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{{quote|''"I dunno, there's something about the combination of beaks and feathers with some distinctly, er, mammalian characteristics that just utterly [[squick]]s me out."''
|'''[http://joshreads.com/?p{{=}}1512#shoe The Comics Curmudgeon]''', in reference to the comic strip ''[[Shoe]]''}}
{{quote|''"Blimey! Fish from space have never been so... buxom."''
|'''[[Doctor Who|The Doctor]]''', "The Vampires of Venice"}}
Look closely at a female reptile, a female amphibian, a female bird, a female fish, a female insect, or most non-primate mammals. You'll doubtless notice the lack of a particular characteristic that is common to female humans.
Most animals do not have human-like breasts at all, even if they fall into the category "mammal". Artists tend to oversize the mammaries of characters that do have them or put them in places where they don't belong. Compare the bellies of a male and female dog, or even the chest of ''a female gorilla,'' and you won't find much difference unless she's recently given birth to a litter and is nursing young (that's about the only time she will ''ever'' have any vague semblance of what we call "breasts" on humans). Both the size and position of human breasts are likely [
Prominent breasts, or lack thereof, is one of the simplest instinctive [[Rule of Perception|visual cues]] for [[Most Writers Are Human|
If the character is an [[Human Aliens|alien]] or artificial life form, then it makes a little bit more sense. Aliens have [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] after all, and creators of synthoids and such would probably want their "children" to be anthropomorphic enough to fit in. Not to mention that it's easier to design a [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|skin-tight rubber bodysuit with strange textures]] for use by human actors.
However, it tends to make a lot less sense when applied to avian and reptilian races of creatures or aliens. Breasts are for nursing young, and for an Avian with a nice hard beak (Especially those with curved or hooked beaks) that would be ''incredibly'' painful. Reptiles often have sharp teeth and often strong jaws, too, same with some fish. However, this can possibly be explainable for reptilians because their teeth don't develop during nursing, the same way humans do. Remember, [[Department of Redundancy Department|breasts are for nursing young primarily]]
This is common in the [[Furry Fandom]], however, there are actually some aversions as seen in the [[Web Comics]]
Just in case male non-mammals feel left out, note that external genitalia and nipples are also a "mammal thing", and their presence in male creatures from other taxonomic groups is a variant of this trope.
There is also the school of thought of [[Multi Boobage|multiple breasts]] [[Uncanny Valley|on aliens or furries]] but that's a completely different subject altogether.
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See also [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]], [[Multi Boobage]], [[Secondary Sexual Characteristics]], [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]], and [[Feather Fingers]].
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== Arachnids ==
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* Technically every [[Digimon]] with breasts ever, but special mention goes to [[Digimon Adventure 02|Archnemon]], a ''spider woman''. They're not immediately noticeable, but they're there.
=== Comic Books ===
* The original origin story for Marvel's first Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew, was that she was a hyper-evolved spider who had been genetically engineered by the High Evolutionary to look completely human (some people, apparently including Stan Lee, felt that this was going too far even for comic book science), and a [[Most Common Superpower|well-endowed]] human at that. This origin story was retconned away to be that she had been bitten by an irradiated spider pretty quickly though, so this issue did not come up for long.
=== Western Animation ===
* A spider who teaches Katy to knit in ''Katy Caterpillar'' has an impressive set of boobs.
* Blackarachnia in ''[[
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=== Comic Books ===
* Some of the [http://www.donaldisme.dk/boops.htm female ducks in Disney comics] and ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''.
** Especially prominent in the more [[superhero]]ically styled ''[[The Mighty Ducks (animation)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' cartoon, where the alien duckanoids are six feet tall, and [[Petting Zoo People|heavily anthropomorphized]].
** The puffed-up chest feathers of anthropomorphic hen Clara Cluck from the early Disney shorts [https://web.archive.org/web/20121024025845/http://www.freewebs.com/disneymovies01/clara%20cluck.JPG resemble large breasts].
** [http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2007/02/it_pk3_003a_001.jpg Lyla Lay in the modern version of the Paperinik/DuckAvenger (Donald as a superhero) comic.] Although she's not an actual antropomorphic duck, but a droid designed to look like one.
** Mocked by legendary Disney comic book artist [[Carl Barks]] himself. [http://www.cbarks.dk/Digital/karcb1.JPG One humorous self-portrait] showed him making a sketch of a sexy, nude woman...using a rather annoyed-looking duck as a model.
** Daisy herself has appeared on occasion in the [[Classic Disney Shorts|old cartoons]] to have breasts in shorts like ''Mr. Duck Steps Out'' and ''Donald's Double Trouble.'' Obviously, this wasn't permanent, and except for a few instances like ''[[
** [[Don Rosa]] (and ''[[
** The above likewise frequently involve ducks, like Launchpad, having their bills shaped like
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], the Shi'Ar are specifically stated to have evolved from birds (this is the reason why Deathbird, a Shi'Ar who is an apparent evolutionary throwback, has both wings and talons on her fingers). They also reproduce by laying eggs, which are incubated in a communal hatching chamber. Yet they are portrayed as basically humanoid in all other respects, including female Shi'Ar having breasts.
* As indicated in [[The Comics Curmudgeon]]'s quote at the top of this page, the comic strip ''[[Shoe]]'' is noted for giving breasts to ''every single female'' in its all-avian cast.
* The italian comic ''Ava'' features this. To be clear the main characters are a humanoid duck and chicken, and both have not only [[Gag Boobs|huge breasts]] but also a [[Hourglass Hottie|slim waist]] and other stuff.
=== Films -- Animation ===
* In ''[[Happy Feet]]'', the penguins are barely stylized at all, but the females have shading in their chest feathers to suggest a bosom.
** Truth is [[Reality Is Unrealistic|stranger than fiction]]. It turns out that Emperor Penguins do keep a milk-like substance stored in a gland by the esophagus. Of course, it's actually the [[Reality Is Unrealistic|males]] that do this...
** Furthermore, several female penguins do have more [[Squick|expansive chests]] than male characters.
* The same is true of Lani Aliikai in ''[[
* Goldie, a pheasant, in ''[[Rock
* The Contessa, Hungarian hawk and Olympic fencer in ''[[
* Stella the goose from ''[[Balto
=== Films -- Live-Action ===
* In the otherwise wretched film version of ''[[Howard the Duck (film)|Howard the Duck]]'', the eponymous avian hero at one point ogles a "Playduck" centerfold, who not only has breasts, but has ''nipples''.
** And only a few minutes later, we get "[[Fan Disservice|Duck-Tits!]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131204095054/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/2453-howard-the-duck/ Woo-oo!]" (Riffed starting at 1:53 in the video, [[NSFW]]...)
* ASAIR one of animations in ''[[Super Size Me]]'' suggested that McNuggets was made from old hen breast. And by breast I do not mean the meat which is on rib cage but old-human-like breast. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. They were explaining how originally, McNuggets were made from chickens with larger than normal breasts. So to demonstrate, they drew a chicken with pendulous breasts so big that it had to walk with a cane.
=== Literature ===
* Like the Falleen below, the Omwati follow this trope. Among other species in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]], they are apparently bird descendants that basically look like humans with feathers. This includes breasts on the women.
* Specifically averted by [[James Patterson]] in ''When the Wind Blows'': Max the bird girl's second most distinguishing physical feature (after her wings) is her total ''lack'' of mammaries. (She's oviparous.) Broad shoulders and the highly developed pectoral muscles needed to power her wings do give her the illusion of some breast development, even though she's barely pubescent in the first book. (The Max from the ''Maximum Ride'' young adult series is an expy of the original Max toned down to avoid [[Squick]].)
* [[China Mieville]]'s ''[[Bas-Lag Cycle
=== Tabletop Games ===
* The fan-spoof ''Girls of [[Talislanta]]'' series erupted into controversy when the avian Aeriad were drawn with breasts. The controversy was eventually solved when the pose was changed so that the female Aeriad faced the other way.
=== Video Games ===
* Wave the [[Accidental Innuendo|Swallow]], per usual for post pubescent [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] cast, of the game ''[[Sonic Riders]]'', though there is as much official art being flat-chested as official art showing budding of the chest. The in-game model tends to the former.
* [[Playing
* This is played with in ''[[Serious Sam]] 3'' regarding the Scythian Witch-Harpy, which appear to be humanoid women with bird wings and feet. The creature's data file indicates that its breasts are actually non-functional, and are merely a false facade (a form of evolved predatory mimicry) used to attract primate prey for the harpy to kill and eat.
=== Web Comics ===
* ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'' features birds with breasts. This can't be passed off as puffy chest feathers as some similar instances can, as Hunter Ravenwood once declares an avian ex-pornstar to possess "absolutely awesome areolas". The same comic also features reptiles with some fairly impressive hairstyles. [[Nightmare Fuel|Yikes.]]
* ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'' features [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=84608 Dolly Bird], a human/bird hybrid with the [[Most Common Superpower]]. Her bio page mentions that she was created by the [[Evilutionary Biologist|Somewhat-Below-Average Evolutionary]].
* Averted in ''[[
=== Western Animation ===
* [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi spy pigeon]] Hatta Mari in the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Plane Daffy".
* Also a red headed duck who called herself 'The Body' that was strongly attracted to Daffy Duck in the cartoon "The Super Snooper".
* ''[[The Mighty Ducks (
* Daisy Duck of all characters, was given cleavage for the ''[[
* ''[[Regular Show]]'' has Margaret the cardinal. In her first appearance, she's showing [[
* Several original female duck characters on the cartoon ''[[
* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' episode "Miss Understanding" has Skipper thinking he's a female due to a misreading of a DNA test result. During a few scenes showing how his new gender identity causes confusion during missions, the boys go for the chest bump after a successful completion but Skipper and Rico are both uncomfortable with that due to Skipper's newfound (and nonexistent) female features. Notwithstanding that they're BIRDS and don't have mammaries to begin with (or that Skipper really ISN'T a female anyway).
* The female birds in the Disney film ''[[Valiant]]'' have much more prominent chests than the male birds, particularly the main character's obligatory love interest, a small nursing dove. The females also have a small central indention and shading in the chest that would suggest cleavage.
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* Gorgeous Gal from the ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' cartoon A Fine Feathered Frenzy. She was an overweight and elderly crow with large breasts. Although because she was overweight each breast was almost the size of the Woodpecker himself. Played as a double entendre when she appears on a TV screen from her chest up behind the Woodpecker and asks him, "How 'bout a twosome hon?"
=== Comic Books ===
* The Mantis race in ''[[Invincible]]''.
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* The Khepri of ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'', though they are more along the lines of [[Mix-and-Match Critters|women with scarabs for heads]].
** [[Fridge Logic]] still means this trope applies, as infant khepri probably wouldn't be able to nurse with insectile mouthparts, so their humanoid bodies' breasts have no purpose aside from [[Fetish Fuel]].
* The ''Shadows of the Apt'' series by Adrian Tchaikovsky has all of its' main characters as some form of insectoid; Beetle-kinden, Ant-kinden, Spider-kinden, Dragonfly-kinden, Moth-kinden, and so on. Whilst they are humanoid in appearance, they are still definitely insects by their own admission. And yet the females have breasts. Also, Adrian (briefly) studied zoology at university.
** Actually they are all humans, the different kinden are like different races. The kinden appellation refers to the particular "totem" insect that their ancestors emulated and somehow received powers related to it.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* Chantho, the blue humanoid grasshopper girl in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Utopia". She can [[Squick|feed off her own milk]] with [[Bizarre Alien Biology|some sort of internal feeding system]], too.
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* [https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Insect_Queen Insect Queen], from the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' game, a case of [[Fan Disservice]] at best.
=== Video Games ===
* Q-Bee of ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' fame similarly has a female body with... generous proportions. But it's revealed that this is all a ploy to capture unsuspecting men for her and her hive to mate with and eat (in her victory poses, she even pulls out a knife and fork). This is most evident by the fact that, in her battle stances, she is posed with the buglike eyes on top of her head leading the body, since the ones on her face are entirely decorative (and form part of her ''mouth'').
* Honey B. from ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' sports a pretty impressive pair, and a distinctly waspish waist. In fact, this applies pretty much any time a bee- or wasp-like character in a funny animals situation isn't a gigantic engine of stinging death instead.
** An episode of ''Rescue Rangers'' has another such example.
* In both ''[[Bug
=== Web Comics ===
* Tammy the moth, from ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', sports a pretty impressive set.
* ''[[Dreamwalk Journal]]'' is '''all about''' a world of nude anthropomorphic insects and arachnids with exaggerated sexual characteristics, including huge boobs on all the females. (They apparently use breasts for storing honey or whatever rather than actually nursing.) That's pretty much [[Squick|all you need to know]] about it.
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', Princess Voluptua's butterfly form does have a bosom. What it does is anybody's guess.
* In response to some fan criticism, ''[[Sequential Art (
* Though the trolls from ''[[Homestuck]]'' are vaguely insectoid humanoids with a very buglike reproductive cycle, grown female trolls have been shown to have "rumble spheres". [[Andrew Hussie]] says that it's just so that readers find them easier to identify with. He also [[Discussed Trope|joked about the trope]] [http://www.formspring.me/mspadventures/q/220481854006923699 on his Formspring]
=== Western Animation ===
* The Queen of the bee like aliens in [[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]].
* Atta and Gypsy Moth from ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]''.
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=== Anime & Manga ===
* This is common in ''[[One Piece]]'', in which zoans (people who can turn into animals) usually retain several human features in their half animal form, including hair and, in females, breasts. Even in the recent case of two female characters who can turn into snakes. At least they didn't have nipples.
=== Card Games ===
* The [[Orochi]] (snake people) in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s "Kamigawa" block.
** A publication proclaimed the original set's Shivan Dragon to be a female because "she" had nipples. Putting aside the fact that these were probably meant to be something else and that all ''male'' mammals have nipples...
=== Comic Bookcs ===
* [[Femme Fatale|Alexandra]] in the French comic ''[[Dungeon: The Early Years]]''.
* The Skrulls of the [[Marvel Universe]] are usually referred to as reptiles; they're green, anyway. Would be justified, as they are shapeshifters, if the few female skrulls shown in their "natural" form weren't as vulnerable to the [[Most Common Superpower]] as everyone else in MU. Of course, they have hair, so maybe they're repto-mammals or something else entirely.
** Skrulls are egg-laying mammals, not reptiles. They lay eggs and then nurse their young after they hatch.
* Nessie from Richard C Moore's ''Boneyard'' is essentially this trope incarnate; despite being a female version of Gillman from the Creature of the Black Lagoon she outsizes all the other girls by several cupsizes.
** Not to mention this was lampshaded in an issue that took place at the beach when one of the characters Outright asks "Why does a lizard have such huge tits anyway?"
* Tricerachops of ''[[Super Dinosaur]]'' is a half-dinosaur, half-human mutant who evidently has mammaries.
=== Fan Works ===
* In the ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4759824/1/Shadowchasers Shadowchasers Series]]'', the ophidia are a race of [[Snake People]] where this is common for females, and [[Non-Mammalian Hair]] is occasionally found on both genders. This is actually brought up in one chapter of the second fic, where it states a female ophidia's mammaries are non-functional, and if they ever nursed their young, it was millennia ago. This, in fact, hints that they may have origins closer to humans (their traditional enemies) than either race cares to admit.
=== Literature ===
* Averted by the Mardukans of John Ringo's ''[[Prince Roger]]'' series. Mardukans are amphibian humanoids with six limbs. (Males are also biologically female, and vice-versa, but let's not discuss that in detail. It involves "penis" ovipositors and "females" producing sperm for internal fertilization.) During a pivotal meeting with a Mardukan merchant and the merchant's wife, Roger brings his [[Bodyguard Crush|Marine friend, Nimashet]] with him. The Mardukan merchant is curious about human breasts, so Nimashet takes off her top to allow closer examination and even allows the merchant a few inquisitive pokes. Roger, of course, nearly [[Nosebleed|chokes to death on his food]].
* The Falleen from ''[[Star Wars]]'', although, technically, they're [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Reptomammal reptomammals]. Granted, [[Truth in Television|there were indeed]] [
* In ''[[Larklight]]'', a reptile girl (who is presumably the equivalent of a teenager) is remarked upon as not having
* Averted in the ''[[Cordwainer Smith]]'' short story "The Dead Lady of Clown Town", where the narrative specifically mentions that the rather pretty snake-woman is completely flat-chested. [[Fridge Logic|Although, since the snake-woman also mentions that her people can't reproduce naturally, there's still no justification for her curvy hips.]]
** Since she was genetically engineered by humans, and was not a product of evolution, she can have pretty much whatever her designers wanted her to have.
* Jack L. Chalker's ''[[Well World]]'' series included a naga-like species with six arms [[Author Appeal|and six breasts]], though these were later [[
* There was another, very cheeky subversion in "The Race", from Turtledove's ''[[
* Averted in ''Azure Bonds'', where the heroine isn't sure of the sex of her saurial companion, due to her realization that a reptile wouldn't have breasts or wide hips for birthing.
* Similarly averted in ''[[
* Averted in ''Psychoshop'', where a reptile-descended humanoid female is similar enough to make love, but has no breasts, no nipples, and no navel.
* Amusingly averted with the draconians of ''Dragonlance'', where male draconians have been known to ''lament'' their females' lack of noticeable feminine characteristics. "Hugging one of those girls would be just like hugging one of you guys..."
* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] with the Hork-Bajir from ''[[
* The ''[[Quintaglio Ascension]]'' trilogy involves [[Intelligent Gerbil|somewhat anthropomorphic characters]] based on the smaller members of the [[Tyrannosaurus Rex|Tyrannosaurus group]]. The "somewhat" part is important; while they have human-like intelligence and personalities, they're basically recognizable as the animal they are based upon and the author does not fall back on giving them human-like gender differences; females are somewhat larger and more aggressive(!) and males sport a dewlap but that's about it.
** There's a funny bit in the third book where the heroine sees a picture of a female human and is completely baffled by her breasts.
* Averted with the frog-like vodyanoi of the Bas-Lag Cycle, whose gender can't be identified except by voice or a peek under the loincloth.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* The Cardassians from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' have scaly skin and prefer hot climates, which suggest they have a reptilian ancestry (although this is never made explicit), yet Cardassian women still have cleavage (sometimes). Depending on how generous you're feeling, you could ''almost'' [[Hand Wave]] this by assuming the Cardassians evolved from their world's equivalent of [[wikipedia:Synapsid|Synapsids]].
** Except that synapsids most likely did not, and never had, scales.
** Whatever they are, it [[No Biochemical Barriers|doesn't stop them]] from [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Tora_Ziyal interbreeding with] the [[Human Aliens|more obviously mammalian]] Bajorans.
*** I go one even more specific and call them therapsids, which are much closer to being like Earthly mammals. Some therapsids did in fact have what are called "milk lines", even before they stopped laying
*** Also, ''[[Star Trek:
** Questionable example, as some mammal species on Earth have scales of a sort. Just look closely at a beaver's tail, or check out a pangolin's or armadillo's coat of armor. If that's what they evolved from, Cardassians could have come by their mix of scales and breasts (hair too) honestly.
* The current run of ''[[
* Venus, the female turtles added to the ''[[Ninja Turtles:
* The Abbai in ''[[Babylon
=== Tabletop Games ===
* The Yuan-Ti in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' are snake people. It may have something to do with being able to [[Half-Human Hybrid|inter-breed with humans]] (indeed, some supplements explain that "the yuan-ti are descended from evil human cultists who mixed their bloodlines with those of serpents," which is itself impossible); but it was probably due to... "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130605210032/http://www.llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/target66.html artistic license]".
** In some editions, this is explicitly the result of magical assistance from a demon lord worshiped by the cultists, making it a case of [[A Wizard Did It|A God Did It]].
* ''[[Dungeons
** Many fans of the game that followed the online discussions around the time of the realease of 4th Edition might remember the [[Internet Backdraft]] concerning the new Dragonborn race that was ''Dragonboobs!!!''
** Medusas are likewise endowed, but depending on which edition's artwork you go by this is either perfectly logical (only snaky hair) or slightly [[
** TV Tropes Wiki isn't the only place to wonder about this topic. There is a ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080611155102/http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=963808 58 page thread]'' about whether the Dragonborn from ''Dungeons & Dragons'' should have breasts. Some of the confusion may be based on the fact that they are confirmed to lay eggs. A recent article makes it explicit that they are like Mammal-Like Reptiles and monotremes (see the Falleen below), and do nurse.
* The artwork accompanying one of the ''Voyages of the Princess Ark'' CD&D articles in ''Dragon'' included a female lizardfolk shaman with substantial breasts.
* The (presumably male) artists of the German Fantasy tabletop roleplaying game ''Arcane Codex'' like to put breasts on ''everything''. Even on the females of reptile people. Considering that ''Arcane Codex'' has at least a dozen playable races and even more classes to choose from, with full-color artwork in scantily-clad detail, that's quite a lot of breasts. They'd probably put breasts on seahorses, if they could get away with it.
* In ''[[Exalted]]'' the signature Casteless Lunar NPC, Madame Vert, is seen most frequently in her hybrid beast(wo)man form, a humanoid [[Call a Rabbit
=== Video Games ===
* In ''[[EverQuest]]'', there are reptile people called the Iksar; the female ones have head-frills, but no breasts. ''Everquest'' was pretty good about avoiding this trope actually.
** ''[[Video Game/Everquest 2|Everquest 2]]'', however, made Iksar females significantly slimmer than males, and gave them breasts, albeit breasts that could only be described as "minimalist" by MMORPG standards. Still subverted with the Frogloks and Sarnak, however. Female frogloks are a bit slimmer than males but close to indistinguishable. Female sarnak (a bipedal dragon hybrid) are much larger than males and have less elaborate facial horns.
* Several Kremlings from the ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' series (particularly Klump and K. Rool) have nipples... and ''navels''. [[You Fail Biology Forever|Um...]]
** Exhibit A: [http://www.mariowiki.com/Kalypso Kalypso]. Exhibit B: [http://www.mariowiki.com/Klump Klump]. o_0 Though reptiles don't have breasts or nipples they do have a kind of navel where the yolk sac was attached to them. Birds and monotremes (mammals that lay eggs) also have this.
* The Argonians in the world of ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]''... although this was temporarily dropped for ''Morrowind'' (unless you install certain mods). This accomplished little other than quite bluntly demonstrating the usefulness of this trope, as it was suddenly quite hard to tell male and female Argonians apart in that game.
** Although closer examination reveals males typical have wider heads, differences in body shape and different coloring. That and females have different hair from most males.
*** This is, of course, a perfect example of [[Justified Trope|why this trope exists]]. Take away the boobs and we ''can'' still tell the difference, if we look closely, but we lose our first, best, and most obvious identifier.
** Other than that ''[[Captain Obvious|the females SOUND feminine]]''.
*** Except they didn't, they (and the Khajit) all sounded like men gargling a mouthful of rocks. In fact the only noticeable difference was BETWEEN the Argonians and Khajit, and that was the choice of consonants they dragged out.
* The Tarka in ''[[Sword of the Stars]]'' appear to be reptilian. Their females lay eggs but have clearly-defined breasts. However, the [[All in The Manual|manual]] states that their internal structure is much more similar to primates than reptiles, making this a subversion.
* In the ''[[Pardus]]'' browser MMO the Keldon species has breasts. Why? as the original maker of the images said, "Keldon women do have boobs. Reason: because I like them and I did the original race design, and Baldur [Game Developer] has agreed upon it."
* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[Drakensang]]'', {{spoiler|Malgorra}} goes in [[One
* As part of her ''[[Skylanders:
=== Web Comics ===
* Averted '''repeatedly''' with Hortense, a lizard in the [[Talking Animal]] webcomic ''[[Nip and Tuck]]''. The only lizard in Malarkey County, she's constantly wearing bizarre wigs to try and "fit in". One example is when she throws a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120514060314/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00491.html "slumber party"] and one of the girls brings her mom's stock of
* Avoided in ''[[Last
** Veled, on the other hand, has possibly the [[Large and In Charge|largest rack of the cast]]. Of course, hers are at least justified by the fact she's [[Half
* Subverted in ''[http://wereworld.comicgenesis.com/ Wereworld]'', a webcomic set on a planet where "Lycanthropes" can shift between animal, human, and hybrid form. All female Lycanthropes have breasts. However, a special tribe of dragon Lycanthropes exists, and the females of the species have no breasts, no hair, no nipples, nor anything that indicates their gender when compared to the males of the species (they have mohawk-like ridges and horns that look like hair, but no actual
* The female Nagasta (sort of [[Buffy
* Averted in ''[[Not Quite Daily Comic]]''. Lulu the Turtle Girl looks like a (very creepy) child even though she's in her seventies.
* Averted in ''[[
* Played with in ''[[The Order of the Stick
** [[Lampshaded]] in the [[Prequel]] book ''[[Start of Darkness]]'':
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'''Eugene:''' [[Fridge Logic|Wait, if she's a reptile, how do you get to second base?]]
'''Oracle:''' OUT! }}
* ''[[Harkovast]]'', a fantasy webcomic featuring various animal races, features a reptilian race called [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405093652/http://www.harkovast.com/index.php?id=3 "Tsung Dao"] whose females fit in this trope. However it is explained that in this magical setting, all races can cross breed, making the need for mammary glands a somewhat universal adaption.
* From ''[[
** Although, given the author and artists' tendencies in their other fiction, it's about an even chance either way. Given that the N'Gae have hair as well and the entire world the comic is set in is peopled almost entirely by human/nonhuman mixes, it doesn't seem quite so improbable.
* All of the female dragons from ''[[Draconia Chronicles]]'' seem to fit this trope.
* [http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20071030 In this panel] from the webcomic ''[[Concession]]'', Angie feels she's justified in not wearing anything above the waist because of her reptilian biology.
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* The [http://owmysanity.comicgenesis.com/d/20100317.html frog creature] from ''[[Ow
* Aylee the alien from [[Sluggy Freelance]] has booby-looking things sometimes. "Bring back phase two!"
* ''[[Oglaf]]'': "Heh. [http://www.oglaf.com/snakeskin/ Snake tits.]" ([[NSFW]])
* Averted in ''[[Terinu]]'' with the Galapagos, being gene-gineered from native Earth lizards. The one female shown was dressed in a nighty, but did not have breasts.
=== Web Original ===
* ''[[Tales of MU]]'' averts this, with part-snake woman Celia. Considering that she has human-looking skin and even the ability to grow hair (which she considers an embarrassing condition.), this along with her eyes and fangs is one of her more obviously reptilian traits.
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* Uncomfortably applied to the southern belle alligators in ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation|Tiny Toon Adventures How I Spent My Vacation]]''. One of them even sends Buster straight to [[Marshmallow Hell]]...
* In an episode of the ''[[U.S. Acres]]'' segment of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', Sheldon the unhatched chick is mistaken for a turtle egg by a mother turtle with rather noticeable cleavage. On her ''shell''! How are those supposed to work? (Insert your own "breast plate" joke here.)
* Beans, the main female character in ''[[Rango]]'', has obvious breasts. There's also a background frog character who has [[Gag Boobs]].
* Mrs. Toad in ''[[Thumbelina]]''. Almost bordering on [[Gag Boobs]]. Of course, she was [[Ink Suit Actor|voiced by Charo]]...
* The Gungan, Rhodian and Mon Cala (they might look like fish, but they're in fact Amphibians) females from ''[[Star Wars:
* Oola from ''[[Disenchantment]]''; she insists her people are amphibians, though they share some traits with reptiles, and they have this and [[Non-Mammalian Hair]].
== Fish and Other Sea Creatures ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* [[Squid Girl]] is supposed to be a squid, yet she at least ''seems'' from this side of the dress to have the chest—and general appearance, tentacles notwithstanding—of a female Japanese human in her early teens. (Of course, she's also an invertebrate, as stated on the DVD cover, but you'd think from looking at her that she has an internal skeleton, so...)
* Averted in ''[[Slayers]]'', where the female fish-people don't have breasts.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'' Fish-People are specifically said to be mammals with fish-like traits, such as gills and scales. Thus, females have this, and ''do'' use them to nurse their children, which are born live, not hatched from eggs.
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* Played straight by necessity by The Merrow of [[Magic: The Gathering|the Lorwyn setting]], where the males and females would be indistinguishable if not for the breasts.
** Averted by the far more feral Merrow of the Shadowmoor setting.
=== Comic Books ===
* The Atlanteans in ''[[Invincible]]''.
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* In addition to the Falleen, ''tons'' of non-mammalian humanoid species in ''[[Star Wars]]'' fall under this trope, including [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/3/3c/Quarren_Female.jpg/180px-Quarren_Female.jpg Quarren], which is [[Squick|all kinds of wrong]].
=== Live-Action TV ===
* Averted in ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]''. The show features 3 otherwise [[Ordinary High School Student|normal]] girls who just happen to turn into mermaids when they get wet. [[Fetish Fuel|Their clothes disappear when they transform]]. As it is primarily a children's show, they are usually wearing themed bikini tops. One the occasions when we got to see what's under the top—it turns out to be a thick layer of ''scales'', which grow over their chests, seemingly only for modesty reasons.
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* The fish in [[Radiohead]]'s "Paranoid Android" video. Strangely enough, that's the ''only'' humanoid feature that fish has, and isn't even noticeable at first...
=== Video Games ===
* Female Zoras in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' games. Hard to miss in Ruto's [http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda05/Characters/OfficialArt/Ruto2.jpg official artwork].
** Semi-averted in ''Twilight Princess'', where both male and female Zoras are identical and flat-chested. The deceased Zora queen, on the other hand....
* The Naiads from ''[[God of War]]''. Poseidon apparently gussied his daughters up, presumably to make Spartans want to make out with them.
* In ''Call of Cthulhu: [[Dark Corners of the Earth]]'', Hydra, giant queen of the fish-like Deep Ones, is depicted with breasts. May be somewhat [[Justified Trope]], since it is known that Deep Ones can [[Squick|interbreed with humans]], and therefore must presumably share some genetic material.
** It's at least worth noting that the usual reason of making the female creature more attractive/feminine ''definitely'' doesn't apply
* Female squidlings in ''[[Splatoon]]'' - at least older ones like Callie and Marie. The whole cast are super-evolved gastropods, and many have mammalian traits.
=== Web Comics ===
* Parodied and subverted on [http://cyantian.net/csafari/?p=232 this page]{{Dead link}} of ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles|Campus Safari]]''. Sure, the female shark has two curved masses, but they're ''gills''. The [[All There in the Manual|site's wiki]] also states that males have gills in the breast area, too, but they're less prominent due to their wide chests.
* In ''[[Nautibits]]'', mermaids have venom sacs that look like human breasts (except no nipples).
=== Web
* Parodied by the [[Our Mermaids Are Different|Mermaids]] in ''[[Tales of MU]]''. They have breasts, of course, but are ignorant of lactation. Instead, they are used to ''get free beer'' and {{spoiler|lure sailors to their doom}}.
** {{spoiler|[[Did Not Do the Research|Which would mean the creators confused them with the]] [[Mix
*** {{spoiler|Actually, apparently they're the same race in that universe, since one of the Mermaids has decidedly avian features in her least-human form}}.
=== Western Animation ===
* Female Decapodians from ''[[Futurama]]'' are humanoid shellfish. According to [[Word of God]], their "breasts" are actually egg sacs. Still, the ones with the biggest are considered the most desirable. Somewhat justifiable as the males ''would'' be subconsciously attracted to the females that would offer the highest chance and quantity of procreation.
** As Decapodians die immediately after mating, leaving their fertilized eggs behind in the sea, females of their race would never get the chance to ''use'' breasts as Nature (as opposed to [[Fan Service]]) intended.
* Short-lived series ''[[Fish Police (
** This also applied to the [[Fish Police (
* ''[[
* On ''[[Captain N:
=== Advertising ===
* A bad case of [[Did Not Do the Research]] resulting in unintentional [[Squick]] is the advert for ''Nestlé Cereal Bars'' on UK TV, using an animated character called "Uter the Cow". Uter spoke with an Arnold Schwarzenegger-style voice, and had [[Nightmare Fuel|some sort of gun-like contraption, attached to his(?) udder-area]] by means of a long tube, out of which he expelled what was presumably ''meant'' to be milk.
=== Films -- Animation ===
* Averted in ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'', where Tigress, who happens to be Master of Kung Fu (Tiger style, of course) and one of the main characters, has no signs of feminine mammaries (as well as thin waist or lush thighs). Compared to male snow leopard Tai Lung, however, Tigress is leaner and sleeker, thus looking female and sexy without abusing cat anatomy.
** Played straight with Commander Vachir though, who is a rhinoceros with visible nipples on his bare chest, making him one of the rare male examples.
* In a trailer for ''[[Ice Age]] 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', Scrat the saber-toothed squirrel gets all the fur ripped off his chest, exposing two dots of nipple. Not only are there fewer nipples present than seems plausible for his species, which would presumably have large litters like other squirrels, but rodents' nipples are generally arranged in paired lines that extend forward from the groin, not on the chest as in human males.
** And male rats and mice don't have any at all.
* Many of the female mice in the ''[[
* This trope was reversed (and maybe even broken) in ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Fritz the Cat (
=== Literature ===
* In Lisanne' Norman's ''Sholan Alliance'' books, this trope is averted by the [[Catfolk|felinoid]] extra-terrestrials. In fact, it's stated in one book that the fact that female humans have breasts at all times makes them quite attractive to the males.
* Similarly averted in, of all things, a ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel called ''Uhura's Song''. The plot concerns humanoid cat-people who, upon meeting Uhura, ask her where her children are since she has breasts. She explains that human females keep their breasts even when not nursing, and the cat people basically say, "Oh, interesting." At least it was ''mentioned''.
* Played with in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* In one of the ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' novels, a woman is attempting to use an illusion to look like a werewolf despite never having seen one. Later on, when she meets one, the female werewolf laughs over the, "And you only had two breasts."
* Somewhat related: the ''[[Redwall]]'' series has a unique problem. Most of the characters are mammals, but there are no non-anthropomorphic mammals (besides the horse in the original novel and it's been more or less retconned out at this point). Yet they are always eating ''cheese''. It was eventually explained that the milk is "Greensap milk", produced from "roots and tubers". (Mm, tastes like Deus Ex Machina. But at least it avoids the potentially embarrassing problems of locating the real stuff...)
** On one episode of [[Adaptation Distillation|the Nelvana cartoon]], Matthias suffers an instance of [[Marshmallow Hell]] at the paws of Constance Badger. (Constance is the only character to have noticeable cleavage.)
** Averted in the [[Official Fanfiction University]] of ''Redwall''; the human-turned-mouse heroine gets up too early on her first day, dresses sleepily, and realises too late that she's automatically put on ''five'' bras, one for each, um, set, and since she now has no protruding breasts there's nothing to hold them up, so they fall off. Many jokes in the story are made about unusual animalian anatomy, as the boys who were unlucky enough to be in the bathroom when a lizard boy discovered what "hemipenes" are found out. Less horrifyingly, a weasel student spent the first day with a bald patch on his face when he forgot he no longer had to shave.
* Averted in ''Animorphs'' with the Andalites (aliens which at least ''seem'' mammalian). Based on the cover art, Aldrea has the same sort of muscular-but-flat chest males like Ax have. (Of course, Andalites don't wear clothes, so the makers didn't really have many options, I suppose.)
* Weird example: In the nature [[Mockumentary]] book ''Snouters'', one species of this fictious mammal taxon always sports prominent breasts resembling those of humans ... even in males. Justified, at least in theory, because the species in question lives symbiotically with another, and trades milk for this other species' assistance in finding food. (Doesn't explain why the breasts look so much like a snippet of ''Playboy'' got photoshopped onto a fuzzy little critter, though.)
* In Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series, there exists a species of cat-lemur humanoids called Lemurians, fittingly enough. Lemurian females have been noted early on that proportionality with humans are very similar, specifically the breasts.
** This leads to some comedic/awkward moments as the bulk of the humans are sex-starved males, and one of the secondary conflicts of the series.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* In a ''[[Mad TV]]'' skit, [[Babe]] the pig is a half-human, half-pig who is on ''[[Baywatch]]''. All of the ''Baywatch'' lifeguards are upset until he gets a bikini top which covers his multiple rows of nipples.
* [[The Muppet Show|Miss Piggy]].
=== Tabletop Games ===
* This issue comes up a lot where anthropomorphic cattle are concerned. (And see also [[Furry Confusion]].) To wit:
** There was a rather amusing discussion on whether female minotaur PCs of the text-based RPG ''Grendel's Revenge'' had "Udder Armor" or "Breast Plates" as part of their armor set. Thankfully, [[One Size Fits All]] provided no specific answers.
** Similarly, female Tauren in ''[[
*** Human-like breasts are a design advantage for humanoid mammals of any species, since they allow the mother to nurse while holding the child in their arms. It should also be noted that, proportionately, tauren females are quite ''petite'' compared to the other races.
** ''[[Dungeons
*** Minotaurs on [[Dragonlance|Krynn]] have two sexes, even in 2nd edition. In one short piece of fiction in that setting, a human taken captive by seafaring minotaurs notes that the first mate, whom he'd initially mistaken for male, has (modest) human-like breasts beneath her leather armor.
* In ''[[Dungeons
** The original Monster Manual portrayed Gynosphinxes this way too.
* ''[[Rifts]]'' plays it both ways. Female Dog Boys are engineered to have humanlike busts apparently solely because it makes them more familiar and acceptable to humans... but considering the variation between canine-like and human-like physiology within the species it's totally possible some don't. Kill Hounds, which are more in the plausible deniability column, have no such niceties. The feline Battle Cats have humanlike breasts as well. Their Kill Cat cousins, the rat and bat conversions, and the Ursa Warriors are anyone's guess; very little art of them exists.
** A female Mutant Rat in the ''Machinations of Doom'' comic has 'em.
=== Video Games ===
* ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'' seems to be a little confused about this. In the "Secret Missions" add-on to the original ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'', the [[Mega Neko|Kilrathi]] priestess is shown with a multi-part bra covering three sets of human-style breasts, while the ''[[Wing Commander Academy]]'' cartoon showed the relatively few females that were seen as being flat-chested, and the intro to ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] Prophecy'' has a wall drawing of a Kilrathi female with one pair of human-style breasts.
* This is true of the female Khajiit lion-people in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'', who have normal human breasts.
** In ''Oblivion'', this almost seems like laziness on the part of the developers, as all humanoid characters have the exact same male or female body model, merely retextured and with a few features added (Claws on Argonians, tails on Khajiit).
* The fox spirits in ''[[Jade Empire]]'' have rather...pronounced...secondary sexual characteristics.
** Considering they're a rather obvious [[Expy]] of [[Fantastic Foxes|Huli Jing]], a mythological race known for using sexuality to confuse and utterly screw with humans, I'd say it's expected.
* Juhani from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''
* Might be one of the reasons why Krystal divides the ''[[Star Fox (
** And poor Fay and Miyu are forever lost in the void that never was ''Star Fox 2''. Actually a pretty good game if you can find the fan-completed version floating around the 'net.
*** Amanda, Slippy Toad's love interest in ''Command'' and an amphibian, is not a mammal (duh), yet she has breasts.
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** Discussed in a blog article by the developer who oversaw the development of the female Charr, previously unseen in the first game. Early versions ''did'' play this trope straight, but the developer ultimately gave the others a choice: female Charr would either have no breasts or, as per real-life felines, six. The decision was made to avert this trope.
=== Web Comics ===
* Averted in ''[[Freefall]]''. The [[Petting Zoo People|Wolf-Woman]] Florence is flat because she has no children. In one early [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00203.htm strip,] her bare chest is censored (even though there's really nothing to see) via ''multiple'' stripes, as appropriate for canines.
** In the scenes where she's nude, though, when covering herself for others, an arm goes across her chest where one would find breasts on a human female. Granted, having only two arms and a tail for coverage limits how much one can cover without the help of clothes, though the [[Hand or Object Underwear|covering]] is more of a social response from being raised among humans.
* In the [[Talking Animal]] webcomic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130922013109/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/ Nip and Tuck]'', most every female depicted of whatever species (apart from Hortense, see Reptiles above) is amply endowed. Thelma, Tuck's girlfriend, even goes so far as to elaborate on why possum gals don't get [https://web.archive.org/web/20120514062116/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00248.html "Cooper's Droopers"].
** On a slightly unrelated note, possums don't hang upside down like
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' hung a lampshade on this with the "''Star Trek'' Adventure" where they meet an amazingly pneumatic Alien who is, of course, a male of his species.
** And more recently, a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of ''[[
* ''[[
* Pretty much subverted in ''[[
* ''[[
* Averted in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130407050222/http://www.roomies-comic.com/cgi-bin/roomies.cgi Roomies]'' by Corey, a female kangaroo who commonly goes around in [[Half
** As shown [http://www.roomies-comic.com/cgi-bin/roomies.cgi?date=20060224 here]{{Dead link}} when she gets a temporary job as a "booth bunny"
=== Western Animation ===
* Gadget Hackwrench from ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
* ''[[Nu Pogodi]]'' uses this, though, amusingly, the female pigs are depicted as having [[Multi Boobage|multiple (eight or so)]] breasts.
* In the 1941 remake of the 1934 Disney cartoon ''Orphan's Benefit'', the normally flat-chested Clarabelle Cow [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/JetsLuvver/Other%20pics/clarabelle.png?t=1218258791 gains a human-like bust] after being accidentally undressed by Goofy.
* [[Sonic
* When not wearing her space suit, [[
* Many of the female [[Tiny Toons]] characters, including Margot Mallard, Binky Bunny, and Bimbette.
** Escpecially Julie Bruin.
* [[Animaniacs
* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' is a place where [[Everything Talks]], and of course almost avoids this trope, with many of the females lacking all the [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]. The one exception seems to be Ms. Simian (a baboon), who has very noticeable, sagging breasts.
** There's also Granny JoJo. Richard also has rather sizable moobs.
== Various Animals ==
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* One of the Spanish frogs in the movie ''[[Thumbelina]]'' had very large breasts.
** It's an [[Ink Suit Actor]] version of Charo, who voiced the character. Are you surprised anymore?
=== Films -- Live-Action ===
* The [[Human Aliens|dinosaur-descended humanoids]] of the ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros]]'' movie.
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* Subverted in [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''Chimaera's Copper''; the chimera lacks breasts, despite the hero's desire for them.
=== New Media ===
* On the subject of dinosaur-people, this was pointedly avoided in Dr. Dale Russel's "thought experiment", the [http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2006/11/dinosauroids-revisited.html Dinosauroid]. He reasoned that, like a bird, the mother Dinosauroid would feed her children regurgitated food. The creature [[Human Aliens|fails spectacularly on damn near every other level]], but at least he averted this one trope.
=== Video Games ===
* Averted by ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'': Azala, leader of the Reptites, is female and non-pneumatic.
* Averted in the ''[[Pokémon]]'' games, beginning with Diamond and Pearl, which introduce gender differences. Many fans predicted, for instance, that the more anthropomorphic species such as the Machop family would be given humanoid mammaries and maybe additional articles of clothing. But no; in fact, most of the gender differences are subtle, barely existent, or based on gender dimorphism in the Pokémon's real-life counterparts, so good on GameFreak! (OK, female Wobbuffet wear [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|lipstick]], but it's just for the [[Rule of Funny|comedy value]].)
** But ''not'' averted in the originals, where this is a notable characteristic of the Pokémon Nidoqueen. And the extended Nidoran family looks fairly reptilian.
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*** [[Freud Was Right|Horn size]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|difference]] [[Double Entendre|you say]]?
**** Male animals usually do have bigger horns than females in [[Real Life]].
* In ''[[Mario
* Justified with the various anthropomorphic races featured in the MUCK game ''[http://scross.homeip.net/wiki SouthernCross]''.{{Dead link}} Almost all of the races are basically human, with a bad tempered Planet-God having tried to kill humanity by mutating them over and over until they died. It didn't quite work, and while a few pure human lines survive, "human" now refers to basically any anthropomorphic character not explicitly stated as Non-Human. Therefore they not only possess mammalian features that would not be at home on their apparent species, but are also reproductively compatible with other "humans" (but generally ''not'' with explicitly stated non-humans).
** This also averts [[Furry Confusion]]!
* In ''[[Star Trek Online]]'', all females use the same body model. This includes Andorians (who have some insectoid features, like a partial exoskeleton and antenna, and ''four'' genders, with the one that actually bears the young doing so in a fashion rather like marsupials) and Saurians (lizard-people, what else).
=== Web Comics ===
* Explained away in ''Triquetra Cats'' with the Antreyui, they are descendants of humans who have been spliced with the DNA of animals, so they're not so much anthropomorphic animals but thereomorphic ''people'', the lizard people and bird people may have reptilian and avian traits and features but they are still mammals.
* ''[[
** More like [[
* ''[[Jack (
=== Web Original ===
* A notable aversion in the ''Winds of change'' universe, for ''all'' animals from dinosaurs to amphibians. One of the first furry fandom aversions of this work; humans in the world turned into anthropomorphic animals with superpowers when a furry universe, our own universe, and a superhero universe was merged by a [[Mad Scientist]]. Anyone who became a high-degree morph (essentially a [[Talking Animal]]) clearly lacked these telltale human traits, but so did other degree morphs. (Likewise, male reptiles, avians, dinosaurs, and avians did not have nipples either, and they did not have other visual sexual characteristics.) Maybe a low degree morph would still maintain them but a lot of them tended to be mid to high-degree morphs.
** As babies are born looking entirely human and only become anthropomorphic animals with superpowers at approximately puberty, a small exception was added that a mother always reverted to a low-enough degree morph to allow her to nurse her child, going back to her normal level afterwards. This even applies to avians, reptiles, dinosaurs, amphibians, fishes, and others who hatch children from eggs.
* [[Furry Fandom]].
** Both subverted and (more commonly) played straight. When subverted in comic shorts or web comics often lampshaded (see lizards again, above)
=== Western Animation ===
* Subverted in ''[[Gargoyles]]'': Disney gargoyles are an egg-laying species with breasts, but [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/faq.php?s=faq18#23 Word of God] addresses this by explicitly stating that gargoyles also nurse their hatchlings. Egg-bearing mammals don't work ''quite'' this way, but gargoyles apparently do. It helps that they're part of their own biological order, called "gargates" by Greg, who describes them as "One of those animals around in the dinosaur age that gets confused with dinosaurs but isn't necessarily a dinosaur unless [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|it is a dinosaur]]."
** This justification does raise other [[Fridge Logic]] issues, in that gargoyles supposedly don't know who their biological parents are. Do hatchling gargoyles lack long-term memories until they're weaned, or do the females all lactate and nurse the clan's babies indiscriminately?
*** It's stated once or twice that the young are part of the clan and are all their sons and daughters, so this would imply shared nursing duties.
== Plants, Robots, and [[Animate Inanimate Object]]s ==
=== Anime & Manga ===
* Rosemon from ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' has [[Gainaxing|jubblies that bounce]].
* Mahoro from ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' subverts this nicely; She's a combat android and so big boobs would only be a hindrance. However on the battlefield of love she finds herself drastically under-armed when it comes fighting for the affections of her Master, so much so that she {{spoiler|changes her wish for Earth peace to a wish for bigger breasts}} as well as {{spoiler|asking for a modification from her creators at VESPER}} in a letter "home." {{spoiler|It is promptly denied to a round of applause.}}
* Cosmo from ''[[Sonic X]]''. In a climactic moment near the very end of the series, she suddenly transforms from a child to a full-grown adult, complete with breasts and child-bearing hips... in spite of the fact that no other female of her species is portrayed with these. Furthermore, the scene comes complete with gratuitous close-ups of her swelling bust and posterior, which makes the whole thing more than a little bit worrying.
=== Comic Books ===
* T'ra Saa, despite being a sentient plant, embodies this (possibly to avoid alienating readers when she's shown to be in a relationship with a human male). She's made appearances in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] series ''[[Star Wars Republic]]'' and ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]''.
** One possible in-universe explanation is that T'ra Saa did this deliberately so that she'd be recognised by others as female.
=== Fan Works ===
* Warforged from the ''[[Eberron]]'' [[Dungeons & Dragons]] setting ordinarily avert this. The (unfortunately defunct) [[Deviant ART]] member Maelora didn't like this and chose to draw a "nude" female warforged with breasts purely for [[Rule of Sexy]]. It came out [[Better Than It Sounds|Better Than It Sounded]].
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* A botched spell from Schmendrick in the film ''[[The Last Unicorn (animation)|The Last Unicorn]]'' causes a nearby tree to sprout a female face and large breasts, with which it subjected the bumbling wizard to [[Marshmallow Hell]]. Possibly justified, as perennially-dateless Schmendrick's subconscious might've affected the magic's effects, and the tree ''did'' have a couple of suggestively-placed large boles on its trunk.
* Thankfully averted in ''[[9|Nine]]'', in which 7, the only distinctly female ragdoll ([[The Smurfette Principle]]), is just as nondescript and featureless as her male counterparts. The only things that really set her apart from the others are her voice, and a couple of very subtle details such as her smaller hands.
=== Literature ===
* The Neti from ''[[Star Wars]]'', though they at least are shape-shifters and implied to choose such things because they want to look more humanoid, so as to fit in better in a galaxy dominated by humanoids in general in and humans in particular.
** However, the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Zelosian Zelosians] have no such excuse.
* The Cactacae of ''[[Perdido Street Station]]''. Justified by their being human/plant [[Mix
=== Live-Action TV ===
* Zhaan from ''[[Farscape]]'' is a [[Plant Person]]. Who gets orgasms from solar flares, incidentally. She does avert [[Non-Mammalian Hair]], though.
** Zhaan may be atypical, however. Some members of her species have displayed something that certainly looks like hair (and is bright orange, to boot).
** The show also flips this one on its head in one episode. "Female of the species" anyone?
* Jabe, from the ''[[
* Lyekka from ''[[Lexx]]''. (Unfortunately for Stanley Tweedle she's also "smooth round the bend".) Justified because she is a psychic predator that [[Horny Devils|took that form specifically to prey on male humans]].
** Not just male humans, she also used it on females as well (although she complained that a woman who displayed no sexual attraction tasted bad, but another female who had been hitting on every main character except Stanley apparently tasted quite nice).
* A borderline case comes from ''[[Star Trek]]:[[The Next Generation]]''. The Borg certainly don't breastfeed, but allowed unit Seven of Nine to keep her fairly impressive set of functionless accessories. You would think the Borg would remove them as biological tissue takes energy to maintain, and thus reduces efficiency. Even less explicable are the breasts on the Borg Queen in the movie, but maybe that body was just for formal receptions. The Borg Queen only has her physical body created when she has need for it, after all.
=== Tabletop Games ===
* [[Dungeons & Dragons]] has the Wilden, a plant-like fey humanoid.
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* Several female [[Transformers]], including Arcee, Thunderblast, Beta, and all who are named Blackarachnia. (It should be noted that most Blackarachnias are also at least partially organic... but they're ''spiders''.) Notably, in one episode of ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' you get to see Thunderblast's "breasts"... ''jiggle.'' In another episode, she has nipples. Why, Japan? Why?
** Botanica is a twofer: a plant that turns into a robot!
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** Whereas the toys are, for the most part, aversions, the movie redesigns played the trope straight, even if subtly. The best example being Toa Metru Nokama, who ''did'' have a cleavage, with the top-part of her inner gears sticking out (these gears were less prominent on her male partners).
=== Video Games ===
* There's a large-breasted sunflower in ''[[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]''. You need to ''pollinate her'' with the king bee to increase her bust size. Which you can then use as a trampoline.
** [[Blatant Lies|They're stigmas]].
* Averted in, of all things, ''[[Disgaea]]'' with the Flora Beasts. While these nymph analogues certainly appear to be female, a close look will reveal that they have no breasts to speak of. The game not only uses this to [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|trick the player]], but takes it a step further by actually naming the Flora Beast in question [[Shout
** Then again, they are ''demons'', like Q-Bee listed above.
* Really, just about any [[Robot Girl]] that wasn't made for Sexbot purposes. Some of the others might be justified simply by aesthetics, but sometimes there is no excuse for the robots to be [[Ridiculously
** Aigis from ''[[Persona 3]]'' is slightly justified in that her creators deliberately designed her that way so she could be given a fully-realized, [[What Measure Is a Non
* Somewhat averted in ''[[Portal (
** Most would consider this a complete aversion, since [[
* Played with in ''[[Guild Wars 2]]'' with the Sylvari, a race of [[Plant People]]. They are plants that mimic the human form for
* [http://images.wikia.com/swtor/images/2/21/SCORPIO.jpg SCORPIO] in SWTOR has robo-bosoms and hips.
=== Western Animation ===
* In the third [[Bosko the Talk Ink Kid]] cartoon "Congo Jazz", a palmtree promptly pulls it's leaves down like a skirt, does a booty bump, and then proceeds to [[Gainaxing|gyrate it's coconuts]].
* Big Brain, the only explicitly [[
* In the [[Christmas Special]] ''Christopher the Christmas Tree'', a number of anthropomorphic pine trees are talking about why they'll be the first to be picked. One has snow strategically placed to look like a boobs, and she even comments that she's "the fullest" while [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|making her snowboobs jiggle]]. You can see this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FczGc5NetTI starting at 1:25].
* Many fem-bots on ''[[Futurama]]'' fall into this category.
* In the [[Downtown]] episode "The Con", Alex and Serena look at ''Robot Porn''.
* The ''[[
* Master-mold from ''[[Wolverine and
== Other ==
=== Advertising ===
* [[Orangina]] commercials have breasts on '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck14LKBI9GM everything]''': deer, flamingoes, ''octopi'', '''''[[Serial Escalation|flowers]], and [[Animal Gender Bender|male-colored peacocks]]'''''.
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* The June 1953 edition of [[EC Comics]] ''Weird Science'' featured a story called "Right on the Button" in which a man marries an alien woman who stabs him to death on their wedding night when she sees he has a navel, revealing that he is a (GASP!) ''mammal'', born from a (GAG!) ''womb''! But like all EC pretty girls, she has great tits! (Unlike Xylene, she never said she doesn't take care of her babies after they hatch, to there is the possibility that she feeds her young on milk. But [[Most Writers Are Male|what are the chances of that]]?)
* Subverted in the ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' comics; the Alpha Centaurians have a marsupial-like pouch instead of breasts (though oddly, the females still cover the chest area with clothing).
** At least when Jim Valentino was in charge. When Kevin West took over, he [[Completely Missing the Point|promptly gave the Centaurian ladies boobs]].
* Confusingly played straight and/or averted in ''[[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog]]''. Salma and Juanita, the daughters of Espio, both have hair (and, being older, Salma also has boobs). Saffron the Bee has hair as well. This could be explained by the gene bomb that mutated all life into what it is today in the comics. However, the cover of ''Sonic Universe'' #8 shows that Argyle now has distinctly different punk hair which, not only wasn't present in his initial appearance, is rare for any male character, even if they are a mammal (the only other male with distinctly different hair is Antoine the Coyote). Let's see the Xorda explain that one.
* Platinum a.k.a. Tina a.k.a. Platina is a robot built by Dr. Magnus creator of ''[[The Metal Men
** In retrospect, his various mental breakdowns aren't that surprising.
=== Films -- Animation ===
* Roz from ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' is a garden-snail-like monster, with breasts.
* It's unclear what the denizens of ''[[Planet 51]]'' are but they reproduce by laying eggs so they're likely not mammals.
=== Films --
* Too many female aliens in ''[[Star Wars]]'' have them to count. Possibly parodied in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', one of Jabba's dancers has [[Multi Boobage|''6'' breasts]].
=== Literature ===
* The Tymbrymi in the [[Uplift]] series have shape shifting qualities and as such usually don't have mammaries. If the necessity arises though features with the tactile feedback if not function of breasts can be acquired.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* ''[[
* In ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', Trip gets raped by a forehead-of-the-week and grows nipples on his wrists. The alien has normal humanoid breasts.
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' reviewer [[Sci Fi Debris|sfdebris]] pointed out the unlikelihood of Kes, an Ocampa, having breasts if her species actually existed in real life, since her species only has to mate once in a lifetime. (Ocampas get plenty of foreknowledge of when that mating will take place so there's no reason to "fool" the males into thinking that the females are always fertile, and thus no reason for females' breasts to always remain swollen.) Also, expanded universe material suggest that Ocampa give birth in multiples to keep up their populations' numbers, and yet, Ocampa only have ''one'' pair of breasts.
** And they're exactly the same size as humans' breasts, even though Ocampa children grow to full adult size in a matter of months, so presumably would need a ''lot'' more milk for rapid growth as infants.
*** The size of a human breast has no bearing on the amount of milk it can produce. An AA cup can feed triplets. It's the lack of adequate help, and a third hand, that makes it hard, not milk generation. Presumably Ocampa have sorted out their housework and lactation support.
=== Print Media ===
* A cartoon in a long-ago issue of ''[[Playboy]]'' showed a landed flying saucer with a bevy of semi-naked, very human-looking, very voluptuous "aliens" surveying the area. Spying on them from behind a nearby tree are two human males, one saying to the other "That's nothing, wait until you see their females."
=== Video Games ===
* In the [[Adventure Game]] ''[[Grim Fandango]]'', every human character is a stylised skeleton. Yet the females have inexplicable bulges on their chests. Although this is consistent with the Day of The Dead figures that the artwork is based off of.
** Furthermore, some characters have the appearance of being fat, and it is implied that two characters have somehow [[Squick|managed to have sexual intercourse with each other]]. And when these two "kiss", a smooching noise can be heard, rather than the expected clicking of teeth against teeth. The game [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade on this]] when Manny sees the love interest roll a stocking down her curvaceous
** A similar effect is also seen in [http://www.alessonislearned.com/index.php?comic=31 this comic] at ''A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage Is Irreversible'', though not with breasts.
** Somewhat justified, however, because the characters are ''Calaca'' dolls, not real skeletons. Hence the oversized heads, the non-transparent interior, etc.
* The MMORPG ''[[Earth Eternal]]'' either averts or subverts this, depending on whether you expect the trope to play out or not. The multitude of races, including demons, yetis, cyclopes, and robots, are different in much the same ways humans are. However, all of them, even those that look like birds or reptiles, are actually mammals created by the gods, and closer related to each other (and humans) than the species they resemble.
* Avoided in ''[[
** There is one female bangaa with a voice part, so they at least ''sound'' different. And it's also fairly hard to tell the difference between male and female moogles.
** One mark involves defeating a monster who appears exclusively to attack females (meaning you must use your female members). This was requested by a female who was attacked by the monster in question. Funny thing? She's a Seeq. You won't notice that she's a girl until the [[Fridge Logic]] kicks in.
* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', no Earth-animal analogue has been given for the quarians, so it's hard to say whether they are an aversion or straight example of this trope, as they are always seen wearing their full-body [[The Faceless|face-concealing]] exosuit. They do, however, strongly resemble humans from what little that can be seen.
** Probably averted with turian women, who would be a bird-reptile sort of analogue, if [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGKQhuDW6B4 this] cut dialogue can be believed.
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** Speaking of asari, they prefer mating with other species instead of their own for additional genetic diversity. So, what does an asari need to attract a, say, human to meld with? It's even discussed ingame how members of three different species consider an asari attractive. It's also not unlikely that their breasts work as, well, breasts (i.e. for nursing.)
* There's a frankly horrifying case in ''[[Darksiders]]'' with
* The Vulcans in ''[[Odin Sphere]]'' are supposed to be fiery [[Magma Man|magma elementals]] but even when transformed they sports jiggly boobs.
* ''[[
** The Draenei are blue alien space goats, about as far removed from terrestrial mammals as you'd wanna get. And yes, the females have boobies. Orcs are alien humanoids as well, and also about as far removed from terrestrial mammals as Draenei, and their females get boobies too.
** Some earth elementals and Titan creations have breasts as well. If the later can be [[Hand Wave|hand waved]] as being replica of their creators, they are still made of rock or metal and don't even reproduce sexually.
=== Web Comics ===
* ''[[Grimmer Reaper]]'' subverted this in a rather amusing way. The extra-dimensional realm of "Home" is populated by demons that take the form of ogres, trolls, goblins, gremlins, and imps, as well as some rarer forms. But what is amusing is that while it at first appears to one that the Demons are all-male, it is explained that female demons are simply indistinguishable from the male demons. Females even have male voices. Demons can tell each other's gender, but human characters cannot. A recurring joke in the series is that the human characters will often assume they are talking to a male demon, only to later realize, either through conversation or by getting a better look at the demon's clothing, that they are speaking to a female demon. Another rather amusing aspect is that some Demons, though not all, tend to have trouble telling the genders of the human characters.
* When Gabe, in ''[[Penny Arcade]]'', gleefully remarks that an up-coming video game may feature ''boobs'', Tycho gently admonishes him for thinking so pedestrian: "Imagine a Chik'thar hive maiden scuttling out of her mottled carapace. Her inviting, transluscent thorax heaving with ripe larvae. She retracts her guard plates, where forty alien breasts bristle with nipples... (eyes glaze over) Yes, yes, a thousand times yes..."
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* Averted again in ''[[Terinu]]'' with the ferin. Being marsupials, female mammaries are hidden in their pouches and it's impossible to tell even if they're pregnant.
=== Western Animation ===
* In the [[What If]] episode of ''[[Ben 10]]'', "Gwen 10", some of Gwen's female versions of the aliens have busts. Including the one that's essentially made of ''gemstone''. This is even weirder, given than Gwen herself had yet to hit puberty. (Of course, the aliens Ben transforms into also seem way past puberty.)
** Let's not forget [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] Xylene, who sports an impressive set. She mentions that her species hatches from eggs. OK, maybe she's a Monotreme and would nurse them afterwards. Oh, but then she says that parents of her species ''do not take care of their offspring at all''. Really?
** Myaxx is pretty well endowed, seeing as her species seems to be extremely [[Cthulhumanoid|Squidlike.]]
* Parodied to hell and back in ''[[South Park]]'''s ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]]'' tribute, appropriately entitled ''Major Boobage''. '''Everything''' in the various dream sequences sports an impressive set of breasts, complete with nipples. There are ostrich-things with breasts, planets that are basically disembodied breasts, and a trio of trolls with huge breasts growing out of their ''shoulders''. The kicker? There is exactly '''one''' human woman -- "and you [[Scenery Censor|never really get a good look at her boobs]]". ''Only '''her''' boobs'' [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|were censored.]]
* On that note, there is the ''[[Drawn Together]]'' twist ending parodying the first "Superman" movie, where Captain Hero changes history—and the evolutionary timeline—to make everyone boob-monsters that go around saying "Boob," Pokémon-style.
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=== Advertising ===
* Jamba!'s ringtone mascot "Crazy Frog", a.k.a. "The Annoying Thing" is this. The blue frog creature sports ambiguous but noticeable genitalia that caused some controversy when he began appearing in late night ringtone ads. When he first began appearing in music videos in the United Kingdom, a prominent black bar was used to censor his groin area.
** The irony of this? With the exception of the [
=== Anime & Manga ===
* ''[[Doctor Slump]]'' Remake, Obotchaman, [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] robot created by [[Big Bad|Dr. Mashirito]], appears to be attached with fake penis, as Arale shows it to Senbe while her body and Obotchaman's were swapped for a repairing purpose.
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* Used as a rather unfortunate gag in ''[[Delgo]]''.
=== Films -- Live-Action ===
* In the film version of ''[[Alien Nation (TV series)|Alien Nation]]'', the human protagonist police detective kicks a Newcomer in the groin to no effect; later his alien partner explains that he should aim for the armpits next time. In a reverse example in the television series, an Overseer agent sent to determine the fate of their missing vessel first attacks and kills a human farmer; the man is discovered with injuries caused by repeated blows to the armpits. One can only imagine the agent's reaction at having to administer repeated blows and doing nothing beyond cracking a few ribs. Later he attacks a former Overseer who has repented and wants to just get along in human society, killing him with a single double fisted blow to the armpits.
* Subverted in ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]'', when Kirk gets in a fight on the prison planet and kicks an alien in what he thought were its knees, defeating it immediately, to which the shapeshifter quips, "Not every species keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain." That being said... ''knees''?
** Hey, that's were some spiders have them.
* Similarly subverted in the second ''[[Men in Black (
=== Literature ===
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[Small Gods]]'', a tortoise {{spoiler|who's really the god Om}} is lifted into the air by a chelonicidal eagle, but persuades it to deliver it to a specific location rather than drop it on a rocky surface. Its method of persuasion involves a hard beak and a solid grip upon certain delicate pieces of anatomy... anatomy which, as a bird, the eagle wouldn't actually have. (At least, not externally where they can be grabbed.)
** In the ''Annotated Pratchett File v9.0'', there's a bad joke cited in the ''[[Moving Pictures]]'' section about a toad with a troublesomely yellow penis. In reality, for a toad even to ''have'' a penis would be far more troublesome than its coloration.
* In ''[[Garrett P.I.|Petty Pewter Gods]]'', Garrett tells a nosy hustler that he controls Mr. Big's chatter by tugging on a concealed thread that's tied to the parrot's little bird balls. Justified because the only thing Garrett's really yanking is the hustler's chain.
* In ''[[American Gods]]'', Anansi tells a story of how he tricked a tiger into swapping its tiger's testicles for his own tiny little spider testicles.
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* In ''[[Farscape]]'', when Chiana, in a fight with a Scarran, asks, "Hey, do Scarrans have ''[[Unusual Euphemism|mivonks]]''?" and then kicks for them... then winces and hops around, having hurt her ''foot''. It replies that they do, but they're on the inside, and obviously well-protected.
=== Video Games ===
* A ridiculous example of this is the fanart that Giegue from [[MOTHER 1]] often gets. His sprite in the game, while lacking features due to it being an NES game, clearly shows ''him'' not having boobs. He is referred in game as a male yet for some reason is often drawn with boobs. If that wasn't messed up enough, he is an ''alien''. And mammaries are a trait of mammals, which are found on ''Earth.'' He does seem to have a slender, if feminine like body, but that's besides the point.
** However, in [[EarthBound]], the sequel, there is a person who says that Giygas might be female. That's still besides the point. He, or she, is an alien.
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* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', a graphic insult slung at Belkar by the kobold Oracle ({{spoiler|Lickmyorangeballshalfling}}) caused a debate among fans about whether doing as he'd suggested would require invasive surgery.
** Given that Belkar already stabbed him to death, he might as well go all the way. Though [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0177.html an earlier strip] established that Belkar has no knowledge of reptilian anatomy.
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0738.html A later strip] has a lizardfolk note the [[Most Writers Are Human|mammalian-minded]] wardrobe of the gladiators' prison.
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* ''[[Dreamwalk Journal]]'': as noted above in the Insects section, it's about anthropomorphic insects and arachnids. All females have big boobs, all males have big external genitalia, and everybody gets to have sex with everybody else, including two visiting human women.
=== Western Animation ===
* In a rare male variant of the nipples side of the equation, Duck from ''[[Almost Naked Animals]]'' has nipples.
* On ''[[
** Roger's lactation accelerates if he finishes eating something, which gives Stan and Francine the idea of stuffing Roger with food so he can keep making milk for them. This causes a hilarious scene where Roger gains a ton of weight and is hooked up to a milking machine as he keeps getting force
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