History Main / RoofHopping

* The few creatures who can't fly in ''[[BloodPlus Blood+]]'' -- like the Cif -- move around this way.

* ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'': Subverted. The main character tries going rooftop hopping to catch a criminal... but his policeman colleague falls to his death, causing the protagonist to develop the titular vertigo.
** [[{{Monk}} Adrian Monk's]] many phobias include vertigo, of course, and the scene in the pilot where Monk grips a ladder a few steps off the ground, unable to go {{Roofhopping}} after a criminal are similar to Vertigo's.

* The movie version of ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'' goes roofhopping before he learns how to use his web-shooters. The sequel also contain a memorable scene in which he attempts (and fails) roofhopping in order to revive his lost powers.

* ''TheLivingDaylights'' has Bond in a rooftop escape from the police in Tangier.

* ''Rumble In The Bronx'', where JackieChan jumped from a parking garage to a fire escape, breaking his ankle.

* Somewhat lampshaded in the ''OnePiece'' Water 7 arc, everyone (including the Strawhat crew) is impressed by shipwright Kaku's ability to jump great distances to the point of nearly flying ([[spoiler:part byproduct of having undergone special martial arts training like the rest of [=CP9=]]]). Later, Chopper and Nami must awkwardly run across rooftops to free Luffy, who is stuck between two buildings, and Zoro, stuck in a chimney.

* The web fiction serial ''DimensionHeroes'' is rife with instances of this, usually committed by Rob and Wyn.

* The first season of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' had several instances of ''implied'' roofhopping, in that the girls leapt off into the sky and vanished into the distance. As well, Zoisite also engaged in roofhopping in one anime episode, while he was disguised as Sailor Moon.

* The live action version of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', made one attempt at showing roofhopping. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't anything to show to the Emmy committee, either.

* The ninjas in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' also make use of roofhopping.

* The live action version of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', ''PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', made one attempt at showing roofhopping. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't anything to show to the Emmy committee, either.

* Roofhopping can be found in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma ½]]''.

* Randall, from ''Series/{{TheWalkingDead}}'' attempts this, and fails spectacularly.

* A live-action version can be seen in ''CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''.

* In ''God Stalk'', book one of P.C. Hodgell's ''ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'', the Cloudies of Tai-tastigon live their entire lives on the roofs of the city, which is their Cloud Kingdom, and refuse to allow ground-dwellers to climb up there. Many of them have never set foot on the ground. Jame, the books' protagonist, saves a prince of the Cloud Kingdom and is given the freedom of the skies; after that, she prefers the rooftops to the streets.

->''I can jump roof-to-roof and get my friends free cable! It's badass.''
-->-- '''''SiflAndOlly''''', "Ninja of the Night"

* Exercised extensively in the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series
* Cole does this all the time in VideoGame/{{Infamous}}. Sucker Punch likes this trope.

* [[LupinIII Lupin the Third]] and Jigen escaping the bad guys who attack their room at the inn in ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''
** And Lupin for pretty much the rest of the movie.

* ''{{Seinfeld}}'': Kramer does roof hopping while being chased by his cable guy.
* ''CriminalMinds'': An unsub tries (and fails) to do this in an attempt to escape arrest in the episode "Tabula Rasa". Morgan follows, with [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome considerably greater success]].
* Jim on ''No Ordinary Family ''uses this method to get around when he's patrolling the city. However he leaves small craters on the rooftops.
* In the ''{{Southland}}'' season 3 finale, a suspect tries to do this with Officer Sherman pursuing. The suspect succeeds the first time, but he's not so lucky on the second.

* ''{{Batman}}'' does this in his CoolCar in ''Film/BatmanBegins''. It's quite amusing listening to a pursuing cop trying to explain that the mystery car they are chasing is on the roofs.
** He also attempts it on foot, before developing his Batman persona. He learns it's not easy at all. Ouch!

* In ''AstroCity'', this is occasionally shown as transportation for the more acrobatic street-level heroes. At one point, Jack-in-the-Box is followed across the roofs by a hooting gang called The Rowdy Boys who chase him across roofs to build up their LeParkour skills.