History Main / LosingAShoeInTheStruggle

* In Episode 3 of Season 1 of Series/Fallout2024 a Gulper grabs Lucy by her leg and tries to devour her, but only ends up pulling off her boot.

* Partly deliberate in ''Film/AtomicBlonde'' when Lorraine Broughton finds out the two men sent to welcome her in Berlin are KGB agents and fights them inside their car while it is in motion. She takes one of her shoes off to use the heel as a weapon against the agent sitting next to her, and the shoe gets thrown out of the car when she causes an accident to get rid of the driver. David Percival arrives just at this moment, takes the shoe and brings it to Lorraine while she's still in the upturned car... and he almost gets killed.

* In the pilot episode of ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'', after Jennifer and Bruce get in a car accident, Jennifer's shoes slip off as she crawls out of the overturned car. She's soon given a replacement pair, but presumably has them wrecked when she transforms. She then spends a great deal of the episode barefoot, while learning how to keep her strength under control, until she eventually goes back to work as a lawyer. When a villainess interrupts the case, Jennifer takes off her shoes, before transforming and subduing her. Jennifer's friend then puts her shoes down on the floor and Jennifer steps back into them.

* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s "There There" video climaxes as crows pursue and peck at frontman Thom Yorke, who has stolen and put on an enchanted coat and some boot-like SprintShoes guarded by them. Thom outruns the crows with SuperSpeed, until some vines entangle the boots, slipping them off of him. His bare feet literally take root upon striking the ground, as a {{Transflormation}} changes Thom into an immobile tree.

* ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaTwoHeroes'': hen Melissa suggests she and the UA students take the stairs up I-Island's central tower, she does so in restrictive dress heels. It isn't long before she starts falling behind the pack, and tears them off her feet without a second thought. Ochako offers to relieve the effects of gravity, too, but Melissa declines.

* ''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClub: The Missing Heir'': [[spoiler:When Azusa Kasuga struggled with Kanda strangling her to death and failed, one of her slippers came off before her dead body was tossed into the ocean]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'': Angelica loses one of her skates when Spike roughly pulls her along while trying to sniff out where the babies rode off to. She loses the other skate in the film's finale.

* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'': In the first episode, one of the updated Ingrams for the police force gets stolen and Noa, a new recruit coming in for her first day, chases after it. After nearly getting run down by the thief driving the truck, she grabs the bumper of the vehicle and runs behind it as it picks up speed before ultimately jumping on board. Losing one of her heels in the process.

* In the ''Series/OurFlagMeansDeath'' first season finale, Lucius loses a shoe when [[spoiler:Blackbeard]] unexpectedly pushes him off of the ship. In a later episode, Lucius gets his revenge by pushing [[spoiler:Edward]] so hard, that the latter loses both of his sandals.

* In the ''Series/OurFlagMeansDeath'' first season finale, Lucius loses a shoe when [[spoiler:Ed]] unexpectedly pushes him off of the ship. In a later episode, Lucius gets his revenge by pushing [[spoiler:Ed]] so hard, that the latter loses both of his sandals.

* In the ''Series/OurFlagMeansDeath'' first season finale, Lucius loses a shoe when [[spoiler:Blackbeard]] unexpectedly pushes him off of the ship. In a later episode, Lucius gets his revenge by pushing [[spoiler:Blackbeard]] so hard, that the latter loses ''both'' of his own shoes.

** Marv first loses a shoe, while foolishly trying to step through a doggy door, but quickly grabs it back and runs off. He later loses his shoes, then his socks, when they become stuck on a tar-covered staircase. Afterwards, Kevin tricks the barefoot Marv into painfully stepping on a nail and some Christmas ornaments.

'''Marv:''' *looking at the feathers all over Harry* Why the hell'd ''you'' dress like a chicken?!

** In a BeachEpisode during the ''Stream'' season, as Lan, Mayl, and Jasmine explore the haunted house, they discover everybody else's shoes on the ceiling. It turns to be a rotating room controlled by Dr. Hikai and slips off their shoes before dumping them in the island's hot spring.

* ''Anime/{{Mega Man NT Warrior|2002}} - Stream'': In a BeachEpisode, as Lan, Mayl, and Jasmine explore the haunted house, they discover everybody else's shoes on the ceiling. It turns to be a rotating room controlled by Dr. Hikai and slips off their shoes before dumping them in the island's hot spring.

* Also happened to [[http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-950576 Evelyn Hartley]], a 16-year old girl abducted while babysitting and never found. Her father became concerned when she didn't answer his phone calls and went to the house to check on her. Upon finding her left shoe and broken glasses in the living room and her right shoe discarded in the basement, he immediately realized something terrible had happened.

* In ''Film/FuriousSeven'', Ramsey loses one of her shoes after the car chase on the mountainside in Azerbaijan; which Dom and his crew apologize for after she's rescued. She then gets a replacement pair before they go to retrieve the cargo in Abu Dhabi.

It doesn't have to be a shoe. It could be a hat, a pair of glasses or any kind of small article of clothing. Even getting hair mussed up for a character whose hair is [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished normally well-kept]] is a visual reminder of danger. Anything that's G-rated, but noticeable. A missing shoe is certainly noticeable, and even a missing hat on a character who's known for always wearing one gets the point across visually.

* ''Franchise/OnePiece'':

* In ''Manga/TokyoRevengers'', Haruki Hayashida, aka Pah, takes a severe beating from enemy gang Moebius, and he gets knocked around and pummeled so much that his sandals fall off, but Pah refuses to go down until he inflicts punishment on leader Nobutaka Osanai for the beating of his friend and the rape and beating of his friend's girlfriend.

* The comedic variant appears in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' when the Digidestined return to the digital world, with Mimi tripping and losing her boot on the beach.
* This phenomenon is subverted and lampshaded in an episode of the dub of ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' by Shoutmon: "Wow, Mikey, you almost lost your sweet sneakers! ...[[AsymmetricDilemma And your feet]]."

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':

* In one episode of ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'', Jun the Swan loses a shoe to a monster attack and she has to go into the latest Galactor base to get it back -- that shoe's part of her costume and she can't transform without it. Worse, it's found by Galactor soldiers, and when it proves to be oddly indestructible (they tried to incinerate it), Berg Katse starts experimenting on it-- making it transform into the boot that's part of her costume. And now that they know how the G-Force costumes transform, they can design a weapon to force them to transform ''[[BroughtDownToNormal back]]''...
* In ''Anime/NarutoShippuden'', Sasuke loses one of his sandals when fighting Deidara. He steps on a bomb by accident. Nagato's shoes are also blown up in a similar manner in the battle that crippled him when camouflaged paper bombs emerge from the ground, snake up his legs, and detonate. Hanabi also technically counts in ''The Last'' because she kicks off her geta early on in the film when entering her house and is kidnapped indoors, without them.

* ''Manga/LupinIII'' ''Part IV'':

* In ''StarDriver'', absentminded Mizuno kicks off her shoes while resting atop a bus, then hops onto a tree and the bus drives off, leaving her stuck in socks until she can piggyback her way into school to replace her shoes. She later makes a point to grab her shoes as she leaps straight from her bedroom window while barefoot indoors.

* Takes place in ''[[Manga/ZatchBell Konjiki no Gash Bell!!]]'' when Kiyo must free Gash from a daunting glue trap, and after a lot of struggle, he is yanked right out of his shoes.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'':
** Narancia loses his shoe during his fight with Formaggio as Formaggio's Stand, Little Feet, starts to take effect and shrink him after Naracia kicks it off in anger while kicking a car. It's the first sign he notices something wrong when he tries to put it back on and it suddenly doesn't fit anymore.
** Trish loses one of her boots while fighting the Notorious B.I.G. stand, forced to slip out of it when the Stand grabs it when trying to locate her.

* This is a clue in the ''Literature/GeronimoStilton'' episode "Barry the Moustache" when the title gangster kidnaps reporter Sally Rasmaussen. Since the show takes place in a world of {{Barefoot Cartoon Animal}}s, it's lucky for Geronimo and company that Sally is TheOneWhoWearsShoes.