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Electric Slide
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Surprisingly common in anime, shonen especially, is the tendency to run on power lines when racing to get somewhere. While at first doing this seems perfectly reasonable - after all, why run along the ground where you would have to follow the roads when you can just use the power lines and go straight there - there is a slight problem. Power lines are designed strong enough to support their weight, plus survive reasonably strong wind, plus maybe some snow and ice for colder areas. Making them stronger would be wasteful. Low-voltage low-power lines may well support crows, but almost certainly not human beings doing acrobatics. Higher voltage adds the danger of electrocution when you touch two wires at once or a wire and a grounded object, like a tangent tower. Things are even worse with high tension power lines; according to the History Channel, even the crews who maintain the things, with all their training and protective gear, occasionally die working on these. For multi-kilovolt lines you don't even need to touch two wires: touching one and being a few centimetres from another could be enough to short them through air and your body. Though some high-tension lines have on top a lightning guard wire, which is safe to touch, it again isn't expected to hold human weight. Needless to say, Rule of Cool reigns supreme. Many a character with electric powers does this, both because their presumable Required Secondary Powers of electro-proofing keep their survival grounded in plausibility, and because it's conductive to their nature. A more realistic variation may involve any other kind of overhead wires and ropes, from suspension bridge cables to clotheslines. A close cousin of Roof Hopping and typically takes Le Parkour up a notch. Not to be confused with the country line-dance of the same name...or the decidedly non-country "Electric Boogie" that inspired it. Also known as Power Line Rider, after the Line Rider game. People who can do this tend to also engage in Roof Hopping and Dramatic High Perching. A Sister Trope to Ride the Lightning. Compare Tightrope Walking. Examples |
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Cole from inFAMOUS is the king of this trope. There's even a trophy you get by grinding along a power cable and taking down an enemy while sniping in precision mode, and another for grinding on 4 separate lines in sequence. Partially justified by an experiment Gone Horribly Right, giving Cole the ability to control electricity (he can even learn to suck the electricity out of the line while grinding to recharge his powers). Cole can also use his electrical powers to "glide" through thin air. His weight is likely a non-issue. On the other hand, it can still support his weight even before he learns to grind his way electrically, or in areas without electricity. In either situation, he just walks normally on the lines. |
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Promethea: Barbara Shelley does this in her first appearance as Promethea to save Sophie from falling to her death. | |
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Ranma ½ has most of the characters do this at one point. Still doesn't explain how a power line is able to support their weight though. | |
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In Bleach Ichigo does this while running to Orihime's apartment to stop the hollow attacking her from killing her. But then, he's in shinigami form at the time (essentially, a ghost), so it makes at least a little sense that the power lines don't break. Ichigo isn't seen doing anything similar afterward, as he learns to walk on air instead. | |
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Tom and Jerry uses this a few times, each time with Tom balancing on the telephone wires to get to Jerry, who always either tries to shake Tom off or cut the wires. | |
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Many of the rails Sonic The Hedgehog grinds on are actually electric cables, especially in stages set in cities or Dr. Eggman's mechanical lairs. | |
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The Looney Tunes "Bee-Deviled Bruin" has Pop doing a tightrope walk along a shutoff power line to get to a beehive. He shouldn't have left his halfwit son sitting at the switch, getting bored and fiddling with it... | |
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In one episode of Darkwing Duck, the villain Megavolt does this, probably as a parody of Spider-Man. | |
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In Tango and Cash, the two title protagonists use the "hanging-down-from-the-wire" variation of this method to escape from prison. | |
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Wonder Woman: Vol. 1: Wonder Woman has, on a couple of occasions, run along short stretches of the power lines outside the window of WAC officer Diana Prince's office, once even directing her Radio Plane to drop its ladder above them for pick up. | |
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Used in Air Gear. It actually lends power to ATs. | |
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The Catbus performs this trope in My Neighbor Totoro. | |
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Soul Power from Static Shock surfs across power lines with his electric powers, his version of Static's flying disc. Static tries it out himself, and finds it pretty fun. | |
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In Golden Boy, Kintaro wins a race, on bicycle, against a motorcycle, in part by using a power-line shortcut. It's a combination of Rule of Cool and Artistic License – Physics. | |
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Superman: Superman does this in his first appearance in Action Comics until he learns how to fly. However, he did this stunt while carrying a man he was trying to scare into talking with the threat that they both would be electrocuted he steps on a support pole, which would ground them and allow the electricity to flow through them. Sure enough, he has a near miss with a pole which scares his prisoner witless. After some additional leaping, all Superman has to do upon landing is "Wasn't that fun? Let's do it again!" | |
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The opening sequence for the Mr. Magoo cartoons showed him driving his car along the power lines. | |
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Hayato does this in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple to get Kenichi back to town in a hurry. | |
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Ratchet & Clank: Ratchet does this from time to time on his Grind Boots. Notably on Planet Boldan (Silver City) in Going Commando. | |
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Grinding on powerlines in Sunset Overdrive is the preferred method of traversal in Sunset City, given that the streets are overrun with enemies that can overwhelm the player. | |
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Spider-Man: Electro does this as a Fast as Lightning way of getting around. As he is a walking power plant, he doesn't have to worry about being electrocuted. Occasionally, he'll be the electricity in the wires. | |
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In the Xbox reboot of Ninja Gaiden, Ryu rides a high-voltage power line after jumping from a burning zeppelin. | |
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Fate/stay night: Saber does this during her first fight with Berserker and is only explainable through Rule of Cool. Not only is she wearing a long skirt but she's wearing a suit of metal armor and carrying a sword. But do note that as a Servant, she's considered a spirit, and so cannot be hurt by something as mundane as electricity. | |
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater lets you grind power lines with your skateboard. Please Don't Try This at Home? Most skateboarding games allow this, in fact. | |
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One Pearls Before Swine Sunday strip had the Crocs attempt to use the power lines to get into Zebra's house, under the impression they were zip lines. The result was predictable: | |
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Jet Set Radio Future requires this to get around several areas like Kibogaoka Hill and Highway Zero. | |
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Tsukihime: Ciel can do this. Again, Rule of Cool is king. Sensing a pattern here? | |
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Most of the gameplay in Scaler. | |
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Multiple characters from MegaTokyo do this but it's handwaved in that they are all magical girls, even the one who does it subconsciously and falls off when she realizes where she is. Justified because a magical girl did it. | |
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Diabolik: One of Diabolik's escapes from the police involved using a wheeled slide to run through a high tension power line, with a cop being surprised he was surviving and another explaining how he wasn't touching a grounded object (and did in fact jump before touching the tower). He did it only once, however, as the next time the cops would be ready to twart this escape. | |
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The Perils of Penelope Pitstop: In "The Boardwalk Booby Trap," Zippy does more than travel on the lines to trace where Penelope's phone call came from. He travels inside the lines. | |
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Artemis Fowl does this in The Time Paradox to catch a lemur that has run onto the power lines. Played realistically (for Artemis Fowl, anyway) in that the lines in question are a set of truly massive power conduits across a large valley, he uses the cable trolley system and protective suit that line maintenance crews use, he's an accomplished physicist who has watched a documentary on this very set of electrical towers, and he's still terrified. | |
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In Kyon: Big Damn Hero, Kyon attempted it with great success. Justified, because he had access to alien technology. His personal assistant remarked that it was interesting, but inferior compared to teleportation. | |
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It's possible to do this in City of Heroes (though there's very little actual reason to), since power lines are treated as simply another solid surface. | |
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