of the [[Humongous Mecha]], as well as sending them orders or receiving their messages. The trio of [[UFO Robo Grendizer]] Bridge Bunnies were called Hayashi, Yamada and Aoi.

* On ''[[Simoun]]'', the ''Arcus Prima'' had them, but the ''Messis'' didn't. Of course, given the ''Simoun'' universe, it's possible that some or all of the Bridge Bunnies could have been young men who hadn't lost their female secondary sex characteristics yet.

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'''Kaiba''': Yes. I created them to shun them with my cold indifference. }}

* ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'': Yamada Seina's [[Unwanted Harem|constantly-growing]] harem effectively serves as his bridge bunnies. Earlier, [[Those Two Guys|Those Three Guys]] filled the role before being [[Put on a Bus]].

* ''[[Starship Operators]]'': Naturally, most of the cast are female. This was [[Hand Wave|handwaved]], since they're essentially a renegade ship funded and filmed by a television company who demanded that they switch the crews of the three bridges to all-female except the Captain (eye-candy for the viewer, both in real life and in-universe).

* ''[[Starship Operators]]'' focuses on the Bridge Bunnies. Naturally, most of the cast are female. This was [[Hand Wave|handwaved]], since they're essentially a <s>renegade</s> "government-in-exile" ship funded and filmed by a television company who demanded that they switch the crews of the three bridges to all-female except the Captain (eye-candy for the viewer, both in real life and in-universe).

* ''[[Idolmaster: Xenoglossia]]'': Naze, Sorewa, and Nareba.

* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' surprisingly had this in [[The Movie]], with Peorth having three subordinates in overseeing the Yggdrasil system: Ere, Ex, and Chrono.

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* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' references the trope: Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa, [[Genre Savvy]] captain of the ''Tuatha de Danaan'', is young and attractive. When Kaname first meets Tessa, she assumes she is a [[Bridge Bunny]], and Tessa plays along for awhile.

* Yuki (Nova) from ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]''.

== Comic Books ==

* Jayne's fantasy sequence in the ''[[Firefly|Serenity]]'' comic ''Better Days'' involves him commanding a ship crewed entirely by Bridge Bunnies.

* The ''[[Marvel Mangaverse]]'' version of the Fantastic Four has Alicia Harkness and Agatha Harkness serving as Bridge Bunnies to Reed Richards, as a sort of homage to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.

== Fan Works ==

* In The Sage of Toad's [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5565307/1/ ARSENAL], the Nightshift Bridge Bunnies from ''[[Ikari Shinji Raising Project|The Ikari Shinji Raising Project]]'' are actually Gendo Ikari's sleeper agents who try to wrest back control of NERV from Shinji after he takes over. These methods include steadily [[Bloodier and Gorier]] acts of terrorism, assassination attempts against Shinji and his friends, and steadily escalated acts of violence and just plain insane [[Rule of Cool|action sequences]]. But [http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r405/DodgerTalon/3_techs.png looking at them], you'd never [[Beware the Nice Ones|suspect a thing]]...

* In addition of Maya, Makoto and Shigeru, Ritsuko in ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'' and ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' has her own little army of MAGI technicians (Maya being the senior) who, unfortunately for dear Dr.Akagi's nerves, frequently end up starting Tachikoma-like arguments with each other.

== Film ==

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* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy|Marlene and Charlene]] from ''[[Spaceballs]]''. "Chew your gum!"

* Lampshaded in ''[[Carry On|Carry On Spying]]''. The captured heroes are taken to the villain's [[Elaborate Underground Base]], which is full of catsuited females bustling about.

{{quote|'''Villain:''' This is our headquarters.

'''Hero:''' [''[[Eating the Eye Candy]] view of a bridge bunny's posterior''] Looks more like hindquarters to me! }}

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== Live-Action TV ==

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== Live Action TV ==

* Lt. Gay Ellis, the Moon Base commander in ''[[UFO]]'' (1970), becomes more like an office assistant when any male cast members visit the base.

* ''[[Star Trek]]''

** Yeoman Rand from the first season. She is not shown doing much. She is useful mainly for getting kidnapped and making coffee with ''phasers''.

** Uhura started under this trope. ~~Short~~ skirt and the old-timey phone operator headset. In the [[Star Trek: The Animated Series|animated version]] her character started to show signs of breaking out of this role, handing off her [[Bridge Bunny]] duties to M'ress, the Bridge Kitty; and once the movies roll around, she ditches this completely and [[Took a Level in Badass|takes multiple levels in badass]].

** Uhura started under this trope, complete with short skirt and the old-timey phone operator headset. In the [[Star Trek: The Animated Series|animated version]] her character started to show signs of breaking out of this role, handing off her [[Bridge Bunny]] duties to M'ress, the Bridge Kitty; and once the movies roll around, she ditches this completely and [[Took a Level in Badass|takes multiple levels in badass]].

* ''[[Quark]]'': The Bettys, played by two of the Doublemint Gum twins. One of them was a clone (the pretty one) and they both lusted after [[The Captain]] Quark.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic|Battlestar Galactica]]'' - Flight Corporal Rigel (played by Sarah Rush), though Athena tends to work in the bridge as well.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica-2003]]''

** The three main bridge operators are a woman and two men, Dualla, Gaeta, and Hoshi, respectively. The male bridge officers, Gaeta and Hoshi, are eventually revealed to be in a relationship . . . with each other. Fans of these three characters have enthusiastically claimed the "bridge bunny" moniker.

** The three main bridge operators are a woman and two men, Dualla, Gaeta, and Hoshi, respectively. The male bridge officers, Gaeta and Hoshi, are eventually revealed to be in a relationship ... with each other. Fans of these three characters have enthusiastically claimed the "bridge bunny" moniker.

** Lt. Dualla is a classic [[Bridge Bunny]] being young pretty and subordinate.

* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'':

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** Walter Harriman. He has one job, consisting of repeating which Chevron is encoded and lock, and damn, does he do it well. He also opens and closes the stargate's iris. Lampshaded in the seventh season episode "Heroes".

* ''[[Space Mutiny]]'' had Bridge Bunnies who were downright ''Playboy Bunnies.'' They were wearing singlets and everything. (Granted, some other bridge staff wore actual uniforms, but still...)

== Literature ==

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Starship Troopers (novel)|Starship Troopers]]'' - Most pilots are women, since they're apparently better at it than men. There is ~~extended~~ commentary on the effect that this has on morale.

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Starship Troopers (novel)|Starship Troopers]]'' - Most pilots are women, since they're apparently better at it than men. There is commentary on the effect that this has on morale.

* Starships in David Weber's ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' cycle tend to have a high number of females aboard, but the author usually avoids invoking it as this trope. One female character, however, is called out in-story on the [[Spear Counterpart|disproportionally high number of]] [[bishonen]]s in her bridge crews.

== Video Games ==

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* Terran dropship in ''[[StarCraft]]'' have a bubblegum chewing female pilot who quotes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzFuDOXWNDE#t=00m08s Aliens' dropship pilot].

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== Web Comics ==

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== ~~Webcomics~~ ==

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Zoe and Gwynn take on this role during the "Stick Figures in Space" arcs.

* ''[[Subnormality]]'' - "I did [http://www.viruscomix.com/page493.html establish] a 50-trillion dollar interstellar fleet of exploration for solely the purpose of viewing thousands of female cadets in jumpsuits of a tightly-fitting nature! And I did personally design those jumpsuits, and your Honor they did hug and cling as as though a koala in a windstorm! And I did leer! How I did leer! Never have you seen such leerings!"