History Main / MostCommonSuperPower

** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''ComicBook/PublicEnemies'' when Batman, Superman, Katana, and Power Girl are discussing the [[WeNeedADistraction need to distract]] the Toyman (a thirteen-year-old Japanese [[TeenGenius boy genius]]). Power Girl (in her [[CleavageWindow costume with the big window in the chest]]) asks why everyone is suddenly staring at her before realizing the obvious.

* Latex Red, a former member of the ''[[ComicBook/ThreeLittleKittens 3 Little Kittens]]'' team, had her breasts augmented to enormous size, considerably larger than her head, in an attempt to out-do her former teammates. However she rapidly loses her balance and falls over a railing on her very first outing as a villain. In a later appearance, the boobs actually become a plot point when [[spoiler:Red reveals that she's hiding nuclear weapons in them. No, really]].
* Lampshaded also in Outlaw's case (issue #2 of ''ComicBook/AgentX'') when Alex wakes up to her wig having fallen from the bedstand to his face which surprises him and he starts screaming

* Jules from ''ComicBook/BazookaJules'' is a teenager with a slender build but thanks to a micro-robotic weapon fusing with her body anytime she's in danger she transforms in an adult version of herself with extremely large breasts. When she asks her professor why activating her powers makes her breasts so big, he explains that the weapon automatically provides its user with physical enhancements and weapons its user wants for the situation. One of the enhancements Jules has been subconsciously commanding the weapon to get her is large breasts.
* ''ComicBook/BlackCat''. Lampshaded occasionally. Best one that comes to mind is the time Spider-Man [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/16a75f549c567affe67ca224ff413a9d/3fcf99c8304b70b2-17/s1280x1920/a83389bb6fa7353d8cdc32bf18a4e22da1607482.jpg questions how she can move so acrobatically with them weighing her down.]][[note]]They act as ballast.[[/note]] Similarly to Wonder Woman, she had an average bust size when she first appeared (in ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #194).
* Creator/JossWhedon has mentioned that when he was getting started with ''[[ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight]]'' comics, he had some trouble finding comic book artists who were skilled at drawing women with average-sized breasts.
* In Brian Tarsis' erotic graphic novel ''City of Dreams'', when the heroine steps through the mirror into the fantasy world and becomes her alter ego, her first comment is "I am the Princess - look at these tits!"
* Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' lampooned this in the ''Doom Force'' one-shot (as its premise revolved around mocking the conventions of the Creator/RobLiefeld school of 1990s comics), which depicted Doom Force members Flux and Spinner (an older version of Dorothy Spinner) as well as Count Zero's sister Una as having noticeably large breasts.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] is one of the few superheroines who has had breast implants, and she proudly flaunts her body.
* Openly lampshaded and mocked, like a great deal else, in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'':

* In a tiny aversion, Alan Davis drew [[Characters/MarvelComicsKittyPryde Shadowcat]] as flat-chested for a while in ''{{ComicBook/Excalibur|MarvelComics}}''. [[WordOfGod According to Davis]], his editor soon told him to stop doing that.

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Gen13}}'', when Grunge absorbed Caitlin's power, he also acquired her bust size. Apparently, boobs ARE part of her superpowers. In the post-[[CanonDisContinuity Worldstorm]] version, she was explicitly [[MsFanservice genetically engineered for attractive appearance]]. Regardless of continuity, her large breasts were always the ''result'' of her powers. In her first appearance, she suddenly turns from mousy and slender to [[AmazonianBeauty muscular and curvy]] when her powers activate. This is attributed to an increase in "[[HeroicBuild muscle mass]]".
* Lucy from ''ComicBook/HalloweenMan'', even more so since becoming plus-sized, which has given her the Most Common Super Power in spades due to BreastExpansion as well as becoming a {{B|igBeautifulWoman}}BW. A lot of this has been played for laughs, recently leading to a few MyEyesAreUpHere moments.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the Capes backup of ''ComicBook/{{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. "Subconsciously". She then passes out, and is quite surprised by her new figure when she wakes up in the hospital. Knockout later gives up wearing the prosthetic breasts once she and Kid Thor join up with the Guardians of the Globe after Capes Inc. disbands, due to both being comfortable in her own skin, and having a government salary that is already generous enough as it is, and doesn't hinge on the size of her breasts, but on her abilities as a hero.
* Amusingly parodied in one of Creator/JhonenVasquez's ''Meanwhile'' strips, which features a pair of dimension-hopping travelers arriving in a parody superhero universe, and end up fighting two heroes there: a man so [[TopHeavyGuy enormously overmuscled that he can't lift his own arms]], and a woman whose breasts are so [[BoobBasedGag ridiculously huge]], especially in proportion to her stick-thin body, that all it takes to defeat her is ''tapping her in the forehead'', causing the weight of her breasts to literally ''break her back'', the top half of her body falling to the ground, and her head being immediately crushed to a pulp when her breasts land on it.
* Lampshaded and subverted in ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014''. Kamala Khan spent much of her life idolizing [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] and fantasized about looking as good as she does in Carol's most well-known outfit. When Kamala's {{Shapeshifting}} abilities first appear, she subconsciously forces herself to look somewhat like Carol, but quickly comes to realize that she doesn't have the body type, doesn't like the hair, and the outfit is uncomfortable. The outfit she comes up with later is far more modest, being a modified burkini. As she is a sixteen year old girl, this is probably for the best. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/13f03d37ff16a6ff3f0dc4912e3d2914.jpg Not all the cover artists got the memo, though.]]
* Invoked in [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/XYx-bzCN1WA_-fhQhprTuhYtaz_l85zz0Wjq3u6J5T1TVx1WmcjlUfvFKsKr6wSYc9yc1a80Idiz=s0?rhlupa=MTcxLjI1NS4xMjcuMTE5&rnvuka=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKExpbnV4OyBBbmRyb2lkIDUuMS4xOyBOZXh1cyA0IEJ1aWxkL0xNWTQ4VCkgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNTM3LjM2IChLSFRNTCwgbGlrZSBHZWNrbykgQ2hyb21lLzYwLjAuMzExMi4xMTYgTW9iaWxlIFNhZmFyaS81MzcuMzY= the cover]] for the first issue of ''Westernanimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', which depicts Pinky and the Brain masquerading as superheroines while stuffing tissues down their blouses to give the appearance of huge breasts (the story itself had the mice become a BatmanParody).

* The [[http://ragnell.blogspot.com/2006/05/power-girl-you-be-judge.html urban legend]] goes that legendary comics artist Wally Wood, one of the original artists for ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' at Creator/DCComics, started enlarging her chest issue-to-issue to see [[ItAmusedMe 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 -- er, ''two'' of the main features of the character, i.e. that she has ''even larger'' breasts than the average generously-endowed {{superhero}}ine. Plus the "boob window" over her cleavage making them that much more obvious.

* When mild-mannered college student Sophie Bangs becomes paranormal super-heroine ''{{ComicBook/Promethea}}'', her friend's first comment is "You finally got boobs!"
* Subverted in [[http://ps238.nodwick.com/?p=384 two]] ''ComicBook/PS238'' [[http://ps238.nodwick.com/?p=385 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. The aversion in ''[=PS238=]'' is justified in-universe by the fact that most of the superheroines in the comic are still prepubescent.
* In the first issue of DC's New 52 ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws, [[Characters/BatmanJasonTodd Red Hood]] has to break Arsenal/Speedy/Red Arrow out of a prison in a Middle Eastern country. While they're being chased, Arsenal asks if Hood brought any backup, and Hood replies, "38 of them." While Arsenal's still trying to figure that out, [[Characters/TeenTitansStarfire Starfire]] flies by and blows up a tank.
* ComicBook/RedSonja explains why she dresses like that, which is that she wants to be the lightning rod for men who would attack a woman, as they are more likely to grab a woman dressed in a revealing outfit, and Sonja wants to be the one to get their attention so she can deal with them.
* In an issue of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', Barbi (an attractive woman who certainly has no reason for ACupAngst) describes going into a comic book store; the creepy clerk says "we don't usually see breasts as small as yours here", [[DontExplainTheJoke presumably because]] the only women ever seen in that store are on the pages of the comic books.
* One of the girlfriends of ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'' sees a photo of Dragon's deceased wife, the busty superheroine Smasher. She wonders out loud if her power was the power to defy gravity. ''Savage Dragon'' creator Erik Larsen flat out admits that he utilizes this trope. In fact, he lampshaded this with Earth Girl, a superheroine with ... um, great power who often finds herself the victim of a WardrobeMalfunction.
* The eponymous ''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'' a.k.a. May "May Day" Parker doesn't have absolutely huge breasts but average-sized ones, despite her mother, MJ Watson, being rather gifted in that department, suggesting that this is partly down to the fact that she's still a teen. However, when two of her friends, who have no idea she is Spider-Girl, decide to draw an indie comic based on the heroine they ramp up her breast size -- as well as change her outfit to be more revealing and to display a head of long blonde locks. May Day finds the entire thing silly.
* ComicBook/SheHulk is on record as the single most buxom female character in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse while her powers are active, but when she's not "hulked out", her proportions are perfectly average. Her proportions have been lampshaded more than once.
* Lampshaded in ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri''. First a female character celebrates that her enhancement process has given her a bigger bosom, and later other female characters are amused/skeeved by the size of the breasts they have been depicted with in the in-universe propaganda comics about them.
* Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} is -usually- not as well-endowed as her Earth-Two adult counterpart Power Girl but she still has a very nice bust when she [[http://www.therobotsvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/SupergirlHotPants.jpg grows]] [[http://www.superman.nu/supergirl/costumes/carmine.jpg up.]] In ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'' she is the most buxom female character.

* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'': the Guardians of Kandrakar are five teenaged girls [[SexierAlterEgo whose transformations give them the]] ''[[SexierAlterEgo idealized]]'' [[SexierAlterEgo version of their older bodies]], and it compensates for their perceived flaws. Thus Will, Taranee and Hay Lin, who suffer from breast envy, get larger breasts, Irma, who is pudgy, gets slimmer... And Cornelia, who is perfectly OK with her body, just gets an OlderAlterEgo and is noticeably flatter (though she still has an above-average bust size) than the others.

* Lampshaded in ''ComicBook/YoungbloodJudgmentDay'' by a superheroine from the sixties who says that she was considered as well-endowed back in the day, but compared to today's heroines, she feels flat-chested.

* Openly lampshaded and mocked, like a great deal else, in ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'':

* In a tiny aversion, Alan Davis drew [[Characters/MarvelComicsKittyPryde Shadowcat]] as flat-chested for a while in ''{{Comicbook/Excalibur|MarvelComics}}''. [[WordOfGod According to Davis]], his editor soon told him to stop doing that.

* Lampshaded and subverted in ''Comicbook/MsMarvel2014''. Kamala Khan spent much of her life idolizing [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] and fantasized about looking as good as she does in Carol's most well-known outfit. When Kamala's {{Shapeshifting}} abilities first appear, she subconsciously forces herself to look somewhat like Carol, but quickly comes to realize that she doesn't have the body type, doesn't like the hair, and the outfit is uncomfortable. The outfit she comes up with later is far more modest, being a modified burkini. As she is a sixteen year old girl, this is probably for the best. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/13f03d37ff16a6ff3f0dc4912e3d2914.jpg Not all the cover artists got the memo, though.]]

* One of the girlfriends of ''Comicbook/SavageDragon'' sees a photo of Dragon's deceased wife, the busty superheroine Smasher. She wonders out loud if her power was the power to defy gravity. ''Savage Dragon'' creator Erik Larsen flat out admits that he utilizes this trope. In fact, he lampshaded this with Earth Girl, a superheroine with ... um, great power who often finds herself the victim of a WardrobeMalfunction.

* In the ''Series/{{Batwoman|2019}}'' episode "If You Believe in Me, I'll Believe in You", Sophie and Julia find Tommy Elliot's collection of ''Kitty Delgado'' comics, and Julia laughs that "There's no way a cat burglar's squeezing into all those tight spaces with ''those'' jubblies." This is probably a specific TakeThat at Jim Balent's ''Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}'' covers.

* ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'' has three superheroines in The Seven, Queen Maeve (Wonder Woman analogue, with the expected results), Starlight (actually more average-sized than in the [[Comicbook/TheBoys original comic]], but wears silicone padding when in her corporate-mandated revealing\skintight new outfit to invoke the trope), and Stormfront (exploited in her skin-tight form-fitting leather outfit - though the actress made sure to point in an interview that it's padded, "I'm a late bloomer").

* Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' lampooned this in the ''Doom Force'' one-shot, which depicted Doom Force members Flux and Spinner (an older version of Dorothy Spinner) as well as Count Zero's sister Una as having noticeably large breasts.