Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait that connects San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Built between 1933 and 1937 by engineer Joseph Strauss, it is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of both San Francisco and California, and is also one of the most recognized bridges in the world.
Due to its prominence, the bridge has been used in a variety of media in all shapes and formats, usually shown or mentioned when San Francisco, California is the setting of a story.
== Name ==
The bridge is named after the Golden Gate strait, the body of water that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, located underneath of the bridge. The strait was originally known as the "Mouth of the Port of San Francisco", before given its current name by John C. Frémont on July 1, 1846.
== Appearances ==
=== #JusticeForLove: End of the World ===
The bridge made three appearances in the film, first in chapter one, in chapter two, then in chapter three. For this reason, each chapter is separated in their own section, in order of appearance.
==== Chapter I: "Alicia" ====
After losing her husband and newborn baby, Alicia begins to suffer from depression and goes to the Golden Gate Bridge to commit suicide for the third time. Mylene, meanwhile, now on her way to Sausalito to reunite with her sister Andrea, sees Alicia about to jump from the bridge and decides to save her life by interfering Alicia's suicide attempt. Mylene promises to help Alicia recover from her depression, starting with the two becoming friends. Mylene then decides to bring Alicia with her to Sausalito.
==== Chapter II: "Mylene" ====
While Mylene is brought to Sacramento for her court trial, another small asteroid fragment from Clara impacts downtown San Francisco. The Golden Gate Bridge, despite being 10 kilometers away, is still destroyed by the impact, causing one of its towers to topple into the strait, while the bridge roadway is instantly vaporized.
==== Chapter III: "End of the World" ====
30 years after Clara's impact, the wreckage of the Golden Gate Bridge stood among the blackened landscape of a ruined San Francisco. Most of the bridge is now gone, except for one of its towers, which remains intact.
=== Hilda and the Lost Ring ===
In the film, the bridge makes a couple of appearances when Hilda, David, and Frida first arrive in San Francisco. While the three haven't gotten onto the bridge itself, they visit Fort Point, a fort under the bridge. The bridge appears in the climax, where shadows, some of the supporting antagonists of the film, emerge from the ground, overtaking and essentially damaging the bridge. It is seen again at the end during the aftermath of the destruction, where a long span of the bridge has collapsed into the San Francisco Bay, being rebuilt.
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== Trivia ==
* The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge main span in the world from 1937 until 1964, when it was surpassed by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, New York.
* It was also the tallest suspension bridge in the world from 1937 until 1993, when it later got surpassed by the Mezcala Bridge in Mexico.
* Both unmade American Godzilla films (Godzilla: King of the Monsters 3-D and the 1994 film) as well as the 2014 American Godzilla reboot film that is set in the MonsterVerse feature a sequence where Godzilla himself destroys the Golden Gate Bridge.
== See also ==
* Golden Heart Bridge - A fictionalized rebuilt version of the Golden Gate Bridge that appears in the Miss Philippines franchise.
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