History Main / BarefootCartoonAnimal

* Polkaroo from the ''Series/PolkaDotDoor''.

* Most of the animal villagers from the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series that aren't {{Half Dressed Cartoon Animal}}s tend to wear outfits that don't include footwear (with some exceptions, such as Flick, Harvey, Isabelle (as of ''New Horizons''), and Digby). One wonders how Kicks the Skunk (an [=NPC=] who sells shoes) makes a living when his only potential customers are the players and the aforementioned exceptions.

* [[GorgeousGorgon Celia]] from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' is a variation; she has tentacles instead of feet, and her only clothing is a dress that reaches to where her knees would be.

* Most of the supporting animal characters in the ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' franchise are barefooters. So are some of the main characters, such as SixthRanger Zhen and BigBad the Chameleon in "WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda4". The panda villagers in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' are particularly notable, as they make the main character Po just about the only panda who ''does'' wear shoes.

* Most of the supporting animal characters in the ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' franchise are barefooters. So are some of the main characters, such as both Zhen and the Chameleon in "WesternAnimatiinKungFuPanda4". The panda villagers in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' are particularly notable, as they make the main character Po just about the only panda who ''does'' wear shoes.

* Most of the supporting animal characters in the ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' franchise are barefooters. The panda villagers in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' are particularly notable, as they make the main character Po just about the only panda who ''does'' wear shoes.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' villain The Lizard, the SuperPoweredEvilSide of scientist Curt Connors. The Lizard's usual outfit consists of a tattered lab coat, a black shirt, purple pants, and bare feet.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Russell wears a hat, shirt, and pants, but no shoes since he doesn't have feet, with peg legs in their place.

* Most of the supporting animal characters in the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' franchise are barefooters. The panda villagers in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' are particularly notable, as they make the main character Po just about the only panda who ''does'' wear shoes.

%%* Although ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'' is a borderline StickFigureComic, the characters either go barefoot or are {{fully dressed|CartoonAnimal}} in fan art. However, Ruby herself is almost unanimously drawn barefoot [[DoesNotLikeShoes even when others are fully dressed]] -- a one-off reference to her "UNATTRACTIVELY LONG FOOT"[[note]]well, she ''is'' a rabbit[[/note]] would imply this as canon.

* Milla Basset from ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'' is the the only (known) cast member to go barefoot; her description in [[http://spacemanstrife.deviantart.com/art/Milla-the-Hound-Child-Sketch-by-R-No71-311455282 this art of her]] notes "she has a strong connection to the earth" alongside [[DoesNotLikeShoes her distaste for shoes]], implying her to be an EarthyBarefootCharacter. Considering this is from a cast full of {{Fully Dressed Cartoon Animal}}s, this would also make her an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion of TheOneWhoWearsShoes.

* Felix O'Connel from ''Webcomic/{{Cloudscratcher}}'' usually goes barefoot, even though Ixia was able to get a pair of shoes from his closet when she needed a change of clothes, and he still had a pair for when he went into the city. WordOfGod is that he DoesNotLikeShoes in the same way that a human might. It was also presumably common in the old Avian Empire. Of the three birds whose feet have been in frame, only one was wearing sandals.

%% * Most of the cast of ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', but especially Mab who [[DoesNotLikeShoes hates shoes]].

** Barefoot preference is more common in characters who have a more animalistic physiology than others. Cookie and Nyarai are the only barefooters. The main difference is that Cookie has digitigrade paws that make it hard to find shoes for her while Nyarai has humanoid feet with paw pads similar to Muko and Kalita, [[DoesNotLikeShoes being barefoot out of choice or preference.]]

* A great deal of anthro/furry artists on the web always draw their characters barefoot, even if they're otherwise dressed perfectly normally, and even in situations where going barefoot is inadvisable (like, say, in snow, though some animals are adapted to snow). Listing specific artists would likely quadruple the length of the list, however. The trope is very rarely lampshaded, and often times not even ''noted''; that is, it's not uncommon for a character's reference sheet to depict the character barefoot, even in multiple different costumes, but even if it goes into great detail about the character's wardrobe preferences, their preferred footwear ([[DoesNotLikeShoes or preferred lack thereof]]) is never brought up.

* The trope may also be {{Justified|Trope}} by the characters being from a culture where shoes aren't seen as a social requirement, such as with Creator/JRRTolkien's {{hobbits}}, or are from a civilization that [[PrefersGoingBarefoot prefers going barefoot]] as a part of its cultural code.