Needs a clearer definition : World Of Buxom

Jill=buxom, Claire=buxom, Ada=buxom, Ashley=buxom, Shiva=buxom, Rachel (in the upcoming game)=buxom. For flat ladies, we have Sherry and Rebecca, both underage.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

Yet you have character's like Rebecca Chambers, Yoko Suzuki, Rita, Annette Birkin, Alyssa Ashcroft, Christine Yamata are adults but aren't busty.

Edit: a lot more characters than I expected in the resident evil franchise.

edited 19th Oct '11 4:34:25 PM by captainpat

Okay, that one is disproven, but at least it's clearly not this trope by any definition.

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Actually, you just disproved the whole trope. Almost none of the works on the list actually count. The bust sizes that stick in people's heads are just the larger ones. They forget about the small or normal chests until people point them out later. They just aren't memorable.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

That doesn't disprove a trope. It just proves massive misuse.

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Excuse me? I think you're deliberately glossing over examples like Godannar, High School Of The Dead and Divergence Eve.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Series I don't know but GIS shows me a variety of chest sizes.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

If the variety has few to no small chests, it still counts.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

What is few?

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

There are no cases of this "trope" where the female characters not only have big breasts but their overall bodytype is also about the same. It seem extremely short sighted just to focus on one part. So I'm also in favor of making a Only Six Bodies trope.

edited 19th Oct '11 8:52:15 PM by captainpat

That sounds plausible for YKTTW (although it also feels like a medium for complaining about webcomics people don't like).

Since "cut" has the most votes but doesn't seem to get sufficient support, I've added "cut examples" as a crowner option.

I was going to suggest He Man And The Masters Of The Universe as an example of Only Six Bodies, then when I went to check it I saw that someone has actually linked to Only Six Faces, but with the text Only Six Body Types.

It is true, as a way to simplify animation they had every generally-humanoid man with equal muscle mass and every generally-humanoid woman equally curved.

edited 20th Oct '11 2:00:55 AM by Michael

Well, there's a handful of body types used, and then they get stretched or scaled as necessary. They tend to be Male, Female, Fat, Child, Old.

Fight smart, not fair.

Yeah, they skipped the stretching/scaling step. Neck-down Man-at-arms wears a green bodystocking, yellow breastplate and armplates, and is otherwise identical to He-man. Or 90% of the other male characters.

I was actually thinking of Justice League.

Fight smart, not fair.

<sighs, points to Divergence Eve>

By that logic, Only Six Faces, Tareme and Tsurime are flawed for focusing on the face and shape of the eyes respectively.

Sure, that could be the Super-Trope to World of Buxom.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

How does Divergence Eve prove your point? Here's the character sheet other than height and characters having somewhat larger breasts than others, they all have about the same body type (do note that the Token Loli is a robot).

Also I'm not really sure where Tareme, Tsurime are coming from. I said that it's short sighted to focus on breasts because all the works in this page have the same overall body type.

Question: Characters having large breasts doesn't seem tropable, neither are cases of characters in a work wearing similar outfits. So is it any more tropable to have characters with the same bodytype?

edited 20th Oct '11 8:24:25 AM by captainpat

Is it me, or did we have some miscommunication here? From what I understood from your previous post, you were saying that none of the World of Buxom examples are cases of "most/all females are big-breasted and have more or less the same overall body type". That's clearly not the case with Divergence Eve (and other examples which may or may not be listed under World of Buxom), since most of the female members - excluding the Token Loli - are both very large-breasted (to the point where the official sizes seem to be glaring Did Not Do The Research miscalculations when compared with real-life celebrities with similar measurements) and pretty much share the same slimly-curved and shapely-legged body type... which is basically what you said. So either I misunderstood your previous post, or you misphrased either it or the one that I am quoting now.

.... Come again? What does having the same overall body type have to do with invalidating the tropability of World of Buxom?

What, so Dress-Coded for Your Convenience and Highly-Conspicuous Uniform aren't tropable?

Noodle People, Heroic Build, Generic Cuteness, The Beautiful People.... I believe someone forgot to make a "same general body type among most of the cast" Super-Trope, even if it would be better to leave it as exampleless as Applied Phlebotinum and Ice Queen.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

I am not disputing (and I'm not sure other people are) that there are works in which a disproportionate amount of the female cast has disproportionately large breasts. I just see all these breast tropes as a kind of distillation of Male Gaze + Fanservice and I have a hard time relating to them as anything more sophisticated then "durr boobies".

edited 20th Oct '11 11:57:03 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

-Bump-

Hm, looks like we have two "green" options that are mutually contradictory, and no consensus to do either of them. Perhaps we could get some more votes from outside the TRS.

Hmm, we didn't get a "Do nothing" option, as I now understand is the policy — but the general rule is that if no action shows a clear consensus, we do nothing.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I love how 13 people voted "nay" to "Tighten the definition."

When is "tightening the definition" ever a bad thing? Should we tighten all pages' definitions?

Probably because they prefer one of the other options, like cut.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Oh. Right. A necessary consequence of our "vote each up or down" system.