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* FinalFantasyXI's Kam'lanaut fits this trope to a T. By day, he wears garish wine-colored robes and gladiator sandals, but by night, he becomes a sorcerous Paladin wearing what are ''easily'' 6-inch stiletto-heeled sabatons. It doesn't help that he has Rapunzel hair that drags on the floor.

* Peach and, to a more practical extent, Zelda in Super Smash Bros. Melee. Zelda loses the pumps for some uggs in Brawl, however.
* [[ActionGirl Judith]] of TalesOfVesperia equips these in her secondary weapon slot.

* Samus, in MetroidOtherM has what are best described as combat wedges, on her [[LatexSpacesuit Zero Suit]]
* {{Persona3}} has Mitsuru Kirijo, being the local {{Badass}} {{Ojou}}, wearing some very sexy heeled boots into battle, and even kicks her opponent during her Critical Attack.

* In ''DirgeofCerberus'', Rosso clicks around in stiletto, thigh-high boots. To say nothing about her butt-cape.

** ItGetsWorse her down attack is stomping on the opponent with them, if that does not hurt this will...if the opponent is male and is in front of her she stomps on his [[GroinAttack nuts]] [[UnderStatement ouch]]

* In an early episode of ''QuantumLeap'', Sam Beckett "leaps" into a small-town coroner/mortician in the early 1960's, and has to solve the murder of a young woman. [[Spoiler:He discovers that the woman was killed by a jealous friend who took the victim's own spike-heeled shoe and hit her, driving the heel into her brain, in a manner very like the Robert De Niro film mentioned above.]]

* Rosa Klebb in ''FromRussiaWithLove'' actually carries a poisoned knife in her heel.
** Actually, the blade emerges from the sole through the front of her shoe.

[[caption-width:250: If you look closely, you can even see a little blood.]]

** ''High'' heels are not found on most boots meant for men. This includes cowboy boots. They usually have a heel that's about 1/2 an inch high. They are sometimes referred to as low heels. High heels are generally more than 2 inches. Ballet heels (the highest this troper knows of) are around 8 inches. Think toe shoes with heels.
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* In the live-action movie of BarbWire, Pamela Angerson does a great deal of fighting in stilettos. On a plus-point she uses dynamite and guns a lot more than hand-to-hand combat, but they are still impractical.

* Averted in the 2010 file ''Red'' when Victoria slips off her dress high heels and trades them for a pair of sensible flat boots before the big operation.

* ''MegasXLR'': Kiva's boots have heels, but given their construction, it may be slightly more combat-appropriate than other examples.

** Gaap actually *curb stomps* George with her heels in arc 4, leaving a nice clean hole in his forehead.

** Gaap actually [[spoiler:*curb stomps* George with her heels, leaving a nice clean hole in his forehead]].

[[caption-width:250: Look at her [[strike:[[MostCommonSuperpower boobs]]]] [[FreudianSlip BOOTS]]!]]

* Shaina in ''SaintSeiya'' fights in high eels. Including a scene where she dodges Shun's Nebula Chain, jumps and runs on it, an then hists Shun. However in the Manga version she wears more reasonable shoes as a part of her armor

* Shaina in ''Saint Seiya'' fights in high eels. Including a scene where she dodges Shun's Nebula Chain, jumps and runs on it, an then hists Shun. However in the Manga version she wears more reasonable shoes as a part of her armor