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* Roofhopping can be found in ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma ½]]''.
* And from the same author, ''[[Inuyasha]]''.
* Nuku-Nuku and Eimi both do a lot of roofhopping in ''[[All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (Anime)|All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku]]''.
* The ninjas in ''[[Naruto]]'' also make use of roofhopping.
* The first season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had several instances of ''implied'' roofhopping, in that the girls leapt off into the sky and vanished into the distance. As well, Zoisite also engaged in roofhopping in one anime episode, while he was disguised as Sailor Moon.
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* Meimi, as ''[[Kaitou Saint Tail]]'', does quite a bit of roofhopping to get around.
* Kurumi does a fair amount of roofhopping in ''[[Steel Angel Kurumi|Steel Angel Kurumi 2]]''.
* [[Lupin III|Lupin the Third]] and Jigen escaping the bad guys who attack their room at the inn in ''[[The Castle of Cagliostro (Anime)|The Castleof Cagliostro]]''
** And Lupin for pretty much the rest of the movie.
* The few creatures who can't fly in ''[[Blood Plus|Blood+]]'' -- like the Cif -- move around this way.
* ''Shinigami'' who have mastered flash steps roof hop in place of [[Flight]] in ''[[Bleach]]''
* Most everyone with any power in ''[[Kekkaishi]]'' can do this. The Kekkaishi themselves, however, go Kekkai-hopping (leaping on magic airborne boxes).
* Major Motoko Kusanagi is fond of roof-hopping, even roof-''diving'' off skyscrapers without a parachute, in the Japanese anime TV series ''[[Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex|Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' and ''Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG'' (aka. ''Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex'') (2002-2005). Well, every main character with a full cyberbody does it, and the Tachikoma robots as well. The tachikoma who resemble mechanical spiders can climb up and down walls or shoot sticky ropes, Spiderman-style, to lasso opponents and swing themselves around buildings, too. There's considerable less roof-hopping in the ''Ghost in the Shell'' movie versions (1995, 2004, 2006) though.
* All the Seven Angels and the Seven Seals in ''[[X 1999]]''. The series ''loves'' this one.
** Not to mention hopping off and [[I Have the High Ground|standing on]] lampposts and such.
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** Impmon's shown to travel this way a few times as well. Usually with Calumon following him.
* Kei Kurono enjoys a bit of Sky Scraper hopping in ''[[Gantz]]''.
* [[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Belldandy]] -- yes, ''Belldandy'' -- did it once in the manga.
* Given the size of [[Elaborate University High|Mahora Academy]], this is standard for the magically-informed in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Since a mages are obligated to keep the [[Masquerade]], an explanation about a spell in place to prevent the [[Muggle|Muggles]] from seeing was once given - we later find out that environmental damage is still in effect, so dented lampposts and torn shingles aren't uncommon. Poor Muggles...
* Panther does this recreationally and for exercise in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. Yes, the football manga.
** To be fair, the racist coach wouldn't let him train with the rest of the team and Panther isn't too well off, hopping off the roof of apartment buildings was just convenient.
* [[Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne]] and her rival Sinbad Roof Hop frequently. They ''are'' art thieves, after all, divine mission or no, and what better way to escape from the apparently almost completely incapable police and Maron's mildly obsessed best friend?
* Train from ''[[Black Cat (Mangamanga)|Black Cat]]''. Most notably when he was trying to rescue kidnapped Sven.
* Occurs in ''[[Noir]]'', in the midst of a battle, no less. Portrayed somewhat more realistically, in that the characters actually look before they leap and don't seem to be magically capable at it.
* Occurs in a flashback in ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'', wherein Lumière piggybacks on Éclair while Éclair hops from rooftop to rooftop gracefully.
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* Louis from the beginning of [[Darker Than Black]].
* Arf does this in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' after {{spoiler|Bardiche and Raising Heart are damaged while clashing over a Jewel Seed}}.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Animeanime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' has the two mask duelists who constantly jump across buildings.
* Almost any nimble martial artists in [[The Breaker]] can do this.
* [[Noblesse|Noblesses]] like to do this a lot, combined with [[I Have the High Ground]].
* Bulga in ''[[OkusamaOku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo (Anime)|Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'' once hops between telephone poles. Otherwise, the girls usually to fly.
 
== Comic Books ==
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== Fanfiction ==
 
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', Kyon had fun when he gained the ability to do this. It helped with a [[Dynamic Entry]] later on.
 
== Film ==
* Films set in Brazil will likely have at least one of these scenes, since the homes are tightly packed. Examples include ''[[The Incredible Hulk (Filmfilm)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' and ''[[The Fast and Thethe Furious|Fast Five]]''.
* In the film of ''[[Hellboy (Filmfilm)|Hellboy]]'', this is Hellboy's preferred method of tracking what Liz Sherman and John Myers are doing on their 'going out for coffee' walk. Here Del Toro shows the risky chance of encountering civilians on rooftops - milk-and-cookie-distributing-civilians, but still. Hellboy, even with his superman abilities, still nearly misses one of the jumps.
* A live-action version can be seen in ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''.
* ''[[The Matrix]]'' had a [[Chase Scene]] that involved Agents [[Roof Hopping]] after Trinity. Part way through, the whole thing is [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when a cop, seeing an agent jump an unbelievable distance following Trinity, says, "That's impossible!" This is also the first hint we get that the action is not, in fact, taking place in the real world.
** There's also the infamous "Whoa" scene, where Morpheus shows Neo how to do it. Neo fails the first time.
* Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' has roof-''pole-vaulting.''
* The movie version of ''[[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]]'' goes roofhopping before he learns how to use his web-shooters. The sequel also contain a memorable scene in which he attempts (and fails) roofhopping in order to revive his lost powers.
* Eric Draven of ''[[The Crow]]'' uses this to get around Detroit and get the drop on Tin Tin, and to escape from the cops after the big shootout with Top Dollar's men.
** That's because Cesare did it first in ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Film)|The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]''. It's one of the movie's most iconic shots, but due to the [[Weird Al Effect]], best known for all the homages and imitations that have followed. And Mr. Draven [[Looks Like Cesare]].
* [[Dirty Harry]] in ''[[The Enforcer]]'' is chasing a suspect all over the roofs of half of San Francisco, while his partner, Inspector Moore, is trying to figure out where he is going by following along from the street, until she finds the church that they burst into and she does the same.
** Years later, Clint Eastwood chases John Malkovich over rooftops in ''[[In the Line of Fire]]'', though not as successfully.
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* ''[[Batman]]'' does this in his [[Cool Car]] in ''[[Dark Knight Trilogy|Batman Begins]]''. It's quite amusing listening to a pursuing cop trying to explain that the mystery car they are chasing is on the roofs.
** He also attempts it on foot, before developing his Batman persona. He learns it's not easy at all. Ouch!
* ''[[Catwoman (Filmfilm)|Catwoman]]'' used this trope, but with [[Special Effect Failure|noticeably unnatural movement ]] in the CGI.
* ''[[Thirty30 Days of Night (Film)|Thirty Days of Night]]'''s vampires are also big fans, though they mainly do it in the background of shots.
* ''[[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]]'' uses this in the opening scenes, with [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] performing jumps that would have resulted in agony and likely broken legs for anyone else.
* ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' has Ginormica roofhopping to escape the alien robot. [[MST3K Mantra|(Don't ask how the roofs don't crumble under her feet.)]] She jumps to one tilted roof that's too far for her, scrambles to hold on as she slips down, loses her grip... and safely lands on the ground, since she's almost as tall as the building.
* ''Rumble In The Bronx'', where [[Jackie Chan]] jumped from a parking garage to a fire escape, breaking his ankle.
** The ankle breaking actually happened in a much "easier" jump. Onto a moving hovercraft!
* ''[[Watchmen (Filmfilm)|Watchmen]]'': Rorschach does this early on, while breaking into Dr. Manhattan's facility. He leaps from one roof to another, a distance that looks about 17 feet long going by the 5'5" Jackie Earle Haley.
* Subverted in ''[[Kick -Ass (Filmfilm)|Kick Ass]]''; the titular character initially tries to train himself to roof hop as a means of getting around the city, but quickly realises how unfeasable it is. He eventually settles for walking around at street level. Hit-Girl and Big Daddy are able to do this casually.
* ''[[Blade Runner]]'': Rick Deckard tries to do this and just barely manages to catch onto a beam sticking out of the building on the other side, Roy Batty on the other hand (owing to his genetically engineered strength), does manage, and proceeds to [[Heel Face Turn|rescue Deckard from his predicament]].
* The chimney sweep scene in ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' is a song and dance number on rooftops.
* ''[[Dark City]]'' has a few roof hopping scenes, in fact one of the sets used in [[The Matrix]]'s roof hopping scenes was a left over from ''Dark City''.
* Averted in ''[[Die Hard With a Vengeance]]''. A police officer and a couple of schoolkids climb up onto the roof of the locked building with the intent of jumping to an adjacent building to escape from the bomb, but when they get there, they realize the distance is too far.
* Optimus Prime in the first live-action ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' film.
 
 
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* In Felix Gilman's ''Thunderer'', Jack and his gang often use this to get around within Ararat.
* Jimmie Dale, the Gray Seal, did some roofhopping at least once. (Possibly the Burrage Spring-Heeled Jack did, too.)
* ''[[Discworld]]'': Assassins are expected to be able to do this. ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'' in particular features the main character doing quite a bit of roof hopping.
* One of the characters in [[The Alienist]] demonstrates remarkable abilities traveling roofs and other urban structures.
* This is a very common way of getting around for the titular extraordinarily empowered individuals of ''[[Mistborn]]'', since they can telekinetically push and pull on metals.
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*** Or just level your acrobatics up to 100 or so. Never had to touch the ground in some towns.
*** And the Jump spell effect helps at any Acrobatics level. Roofhopping was also possible in ''Daggerfall''.
* ''[[MirrorsMirror's Edge]]'' is often all about this trope done with [[Le Parkour]] on top of skyscrapers.
* The preferred method of travel for living humans in Browser MMO ''[[Urban Dead]]'' is roof-hopping. Preferred because the alternative involves running through the zombie-infested streets till you are lucky enough to find a building that ISN'T barricaded.
* One level in ''[[The Warriors (Videovideo Gamegame)|The Warriors]]'' had you jumping across rooftops to flee from enemies chasing you.
* An effective way to avoid, or just sneak up on the general [[Mook]] population in some of the ''[[Tenchu]]'' villages.
* Exercised extensively in the ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' series
* Cole does this all the time in [[In FamousInfamous (Videovideo game Gameseries)|inFamous]]. Sucker Punch likes this trope.
* Suzu, in the opening of ''[[Tales of Phantasia (Video Game)|Tales of Phantasia]]''.
* Alex Mercer from ''[[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]]'' can both use [[Le Parkour]] and [[In a Single Bound]]. This is the natural extension.
* ''[[Canabalt]]'' plays it straight.
* The green boy teaches this to you in ''[[But That Was Yesterday]]''.
* ''[[Beyond Good and& Evil (Videovideo Gamegame)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'': The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy7DrxuW7rA chase sequence].
* The Agent in ''[[Crackdown]]''. Build your [[Evolving Weapon|Agility Skill]] high enough, and you can make some truly vertigo-inducing leaps. This is arguably the better way to get around, as opposed to running or driving the streets.
* Recurring in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'', when the player pursues targets on foot.
* One level of ''[[Dark Messiah (Videoof Game)Might and Magic|Dark Messiah]]'' requires you to chase a ghoul across the rooftops of Stonehelm.
* ''[[Bit .Trip]] Runner'' has this in the last few levels. There was intended to be much more of this, but this game was still in development when ''[[Canabalt]]'' came out, so the roof emphasis was de-epmhasized.
* Hudson, Clarke, and Weaver found themselves doing this in Kowloon in ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game)|Call of Duty Black Ops]]'', leading to Hudson's reaction of "[[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!]]!" The difficulty of this is Lampshaded as the only reason the characters survive is because Clarke has pre-rigged their landing with a pile of mattresses.
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', this can be done as strategy for most of the classes, but the Scout is especially adept in hopping around high places as shortcuts other classes can't reach and can only rake with withering sniper fire, rockets, nades, etc.
* ''[[The Saboteur]]'' lets you do this in the unique rooftops of Paris.
* This was possible in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' ''Daggerfall'' and ''Morrowind''. ''Oblivion'' drastically nerfed jump height, leaving very few places where a rooftop could be reached at all, let alone from another.
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== Western Animation ==
 
* In ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', Jackie does this whenever the enemies escape by car. Apparently, he can run 60 MPH at the right altitude.
* In the ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' animated show both the heroes and the villains do quite a bit of Roof Hopping.
* ''[[The Tick]]'': The Tick does this as his primary means of travel; however, he is so heavy he leaves footprints on everything he lands on. While visiting Europe he was forced to ride a scooter instead after damaging several historic buildings.
* ''[[Static Shock]]'': Expertly executed by She-bang in her first appearance.
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' : The Turtles do this a lot. The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|2003 series]] even [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1l-kcXEH78& does it to music].
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Airbender Aang hops roofs (and everything else that is solid - horizontality not required) all the time. Acrobat Ty Lee has almost equally impressive jumping skills. To a lesser extent, several other characters were also seen travelling over roofs.Aang can airbend, and thus fly, in a pinch; Ty Lee and others are just [[Badass Normal|that good]].
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' loves to do it while chasing criminals. Her Sidekick [[You Suck|Ron Stoppable]], not so much...
* Let's not forget ''[[Cybersix]]'', who roofhops across Meridiana while poor Lucas tries to keep up on the ground.
* In the ''[[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars]]'' episode "Lightsaber Lost" Ahsoka chases the thief who had stolen her lightsaber earlier on the rooftops of Coruscant. The thief is a very agile "Terrellian Jango Jumper" who manages to outrun and elude her.
* Matrix in a season 3 episode of [[Re Boot]] does this to follow a thief that made away with his keytool.
* Done in the musical of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] episode "A Friend in Deed"
 
== Web Comics ==
 
* Subverted in ''[[The Non -Adventures of Wonderella]]'':
{{quote| '''Gentleman Wednesday''': Um, my dramatic exit seems to have been foiled by the lack of another rooftop on this side of the building.<br />
'''Wonderella''': Nope! Just my side!<br />
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