Bridal Carry: Difference between revisions

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Variations of this trope are common and include:

If a guy carries another guy like this, expect the [[Shipping|shippers to go nuts]].

 

 

Not to be confused with [[Tribal Carry]].

 

* Guts in ''[[Berserk]]'' does this to Casca after her successful taking of a fortress, much to her surprise. She's the [[Love Interest|only female character]] who got this treatment from Guts.

* ''[[Bleach]]''

** Yoruichi does this to Soifon in the third movie and in the anime, after her fight with Suzumebachi.

** Happens in the manga too, with Shinji and Hiyori. {{spoiler|The former saved the latter after Gin [[Half the Man He Used To Be|had cut her in half. He's carrying her top part, at least.]]}}

* Katou carried Iwaki across the threshold in the [[Boys Love]] series ''[[Haru wo Daiteita]]'', with just a little staggering and sweat on his face.

* In the [[Boys Love]] anime ''[[Junjou Romantica]]'', after Misaki sprains his ankle while escaping from captivity, Usami carries him away this way, in front of his brother and their servants. Later, he's carrying Misaki piggyback, and Misaki complains it feels silly, prompting Usami to ask "would you rather be carried like a princess?"

** The cover of Volume 14 features a magically aged-up Negi carrying Ako like this, but it's a rather tragic subversion, as Ako [[Loving a Shadow|falls in love with Negi's aged-up form]], while Negi is completely unaware that he's inadvertently leading her on. [[Love Hurts|It doesn't end well]].

** In chapter 345 Negi does this to Ayaka.

* ''[[Naruto]]''

** In the beginning of the third ''Shippuden'' movie, Naruto does this to an injured [[Ho Yay|Sai]] after going back to help him.

* Harima from ''[[School Rumble]]'' does this to Yakumo when he (mistakenly) tries to steal her away from a wedding, which is really a photoshoot.

* Sarutobi Sasuke does this three times in the ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' anime: once in his [[Embarrassing Rescue]] of Kasuga (who gets so flustered that she ends up falling out of a tree trying to get away), again saving [[Ho Yay|Yukimura]] from an explosion, and thirdly rescuing {{spoiler|Oichi}}'s body from the castle before it's destroyed.

{{quote|"The turtle who did not go to the hospital."

[[Lost in Translation|"The lard goes to a suspicious circle of inexpensive pancakes."]] }}

** Early in the 1st season, Gourry carries Lina to a town after she was injured in a fight. Much to to latter's dismay.

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]''

** The number of times Tuxedo Kamen holds Sailor Moon in this fashion (it happens more in the manga) is almost ridiculous.

* In ''[[Special A]]'', Kei does this to Hikari frequently, referring to it as the "Princess Lift." He quite obviously does it as a sign of affection, which [[Oblivious to Love|she completely misses]]. She's also a bit oblivious as to why this flusters her so much (except when she's sick, and she asks for it... completely forgetting that she did so afterwards).

* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Natsu carries Erza this way after saving her from the exploding Tower of Heaven. In a later arc, Elfman and Evergreen get gravely injured in a battle, and Elfman bridal carries the unconscious Evergreen back to the camp.

 

* In ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]] 8C: Hearts of the Yukon'', Scrooge is about to rescue a [[Playing Sick|fainted]] [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Goldie]] from a burning building... when a chunk of ice from a frozen fire hose [[Incredibly Lame Pun|knocks him out cold]]. So Goldie "comes to" and saves him instead.

* ''[[Empowered]]''

* Appropriately enough, when [[Spider-Man|Peter Parker]] and MJ Watson came back from their honeymoon, he carried her across the threshold in one arm while balancing their suitcases in the other. MJ's reaction: "I always dreamed of being carried across the threshold, but one hand? That's class!"

 

* Double subverted in the second ''[[Shrek]]'' film, where Shrek bashes Fiona into the doorframe, breaking right ''through'' the wall.

* Not exactly "carrying", but [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]] catches Wendy a couple of times like this. Later, he does the same with Wendy's daughter Jane in the sequel ''Return to Neverland''.

* There are several examples in ''[[Robot Carnival]]'': ''Starlight Angel'' has a flying scene with a robot and a girl; ''Deprive'' has a cyborg and a girl, etc., etc.

* Let's not forget Minion carrying [[Megamind]] into the office threshold style.

* In the film ''[[An Education]]'', David does this to Jenny.

* ''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]'' is the [[Trope Codifier]]. Cue the Joe Cocker song. "Love lift us up where we belong, where the eagles fly on a mountain high..."

* [[Played for Laughs]] in the [[Chris Columbus]] film ''Nine Months'', wherein Hugh Grant's character very nearly wrecks out his back carrying his very pregnant bride across the threshold.

 

* ''[[Anita Blake]]'' is shaken up by doing some "major magic" with a werewolf and drops her machismo long enough to let Jean-Claude carry her this way. Both think it's kind of romantic until Anita notices... something... about Jason's pants....

* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Prospero's Daughter|Prospero Lost]]'', Astreus carries Miranda -- "like a bride."

* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[The Monster Men]]'', Number One [[Touch of the Monster|carries Virginia off like this]]. Number Thirteen rescues her, and knowing no better, carries her in the same manner.

{{quote|''Now that he had won her, what was he to do with her? He was but an adult child, with the brain and brawn of a man, and the ignorance and inexperience of the new-born. And so he acted as a child acts, in imitation of what it has seen others do. The brute had been carrying the lovely creature, therefore that must be the thing for him to do, and so he stooped and gathered Virginia Maxon in his great arms.''}}

{{quote|''And his arms, still vigorous in spite of fatigue and suffering, closed round Marguerite's poor, weary body, and lifted her as gently as if she had been a feather. ''}}

 

 

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Angel carries Buffy like this in "Halloween" (after a spell causes Buffy to act like a [[Damsel in Distress]]), while Buffy carries her little sister Dawn to escape Glory in "Spiral". Justified as both characters have [[Super Strength]].

* ''[[Friends]]''

** In the episode "The One After Vegas", Monica and Chandler have decided they aren't ready to get married, but keep seeing "signs" that they should. At one point, Monica's hurt her leg, so Chandler gathers her up and carries her into her appartment, before they realise what they're doing.

** Another episode had Ross and Rachel parodying ''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]'': Rachel kept having to go back for stuff, so in the end Ross just dumped her on the couch.

** In "The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS", Chandler carries Monica into the hallway, but bangs her head against the doorframe.

* An episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'' from Dr Kelso's perspective had two parodies of ''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]'' with Kelso's [[Asian Baby Mama]] gathering ''him'' up in her arms while "Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong" plays in Vietnamese.

* Used in the [[Prequel]] season 6 of ''[[Kaamelott]]''. Guenièvre insists that [[King Arthur|Arthur]] carry her that way after their marriage "because it's romantic." Not just to go through a treshold, mind you, but ''as long as possible''. After some long, agonizing minutes, Arthur finally drops her like a sack of potatoes as he gets exhausted and his back gives up.

* During the ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' episode where the ''Destiny'' is invaded by the Lucian Alliance, Eli has to carry a wounded Chloe this way. He jokes that this kind of exercises could easily get him to lose some weight and that they should do it more often.

 

 

* In ''[[Paint Your Wagon (theatre)|Paint Your Wagon]]'', Ben, having married Elizabeth, tries to carry her over the threshold, but proves too drunk to pull it off.

 

* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''. In the [[Assassin's Creed II|second game]], Ezio has to carry [[Action Girl|Rosa]] to [[Damsel in Distress|safety]] after she finally collapses from an arrow wound to her leg. After running and fighting with an arrow sticking out of her leg for quite a distance, mind you.

* Beat rescues Rhyme in this manner in the opening cinematic of ''[[The World Ends With You]]''.

* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'', Riku carries Kairi during Neverland, as she has become an [[Empty Shell]] having lost her heart.

* In ''[[Fire Emblem the Blazing Sword]]'', the ending CG for Eliwood and Ninian has him carrying her this way. He does it earlier, too, after saving her from the Black Fang in chapter 7.

 

* Bo does it in one scene of ''[[Yo-Jin-Bo]]''. Muneshige and Mon-Mon give piggyback rides.

 

* ''[[Freefall]]''

** [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00430.htm Winston picks up Florence], so she doesn't have to walk on her injured leg.

* ''Dangerously Chloe'' had the "daring escape in the air" scene right in the first chapter, where the succubus protagonist [[Flight of Romance|carries above the rooftops her sort-of-boyfriend]] (to his giddy delight). Which covers both "strength" part (aside of being a demon, it was already established that she can use [[Power of Love]] in various ways) and {{spoiler|"clumsy head-bonking"}} part.

 

* ''[[South Park]]'': Jimmy carries a prostitute in "Erection Day".

* In the ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' episode "Auto Berserk", Inferno carries his friend Red Alert out of a burning building in this manner. And holds him like that for the rest of the episode.

* ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'': Kid Flash rescues Artemis from firing tanks in "Bereft" and carries her like this. She doesn't seem to mind. Then again, the two of them are suffering from [[Easy Amnesia]] at this time. Reset button in 3...2...1...

* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'': Pepe Le Pew carries Penelope like this when she faints from exhaustion in "Little Beau Pepe".

* ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'': Brad pulls off a literal version of this in "Bwar and Peace", where he's seen carrying his [[Hot Amazon|Viking bride]] around after their wedding.

{{quote|'''Brad:''' [[Mad Libs Catchphrase|Yeah husband!]] }}

 

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