History Main / ShoeSlap

* ''Webcomic/BigBreak2019: [[spoiler:In the crossover with ''Bible Black'', Yazmin infiltrates Reika's witch coven to save Joseph from the clutches. Just when the ritual was beginning, Yazmin makes her presence known by throwing one of her flip-flops at Reika's face.]]

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-->'''Austin''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIwLJtqoxBs Who throws a shoe? Honestly!]]

* ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'': During the training scene mid-movie, Team Rebellion realize their skills are no match for Team Shaolin, they decide to fling their shoes - at least a dozen pairs - towards the Shaolin goalie. The goalie instead plucks ''all'' their shoes from the air, and sends it together with the soccer ball back into their faces.

* Ryotsu in ''{{Manga/Kochikame}}'' launches his sandals out of his feet to take out enemies at a distance.

* In the ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' OVA, Lina hits Naga with a bunny slipper when she doesn't feel like setting her on fire.

Obviously this is TruthInTelevision, throwing shoes happen to be a common occurrence in some cultures and countries, with some seeing it as an act of disrespect; in Spanish households, ''la chancla'' is their equivalent of DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff. Also in general, the soles and the overall construction of footwear can make them quite sturdy. Although their effectiveness is mostly based to what type of shoe and the materials they are made out of. The size also matters depending on whether they can be wielded effectively or work better for being thrown. [[BootsOfToughness Boots]] are a great example of the latter, while slippers/sandals/flip-flops on the other hand are great for the former ''and'' latter.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'': After defeating Wario he throws a show and flees the throne room.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'': After defeating Wario he throws a show and flees the throne room.

* During the reign of UsefulNotes/QueenElizabethI when tensions were high over her potential marriage to a French prince, she was reported to have hit secretary Walsingham with a slipper.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' features quite a bit of this. Miguel's Abuelita Elena uses her ''chancla'' as a fearsome weapon towards any musicians who get too close to her family's workshop, and Mamá Imelda uses her boot to pummel the computer of a hapless [[CelestialBureaucracy afterlife immigration agent]]. Imelda used her boot to slap Ernesto de la Cruz twice; the first time is after [[spoiler:she learned that he killed Hector]], and the second time when he [[spoiler:tried to kill Miguel]].

* In Mexico, ''la chancla'' ("the sandal") is commonly used by mothers or grandmothers to hit misbehaving children, usually by throwing the sandal at them with pinpoint accuracy. Eventually, this became a very common practice for the Chicano community in the U.S., and subject to ''many'' jokes and memes by adult Latinos.

The trope can sometimes cross over with WearingItAllWrong if someone exploits this trope by shoving their hands into footwear that fit and then using them to kick people in the face with their fists.

* At a press conference in Iraq, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWt3-kPBQ4A someone threw both his shoes]] at UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, who dodged both of them. Throwing shoes at someone is an especially great insult in many Muslim-majority countries (not that it's a compliment elsewhere, but...). The guy [[HoistByHisOwnPetard was himself the victim of]] a shoe slap a year later in Paris, by another journalist who accused him of supporting dictatorship in Iraq. His reaction?

The trope can sometimes cross over with WearingItAllWrong if someone exploits this trope by shoving their hands into footwear that fit and then using them to kick people inn the face with their fists.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SCoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'', as part of their plan to keep Shaggy from being well-rested for the [[WackyRacing Monster Road Race]], the Hunch Bunch dress up as cats, go out on a fence, and start caterwauling. They are immediately hit by shoes thrown the FrankensteinMonster, who grumbles, "Doggone kitty-cats!"

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' isn't getting hit by ProducePelting during his late-night fence performing, then he'll probably get hit by a thrown shoe.

* Rejected in ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Poison Sky". Initially, Donna (Catherine Tate) was supposed to KO a Sontaran with a shoe. Problem? In her words: 'But because I'll only wear trainers, they didn't want it to be a trainer. Or thought probably a trainer would be too soft.'

** In "The God Complex" Rory complains of Amy having hit him with a shoe for insulting the Doctor. Worse, she had to ''bend down and unlace it first!''

* In the first episode of the deservedly short-lived dramatic series ''Series/ThePlayboyClub'', one of the new Playboy Bunnies is fending off the unwanted attentions of a mobster. During the struggle, they both fall to the floor. She kicks him in the head, and her high heel (the dress code specified three inches) penetrates his temple and goes into his brain, killing him.