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* Akiko Narumi in ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' uses this at least [[Once an Episode]].
* In the first episode of ''[[The IT Crowd]]'', Roy yells at a woman who called for assistance. At the end of the episode, she comes down to the IT cave and beats him with her shoe.
* Rejected in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode 'The Poison Sky'. Initially, Donna (Catherine Tate) was supposed to KO a Sontaran with a shoe. Problem? In her words: 'But because I'll only wear trainers, they didn't want it to be a trainer. Or thought probably a trainer would be too soft.'
 
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* Nikita Khrushchev and his shoe-banging in the UN meeting in 1960.
** Note that it has not been confirmed whether this actually happened or not. Accounts are conflicting, and the one photo that shows Khrushchev with a shoe in his hand was faked.
* At a press conference in Iraq, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFH7C3vkK4&feature=fvw someone threw a shoe] at [[George W. Bush]], who dodged it.
** Throwing shoes at someone is an insult in many Arab countries (not that it's a compliment elsewhere, but...). [[Wikipedia (Wiki)|Wikipedia]] has [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeing |this entry]] on the phenomenon, and several examples.
*** The guy [[Hoist By His Own Petard|was himself the victim of]] a [[Shoe Slap]] a year later in Paris, by another journalist who accused him of supporting dictatorship in Iraq. His reaction? "He stole my technique."
* This is commonly threatened by mothers in Southern Asia.
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* The ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' example makes it into [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMMUjRHUJFI#t=2m45s the Ganbaride trading card arcade game], but shot up full of [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|AWESOME.]]
* One of B Jenet's super moves in ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]] XI'' revolves around this trope.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', players infiltrate the Dragonmaw Orcs in Shadowmoon disguised as an Orc Overseer, and one of the duties Overseers have is to discipline disobedient peons. This is done with "[[Precision -Guided Boomerang|Booterang]]", a boot that flies through the air, hits a worthless peon, and returns to the thrower.
{{quote| ARRRGH! BOOTERANG!}}
 
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