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* ''FutariWaPrettyCure'', 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.

* ''{{InuYasha}}'': Jaken and Rin are confronted by a villain in the middle of a rope bridge. In a subversion, the bridge breaks because Jaken's attempt to defend himself and Rin relies on fire which burns the ropes and breaks the bridge causing all three of them to plunge into the gorge below.

* ''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.
* ''Film/{{Romancing The Stone}}''

* Averted in ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest,'' where the rope bridge does not sway dangerously, snap, or get cut. It's just a bridge.

* Certain mountain passes in ''TheMagicCandle'' have gaps that can't be crossed without a rope. Mercifully, the rope will stay there as a permanent bridge and never break. (And if that's not good enough, you can use the [[NitroBoost Flee command ]]to [[GoodBadBug skip right over]] the map square in question!)

* Subverted in ''SailorMoon'', episode 171. Sailor Venus and Pluto are being chased by {{Mooks}} across a RopeBridge, 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 RevealShot follows, showing that the other end of the chain is being held by the BigBad, who happily releases it, causing the heroes to fall to certain doom. (They survive, of course — ironically, because of the BigBad's unwillingness to [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just let them die like that]].)

* In TamoraPierce's ''[[TortallUniverse The Realms of the Gods]]'', Daine and Numair are attacked while crossing a rickety rope bridge (says Daine: "It could be worse. It could be raining!"), although it doesn't actually collapse.

* {{Blockland}}: This is true of virtually every rope bridge. Ever. It actually got to the point where a rope bridge was built and advertised simply because it ''didn't'' collapse.

* Dusky Bridge in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations''.
** Which, unlike most examples of the trope, it actually stood up despite missing large gaps... [[spoiler: until it was struck by lightning and caught on fire. Phoenix actually tried to cross it at this point, but it (of course) failed.]]

* In the film version of ''HortonHearsAWho'', Horton has to cross a bridge to Mt. Nool with the entire Who planet dangling on a speck of dust on his trunk!

* An episode of ''CaptainNTheGameMaster'' had a scene with a deteriorating rope bridge. Fortunately there was a stalactite handing just above the unstable post on the far end, which, when blasted loose by Kevin, impaled the rope and pinned it safely to the cliff.

* Rope bridges appear at least twice in ''WesternAnimation/CareBears1980s''.
** In "Caring for Spring", Beastly uses a PaperThinDisguise to lure Hugs and Tugs to the wrong side of a bridge. They cross, and Beastly starts cutting the rope. They make the return crossing just before the bridge collapses.

* Dusky Bridge in ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Trials and Tribulations''.

--> "Don't panic... Whoever built this bridge obviously took into account that elephants will be crossing it."

* The ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' episode "Hero's Heart" starts with Iolaus having a crisis of confidence after failing to save a woman from falling from one of these.

* ''GeorgeOfTheJungle'': George has to cross one of these but Ape doesn't think it's sturdy enough to hold Shep[[hottip:*:George's pet elephant who he thinks is a dog]] - so George carries Shep over instead.

* In ''[[KushielsLegacy Kushiel's Chosen]]'', island prison [[TheAlcatraz 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]].

* In TamoraPierce's ''The Realms of the Gods'', Daine and Numair are attacked while crossing a rickety rope bridge (says Daine: "It could be worse. It could be raining!"), although it doesn't actually collapse.

* ''{{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.

* ''Original Adventure'' (''Colossal Caves Adventure'') from the 1970s has you crossing a bridge where there is an angry bear on the other side which is guarding a valuable chain. You calm the bear down [[spoiler:by feeding it]], and then you have to make sure the bear isn't following you, because if you and the bear cross the bridge, it will collapse and you're killed.

* [[http://blockland.us Blockland]]: This is true of virtually every rope bridge. Ever. It actually got to the point where a rope bridge was built and advertised simply because it ''didn't'' collapse.

* ''Heart Of Darkness'': During the attack on the Amigos' village by the Master's winged minions, Andy has to cross one of these, and, unsurprisingly, it comes crashing down thanks to a stray fireball.

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* Bully cuts down one while being chased by the natives in ''Film/NateAndHayes''.

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* In the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, ''Bridge of San Luis Rey'' (1927) tells the story of a group of people who die when an Incan rope bridge in Peru collapses. The novel follows a priest, who had witnessed the accident, who goes around learning about the people who died and why the were on the bridge.

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* In the climax of ''TheKingAndI'' animated movie.

* ''Film/ThePhantom'' 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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