History Main / RopeBridge

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

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* ''Machinima/FreemansMind:'' Gordon stumbles upon one of these on the cliffs outside the facility, and is ''not'' pleased about having to cross it.

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* In ''Literature/RunningWithRats'', one of the {{Dream Land}}s the protagonists infiltrate involves FloatingPlatforms connected with these.
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It's interesting in the field of BambooTechnology that they can build [[DurableDeathtrap elaborate death traps that work for a thousand years]], but can't build a rope bridge that will last for ten. Who knows, maybe it's the water or the sea air.

* In ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPartII Shin Lupin III]]'', the only way into the hidden and isolated kingdom of Kima-sankoku is via a rope bridge, which {{Samurai}} Goemon is forced to sever with his sword to keep the persistent Inspector Zenigata from following them. Zenigata manages to hold on as it falls back and slams into the cliffside. He eventually makes his way back up to safety, but Lupin and his gang are long gone.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime The Land Before Time VII: Search For The Stone Of Cold Fire]]'', in order to cross a canyon, the little dinosaurs walk across a bunch of vines. Unfortunately, [[BigEater Spike]] spots a flower on the vines and eats it, cutting the vines and sending the dinosaurs swinging into a cave.

* In the film ''Film/{{Bushwacked}}'', Daniel Stern and a group of kids have to cross a long rope bridge. Aside from one plank falling, the group make it across pretty quick - although one has to have a bit more encouragement from Daniel when he stops in the middle of the bridge. After the kids are across, Stern cuts the bridge to stop Jon Polito and Brad Sullivan from pursuing him.
* ''Film/TheColony2013'' has a bridge made of concrete and steel girders, but falling apart after years of harsh weather and neglect. [[spoiler:The expedition leader does a HeroicSacrifice blowing up the bridge to stop the cannibal tribe following them. However the remaining cannibals take the long way, and follow the SoleSurvivor back to his colony.]]

* In the 1943 ''Film/{{The Phantom|1943}}'' film serial, there's a rope bridge over a deep gorge that a gang of gun-runners need to transport their cargo across. The Phantom attempts to stop them by cutting the support ropes, but is caught in the act; a fight ensues that spills out onto the bridge, with bad guys tackling the Phantom left and right while the support ropes creak ominously and begin to part...
* The 1993 ''Film/{{The Phantom|1996}}'' 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.

* ''The Commissar'' by Creator/SvenHassel. TheSquad have to winch their tanks across an icy platform-suspension bridge. A couple of ropes snap and the platform is left hanging on an angle, but no-one gets killed.
* ''Literature/GodsAndWarriors'': As Hylas and Pirra flee from Taka Zimi in the third book, they're forced to cross a bridge that's just one rope to stand on and two other ropes to hold on to. Though Hylas has never trusted such bridges, they've nearly made it across when the Crows catch up to bombard them with arrows. The two heroes then cut the ropes, and though Telamon attempts to cross the bridge himself, he gives up when he understands he can't make it fast enough.
* ''Literature/{{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.
* There ''used'' to a rope bridge spanning the great gorge in the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series, but 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 [[BridgeLogic a gigantic tree trunk is used as the bridge]].

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'': The Dragon Aerie has numerous rope bridges, though most of them are safe and sturdy. The final, very long rope bridge, however, can be broken by the drakes flying around the area, and they will do so while you're on it if [[spoiler:you broke any of their eggs on the way through]].
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'' has a couple of rope bridges. Though they creak as you cross them, they won't actually break unless someone cuts the rope with a weapon ([[spoiler:which turns one end of the bridge into a makeshift ladder to a hidden area]]). Players simply love trolling enemies or other players in [=PvP=] by luring them onto the bridge and then collapsing it.

* There's a rope bridge near the start of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3: Snake Eater''. Surprisingly, it remains intact. [[spoiler: but a traitor does throw Snake off it.[[note]]Then it turns out she wasn't really a traitor and her defection was all a ruse.[[/note]]]]
** It's also possible to cut the rope bridge yourself. Here's a hint: don't cut the rope bridge yourself, or wait until you're off the bridge and shoot the ropes. Makes a good ambush tactic because when the bridge falls or wobbles it'll send the enemies on it flying to their deaths.

* In the episode "Zuko Alone" of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Zuko encounters one of these, a plank falling out from under his ostrich-horse. He and his animal make it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Halyah of the Himalayas", Superman defeats the Halyah by luring it on to a rope bridge, then cutting the ropes to dump the monster into a deep chasm where he can cover it in snow and put it back to sleep.

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* The ''Series/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.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Dead Man's Eleven", a rope bridge across a mere is sabotaged to dump a group of walkers in the lake (although without murderous intent for once).

* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2: The Shadow and The Flame'' had a fight with an invincible skeleton on a rope bridge. The ropes hold, but the planks don't.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' has a rope bridge incident [[spoiler:in Cloud's past]]; however, it isn't part of a chase scene; some adventurous kids just fall afoul of a rickety old bridge.
* Used for dramatic effect in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', in the very-first level. The bridge is pretty rickety in the first place, missing a long line of boards in the middle, and after you jump across there (killing half a dozen mooks in the process), other enemies cut the ropes behind you... of course, Wolverine is far too awesome to just fall down, so instead, he sticks his claws into the planks, and crawls up the bridge as it hangs vertical along the cliffside... killing half a dozen mooks along the way.
* ''VideoGame/{{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.
* ''VideoGame/HeartOfDarkness'': 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.
* ''VideoGame/TheTwistedTalesOfSpikeMcFang'' has a rope bridge on Fighter Island that automatically breaks when Spike reaches its middle, plunging him into a brief RoaringRapids sequence.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'': The Dragon Aerie has numerous rope bridges, though most of them are safe and sturdy. The final, very long rope bridge, however, can be broken by the drakes flying around the area, and they will do so while you're on it if [[spoiler:you broke any of their eggs on the way through]].
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'' has a couple of rope bridges. Though they creak as you cross them, they won't actually break unless someone cuts the rope with a weapon ([[spoiler:which turns one end of the bridge into a makeshift ladder to a hidden area]]). Players simply love trolling enemies or other players in [=PvP=] by luring them onto the bridge and then collapsing it.

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': On one of his journeys, Jack encounters massive rope bindings and wooden posts the size of buildings in no small amount, all leading up this trope. It quickly becomes clear that all the support was justified when it's shown that the bridge is literally several days long.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Chef is killed by falling off a collapsing rope bridge, into a chasm, where he is impaled on jagged rocks. He is then attacked and pulled apart by pumas and grizzly bears. After all that, he is revived (and turned into Darth Vader) by the "Super Adventurers Club."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Parodied and subverted in the episode "Mr. Plow," where Homer has to ''drive'' over one of these in a truck -- at least, so it seems until he gets halfway across, whereupon he looks over only to see a perfectly sturdy-looking iron suspension bridge just a few hundred metres down the road that he could have used instead.
--->'''Homer:''' D'oh!
** In the episode "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", Bart crosses then tears down a rope bridge while playing hookie, in a futile attempt to evade Principal Skinner.
** Played around in "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo" when the Simpsons went on a Japanese game show to win plane tickets back to Springfield. After humiliating and painful tasks, they family must grab the tickets off a rope bridge suspended over a volcano. The bridge snapped and the family fell into the lava, which turns out to be orange juice loaded with wasabi.
* For no apparent reason, one episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983 Dungeons & Dragons]]'' starts with the kids crossing one of these in a ''thunderstorm''; naturally it fulfills the trope by collapsing halfway through. (Heaven only knows how they got Eric onto the thing in the first place.)

* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TOS episode "The Devil's Tower". While making their escape from the title place, our heroes have to cross a rope bridge while an insane UsefulNotes/WorldWarI German war criminal is throwing grenades at them from a biplane. One of the grenades hits the bridge and breaks it while Dr. Quest is crossing it, requiring him to be pulled to safety.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/GummiBears'' centered around replacing an old rope bridge. The replacement is ''too'' durable, and leaves the Gummis open to an invasion.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''Tyger, Tyger'', Batman fights [[TheDragon Tygrus]], a giant half-human cat man, on a decaying rope bridge. The bridge snaps with Tygrus deflects one of Batman's batarangs, cutting the rope.

* ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' has cross one of these but Ape doesn't think it's sturdy enough to hold Shep, George's pet elephant who he thinks is a dog -- so George carries Shep over instead.
* In the episode "Zuko Alone" of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Zuko encounters one of these, a plank falling out from under his ostrich-horse. He and his animal make it.
* Rope bridges appear at least twice in ''WesternAnimation/{{Care Bears|1980s}}''.
** 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 cross just before the bridge collapses, but now they are stuck on the wrong side.
** In "The Fountain of Youth", the characters want to cross a bridge. Chief Brave Heart wants to proceed with caution, but Champ Bear rushes forward and falls through a loose plank. Brave Heart rescues Champ. Also, Beastly and Shreeky want to cut the rope but don't do so in time.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}: Prisoners of the Sun'', no sooner does the narrator tell us that an expedition "faced every possible danger imaginable" that they are shown crossing this rickety trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Godfellas", Fry and Leela hike to a monastery atop a remote mountain that can only be accessed by a rickety-looking rope bridge. They decide to test it by sending their pack mule to cross first. [[SubvertedTrope Turns out]] the bridge is actually a high-tech moving walkway that just ''looks'' like an about to collapse rope bridge.

* ''Anime/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.
* Subverted in ''Anime/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 ironically survive because of the BigBad's unwillingness to [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just let them die like that]].)

* ''Manga/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.
* Subverted in ''Anime/FairyTail''. Confronted with a rope bridge, the group lets [[ButtMonkey a clueless Natsu]] go across first. To their surprise, the bridge is perfectly safe. Only when they comment on this does Natsu realize what they did.
* In ''Manga/Brave10'', Kamanosuke, DisguisedInDrag in attempt to execute a WoundedGazelleGambit, lures Saizo and Isanami onto a rope bridge, intending to attack them there as he would have the advantage. It doesn't go exactly as planned as Kakei was too frightened to cross and is able to use his gun at a distance from Kamanosuke's [[BlowYouAway wind powers]], but ultimately the bridge still gets severed with Kamanosuke holding Isanami hostage while Saizo falls down into the ravine.

* In episode 6 of ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'', one of Headmaster Moldavite's "Stop-Hiccup-kun" magic items sends everyone onto a rope bridge in the middle of nowhere. Ruby and Tour have fun bouncing on it, leading to them breaking the bridge and making everyone fall.
* In one episode of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Nanami and her girl posse are in India [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to track down another sample of the magic curry powder they think is responsible for Utena and Anthy's]] FreakyFridayFlip. At one point they have to cross a narrow rope bridge across a gorge, and suddenly find themselves attacked by a herd of stampeding elephants.

* The climax of the first short of ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' takes place on a collapsing rope bridge.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''. It does collapse, but only after being set ''on fire'' by a dragon (never mind that it was 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.

* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' animated movie.
* A rope bridge over a river of lava serves as the entrance to Atlantis in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. It gets blown up by an explosives charge in the climax. Earlier, a rock bridge collapses as the expedition tries to escape an attack on their camp, sending everyone to the bottom, though unharmed and with their equipment intact and putting them much closer to Atlantis.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Kuzco only truly begins to become a better person after he and Pacha have to work together to survive the collapse of a rope bridge. (Something of a subversion in that they actually do fall off the bridge into the chasm, and are just lucky enough to get stuck in a choke-point before hitting the crocodile-infested river.)

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', where Indiana Jones himself cuts the bridge when trapped in the middle by bad guys on both sides.
* ''Film/RomancingTheStone'': Though that was really a trestle bridge. It was a hazard anyway.

* In the 1943 ''Film/{{The Phantom|1943}}'' film serial, there's a rope bridge over a deep gorge that a gang of gun-runners need to transport their cargo across. The Phantom attempts to stop them by cutting the support ropes, but is caught in the act; a fight ensues that spills out onto the bridge, with bad guys tackling the Phantom left and right while the support ropes creak ominously and begin to part...
* The 1993 ''Film/{{The Phantom|1996}}'' 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.
* {{Lampshaded}} in ''Film/TheLibrarian''. [[spoiler: While crossing a large wooden bridge, he expresses surprise that it would hold the weight, and bounces on the board. He falls through, and is rescued. Cue the bridge collapsing.]]
* Bully cuts down one while being chased by the natives in ''Film/NateAndHayes''.
* ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'' has a sci-fi take on this trope, with the old and damaged platform leading to the reactor. But instead of a ''Franchise/StarWars''-type abyss the platform passes low over a horde of sleeping carnivorous mutants.

* In the 1992 film ''Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth'', three characters exploring an island have to cross a rope bridge, which begins to break while they're on it. Instead of holding onto it, the characters jump off (or rather one character pushes the other two off before jumping) into the river below -- which is much closer to the bridge than usual.
* In ''Film/JustBeforeDawn'', one character encounters the killer at the end of one, who cuts his hand with his machete, and then the ropes holding the bridge. [[spoiler:In the original draft of the film, the reveal of the killer having a twin brother was also supposed to happen in this scene]].

* In ''Film/SummerCampNightmare'', the broken rope bridge that connects between Camp North Pines and Camp South Pines, which Mr. Warren tells the children not to use because it is dangerous, appears a few times used by the teenagers. The first time it was used, Franklin Reilly used it as a daring test to prove his theory about overcoming fear. The other two times it was used, it was used as punishment for both John Mason (for raping Debbie Stewart) and Donald Poultry (for attempting to call for help through the telephone lines).

* In the {{Wuxia}} movie ''Film/TheLadyHermit'', Chin Tsui-peng (Szu Shih) is trying to get across a rope bridge, with minions of the crime boss Black Demon to either side of her. On one side, the men decide to cut the bridge, but she manages to hang on, defeat the criminals who also held on, and reach the other side.

* There ''used'' to a rope bridge spanning the great gorge in the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series, but 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.

* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' parody ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'', Goodgulf the wizard performs his YouShallNotPass scene on a rope bridge [[spoiler:which the Fellowship chop down with him on it]].
* ''Literature/ComeTumblingDown'': The temple of the Drowned Gods is reached by a rickety bridge over a storm-tossed ocean, allowing the Gods to engineer "accidents" when they want to claim someone. [[spoiler:Kade]] slips on the bridge, then deliberately falls into the ocean rather than endanger the others. [[spoiler:Luckily for them, the Drowned Gods return him later.]]
* ''Literature/GodsAndWarriors'': As Hylas and Pirra flee from Taka Zimi in the third book, they're forced to cross a bridge that's just one rope to stand on and two other ropes to hold on to. Though Hylas has never trusted such bridges, they've nearly made it across when the Crows catch up to bombard them with arrows. The two heroes then cut the ropes, and though Telamon attempts to cross the bridge himself, he gives up when he understands he can't make it fast enough.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' features a rope bridge that doesn't collapse when (very large) Hurley crosses it, but does when the much smaller Charlie follows him. It is possible that Hurley strained the bridge enough to weaken it so that it could break when Charlie tries to cross it.

** A rope bridge shows up in the serial "The Keys of Marinus" in the ''very first season'' and is 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 [[SpecialEffectsFailure clearly could have just jumped over the chasm]].
** 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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* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Mighty Little Defenders'' episode 11, the goats chase after the wolves, who are running away with Mr. Slowy and Grany Dao Yang. The goats come across a rope bridge, which is cut by the wolves who have already made it to the other side. Thankfully, Tibbie uses her bow and arrow to create a big vine to catch everyone before they fall too far down the cliff below.
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-->'''Cera:''' ''(To Spike)'' Don't ever. do that. AGAIN!

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* In ''Literature/RunningWithRats'', one of the {{Dream Land}}s the protagonists infiltrate involves FloatingPlatforms connected with these.
* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' version three has a rope bridge over a ravine, but subverts the collapsing part by having it be about as durable as you'd expect from a bridge on a military base. Gabe [=McCallum=] {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this while crossing it and wondering if it'll fall, reminding himself that the military wouldn't risk men and equipment by making a bridge that wasn't sturdy.

* For no apparent reason, one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983'' starts with the kids crossing one of these in a ''thunderstorm''; naturally it fulfills the trope by collapsing halfway through. (Heaven only knows how they got Eric onto the thing in the first place.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime The Land Before Time VII: Search For The Stone Of Cold Fire]]'', in order to cross a canyon, the little dinosaurs walk across a bunch of vines. Unfortunately, [[BigEater Spike]] spots a flower on the vines and eats it, cutting the vines and sending the dinosaurs swinging into a cave.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeVIISearchForTheStoneOfColdFire'', in order to cross a canyon, the little dinosaurs walk across a bunch of vines. Unfortunately, [[BigEater Spike]] spots a flower on the vines and eats it, cutting the vines and sending the dinosaurs swinging into a cave.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan''

* For no apparent reason, one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' starts with the kids crossing one of these in a ''thunderstorm''; naturally it fulfills the trope by collapsing halfway through. (Heaven only knows how they got Eric onto the thing in the first place.)

* In ''[[Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket Shin Lupin III]]'', the only way into the hidden and isolated kingdom of Kima-sankoku is via a rope bridge, which {{Samurai}} Goemon is forced to sever with his sword to keep the persistent Inspector Zenigata from following them. Zenigata manages to hold on as it falls back and slams into the cliffside. He eventually makes his way back up to safety, but Lupin and his gang are long gone.

** Parodied and subverted in the episode "Mr. Plow," where Homer has to ''drive'' over one of these in a truck - at least, so it seems until he gets halfway across, whereupon he looks over only to see a perfectly sturdy-looking iron suspension bridge just a few hundred metres down the road that he could have used instead.
-->'''Homer''': D'oh!
** In the episode "The Boy Who Knew Too Much," Bart crosses then tears down a rope bridge while playing hookie, in a futile attempt to evade Principal Skinner.
** Played around in "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" when the Simpsons went on a Japanese game show to win plane tickets back to Springfield. After humiliating and painful tasks, they family must grab the tickets off a rope bridge suspended over a volcano. The bridge snapped and the family fell into the lava, which turns out to be orange juice loaded with wasabi.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Dead Man's Eleven", a rope bridge across a mere is sabotaged to dump a group pf walkers in the lake (although without murderous intent for once).

** The first example occurred in the episode, "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village", the protagonists attempt to cross a rope bridge, but the wind rips the bridge apart. Brock loses his grip and falls into the river while Ash manage to keep his grip and pulls himself to safety with Misty and Pikachu clinging on him.

* ''Film/TheColony'' has a bridge made of concrete and steel girders, but falling apart after years of harsh weather and neglect. [[spoiler:The expedition leader does a HeroicSacrifice blowing up the bridge to stop the cannibal tribe following them. However the remaining cannibals take the long way, and follow the SoleSurvivor back to his colony.]]

* ''Film/TheLadyHermit'' has a confrontation scene in the middle of a rope bridge where the heroine is cornered by thugs approaching from both sides, where she ends up hacking the bridge into half, much like the Indy example above. That movie predates Indiana Jones by nearly a decade by the way.

* In the {{Wuxia}} movie ''The Lady Hermit'', Chin Tsui-peng (Szu Shih) is trying to get across a rope bridge, with minions of the crime boss Black Demon to either side of her. On one side, the men decide to cut the bridge, but she manages to hang on, defeat the criminals who also held on, and reach the other side.

* ''Literature/WaywardChildren'': The temple of the Drowned Gods is reached by a rickety bridge over a storm-tossed ocean, allowing the Gods to engineer "accidents" when they want to claim someone. [[spoiler:Kade]] slips on the bridge, then deliberately falls into the ocean rather than endanger the others. [[spoiler:Luckily for them, the Drowned Gods return him later.]]