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** Stop it with [[spoiler:Madoka]]'s help, but watch [[spoiler:Madoka [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie become an even stronger witch]] in the aftermath]] and destroy the world; or...

* The ending of MassEffect3. [[spoiler:While Shepard *is* presented with different ways of using the Crucible to defeat the Reapers, the machine's power is so intense that no matter how the device is ultimately used, it will destroy the mass relays.]]

** One "method" of identifying witches was to throw the suspect into the ocean. If they floated, they were a witch, and were executed. If they sank, they were innocent...but, of course, they drowned. Pretty much everyone sank, not that it made any difference for them. This is parodied in ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' ("A duck!") and the Simpsons example above.

* In ''BlackStarRising'' by FrederikPohl, aliens visit Earth and demand to speak to the President of the United States. The problem is, The United States doesn't exist anymore (The USA and USSR destroyed each other, China and India took over whatever was left of them), so the Chinese government has to quickly throw together an "American" government, complete with president. They hastily hold an election where people were given the choice of voting for the only candidate, or being jailed for not properly following instructions.
** As long as being "American" is not a fate not worth to live for, [[ButThouMust you just vote the candidate]]. Not this trope.

* The trial of JoanOfArc had a famous unsuccesful one. She was asked if she believed she was "in God's Grace." If she said yes, her overconfidence would brand her as a dangerous fanatic, since no one but God is supposed to know who's in his grace or not. If she said no, however, then it would mean she had been masquerading as a religious figure for trivial ends. Joan, however, figured out the trap quickly enough to answer: ''"If I'm not, may God put me in it; If I am, may God keep me there."'' The wording was considered both humble and pious. Centuries later, this witty reply was actually considered as an argument in favor of her canonization.

* The second ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game (Justice for All), features a version of this that takes up the entire plot of the last case. Phoenix's friend and legal assistant Maya Fey is kidnapped by an assasian and is told she will be killed unless he get's Matt Engarde, a suspect in a murder, found innocent. Over time Phoenix finds out that his client is truly guilty (he hired the assasian holding Maya hostage to kill)and that if his client gets of the hook, another suspect, a truly innocent woman, will be charged and executed for the murder. Therefore, Phoenix must choose between defending a killer to save a friend while an innocent person is killed as a murderer, or letting said friend die to see justice done as well as saving a innocent woman's life. That being said, with Phoenix being being a morally standing attorney who fights for justice, this choose is not so simple for him. However in the end [[spoiler:phoenix manages to ''TakeaThirdOption'' and shows the assasian holding Maya hostage how much of immoral monster said assasian's client is. Which this assasian being a ''HitmanWithaHeart'', he eventually drops his agreement with Engarde and let's Maya go]].

* The ending of MassEffect3. Basically, you get to choose the color of the explosions that everyone dies in.

* The most infamous quest in ''{{Fallout 3}}'', Tenpenny Tower, has no good resolution. If you side with the bigots inside the Tower, you go off and massacre the Ghouls (most of whom, aside from Roy Phillips himself, were actually pretty decent people). If you side with Roy Phillips and storm the Tower, all the Tenpenny residents get massacred (again, most of them other than Tenpenny and Burke were decent if snooty people). If you think you're clever and try to TakeAThirdOption by using diplomacy to convince both sides to live together inside the Tower peacefully, it initially ''seems'' like a happy ending, but after a couple weeks Phillips flips out and massacres all the humans anyway.

*** This is actually wholly untrue and only used by people vaguely familiar with the bible (ie: not biblical scholars or students) as no such book called "the Bible" existed for over [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea 200 years AFTER John wrote the book of revelations.]] You can add to the bible all you want, you simply can't add to ''THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS''.

** Whenever you make any choice that nets you light side or dark side points, Kriea will berate you for disturbing the balance of the universe. ''And'' for not choosing a side. Apathy is Death.

* This is very common in {{chess}} as a way of gaining advantage over one's opponent. For example, combination attacks such as forks and discovered attacks allow a player to threaten two pieces simultaneously with the idea that their opponent won't be able to protect both of them.

* In the final episode of ''{{Blackadder}} II'', Blackadder is given a choice: admit to being in love with Satan and get his testicles chopped off, or don't admit it and be held upside down in a vat of warm marmalade...''and'' get his testicles chopped off. Naturally he chooses the former, but is "rescued" before the threat can be carried out.

* Raven from ''Webcomic/DarkWings'' gets a summons about a prospective [[TheCaper job]] with a meeting at 10:00...with the summons deliberately arriving at 9:30.He has to either ignore it, thereby insulting the powerful nobles who sent it, or else be put at an instant bargaining disadvantage by the near-certainty of being late.

** [[DeusExHumanRevolution Human Revolution]] is stuck here by default, since it's a prequel and presumably you should know what happens.