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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
** NotIt'd be easier to mentionname women drawn by the mangaka who ''don't'' fit the bill in ''[[One Piece]]'' - but for starters, we offer up Miss Doublefinger , Boa Hancock, Nico Robin, and Nami, for starters. One would get the idea that this is [[Author Appeal|one of the authorOda's many fancies]].▼
* Miss Doublefinger from ''[[One Piece]]''.
* SimilarSeveral to the ''[[One Piece]]'' example we have several female characterswomen from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' and ''[[Rave Master]]''. also fit the bill - in this case, Mashima outright states that he actually doesn't find it especially appealing and he mainly uses the design to please young male fans.▼
▲** Not to mention Boa Hancock, Nico Robin, and Nami, for starters. One would get the idea that this is [[Author Appeal|one of the author's many fancies]].
* The [[Gender Flip|Gender flipped]] version ofpped America in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''.▼
▲* Similar to the ''[[One Piece]]'' example we have several female characters from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' and ''[[Rave Master]]''. Mashima states that he actually doesn't find it especially appealing and he mainly uses the design to please young male fans.
* Quite a few of the female characters have this type of figurewomen in ''[[Code Geass]]'' have this type of figure, most notably Kallen and Milly.▼
▲* The [[Gender Flip|Gender flipped]] version of America in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''.
▲* Quite a few of the female characters have this type of figure in ''[[Code Geass]]'', most notably Kallen and Milly.
 
==Comic Books==
* The ''[[Winx Club]]'' comics feature this trait more prominently among the cast (which is mostly comprised of women), to the point that their breasts look like they could fall off at any given moment.
 
== Fashion Design ==
* [http://www.fashionhippo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Kate-Winslet-Stella-McCartney-Miracle-Dress.jpg This] Stella McCartney dress creates the optical illusion that the wearer has one of these.
 
== [[Film]] ==▼
 
▲== [[Film]] ==
* Francesca from ''[[Mad Monster Party]]''.
* Jessica Rabbit from ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' is more one of the more famous and extreme cases of this trope. She was originally designed with more (relatively speaking) [http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/5587/jessicarabbitconceptart.jpg realistic proportions] (relatively speaking), but the creators decided that they wanted an unrealistic quality about her sexiness. She's a toon, after all.
* Miss Forcible, in her youth, and the Other Miss Forcible from the film version of ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]''
* Holli Would from ''[[Cool World]]''.
* Mrs. Toad From ''[[Thumbelina]]'', who has huge [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]] on top of a near nonexistent waist, and wide hips to match.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BVg1WzS5Co&feature=related Sita] from ''[[Sita Sings the Blues]]''.
* Princess Jasmine from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''. Bonus points for actually getting [[Death's Hourglass|trapped in an hourglass.]]
* Four of the muses and Aphrodite, from ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'', have waists so tiny they could probably wrap one hand around them. Oddly enough, Megara ends up with [[Hartman Hips]], despite being the only femalewomen to make use of her womanly charms.▼
** Bonus points for actually getting [[Death's Hourglass|trapped in an hourglass.]]
▲* Four of the muses and Aphrodite, from ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'', have waists so tiny they could probably wrap one hand around them. Oddly enough, Megara ends up with [[Hartman Hips]], despite being the only female to make use of her womanly charms.
* The evil stepmother Frieda from ''[[Happily N'Ever After]]''.
 
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* 15-year-old Poddy Fries from ''[[Podkayne of Mars]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] gives her bust size as 90 centimeters and her waist as 48 -- roughly 36 and 20 inches, respectively. She doesn't give her hip size, but the passage makes it clear she's not unhappy with her appearance, so it's probably proportionate. This on someone who's 157 cm (5'2") and 49 kg (108 lbs), with "legs that are long for my height".
 
== [[Live Action Television]] ==▼
 
▲== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* An episode of ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' actually [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructs]] this trope. Dennis takes up fashion designing, and specifically designs his clothes for someone with an Hourglass figure. Of course, since no one in real life actually has one...
 
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* All the women in ''[[Li'l Abner]]'', except Mammy Yokum.
 
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Vivi from ''[[Brain Dead 13]]''.
* Valentina from ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', who has about the same proportions as her martini glass she's always carrying and is one of the few, if the only mario characters with noticable breasts.
* The ''[[F-Zero]]'' series has two: Mrs. Arrow (debuting in ''X'') and Princia Ramode (''GX''/''AX'').
* {{spoiler|Grunty}} from ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'''s [[Game Over]] screen.
* The Dark Queen from ''[[Battletoads]]''.
* [[Action Girl|Jessica]] [[Fiery Redhead|Albert]] in ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]''. Ditto for the elf maiden Rajah and the Witch-type enemies.
* [http://zeldawiki.org/File:Veran.png Veran] from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages]]''.
* Both Ringford Queen Elfaria and Queen Odette from ''[[Odin Sphere]]'' have pencil thin waists sandwiched in between huge breasts and wide hips. In Queen Odette's case it makes sense, considering aside from the breasts she is literatelyliterally just skin and [[Dem Bones|bone]] otherwise.
* Lara Croft was onedesigned ofthis theseway in the earlyfirst installment of the ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' franchise, though her character design in later installments have been [http://img851.imageshack.us/f/laracroft.jpg/ progressively averting this trope] by widening her waist and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130323061751/http://nixiepixel.com/media/blogs/a/tomb_raider_boobs.jpg shrinking her breasts.] Since ''Tomb Raider Underworld'', she now has a realistic hourglass figure.
* Iroha from ''[[Samurai Shodown]]''.
* Taldeer, Macha, and the unnamed Farseers in the first ''[[Dawn of War]]'' game.
* The beautiful Queen of Tumblers Salina from ''[[Drakensang]]''.
* Most females from the ''[[Shantae]]'' has most of the women in the series, including the titular protagonist.
* Morgan Le Flay from and [[Palette Swap|Elaine Threepwood]] from ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]''.
** And the other character that uses her model, [[Palette Swap|Elaine Threepwood]].
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
 
* Phobia from ''[[Gastrophobia]]''. It even gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] [http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-31 here.]▼
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* Phobia from ''[[Gastrophobia]]''. It even gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] [http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-31 here.]
* Both [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Ben'Joon]] and [[Amazonian Beauty|Pella]] from ''[[Looking for Group]]''.
* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Space Princess Voluptua]] (at least her's human form)]] from ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]''.
* This is the basic bodyshape for many femalewomen characters ofin ''[[Las Lindas]]''. It tends to be more obvious in [[Fan Service]]-heavy segments, like ''Breasts are the Best'' (as [[mediaMedia:Mora Linda 7131.jpg|Mora Linda]] demonstrates).
* The title character of ''[[Doctor Voluptua]]''.
* Lavender from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-04-11 here] butand [[Justified Trope|Justifiedjustified]] as she belongs to a species of shapeshifting aliens, and thus can have whatever figure she likes.
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Lindsay from ''[[Total Drama Island]]'', in contrast to most of the other femaleswomen on the show who typically have [[Hartman Hips]]. Not too surprisingly, she's also [[Ms. Fanservice|the most attractive femalewoman]] in the cast.
* Hello Nurse from ''[[Animaniacs]]'', as seen onin the picturepage aboveimage.
* Princess Aura from ''[[Flash Gordon (animation)|The New Adventures of Flash Gordon]]''.
* Miss Sara Bellum and Sedusa from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''.
* Suga Mama onin one episode of ''[[The Proud Family]]'' when she lost weight before marrying Clarance. However, they did not get married in the end.
* Princess Mandie from ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''.
* Almost every femalegirl character fromin ''[[Kim Possible]]''. There's too many to name, but there's mainly Kim, Shego, Monique, and Bonnie.
* "Red" (or "Lou") from [[Tex Avery]]'s cartoons.
* [[Gold Digger|Jez]] from ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''.
* Virtually every femalewomen in the [[DCAU]]. [[Bruce Timm]] clearly loves him some hourglass curves.
* The entire main cast of ''[[Winx Club]]'', heroines ''and'' villains alike. Look at those girls! Is it even possible for waists so skinny to support their boobs and hips?! Supermodels clearly try to get figures like those girls... but they're at least reasonable compared to the comics. It ''may'' also be due to not being human.
** This is a bit more prominent in the comics than the TV show. In the cartoon, their breasts, while still large, are reasonably sized for their figures. In the comics, however, their breasts look like they could fall off at any given moment.
** Possibly justified as they are ''not'' human.
* Kimmy from ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]''.
* [[Betty Boop]].
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* Panty the Panther from ''[[El Arca]]''.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* It is not unknown for some women pursuing an ideal or a fetish (neurotically or not) to use [[Of Corsets Sexy|corsets]] or even ''surgery'' to enforce an otherwise impossible body shape.
 
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