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.
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.
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.
Examples
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Films — Live-Action
- In 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."
- The Man with the Golden Gun: James Bond is told that the way he can identify Scaramanga is that the man has three nipples.
- In Mallrats, the topless psychic credits her powers to her third nipple, eventually revealed to be fake (and edible).
- 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.
- In the bootleg version of Scary Movie, Cindy has six nipples.
- Total Recall (1990) and Total Recall (2012) have a prostitute with three 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.
- Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun and its film adaptation. In the latter, 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.
- 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.
- In 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!"
- 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".
- In 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" from Alpocalypse claims that Charles Nelson Reilly had a third nipple on the back of his neck.
- The song "I No Longer Have a Nipple on My Forehead".
Video Games
- 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.
- 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.
Webcomics
- 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.
- 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....
Western Animation
- 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.
- Family Guy:
- This is the reason why Peter wished to marry the one woman from Total Recall (1990).
- Meg notes 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. (Unless one recalls a quick throwaway line from an earlier episode that "one [breast]'s an innie and one's an outtie", suggesting that Chris only felt one of his sister's nipples standing erect, and the other two were just rather large skin tags in that area.)
- 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.
- Kif from Futurama has three nipples, as shown when he sheds his skin in "Three Hundred Big Boys". This appears to be a trait for his species, but only the males; when his children emerge from the swamp in "Children of a Lesser Bog," the only surviving daughter has no visible nipples while her two brothers each have three.
- Grojband: Kin and Kon were born as Conjoined Twins, and due to how they were separated, Kon has Kin's nipples stuck to his back.
- 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.
Real Life
- 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.
- British recording star Lily Allen has one, which she showed off in an episode of The Friday Night Project (link might be NSFW).
- Anne Boleyn was famous for this, though it seems to be apocryphal.
- Harry Styles (formerly of One Direction) apparently has four.
- During her American Idol audition, Carrie Underwood mentioned that she had one that looked like a mole.
- Mark Wahlberg considers his third nipple to be his "prized possession".
