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[[caption-width-right:280:[[StatingTheSimpleSolution Why doesn't she just use a bicycle?]]]]

Despite how [[BadassBiker badass motorcycles are]], sometimes [[CoolButImpractical they're just not quite right]] for the situation. For one, they're large, they're noisy, you need to stay fully on them, it's hard to fight hand-to-hand and they can't maneuver well in tight spaces. So for some, roller skates are better.

A person using this is very often a kid or has a childish personality, and are also often a FragileSpeedster. If they're in an especially big hurry they can even add rockets for a little extra boost.

This trope frequently occurs in HumongousMecha. Logically, they are there to make it easier and faster for the mecha to move across reasonably even ground, but also to help [[LazyArtist lazy animators]]. The wheels will either be on the feet, or the feet will transform to reveal wheels. They may even have wheels ''for'' feet. Caterpillar tracks are common substitutes for wheels. [[SpiderTank Spider tanks]] under 4 meters (roughly 12.5 feet) tall will normally feature wheels on the bottom of their feet.

Sometimes they may also be good at ice-skating and, in rare cases, may actually wear ice skates into non-ice places. Which are usually explained by the wearer [[AnIcePerson having ice powers]] or having advanced tech built into the skates.

A roller skater could run into trouble if they go off the pavement, since the tiny wheels are more likely to trip on an obstacle or sink into soft ground and get stuck. The latter especially applies to wheels on the feet of bipedal mecha, which would create a lot of ground pressure on a small contact area. However, the work may ignore this problem under the RuleOfCool.

Not to be confused with WheelOFeet. A form of TravelCool. [[HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic Don't expect roller skaters to use helmets]] unless the work is explicitly marketed to young children, in which case they're practically ''[[FantasyHelmetEnforcement required]]'' to demonstrate proper helmet use.

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''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''. For those who may be having a hard time visualizing that, 35.09 meters is roughly the same height as your average ''three story building''. Yeah.
* ''Manga/AlienNine'': The Alien Party chases extra-terrestrials around their elementary school on in-line skates. Armed with butterfly nets. And symbiotic aliens as helmets.
* ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'': Roll Cake-chan is a roller-skating girl who loves making roll cakes. Both Anpanman and Baikinman also do this in the intro for the Edutainment specials.
* The mecha in ''Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS'' use this extensively, and are probably the TropeCodifier for HumongousMecha having these.
* ''Manga/BakusouKyoudaiLetsAndGo'' devotes the entire second season on roller stakes. Every major character wears them as a part of their uniforms.
* ''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 roller skates and a jet engine. They actually have a function, as they're meant for speeding through Tokyo's highways.
* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Sakura skates to school every day and uses them in battle on occasion, with one particularly impressive example when fighting The Fly in the first episode.
* The lady {{Phantom Thie|f}}ves of ''Manga/CatsEye'' use this method to escape the scene of their heists sometimes, and look impossibly cool at it, especially in the anime.
* The [[HumongousMecha Knightmare Frames]] in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' use roller wheels called landspinners as their primary method of locomotion (until [[JetPack 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/EurekaSeven'', though since they spend the vast majority of their time in the air, it's rarely seen.
* ''Manga/Eyeshield21'': Suzuna loves to wear these, even when cheerleading. Her ice-skating skills are also top-notch, too.
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': The Tachikomas have 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 roller skates). 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}} gets 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]].
* Examples from ''Anime/{{Macross}}'':
** Ever since [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross the 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]].
** The AlternateContinuity ''Anime/MacrossII'' has its entire series of Destroids equipped with these. Helps especially with the Giant Monster, the largest mecha after the transforming starships.
** The {{Prequel}} ''Anime/MacrossZero'' has the Destroid Cheyenne and the Octos. The feature not being present on the Destroids of the original series is implied to be because those are far heavier, and the rollers just wouldn't work.
** ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' brings it back for Destroids with the Cheyenne II, and introducesthe [[PowerArmor EX-Gear]] with the same ability (that in the [[NonSerialMovie Non-Serial Movies]] acquire ''rocket-powered'' skates courtesy of the EX-Gear's JetPack). The Cheyenne II also show up in ''Anime/MacrossDelta''.
%%* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'': The Aestivalises.
* In ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior2002'', 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/MobileSuitGundam'': The HumongousMecha MS-09 Dom, which uses jets built into its legs to skate along the ground instead of running.
* ''Anime/MonsterRancher'': Genki uses these very often in battle.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Konoka Konoe skates her way to school. This is used to contrast her with her panting, diligently running companions and thus display her easygoing, carefree nature.
* ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'': Lil' Slugger wears rollerblades, though he isn't as good as he is utterly terrifying.
* ''Anime/RealDrive'': Minamo has shoes that sprout rollerblades at opportune moments.
* ''Manga/RideBack'': The titular machines are {{Cool Bike}}s that can {{transform|ingMecha}} into [[MiniMecha small-sized mecha]] with the bike wheels instead of feet, allowing their pilots to cover both BadassBiker ''and'' Rollerblade Good depending on situation.
* ''Anime/SDGundamForce'': Shute has a set of these, with the usual speed boost rockets. He's also added magnets to the wheels, which let him skate on sometimes vertical metal surfaces.
* ''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 chainsaws]]. Seeing as he [[VoluntaryShapeshifting can change into a chainsaw]], it's not a huge stretch to change only his legs.
* This is taken to an extreme in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration: Divine Wars'', in which just about every mecha not capable of atmospheric flight can instead hover-skate over not only the ground, but the ''water'' as well.
* In ''Manga/SuperwomenInLove'', [[AnIcePerson Cool 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/SyndualityNoir'': The Cradlecoffins use these to move at speed.
* ''Anime/TransformersArmada'': Hot Shot can lower the wheels around his ankles and roller skate on them.
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' brings us Rai-Dei the Blade, a samurai who uses {{Dangerous Forbidden Technique}}s with his katana against gunslingers. To compensate for his reduced effective range, he wears rocket-powered roller blades. Somehow, Vash manages to keep a straight face while fighting him.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Carrie Kelly (Catgirl) in ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'' usually appears on skates.
%%* The DarkActionGirl Rollergrrl in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibles2009''.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** Several characters, such as Speedfreek and Blue Streak, use jet-propelled skates. [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Rocket Racer]] and [[ComicBook/NewWarriors Night Thrasher]] use skateboards.
** In her early Disco days, ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} used roller-skates.
** 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 chest plate to stay alive).
** In her early ''ComicBook/XMen'' appearances, Jubilee was a mall rat who got around on rollerblades. She taught Professor X to rollerblade (his legs happened to be working that evening)... then led him into the lake.
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': 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''.
* In the ''ComicBook/SinCity'' graphic novel ''Family Values'', Miho rollerblades her way through the Basin City mafia, leaving a trail of bodies in her wake.
* There was a short-lived comic called ''Skateman'', about a skating hero, but it predates rollerblades.
* 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.
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[[folder:Eastern Animation]]
* ''Animation/AachiAndSsipak'' has Geko, a cyborg cop with roller blades built in.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', several members of the Rocket Racer Gang, including Himiko Toga, are equipped with rocket-boosted roller skates by Mysterio, giving them blistering speed that they use to commit rampant assault and robbery. She ditches them while making her escape from Peter.
* ''Fanfic/WingsOfRebellion'': Crow summons wheels on his boots, making rollerblades out of them, when he wants to move around quickly through Mementos and the Monamobile is unavailable.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* [=GoGo=] from ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' uses these like an Olympic athlete.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', Ginormica uses cars as roller skates to escape from the alien robot. Later she uses the same trick with hoverboards. And in the video game her car-skating becomes the whole shtick of her levels.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'', Cappy 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory'' has a scene in which Rex uses a pickup truck as a skateboard to escape the police. He also grinds down the wire of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The climax of ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'' has Harley Quinn fighting [[BigBad Roman]]'s men on roller skates. She ditches the skates before confronting Roman on the pier.
* One of the first action set pieces from ''Film/CoolieKiller'' has 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 Triplets from ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', being roller-hockey themed mooks.
* The titular kids in ''Film/{{Hackers}}'' get around on blades, and the Plague uses a skateboard.
* In ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'', Gadget's shoes can inexplicably turn into rollerblades with tiny gas-powered motors attached. ''Film/InspectorGadget2'' ditches this for an even more implausible scooter, which comes out of Gadget's shoe.
* Subverted in ''Series/{{Jackass}}: TheMovie'', which has them trying rocket-skates which sent the guy flat on his ass after a couple feet, showing that the rocket powered skates aren't quite TruthInTelevision yet.
* ''Film/ThePostmanFightsBack'' has a fight scene on a frozen lake where the heroes are ambushed by a number of bandits on ice skates.
* In the wake of the rollerblade fad, the Creator/CoreyHaim vehicle ''Film/PrayerOfTheRollerboys'' 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}}'' centers on a BloodSport featuring both skaters and people on motorcycles.
* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} 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}}''.
* ''Film/SplittingHeirs'': Henry is first seen on rollerblades and will be seen with them once in a while throughout the movie.
* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'':
** In ''Film/Transformers2007'', 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.
** In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', Sideswipe literally has wheels for feet. [[CharacterCatchphrase Damn]], he's good...
* ''Film/TheWarriors'': The leader of the Punks who 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.
* ''Film/WhipIt'' is about a misfit who discovers that she has a hidden talent when she joins a UsefulNotes/RollerDerby league.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/AdrianMole'': Inverted with Adrian in ''Growing Pains'', when Nigel sets him up on a roller skating blind date with Sharon Botts. Despite practising with his skates as much as he can beforehand, he is not good at skating at all, unlike Sharon, who whizzes around and does the splits. Needless to say, the date is not a success.
* One of the main characters of ''Blackfish City'' by Sam J. Miller 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.
* ''Literature/InCryptid'': Antimony is a [[UsefulNotes/RollerDerby derby girl]], so it's natural she's good with skates. They're one of the only things she takes with her when she's on the run from the [[KnightTemplar Covenant]].
* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Claire's movement is frequently described as skating, though she actually wears ground-repelling shoe inserts.
* In ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', the [[PoweredArmor Marauder suits]] can glide on wheels in the feet. However, most of the MI prefer not to use them because of the rocky terrain they usually have to cross.
* Subverted in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' when 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''.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AceLightning'': Random Virus is a {{Cyborg}} whose legs have been replaced with large black caterpillar tracks one might see on tanks. This gives Random [[MightyGlacier the least amount of mobility among the three Lightning Knights]].
* {{Discussed|Trope}} in one ''Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann'' "[[TakeThat Worst Person in the World]]" segment. The "worser" person comments on China's Olympic Torch woes and suggests getting faster runners, while [[DeadpanSnarker Keith]] suggests giving them rocket-powered roller Skates [[RuleOfCool because that would be even better]].
* Father Dougal Mcguire from ''Series/FatherTed'' has to give up rollerblading as a vice for Lent in one episode.
* ''Series/MrBean'': A Comic Relief special episode "Torvill and Bean" has Mr Bean in the audience of Torvill and Dean on ice skates. When he finds he is sitting on the wrong side of the arena, he takes a short cut across the ice, in his regular shoes. When he discovers he has left his programme on the other side, he hangs on to a line of skaters, and swipes the programme as he passes. Later, he steals Dean's skates, and surprises Torvill by turning up in Dean's place, performing all kinds of improbable stunts.
* One episode of ''Series/MythBusters'' has 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'' has rollerblades.
* ''Rollergames'' was a 1989 television series that tried to turn the sports of roller derby into a theatrical show. It only lasted one season, but it had several tie-in products, including a {{Pinball}} table from Creator/WilliamsElectronics and an arcade game and an NES game, both developed by {{Creator/Konami}}.
* In ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueForce'', the late-series HumongousMecha Rescue Max is made from the parts of two large rescue vehicles, and thus even with "legs", it's inevitable that it's going to have to skate around on wheels. The rockets only come out when it's time for the FinishingMove.
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[[folder:Music]]
* The unnamed girl who's the focus of the music video of the Music/DireStraits song ''Skateaway''.
* The music video for Music/{{Halestorm}}'s ''It's Not You'' features two flat track UsefulNotes/RollerDerby teams, with Lzzy occasionally also skating.
* Music/SpiceGirls: In their live shows in 1998, there was a sequence involving Geri on roller skates; this only lasted until she left the band the same year, with the other girls reportedly glad this sequence was no longer there. Geri also wrote in her autobiography that the manager of a luxury hotel had to deal with complaints when she and Mel B rollerbladed through the corridors: girls will be girls.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' has rules for adding treads to the feet of mechs. There are only a few canon designs who sport them, all construction vehicles (with one that's fully armed and armored for combat, it's classified as construction equipment as a form of LoopholeAbuse), but it provides a few useful effects, primarily reduced penalties for damage to the legs as long as the treads are intact and the ability to drive across rough terrain without the risk of falling over. They're just too heavy and impractical for use outside of specialized designs, which is why they're not seen on more machines.
* In the ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' sourcebook ''Cyberscape'', you can get retractable roller blades as a cybernetic implant, allowing you to improve your move speed quite a bit.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Gorkamorka}}'' has the unofficial [=BladerZ=] mob from the fan-driven ''Gubbinz'' magazine that consists 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 mean that they're 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 caterpillar treads built into their feet in place of wheels, but they work just the same.
* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' has rocket-powered rollerblades that can run up walls... and along ceilings... and reach 200 MPH in 20 feet. Failing the rather difficult athletics rolls with them spells painful disaster.
* One of the cyberbits you can put on in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' (at least its third edition) is, basically, in-line Gadget skates.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': Onua Nuva can use his [[ChainsawGood Quake Breakers]] as all-terrain treads. Umbra also wears rollerblades that let him move at the speed of light.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Daisy in ''VideoGame/AgentsOfMayhem'' wears skates as part of her uniform, since she's a former roller-derby player. Her special power gives her a sudden boost to speed and durability and causes her to automatically body-check any enemy she skates into.
* Lilica Felchenerow from ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'' sports such a pair and uses them in many of her attacks.
* ''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.
* As a SpiritualSuccessor to the below ''Jet Set Radio'', ''VideoGame/BombRushCyberfunk'' includes rollerblades as an option for characters to get around and do tricks in.
* While most of the characters use some sort of vehicle or just run on foot, Chocobo of ''VideoGame/ChocoboRacing'' is given a pair of rollerblades called the Jet-Blades in order to run the courses, and she's often faster than her competition. (Partially because her Dash special move functions as a Haste spell.)
* The Ridepod gets them as a leg upgrade in ''VideoGame/DarkChronicle''. They improve overall speed and mobility while using it, making them an important invention early into the game.
%%* The Stage 5 boss of ''VideoGame/{{Einhander}}'', Ausf D Durer.
* Grace from ''VideoGame/FightingVipers'' is equipped with a pair of roller blades.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', Enhanced Shock Troopers in the Shinra HQ rollerblade around, which makes landing solid hits on them with melee attacks a real pain in the neck.
* ''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.
* ''[[VideoGame/JetSetRadio Jet Set/Grind Radio]]'' has all the playable characters in skates. Including the unlockable characters of the last boss, the last boss' human form, and the ''heroes' dog''.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': Kula Diamond usually doesn't show it but she can create blades of ice under her boots in her "run" animation. Some of her kick attacks also use it.
* One of the new characters added in ''VideoGame/LethalLeague Blaze'' is Jet, who true to her [[VideoGame/JetSetRadio inspiration]] wears a pair of skates in battle.
* Cube from ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' is a robot with roller skates as its feet.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan'':
** 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.
** In the second ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' 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 Hikari from ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' loves rollerblading so much that he even rollerblades indoors. He can switch between walking or skating.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** 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.
** Also in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}'' is Solidus, who wears ''rocket skates'' to fight Raiden ''[[RuleOfCool while dual-wielding katanas and attacking with electrified robotic tentacles]]''.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' introduces the GRAD, a WalkingTank with wheels mounted under its feet to allow for greater mobility and a spinning kick attack.
* A variant in ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Lucio wears a pair of glowing blades that let him wall-run.
* ''VideoGame/Persona4 [[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'': In lieu of the motorbikes that the rest of the team (except Kanji, who uses a bicycle) uses for transportation, Teddie uses a pair of roller skates. For his Cavalry Attack, he pirouettes skates-first onto an enemy, then jumps off and poses.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' feature rollerblades as a form of transportation for the player and has Gym Leader, Korrina, being a big user of them. They're much faster than the Running Shoes (which you now start the game with) and since they're controlled with the Circle Pad, they also let you break free of the InvisibleGrid for the first time in a main-series ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' game.
* [[MagicalGirl Clara]] from ''VideoGame/PowerInstinct'' has the ability to turn into an age-progressed version of herself decked out in an odd, {{Stripperiffic}} costume and rollerblades. One of the games makes this special form of hers a dedicated, selectable character.
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/RapidReload'' is an expert on rollerblades, with one notable level having him pursuing mooks in a MinecartMadness level while on skates.
* In ''VideoGame/RhythmThiefAndTheEmperorsTreasure'', when Raphael/Phantom R is escaping from Louvre, he is chased by the police force's "famed Paris Rollerskate Brigade".
* Wumela from the ''VideoGame/{{Richman}}'' series wears roller skates in ''6'' and its expansion.
* The game ''Roller Champions'' is about a sport that seems to be a mix of inline speed skating and the basketball-like Aztec sport known as [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame ollamaliztli]].
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', the Decker specialists are gothic school girls with TronLines and roller skates that allow them to almost FlashStep around the battlefield.
* ''VideoGame/SkylandersSwapForce'' 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]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'''s [[Myth/ChineseMythology Ne Zha]] skates around on his chakrams.
* ''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.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', the Titan fought on Chaos Island, KNIGHT, has four legs with wheel-like structures, letting it zoom around and run circles in its arena.
* ''VideoGame/SteelBattalion: Line of Contact'' changed 5th gear into a wheel mode. Fast and smooth on level terrain, but worse for climbing and much harder on the balancer during turns, increasing the likelihood of the VT tipping over if the pilot isn't careful.
* Two characters in the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' franchise wear rollerskates.
** Yang from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'', is often seen wearing a pair, usually in cut-scenes, but never in actual combat.
** Area, a MadScientist girl introduced in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX 2 Plus'', wears a pair in battle along with a big gauntlet (actually an invention of her father).
%%* Sammy "Skate" Hunter, Adam's kid brother from ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage 2''.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'' has Rolla Koopas, a variant of Koopa Troopas that wear these and can move faster and jump across pits. Wiggler in this game also wears some pairs of these.
* Ratsel Feinschmecker's Aussenseiter of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' is a HumongousMecha with large wheels attached to its feet that allow it to skate along the ground to make fast attacks.
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'', in which 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'.
* Neon Katt from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fights while wearing a pair of rollerblades. [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard This ends up being her downfall]] when she trips over some rubble.
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* Carla in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' is ''always'' on roller skates, although she ''eventually'' accepted that the rules against skating in the hallways actually applied to her.
* Thog from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has his beloved rocket skates.
* ''Webcomic/TheRockCocks'': Emily Roller never takes her skates off.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster'': Three of the best fighters within the robot cast, the Street BOYZZ duo and [[CyberNinja Ninjzz]], move around on retractable roller skates built into their feet.
* 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.
* Rhodey makes fun of Tony for the idea of putting roller blades on the Iron Man suit in ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures''. Later in the season, he does just that.
* WesternAnimation/KimPossible travels on rocket skates often enough.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', Alix Kubdel and her supervillain self Timebreaker use roller skates. As Alix, they are normal 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur2023'': One of Lunella's primary forms of movement, in and out of her superhero costume. Since her family owns a rollerskating ring in this iteration, she incorporates her skills fighting off FacelessMooks, monsters, and tech-based villains on a pair of roller skates.
* One of the toys that Boris bought out with his enormous supply of counterfeit box tops in the Box Top Badman arc of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' was atomic roller skates.
* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': Gear invents rocket skates that can fly.
* Maxwell from ''WesternAnimation/StoneProtectors'' got these as a ''superpower'', along with being able to climb. Out of the FiveManBand he really got [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway heart-level]] powers.
* Streex of ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'' is a tiger shark with roller blades.
* Red Riding Hood/Wonder Red from ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'' wears rollerskates both normally and transformed, but they become much faster rollerblades when transformed.
* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
** 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.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** 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]].
** 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 pull this trick once; Bumblebee uses his skates a lot more, given that he's the FragileSpeedster.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wayside}}'' character Maurecia's entire personality is this.
* ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'': Wile E. Coyote uses rocket skates in his very first appearance. Needless to say, it does not end well.
* ''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.
* [[TotallyRadical Spyke]] from ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' was never far from his skateboard until he was RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.
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* UsefulNotes/RollerDerby. However, the FragileSpeedster bit is usually hugely, hugely averted (jammers and pivots tend to be {{Lightning Bruiser}}s, with blockers being a mix of Lightning Bruisers and {{Mighty Glacier}}s). All modern roller derby rule 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 UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}n fighter shows us what [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52x9zn79ovE a drive by on rollerblades]] would look like.
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