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{{quote|''I can jump roof-to-roof and get my friends free cable! It's badass.''|'''''[[Sifl and Olly]]''''', "Ninja of the Night"}}
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* [[Lupin III|Lupin the Third]] and Jigen escaping the bad guys who attack their room at the inn in ''[[The Castle of Cagliostro|The Castleof Cagliostro]]''
** And Lupin for pretty much the rest of the movie.
* The few creatures who can't fly in ''[[Blood Plus|Blood+]]''
* ''Shinigami'' who have mastered flash steps roof hop in place of [[Flight]] in ''[[Bleach]]''
* Most everyone with any power in ''[[Kekkaishi]]'' can do this. The Kekkaishi themselves, however, go Kekkai-hopping (leaping on magic airborne boxes).
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** Impmon's shown to travel this way a few times as well. Usually with Calumon following him.
* Kei Kurono enjoys a bit of Sky Scraper hopping in ''[[Gantz]]''.
* [[Ah! My Goddess|Belldandy]]
* Given the size of [[Elaborate University High|Mahora Academy]], this is standard for the magically-informed in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Since a mages are obligated to keep the [[Masquerade]], an explanation about a spell in place to prevent the [[Muggle
* Panther does this recreationally and for exercise in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. Yes, the football manga.
** To be fair, the racist coach wouldn't let him train with the rest of the team and Panther isn't too well off, hopping off the roof of apartment buildings was just convenient.
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* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' has the two mask duelists who constantly jump across buildings.
* Almost any nimble martial artists in [[The Breaker]] can do this.
* [[Noblesse
* Bulga in ''[[Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo|Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'' once hops between telephone poles. Otherwise, the girls usually to fly.
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* In the film of ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'', this is Hellboy's preferred method of tracking what Liz Sherman and John Myers are doing on their 'going out for coffee' walk. Here Del Toro shows the risky chance of encountering civilians on rooftops - milk-and-cookie-distributing-civilians, but still. Hellboy, even with his superman abilities, still nearly misses one of the jumps.
* A live-action version can be seen in ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''.
* ''[[The Matrix]]'' had a [[Chase Scene]] that involved Agents
** There's also the infamous "Whoa" scene, where Morpheus shows Neo how to do it. Neo fails the first time.
* Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' has roof-''pole-vaulting.''
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* ''[[The Bourne Series|The Bourne Ultimatum]]'': One of the most impressive sequences, where the near superhuman Jason Bourne was leaping from rooftops to catch up to his ally Nicky and protect her from an assassin. Made believable in that it took place in Tangier, where the buildings are very crowded, and the fact that Nicky tries the same thing and barely makes it herself. (The only question is how Bourne and the assassin were able to follow her in the near labyrinth-like buildings)
* ''[[Vertigo]]'': Subverted. The main character tries going rooftop hopping to catch a criminal... but his policeman colleague falls to his death, causing the protagonist to develop the titular vertigo.
** [[Monk|Adrian Monk's]] many phobias include vertigo, of course, and the scene in the pilot where Monk grips a ladder a few steps off the ground, unable to go
* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' movie introduces Hyde in this way, in Paris.
* ''[[Batman]]'' does this in his [[Cool Car]] in ''[[Dark Knight Trilogy|Batman Begins]]''. It's quite amusing listening to a pursuing cop trying to explain that the mystery car they are chasing is on the roofs.
** He also attempts it on foot, before developing his Batman persona. He learns it's not easy at all. Ouch!
* ''[[Catwoman (film)|Catwoman]]'' used this trope, but with [[Special Effect Failure|noticeably unnatural movement
* ''[[30 Days of Night|Thirty Days of Night]]'''s vampires are also big fans, though they mainly do it in the background of shots.
* ''[[Casino Royale]]'' uses this in the opening scenes, with [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] performing jumps that would have resulted in agony and likely broken legs for anyone else.
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