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{{quote|''"Right smack dab in the middle of town''<br />
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* ''[[Bleach]]'': Ichigo and his schoolmates are frequently seen on the school roof, whether eating lunch or just being dramatic.
** Some of the shinigami are very fond of doing this, especially Aizen (pre-villain reveal), Hinamori, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi and Ikkaku.
* The school roof is used a lot in ''[[Kamichu!]]''. Yurie and her friends go on the roof to learn what powers Yurie has, Kenji conducts club meetings on the roof, and Yurie later goes on the roof to sob in peace.
* Several of the girls go on the roof in ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'' to eat their lunch. Once,when they were up there, three fell {{spoiler|asleep.}}
* Variant: In ''[[Hand Maid May]]'', the ladder between their apartments serves as the private place for Kazuya Saotome and Kasumi Tani. But since it becomes practically an expressway in the anime, they head for the traditional roof escape later.
* The end of Minagi's arc in ''[[AIR (Visual Novel)|AIR]]''.
* Kyo in ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' spends a lot of time sulking on the roof of both Shigure's house and the school. Most times he does this, it's so that [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Tohru]] can follow him and give him a pep talk.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'': Judai spends a good deal of time on the roof of Duel Academia talking to monster spirits.
** Yugi from the first show has done this as well. [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series|LittleKuriboh]] even based a joke around this; he's been locked up there again.
* The launching point for ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'', which starts off in a typical anime high school setting and leaves it more or less permanently after the opening scenes. Youka Nakajima and the Kirin Keikei meet in a classroom and head for the roof, not for the usual reasons, but because they are under attack by monsters powerful enough to kill every student and teacher in the building. Two other students, Asano and Yuka, are on the roof for a more typical social rendezvous and are swept up in the adventure.
* In ''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]'', Sekai, Makoto and Katsura often eat lunch on the roof. In the ending, {{spoiler|Kotonoha lures Sekai to the roof with an email from Makoto's cell phone and kills her}}.
* In ''[[Otomen]]'', Ryo, Asuka and Juta eat lunch on the roof so that other students won't know about Asuka's amazing bento making skills.
* Setsuna from ''[[Shattered Angels]]'' likes to use the roof as a vantage point to observe, and for looking cool.
* Shana from ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' does this after her first day in Yuji's world, waiting for Friagne to return so that she can fight him again.
* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', Miyako does it on the Hidamari Apartments' roof, usually with [[Stray Cats]]. Yuno, on the other hand, does this on the roof of Yamabuki High School, but for a different reason...
* Train from ''[[Black Cat (Mangamanga)|Black Cat]]'' did this a lot, especially in the anime. Probably to try to show his similarities to cats.
* In ''Monochrome Factor'' it's Akira and Kengo's favorite spot for avoiding classes and discussing the current situation.
* In ''[[Tactics]]'' Haruka frequently broods on the roof; it helps that he's a tengu and therefore can simply fly up there.
* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. Triela is seen doing this while moping over her defeat by Pinochio.
* Played for laughs in ''[[The Day of Revolution]]'': Nakagawa insists on taking Megumi hostage in order to gain sole possession of the roof (and the implied [[Big Man Onon Campus]] status that comes with it) even though her [[Nakama]] are perfectly willing to share. Ironically enough when Makoto goes to the roof to report the kidnapping no one is actually there.
* Done for the wrong reasons in ''[[Digimon Savers]]'', as Masaru moves Agumon up onto the roof in order to keep his mom from discovering him after Agumon tumbles out of his closet.
* In [[Special A]], Kei retreats to the roof of Hikari's house when dealing with a crazy and ill Hikari was unbearable.
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* Mutsumi Saburo of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' is commonly shown hanging out on the rooftop; it's also a favored hangout for ninjas Dororo and Koyuki.
* The eponymous Niea from ''~Niea_7~'' does this a lot, often while listening to [[Crowning Music of Awesome|her blues records]]. Mayuko also does this frequently, mostly while discussing things with her best friend Chiaki.
* A key ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' scene has Light finding a distracted, uncharacteristically chatty L brooding on the roof of the headquarters building.
* In ''[[Kekkaishi]]'', the main character often goes to the roof during lunchtime to contemplate the latest problem to crop up, often with another character beside him to comment.
** He also goes up there to get his [[Triple Shifter|much-needed]] sleep, cutting class (he puts a shikigami in his place) in the process.
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** In ''Rebuild of Evangelion'', he meets Mari there for the first time. Apparently, Mari thought that parachuting onto a school's roof is a good way to hide her arrival into Japan. She obviously didn't count on [[Crash Into Hello|someone else being right where she lands]].
*** In the English dub she mentions not landing in the right location?
* [[Official Couple|Noelle and Yuusuke]] and [[Beta Couple|Mikael and Raphael]] from ''[[Tenshi Nini Narumon]]'' are very fond of spending their time together on the roof. {{spoiler|Mikael is even implied to sleep on the church's roof during the first season}}.
* A rather large amount of Sonic X episodes have Sonic doing this.
* [[Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha]] and her school friends sometimes eat on the roof, and at the end of [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As|As]], she, Fate and Hayate head up to the roof and activate their Devices as they head out on a mission.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Obviously, [[Spider -Man]]. And [[Batman]]. Superman also had a variant of this in ''Superman Returns'' where he merely floated above the Earth.
* Hyperion, the Superman analog from ''[[Supreme Power]]'', goes into space on a few occasions, partially to get his thoughts in order, partially to {{spoiler|indulge in early fantasies of absolute power.}}
 
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Fast and Thethe Furious]]: Tokyo Drift'', one of the [[Yakuza]] guys pulls in the school's rooftop a dramatic fight against the Black guy who sold him a defective iPod, luring an entire mob of students up there.
* Will Stronghold and Layla from ''[[Sky High]]'' sit on the roof for a talk.
* Two out of three ''[[High School Musical]]'' movies have Troy and Gabriella getting some alone time on the roof, even singing up there in the third movie and [[The Musical]].
* [[Van Wilder]] hangs around on the roof, not least for when he's [[Big Man Onon Campus|being naked to distract jumpers]].
* ''[[Backdraft]]''. Kurt Russell shows up at his ex-wife's house and starts fixing her roof for no apparent reason. "The Great Communicator," she quips dryly.
* We get one of these in ''[[The Wizard (Film)|The Wizard]]''.
* Used in ''[[Arizona Dream]]''.
* In ''[[Chicken Run (Animation)|Chicken Run]]'', Ginger goes up to the roof of her hut frequently to look out at the hills beyond the fence and imagine what it might be like to live there. Later on, she runs into Rocky there. "I'm sorry, is this your roof?"
* Numerous scenes in ''[[The Room]]'' feature the boys relaxing on the roof of the apartment building. Of course, they also play football and apprehend a drug dealer up there.
 
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* A Westernized version in ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,'' Francie reads on the fire escape every Saturday afternoon, when weather permits. Since they live on the top floor of their third home, they also have dibs on the roof.
* Spider Robinson is fond of this trope, and in his ''Callahan Series'' the bar having rooftop access is common.
* In the first graphic novel published in the ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' series, there's a scene where Graystripe and Millie have a heart-to-heart conversation on a random roof. It kind of makes sense because they're cats. This image was even colored and used in promotional materials.
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Tskushi and Rui sit on the fire escape in ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]''.
* A couple of episodes of ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' use this.
* Max of ''[[Dark Angel]]'' liked to sit on top of the Space Needle.
* Harry in ''[[3rd Rock Fromfrom the Sun]]''. Later, make that the whole team. Before long, it became a [[Once an Episode]], where the aliens discussed what they learned, usually putting some comic spin on it. Of course, just because this is how every episode ends, it didn't prevent the characters spending time on the roof throughout the episode either.
* Makoto eats her lunch on the roof in ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]''. Usagi promptly drags all her friends up there too.
* House and Stacy in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' have multiple romantic scenes on the hospital roof.
** House and Wilson were up there a lot too.
* ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (TV)|Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]'' occasionally finished an episode with a light parody of this trope combined with [[Inner Monologue]]. Having Dagless up on the roof, staring off into a ridiculously fake sunset and playing some [[Fauxlosophic Narration]] in his head.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "The Runaway Bride", has Donna and the Doctor chill out on top of a tall building.
* [[Once an Episode]] on ''[[Birds of Prey]]''.
* Peter Petrelli of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has a tendency for brooding on a rooftop. Other characters like Hiro and Sylar have made appearances on rooftops as well.
* ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]''. The roof of the police station is used for a quiet word between various characters.
* The kids in ''[[Misfits]]'' hang out on the roof of the community center, where they have furniture set up.
* In the ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' episode "Me and Mr Jonas and Mr Jonas and Mr Jonas", Miley ends up sitting on the roof after being caught out during her latest [[Crazy Scheme]]. Given that the "roof" is two feet off the deck it loses some of its impact once the wide-shot is established.
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* In the Japanese Drama, ''[[Nobuta wo Produce]]'', the three main characters often eat lunch on the roof of their school as they plot ways to [[Pygmalion Plot|make the titular character popular.]]
* Simon from ''[[The Inbetweeners]]'' climbs onto his garden shed to gaze at the sky when he is caught modelling by his parents.
* Horribly subverted in the series 2 finale of BBC's [[Sherlock (TV)|Sherlock]], when the titular character stands on the roof of a hospital and does some deep thinking and comes to some important conclusions about himself—though he's not the sort of man to have a "happy place", exactly—{{spoiler|and then is forced by the villain to commit suicide by leaping off.}} {{spoiler|And then he actually survives the multi-story fall. All the fans are going mad wondering how he pulled it off.}}
 
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** There's also a sidequest to water the dying flowers up there, but it's the most [[Filler|trivial]] side-quest in the game... [[Fridge Brilliance|unless]] you interpret it as {{spoiler|Elizabeth taking an excuse to give you an extra reward, since by this time it's obvious that she's falling for you.}} That the reward is {{spoiler|a sexy outfit for a different female character}} doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, but hey, it's [[Cloudcuckoolander|Elizabeth]]...
** ''[[Persona 4]]'' also uses this; it's where you can eat lunch with your friends, help out a few NPCs in [[Sidequest|Sidequests]], and interact with Social Links -- including {{spoiler|preventing a threatened suicide attempt in one SL.}}
* Near the beginning of ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'', Ezio and Federico have a race to reach the top of a church steeple. After Ezio wins, the two brothers joke around before commenting that they "[[Tempting Fate|lead a good life]]" and sitting down, staring up at the night sky while the game's title appears.
** ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'' also has its titles appearing while two characters stand on a roof, although this time it's Ezio and Mario deciding what to do with the Apple of Eden.
* The opening cutscene of ''[[Mega Man 2 (Video Game)|Mega Man 2]]'' has the camera ascending up the side of a building to reveal the title character hanging out on the roof.
* The characters in ''[[Ef a Tale of Memories|ef: A Tale Of Memories]]'' spend a lot of their time on the roofs of their high school and the local church.
* Shiraki Aeka from ''[[Yume Miru Kusuri]]'' manages to hit {{spoiler|private lunches, heart-to-hearts, romantic goings-on, and (attempted) suicide. The only thing missing is a secret supernatural battle, and I think Antoinette pissing and shitting herself is close enough to qualify.}}
* In ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'', Iris and Mila are often on the roof, pondering stuff.
* The cutscene following the completion of the Fichina level in ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox Assault]]'' has Fox sitting on the roof of the climate control center.
* ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' has a rooftop lunchtime scene between Hisao, Emi, and Rin. You also end up hanging out on the roof with Shizune and Misha at the end of Shizune's route in Act 1. In addition, {{spoiler|if you haven't gotten onto any girl's path by the day of the festival, Hisao winds up drinking with Kenji on the roof, which leads to him [[Downer Ending|falling off and dying]].}}
* One illustration for ''[[Ganbare Goemon|Ganbare Goemon's Great Adventure]]'' has the eponymous Goemon doing this on a pagoda.
* In [[EarthMOTHER Bound Zero1]], Loid hides in a trash can on top of a school roof to avoid bullies. Ninten befriends him by going up there and giving him a bottle rocket.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In the "Two Thief or Not Two Thief" arc of ''[[Dominic Deegan|Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire]]'', Bumper goes up on the roof to be alone and is soon joined by Luna, who spotted him while aerially patrolling the town.
* ''[[Misfile]]'' shows that even [[Our Angels Are Different|Angels]] like to [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1279 mope on the roof].
* A recent strip of ''[[Original Life (Webcomic)|Original Life]]'' had the "Ghost" character hanging out on the school roof.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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'''Jane''': "Why?"<br />
'''Daria''': "'Cause this big-ass storm is happening today." }}
* In the second episode of ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', and several afterward, Robin and Starfire have a heart-to-heart on the roof.
* ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' often have Arnold climbing up onto the roof (as well as other characters) of the boarding house on various occasions, both for thinking, when sad, for being happy as well as going there in his dreams.
 
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