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Using a shoe as a weapon. Not as [[Armed Legs]], but holding the shoe in hand and whacking stuff with it. It's more likely done if an insect needs to be killed. Alternatively, [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|it can be thrown]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== Radio ==
* [[The Frantics|Boot to the Head!]]
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* 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]] has [[wikipedia: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.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land" Marge points out that violence isn't so funny what it happens to you. Bart says that it is funny watching it happen to someone else, which Lisa demonstrates by tossing her shoe at Bart. [[Actually Pretty Funny|Marge does find it funny]], before sending Lisa to her room.
* In [[Shrek|''Shrek the Third'']], Cinderella actually uses her glass slippers as weapons.
* The trailer for ''[[Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2]]'' released in June 2018 shows [[Disney Princess|Cinderella]] [[Grievous Bottley Harm|breaking one of her glass slippers to use as an improvised shiv.]]
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* 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]] has [[wikipedia: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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