Breasts, boobs, bust, boobies, tits, titties (or tiddies), melons, knockers, hooters, jugs, milk bags, fun bags, milk factories, bosoms, jubblies, sweater puppies, ta-tas, chesticles, embonpoint, ballistics, huge tracts of land, bazongas... Whatever you wanna call them, you know what they are.
For as long as humanity has been around, there has always been a fascination with female breasts. It's hard to ignore the influence that they have on several pieces of media. Thus, there are a plethora of tropes about them and how they are shown or used in media.
And this is an index filled with tropes relating to (usually) human mammaries.
Examples:
- A-Cup Angst: Being upset about having small boobs.
- The Art of Bra Removal: Unhooking a bra is portrayed as an extremely complex task.
- Big-Breast Pride: Having a lot of confidence in your own bustiness.
- Boobs-and-Butt Pose
- Boob-Based Gag: Comedy involving or surrounding breasts.
- Breast Attack: An injury to the boobs.
- Breast Expansion
- Bust-Contrast Duo: Two girls of differing cup-sizes have contrasting personalities.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Big boobs make people think you're more attractive.
- Cleavage Window: Clothing with an opening in it to expose cleavage (see above).
- D-Cup Distress: Having big boobs sucks.
- Fake Boobs
- Funbag Airbag: A collision into someone else's boobs.
- Gainaxing: Unrealistically (and often comically) bouncing boobs.
- Godiva Hair: A woman's hair covers her chest to preserve her modesty.
- Hidden Buxom: Concealing how big your boobs really are.
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
- Impossibly-Low Neckline: A neckline so low that the clothes shouldn't logically be covering them up.
- Man, I Feel Like a Woman: The first thing a guy does upon turning into a woman is feel his own boobs.
- Marshmallow Hell: Being smothered by boobs.
- Most Common Superpower: Comic books (and comic-inspired media) have a preference for large boobs.
- Multiboobage: Having more than two boobs.
- My Eyes Are Up Here: So, stop staring at my boobs.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Cleavage so low that it goes past your bellybutton.
- Nipple and Dimed: Female nipples are considered obscene, but showing everything else is relatively okay and male nipples are perfectly fine.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: An organism that shouldn't have boobs not only has them but has a human-shaped pair.
- Organic Bra
- Petite Pride: Being proud of not being endowed.
- Sideboob
- Suppressed Mammaries
- Thanks for the Mammary: Grabbing someone's boobs for non-perverted reasons.
- Torpedo Tits: Having weapons in your boobs.
- Underboobs
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: Using your cleavage or your bra to store things.
- World of Buxom: A setting where it is rare to find a female with anything lower than a D-cup.
- You're Drinking Breast Milk
