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* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. With the sheer amount of train-time in that thing, it had to happen some time. "Some time" was, in this case, pretty early in.

** There's also Ed and Alphonse's fight with the terrorist Bald early in the first anime and manga (the chapter is cut from ''Brotherhood'').

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Lost Adventures]]'' has "Combustion Man on a Train" where Aang fights "scary big explosion guy", while a little girl and all the other passengers learn to meditate as the train gets destroyed around them.

 

* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' has Indy getting chased along a line of circus train cars. [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|One word]]: Rhinoceros.

* [[James Bond]] gets to do this a fair bit; the scenes been used in...

{{quote|'''Gene:''' "You know what I like about you? You're tall." ''(train enters a tunnel)''}}

 

* The climax of ''[[The Dresden Files]]: Death Masks'' took place on top of a train, and the fights were pretty damn badass for a book.

** To elaborate, {{spoiler|Dresden, a mob boss (equipped with commando gear and an assault rifle), and two Knights of the Cross (one of whom is carrying an AK in addition to his holy sword) chase and then land on the train in the mob boss's helicopter, which happens to be, on Dresden's request, playing "Ride of the Valkyries." All of that to stop a group of demons from unleashing an apocalyptic plague.}} Just as awesome as it sounds.

* Fitting of its Western influence, [[The Alloy of Law]] includes a gunfight atop a moving train, which continues despite the protagonist being thrown off the top (he uses magic to save himself).

* ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'' has the battle between Touma and Freyja, which occurs on top of a subway train in a tunnel. Since Freyja fights by summoning giant monsters, many of her creations are large enough that they scrape against the ceiling of the tunnel but take no damage due to their [[Super Toughness]].

 

* Partially invoked in the pilot of ''[[Human Target]]'': there isn't a fight on the roof of the train, but there are several go-rounds in the cars, and one in the air ducts at the top of the cars.

* The [[Community/Recap/S2/E11 Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas|second]] [[Christmas Episode]] of ''[[Community]]'' has one. Did we mention it was [[Stop Motion|stop-motion]] [[Beyond the Impossible|animated]]?

 

* The ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' setting ''[[Eberron]]'' has a magic train for two purposes. To get the characters to places quickly, and [[Rule of Cool|for them to have climactic fights on top of it]].

 

* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' has several fights upon an [[Afterlife Express]], though little is made of the particular environment. The boss is the train itself.

* ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', against the [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]] Smorgs. To simply ''reach'' the boss fight itself, you also have to hammer your way through a veritable horde of them on top of the Excess Express first.

* ''Smokin' Guns'', being a Western mod, has this. "Santa Fe Express" Deathmatch map is on a moving train plus terrain buzzing by (you fall, you die), where train top is mostly for long-range engagement (due to lack of cover) and the inside for short-range. Also, there's a stopped train in "Backwater" Deathmatch/Robbery map, but its top, while accessible, is useful mostly in that you can jump from it in either direction, otherwise it's just exposed for other high places and semi-exposed for low.

 

* ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/501313 The Ballad of Cripple Kane]'' starts out with of course, a saloon brawl, a horse chase, but it ends up on a ''train''. Oh wait you knew that, reading the trope and all. It's still ''''awesome''''!

 

* In one ''[[Family Guy]]'' fantasy sequence, Stewie has an [[Imagine Spot]] about a fist and knife fight with someone on top of a moving 19th century train over a [[MacGuffin]].

* In the third episode of ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', Spidey fights The Lizard on top of a moving subway.

* Done twice in ''[[Kim Possible]]''.

* Done in ''[[Winx Club]]'' S4 episode 13, Layla, Nabu and Sky fight Ogron, the leader of the Black Circle on top of a moving train. It quickly becomes just a fight between Ogron and Sky when Nabu is knocked off the train and Layla had to catch him before he hit the ground.

* In the ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'' episode "Homecoming, part 2", Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow fight on top of the train, while [[The Baroness]] takes out soldiers within the train.

* The ''[[Archer]]'' episode "The Limited" has ISIS escorting a radical Nova Scotian separatist (yes, really) back across the Canadian border via train. Archer keeps talking about how it's been, like, his life-long dream to fight on top of a train. And in the show's semi-deconstructive spirit, when the time comes, he finds it's not all it's cracked up to be.