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9	->''"WELL EXCUSE US FOR BEING FLAT!"''
10	-->-- '''Etna and Flonne''', ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness''
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12	Many works are set in a culture where the common assumption is that "[[BuxomBeautyStandard Buxom Is Better]]". This standard of female beauty can be a challenge for women with smaller breasts, and while some wear the "ironing board" title [[PetitePride with pride]], others are plagued by problems of low self-esteem as a result of their... [[BuffySpeak un-bustiness]].
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14	This can be for a variety of reasons, but the most common anxieties are that she'll look less sexy to a LoveInterest, be [[OlderThanTheyLook mistaken for a child]] or [[LadyLooksLikeADude a man]], or be treated as underdeveloped and immature because of her small chest.
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16	In fiction you frequently see this with teenage and preteen girls, disappointed that they're not as "mature" as their older sisters, relatives, parents, or more-developed peers. This may be shown by the character being remarked on that they don't wear a bra yet, or being teased for wearing [[UncoolUndies a camisole, undershirt, or nothing yet]]--basically, for ''not'' wearing a bra.
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18	This is often before ultimately learning the lesson to love their body no matter what final shape it takes. It can easily become HilariousInHindsight if the character or the actress portraying her grows up and becomes quite big-breasted as an adult.
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20	Things commonly done by this type of small chested woman:
21	* Wearing loose clothing so that it's harder to guess the size of her chest.
22	* Trying to make herself appear more busty than she really is, possibly by using a push-up bra or FakeBoobs.
23	* [[BerserkButton Getting offended]] (and sometimes [[DisproportionateRetribution violent]]) when other people comment on the smallness of her breasts.
24	* Jealously staring at another girl's huge breasts at the beach, at the pool, or in the changing room.
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26	While the trope is named after one of the smallest standard bra cup sizes[[note]]The actual meaning of these letters varies by manufacturer and country, and many people don't know that cup size is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20180222025433/http://www.brasizecalculator.tk/images/bandbustguide.jpg always relative to band size]], e.g. 38C is about the same volume as 30F[[/note]], for an AlliterativeName, the interesting thing is that a lady doesn't have to be "flat" or even remarkably small-chested in order to suffer from this anxiety. It's a state of mind that depends on what beauty ideal or peer group the character is comparing herself to, so even a girl or woman who fills a C-cup may feel inadequate in the presence of another who's an E-cup. Messages from the media, lack of self-esteem, or even just happening to associate with women who are bustier than average (sometimes the result of being the token average person in a WorldOfBuxom) can give a female character a distorted image of what counts as "small".
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28	Subtrope of AppearanceAngst. Contrast PetitePride for women who are small-breasted and proud. For "assets" on the other side of the spectrum, compare BigBreastPride and DCupDistress. See also BabyDontGotBack, for the similar reaction to another body part. For the {{Spear Counterpart}}s, see MuscleAngst and TeenyWeenie.
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30	MediaNotes/AnimeFanspeak refers to this type of character as a "''UsefulNotes/{{Pettanko}}''" (roughly, "completely flat").
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32	----
33	!!Example subpages:
34	[[index]]
35	* ACupAngst/AnimeAndManga
36	* ACupAngst/FanWorks
37	* ACupAngst/{{Literature}}
38	* ACupAngst/LiveActionTV
39	* ACupAngst/VideoGames
40	* ACupAngst/VisualNovels
41	* ACupAngst/{{Webcomics}}
42	[[/index]]
43
44	!!Other examples:
45	[[foldercontrol]]
46
47	[[folder:Advertising]]
48	* In RealLife this is common enough among Japanese girls that weekly or monthly shojo manga publications more likely than not include breast enlargement ads, or at least diet ads that promise to not take anything off the rack. Aside from the usual before-after photos, exciting exclamations and shiny products, there are specific ad mangas: 8 to 12 pages of A-Cup Angst and BuxomBeautyStandard played straight enough to put a ruler to shame with no other content.
49	** Ad for ''Chasteberry E'': Meet Miss Pettanko. Her life sucks. The boys don't even know she exists. She attempts to ask her crush out, he awkwardly evades. She ''knows'' the solution is to develop breasts. Cue desperate attempts, and finally success when a friend tips her off about the product. 3 months later she has gone from zero to cup E or so, attracts the MaleGaze wherever she goes, and is happily together with her crush.
50	[[/folder]]
51
52	[[folder:Comic Books]]
53	* ''ComicBook/BePrepared'' has nine-going-on-ten year old Vera (the youngest in her age group) made to feel shame by the older girls in her tent, the Sashas, when she's changing clothes and they snottily point out she doesn't wear a bra yet.
54	* In ''Comicbook/{{Blue Beetle}},'' Paco's younger sister.
55	-->'''Paco's mom''': Doesn't [Mariposa] look good in Soledad's things? [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents If Soledad had boobs, this is what she'd look like]].\
56	'''Soledad''': ''Mother!''
57	* In ''ComicBook/DangerGirl'', Silicon Valerie suffers from frequent bouts of insecurity because she is nowhere near as well-endowed as her teammates.
58	* [[McNinja Ninjette]]'s cheerily drunken confession to ComicBook/{{Empowered}} as to the reason she was in the employ of various thugs rather than a member of the Superhomeys summed this trope up (and unlike many artists, when Adam Warren invokes lack of the MostCommonSuperpower he does not use half-measures).
59	-->'''Ninjette''': I can't be a goody-goody heroine 'cause I don't have a nice, big rack! urrp Can't be a ''good girl'' without a ''good set'', right?
60	* Sophie Bangs in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'' is described by one of the past Prometheas as "flat-chested and neurotic," with the implication that that's what the typical candidate for Promethea-hood is like.
61	* When Henry Bendix first recruits Jenny Sparks into (''ComicBook/TheAuthority'''s predecessor) ''Stormwatch'', she agrees on the condition that she [[NotWearingTights doesn't have to wear spandex]], saying "I don't have the chest for it." Most artist renditions since have been faithful to this concept. This did not hamper her sex life in the slightest, [[spoiler:though living 80 years as an attractive 20-year-old who loves to party surely helped her there]]. Swift (being a typical Tibetan) was pretty flat-chested during Warren Ellis' run/ending on ''Stormwatch'', but when the artists for ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' drew her, she was given a ''much'' more substantial rack that got [[HandWave handwaved]] into being a "20-grand boob job."
62	* Udda Von Schteppenslammer from ''Comicbook/TankVixens'' has "itty bitty mousie titties" and the members of the 101st battalion are well-endowed.
63	* Yelena Rossini from ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' is just a bit touchy on the subject, which makes a certain amount of sense when you consider that she spends most of her time in close proximity to Channon. At one point she mentions that in order to borrow one of Channon's outfits, she'd need to be "shot in the back with a couple of cruise missiles first".
64	* ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'':
65	** Wilhelmina "Will" Vandom, the teenaged leader of the interdimensional Guardians, is quite explicit about it. She frets about her scrawny appearance, and prefers to be in her older, more [[MostCommonSuperpower tittacular]] Guardian body. As most of the art seems to show her [[http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l56/khacking/WillGuradianform.jpg arching her back]] and [[http://www.marge.it/haylinpage/personaggi/np_will.gif sticking out her chest]] in Guardian form, you can guess why. Actually if you look at the second picture there, she's clearly staring down at her enhanced breasts with excitement in the middle image!
66	** Taranee and Hay Lin to some degree, implied by their Guardian forms being just as large-breasted as Will's and them liking it. She too shows she likes her Guardian form. This is driven home in one episode: Cornelia's mother embarrasses her in front of the others by jokingly implying she stuffs her bra after seeing Hay Lin transformed and buxom, believing it's a Halloween costume with false breasts. Hay Lin suddenly looks angry and humiliated, and puffs up her chest some more to (over)compensate.
67	** {{Subverted}} with Cornelia: while petite (and, in the cartoon, the first one to notice the breast enhancement of the Guardian forms), she's perfectly OK with her body. In the comic this is shown by her Guardian form being merely an OlderAlterEgo, in contrast to Will, Taranee and Hay Lin having larger breasts (and [[BigBreastPride Irma]] being slimmer).
68	* Vanessa, a teenage supporting character in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'', tended to bemoan her lack of breasts and was stated on one occasion to stuff her shirt.
69	* ''ComicBook/XMen'': ComicBook/{{Jubilee\|MarvelComics}} sometimes took this role back then, but she has gotten bigger as she grew up. In ''Generation X'', which focused on the younger and less well-known of Xavier's students, her modest figure was used to contrast her against the model-esque [[AlphaBitch Monet St. Croix]]. Sometimes Kitty Pryde takes this role, too. But much like Swift above, when Jubilee transitioned into the ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' relaunch, she lost her mutant powers, but gained two cup sizes in the bargain. (Granted, she was 13-14 for most of her comic history.) [[http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5717/002b4g7c.jpg Entertainingly lampshaded]] in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #268 -- Jubilee is listening in to a conversation between Wolverine and the [[MostCommonSuperpower more commonly-endowed]] Psylocke and Black Widow. She glances up at the two women in their skintight costumes, peers down her vest to see how she matches up, and then drops her head in her hands with a frustrated expression.
70	[[/folder]]
71
72	[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
73	* ''Film/AreYouBeingServed'': Mr. Lucas remarks one of the mannequins at Grace Brothers has small breasts when trying to flirt with Miss Brahms.
74	%%* ''Film/BadTeacher'': Cameron Diaz's character Elizabeth Halsey suffers from this.
75	* ''Film/BreakfastOnPluto'': Heroine Kitten Braden, although she prefers to call herself a "svelte gamine", as she indignantly informs the peep show customer who complains about her lack of endowment. Although in Kitten's case, this is only to be expected, since she's a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trans woman]] and not on any sort of hormone therapy.
76	* In ''Film/ElviraMistressOfTheDark1988'', one of the town residents, Patty, is this. She uses a variant of bra stuffing (falsies) to make herself seem otherwise, and keeps her small breasts a secret from the entire town... [[spoiler:until TheReveal at the picnic!]]
77	* ''Film/{{Gidget}}'': In the first movie, Sandra Dee is doing some sort of exercise to help pump her chest out.
78	* In the medieval comedy ''Gladiatrix'', the heroine's newly acquired French husband is disappointed over her lack of breasts. When she magically acquires breasts during the course of the movie, she's able to return home and [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey tell her husband to carry out numerous household tasks]].
79	* ''Junior High School'' features the song "Itty Bitty Tittie Committee".
80	* ''Film/JustTheWayYouAre'': Susan's ballerina friend Lisa tells her that she used to stuff her shirt with Kleenex before each date and hope the boy didn't try to cop a feel.
81	* ''Film/LookWhosTalkingNow'': A flashback has a young Mollie yelling at her mother "I'll never have breasts!". Adult Mollie, played by Creator/KirstieAlley, did get them.
82	* In ''Film/MyGirl2'', Vada asks her stepmother Shelly when she got breasts.
83	-->'''Shelly''': I was a very late developer, they used to call me "Shelly Two Backs". All my friends had real bras, not like the training ones I had.
84	* ''Film/NakedKiller''. Sister Cindy is telling Kitty, whom she's training as an assassin, that a woman's greatest weapon is their own body. As she explains this Cindy is running her hands over her 36D breasts, causing Kitty (who's less well endowed) to ask, "What if she doesn't have tits?" She's not happy with the reply that [[AManIsAlwaysEager she doesn't need to have any to lure a man]].
85	* In ''Film/NowAndThen'', Teeny stuffs her top with [[{{FakeBoobs}} pudding-filled balloons]], as they have a similar consistency to human breasts. As an adult, she proudly tells her friends that she is a [[BigBreastPride "36D, and worth every penny!"]] On the other hand, tomboy Roberta is shown binding her breasts with masking tape while lamenting [[{{DCupDistress}} "No matter what I do, they just keep getting bigger!"]]
86	* ''Film/{{Singles}}'': Bridget Fonda.
87	* ''Film/SixteenCandles'': Samantha "Sam" Baker. According to his little brother, she's "only eating carrots to increase the size of her breasts." Sam later says about her bridesmaid dress: "I don't have one-tenth of the bod to fill the stupid bust up."
88	* ''[[Film/Slipstream1989 Slipstream]]'' (1989). A beautiful girl is griping about the ennui in her GildedCage life to the adventurer hero.
89	-->'''Owens:''' You're bored with ''this?'' ''(cups her [[LingerieScene lacy bra]])''\
90	'''Amanda:''' ''[pouting]'' Too small.\
91	'''Owens:''' Bore me to death!
92	* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'': During the DesignatedGirlFight between one of the protagonists and the DarkActionGirl, they both strip down to tank tops in the middle of the fight, and the heroine takes note of how much the villainess is lacking in the chest area, which noticeably pisses her off.
93	* In the 1982 comedy ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce?'', the title character goes to a massage parlour. As he's waiting in a hot tub, a beautiful masseuse enters and slips off her robe. Bruce exclaims that she is a "10", which [[SexinessScore she is quite pleased about]] until Bruce clarifies: "You are 10 where you should be 36." The woman looks embarrassed and sinks into the tub to hide her chest area.
94	* ''Film/TheToDoList'': The main character often laments her lack of large breasts. At one point, she tries to get her crush's attention by swimming in a pool while wearing a bikini. The top falls off, but she does not realize it at first, so the entire pool gets an eye full. Her crush turns away in embarrassment her JerkAss boss starts making fun of her, and the kids in the pool steal her top to join in on the mockery. After that, she has no recourse but to just walk away from the situation, completely topless while shouting at children and horrified mothers in impotent rage.
95	* ''Wanda the Wicked Warden'' (one of the sequels to ''Film/IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS''): The main character checks into a mental health hospital. The nurses begin undressing her and start mocking her small breasts.
96	[[/folder]]
97
98	[[folder:Jokes]]
99	* There's a mean-spirited joke that plays off this trope in RealLife:
100	-->"I just heard a joke so funny it'll knock you flat! ''(looking at chest)'' Oh, I see you've already heard it."
101	* A woman is looking at herself in the mirror, sighing about her breasts being too small. Her husband overhears and says he has a solution. "What's that?" "Rub 'em with toilet paper!" "Toilet paper? How will that help?!" "Well, look at what it did to your ass..."
102	* ''Queens of Comedy'': There was a form of this joke where Sommore (who admits she's blessed with a C cup and a flat stomach but lacks the weight on her behind) tells of a flat-chested and stomached woman with a generous posterior asking her about how she can make her "titties grow without silicone" and Sommore recommended toilet paper.
103	[[/folder]]
104
105	[[folder:Manhua]]
106	* In ''Manhua/MyWifeIsADemonQueen'', Dorona starts feeling self-conscious about her chest size upon seeing Isabella's ample bust, which causes her to stare at Aisi's smaller chest in an attempt to feel better. This is turn causes ''Aisi'' to feel self-conscious about the size of ''her'' chest.
107	[[/folder]]
108
109	[[folder:Manhwa]]
110	* Erutis from ''Manhwa/DemonDiary'' is quite flat-chested, and [[RageAgainstTheAuthor complains about it]] in an {{Omake}} which also includes a picture of her with an arrow pointing to her chest and the label "no bosom" (and one pointing at her legs: "stubby legs"). She says that this is the reason she was [[ViewerGenderConfusion mistaken for a guy]] at first by many readers. The peculiar thing is that her chest doesn't really look all that flat; she's easily a B-cup. She just wears a baggy top.
111	[[/folder]]
112
113	[[folder:Memes]]
114	* In 2017, [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/earth-chan Earth-chan]] was invented, a MoeAnthropomorphism of the Earth, who keeps complaining that people are calling her flat. The whole thing started as a jab at Flat-Earthers.
115	[[/folder]]
116
117	[[folder:Music]]
118	* "I Must Increase My Bust", by Music/LordsOfAcid:
119	-->There I found out that I'm not alone\
120	Suffering from this flat chested syndrome
121	* In ''Objection (Tango)'', Music/{{Shakira}} oscillates between this trope and PetitePride:
122	-->Next to her cheap silicone, I look minimal\
123	That's why in front of your eyes, I'm invisible\
124	But you've got to know small things also count
125	[[/folder]]
126
127	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
128	* Wrestling/{{n\|ew world order}}Wo Girl April Hunter said that growing up, she was teased for her barely visible bust. Then after she was all grown up, Hunter was teased by the likes of Alere Little Feather for [[DCupDistress the exact opposite reason]].
129	* Alere Little Feather herself tends to accuse anyone with breasts larger than her own of having "fakes". That's as a {{face}} too. As a {{heel}} she tends to make these accusations while also [[{{Hypocrite}} padding her own singlet to make her boobs look bigger]] ([[CharacterFilibuster it's a legit skill taught in beauty school]]!).
130	* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron HBIC]] switched her [[WrestlingDoesntPay second]] sport from body building to cheer leading in Ultimate Pro Wrestling because she didn't like how the combination of developed chest muscles, low body fat and regulated water intake necessary to win body building contests made her breasts look.
131	* Queen Aminata is vocal in her scorn other women's lack of tit..."[[LastSecondWordSwap talents]]", and [[OpenSecret silent but still obvious]] in her scorn of her lacking "talents".[[/folder]]
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133	[[folder:Theatre]]
134	* ''Psycho Beach Party'' Parodied when the female lead laments her figure to the audience while topless ("It's like I have the body of a boy!")... when the actor ''is'' a boy.
135	* ''Theatre/AChorusLine''
136	** "Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen" has lines like this.
137	--->"Tits! Where are my ''tits''?"\
138	"Honey, you're too young to wear a bra - you've got nothing to hold it up!"\
139	"Having to go through high school without growing ''tits''"!
140	** Val gets a song all about this ("Dance: Ten, Looks: Three"). She never grew the womanly attributes necessary for Broadway success, so she went to a plastic surgeon. It did wonders for her career. ("Didn't hurt my sex life either.") One dancer says she wishes she had ''one'' breast just like her. Val's advice, "Have 'em ''all'' done!" (In the film adaptation, she advises, "Well, go out and ''buy'' them!")
141	---> Flat and sassy,\
142	I would get the strays and losers.\
143	Beggars really can't be choosers.\
144	That ain't it, kid. That ain't it, kid.\
145	Fixed the chassis; "How do you do!"\
146	Life turned into an endless medley\
147	Of "Gee it had to be you!"
148	* Raised in ''Theatre/FunnyGirl'' as part of a litany of attractiveness tropes women are subjected to in showbiz ("If A Girl Isn't Pretty"):
149	-->When a girl's incidentals\
150	Are no bigger than two lentils\
151	Then to me it doesn't spell success!
152	* In ''Theatre/{{Fangirls}}'', this is 14-year old Brianna's biggest insecurity. During the "What If This is It?" number, she describes herself as "flat as a pancake" and declares she is "too old to not have tits".
153	[[/folder]]
154
155	[[folder:Web Animation]]
156	* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': While [[MurderInc I.M.P.]]'s melee expert Millie usually doesn't bring much attention to it (and her husband Moxxie certainly doesn't mind), she does imply a bit of envy for those of a curvier chest, as indicated after she [[RageBreakingPoint loses it]] at [[GuardianAngel C.H.E.R.U.B.]]'s [[BitchInSheepsClothing Keenie]], after C.H.E.R.U.B. once again interfered with their assassination contract. Along with calling Keenie out for her [[MoralMyopia hypocritical nature]] and [[FantasticRacism derision towards Imps]], she finishes up her trio of insults with "[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking tit-having.]]"
157	* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}''
158	** Rushia Uruha has this as a BerserkButton anytime someone cracks jokes about this, screaming "NOT PETTAN!" and that she's "boing boing." It doesn't help she's surrounded by other bustier girls like [[SchoolNurse Choco]], Noel or [[DragonLady Coco]].
159	** From the Indonesian side, we have Ollie Kureiji who continuously expresses her displeasure on her lack of assets, especially when compared to the ImpossibleHourglassFigure of Moona and Reine.
160	* WebVideo/VShojo's Nazuna Amemiya is portrayed with not much endowment, and she's bitter about it, insisting that she is "not UsefulNotes/{{pettan\|ko}}".
161	* ''WebAnimation/StoryBooth'': Jessica from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDrkdxpaGMs I Was Made Fun Of For Being A Late Bloomer]] suffers from this when everyone at her school [[BigBreastPride starts developing early and begins teasing her over her flat chest]]. By the end of the video, she learns to accept her body for what it is and is less self-conscious about being [[PetitePride small]].
162	[[/folder]]
163
164	[[folder:Web Original]]
165	* Shortly played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLyGe49vjnw this episode]] of ''WebVideo/CaptainDisillusion'', in which Lauren, the actress who plays Holly, said "What? It could've been!" in response to doubt that the boobs of the actor who'd played Mickey Mouse in an earlier episode didn't seem to be anywhere near hers. In real life, she has actually jocularly tweeted that the Captain himself had bigger boobs than she did.
166	* In the videos she uploads on Platform/YouTube, Creator/TessMasazza - creator of the Italian webseries ''Insopportabilmente donna'' - seems to have a bit of a complex for her small breasts. The only moment when we see her happy [[AllPeriodsArePMS during her period]] is when she realizes that as a side-effect they have spontaneously inflated (and she immediately starts shooting selfies in her bathroom).
167	* [[LetsPlay Foxy]] from Zorak's let's play of [[GameMod Pokémon Quartz]] after a certain trainer told her to take off her pants and jacket and then losing:
168	-->'''Roker(sic) Travis''': All the small things...\
169	'''Foxy''': Hey, I’m not that old, I know I’ll fill out later.
170	[[/folder]]
171
172	[[folder:Western Animation]]
173	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': This is one of the reasons that Hayley is such a bitch, as she's apparently bitter about not "filling out" the way she wanted. The episode "1600 Candles" had a flashback to her early teens when she angrily screams at her parents "''This is as big as they're gonna get''?!".
174	* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'':
175	** An episode revolves around Courtney Gripling taking a high-school French class. She wants to get closer with an older boy who she has a crush on but doesn't want to look too young, and her breasts make this obvious (she is 12 years old at the time). She stuffs her breasts to make herself look older.
176	** Another episode has her stuff her bikini top for a pool party. Ginger knows that some other kids are planning to steal her top, and the fact that Courtney stuffs is treated as at least as humiliating as the possibility that she could wind up flashing everybody what she ''does'' have
177	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}'': Title character Sharon Spitz is constantly and excessively insecure about her chest, being completely flat-chested. So much so in fact that she tried on one episode to increase her breast size with a pneumatic pump.
178	* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': Done [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything in a metaphorical way]] in the episode "Horn Envy". In this case, Cow is bitter about her ''horns'' not being big enough to get the attention of the boy she likes, but the whole thing plays out as if she was a human girl who's unhappy with her cup size. It's made particularly obvious when one of Cow's friends encourages her to wear [[FakeBoobs a bra padded with toilet paper over her head to give the illusion of bigger horns]].
179	* Connie on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is revealed to be jealous of [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Luanne]] in "Naked Ambition," to the point where having apparently caught Bobby and Joseph trying to [[ThePeepingTom peep]] at her, she's disappointed to learn that Joseph was trying to see Luanne instead.
180	--> Why would anyone look at ''me'' when they could look at ''her''?
181	* In the ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' episode "In Support Of", the 12-year-old eponymous main character becomes self-conscious about her lack of breast development after misinterpreting her gym teacher telling her students to get "support" to mean a bra rather than a spotter for the trampoline.
182	* Subtly done in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. Candace goes to Jeremy's pool party, but when she sees him there, he's chatting with a blonde, busty, curvy girl who's wearing the same swimsuit as her. When Stacy tries to calm her down after she freaks out, Candace responds with "She wears [the swimsuit] better!".
183	* A throwaway line hints that Angelica is this on ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}: WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp''. Apparently, she's a little bitter that her bra-stuffing campaign didn't turn out the guys like she wanted. Considering she practically ''has no breasts'' even when she stuffs her bra, one wonders if her chest is concave without it.
184	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}''
185	** Despite not being flat-chested, Jen is this (especially around her sister, who is much more buxom).
186	** Conversely, Caitlin ''is'' flat-chested, and is revealed to pad her bra.
187	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Parodied (what else?) in the episode "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" when the underaged Wendy gets jealous of the male attention Bebe's receiving due to her early breast development. Wendy goes as far to get implants, but unfortunately for her, the boys get over their preteen obsession at the end of the episode and she's laughed at.
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