History Main / DrivingUpAWall

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn The Bells of St. John]]", the Doctor rides his motorbike up the surface of the Shard. According to him he drove the bike in question at the AntiGrav Olympics. He came in last but still.

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

This may overlap with AchievementsInIgnorance and GravityIsAHarshMistress.

* in ''Anime/SpeedRacer'', the Mach 5 has the B button which deploy belt tires. This can let him drive on walls or near vertical mountain walls.

* ''ComicBook/{{Blade}}'': In some incarnations, Blade's morotorcycle was equipped to scale walls.

** 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 it 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}}.

* At the climax of ''Film/HerbieGoesToMonteCarlo'', Herbie makes it to Monte Carlo and catches up with the leading race driver Bruno von Stickle. After a few failed attempts to pass him, he manages to get into first place by driving upside-down along the roof in a tunnel.

* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has the T-Car pull this in a clear homage to the Lupin example.
* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'' has the Spider-Cycle which can drive up or along walls just like Spider-Man.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuper: In "[[Recap/TheNewAdventuresOfSupermanS1E10 Return of Warlock]]", The Warlock enchants Lois' car so that it drives up a skyscraper.

There are several possible explanations for this. It could be an inherent property of the vehicle, a
power of the driver or passenger, or just good ol' ToonPhysics at work.

* ''Film/DayWatch''. The girlfriend of the BigBad isn't happen when told he's too busy to talk to her, so does a {{Ramprovisation}} jump in her sports car onto the curved side of a Moscow apartment building, using her magic to drive along its side and through a window, whereupon she ramraids into his apartment. [[SeenItAll He barely takes notice.]]

* Film/DayWatch''. The mistress of the BigBad isn't happen when told he's too busy to talk to her, so does a RampJump onto the curved side of a Moscow apartment building, using her magic to drive along its side and through a window, whereupon she ramraids into his apartment. [[SeenItAll He barely takes notice.]]

* During the "rescue Harry from Privet Drive" sequence at the start of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', as Hagrid and Harry are being pursued by Death Eaters, Hagrid briefly drives his motorcycle onto the roof of a tunnel.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': 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.

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* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure: Stardust Crusaders'', one of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek enemy Stand users]] is the "Wheel of Fortune", which manifests as a monstrous car that can shapeshift and attack at the user's will. At the bottom of a canyon, the Wheel of Fortune suddenly sprouts [[SpikesOfVillainy long spikes]] along its tires to climb the vertical wall and continue to attack the heroes.

* Agent Kay takes the MIB Ford LTD Crown Victoria (enhanced by alien technology) for a short upside-down blast along the ceiling of the Queens-Midtown tunnel in ''Film/MenInBlack''.

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

* In ''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!!"]]

Generally speaking, most cars and other land vehicles are designed to be driven across horizontal surfaces. But when this trope is play, they will happily drive up walls, and even across ceilings.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Silverblade}}'' #6, Miss Hothgard is chauffeuring Vermillion around the studio on an electric scooter. Sick of his hectoring, and now possessed by the Executioner, she uses the Executioner's powers to drive up the wall of the sound stage. Near the top she jumps off, leaving Vermillion and the scooter to plunge to floor.

** Spider-Man [[HeelFaceTurn foe-turned-ally]] Rocket Racer uses a jet-powered skateboard with gyroscopic stabilizers, and magnetic boots that keep him attached to the board. The skateboard also adheres to vertical and inverted surfaces.

* At the climax of ''Film/HerbieGoesToMonteCarlo'', Herbie makes it to Monte Carlo and catches up with the leading race driver Bruno von Stickle. After a few failed attempts to pass him, he manages to get into first place by driving upside down along the roof in a tunnel.

* ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents'' has a taxi climb a skyscraper in an early level.

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoOnline'', Formula One cars can be driven upside down along the roofs of tunnels. This is based on RealLife speculation that the aerodynamic design of Formula One vehicles generates enough downforce that you can, theoretically, drive one upside-down, although no one (that we are aware of) has ever tried to test this theory.

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

** 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.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode, "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E17ArrghRockBottom Rock Bottom]]", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick wind up in the eponymous city due to taking the wrong bus. The road from Bikini Bottom to Rock Bottom is a 90 degree slope on a stone wall which the buses have no problem going up and down. Unfortunately, [=SpongeBob=] has no such luck when he chases after a bus leading back to Bikini Bottom that Patrick boards.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' Obi Wan drives a speeder bike up a steep vertical building by riding across the surface. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that a speeder is a repulsor craft that can hover over a given surface.

* 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 centripetal force. Needless to say, this stunt does not allow changes of direction, sudden braking, or any of the other things seen in fiction.