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A girl who sees her lack of assets as a plus. Flat chests are usually associated with the young, and a girl with '''Petite Pride''' will play this up as much as she can, usually to [[Deliberately Cute Child|make herself seem]] [[Kawaisa|cute]] and innocent, and to appeal to [[Lolicon|guys that like that]].

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* Konata from ''[[Lucky Star]]'', though she will only talk about it if someone else broaches the topic. ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}hxDVdJ4tumk Video of the Lucky Star quote])

{{quote|'''Konata:''' A flat chest is a status symbol! Extremely rare and valuable!

* Kyo in ''[[Girl Got Game]]'' doesn't seem to mind her small breasts, and is ''annoyed'' when she finds they've gotten bigger... but that's probably because she's [[Sweet Polly Oliver|disguising herself as a boy]].

* [[Emotionless Girl]] Nozomi from ''[[Kanokon]]'' is rather proud of her flatness - often calling the more busty Chizuru's chest "flab".

{{quote|"[[All Men Are Perverts|There aren't many boys who can resist little girls...]]"}}

* [[Cute Witch|Yukari]] in ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'' gives this impression whenever she gets into a fight with Kurumu, though other times she seems a bit [[A-Cup Angst|ashamed]].

* The eponymous [[Black★Rock Shooter (band)|Black★Rock Shooter]] wears [[Stripperiffic|a most noticeably showy outfit]], despite her very obvious lack of assets. It's a safe bet to say she doesn't suffer from any body image issues.

 

* Sister Marie, one of the superheroines in [[The Teraverse]]. Despite being a superheroine, her physique has been repeatedly compared to Audrey Hepburn's (except that she's much taller). She has to round ''up'' to a B cup, and barely has enough cleavage to hide a cross necklace down her top. Considering that she's asexual ''and'' a Catholic nun, she sees the lack of endowment as a positive, because it discourages people from sexualizing her image.

 

* The perfect rationale for why many women prefer to have smaller boobs came in ''[[Some Like It Hot]]''. Sugar remarked that she admired "Daphne"'s flat-chested appearance: "Clothes hang better on you."

 

 

* [[Shakira]] [[Lampshade Hanging|pokes fun at this]] —

{{quote|''Objection'': "Next to her cheap silicon I look minimal / That's why in front of your eyes I'm invisible / But you gotta know small things also count"}}

 

* Maria Bamford occasionally draws attention to her (lack of) assets in the chesty department. For example, she notes with more than a little sarcasm that men can't get enough of "these 32 AA's", describes them as "perfect, rare, delicate miniatures". More generally, as part of a larger bit on body issues she noted that she somehow managed to master being thin, but then they start laying the expectations.

** "Skinny is in, I've got that covered. But now you have to have muscle tone too! I'm already hungry and tired; now I gotta go work out?!"

 

* Rita in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' comments that she's glad she has a flat chest, because boobs the size of [[Gag Boobs|Judith's]] would bounce around too much and make it difficult for her to concentrate.

** For extra hilarity, the video has [[Otaku Surrogate|Kaguya]] quoting [[Lucky Star|Konata's]] famous line [[Funny Background Event|in the background]] (see 0:52).

** And then [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni|Umineko]] borrows the song, when Jessica and her friends cosplay in the second episode (5th or 6th of the anime). Too bad Jessica's not this.

* Archers in the [[Disgaea]] series are proud of their (lack of) assets, in stark contrast to most other [[Pettanko]] characters. ([[Fridge Brilliance]]: Of course they would be, boobs get in the way of shooting properly!)

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Played for laughs in ''[[Misfile]]'' when resident [[Pettanko]] Missi immediately switches from [[A-Cup Angst]] to Petite Pride because Ash accidently gave her the impression that she prefers small-breasted women. Missi instantly goes from angsting over her flat chest (her [[Imagine Spot]] is the page image for [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]) to trying to capitalize on it.

* Mistress of ''[[Oglaf]]'' is very flat-chested but given the kind of clothes she wears, it's probably safe to say she's not self-conscious about it.

 

* The bulk of supermodels through [[The Sixties]] and [[The Nineties]]. The perceived attractiveness of this is apparently a [[Cyclic Trope]]. Like Twiggy, Milla Jovovich (until her pregnancy), or Kate Moss.

** Actually, Twiggy was one of the only supermodels of her period to have a boyish figure. Prior to her modelling career (and indeed afterwards, when the 'Perfect Size 6' occurred in the 70s and 80s), models were normally voluptuous. A boyish, flat-chested physique didn't become truly in vogue until the 'heroin chic' look of the 90s.

* So popular in [[The Roaring Twenties]] that there was underwear produced to ''flatten'' the chest. The "washboard" look was meant to stick it to the man in the early days of feminism, the same as wearing too much makeup and cussing was. In other words, it was all about projecting an un-ladylike image.

** Lampshaded in the movie ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'', where flapper Millie (played by [[Playing Against Type|Julie Andrews]]) complained that her "fronts" made it difficult to wear her beads properly.

* Debra Messing. She was the butt of more than a few flat-chested jokes on ''[[Will and Grace]]'', but has said that she doesn't subscribe to that standard of beauty, and is happy with what God gave her.

* [[Rachael Ray]], whose [[Pettanko]]tude is almost as notorious as her [[Genki Girl|extreme perkiness]], has had necklines steadily trending lower as she has become more famous.

** [[Achewood|Nostradamus wrote, The Elf wythe Fyngers of Saussage will be blessed Not with Boobyes agayn this Yeare.]]

** That guy was amazing about predicting things after they happened.

** Despite being flat as a board, posters for ''[[King Arthur]]'' were doctored to make her look like a C-cup. [[Keira Knightley]] was unhappy with her posters being photoshopped to make her look bigger.

** In ''Domino'', a girl in her boarding school makes a snark about her adolescent boy physique, prompting a beatdown.

* Former [[Ten-Minute Retirement|(maybe)]] porn star Brianna Love, chest-wise might as well have never hit puberty even while being ''pregnant,'' but like the above statement puts focus on something else.

* Though she's not spoken about it much, [[Rooney Mara]]'s nude scenes in ''[[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo]]'' resulted in a lot of press about whether or not it was again fashionable for women to be modestly endowed.

 

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[[Category:Body Image Tropes]]

[[Category:Always Female]]

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