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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