Basic Trope: Instead of using their hands to perform dexterous and complex tasks, a given character will sometimes use his or her feet to do them.
- Straight: Alice, an otherwise completely ordinary female human, occasionally uses her feet to perform certain tasks such as painting, writing, and eating instead of her hands like others humans around her.
- Exaggerated: Alice uses her feet for literally every single task that she ever performs within her lifespan on a day-to-day basis.
- Downplayed: Alice uses her feet either for merely picking up seashells and other naturally-occurring objects off of the ground below her or for "handing" other humans their pencils, pens, and other small personal items back to them whenever they accidently drop them down onto the floor below them as a unique-looking but at the very same time still kind and generous gesture to them.
- Justified:
- Alice's actual hand are already occupied with other equally or more important activities.
- Alice literally doesn't have any actual hands either due to her not even being born with any to start with or due to her having lost her already existing hands in some other way and therefore has to use instead her feet to do everything that she does on a day-to-day basis.
- Alternatively, she simply sees using her feet to pick up small items lying down on either the ground or the floor below her as a simpler and also energy-saving alternative to physically bending over in order to be able to pick them up to start with.
- Also, she could even see using her feet to perform certain tasks as her very own unique method of spicing up the mood within an otherwise entirely mundane and boring environment.
- Tragically, she could even have cerebral palsy disabling her hands, also making it to where she instead uses her feet to do certain tasks assuming that her feet remain unaffected by said cerebral palsy.
- Alice is a kind of non-human primate or other species that has very dexterous feet.
- Inverted: Alice uses her hands as feet while performing a hand-stand during the Olympics.
- Alternatively, and also much more tragically, she either may not've been born with any legs in the first place or instead could've just lost them at some point or another much like the Japanese Yokai known as "Teke-Teke", so she then instead also uses her hands instead of her now nonexistent feet and toes to move herself about and also for literally everything else that she does in her day-to-day life.
- Subverted: Alice looks like she's about to paint something using her feet to do so, but then, all of a sudden, she instead looks to use her hands just like any other human around her for the task that's currently at hand.
- Double-Subverted: But Alice then either realizes that she actually doesn't even have any actual hands at all or realizes that she's always instead still been more comfortable with using her feet to paint things, so she then really ends up using her feet to paint something after all.
- Parodied: Alice's feet actually also even perfectly resemble human hands, so she therefore again uses them for literally every single task that she ever performs within her lifespan on a day-to-day basis, or she also even actively shape-shifts her feet into human hands for an upcoming task but then just as actively shape-shifts them right on back into ordinary human feet once the task's over and done with.
- Defied: Emperor Evulz forcefully amputates either Alice's feet as a whole or at the very least her toes so that she can no longer use them to perform certain tasks that are in direct relation to foiling his latest evil scheme.
- Invoked: Once Alice's co-worker, Bob, accidentally drops his pen or pencil down onto the floor below him while using it, Alice herself deliberately removes her footwear and "hands" it back to him using her now bare feet to do so as an again unique-looking but at the very same time again still kind and generous gesture towards him.
- Exploited: Alice's hands currently lie chained up within a prison complex, so she then instead uses her surprisingly bare and also physically dexterous feet to free herself from her current prison cell.
- Zig-zagged: Alice routinely switches between using her feet to perform certain tasks and instead simply using her hands to do certain things like other humans around her while then using her feet to normally walk around all while still picking up small items off of either the ground or the floor below her.
- Averted: Alice only ever uses her feet for normally walking around like other humans and therefore absolutely never even uses them for literally anything else at all, even though she still loves to constantly walk around barefooted.
- Implied: One day, Bob hears of a lady named "Alice" who has no hands whatsoever due to her having been born without any, and so he then naturally assumes that he'll eventually end up seeing her use her feet to perform each of her day-to-day tasks upon him actually meeting her in person for the first time in his life.
- Enforced: Alice's actress who's set to star within her very next upcoming film or television episode is told to use her feet to perform each of the dexterous tasks of hers seen throughout said upcoming film or television episode either because she has no actual hands for her to use while actively performing them all or because her character's simply supposed to be rather unique and eccentric compared to the whole rest of the intended character cast.
- Lampshaded: "Why do you gals always have to use y'all's feet to perform certain dexterous tasks instead of y'all's hands like normal humans, you know?"
- Discussed: "The reason as to why certain people, usually women and girls, oftentimes use their feet to perform certain tasks instead of their hands is either because they simply don't even have any hands for them to use to start with or because they simply like to appear eccentric and unique when compared to others around them."
- Conversed: "Well, at the very least there's at the very least one person around here who likes to use her feet to perform certain tasks in order to be able to spice up the mood around here from time-to-time."
- Deconstructed: Alice still routinely uses her feet to perform certain tasks right on up until one particularly physically dangerous task of hers causes either her feet as a whole or at the very least her toes to get chopped right on off of her body once the unfortunate incident in question actually happens to her.
- Reconstructed: But then, Alice goes and drinks a regeneration ability potion that not only makes her feet and toes regenerate, but it also then allows her to repeatedly regenerate them every single time that she has them chopped right on off of her body while performing certain tasks.
- Played for Laughs: Alice uses her bare feet and toes to tickle Bob nonstop all while a crowd of other humans looks on the both of them and likewise also laughs hysterically at the current situation at hand as it all plays out in front of them all.
- Played for Drama: Alice uses her bare feet and toes to disable a bomb that's about to detonate within just the next several seconds assuming that she doesn't actually do anything about it at all before then.
- Played for Horror: Alice climbs right on up onto Bob's back as she soon begins massaging it using her bare feet and toes while she's still in her ordinary human form, but then, just a couple of minutes later, Alice physically transforms into an extraordinary, gigantic, and likewise also powerful mechanical monster equipped with many different feet that each also feature countless different knife-like, claw-like, and also even sword-like toes that soon begin completely slicing Bob's whole entire body right on up into countless different bloody flesh-ribbons as Alice also soon eats every single said bloody flesh-ribbon of Bob's before she physically transforms right on back into an ordinary human and then also even acts like absolutely nothing ever even happened at all in the first place afterwards.
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