History Main / RoofHopping

* Roofhopping is the favorite mode of travel for many martial artists in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma ½]]''.

* ''UnLunDun'' by ChinaMieville: A roof-hopping subculture features, which makes it a point of pride never to leave the roofs. But all is not as it seems.

* One of the characters in TheAlienist demonstrates remarkable abilities traveling roofs and other urban structures.
* This is a very common way of getting around for the titular extraordinarily empowered individuals of ''{{Mistborn}}'', since they can telekinetically push and pull on metals.
* The climax of ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar Changes]]'' is a roof-hopping race between Mags and two assassins.

** [[{{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, is similar to ''Vertigo'''s.

* The city of Klaipeda in ''VideoGame/TreeOfSavior''has many an accessible rooftop for jumping.

* ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' uses this in the opening scenes, with Film/JamesBond performing jumps that would have resulted in agony and likely broken legs for anyone else.

* ''MirrorsEdge'' is often all about this trope done with LeParkour on top of skyscrapers.

* All the Seven Angels and the Seven Seals in ''{{X 1999}}''. The series ''loves'' this one.

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* The street kids' primary method of transportation in ''TekkonKinkreet''. They are often seen covering impossible distances and jumping up entire buildings.

* In ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', Ashitaka and San are doing this above the roofs of Irontown.

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* Subverted in a [=DirectTV=] ad, in which a guy trying to be a Real Life Superhero attempts this feat and falls through a skylight into a dinner party.

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* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', Kyon had fun when he gained the ability to do this. It helped with a DynamicEntry later on.
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* Occurs in a flashback in ''KiddyGrade'', wherein Lumière piggybacks on Éclair while Éclair hops from rooftop to rooftop gracefully.

* In ''NineteenSixtyThree'', the Fury is a BadassNormal lacking any superpowers but possessing incredible agility. His standard form of transportation? Rapidly running and jumping across the roofs of buildings, leading to the nickname "Roofrunner".

* ''SinCity'' does this with Marv in the first comic (also in the movie version). Miho is often shown doing this from time to time. In one story, she did it while wearing [[RollerbladeGood rollerblades.]]

* The Agent in ''{{Crackdown}}''. Build your [[EvolvingWeapon Agility Skill]] high enough, and you can make some truly vertigo-inducing leaps. This is arguably the better way to get around, as opposed to running or driving the streets.

* ''BitTrip Runner'' has this in the last few levels. There was intended to be much more of this, but this game was still in development when ''VideoGame/{{Canabalt}}'' came out, so the roof emphasis was removed.

* ''TheSaboteur'' lets you do this in the unique rooftops of Paris.

* The protagonist of ''NeedForSpeedTheRun'' is forced to do this to escape from his pursuers. Rather predictably, it goes poorly when he misses a jump and falls painfully to the street below. He then [[{{Determinator}} beats up a cop and steals his police car]].

* The main theme of the [[GraffitiTown Graffiti]] [[JetSetRadio City]] racetrack from [[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed]] utilizes this trope.

* ''BubblegumCrisis Tokyo 2040'' has the Knight Sabers using their PoweredArmor to do this

* Major Motoko Kusanagi is fond of roof-hopping, even roof-''diving'' off skyscrapers without a parachute, in the Japanese anime TV series ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' and ''Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG'' (aka. ''Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex'') (2002-2005). Well, every main character with a full cyberbody does it, and the Tachikoma robots as well. The tachikoma who resemble mechanical spiders can climb up and down walls or shoot sticky ropes, Spiderman-style, to lasso opponents and swing themselves around buildings, too. There's considerable less roof-hopping in the ''Ghost in the Shell'' movie versions (1995, 2004, 2006) though.

* Kei Kurono enjoys a bit of Sky Scraper hopping in ''{{Gantz}}''.

* ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Ultimatum]]'': One of the most impressive sequences, where the near superhuman Jason Bourne was leaping from rooftops to catch up to his ally Nicky and protect her from an assassin. Made believable in that it took place in Tangier, where the buildings are very crowded, and the fact that Nicky tries the same thing and barely makes it herself. (The only question is how Bourne and the assassin were able to follow her in the near labyrinth-like buildings)
** A similar chase occurs in ''The Bourne Legacy''.

* Louis from the beginning of DarkerThanBlack.

* Historical KoreanSeries are good for this, among them ''SungkyunkwanScandal'' and ''{{Iljimae}}''.

* Subverted in ''TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'':

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Assassins are expected to be able to do this. ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}'' in particular features the main character doing quite a bit of roof hopping.

* DirtyHarry in ''TheEnforcer'' is chasing a suspect all over the roofs of half of San Francisco, while his partner, Inspector Moore, is trying to figure out where he is going by following along from the street, until she finds the church that they burst into and she does the same.
** Years later, Clint Eastwood chases John Malkovich over rooftops in ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', though not as successfully.

* Lime, Cherry, and all of the marionettes in ''SaberMarionetteJ''. Lime is also shown roofhopping while on her job as a delivery person in ''Saber Marionette J To X''.

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* Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' has roof-''pole-vaulting.''

** Years later, Clint Eastwood chases John Malkovich over rooftops in ''InTheLineOfFire'', though not as successfully.

* ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' movie introduces Hyde in this way, in Paris.
* ''Franchise/{{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.

* ''MonstersVsAliens'' has Ginormica roofhopping to escape the alien robot. [[MST3KMantra (Don't ask how the roofs don't crumble under her feet.)]] She jumps to one tilted roof that's too far for her, scrambles to hold on as she slips down, loses her grip... and safely lands on the ground, since she's almost as tall as the building.

* ''SafetyLast'' leads up to Harold Lloyd selling a publicity stunt where he'll climb up the side of the multistory department store he works at, arranging with a professional climber friend to surreptitiously switch places at the second floor. His friend gets pursued by a policeman he's in bad with, though, and keeps having to head further up in the building, forcing Harold to keep climbing. The film ends with Harold successfully getting to the top, while his friend is several rooftops away, still being chased.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2''. As he's about to be blasted by Lord Shen's cannons, Po avoids this by the simple method of jumping from one rooftop to another, as the [[AwesomeButImpractical cannons are too heavy and cumbersome to move quickly]]. It helps that he's on a Chinese multi-inclined roof, so all Po has to do is go down.

* ''TheTick'': The Tick does this as his primary means of travel; however, he is so heavy he leaves footprints on everything he lands on. While visiting Europe he was forced to ride a scooter instead after damaging several historic buildings.
* ''StaticShock'': Expertly executed by She-bang in her first appearance.

* Let's not forget ''{{Cybersix}}'', who roofhops across Meridiana while poor Lucas tries to keep up on the ground.
* In the ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' episode "Lightsaber Lost" Ahsoka chases the thief who had stolen her lightsaber earlier on the rooftops of Coruscant. The thief is a very agile "Terrellian Jango Jumper" who manages to outrun and elude her.

* Done in the musical of the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic episode "A Friend in Deed"
* Lance does this in the second episode of SymBionicTitan while chasing/following Ilana.

-->-- ''SiflAndOlly'', "Ninja of the Night"