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And now Negi wants a cookie.

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One Head Taller, with a few inches on top (and quite a few more in front).

Usually found in anime or manga: a usually short, usually male character becomes smooshed in the chest area of a taller female character. They get a cleavage cushion. A push-up pillow. A rack resting place. A maternal muffler, you get the picture...

If she's Hot For Student, she may use this as an initial seduction tactic, but most of the time, the hugger is unaware of (or unable to seenote and to be fair, it can be hard to see much of anything in this position) the implications of the situation. This is often done for pure Fanservice value, but may also be used for comedy in one (or both) of two ways:

The guy in question is a little too young or innocent to appreciate the situation, and is more embarrassed than enjoying it (especially when it happens in public). In certain cases, the boy may be just old enough to appreciate the situation, but not old enough to control either his reaction to it or his mortification at the same.

Advertisement: The poor boy is quite literally being smothered in the process, as the girl is really well-endowed.

Because of that last one, this is sometimes initiated from behind the victim instead, allowing both him to breathe and the audience to see his reaction better.

While this trope is almost Always Female, there does exist a male variant where the Hunk draws someone into their pecs a tad too forcefully.

The name comes from a scene in Mahou Sensei Negima!, where poor Negi nearly gets drowned when several girls do this to him at once while he was partly submerged. Poor, lucky bastard. On occasion, this can overlap I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!.

See also Funbag Airbag and Thanks for the Mammary for accidental collisions of the type. Not to be confused with Marshmallow Dream. (However, it's only a matter of time before they're mixed into one trope.) Compare Cry into Chest and Cooldown Hug. Contrast Torpedo Tits, where the individual is deliberately attacking with breast-mounted weaponry.

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Examples

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In one Confused.com advert, Bertha puts Cara's face in hers.

A beer commercial had some guys at a nightclub thinking it would be a great joke to set up a short friend with a very tall woman as a dance partner. Cut to them looking on enviously as he's smooched into her chest for a slow dance.

Card Games

Comic Books

An issue of Lobo combines this trope with Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever. He breaks up with a woman because she was too "flat", so she jumps into a vat of breast enlarging hormones that turns her into a Giant Woman, who exacts her revenge by smothering Lobo in her gargantuan cleavage.

Astonishingly, Power Girl herself is nearly on the receiving end of one of these during a supervillain-induced hallucination.

hallucination. In Hate, Buddy takes his elderly dad to a strip joint and is shocked to find him with his head in a dancer's chest. Thinking he's passed out, Buddy rushes up to the stage to get him, but instead, he says to Buddy, "Can't you see I'm having the time of my life?"

In 2011's Hack/Slash #4, Cassie does this to Vlad to get him to snap out of his slasher-induced altered state of mind.

In Turma da Mônica Jovem, Mônica does this to Cebolinha. ◊

Comic Strips

This happens to Jon in the March 28, 1987 strip of Garfield.

Films — Animation

LARP

This sometimes is used as a tactic by female players in Humans vs. Zombies in order to either score a silent infection against a human or in order to silently kill a zombie.

Literature

Older Than Television: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ends with the governess smothering her ward to death in her bosom in order to protect him from ghosts.

Parodied in Wyrd Sisters. After the fool is stabbed... with a fake stage knife , he ends up in Magrat's bosom, such that it is. There was some interesting dialog as they end up actually arguing about whether or not he's dead since, on the one hand, he thinks he's in heaven because there's boobs in his face, and on the other hand, dead people don't need to breathe. Implied to have occurred in Guards! Guards! with Sybil and the young man who's temporarily king of Ankh-Morpork. She's quite tall and curvy, so this is probably something she often has to be careful about. She'd even danced with the, for want of a better word, new king, who had said some polite words to her although they had been rather muffled.

, he ends up in Magrat's bosom, such that it is. There was some interesting dialog as they end up actually arguing about whether or not he's dead since, on the one hand, he thinks he's in heaven because there's boobs in his face, and on the other hand, dead people don't need to breathe. This happens in the novel Cold Mountain when Inman and Veasey are staying with a man and his several wives and offspring. One of the women, named Lila, does this to him because she wants to have sex with him. Fortunately, although they are (involuntarily, in Inman's case) married, it doesn't happen.

Flashman: Flashman in the Great Game. This happens to Flashman after he's rescued from torture by an Indian queen. Unfortunately for the permanently-randy Anti-Hero, his hands are tied.

In the Xanth novel A Spell For Chameleon, Bink is rescued from an angry centaur by said centaur's girlfriend, who pulls Bink close to protect him, pillowing his head on something. When Bink turns around, he's face-to-not-quite-face with those "pillows."

Chakona Space: During a Food Fight, Captain Foster tries to perform a tickle attack against one of his female Rakshani marines. She's smart enough to knock his arms out from under him, plunging his face between her chocolate cream pie coated breasts. Neal : "What a way to go."

In one of the Leo Kessler novels, Sgt Schulze is talking to a Big Beautiful Woman when a shell goes off nearby, and his fellow soldiers look on in envy as he faceplants into her bosom.

Music

The Tom Smith song "Death by Wubbie", which originally had a slightly different name.

Print Media

Conversed in an interview with a CSI guy in German mag "Spiegel" (? - or was it "Stern"). They asked him what would be the perfect murder, and he came up with this trope. When he even said that they did an experiment and it worked (they had to stop after twenty seconds), you start wondering if it all was made up just for titillation of the reader.

Pro Wrestling

Religion

Poetically implied in the Song of Songs 1:13: A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. (King James Version)

Theatre

In Urinetown, when Hope and Bobby first meet, Hope teaches Bobby how to listen to his heart. She first listens to his heart, then shoves his head into her chest so he can listen to her heart.

In Spamalot, the Lady of the Lake, usually played by a Big Beautiful Woman, does this to Galahad in their shared introductory song, right before taking him off-stage and making him a man.

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