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* Near the end of one episode of the short-lived ''SpiderManUnlimited'' series, Spidey easily executes this to escape a CollapsingLair, with Venom and Carnage right behind.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', during the duel of Sora vs. Kurosaki, [[spoiler:the former of the two]] does this to avoid being crushed by a collapsing building, which, judging by some of the in-universe audience's reactions, demonstrates an agility and physic ability that's huge even by Action-Duel standards. This also serves one of many hints to the fact that [[spoiler:[[LetsGetDangerous Sora really isn't]] [[SanitySlippage playing casually anymore]] ]].

* ''[[VideoGame/GuardianHeroes Advance Guardian Heroes]] has you jumping between pieces of falling debris from a destroyed airship during the boss battle against Kanon.

* ''[[VideoGame/GuardianHeroes Advance Guardian Heroes]] has you jumping between pieces of falling debris from a destroyed airship during the boss battle against Kanon.

* Happens in two episodes of ''{{Sym-Bionic Titan}}''. First in "Roar of the White Dragon" which Lance does with a ''car''. Lance again in "Escape from Galaluna" when the bridge he and his opponent are on blows up.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang do this when the [[GiantFlyer Nevermore]] smashes the temple they were in.

* Jiyu and Freeshia from ''{{Jubei-Chan}}'' spend a portion of their final title bout duking it out on top of a falling redwood which, for bonus points, they'd just sent flying in the first place.

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* Beautifully parodied in the movie ''KungFuHustle'': during the final battle, in order to gain enough height to execute his FinishingMove, the hero uses a ''bird in flight'' as a stepping stone.

* The end of the anime film ''Mind Game'' has the main characters escaping their prison in the stomach of a giant blue whale by running up the water pouring in when it surfaces. Then they run up planes, subway trains, boats, and a large amount of other things being swallowed by the whale with enough power to launch them far into the sky. Earlier the main character outruns God.
* ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': Flint performs a version of this during the [[spoiler:spaghetti twister]].

* ''[[{{Film/Spider-ManTrilogy}} Spider-Man 3]]'': Spidey performs an inversion of this trope: he uses falling rubble to go ''down'' faster.
* In ''FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'', Nanaki, Yuffie, Vincent, and Tifa leap into the air and ''throw'' Cloud further upwards. It happens again in the final showdown between Cloud and Sephiroth, where part of the fight literally takes place on, in, and through falling rubble from a destroyed building.

* Done by [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Tigger and Roo]] at the climax of ''TheTiggerMovie''. Justified in that they're ''really'' quick jumpers by nature.

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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080704 This]] is how Agatha starts to show her bona fides to [[MalevolentArchitecture Der Kestle]].

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* ''RedVsBlue'': Tex. Wash. The Meta. Falling and cracking ice shelf. It is ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]]''.
** It still takes a whole minute of it to stop their ongoing gunfight.

* Sort of used in an episode of ''SpongebobSquarepants'', Spongebob and Sandy are chased by, and eventually end up riding, a huge Alaskan Bull Worm. It heads toward a cliff and after it begins to plunge off the side, they run back up the falling worm and end up safe and sound on the cliff's edge.

* The last chapter of ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' features [[spoiler:''Stepping Galaxies In Outer Space!'']]
* In ''{{InuYasha}}'', the character Koga, whose speed and agility are enhanced by magical jewel shards in both his legs, demonstrates the ability to run up rockslides, even while carrying another character. The title character sometimes does so, too, though it usually takes the only slightly more plausible form of leaping from one large, plummeting boulder to another.

* The title character of ''{{Naruto}}'' eventually discovers he can gain some level of aerial maneuverability by [[DopplegangerAttack making a Shadow Clone]] in midair then either kicking/shoving off of it or [[FastballSpecial having it throw him]].

* In the ''SengokuBasara 3'' manga, Ishida Mitsunari takes this to the extreme by slashing a group of soldiers into the air with his sword and using ''them'' as stepping stones to reach a second story balcony!
* Ranma Saotome from ''RanmaOneHalf'' bounced around the falling debris of a collapsing mountain to save Herb after knocking him out in the first place. Much earlier, and arguably even less reasonably, he swam up the spray of a fire hose during his fight with Kodachi.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', to rescue Kuroko, Mikoto blows a hole in a building with her Railgun attack, then Touma runs and leaps along the flying debris from the attack to grab Kuroko. Kuroko was on ''the third floor''.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Raiden does this to [[UpToEleven MISSILES BEING FIRED AT HIM!!!]] during the TUTORIAL LEVEL, WITHOUT a [[PressXToNotDie quicktime event]]. View it in all it's awesome [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFyYqfNSVg here]].

* In the ''AeonFlux'' short "War", the sword-wielding fighter climbs by jumping off a series of enemy soldiers rappelling down from an aircraft.

* ''[[SlyCooper Sly 2]]''; Sly races down the large chunks of Arpeggio's airship platform as it crashes and breaks apart, in an effort to reach and save his teammates.
* ''[[SuperMarioBros Super Mario Land]]''

* Justified in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' where the homunculus Wrath used his EvilEye to know how to escape a train going off destroyed tracks by running up the rubble the blast created.

* A boss fight in ''TheForceUnleashed'''s Jedi Temple downloadable level has [[VillainProtagonist Starkiller]] invoke this trope to gain higher ground. [[JustifyingEdit Of course, there's how he can use TheForce, and all.]]

* In ''KingdomHearts 2'', you can do this with fragments of buildings. That ''you cut into pieces yourself''.

* Asura in ''AsurasWrath'' does this to jump above the second form of [[SmugSnake Wyzen]] and continue to attack from above when sky diving.
* In ''SuperMarioGalaxy'', we have the staircase at the end of each Bowser level leading to the planet which Mario fights [[BigBad Bowser]] on, which gets smashed apart by meteorites summoned by Bowser (and in the case of the final boss battle, [[OverlordJr his son Bowser Jr.)]] as he does so.

* ''MahouSenseiNegima''; Ku-Fei found herself doing this when she ''accidentally shattered the rock spire she was standing on'' while training her martial arts in the Magic World. An inversion, since she did it to get ''down'' and away safely. Also a use of FlashStep, rather than [[JumpPhysics superhuman leaping]].

* [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma Saotome]] bounced around the falling debris of a collapsing mountain to save Herb after knocking him out in the first place. Much earlier, and arguably even less reasonably, he swam up the spray of a fire hose during his fight with Kodachi.

* Halo4 gets in on the action when Master Chief jumps onto a [[CoolStarship Lich]] to get near a fleeing capital ship.
* Raiden does this to [[UpToEleven MISSILES BEING FIRED AT HIM!!!]] during the TUTORIAL LEVEL of VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance, WITHOUT a [[PressXToNotDie quicktime event]]. View it in all it's awesome [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFyYqfNSVg here]].

* ''{{Bayonetta}}'': The protagonist does this a few times with her ability to freeze time.

* Done by [[WinnieThePooh Tigger and Roo]] at the climax of ''The Tigger Movie''. Justified in that they're ''really'' quick jumpers by nature.

* Tai Lung's prison break in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' involved clawing his way out of a bottomless pit by leaping from bit to bit of the falling debris that would have crushed him. Po does it later in the film with some broken off roof tiles.