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Surefooted Barefooter
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Sometimes the primary reason a character goes barefoot is for easier agility. Going barefoot means unhindered mobility and strengthening muscles and senses, which allows for easier navigation and adaptation to difficult terrain. Thus, the Surefooted Barefooter Prefers Going Barefoot to more easily move through their environment more quietly and nimbly, and they are usually more efficient at evading hazards, climbing, Le Parkour, and sitting in crouched poses than The One Who Wears Shoes, even if the latter is more trained. The Surefooted Barefooter has roots in agile sports traditionally performed barefoot like martial arts or gymnastics and is sometimes used to invoke motifs of primates and cats naturally climbing and balancing exceptionally well. Thus, this trope is most commonly associated with graceful, stealthy, resilient, and instinctive characters, like the Jungle Princess, the Tarzan Boy, the Badass Native, the Phantom Thief, and by no means least, the Martial Artists. Sub-Trope of Prefers Going Barefoot. Compare Earthy Barefoot Character, The Lightfooted, Sneakers of Sneaking, Handy Feet. Examples |
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Aladdin: The Series: Aladdin had already honed in on his natural agility and grip from Barefoot Poverty to frequently climb across the cityscape of Agrabah to help him escape the boot-wearing palace guards on a daily basis, saying, "They're quick, but I'm much faster," in the song "One Jump Ahead". He is even more of a Surefooted Barefooter in the series however, since despite dating a wealthy princess and being fully capable of obtaining shoes, he still goes barefoot for walking quietly and climbing acrobatically around his terrain when he steals from other thieves to give to the poor. | |
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Done out of necessity by Hanzo in Predators: Most of the characters that are parachuted onto the Predator planet are wearing combat boots or utilitarian shoes suitable for a jungle environment, but Hanzo (a Yakuza member) arrives wearing a 3-piece suit with fancy dress shoes. When he sees that they're unsuited for the jungle environment they'll be in, he takes them of and goes barefoot for the rest of the film. | |
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Beast of the X-Men went barefoot in his field uniform (until he got fuzzy and started going barefoot all the time, at which point he had went from simply being surefooted to having Handy Feet). | |
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Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry: Swan is an antagonist who uses her bare feet to grip and jump around her terrain far more quickly and agilely than Erza Scarlet, who wears boots. Since she is more agile than Erza Scarlet, she is able to hold her own against the master duelist without weapons. Meanwhile, Erza, who is actually wielding swords, cannot keep up with her since she cannot grip the terrain as well. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run: The Native American Sandman is able to keep up and participate in the Steel Ball Run race whilst running barefoot, even if he's competing against a field of mostly horse-riding competitors. This allows him to take shortcuts through obstacles that horses can't cross. | |
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Pokémon: The Power of Us: Risa goes barefoot fashion an Invoked Trope in some scenes because it allows her to run faster. | |
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Cowboy Bebop: Ed goes everywhere barefoot, and because of her traction, grip, and balance, she is extremely acrobatic in everything from mundane tasks to Combat Parkour. She uses her feet for everyday things like typing, and she even appears to be more comfortable sitting in more crouched positions. Also, when she actually does wear socks in one episode, she almost immediately loses her balance (due to them not providing much traction on the smooth metal deck of the Bebop) and pulls them off. | |
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Princess Mononoke: The main character Ashitaka goes barefoot at the beginning of the movie to quickly climb up and down the towers of his village easier as one of its archers and lookouts. | |
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X-Men Film Series: Mystique is a shapeshifter who is always nude, but she is also always barefoot to grip her environment and victims better in combat. | |
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Lone Survivor: The unnamed protagonist prefers to sneak around the surreal, zombielike Thinmen and other horrors of the post-apocalypse rather than fighting them, and opts to do so barefoot for the entire game. The player can find shoes in a couple places, but the protagonist will refuse to wear them, expressly stating that wearing shoes will only let the monsters hear him. | |
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Jungle Cruise: This is an Invoked Trope when Frank Wolff goes barefoot for a better grip when he’s working and climbing on the sides of his boat the La Quilla. | |
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Castle in the Sky: Towards the end of the film, Pazu encounters a passage underneath the castle that proves too slippery to traverse while pursuing Sheeta after she is kidnapped by Muska. By taking his shoes off, he's able to overcome the passage's tricky surfacing. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: This quality is assigned to Hobbits, who habitually go barefoot and are good at stealthy movement and concealment. This is such a marked quality that Gandalf stakes everything on using Hobbits as his agents. It's the stated reason why, in The Hobbit, he talks the Dwarves into taking the hobbit Bilbo Baggins along as the resident Thief in their party. The four Hobbits who are central characters in LotR also have ample chances to prove their agility and stealth along the way, like Pippin's theft of the Palantir from out of the arms of Gandalf himself.. | |
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Tarzan: Tarzan is usually an iconic barefooter, who uses his unhindered grip and senses for agility to navigate the trees, but this is demonstrated in the Disney version more than other depictions due to the medium of animation, especially deep canvas technology. The titular Ape Man is frequently depicted as moving extremely quietly and gripping just about every surface he navigates, from gripping the vines he swings on, balancing and surfing on mossy branches, or even gripping a blackboard with his large flexible feet. He loses a good amount of his grip when he wears shoes, which leads to his capture, so his shoes are also the first things to go later. | |
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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart: This is an Invoked Trope when Lancelot must cross a river by way of a bridge that's literally a giant sword. He Invokes this when he traverses the bridge on all fours with his hands and feet bare for better grip and dexterity, even though it means getting cut. | |
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The Bible: When David is prepping for the fight with Goliath in 1 Samuel 17, he is given a tunic, armor, and helmet. He tries them on, then gives them back because he's not used to them. Fanart often extends this idea and depicts David going barefoot as well. | |
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Journey to the River Sea: This trope gets some lampshading as the Xanti people — a tribe of indigenous people in the Amazon and Earthy Barefoot Characters — are explicitly stated to be able to use their senses of touch and unhindered mobility to navigate their terrain better than shod characters. | |
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Rise of the Guardians: Jack Frost Prefers Going Barefoot and is much more agile than the rest of the guardians (except for the Barefoot Cartoon Animal Easter Bunny), constantly climbing and balancing on things like rooftops and powerlines effortlessly because of his unhindered grip and mobility. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the magician Coriakin is noted to always go around barefoot, using his unhindered mobility and awareness of the ground to make "no more noise than a cat". As a result, the Dufflepuds (a race of dwarf-like creatures that he rules and looks after) constantly fear that he may be watching them, especially after he becomes invisible. | |
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Wallace the Brave: Discussed in this comic: | |
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In The Authority, Jack Hawksmoor has ridge-like projections in the soles of his feet that allow him to run up the sides of any structure as long as he remains barefoot. | |
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Star Wars Legends: Most Not Quite Human Tagruta from the planet Shili are usually barefoot as part of their culture, partially because it allows them to grip the terrain better and be quieter while hunting. | |
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Squid Game: In episode 1.07, the contestants must cross a precarious bridge of glass panes by jumping from panel to panel. This is an Invoked Trope when they take off their shoes to increase their traction. | |
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