History Main / SteppingStonesInTheSky

%% * ''Anime/SonicX'': Sonic once pulls this off with ''missiles''.

%% ** Every game ''ever''. This ranges from logs in waterfalls to the much more regular falling stepping stones. Other objects include midair springboards to floating enemies that (usually) Sonic must homing attack across.

* The over-the-top Taiwanese martial arts film, ''99 Cycling Swords'' has an utterly ridiculous example. The protagonist pulls off this trick with a flung ''dinner plate''.

* In the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBrothers'' franchise:

* The over-the-top Taiwanese martial arts film, ''99 Cycling Swords'' has an utterly ridiculous example. The protagonist pulls off this trick with a flung ''dinmer plate''.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBroBrawl'':

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* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': at one point during the battle on Titan, Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}} creates discs of magic energy in mid-air for [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Starlord]] to step on as he rushes towards Thanos.

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* Chun Woo in ''Manhwa/TheBreaker'' invoked this trope once, using a falling metal fence and SupernaturalMartialArts to jump to safety.
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[[folder: Mythology]]

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* With the right Schticks, characters in the ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' game can walk on hails of ''bullets''. It's still damn hard, just not impossible.
* In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', Wario is capable of doing this by pulling his bike out of {{Hammerspace}} when in midair then immediately jumping out of it, which still allows him access to his DoubleJump. Doing this actually boosts him higher than his regular recovery move.

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** [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Starscream]] pulls off a variant. Using ''F-22s''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]'', Spike reaches the ice block by jumping off the backs of several flying pegasi.

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* In ''Film/UltramanSaga'', shortly after Nozumu Taiga becomes Ultraman Zero's human host, he gets assaulted and flung into the air by the kaiju Gubila, at which point he proceeds to jump from debris to debris before landing safely on the ground.

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

* ''Anime/SonicX'': Sonic once pulls this off with ''missiles''.

* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', the Hedgehog hero once pulled it off using sand he got out of his shoes to go from falling off a cliff to running to safety.

* Every ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' game ''ever''. This ranges from logs in waterfalls to the much more regular falling stepping stones. Other objects include midair springboards to floating enemies that (usually) Sonic must homing attack across.

** Pyrrha pulls a really ludicrous version in "Extracurricular", taking out her shield in midair and then ''kicking off it''. (This is almost conceivable if she's using her semblance to hold the shield still, but she doesn't seem to be doing that -- and it would be obvious to anyone watching, when as noted later, Pyrrha tries to keep her semblance a secret.)

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* The end of the anime film ''Anime/MindGame'' 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.

* Luke, Mara, and Tahiri perform this during the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series, at a point where they're fighting a Dark Jedi with the language-less mentality of a five year old on a ruined Coruscant. Slightly easier for them as they had the help of the Force, as well as the fact that many of the rocks they were hopping across were building size.

** The third boss of VideoGame/SuperMarioLand attacks Mario by throwing boulders at him, and the only way to get close enough to defeat him is to jump from boulder to boulder (in which the preceding levels have provided ample practice, but with less of the "In The Sky" factor).

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* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': at one point during the battle on Titan, Film/DoctorStrange creates discs of magic energy in mid-air for [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Starlord]] to step on as he rushes towards Thanos.

* In the Archie continuity of ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog, the Hedgehog hero once pulled it off using sand he got out of his shoes to go from falling off a cliff to running to safety.

* Every ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' game ''ever''. This ranges from logs in waterfalls to the much more regular falling stepping stones. Other objects include midair springboards to floating enemies that (usually) Sonic must homing attack across.

Due to Newton's Third Law of Motion, this isn't actually ''impossible,'' but you do need to be [[SuperSpeed moving faster than you're falling]] to actually get anywhere, and whatever you're climbing must have enough mass to be worth pushing against. It becomes much more plausible if their destination is in freefall along with them.

Technically, due to Newton's Third Law of Motion, this isn't actually impossible, it just requires that the rocks have enough mass to be worth pushing against, and that the character [[SuperSpeed can run and jump faster than they are falling]]. It all becomes much more plausible if their destination is in freefall along with them.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', you can do this with fragments of buildings. That ''you cut into pieces yourself''.

* Dante from ''Franchise/DevilMayCry'' has done this a few times in {{cutscene|PowerToTheMax}}s, and can actually do it in-game.

** [[BadassGrandpa Ruel]] does this himself while running from a monster in the first episode of Season 2, although this is for RuleOfFunny as anything else.

Not to be confused with {{Floating Continent}}s. See also ImprovisedPlatform.

* 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://youtu.be/sVFyYqfNSVg?t=3m57s here]].

* ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'' has you doing this in the second-to-last level. It marks a large DifficultySpike [[ThatOneLevel in an already moderately difficult game]], some of the things it asks of you are ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exq_-OjXfIs absurd]]''.