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* In Lawrence Block's ''The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza'' Ray Kirschmann presents a rubber glove with the palm cut out as evidence that Bernie was involved in the Colcannon burglary. Since the glove was actually lost by his partner-in-crime Carolyn, Bernie tries to divert suspicion by demonstrating that it doesn't fit his hand.

* ''LightNovel/OokamiSan'' : The first episode features a tennis player contemplating retirement trying to find the girl who fits the sneaker that kicked him in the face. [[spoiler: He does, and is revealed to be a bit of a pervert and only did so to determine that said girl had great control of her body to do so. They end up going out.]]

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul [=:Jack=]'', Arima uses a lost shoe to narrow down his list of suspects to one person. [[spoiler: Minami is the only female TransferStudent at their school that wears that size]]. Lantern is shocked that he figured it out from such a minor thing.

** Nanny Ogg ''is'' one of the women the shoe fits. And she actually pretends to consider marrying the Duc, even though she knows he's [[spoiler: a frog]].

* In the "Scarecrowella" episode of ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie'', Bristle comes to Mumfie's house to give back a hat left at the ball, which they find out fits Scarecrow the best. Then Bristle says he has to marry The Queen of Night. Scarecrow likes this idea [[spoiler: until he is told that he can't visit Mumfie and Pinkey, go on adventures, or scare crows.]]

* Used in Creator/MercedesLackey's remake of ''Cinderella'', ''[[Literature/ElementalMasters Phoenix and Ashes]]''. Cinderella's wicked stepmother chopped off her pinky finger in the first chapter, so when she leaves her gloves behind at the masquerade ball, there's no question about who they belong to (and it was irrelevant anyway, since the LoveInterest knew full well exactly who he'd been dancing with). Doesn't stop her wicked stepsister from trying, though, and coming out to the hero to claim her gloves still loopy from the painkillers.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', Scrooge had a dream in which he was 'Scroogerella', and was competing against his evil step-siblings the Beagle Boys for the heart of Princess Goldie. At the end of the ball Scrooge ended up leaving behind his gold top hat, which Goldie tried to use to find him. Though in this case there were numerous people who would be able to wear the hat... if it wasn't for the fact that it violently assaulted anyone who tried to put it on other than Scrooge, regardless of hat size.

* In Lawrence Block's ''The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza'' Ray Kirschmann presents a rubber glove with the palm cut out as evidence that Bernie was involved in the Colcannon robbery. Since the glove was actually lost by his partner-in-crime Caroline, Bernie tries to divert suspicion by demonstrating that it doesn't fit his hand.

* Played with in, of all places, TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild, where Zora females traditionally craft a set of armour for the one they wish to marry. The [[FantasticRacism prejudiced and arrogant]] elder, Muzu, refuses to accept the help of a Hylian like Link, or believe that he could've been important to his long dead, beloved student Mipha, and withholds his help. He has to accept the truth, though, when it's revealed the Zora armour Mipha made is a [[WackyMarriageProposal precise fit for Link and was clearly made for him]].

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* DeconstructedTrope in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' during the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090107 Cinderella parody]]. Tarvek has Cinderella's slippers and wants to find the girl who fits them, but Gil argues that the shoes, size nine-and-a-half, would fit too many other women. While trying to narrow it down Tarvek brings out a picture of Cinderella, and Gil points out that if they have that they no longer need the shoe.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw,'' the school dance that [[ExtracurricularEnthusiast Amanda]] organized has problem after problem, largely due to [[TheJinx Milo]]'s presence. When the electricity goes out he quickly fixes the decorations before going to the circuit breaker ([[CrazyPrepared naturally]], he was carrying night-vision goggles). In the process he loses a shoe. When Amanda sees everything fixed she finds the shoe and, wanting to thank "her hero," goes looking for whomever is missing one. * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Roger finds a nipple pastie the night after a wild party at his bar/attic and goes around trying to find the girl whose nipple fits it. He eventually finds his match, weirdly enough, in a small cottage living with two mean stepsisters.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw,'' the school dance that [[ExtracurricularEnthusiast Amanda]] organized has problem after problem, largely due to [[TheJinx Milo]]'s presence. When the electricity goes out he quickly fixes everything before going to the circuit breaker ([[CrazyPrepared naturally]], he was carrying night-vision goggles). In the process he loses a shoe. When Amanda sees everything that he fixed she finds the shoe and goes looking for "her hero" who's missing one.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Roger finds a nipple pastie the night after a wild party at his bar/attic and goes around trying to find the girl whose nipple fits it. He eventually finds his match, weirdly enough, in a small cottage living with two mean stepsisters.

** Despite that the main characters know the story, Nozomi being a {{Dojikko}} really lost her shoe by tripping downstairs.
** This trope is played in ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', where the Cinderella scenario happens again, but the villains try to ruin the story because their goal is creating bad ends. Miyuki being GenreSavvy takes off her shoe and puts it on the stairs instead of losing the shoe. But the villains being clever steal the original shoe and they make an extra large glass shoe for Akaoni. His shoe fits, but it immediately breaks. Candy takes the original back and the shoe flies on Miyuki's foot who just [[{{Dojikko}} tripped]].

* Used in MercedesLackey's remake of ''Cinderella'', ''[[Literature/ElementalMasters Phoenix and Ashes]]''. Cinderella's wicked stepmother chopped off her pinky finger in the first chapter, so when she leaves her gloves behind at the masquerade ball, there's no question about who they belong to (and it was irrelevant anyway, since the LoveInterest knew full well exactly who he'd been dancing with). Doesn't stop her wicked stepsister from trying, though, and coming out to the hero to claim her gloves still loopy from the painkillers.

* WebVideo/{{Phelous}} plays with this in a video about some Franchise/DisneyPrincess knockoff dolls: Due to shoddy production values, all the shoes seem too big for the dolls. Regardless, he makes the Cinderella look-alike boast that her glass slipper (actually made of blue, non-transparent plastic) fits, proving herself as "she who arrived in a pumpkin."

** An early Muppets special, ''Hey, Cinderella'', has a subversion similar to the Disney version. Here, the prince accidentally steps on the glass slipper, making finding the wearer highly unlikely. The king, however, reasons that while there may be a maiden out there with a pair of glass slippers, the right maiden would be the one who has only ''one'' glass slipper.

* In ''{{Series/Mash}}'', BJ is accused by a general of throwing a party in the hotel he was staying at, which leads to the general being caught in an embarrassing situation; but BJ insists he was back at camp at the time, and that the real culprit was likely a friend of his who is a notorious practical joker. The general's main piece of evidence is a hat left in the hotel room, and has BJ put it on. It is obviously ''not'' BJ's hat.

* In ''"WesternAnimation/RocketPower"'' After sneaking into the skate park to see the new ramp, Twister accidentally slips in the wet cement, leaving an imprint of his head and hand. Determined to find the culprit, the owner overhears Sam sarcastically suggesting they do what Cinderella did and find out whose head matches the shape in the cement. He then lines up the skaters and lets those who don't fit cement imprint into the park.

** Nanny Ogg ''is'' one of the women the shoe fits. And she actually pretends to consider marrying the Duc, even though she knows he's [[spoiler: a frog]]. Easily one of the [[Funny/{{Discworld}} funniest parts]] in the whole book.

* In Creator/DianaWynneJones's ''[[Literature/TheDalemarkQuartet The Crown of Dalemark]]'', Mitt is [[spoiler:descended from the Adon and destined to become King, and the ring that marks him out as such actually grows and shrinks in order to fit him perfectly on any finger he puts it on. He doesn't realise, because the ring gets swapped with a nonmagical copy.]]

** This trope is played in ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', where the Cinderella scenario happens again, but the villains try to ruin the story because their goal is creating bad ends. Miyuki being GenreSavvy takes off her shoe and puts it on the stairs instead of losing the shoe. But the villains being DangerouslyGenreSavvy steal the original shoe and they make an extra large glass shoe for Akaoni. His shoe fits, but it immediately breaks. Candy takes the original back and the shoe flies on Miyuki's foot who just [[{{Dojikko}} tripped]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation//BobsBurgers'' episode "Lindapendant Woman" Tina meets a boy at the supermarket, but since she couldn't see his face through the shelves between them all she has to identify him is the band-aid that dropped off his finger.

* ''LolaAndVirginia'': While wearing a yogurt costume, Lola met a celebrity boy. As she left, she lost her glasses and the boy uses them as a clue to find her. Being interested on the boy, Virginia gets her own yogurt costume but Lola proves the truth by being the one who can see while wearing the glasses.
* In the ''Series/BobsBurgers'' episode "Lindapendant Woman" Tina meets a boy at the supermarket, but since she couldn't see his face through the shelves between them all she has to identify him is the band-aid that dropped off his finger.

* In the ''BobsBurgers'' episode "Lindapendant Woman" Tina meets a boy at the supermarket, but since she couldn't see his face through the shelves between them all she has to identify him is the band-aid that dropped off his finger.

Compare IdentificationByDentalRecords.

* A legend from Ancient Greece (found first in Strabo's ''Geographica'', also in Aelian's ''Various History'') relates how the courtesan Rhodopis of Naucratis supposedly became the wife the Pharao of Egypt: An eagle carries off one of Rhodopis' sandals while she is bathing and drops it into the lap of the Pharao at Memphis. The Pharao forms the idea that the shoe must belong to a very beautiful woman and believing that the incident is a cue from the Gods, sends messengers over all of Egypt to find out the owner of the sandal to marry her. Note that it is not clear whether Rhodopis was the only woman who fit the sandal, or whether she was identified by her having the ''other'' sandal.

* In "Literature/TheEgyptianCinderella", an adaptation of the Ancient Greek fairy tale of Rhodopis, a falcon snatches one of the rose-red slippers of Rhodopis and drops it into the lap of the Pharao, who orders the whole of Egypt searched for the woman who owns the slipper so he can marry her.