History Main / WalkOnWater

!Examples

* Near the end of the graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', as Dr. Manhattan notes his interest in creating life, he's standing on water. The implication is obvious.
** In TheMovie, the walking on water scene is visible in a commercial but lacks the symbolism.

* In the {{Franco-Belgian Comic|s}} ''ComicBook/LesNaufragesDYthaq'', this is part of the Water {{Elemental Power|s}} set.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''

%%* [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two words:]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3St1GgoHQ Liquid mountaineering.]] [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two more words:]] [[http://www.mediaite.com/online/great-moments-in-journalism-local-news-team-duped-by-walking-on-water-hoax/ Not real.]]

* In ''Manga/AirGear'' anyone skilled enough on their [[RollerbladeGood Air Trecks]] can do this. So far only Gabishi and Orca have been seen doing it. [[spoiler: Ikki does more of a gliding on water variant when he gets the Wind Regalia.]]

* Pretty much all super-speedsters in any SuperHero continuity will be able to do this -- TheFlash and {{Quicksilver}} being perhaps the two most prominent. This is supposed to be physically possible, if you can sustain a speed in excess of 60 miles per hour, obviously a snap for these guys who consider going supersonic essentially just a brisk walk to them.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''

* In ''FreedomForce'', TheFlash {{Expy}} Bullet's [[SuperHeroOrigin origin story]] has him being hit with [[SuperSerum Energy X]] while in-flight and crash-landing in Vietnam during the [[VietnamWar war]]. The energy makes him a {{Speedster}}, so he is able to run away from bullets but has trouble [[RequiredSecondaryPowers stopping himself]] before hitting the ocean and ends up running all the way to the US. He can't do that [[GameplayAndStorySegregation in the game]], though.

* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', Oko San attends swimming class, only to run across the pool's surface instead of swimming. [[spoiler: Oko San actually ''is'' divine in his extended ending, as an avatar of the Pudding God.]]

* The ''{{Pokemon}}'' Heliolisk is based on a Basilisk lizard, which can run on water (see below)and can learn surf despite not being a water-type.

** There are other motivators - PepeLePew spots a "belle femme skonque" on an ocean liner out at sea, and rushes to her. "You know, I suddenly realized that I never learned to swim! Silly me...(glub)" He continues [[WalkDontSwim running on the ocean floor.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman and TheFlash have a race around the world using their SuperSpeed and, since the Earth's surface is mostly water, they spend some time running on the ocean.
** ''Justice League'', "The Savage Time", Flash runs across the Atlantic, to warn the Americans that Savage and the Nazi-stand-ins are headed their way.
* Steven Universe has Lion shown this ability

* The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond — if those people and that pond were on the moon.

* For obvious, [[Literature/TheBible Biblical-related reasons]], this one is OlderThanFeudalism.

* ''RoboCop1987'' has a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic symbolic]] variant where the resurrected Murphy walks through shallow water during his showdown with the film's villain, [[HeroKiller Boddicker]]. (The entire movie is full of religious symbolism, since the premise is more or less "Jesus of Nazareth in rundown, futuristic Detroit, only with guns".)
* Subverted in Soviet comedy ''Diamond Arm''. A smuggler who ended up resorting to robbery is stranded on an islet about a kilometer from the shore. Some boy asks him what's wrong and walks away after being told to get lost. Then the criminal notices the boy walks on water, becomes a born-again Christian and follows him to the shore. But his faith doesn't live long after he discovers it was just a strip of shallow water. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GYV6Ecqcf0 See the scene on Youtube.]]

* In the ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie, when various locations of and children in the Institute are being displayed as Xavier is giving Wolverine the tour, one is shown running (not-superspeed) horizontally across a tadpole pond.

* A great way to symbolically finish the movie ''BeingThere'' with PeterSellers.[[note:The pond this scene was filmed at has real stepping stones just under the surface, meaning Chauncey finally fools even the audience with his "brilliance" just like he did to nearly everyone he met earlier in the film./note]]

* A great way to symbolically finish the movie ''BeingThere'' with PeterSellers.

* SeenItAMillionTimes in Western animation -- fear is an excellent motivator. If your fear gives you super speed, you can run on the water without sinking. See ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' and ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' for this sort of gag, among many others.

* {{North Korea}}n propaganda claims that Kim il-Sung once crossed a river by walking on fallen leaves, among other miracles which make Jesus look like an underachiever.

* In the ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho'' series, Shurf Lonli-Lokli is revealed to be able to walk on water in ''Green Waters of Ishma''. Max lampshades it, of course, including the fact that Shurf is wearing his snow white toga-like uniform at the time.

* The very end of the movie ''Film/RemoWilliamsTheAdventureBegins'', a PilotMovie that never became a show, has Remo's [[OldMaster mentor]] Chiun doing this to escape some villains and to show Remo he's still got a lot to learn. (The trick, it seems, is to run ''really'' fast.) Remo himself earlier runs across ''wet cement'', while the {{Mook}} following him falls in and [[NightmareFuel drowns]]. This is shown as being a kind of mind-over-matter trick of becoming lighter, not really faster.

* In ''Literature/TheDestroyer'', Remo Williams can also run over water.

* ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'''s EndingTheme cranks this trope UpToEleven. From the mark of 0:53 onwards, [[FiveManBand the Cures]] are shown ''[[DancingTheme dancing]]'' on water -- and it's a very energetic dance at that rate. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHTxzO8-s8o It must be seen to be believed.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'''s hackers found out during their fiddle that [[HotDad Flint]] and Claus can walk on water in some places they aren't meant to be in. For Flint's case, this glitch racks his MemeticBadass trait up even more.

** ''TimeWarp'' replicates this trick for their show.

* The very end of the movie ''[[TheDestroyer Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins]]'', a PilotMovie that never became a show, has Remo's [[OldMaster mentor]] Chiun doing this to escape some villains and to show Remo he's still got a lot to learn. (The trick, it seems, is to run ''really'' fast.) Remo himself earlier runs across ''wet cement'', while the {{Mook}} following him falls in and [[NightmareFuel drowns]]. This is shown as being a kind of mind-over-matter trick of becoming lighter, not really faster.

* In ''TheDestroyer'', Remo Williams can also run over water.

** Death Knights do it in a slightly different way, freezing the water below them.

* [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two words:]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3St1GgoHQ Liquid mountaineering.]] [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two more words:]] [[http://www.mediaite.com/online/great-moments-in-journalism-local-news-team-duped-by-walking-on-water-hoax/ Not real.]]

* Real life aversion: A priest tried to prove that one could walk on water if one only had enough faith. He demonstrated using himself as the example. It didn't go as well as he expected, [[http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-49.html earning him]] a [[DarwinAwards Darwin Award]].

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* Music/ElvisCostello, "Don't you think that I know that walking on water won't make me a [[TitleDrop miracle man]]."
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** Doflamingo can do this, seemingly out of pure CharlesAtlasSuperpower, fast enough to go between two islands that took an overnight journey by boat in a couple hours.