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13->'''Gordon:''' No! He's attempting to modify Jennifer!\
14'''Prinny:''' Can she shoot missiles from her boobs now?
15-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea|HourOfDarkness}} DS'', [[DVDCommentary Prinny Commentary]]
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17For reasons usually related to RuleOfSexy or RuleOfFunny, a woman's chest area is sometimes chosen as the source for some projectile. It could be anything from a weapon to a light show, just that it's not something that should come out of breasts (or usually even the human body).
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19Named for a nickname kids in TheFifties and TheSixties gave the "Bullet Bra" (a brassiere whose cups had a distinct conical shape, designed to... um... [[BuxomBeautyStandard 'bolster' a lady's look]], whether she was [[SexySweaterGirl wearing a sweater]] or [[PimpedOutDress a grand evening gown]]).
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21A SubTrope of ChestBlaster and SuperSexOrgans.
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23Compare VictoriasSecretCompartment.
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25Contrast BreastAttack (when the breast is the target instead). Also contrast MarshmallowHell (when the size of the breasts are used to intentionally or unintentionally smother someone). See also AssKicksYou, which can come from characters of any gender, and IHaveBoobsYouMustObey for a less direct method of persuading men to do one's bidding via breasts.
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32* In ''Manga/ZeroZeroNineOne'', cyborg superspy Mylene Hoffman has her breasts modified to fire from the nipples, making sure that even if she's only covered by a ModestyBedsheet, she's never unarmed.
33* This is parodied in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' with the robot Sigel. She attacks Banpei with her RocketPunch and he blocks it. She opens her dress, revealing her BarbieDollAnatomy, and...
34-->'''Sigel:''' BREAST MISSILES, AWAY!... Why didn't they fire?\
35'''Skuld:''' You, uh...don't HAVE any.
36** Skuld later explains that these are plug covers (they cover plugs for recharging her).
37* In the ''Anime/AndroidKikaiderTheAnimation'' OVA series, Bijinder fires lasers out of her boobs.
38* In Chapter 17 of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', resident CloudCuckooLander Orihime Inoue draws herself as a giant robot with these for an art project when asked to draw herself in the future.
39* Mikiko Kawamoto, a member of the Devilman Army in Go Nagai's ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' merged with an acidic seahorse demon named Tollg. As part of the merger, her breasts were replaced with two of Tollg's acid blasters. The chemicals that can be fired are strong enough to completely dissolve the flesh of opponents.
40* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' with Dorbickmon and Mervamon.
41* Lampshaded in ''Manga/DoctorSlump''. Shortly after being constructed in the first episode, [[RobotGirl Arale]] asks if she can shoot her breasts. Her creator angrily informed her of course she could NOT.
42* ''Literature/GonnaBeTheTwinTail:'' Tail Yellow fires missiles from her breasts at Tail Red and Twirl, while she is training to use the tailgear.
43* In ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' Rias gained the "Oppai Beam", the ability to project a red light from her breasts, which recharges Issei's energy. Each use of this power causes her breasts to temporarily shrink in size, which makes Issei cry even though it's sometimes necessary. Her breast size will restore itself after a few days of rest.
44* A variation occurs in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. Minor villain Mariah stuffs her shirt with bolts, nails, and nuts, which become projectile weapons when her enemies get magnetized by her stand. Naturally, the first we see of this is one of Mariah's boobs [[BreastExpansion inexplicably growing bigger]] (complete with humorous rubbery sound effect in the anime), and what is presumably some kind of screw [[NippleAndDimed jutting out suggestively]] first in one, then the other (incidentally causing Joseph's eye to bug out).
45* ''Manga/{{Kurohime}}'': One of the lesser goddesses has drill missiles for breasts.
46* In ''Anime/LupinIIIAlcatrazConnection'', Lupin disguises himself as a woman during the opening, and squeezes sleeping gas out of his breasts, knocking out the guards who were trying to chase him.
47* ''Literature/MagiciansAcademy'' also parodies the Aphrodite A example. Unfortunately, the [[LittleBitBeastly dog girl]] [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] [[RobotMaid maid's]] breast missiles also serve as the cockpits for two of the pilots.
48* ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-lkSIrwo1A parodies]] the above with a scene where Mahoro fires breast missiles from a missile launcher disguised as a padded bra.
49* Aphrodite A from ''Anime/MazingerZ'', which uses a breast missile attack (much to the annoyance of its pilot, Sayaka Yumi). This example is the TropeCodifier, referenced or parodied in many of the entries below. (And traumatizing and[=/=]or intriguing viewers on either side of the Pacific for decades.) Diana A from the same series and Venus A (from ''Anime/GreatMazinger'') use the same attack. The ''Manga/MazingerAngels'' spin-off manga gleefully {{Flanderiz|ation}}es this trope, using Aphrodite A and the other {{FemBot}}s from the franchise and giving them an increasingly ridiculous array of weapons based on this trope.
50* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
51** Variation with his Miss Doublefinger as she can [[LivingWeapon turn her breasts into long spikes]] that nearly impale Nami.
52** Played straighter albeit male example with [[{{Cyborg}} Franky]] who has "Nipples Lights" which can blind foes.
53* In ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'', Rei gains this power inside the world of [[CloudCuckoolander Himeko]]'s dream.
54* ''Anime/QueensBlade'' gives us Melona the slime girl, who, among other things, can fire acid from her breasts by squeezing them.
55* In ''Anime/ReCutieHoney'' Golden Claw has this. Her final attack involves opening up her chest armor to fire missiles from her breast area.
56* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': [[SuccubiAndIncubi Ageha]], Kurumu's mother, can fire energy blasts from her breasts.
57* [[RobotGirl Kagami]] from ''Literature/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'' is capable of manifesting rocket launchers from just about any part of her body, including (memorably seen in Episode 1) her breasts.
58* Metal Robotnik in ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'' has missiles that are launched from that general area.
59--> '''Metal Robotnik/[[Website/Fireball20XL Black Eggman]]:''' [[CallingYourAttacks Nipple Missiles, Go!]]
60--> '''Tails:''' What did he just say?
61* In ''Anime/{{Symphogear}} XV'', cyborg Vanessa can transform her entire body into all manner of weapons. One of her signature moves is to seductively unzip her jacket on an unsuspecting target....and then blast them with a pair of missiles fired from her chest port.
62* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': in ''[[TheMovie Lagann-hen]]'', the Tengen Toppa Yoko W Tank has breast missiles. With shark teeth.
63* Gray the Ninelives has an interesting variant in the anime version of ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''. Perhaps they're more Torpedo-Pecs?
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67* The enemy encounter [[PunnyName Miss Ile]] in ''[[TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}} Star Munchkin]]''.
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71* ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'': In ''Final Crisis Aftermath: Run'', the Human Flame gets a power upgrade that, among other things, allows him to shoot fire from where his nipples used to be.
72* ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'': In ''Harley Quinn and Her Gang of Harleys'' #5, the gang wind up fighting a ComicBook/PowerGirl robot armed with what Bolly Quinn eloquently describes as 'boob cannons'.
73* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': Ofelia is capable of knocking out Mortadelo with one of her breasts.
74** In the story ''Los espantajomanes'', Ofelia becomes "Torpedo-Woman" thanks to one of Bacterio's inventions and hits Mortadelo with an extendable breast from about two metres away.
75* ''ComicBook/TankGirl'' is often depicted with [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518VFZTE67L._SL500_AA300_.jpg actual torpedoes]] attached to her chest.
76* ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'': The comic once featured "Robot Nun - She's Got Tommy-Gun Tits!", who burst into a space church and massacred the congregation with automatic weapons on mammary mounts.
77* ''ComicBook/XTerminators2022'': In issue three, Dazzler announces that Boom Boom is going to [[ShowSomeLeg perform a strip-tease during a fight]]. Boom Boom proceeds to pull her top down, then fires her energy bombs out of her breasts.
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81* The RayGun-shooting "Battle Bra" worn by Queen Sapphia in the ParodyFic, ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12378786 Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians]]''.
82* In ''FanFic/JewelOfDarkness'', [[VillainProtagonist Midnight's]] robotic duplicate Ai has a pair of guns hidden under her breastplate. The first time she uses them, she cracks a dirty joke about it.
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86* ''The Ambushers,'' a Music/DeanMartin "Matt Helm" vehicle, features a smaller caliber version of this in which each cup of a secret agent's bra is actually a gun.
87* Frau Farbissina's Fembots in ''Film/AustinPowers'' use guns in their nipples as weapons, which Austin calls "machine gun jubblies" (an obscure Cockney term for "breasts" - yes, that's where [[Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses Del Boy's]] "lovely-jubbly" comes from). Lifted directly from Creator/UrsulaAndress in ''Film/TheTenthVictim'' (1965). In the opening credits to the sequel ''Goldmember'' he met Music/BritneySpears and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgTT-0LtJF4 "did it again"]].
88* The 'Power Pasties' in the soft-porn spoof ''Flesh Gordon'' shoot laser beams. Used for RuleOfFunny when Gordon ends up wearing them.
89* A cheesy (of course) Hong Kong film, ''Film/FromBeijingWithLove'', had a female spy wearing a metal bra which are one-shot cannons. Unfortunately for her, they miss and her target shoots back with a rocket, after which nothing is left of her except the bra.
90* Desdemona in ''Film/MacheteKills'' has two electric miniguns built into her bra.
91* Not launched as such, but in ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', one member of the CarnivalOfKillers who tries to take out Clouseau is a hitman DisguisedInDrag with spikes that shoot out of his fake breasts. He tries to kill Clouseau by [[DeadlyHug hugging him]], but fortunately our BornLucky hero has just picked up a large pretzel which absorbs the spikes. He pushes through the crowd for a second attempt, only to trip and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fall on his own spikes]].
92* In ''Film/{{RoboGeisha}}'', Kikuyakko's first cybernetic upgrade is to have her right breast converted into a machine gun. (Her left breast? The trigger.) Additionally, the Tengun fire acidic breast milk from theirs.
93* In the porn parody ''Sex Trek: The Search for Sperm'', a hot alien babe [[BoldlyComing invites the crew to pinch her nipples]]. Captain Quirk is GenreSavvy enough to order a RedShirt to do so; when he grabs both nipples at once he's electrocuted. Turns out Earth men are DC while the aliens are AC.
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97* An old joke tells of a woman who made a wish to a genie for her breasts to grow, and the genie made it so that they grow a size every time someone apologized to her (God knows why). The next day as she walked down the street, a man bumped into her, saying "Excuse me." Her breasts grew a size. Another woman bumped into her, saying, "Pardon me." The woman's breasts grew a size. Later in the day, she bumped into a Japanese gentleman who knocked her over. As she stood, the Japanese man bowed and said, "A thousand apologies." The headlines in the next day's paper read, "man killed by speeding torpedoes."
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101* ''Literature/ChicksInChainmail'': In the foreword of the first book in the series, Creator/EstherFriesner complains about early female heroines who "looked like they had been hit from the back by a brace of torpedoes."
102* ''Literature/TheCobraTrilogy'': {{Discussed|Trope}} with a side of [[StayInTheKitchen sexism]]. Jasmine "Jin" Moreau becomes the first female Cobra trainee. While discussing potential new weapons after their initial surgeries, one of the trainees makes a comment the instructor asks him to repeat. It was, that if they're considering new weapons, Trainee Moreau could be implanted with a pair of turret guns. (Note that Jin has not been described as particularly buxom.)
103* In Raymond Briggs' picture book ''The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman'' (an anvilicious allegory of the Falklands War) the [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Old Iron Woman]] has cannons in her breasts which fire when she is excited.
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107* In one of the many, many sketches on ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'', Benny is playing a secret agent in a trenchcoat. A sexy female spy corners him and shoots him -- with breast guns. When these miss, Benny counterattacks by opening his trenchcoat and letting loose with [[SomethingElseAlsoRises hands-free machine gun fire]].
108* In-universe example from ''Series/LifeWithDerek''; the video game [[BlandNameProduct Babe]] [[Franchise/TombRaider Raider]] has the heroine shoot missiles from her ample chest.
109* ''Series/RuPaulsDragRaceUKVsTheWorld'': Season one's initial "Meet the Queens" promo is styled as if it was the character selection sequence for a FightingGame, complete with costumes and special effects. The promo's version of Canadian contestant Jimbo, infamous for {{Boob Based Gag}}s, gets to fire purple energy beams from her very large fake breasts.
110* Metal Alice, the one major female villain from ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'', can fire breast missiles in a similar vein to Aphrodite A. It is edited out in Series/PowerRangersMegaforce
111* Keris from ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger'' could fire lasers from her nipples in her giant monster form.
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115* The cover of Busdriver's album [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Cleavage Cosmic Cleavage]]features a toy of [[Anime/MazingerZ Aphrodite A]], mentioned above.
116* The cover of Brazilian singer Gaby Amarantos's album [[https://i0.wp.com/www.revistaogrito.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Capa-Treme-.jpg?w=640&ssl=1 Treme]] features her shooting laser beams from her breasts.
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120* Music/LadyGaga and:
121** Her bra with machine guns attached in the video for "Alejandro".
122** Her flamethrower bra in the video for ''Bad Romance'' and also at times in live concerts.
123* Music/KatyPerry:
124** In the video of "Firework", shots show fireworks coming from her chest area. (The implication is more that they're coming from her heart than her breasts, though, in line with the theme of the song - other people in the video, one of them male, also get fireworks shooting from their chests.)
125** Then there's the video for "California Gurls", which features whipped cream.
126* In the video for "Break Free", Music/ArianaGrande quite literally has this trope, firing torpedoes that form her chest to take down a massive robot and then reloading new ones in their place.
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130* In ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' some mechs are armed with missile launchers, or cannons on their torsos. Though most of the time, their torso-mounted guns don't look particularly breast-like, there are some exceptions.
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134* ''Franchise/TheTransformers'': G1 character Wreck-Gar infamously had laser cannon nipples on his chest in robot mode. This continued for nearly every toy of the character that was ever made.
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138* The [[spoiler:first form of the Lavos Core]] at the end of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' always opens with a twin beam attack from its chest. Many fans [[FanNickname prefer to call this]] "the titty lasers" or something of that sort.
139* Some of Argilla's attacks in ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' launch from the mouths in her breasts -- mostly any form of BreathWeapon, as she doesn't ''have'' a mouth on her face.
140* Joked about in the [[DVDCommentary Prinny Commentary]] in the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS version of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea|Hour of Darkness}}''.
141* The Hooter Shooter bra in ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry5PassionatePattiDoesALittleUndercoverWork'', which you use to defeat the BigBad at the end.
142* The Valkyrie enemies in ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'' are Rabbids wearing metal ''machine gun'' bras.
143* In ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'', [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Roll's]] special attack "Hyper Roll" can launch missiles from her chest.
144* In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes,'' [[spoiler:Destroyman invokes an uncommon male example [[ISurrenderSuckers after Travis withdraws his sword from his chest in one last attempt to take down Travis.]] Travis is understandably quick to [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisect his cowardly ass, top down.]]]]
145* ''VideoGame/{{Paprium}}'' have recurring {{Fembot}} mooks who can shoot lasers from their tits as a ranged attack.
146* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV'': Given Demi's insistence that the rest of the party turn around while she installs it, and the attack animation when she uses it, her Phonomezer is likely one of these (although it fires sound waves).
147* ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'' has the Alien Teat Gun, a pair of [[MoreDakka machine gun]] tits attached to a purple chrome bra. [[FanDisservice Worn by Leonard, a spindly and ugly male redneck]]. It has a slightly higher cyclic rate than the Huntin' Rifle and no muzzle climb, but its recoil pushes Leonard back. Better not use it with your back to a ledge...
148* The Indie Game ''Shoot 1'' up has a [[http://www.the2bears.com/?p=2303 boss]] with these.
149* Considering the sheer number of lewd mods for ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'', it should not be a surprise that there's one that makes spells come out of the character's nipples instead of the hands.
150* This scene from ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVTheNextMutation''. [[https://youtu.be/edRFiphG-1k?t=8m48s at 8:50]].
151* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} 4: The Captain's Return'', Claude Trilleo's new [[HumongousMecha ryder]], the Spellcaster, has two large torpedo tubes mounted in its chest. Being the [[LovableSexManiac shameless pervert]] that she is, Claude gleefully refers to them as her "Boobie Rockets" whenever she fires them.
152* Prin in ''VideoGame/{{Teleroboxer}}'' has an attack where she pummels you by shooting her robot breasts against you.
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156* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': In one of the rough farcical side sketches Agatha is depicted wearing a [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/sketches.php?date=20070102 metal bra that has death ray nipples.]]
157* In [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=236415&pool_id=81 one strip]] of the beach vacation arc of ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'', Flandre slaps Sakuya in the back, which ends up knocking one of Sakuya's pads out to hit Remilia in the face and triggering Sakuya's BerserkButton in the process.
158* Margaret Fox of the ''WebComic/WhiteDarkLife'' roleplays has these as a combination of her Astral powers and [[DarkAndTroubledPast experimentation she went through as a child]]. It's most prominent in her Electric Nebula Helix attack.
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162* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO8-FC3USok Episode 4]] of ''WebAnimation/ChainmailBikiniSquad'', the redhead got really annoyed when normal spells wouldn't work, but a swarm of magic missiles from her chest did.
163* The entire premise of the website [[http://www.lazertits.com/ Lazer Tits.]]
164* Featured in the Blog/ToplessRobot logo.
165* A rare male version: The Music/{{UTAU}} Namine Ritsu is a WholesomeCrossdresser cute boy with actual Torpedo Tits.
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169* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has an inversion of this trope. A male robot habitually fires a pair of beams out of what look strikingly similar to nipples on his chest.
170* The Riot Bots from ''WesternAnimation/GetEd'' wield a variety of weapons. One weapon is a pair of cone-shaped laser cannons that appear on their chests.
171* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball'', where one character tells a subordinate to fire the "giant boob nipple gun". It's just a round gun turret, but it ''does'' look fairly similar to a human breast. Tellingly, a man runs up to it, [[ThanksForTheMammary laughs as he touches it]], and skitters away.
172* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'':
173** In one episode Quinn rebuilds Captain Murphy into a cyborg with flamethrower tits. Or as the captain calls them:
174---> '''Murphy''': "D-cups!" [=*fwoooosh*=] "Full of JUSTICE!"
175** Debbie later demands flamethrower tits of her own when she's cyborgized. She's extremely pissed when hers turn out smaller than Murphy's.
176* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rejected}}'': You're watching the Family Learning Channel! And now: angry ticks fire out of my nipples!
177* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Lisa Goes Gaga" features [[http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Lisa_Goes_Gaga/Gallery?file=Lisa_Goes_Gaga_61.JPG Lady Gaga with a flame thrower bra]]. She uses it to singe Ned Flanders' mustache.
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