History Main / RollerbladeGood

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster'': Some of the robot cast, namely the Street BOYZZ duo and [[CyberNinja Ninjzz]], move around on retractable roller skates built into their feet.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster'': Out of the robot cast, the Street BOYZZ duo and [[CyberNinja Ninjzz]] move around on retractable roller skates built into their feet.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster'': The swift and agile [[CyberNinja robot ninja]] Ninjzz moves around on roller skates 24/7.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', Alix Kubdel and her supervillain self Timebreaker use roller skates. As Alix, they are nomal skates, but as Timebreaker, they grant her SuperSpeed and allow her to time travel, provided she's charged them with other people's life force.

%%* Lilica Felchenerow from ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart''.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'' features some enemies with roller skates.

* The Ridepod gets them as a leg upgrade in ''VideoGame/DarkCloud2''. They improve overall speed and mobility while using it, making them an important invention early into the game.

* ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'': The HumongousMecha ''must'' be bipedal [[spoiler: according to ''The Book of Prophecy'']]. The scientist kidnapped to design it emphatically points out that this is completely impractical. His solution is to treads under the hollow feet support the weight of the machine, while the feet only lift up and down.
* ''Manga/AirGear'': The plot revolves around motorized inline skates called Air Treks, or [=ATs=], and the gang wars among the people who wear them. They are so powerful that one can skate up tall, vertical walls with them. A skilled enough user can achieve NotQuiteFlight (most of the cast DOES end up flying later, but it's not because of the [=ATs=]).
** To give an indication of how far these things can throw you using only momentum and center of gravity adjustment, the current record for longest no ramp(unless you count the starting pad they jump off of, but there is no ramp of the end of it) leap is ''35.09 meters''. For those who are not on the metric system, and are too lazy to do the conversion, that's ''115ft 1.5in''. And for those who may be having a hard time visualising that, 35.09 meters is roughly the same height as your average ''three storey building''. Yeah.

* ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'': Roll Cake-chan is a rollerskating girl who loves making roll cakes.
** Both Anpanman and Baikinman also did this in the intro for the Edutainment specials.
* The mecha in ''Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS'' use this extensively, and are probably the TropeCodifier for mecha.

* ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'' features Motorball, a game where people in skates need to cross a finish line while carrying a heavy ball - [[BloodSport if the opponents don't tear you apart first]].
* ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'': Chariot has large wheels with spikes on their outer sides for her legs which help in her high speed battle style.
* ''Anime/BurstAngel'': Jango, the HumongousMecha, has rollerskates and a jet engine. Actually has a function, as they're meant for speeding through Tokyo's highways.

* The Knightmare Frames in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' use roller wheels called landspinners as their primary method of locomotion (until flight packs get mass-produced). Played the most straight with the Shen-Hu, whose landspinners are actually designated "rollerblade-type" and are formed by a pair of blade-like projections on the feet which form down, as opposed to the wheel being on a separate limb as with all other models.

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': The Tachikomas had wheels for feet to allow for high speed movement. In the first season, the wheels also fold into three-toed feet for climbing up sheer faced walls, or occasionally, hanging from the ceiling. When the Tachikomas return in the second season, they instead have spheres on their feet that allow them to roll along any smooth surface in total defiance of gravity.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Ghiaccio has this as part of his powers (albeit with ice skates instead of rollerskates). His Stand, White Album, manifests as a suit made of ice complete with built in skates, [[AnIcePerson and he can freeze the path in front of him]] so that he can skate through it, being able to catch up to even a speeding car.
* ''Anime/KaleidoStar'': In the first episode, Sora Naegino catches a pair of loaner rollerblades to chase after a luggage thief, going [[RoofHopping awning-hopping]] to finally track him down. [[spoiler: Her rollerblade skating abilities come handy later, when she has to train for a role in ''Dracula'' that includes ''ice-skating''. Too bad she loses to May, a top-notch ice skater.]]
* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': Franchise/{{Kirby}} achieves rollerblades when he copies the Paint ability from Paint Roller.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': Quint Nakajima and her daughters Subaru and Ginga all use skates with ''magical rocket boosters'' on them to get around (as well as having a unique magic skill that can create pathways in midair for them to skate on). [[FullContactMagic They also serve as]] {{Empathic Weapon}}s. However, they are more LightningBruiser than FragileSpeedster.
** Nove has a bulkier pair that are even her [[KickChick primary weapons]].

** Ever since the [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross original series]] the [[TransformingMecha Variable Fighters]] have pulled this in GERWALK mode, skating around on the jets from their legs (that in fighter mode are their engines) [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Dom-style]].

* In ''[[Anime/MegaManNTWarrior2002 MegaMan NT Warrior]]'', Lan Hikari has shoes that also function as roller blades, with the roller blades sometimes being needed in later seasons to gain the speed needed to breach a dimensional area in order to [[HenshinHero cross fuse]], though Cross Fusion Mega Man doesn't seem to use them.

* ''Anime/MonsterRancher'': Genki in the anime version uses them very often in battle.

* ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'': Lil' Slugger wears rollerblades, though he isn't as good as he is [[InvertedTrope utterly terrifying.]]

* ''Manga/RideBack'': The titular machines are normally bikes that can transform into small-sized mecha with the bike wheels instead of feet, allowing their pilots to cover both BadassBiker ''and'' Rollerblade Good depending on situation.

* ''Anime/ShugoChara'': After her [[SoLastSeason season 2 power up]], Amulet Heart has a pair of rollerblades. Which can fly.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': Giriko has skates made of [[ChainsawGood chain saws]]. Seeing as he [[VoluntaryShapeshifting can change into a chainsaw]], it's not a huge stretch to change only his legs.

* In ''Manga/SuperwomenInLove'', [[AnIcePerson Cool]] [[YuriFan Down]] has retractable ice skates built into her boots, which she uses to skate circles around [[TheHero Rapid Rabbit]] in their first encounter, after she lays a sheet of ice over the ground.
* ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' Hot Shot can lower the wheels around his ankles and roller skate on them.

* In her early appearances, ComicBook/JubileeMarvelComics was a mall rat who got around on rollerblades.
** [[ComicBook/XMen Professor X]] was taught to rollerblade by Jubilee (his legs happened to be working that evening). Then she led him into the lake.
* In her early Disco days, ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} used roller-skates.
* Several Marvel characters, such as Speedfreek and Blue Streak, use jet-propelled skates. Rocket Racer and Night Thrasher use skateboards.
* There was a short-lived comic called ''Skateman'', about a skating hero, but it predates rollerblades.

* The DarkActionGirl Rollergrrl in ComicBook/TheIncredibles comic series
* Whenever ComicBook/IronMan needs to get around fast and flying is not an option, some of his armor suit boots have roller skate wheels that pop out for some speedy ground transportation. On some occasions, using them also recharges his batteries in the process (this was when IM needed his entire chestplate to stay alive).
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim fights a group of teens who rollerblade around the Bristol Township north of Gotham vandalizing things and robbing people by chasing them down on his skateboard.
* Ramona from ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' has a pair of rollerblades that can ''melt the snow beneath her feet.''

* Duela Dent, back in her heroic ComicBook/TeenTitans days, would occasionally turn her shoes into rollerblades as both the Joker's Daughter and the Harlequin.

* ''Animation/AachiAndSsipak'' has Geko: a cyborg cop with roller blades built in.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'', Cappy (voiced by Halle Berry) kicks down wheels embedded in her feet and "rollerderbies" a few bad guys to help Rodney and Bigweld escape, then later in the underground battle with Madame Gasket (voiced by Jim Broadbent) she uses them again.

* One of the first action setpieces from ''Film/CoolieKiller'' have the titular hero assaulted by rollerblading mooks in his apartment, some which he defeats, and have to flee through the corridor outside while being chased by those mooks. The hero managed to subdue them briefly by turning a janitor’s trolley in the corridor around where mooks unable to stop themselves in time ends up crashing into the trolley, but just for a short while.

* The titular kids in ''Film/{{Hackers}}'' got around on blades, and The Plague used a skateboard.

* ''Film/PrayerOfTheRollerboys'' In the wake of the rollerblade fad, this Creator/CoreyHaim vehicle features a dystopic, near-future LA where the toughest gang on the streets is a bunch of teenage white supremacists who ride rollerblades into their rumbles.
* ''Film/ReturnToOz'' features a threatening gang of "wheelers", who have rollers for hands and feet and cackle maniacally.
* ''Film/{{Rollerball}},'' with James Caan as an idol of a BloodSport featuring both skaters and people on motorcycles.
* [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] in ''Film/RollerBlade'': Almost EVERYBODY is going around in roller skates, with absolutely zero explanation as to why they can't just walk. It also seems that they summon their power from it, when Hunter (Sister Fortune) awakes with the nuns without her skates, she immediately panics (but they're just cleaned) and Marshall Goodman wants his son to learn skating because of reasons. There are also characters who use skateboards (like the punks) and even moments where people don't skate at all (like Marshall Goodman's son or Hunter at one point), but this doesn't go well for them most of the time.
* ''Film/{{Solarbabies}}''.

* There is a scene in the live-action ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film where Bonecrusher transforms into his robot form and proceeds to rollerblade down the highway after the heroes, only to be blocked by Optimus Prime when he turns around to do the same.
** Sideswipe, a character in the sequel ''Revenge of the Fallen'', literally has wheels for feet. [[CatchPhrase Damn]], he's good...
* ''Film/TheWarriors''. The leader of The Punks that corners the Warriors in the public toilet on Union Station rolls about on skates, though this doesn't give him any advantage in the close quarter BathroomBrawl that follows.

* ''Blackfish City'' by Sam J. Miller. One of the main characters is Soq, a gender-neutral street kid working as a messenger for the underworld, who uses this trope to race around the CityOnTheWater, a job that's both illegal and dangerous.

* In ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' the [[PoweredArmor Marauder suits]] can glide on wheels in the feet. But most of the MI prefer not to use them because of the rocky terrain they usually have to cross.
* Subverted in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' where a mercenary tells how he saw a kid on roller blades wielding a hockey stick with a cleaver at the end of it. He was grabbed at the ankle (making him fall), and then dragged into a gutter. And then called a "dumbass". By ''Paris Hilton''.

* [[Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann In one Countdown]] [[TakeThat Worst Person In The World]] segment, the "worser" person commented on China's Olympic Torch woes and suggested getting faster runners, and [[DeadpanSnarker Keith]] [[InvokedTrope suggested giving them Rocket-Powered Roller Skates]] [[RuleOfCool because that would be even better]].

* ''Series/AceLightning'': Random Virus is a {{Cyborg}} whose legs have been replaced with large black caterpillar tracks one might see on tanks. [[MightyGlacier This gives Random the least amount of mobility among the three Lightning Knights]].
* Father Dougal Mcguire from ''Series/FatherTed'' had to give up rollerblading as a vice for Lent in one episode.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' had Jamie, in the course of building a hovercraft, zooming across the shop in skates wearing a homemade jetpack made from several leaf-blowers grafted together.
* The Quantum Ranger's power-up armor in ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' had rollerblades.

* The music video for Music/{{Halestorm}}'s ''It's Not You'' features two flat track UsefulNotes/RollerDerby teams, with Lzzy occassionally also skating.

* In the TabletopGame/D20Modern sourcebook [[{{Cyborg}} Cyberscape]], you could get retractable roller blades as a cybernetic implant, allowing you to improve your move speed quite a bit.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Gorkamorka}}'', a late 90's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' GaidenGame, had the unofficial [=BladerZ=] mob from the fan driven ''Gubbinz'' magazine that consisted of a number of Boyz and a Nob wearing [=BladeZ=] [=BootZ=]. These wheeled [=BootZ=] give the model a movement bonus and the ability to hang onto the back of a vehicle, but meant that they were unable to climb ladders or mount vehicles.
* The mecha of ''TabletopGame/HeavyGear'' run with retractable roller skates for high speed movement over flatter ground. No rockets, and usually doesn't say much about the pilot's personality -- they're just around to make transportation easier. Carried over to the video games.
** Heavier models instead have [[TankGoodness caterpillar]] built into their feet in place of wheel, but they work just the same.
* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' had rocket-powered rollerblades that could run up walls. And along ceilings. And reach 200 MPH in 20 feet. Failing the rather difficult athletics rolls with them spelled painful disaster.
* One of the cyberbits you could've put on in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' (at least its third edition) was, basically, in-line Gadget skates.

* [[Toys/{{Bionicle}} Onua Nuva]] could use his [[ChainsawGood Quake Breakers]] as all-terrain treads. Umbra also wore rollerblades that let him move at the speed of light.

* [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]] doesn't need a WheelOFeet to prove that he's fast...he's got hover skates.
** ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' features hover skates as a variety of Extreme Gear. Naturally, Shadow's default Extreme Gear in the first game is a Skate-type gear.
* [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Lan Hikari]] can switch between walking or skating.

* Lilica Felchenerow from ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart''.
* ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt:'' In his transformed form, Viper has spur-like wheels attached to his legs that he uses not only to move around but also to attack.

* The Stage 5 boss of ''VideoGame/{{Einhander}}'', Ausf D Durer.
* Grace from ''VideoGame/FightingVipers'' was equipped with a pair of roller blades.

* ''VideoGame/FrontMission4'' has this in its intro video in a most certainly badass way.
** This is also something that can be upgraded onto humanoid leg parts, allowing equipped wanzers to move in straight lines (such as down streets) much farther than they could walk. They can't actually turn while using these though, unlike in the cutscenes.

* Top Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'' has roller blades on his feet. He uses them to move fast across the room while [[SpectacularSpinning spinning]] and shooting [[BattleTops spinning tops]] at Mega Man. Unfortunately, this means that when you [[PowerCopying get his weapon]], you don't get the tops - you get his ability to do a 360. And since Mega Man [[RequiredSecondaryPowers doesn't have roller blades,]] [[JokeItem he can only use said ability in the air]]. At least it's useful for getting rid of those [[GoddamnBats annoying enemies]] that bump you into pits while you are jumping merrily around. It also kills the final boss [[LethalJokeItem in one hit]].
* Mega Man himself gets some in ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends''. Except that they do away with wheels entirely and use jets.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'': in the second game, Argoyle and Ugoyle have wheels for legs that they can use for combined speedy moves. When you gain their forms and use them, you can dash indefinitely with those wheels, as opposed to normal limited-distance dash of previous Mega Man games.
* Lan from ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' loves rollerblading so much he even rollerblades indoors.
* Fatman from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' is an overweight demolitions expert. Including his blast suit, he weights half a ton...so, obviously, he needs to wear roller blades for increased maneuverability. Predictably, he falls down a lot, and has trouble getting up.
** And then there's Solidus, who wears ''rocket skates'' to fight Raiden. ''[[RuleOfCool While dual-wielding katanas and attacking with electrified robotic tentacles.]]''

* The protagonists of the action game ''VideoGame/RapidReload'' is an expert on rollerblades, with one notable level having him pursuing mooks in a MinecartMadness level while on skates.
* ''VideoGame/RhythmThiefAndTheEmperorsTreasure'', when Raphael/Phantom R is escaping from Louvre, he is chased by the police force's "famed Paris Rollerskate Brigade".

* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' the Decker specialists are gothic school girls with TronLines and roller skates that allow them to almost FlashStep around the battlefield.

* Sammy "Skate" Hunter, Adam's kid brother from ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage 2''.

* Ratsel Feinschmecker's Aussenseiter of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' is a SuperRobot with large wheels attached to it's feet that allow it to skate along the ground to make fast attacks.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'', where bladers are whiny brats who are to be thoroughly embarrassed by the skateboarders.

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* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Kayla gets rollerblades as part of her ClothingSwitch in 'Store Story'.

* Thog from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' had his beloved rocket skates...

* [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]] used rocket skates in his very first appearance. Needless to say, it did not end well.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Megatron's [[MidSeasonUpgrade Transmetal form's]] beast mode is a ''roller-skating VTOL T-rex''.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' gives the "wheels as feet" to Rattrap. It's pretty much a hindrance to him, though. Vehicon General Thrust has a mono-wheel setup similar to [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} Claptrap]].
* Loogie from ''WesternAnimation/GetEd'' has a pair of jet-propelled skates. While he may or may not qualify completely for FragileSpeedster status, he's certainly the most...eccentric...team member, talking to his [[CompanionCube sock puppet catfish]] Dr. Pinch.
* WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget is equipped with a pair of Gadget Skates. In the first LiveActionAdaptation, he briefly used a pair of Gadget Blades.

* Starlee Hambrath, from the "Fast Forward" season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' is never without her two-wheeled inline skates, which appear to be built into her jumpsuit.
* Casey Jones from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' has shoes that can be converted into rollerblades as part of his vigilante gear.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Bumblebee and Optimus Prime both have one of their wheels on each of their robot modes that they have been occasionally shown to move around on. On the other hand, Prowl has his vehicle mode's wheels in his knees and can use them to ''[[WallCrawl ride up walls]]''.
** Optimus and Prowl only ever pulled this trick once. Bumblebee used his skates a lot more, given he's the FragileSpeedster.
* [[TotallyRadical Spyke]] on ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' was never far from his skateboard until he was RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster'': The swift and agile [[CyberNinja robot ninja]] Ninjzz moves around on rollerskates 24/7.

* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': In "Cafe Chaos," Louisa decides to get things done faster by using roller-skates, and she teaches Zeke how to roller-skate as well.

* UsefulNotes/RollerDerby. Though the FragileSpeedster bit is usually hugely, hugely averted (jammers and pivots tend to be [[LightningBruiser Lightning Bruisers]], with blockers being a mix of Lightning Bruisers and [[MightyGlacier Mighty Glaciers]]). All modern roller derby rules sets explicitly forbid the use of rollerblades for competing skaters - only quad skates are permitted on the track (though referees are permitted to use rollerblades per WFTDA rules, referees train with the league, requiring them to own quads).
* A Libyan fighter shows us what [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52x9zn79ovE a drive by on rollerblades]] would look like.

* Wumela from the ''VideoGame/{{Richman}}'' series wears roller skates anywhere she goes on the maps of ''Richman 6'', be it an artificial island or a ''space station''. She eventually takes them off since ''Richman 6'''s expansion pack.

* [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]] doesn't need a WheelOFeet to prove that he's fast...he's got hover skates.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}} Swap Force'' has Roller Brawl, a spitfire of a girl and vampire roller derby champion, who joins the Skylanders when she draws the unwanted attention of the series' BigBad. For extra awesomeness, her roller skates don't have wheels, they have [[ChainsawGood circular saws]].