Boobs Of Steel - Television Tropes & Idioms

She can kick through a lead door? No foolin'?

When you have a larger group of females who may be involved in some action (...err, as in, fighting), the one with the biggest breasts will be the strongest one. You'd think that those giant knockers would impede her in some way... another one of the big advantages of the Most Common Superpower?

The simplest explanation is that the woman is simply bigger than the other female characters, or simply older and thus more fully grown and developed, or both at once. In any case, her greater general size leads to both larger breasts as well as greater muscle-mass and leverage.

If all of the female characters are physically active and she is the oldest, it can also be assumed she's been actively building strength and learning how to use it longer than her juniors have.

Sexually, this could be boiled down to a function of fanservice: a Law of Skin-To-Strength Ratio. Take the classic barbarian of either sex — they wear little and bare a lot of skin, but are incredibly reliant upon brute strength. The more flesh they have to bare, they more strength they have to bear. While this trope doesn't rely on explicitly bared skin, the female's attire will seldom hide her impressive shape, and instead tend to emphasize it. (Or, in the more extreme cases, perhaps they merely need to be that strong in order to stand up straight.)

Visually, it's a fairly simply design point: the artist wants to indicate and reinforce the notion of physical strength. A large-breasted female tends to look larger overall, and more solidly built. The other route for showing obvious physical strength would be giving the woman a massive bodybuilder physique. As the former is more commonly appealing, and the latter is more commonly intimidating, you can see the obvious choice.

Of course, neither route is particularly realistic. The goal and result of bodybuilding is to achieve the largest possible muscles — while this does grant more strength, it is not the same as achieving the most possible muscle strength; in fact, it hinders that. The strongest men and women are commonly quite wiry.

However, women athletes also tend to be quite modest in cup-size as well, due to the other reality - milk-producing mammary glands are a very small percentage of the breast; most of it is actually composed of fat tissue. This is also why you rarely see Olympic athletes with anything above a B-cup. This may also be because it is hard to adjust for a large set of breasts, actually forcing one prodigy gymnast to drop the sport when she developed.

But there are two counter-realities that can keep this trope aloft, logically speaking. Working out can make breasts perkier, because it tightens the muscle they're against. And if a woman is less concerned with her total weight than with her actual health and personal appearance, maintaining a reasonable layer of healthy fat can help her retain soft, flattering curves over her hard, strong muscles — the best of both worlds. Olympic athletes probably neglect to do so because the additional, unnecessary weight would negatively affect their performances.

It should be noted that the Greco-Roman ideal of beauty and health for men and women not only involved physical fitness, but also included such a layer of fat. The person's curves denoted vitality and wealth, as poorer individuals could not afford to eat so well and thus suffered from a lack of strength and energy.

Examples

Anime and Manga

In Mahou Sensei Negima, it's common among the stronger fighters to enhance one's strength with chi or magical energy. But Kaede is the most physically powerful living human student in Negi's special class before resorting to such enhancements. She has the second or third largest breasts in the class. It wouldn't be surprising if Mana, who rivals Kaede in chest size, must also be strong, to handle the recoil on her firearms enough for her Gun Kata (using Desert Eagles, no less). But even Chizuru, who is apparently a total noncombatant, delivered an Armor Piercing Slap to a powerful demon that bloodied his nose and earned his respect. It should be noted that hers is the biggest chest in the class. All of them are also somewhat taller than their alleged ages would suggest.(which is Lampshaded for the former 2 at one point)
Sailor Jupiter of Sailor Moon is the most talented of the group in more ways than one.
In Azumanga Daioh, Sakaki is a Huge School Girl with the most impressive physique and appearance. In fact, fans have noticed a direct correlation between boob size and athletic ability in this series. The only exception is Nyamo, who's a superb athlete but modestly endowed.
Tsunade from Naruto. She's physically the strongest character introduced in the series yet, and can beat the snot out of guys her own age and relative skill level. With ease. (And don't forget the fight with Kabuto where, at least in the manga, she recovers fast from an attack that cut off her air, and he wonders how that happened, and focuses his gaze at her chest. Layer of fat, indeed.)
- It's unknown which girl among the Rookie Nine is physically the strongest. However, Hinata hides the largest chest underneath her eskimo-style jacket, and perhaps the best combat skills underneath her Shrinking Violet insecurity. After the timeskip, she's still easily the biggest chested rookie, but it's highly unlikely she can match Sakura's new Super Strength. However, it's possible that she still retains her edge in combat ability, but this hasn't been determined.
- As a side-note, her little sister Hanabi was said to be stronger than her sister, and is also eyebrow-raisingly endowed for her young age. This feminine "talent" has actually been suggested to be "the REAL Hyuga Bloodline Limit," as opposed to the Byakkugan.
Tenjho Tenge: Maya Natsume (in her adult form), is kind of ridiculously large-breasted, and easily the most powerful of the main characters. Her younger sister Aya is only a little smaller (but still rather large), and is hopelessly outclassed by Maya. There's also a subversion with Emi Isuzu, who gives Maya a run for her money... However, her breasts are large because she's very, very fat (though she can kind of suck it all in to become slender).
- Lampshaded during a fight with a shapeshifter: after she takes Aya's form, she notes how large her breasts are and that it's a miracle she can fight so effectively.
Simca in Air Gear is one of the most skillful riders in the series, and has the largest bust of any major female character.
- Actually Ringo does and she is the head of Sleeping Forest.
Inverted (and played straight) in Bleach: Orihime's not a very good fighter, but Rangiku Matsumoto is, and so are Halibel, Nemu, and Neliel.
- Hiyori, Soifon and Rukia are all aversions. In addition, Yoruichi is arguably the most powerful female shinigami we've seen yet, and she has a somewhat average chest size (at least compared to Matsumoto).
Signum, the leader of the Wolkenritter, is one of the best melee-combatants of the protagonists in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, and also the one with the most height and pure muscle strength. She has also been dubbed "Boob Monster" by Vita during that one time in a public bath.
In Mai-HiME and Mai-Otome, Haruka possesses the largest bust of any of the females (even topping Mai, though Haruka's assets are rarely subject to the same humor as Mai's) and among the non-superpowered members of the cast she's physically the strongest. This is especially apparent in Otome and the manga version of HiME, when her weapon consists of a ball and chain that Haruka swings around with pure brute force.
- The manga version of Mai-Otome takes this to new heights, as the normally meek Coral Otome Erstin Ho actually learns to use her breasts as weapons.
Kallen/Karen of Code Geass. Undoubtedly, she is the most endowed, and she's easily the most physically active member of the Black Knights, being their elite mech pilot. In fact, she's pretty much the only woman in their ranks who's involved in any actual fighting. (C.C. does occasionally wander in the danger zones, but usually doesn't actually fight.)
- On the other side, Cornelia was far from shortchanged in the chest department, and she's one of the more threatening and competent mech pilots. And, as recent episodes can attest, is a pretty good swordswoman.
- According to the sources, the one with biggest measurements in the whole series is not Kallen, but Millay, followed by Marianne. It may fit Marianne well enough, but Millay is seriously not included in any fighting. At all. It's lampshaded in one of the season 1 extras, where Millay comments on Shirley's well-endowed yet athletic figure, to which Shirley replies that Millay's more voluptuous by comparison.
Kannazuki No Miko's Chikane Himemiya seems to fit in this trope. While it's never explicitly shown, but she does have a good size of boobs, to the point one of the Orochi Necks called her "Lunar Boobs". And where does her power show? She practically took down all the Orochi Necks except one, all by herself, outside the mecha.
Neon in Flame Of Recca, apparently the one most well endowed at the current point (perhaps surpassing Ms Fanservice Fuuko), and amongst the women in Uruha in Kurei's reign, she is probably one of the strongest (though she is not the only Uruha Jyuushinshu women, psycho bitch Mikoto also shares this spot, though she is definitely not the strongest, but the trickiest and slimiest)
Subverted by Rosario To Vampire, of all things. Kurumu, the female with the largest chest, is actually pretty low-tier compared to Moka, though Moka's power level and bra size go up proportionally.
Ryoko of the Tenchi Muyo series. Very well endowed (and proud of it) ... and in some realities is able to fight off the local galactic superpower. Slight subversion, as well, since Mihoshi is pretty close (or even bigger), but doesn't have the raw power of Ryoko.
It was a common joke with the first Hellsing TV series that apparently vampirism made ones breasts grow, as Seras' assets became much more noticeable after she became a vampire. The OAV avoids this, as she's always had large breasts, and isn't the strongest vampire.
- Then again, her first appearance is in a police uniform with a vest - not exactly the most flattering outfit - so it's probably more because she switched to that Stripperiffic Hellsing agent uniform.
Grenadier. The absurdity of the senshi's figure is surpassed only by her skill in combat.
Very much Kanokon. The sealing of Chizuru's power is represented by her breasts shrinking. When her power returns, so do the breasts.
In Basilisk, there are three kunoichis who are not only top fighters for their clans, but also had huge breasts and were not afraid to use them to their advantage. In the Koga group, we have Okoi and Kagerou. In the Iga group, Akeginu.
Sekirei, which is best described as a "battle harem", deals with an assortment of cute, scantily-clad girls duking it out. All of them appear to have the same breast size, which is "large".
Klan Klan in Macross Frontier is probably a serious contender for the largest breasts in anime history (it helps that she's sixty feet tall), and is the show's leading female ace pilot.
Subverted in Bakuretsu Tenshi: you'd think either ridiculously buxom Sei or increasingly top-heavy Meg is the strong female based on this trope, but in reality, the strong one is nigh-flat-chested Jo.
All the female fighters in Ikki Tousen are outrageously well-endowed, as if the powers of the ancient warrior spirits manifest themselves in certain physical aspects (one wonders what the guys got - although it's perhaps best not to go there). Of special mention is Sonsaku Hakufu, whose breast-size appears to be indicative of her tremendous power and even appeared to get an upgrade in the third season. Now if only her mental capacity would be of the same level.
- Actually, if you're either a Distaff Counterpart or a Gender Flip of the Chinese God of War Guan Yu, you're pretty much guaranteed to have these. It happened in Ikki Tousen, and then Koihime Musou repeats this.
Inverted in Mahoromatic where Mahoro's tiny breasts are instrumental in her defeat of the much more endowed Shikijo-sensei during the town's annual battle royale.
Tomoyo Sakagami in Clannad is pretty much the girl who does the most ass-kicking, and her size was definitely amongst the biggest (if only Key would not be that secretive about the girls' measurements). If you are still unconvinced, maybe this will convince you◊.
- Kyou Fujibayashi, who is second only to Tomoyo in the butt-kicking department, is also pretty well-endowed. Still, Nagisa and Kotomi are not as small-chested as their meek attitude might suggest, so this is perhaps somewhat of an aversion. (Thank you for the small bit of revelation, Fanservice scene.)
In the Mazinsaga, at least three female-shaped Super Robots have their missiles nested on the robot's chests. If we go to the female characters, both female leads Sayaka Yumi and Jun Honoo are quite well endowed.
In AKIRA, this applies, mostly because the other female warrior is a girl armed with a handgun, but also because the Boobsof Steel is really, really huge can can carry enough guns to arm a small militia, the corresponding ammo and an unconcious boy while firing. She is however, also quite old and worn, so she isn't quite as attractive as the other female characters.
Scrapped Princess has some of this going on, especially among the Peacemakers.
Although Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch has little-to-no physical fighting and, thanks to the art style, everyone has a D-cup by thirteen, even it does this at the end of the manga. When Lucia gains the powers of Aqua Regina, she also appears to have grown another cup size.
An unusual example in Steel Fist Riku. Martial artist Riku binds her respectably-sized breasts out of embarassment, so she often appears flat-chested. But the cornerstone of her martial art style uses proper breathing techniques for power, and binding her chest so restricts her breathing. Removing the chest bindings releases her true power, and also frees her breasts to be their true size. Thus, her breast size is indirectly linked to her power level.
Natsumi from the You're Under Arrest series. Always portrayed as being unusually strong due to the amount of exercise she does, she has been somewhat flanderised in the third season with strength best described as superhuman. She even wins an pushing contest with a suspect - and both of them are pushing a car at the time.
Inverted in Suzumiya Haruhi. Mikuru, who has the biggest boobs is adorably pathetic and the only thing she seems to be good at is brewing tea. Haruhi, who also has a nice rack, is multi-talented in every way. Yuki, whos something of a Pettanko is clearly a Game Breaker.
The female characters in Aiki are all pretty busty, but the (only) Pettanko is among the weakest.

Comic Books

Lampshaded in Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil that Men Do in which, while questioning a villainess they just defeated, Spidey makes a crack about how Cat shouldn't be able to flip around the way she does with her chest size. Felicia retorts that her breasts act as a ballast.
Power Girl. It helps that she's Kryptonian, giving her (theoretically) exactly the same strength as Superman (or maybe more, since she's shown to work out more than he does). Starfire, Big Barda, and Wonder Woman also count, and again, their not-exactly-normal (at best!) origins come into play.
- Power Girl also has the advantage of being an older Supergirl (literally), and Supergirl is said to be stronger than Superman, So...yeah.
  - Supergirl is only stronger because of the World of Cardboard thing. Superman's learned to hold back over the thirty-some years he's been on Earth, and Supergirl basically woke up one day with all her powers intact. But it may make sense for Power Girl to be stronger: after all, Kryptonians absorb sunlight or whatever, and her impressive bust probably gives her a lot of surface area.
- Shortly after Power Girl was introduced, her creators actually took the time to explain that element of her characterisation was not merely purient but because they thought it gave a greater impression of physical power. Since the late '80s, she's also been portrayed with a very muscular physique as well (at least, depending on the artist).
- It's worth mentioning that Big Barda's appearance is based on a young Lainie Kazan, who was gorgeous and quite buxom back in the seventies. Well, she's still pretty well-endowed, but at 68 and with forty or so pounds added on, the effect isn't really the same.
Astro City takes this to its logical extreme with Beautie, a human-sized robot Barbie doll whose proportions border on freakish at that size: "My skin is ferro-styrene over an omnitanium frame. My breasts and buttocks are rigid. And I have no genitalia." She's also one of the strongest members of the Honor Guard...
Gen13's Caitlin Fairchild. In fact, she acquired the Most Common Superpower at the same exact time that she acquired the Super Strength and Nigh Invulnerability that would make her the team powerhouse.
- Lampshaded when Grunge tried to copy her super satrength. He gained the rest of her assets too, If You Know What I Mean.
Ms. Marvel (and for that matter Rogue when she had Marvel's powers), She-Hulk (though not her alter ego, Jennifer Walters), Titania, and Psylocke, all of Marvel Comics. As with Power Girl and other DC heroes, above, their physique... well, except for Psylocke's... has little to do with their actual physical strength, as it is simply impossible for any human, let alone one of their build. Aside from her psionic powers, though, Psylocke is pretty much a Badass Normal—though a very Badass Normal. This troper prefers to think that she has the body of a really good stripper, and the best strippers are in excellent shape and have big boobs (even if they're fake 99.99% of the time).
- She-Hulk fits this to a T - as she is officially the proportionally-largest human woman in the Marvel Universe - which tends to make Titania, who is usually stronger than She-Hulk, a slight aversion.
Rob Liefeld◊. Note that in Liefeld's case this also applies to male (NSFW!)◊ characters (Can you say "Squick"?)
Red Sonja, although this varies according to the artist.
Erika from Megatokyo, according to Largo, is "r4ck3d". She's introduced breaking Largo's arm after groping her, and later, she breaks at least one of his bones multiple times.
- He didn't grope her (at least, not at their first meeting), he just wouldn't shut up about how her boobs had to be fake. Erika has a very short temper (and real boobs).

Live Action TV

In the film Dungeons And Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God, the strongest warrior is Lux, the tall, busty barbarian. The other two significant female characters are both waspishly slender spellcasters.

Mythology

Semi-averted in some Amazon myths, which state that Amazons would actually cut off a breast so as not to interfere with their longbows.
- Some myths, you say? Indulge me, if you would, by looking up what the word "amazon" actually means.
- As you wish.

Video Games

Tifa is the fighter in Final Fantasy VII most reliant on the strength of her muscles, as opposed to the giant Scary Black Man with arms the size of her waist - he's a Gunslinger instead.
- Also, IT must be noted that her fellow female party members, Squishy Aerith and Fragile Speedster Yuffie, are considerably flatter that Tifa.
Soul Series: Subverted by Taki, who has the largest breasts, but is a Fragile Speedster ninja. Ivy fits the bill a little more closely, however. The most strength-based female character in the games is probably Cassandra, whose bust is pretty average.
- "Pretty average" is correct by the standards of the Soul series. Cassandra is pretty god damn stacked, if her concept art is to be believed.
Even by Dead Or Alive standards, Tina's boobs are huge. And being a wrestler, she is the physically strongest, as proven by her knocking girls over with the volleyball in DOAX.
Rainbow Mika from Street Fighter Alpha comes to mind. She's slightly (but noticeably) better stacked than Chun-Li and Cammy, and is a female wrestler who relies more on heavyweight throws and slams than fancy techniques. It's hard to say whether she's actually stronger than the rest of the female characters, but she's certainly more strength-based.
The Nasuverse: Arcueid Brunestud (the titular Tsukihime, or Moon Princess) is the strongest of any central character, and has one of the largest busts (though they don't seem that big in the visuals). Among the female cast of Fate Stay Night, Rider (voiced by the same woman who played Sakaki above) is physically one of the most impressive in every single way, including curves. Also, Leysritt has the largest bust among all of the female characters in the Nasuverse, and can wield a giant halberd with ease.
- Subverted with Saber; physically one of the strongest Servants (being able to go toe-to-toe against Berserker and such), but pretty humble as far as her assets are concerned.
- Though to be honest, with the proper Master, Rider definitely qualifies, going toe-to-toe with Saber's Superpowered Evil Side, even when she's supplied with mana from Sakura, who is practically the best one when it comes to mana supply and Master capacities, and Rider at the moment was with Shiro (though he has taken a level in badass and be more capable compared to his Fate route self). The reason why she doesn't seem to look strong despite those huge tits was due to the patheticness of her 'Master', Shinji.
In the Galaxy Angel Game Verse, Forte has the highest firepower and also the largest chest, making this fit even for people that fight in spaceships. When not flying her fighter, Happy Trigger, she indulges in an obsession with Rare Guns, and blows a few people up with them in the anime, too. Still, she doesn't fight hand-to-hand, so there's no reason besides this for her chest to be that prominent (or shown off).
- In the Anime and Manga, however, Forte can and does fight up close - and extremely competently, able to wrestle the very combat capable (and yes largest-chested of her group) Lily C. Sherbert of the Rune Angel Troupe.
Considering Signum from Nanoha is an Expy of Lamia Loveless of Super Robot Wars, apparently Lamia also adheres this trope. She's probably the female character with the biggest boobs between all other Banpresto Originals and the most physical strength, despite not using it too much (she uses more of her piloting skills) because... well... she's an android.
- Subverted by her distant sister Aschen Brodel from Endless Frontier. She is an android, very powerful, literally has the boobs of steel... but she's still outboobed by the Dairy Cow Princess, a.k.a the heroine Kaguya Nanbu.
King Of Fighters arguably avoids/subverts this trope since Shiranui Mai, the poster child of Fan Service, is hardly the epitome of strength (she is instead a Fragile Speedster); at least considering how her breasts are often drawn the largest in-game. However, it can also be argued that it's played straight, since Shermie, Angel, Blue Mary and Vice (who are grappler/power characters) all have larger bust measurements than Mai. Also, in the first KOF Maximum Impact, Lien Neville (no official 3-sizes given) actually has the largest in-game breasts and is fittingly, the strongest female character. And funny/disturbing enough, the final boss from the second Maximum Impact game, Jivatma, has "another model" that looks female and has probably the largest bust in the game.
On fighting games, Guilty Gear subverts this with May, but argubly plays this straight with Baiken◊, who seems to put a lot of force into her attacks, and VERY stacked. Dizzy◊, by comparison, relies on magic for her powers and is rather modest in her proportions.
Prier of La Pucelle, who was capable of kicking a hole in a lead door when she was Human, then became a Demon Lord, has pretty much the largest chest of any major character in a Nippon Ichi game.
Possibly subverted in Disgaea, Phantom Brave, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, and anything else with uber death lolis. To be fair Disgaea all have at least one large breasted woman who fits this trope, especially notable is Rozalin (AKA Zenon, God of All Overlords), Princess One Woman Army Sapphire, and Badass Normal Jennifer.
Salome from Makai Kingdom might have bigger breasts than Prier, but she might be taller, too. She's a fairly tough Overlord in the game, and she'd be even more powerful if she wasn't feeding her power to Zetta.
Ayla the cavewoman from Chrono Trigger has the greatest strength of any party member. She can do damage with her bare hands than Crono can with his Infinity Plus One Sword. And the more you Level Grind them, the larger the strength gap between Ayla and everybody else gets.
Subverted in Tales Of The Abyss. Tear Grants is the Staff Chick, being heads and tails behind Anise in combat ability. Story-wise, as far as the female members go, she could be the strongest physically and the one with most battle experience, having recieved war training from her home. And obviously, they never miss picking a joke about her melons...
Tear: M-m-melon, what do you mean melons!? Are you stupid?! Can't you be a little more quiet!?//
- Mint in Tales Of Phantasia is also the Staff Chick, although it wasn't until the remake that a truly competent female physical combatant (Suzu) arrived. At least Arche had occasional combat prowess outside of spellcasting. (No, seriously, there are certain enemies that can be rendered entirely powerless by spamming her broom attack at them. And some of them even reside in the bonus dungeon.)
- Played straight with Judith, who is easily the best stacked of the three female PCs in Tales Of Vesperia (Estelle wishes she could bounce like Judith) and is also the only melee fighter among them.
  - This troper thinks that Judith pretty much defines Tales Series' Boobs Of Steel. Nearly in all previous Tales series, the best stacked chicks do not deal with direct combat as much as Judith does.
Also subverted in Tales Of Symphonia. Sheena has easily the largest breasts of the four female P Cs (you can even earn a character title based on that), and certainly isn't a slouch in combat (though her heavy attacks are all summoning techniques). As far as raw physical strength is concerned, though, she (and pretty much everyone else, for that matter) is far outclassed by Presea, who looks to be about 12 years old.
- However Shenna is considered the worst character game wise.
The Touhou series subverts, follows and plays with this trope at its whims: The vastest majority of characters are utterly flat, regardless of power level. Characters commonly depicted with large chests by the fans include both some of the strongest characters in setting (Yukari Yakumo, Eirin Yagokoro) and two of the weakest (Letty Whiterock, ~~Hong Meiling~~China). Sakuya Izayoi is regularly accused of padding her chest, and is probably the most powerful human in the setting - as if padding actually increased her power level.
- And if we talk solely about physical strength... Suika Ibuki is probably champion in that department, and she basically looks eight.
  - Conversely, Yuugi Hoshiguma, who is probably Suika Ibuki's equal in terms of strength, is largely regarded as having a very large bust.
Lara Croft, obviously.
Vanessa of Virtua Fighter not only has the biggest breasts of the female characters, but she's almost a Mighty Glacier.
Robot Girl Mei-Fang from Arcana Heart is a literal example, being the physically largest playable character all around and strongest unarmed fighter. Of course Kira's pet blob and Fiona's BFS put said full-blown lolis ahead of her in the raw damage category.
While we're on the topic of Robot Girls, Xenosaga's KOS-MOS is strong enough to punch out Humongous Mecha, swing a fifty-foot grabber arm as a giant three-section staff, and fire a triple .50-calibre minigun in each hand without even bracing. She also, particularly in her final form, is built with the largest bust in the cast.

Webcomics and Other Web Originals

The Blonde Marvel, in her webcomic story "The Coffee Shop Incident'', stops a bullet with her chest. Warning: Story contains nudity, bloody gunplay and swearing.
Mostly averted in the Whateley Universe. The girl with the biggest breasts in Whateley Academy (at least of those introduced so far, anyway) is Mindbird (a psychic who is not super-strong at all). The best-endowed superheroine we've seen so far is Valley Girl, who isn't super-strong either. Hippolyta (the strongest girl at the school) and Lady Astarte (the greatest superheroine around) are curvy but not overdone.
In Crossworlds, the biggest boobs belongs to Narhm, who also happens to be 'bout 7 feet tall (counting the horns) and muscled like a bodybuilder, thanks to her day-job being a Blacksmith. In combat, she wields a huge, two-handed warhammer with devastating effect. Interestingly enough, the second-place for boob-size probably goes to Lilly, her ditzy apprentice, who is quickly building up a similar level of raw strength from the hard work. Whether being a Centaur gives her an edge, strengthwise, over a Minotaur is hard to say...
- It's worth noting, however, that if you start to compare the chest-sizes with the body-sizes, Narhm scores significantly lower - while the other female characters are mostly smaller in the chest, they're also all MUCH smaller in the body, and usually quite slender. Evidence from elsewhere in the 'verse (Specifically, The Accidental Centaurs) also suggests that by Minotaur standards, Narhm is actually somewhat modestly endowed. She just happens to be the only female Minotaur in the comic so far.
- Also worth noting is that in the background material female minotaurs are described as being very matronly (read "bosomy") and not as action-oriented as the males. Nahrm is very much an apparent exception to the general rule.
There is a lot of artwork over at Deviantart in which heavily muscled (as in "could be female version of any male WWF heavyweight") women also sport boobs that are so impossibly gargantuan that any real-life woman would have had reduction surgery. Although that might count as Did Not Do The Research for the reasons mentioned above, this is Truth In DeviantART to some degree, as female wrestlers, being quite ripped and thus having very little fat, often use silicone implants for obvious reasons.
Alice apparently has this boob based power according to this Loserz post.
DiDi in Menage a 3 verges on Gag Boobs territory, and is astoundingly strong.
In the League Of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions Hamburger Pattie had big boobs & bulletproof skin.

Real Life

When this editor was at a certain Army school at Fort Lewis, WA, the bustiest of the eight females (yup, that's what we call 'em) in his platoon was also the strongest and most muscular. And the coolest, and had the best command presence, partly because she had a slightly deeper-than-normal voice. And she was pretty busty.

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