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* In ''[[Psycho Busters]]'', one character is trapped in a [[Master of Illusion|illusion of a town]] [[Night of the Living Mooks|full of zombies]]. He uses this trope to avoid the zombies.

* Daily mobstacle course training was how the protagonist of [[Eyeshield 21]] managed to (unintentionally) develop the skills needed to become a great runningback.

* In the ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'' manga, while training for the fight with Pollux, Kenichi's [[Trickster Mentor]] Hayato Fuurinji made him use this as a training technique.

 

* In [[Don Rosa]]'s [[Donald Duck]] story "On Stolen Time", Donald and his nephews chase the Beagle Boys atop the heads of a crowd of people who have been frozen in time.

 

 

* Subverted in ''[[Hackers]]'', where the heroes are able to not only weave through the crowded conditions around Grand Central Station easily, they use the crowd (and the traffic) to keep the FBI at bay for a while.

* Deckard does this while pursuing Zhora through the crowd in ''[[Blade Runner]]''.

* Subverted in ''[[Ong Bak]]: The Thai Warrior'' in which Tony Jaa, confronted by a crowd, ''runs across people's heads''. The [[Mooks]] chasing him are unable to duplicate the feat and must push through the Mobstacle Course.

*** Or simply change places with them

* In ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', Indy does this for a bit while chasing the basket Marion is in, as soon as he realizes she's [[Lost in a Crowd]].

* ''[[Casino Royale]]'': Mollaka, the bomb-making [[Le Parkour]] villain, gets chased by Bond in Madagascar through a construction site and an embassy. He practically goes out of his way to push and shove bystanders aside as well as kick one off a superstructure quite ruthlessly, even though he demonstrates several times that he can avoid obstacles with ease with his free running skill.

** ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'': Bond chases a bad guy through the audience of a horse race.

* ''[[Wanted]]''. One of the various climactic scenes is this trope [[Incendiary Exponent|on fire.]] The main character runs through a huge loom hallway covered with explosive rats, shooting the hell out of everyone that gets in his way, never once reloading his weapons- instead, he catches the guns his enemies drop out of the air. And he doesn't stop moving.

* The climax of ''[[12 Monkeys]]'' takes place in such a scene at the airport.

* ''[[Inception]]'': After meeting Eames, Cobb is chased through the streets of Mombasa by [[Mooks]] sent by Cobal Engineering, and must shove his way past bystanders. Luckily, when the people chasing Cobb start shooting, [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|their aim is all over the place]]

* In the Hungarian film ''[[Kontroll]]'' Bulsco's gang chase a graffiti artist, which requires pushing past and through random people.

 

* The main character of [[Cory Doctorow]]'s ''[[Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom]]'' does this all the time, which leads directly to his employment at Disney World.

* Done by Rincewind in ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'', in a [[Shout-Out]] to the ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'' example above.

* ''[[New Moon]]'' does this in the big Italy scene. You've got to get to the other side of the square before the clock stops tolling in order to save your beloved from a successful suicide they really don't want to do..... did I mention we're having a festival?

 

* ''[[Seinfeld]]'' does this with George while trying to get a ''Frogger'' arcade console across a busy New York City street. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* In the ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' episode, ''Turn and Face the Strange'', the ordinarily calm and collected Mr. Bennet has to make a desperate on-foot escape through a city street, comically knocking over just about every pedestrian in his way.

* Happens when ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' visits big cities, especially in India. Sometimes used as a task where teams have to find a specific person within the mob.

 

* ''[[Dead Rising]]'' lets you do this through crowds of zombies if you position your jumps right.

** Not in the [[Wii]] version, where [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|you instead just blast your way through with your guns]].

* ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' invokes a tragic version of this while you're trying to get to Jason.

 

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had a few, with varied [[Excuse Me, Coming Through|methods]] and level of success.

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* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "A Taste of Freedom", during Freedom Day (the day for doing whatever you want with no regard for consequences) Bender attaches a cowcatcher to himself for pushing through crowds.

 

* [[Truth in Television]], of course, especially in large cities.

* There's an actual tag-like game involving this and [[Le Parkour]]: when on areas with very little people, you're allowed to move any way you like, even [[Roof Hopping]], but when in a crowded area, your objective is to cause as little commotion as possible and still move as fast as you can. Usually, the one with the best "crowd intuition" wins.