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* In the first scene of ''Film/TheOne'', Creator/JetLi's [[ActingForTwo evil character]] ends up doing a short version of this while dodging bullets. It helps that he's god superhuman strength, speed, and agility.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Ulrich sometimes also run up vertical surfaces with his [[SuperSpeed Super Sprint]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': While trying to avoid the heroes, [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Peridot]] jogs up a vertical surface. Like most Gem powers, it's revealed with surprisingly little fanfare- and it isn't even a successful getaway.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': On Lyoko, Ulrich sometimes also run up vertical surfaces with his [[SuperSpeed Super Sprint]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': While trying to avoid the heroes, [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Peridot]] jogs up a vertical surface. Like most Gem powers, it's revealed with surprisingly little fanfare- and it isn't even a successfulgetaway. getaway.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In the SuperheroEpisode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies "Power Ponies"]], Pinkie Pie as Fili-second can run on the side of buildings just as fast as on the ground.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In the SuperheroEpisode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies "Power Ponies"]], Pinkie Pie as Fili-second can run on the side of buildings just as fast as on the ground.
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** These purple incline blocks appear in [[https://youtu.be/V3f5EYbANC0 e-reader exclusive level]] of ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' except now they can be used to have Mario '''run on ceilings!'''
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* Many birds are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owf2iEwV-gk capable of doing this]] by flapping their wings to increase traction as they run, even while they are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rjin-tjOxU too young to fly]]. It has been suggested that this behavior was also [[http://qilong.deviantart.com/art/Evolution-of-the-Wing-WAIR-414685961 present]] in other feathered dinosaurs.
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* Many birds are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owf2iEwV-gk capable of doing this]] by flapping their wings to increase traction as they run, even while they are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rjin-tjOxU too young to fly]]. It has been suggested that this behavior was also [[http://qilong.deviantart.com/art/Evolution-of-the-Wing-WAIR-414685961 present]] in other feathered dinosaurs.
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* Near the end of ''RE: Anime/CuteyHoney'', Honey displays this ability by running down a vertical wall with Natsuko in her arms after the latter [[IntimateHealing resuscitates her]]. "These boots can run anywhere!"
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'', Subaru's Device allows her to [[RollerbladeGood rollerblade]] on walls by activating the Absorb Grip spell.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma can run up vertical things like powerline poles or horizontally on walls.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'', Subaru's Device allows her to [[RollerbladeGood rollerblade]] on walls by activating the Absorb Grip spell.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'' (2009): Astro sprints up a skyscraper while trying to avoid capture, using momentum from his flight.
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* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Sonic himself, and pretty much every other character as well, can run on walls in any direction indefinitely, provided they keep going fast enough. At least, [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=ze582VGaAkY that's the theory...]] And provided the floor leading up to the wall is a ramp of increasing incline. Fortunately, in Sonic's world [[BenevolentArchitecture it frequently is]]. Sonic is capable of doing this when there is water falling down the wall.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', in a section of the destroyed future's volcano (Magma Core), there is a wall dash section that leads to a ceiling area you can run across. If you stop during the ceiling section, you'll find that it is rather tricky to ''get off'' of it.
** ''3D Sonic'' games have included designated jump points -- portions of background Sonic can latch onto via momentum, then jump off to the next. In ''Sonic Adventure'' these places were specially marked; while most of them are obvious in ''Sonic 2006'' because of level architecture cues, some of them end up being total surprises.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'': Alex Mercer can do it as well. While simply running up or along walls is pretty good, stopping will make him fall... unless the "use" key is pressed while facing the wall which makes him latch on and climb, Spider-Man-style. He can't traverse ceilings, though.
** Sonic himself, and pretty much every other character as well, can run on walls in any direction indefinitely, provided they keep going fast enough. At least, [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=ze582VGaAkY that's the theory...]] And provided the floor leading up to the wall is a ramp of increasing incline. Fortunately, in Sonic's world [[BenevolentArchitecture it frequently is]]. Sonic is capable of doing this when there is water falling down the wall.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', in a section of the destroyed future's volcano (Magma Core), there is a wall dash section that leads to a ceiling area you can run across. If you stop during the ceiling section, you'll find that it is rather tricky to ''get off'' of it.
** ''3D Sonic'' games have included designated jump points -- portions of background Sonic can latch onto via momentum, then jump off to the next. In ''Sonic Adventure'' these places were specially marked; while most of them are obvious in ''Sonic 2006'' because of level architecture cues, some of them end up being total surprises.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'': Alex Mercer can do it as well. While simply running up or along walls is pretty good, stopping will make him fall... unless the "use" key is pressed while facing the wall which makes him latch on and climb, Spider-Man-style. He can't traverse ceilings, though.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Ulrich sometimes also run up vertical surfaces with his [[SuperSpeed Super Sprint]].
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* In the opening sequence in ''Film/TheMatrix'', Trinity evades a cop as he's shooting at her by running up and then along a wall of the room they're in before taking the fight to him. Since this happens inside the Matrix, it's justified as Trinity being a redpill.
** The third movie tops this with the Club Hel fight scene, with {{Mook}}s doing CombatParkour ''on the ceiling, upside down'' (justified as them being AI programs living in the Matrix, so TheComputerIsACheatingBastard is in effect here). And it is [[HolyShitQuotient utterly fucking awesome]]. Said scene also has Trinity repeating her aforementioned maneuver to get the drop on her target.
* In the opening sequence in ''Film/TheMatrix'', Trinity evades a cop as he's shooting at her by running up and then along a wall of the room they're in before taking the fight to him. Since this happens inside the Matrix, it's justified as Trinity being a redpill.
** The third movie tops this with the Club Hel fight scene, with {{Mook}}s doing CombatParkour ''on the ceiling, upside down'' (justified as them being AI programs living in the Matrix, so TheComputerIsACheatingBastard is in effect here). And it is [[HolyShitQuotient utterly fucking awesome]]. Said scene also has Trinity repeating her aforementioned maneuver to get the drop on her target.
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* As in the comics, the 2014 version of ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'' has Barry do that in "Plastique" to rescue a man falling from a maintenance gondola. Bonus points for asking Cisco how fast he needs to run for this to work. Being in a bar, Cisco does his calculations on a napkin (while being drunk) with Barry even providing the height in meters for easier calculations. However, Caitlin just tells him to move very fast before Cisco can finish his calculations (despite the fact that this is Cisco's area of expertise) and maintain the speed on the way down to avoid the "splat". It works, and Barry even outruns the falling gondola on the way down.
* As in the comics, the 2014 version of ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'' has Barry do that in "Plastique" to rescue a man falling from a maintenance gondola. Bonus points for asking Cisco how fast he needs to run for this to work. Being in a bar, Cisco does his calculations on a napkin (while being drunk) with Barry even providing the height in meters for easier calculations. However, Caitlin just tells him to move very fast before Cisco can finish his calculations (despite the fact that this is Cisco's area of expertise) and maintain the speed on the way down to avoid the "splat". It works, and Barry even outruns the falling gondola on the way down.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The 3.5th edition ''Expanded Psionic Handbook'' has a psionic feat which precisely allow this: "Up the Wall". If you can't reach an horizontal surface at the end of your movement, though, you fall flat on your back.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The 3.5th edition ''Expanded Psionic Handbook'' has a psionic feat which precisely allow this: "Up the Wall". If you can't reach an horizontal surface at the end of your movement, though, you fall flat on your back.
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* As in the comics, the 2014 version of ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'' has Barry do that in "Plastique" to rescue a man falling from a maintenance gondola. Bonus points for asking Cisco how fast he needs to run for this to work. Being in a bar, Cisco does his calculations on a napkin (while being drunk) with Barry even providing the height in meters for easier calculations. However, Caitlin just tells him to move very fast before Cisco can finish his calculations (despite the fact that this is Cisco's area of expertise) and maintain the speed on the way down to avoid the "splat". It works, and Barry even outruns the falling gondola on the way down.
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* Mario can do this in ''SuperMarioWorld'' if he runs at a purple incline block first.
* Ever since the ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Sands of Time]]'' series, this has been a staple of the VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia, both vertically and horizontally. It's accomplished via LeParkour, so it's less extreme than most examples, but it's still beyond human capabilities.
* ''Everyone'' in DissidiaFinalFantasy can do this.
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Elliot needs to return a cell phone a girl dropped, but there's a crowd in the way, so he runs up the wall of the hallway. He refers to this as "going around them," and [[SelectiveObliviousness sees nothing exceptional about it]].
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* Most GravityScrew levels allow wall-running.
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* In Video Game:TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction, Hulk's leg muscles are strong enough to allow him to run up buildings and mountains.
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* In Video Game:TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction, ''VideoGame/TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction'', Hulk's leg muscles are strong enough to allow him to run up buildings and mountains.
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If you want to climb over a building but cannot fly, you could try several options. If you are a good climber, or a bug, you could WallCrawl up it. If you are agile enough, you could WallJump from wall to wall to slowly but eventually get to the top.
But in this trope, they just run up it! They either have the superhuman strength or speed or ability to simply run up a smooth, flat, vertical surface at high speeds, even if logically they shouldn't be able to.
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* In Manga:RookiePolicewomanKirukoSan, Kiruko is able to do this.
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* TheFlash can run fast enough to run up vertical surfaces.
* {{Spiderman}} can do short bursts of wall-running while webswinging.
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* Most GravityScrew levels allow wall-running.
* In Video Game:TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction, Hulk's leg muscles are strong enough to allow him to run up buildings and mountains.
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But in this trope, they just run up it! They either have the superhuman strength or speed or ability to simply run up a smooth, flat, vertical surface at high speeds, even if logically they shouldn't be able to.
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* In Manga:RookiePolicewomanKirukoSan, Kiruko is able to do this.
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* TheFlash can run fast enough to run up vertical surfaces.
* {{Spiderman}} can do short bursts of wall-running while webswinging.
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* Most GravityScrew levels allow wall-running.
* In Video Game:TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction, Hulk's leg muscles are strong enough to allow him to run up buildings and mountains.
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