Victoria's Secret Compartment: Difference between revisions

A woman hides a plot-sensitive item close to her heart. Or more accurately, between her (usually large) breasts. Related to the [[Double Standard]], since a man can't reach down there without [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensuing]] (consequently, women often stuff a small object down there [[Keep Away|to keep a man from getting at it]]). May lead to being [[Nipple and Dimed]]. Occasionally serves as [[Hammerspace]]. Lends a whole new meaning to the term 'breast pocket'. Does ''not'', as a general thing, refer to the, uh, [[Country Matters|other compartment]].

 

 

Compare [[Trouser Space]], [[Ass Shove]], [[Unorthodox Holstering]], [[Torpedo Tits]]. See also [[Combat Haircomb]]. Contrast [[Treasure Chest Cavity]].

 

This is one of several trope names that could be a "Before & After" puzzle on ''[[Wheel of Fortune (TV)|Wheel of Fortune]]''.

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* Hannah from ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'' has all ''sorts'' of weaponry in her cleavage.

* ''[[Angel Links (Anime)|Angel Links]]'' has its main character, Meifon Li, keep her [[Empathic Weapon]] [[media:Angel_Links,_Fanservice.jpg|in her cleavage]] for easy access and consultation.

** In an early arc, Shampoo hides an [[Carrying the Antidote|antidote]] shampoo [[media:shampooshidingplace.jpg|down her shirt]] and then dares Ranma to retrieve it. When bartering an antidote or power item with Ranma for a date, she tends to keep them there too, to prevent him from stealing and bailing.

** She once hid a kitten in there, but that was to scare Ranma into accepting the date (Ranma's an ailurophobe).

* Princesses Gallet and Christina does this accidentally in ''[[Shina Dark (Manga)|Shina Dark]]'' when they are forced to leave the treasury/labyrinth of doom without any treasure... [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shina_dark/v01/c002/34.html except] what accidentally got stuck in their cleavage, much to Noel's [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shina_dark/v01/c002/35.html jealousy].

* Kana from ''[[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|My Lovely Ghost Kana]]'' is the eponymous ghost. Being a ghost allows her to drop the temperature on the room that she's in as well as apparently cool a can of beer to the perfect temperature by putting it in her ghostly cleavage and rotating it slightly.

** Skuld and her "Skuld-bombs". Actually, [http://www.mangareader.net/161-10549-13/ah-my-goddess/chapter-82.html she has enough explosives down there] [http://www.mangareader.net/161-10549-14/ah-my-goddess/chapter-82.html to take out a battalion], despite having the body of a flat-chested thirteen-year-old. This was even [[Played for Laughs]] [[Up to Eleven|to an extreme]] in a recent arc where she pulled several tools out of her blouse before she realized she was out of weapons.

** In one of the later chapters, [http://www.mangareader.net/ah-my-goddess/266/7 Belldandy]. When Keiichi stopped to think about holding an object that'd been nestled '''there'''....

* In ''[[The Saint]]'', a female scientist hides the notes to her invention on scraps of paper tucked into her bra. So the title character seduces her in order to get them.

* In ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'', {{spoiler|Perry hides a gun down there with a fairly good justification -- he knows it's the only place he'll never be searched. Doubly so because he's gay.}} Another male character uses the same justification in ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]''. {{spoiler|Except without the "gay" part.}}

* In ''[[Batman (Film)|Batman]]'', [[Stealth Pun|Vicky]] Vale attempts to conceal the film containing a picture of Batman unmasked in roughly that neighborhood, if her dismayed grab at her left breast in one scene is any indication.

** In ''[[Batman Forever (Film)|Batman Forever]]'', Bruce Wayne asks Sugar (one of Two-Face's babes) how to turn Edward Nygma's machine off. He takes the glowing green battery from her and goes in, and then Sugar produces a second, identical battery from down her cleavage and switches it on again.

* ''[[True Lies]]'', twice. Juno Skinner keeps her business card in her bra. Likewise, Helen hides the transmitter bug between her breasts, however she quickly loses it when her [[Dress Hits Floor|Dress Hits the Floor.]]

* ''[[Inkheart (Literature)|Inkheart]]'', twice. Teresa keeps a portrait of her family hidden in her blouse, while Mortola keeps the prison key tucked between the "mounds" barely constrained by her corset.

* In the 1974 ''[[The Four Musketeers (Film)|The Four Musketeers]]'', Constance (Raquel Welch) got her hands on a key which she triumphantly dropped into her cleavage -- having forgotten that her friends needed that key to unlock the chains and '''rescue''' her. And then, it being a very small key, it slipped further down and she couldn't dig it out. Eventually she tried [[Gainaxing|jumping up and down]] in hopes that it would fly out.

* In the 1927 Academy Award-winning film ''[[Wings (Film)|Wings]]'', [[Girl Next Door|Mary]] procures the order to cancel leave down the front of [[Stripperiffic|her dancer's dress]]. Given the time period, this trope is now [[Older Than Television]].

* ''[[Abbott and Costello (Creator)|Abbott and Costello]] Meet the Mummy'' The Femme Fatale pulls a gun from her chest. However, since she was dressed for the desert it takes opening a few buttons to get it out and putting them back when putting the gun away.

* In ''Il Postino'', the girl hides her love letters here. Given that she wears low cut tops and that she is hiding them from her mother and grandmother, the letters are retrieved in pretty short order.

* Milady de Winter in ''[[The Three Musketeers 2011 (Film)|The Three Musketeers 2011]]''. In the opening scene, she keeps a stolen key in her cleavage, where she later places Richelieu's ''carte blanche''.

 

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Seen repeatedly in ''[[Deadwood]]'', HBO's Western Drama Series. The prostitute Trixie carries a tiny derringer handgun, and practically never goes anywhere without it. The weapon always stays hidden until she produces it -- usually from her cleavage.

* ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond (TV)|Everybody Loves Raymond]]'': Whilst trying to keep the car keys from Frank, Marie drops them down her blouse. Frank: "I'll walk!!"

** Karen hides something from Rosario in her cleavage, and Rosario promptly goes after it. Karen enjoys this, and calls out suggestions as to where Rosario's hands should go.

** Lorraine Finster also pulls this off later, whilst trying to smuggle some of Karen's jewellery out of her house, though not just in her cleavage...

** After informing Jack and Larry of the possible hiding places for a wad of money she used at first, Cindy says that she was finally able to think of the safest hiding place -- inside her blouse.

** In another episode, in an attempt to score some action with Jack, Lana takes some money off of him and puts it into her cleavage, telling him to "make a withdrawal." Jack obviously isn't amused, but Chrissy finds it hilarious, saying, "It's a treasure chest!"

* A hilarious misunderstanding in ''[[Coupling (TV)|Coupling]]'' (best not to go into exactly what said misunderstanding was, for fear of text walls) led to a discussion about why men don't smuggle. One given reason was a lack of "concealment crevices"...

* Parodied in ''[[Married With Children (TV)|Married With Children]]'' when Marcy, notorious for her flat chest, attempts this trick -- and the object falls through her shirt and onto the floor. Played straight with Peg, though -- who should be the posterwoman for this trope.

* ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]''

** In "Shindig," Mal lifts a big wad of money off a guy in a bar. He gives it to Inara for safekeeping... and she immediately sticks it in her top.

* ''[[Smallville (TV)|Smallville]]'', "Odyssey". Lois concealed a flash drive with incriminating evidence on Lex in this area.

* ''[[Aeon Flux (Animation)|Aeon Flux]]'', "Utopia or Deuteranopia?" Aeon hides the key in the [[Stripperiffic|top portion of her costume]], only to depose of her top a few seconds later. She later retrieves the key from her [[Thong of Shielding]], bordering on a case of [[Trouser Space]].

* Near the end of one [[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Pepe Le Pew]] cartoon, Pepe is looking for Penelope, thinking she has maybe returned to the perfume shop. Penelope, who finds a blue Pepe to be extremely hot, comes in behind him, closes the door, and drops the key down the front of her coat. It's a [[Poetic Justice]] ending: Pepe had been chasing her throughout the cartoon because a spill of whitener had left her tail with a skunk-like streak. Towards the end, she fell in a rain barrel (removing the white on her tail and giving her a cold so she can't smell anymore) while he fell in the blue paint (covering up the BO that made her run away earlier). Now ''she's'' chasing ''him''. Several Pepe Le Pew cartoons have these turnabout endings.

* In ''[[Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer]]'', Cousin Mel often hid things between her breasts like Austin Bucks phone number, Santa's letter, and some money she received from Bucks.

* Cornfed's girlfriend Tamora from an episode of ''[[Duckman]]'' hid things like Cornfed's phone number and her note to him in her enormous breasts.

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