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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'', episode 6, offers a subversion: The bad guy chases the girls onto the bridge, but he is too heavy for it; his first step snaps the ropes and breaks the planks, plunging him into the river below just as the girls reach the other end.
* Subverted in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', episode 171. Sailor Venus and Pluto are being chased by [[Mooks]] across a Rope Bridge, which (predictably) fails before they reach the other end, causing the mooks to plummet down. Sailor Venus conjures a magical chain to support the two of them, and it seems that all they have to do is to climb up... but a [[Reveal Shot]] follows, showing that the other end of the chain is being held by the [[Big Bad]], who happily releases it, causing the heroes to fall to certain doom. (They survive, of course
* [[Lampshaded]] in episode 33 of ''[[Detective Conan]]'': The kids get to the other side a rope bridge without a problem and Conan [[Tempting Fate|comments that this kind of bridge would always fall if it was in a movie]]... at which point, the old ropes suddenly come apart and the bridge completely collapses, leaving them with no way back.
** In the seventh movie, Hattori Heiji ''rides a motorbike'' over a collapsing rope bridge.
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* ''[[Romancing the Stone]]''
** Though that was really a trestle bridge. It was a hazard anyway.
* ''[[The Amazing Panda Adventure]]''{{context}}
* Averted in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: Dead Man's Chest,'' where the rope bridge does not sway dangerously, snap, or get cut. It's just a bridge.
* ''[[The Phantom (film)|The Phantom]]'' movie had a rope bridge the bad guys have to drive a truck over. Unsure if it will support the truck's weight, they force a native child to drive it over for them. It collapses while the bad guys are fleeing, allowing them to escape as the Phantom is forced to save the boy.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Subverted but [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''[[Narnia|The Silver Chair]]''. Eustace, Jill, and Puddleglum come to a giant stone bridge spanning a canyon. Puddleglum, who [[The Eeyore|sees a down side to everything]], is reluctant to take it, theorizing it's just too convenient and will probably vanish into thin air or something when they're halfway across.
* Subverted in ''[[
* ''[[His Dark Materials|Northern Lights]]''{{context}}
* In ''[[Kushiel's Legacy|Kushiel's Chosen]]'', island prison [[The Alcatraz|La Dolorosa]] is connected to the mainland only by a rope bridge, which has two guards on the island side armed with axes, who can cut the bridge long before anybody gets across. Joscelin's solution? [[Badass|Climb along the underside of the bridge]].
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* There ''used'' to a rope bridge spanning the great gorge in the ''[[Redwall]]'' series, but [[Big Bad|Slagar the Cruel]] burns it once he's finished crossing. The heroes then cross the gorge with a makeshift zipline, and later in the series a gigantic tree trunk is used as the bridge.
* ''[[Ketrin]]'': The entire (non-erotic) second half of [http://www.p-synd.com/ketrin/ketrin7.htm Part Seven] involves Ketrin's friend Sherinel having to cross a bridge with four lupinoid companions to get to the side of the river where he thinks Ketrin is. Subverted to the extent that it's not a rope bridge but a huge decaying wooden structure, but that just means that a) it takes a lot longer to get across, and b) it's slowly falling to bits while they're crossing it. And yes, it's hundreds of feet above a raging river.
* In the ''[[The
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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[[Category:Action Adventure Tropes]]
[[Category:Chase Scene]]
[[Category:Chekhov's Gun]]
[[Category:Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity]]
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