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Direct Hit

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"Ah, that was my favorite boob!"
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"Ow! My boobs! I need those for seducing!"
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Breast Attack is the Distaff Counterpart to Groin Attack, since receiving blunt trauma to the breasts is painful for women, though probably not as painful as Groin Attack is for men (not that many people can be a proper judge of that). The nipples are also rather sensitive, though this is also true for men to a lesser extent.

In reality, a Groin Attack is much more dangerous and painful for women than a Breast Attack, not even so much because of genitalia but more because of being a site of most major vital nerves and blood-vessels to the lower extremities. However, in a fight, breasts are a much easier target, which is why the Breast Attack is much more common than a female Groin Attack.

A Breast Attack is sometimes intended to show that the male attacker is playing dirty (and against a woman too, how low!). You're supposed to wince at this one, but this trope is occasionally Played for Laughs. If the victim is already a Butt Monkey, it's okay to laugh. Or if it's a woman doing it to another woman. Or a man getting a purple nurple.

In real life breast trauma while mostly harmless it can lead to worries for the woman who has suffered said trauma that mimic more serious conditions. Aside from the possible intimation and swelling a woman being hit or taking trauma on her breast can lead to a hematoma or necrosis which form lumps on the breast that could be mistaken for something much more serious. Very serious hits to the breast can also lead to blood vessels in the area being damaged and could be life threatening. This CAN also be dangerous if the victim has implants.

Contrast Torpedo Tits and Boob Bite.

Examples of Breast Attack include:


Anime & Manga[]

  • Ranma ½ this is a common trick (mostly by the Tendo sisters) to subdue Ranma in female form, mostly because Ranma - a guy who's cursed to transform into a woman - is still unused to the enhanced sensitivity and because it's funny.
  • Ichi the Killer. Poor Myu-Myu.
    • In another scene, a prostitute has her nipples cut off.
  • In Hellsing, in a Shoot the Hostage moment, Alucard shoots the Villain of the Week through Seras, making a rather large hole through her right breast. She gets better, though. More or less.
  • In Naruto Kabuto didn't mean to attack Tsunade's breasts. He was just trying to stab her in the heart, but her brobdingnagian boobage got in the way.
    • Doubly played for laughs, as Kabuto can't determine if his attack on her internal organs was ineffective because of her advanced ninja training or because her breasts are just too damn big to get through.
    • Hinata was hit with one as well.
  • In Change 123, Ginga "boob bite" and "boob slap" Mikiri.
  • Basilisk: Josuke revealed that he survived Akeginu's attack by suddenly grabbing her breast, hurting her.
    • Later, Rozai threatens to rip Okoi's breasts if she refuse to speak. She kills him before he gets the chance.
  • In Burn Up Excess, Rio is caught in a choke hold by female The Dragon, she frees herself by squeezing the dragons breasts before knocking her out. "These almost feel real! but does it hurt when I do this?"
  • An inadvertent one occurred in Highschool of the Dead. Rei attempts to put down a female zombie with a hunting rifle. But the shot is a little low and it does through the zombies ample chest. "STUPID SEXIST BULLET!!!"
  • In Street Fighter Unlimited extra Some Wisdom, when Karin comes legs first to attack Ibuki after Ibuki just got in said car, Karin's feet hit Ibuki right on her breast.
  • Parodied in Fushigi Yuugi, when an ill and feverish Miaka is dreaming of food. . . and when she dreams she's eating a pork bun, she bites on the breast of her current caretaker, a girl named Shouka.
  • Self-inflicted version in The Legend of Mother Sarah: the titular character does it to herself as self-punishment, since she had to smother her nursing infant son Kazuki to death to save herself and other people during a raid.
  • In Saint Seiya, the Sanctuary Arc properly starts when the Barrier Maiden and Big Good Saori Kido gets shot point blank to her chest with a magical golden arrow. The poor girl spends almost twelve hours with the arrow lodged in her left breast as the Bronze Saints desperately fight their way into the Sanctuary to get the Pope aka the Big Bad to tell them how to get it out without killing her.


Comic Books[]


Film[]

  • Scary Movie 4: A torture device that's a parody of the death traps from Saw does purple nurples.
  • Million Dollar Baby: "I want you to jab that kraut right in the tits until they turn blue and fall off!"
  • In Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, The Chosen One defeats a cow he is fighting by milking it.
    • This is after the cow attacks him by milking itself and using the jets of milk as a distraction.
  • Played for laughs in Jackie Chan's Armour Of God when a large woman is double-punched in the chest and her breasts bounce with a sound effect better suited to something much heavier. She is rendered incapable of fighting until she stops them bouncing.
  • In Roger Avary's Killing Zoe the titular Zoe slaps the (male) main character's nipple for calling her a prostitute. In fairness he had just paid her for sex.
  • In Sudden Impact Jennifer Spencer is on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge on a group of people who had raped her and her sister years before. Before she kills them she shoots them in the groin. One woman was involved - she shoots her in the breast.
  • In Mallrats, Gwen sneaks up on her old boyfriend TS, who jumps and "elbows [her] right in the freakin' tit!" She responds by giving TS an upward double axe handle to the groin. (Brodie uses the opportunity to explain his opinion of karmic justice to TS.)
  • In an unfilmed scene from an early draft of Ferris Buellers Day Off, Jeanie Bueller is talking with one of her friends; her friend pisses her off, and Jeannie responds, "I'll sock your tits."
  • In the film Kingpin, the male and female leads get into a fist fight. The female delivers a few shots between the legs so the male delivers several Breast Attacks.
  • At one point in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Scott is attacked by a cloaked figure. When he strikes back, the figure yells: "You punched me in the boob! Prepare to die, obviously!"
  • In Crank 2: High Voltage, a prostitute is shot in the breasts, though it only causes her implants to leak.
  • After seducing another character, Angela rips the skin off her breasts in the Night of the Demons remake.
  • House At The Edge Of The Park when the villain gets his hands on the most innocent character who arrives late to the party.
  • In Kill Bill volume 2 Beatrix/the Bride gets a shotgun volley in the chest.
  • Karl hacks off and eats a breast in Violent Shit.
  • Sawney Bean is shown drinking blood out of a severed breast in Hillside Cannibals.
  • In the original Scary Movie, Ghostface stabs Drew Decker in the chest only to pull the knife out with the breast implant impaled on it.
  • In Ichi the Killer, Saburo tortures Myu-Myu by stretching her nipples with crocodile clips and then severs them both with a single pull of the scalpel.
  • In Pier Paolo Pasolini's Saló or The 120 Days of Sodom, one of the girls tortured and raped all through the movie (Renata. the most naive of them) is killed via having her breasts burned.
  • In The Crucible Abigail claimed a spirit bit her on her breast, likely untrue.
  • Rachel Wolfson in Jackass Forever during her "Scorpion Botox" segment at one point said scorpion fell onto her chest and she was voicing her concern of the scorpion stinging her "boob". Fortunately it was removed from said area before anything happened.

Literature[]

  • In On A Pale Horse, the hero's girlfriend is tortured by being stripped to her waist, and her nipples being touched by active electrodes.
  • A particular magic-user in The Sword of Truth series controls people (women and men alike) by cutting off a nipple to use in Sympathetic Magic.
  • In Book 5 of The Faerie Queene, during Britomart's Combat by Champion with Radigund, the narrator notes that the two women did not "spare each other's most tender parts," or something like that, despite both being women and therefore knowing how much it would hurt. I guess we have here the logic behind Cat Fight and Designated Girl Fight.
  • In the fourth book of A Song of Ice and Fire, The Blue Bard is being tortured by the Mad Doctor Qyburn on Cersei's orders under the Red Keep. During said torture scene, he remarks about men's nipples sometimes being as sensitive as women's nipples, then removes the Bard's nipples.
  • In an early chapter of Friday, the heroine is tortured by having one of her nipples cut off. This being science fiction, her doctor is able to regrow the body part, but it is good for a guilt trip later in the novel when she meets one of her captors.
  • In The Iliad, after Athena K.O.'s Ares with a boulder, Aphrodite goes to help him. Well, Athena is still angry: "She charged at Aphrodite, overtook her and beat her breasts with clenched fists." As one would expect from the wimpy Aphrodite, "Down she sank with Ares, resistance quite dissolved."
  • From the Ian Fleming novel Dr No, describing the murder of a female MI 6 agent: "The man smiled broadly. Slowly, lovingly, he lifted the gun and shot her three times in and around the left breast."


Live Action TV[]

  • During a Thanksgiving episode of Friends the gang is having a game of American football for the Gellar Cup. Monica throws the ball to the inexperienced Phoebe who catches it, but it strikes her in the chest hard and she squeals: "Oh! Broken boobs!"
  • In one episode of Dengeki Sentai Changeman, the Monster of the Week employs fishes with huge mouths to attack/bite the team. While each team members got bitten, poor Sayaka/Change Mermaid got bitten on the breast area, with her knocking them down while yelling "PERVERT!". Fun fact is that since she's attacked while morphed, the Changeman female suits offer no visible breasts.
  • The Shake It Up episode "Party It Up" had a scene where it did happen, when CeCe and Rocky body bumped copying the boys... but in turn, both girls groan from the pain.
  • Wayne Brady apparently thinks that purple nurples are part and parcel of a female prison riot (the "persona" he got saddled with in Lets make a Date).
  • Charlie Runkle's unfortunate nipple mishap in Californication constitutes a rare male example of this trope.
  • In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers episode "Fourth Down and Long" when Centiback throws his football at Aisha it hits her on her chest.
  • An episode of Yes, Dear has Kim accidentally doing this to the then-wife of her husband's boss while playing tennis. Good thing her husband didn't get punished for this.
    • Another one involving Christine boxing Jimmy's boss. (A female security guard)
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 Christine: Ow...she punched me in the boob. Can you do that?

Jimmy's Boss: *annoyed* Yeah.

Christine: Oh. (punches Jimmy's boss in the boob)

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  • A male variation and a rather serious one happened in House when Dr. Cuddy and Dr. Wilson noticed House wasn't breathing but determined his heart was beating Dr. Foreman correctly deduced that all he needs is a brain signal and Foreman proceeded to remove House's shirt and twist his nipples which lead to waking up House and House screaming in pain. It would later be joked about by House with him saying his nurple his now purple.

Music[]

  • Pearl Jam, "Jeremy": "He gnashed his teeth and bit the recess lady's breast"


Professional Wrestling[]

  • Several female wrestlers have developed a move where they hoist their opponent up in a chicken wing hold, pulling their arms behind them, and then drop them face down. At least one has called this move "The Implant Buster."
    • Michelle McCool used the same attack during her initial face run calling it "Wings Of Love". She stopped doing it soon after and when asked why she said management told her it was too rough for the girls.
  • Sasha Banks in one match was seen visibly chopping Charlotte Flair right on her breast.
    • On the topic of Charlotte, she had to take time off at one point due to her breast implants having a rupture.
  • In general any slam or drop attack that has the victim land on their stomach with their face facing down in the same way is a breast attack on a female with a fair amount of bosom as the area will take a good amount of the impact.
  • Beth Phoenix's finisher the Glam Slam similar to the Implant Buster/WingsofLove has her female opponent landing face down with her torso taking a brunt of the force.
    • Unlike the Wings of Love Beth releases her opponent's arms during the "slam" portion of the attack, some women who took the finisher can be seen softening the landing on their torsos with their arms and some even putting their arms in front of the "sensitive" area when they land face down, somewhat averting this trope.
  • During one entrance when both were part of Dolph Ziggler's squad Big E Langston when he was stretching his arms on the way to the ring hit AJ Lee right in her torso by accident. Later interviews with both parties involved had Big E admitting he was terrified when he looked back as he was massive and buff while she was barely over 5 foot tall, AJ Lee stated that she was wearing a padded bra and it "saved" her from anything that might have otherwise happened.
  • The Electric Chair Facebuster variant involves lifting the victim by their thighs and making them land in a face down-stomach down position similar to the Glam Slam and Wingsoflove/Implant Buster but from an even higher height, similar to the Glam Slam the victim would be able to soften the impact on her torso with her free hands when she lands.
  • In a male version, Jon Moxley one time almost lost a nipple during a CZW match.
  • Whenever Triple H did his pedigree on a female wrestler.
  • During a TNA PPV match between Gail Kim and Petey Williams vs Miss Jackie Moore and James Storm when Gail was chopping Jackie announcer Don West stated "good thing she has padding". Jackie did indeed have Boobs of Steel.

Video Games[]

  • Chun-Li's focus attack is angled that it would hit most female characters on their breast in Street Fighter IV.
    • Balrog's headbutt in the II series hits most in the head including Chun-Li but Cammy doesn't receive this benefit as he headbutts her right on her breast. Vega gets this treatment too.
    • Hakan's ultra 2 has him oil his opponent before sending them sliding stomach down to a wall for a fair distance. It should be noted that Ibuki is listed at 95 cm Rose 96 and C. Viper at 98 in the chest area with other female fighters not far behind...
    • The infamous fight between Cammy and C. Viper in The Ties that Bind OAV had Viper grab Cammy by one of her breasts, before electrocuting her through said grabbed area. Then, she applied a Groin Attack also charged with electricity. Needless to say, poor Cammy was unconscious very soon.
  • Rumble Roses When Dixie is facing towards an opposing Rose while her back is to a turnbuckle and she successfully reverses a grapple she will muscle her opponent into the same turnbuckle and notably chops the Rose's breast putting them in the same state Dixie was just in
    • Becky's superstar lethal attack is essentially a Ground Pound with her butt landing on the breast of her opponent before the 3 count.
    • Dr. Cutter's Flatliner attack has her electrocute her opponent on their belly and breast.
  • An inversion happens in the N64 version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Link oddly can hook onto the nipple of a female statue in the Shadow Temple but once he is hooked in he is damaged, essentially her breast attacking him.
  • Averted in Super Smash Bros, as the girls are all grabbed by their hands many attacks that hit the males in different areas including areas that would qualify the ladies for this the girls are usually hit on their gut or lower by the pummel even if the attack loses it's meaning like the males, Wario essentially touches a female's knee with his finger and it damages them.
  • The aforementioned Electric Chair Facebuster is a double team attack in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 with the attacker's partner ensuring the face down part of the fall. The impact is especially notable on endowed females such as Nina, Anna and Asuka.
  • Jedah's grab in Darkstalkers enlarges a certain area of his enemies until they burst. For the flat chested Lilith it is her breast that are enhanced until they... burst.
  • A stage transition in Dead or Alive Dimensions has some of the physically weaker characters ride their opponents down some bumpy stairs while the opponent is face down and some even press further on their upper back thus creating more weight on their sternum. Mammory must not feel right.
  • Time Gal's Player Character, the Action Girl Reika Kirishima, can fall victim to this in the 500 A.D. stage. A giant Mook can whip the poor girl on her left breast in where she will hold said breast in pain with a quote (depending at what part of the stage her breast got whipped) saying stuff along the lines of "It Hurts" and "You Meanie!". This counts as a death. In the Japanese version, her quote after being whipped on her boob has her say something along "ow, my breast".
    • This can also happen in the 3999 A.D. stage to a lesser extent. If Reika is webbed, a creature will bite poor Reika if the player doesn't do the correct action in time. Some of it's sharp teeth could be seen making contact with one of her breast. Worth noting that earlier deaths in the same way had them biting her butt instead.
  • Grand Theft Auto V's auto aim feature targets the chest of the person being targetted. This is especially notable if a player shoots a female with no extra aim other than the auto aim with a shotgun as she will have shotgun shell wounds on her breast.
  • One of the kill cams in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim when using a single 1 handed sword when done on female opponents will look like the Dragonborn stabbed her vertically through one of her breast.
    • This will often happen, if unwillingly, if the player is a wood elf against many of the women who could be brawled due to the lesser height of the class.
  • Resident Evil 4 the Plagas removal machine would on and off target Ashley's breast with it's lasers as she would move due to the pain of the procedure.
    • The remake has more of a contactless form of operation. While it's devices seemed pointed at Ashley's breasts at times there was no visual contact.

Webcomics[]


Western Animation[]

  • Rare male example: In the penultimate episode of The Venture Brothers season 3, Brock Samson's nipple gets cut off.
  • In one of the many Robot Chicken sketches, a PMS-ing She-Ra attacks a trio of villainesses. Two get standard deaths. The third has her breasts squeezed till they popped.
  • American Dad: A stripper accidentally gets her breasts pierced by hypodermic needles, causing her implants to deflate. As soon as that happens, her mind clears and she says, "I remember now! I was going to be a civil engineer!"
    • Also happens to Francine when she and Roger attempt to spice up their mundane lives by attending a party at the French consulate.
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  "Roger, that was terrible. We were the only people in period dress and your fake French accent got me punched in the boob."

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    • Another episode also features a brief gag where Stan accidenly elbows Francine, causing her to complain "You elbowed my boobie!"
  • In Family Guy, when Peter started kicking everything after seeing Road House, Lois asked him not to kick her, unless it was her nipple.
    • In a scene that parodied when Peter fell face down Lois fell the exact same way in a much later episode, while Peter hurt his leg and he took a comically long time showing his pain and discomfort Lois instead hurt one of her breast with her showing the same pain and discomfort Peter did afterwards while holding said breast.
  • Stroker and Hoop: Hoop's mom is sent to women's prison for a crime she didn't commit. She consoles herself by claiming that a prison for elderly ladies can't be that bad and takes it all in stride, likening it to being roommates in college ... until her "roommate" threatens to cut her tits off.


Real Life[]

  • There is a report on the 1967 infamous rape case of Filipina actress Maggie dela Riva. According to an interview, during her ordeal she was incapacitated by her captors by means of punching her in several areas of her body, including one of her breasts, before they proceeded to rape her.
    • During the filming of the movie The Maggie dela Riva Story which was based on the incident, actress Dawn Zulueta (who played dela Riva) reported that when that grisly scene was recreated, it actually led to real injuries and she actually had to be hospitalized.
  • In addition to having her throat slashed, rumors abounded that Nicole Brown Simpson's breasts were deliberately slashed off in the attack as well—however the coroner's report refutes these rumors entirely.
  • The Breast Ripper torture device. It was usually heated and inserted inside the breast of a woman then pulled off taking the flesh with it.
    • The martyrology of Saint Agatha of Sicily tells that she had her breasts cut off.
    • Saint Markella of Chios' own martyrology states that her evil, incestuous father first cut off her nipples and then beheaded her.
    • The Iron Spider worked similar the breast ripper with one major difference and two variations. Both variations were wall mounted instead of hand held like the breast ripper and worked in a similar way but once the device pierced a woman's breast the unfortunate woman was either pulled away from the wall with her breast being ripped off in the process or moved to the side alongside a rail for the same effect.
  • Weird Or What suggests that breast implants protected a woman from being shot.
  • This blog, dealing with self-defense for women (and in this case, against one) (NSFW): Breast Punch
  • Boob tag. Which is like regular tag, but the only legal tag is tagging another participant's breast. Typically only played by women.
  • Averted with massage therapist. More massage tables are being made that have openings for the breasts of a woman to simply pass through rather than have her lay face down with the area being pressured by being squished throughout by her body weight.
  • Not an "attack" by any means but mammograms do put an intense amount of pressure on the targeted area.
  • Simply laying face down when you're a woman with a large chest can be rather uncomfortable, leading to the creation of specific items such as pillows relieve the area.
  • Female professional boxers are required to wear breast protection while in combat, furthermore intentionally targeting the area is not allowed. Worth noting that while chest attacks are allowed in the male equivalent male boxers are required to avoid the heart area of the opponent.
  • Car crashes are infamous on how absolutely brutal they could be on the breasts of a female driver. Seat Belts by themselves, due to the collision, could hurt the breast of the wearer and air bags could also hit the driver's breast. Collision from some areas could also force a female driver to hit the steering wheel with her breast at high speeds.
  • The SPAR restraint system could compress the bust of a more endowed restrainee. This could be for prolonged periods with the restrained person unable to provide relief to the area.