History Main / TakeItToTheBridge

** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' features Indy, Short Round and Willie trapped in the middle of a rope bridge with the bad guys surrounding them. Indy: "[[OhCrap Oh,]] [[PrecisionFStrike shit]]."

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'': The first battle against Tai Lung takes place on a bridge. On top of being a really cool setpiece, it represents the turning point where Po has no choice but to face him, as every other member of Shifu's temple has fallen. Tai Lung also learns who Po is on the bridge when his name is accidentally blurted out, so by this point both side of the conflict knows who the other is and are preparing for the final battle that will decide the fate of China.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': The first battle against Tai Lung takes place on a bridge. On top of being a really cool setpiece, it represents the turning point where Po has no choice but to face him, as every other member of Shifu's temple has fallen. Tai Lung also learns who Po is on the bridge when his name is accidentally blurted out, so by this point both side of the conflict knows who the other is and are preparing for the final battle that will decide the fate of China.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' features the Big Bridge, a grand structure across the ocean which connects the continents of the West (allied) and the East (Exdeath's domain.) When Galuf crosses this bridge, alone, to rescue his captive friends, he's met by [[TheDragon Gilgamesh]] and the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic famous]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycO1_T6sLHw Battle On The Big Bridge]] theme plays, which became so iconic of the battle it has become Gilgamesh's personal theme song.

* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', Neo was picked up by Trinity and the others under the Adams Street bridge.

* ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'': The bridge leading to The Core is an important motif in the story, as any who cross it will be killed by the machine's automatic defenses. Twice it's used as a MercyKill, or at least seen that way by the ones who orchestrate it. [[spoiler: Priest allows the refugee children he cares for to cross it, while Rampage cradles a slaver's daughter atop it to end her suffering after her mother dies.]] Notably, Blackjack detests both of these actions and sees them as needless cruelty, due to her own history with sacrificing others.

* In ''Film/ShowMeLove'' (or ''Fucking Åmål'' if you prefer), Agnes and Elin share their first real kiss on a bridge.

* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': The final battle is centered almost entirely around the Bifröst Bridge. The heroes have to hold the bridge [[spoiler:from Hela and her forces while evacuating Asgardian civilians]].

* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', it is at the Bridge of Khazad-dûm where Gandalf the Grey fights the Balrog, and falls.

* ''Series/TheBridge2011'' revolves around a body being dumped on the Øresund bridge that links Copenhagen, Denmark with Malmö, Sweden, exactly on the Dano-Swedish border, causing JurisdictionFriction between the two cities' police forces.

* In ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' the [[http://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=185 Øresund bridge]] marks the end of the Known World. Made almost symbolic by it being shrouded in mist with other end invisible, as the Silent World is a mystery.

* Likewise, 12th Century Japan has the tale of the warrior monk [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkei Benkei]] who stood at Gojō Bridge in Kyoto, disarming passing swordsmen, and reputedly fought 999 samurai, taking their swords, only to be defeated by the 1000th he faced, Minamoto no Yoshitsune. He followed Yoshitsune for two years, eventually dying at another bridge while defending against an army, giving Yoshitsune time to commit seppuku.

** ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'': That structure Luke fled onto before having his hand cut off and getting hit with a [[LukeIAmYourFather paternal revelation]] might or might not have been a bridge, it's hard to tell, but it certainly looks like one. Notably, the part he was trapped on was a dead end.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', the entrance to the town of San Ricardo is a bridge. It's on the bridge where Puss experiences his greatest moment of shame, for which he has been [[TheAtoner trying to atone for]], and it's there that he [[spoiler:and Humpty Dumpty]] find redemption in the climax.

* ''[[Series/TheBridgeUS The Bridge]]'' prominently features a bridge. This one is the bridge over the Rio Grande between the US and Mexico at El Paso/Ciudad Juarez. The bridge is also a metaphor for the cultural divide between the two countries. The premise is that a body was dumped exactly on the border to create JurisdictionFriction.
** It is an American remake of ''Series/BronBroen'', a Sweedish/Danish series with exactly the same concept.
** ''Series/TheTunnel'' is exactly the same premise but with The Chunnel between France and Britain.

* The ''Franchise/FateSeries''' Fuyuki City has a red bridge (based on the [[https://en.japantravel.com/hyogo/kobe-ohashi-bridge/9671 Kobe Ohashi]]) as a prominent backdrop for several scenes, including Rider's last stand against Gilgamesh in ''LightNovel/FateZero'' and Saber's long-distance battle with Archer in ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia''.

** [[spoiler:A flashback shows Higgs and Fragile underneath a bridge in the ruins outside South Knot City, with the latter being forced to make a SadisticChoice of either allowing the city to be destroyed by a nuke or carrying said nuke away while exposed to timefall.]]
** Sam Bridges himself. He effectively acts as a bridge for the remnants of civilization by making deliveries and bringing America onto the chiral network, which is further emphasized by [[spoiler:Cliff calling him mankind's "bridge to the future" in his dying moments.]]