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Comics like big busts, and they cannot lie * (From left to right, top to bottom: Wonder Woman, Invisible Woman, Power Girl, Storm, Batgirl, Ms Marvel, Supergirl, Jean Grey, Caitlin Fairchild, Vampirella, Catwoman, and Mystique.) Hobbes: Is Amazon Girl's super power the ability to squeeze that figure into that suit? Calvin: Nah, they can all do that.
Whether the superheroine is a mutant, an Amazon princess or an alien humanoid, if she's female, she is straining against the bonds of gravity... but not in a flying sort of way.
This most common of metahuman attributes seems to range from a D-cup size upward for any character just past the onset of puberty (a time when many comic-book characters start to manifest superpowers). They are not only large, but remarkably self-supporting and perky for their size.
Of course, this may fluctuate under different artists.
If you need Mundane Utility for this superpower, it can be made into Victorias Secret Compartment.
Note that this trope applies exclusively to women with actual superpowers, but they don't have to be technical superheroines.
Common because Most Artists Are Male, of course, which is why this rarely involves My Eyes Are Up Here.
Live Action Adaptations inevitably lead to a Big Bra To Fill.
Sub Trope of Heroic Build. Compare Buxom Is Better for non superpowered girls, Form Fitting Wardrobe, Stripperific, Gag Boobs, Gainaxing, Boobs Of Steel. See also Top Heavy Guy for a male exaggeration of the chest area (just a different form than this).
Contrast Pettanko.
Examples
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Anime and Manga
- Seras Victoria from Hellsing. Apparently, getting bitten by a vampire also increases your cup size by a few letters.
- Integra as well, for that matter. It's just harder to tell with those suit jackets.
- Lampshaded in one of Tokyopops' "Rising Stars of Manga" stories:
Buxom Villainess: What are you travelling with that flat-chested loser for?
Somewhat Less Buxom Heroine: F-flat chested?! I'm a C-cup!
Buxom Villainess: (comforts heroine) I know, you poor thing.
- The Sekirei in Sekirei may have a variety of Elemental Powers, but the most common power? The boobs. Every single Sekirei but the loli and the few men have huge ones.
- Several characters in Mahou Sensei Negima have this power, most notably Kaede and Mana, two of the most well-endowed students in Negi's class, as well as two of the strongest. Not to mention that the majority of the characters are around fourteen years old! It's not necessarily unrealistic, though; Puberty doesn't always wait, and in some cases starts in the single digits. Besides, Class 3-A runs the whole spectrum, from the "Puberty, what's that?" Narutaki Twins (actually the
oldest third oldest members of the class) to the two mentioned above. In chapter 235, Natsumi points out that this seems to be common in the magical world.
- The unusually high number of large-breasted females in Negi's class is lampshaded by Anya in chapter 180, and again in 183.
- Bleach. Rangiku Matsumoto, Orihime Inoue, Tia Harribel, Nel's true form, Haineko... the creator ain't named "Titty" Kubo for nothing. With the exception of Rukia, it often seems like viewers can tell how important a female character is supposed to be by her cup size.
- With the exception of Rukia, Momo and Yachiru, you mean. But the latter didn't reach puberty yet... *Shudders*
- Signum from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, combined with Boobs Of Steel through being a Lightning Bruiser.
- And the first Reinforce, who was one of the strongest characters yet seen in the entire series, may have had breasts even bigger than Signum's. StrikerS-era Fate, a skilled close-combat fighter, is rather 'gifted' too.
- Tsunade in Naruto. She must be the only character have actually been measured (106 cm if memory serves and Jiraiya is to be believed). Hinata the Shrinking Violet as well. I wonder if Sakura is jealous of her...rice cups. As well as Samui from Kumogakure and Konan from Akatsuki.
- Mai and Haruka in Mai-HiME. And Mayo, heroine of the Mai-HiME Destiny Alternate Continuity novel, outranks both characters in boob size.
- In Tona Gura, Nina Isokawa and Hatsune Arisaka, the latter much to the chagrin of her younger sister Kazuki and Kazuki's best bud Chihaya — and nearly every other woman Hatsune encounters. Partially subverted in that, while he notices them both, sometime Chivalrous Pervert Yuuji Kagura takes pains to not even consider the deeply underaged Nina as a prospect, despite her crushing on him (sometimes literally), and treats Hatsune much like an older sister.
- In Ranma One Half, both Ranma's female form and Shampoo are shown with considerable cleavage, as is Ranma's fellow Gender Bender Herb, and a monkey that was transformed into a human girl with the same spring. In fact, this has resulted in a Fan Wank that the Nyanniichuan has a sub-clause that anyone cursed by it will become very busty, in order to make hiding their condition more difficult. The anime often is accused of amping their cleavage size up further, but this is mainly due to the presence of Gainaxing in the OAVs and Non Serial Movies- particularly Nihao! My Concubine, in which every girl was augmented. In adult form, Hinako Ninomiya puts both of them to shame.
- A lot of the main cast of Kampfer have an ample bust. Of note is the series protagonist Natsuru Senou. Unfortunately, he's a guy, and he doesn't even want to be a Kampfer in the first place.
- Most of the women in Saiyuki which is odd seeing as it seems to defy the Most Writers Are Male stereotype; it's a Shoujo series, written and illustrated by a woman. Between Yaone and her barely holding up outfit and Lirin the 10-14 year old girl with breasts at least a size DD you begin to wonder about the artist's own reasoning.
- Most female characters in Code Geass. So much that they even have a list on who has the largest rack.
- Milly > Marianne > Kallen > Inoue > Cornelia > Villeta > Cecile > Rakshata > Euphy > Shirley > Chiba > C.C. > Shirley's friend > Sayoko > Kallen's mom > Nina > Nunnaly > Kaguya
- Most of the older girls and women of Soul Eater, with Boobs of Steel examples. 13-ish year-old Maka, by contrast, is flat-chested and a little sensitive about it whilst being one of the more capable fighters in the series.
- Sunabozu's Junko Asagiri, aka The Desert Vixen. That is all. (And boy does she know it.)
- In Slayers you have Naga.
- In OnePiece every female character that is not a child or an old woman full fill this trope. In Fact Nami and Nico Robin's chest size grows over time.
- Tagashi has a modest bust, but that's about it.
Comic Books
- The urban legend
 goes that legendary comics artist Wally Wood, one of the original artists for Power Girl at DC, started enlarging her chest issue-to-issue to see how far he could go with it before the suits upstairs caught on. Again, this is just a myth; however, it started a tradition, and it's often considered one two of the main features of the character, i.e. that she has even larger breasts than the average generously-endowed superheroine. Plus the "boob window" over her cleavage making them that much more obvious.
- Lampshaded in the Superman/Batman comic when Batman, Superman, Katana and Power Girl are discussing the need to distract the Toyman (a thirteen-year-old Japanese boy genius). Power Girl (in her costume with the big window in the chest) asks why everyone is suddenly staring at her before realizing the obvious. Well, the pair of obvious.
- Many of the artists and writers over the past decade or so have had other characters point her figure out (such as in the preceding example), unlike other heroines in skintight and revealing clothing that other characters seemingly ignore. Even Power Girl is aware of her figure. She once commented that she doesn't need to wear a mask because "most of the time...they ain't lookin' at my face."
- Some contemporary artists (from the last decade or so) also draw her as muscular, built like a body-builder. Adam Hughes, especially. He even drew a sketch of her lifting her own breasts for exercise in one of his convention sketchbooks.
- Big Barda, another DC Universe Hot Amazon, is pretty damn stacked. Part of the reason for this is that she's based on a seventies-era Lainie Kazan, who was gorgeous and had a formidible set of twins. She still does, but at 68 and with about 40 extra pounds, the appeal isn't quite the same. Or is it?
- This is so common at Marvel, DC, and even most independent publishers that it'd probably be easier to list those ladies and young women who lack this attribute.
- Wolfsbane of The New Mutants and, later, X-Force, X-Factor, and Excalibur, tends to be more realistically endowed, in both human and half-wolf forms. This is probably a deliberate choice on the part of artists.
- Her former New Mutants teammate and (very?) best friend Dani Moonstar, despite being older and noticeably more sexually active, is also usually depicted as a modestly endowed rangy/athletic sort. At least until she showed up in Avengers: The Initiative. Now she's "poppin out all over".
- Shadowcat is usually depicted as being skinny, which tends to hold over across most artists, though she was thirteen in her first appearance. At the very least, even when shown having a healthy bust herself, she's depicted as smaller than the other X-Women.
- Likewise, the young Jubilee from Generation X is "under-endowed" by usual standards, especially after artists began emphasizing her Asian features. In one issue, she's sitting between Psylocke and Black Widow; Jubilee looks down to her chest, and makes a disappointed face◊. However, after appearing in the recent New Warriors series, it appears that someone has implanted something resembling Microsoft's X-Box into each side of Jubilee's chest. Whether or not this is the artist or something different is still unknown.
- Both Shadowcat and Jubilee are constantly having their ages adjusted (either upward or downward) to suit the preferences of whoever is writing the comic they're in at the moment as well as to account for Comic Book Time, which aside from screwing with continuity will naturally result in fluctuation of their bust size.
- The current co-leader of the X-Men, Emma Frost, is actually a bit of a subversion. Yes, that Emma Frost. She's one of the few heroines or villainnesses in any comic book universe who actually has breast implants. Or, at least, admits to it.
- The latest post-Post-Crisis version of Supergirl has a notably smaller bust compared to her pre-Crisis and "Matrix" incarnations, and especially in comparison to her alternate-earth counterpart Power Girl (see description), a fact explicitly pointed out by the similarly less-endowed Stargirl - especially when drawn by Michael Turner and Brandon Peterson, the main artists who "originated" the re-envisioned character. However, both Kara and Stargirl are not consistently portrayed in this regard by all artists. Supergirl's case was lampshaded by Lex Luthor when he made a remark about her wearing the S-shield on her "less than impressive chest." Ironically, her counterpart from the Earth-2 universe is Power Girl.
- Though she's normally very well endowed in the comics, the Justice League Unlimited version of Hawkgirl is much less pronounced in this regard, especially when compared to Wonder Woman. But Hawkgirl's bra went up several sizes after DC's "One Year Later" stunt — she went from a 'C' to an 'F' under artist Howard Chaykin, a change that continued into her appearances in the relaunched Justice League Of America series.
- Hmm... during Infinite Crisis, she grew incredibly large◊ and had to be shrunk back down to normal size. Maybe the scientists missed a spot or two?
- Some artists at least make an effort to give teenage martial artist Cassandra Cain (Batgirl III) a plausible build for her age and lifestyle. Others... don't.
- In Birds Of Prey, thinking the original Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) is back, a cop identifies her as the Batgirl "with the red hair and the big...". Understandable, given the covers of the recent Oracle miniseries (especially the cover of the second issue).
- When Joss Whedon decided to continue Buffy The Vampire Slayer in comic book form, he had to search for an artist who could draw the main character with any kind of anatomical correctness compared with her actor. In keeping with the feminist themes of the story, the final product features women with average-sized chests. In contrast, he must have failed to find anyone like that to draw the Angel comic book continuation. Every single woman is now in a figure hugging and/or revealing outfit, with assets to match, and constantly striking implausible and unnecessary poses to display this. While in one case (Gwen) this is actually in line, in other cases (e.g. Illyria) the new fuller physique is in quite a contrast to the original character on TV.
- Joss also found an artist who could draw slightly built women for Fray, as Joss' intro to the TPB clearly states: "I wanted a real girl, with real posture, a slight figure (that's my classy way of saying "little boobs")". He also clearly says how influenced he was by the previously mentioned Shadowcat, as his run with Astonishing X-men shows.
- Death from The Sandman managed to be quite beautiful while also quite averagely proportioned.
- Though Squirrel Girl of Marvel comics is fairly well-endowed by normal standards, she looks positively skinny next to most superheroines. Squirrel Girl's teammate Big Bertha both averts this trope while paradoxically playing it absolutely straight. She has the ability to gain massive "superbulk," making her appear massively obese. A side effect of this power is the ability to shape her body however she wants; when not being a superhero, she usually chooses to be a supermodel, obviously of the Victoria's Secret type.
- As originally drawn in the 1940's, Wonder Woman had an average chest. Obviously, things have changed since then. Tellingly, she is described as canonically the most beautiful woman in DC. All the beholders have the same tastes, then?
- Played straight by Caitlin Fairchild from Gen13; whilst in her superhero persona her clothing is frequently destroyed but she's left unharmed, and in civilian attire she complains internally about getting lecherous stares from passers-by; and her teammates - one of whom is a very open lesbian. In the most recent version of Gen13, when Grunge absorbed Caitlin's power, he also acquired her bust size. Apparently, boobs ARE part of her superpowers. In the post-Worldstorm version, she was explicitly genetically engineered for attractive appearance. Regardless of continuity, her large breasts were always part of her powers. In her first appearance, she suddenly turns from mousy and petite to muscular and curvy when her powers activate. This is attributed to an increase in "muscle mass". Well, carrying those around could count as weightlifting.
- In an issue of the Wild Storms Cross Over Armageddon, Caitlin meets a future version of herself:
"Oh my god, are my boobs really that big?"
- The same comic gives us Roxy 'Freefall' Spaulding, who has a far more modest figure, allegedly based on Natalie Portman. In the crossover with Monkeyman and O'Brien, however, we get to see evil alternate-universe versions of the team. Evil Roxy looks much like regular Roxy, except with much bigger boobs.
- In the Elf Quest comics, Dewshine is pretty much the only elf without a D-cup. Of course, most of them wear Stripperific clothing.
- Subverted and Lampshaded in the Capes backup of Invincible #27, wherein Knockout dons large prosthetic breasts while getting into costume. Her also superpowered boyfriend comments that he wished she "didn't have to wear those anymore," to which she replies that her salary has doubled since she started wearing them, and that "the world just doesn't want flat-chested superheroines."
- Parodied later in that same series. When Atom Eve rebuilds herself using her matter-manipulation powers, in the middle of a life-or-death fight, she takes the opportunity to make some "improvements" by upping her cup-size. Subconciously. She then passes out, and is quite surprised by her new figure when she wakes up in the hospital.
- Boo Cat and Licorice Dust are the least-endowed characters in Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose, which means Jim Balent didn't give them gigantic bazookas like the rest of the female cast. He merely provided them with racks that would look right at home at the Playboy mansion. Raven Hex's diary entries in one issue are a protracted rant against her enormous rack and the reaction she gets from the townies, and then end with a declaration of "I've got it, I'll flaunt it." And why don't we mention the enormously talented Latex Red, who has actually two A-bombs hidden in the enormous boobs?
- Jim Balent gives 99.9% of female characters gigantic, round, shining bazookas ready to explode. He drew Catwoman with a massive rack for a long time, which is against almost all other depictions of the character. As an agile cat burglar, she's supposed to be lithe and athletic. A pair like that would make it tricky to slide through small spaces and leap across rooftops.
- Comic book cover artist Adam Hughes' pinups almost always portrays women with the Most Common Super Power. To his credit, he is one of the few to draw his women with the sort of physique that large breasted women usually have - broader hips and thicker waists.
- The same goes for Frank Cho, the creator of Liberty Meadows as well as an artist and writer on various other comic books. His women tend to be tall, with wide hips, bodacious rear ends and muscles as well as voluptuous chests. Adam Hughes himself said that if he could choose between a real-life incarnation of one of his girls or one of Frank's, he'd pick Frank's every time.
- Spoofed in the comic Young Justice, when mousy archaeologist Nina Dowd is tranformed into the super-villainess Mighty Endowed, and finds her breasts are now so big she can't stand up without help.
- Likewise, when Arrowette is convinced that she's going to have to turn evil, one of her major concerns is the costume that goes with a lifetime of villainy.
Arrowette: Oh God... I'll have to get a tight, skimpy, black leather outfit that shows off my cleavage. Oh God... I'll have to get cleavage.
- A good 95% of the female characters drawn by Phil Foglio have this power.
- In DC's Final Crisis #3, it was revealed that turning evil and entering the service of Darkseid had endowed Mary Marvel with, among other things, an even larger bustline than her normal. Yes, that's right. Darkseid, Lord of Apokolips, "the god that Satan prays to", now gives boob jobs to minions. Weeell... it's either that or she "Shazam!"ed for it. This could be explained by the fact that she was possessed by Desaad at the time, who is every bit as perverse as his name implies.
- Openly lampshaded and mocked, like a great deal else, in Empowered:
Empowered: "'Racktastic'? Having allegedly large breasteses, that's not a superpower. Okay?" Ninjette: " Au contraire, Count Rackula. Believe me, I would so flaunt them if I had 'em." Empowered: "That I do believe, coming from someone with 'Ninjette' printed across the back of her shorts."
- Luba from Love And Rockets and most of her female relatives. L&R does have a fair share of very busty female characters, but a lot of them are pretty full-figured in general & thus have normal proportions. Los Bros. Hernandez have a thing for non-anorexic girls.
- Gold Digger fulfills this trope to a T.
- Paul Dini's Madame Mirage regularly bounces around in a very low-cut strapless dress without exposing her very voluptuous assets; justified, in that she's a hologram.
- Olga Lawina ◊from the Dutch comic AGENT 327
- Lady Death (not Death of the Endless) deserves mention here too, if only because, like Power Girl, she was unusually stacked even by comic-book standards and combined it with an outfit even more Stripperiffic than usual. More recent incarnations usually have her built more like other superheroines, though she still wears the bikini, stockings, and heels. Lady Death getting her own book was seen as a major catalyst to the "Bad Girl" craze of the mid-nineties.
- Her arch nemesis, Purgatori, also sports a whooping big pair.
- Lampshaded in one of the last Bloom County strips. Steve Dallas is showing Opus a comic book, and points out to him that, "all the women look like Dolly Parton in zero gravity!"
- Sin City started out by playing this straight, but with each book the women got less and less curvy. All, that is, but for Nancy, who was comparable to Jessica Rabbit in every appearence she had. And how.
- American Dream, female counterpart of Captain America possesses a heaving bosom.
- Amber of the DN Agents.
- Nightstar also has an impressive pair. One wonders how she stands up straight.
- Silk Spectre has huge boobs, although in the film she is outshone by her mothers vaster rack. Malin Ackerman had a Big Bra To Fill.
- Zatanna has clearly cast a REWOP REPUS NOMMOC TSOM spell at some point in her past.
- You good sir, just won the annual "ROFL of the Year" award for that outstanding achievement in ROFL.
- Sage, occasional associate of the X Men, was usually drawn with an average size bust, but in recent years artists have seemed to decide she wears a much, much larger bra.
- Lampshaded with She-Venom, whose bust was considerably increased when she became infected with the Venom Symbiote. But boy oh boy, is it a change for the better..
- In a subversion, Raven of Teen Titans, at least in the Wolfman and Pérez days, was purposefully drawn with little to no bust in contrast to the other girls on the team. The animated series didn't much care for the idea, however, as seen below.
- The aptly named Bombshell fromSpy Boy, although her endowment is the subject of frequent snarky comment from the other female characters.
Film
- In My Super Ex Girlfriend, the advent of G-Girl's metahuman abilities is heralded by an, er, expansion, of her bosom, followed by several other cosmetic changes. Which is a total Big Lipped Alligator Moment, as no one ever points this out and her breast expansion is never once mentioned in the entire film. As well as the fact that in every scene of her as an adult, G-Girl seems to be pretty average sized up top.
- Known in Love Happy as the whammy.
- Terminator 3 lampshades this since the T-X is able to adjust its breast size and shape to better win over male humans.
Literature
- Lampshaded in Perry Moore's Hero, where pyrokinetic Miss Scarlet says during an icebreaker that she grew up by a nuclear power plant and one day in her teens she woke up with her flame powers and "a rack that would make Dolly Parton jealous."
- Ms Fate, the Nightside's resident superheroine, averts this trope, as she's the crime-fighting alter-ego of a male transvestite. Granted, her costume probably does include a well-stuffed bra.
Live Action TV
- Midway through each season of Who Wants To Be A Superhero, the remaining contestants receive cover art for their potential comic books. All the female contestants are inevitably depicted with some serious cleavage, even those that are actually flat-chested. To be fair, all the male contestants were drawn as buffed out, regardless of their actual physique.
Tabletop Games
- Mutant Chronicles has several examples (Valerie Duval, the goddess Ilian), but most importantly the nepharite Golgotha.
- A third party Dn D book "Chainmail bikini" has the feats Anatomically Over-Endowed (also known as My face is up there, combat penalties to those possibly attracted to you) Cleavage (a certain type of secondary weapon, requires the above) and Epic Anatomically Over-Endowed.
- GURPS calls this "enhanced female secondary sexual characteristics". It's a zero point feature that often accompanies a level or two a Appearance.
- Aberrant has a "Mega-Attribute" section of powers which are enhancements of the standard "attributes" that all characters have in the Storyteller system—strength, dexterity, and so forth. Although "Mega-Appearance" comes in many forms, the pic accompanying the section is of a woman with gigantic breasts being photographed by paparazzi.
Video Games
Webcomics
- In Scott Kurtz's PvP, Jade complains that she can't make a super-heroine on NCSoft's City Of Heroes MMORPG without producing an avatar with a back-breaking pair of breasts. When Brent and Francis explain that this condition fits the genre, Jade retaliates by naming her character the Titillator with the battle-cry macro, "Eyes up here!" On the other hand, she's got a decent pair herself, and her bustier sister Miranda uses hers as psychological weapons. After failing to manipulate a male character on one occasion, she looked down at her breasts and asked, "Are these on?" Brent once dreamed of Jade in a classic comic-book style - appropriately drawn by Frank Cho himself - and was awestruck with the results.
- Alternately parodied and embraced in Supermegatopia, especially by the characters of Buxom Gal, an explicit parody of Power Girl whose breasts expand as she absorbs energy and contract as she uses it, and Distraction Damsel, whose "super power" is to distract bad guys (and everyone else) with her assets and precisely-timed "wardrobe malfunctions".
- Subverted in these two PS238 strips. Villainess "The Kestrel" is blackmailed with medical pictures proving that hers aren't all-natural. She had it done because she's "got a mystique to maintain in this business." Beyond that, author/artist Aaron Williams rarely portrays any of his women with the Most Common Superpower. Especially Piffany, who is short and rather dumpy.
- Ellen from El Goonish Shive has this pretty literally: her "superpower" is to transform anyone, including herself, into a beautiful, busty, long-haired girl. Her own assets have occasionally been refered to as the "Wonder Twins" on this basis, both in comics and within fandom.
- The whole premise of the webcomic Sidekick Girl is that superheroes are chosen because they "look the part" and sidekicks are assigned on the basis of the heroes' needs. This leaves the intelligent and skillful but relatively plain Valerie as Hypercompetent Sidekick to a telegenic and curvacious blonde bombshell Brainless Beauty named Illumina, who has tended to get a long string of sidekicks killed with her incompetence. Valerie was picked because she can't die — and that's it. No Healing Factor, no immunity to injury or pain. She just doesn't die from anything. She can suffer, though. Man, can she suffer.
- Discussed in this strip from Something Positive:
Aubrey: Oh, I wanna be a superhero! All that power and might! The cool abilities and costumes! The shockingly perfect boobie-spheres that have their own unique center of gravity!
Davan: I noticed fighting for truth and justice wasn't in that little wish list.
Aubrey: Davan, super women have super boobies. Super boobies are a "get out of fighting for good" card in the Monopoly game that is our lives.
- Kanazuchi Yuuki of Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki, to the point where she can use "her" breasts as a ''monster detector''.
Yuuki: "Note to Self: Jiggle = bad stuff."
- The character Joule from the web comic WICKEDPOWERED has this power, and a whole lot of it. Example.
- The titular character of The Challenges of Zona and even more so the giantess Liri who would be at least a DD if she was human. Being around 15 feet tall her breasts pretty much demand their own zip code.
- Slick from Sinfest knows this trope. See for yourself.
- Ash Upton is by far the best endowed female character in Misfile, as befits the daughter of a lingerie model...much to her chagrin, as she's actually a boy.
- Fa'lina of DMFA, as seen here. It is used as a joke at least once in Abel's backstory.
- Endemic to the Sparkiverse. In fact, this is one of the pieces of evidence collected by Castle Heterodyne that Agatha is indeed a girl. Girl Genius artist and author Phil Foglio was asked about this in an interview. His reply? He likes to draw women "realisticly."
Web Original
- Played with in the online story Interviewing Leather: Leather is a supervillain who used to be a superhero. Amongst her reasons for her Face Heel Turn is the fact that she didn't look like a superhero: she was only a B-cup and most heroines had at least double D's. "You know what they call it? Side Kick physique." Then again, she may be an Unreliable Narrator making excuses. Especially given that female supervillains are, if anything, even more inclined toward having supersized breasts and skimpy costumes that barely hide them.
- In the League Of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions Hamburger Pattie lived up to this trope while Frangelica was the inversion. Guess which character was written by a man & which by a woman?
- Justified in the Whateley Universe, since the Exemplar power that a lot of these teenaged mutants possess reshapes their body image to what they subconsciously think it ought to be. Hence, a lot of these teenaged girls have huge tracts of land for their age, just as a lot of these teenaged boys look way too buff for growing high school boys. However, main character Phase is an A-cup, and main character Generator is ecstatic when she gets all the way up to an A-cup, having been flat as a boy beforehand. Having (technically) been a boy beforehand.
- Done (but certainly no more or less justified than in any other instance) in Pokegirls, in which the female monsters were created by the Big Bad Mad Scientist Sukebe, who made the majority of them very well endowed.
- Faun Reinaka of Tasakeru, as befitting her bombshell nature.
Western Animation
- Teen Titans: Raven has the largest breasts out of all the regular - or recurring - girls in the show. Starfire, on the other hand, has much smaller breasts, a major departure from her comic-book depiction.
- Raven's big bust is more than a little odd considering comic Raven, at least in the Wolfman and Pérez days, was purposefully drawn with a lithe figure and little to no bust as a contrast to the other girls.
- In Wolverine And The X Men, every female sans the younger, more underage ones, seems to have this most infamous, yet welcome, trait. And they are not at all afraid to show it.
- The girls of WITCH, both in the comics and the animated series, are all pleased when their powers make their breasts effectively double in size. Some, like eye-popping Irma, are a bit too enthused...tellingly her attempts to take advantage of them ends in embarrassment and her ego getting deflated. It goes without saying Breast Expansion is a common source of comedy in both the comic and animated versions:
- Played with, in the form of characters Will and Hay Lin. Both are, in their civilian forms, completely flat-chested and extremely insecure about it, especially card carrying Pettanko Will. When they transform, however, they both gets free D-cups which they're both very proud of. In one instance though Cornelia's mom accuses Hay Lin of stuffing her bra when she sees her transformed...Hay Lin's response is to look pissed and puff out her chest more.
- Played straight with Tomboy Irma and Rich Bitch Cornelia: they're rather buxom for their age in human form, and in Guardian form they're even bigger. Of the two Irma is canonically "the biggest" but in defiance of Bigger Is Better her chest tends to be the source of jokes instead of praise.
- From Avatar The Last Airbender's Beach Episode, we learn of Ty Lee's large...assets.
- Mentioned twice in Superman Batman Public Enemies. Superman, Batman, and Power Girl are enlisting the help of Japanese teen-supergenius Toyman, and Power Girl arrived several hours earlier. Superman and Batman meet her when they first enter Toyman's tower, but she refuses to go back in with them. We soon find out why.
Toyman: Did you guys see Power Girl on your way in? Well, if you do see her, tell her I'm sorry about the x-ray goggles.
- Later, Toyman is readying his Superman/Batman robot-rocket to launch:
Superman: Are you sure this thing can do the job?
Toyman: Does Power Girl have big—
Batman: Just input the codes!
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