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* Near the end of ''RE: [[Cutey Honey]]'', Honey displays this ability by running down a vertical wall with Natsuko in her arms after the latter [[Intimate Healing|resuscitates her]]. "These boots can run anywhere!"
* ''[[Naruto]]'': Ninjas learn wall-walking. With chakra being the [[Applied Phlebotinum|source of all breaks from reality]] in the series, this is explained as the user concentrating chakra to his or her feet. With enough skill it is also possible to freely walk on ceilings or water.
* ''[[Baccano!]]'': Both Rachel and Claire demonstrate this ability on the outside of a moving train. Rachel at least has the decency to struggle at it (she's trained, but not ''that'' well). Claire, on the other hand, may as well be Spider-Man.
* In the anime ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'', Neuro can often be found defying gravity. For example, in one episode, you see Yako attending school when Neuro ends up right outside the class window, obviously nowhere near the ground level.
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'', Subaru's Device allows her to [[Rollerblade Good|rollerblade]] on walls by activating the Absorb Grip spell.
* ''[[Ranma ½
** Ranma can run up vertical things like powerline poles or horizontally on walls. In fact, in the first Kodachi storyline, he actually scurries up the dojo wall and across the ceiling in the exact same manner as Spider-Man.
* In the "[[Martial Arts and Crafts|Martial Art Tea Ceremony]]" storyline, the Daimonji elder demonstrates that she can sit seiza-style ''on the ceiling''. She's holding up -- and moving -- entirely by the strength of her toes.
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* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "The Winged Avenger" has magnetic boots used to scale walls.
* The spider-like Replicators from ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' can move over any surface. Including one that crawled over Jack O'Neill during his first encounter with them, to his great disgust.
* In the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' season 5 episode [[Stargate Atlantis/Recap/S05
* Raina from ''[[Cleopatra 2525]]''.
* Some of the Suliban on ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' have acquired this ability.
* Sikozu in ''[[Farscape]]'', explained away as being able to manipulate her center of gravity (which still shouldn't give her the ability to stand at right-angles to a vertical wall the way she often does).
* In an episode of ''[[Sanctuary]]'', Will is turning into a lizard-creature following some contamination by spores from the Hollow Earth, and gains the ability to crawl on walls.
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* The title character of the game ''Gex'', who is, naturally, a gecko.
* Strider Hiryu from the ''[[Strider Hiryu|Strider]]'' series. In the first game and its sequel (as well as the ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' series), he uses a special hook claw that allows him to climb any surface, vertical wall and hang from ceiling structures. In the [[NES]] game, he can obtain magnetic boots that let him walk up conveniently placed magnetic walls and ceilings.
** Both of Strider's [[Spiritual Successor|Spiritual Successors]], ''[[Cannon Dancer]]'' and ''[[Moon Diver]]'', allow their main characters to climb any wall or ceiling ''with their bare hands''.
** Which is also the case with Strider's [[Follow the Leader|SNES expy]], ''[[Run Saber]]''.
* Ryu Hyabusa from ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' started with the ability to cling to walls but not climb (except through triple jumps and a tricky form of boomerang jumping). Later games gave him the full ability to climb up and down most walls he grabbed onto.
* ''[[Lemmings]]''
** The ability to climb walls is one talent you can assign to one of your marching horde of Lemmings. It can then climb vertical surfaces, though a ledge will make it fall. Also, no Lemming can climb ''down'' even with this ability (meaning they'll just splat if reaching a sheer drop).<br />** In ''Lemmings 2'', you can also give magnetic boots to a Lemming, especially with the Space tribe. They allow it to walk on any surface, even upside-down, though slower than usual.
* You can buy a pair of gloves in ''[[Thief]]: Deadly Shadows'' that enables you to scale certain surfaces.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall]]'' allowed the player to climb any vertical wall in the game with high enough stats and enough time. The main catches were that a) you couldn't stop climbing or you'd fall, b) based on your climbing skill, you had a random chance of falling at any time, and c) you climb very slowly unless you have the 10,000x speed cheat on (which, admittedly, most people did). This was popular enough that fans were up in arms that Morrowind did not include it as a skill.
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'': The game is built around this mechanic. Your Fuchikoma is required to climb up walls, buildings, and even travel on ceilings for certain levels of the game. With less than 2% of the game area unclimbable, you can literally go anywhere you want.
* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'': As the "fancy [[Techno Babble]] name" levels increased in the games, the hero moved from having magnetic boots to having gravity boots. The main difference here are that you start being able to shoot while using them to walk along the dedicated track.
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]: Underworld'': Lara Croft can climb up, down, and sideways along certain walls. And in one of the game's DLC expansions, {{spoiler|her Doppelganger has a much faster and more effective version of this power.}}
* ''[[Castlevania|Castlevania III Dracula's Curse]]'': Grant Danasty can climb walls and the ceiling if he jumps on it.
* In the original ''[[Street Fighter II]]'', Vega's Flying Barcelona Attack was performed by the boss character by crawling up the cage fence in his stage, then dropping down and extending his claw. When Vega was made playable in Turbo the move was changed to work by diving off the side of the screen, as the original version would only be useable in Vega's own stage. In ''Street Fighter Alpha III'', the player can use Vega's original cage-climbing Flying Barcelona Attack by inputting a special code while playing Vega's stage.
** [[Fatal Fury|Mai Shiranui]] also has an attack like this, Musasabi no Mai. In her debut game, ''Fatal Fury2'', she could only do the move by jumping off convenient flagpoles that only showed up in her stage. This even carried over to ''[[The King of Fighters]]'', where the move could only be used on the England stage. In subsequent games, they changed the command motion and she could use it anywhere.
* ''Ferazel's Wand'' doesn't even try to explain why the main character can do this (although it might help that "Habnabits" like him are clearly not human.) It seems to have been implemented so the designers could put a bunch of coins and powerups in high-up places that couldn't be reached by jumping alone, under the "they'll never look here" principle.
* ''[[Dante's Inferno (video game)|Dantes Inferno]]'': The walls you crawl on are composed of ''tightly packed writhing damned souls bemoaning their terrible afterlife''.
* ''[[Scaler]]'': Being a [[Lizard Folk|mutant chameleon]], this is one of Scaler's abilities, although (as not to [[Game Breaker|break the game]]) he can only do it on certain surfaces.
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== Real Life ==
* Somewhat common in animals, especially arthropods (insects, spiders, centipedes, etc.), as well as many varieties of frogs and lizards. Arboreal mammals, like monkeys and squirrels, aren't too bad at this either.
* Recent development of gecko tape promises this to become reality in some time. Everything works because of Van Der Waals forces. Artificial gecko stickers have potential to surpass nature few times. Biggest problem today is rapid contamination. There is also the fact that the square-cube law dictates that there's no way that a human can scale surfaces as effortlessly as a small gecko.
* They have suction cups that hook up to backpacks that do this. [[Awesome but Impractical]], it's called the gekkomat. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miFRtJtm9X4 Video.]
* There's a near-vertical cliff face in Bolivia that ''looks'' like this trope, as it's covered in dinosaur footprints wandering up, down, and across it. Subverted in that the cliff's surface was horizontal when the footprints were made, and got tilted gradually due to subsequent mountain-building processes.
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