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I'm quite happy with my custom avatar as it is. However if it turns out that the new policy is going to affect anything (i.e. that as a side effect of the new policy, all custom avatars that have NOT passed through this thread will be deleted.) I would appreciate if someone would let me know.
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| Thread: Shoe Loss in Cartoons, Games, Movies, and Comics MegaThread |
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Originally posted by Steven Of Alabasta
Thank you. Very good information you've given me. By the way, I want to make that picture of Apple Bloom I attached my profile picture on these boards. Can you tell me how to do that? |
First you need to get the picture you want onto somewhere you can download it from. It's been a while so I've forgotten if it has to go onto a photo site (like Photobucket or Snapfish) or you can do it directly from your computers mainframe
Hit the button on the top of your screen that says "User CP" (control panel). On the next screen, hit the button marked "avatar" (it's on the far right, near the middle). Then hit the button that says "Use Custom Avatar" go to browse, find the image and hit download/ok (note: the size requirement for the images is pretty small, so you may have to shrink the image to get it down to however many pixels is permitted. Assuming that works the image will be uploaded to the memory files, and you can use it.
Okay I have one more lead, though by it's definition, it's sort of a "no good one". I was watching the Graham Norton Show yesterday, and one of the guests was Helena Bonham Carter, who, amongst other things, discussed her role in the soon to be released Movie version of Great Expectations, in which she is playing Miss Havisham. One of the things she mentioned was that, in keeping with the description of the character as presented by Dickens, she played the entire role with one shoe off and one on (for those who have never read the book, Miss Havisham does this because she was putting her shoes on for her wedding when she got the message that her husband to be had defrauded her and left her at the altar, and basically "froze". Everything in her house has been left exactly as it was since then.) Unfortunaltey Carter says that, due to the nature of the costume, there was no point when you can see this. But she says her husband (Tim Burton a.k.a. the director of the movie) did notice the hobbling and complimented her on trying to look as old as the character. So I suppose this one will sort of be a "secret example" that we will know about, but never see (though I imagine that, should the costumes ever come up to auction, someone could verify the story by comparing wear on the shoes and stockings).
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Originally posted by Steven Of Alabasta
Something from one of the newest episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; not quite a loss but covering the "asymmetrical footwear" aspect that was mentioned a couple posts ago.
From the episode "One Bad Apple", this is one of the outfits Apple Bloom considered when going to meet Babs Seed at the train station, which consists of a blue sneaker on her right rear hoof and a red sock on her left front hoof.
As for a loss, the episode "Best Night Ever" mentions the Cinderella situation that pops up often in fiction when Pinkie Pie notices one of Rarity's glass slippers. Rarity, wanting no part of it due to her horrible experience with Prince Blueblood, destroys the slipper.
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"Best Night Ever" is actually RIFE with shoe loss scenes. As I mentioned, by the end of the episode the only Pony who still has all of thier shoes is Pinkie (and possibly Twilight, her hoof positions make it a little hard to tell) I actually made a little comment fanfiction story about that. While visting Sweet apple acres, the Mane 6 notice that AJ put her remaining boot upside down on one of the gate posts. When they ask her why she say it just seemed to make sense the tip of that post was rotting in the rain. Plus now it works as a handy way of seeing in anyone is home, when they are in, the toe of the boot is pointed at the house, when everyone is out, the last person turns it the other way (note: handing old boots on fenceposts is an actualy (and pretty common) tradition in a lot of Western areas, and the reasons given include both of the above) I also covered what happened to Rarity's other glass slipper, which wasn't nearly as clean (I'll give you a hint, from a chemical point of view, glass isn't all that different from quartz and some quartzes count as gemstones......)
Also the episode that was shown yesterday with the Magic Duel had a shoe loss as well. When Fluttershy comes out of the log, her disguise is already wrecked, and that includes the fact she is missing one of the boots (on her right front hoof)
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| Thread: Shoe Loss in Cartoons, Games, Movies, and Comics MegaThread |
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Speaking of Adult swim programs, Bleach has a few shoe loss scenes as well. There was an episode way back (in the #50's I think) with a bird that was the reincarnation of a little kid, and when you see his flashback of when he and his mother were killed, his mother has one of her slingbacks knocked off in the struggle. The small blond haired Vizard is also often shown in one flip flop, since she likes to knock people over the head with the other one. There is going to be an episode (it hasn't shown yet on AS) where Soifon is going to kick one of her slippers off to keep from her foot rotting (after it is hit by an Arrancars attack). |
It was on this previos Saturday. Sorry for no time mark, the counter seem to be malfuntioncing (and the youtube one freezes before it gets to the scene) http://www.animeavenue.net/bleach-episode-281/
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It occurs at 5:13 for those interested. Good scene. It looks like she wears thin white socks or stockings underneath her shoes, though you don't really get a good look at her foot. Can you link the other scenes you referenced? |
The first is episode #5, around the 16:00 mark http://www.hulu.com/#!watch/37418 as for the blond Vizard, there really is no particualr episode that stands out, she does it ALL the time.
Actually the scene is proably the best you could possibly get, as I think Soifon is the only female Soul Reaper captain who wears closed toe slippers Nearly all of the other soul reapers, male or female wear simple Japanese sandals with the exception of Saijin (who I personally suspect wears high boots because he has wolf legs as well as a wolf head, and needs thier height to compensate for his legs not really being designed for bipedalism.
It's not a loss or a dangle, but the current episodes do have one other footwear related notable. Lisa (one of the other Vizards) wears a schoolgirl uniform as her "steet clothes" when you first see her, that includes a pair of standard Japanese schoolgirl shoes (i.e. penny loafers). However when they show up for actual battle, Lisa (and ONLY Lisa) has changed her footwear, she now has white tennis shoes. We never see the reason, but I sort of like to imagine a scene during the practice they must have done putting the final touches on thier fighting skills, she made one hard kick too many, and either kicked her loafer off into the stratosphere or drove her foot through the front!
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Originally posted by Nopperabo
Speaking of Adult swim programs, Bleach has a few shoe loss scenes as well. There was an episode way back (in the #50's I think) with a bird that was the reincarnation of a little kid, and when you see his flashback of when he and his mother were killed, his mother has one of her slingbacks knocked off in the struggle. The small blond haired Vizard is also often shown in one flip flop, since she likes to knock people over the head with the other one. There is going to be an episode (it hasn't shown yet on AS) where Soifon is going to kick one of her slippers off to keep from her foot rotting (after it is hit by an Arrancars attack). |
It was on this previos Saturday. Sorry for no time mark, the counter seem to be malfuntioncing (and the youtube one freezes before it gets to the scene) http://www.animeavenue.net/bleach-episode-281/
I also have one more(though properly it might actually belong in the thread about shoe loss in video games with a bit of a story behind it. You are going to have to take my word for it though, as there is no Youtube bits, and I have no skill at transferring video captures online (plus my computer is old, and has no software to do things like that).
Many years ago while looking through the offerings at a libary books sale I bumped into while traveling.I happened to pick up a computer CD rom game based on Tove Jannson's Moomins (or more accurately Mumins, since the disk was in Swedish)
As far as I can tell it's a little kids click game, You click on varios things in each room and they do odd things. Eventually you click on some part of the room and a little Racoon like character shows up (where he is varies from play to play) moves out, an you move onto the next screen (though any screen is acessible from the main page).
Now here's the important part. There seems to be some sort of theme running through the game of the little raccoon boy stealing peoples right boots (on the very last screen, when the boy is in hiding in one specific place, he steals a certain characters right boot, and after the character looks under the table is suprised by the kid, and runs away, the racoon kid comes out dragging a sack of boots). That's the only actuall removal in the game (most of the moomin characters don't wear shoes, or much of any clothing for that matter. However on the second screen, when you click on one of the drawers in a desk, My, the Mylbles daughter pops out, walks across the desk, scribbles on a slate on the other side, giggles, and runs off, and she seems to be missing her right boot as well.
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I not only am no big fan of flip flops, I'm not really all that particualrly interested in ANY sort of slip on flat sandal. Even some of the not so flat sandals rank rather low on my list, I'm not really all that fond of geta's or zori since they also are simply slip on sandals to me (I'm a little better on zori when they are worn with tabi (japanese socks) since those looke more shoe-ish to me, but worn barefoot they don't really count.
Oh and just to widen the list, I don't consider bedroom/house slippers as shoes either. |
I totally agree with you. |
Tengu geta are a special case. In general I just think they look stupid (for those not up on thier Japanese folklore, Tengu geta differ from regular geta in the arragement of the raised platforms on the bottom. While the normal type usually have 2 (one roughly under the toe box and one around the back of the ankle) the kind tengu (a mlythological creature that either looks like a person with a bright red face and a foot long nose, or a crow headed human) wear usually only have 1 right in the middle of the sole (or even a round piece of bamboo). It's meant to show how otherworldly tengu are (they can wear shoes that it would be impossible for a normal human to walk in) As I said I usually find them a bit too odd to be really interesting (plus folklore tengu are pretty much excusively male, and very old male at that). However I do find a little interest in those anime characters who wear ordinary shoes with tengu soles. Though to my knowledge there is basically only one character in anime land who does this, Shamemaru Aya in the Tohou series (there are two other tengu there, but the male wolf one usually wears flat sandals, and the other female usually wears more tradtional sandals). Actually if you go trolling around Danbooru (where all things Tohou are huge) you'll find a fairly large number of single shoe pictures of Aya. Some are damage type (lost while fighting) or erotic type (kicked off while doing something indecent) and the invariable "kiss my foot" pictures. But quite a few have no real obvios reason for the removal, at least until you realized what the artist has intended; they show Aya having taken one of her shoes off becuse there is no way for her to put her foot in the positions a normal one would go in in some cases (say sitting on the floor) while it is on; the platforms make it impossible to put her foot in those positions.
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I not only am no big fan of flip flops, I'm not really all that particualrly interested in ANY sort of slip on flat sandal. Even some of the not so flat sandals rank rather low on my list, I'm not really all that fond of geta's or zori since they also are simply slip on sandals to me (I'm a little better on zori when they are worn with tabi (japanese socks) since those looke more shoe-ish to me, but worn barefoot they don't really count.
Oh and just to widen the list, I don't consider bedroom/house slippers as shoes either.
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Found on Zerochan
I swear I've seen this pose (stand like this with the back of one shoe held in each hand so they point out) somewhere before (I keep getting pictures of a manga art book I had once, one where everyone was drawn hyper-hyper skinny)
Actually the Zerochan site has quite a few interesting single shoe and no shoe pictures (in my case defined as "pictures I haven't already seen on Danbooru or related sites" (most of the images that show up on places like Safebooru,Gelbooru and even Konachan also show up on Danbooru, so I rarely do regular searches of them). Some are in the "footwear removed" section and a few in the "Asymmetrical Footwear" file (evidently a few posters thought that pictures of people who have a shoe on one foot and no shoe on the other counts as asymmetrical (which in a certain sense it does, but that really isn't what the tag is usually used for.)
and this (from a Crotatian Wizard of Oz)
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It's another site. Though it probably isn't worth the going, as I said, there are only 3 shoe loss pictures (though dozens and dozens of ones with both shoes removed) and an afwful lot of NSFW (basically the artist tends to draw photoplays of the charactters in sequences, shod, shoeless, barefoot, outer wear less, topless, and naked).
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I've seen that one before on ebay (I think it's by Maude Tousey Fangel, and I'm afraid that is actually a BOY. At the time it was painted, Mary Janes were considered unisex shoes, and boys were often dressed more or less as girls until they were several years old (anywhere from around 7 to as late as 12) Ditto the rouged lips, they'd do that all the time for pictures (and even photos)
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I think what has happened there is as follows; with the foot at that angle, only the toe region of the vamp of the shoe would be visible (in that style the side of the shoe would not actually be neccecarily drawn in) that part of the foot is over the border, which is also black. Black shoe+black border=missing shoe. |
Perhaps. But that woman mentions wearing one shoe on the picture as well. Anyway, we all can imagine that shoe is missing. 
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The way I read the quote, the illustrator sound like she did not intend the shoe to be missing, and could not figure out why it had happned. I was just offering an explanation. There is actually a little evidence of that, look how the foot is pointed in the middle. Not normal for an unshod foot (most people do not have feet where thier middle toe is thier longest one, longer even than thier big toe.) but very common if you are wearing pumps with a "V" shaped vamp. But as you said it is ambiguos, you can see what you want.
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I think what has happened there is as follows; with the foot at that angle, only the toe region of the vamp of the shoe would be visible (in that style the side of the shoe would not actually be neccecarily drawn in) that part of the foot is over the border, which is also black. Black shoe+black border=missing shoe.
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That's actually only the first half of the story. The last chapter of the book is called "The Honest Princess" and it tells the story from the POV of the other girl (the one who took the shoe). And yes, I checked the site, and it isn't loaded there. |
Yes it is: The name of the chapter is Golden Shoes, Silver Shoes. |
Oh my bad, I guess they changed the title of the story when they translated it, so I couldn't find it. Oddly there is an anime called Golden Shoe Silver Shoe but it appears to be unrelated (it's about a girl with a gold colored artificial leg)
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That's actually only the first half of the story. The last chapter of the book is called "The Honest Princess" and it tells the story from the POV of the other girl (the one who took the shoe). And yes, I checked the site, and it isn't loaded there.
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Another one from my collection
This book actually has quite a lot of good material. The frame story of the book involves a girl who discovers that someone has accidentally taken one of her shoes from aoutside her apartment (and left one of thiers) and the events that result from her trying to contact the person to get her shoe back. There is only one other single shoe picture in the book (the frontspiece). However as it appears that neither girl has a second pair of shoes (or at least decides to wear one) there are a LOT of mismached shoe illustrations, for both of them
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Some more comic strip bits
From top Dennis the Menace, Brother Juniper, Maflada (spanish) Peanuts
Peanuts, For Better or Worse (note girl with Lucy in top left comic is the other Patty I mentioned
Outland (sucessor to Bloom County) Ripley's Belive it or Not, Broom Hilda
Assorted Old Magazine cartoons
And finally another Oz (French). Noable for again having silver "shoes" that are more along the lines of boots
I have a few more newpaper comics in my collection (for example I know I have a Family Circus strip) but can't remember exactly where.
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