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Less about true strategy and more about [[Rule of Cool|looking cool.]] Expect [[Dramatic Wind]] (actually, wind speed increases with altitude, so wind that seems dramatic to those on the ground [[Justified Trope|is *normal* at high altitude]]). In anime and manga this has become a choice dramatic entrance for villains, introduced via a panning away of the camera from a completely every day scene, or the aftermath of a dramatic event, to reveal that they said villain was watching all along, and provide a nice segway for the next part.
This seems to have originated from training techniques that involved standing on bamboo; see, for example, the ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' and ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' examples. This is common in [[Wire Fu]] movies.
When [[Translation Train Wreck|the geography that you stands compares you superior]], you are playing with [[Geo Effects]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Occurs constantly in ''[[Naruto]]'', related to the ninja's ability to channel [[Ki Attacks|chakra]] into their feet. Also used the [[Walk On Water]] combination with logs that balanced on the surface of a lake a pivotal point during the climactic Naruto vs. Sasuke battle.
** Sasuke's first warning that his charming big bro Itachi has gone Ax Crazy is catching a glimpse of him doing this in blacked-out silhouette on a telephone pole, against a rising red moon, with only his crazy eyes visible. Shortly afterwards, Sasuke stumbles on the first of many, many bodies...
* In the original ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' [[OAV|OAVs]], Belldandy watched Keiichi go to work while improbably on top of a thin willowy tree. (However, Belldandy gets a pass because she's both literally and figuratively a Goddess and she can ''fly''.)
** Belldandy and Urd do this a couple of times in the ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' manga too.
* Likewise various characters from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. At one point, Kurama is seen standing on ''the railing of a balcony'' in the manga. Why he just didn't stand on the balcony is a mystery; the anime corrected this, if memory serves.
* And the ''[[Bakuen Campus Guardress]]''.
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== Film ==
* The fight along the tops of the bamboo grove in ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''.
* The ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' scene is spoofed in a second ''[[Asterix]]'' movie.
* In ''Iron Monkey'', the entire epic final battle occurs on top of poles, because {{spoiler|the ground below is covered in burning oil.}}
* Daniel LaRusso in ''[[The Karate Kid]]'' practiced his [[Finishing Move]] on wooden posts.
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