The top of a Moving Train

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If you were a cool movie hero, death defying,
physics ignoring, immortality laughing, action protag,
then what would be the coolest move?

Running along the top of a moving train
has gotta be up there!
Frantic footsteps as you bob and weave
around tree parts, and signals and water towers,
while bad guys shoot through the ceiling
of the carriages they rule!

Or hanging from a helicopter, while the chopper
barrel rolls around the skylines of a New York
style skyscraping landscape! Deadly rotors
within inches of toetips, clutching at safety
while goons mug you off with bullets and ballet!

Or what about jumping out of a building,
right as it explodes, fiery orange silhouetting
your imposing heroic visage, arms akimbo and
legs splayed, as you fly; a friend to gravity.