History Main / RunningOnAllFours

* Rocket briefly runs on all fours in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' and does so several times in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', notably leaping from branch to branch in a forest and landing on all fours when he jumps down. He also comes out of a chair and runs on all fours toward the end of the latter movie and looks perfectly comfortable doing so.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder Wild Blue Yonder]]", the Fourteenth Doctor is about to catch up with his {{Doppelganger}}, but the later drops on all fours and shapeshift just enough for the stance to provide much greater speed than his pursuer.

* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': In "[[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E2Chapter10ThePassenger Chapter 10: The Passenger]]", the "Frog Lady" usually keeps a humanoid stance, but being short-legged she drops to all four and start using awkward frog leaps to run away faster from the ice spiders.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Odd's digital avatar on Lyoko has [[CatGirl Cat Boy]] traits, and he quite often runs on all four when speed is needed.

* Averted in one ''{{Comicbook/Yakari}}'' story: Yakari has lost his memory and thinks he's a bear cub. His new mother is teaching how to grow into a proper bear by hunting, fishing and running. However, he quickly discovers he's better at running on two legs.

* Apes in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', although mostly bipedal, do this when they are really excited and in a hurry.
* ''Film/ThePromise2005'' has all of the slaves used as bait in the opening battle move around like this because as slaves they weren't allowed to act like humans. The protagonist Kunlun is easily able to outrun all of his other fellow slaves, but it turns into an [[AvertedTrope aversion]] since he does run faster bipedally -- he's just that good of a runner.

* The Lycans of ''Film/Underworld2003'', when transformed, run on all fours on ground and ''through trees'' and can easily catch up with horses, either way.
* ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'': When transformed, Talbot tends to abandon bipedal running when not in the middle of killing someone, which is rare if there's anybody near enough to sink his claws into.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Series/TheMandalorian'': In "[[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E2Chapter10ThePassenger Chapter 10: The Passenger]]", the "Frog Lady" usually keeps a humanoid stance, but being short-legged she drops to all four and start using awkward frog leaps to run away faster from the ice spiders.

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* R'Qazz in ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'' is prone to crawling around on all fours to highlight how primitive and savage he is. The real running starts when he transforms into Beast Man, gaining a more [[TopHeavyGuy ape-like physique]] that lets him run with his arms doing most of the work.

* Timber Wolf from ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'' does this a few times

* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'':

* Squirrel Girl in ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' usually runs on four legs, with a characteristic squirrel-like gait.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Pikachu can function equally well on either four or two legs -- when they're in 3D, they're shown to run on four and walk on two.

* Among animals this trope is almost completely absent. In fact, the opposite is seen, with many prehistoric reptiles (probably) and various modern day lizards adopting a bipedal stance when they want to run quickly, and kangaroos moving slowly on all fours but hopping rapidly on two legs. About the only animals that spend any time in a bipedal stance but move quickly on all fours are bears and certain primates (and the former almost never do more than take a couple steps when on their hind legs).

* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'': Spear would run on all four whenever he had to get somewhere quickly.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}'': Spear would run on all four whenever he had to get somewhere quickly.

* Done among several types of ''birds'' in ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'' where some lineages of birds, such as the burrowing mole-like bumblets and the deer-like serezelles, evolve to be obligate quadrupeds, becoming flightless and repurposing their wing anatomy back into weight-bearing limbs.