History Main / OffBridgeOntoVehicle

* Franchise/{{Tintin}} did it twice in "[[Recap/TintinTheBlackIsland The Black Island]]". The first time, he failed.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'' has the heroes jumping from the bridge to the Eisengraf train stationed at Roer in order to rescue Alisa's mom who is held hostage. Said train is also moving because the jaegers alerted everyone of intruders.

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* Comical variation in ''Manga/{{Change 123}}'': When one of the heroine's {{Split Personalit|y}}ies is about to start a fight, she suddenly jumps off the footbridge -- not to ''escape'', but because she had recklessly put away her purse onto the railing and later pushed it down with her elbow, so she has to jump down (onto a truck) to fetch it.

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* Just For Men hair coloring. A female neighbor asks to borrow some milk, which the guy doesn't have. He jumps out a window onto a truck passing by underneath.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}''. Bolt jumps onto a train from a bridge, with reluctant prisoner Mittens and delusional fanboy Rhino in tow. Rhino reassures Mittens that he does it all the time in the "magic box", which is how she realizes that Bolt's just an actor in a TV show.
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* In ''Film/{{Hunted 1952}}'', the two fugitive heroes jump from a bridge onto a slow-moving train.

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* ''Disney/{{Bolt}}''. Bolt jumps onto a train from a bridge, with reluctant prisoner Mittens and delusional fanboy Rhino in tow. Rhino reassures Mittens that he does it all the time in the "magic box", which is how she realizes that Bolt's just an actor in a TV show.

* In ''Film/ThisGunForHire'', Raven escapes the police at the rail yard by leaping of a rail bridge onto a moving train.

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* Franchise/{{Tintin}} did it twice in "[[Recap/TintinTheBlackIsland The Black Island]]". The first time, he failed.

* ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'': When some car thieves pull onto a busy Gotham freeway Tim takes a shortcut to a bridge over it in his Redbird and then leaps down onto the truck they're driving.

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* In ''Film/{{Salt}}'', Evelyn Salt escapes from her pursuers by leaping off a highway overpass onto a truck.
* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''. Morpheus orders Trinity to get the Keymaker to safety, and she does so by jumping with him off the bridge and landing on a truck carrying motorcycles. Later on Morpheus is shown on top of a truck, implying that he did the same thing.
* ''Film/HudsonHawk''. While escaping from the Vatican, Eddie ends up on top of a light pole. He flips off of it and lands on a bus passing underneath him.
* Played with in ''Film/MenInBlack'' during the ColdOpening, when Jay is seen chasing a perp who jumps onto a tour bus full of {{Japanese Tourist}}s. Instead of watching the perp get away, Jay jumps down after said perp.
* ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''. Butch and Sundance are forced to jump off a cliff to escape a pursuing posse: they land in a river and are carried away downstream.
* ''Film/TheFirm''. Mitch [=McDeere=] escapes from the big bads in his Firm by smashing his office window and plummeting onto a truck filled with bales of cotton.
* ''Film/TheFugitive'' (1993). In order to escape Deputy U.S. Marshal Gerard, Doctor Kimble does a Peter Pan off the side of a dam into the river below and is swept away by the current.
** He does it in the 2000 TV series remake as well.
* ''Film/USMarshals''. Mark Sheridan jumps off the top of a building holding a rope, swings over and lands on top of a passing train.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/BetterOffDead''. Lane Meyer, planning to do himself in by jumping off a bridge, is talked out of it by his friend Charles. Then Charles gives him a back-slap that sends him falling from the bridge into a garbage truck.

* The ActionPrologue in ''Film/TheMechanic2011'' ends with the ProfessionalKiller leaping off a bridge while a barge passes beneath. Rather than a desperate improvisation, it's all part of a meticulously planned contract killing. He manages to upstage this in the sequel, escaping pursuers by jumping off a cable car onto a hang glider which happened to be flying beneath!
* In ''Film/{{Hunted 1952}}'', the two fugitive heroes jump from a bridge onto a slow-moving train.
* In ''Film/UnderworldAwakening'', Selene [[EscapedFromTheLab escapes the lab]] by jumping from a window onto a truck that's passing by below.

* An inadvertent and unwanted version happens in ''Film/BetterOffDead''. Lane is preparing to commit suicide by throwing himself off an overpass when a slap on the back from his friend Charles sends him over the edge, only for him to land in a garbage truck that was passing underneath.
* During the LeParkour chase in ''Film/TheManFromKangaroo'', the mugger attempts to escape John by dropping off a bridge on to the roof of a tram that is passing underneath. John follows by jumping into a much lower cart that is following the tram.

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* In the spy thriller ''The Man Who Was Saturday'', the protagonist escapes pursuit by jumping off a bridge onto a passing barge. He breaks a leg on the landing, and it doesn't heal neatly, either.

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* In ''Series/DayBreak2006'', Hopper jumps from a footbridge onto a moving metro to escape his pursuers.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. To cure Angel from a poisoned arrow fired by rogue vampire slayer Faith, Buffy needs the blood of a Slayer. So Buffy and Faith fight to the death, but when it looks like Buffy will win, Faith throws her injured body off the building onto passing truck as a final TakeThat to her rival.

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* Used by WesternAnimation/BugsBunny in the {{Anvilicious}} ''WesternAnimation/CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue'' when explaining that "My friends were doing it" is no excuse for getting into drugs; even if the others weren't being malicious, a bad idea is a bad idea.
* ''WesternAnimation/BooBoomTheLongWayHome'': Episode 25, Boo-Boom does this in order to get onto the train that is carrying his parents to a prison camp, after the original plan to keep the train from departing fails.

* In ''Series/DayBreak'', Hopper jumps from a footbridge onto a moving metro to escape his pursuers.

* In ''Film/{{Underworld}} 4'', Selene [[EscapedFromTheLab escapes the lab]] by jumping from a window onto a truck that's passing by below.

* On ''{{Leverage}}'' team [[ClassyCatBurglar thief]] Parker does this when cornered by a security guard at a company they are infiltrating. She back flips off the balcony and hangs on below by her fingertips.

* ''Film/TheFirm''. Mitch McDeere escapes from the big bads in his Firm by smashing his office window and plummeting onto a truck filled with bales of cotton.

* Un ''Film/BatmanReturns'', Batman knocks Catwoman of the roof of a building, only for her to escape when she lands in the back of a truck full of sand.

* Used by WesternAnimation/BugsBunny in the {{Anvilicious}} ''CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue'' when explaining that "My friends were doing it" is no excuse for getting into drugs; even if the others weren't being malicious, a bad idea is a bad idea.

* The ActionPrologue in ''Film/TheMechanic2011'' ends with the ProfessionalKiller leaping off a bridge while a barge passes beneath. Rather than a desperate improvisation, it's all part of a meticulously planned contract killing.

* ''WesternAnimation/BuBumLaStradaVersoCasa'': Episode 25, Bu-Bum does this in order to get onto the train that is carrying his parents to a prison camp, after the original plan to keep the train from departing fails.