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* JohnnyQuest wore [[http://www.andykortman.com/images/retro-images/pf-flyers.jpg PF Flyers]], even appearing in commercials for the shoes.

* Sid's Beatle boots in ''HeyArnold!''.

* FinalFantasyXIII offers Lightning's knee-high strap-covered combat boots and Vanille's fur-trimmed, wing-tipped, square-toe cowboy boots. And yes, both get occasional shots of said shoes for no particular reason other than varying camera angles.

* Chuck Taylors.

* Much was made of Sonic's [[ProductPlacement Soap]] shoes in SonicAdventure2, and the Grinding ability that came with them. Sonic, however, has always had distinctive red/white shoes, since it's the only thing he wears.

* WeirdAlYancovic has an [[http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/fortune/0904/gallery.kowitt_obsessions.fortune/images/gsegal_vans1.jpg impressive collection]] of Vans sneakers.

* Disco Stu in ''TheSimpsons'' has shoes with goldfish in the soles. Unfortunately, the fish are dead, because he can't take them out or feed them.

* InFinalFantasyVIII Rinoa's slingback ballroom pumps with closed, pointed toes and ''double'' ankle straps are likely custom-made due to her being from a wealthy family, and have been the bane of many a cosplayer. They get [[{{Understatement}} plenty]] of close-ups, which are justified as most of them come from the dance sequence.

* ''Final Fantasy XIII''' offers Lightning's knee-high strap-covered combat boots and Vanille's fur-edged slipper things with turned-up toes. And yes, both get occasional shots of said shoes for no particular reason other than varying camera angles.

* TheWizardOfOz features the Ruby Slippers - which were silver in the book, but changed to show off for the impressive-at-the-time colour film.
* IRobot: in the film version, Detective Spooner wears a "classic" pair of Converse tennis shoes (circa 2004, when the movie came out).

* The fabulous mood changing red shoes in "The Wonderful Wizard of Buzz Issue" episode of TheLatestBuzz.
* {{Firefly}}: River was known to tromp around in combat boots when she wasn't running around barefoot.
* In an episode of Law And Order SVU, the detectives get a search warrant to look for a pair of shoes that left a distinctive footprint at the crime scene. They don't find them until the suspect comes home wearing them. The last line of the episode is Detective Stabler saying "Nice shoes."

* Several characters in {{Discworld}}. Nanny Ogg once wears red boots as a ShoutOut to Oz. Sam Vimes is a variation; his boots are always old and battered even when he can afford much better ones, but he's proud of the old cardboard-soled ones because he can feel the street through them and figure out where he is by the feel of the pavements.
* The plot of Scott Westerfield's SoYesterday revolves around a pair of these.
* In one of the {{Redwall}} books, Logalog sings a comic ballad about a shrew whose fancy shoes get stolen by an owl.

* Murdoc Niccals of {{Gorillaz}} is notoriously proud of his Cuban-heeled boots and almost always wears them even when wearing nearly nothing else. According to the biography, ''Rise of the Ogre'', he was deeply annoyed by Damon Albarn upon first meeting him, because:

* Disco Stu in TheSimpsons has shoes with goldfish in the soles. Unfortunately, the fish are dead, because he can't take them out or feed them.

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Similar to Nice Hat, but on the other end of the body, and occasionally connected to Foot Focus. Some characters have quirky, fancy, or otherwise unusual footwear, which the narrative makes a point of mentioning. Not necessarily the same as TrickedOutShoes; Nice Shoes don't necessarily ''do'' anything unusual, they just look unusual or impressive in some way.

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