History Main / ArmedLegs

* In ''All-Star Western'' #7-9, ComicBook/JonahHex battles an organisation called August 7. One of its most dangerous members is Z.C. Branke; a gladiator who fights with blades mounted on her ankles like a gamecock's spurs.
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' villain Stilt Man wears a set of weaponized extendable metal stilts.
* ComicBook/IronMan has repulsors in his boots that let him fly as a rocket. They are not ''meant'' to be weapons, but can be used as such: if he's in the ground, and the enemy is in the right direction, he may turn on his foot rockets at his face. It's not nice.

* Marvel villain Tarantula, who usually fought Franchise/SpiderMan, had as his main weapon spikes protruding from the toes of his boots; these could be used simply for slashing or stabbing, or to poison/drug an adversary.
* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersCombinerWars'', the rebuilt combiners Menasor and Superion, as well as new combiners Defensor and Optimus Maximus all have guns built into their feet, matching the action figures (in the toy line, all figures that can become an arm or a leg have an accessory that can be either a hand with guns protruding from the knuckles or a foot with two guns for toes). Defensor actually uses his for extra punishment when he kicks Devastator in the head while simultaneously shooting the guns on that foot.
* ComicBook/{{X 23}}, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s OppositeSexClone, has one of her blades placed in each of her feet, which she uses for lethal kick attacks.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary Cassowary,]] the third-largest living species of bird after the Emu and the Ostrich, is notorious for this. They have very powerful legs and three-toed feet with extremely sharp claws on them -- the middle claw in particular growing up to 5 inches (12.5cm) long and [[AbsurdlySharpClaws basically being a natural Stiletto]] -- and defend themselves against humans and other creatures by repeatedly leaping at and kicking them. There have been many instances of their aforementioned targets being horribly maimed and even outright killed by them. Add that to the fact that they can run at up to 30mph (50km/h), jump to a height of 1.5 meters (just under 5ft) and can be extremely aggressive, [[PapaWolf/RealLife especially when their young are threatened?]] It's not hard to see why Cassowaries are known as ''the'' most dangerous birds in the world.

* In Ali Siddiq's "Prison Riot" bit, the main clue that the titular riot is going to happen is "Mexican got on boots": The hispanic inmates- who normally wear sneakers to play handball- [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness are all wearing steel-toed boots]], the reason for which is later explained to Ali ( a new inmate himself) that during a fight they kick their opponent in the shins with their steel-toed boots to open them up for stabbing. [[spoiler:Though it comes to pass that Ali himself gets cut up by a hispanic inmate who wasn't wearing boots.]]

* ComicBook/IronMan has repulsors in his boots, that let him fly as a rocket. They are not ''meant'' to be weapons, but can be used as such: if he's in the ground, and the enemy is in the right direction, he may turn on his foot rockets at his face. It's not nice.

* Vash of ''Manga/TriGun'' has a pair of blades hidden in his boots that seemingly spring forth from a hard step.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}}'', supplement ''Arduin Grimoire Volume 6: House of the Rising Sun''. One weapon used by assassins is the kharkun, a boot which can deploy three razor-sharp five inch long knives when triggered by the wearer's toes. The blades are usually poisoned. A second combination of toe movements will cause the blades to be discarded.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}}'', supplement ''Arduin Grimoire Volume 6: House of the Rising Sun''. One weaon used by assassins is the kharkun, a boot which can deploy three razor-sharp five inch long knives when triggered by the wearer's toes. The baldes are usually poisoned. A second combination of toe movements will cause the blades to be discarded.

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' , artifact weapons are not called by the same names as their mundane equivalents. Swords are called daiklaives, spears are called direlances. And then there is a type of artifact weapon called "God-Kicking Boots".

* Shao Jun in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' uses a Hidden Blade that projects from her boot rather than the conventional wrist-mounted Hidden Blades. Justified as she is extensively trained in several forms of Chinese martial arts, which place a greater emphasis on the use of leg-based attacks, and was also a concubine favoured for her dancing ability before she became an Assassin, which allows her to take advantage of her natural agility and flexibility. To say she has a lethal kick is not hyperbole.

* In Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'', towards the climax Batman faces one of the Joker's mooks, who attempts to drop-kick him while blades extend from his boots. Batman instead simply [[GroinAttack punches him in the nuts]] and moves on.

* In ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', Kyra has blades on the back of her shoes.

--->'''Phillip Stryver''': ''Do those heels make it hard to walk?''\\
'''Catwoman''': (stamps heel '''through''' Stryver's foot) ''I don't know, do they?''
* In ''Film/{{Darkman}}'', Durant's henchman Skip has a micro Uzi concealed in his artificial leg.

** In ''Devil May Cry 4'', Dante obtains the Gilgamesh, which aside from turning into gauntlets, also covers his legs with organic metal. The boots also have small buzzsaws on the sides which he uses to empower his kicks during some {{charged|Attack}} combos.
** In ''Devil May Cry 5'', Dante has Balrog as one of his starting weapons, a Devil Arm that consists of gauntlets, shoulder plates and boots. It has two modes and attacking consistently with the weapon in either mode makes the weapon heat up till his punches and kicks are empowered with flames. Using its "Kick" mode, makes the shoulder plates move to his feet and he will perform [[DanceBattler sweeping Capoeira-style kicks]].

* Tsubasa from ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'' has swords ([[KatanasAreJustBetter especially katanas]]) as her WeaponOfChoice. Apart from attacks involving [[DualWielding dual-wielding swords]], {{flaming sword}}s, [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throwing swords]], {{BFS}}s and [[RocketPoweredWeapon rocket powered BFSs]], her Gear design has [[MercurysWings vaguely airplane wing-like things coming out of her feet armor]] that, guess what, turn into swords.

** In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', Vergil, and later Dante, obtain these as parts of the Beowulf Devil Arm alongside a pair of [[PowerFist gauntlets]]. In the ''Special Edition'' of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' and ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', Vergil uses the gauntlet-and-greave weapon Beowulf just like how he did back in the third game, but the updated incarnation of Beowulf functions similarly to Dante's Gilgamesh from ''Devil May Cry 4'' in terms of their ChargedAttack mechanics and indicators. Beowulf also makes a return in the ''Special Edition'' of ''Devil May Cry 5''.

* In ''Film/RoadHouse'', one of Brad Wesley's goons has a blade hidden in the toe of his boot that he tries to use on Dalton. Alas, the goon proves to be "too stupid to have a good time," and so Dalton easily defeats him anyway.

* With LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, it was only natural to have at least one entry from the ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' series fight with their feet. In this case, it's [[VideoGame/SuikodenII Wakaba]], whose "Shin Guards" can actually be improved by a blacksmith as the game progresses; presumably, her Armed Legs add to her fierce, [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]]-style kicks.

** Also played with in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' after fighting the Kraken; the captain claims to have thrown his slippers at the monster as they fought.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], the Doctor's companions have been issued various ShoePhone gadgets by MI6, including a pair of TrickedOutShoes that shoot lasers. Graham, who is wearing the shoes, activates them by stomping up and down, so when an army of aliens are surrounding them the other companions just tell him to [[DanceBattler start dancing which he does, shooting beams in all directions]].