Shoe knife

The shoe knife is a blade or spike concealed in a shoe, extending from the toe, and activated by a mechanism to be used as a kicking weapon. As opposed to a boot knife, which is a short hand-held blade concealed in a shoe or boot, the blade of a shoe knife is actually attached to the shoe itself and is not meant to be removed.

Not to be confused with stiletto heels.

This weapon appears with much higher frequency in fiction than in historical reality; many hidden blades were actually intended as escape tools rather than as weaponry.

Also see: ashiko.

Appearances:
 * Arguably the most famous fictional character to employ this weapon (albeit not as his primary weapon) was the Joker in The Dark Knight.
 * In Deadliest Warrior, the shoe knife was the close-range weapon of the KGB, tallying 5 kills against the CIA.
 * The British slasher film Don't Open Till Christmas has a policeman get kicked by one of these. Don't ask where.
 * In the novel From Russia with Love, the SPECTRE agent Rosa Klebb employs a dagger shoe laced with tetrodotoxin (pufferfish poison) in an attempt to kill James Bond, leading to a cliffhanger ending when he is successfully poisoned. She is much less successful in the movie version, however. Another user of this weapon (in the same novel) was Morzeny. Much later on, this weapon has a brief cameo in Q's lab in the movie version of Die Another Day.
 * Frank Castle is fitted with bladed shoes in one of the Punisher films, as is one of his opponents.
 * Yet another movie appearance of this weapon involves the character Orlov in Salt.
 * The Soul Calibur Grieve Edge fighting style involves these as primary weaponry.
 * Agent James T. West is a rare heroic (and pre-20th century) user of this weapon, in The Wild Wild West  (both TV series and, more comedically, in the movie remake).