Basic Trope: A non-mammalian female character has breasts.
- Straight: The Lizard People females have breasts.
- Exaggerated:
- The Lizard People females have absurdly large breasts.
- Alternatively, they have placenta.
- Only male Lizard People actually resemble lizards. The females look just like human women.
- All Lizard People have boobs. Not just the females.
- Female lizard people have multiboobage.
- A race of Starfish Aliens have distinct humanoid breasts.
- Downplayed:
- Lizard Women are a bit curvy if you look at them from the right angle.
- Wrong Mammal Mammaries: Anthropomorphic mammals have humanoid breasts
- Justified:
- They're actually egg sacks.
- Or they're the ovaries, similar to the position of the genitalia in sharks, just moved forward (ventrally) a bit.
- Or the "breasts" are infoldings of the gut. Pigeons and some other birds today secrete a nutritious fluid from the lining of their crop, called "crop milk" which they use to feed their young. The "breasts" of the lizard people are infoldings of the crop creating more surface area for the crop, and hence more crop milk. This is also the reason why their "breasts" have no nipples.
- Or the character is more human than non-mammal. A human with reptilian characteristics rather then a reptile with human characteristics.
- Or the race was magically created, and doesn't have to follow the proper rules of evolution.
- The Lizard People are aliens who evolved on another planet and are not actually reptiles.
- The Lizard People are the Platypi of the reptile kingdom. Being humanoid lizards is improbable enough, so they may as well have boobs too. 'Cuz that's how the God of the setting rolls; that's how he gets all the Goddesses.
- They're actually a muscle group, a throwback to when lizard people had wings.
- Having breasts is a automatic part of a species' evolution for their female members.
- A robotic female has breasts because she is programmed for certain functions where having such protuberances would make her more desirable or because she's designed to look as human as possible.
- Inverted:
- Only the male Lizard People have breasts.
- Male Lizard People have external genitals.
- Or, creatures that should have breasts don't.
- Mammalian hemipenes.
- Only placental mammals have breasts.
- Subverted:
- The first Lizard woman actually has implants.
- Despite appearances, the lizard people are actually mammals with an appearance that happens to resemble lizards.
- Double Subverted: ...because she lost her real breasts to cancer.
- Parodied:
- The story is set on a planet where everything has human-like breasts, including plants, insects, and rock formations.
- A Lizard Woman is jealous of how human women have breasts, so she tries to look busty by hiding round objects in her shirt.
- Zig Zagged: The protagonist end up raising a sapient lizard person hatchling whom they name Trike. Come puberty she develops breasts. However it's later revealed once they reunite with her kind after a long journey that it only happened because Trike was of the diplomat caste which engages in slow shapeshifting to be more like other species when they spend long time around them. After spending a good deal of time with her biological relatives and away from the heroes Trike loses the breasts.
- Averted: While you can tell the difference between male and female Lizard People, this is only due to their plumage or figures; the females are as flat chested as the males.
- Enforced:
- "We need our viewers to understand which Lizard People are female, so we'll give the females breasts so they don't look exactly like the males."
- "We want some women in these lizard alien costumes, and women have breasts. So let's give the lizard women breasts."
- "Our work is intended to be a science fiction story with some fanservice. It's very unlikely our target audience will care about biological accuracy, so let's give all of the alien races' females breasts, even the non-mammalian ones. Heck, we may as well give the robot females some gazongas as well, since in that case we can justify that they're built like that."
- Lampshaded:
- "Why the hell does that lizard-woman have breasts?"
- "You have no idea how easy it is for me to get a date as a lizard-woman with breasts. Who would have thought that so many men would have a thing for reptilian humanoid females who are more human than reptile?"
- Invoked:
- "Of course we're going to give to the lizards we're uplifting breasts! How would we be able to tell gender easily?"
- "The robot woman I intend to build will be able to do certain functions, and of course men would probably be more interested in laying with a robot when that robot's got bazooms!"
- Exploited:
- A Lizard Woman adopts a human baby and breastfeeds them.
- A Lizard Woman who is the team's Token Non-Human exposes her breasts to distract an enemy who's known to have bizarre sexual fetishes.
- Defied: "You expected me to look like that? You are aware I was hatched and not born, right?
- Discussed: "Whoa, check out the rack on her!"
- Conversed:
- "The character designers for this show seem to have forgotten that lizards don't do lactation, so the females wouldn't have breasts."
- "Reptilian beings having mammaries may not be realistic, but if it's to cater to a certain niche, it's no skin off my nose."
- Implied:
- In a book that has Lizard People, the females aren't specifically described to have breasts, but a specific one has bras in her closet.
- Only males of the Lizard People are shown, but they make comments about their women being busty.
- Deconstructed:
- All breasts are an in-universe example of Author Appeal from Abusive Precursors who frequently gang-rape us as payment for the gift of intelligence. Western standards of unnatural female beauty come from an instinctive attraction to the Precursors, which inadvertently also makes humans and Lizard People madly attracted to each other, leading to transmission of alien diseases.
- Alternatively Lizardwoman breasts are cancerous tumors.
- Or even more, breasts are used the same way as breasts on humans are for. That's right, nursing becomes incredibly painful when you see an avian or a reptile with nice sharp teeth nursing. Have fun, yet?
- Reconstructed:
- But because of the mutual attraction between the two races diplomatic channels are much easier to maintain than with the Starfish Aliens and with the two races combined sciences the alien STDs are all cured.
- Those being nursed don't have developed teeth yet and simply use their tongues instead.
- Alternatively, breasts have a more durable exterior to protect the species from outside harm.
Are you just going to stare at the Non-Mammal Mammaries all day, or are you going to do something?
