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'''Calvin''' ''(having walked there)'': I stepped in dog doo. Where's the hose?

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* At the end of ''Film/Joker2019'', Arthur Fleck leaves a trail of red footprints on the Arkham Hospital floor, suggesting that he may have killed the psychotherapist that he was seeing.

* One [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse ''Mickey Mouse'']] story had him investigate FishMen attacking a cruise ship and robbing the passengers. He realizes it's a SccobyDooHoax by the crew when he notices the footprint trail left by the monsters looks like they started and ended onboard instead of in the water.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Comicbook/{{Asterix}} in Switzerland''. After falling in the river, Asterix and Obelix hide from the Romans in a hotel owned by a sympathiser, but unfortunately end up tracking muddy footprints all over the place. The obsessively neat Swiss isn't happy about the prints, especially when he has to muck up the place even more by walking around in their muddy shoes to convince a Roman search party that he left the footprints himself after going for a stroll.

--> '''Calvin''' (on the doorstep) MOMM! HEY, MOM!\\

'''Calvin''' (having walked there): I stepped in dog doo. Where's the hose?
* In the SuperMarioBros comic "Magic Carpet Madness", King Toadstool was gardening when the phone rang. He went to answer it, resulting in this trope. When the Mario Bros saw the footprints, they started pretending that they were free dance lessons.
-->'''Princess Toadstool:''' Haven't you ever heard of a doormat!? Look at our beautiful carpet!

* ''Series/TheHauntingHour'': In "Near Mint Condition", Mangler runs through some spilt food and Mark and Ted uses its footprints to track it from the kitchen to their mother's scrapbooking room.

In this instance however, the focus is more on who or what made these footprints rather than why the floors are dirty. Because, let's face it, when a series of footprints suddenly appear in the form of the deep red color of blood or some other watery/dirty/mucky substance, it is... rather unsettling, to say the least. Especially when the traces are distinguishably done by bare feet in a place where nobody would go barefoot, or when you hear the accompanied sound of the footsteps ringing throughout the area, but you can't exactly make out who or what is lurking nearby until you turn around and come face to face with it.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Comicbook/{{Asterix}} in Switzerland''. After falling in the river, Asterix and Obelisk hide from the Romans in a hotel owned by a sympathiser, but unfortunately end up tracking muddy footprints all over the place. The obsessively neat Swiss isn't happy about the prints, especially when he has to muck up the place even more by walking around in their muddy shoes to convince a Roman search party that he left the footprints himself after going for a stroll.

In this instance however, the focus is more on who or what made these footprints rather than why the floors are dirty. Because, let's face it, when a series of footprints suddenly appear in the form of the deep red color of blood or some other watery/dirty/mucky substance, it is... rather unsettling, to say the least. Especially when you can hear the accompanied sound of the footsteps ringing throughout the area, but you can't exactly make out who or what is lurking nearby until you turn around and come face to face with it.

* In ''Film/{{Constantine}}'', when FauxSatan appears in a fairly well-dressed manner, but his feet are bare and covered in muck.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' 3 pulls off one scare by having bloody footprints appearing out of nowhere as something invisible walks away from you towards a locked door.

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* After Jean-Luc and Robert Picard have their fight in their family vineyard in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Family", Robert's wife, Marie, follows their muddy footprints through the house to find them drunk on the family wine in the palor.

* Played for laughs in ''Film/ScaryMovie II''. The characters find a trail of bright red footprints leading down the hallway, prompting one of the male characters to comment "Ew! Someone's on the rag!"

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* ''ComicBook/CalvinAndHobbes'': Crosses with ALessonLearnedTooWell:

In this instance however, the focus is more on who or what made these footprints rather than why the floors are dirty. Because, lets face it, when a series of footprints suddenly appear in the form of the deep red color of blood or some other watery/dirty/mucky substance...it is...rather unsettling...to say the least... Especially when you can hear the accompanied sound of the footsteps ringing throughout the area, but you can't exactly make out who or what is lurking nearby until you turn around and come face to face with it...

If the footprints appear to have been made by a werewolf or some other sort of beast then it's HumanToWerewolfFootprints.