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- The trope is supposed to be cleavage that bares part of the stomach, essentially going far beyond simple cleavage. Remove examples that don't fit this definition (such as examples that don't are simply about a character having noticeable cleavage), and remove Zero Context Examples.
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Absolute Cleavage is supposed to be cleavage that bares part of the stomach, essentially going far beyond simple cleavage. However, most examples are just “character has noticeable cleavage”. Renaming it to Stomach-Baring Cleavage would make the meaning more clear.Wicks checked: 50/50
Example count: 52
Correct: 5.77%
Any cleavage: 26.92%
Zero-context: 65.38%
Sandbox: Absolute Cleavage Wick Check
- Recap.Star Wars The Clone Wars S 2 E 10 The Deserter: Suu's top consists of two strips of cloth that only cover her breasts, leaving her cleavage and stomach exposed.
- Characters.The Seven Deadly Sins Demon Clan: A rare male example. His shirt makes a deep, U, plunging neckline going down to his abs but just over his navel.
- VideoGame.Batman Arkham City: Catwoman's suit is zipped down to the point where her whole cleavage and her stomach can be seen at some angles.
- Film.The Jerk: During the "snails on the food" scene in which Marie is wearing a low-cut dress and looking up in an unintentionally provocative way.
Navin: "Two boobs! That's what he takes us for!"
- Characters.Guilty Gear The Missing Link: Baiken's kimono barely contains her generous breasts. This gets even more so by Xrd and on.
- Film.Faster Pussycat Kill Kill: Varla's black shirt that shows off so much of her chest that it makes one wonder how a breast doesn't pop out mid-fight.
- Characters.Kill La Kill Kiryuin Conglomerate: (Ragyo Kiryuin) Her favorite outfits tend to show off her breasts to make her overall appearance more appealing. Technically correct use since her cleavage does bare her stomach, but the example makes no mention of this.
- Creator.Tana Mongeau: Tana's outfits are notoriously skimpy and revealing.
- Characters.Final Fantasy VII Remake Shinra Inc: Her dress is very low cut, prominently displaying her cleavage.
- Characters.Witch Hunter Witches:
- Her dress was quite revealing, even by Great Witch standards.
- Her outfit grants a nice view of her bosom.
- Recap.Doctor Who S 20 E 5 Enlightenment: Terry Wogan described a scene between Janet Fielding and Lynda Barron as "the battle of the boobs".
- Literature.Bridget Jones: The films usually have Bridget tastefully showing off her breasts, but there are a few outfits that show off her cleavage, her Playboy Bunny costume being a prominent example.
- Characters.Arachnid Caterpillar Assassins: Her dress gives a generous view of her bust, especially when she's knocked over and her breasts are left exposed.
- Characters.Mass Effect 2 Late Party Members: Her suit is kept partially unzipped to expose her breasts.
- Characters.Endride: Her shirt is open throughout the bust, with a few fasteners here and there to keep it together.
- Series.Ekaterina: The majority of Catherine's and Empress Elizaveta's dresses are low cut and boobage is readily visible.
- Recap.Futurama S 6 E 19 Ghost In The Machines: Lampshaded with Dr. Cahill.
Dr. Cahill: I'm afraid your heart has suffered a lot of damage, Mr. Fry. And my cleavage isn't helping.Professor Farnsworth: (smiling) Not helping him.
- LightNovel.Oresuki: When Pansy first undoes her school uniform and reveals her Hidden Buxom to Joro.
- Characters.Eternal Champions: Just the name of the trope.
- Characters.Yu Gi Oh Card Game G To I: Shows up quite often in the Japanese artwork.
- Characters.Reborn 2004 Simon Family: As of Chapter 297. (Beware, the image is spoilery)
- ComicBook.The Invaders Marvel Comics: Lady Lotus.
- Fanfic.Starlit Heroics: Quite a few. Generic monsters such as the Murilega cat women and so on.
- Characters.Go Princess Pretty Cure Dys Dark: Revealing a keyhole in the middle of her chest.
- Webcomic.Pink Lady: A rare male version can be seen in one of Subeom's outfits.
- Anime.Star Driver: Sugata's Crux outfit manages to be a male version.
- LightNovel.Slayers: Naga, Martina, Eris, Mazenda.
- VideoGame.Ar Tonelico II Melody Of Metafalica: Part of Misha's Spy Catsuit in Frelia's binary sphere.
- VisualNovel.Oyako Neburi Sasou Hitozuma Dakaretai Oyako: Yuri's maid café costume.
- VideoGame.Vanguard Princess: Luna, Hilda and Juliet. A little disturbing with the latter, since she doesn't look older than twelve.
- Characters.Friday The13th The Game Counselors: In her devil costume.
- Characters.Arachnid Caterpillar Assassins: Just the name of the trope.
- Manga.Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Jupiter Empire-employed female mercenary Rosemary Raspberry wears her pilot suit like this.
- Film.One Million Years BC: Probably some of the best-known of its era.
- GameOfThrones.Tropes A: Several of Margaery's gowns, such as the ones she wears at Renly's tourney and her betrothal to Joffrey. Cersei lampshades it by snarking that a single fabric sample should be enough material for Margaery's wedding dress.
- Recap.Alfred J Kwak S 1 E 13 De Witte Koningin: When the White Queen turns into a woman's upper body. Alfred gets flustered and blushes.
- Characters.Cannon Spike: Just the name of the trope.
- Anime.Battle Spirits Shonen Toppa Bashin: Number Eight, sometimes. Mainly the outfit she wears to tournaments, which seems very out-of-place for a kids show.
- Animation.Cupids Chocolates: Mei Tata.
- Manga.Hakkenden Eight Dogs Of The East: Lilith, who wields a huge poleaxe and managed to go toe-to-toe with Shino.
- Recap.Game Of Thrones S 2 E 10 Valar Morghulis: Margaery's new dress.
- Characters.Tales Of The Rays: Just the name of the trope.
- VideoGame.Aragami: Shinobu’s outfit in the DLC.
- Pinball.Whoa Nellie Big Juicy Melons: On all the girls.
- Characters.The Secret World The Big Three: Just the name of the trope.
- Characters.Jaune Arc Lord Of Hunger Remnant: Just the name of the trope.
- Pinball.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Data East: April sports this on the backglass.
- Series.The Voice: Christina's dress during the Battle Rounds of Season 2.
- Recap.Charmed S 5 E 23 Oh My Goddess Part 2: Paige's Goddess outfit has this. Unsurprisingly Rose McGowan disliked it for that reason.
- VideoGame.Divine Divinity: The female survivor's default clothing exposes a lot of her skin.
- WesternAnimation.Guardians Of The Galaxy 2015: Mantis
Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 12th 2022 at 5:04:56 AM
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Opened. I agree with renaming it to Stomach Baring Cleavage because "Absolute" is non-indicative.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 3rd 2022 at 1:53:23 PM
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rename. Gonna throw out Navel V-Neck as another possible name.
Edited by Hello83433 on Aug 3rd 2022 at 3:37:02 PM
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Rename. But should be navel, not naval.
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I'm all for sailor-themed v-necks, haha. Unsure about the OP-suggested name because cleavage isn't the shirt, cleavage is the anatomical splitty-bit between boobs. So it reads like "boobs that reveal the stomach" to me. Leaning toward Navel V-Neck as a result. Or maybe something like Stomach-Baring Neckline.
Edited by Yindee on Aug 3rd 2022 at 3:25:21 PM
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Arrrggg you've foiled me agenda to put boats in every trope
Fixed the spelling 
Anyways, I understand though that there is a focus on this being a primarily female trope, a la fanservice, so I wouldn't want to unintentionally deprecate it.
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Oh yeah if you want to make a point of it being female by using the word cleavage, I'd certainly be for it, it's just that a chest cleft is not responsible for showing a stomach. It's like calling ripped jeans "Knee-Baring Hips," at least to me.
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Sounds good on paper (he/him)
I prefer "stomach-baring" over "V-neck" regardless of whether we keep the word "cleavage" or replace it with something else (though I don't think replacing anything other than "Absolute" is necessary).
Maybe Navel Baring Cleavage could work instead of Stomach Baring Cleavage (or one could be a redirect to the other, which I'll probably do anyway if the final name has either "stomach-baring" or "navel-baring" in it).
Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 3rd 2022 at 4:15:26 AM
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Navel and stomach are both fine, imo. That's not the part I'm screaming into the void about. I don't care what words are used, just that the phrasing doesn't track definition-wise.
Breaking down what "stomach/navel-baring cleavage" means by replacing each one with its definition.
Stomach/navel (as used here): The belly region.
Bare: To expose a body part.
Cleavage: The hollow between a woman's breasts when supported.
Thus, "the hollow between a woman's breasts exposes the belly region." I don't know about you, but my cleavage does *not* play any part in whether or not you can see my stomach. I could wear something that shows my chest and my navel, but that's again not my boobs' doing. It's the hypothetical outfit's doing.
(This will be the last time I pedantically rant about this, I promise. To reiterate and summarize, I don't have any problem with any of the words. I heavily disagree with the wording.)
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So the problem is the “cleavage” part? Okay, is there another word we can use to replace it?
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It's not the word cleavage that I take issue with!!!
It's that the way you're wording it, it means that the cleavage is the actor in the sentence. Replace it with any other word and you'll see what I mean.
Stomach-baring chimpanzee.
Navel-baring toddler.
This means that the noun is doing the action of baring. A boob cleft is not doing anything. If anything, it's having an action done to it (cleavage being exposed or bared).
Baring Cleavage And Navel would be totally fine by me. I have zero issue with the word cleavage. It's just that it's not doing the baring!!
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Where would non-absolute cleavages (open neck and chest but no stomach) go?
I kinda not strongly care, but I thought the narrower version is still a trope considering the wick count.
Edited by Amonimus on Aug 3rd 2022 at 1:21:34 PM
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They’d be deleted because just having cleavage is not a trope. (Although Bare Your Midriff is a thing, so I dunno what to do about that one.)
Edited by MasterN on Aug 3rd 2022 at 3:19:29 AM
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Sounds good on paper (he/him)
I think I misread the post above my previous post earlier, since I overlooked the fact that it says that maybe we need to get rid of both words in the current title, unless I'm continuing to misread it. (I haven't been feeling the best today, so my head's kind of fuzzy.)
Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 3rd 2022 at 5:38:30 AM
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We can keep all the words, honestly, it just needs rewording imho. Because as the suggestion stands, the boob cleft itself is the thing doing the stomach-exposing (rather than clothing). The words can simply be shuffled around.
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Even though the "absolute" part is entirely meaningless out of context?
Edited by WarJay77 on Aug 3rd 2022 at 6:49:37 AM
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Hhhhh okay no, not "Absolute." At this point, I thought we were talking about "Cleavage," "Bare," and "Stomach"/"Navel" tbh.
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I don't think it that much if the wording is semantically correct or not. I think most people would under that Stomach Baring Cleavage is cleavage that exposes the stomach.
But Neckline To Navel isn't bad.
Edited by MacronNotes on Aug 3rd 2022 at 6:56:22 AM
Macron's notes
How about Waist-Deep Neckline?
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
Eh? I mentioned getting rid of both words in the current title, though I mainly meant "absolute" since it's absolutely (heh) meaningless when it comes to describing the trope. "Bare"/"Baring", "Stomach", and "Navel" aren't part of the current title, so I wasn't talking about omitting any of them. Keeping all the words in the case of my previous post would mean not renaming the trope, which nobody here seems to be in favor of.
I admit that Neckline To Navel (which would involve dropping both words in the current title) is not only an improvement over the current name in terms of clarity, but also in terms of memorability.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 3rd 2022 at 6:58:37 AM
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Neckline To Navel is probably the best for me so far.
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Navel-Deep Neckline is better, I think - Neckline To Navel makes me think of one of those comically over-the-top threats to e.g. cut someone open from their guggle to their zatch. That, or it suggests the neckline is moving somehow.
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Consensus was to rename Absolute Cleavage due to misuse. What should the trope's new name be?
To-do list:
Original post:
Absolute Cleavage is supposed to be cleavage that bares part of the stomach, essentially going far beyond simple cleavage. However, most examples are just “character has noticeable cleavage”. Renaming it to Stomach-Baring Cleavage would make the meaning more clear.Wicks checked: 50/50
Example count: 52
Correct: 5.77%
Any cleavage: 26.92%
Zero-context: 65.38%
Sandbox: Absolute Cleavage Wick Check
Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 12th 2022 at 5:04:56 AM
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