Double Jump: Difference between revisions

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A weird example of video game [[Jump Physics]], the Double Jump is the ability to jump ''while'' you're still airborne from your first jump, thus gaining additional height or distance. Exactly how this is supposed to work is unclear; games that [[Justified Trope|justify]] it through [[Rocket Boots]], etc. are the rare exception. Even more rare are games that justify why you can't repeat the action indefinitely to achieve flight.

** It's also worth noting that if he's close to an enemy or wall and tries to double jump, whether he has the move or not, he'll ''use the enemy/wall'' to double jump. One secret mission in ''3'' requires you to stay in the air for twenty seconds. This involved double jumping off enemies, walls, your ability, and almost always spamming your fire-pistols-to-fall-slower ability.

* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' temporarily forms butterfly wings when she double jumps, [[Justified]] as she's a witch..

* ''[[Gotcha Force]]'' uses many different types for different characters. Most can triple- or quadruple-jump, and have infinite air-dashes. Machine, Girl, and Tank Borgs have a boost meter that's used for both jumping and air-dashing; they can't jump normally. Wing and Angel Borgs obviously have infinite jumps, but they're all incredibly small and not very useful for gaining height. Air and Fortress Borgs never jump, since they're always flying.

* In ''[[Shinobi]] III'', the player character, Joe Musashi, has this ability.

=== Fighting Games ===

* All characters in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' has can double jump. Most characters also have a special attack that can be used as a third jump, while still others can can jump several more times because they can fly.

* A standard ability in ''[[Guilty Gear]]''. Chipp, being a [[Ninja]], can ''triple''-jump. Even the [[Mighty Glacier]] Potemkin, who has so much muscle that he weighs 1000 pounds, can double jump. (but he can't run.)

** Sadly, his spiritual successor Iron Tager, can't do it.

** In ''[[Sonic R]]'', double-jumping is Sonic's special ability.

*** Which will return in ''[[Sonic Colors]]''. In addition, Sonic can jump ''infinitely'' under water or with DS-exclusive burst wisp.

** In the recent 2D Sonic platformers, including ''[[Sonic Advance]]'' 2, 3 and both ''[[Sonic Rush Series]]'' games, both Sonic and Blaze can perform a double jump, but only after being launched from a spring or similar device.

*** Blaze's animation somewhat justifies her double jump, as she appears to summon flames and uses them as jets. Yes, her double jump is bigger than Sonic's.

** Also, starting with ''X2'', X gains the ability to use various air control abilities, including the ability to dash in mid-air. In X3, he can dash straight up. In ''X4'', he loses the straight-up dash, and instead gets the ability to hover. This continued until ''X7'', where X can now glide (which is as ''useless'' as it sounds), and ''X8'', where he gains the ability to do a smash jump, but no double jump (that's for Zero only).

** ''[[Mega Man Battle Network|Mega Man Network Transmission]]'' has a Battle Chip that allows you to jump in midair. But like all other Battle Chips, you were limited in the number of times you could use it per level.

* ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' can double jump. In the third game, his buddy Bentley with the rocket wheelchair can upgrade to a ''quad'' jump.

* This is available as a [[Power-Up]] in ''[[Knytt Stories]]''.

* Ratchet of ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' can do a salto in midair that is soon upgraded to include gliding afterwards (Clank helps with propellers/rocket engines).

** In Secret Agent Clank, Clank can double-jump and glide with the use of jet boots.

** The first ''Oddparents'' game has Cosmo mention that double jumps "give you twice the height and only two-thirds the calories!"

* The double jump in the [[PS 360]] ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' is, interestingly enough, not actually a double-jump, nor can it be used at any time. If the player jumps toward a platform/column/beam/whatever that is out of the Prince's own abnormally large jump range, the screen begins to turn black and white telling the player they're about to fall. Hitting Elika's command button here causes her to use her magic powers to throw the Prince another jump length - but one's all you get.

=== Role-Playing Games ===

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' got a few of these in Cataclysm: anyone playing a Goblin character can jump and then use the Goblin-only rocket boosters to jump again. Warriors and Hunters can use their Heroic Leap and Disengage abilities mid jump as well, which more closely resembles the original trope.

* Amaterasu in ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'' is capable of this. Considering that by the end of the game she can walk on water, summon lightning, water, ice, and fire, walk up walls, and make plants bloom, a Double Jump is really the least of her abilities.

** Considering that she's a goddess...

 

=== Tabletop Games ===

* In ''[[Exalted]]'', an Alchemical can get magitech implants that let them do this.

 

 

=== Web Comics ===

 

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