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| 5 | [[quoteright:230:[[WesternAnimation/WakkosWish https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ihftrope_9.png]]]] |
| 6 | [[caption-width-right:230:"How'd you come up with the [bottle's] design?"\ |
| 7 | "It just came to me, from who knows where!"]] |
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| 9 | ->''"If she was real, with that teeny waist, and the top and the bottom, they would just fall over. [laughs] It's not possible!"'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''Richard Williams''', animation director on ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', talking about Jessica Rabbit. |
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| 12 | A woman in comics or cartoons doesn't need to have a proper ribcage like a real actress does. Therefore, she can easily have a much narrower waist than would be possible with even the strictest of corsets -- and usually without even wearing one! Not only is it shown as an unproblematic part of how she just happens to look, but she is supposed to be considered more attractive because of it. |
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| 14 | This is based on the "hourglass figure" beauty ideal, where a woman is considered attractive if she has [[BuxomBeautyStandard big breasts]], a narrow waist, and wide hips. A narrow waist not only implies physical fitness but also makes the breasts look bigger and the hips look wider by comparison. The attainability of these proportions in real life depends a lot on personal genetics, but the medium of drawing allows an exaggerated archetype to be portrayed without the restraints of biology. A woman with an IHF is always designed to be attractive, even in the cases where she's not MsFanservice or a HeadTurningBeauty: Monsters with insect-like narrow waists do not count, even if the shape reminds one of an hourglass. |
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| 16 | The SpearCounterpart to this trope would be the classic male UsefulNotes/{{Bodybuilding}} "V-taper" or "X-frame": instead of big breasts, narrow waist, and wide hips, the ideal is to have broad shoulders and lats, a narrow waist and pelvis, and muscular quads with good outer "sweep". As with female anatomy, this ratio can be ludicrously exaggerated in cartoons. The cartoon bodybuilder or {{Hunk}} is often a TopHeavyGuy, with a torso shaped like an upside-down triangle that seems to explode out of a tiny waist like a genie bursting out of the bottle. |
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| 18 | For the garment which allows people who aren't blessed with a natural IHF to mold their bodies closer to the ideal, see OfCorsetsSexy and OfCorsetHurts. Male {{crossdresser}}s, UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} girls, or even cisgender girls who just feel too thin can also use FakeBoobs, and/or similar padding about the hips to help with this. Other tropes involve some of the same attributes but go for a different result. NoodlePeople don't just have thin waists, but their entire torsos as well as their limbs are elongated and thin. HartmanHips is the term for when a narrow waist and wide hips are used to represent adult womanhood, but the bust is de-emphasized to avoid sexual connotations. Contrast UsefulNotes/{{Pettanko}} (which is what most HollywoodThin women are without the help of padded bras or implants; the female breast is largely fat when not nursing). When other characters notice, they might say that she has CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces. |
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| 20 | [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] ''literally'' having an hourglass for a body. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[noreallife]] |
| 23 | ---- |
| 24 | !!Examples: |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 29 | * Played straight with Ms. Carolina in the 2015 film ''Manga/CrayonShinChan: My Moving Story! Cactus Large Attack!''. Her curvaceous figure causes Shinnosuke to become enamored with her. |
| 30 | * [[SevenDeadlySins Lust]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has a [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uMWJOmeznhg/hqdefault.jpg quite slim waist framed by voluptuous curves]]. Justified as she's a homunculus, not a human, and is the living embodiment of the sin she's named for. |
| 31 | %%* The {{Gender flip}}ped version of America in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''. |
| 32 | %%* Numerous female characters have this type of figure in ''Anime/CodeGeass''. |
| 33 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 34 | ** Boa Hancock, Nico Robin, and Nami, for starters, or for that matter pretty much every single female in the entire universe who is not horrendously obese. One would get the idea that this is [[AuthorAppeal one of the author's many fancies]]. |
| 35 | ** An unverified rumor is that this is mostly due to Creator/EiichiroOda venting his horniness over his wife (who is a model) whom he married during the run of his manga, because most females at the beginning of the manga (including Nami) were simply thin, not curvy. In 2016, Oda admitted that his usual method of drawing women is "two circles and an X", with the X obviously being the waistline. |
| 36 | %%** Miss Doublefinger |
| 37 | %%* Similar to the ''Manga/OnePiece'' example we have several female characters from ''Manga/FairyTail'' and ''Manga/RaveMaster''. Mashima states that he actually doesn't find it especially appealing and he mainly uses the design to please young male fans. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya'': Many of the adult female demons are incredibly busty relative to their waist sizes, as emphasized by Lorem's loosely hanging t-shirt and Merii's snugly fitting sweaters. The few female demons who don't possess such a figure often suffer from ACupAngst, such as Valentine, or are just too young for it come up yet, like preteens Lizette and Dolores. |
| 39 | * ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': While there are other busty girls in the slum city, Alpha stands out as being the most curvaceous character in the story, with enormous boobs, a tiny waist, and wide hips. {{Justified|Trope}} by her being an AI able to freely change her appearance via AugmentedReality and specifically choosing her form to appeal to Akira's tastes [[ChasteHero despite his apparent lack of interest in sex]] due to his age. |
| 40 | %%** As of 2013-2014, Hiro has lessened this trope, giving the girls larger breasts, but a more curvy figure and a evened out midsection. |
| 41 | * Played for BodyHorror with Samara from ''Manga/SazanEyes'': due to bonding with Juuma (essentially, {{Mon}}-type creatures that feeds on the host' life energy but will fight for him) in spite of being a human, she ended up with a deformed body: her arms are now two actual Juuma, while her midsection is horribly dried up and thin compared to normal. |
| 42 | * [[AsianFoxSpirit Kayoh]] from ''Manga/PandemoniumWizardVillage''. |
| 43 | ** Her daughter, Prakasha, from ''Manga/FlowerKnightDakini'' also has a similar figure, but is also [[StatuesqueStunner very tall]]. |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 47 | * ''ComicBook/MadameMirage'' was specifically designed in-universe to have this body type -- her real identity is a small, athletic blonde with a body as flat as a board from every angle, so (with the help of hologram technology) she disguises as a tall, "impossibly-endowed brunette" [[spoiler:based on her dead sister]]. It's also hinted that there's at least ''some'' degree of wish fulfillment behind the Madame Mirage persona's appearance. |
| 48 | * Just about any female character drawn by ''Creator/RobLiefeld'' will look like she has absolutely no organs in her lower torso, while also having the MostCommonSuperpower. It almost borders on parody until you realise that's just how he does art. |
| 49 | * A ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' cover [[https://jaxofspades.tumblr.com/post/9737871264/theraddy-panasonicyouth-belgianbollocks depicting Mary Jane in an awkward pose]] has underwent MemeticMutation for violating any sense of anatomy in the name of MaleGaze. Aside from her sitting pose, her midsection is so skinny it's a wonder her body manages to hold up those huge boobs. [[https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0990/1714/products/Black_Cat_1_G_1024px_w_e0e18590-b0aa-4bb8-b7a2-1e0a886fcb45.jpg?v=1669074307 Black Cat gets a similar look.]] |
| 50 | * Argentinian cartoonist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Divito Guillermo Divito]] popularized in the pages of magazine ''Rico Tipo'' a very specific kind of girl drawing known as "Divito Girls", which are archetypically of this body type. They even influenced the fashion of the time and are considered an early example of sexual revolution depictions in Argentina and Uruguay. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | [[/folder]] |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 55 | * All the women in ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'', except Mammy Yokum. |
| 56 | [[/folder]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 59 | * ''Fanfic/BecomingFemale'': When Harry [[GenderBender becomes a girl]], he's described as having large boobs, curves in all the right places, and a skinny waist. He actually lampshades it; Hermione responds by guessing that the potion turned him into "the ideal female form". |
| 60 | * In ''Fanfic/ForbidenFruitTheTempationOfEdwardCullen'', Tiaa describes herself this way. |
| 61 | * Willow from ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' is described as being "Thin enuff 2 b anorexic" but with "really big bobs" |
| 62 | * Olga from ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'' is described by Kyril's P.O.V. to have "a voluptuous body covered by an elegant [[OfCorsetsSexy corset]]". Considering her design in ''Kuroinu'' canon (which encapsulates the entire package of big breasts, narrow waist, and wide hips), he is clearly understating her physical appearance. |
| 63 | * The protagonist of many a ReaderInsertFic has this figure, despite being supposedly a neutral stand-in for the reader. |
| 64 | [[/folder]] |
| 65 | |
| 66 | [[folder:Fashion Design]] |
| 67 | * [[http://www.fashionhippo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Kate-Winslet-Stella-McCartney-Miracle-Dress.jpg This]] Stella [=McCartney=] dress creates the optical illusion that the wearer has one of these. |
| 68 | * Fashion from Victorian Britain seems to have been striving towards this at times, with all the corsets and hoop skirts and whatnot.[[note]]The basic concept of the corset significantly predates this era, but it was the Victorian era where the concept of using corsets to create an unnaturally small waist via “waist training” (gradually lacing a corset tighter and tighter to “train” your body to have a smaller waist) and padding the chest and hips came about; before that, they were more of a support garment -- almost a precursor of sorts to the modern bra -- and though they were still restrictive, they generally followed the natural shape of the body rather than trying to radically alter it.[[/note]] |
| 69 | ** A popular trick on how the Victorians make the waist appear thinner in photographs is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXbcPgfiB0Q through warping or painting over]] the waist with the background color. |
| 70 | ** [[TheForties Dior's]] [[TheFifties New Look]] replicated this [[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=667&q=dior+new+look&oq=dior+new+look&gs_l=img.3..0l10.119.2113.0.2280.13.12.0.1.1.0.192.1373.5j6.11.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..1.12.1373.ttry_0mbeGs look as well]], it was claimed that Christian Dior found waistlines above 18 inches to be "disgusting". |
| 71 | * {{Franchise/Barbie}} is notorious for this. The reason this is under fashion design: the narrow waist is allegedly intended to compensate for the heavy seams in such small clothing. Whether this is actually true or not, around 2000 Mattel chose to switch to a wider waist design. |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 75 | * ''Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon'': |
| 76 | ** Princess Jasmine from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. Along with Ariel, she has the most exaggerated figure of any Disney Princess or heroine. Bonus points for actually getting [[DeathsHourglass trapped in an hourglass.]] |
| 77 | *** Also the harem girls in "Friend Like Me", the belly dancer and the girls in "Prince Ali" ... let's just say there's a lot of pretty girls in sheer, low-cut fabric. |
| 78 | ** The Bimbettes trio from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' are all big-breasted and tiny-waisted to a cartoony extent in comparison to Belle's more natural physique. This is also underscored by Belle being the most attractive woman in town despite lacking this figure. |
| 79 | ** Ariel from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' has a very slim hourglass figure, both as a mermaid and a human. |
| 80 | *** Also her sisters, especially in [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidArielsBeginning the prequel]]. Subverted with Adella in [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1992 the TV series]] where she is more chubby. |
| 81 | ** Four of the muses and Aphrodite, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', have waists so tiny they could probably wrap one hand around them. Oddly enough, Megara ends up with HartmanHips, despite being the only female to make use of her womanly charms. |
| 82 | ** Mad Madame Mim sports this when she makes herself pretty in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone''. |
| 83 | ** Averted in ''WesternAnimation/LiloandStitch'' and ''{{WesternAnimation/Moana}}''. |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/BoysNightOut'': Thanks to the cartoony art direction of the short, most of the woman in this short have thin waists, big boobs, and generous butts. |
| 85 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Justified with DemBones, seeing as they don't really have waists; it's practically standard for the Land of the Dead to have hilariously waspish dresses, cinched around their spinal columns. |
| 86 | * Holli Would from ''Film/CoolWorld''. |
| 87 | * Miss Forcible, [[IWasQuiteALooker in her youth]], and the Other Miss Forcible from the film version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' |
| 88 | * The WickedStepmother Frieda and the kind, lovely, [[MsFanservice beautiful, comely, cute and pretty]] Ella from ''WesternAnimation/HappilyNEverAfter''. |
| 89 | * Francesca from ''WesternAnimation/MadMonsterParty''. |
| 90 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BVg1WzS5Co&feature=related Sita]] from ''WesternAnimation/SitaSingsTheBlues''. |
| 91 | * Lola Bunny from ''Film/SpaceJam'' has a waistline with less circumference than either thigh, sandwiched between wide hips and enough bustline to send WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic into histrionics. She's perfectly aware of this, always garbed in a midriff-baring outfit, and flaunting her SexySilhouette during the Tune Squad introductions. |
| 92 | --> '''Announcer''': At small forward, standing a scintillating three foot two, the heartthrob of the hoops: Lola Bunny! |
| 93 | * Both main female characters, Maria and La Muerte from ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''. |
| 94 | * The famous unfinished animated film ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' provides a [[http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/602-animations-lost-masterpiece/ pretty remarkable example]] with Princess Yum-Yum. |
| 95 | * Mrs. Toad from ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina|1994}}'' who has huge NonMammalMammaries on top of a near nonexistent waist, and wide hips to match. |
| 96 | * Jessica Rabbit from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' is one of the more famous and extreme cases of this trope. She was originally designed with more (relatively speaking) realistic proportions, but the creators decided that they wanted an unrealistic quality about her sexiness. She's a toon, after all. |
| 97 | ** The cosplayer Yaya Han made an excellent [[http://yayahan.com/portfolio/costumes/jessica-rabbit#prettyPhoto Jessica Rabbit outfit]] with [[OfCorsetsSexy a steel-boned corset]], two push-up bras, and a bustle, and she ''still'' couldn't match Jessica Rabbit's canonical measurements. |
| 98 | * The Princess in ''WesternAnimation/TheTrueStoryOfPussNBoots'' has this body type, complete with a large bust and wide hips. It doesn't really help that the human characters look somewhat realistic, thus making her look a little strange. |
| 99 | * ''WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory'': Cecilia’s mother (only shown in still pictures) sports such a figure when we first see her in a vacation photo; her huge breasts and hips are visibly straining in her tight bikini, and her waist is barely twice as wide as her neck. (The other pictures of her at the end of the film [[DependingOnTheArtist give her a less exaggerated character design]], with a more normal-sized bust but keeping the tiny waist and HartmanHips.) |
| 100 | [[/folder]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 103 | * Deconstructed in [[http://tsa.transform.to/misc/bodybyharmani.html Body By Harmani]]. The woman had herself genetically altered to have a designer's body. One of the alternations involve this. Unfortunately, it's dangerous to her health since her internal organs are wedged in tight and she has to do constant exercises just to move at all. |
| 104 | * In ''Literature/BubbleWorld'', everyone on Bubble World has a perfect body, causing ''major'' shock for Freesia when she enters the real world and sees that not only does everyone seem fat, so does she. |
| 105 | * In ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', it's mentioned several times that when Laura's parents married, her father could span her mother's waist with his hands, thanks to her rigid regimen of waist training (see under Fashion Design). When Laura first hears this as a child, she's impressed, but later she comes to think it somewhat silly, pointing out that Pa still seems to like Ma an awful lot even though he can't span her waist with his hands anymore. |
| 106 | * ''Literature/SexRobotsAndVeganMeat'' by Jenny Kleeman: the author visits the [=RealDoll=] sex doll factory, and notices that despite the wide variety of face type, skin tone and bust size, all of the dolls have the same tiny waist. |
| 107 | * ''Literature/UnderThePendulumSun'': The [[TheFairFolk Fae Queen]] Mab {{invoke|dTrope}}s this with one of her outfits, giving herself an inhumanly tiny waist that's corseted in black-and-gold and skirted in literal wasp wings. |
| 108 | -->'''Mab:''' I read that a wasp waist is the very height of fashion. |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
| 110 | |
| 111 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 112 | * An episode of ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' actually {{deconstruct|edTrope}}s this trope. Dennis takes up fashion designing, and specifically designs his clothes for someone with an exaggerated hourglass figure. Of course, since no one in real life actually has one... |
| 113 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "Number 12 Looks Just Like You", the women's version of "The Transformation" -- a surgical procedure that every person undergoes to make them "beautiful" (and all exactly alike) -- leaves them with this type of figure. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Magazines]] |
| 117 | * The Magazine/{{Humorama}} digest line featured cartoon women drawn by Dan Decarlo and Bill Ward. Their women definitely fit this trope. |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
| 119 | |
| 120 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 121 | * The woman standing next to Spock on the playfield for [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally]]'s ''[[Pinball/StarTrekBally Star Trek]]'' pinball has a waist only ''slightly'' wider than her head. |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 125 | * The female characters from ''TabletopGame/KingdomDeath'' have these proportions, most notably the pinup variants. It appears to be a trademark of the artist, Lokman Lam. |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 129 | * If the player gets a GameOver during ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''', they're shown a cutscene [[ItsAWonderfulFailure where Gruntilda successfully steals Tooty's beauty]], turning herself into a beautiful woman while Tooty is turned into an ugly monster. In the game itself however, Gruntilda is one of the [[{{Gonk}} ugliest characters]], with her abduction of Tootie being that she's far more beautiful that Gruntilda, and she plans to take that beauty for herself. |
| 130 | * Barbie in ''VideoGame/BarbieSuperModel'' has a perfect, impossible figure. Well, it is a Barbie game, after all. |
| 131 | * The Dark Queen from ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''. |
| 132 | * Vivi from ''VideoGame/BrainDead13''. She has a massive bust (good enough to feature on a monster porno mag in a FreezeFrameBonus) a narrow waist, and hips for days if the MaleGaze directed at her is any indication. |
| 133 | * Solange, the protagonist from ''VideoGame/CodeOfPrincess''. |
| 134 | * Taldeer, Macha, and the unnamed Farseers in the first ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' game. They are of the [[SpaceElves Eldar]] race. |
| 135 | * Most of the female characters from the [[BeatEmUp Beat Em' Up]] ''[[VideoGame/DancinDivas Dancin' Divas]]'', especially the playable character Viva, being a [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]] Expy. |
| 136 | * [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Candy Kong]] is noticeably the only Kong with this body type, bordering right into {{Fanservice}}. |
| 137 | * [[ActionGirl Jessica]] [[FieryRedhead Albert]] in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII''. Ditto for the elf maiden Rajah and the Witch-type enemies. |
| 138 | * The Sorceress from ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'' is the shapeliest of the three female playable characters. |
| 139 | * The beautiful Queen of Tumblers Salina from ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}}''. |
| 140 | * The ''VideoGame/FZero'' series has two: Mrs. Arrow (debuting in ''X'') and Princia Ramode (''GX''/''AX''). |
| 141 | * The weapons select screen for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' reveal that quarian women don't have HartmanHips, but have this instead; Tali's hips are not significantly wider than Fem!Shep's or any other female squadmate's hips, but her hourglass figure is much narrower. |
| 142 | * ''VideoGame/MediEvil2'': [[SeductiveMummy Kiya]]. The manual of the game has a bit of fun with it by pointing out that while Kiya doesn't exactly like undeath, she cheered up a bit when she noticed that having all her organs removed did wonders for her shape. |
| 143 | * VideoGame/MindYourManors's third boss, to the extreme; she's literally an outline of a shapely woman with no features aside from an alluring smile. [[spoiler: The secret ending reveals she had such a figure when alive too.]] |
| 144 | * Both Ringford Queen Elfaria and Queen Odette from ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' have pencil thin waists sandwiched in between huge breasts and wide hips. In Queen Odette's case it makes sense considering aside from the breasts she is literately just skin and [[DemBones bone]]. |
| 145 | * Betilla and the rest of the nymph sisters of ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'' surely fit this trope. Fortunately they've got wings, otherwise they'd probably snap right in half. |
| 146 | * All the main girls of ''VideoGame/{{Roommates}}'' have extremely slim waists, slim-to-moderately-curvy hips, and enormous breasts. Exactly how thin their waists are varies, from Sally and Isabella being HollywoodThin to Anne being downright '''anorexic''' everywhere but her chest. Your HollywoodPudgy classmate Carmen is the only one whose body even ''begins'' to look like it ought to have such a large bra size, but she's only a minor character. |
| 147 | * [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scrapland/images/0/06/Betty_cover.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/255?cb=20150419112334 Betty]] from ''VideoGame/ScrapLand'' is an extreme example of this |
| 148 | * Most females from the ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series, including the titular protagonist: ''VideoGame/Shantae2002'', ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'', ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndThePiratesCurse'', ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'', ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens''. |
| 149 | * The girls in the Game Boy Color version of ''VideoGame/XtremeSports'' also have these (including Guppi, one of the [[{{Deuteragonist}} deuteragonists]]), which goes to show how much Creator/WayForward [[AuthorAppeal loves them]]. |
| 150 | * Aeon from ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' takes this trope to extreme levels where her midsection is literally a hourglass. |
| 151 | * Ninja and their variants from ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'' take this to an extreme, with waists thinner than their heads accentuated by HartmanHips. |
| 152 | * Valentina from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', who has about the same proportions as her martini glass she's always carrying and is one of the few Mario characters with noticeable breasts. |
| 153 | * Morgan [=LeFlay=] from ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland''. |
| 154 | ** And the other character that uses her model, [[PaletteSwap Elaine Marley-Threepwood]]. |
| 155 | * [[http://zeldawiki.org/File:Veran.png Veran]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames''. |
| 156 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', [[spoiler:Midna's true form]] also seems to qualify. Although, upon closer inspection it's not so much an extremely thin waist as it is her very tall frame, particularly wide hips and sizable bust. This is [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/1/1c/HW_Twili_Midna.png even more noticeable]] in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' primarily thanks to the improved graphics. |
| 157 | * Almost '''everyone''', in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has a pretty thin physique. Yes, even the some of the boys, including the main protagonist Neku. |
| 158 | ** It only becomes even more noticeable when the main cast appears in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''. Though still heavily stylized, Sora and Riku's proportions aren't nearly as extreme, making Neku and some of his friends look downright ''anorexic''. It's arguably even weirder considering the characters for both games were designed by the [[Creator/TetsuyaNomura the same guy]]. |
| 159 | * Lara Croft in the early installments of the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' franchise had a waist slightly thinner than her head and half the width of her waist with large breast to match. Later installments have been [[http://i.imgur.com/Svatslh.jpg progressively averting this trope by widening her waist and shrinking her breasts.]] Since ''VideoGame/TombRaiderUnderworld'', she now has a realistic hourglass figure. |
| 160 | * Suzy from ''VideoGame/TonicTrouble''. |
| 161 | * Carmelita Fox from ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'' has a really thin waist compared to her appearances in the previous ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' games. |
| 162 | * ''VideoGame/{{Belladonna}}'' is a story of a woman who woke up part machine on an operating table. She comments on her figure and wonders what organs if any are left in her. |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
| 164 | |
| 165 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 166 | * Various [[VirtualYoutuber vtubers]] have figures like these, but the queen of them all is most likely [[SnakePeople Saa.]] She has large breasts and incredibly broad hips, the latter being especially massive. Saa herself is [[TheTease gleefully aware of her figure]] and happily draws attention to them. She later updated her model to make her hips even wider to the [[ExaggeratedTrope point of ridiculousness.]] |
| 167 | * Martha, IMP's target in the ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' episode "Murder Family". This might be why, even though she's married and her home decor is littered with signs of her and her family being a [[spoiler: CannibalClan]], she doesn't seem to have trouble finding sexual partners. |
| 168 | [[/folder]] |
| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 171 | * Most of the Archon team from ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', especially Max. Subverted by Sydney having virtually no figure at all but wearing a ComicBook/WonderWoman pattern T-shirt. This is what actually clues Max into Sydney not actually having superpowers, since having an hourglass figure and the MostCommonSuperpower are explicit side effects of being superhuman in the ''Grrl Power'' universe (men instead end up with a HeroicBuild). |
| 172 | * The title character of ''Webcomic/DoctorVoluptua''. |
| 173 | * Lavender from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. {{lampshade|Hanging}}d [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-04-11 here]], but {{justified|Trope}} as she belongs to a species of shapeshifting aliens and thus can have whatever figure she likes. |
| 174 | ** Not so justified with the CSI lady, though. |
| 175 | * Phobia from ''Webcomic/PepsiaPhobia''. It even gets {{lampshade|Hanging}}d [[https://gastrophobia.com/comix/for-whom-the-belt-goes/s1-e09-g/ here.]] |
| 176 | * Justified in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' with [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Space Princess Voluptua]], since a wasp waist makes sense for the HumanDisguise of an {{Insectoid Alien}} who didn't know much about average human body types at first. |
| 177 | * This is the basic body shape for many female characters of ''Webcomic/LasLindas''. It tends to be more obvious in {{fanservice}}-heavy segments, like ''Breasts are the Best'' (as [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mora_Linda_7131.jpg Mora Linda]] demonstrates). |
| 178 | * Both [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Ben'Joon]] and [[AmazonianBeauty Pella]] from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup''. |
| 179 | * Quite a few female characters from ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'', but most obviously Tentadora. |
| 180 | * ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'': Artemis has a truly impossible figure [[spoiler:when she goes OneWingedAngel. She doesn't have a large bust or hips per se, but rather, no waist at all. Just her spine and ribs]]. |
| 181 | * ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': Dr. Magdolene has an [[http://www.bogleech.com/awfulhospital/847.html extremely curvy]], wasp-waisted figure... and because she's TheWormThatWalks, it's made entirely out of maggots. |
| 182 | [[/folder]] |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 185 | * This [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150324172506/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust/waist/hip_measurements picture]] from Website/{{Wikipedia}}. It's called "Condition of Cut-in Waist". |
| 186 | * ''[[http://eschergirls.tumblr.com Escher Girls]]'' posts and mocks some pretty jarring examples of this or illustrations with just the impossibly small waists. Most of the works do this in spite of having an otherwise realistic art-style. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 190 | * Hello Nurse from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' where she designs a bottle for Scratchansniff's elixir that is said to be popular because of its more attractive shape. The bottle happens to have a shape similar to Hello Nurse's curvaceous figure as seen on the picture above. |
| 191 | ** Most women in the show that would be considered attractive had tiny waists. |
| 192 | * Black Widow from ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' especially in season 2. Zarda also counts as well during her close ups. |
| 193 | * Harley Quinn in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode where she dresses like a [[TheFlapper flapper]]. |
| 194 | * WesternAnimation/BettyBoop was described in a 1934 court case as: "combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated — a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat careful coiffure, with a very small body of which perhaps the leading characteristic is the most self-confident little bust imaginable.". |
| 195 | * Clarice from the ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale'' classic cartoons managed to get away with both having generous hips and an ample bosom, and little in between. |
| 196 | * Elise from ''WesternAnimation/DanVs''. |
| 197 | * ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has Maddie Fenton, who has a large bust and hips to hold up a narrow waist, and Desiree, who has the largest bust-waist-hip ratio of the entire show. |
| 198 | * Morgana Macawber from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. |
| 199 | * Virtually every female in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. Bruce Timm clearly loves him some hourglass curves. Some examples: |
| 200 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiNQVoX8tuI this episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Barda's figure is pretty unrealistic. (Of course, [[HumanAlien she isn't human]], as many fans soon forget.) |
| 201 | ** Plastique's waist in JLU episode "Task Force X" is so ridiculously narrow that she can wear a 1-2 inch thick fake skin over it to hide her plastic explosives for the mission, ''and her waist still looks slim''. |
| 202 | * Dennis' mother, Alice Mitchell, from ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace''. |
| 203 | * Panty the Panther from ''WesternAnimation/ElArca''. |
| 204 | * Princess Mandie from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. |
| 205 | ** Vicky gets one in "Channel Chasers" when she uses Timmy's magic TV remote to age herself to 18 years old. |
| 206 | * Princess Aura from ''[[WesternAnimation/FlashGordon1979 The New Adventures of Flash Gordon]]''. |
| 207 | * Turanga Leela from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. She's even been described as having 36-24-36 body measurements, the supposed "perfect" female body. |
| 208 | * [[UglyGuyHotWife Pete's wife]] and Pistol and PJ's mother, Peg from ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' is probably among the curviest females in Disney history, with hips wider than her shoulders and a bust that, whilst not as wide as her hips, still exceeds her shoulders. |
| 209 | * Cousin Mel from ''WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer''. She's got quite a curvy figure and is [[BuxomBeautyStandard very buxom]] (which is probably the only reason the cartoon is remembered), which adds well to the fanservice. I. M. Slime has quite the figure also, just not to Cousin Mel's extreme. |
| 210 | * Miss Information and Lydia Karaoke from ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}''. |
| 211 | * [[GoldDigger Jez]] from ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''. |
| 212 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': The women in men's magazines on the show have extremely narrow waists when compared to the rest of their body proportions. |
| 213 | * Certain female characters from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. Notably, [[DarkActionGirl Shego]] and [[AlphaBitch Bonnie Rockwaller]] as the most prominent examples among recurring characters. |
| 214 | * The WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon, "A Star is Hatched" has a quick scene of a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed caricature ]] of Creator/MaeWest coming out of a dressing room door shaped like hourglass that matches her figure. |
| 215 | ** [[FemmeFataleSpy Hatta Mari]] from the WartimeCartoon "WesternAnimation/PlaneDaffy", despite being a pigeon has a humongous chest and voluptuous hips with a very thin body in between. |
| 216 | * Wilhamena, Enid's mother, in ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes''. |
| 217 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': |
| 218 | ** Vanessa. She's the only female non-adult character in the show with serious curves and her outfit hugs them tightly. |
| 219 | ** All the background dancer in Doof's musical. |
| 220 | ** When Candace is shown as an adult, her figure has gone from literally pencil-straight to improbable hourglass. The mother of three has HartmanHips naturally enough, but unnaturally has a thinner waist than her much lighter teenage self. |
| 221 | * Marci [=McFist=] in ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' has a very slim waist supported with a large bust and equally large hips. |
| 222 | * Angelina Kerplopolis-Awesome, mother of Les Awesome and Thera Kerplopolis-Awesome, from ''WesternAnimation/RatedAForAwesome''. |
| 223 | * Charlotte Pickles from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' appears to be the [[MsFanservice most conventionally attractive woman]] of the show. |
| 224 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' featured the Sirens. You know you have a winner when you realize that even their ''arms'' are thicker than their waists! |
| 225 | * Anita Knight and nearly all of the female characters from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretShow'' waists are basically non-existent. |
| 226 | * Kimmy from ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''. She's got plenty of curves and evidently likes to show them off. |
| 227 | * [[WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood "Red" (or "Lou")]] from Creator/TexAvery's cartoons. |
| 228 | * Eris from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. Justified because she's a [[HotGod goddess]]. |
| 229 | * Miss Sara Bellum and Sedusa from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998''. |
| 230 | * Trudy Proud from ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily''. Also Suga Mama on one episode when she lost weight before her wedding. |
| 231 | * Agent K in ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'', in spite of her more angular design, is built with curves, with a skinny waist to correspond to her large bust with an equally large backside to match. |
| 232 | * Virtually every girl on ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', especially Lindsay. In fact it's easier to list the one's who aren't: Beth, Leshawna, Sadie, Jo, Staci, Sugar, Millie and Emma. Lindsay, however, [[InformedAttractiveness is apparently]], [[MsFanservice the most attractive female character on the show]]. |
| 233 | * The entire ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''. They have really wide hips supported by narrow waists. Their hips get even wider from seasons 5 onward, when the show {{Art Shift}}ed to Flash animation. |
| 234 | ** Some older characters like Faragonda have thinner waists too, only it's not as exaggerated as the younger characters. |
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