History Main / WallRun

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder'', from the same developers as the aforementioned ''Titanfall'' games, has wall-running as a traversal option for certain walls.

* You can perform a literal wall run in a space station. Since there's no gravity in the outer space, calling a surface a wall would be ''redundant''. The only question is how you keep your feet on the wall...
* Wall Running is a thing that actually exists that real people can do. Granted, it's for only a few steps, but it still is an actual thing that is done in Parkour and Freerunning.

** In the opening sequence in ''Film/TheMatrix'', Trinity evades a cop as he's shooting at her by running up and then along a wall of the room they're in before taking the fight to him. She also does this during the Government Lobby shootout later on in the film. Since this happens inside the Matrix, both instances are justified as Trinity being a redpill.
** The third movie, ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'', tops this with the Club Hel fight scene, with {{Mook}}s doing CombatParkour ''on the ceiling, upside down'' (justified as them being A.I. programs living in the Matrix, so TheComputerIsACheatingBastard is in effect here). And it is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome utterly fucking awesome]]. Said scene also has Trinity repeating her aforementioned maneuver to get the drop on her target.

* ''Manga/TimeStopBrave'': Swordmaster Leafa runs along a wall to avoid lava.

* ComicBook/TheFlash and ComicBook/{{Impulse}} can run fast enough to run up vertical surfaces.
* ComicBook/SpiderMan can do short bursts of wall-running while webswinging.
* ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} is sometimes depicted as being fast enough to do this, though it's not a typical ability of his.
* Franchise/WonderWoman and ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} can run along a wall's surface for a bit, but since Wondy started being able to fly in the Silver Age she's not had a need to in a long time.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Fecal Matters", Meg does this during a parody of [[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast the Quicksilver scene]].

* As with motorcyles on the "Wall of Death", centrifugal force trumps gravity, providing the vehicle is travelling fast enough. A human being capable of running as fast as a motorbike might pull this feat off... so not impossible for Superman?
* Many insects can do this.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfNPihoelPM A suitably long stick and a couple friends makes this trope a practical means of wall scaling in the real world]].

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* In the anime adaptation of ''LightNovel/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'', the protagonist, Ikki, briefly runs along a wall/glass panels while being shot at.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Akira eventually uses his GatlingGood M421 minigun to RecoilBoost to this effect, even running on a ceiling at one point due to firing powerful CWH anti-armor rounds full auto with a similar weapon. Later sets of PoweredArmor he gets also have a StickyShoes feature allowing him to do so without wasting ammo, for instance, jumping out a skyscraper window, doing a BladeBrake, then running back up to surprise his pursuer.

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