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Hopping Machine
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Screw wheels, treads or walking. For some robots and vehicles, their sole means of mobility is jumping or hopping around, as silly as that might seem at first glance. In reality, this is a Justified Trope as it enables robots to walk and even climb stairs without having any knees to bend, which simplifies their construction (while also opening them up to falling over, however). See also Spring Coil. |
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The second RoboCop game made for arcades have Robocop battling a sentient robotic turret with a single leg, which allows it to jump around the stage while attacking. | |
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Narbonic's Professor Madblood once attempted to build a giant robot, but he only got as far as building a giant robotic foot, which has to move by hopping. | |
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The Moonbits from Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicles of the Moon Exploration, a race of Moon Rabbits, use machines resembling bunny heads on springs to get around. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance, Riff's Mark-19 robot can do this, but it only works once. | |
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Not a robot, but Coil Man from The Impossibles hops around on a spring leg. | |
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The Leapfrog from Runaways. | |
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The Rabbit Ambulance from Achewood. | |
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The kangaroo-like Leaplashers from Horizon Forbidden West move around like real life Kangaroos. | |
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Looney Tunes: Wile E. Coyote tried using a jet-propelled pogo stick - it didn't go well. | |
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The Bouncy Boss Robot and Sphere-o-Bot from Sonic Chaos. | |
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Classic Disney Shorts: A Disney homefront Wartime Cartoon starring Goofy proposed saving on rationed gasoline and tires by using pogo sticks as regular transportation. | |
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Dusty Revenge has Craven's mecha in the final battle, who can somehow hop around the area as he tries using his machine to stomp you underfoot. | |
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At the end of Bert's Hall of Great Inventions, Bert shows Ernie an electric hopping baby carriage. As in the rest of the book, Ernie is reminded of an animal with similar abilities. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Black Frog Ninjazord, naturally, what with being a frog. | |
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The Hopster from Makai Kingdom, which appears again as the TX-6 Jumpstart from Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?. "No one knows if it's supposed to move like that, or if it's just broken." | |
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Ky�ju from Bakuten Shoot Beyblade specializes in the Einstein series of beyblades, which have the ability to hop by means of a spring in the center. The main advantage is being able to avoid the opponent's bey. Ky�ju isn't primarily a blader himself, but when he enters the ring he shows to be very capable with the mechanic. | |
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In the Red Dwarf novel Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, cars on the Spanish-owned port of Mimas on one of the moons of Saturn are a variation on the trope: they normally employ wheels but can also use hydraulic legs to leap into the air in order to bypass the city's notorious traffic congestion. The first chapter, in which Lister is scraping a living hotwiring cabs for the night and picking up fares, goes into some detail about the disadvantages of this technology. | |
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The Automated Snowflake Inspector from Pajama Sam 2. | |
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In LEGO Star Wars, when C-3P0 gets hit his leg falls off and he hops to get around. | |
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Though not technically robots, there are some enemies and statues in The Legend of Zelda that get around by hopping. | |
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The Particle, and their mass produced Mark robots from Streets of Rage are only capable of hopping, with the ability to walk being non-existent despite their joints. | |
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In Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break, Montana Max controls one of these in the final battle against him. | |
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One of the Convert-A-Car's alternate forms in the Wacky Races uses 'Pogo Power'. | |
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The Egg Press from Sonic Advance. | |
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Gaston Lagaffe's Perpetual Motion Machine, a conical spring with a red ball attached to the top. After its first appearance, it is occasionally seen boinging around the office. | |
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Knight Rider: KITT can do something similar to the Red Dwarf example when the situation warrants, which is pretty much Once an Episode. The production team got through a lot of Trans-Am bodyshells for those stunts. | |
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In BattleTech, the Falconer◊ Battlemech is memetically known as being one. Due to having jump jets and legs that have no visible knees, it's a running joke that it can't actually walk and is forced to jump everywhere (which is not far off from how players tend to run it). | |
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The NES game based on Gumby have robots on spring coils pursuing Gumby, though they can be escaped from by running below them as they jump. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: The Bouncy Boss Robot and Sphere-o-Bot from Sonic Chaos. The Marvelous Queen in the second Special Stage, and the Atomic Destroyer Zone Boss 1 from Sonic Triple Trouble. The Red Volcano Zone boss from Sonic Blast is this with an added ball and chain. The Egg Press from Sonic Advance. An enemy in Sonic Frontiers is like a mobile bounce pad that Sonic's attacks will bounce off of unless he attacks with a Ground Pound specifically. |
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The Jumper enemies from Mini Robot Wars. They jump over all your units in a fashion similar to the Pogo Zombie from Plants vs. Zombies. | |
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An enemy in Sonic Frontiers is like a mobile bounce pad that Sonic's attacks will bounce off of unless he attacks with a Ground Pound specifically. | |
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Hangzo has numerous hopping robot mooks in the factory level, and a boss which is a two-legged mecha whose main attack is by hopping in and out of the screen trying to squash you underneath. | |
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The X-Bot from Heavy Weapon. Don't let him hop on your tank, it's a One-Hit Kill! | |
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Subverted in GunFu Fighter, where you fight a hopping, spider-legged mecha boss in the fourth level. Besides its turrets, the boss will also hop on you... only to fall into a crashing heap and disable itself momentarily. When it tries getting up, it's time for you to shoot it. The boss will keep on using it's ineffective hopping attack regardless how many times it backfires. | |
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Beyond Sunset has giant robots capable of hopping, in order to release a Shockwave Stomp on you. | |
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SWAT Police have Spider Tank enemies who, rather than crawling around, hops around on it's four legs instead, from one side of the area to another while firing potshots at you. | |
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As seen in the header, Big Eye from Mega Man reappears in manga form where he demonstrates his jumping ability to crush a guy. | |
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In Hue Are YouJump bot is a spring based robot Build-a made for fun. She and Build-b later made a Flip bot to go with it. | |
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GURPS 4th edition Ultratech handbook includes, in its chapter on Nano Machines, the "hopper" type—microbots that resemble metallic fleas or crickets. | |
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Slashout have robotic enemies in the Miniera Valley stage, one of them being bouncing robots on springs in place of legs who repeatedly tries leaping over and dropping on you. Appropriately enough (given the game's preference of Gratuitous Italian) these enemies are named "Molla" (springs). | |
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System Shock features robots called Hoppers, which are Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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In the RTS game Aztec Wars one of the Aztec military units is a cannon that moves by hopping around on one giant foot. | |
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The spring-like enemies in the Bubble Bobble series. If trapped in a bubble, they tend to take a very short time before breaking out. | |
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Duke Nukem II has hopping, one-eyed robots as one of the enemy types. | |
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