...whatever the reason, soddits are almost all of them afflicted with appalling arthritis of the feet. Their feet are swollen and gnarled, many three or four times their normal size, with toes like coconuts and ankles like condoms stuffed with pebbles. This arthritis is extremely painful, and is indeed no laughing matter, although queerly it is a condition that does not spread to any other part of their body. But it gives their feet a strangely deadened, different colour from the rest of their bodies. Moreover, it makes it impossible for the adult soddit to wear shoes, for the pressure of leather against the inflated flesh of the feet is too, too ghastly.
Perse limps slightly, favouring his right foot. That's the one that was run over after Perse stopped Billy Rock's limo with the intention of shaking it down, a month after he'd been relocated to the Drug Squad. Billy Rock just laughed and told his driver to move on. The driver was a nervous get-away merchant who pulled away so fast he left smoking rubber on the tarmac. So fast that Perse couldn't get his foot out of the way: the front wheel went over it and broke twelve bones. Then gangrene set in and Perse lost two toes. More importantly, Perse lost so much face that he spent all his time trying to nail Billy Rock, until one of Billy's tame Chief Inspectors put a stop to it by sticking Perse with a case-load of unsolved drug-related murders. And now, two years later, it's started all over again, with Alex piggy-in-the-middle.
— Fairyland, by Paul J McAuley
Ron Swanson: You know, when I was twelve, my brother shot me in the pinky toe with a nailgun. Granted, it was a hilarious prank, and we all had a good laugh—
Leslie Knope: That's awful...!
Ron: —but I avoided going to the doctor. I hate paperwork. After a few weeks, the toe just... kinda fell off.
Leslie: You only have nine toes?
Ron: I have the toes I have. Let's just leave it at that.
Leslie Knope: That's awful...!
Ron: —but I avoided going to the doctor. I hate paperwork. After a few weeks, the toe just... kinda fell off.
Leslie: You only have nine toes?
Ron: I have the toes I have. Let's just leave it at that.
"MY TOES! MY TOES!"
— Voice sample from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time when a player is hit in the feet with a spiked ball in the Sewer Surfin' stage
"I now know that the biggest accomplishment of the Vikings was not sailing those ships across the Atlantic to North America - the big accomplishment was getting through life in footwear that shit. What we basically had was a leather sock. You couldn't get any grip; it was slippery as fuck. And you were just fucking cold all the time. Everybody had gangrene by the end of the day."
— Claes Bang, describing the shoot of The Northman
SLIPPIN' RIPPIN' DANG FANG ROTTEN ZARG BARG-A-DING-DONG!
—Calvin's Dad after dropping a Christmas present on his foot, Calvin and Hobbes
"I should have all the feeling back in my feet after this word from our sponsor, Double D."
"Ow! My foot! My only foot!"
—Fidget, The Great Mouse Detective
Catherine: David, you're limping.
David: I lost my slipper. Caught my foot in that so-and-so bicycle.
"Has anyone got a boyfriend with bigger feet? These shoes have crippled mine."
— Bobby Dutton, It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling..., "A New Lease"
Narrator: Vercingetorix, defeated at the Siege of Alesia, throws his arms at Caesar's feet...
*CLANG*
Caesar: OUCH!
*CLANG*
Caesar: OUCH!
Nurse Beamish: I just opened it, and it... came away in my hand, nurse.
Nurse Catty: It couldn't have done.
Nurse Beamish: Well, it did, nurse.
Nurse Catty: Don't contradict me, Nurse Beamish.
Nurse Beamish: All right, it didn't come away in my hand, then. It took an immediate dislike to me, hopped off the hinge, and crushed my foot all by itself... nurse.
