History Main / BarefootLoon

** Ed from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': a '''really''' quirky teenage genius PlayfulHacker girl with a prominent aversion to shoes and a habit [[HandyFeet of using her toes like spare fingers]]. The only time she puts on socks, she quickly loses balance and falls. She doesn't even make it to putting shoes on before she decides to go back to being barefooted.

* When she was 16, starting from July 2, 2012, [[http://myyearwithoutshoes.blogspot.com/p/about.html Victoria Anderson]] went on a spirited barefoot crusade by spending an entire ''[[{{Determinator}} year]]'' without shoes or footwear of any kind to raise awareness for the needy children of Haiti (noting the only exception to this was carrying around a $2 pair of flip-flops not unlike those worn by Haitian children, just in case she absolutely needed them) and got [[https://www.aol.com/video/partner/the-jeff-probst-show/517469636/55467756e4b042cdf6181649/ featured]] on ''Series/TheJeffProbstShow'' for it (the show donated to her cause). Her mother said that her daughter has always been "a little kooky" and she and her father have let her express herself. More telling, though, is that Victoria's motivation for ditching her shoes wasn't just for the children; she also emphatically declared, "I love being barefoot." Essentially, Victoria was also looking for a reasonable excuse to run around barefoot all the time... [[ShapedLikeItself which she already does.]]

* In ''Film/ArtOfTheDead'', Louis starts to walk around barefoot and [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] once he's under the effect of {{Wrath}}, giving him a more "wild" vibe.

Subtrope of PrefersBeingBarefoot, and often overlaps with TheOphelia. Compare and contrast with BarefootSage whose wisdom and enlightenment also places him/her above social conventions ([[EccentricMentor they may also overlap]]). May also overlap with MagicalBarefooter. [[ExaggeratedTrope The extreme version of the trope]], when the character in question is lacking ''any'' items of clothing, is NakedNutter.

Subtrope of DoesNotLikeShoes, and often overlaps with TheOphelia. Compare and contrast with BarefootSage whose wisdom and enlightenment also places him/her above social conventions ([[EccentricMentor they may also overlap]]). May also overlap with MagicalBarefooter. [[ExaggeratedTrope The extreme version of the trope]], when the character in question is lacking ''any'' items of clothing, is NakedNutter.

* When he's [[DependingOnTheWriter portrayed as crazy,]] the perpetually barefoot ComicBook/PlasticMan would count. His [[DoesNotLikeShoes barefootedness]] dates back long before he was re-characterized as [[RetCon having always been]] nuts, though.

* Most of the elves in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' universe [[DoesNotLikeShoes avoid wearing shoes]], but Merrill, the second game's resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, is bringing this to the hilarious extremes:

-->'''Victoria:''' [[DoesNotLikeShoes I myself have never been very fond of shoes]]; I'd go days at school barefoot; go to stores and just anywhere with my bare feet.

* In the midst of the search for his missing wife Lori, Mark Hacking was found running around a parking lot, apparently in the throes of a nervous breakdown, completely naked. . .''except'' for a pair of sandals. The fact that he ''didn't'' invoke this trope the way a truly insane person would have led the detectives to suspect that he was faking in order to be institutionalized and avoid further questioning about his wife's whereabouts. (Although it was never proven that he was faking insanity, he did indeed confess to killing Lori after several days in the hospital).

** Lucy Pevensie. She is not crazy, but she can be considered somewhat eccentric due to her childlike free-spiritedness -- and her penchant for going barefoot emphasizes this. Being barefoot also means she is in touch with the Earth, like healing magic -- which her cordial is -- is known to be in legends.