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hunter77721 
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Something, that I found on theanimegallery.com:
one shoe off
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hunter77721
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11-18-2012 12:45 |
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Nopperabo
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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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11-18-2012 14:54 |
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Steven Of Alabasta
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I'm back. Been offline for two weeks since my Mac charger broke, but a new one arrived yesterday and I've returned.
First, a loss I remember when I was a kid. The Wild Thornberrys, episode "Naimina Enkiyio." Eliza and Darwin are lost in a forest after Eliza decides to attempt to disprove an ancient Masai legend. She gets stuck in a mud pit, and loses her left boot as she's pulled out. I would have a link, but Viacom has blocked the YouTube copy of the episode (they've been extraordinarily touchy with their stuff being put on YT in the four years I've been on their site). The episode is on iTunes for anyone who's interested, like moi.
Next, a bit about "close call" losses; regarding the Disney film Wreck-It Ralph, which just came out this month. Vanellope Von Schweetz is grabbed at by the eponymous Ralph, but she manages to slip away. She seems to be wearing a pair of rubber boots and mismatched candy cane-colored knee socks; symbolizing her nature as a "glitch". In particular, Sugar Rush seemed like a place where losses would happen a lot, since there are pools of everything from taffy to butterscotch and multiple different consistencies of chocolate (one that is prominent is a pit of "Nesquik-sand", which appears to be made of the sludge that sometimes occurs when you mix Nesquik in a cup). As for other characters like Sgt. Calhoun and Felix, they wear combat boots and work boots respectively, which are made for those sort of conditions. I think a reason that shoe loss does not occur very often in computer animation is that it is far more expensive and time-consuming to render everything, so character models have to stay constant.
Finally, in the time that I've been on this thread, I've noticed that shoe loss is quite popular in Sonic the Hedgehog fan art. It helps that the franchise has been around for 21 years, so there has been time for people to connect with the many characters and create some of their own; all with distinct styles of shoes for people to play with in their drawings.
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11-19-2012 00:55 |
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Mandrake
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11-19-2012 21:04 |
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Powell
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A proper shoe loss happens too seldom!
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11-20-2012 19:07 |
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potk
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I use TVTropes very often (I even edit a lot of pages) and to be honest I wouldn't really call it a trope. Not only does it happen too often but most of the time it has no relevence to the plot. It could just happen to happen, and therefore it could be really hard to categorize as one.
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Originally posted by potk
I use TVTropes very often (I even edit a lot of pages) and to be honest I wouldn't really call it a trope. Not only does it happen too often but most of the time it has no relevence to the plot. It could just happen to happen, and therefore it could be really hard to categorize as one. |
I don't think it happens too often. I'd love to see it become a trope, but it does need a better name. I think in order for it to be a proper trope it has to be more than just, shoe loss, which could mean many things. "Woman's shoe falls off" is a good one, because it implies a damsel in distress-type situation. "Man's shoe falls off" is seen more as humorous, and doesn't have the same sexual connotations. This would also eliminate the frequent and non-noteworthy moments of someone simply losing a shoe because they had misplaced it. Although, I think this trope should cover both single shoe loss, and both shoes lost since they both the imply the same idea. Shoes removed against her will could also fall under this trope, but that's debatable.
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11-21-2012 00:05 |
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Mandrake
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It looks like it's 3 tropes.
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You have some tropes here. They should not all be one YKTTW but those tropes are certainly not PSOC.
Tropes here seem to be:
Throw A Shoe At It: A woman uses a shoe as a projectile in a normally impotent attempt to defend herself as it's the only thing she has on hand.
Chase Scene Shoe Malfunction: A woman loses a shoe or breaks a heel while being chased which interferes with her running.
Cinderella Shoe: An item is left behind when a woman flees and it's used to track her down.
These titles are all terrible, but they seem to be your trope breakdown. |
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11-21-2012 04:18 |
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Steven Of Alabasta
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I'd suggest something for this trope, but TV Tropes does not appear to be working with me tonight.
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11-22-2012 03:37 |
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I made some changes to the definition so it includes all circumstances in which a girl's shoe comes off against her will (or she acts as it has).
The biggest problem with it is the list of examples. Many of them are too vague and few of them provide an episode number or time in. It's hard to actually confirm any of them.
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11-22-2012 06:56 |
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Steven Of Alabasta
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Yeah, it needs work. I'm probably not going to vote on it until we make the definition clearer and get more examples backed up.
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11-23-2012 02:06 |
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11-23-2012 14:46 |
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Originally posted by abzapthane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo9C3F99a5A
From the TV show Friends.
Chandler and Janice break up, but to try and keep her around, he steals her shoe. In the end, she walks off with one shoe. |
I remember this. Great scene.
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11-23-2012 19:23 |
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Powell
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A beautiful screenshot appeared on Lockerz. Can anybody identify it? Where is it taken from?
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11-25-2012 15:09 |
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Steven Of Alabasta
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Hello everyone.
I have something from The Muppet Show, when the late, great Gilda Radner was the guest star. She attempts to sing "Tap Your Troubles Away", but one of her tap shoes is stuck to her hand because of a type of glue that Honeydew was testing being spread all over the stage.
Also, I had more time to read over the latest attempt to make shoe loss into a trope; and it could work, but it does need some help. I will give you a few recommendations from me, being on TV Tropes for 2 years now.
First, you could probably cut some of the sketchier examples or rewrite them into a more neutral stance, as well as name the trope something that defines the idea, but is less suggestive (they've kind of had to rewrite how they do pages like this since Google changed their policy on how they fund them).
Second, you could probably pull some more of the examples from all around this thread, since it's mostly focusing on anime and advertising losses, when we have some from all sorts of media here.
Finally, I think the spelling and grammar just need to be cleaned up a bit, and it should be ready. I'm in favor of making this thing a trope, but it needs to be reworked a bit before I recommend it. Later.
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11-26-2012 00:49 |
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Nopperabo
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11-26-2012 01:48 |
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