A Cup Angst / Video Games

• Action Taimanin:
  • Yukikaze Mizuki is quite insecure about her small breast size and is easily angered when someone mocks her for it or compares her to the more voluptuous Taimanin.
  • Su Jinglei is similar, and calling her "scrawny" is one of her Berserk Button and unleash a Cluster Bleep-Bomb.
• Atelier Iris: Lita Blanchimont gets teased frequently by the love rival Veola who regularly makes and sells her items and equipment that are relatable to her hair-trigger insecurity.
• BlazBlue:
  • Noel Vermillion. During story mode Taokaka refers to her as "lacking lady" and after their fight Noel talks to herself about ways to make her breasts grow, including having a boy massage them. Bang Shishigami mistakes her for a boy at first and she attacks him for it. Amane Nishiki mistakes her for a crossdresser (the most convincing one he's ever seen!), which angers her enough that her Murakumo Unit personality takes over. She also contemplates asking Litchi Faye Ling about how to get them bigger. Litchi chases Noel around during one story path trying to get her to cosplay as various things, including May, the pirate from Guilty Gear, because the costumes don't fit Litchi.
  • Even though Tsubaki has way bigger breasts than Noel, she does get into a bit of this when Taokaka gropes her breasts and calls them "average".
  • Kokonoe has some issues with her chest size as well (Noel is the only one smaller than her). Near the end of Noel's Help Me!! segment, Noel points this out and Kokonoe chases her off the stage. In Makoto's, the two of them have a chat and, when breast size gets involved, Kokonoe almost throws a tantrum (Makoto's the inverse - she's smaller than only Litchi, and a display◊ shows up to compare them). If Relius' CS gag reel is to be trusted, Makoto is very aware of Kokonoe's breast envy.
    Makoto as Ragna: Did you steal my boobs, Kokonoe?
  • Platinum the Trinity, though, despite having the size of Rachel, takes this up a notch in her Gag Reel and features Luna having a dream where she had to unite with many of the small-chested ladies (minus Kokonoe) and the Clovers to fight against the 'Boing Queen' (Litchi depicted as an Evil Overlord, hammy at that) in a parody of a Magical Girl battle. 'Boing Queen''s minions include the top three bustiest ladies in the setting (as seen in the picture above), Arakune, and Ragna. Since this IS Luna's dream, one can wonder just how insecure she is to her own breasts, despite her age. Oddly, Trinity Glassfille (mistranslated in Extend as Glassfield), one of the souls residing in Platinum's body, seemed to have no problem with her original body's (big) breasts.
    • In BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Luna has special dialog where she freaks out over the fact that Es is "so small and yet so large" (in other words, short but very busty); Es doesn't get it. Oddly, she tries to insult Weiss Schnee by calling her flat-chested, despite the fact that Weiss's bustline is average at worst (and almost certainly bigger than Platinum's); it might just be that she considers "flat-chested" the worst possible insult you can give a woman. Weiss doesn't react at all and is more bothered by Luna being an absolutely lousy team player. The Japanese version actually puts Weiss into this trope, as she counters that she has plenty of time to grow instead.
  • Even Celica has a case of breast envy in BlazBlue: Chronophantasma. At one point in the Six Heroes story, she gets angry with Ragna when he calls her "normal", believing that he was talking about her breasts. In Extend, her commentary with Litchi and Makoto involves asking them if Ragna has a Buxom Beauty Standard, and her match intro with Makoto has her enamored with her chest.
  Celica: Whoa... they sure are big... uh... up close...
• Castlevania: Judgment has Maria obsessing over her relative bust size in story mode, going so far as to attack someone for not appreciating their own endowments.
• From Corpse Party, both Yuka and Ayumi suffer from this. Granted, Yuka is only 14, but Ayumi is 17. In Blood Drive, Ayumi's flat-chestedness was also made fun of by Misuto.
• Lilith Aensland, "sister" of the huge-breasted succubus Morrigan in the Darkstalkers / Vampire video games is a strange inversion. Although she tends to act "as if" she didn't notice the size difference, it's the rather busty Morrigan that makes a big deal of it every time Lilith gets the attention Morrigan is craving, while Lilith is not bothered by her flatness: likely because she likes to play the Lolicon fetish. See Morrigan's ending in Super Gem Fighter Mini-Mix for an especially clear-cut example.
• Airi Ban from Devil Survivor 2 is actually reasonably well-endowed for a girl her age, but has the misfortune of living in a World of Buxom, making this a case of B-Cup Angst.
• Disgaea:
  • In Disgaea Dimension 2, Laharl is hit with a temporary Gender Bender. S/he is not particularly flat chested. Laharl complains about the size of his/her chest, and Etna threatens to cut him if s/he makes that complaint again.
    Laharl: I'm getting a really flat vibe from you two.
  • The manga adaptation of Disgaea 2 adds the Dimension Guide Friday to this list. She's a member of the absolutely flat Archer class. Just how absolute this is is shown in a series of yonkoma at the end of the book.
  • In Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Etna and Flonne's Pettanko status is actually vital to their employment; for undisclosed reasons (possibly Rule of Funny, possibly a result of his mother's death, possibly because his overly busty aunt abused him^note Disgaea D2 revealed that Rainier, a busty Sea Angel and Laharl's former babysitter, accidentally smothered him one time too many and that caused him to develop his aversion to big breasts.), their master Laharl (who is himself an older-than-he-looks boy) has a deep aversion to breasts. Simply seeing a buxom woman freaks him out, and even induces weakness and nausea (one part of the game actually has a battle where a chorus of big-breasted she-demons constantly chant positive words, his other weakness, and Laharl rapidly gets weaker)- nobody really wants to know what'll happen if he actually gets sent to Marshmallow Hell or a similar situation. Being as flat as they are is the only reason he can put up with them. In fact, in the anime adaption, when Laharl faints and falls face-first against Flonne's chest as a result of seeing Jennifer, he suddenly revives and makes a confused comment that Flonne's cured him.
  • In Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance, a victory CG shows a game of chicken fight has the Mage class and Archer class violently trying to strip the bra off of a Mage Knight being carried by an Armor Knight. Their expressions pretty much tell why they chose that particular pair.◊
  • Another victory screen in Disgaea D2, an Archer and a Mage are shown to be feeling inadequate in the presence of a Magic Knight.
• Fire Emblem: Awakening: In her special CG in the Summer Scramble DLC, Cordelia is mortified by how much her swimsuit shows off—namely, that it reveals that her breastplate doesn't actually hug her breasts.
  • In one of her conversations with her daughter Severa, they have a discussion about their merits and Severa, who has serious self-esteem issues, storms off. Cordelia then says that there IS something Severa did NOT inherit from her... Namely... slightly bigger boobs, as Severa isn't exactly busty herself and as Selena in Fire Emblem Fates, she's kind of insecure about her lack of boobage. Just like her mom.
  • Severa almost gets a little break in the DLC, before the rug gets pulled out from under her. While Cordelia is stuck with a bikini that draws attention to her lack of a bust, Severa gets to try on a yukata, which flatters a smaller bust. Just as she's gloating about this, however, the merchant snidely points out that Cordelia having the smaller bust would actually make her look better in the yukata than Severa does.
  • In Fire Emblem Warriors, a cut conversation between Cordelia and the much more well-endowed Camilla would've addressed this with Camilla remarking that Cordelia has many other fine physical features.
• Fire Emblem Fates:
  • Nyx, who plays this a bit more seriously than usual. Many of her supports make it clear that she has low self-esteem from her child-like body, and she's largely of the opinion that no one will ever love her. It probably doesn't help that she looks the way she does because of a curse placed on her for using her powers to be cruel to others.
  • On a lighter note, Elise is envious of how mature and curvy her older sister Camilla is, while she herself is small and narrow.
• In HuniePop, we have a Tsundere Fiery Redhead who suffers from B-cup angst and her Shrinking Violet fried Nikki suffers from C-cup angst.
• Chihaya Kisaragi from The Idolmaster. Her bustline, 72 centimeters, has become something of a magic number for iDOLM@STER fans. In fact, if you Google for "72cm" and set the language to Japanese, guess what the top result is. (The Japanese Uncyclopedia also lists the "Chihaya" as a unit of measure for length...) She wasn't that much of having such thing as this is mostly fandom-based. But this becomes an Ascended Meme in the anime, during the Beach Episode whereas just by looking at Azusa and Takane's assets, she lets out a dejected grunt.
• Shino from Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja fits this to the point that one of the comics on the game's website refers to her as the first flat-chested character on the DS. It gets to the point that in the sequel, this is the primary description her sister gives people when trying to find her. Although it later turned out it wasn't her sister.
• Mayu Uzaka of Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken is very conscious about her cup size, and demeaning her this way is her Berserk Button. Of course, this is used for maximum comedy during her encounters with resident snarky buxom character Misa Atago. There's even an unlockable concept art where Mayu and Misa are wearing swimsuits, and in which Mayu has a jealous look towards Misa's rack.
• Love of Magic: Emily isn't quite an A cup, but she's smaller-chested than many of the other women in the game, and is self-conscious about it. Nimue calling her a "flat-chested tomboy" doesn't help matters.
• Mari, the little archer girl who accompanies Ruairi and Tarlach in Mabinogi, is apparently very sensitive about her complete lack of development compared to other girls. Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when you find out later that she becomes quite well-endowed, although it takes getting killed and being reborn into another form to do it.
• Blanc (and her transformed self, CPU White Heart) from the Neptunia series. While normally calm and quiet, when bustier characters (Especially Vert/Green Heart) bring up the subject of breast size, due to jealousy, she becomes extremely foul-mouthed and aggressive.
• Phantom Brave: Marona, of all people, becomes very angry when a boss calls her "flatty-flatty flat flat".
• In Potion Maker, Pio admits to being jealous of Tia's measurements.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable: In Homura's True Ending, when Sayaka forces Kyoko into the old school uniform of the large-breasted Mami, Kyoko takes great offense at Sayaka's comments about the chest area being loose. Madoka and Homura's dialogue after this exchange implies that Homura is going through this, too.
• Leanne/Reanbell from Resonance of Fate has much attention drawn to her breasts' lack of size, mostly by Vashyron. She tends to react with violence whenever it happens, although her insecurity is somewhat justified by the fact that she's 21 but looks like she just hit puberty.
• Despite actually being quite well-endowed, the immediate reaction Kai from Samurai Warriors 3 has to Ujiyasu telling her that she has "a lot of growing left to do" is to clutch her bust indignantly.
• Lina in Riviera: The Promised Land. One of the villains calls her "flatty". If you pick the "Small-chested..." dialog option, Ein loses relationship points with her. Go figure.
• Senran Kagura has few examples. First is Mirai, who tries to find ways to increase her bust size, though aside of feeling insecure about her physique as a whole, doesn't usually cause a ruckus about it. Ryōbi, on the other hand, oh boy. She is really insecure about her (normal) bust size and tends to fight against those who have larger breasts than her (which is almost every one). In the Hebijo story of Shinovi Versus, she actually killed some one for saying out loud one of the ways she tries to increase her bust size.
• Word of God says that Blaze the Cat in the Sonic the Hedgehog series is rather... shy about her breast size (or lack thereof).
• Suikoden V has one of these in a bathhouse when fisherwoman Lun and her childhood friend Subala are bathing. Subala sulks that Lun's breasts are bigger than hers, and wonders how that happened: Lun retorts that Subala basically grew up with her and they ate the same food. However, Subala notices Lun's mother, Kisara, has very large breasts and reasons that it's because Kisara breastfeed her. Kisara comments that, if Subala wants, she can have a drink too, and launches into a story about how after Lun's father Logg had some, he talked Kisara into letting Lun taste it. It was so bitter that she cried, and that's precisely how Lun's eyes got so big and puffy, just like the two girls were talking about.
• Super Robot Wars:
  • Super Robot Wars Judgment: While Festenia isn't exactly lacking, she has a smaller bust compared to Katia and Melua, and she's a bit sensitive about it.
  • Super Robot Wars W: Among the Valstork's crew, Akane Ardygun seems also sensitive about her lack of a sizeable chest, not helped by the fact that Horis constantly makes jokes about it.
• Tales Series
  • Colette of Tales of Symphonia. It doesn't come up much but she is pretty flat-chested, and complains about being like an ironing board when she and the other ladies on the team have a Hot Springs Episode cutscene (after which she gets the "Ironing Board" title).
  • Marta of Tales Of Symphonia 2: Dawn of the New World gets a title like this as well. Hey, she is voiced by Rie Kugimiya, after all.
  • Likewise, Norma of Tales of Legendia. She's not flat chested per se, she just perceives herself as such. It doesn't help that the other female members of the party are stacked.
  • For that matter, Arche in Tales of Phantasia and Anise in Tales of the Abyss (though Anise may be excused for only being 13). To be fair, though, Arche only calls herself flat-chested in the game when compared to Mint. It doesn't seem like a fair comparison when Arche tells Mint that she "has the biggest tits [she's] ever seen!"
  • This is the basis of a few skits in ''Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3". In one skit, Frio (the game's male protagonist) sees Arche and Calo (his female counterpart) together and begins gleefully shouting about the "Pettanko Girls". Arche joins him in teasing Calo, who responds by reminding Arche that "He said Pettanko Girls! With an 's'!" Cue savage beatings of Frio.
  • Estelle of Tales of Vesperia, while not exactly flat chested, still wishes to be more like Judith. Rita, on the other hand...
    Estelle: They're... bouncing.
    Judith: What are you looking at?
    Estelle: I wish I could bounce like that.
• Touhou Project's Sakuya Izayoi has this in many earlier Fanon depictions, which spawned from Memetic Mutation (the short version is her chest looked bigger when she was drawn by a different artist and the fandom joked she's wearing pads). Said fanon also holds that even mentioning the word "pad" in Sakuya's presence is a Berserk Button that's liable to get you stabbed. These days, this depiction of Sakuya is seen as a Forced Meme that's been widely discredited. It's worth noting that official Touhou artwork doesn't give any of the characters much of a chest, and such topics are never brought up in canon, so any A-Cup Angst a character may have in fanon is entirely due to fan interpretation or Memetic Mutation.
• Eruruw of Utawarerumono although this is generally the mostly expressed sentiment. She actually tends to feel physically inferior to the entire cast (jealous of Urtoriy's breasts and hair, Touka's face, Karura's hips/effortless physical upkeep and that Kamyu has such large breasts despite being the same age or maybe younger) though they also tend to feel the same way about themselves. But even Mukkur is disappointed by her breasts. Yes, the cat. Mukkur was disappointed because she didn't produce milk, though.
• VOCALOID no Natsuyasumi -Final 4 Days-: If Miku challenges and then loses to Black Miku, later in the night Miku describes to Kaito said character looks exactly like her except that character has something she lacks, clearly referring to her breasts. Kaito attempted to console her, but accidentally called her "flat", which earning him a smack on the face.
• There is a small moment of this in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. When the ladies are in the hot spring together, Mythra is seen in a bath towel. As Nia comments “Nice bod you got there,” Poppi can be seen in the background looking at her chest with a disappointed look on her face. However, this eventually changes when she unlocks her QT and QTpi forms, who have much larger chests.

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