History Main / SmolderingShoes

* In Sheigala: Vampire Business Women [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYLUMYZrK4]] many vampires explode and leave behind their smoking boots.

* In this comedy web-series [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYLUMYZrK4]] many vampires explode and leave behind their smoking boots.

* Our last glimpse of Jimmy Barnes in the video clip for The D Generation's "Five in a Row".

* In ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', this happens to [=LeChuck=] when the flaming voodoo cannonball he was about to use against Elaine gets knocked out of his hand. A pair of pirates later find the boots and fish them out of the sea, only to get turned into two more members of [=LeChuck's=] undead crew when he recorporates from his boots not long afterwards.

* This is all that's left of The Automatic Automatic band members when, as bumbling cryptid hunters, they search for a lake monster, Bigfoot, and [=UFOs=] in their video for "Monster". They completely miss finding the first two, then get blasted by the third for their trouble.

** In [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack the second game]], if Crash is riding the polar bear cub and crashes into a Nitro Crate, the bear will be unharmed as Crash's shoes land on either side of it. Followed by Crash's GoofyPrintUnderwear [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments landing on the bear's head.]]

** In [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack the second game]], if Crash is riding the polar bear cub, the bear will be unharmed as Crash's shoes land on either side of it. Followed by Crash's GoofyPrintUnderwear [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments landing on the bear's head.]]

* The fate of an unfortunate Widowmaker in this ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwCf8eoXz4o animated parody]] by [[Machinima/TeamServiceAnnouncement Krunkidile]], lampooning the trend of licensed cereal in the 80s and early 90s. As Reaper is recast as a ridiculously 80's-style SissyVillain somewhere between [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Skeletor]] and [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero Cobra Commander]], he is understandably horrified by this turn of events, before he is beaten to a pulp by a monkey.

* Variation in [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-121406.php this]] ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' strip, where Link's iron boots are left but the cause was not disintegration.

* [[http://toonhole.com/2011/07/the-boy-who-cried-allah/ This]] panel from ''Webcomic/ToonHole''.

* In the short-lived 1999 remake of ''Series/TheProfessionals'', this is all that's left of a victim of a KillSat in the episode "Orbit".

* In the short-lived remake of ''Series/TheProfessionals'', this is all that's left of a victim of a KillSat in the episode "Orbit".

* Frequently seen in the Gremlin Graphics's computer adaptation of ''Space Crusade''.

* Shoes tend to go flying off people's feet when subjected to a sufficient enough force, which more often than not is [[RealityIsUnrealistic not nearly as much force as you'd expect to do so]]. In such incidents, the legs are usually whiplashed at such a speed and angle that the shoes slide off the feet and get hurled in the same direction. Website/{{Reddit}} often likes to joke that if someone's shoes came off, they know they're dead, but the prevalence of errant shoes going flying from things like falling off a skateboard or bicycle indicates that this can happen in non-deadly situations too.

* ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'' has these in its game over screen.

** In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V", [=SpongeBob=] as the Quickster is accidentally lit on fire by his teammate, and runs wildly in a circle until everything but his shoes has burnt away. He still says "Glad that's over."

** RealityIsUnrealistic example: during an armed clash in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution 1989 Romanian Revolution]], a group of soldiers had been killed when their light APC exploded under anti-tank gun fire. Throughout the next few days, the media barked they must have been some [[Film/JamesBond technologically advanced spies and infiltrators]], "since they had boots of exotic materials which did not burn in the explosion". [[FridgeLogic One may ask if it had been so]], why weren't they fully dressed in [[SarcasmMode such magical suits that do not burn]].

* In ''Literature/Struwwelpeter'', a cautionary tale tells of Harriet and the matches, who burns to death, "until she had nothing more to lose, except her little scarlet shoes".

-->''Sure, today of all days, he asked to borrow my boots!''

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In a surprisingly gruesome take ComicBook/SteveTrevor's third secretary leaves behind smoldering lower legs, shoes still on, when she gets disintegrated by an experimental weapon left on Steve's desk in an assassination attempt. The upper part of her remaining body is buried in rubble with the feet sticking up in a way to bring the witch from the ''Wizard of Oz'' to mind.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury'', Marvin the Martian gets the drop on Dogers with a "Disintegration Ray" gun. Luckily, Dogers has on his Disintegration-Proof vest. Unluckily, only the vest is not disintegrated. Luckily, Eager Young Space Cadet has ''his'' Reintegration pistol.