History Main / CombatStilettos

* ''{{Franchise/Extrapower}}'': ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce Attack of Darkforce]]'' has the vampire Yukiko and ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerGiantFist Giant Fist]]'' has the devil Coma, both {{Stripperific}} MsFanservice who include tall high heeled boots as part of their ensemble, and as part of their offensive weaponry.

* ''FanFic/TotalDramaLegacy'' has Serena, an ElegantGothicLolita who wears high heels at all times. However, in spite of her footwear, she's very agile and is able to run quickly and move nimbly with no difficulty.

* In ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' Diana wears wedge heels in her Wonder Woman costume, which are far more understated and stable than stilettos but still not as stable and sensible as flats. This was to ensure she'd be taller than the male supporting characters and because heels just look good.

* [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica2013 Katana]] looks to have them in ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'', at least going off the promo poster.

* One of the main party members in ''VideoGame/{{Anachronox}}'' is a combat assassin who wears stilettos and [[KnifeNut uses lots of throwing knives.]] Her name? [[MeaningfulName Stiletto Anyway.]]

** Due to their ErmineCapeEffect, this applies to Peach, Daisy, and Rosalina whenever they are playable, as they usually don't have a change of outfit from their royal attire.

* The Demon Hunter from ''VideoGame/DiabloIII''.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'', there are several high heel pieces of equipment that female characters can wear and they actually increase evasion rate. The high heels don't look any different than other footwear, though, even though equipment actually shows up on your character in this game.

** Jade from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'' wears high heels in all of her outfits, even when she's wearing a swimsuit, likely to keep from changing her character model too much. As a martial artist, she uses her legs in quite a few of her attacks.

** Ashe wears high-heeled boots in her Amethyst skin. The splash art for her Freljord skin has them, but she has normal boots in-game.

Not to be confused with [[KnifeNut a combat stiletto]], nor [[ShoeSlap shoes being directly used as weapons]]. See RuleOfSexy, ImpossiblyCoolClothes and TheseTropesAreMadeForWalking. Compare KickChick and WithMyHandsTied, as this trope may sometimes be used together with the said two. Tends to overlap with HighHeelPower.

* Elsa Bloodstone of ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' wears thigh-high stilettos.

* The Officer Jennys in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', despite being police officers presumably trained for combat, wear stilettos (as well as [[DangerouslyShortSkirt miniskirts]]) in all the seasons from Kanto to Sinnoh. They lose the heels for flats in Unova (though they still wear miniskirts), and gain completely practical attire from Kalos onwards.

* Characters/{{Black Canary|TheBlackCanary}} is infamous for fighting in high-heeled shoes, and there is a [[BrokenBase widespread and heated conflict]] in the fandom between those who insist it is stupid and should be fixed, an acceptable aspect of fantasy, and a few who claim it is actually [[JustifiedTrope reasonable]]. At least one letter writer to a Black Canary comic claims she was capable of delivering high-kicks while cosplaying as Canary, without harming herself. We... [[DontTryThisAtHome wouldn't recommend trying]]. In ''JLA: Year One'', Franchise/TheFlash once asked Black Canary about her high heels and if they are not impractical for fighting crime. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v137/stardrifter001/junk/blackcanaryflash.jpg Her reaction]] was to grab the wings of his mask and turn his mask 90° around, blinding him.

* Due to UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} aesthetic, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has Characters/{{Black Canary|TheBlackCanary}}, [[Characters/BatmanHuntress Huntress]], ComicBook/{{Vixen}} and every other female hero and villain effectively fighting in high heels.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' has Lusamine who is one of the hardest bosses in the franchise and wears heels. When you first battle her the intro animation is her doing a Heel Clank in a similar vein to [[Anime/KillLaKill Satsuki and Ragyo Kiryuin]].

* Brittany from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' does an ''amazing'' dance with Mike at Sectionals in heels. This is TruthInTelevision. Dancers -- particularly ballroom and belly dancers -- train bloody hard to do extremely complex and sometimes dangerous steps specifically in heels, and not necessarily sensible heels either. It's as much a skill as dancing ''en pointe'' in ballet, and is made somewhat easier by the fact that most dance forms require you to keep your weight over the balls of your feet rather than the heels.

* Usually averted in pro wreatling in general; females usually only appear around the ring area in high heels when they're not actively competing, and some matches that make them compete in formal outfits see them remove their heels beforehand.

* Sakuya Izayoi, the [[CharacterTitle Perfect and Elegant]] [[{{Meido}} Maid]] of the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' franchise. Especially noticeable in the fighting games, where she uses those high heels to kick and stomp on her opponents.

* ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' plays with it on two characters:
** Hibiki's first real fight after having learned martial arts from Genjuro starts with her tripping on her Symphogear's heels, which she promptly breaks off so she can fight properly.
** [[WaifFu Tsubasa]], on the other hand, plays it straight, and, on top of fighting with ArmedLegs, can even combine her heel with a stories-tall {{BFS}} to perform a kick on hapless {{Mooks}}.

** Tossed a LampshadeHanging; SquishyWizard ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'s normal costume includes square-heeled boots, which aren't as bad as they could be, but when Harm begins chasing her, she casts a spell to turn them into flats. Read each word backwards:

--->'''Ryuji''': My feet are friggin' killing me!//

* In ''Film/{{Angel}}'', Angel chases The Killer along Hollywood Boulevard while wearing stiletto heels and has no trouble keeping up with him.

* [[ShesGotLegs Miss Parker]] of ''Series/ThePretender'' likes her high heels.

* High heels are all the rage in ''Manga/DragonKnights''. Even the guys where them. Even to the final climactic battle.

* In ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'', Ochaco Uraraka has stilettoes built into her boots. Momo Yaoyorozu has wider heels. The rest of girls in class 1-A wear more sensible footwear.

* ComicBook/BlackCanary is infamous for fighting in high-heeled shoes, and there is a [[BrokenBase widespread and heated conflict]] in the fandom between those who insist it is stupid and should be fixed, an acceptable aspect of fantasy, and a few who claim it is actually [[JustifiedTrope reasonable]]. At least one letter writer to a Black Canary comic claims she was capable of delivering high-kicks while cosplaying as Canary, without harming herself. We... [[DontTryThisAtHome wouldn't recommend trying]]. In ''JLA: Year One'', Franchise/TheFlash once asked Black Canary about her high heels and if they are not impractical for fighting crime. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v137/stardrifter001/junk/blackcanaryflash.jpg Her reaction]] was to grab the wings of his mask and turn his mask 90° around, blinding him.

* ComicBook/EmmaFrost, and every other female in the Hellfire Club. Very few of them actually get involved in hand-to-hand combat, meaning it isn't that much of an issue.

* For ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens'', ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} has added heels to her formerly sensible costume.

* ComicBook/MaryMarvel, when she [[EvilCostumeSwitch turned evil]] during ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.
* In ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'', when Kamala's powers first kick in, she ends up transforming into ComicBook/CarolDanvers' iconic ComicBook/MsMarvel look and is excited to go out in the look. Unfortunately, the outfit has high heels and, in trying to foil a robbery, she ends up falling on her face.

* The ComicBook/ScarletWitch.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvionZFGBqA This scene]] from Creator/JackieChan's ''Film/ArmorOfGod'', which also demonstrates some of the problems with high heels in combat situations. On the other hand, it gave some extra punch to their multiple GroinAttack.

* The majority of non-Wakandan {{action girl}}s from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, including ComicBook/BlackWidow, ComicBook/LadySif, ComicBook/PeggyCarter, ComicBook/{{Gamora}}, ComicBook/{{Nebula|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/ScarletWitch, ComicBook/{{Mantis|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/{{Valkyrie|MarvelComics}} and ComicBook/{{Hela}} wear high heels. Exceptions so far include the Ancient One, [[Comicbook/TheWasp the Wasp]], and [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]]. Some of the actresses, such as Creator/ZoeSaldana, could only run and do fight scenes in sneakers which were digitally replaced with high-heel boots in post.

* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': ComicBook/{{Psylocke}}'s thigh-high boots come with high heels, and ComicBook/{{Storm}} wears wedge heels with her Horseman [[spoiler:and X-Men attire]]. Storm at least can fly, making hers semi-justified by RuleOfCool.

* In the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} wear high heels. There are practical combat uses for them however, for example, when Catwoman stomps on thugs' bellies or when Batgirl heels them in the face. This is to convey [[WomenAreDelicate feminine inferiority in strength]] as the female characters don't have strong arm muscles like the male characters and therefore have to rely more on their legs (additionally, they also have to use their whole body movements to lift up enemies and they cannot use enemies' weapons; also, Catwoman cannot ride Titans in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' because [[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty her arms aren't meant to be that strong]]). ComicBook/HarleyQuinn also wear high heels in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' (in both of which she's not playable) and the classic [[SexyJester jester]] skin in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''; her default {{Goth}} skin in ''Knight'' only has her wear low-heeled boots because she relies more on her baseball bat than on her legs.

** Zero Suit Samus gets a pair of them in ''Wii U/3DS'', but instead of just cosmetic, they also double as RocketBoots. They're called "Jet Boots" in-universe, and make her kicks pack more oomph. Their appearance also makes it more literal than the wedges from her Other M appearance.

** Other examples are Emerald Sustrai, Winter Schnee, Raven Branwen, and Amber. Interesting, Emerald only picked up the stilettos after she met Cinder, before that she wore ballet flats and in Atlas she switched to ankle boots with a much wider heel [[spoiler:right before she had a [[IncrediblyLamePun Heel]] [[HeelFaceTurn Face Turn]] and left Cinder for good]].

* Due to UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} aesthetic, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has ComicBook/BlackCanary, ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, Comicbook/{{Vixen}} and every other female hero and villain effectively fighting in high heels.
* ComicBook/{{Katana}} looks to have them in ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'', at least going off the promo poster.

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-->-- '''Ruby Rose''', ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''

-->-- '''[[TheHero Ruby Rose]]''', [[PerkyGoth who much prefers big boots]], ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''