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This is popular in many cop shows; Our Hero can be counted on to leap to the roof of a speeding getaway car at least once per season. Alternatively, he can jump onto the hood and glare at the driver while said driver tries to shake him off. Larger vehicles can also be used (particularly popular version is jumping onto a tall vehicle from an overhead bridge) - if it's a truck, for example, our Hero will often need to climb forward to the cab somehow. (You can also [[Traintop Battle|climb about on trains]], but they're a bit different, since they don't swerve about.)

 

 

For example, in [[Real Life]], it is incredibly difficult to hold onto a car even at low speeds, and at high speeds, it is impossible to do so. It may be slightly easier to hold onto a train, but all of your effort has to be spent in ''just'' holding on ''and'' you have to be on top of a car that isn't rounded or containing hot liquids - plus, tunnels can cut too close to the roof for a standing person to survive passing through one. Aircraft - at least when we're talking jets, spacecraft, or anything that is flying at a sufficiently high speed and altitude - are literally impossible to stand on the outside of and doing so is certain death.

 

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== [[Comic Book]] ==

* ''[[Sin City]]'' has a couple of examples:

** There's also the submarine incident of questionable plausability.

* ''[[The Invisible Man (film)|The Invisible Man]]'' has the eponymous character follow his target this way. Made easier by the fact that, well, he's invisible. Ignore the fact that he's also naked in the middle of winter hanging onto the side of a speeding car...

* Constantly in ''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]]''. In an early scene you can just about see one of the actors playing a rebel soldier go flying off the hood of the car because of it, he continues with the scene as it nothing happened. Not too surprising as it's set in Africa where riding on top of a car is not uncommon.

* [[Clint Eastwood]] as cop Harry Callahan does this a few times. In the first movie ''[[Dirty Harry]]'', Harry jumps from an overpass onto the roof of a schoolbus taken hostage by the Scorpio Killer. In the sequel ''[[Magnum Force]]'' a mobster trying to escape a police raid speeds out in a getaway car and Harry clings to the hood of it.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/06/26/episode-434-wouldnt-you-like-to-know/ Happened] to Black Mage from ''[[8-Bit Theater]]''.

 

 

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