No Pimped-Out Dress is complete without a pair of elegant shoes.
"WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOSE!?"
— Brandon Moore, His famous Vine meme
Tropes about feet, legs, and footwear (or the lack thereof).
Note that merely having feet and footwear in the title are not enough. The Girl Who Fits This Slipper should not be listed, as it's not exclusively about shoes.
Contrast Mer Tropes (since merfolk don't have feet), Cranium Coverings.
Related:
Tropes:
- Agitated Item Stomping
- Agony of the Feet: A character receives a foot injury.
- All Women Love Shoes: Women are portrayed as loving shoes.
- Ankle Drag
- Armed Legs: Weapons on the legs/feet.
- Barefoot Captives: When they take your freedom, they also take your shoes.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: A Funny Animal who is fully clothed except for shoes.
- Barefoot Loon: A character goes barefoot to indicate their eccentricity and/or insanity.
- Barefoot Poverty: These characters are too poor to afford shoes.
- Barefoot Sage: A character goes barefoot to indicate their wisdom.
- Barefoot Suicide: Some characters take off their shoes before killing themselves.
- "Basic Instinct" Legs-Crossing Parody
- Between My Legs
- Bizarre Alien Limbs (if unusual types of legs are involved)
- Bizarre Alien Locomotion (again, if unusual types of legs are involved)
- Blade Footwear
- Boots of Toughness
- Broken Heel
- Captain Morgan Pose: A character poses with one leg on a higher platform than the other as a show of confidence.
- Cement Shoes: Encasing someone's feet in cement and dropping them into a body of water to drown them.
- Combat Stilettos: Fighting in high heels.
- Cruelty by Feet: A character is mean to another by kicking or stepping on them.
- Dead Foot Leadfoot: Slow undead folks.
- Detachable Lower Half
- Detectives Follow Footprints
- Dismissive Kick
- Earthy Barefoot Character: If you're close to nature and like to feel the ground beneath your feet, then why wear shoes?
- Eating Shoes
- Extra Digits: Extra toes (or fingers).
- Fearsome Foot
- Feet-First Introduction
- Feminine Leg Swish
- Fertile Feet
- Finishing Stomp
- Fluorescent Footprints
- Fog Feet
- Foot Bath Treatment: A character soaks their feet, either to warm up after having been chilled, or because they're sick.
- Foot in the Face
- Foot Popping
- Footprints of Muck
- Footsie Under the Table: Showing affection by touching feet under a table.
- Foot Stuck in a Bucket
- Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Bipeds are better than quadrupeds.
- Giant Foot of Stomping
- Giant Footprint Reveal
- Goomba Stomp: Destroying Mooks by stomping/jumping on them.
- Grind Boots
- Hand Stomp
- Handy Feet: A trope about characters who use their feet like an extra pair of hands.
- Helpless Kicking: Cornered or restrained with only your legs free? Time for some futile kicking.
- High-Heeled Feet
- High Heel Hurt
- High-Heel Power
- Hot on His Own Trail
- Humanlike Foot Anatomy: An anthropomorphic animal with human-like feet, often to facilitate wearing shoes.
- Human-to-Werewolf Footprints: A lycanthropic transformation is indicated through a trail of footprints that gradually change shape.
- Hurt Foot Hop: A character whose foot was injured hops.
- I Kiss Your Foot: Kissing feet.
- Inside Shoes: The etiquette of shoes indoors, and when it's taboo.
- Kick Chick: A girl who mostly fights by kicking.
- Knee-capping: Attacking the kneecaps.
- Laborious Laces: Shoelaces cause difficulty.
- Leg Cannon
- Leg Focus
- Long Pants: Pants and shoes drawn as one.
- Losing a Shoe in the Struggle
- Lucky Rabbit's Foot: Rabbit's feet are traditionally used as good luck charms.
- Magical Barefooter: If you have supernatural powers, you probably don't need shoes anyway.
- Martial Artists Are Always Barefoot: Martial artists fight shoeless.
- Mercury's Wings: Wings on the feet/shoes (or the head).
- Murderous Thighs
- No Knees: Running and walking characters are animated as not bending their knees.
- Old-Timey Ankle Taboo: In the past, it was taboo to show ankles.
- Pedal-to-the-Metal Shot
- Pinned to the Ground: A character is pinned to the ground which can be done by putting one's foot on them.
- The Precious, Precious Shoes
- Prefers Going Barefoot: A trope for characters who dislike wearing shoes.
- Seadog Peg Leg: A sailor has a wooden leg.
- Seiza Squirm: Discomfort while sitting in seiza position.
- Shoe Shine, Mister?
- Shoe Size Angst: A character is upset about the size of their feet.
- Shoe Slap: Hitting someone with a shoe (that isn't on a foot).
- Shoes on Power Lines: Hanging a pair of sneakers on a power line by their tied-together laces.
- Smelly Feet Gag: A joke about foot odour.
- Smoldering Shoes
- Sneakers of Sneaking: Shoes that allow the wearer to walk silently.
- Sneaky Tip-Toes: Tip-toeing around to be stealthy.
- Sock Slide Rink: Sliding around on a smooth floor in socks as if you're skating.
- Spit Out a Shoe
- Sticky Shoes
- Stocking Filler
- Straight to the Pointe
- Surefooted Barefooter
- Tailfin Walking: Bipedal pinnipeds, cetaceans, or fish that walk on their tail fins as if they were feet.
- Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip: Getting one's shoelaces tied together as a prank, causing tripping.
- Thundering Footsteps: Large and/or heavy (and most likely dangerous) things walk with heavy, easily heard footsteps.
- Trampled Underfoot: Getting injured by people walking over you.
- Treadmill Trauma
- Tricked-Out Shoes
- Trip Trap
- Twisted Ankle
- Twisted-Knee Collapse
- Undead Barefooter: Sometimes zombies, vampires, ghosts, and other supernatural characters who have survived their own deaths don't bother with footwear.
- Victory Pose On Person: As part of a Victory Pose, someone puts one foot on their defeated opponent.
- Weapon Stomp
- What the Heck Is an Aglet?: Aglets, the ends of shoelaces, are a stock obscure word/fun fact.
- Wheel o' Feet: Running so fast, your feet become a blurry circle.
- With a Foot on the Bus

