Smoldering Shoes/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character's footwear proves resistant to obliteration.

• Straight: After Emperor Evulz incinerates Bob with a fireball, only his shoes remain.
• Exaggerated: After an Earthshattering Kaboom, six billion pairs of ownerless shoes can be found floating through space.
• Justified: Bob's shoes are made of adamantium.
  • Bob's shoes were blown off by the force of the explosion and land a couple yards away.
• Inverted: An explosion destroys Bob's shoes while leaving him otherwise unharmed.
• Subverted: The explosion obliterates Bob and appears to leave his shoes alone, but they fall to dust at the slightest touch.
• Double Subverted: ...but wait; that was just a layer of ash over the shoes.
• Parodied: Bob is a talking pair of shoes, and nothing can destroy him.
  • A bomb goes off in a shoestore.
• Deconstructed: Bob's shoes are preserved and serve as a tragic reminder of his death.
  • Scientists analyze Bob's shoes and use the data to develop new lava boots.
• Reconstructed: Alice takes the shoes to a lab, where they take a swab, clone Bob, and upload his memories. Bob makes millions selling his shoes on eBay.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Bob is wiped form the earth, shoes and all.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: ???
• Invoked: ???
• Defied: Emperor Evulz strips Bob of his shoes before incinerating him.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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