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[[File:bridge-logic.gif|link=Space Quest|
{{quote|'''Milo:''' Will you look at the size of this? It's gotta be half a mile high, at least. [[Why We Can't Have Nice Things|It must have taken hundred -- no, thousands of years to carve this thing]].
''(Vinny blows it up so it falls down over a chasm)''
'''Vinny''': Hey, look, I made a bridge. It only took me, like, what? Ten seconds? Eleven, tops.
|''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]''}}
A tall object, such as a pillar or a tree, is destroyed to make a bridge over a river or chasm.
[[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|Nobody ever wonders]] how remarkable it is that said tree just happened to be about the same height as the chasm's width or placed right next to it.
Not to be confused with [[Fridge Logic]]. See also [[Improvised Platform]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the second episode of ''[[Koihime Musou]]'', Chouhi cuts down a tree that ends up crossing a chasm in order to save some villagers from a group of bandits.
* In the manhwa ''[[Dorothy of Oz (
== Films ==
* ''[[Atlantis:
* In ''[[Surviving The Game]]'', Mason bridges a ravine with a tree by cutting it ''with a shotgun''.
* In [[Shrek]], Shrek doesn't cut the tree down, but he bends it over a stream so Fiona can cross. Then, while Donkey is trying to cross, Shrek lets go of the tree, [[Tree Buchet|with predictable results.]]
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[
* Used by the explorers in ''[[The Lost World (
== Live Action TV ==
* ''The [[Young Indiana Jones]] Chronicles'': Indy's superior blows a tree with a grenade during the [[World War
== Video Games ==
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** As seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka6Tz98r3ds&feature=PlayList&p=516D2629B26DA412&index=59#movie_player here] starting at 6:52.
* In the GBA ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' games, old trees can be destroyed to make bridges over water.
* In ''[[Star Wars: Republic Commando]]'', the commandos bomb a pillar to reach the unconnected opposite side of a gap.
* In ''[[Quest for Glory IV]]'' the player knocks down a statue of an [[Eldritch Abomination]] to cross a swamp.
** In the third game, the Fighter and the Paladin have to defeat a gargoyle (who then turns back to stone), then use ''that'' to cross the chasm.
* Featured in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
* In ''[[Blue Dragon]]'', the player has to to push over a tree to make a bridge to reach a chest in the Lot Wilderness, and the Elder of Pachess Town uses the Green Device to destroy the base of a rock pillar to make a bridge over a fissure in the Giant Ice Fields.
* The Howling Halls in ''[[
* Many Sorcerer's Ring-related gimmicks in ''[[
** ''[[
** It pops up a couple times in ''[[
** Way back in the first one, ''[[
* ''[[Ghost Hunter]]'': {{spoiler|Detective Lazarus Jones uses a sniper rifle to blow up a cabin high on a cliff face by a waterfall. The debris falls into the river, floats down and fetches up against rocks in the stream forming a bridge.}}
* ''[[Guild Wars]]'': In the Nightfall campaign, there is an area in the Desolation where you have to {{spoiler|shoot a boulder with your [[Sand Worm|Junundu Wurm]]}} at a monolith to knock it down, making a bridge so you can progress. In Prophecies, there's an ancient statue that will topple when you get close, forming a bridge for you.
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** Even more surprising, they're exactly the right size to fit ''flush'' into the gap, so you walk across them like level ground.
* During ''[[Metroid|Metroid Prime: Hunters]]'''s story mode, the scan visor actually suggests blasting a piece of ruined architecture, calculating it will make a bridge.
* Happens with a tree trunk that Susano is rafting down the river with in ''[[
** Played straight, however, in the sequel ''[[
* The second ''Legend of Kyrandia'' game has a similar situation: if Zanthia tries walking across the Quicksand Bog, she'll get sucked in and die. However, there's a tree nearby that's just the right height ...
* Justified in ''Superhero League of Hoboken'', where you have to use a size-amplifying superpower to make a tree grow to the right size before knocking it down and making a dam. (Later you have to return the tree to its original size to ''undo'' the dam.)
* One of the standard Doodads (objects that are neither terrain nor player units, like... trees and bridges) in ''[[
* Happened once or twice in ''[[Rayman]] Revolution''.
* One of the things Daxter can do in ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak 3]]''.
* ''[[Space Quest]] II'', pictured above. Slightly subverted, the part of the tree that breaks off would not be long enough to cover the chasm, on a modern display's aspect ratio.
* ''[[Indiana Jones and
** And then you discover that [[Took a Shortcut|there was a shortcut]].
* First level of ''[[Ristar]]'' - you have to headbutt a tree so it falls over.
* In ''[[Drakan|Drakan: Order of the Flame]]'', after getting Arokh's Soul Crystal from Heron's crypt and returning outside, there's an old rotting tree that protagonist Rynn can push to make a makeshift bridge across a gap (and as a bonus, kill an unfortunate orc who's patrolling the other side).
* In ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[Gears of War]] 2''. You DO use a tall, hollow thing to make a bridge, but it gives out half-way.
* In ''Dark Sector'' to escape a sinking cruise ship the protagonist at one point has to blow up some crates that float and form a bride over the water.
* [[Resident Evil 5|Chris Redfield]] manages to do this using [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xuXkVzBdJQ a boulder]. Also counts as ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny]]''.
* ''Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire'' has an unusual example of this. While shooting your way through an Imperial base, you come to a chasm with a [[Broken Bridge|destroyed bridge]] and are forced to improvise a way across... ''by shooting the [[Exploding Barrels|supports]] of another bridge above you''. This bridge falls perfectly into place, [[Dropped a Bridge
* In ''[[Epic Mickey]]'', one of the ways you can get into Gremlin Village's Colosseum is by knocking over the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Eiffel Tower to make a bridge.
* ''[[
* ''[[
** Throughout [[Assassin's Creed
* Slightly subverted in ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'', where the characters actively notice that a tree is an appropriate height, and embark on a miniquest to chop it down and get it to the river.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has a variation in the Ulduar raid. One of the bosses, Kologarn, is a stone giant standing in the middle of a chasm that comes up to his waist. Killing him has his torso break off and form a convenient bridge to the other side.
* In ''Wrath of the Gods'' you have to knock down a tree to cross a chasm.
* The Legend Entertainment adaption of [[Heechee Saga|Frederik Pohl's Gateway]] has a puzzle that can be solved in this manner, if you don't want the [[Multiple Endings|good ending]] (you're trying to impress an environmentalist, so he'll return with you. Chopping down a tree is the ''opposite'' of that, even if it ''is'' exactly the right length for crossing the chasm you're trying to cross.)
* ''[[
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* In ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', Boris Badenov tries to finish off the titular characters by chopping a tree down over a gorge that Rocky and Bullwinkle are traveling under in a makeshift boat. The tree is too long, and it hits the other side of the gorge.
* Joked about on [[Invader Zim]]. Rather than using the conveniently-placed tree (even after it was pointed out), he decided to make a bridge out of his ''own teammates'' to cross the chasm.
* [[
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