History Main / TakeItToTheBridge

* In the ''HeavyMetal'' episode "Harry Canyon", the exchange for the Loc-Nar occurred at the Brooklyn Bridge.
* In ''TheMatrix'', Neo was picked up by Trinity and the others under the Adams Street bridge.

-->''Take it to the bridge? Take it past the bridge? Take it to the Post Office.''
-->'''-- Bill Bailey'''

-->"''Where's that confounded bridge?''"
-->-'''[[LedZeppelin Robert Plant]]'''

-->''Bobby! Should I take 'em to the bridge?''
-->''Take 'em on to the bridge!''
-->''Should I take 'em to the bridge?''
-->''Take 'em to the bridge?''
-->''Hit me now!''
-->-'''JamesBrown "Sex Machine"'''

* The third ''SkulduggeryPleasant'' book has a scene on Dublin's Liffey Bridge, where the heroes have to trade Fletcher, the only person in the world who can open the gate for the Faceless Ones, to the Diablerie in exchange for Grand Mage Thurid Guild. Naturally, they all double-cross each other multiple times. [[spoiler:The Diablerie wins.]]

-->''?Take it to the bridge? Take it past the bridge? Take it to the Post Office.?''

* The famous Conerian Bridge in ''FinalFantasyI'', built to connect the peninsula of Coneria to the rest of the Southern Continent as reward for the Light Warriors' triumph over Garland and their rescue of Princess Sarah.
** In ''FinalFantasyIV'', the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Tower of Bab-Il]] is surrounded by a moat of magma, and thus the only access is via a suspension bridge from solid ground. After the Light Warriors disable the Super Cannon, Golbez retaliates by destroying the bridge right from under them, forcing Cid to [[CatchAFallingStar catch them]] on the deck of the Enterprise.

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[[caption-width:350:The Bridge of Eldin. Good for horseback duels ''and'' [[SuperSmashBros brawling]].]]

* In ''MetalGear Solid 3'', Naked Snake is betrayed and left for dead[[hottip:*:[[XanatosGambit or so it seems]]]] by his beloved mentor, The Boss, just as he has retrieved his target from imprisonment and they're crossing the rope bridge towards their recovery point.

** In ''FinalFantasyX'', there is one final bridge between the holy cloisters of the Temple of Bevelle and an escape route out of the city. While the party flees, Kimahri [[HeroicSacrifice insists on staying behind]] [[HoldTheLine to hold off their pursuers]]. [[WhatTheHellHero After a brief pause to realize what they're doing]], the party goes ''back'' [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind to help him and then they all escape together]].

* ''TheLostWorld'' features a huge tree which the heroes use as a bridge onto the plateau. Predictably it gets destroyed, leaving them with no choice but to go forward.

* ''{{Frantic}}''. The second attempt at a HostageForMacGuffin exchange takes place beneath a bridge across the Seine. Justified as the protagonist can threaten to throw the MacGuffin into the river if [[IHaveYourWife his wife]] isn't returned to him.

* ''{{Frantic}}''. The second attempt at a HostageForMacGuffin exchange takes place beneath a bridge across the Seine. Justified as the protagonist can threaten to throw the MacGuffin into the river if [[IHaveYourWife his wife]] isn't returned to them.

* In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, a lone bridge separates the neo-Deshima of the refugees from the capital. This is also starting points of the army/police crackdown.

* ''MetalGear Solid 3'', of course.
** Before that, ''MetalGearSolid 2'' opened with Solid Snake FastRoping off a bridge.

* And ''FinalFantasyV'' features the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome famous]] "Battle On The Big Bridge."

* In ''FinalFantasyVIII'', one of Squall's first major NotSoStoic moments takes place on the Horizon Bridge when he [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious pours his heart out to the unconscious Rinoa]] during the hike along the bridge to Esthar.

* Shadow of the Colossus has a bridge connecting the mainland to the Shrine of Worship in the Forbidden Lands. Due to the surrounding cliffs (Read: edges of the map), the bridge is the only way to enter or exit the Lands. [[spoiler:Of course it collapses at the end, trapping you and your horse and your girlfriend there.]]

* A bit of a subversion in the ''[[EdEddNEddy Ed Edd 'n Eddy]]'' episode "Dueling Eds". Rolf digs up his own pit and creates his own bridge by lifting a tree from the root so he could duel Eddy on it.

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

Unlike the misleading title, this may not always involve James Brown...or JustinTimberlake.

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* The real-life [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glienicke_Bridge Glienicke Bridge]] in {{Berlin}} used for three spy-swaps.
** Has also appeared in fiction, such as ''FuneralInBerlin''.
* Similarly, there is the former [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_No_Return "Bridge of No Return"]] in the Joint Security Area of Panmunjeom, where POW and other prisoner exchanges (such as the freeing of the crew of USS Pueblo, captured in 1968, the last men to cross the bridge) have been held since the armstice that has paused the Korean War. It was called "The Bridge of No Return" because once one crossed the bridge, they could never change their mind later on. It was officially decomissioned in 1976, and has been in disrepair ever since.
** Said bridge is depicted, inaccurately, in the prisoner exchange in ''DieAnotherDay''.
* These kinds of real life incidents are marvellously parodied in ''The Beiderbecke Connection'', which has "a dissident being smuggled over the Yorkshire-Lincolnshire border" via the Humber Bridge.
* Venice has many bridges; one of particular fame is that which connects two judicial buildings: prisoners were led across the bridge to receive their sentence, and led back to be either released or punished.
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** Has also appeared in fiction, such as ''Funeral In Berlin''.

* ''[[HalfLife Half-Life 2]] has a memorable sequence where Gordon Freeman has to get across the ''underside'' of a bridge to shut off a force field. When you finally get to cross the bridge on the surface it's not half as dramatic, apart from almost getting run over by a train.