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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
 
* ''[[Air Gear (Manga)|Air Gear]]'' has the Wind having ATs that retract leaving them with normal looking shoes when they aren't in use.
* Conan of ''[[Case Closed]]'' has shoes that deliver an electric current through his legs. This greatly enhances his kicking ability.
* ''[[Daimos]]'': Daimos had rockets on its feet AND retractable spikes to simultanesouly kick and stab [[Robeast|Robeasts]] with.
* ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'': In episode 18, Mazinger-Z's feet got modified to include rockets allowed the [[Humongous Mecha]] move underwater.
* ''[[Mega Man NT Warrior]]'': Lan could attach wheels to his shoes to make them [[Rollerblade Good]].
 
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Batman and Robin (Filmfilm)|Batman and Robin]]'' has the infamous "Batman on Ice" scene.
** The more popular Batman movie ''[[Batman Begins]]'' has a brief scene in which Bats removes a sonar-device from the heel of his boot and uses it to attract hundreds of bats to his location, distracting a SWAT team.
** In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', the Joker has a blade hidden in the tip of his shoe as a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[James Bond]] flick mentioned below.
* Jade Fox in ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' has a spring-loaded shoe-knife.
* In ''[[From Russia With Love (Film)|From Russia Withwith Love]]'', Spectre agents develop a weapon that fits a hidden, retractable poison blade into the sole of a shoe, to give it a "nastier kick".
* ''LA Story'': Harris K. Telemacher has a pair of shoes with roller skate wheels that pop out when he presses a button. He uses them to skate through an art museum.
* ''[[Undercover Brother]]''. The title character had two pairs: one was elevator shoes with extendable heels that raised him into the air, the other had an extendable CD drive/cellular modem in the heel that he used to send data to the BROTHERHOOD.
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** He does use it at one point during the fight on Loveless's train to kill a man strangling him from behind.
* In the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' film, [[Big Bad|Bison]] wears boots that allow him to levitate. How this works is never explained, but this is the least of the movie's problems.
* Marty McFly's self-tying Nikes in ''[[Back to Thethe Future (Filmfilm)|Back to The Future]]'' Part 2.
** Which have now been made for [http://nikemag.ebay.com/shoes real] (except for the self-tying part) and are being auctioned off to support [[Michael J. Fox]]'s Parkinson's Charity.
* ''[[The Goonies]]'': Data and his Slick Shoes.
 
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' has a [[Shoe Phone]].
** Maxwell Smart has also occasionally had other things in the heels of his shoes, like [[Cyanide Pill|Cyanide Pills]].
* ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'': the retractable shoe knife used by the KGB.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' features Iron Boots, which, depending on the game, allow you to [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|WallCrawl on certain magnetic surfaces, as well as anchoring you firmly enough to withstand a rolling Goron]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|or sinking on water so you can walk at the bottom of a flooded area, and gaining more traction against fans]]. ''Ocarina Of Time'' also has the Hover Boots, that allow Link to run in the air for a second, which grants more horizontal distance than jumping, or get blasted like a bullet by a fan so he can reach areas too far to just run to.
* Soap Shoes for [[Grind Boots|Rail Grinding]]. Featured in ''[[Sonic]] Adventure 2''.
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', the Soldier-class can equip Gunboats: Steel-shoes that allow him to absorb damage from [[Rocket Jump|Rocket Jumps]]. He also has the Mantreads, which decrease the knockback from explosions and Pyro Airblasts, as well as allow him to [[Goomba Stomp]] foes.
* ''[[Bayonetta]]'': the titular character could attach weapons to her shoes, specifically the back of her heels.
* [[Banjo-Kazooie|Kazooie]] has four pairs of these -- the [[Sprint Shoes|Turbo Trainers]] (for [[Super Speed]]), the Wading Boots (for walking across shallow yet dangerous surfaces), the Springy Step Shoes (for making a [[Spring Jump]], of course), and the Claw Clamber Boots (for [[Wall Crawl|walking up walls]]).
* ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'': the 'Long Fall Boots' Chell wears to prevent [[Not the Fall That Kills You|fall damage]].
* Shao Jun from ''[[Assassin's Creed|Assassin's Creed: Embers]]'' has the traditional Hidden Blade in her shoe, rather than mounted on her wrist.
* Juggernaut armor in ''[[Starsiege: Tribes|Tribes 2]]'' have rocket boots instead of the standard [[Jet Pack]].
* Cerberus soldiers in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' have boots equipped with rockets. They only use them to cushion their falls after jumping from heights.
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyGx3m1gPZI When there's trouble you know what to do, CALL CYBORG!] He can shoot a rocket from his shoe, CAUSE HE'S CYBORG!'' - Cyborg, ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]''
* In ''[[Iron Man: Armored Adventures]]'':
{{quote| '''Tony:''' They're ''not'' skates! They're ...[[Techno Babble|electrostatic]]...[[Blatant Lies|energy racers]].}}
* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'': though, in his case, the gadgets actually do pop out from the bottoms of his feet.
* In ''[[Cloudy Withwith a Chance of Meatballs]]'', Flint's first invention is spray-on shoes, which solves the dilemma of having to tie your laces. Unfortunately, they don't come off. Ever.
 
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