History Main / BridgeLogic

Not to be confused with FridgeLogic. See also ImprovisedPlatform.

* ''Literature:WarriorCats'': The cats are able to travel to the island where they hold their gatherings thanks to a tree that conveniently falls down in ''Starlight''.

!Examples:

* One of the things Daxter can do in ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander''.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' manages to avert this troupe while still forming a bridge by felling trees at a river's edge. A BonusBoss is located on an island that can only be reached by knocking several trees into a river. Rather than a single tree spanning the length currents carry several from various locations in the zone to form a dam of sorts.

* In ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' Jak can punch at some dinosaur ribs that are half buried on Misty Island to knock them over and make bridges over the rocks.

[[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Nobody ever wonders]] how remarkable it is that the object just happened to be longer than the chasm's width or placed right next to it.

''(Vinny blows it up so it falls down over a chasm)''\\
'''Vinny''': Hey, look, I made a bridge. It only took me, like, what? Ten seconds? Eleven, tops.

* ''[[VideoGame/RebelAssault Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire]]'' has an unusual example of this. While shooting your way through an Imperial base, you come to a chasm with a [[{{BrokenBridge}} destroyed bridge]] and are forced to improvise a way across... ''by shooting the [[{{ExplodingBarrels}} supports]] of another bridge above you''. This bridge falls perfectly into place, [[{{DroppedABridgeOnHim}} killing a couple stormtroopers in the process.]]

* OlderThanTelevision: In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' (1900), the Scarecrow has the Tin Woodman do this by chopping down a tree... and then has him chop it down again, with the pursuing Kalidahs still on it.

* In ''[[VideoGame/TheLastofUs The Last of Us]]'', the player will often encounter gaps between building to building. Conveniently, however, is the fact that in such situations a ladder the exact size of the gap will always be nearby to form a makeshift bridge with.

* Featured in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime's'' Shadow Temple to reach the room before the temple boss. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' does this as well. You have to use {{Trick Arrow}}s both times to reach the base on the other side. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' lets you use good old-fashioned bombs to knock over sentry towers and cross chasms. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' lets you use axes to cut trees and create makeshift bridges, but more realistically as it doesn't always work; not only does the tree itself need to be long enough to reach the other side, but it won't work if you cut it blindly, as you need to think about where it's going to land.

* The Howling Halls in ''VideoGame/{{FableII}}'' have pillars that are conveniently the right height to bridge the spike filled pit blocking the players escape.
* Many Sorcerer's Ring-related gimmicks in ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Hearts}}'' revolve around knocking down a pillar or tree over a chasm.
** ''VideoGame/{{Tales of the Abyss}}'' does similar things with Mieu Fire.
** It pops up a couple times in ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Vesperia}}'' as well.
** Way back in the first one, ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', you use the sorceror's ring in a similar manner. Except you down pillars and walk across their widths, not lengths.

* Hermes, a sort-of-antagonist in ''TheSuffering'', launches a bus down a ravine that blocks your progress. It's uncertain whether he's deliberately creating a bridge for you, or trying to run you over.

* The second ''Legend of Kyrandia'' game has a similar situation: if Zanthia tries walking across the Quicksand Bog, she'll get sucked in and die. However, there's a tree nearby that's just the right height ...

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 2''. You DO use a tall, hollow thing to make a bridge, but it gives out half-way.
* In ''Dark Sector'' to escape a sinking cruise ship the protagonist at one point has to blow up some crates that float and form a bride over the water.

* In ''Wrath of the Gods'' you have to knock down a tree to cross a chasm.

* Inverted with the [[http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/root-bridges-cherrapungee Root Bridges of Cherrapungee]] where living tree roots are trained into a bridge

* ''[[Series/YoungIndianaJones The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'': Indy's superior blows a tree with a grenade during the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Battle of the Somme]] to make a cover long enough to reach a group of isolated Belgian soldiers that have gotten too much near the German machine guns.

* Used by the explorers in ''Literature/TheLostWorld'' to reach the mysterious plateau.

* In the GBA ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' games, old trees can be destroyed to make bridges over water.

* Featured in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime's'' Shadow Temple to reach the room before the temple boss. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' does this as well. You have to use {{Trick Arrow}}s both times to reach the base on the other side. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' lets you use good old-fashioned bombs to knock over sentry towers and cross chasms.

* ''[[Series/YoungIndianaJones The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'': Indy's superior blows a tree with a grenade during the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne Battle of the Somme]] to make a cover long enough to reach a group of isolated Belgian soldiers that have gotten too much near the German machine guns.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLastofUs'', the player will often encounter gaps between building to building. Conveniently, however, is the fact that in such situations a ladder the exact size of the gap will always be nearby to form a makeshift bridge with.

* One of the first playable quests in the web-based RPG ''DragonFable'' lampshades and double-subverts this. Your character sees a chasm in a cave and a conveniently-placed stalagmite and thinks to knock it over:

[[quoteright:320:[[VideoGame/SpaceQuest http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bridge-logic.gif]]]]

* ''SpaceQuest II'', pictured above. Slightly subverted, the part of the tree that breaks off would not be long enough to cover the chasm, on a modern display's aspect ratio.

* [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Chris Redfield]] manages to do this using [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xuXkVzBdJQ a boulder]]. Also counts as ''CrowningMomentOfFunny''.