History DroppedABridgeOnHim / LiveActionFilms

* Creator/JamesCameron was very critical of the above, given his characters from ''Aliens'' were offed unceremoniously. So it's somewhat ironic he did the same by suggesting the opening scene of ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'', where only a few years after ''Film/Terminator2JudgementDay'', an unexpected T-800 appears and shoots John Connor.

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' also has Dr. Vivienne Graham, a major character in ''Film/Godzilla2014'', gets eaten by King Ghidorah in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement This has not sat well with]] [[Creator/SallyHawkins the actress]]' fans...

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' also has Dr. Vivienne Graham, a major character in ''Film/Godzilla2014'', gets eaten by King Ghidorah in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment This has not sat well with]] [[Creator/SallyHawkins the actress]]' fans...

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' also has Dr. Vivienne Graham, a major character in ''Film/Godzilla2014'', gets eaten by King Ghidorah in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment.

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* Looks to be what happens to most of the cast of the first ''GIJoe'' film in the sequel, ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation''. Marlon Wayans, the actor who played Ripcord in the first film, jokingly mentioned that Ripcord was killed offscreen by friendly fire.

* ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' sets up [[spoiler: Bryan Cranston's character]] as a major protagonist with an integral role in the story. Minutes after [[spoiler: the male MUTO]] gets released, he LITERALLY gets a bridge dropped on him and dies without warning.

* From ''Film/StarWars'':

* [[spoiler: Hogun, Fandral and Volstagg]] are all casually dispatched by Hela near the beginning of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', in a cross between a Bridge Drop and TheWorfEffect to demonstrate how powerful she is. Worse, we don't even get to see Thor mourn their deaths [[spoiler: despite them having been three of his closest friends and allies in the previous movies]], and poor [[spoiler: Fandral]] doesn't even get ''any lines'' before Hela skewers him.
** Earlier examples are in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' where The Other (Thanos's servant who serves as contact between him and Loki without revealing Thanos's identity until the end of ''Film/TheAvengers'') gets his head twisted 180 degrees by Ronan for WorfEffect, and ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' where Baron von Strucker, the shadowy Hydra agent seen at the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', is killed offscreen by Ultron shortly after capture.

*** Many Jedi die quite abruptly, but CanonImmigrant Aayla Secura is executed particularly brutally, being shot over and over as if to assure us that she's really dead. Amazingly, some people still [[HesJustHiding insisted that she wasn't]].

*** Count Dooku was powerful enough to [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] Obi-Wan and [[TheChosenOne Anakin]], and go head-to-head with [[BadassGrandpa Yoda]]. [[TooCoolToLive He gets killed]] unceremoniously in the first fifteen minutes of Episode III because Anakin's power has grown beyond Dooku at this point.

** As originally written and filmed, Kirk was shot {{in the back}} by Soran, but test audences really didn't like that at all. So they went back to the Valley of Fire and reshot the scene to have Kirk having to get Soran's remote while on a collapsing bridge, finally getting to use it just as the bridge gives out. So, Kirk was actually dropped ''with'' the bridge; it just ended up landing on top of him.

* Randy Meeks, who provided the "rules" for the first three ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'' films gets unexpectedly yanked into Gale's news van about halfway through the second film during a telephone call with the killer (who had been hiding in the van), and is then stabbed to death. The same goes with Cotton Weary who, after getting a BigDamnHeroes moment at the end of the second film, is killed off in the opening prologue of the third in about ten minutes of screentime.

* In ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', Captain James T. Kirk dispatches Kalara, the woman who lured the ''Enterprise'' to the nebula to be destroyed by Krall, in this way. Literally. Specifically, he drops the bridge of the crashed Starship ''Enterprise'' on top of her. Along with [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill the rest of the wreckage of the saucer.]] Since by this time she's become the film's HateSink, having been directly responsible for the destruction of the ship, along with the brutal death of hundreds of her crew, the audience is probably pretty happy to see her disappear, crushed under millions of tons of wreckage.

* The character of Tank was killed between the first and second ''Film/TheMatrix'' films after the actor, Marcus Chong, was involved in an especially messy contract dispute. An alternate interpretation averts this trope if one chooses to believe that Tank died from the injuries he sustained during the first movie, thus turning his CrowningMomentOfAwesome into a HeroicSacrifice.

*** Supreme Leader Snoke's death happens midway through the film. Ky;lo Ren bisects him with Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber and he falls over dead, and that's about it. There is a moment given for him to appreciate the fact that his apprentice just turned on him, but it doens't last long, and then it's on to the BackToBackBadasses scene.

* From ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIIRevengeOfTheSith'':
** Many Jedi die quite abruptly, but CanonImmigrant Aayla Secura is executed particularly brutally, being shot over and over as if to assure us that she's really dead. Amazingly, some people still [[HesJustHiding insisted that she wasn't]].
** Averted with Mace Windu. Samuel Jackson explicitly refused to participate in the movie if a bridge was to be dropped on his character. That said, his death scene was one of the most memorable of the film.
** Count Dooku was powerful enough to [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] Obi-Wan and [[TheChosenOne Anakin]], and go head-to-head with [[BadassGrandpa Yoda]]. [[TooCoolToLive He gets killed]] unceremoniously in the first fifteen minutes of Episode III because Anakin's power has grown beyond Dooku at this point.

* [[Creator/LuisBunuel Luis Buñuel]]'s final film ''That Obscure Object of Desire'' features a May-December romance couple where in the young girl keeps on breaking the old man's heart, but he keeps winning her back over and over again. The final scene sees them walking happily only to start arguing again and suddenly the screen is consumed by a random explosion that kills them.

* ''NoCountryForOldMen'''s Llewellyn Moss is killed offscreen. And NOT by Anton Chigurh, the guy chasing him almost the entire movie. Possible subversion in that it was more than likely that this was a deliberate move -- it's not the film's only moment where audience expectations are completely turned on their heads.

** Fans of James Norrington also regarded felt he got this treatment (and possibly Governor Swann as well). Though at least Creator/KeiraKnightly and Jack Davenport got to do some really enormous acting in the process.

* ''Film/XMen'':

** See also the franchise's entry on the {{Mcleaned}} page, as the reason for this abrupt and poorly-explained offscreen death was allegedly that Vin Diesel and the producers didn't part on good terms.

* Gaston's death in ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast'', though in this case the bridge literally collapsed from under him.