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== [[Film]] == |
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* Subverted in ''[[Shrek]]''. It does collapse, but only after being set ''on fire'' by a dragon (never mind that it was [[Convection Schmonvection|suspended over a lava pit]]). Previously it held up just fine despite a several-hundred pound ogre rocking back and forth on it to prove a point. |
* Subverted in ''[[Shrek]]''. It does collapse, but only after being set ''on fire'' by a dragon (never mind that it was [[Convection, Schmonvection|suspended over a lava pit]]). Previously it held up just fine despite a several-hundred pound ogre rocking back and forth on it to prove a point. |
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* ''[[Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom]]'', where Indiana Jones himself cuts the bridge when trapped in the middle by bad guys on both sides. |
* ''[[Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom]]'', where Indiana Jones himself cuts the bridge when trapped in the middle by bad guys on both sides. |
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* ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' |
* ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' |
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* ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' featured a rope bridge that didn't collapse when (very large) Hurley crossed it, but did when the much smaller Charlie followed him. |
* ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' featured a rope bridge that didn't collapse when (very large) Hurley crossed it, but did when the much smaller Charlie followed him. |
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** It is possible that Hurley strained the bridge enough to weaken it so that it could break when Charlie tried to cross it. |
** It is possible that Hurley strained the bridge enough to weaken it so that it could break when Charlie tried to cross it. |
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* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', a [[Rope Bridge]] showed up in the serial "The Keys of Marinus" in the ''very first season'' and was used to trap the protagonists on the wrong side of a chasm inside a spacious ice-cave. They put it back together with the help of stalactites (or were they stalagmites?) even though they [[Special Effects Failure|clearly could have just jumped over the chasm]]. |
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** In ''Voyage of the Damned'' they have to cross a sort of rickety-bridge. It's not made of rope, but {{spoiler|one of the people shocks us by falling off before he gets on the bridge, and one jumps off voluntarily, taking the host with her}}, so it seems to fit the trope, or at least subverting it. |
** In ''Voyage of the Damned'' they have to cross a sort of rickety-bridge. It's not made of rope, but {{spoiler|one of the people shocks us by falling off before he gets on the bridge, and one jumps off voluntarily, taking the host with her}}, so it seems to fit the trope, or at least subverting it. |
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* The ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' episode "Hero's Heart" starts with Iolaus having a crisis of confidence after failing to save a woman from falling from one of these. |
* The ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' episode "Hero's Heart" starts with Iolaus having a crisis of confidence after failing to save a woman from falling from one of these. |
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