History Main / BreastAttack

** Doubly played for laughs, as Kabuto can't determine if his attack was ineffective because of her advanced ninja training or because her breasts are just too damn big.

* In ''KillBill'' volume 2 [[spoiler: Beatrice/the Bride gets a shotgun volley in the chest.]]

* In one of the many ''RobotChicken'' sketches, a PMS-ing [[{{Ptitleysua9qy1}} She-Ra]] attacks a trio of villainesses. Two get standard deaths. The third has her breasts squeezed till they popped.

* In ''TheIliad'', after [[ActionGirl Athena]] K.O.'s Ares with a boulder, Aphrodite goes to help him. Well, Athena is still angry: "She charged at Aphrodite, overtook her and beat her breasts with clenched fists." As one would expect from the wimpy Aphrodite, "Down she sank with Ares, resistance quite dissolved."

BreastAttack is the DistaffCounterpart to GroinAttack, since receiving blunt trauma to the breasts is extremely painful for women, though probably not as painful as GroinAttack is for men (not that many people can be a proper judge of that). The nipples are also rather sensitive, though this is also true for men to a lesser extent.

* In ''{{Hellsing}}'', in a ShootTheHostage moment, Alucard shoots the VillainOfTheWeek through Seras, making a [[{{Understatement}} rather large]] [[NightmareFuelUnleaded hole through]] her right breast. [[IGotBetter She gets better, though.]] [[GoodThingYouCanHeal More or less.]]

* In ''[[{{Crank}} Crank 2: High Voltage]],'' a prostitute is shot in the breasts, though it only causes her implants to leak.

* [[{{Ptitlegynukzwikxmd}} Ranma ½]] this is a common trick (mostly by the Tendo sisters) to subdue Ranma in female form, mostly because Ranma - a guy who's cursed to transform into a woman - is still unused to the enhanced sensitivity and [[RuleOfFunny because it's funny.]]

* in {{Change123}} , Ginga "boob bite" and "boob slap" Miriki.

* In the Garth Ennis SuperHero satire ThePro, the main character is a bitter, cynical hooker with a baby who is given powers and inducted into a JLA-like organization to [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]. In a case at the UN, she is shot by a supervillian with a laser in the gut. [[BerserkButton Bad idea]]. With an outraged cry "Cunt RAG!", she gives the villianess a titty-twisting that made EVERYBODY wince.

* ScaryMovie 4: A torture device that's a parody of the death traps from ''{{Saw}}'' does purple nurples.

* In the film {{Kingpin}}, the male and female leads get into a fist fight. The female delivers a few [[GroinAttack shots between the legs]] so the male delivers several Breast Attacks.

* ''House at the Edge of the Park'' when the villain gets his hands on the most innocent character who arrives late to the party.

* In the fourth book of {{A Song Of Ice And Fire}}, [[spoiler: The Blue Bard]] is being tortured by [[spoiler: Cersei]] under the Red Keep. During said torture scene she remarks about men's nipples sometimes being as sensitive as women's nipples, then removes [[spoiler: the Bard's]] nipples.
* In an early chapter of ''Friday'', the heroine is tortured by having one of her nipples cut off. This being science fiction, [[IGotBetter her doctor is able to regrow the body part,]] but it is good for a guilt trip later in the novel when she meets one of her captors.
* In TheIliad, after [[ActionGirl Athena]] K.O.'s Ares with a boulder, Aphrodite goes to help him. Well, Athena is still angry: "She charged at Aphrodite, overtook her and beat her breasts with clenched fists." As one would expect from the wimpy Aphrodite, "Down she sank with Ares, resistance quite dissolved."
* From the IanFleming novel ''DrNo'', describing the murder of a female MI6 agent: "The man smiled broadly. Slowly, lovingly, he lifted the gun and shot her three times in and around the left breast."

* During a Thanksgiving episode of {{Friends}} the gang is having a game of American football for the Gellar Cup. Monica throws the ball to the inexperienced Phoebe who catches it, but it strikes her in the chest hard and she squeals: "Oh! Broken boobs!"

* The ShakeItUp episode "Party It Up" had a scene where it did happen, when [=CeCe=] and Rocky body bumped copying the boys... but in turn, both girls groan from the pain.

* The webcomic [[http://www.exiern.com Exiern]] has a classic one: The main character Tiffany is a male barbarian hero who has been trapped in female form by an evil wizard. She wants to be a man again but since she's a barbarian she absolutely''hates'' the local priesthood. So her sidekick Peonie ties her to the altar--for her own good, of course--and orders the priests to attempt the ritual. After the inevitable failure Peonie admits in trepidation that she'd she'd been counting on WouldntHitAGirl to stave off retribution. Cut to the next page, where Peonie can't get over her shock that Tiffany "punched me in the boob"!

* Rare male example: In the penultimate episode of TheVentureBrothers season 3, Brock Samson's nipple gets cut off.
* In one of the many RobotChicken sketches, a PMS-ing [[{{Ptitleysua9qy1}} She-Ra]] attacks a trio of villainesses. Two get standard deaths. The third has her breasts squeezed till they popped.
* AmericanDad: A stripper accidentally gets her breasts pierced by hypodermic needles, causing her implants to deflate. As soon as that happens, her mind clears and she says, "I remember now! I was going to be a civil engineer!"

* StrokerAndHoop: Hoop's mom is sent to women's prison for a crime she didn't commit. She consoles herself by claiming that a prison for elderly ladies can't be that bad and takes it all in stride, likening it to being roommates in college ... until her "roommate" threatens to cut her tits off.

* The webcomic [[http://www.exiern.com Exiern]] has a classic one: The main character Tiffany is a male barbarian hero who have been trapped in female form by a bad wizard. She want to be a man again, and the local priesthood think they can help her. But she ''hates'' the local priesthood. So the sidekick Penelope has her tied to the altar against her will, for her own good, and the priests try their ritual. It fails. Afterwards, she explains to Tiffany that she had counted on Tiffany being a man now, so his code of honor would prevent him from hurting her... And the last panel is just one big "OW". The next page is all about Penelope being shocked that Tiffany "punched her in the boob".

** Doubly played for laughs, as Kabuto can't determine if his attack was ineffective because of her advanced ninja training or because her breasts are [[MostCommonSuperPower just too damn big.]]

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->''"Ah, that was my favorite boob."''
-->-- ''GantzAbridged''

->''"Ow! My boobs! I need those for seducing!"''
-->-- '''Hinata''', ''NarutoTheAbridgedSeries''

BreastAttack is the DistaffCounterpart to GroinAttack, since receiving blunt trauma to the breasts is extremely painful for women, though probably not as painful as GroinAttack is for men (not that many people can be a proper judge of that). The nipples are also rather sensitive, though this is also true for men to a lesser extent.

In reality, a GroinAttack is much more dangerous (and painful) for women than a BreastAttack, not even so much because of genitalia but more because of being a site of most major vital nerves and blood-vessels to the lower extremities. However, in a fight, breasts are a much easier target, which is why the BreastAttack is much more common than a female GroinAttack.

A BreastAttack is sometimes intended to show that the ([[AlwaysMale male]]) attacker is [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty playing dirty]] (and [[WouldHitAGirl against a woman too]], [[DoubleStandard how low!]]). You're supposed to wince at this one, but this trope is occasionally PlayedForLaughs. If the victim is already a ButtMonkey, it's okay to laugh. Or if it's [[CatFight a woman doing it to another woman]]. Or a man [[ComedicSociopathy getting a purple nurple]].

A SuperTrope to BoobBite.

Contrast TorpedoTits.
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!!Examples:

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[[folder: Anime & Manga]]
* [[{{Ptitlegynukzwikxmd}} Ranma ½]] this is a common trick (mostly by the Tendo sisters) to subdue Ranma in female form, mostly because Ranma - a guy who's cursed to transform into a woman - is still unused to the enhanced sensitivity and [[RuleOfFunny because it's funny.]]
* ''IchiTheKiller''. Poor Myu-Myu.
** In another scene, a prostitute has her nipples cut off.
* In ''{{Hellsing}}'', in a ShootTheHostage moment, Alucard shoots the VillainOfTheWeek through Seras, making a [[{{Understatement}} rather large]] [[NightmareFuelUnleaded hole through]] her right breast. [[IGotBetter She gets better, though.]] [[GoodThingYouCanHeal More or less.]]
* In ''{{Naruto}}'' Kabuto didn't ''mean'' to attack Tsunade's breasts. He was just trying to stab her in the heart, but her brobdinagian boobage got in the way.
** Doubly played for laughs, as Kabuto can't determine if his attack was ineffective because of her advanced ninja training or because her breasts are [[MostCommonSuperPower just too damn big.]]
** Hinata was hit with one as well.
* in {{Change123}} , Ginga "boob bite" and "boob slap" Miriki.
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[[folder: Comic Books]]
* In the Garth Ennis SuperHero satire ThePro, the main character is a bitter, cynical hooker with a baby who is given powers and inducted into a JLA-like organization to [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]. In a case at the UN, she is shot by a supervillian with a laser in the gut. [[BerserkButton Bad idea]]. With an outraged cry "Cunt RAG!", she gives the villianess a titty-twisting that made EVERYBODY wince.
* [[ScottPilgrim "You punched me in the boob!]] [[PrepareToDie Prepare to die]], [[SeriousBusiness obviously!"]]
** I don't hit girls...They're ''soft''...
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[[folder: Film]]
* ScaryMovie 4: A torture device that's a parody of the death traps from ''{{Saw}}'' does purple nurples.
* ''MillionDollarBaby'': "I want you to jab that kraut right in the tits until they turn blue and fall off!"
* In ''KungPowEnterTheFist'', The Chosen One defeats a cow he is fighting by milking it.
** This is after the cow attacks him by milking ''itself'' and using the jets of milk as a distraction.
* Played for laughs in JackieChan's ''ArmourOfGod'' when a large woman is double-punched in the chest and her breasts bounce with a sound effect better suited to something much heavier. She is rendered incapable of fighting until she stops them bouncing.
* In Roger Avary's ''KillingZoe'' the titular Zoe slaps the (male) main character's nipple for calling her a prostitute. In fairness he had just paid her for sex.
* In ''SuddenImpact'' Jennifer Spencer is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge on a group of people who had raped her and her sister years before. Before she kills them she shoots them in the groin. One woman was involved - she shoots her in the breast.
* In ''{{Mallrats}}'', Gwen sneaks up on her old boyfriend TS, who jumps and "elbows [her] right in the freakin' tit!" She responds by giving TS an upward double axe handle to the groin. (Brodie uses the opportunity to explain his opinion of karmic justice to TS.)
* In an unfilmed scene from an early draft of ''[[{{ptitle9htstpre}} Ferris Bueller's Day Off]]'', Jeanie Bueller is talking with one of her friends; her friend pisses her off, and Jeannie responds, "I'll sock your tits."
* In the film {{Kingpin}}, the male and female leads get into a fist fight. The female delivers a few [[GroinAttack shots between the legs]] so the male delivers several Breast Attacks.
* At one point in ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Scott is attacked by a cloaked figure. When he strikes back, the figure yells: "You punched me in the boob! Prepare to die, obviously!"
** [[{{Superbad}} Funnily enough, that isn't even the first mammary based assault Michael Cera has pulled off, they're both accidental.]]
* In ''[[{{Crank}} Crank 2: High Voltage]],'' a prostitute is shot in the breasts, though it only causes her implants to leak.
* After seducing another character, Angela rips the skin off her breasts in the ''NightOfTheDemons'' remake.
* ''House at the Edge of the Park'' when the villain gets his hands on the most innocent character who arrives late to the party.
* In ''KillBill'' volume 2 [[spoiler: Beatrice/the Bride gets a shotgun volley in the chest.]]
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[[folder: Literature]]
* In ''[[IncarnationsOfImmortality On A Pale Horse]]'', the hero's girlfriend is tortured by being stripped to her waist, and [[FetishFuel her nipples being touched]] by [[ElectricTorture active electrodes]].
* A particular magic-user in ''TheSwordOfTruth'' series controls people (women and men alike) by cutting off a nipple to use in SympatheticMagic.
* In Book 5 of ''TheFaerieQueene'', during Britomart's CombatByChampion with Radigund, the narrator notes that the two women did not "spare each other's most tender parts," or something like that, despite both being women and therefore knowing how much it would hurt. I guess we have here the logic behind CatFight and DesignatedGirlFight.
* In the fourth book of {{A Song Of Ice And Fire}}, [[spoiler: The Blue Bard]] is being tortured by [[spoiler: Cersei]] under the Red Keep. During said torture scene she remarks about men's nipples sometimes being as sensitive as women's nipples, then removes [[spoiler: the Bard's]] nipples.
* In an early chapter of ''Friday'', the heroine is tortured by having one of her nipples cut off. This being science fiction, [[IGotBetter her doctor is able to regrow the body part,]] but it is good for a guilt trip later in the novel when she meets one of her captors.
* In TheIliad, after [[ActionGirl Athena]] K.O.'s Ares with a boulder, Aphrodite goes to help him. Well, Athena is still angry: "She charged at Aphrodite, overtook her and beat her breasts with clenched fists." As one would expect from the wimpy Aphrodite, "Down she sank with Ares, resistance quite dissolved."
* From the IanFleming novel ''DrNo'', describing the murder of a female MI6 agent: "The man smiled broadly. Slowly, lovingly, he lifted the gun and shot her three times in and around the left breast."
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[[folder: Live Action TV]]
* During a Thanksgiving episode of {{Friends}} the gang is having a game of American football for the Gellar Cup. Monica throws the ball to the inexperienced Phoebe who catches it, but it strikes her in the chest hard and she squeals: "Oh! Broken boobs!"
* In one episode of ''DengekiSentaiChangeman'', the MonsterOfTheWeek employs fishes with huge mouths to attack/bite the team. While each team members got bitten, poor Sayaka/Change Mermaid got bitten on the breast area, with her knocking them down while yelling "PERVERT!". Fun fact is that since she's attacked while morphed, the Changeman female suits offer no visible breasts.
* The ShakeItUp episode "Party It Up" had a scene where it did happen, when [=CeCe=] and Rocky body bumped copying the boys... but in turn, both girls groan from the pain.
* [[WhoseLineIsItAnyway Wayne Brady]] apparently thinks that purple nurples are part and parcel of a female prison riot (the "persona" he got saddled with in ''Lets make a Date'').
* Charlie Runkle's unfortunate nipple mishap in ''{{Californication}}'' constitutes a rare male example of this trope.
* An episode of ''YesDear'' has Kim accidentally doing this to the then-wife of her husband's boss while playing tennis. Good thing her husband didn't get punished for this.
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[[folder: Music]]
* PearlJam, "Jeremy": "He gnashed his teeth and bit the recess lady's breast"
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[[folder: Professional Wrestling]]
* Several female wrestlers have developed a move where they hoist their opponent up in a chicken wing hold, pulling their arms behind them, and then drop them. At least one has called this move "The Implant Buster."
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[[folder: Webcomics]]
* Misho inflicts one upon Nova in [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0172.html this]] ''KeychainOfCreation'' strip, causing the female onlookers to wince in sympathy.
* Some of the anthro insects in ''DreamwalkJournal'' get stung right in their NonMammalMammaries (amongst other places), but it's a subversion because (being an erotic comic) the stings inflict pleasure rather than pain.
* The webcomic [[http://www.exiern.com Exiern]] has a classic one: The main character Tiffany is a male barbarian hero who have been trapped in female form by a bad wizard. She want to be a man again, and the local priesthood think they can help her. But she ''hates'' the local priesthood. So the sidekick Penelope has her tied to the altar against her will, for her own good, and the priests try their ritual. It fails. Afterwards, she explains to Tiffany that she had counted on Tiffany being a man now, so his code of honor would prevent him from hurting her... And the last panel is just one big "OW". The next page is all about Penelope being shocked that Tiffany "punched her in the boob".
* XI elbows Teri in the breasts to get out of a hold in ''RipAndTeri''.
* There's a RunningGag in ''VenusEnvy'' where Zoe is hit in her [[{{Transsexual}} growing breasts and vestigial testes]] in quick succession.
* [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=617 Son of a bitch, OW!]] [[QuestionableContent Right in the nipple!]]
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[[folder: Western Animation]]
* Rare male example: In the penultimate episode of TheVentureBrothers season 3, Brock Samson's nipple gets cut off.
* In one of the many RobotChicken sketches, a PMS-ing [[{{Ptitleysua9qy1}} She-Ra]] attacks a trio of villainesses. Two get standard deaths. The third has her breasts squeezed till they popped.
* AmericanDad: A stripper accidentally gets her breasts pierced by hypodermic needles, causing her implants to deflate. As soon as that happens, her mind clears and she says, "I remember now! I was going to be a civil engineer!"
** Also happens to Francine when she and Roger attempt to spice up their mundane lives by attending a party at the French consulate.
--> "Roger, that was terrible. We were the only people in period dress and your fake French accent got me punched in the boob."
* In ''FamilyGuy'', when Peter started kicking everything after seeing ''RoadHouse'', Lois asked him not to kick her, [[{{Fetish}} unless it was her nipple]].
* StrokerAndHoop: Hoop's mom is sent to women's prison for a crime she didn't commit. She consoles herself by claiming that a prison for elderly ladies can't be that bad and takes it all in stride, likening it to being roommates in college ... until her "roommate" threatens to cut her tits off.
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[[folder: Real Life]]
* There is a report on the infamous rape case of Filipina actress Maggie dela Riva. According an interview of the actress, during her ordeal, she was incapacited by her captors by means of punching her in several areas of her body, including one of her breasts, before they proceeded to rape her.
** During the filming of the movie ''The Maggie dela Riva Story'' which was based on the incident, actress Dawn Zulueta who played dela Riva reported that when that grisly scene was recreated, it actually led to real injuries and she actually had to be hospitalized.
*** In addition to having her throat slashed, rumors abounded that Nicole Brown Simpson's ''breasts'' were deliberately slashed off in the attack as well-- however the [[http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cas45.htm coroner's report]] refutes these rumors entirely.
* The [[http://www.medievality.com/breast-ripper.html Breast Ripper]] torture device.
* WeirdOrWhat suggests that breast implants protected a woman from being shot.
* This blog, dealing with self-defense for women (and in this case, ''against'' one) (NSFW): [[http://femaledefense.blogspot.com/2008/06/breast-punch.html?zx=34f82eb1b9b68cad Breast Punch]]
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* This blog, dealing with self-defense for women (and in this case, ''against'' one) (NSFW): http://femaledefense.blogspot.com/2008/06/breast-punch.html?zx=34f82eb1b9b68cad

See also BoobBite.

-->"Ah, that was my favorite boob."\\
-- ''GantzAbridged''

-->"Ow! My boobs! I need those for seducing!"\\
--'''Hinata''', ''NarutoTheAbridgedSeries''

--'''Hinata''', ''{{Naruto}} TheAbridgedSeries''

-->"Ow! My boobs! INeedThose for seducing!"\\
--'''Hinata''', ''NarutoAbridged''

BreastAttack is the DistaffCounterpart to GroinAttack, since receiving blunt trauma to the breasts is extremely painful for women, though probably not as painful as GroinAttack is for men. The nipples are also rather sensitive, though this is also true for men to a lesser extent.

* This blog, dealing with self-defense for women (NSFW): http://femaledefense.blogspot.com/2008/06/breast-punch.html?zx=34f82eb1b9b68cad

* The ShakeItUp episode "Party It Up" had a scene where it did happen, when [=CeCe=]and Rocky body bumped copying the boys... but in turn, both girls groan from the pain.

* The ShakeItUp episode "Party It Up" had a scene where it did happen, when Cece and Rocky body bumped copying the boys... but in turn, both girls groan from the pain.