History Main / DrivingUpAWall

** Spidey briefly possessed a {{Thememobile}} called the Spider-Mobile: a Spider-Man themed dune buggy. Amongst its abilities was the ability to cling to, and drive along, walls. Exactly how it did this was never really explained, but is seems to have been something the Human Torch installed, so possibly it was Reed Richards's technology. Although the Spider-Mobile was short-lived, various writers have brought it back from time to time. It eventually wound up in the hands of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}.

In ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', farm dogs Napoleon and Lafeyette scare Edgar so badly while he's dumping the cats that he leads them on a motorcycle chase up the underside of a bridge, twice.

* In 2007's ''Film/GhostRider'', Johnny Blaze's infernal alter-ego escapes police pursuit by riding his motorcycle up the side of a skyscraper, leaving a trail of hellfire and molten glass.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of St. John,"]] the Doctor rides his motorbike up the surface of the Shard.

* In Beetlejuice, a gag in one episode had Beetlejuice guilt ridden from blowing up Monsters Across the Street's house, to the point where he [[VisualPun ends up in a tiny car driving vertically and shouting "He's driving me up the wall!! I'm gonna hit the ceiling!!".]]

* A very limited version of this is the wall of death (a.k.a. motordrome, silodrome or well of death): a carnival sideshow featuring a silo- or barrel-shaped wooden cylinder, typically ranging from 20 to 36 feet (6.1 to 11.0 m) in diameter and made of wooden planks, inside which motorcyclists, or the drivers of miniature automobiles, travel along the vertical wall and perform stunts, held in place by friction and centripital force. Needless to say, this stunt does not allow changes of direction, sudden braking, or any of the other things seen in fiction.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': During the "Mobius 5000" race, one of the racers sprouts suction cups from his wheels and drives up one of the buildings in Casino Night Zone. Sonic and friends cheat the cheater with a convenient Special Stage post.

* On/''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'', Chugga-Boom has been driven up not only buildings, but also cliffs and other vertical surfaces.

* ''WesternAnimation/Beetlejuice'': A gag in one episode had Beetlejuice guilt ridden from blowing up Monsters Across the Street's house, to the point where he [[VisualPun ends up in a tiny car driving vertically and shouting "He's driving me up the wall!! I'm gonna hit the ceiling!!".]]

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': The Batmobile has a power winch used to drive up and down certain walls in various story missions and Riddler puzzles.

** In "It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World", Candace starts to drive her monster truck up an incline. Said incline becomes so steep that it goes up at a 90 degree angle, and then Phineas tells Candance that it gets ''steeper''. After Candance reaches the top of the incline, the camera zooms out to show that the 90 degree incline features a loop-de-loop.

-->"I guess Grandpa [=SquarePants=] was right; Never run for a bus." (''Imitating Grandpa [=SquarePants=]'') "Especially one that's going up at a 90 degree angle."

power of the driver or passenger, or just gold ol' ToonPhysics at work.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': The Batmobile has a power winch used to drive up and down certain walls in various story missions and Riddle puzzles.

** ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': In the intro for "Fórmula Uno", a narration mentions that some off-road vehicles can run up "impressive slopes", accompanied by an image of one of them going right up the wall of a building, with the driver even taking a moment to wave at a bewildered bystander who is watching it from a balcony of the same building.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': In ''Detective Comics'' #340, the Outsider uses his RealityWarper powers to seize control of the Batmobile and use it in an attempt to kill Batman. One of his stunts is to cause it t drive straight up the wall of a skyscraper.

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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': In ''Detective Comics'' #340, the Outsider uses his RealityWarper powers to seize control of the Batmobile and use it in an attempt to kill Batman. One of his stunts is to cause it drive straight up the wall of a skyscraper.

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* A very limited version of this is the wall of death (a.k.a. motordrome, silodrome or well of death): a carnival sideshow featuring a silo- or barrel-shaped wooden cylinder, typically ranging from 20 to 36 feet (6.1 to 11.0 m) in diameter and made of wooden planks, inside which motorcyclists, or the drivers of miniature automobiles, travel along the vertical wall and perform stunts, held in place by friction and centrifugal force. Needless to say, this stunt does not allow changes of direction, sudden braking, or any of the other things seen in fiction.

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* A very limited version of this is the wall of death (a.k.a. motordrome, silodrome or well of death): a carnival sideshow featuring a silo- or barrel-shaped wooden cylinder, typically ranging from 20 to 36 feet (6.1 to 11.0 m) in diameter and made of wooden planks, inside which motorcyclists, or the drivers of miniature automobiles, travel along the vertical wall and perform stunts, held in place by friction and centrifugal force. Needless to say, this stunt does not allow changes of direction, sudden braking, or any of the other things seen in fiction.