History Main / HoodHopping

* At one point in ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' when Tim and [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica Ted Grant]] are chasing a gang of car thieves they launch themselves across the rooftops of the cars on a congested Gotham interstate. Tim notes how ridiculously dangerous it is, especially when they start getting shot at.

* At one point in ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' when Tim and [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica Ted Grand]] are chasing a gang of car thieves they launch themselves across the rooftops of the cars on a congested Gotham interstate. Tim notes how ridiculously dangerous it is, especially when they start getting shot at.

* A stage in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Melee'' has the fighters fighting on top of ''VideoGame/{{F-Zero}}'' vehicles, jumping from one to another as they got too far ahead or behind.

* In ''Film/MinorityReport'', TomCruise's character leaps from car to car while they're moving vertically.

** He also performs this trope in ''Film/TheAvengers'' to avoid [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]].

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the Doctor does this in "Gridlock". BonusPoints for (a) it being flying cars and (b) the Doctor not only leaping from hood to hood, but actually getting in the cars through the top and out through the bottom.

[[caption-width-right:300: Desperate gridlocks when you're late for the office call for drastic measures.]]

CarChase meets RoofHopping. The pursued character is getting away along a highway in a car or on a bike and the pursuer, lacking equivalent transportation, hops across multiple car hoods to close in on them. EveryCarIsAPinto can be expected.

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* During a highway chase scene in ''BirdyTheMighty'', Birdy and an arkazoid [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBd2yg5ayLQ#t=2m56s leap across moving vehicles]] in rush hour traffic.

* In ''OliverAndCompany'', Dodger eludes Oliver by jumping over cars. Oliver follows, but falls through the sunroof of one car.

* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' has an Agent doing this to pursue Trinity and the Keymaker.
** And practically bending the car he lands on first in two with his feet by doing so.
* GeorgeClooney does this while chasing a terrorist with a backpack nuke in ''Film/ThePeacemaker''.
* CaptainAmerica does this to catch a HYDRA spy in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''.

* A non-moving example: In an episode of ''QuantumLeap'', Sam leaps into the body of Dr. Ruth Westheimer. During the climax, he is trying to stop a woman from being murdered, and the taxi he's in gets caught in a traffic jam. Having no time to spare, he exits the cab and runs to the woman's apartment by leaping from car to car; the reflection of Dr. Ruth is cast through the windows of various cars.

* ''{{Wet}}'' has an entire level about this, aptly titled "Vehicular Carnage".

* A stage in ''SuperSmashBros Melee'' has the fighters fighting on top of VideoGame/{{F-Zero}} vehicles, jumping from one to another as they got too far ahead or behind.

* In ''Film/SinginInTheRain'', GeneKelly's character does this escaping from his fans after his car blows a flat.

* ''TheMatrixReloaded'' has an Agent doing this to pursue Trinity and the Keymaker.

* CaptainAmerica does this to catch a HYDRA spy in ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''.

* In ''MinorityReport'', TomCruise's character leaps from car to car while they're moving vertically.
* In ''SinginInTheRain'', GeneKelly's character does this escaping from his fans after his car blows a flat.
* In ''{{Enchanted}}'', Prince Edward does this while trying to find Giselle, and "slays" a city bus.

* The level "Route 666" in ''{{Bayonetta}}'' is like this.

See Also: OutsideRide.

* A stage in ''SuperSmashBros Melee'' has the fighters fighting on top of FZero vehicles, jumping from one to another as they got too far ahead or behind.

* CaptainAmerica does this to catch a HYDRA spy in ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' to avoid [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]].
** He also performs this trope in ''Film/TheAvengers''.

* CaptainAmerica does this to catch a HYDRA spy in ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''.

** He also performs this trope in ''Film/TheAvengers'', according to behind-the-scenes footage.

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