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11	* ''Film/TheTwelfthMan'': The laces of Jan’s boot get stuck while he’s trying to AbandonShip with his comrades and he has to ditch the boot to dive overboard into the Nordic lake. The frostbite from this event (and an avalanche and multiple snowstorms later on) ultimately force Jan to amputate nine of his toes to avoid dying of gangrene.
12	* The police captain gets shot in the foot when he tries to take the gun off Elliot in ''Film/ThirteenSins''.
13	* In ''Film/TwentyTwoBullets'', Charly shoots Franck once in each foot while interrogating/torturing him at the drug processing house.
14	* In ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting'', Brad gets stabbed in the foot with a switchblade during the gang fight confrontation on the train.
15	* ''Film/TheAggressionScale'': As part of one of Owen's traps, Lloyd steps on a board with a series of nails driven through it. One of the nails goes all the way through his foot and out the top of his boot.
16	* In ''Film/AnneOfTheIndies'', Anne stomps on Blackbird's foot during their friendly duel in the tavern.
17	* In the musical ''Film/{{Annie\|1982}}'' the main character stomps very hard on the foot of the evil orphanage matron, Miss Hannigan.
18	* ''Film/{{Antigang}}'': While storming the farmhouse where Kasper is hiding, Genu slams an 'enforcer'--a one-man battering ram for breaching doors--on to the foot of one of his mooks.
19	* Early in ''ComicBook/ArtSchoolConfidential'', a barefoot hippie girl steps onto campus -- directly into a broken beer bottle left on the sidewalk.
20	* In ''Film/{{Barbershop}}'', thieves [[StupidCrooks J.D. and Billy]] try to haul an ATM they stole from a convenience store the night prior into J.D.'s apartment room. When Billy sees a guy that owes him money from an [[NoodleIncident unknown gambling game]], he loses hold of the ATM, which drops directly on J.D.'s foot.
21	* Somewhat used in ''Film/BedtimeStories2008'', with the attack on Skeeter by the "Midget Brigade". His excuse? "That's for being tall!"
22	* In the Spanish horror film ''Film/TheBloodSpatteredBride'', LesbianVampire Literature/{{Carmilla}} steps barefoot into a BearTrap.
23	* ''Film/TheBoldCaballero'': During their duel in the Governor's residence, Don Diego stabs the Commandante in the foot with a rapier.
24	* ''Film/BuddhasPalm'': The main villain, Foot Monster, can extend his legs for a ranged kick and enlarge his foot to perform a GiantFootOfStomping. But when attempting the latter on the good guys, the hero Long Jian-fei managed to circumvent his stomp by stabbing Foot Monster's... foot with his Green Dragon blade. That turns out to be the AchillesHeel that ultimately allows Foot Monster's defeat.
25	* ''Film/BurningAmbition'': The Chao sisters, Siu-To and Siu-Wai, has to make an escape with their father after being ambushed by mobsters while at a Japanese restaurant. Having removed their shoes as per custom rules, they end up fighting a horde of mooks in a parking lot while barefoot. Siu-Wai ends up stepping on a stray glass shard, and the mobsters fighting them takes advantage of the situation by ripping out windshields from nearby cars and smashing these all over the place.
26	* In ''Film/CasinoRoyale1954''[[note]]The first screen adaptation of a Franchise/JamesBond novel, released in 1954 as a television movie/episode of the anthology series ''[[Series/{{Climax}} Climax!]]''[[/note]], Le Chiffre needs Bond to tell him where he stashed the cheque for his winnings at the Baccarat table, and decides to use a pair of pliers on Bond's feet to make him talk.
27	* In ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'', BigBad Dragon slams his ClassyCane down the floor in a fit of rage. Unfortunately, he slams it down on top of Kong's bare foot, driving it all the way through his foot.
28	* ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' has Theo experience some PlayedForDrama foot pain, especially after a scuffle with [[spoiler:Syd]] causes him to lose a sandal. Theo proceeds to cut his foot on some scrap metal, and either hop or limp his way through the rest of the journey.
29	* When Warfield tries to walk away from Forbes at the end of ''Film/DayOfTheEvilGun'', Forbes shoots him the ankle with a shotgun.
30	* ''Film/DieHard'' made this trope a full-on plot point. After the afraid-of-flying Detective [=McClane=] receives instructions to remove his footgear as part of a post-flight stress relief exercise, he has to abandon his shoes when escaping the terrorists. Later on in the movie, Hans instructs Karl to shoot out the windows so [=McClane=] will be forced to flee in bare feet across broken glass. He does, and it's as painful as it sounds.
31	* ''Film/DoctorSeries'':
32	** In ''Film/DoctorAtLarge'', Sir Lancelot complains that he has a touch of the gout.
33	** ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'': When the Master-at-Arms catches Dr. Burke without his shoes on, he lies that he left them in his cabin as they were killing him.
34	* In ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', Wanda walks across broken glass in her bare feet, and is visibly hobbling afterward.
35	* ''Film/DogBiteDog'' has Pang and his girlfriend, Yu, fleeing through a junkyard, the latter who [[LosingAShoeInTheStruggle lose her shoes after fleeing from her abusive father]]. She ends up stepping on a nail some six inches in length, and in the movie's most {{gorn}}tastic moment, we get to see Pang pulling the nail from the sole of her foot in shockingly graphic detail.
36	* In ''Film/{{Dragnet}}'', when Friday and Streebek approach Emil Muzz for questioning, Muzz takes off, running over Friday's feet in the process, so Streebek drives in their pursuit.
37	* In ''Film/Eat2014'', one of Novella's fits of {{autocannibalism}} has her chew most of the flesh from her big toe and start chewing on her arch.
38	* ''Film/EdenLake'': While running, Jenny impales her left foot on a metal spike sitting upright on the ground. With the spike protruding through the top of it, she removes it from her foot by pushing it all the way through.
39	* In ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', Williams throws a kick at [[BigBad Han]], who blocks it with his metal prosthetic hand. Williams clutches his foot in pain.
40	* In ''Film/GameOfDeath'', Creator/BruceLee is having a difficult time fighting Kareem Abdul Jabbar, until he suddenly stomps on his bare foot.
41	* On the first day of the battle of ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'', General Heth took his men into the town in order to raid the local shoe factories, because some of the soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia had marched all the way from Richmond on bare feet. This was TruthInTelevision.
42	* ''Film/GodsGun'': After cowing the judge into compliance, Sam Clayton stands on the judge's foot while forcing him to announce that Jess' murder of the gambler was self-defence.
43	* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}
44	** PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/AllMonstersAttack'', when Ichiro's neighbor burns his foot by stepping on a soldering iron.
45	** In ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', a {{Yakuza}} mook flips a table that Miki Saegusa is strapped to and uses it as a shield, preventing Koji Shinjo from shooting at him. Miki uses telekinesis to lift the table a few inches, and Koji shoots the man in the foot.
46	* ''Film/TheGreatDictator'': In the beginning set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, the Jewish barber (Creator/CharlieChaplin) put down the butt of his gun onto the foot of a fellow soldier, who scolds him.
47	* ''Film/{{Hellzapoppin}}'': While sabotaging the ballet section of the revue, Olsen and Johnson scatter a box full of carpet tacks on the stage, which Pepi promptly steps on.
48	* In ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes2006'', Doug nails one of Pluto's feet to the floor with a screwdriver.
49	* In ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'', when cavemen discover that the screams produces when heavy stones are dropped on their feet can be arranged into music.
50	* ''Film/HobokenHollow'': When Weldon is fitting a noose around Archie's neck, he drives a knife through Archie's foot to pin him to the stump he is standing on so he doesn't move.
51	* Happens multiple times to the thieves[[note]] Really, just Marv.[[/note]] in the first two ''Film/HomeAlone'' movies. Most notably is the [[Film/HomeAlone1 first one]] where Marv, after having lost his shoes and his socks to Kevin's tar trap, steps on a nail while trying to enter the [=McCallister=] residence. He later mentions this as one of the ways to [[ToThePain pay Kevin back for all the trouble that he's caused him and Harry]]. After stepping on the nail and giving up on going in through the basement, he tries [[SchmuckBait through an open window]]... only to learn Kevin had strewn light bulbs and glass ornaments all over the floor.
52	-->'''Marv:''' I'M GONNA KILL THAT KID!
53	* ''Film/HomeSweetHomeAlone'': Several of the booby traps that Pam encounters seem to specifically target her feet (being burned, crushed by weights, having to walk over Legos. Yes, [[FromBadToWorse in that order.]]) to the point that Marv would probably think he got off easy.
54	* In the ''Literature/{{Misery}}''-esque 2009 thriller ''Homecoming'', a broken ankle is the injury that first leaves Elizabeth at the psychotic Shelby's tender mercies, and in the process of "caring" for her "patient," Shelby intentionally aggravates the injury in order to torment Elizabeth. After a failed escape attempt by Elizabeth, Shelby further hobbles her by severing her Achilles tendons, ''in both feet'', with a pair of garden shears.
55	* In ''Film/HorrorOfDracula'', Van Helsing manages to halt Dracula by exposing his feet to sunlight.
56	* In the film of ''Literature/HouseOfSandAndFog'', Kathy (Creator/JenniferConnelly's character) learns the hard way that wearing shoes in a construction site is a good idea. From [[http://screenit.com/movies/2003/house_of_sand_and_fog.html screenit.com]]:
57	-->''Kathy, who's barefoot, steps down off a ladder and onto a board with nails sticking up from it. At least 1 nail then impales her foot (attaching the board to it), with blood then dripping from that onto the ground, while the board and her foot are bloody. We then see more blood on her foot when Nadi washes it off in the bathtub.''
58	* ''Film/InTheEarth'': A real cavalcade of this trope. After getting his shoes stolen, Martin steps on a spiked stone booby trap and severely cuts the bottom of his foot. It gets crudely stitched up without anesthetic, but becomes infected. Several of his toes get cut off with an axe to stave off infection, again without anesthetic, and his toe stumps must later get cauterized.
59	* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'': Early in the beginning of the movie, Indiana Jones finds himself surrounded by soviet soldiers pointing their guns at him in a warehouse, with his friend Mac likewise pointing his gun his way in an act of betrayal. Fortunately, [[IndyPloy as per his usual style]], Indy takes advantage of a subsequent order by the soviets to 'drop his gun' by [[ExactWords literally dropping his already loaded gun onto the floor]], at which point it goes off and hits one of the soviets in the foot, prompting him to reflexively pull the trigger on his machine gun in pain and mow down his fellow soldiers, allowing Indy the opportunity to fight his way out.
60	* ''Film/IpMan3'': At one point, Ip Man and his wife are attacked by an unnamed Muay Thai fighter who removes his shoes before attacking. At the end of the fight, Ip Man stomps on his foot, making him wince, before defeating him.
61	* In ''Film/JohnWick'', John attacks Iosef at a swimming pool and grapples with a mook. When John looks down and sees the mook is barefoot, he quickly stomps on his foot to get the upper hand. John also shoots a mook in the foot.
62	* In ''Film/JuliaX'', Jessica nails The Stranger's feet to the floor with a pair of iron spikes. He later yanks the spikes out with his bare hands.
63	* ''Film/{{Jungle}}'': First Marcus', and later Yossi's, feet are almost destroyed by jungle rot, making it extremely painful for them to walk.
64	* In ''Film/{{The Jungle Book\|1994}}'', Mowgli is being chased by some angry soldiers and runs across a bed of hot coals. Despite being barefoot, he doesn't seem to notice it. When the soldiers try to follow, they burn their feet despite wearing boots.
65	* The Bride does this to Gogo Yubari in ''Film/KillBill'' with a table leg with nails through it (see picture), just before killing her with that same leg through her head.
66	* Used by the good guy in ''Film/KungFuHustle'': he flattens the mooks' feet through their shoes with well-placed stomps, causing the BigBad to comment about how he used to use the move in pre-school. And the move is used on the BigBad himself later, proving that there's nothing wrong with the basics.
67	* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', Aragorn kicks a helmet and screams in what seems to be convincingly acted anguish, but was really pain. [[ThrowItIn Viggo Mortensen actually broke his toes in the take that made it into the movie.]]
68	* In ''Film/TheLovedOnes'', Lola's father drives knives through Brent's feet, which is shown in graphic detail.
69	* In the 2012 remake of ''Film/{{Maniac\|1980}}'', Frank incapacitates one of his victims by trapping her in an enclosed parking lot, hiding underneath one of the cars, and slicing her Achilles tendon as she walks past; since the woman is wearing high heels, this also causes her ankle to fold over [[SickeningCrunch with an audible "snap."]] This was foreshadowed earlier when the woman was chatting with a couple of friends and chided them for horsing around with her, complaining that she "could've broke [her] ankle."
70	* One of the first indications that something is amiss regarding the machinery in ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'' is when Wanda June's electric carving knife suddenly turns itself on and attacks her, slicing into her foot.
71	* ''Film/MindHunters'': One of the female FBI agents smokes a cigarette, not knowing it has been laced with [[HollywoodAcid acid]], several drops of which eat through her boot. She briefly stomps her foot in pain [[OhCrap before realizing]] [[BodyHorror she has other problems]].
72	* In ''Film/MissCongeniality'', in the opening scene, Gracie is a little girl and she is fighting with a bully. She stomps on his foot and he starts hopping on the other one grabbing that foot in pain. During one point in the movie proper, she is being held by a Russian man with a knife to her throat and she stomps on his right foot with her sneaker and breaks his grip. And then in another scene Gracie demonstrates the "SING" self-defense technique as part of her talent exhibition: '''S'''olar plexus, '''I'''nstep, '''N'''ose, '''G'''roin and when she says Instep she stomps on Eric's foot.
73	* In ''Film/Molly1983'', Jones accidentally knocks a razor off the sink and then steps on it, leaving a bleeding cut. He tries to stanch it with a towel, but almost immediately bleeds through it.
74	* In ''Film/MoneyMovers'', Jack Henderson persuades Eric Jackson to allow him to take over his robbery plan by tying him to a chair and having his henchman Ernest start cutting his toes off with a set of bolt-cutters till he agrees.
75	* An interesting take on this occurs in ''Film/MoonChild''. During an attempt at an impressive leap-spin-thing in a fight, Sho does what anyone not really trained in martial arts would probably do, and lands awkwardly, hurting his foot in the process. Cue him quickly giving up the badass act and rubbing his ankle while whimpering in pain...
76	* In ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'', Charlie the anvil salesman ends up dropping his sample case on his foot.
77	* ''Series/OnTheBuses'' films:
78	** ''Film/MutinyOnTheBuses'': When Mr. Jenkins leads Stan away to drive his bus away from the growing fire, Stan throws the nozzle of the firehose to Jack, who doesn't notice until it lands right on his foot.
79	** ''Film/HolidayOnTheBuses'':
80	*** Blakey's big toe is broken during Stan's reckless bus driving at the depot, causing him to have to carry a walking stick and have his foot in plaster for the rest of the film. He also mentions that once his fracture cleared up, it brought on a case of gout, while it is injured further when Wally stomps on it during his waltzing lesson.
81	*** Blakey shuts the tour bus' cab door on Stan's foot.
82	* In ''[[Film/NightAtTheMuseum Night At The Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian]]'', Jedediah and Octavius stab the enemy soldiers in the feet with swords.
83	* PlayedForDrama in the made-for-TV movie ''Film/NightOfTheRunningMan.'' The film centers around Jerry Logan, a cab driver who's on the run from David Eckhart, a psychotic hitman who was hired by a mob boss to retrieve a duffle bag full of money that Jerry had with him. In one scene, Jerry is held at gunpoint by Derek Mills, one of Eckhart's associates, who takes Jerry to his home and to make sure that he doesn't run away, he ''burns Jerry's feet in a pot of boiling water.''
84	* ''Film/NiteTalesTheMovie'': In "Karma", the leader of the CannibalClan shatters Dice's ankle with a sledgehammer before subjecting him to UnwillingSuspension.
85	* In ''Film/NoKidding'', David hurts his foot while out looking for the children when they steal his car:
86	-->'''Catherine''': David, you're limping.
87	-->'''David''': I lost my slipper. Caught my foot in that ''so-and-so'' bicycle.
88	* ''Film/TheOddAngryShot'': Due to constant rain,damp and humidity, everyone in the camp is afflicted with tinea.
89	* ''Film/OperationFortuneRuseDeGuerre'': While exiting the Ukrainian's villa, Orson shoots one of the guards through the foot.
90	* ''Film/TheOutlawsIsComing'': While attempting to draw his gun, which has been glued into his holster, Cole Younger shoots himself in the foot.
91	* Early on in ''Film/PanicMechanic'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXSSrBBZV_8 a hijacker learns why]] it's not a good idea to hijack [[WhosOnFirst a man named Jack]] right after said man greeted some friends.
92	* ''Film/{{Parker}}'': When a hitman is attempting to suffocate Parker with the shower curtain, Parker is able to break his grip by stamping his cowboy boot down hard on the hitman's instep.
93	* In the first ''Film/PoliceAcademy'', the same thing happens. Cadet Copeland has his foot run over by cadet Hooks while waiting to take the driving test.
94	* In ''Film/{{Preservation}}'', Mike steps in a BearTrap and severs a tendon in his foot.
95	* Princess Mia in ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries 2'' gets her foot stomped on by a clumsy dancer. Later on the same dance she is walking with her friend and she steps on Nicholas' foot. Later when they meet again and she finds out Lord Nicholas is after the crown she stomps on his foot full force and he winces in pain. She leaves in a furious mood and then he slowly limps out of the scene being helped to walk by a female assistant.
96	* ''Film/AQuietPlace''. Evelyn, literally barefoot and pregnant, steps on an exposed nail on a staircase. She then has to ''slowly'' pull her foot off the nail without making any more noise that will draw the creatures. In the [[Film/AQuietPlacePartII sequel]], the older son Marcus steps into a bear trap early on.
97	* ''Film/RaisingTheWind'': As Alex plays his clarinet for an invigilator, said invigilator accidentally trods on his foot, causing Alex to blow a long, high note in pain.
98	* In ''Film/RatRace'', Owen gets stranded in the middle of the desert without his shoes, socks, and pants, comically burning his feet in the hot sands before he manages to walk to civilization.
99	* ''Film/Revenge2017''. The heroine is being chased by a villain who is only wearing one shoe, so she smashes her flashlight against a rock, leaving glass shards on the ground that he steps on. We then have a gory sequence of him trying to remove a deeply buried shard with his fingers, all the while shrieking in agony.
100	* In ''Film/{{Rovdyr}}'', Mia has the back of her ankle blown off with a SawnOffShotgun.
101	* ''Film/AScoreToSettle'': During the shootout at the nursing home, Jimmy the Dragon is taking cover behind his SUV. Frankie, who is lying on the ground behind a sign, can see Jimmy's feet under the vehicle, and drops him by shooting him in the ankle.
102	* ''Film/SeeNoEvil1971'': During the murderer's first attack on the Rextons' house, he breaks some glass in the kitchen. Sarah, who is blind and [[DramaticIrony doesn't realise her family has been murdered]] at first, walks through the kitchen several times in socks or bare feet and is lucky enough to avoid it. But after the killer comes back, Sarah flees through the kitchen, steps on the glass, and injures her foot.
103	* More comedic than horrific, but the scene in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' when Lone Star manages to levitate the huge statue of Yogurt using the Schwartz, then loses his concentration and lets it drop onto Barf's foot. Barf starts howling in pain, and when Yogurt lifts up the statue again there's a quick shot of Barf's completely-flattened foot.
104	* A blonde woman in ''Film/SpyHard'' gets her foot run over.
105	* ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Jaws picks up a large stone block to throw, then realises his intended targets have already fled so he drops it...on his foot. His grimace is priceless.
106	* In the film ''Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi'', Chun-Li has a fight in a bathroom with a girl named Kantana, and in the first part of the fight, she stomps on Chun-Li's foot with one of her high heels.
107	* In ''Film/SympathyForLadyVengeance'', Geum-ja shoots Mr. Baek once in each foot as he is BoundAndGagged in a chair in the abandoned school.
108	* In ''Film/TenDeadMen'', Ryan stabs Lewis through the foot with a shard of broken glass.
109	* ''Film/TheyShallNotGrowOld'' includes fully-restored footage of soldiers suffering from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_foot trench foot]].
110	* Happens in the French horror film ''Film/{{Tombville}}''. In the beginning of the movie, David wakes up tied up and barefoot in a basement, and an older man wants to know how David found their town. When David doesn't answer, the man starts with TickleTorture, then progresses to ''torture''-torture.
111	* In ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', Bond drops a cruise missile tail-first onto henchman Herr Stamper's foot during their final fight, pinning it under the rocket's exhaust, which 007 has rigged with explosives. When the countdown reaches zero, it doesn't end well for Stamper.
112	* In ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie'', the Rangers try entering the Nemesis Triangle with the Turbo Keys. Unfortunately, a stray barrel runs over Justin Stewart's foot, causing him to drop the key.
113	* ''Film/TruthOrDare2017'' includes a scene where a foot is removed with a cleaver to satisfy one of the dares.
114	* ''Film/TwiceRoundTheDaffodils'': When Nurse Beamish tries to use the washing machine in the sluice, the door comes away in her hand and crushes her foot, leaving her with a limp.
115	* In ''Film/WhoAmI1998'', Creator/JackieChan loses his shoes in one scene. The mooks immediately capitalize by repeatedly stomping on his feet. Jackie eventually dons wooden clogs and returns the favor.
116	* ''Film/YakuzaApocalypse'': In one scene, when Kamiura and Kageyama are visiting a restaurant, the owner goes downstairs to a knitting class and orders everyone to put their right foot out. They do so, and he starts going around randomly stomping on them.
117	* In ''Film/YellowHairAndTheFortressOfGold'', Yellow Hair shoots the gambler who grabs her from behind through the foot to force him to unhand her. He spends the rest of the fight hopping around in agony.
118	* ''Film/YoungLadyChatterleyII'': After Lady Chatterley turns down his offer to buy the estate, Beechum becomes so frustrated that he kicks the wheel of his car and breaks his foot. At the end of the film, Lady Chatterley thwarts his scheme to drive the estate bankrupt so he can purchase it, and he angrily kicks a rock; breaking his other foot.
119	* ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'': has Rizzo fall down the chimney of the Cratchit house, landing on the goose that's being cooked for Christmas dinner. At first, he's relieved to have landed on something soft, but quickly realizes that it's also hot.
120	* ''Film/ViolentNight'' has a direct ShoutOut to ''Film/HomeAlone'' with broken ornaments scattered on the floor right after a glue trap that forced the villain to take off her footwear. Before that the film does a fake-out with a nail on a ladder, but the mook about to climb it spotted it right away [[spoiler: and that was not the real trap there, anyway]].
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