History Main / MarshmallowHell

OneHeadTaller, with a few inches on top (and [[BuxomIsBetter quite a few more in front]]).

Usually found in anime or manga: a usually short, [[HoYay usually]] male character becomes smooshed in the chest area of a taller female character. They get a [[HurricaneOfEuphemisms cleavage cushion. A push-up pillow. A rack resting place. A maternal muffler]], you get the picture...

* The poor boy is quite literally being smothered in the process, as the girl is ''really'' [[GagBoobs well-endowed]].

* In ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'', when Hope and Bobby first meet, Hope teaches Bobby how to listen to his heart. She first listens to his heart, then shoves his head into her chest so he can listen to her heart.

If she's [[TeacherStudentRomance Hot For Student]], she may use this as an initial seduction tactic, but most of the time, the hugger is unaware of (or unable to see[[note]]and to be fair, it can be [[VisualPun hard to see]] much of anything in this position[[/note]]) the implications of the situation. This is often done for pure {{Fanservice}} value, but may also be used for comedy in one (or both) of two ways:

If she's [[TeacherStudentRomance Hot For Student]], she may use this as an initial seduction tactic, but most of the time, the hugger is unaware of (or unable to see[[note]]and to be fair, it can be hard to see much of anything in this position[[/note]]) the implications of the situation. This is often done for pure {{Fanservice}} value, but may also be used for comedy in one (or both) of two ways:

* Professional Wrestler Wrestling/JillianHall has more done this a few times against mostly female opponents to humiliate, disgust and or attempt to smother them. One memorable time was in mocking Wrestling/AshleyMassaro, who was revealed to be on the cover of an up coming Playboy magazine. This actually doesn't ''always'' get a positive reaction from the fans in attendance, as Jillian has a habit of making the audience hate her. Though this is more for the fact that she [[HollywoodToneDeaf could kill several small children with her voice]]. At least she doesn't turn to [[LesYay other tactics]], like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqYxyQ4WQFY&feature=related fellow female wrestler Mickie James...]]

-->-- '''[[FunSize Raspberyl]]''' getting picked up by [[CutenessProximity Sapphire]], ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice''

* An issue of ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}'' combines this trope with AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever. He breaks up with a woman because she was too "flat", so she jumps into a vat of breast enlarging hormones that turns her into a GiantWoman, who exacts her revenge by smothering Lobo in her gargantuan cleavage.

* At ''AIW The End of the World'', December 21, 2012, [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=1135 AIW Women's Champion]] Wrestling/AllysinKay [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-gVxXuuIsE defended]] the title against male wrestler [[Wrestling/TheBatiri Kobald]]. She actually gave him this at one point. The distinct [[ShesGotLegs height difference]] helped.

* This happens to Jon in [[http://www.garfield.com/comic/1987/03/28 the March 28, 1987 strip]] of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', young would-be warrior Taran, Princess Eilonwy, and minstrel Fflewddur Fflam travel to the house of three witches, trying to get the title cauldron before the movie's BigBad, the Horned King, can get his hands on it. The fattest and most voluptuous of the three witches develops a crush on Fflewddur, and at one point, proceeds to bury the horrified, skinny man right between her breasts. One of her sisters, tired of this lovey-dovey display, turns him into a frog in preparation for eating him... and the frog-Fflewddur gets completely smothered in the cleavage, desperately trying to wade his way out of there for several seconds of screentime. And that's just one of the two reasons why this is the first fully-animated Disney movie to ever get the PG rating...

* Raku from ''WebAnimation/NyanNekoSugarGirls'' once did this to a squirrel she found irresistibly adorable. It then commenced to [[RealityEnsues bite her]] and [[FromBadToWorse give her rabies]].

While this trope is almost AlwaysFemale, there does exist [[DistaffCounterpart a male variant]] where the {{Hunk}} draws someone into their pecs a tad too forcefully.

* In ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai'', [[TheTease Momoyo]] sometimes subjects Yamato to this.

The name comes from a scene in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', where poor Negi nearly gets drowned when several girls do this to him at once while he was partly submerged. [[CursedWithAwesome Poor, lucky bastard]]. On occasion, this can overlap IHaveBoobsYouMustObey.

* In the film ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelgoesWest'', there's one scene in particular where this trope occurred. As soon as Fievel enters into the saloon, he proceeds to nab a fork and plunge it into the... *ahem* hindquarters... of Cat R. Waul, causing him to jump several feet in the air, right through the roof above him (which was in turn the floor of the human saloon above them). As soon as he emerges, he is quickly grabbed by a rather affectionate woman who proceeds to put him through a Marshmallow Hell before he barely manages to escape and descend back into the saloon. The whole procedure is repeated at the end once more, though he suffers from MarshmallowHell only shortly before being stuck into a toddler outfit.

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* Raku from ''WebAnimation/NekoSugarGirls'' once did this to a squirrel she found irresistibly adorable. It then commenced to [[RealityEnsues bite her]] and [[FromBadToWorse give her rabies]].

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* At many Ren Fairs, "serving wenches" will do it as a joke. Particularly if the man in question is behaving like a cad. They even have a name for it, it's called a woobie - [[NamesTheSame no, not]] [[TheWoobie the trope]].
* Happens constantly in strip clubs. Some years ago, an extremely huge-busted model/stripper named Tawny Peaks was sued by a club patron alleging he suffered severe whiplash from one of these.
* This is a favorite tactic of many {{Drag Queen}}s around straight men in the audience when they interact cabaret style during shows. The bigger queens often don't even need additional padding to pull this off.
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* This was sort of the case when Kristen Johnston won the Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' and hugged the presenter, Michael J. Fox. He's short, she's tall and was wearing heel shoes, so the head to breast level was just right. Or wrong, depending on your point of view.
* This is a fairly common technique in the RealLife world of UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} (usually done on BoundAndGagged submissives), since it's a form of erotic titillation that conveniently also satisfies a submissive's desire for pain and humiliation.
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See also FunbagAirbag and ThanksForTheMammary for accidental collisions of the type. Not to be confused with MarshmallowDream. (However, it's only a matter of time before [[RuleThirtyFour they're mixed into one trope]].) Compare CryIntoChest and CooldownHug.

* MarshmallowHell/WebComics

The name comes from a scene in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', where poor [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v07/c061/8.html Negi nearly gets drowned when several girls do this to him at once while he was partly submerged.]] [[CursedWithAwesome Poor, lucky bastard]]. On occasion, this can overlap IHaveBoobsYouMustObey.

* The guy in question is [[ChildrenAreInnocent a little too young]] or [[ChasteHero innocent]] to appreciate the situation, and is more embarrassed than enjoying it (especially when it happens in public). In certain cases, the boy may be ''just'' old enough to appreciate the situation, but not old enough to control either [[RagingStiffie his reaction to it]] or his mortification at same.
* The poor boy is quite literally being smothered in the process, as the girl is ''really'' [[BuxomIsBetter well-endowed]].

* Disney had actually used this long before: in ''Disney/EducationForDeath'', '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''' gets a taste of Princess Germany's Marshmallow Hell.

* In ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'', young would-be warrior Taran, Princess Eilonwy, and minstrel Fflewddur Fflam travel to the house of three witches, trying to get the title cauldron before the movie's BigBad, the Horned King, can get his hands on it. The fattest and most voluptuous of the three witches develops a crush on Fflewddur, and at one point, proceeds to bury the horrified, skinny man right between her breasts. One of her sisters, tired of this lovey-dovey display, turns him into a frog in preparation for eating him... and the frog-Fflewddur gets completely smothered in the cleavage, desperately trying to wade his way out of there for several seconds of screentime. And that's just one of the two reasons why this is the first fully-animated Disney movie to ever get the PG rating...

* Parodied in ''Discworld/WyrdSisters''. After the fool [[spoiler:is stabbed... with a fake stage knife]], he ends up in Magrat's bosom, such that it is. There was some interesting dialog as they end up actually arguing about whether or not he's dead since, on the one hand, he thinks he's in heaven because there's boobs in his face, and on the other hand, dead people don't need to breathe.
** Implied to have occurred in ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'' with Sybil and the young man who's temporarily king of Ankh-Morpork. She's quite tall and curvy, so this is probably something she often has to be careful about.

* ''Flashman in the Great Game''. This happens to {{Literature/Flashman}} after he's rescued from torture by an Indian queen. Unfortunately for the permanently-randy AntiHero, his hands are tied.
* In the Xanth novel ''Literature/ASpellForChameleon'', Bink is rescued from an angry centaur by said centaur's girlfriend, who pulls Bink close to protect him, pillowing his head on something. When Bink turns around, he's face-to-not-quite-face with those "pillows."

* In one of the Leo Kessler novels, Sgt Schulze is talking to a BigBeautifulWoman when a shell goes off nearby, and his fellow soldiers look on in envy as he faceplants into her bosom.

* Minka is best known (insofar as pro wrestling goes) as one of the porn stars who defeated The Outsiders (Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash) in a [=joke/troll=] match on the October 25, 1999 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' that was later [http://wrestlecrap.com/inductions/the-outsiders-vs-porn-stars/ inducted]] into Website/{{WrestleCrap}}.[[note]]This was the first show where Wrestling/{{WCW}} officially started referring to Wrestling/VinceRusso and Ed Ferrara as [[PowersThatBe The Powers That Be]], as they made themselves the top {{Heel}}s[[/note]]. It was not, however, her pro wrestling debut. She dabbled in valeting and wrestling back around the turn of the century under the name Satin. Her finisher was a "chest-smothering reverse sleeper". While valeting she'd also do it to wrestlers who ended up with their head on the ring apron.

* Minka - best known as one of the porn stars who defeated The Outsiders (Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash) in a [=joke/troll=] match on the October 25, 1999 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro''[[note]]This was the first show where Wrestling/{{WCW}} officially started referring to Wrestling/VinceRusso and Ed Ferrara as [[PowersThatBe The Powers That Be]], as they made themselves the top {{Heel}}s[[/note]] - dabbled in valeting and wrestling back around the turn of the century under the name Satin. Her finisher was a chest-smothering reverse sleeper. While valeting she'd also do it to wrestlers who ended up with their head on the ring apron. This was [[http://wrestlecrap.com/inductions/the-outsiders-vs-porn-stars/ inducted]] into Website/{{WrestleCrap}} with extreme prejudice as an example of why Vince Russo failed.

* Professional Wrestler Wrestling/JillianHall has more done this a few times against mostly female opponents to humiliate, disgust and or attempt to smother them. One memorable time was in mocking Ashley Massaro, who was revealed to be on the cover of an up coming Playboy magazine. This actually doesn't ''always'' get a positive reaction from the fans in attendance, as Jillian has a habit of making the audience hate her. Though this is more for the fact that she [[HollywoodToneDeaf could kill several small children with her voice]]. At least she doesn't turn to [[LesYay other tactics]], like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqYxyQ4WQFY&feature=related fellow female wrestler Mickie James...]]