Index? What index? I'm just here for this picture.
"I got this new anime plot. Basically, there's this high school girl except she's got huge boobs. I mean some serious honkers. A real set of badonkers. Packin' some dobonhonkeros. Massive dohoonkabhankoloos. Big old tonhongerekoogers. What happens next? Transfer student shows up with even bigger bonkhonagahoogs. humungous hungolomghnonoloughongous"
—"New Anime Plot
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Breasts, boobs, boobies, bust, tits, titties (or tiddies), melons, knockers, hooters, jugs, fun bags, milk bags, milk factories, bosoms, jubblies, sweater puppies, ta-tas (or tatas), chesticles, embonpoint, ballistics, huge tracts of land, bazongas… Whatever you wanna call them, you know what they are.
For as long as humanity has been around, there has always been a fascination with female breasts. It's hard to ignore the influence that they have on several pieces of media. Thus, there are a plethora of tropes about them and how they are shown or used in media.
And this is an index filled with tropes relating to (usually) human mammaries.
Size
- Big:
- Big-Breast Pride: A character has large boobs and is happy about it.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Big boobs are commonly regarded as more attractive.
- D-Cup Distress: A character has large boobs and is upset about it.
- Most Common Superpower: Comic books (and comic-inspired media) have a preference for large boobs.
- World of Buxom: A setting where all or nearly all the female characters have large breasts.
- Small:
- A-Cup Angst: A character has small boobs and is upset about it.
- Petite Pride: A character has small boobs and is happy about it.
Manners of display
- Boobs-and-Butt Pose: A fanservice pose with a character's back to the camera with their boobs and butt emphasized.
- Cleavage Window: Clothing with an opening in it to expose cleavage.
- Impossibly Low Neckline: A neckline so low that the clothes shouldn't logically be covering them up.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Cleavage so low that it goes past your bellybutton.
- Sideboob: Instead of the cleavage being visible, it's the sides.
- Underboobs: The cleavage is at the bottom of the breasts, instead of the top.
Manners of concealment
- Godiva Hair: A woman's hair covers her chest to preserve her modesty.
- Hidden Buxom: Concealing how big your boobs really are.
- Organic Bra: Female humanoid creatures have thick scales or other irregular skin patterns over their breasts in order to not show nipples.
- Seashell Bra: A bra made of seashells that are very common among mermaids.
- Suppressed Mammaries: Tying down breasts to appear younger or male.
Others
- The Art of Bra Removal: Unhooking a bra is portrayed as an extremely complex task.
- Boob-Based Gag: Comedy involving or surrounding breasts.
- Breast Attack: An injury to the boobs.
- Breast Expansion: Breasts grow rapidly, usually to ridiculously big proportions.
- Bust-Contrast Duo: Two girls of differing cup-sizes have contrasting personalities.
- Fake Boobs: Artificial breasts acquired through surgery or hidden under ones clothes.
- Funbag Airbag: A collision into someone else's boobs.
- Gainaxing: Unrealistically (and often comically) bouncing boobs.
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Using breasts for persuasion.
- Man, I Feel Like a Woman: The first thing a guy does upon turning into a woman is feel his own boobs.
- Marshmallow Hell: Being smothered by boobs.
- Multiboobage: Having more than two boobs.
- My Eyes Are Up Here: So, stop staring at my boobs.
- Nipple and Dimed: Female nipples are considered obscene, but showing everything else is relatively okay and male nipples are perfectly fine.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: An organism that shouldn't have boobs not only has them but has a human-shaped pair.
- Skinship Grope: A girl friendly groping another one.
- Thanks for the Mammary: Accidentally grabbing someone's boobs.
- Torpedo Tits: Having weapons in your boobs.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: Using your cleavage or your bra to store things.
- You're Drinking Breast Milk: Character accidentally drinks another person's breast milk.
