History Main / TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper

* An episode of ''Series/{{Whitechapel}}'' has the investigative team track a witness by the shoes she left behind in a graveyard (having kicked them off to better out-run her would-be attacker).

* In ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' After sneaking into the skate park to see the new ramp, Twister accidentally slips in the wet cement, leaving an imprint of his head and hand. Determined to find the culprit, the owner overhears Sam sarcastically suggesting they do what Cinderella did and find out whose head matches the shape in the cement. He then lines up the skaters and lets those who don't fit cement imprint into the park.

-->-- ''{{WesternAnimation/Cinderella}}''

* Subverted in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''. The boots of one of the assassins are found, but in the locker of the alien crewman Dax ([[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine no relation]]), who has webbed feet, and the boots are for humans. [[DefiedTrope They were obviously planted to avoid this trope]]. Chekov even mentions the aphorism from the "[[CulturalPosturing old Russian fairy tale]]" - ''"If shoe fits, wear it."''. He notably fails to look down to make sure that the boots might indeed fit the person he's accusing.

* GenderFlipped in ''Film/AyoyDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', where Lolita and the police look for Hyde by making people try on his shoe.
* This is subverted in the 1947 Russian version of ''Film/{{Cinderella|1947}}''. The prince's palace guard goes out, like in all versions of this story, looking for the match. But with Cinderella's (actually in this version, "Zolushka's") help, Anna the older sister manages to cram her foot into it. Eventually Anna is exposed as an impostor when she stumbles at court and the shoe pops off. Zolushka never does put the shoe on. She eventually proves who she is by producing the matching shoe.

* ''Anime/OkamiSan'' : The first episode features a tennis player contemplating retirement trying to find the girl who fits the sneaker that kicked him in the face. [[spoiler:He does, and is revealed to be a bit of a pervert and only did so to determine that said girl had great control of her body to do so. They end up going out.]]

* ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'' : The first episode features a tennis player contemplating retirement trying to find the girl who fits the sneaker that kicked him in the face. [[spoiler:He does, and is revealed to be a bit of a pervert and only did so to determine that said girl had great control of her body to do so. They end up going out.]]

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[[caption-width-right:275:[-Looks like you have your future Princess.-] ]]

'''King:''' That's his problem. He's given his word, we'll hold him to it.

* Subverted in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''. The boots of one of the assassins are found, but in the locker of a crewman with webbed feet, and the boots are for humans. [[DefiedTrope They were obviously planted to avoid this trope]]. Chekov even mentions the aphorism from the "[[CulturalPosturing old Russian fairy tale]]" - ''"If shoe fits, wear it."'' He notably fails to look down to make sure that the boots might indeed fit the person he's accusing.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'', Prince Charming ''himself'' acknowledges the flimsiness of a shoe size as proof of one's identity, but also points out they don't have any other means of finding Cinderella. His and the king's doubts about this plan become confirmed when Lady Tremaine uses [[ItMakesSenseInContext a stolen magic wand]] to make the glass slipper fit stepsister Anastasia instead.

* The main plot of ''LightNovel/HensukiAreYouWillingToFallInLoveWithAPervertAsLongAsShesACutie'' is main character Keiki Kiryū trying to find which of his club's female members is the one that left an anonymous love letter in his locker... only that the "slipper" they left behind is actually a pair of panties. This, naturally, makes it a lot harder to find who did it - not helped by the fact that all the girls are hardcore perverts who are interested in him and want him to participate in their fetishes.

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* In Season 9, Episode 4 of ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'', a young Vanessa is trying to tell Newt the story of Cinderella, and he keeps interrupting with annoying FridgeLogic. When she says that one stepsister's feet were too small, and the others were too large, he comments that Cinderella was identified by having "the most average-sized feet in the kingdom."