Triple Nipple

Bond: Anything distinctive about him?
Andrea: Yes, but how can I tell you? He's not like other men. [motions toward her chest] He has three...
Bond: Fascinating anatomical tidbit, but probably the most useless piece of information I've ever heard.

— The Man with the Golden Gun

Technically known as a supernumerary nipple or polythelia, a character with a triple nipple has just that: three nipples as opposed to the customary two.

Though it's used to mark a character as weird or unusual (and indeed, in folklore, an extra nipple is thought to be a teat that the devil sucks on, and was thus thought to be a sign of witchcraft), it's not particularly rare in real life. About one out of 18 men and one out of 50 women has one, though most of them only reach the stage of development where they're almost indistinguishable from moles.

Compare Multiboobage.

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Examples

Anime & Manga

• In Hetalia: Axis Powers, France may count as such ever since the strip "Let's Assist the French Economy!", wherein he claimed Italy's right nipple, which apparently represents Corsica. At the very least, Italy is down to one....

Films — Live-Action

• Kids: "Damn, girl, that's my triple nipple."
• Scaramanga in both the novel and film of The Man with the Golden Gun. When James Bond tries to impersonate Scaramanga using a fake nipple, he puts it in an anatomically impossible location. The gene that triggers breast formation was named after Scaramanga.[1]
• In Mallrats, the topless psychic credits her powers to her third nipple, eventually revealed to be fake^note and edible.
• In Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood, one vampire prostitute has three nipples - all pierced and chained together. Caleb muses, "I always wanted a girl with a little extra."
• In Napoleon Dynamite, Pedro discusses a cow with an extra nipple on its udder for part of a food inspection test. Apparently a good cow should only have four.
• Total Recall (1990) and Total Recall (2012) had a prostitute with three nipples.
• In the bootleg version of Scary Movie, Cindy has six nipples.

Jokes

• Alice has three nipples, which she kept to herself due to worries of being ridiculed by her peers. But she eventually decide to reveal her lifelong secret, firstly to her roommate Annie before moving on to her other friends.
  In order to break out the news slowly, Alice decides to be discreet, so she tells Annie, "I have a secret to tell you. You know, our nipples? Yours and mine, we have five nipples combined."
  Aghast, Annie responds in shock: "Sweet Jesus! You have only one nipple?"

Literature

• In Good Omens, the Witchfinder Sergeant is obsessed with finding people with extra nipples, as he considers it to be a sign of witchery. Apparently the only sign of witchery he really cares about.
• The Zebra Derby by Max Shulman:
  "Come, Comrade Hearthrug, take off your clothes," said Millie de Agnes, now mother naked.
  "Good God, woman!" I cried. "What's that?"
  "What's the matter?" she said. "Haven't you ever seen secondary mammaries before?"
  "Of course," I said, "but always in even numbers."

Live-Action TV

• Chandler Bing of Friends is revealed to have a third nipple during a Truth-Telling Session (he told Joey it was a "nubbin"). He later has it surgically removed...and when he suffers from Sarcasm Failure afterwards, he thinks it was the source of his powers.
  Ross: Joey, what did you think a "nubbin" was?
  Joey: I dunno, you see something, you hear a word, I thought that was it.
• Nip/Tuck has an episode in the second season dedicated to Christian Troy removing the third nipple of a patient he's invited to the clinic.
• Lt. Hawkes of Space: Above and Beyond is an InVitro, meaning he spent his embryonic period in a tank. The mark where the feeding tube was connected at his neck resembles a nipple, though he insists it's a "belly button".
• On Red Dwarf, Cat (a humanoid descendant of Lister's pet cat), eager to finally meet some females, says "I'm so excited, all six of my nipples are tingling!"
• On The Tick (2016), "Sage The Supernumerary" gains magical powers from the third nipple in the exact centre of his chest, which is treated in all respects as if it were a mystical Third Eye.

Music

• "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "CNR" claims that Charles Nelson Reilly had a third nipple on the back of his neck.
• During her American Idol audition, Carrie Underwood mentioned that she had one that looked like a mole.
• British recording star Lily Allen has one, which she showed off in an episode of The Friday Night Project.
• The song, "I No Longer Have a Nipple on My Forehead".

Video Games

• Implied with Guybrush Threepwood in Tales of Monkey Island when he grumbles he needs a bounty hunter on him like he needs a fourth nipple.
• Jon from Delocated, during one of his statements in-between songs on the [adult swim]-themed station in Saints Row: The Third, claims to have located a third nipple behind his knee.

Web Comics

• In Genocide Man a ship captain says he was a bit nervous about meeting Jacob, because the men of his family have three nipples. Jacob replies that Genocide Men don't care about natural mutations, also Too Much Information.

Western Animation

• The Simpsons: In "Kamp Krusty", Lisa uses Krusty the Clown's superfluous third nipple to confirm his identity.
  • When Homer tries to run a marathon he has this line:
  Homer: Anti-jiggle nipple-tape? Check, check, and check.
• Kif from Futurama has 3 nipples as shown when he sheds his skin in "300 Big Boys".
• In an episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, Eddy claims that Ed had three nipples ("like that bad guy from James Bond") to prevent Nazz from discovering that they are naked in her pool.
• In Family Guy: This is the reason why Peter wished to marry the one woman from Total Recall (1990).
  • Meg noted that she once dated The Count and took her shirt off. The Count counted the third nipple, and that was the end of the date.
  • In a later episode, Chris asks Meg why she has three nipples while they are riding a waterscooter and she says she doesn't have three nipples; she actually has two moles, which doesn't really help Chris' case.
  • Peter once tried to swindle the Make a Wish Foundation by pretending Chris had a fatal disease that made him grow nipples all over his body. The "nipples" in this case were pieces of pepperoni that Peter stuck onto Chris.

Real Life

• Mark Wahlberg considers his third nipple to be his "prized possession".
• Anne Boleyn was famous for this, though it seems to be apocryphal.
• Lily Allen, and she has no problem showing it off. (Link might be NSFW)
• Harry Styles (formerly of One Direction) apparently has four.
• Many mammals have several pairs of nipples. Humans (and most mammals) have something called mammary ridges, two non-visible lines of slightly thickened skin going down the chest on which nipples form. Obviously, two is the normal number for humans, but other much smaller supernumerary nipples can form along those lines.

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