Basic Trope: A character's footwear proves resistant to obliteration.
- Straight: After Emperor Evulz incinerates Bob with a fireball, only his shoes remain.
- Exaggerated: After an Earth-Shattering Kaboom, 8 billion pairs of ownerless shoes can be found floating through space.
- Downplayed: Evulz shoots a decoy made out of clothing with a fireball. The shoes and charred embers of clothes remain.
- Justified:
- Bob has magical Boots of Fireproofing. Unfortunately, the effect doesn't extend to the rest of his body...
- Bob's shoes were blown off by the force of the explosion and land a couple yards away.
- Bob's shoesnote were outside the obliteration's area of effect
- Inverted: An explosion destroys Bob's shoes while leaving him otherwise unharmed.
- Subverted: The explosion seems to obliterate Bob and leave his shoes alone, but then he climbs out of a pile of rubble some distance away, charred and groaning, but alive.
- Double Subverted: ...and immediately disintegrates, leaving nothing but an empty, smoldering suit fluttering to the ground.
- Parodied:
- Bob is a talking pair of shoes, and nothing can destroy him.
- A bomb goes off in a shoestore, creating a rain of shoes in the process.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob is wiped from the earth, shoes and all.
- Enforced: The show has a Product Placement deal with Nike.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Emperor Evulz strips Bob of his shoes before incinerating him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Bob's shoes are preserved and serve as a tragic reminder of his death.
- Scientists analyze Bob's shoes and use the data to develop new lava boots.
- Reconstructed: Alice takes the shoes to a lab, where they take a swab, clone Bob, and upload his memories. Bob makes millions selling his shoes on eBay.
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