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* 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!: The 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]]'', 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.
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* 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 on 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.
* Renamon from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' can frequently be found spending her downtime sitting on the roof of her tamer's house.
* 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]]'' 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.
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*** 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 ni 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.
* Nao, Miki and Ryouko-chan from [[Windy Tales]] spend a lot of time up on the school roof. With [[It Makes Sense in Context|flying cats]].
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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]] ==
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* In an episode of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|SVU]]'', Phin notes that in lower-income households, the roofs of apartment buildings are popular places for teenage couples to go for private "conversations". They're also choice spots for junkies to shoot up in peace, which is how they find their suspect dead of an overdose.
* 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]], 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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** Jeremy also likes to sleep on the roof. Once in the middle of winter. Another in Summer. Note he has a habit of sleeping in the nude when the temperature gets too hot. Now THAT caused quite a traffic jam in front of his house that morning.
* Calvin from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' occasionally ends up on the roof, but this is generally because he's hiding from something.
** In one comic, Calvin hides on the roof while his mom tries to find him to make him take a bath.
** In another comic, Calvin's bike attacks Calvin inside the house, so he climbs out a second-floor window and closes it behind him. Calvin then realizes that his parents will blame him for the bike tracks in the house, so he resigns himself to staying on the roof for a long time: "One of these days, the neighbors will look out the window and wonder why there's a grown man in six-year-old's clothes on our roof."
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In the musical ''[[Fiddler
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** ''[[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]]'', 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|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]]'' 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.
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== [[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]]'' had the "Ghost" character hanging out on the school roof.
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