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{{quote|''Neuron is a friendly guy,
Use his head to ride up high.''|''[[
The act of jumping on an enemy's head and riding one, allowing safe passage across [[Malevolent Architecture|environmental hazards]], usually [[Spikes of Doom|floor spikes]]. It works because the enemy's wearing a pair of [[Super Mario Bros 3|Kuribo's Shoes]], and you aren't.
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* In the second level of ''[[The Lion King (Video Game)|The Lion King]]'' video game, you have to cross a body of water by jumping on the heads of some giraffes. Whether or not the giraffes can be considered enemies probably depends on the player, although their habit of dumping their future king into his [[Super Drowning Skills|watery demise]] should he stand on their heads too long does seem rather questionable...
* ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' is one of the first instances. There was a stage where you had to jump on a Shy Guy's head and ride them across some spikes to safety. There was also an area where you had to do the same thing with an enemy vehicle, and another place you had to ride on an enemy projectile across a large body of water.
* Required in a few places with the giant mole enemies of ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]''.
** And in [[Platform Hell]] hacks, it's required in many more places to cross lethal pits by repeatedly spin-jumping on a [[The Spiny|Spiny]]-kind enemy.
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* In ''[[Wario Land]] 2'', you needed to bounce off of enemies to cross spikes in one level and platforms that only enemies could stand on in a later one.
** In the original ''Wario Land'', you could ride on Thwomps.
* ''Super Mario World 2: [[
** And the ever-helpful Support Ghost from Sluggy the Unshaven's fort, who makes an appearance in the Yoshi's Island stage of ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl.''
* ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'' features the Parabeetle, a red, winged version of the normal Buzzy Beetles that can be ridden on, though doing so would cause them to also fly ''up'' as well as straight ahead. (A [[Palette Swap|Palette Swapped]] green version appeared in a few [[Dummied Out]] levels.)
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* ''[[Nitrome|Parasite]]'' both justifies this and turns it horrific. When the titular alien abomination jumps on another creature, it pokes its tentacles through that creature's skull and steers it like a vehicle. Jumping off the now mindless, drooling creature makes it explode into [[Ludicrous Gibs]].
* In ''[[Purple]]'', [[Invincible Minor Minion|rolling barrels]] can be jumped on for as long as you like, thus letting you "ride" them. It is necessary to reach one diamond early in the game.
* One of the ''[[Army of Darkness]]'' games for the [[
* Subverted in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' with Trowlons, who use this trope as an attack. They try to carry player(s) [[Ring Out|offscreen]].
* With ''[[Kirby's Epic Yarn|Kirbys Epic Yarn]]'' you can do this with almost all of the enemies as very few have collision damage which is very handy for getting to higher platforms. You also ride on a dinosaur's head to get across a strong current river.
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