History Quotes / SadisticChoice

->'''Aeryn:''' This is what you want. This is what ''you'' want.\\

->'''Sgt. Will Strausser:''' Mrs. Matheson, I'm sorry, but you need to choose which one of your children I'm going to kill.
-->-- ''Series/{{Revolution}}'', "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E10NobodysFaultButMine Nobody's Fault But Mine]]"

->'''Wraith:''' Okay. Now, suddenly, the situation has become very, very straightforward, Marvel Girl. You either get over about this shyness you have about following orders,[[note]]His orders were to execute someone[[/note]] or we detonate the sub-cranial homing device in young pretty boy here's head.[[note]]Her boyfriend, Cyclops[[/note]]
-->-- ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''

'''Korasi:''' Don't worry about me, I'm prepared to lay down my life. Save Jessika!\\
'''Jessika:''' No! This is all my fault. I deserve this! Save Korasi!\\

'''Wizard Grayzag:''' No, no, no. If you kill me, they both die and the Pest Queen will still be summoned. I'm growing tired of you stalling... Make. Your. Choice.

-->--'''IT/Pennywise the Dancing Clown''', ''[[Film/It2017/It (2017)]]''

— '''IT/Pennywise the Dancing Clown''', ''[[Film/It2017/It (2017)]]''

-> '''Optimus:''' "''Give up the [[TheLifestream Allspark]], or give up the [[InnocentBystander Earth]]. How am I supposed to decide?''"\\

-> "''A weighty choice is yours to make: / The right selection or a big mistake. / If the wrong choice you choose to pursue, / [[DoomedHometown the foundations of home will crumble without you]].''"

-->-- '''Rachel Dawes''' (to Harvey Dent), ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

-->-- '''[[TheDon Morgan Edge]]''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Phoenix"

-->--'''Zod''' (possessing Lex), ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "[[AntagonistTitle Zod]]"

-->-- '''[[MagnificentBastard Lionel Luthor]]''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Promise"

-->-- '''ComicBook/LexLuthor''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Requiem"

->(''Zatanna's spell is about to resurrect her father at the cost of Chloe's life'')\\

-->-- ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Hex"

->'''Armada Waller''': Maybe this will help your indecisiveness. (''screen shows [[PlatonicLifePartners Chloe Sullivan]] BoundAndGagged and held at gunpoint'')\\

'''Armada Waller''': I'm not being unreasonable. If you step forward, out of the shadows, I will let Watchtower go.\\

'''Armada Waller''': You sure are nice to look at. [[ILied But I like to have my cake and eat it too.]] I want your loyalty to [[GovernmentConspiracy Checkmate]]. [[BullyingADragon Anything happens to me, and bye-bye blondie.]] I know you're [[SuperSpeed fast]], but [[TemptingFate you can't stop a bullet when you don't know where she is]].\\

'''Armada Waller''': It's not murder, [[NothingPersonal it's strategy.]] [...] The Blur...[[BreakThemByTalking he lets his most valuable ally fend for herself.]] [...] All you have to do to save her is to give me one simple address. (''Clark [[TakeAThirdOption uses superhearing to find Chloe, uses superspeed to get to her]] and [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] the [[{{Mooks}} government agents]]'')
-->-- ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Checkmate"

-->-- ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Checkmate"

->"There's an explosion rocking the roof of the Daily Planet. [[{{Superman}} You]] can stop the beacon from plummeting into the rush hour traffic, or you can save the woman you love. [...] Even you aren't fast enough to save both. Today, the world will finally lose faith in its heretic hero! And it will destroy you."
-->-- '''[[CloningBlues LX-13]]''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Lazarus"

-->-- '''SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker''', ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

->'''Wraith:''' Okay. Now, suddenly, the situation has become very, very straightforward, Marvel Girl. You either get over about this shyness you have about following orders,[[note]]His orders were to execute someone[[/note]] or we detonate the sub-cranial homing device in young pretty boy here's head.[[note]]His boyfriend, Cyclops[[/note]]

->'''Marlene:''' Once they remove it, they'll be able to reverse engineer a vaccine. ''A vaccine.''\\

-->-- ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''

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-->--''Film/SophiesChoice''

[[folder: Smallville]]
->"I know [[Franchise/{{Superman}} you]] are [[SuperSpeed quick]], but you can’t get to [[MuggleFosterParents both of them]] at the same time."
-->-- '''[[TheDon Morgan Edge]]''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Phoenix"

->"Swear allegiance to me and I'll allow the ones you love the most to live. KneelBeforeZod."
-->--'''Zod''' (possessing Lex), ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "[[AntagonistTitle Zod]]"

->"I give you my word, Ms. Lang. If you don't honor the [[TitleDrop promise]] that you made to [[ComicBook/LexLuthor my son]], or I find out you told anyone about this conversation, I will kill [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]]."
-->-- '''[[MagnificentBastard Lionel Luthor]]''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Promise"

->"It's time for [[Franchise/{{Superman}} you]] to face your defining moment. You can walk away, sacrificing innocent lives to stay together, or defuse the bomb...and sacrifice [[SatelliteLoveInterest your love]] forever."
-->-- '''ComicBook/LexLuthor''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Requiem"

->(''Zatanna's spell is about to resurrect her father at the cost of Chloe's life'')\\
'''Zatanna''': No! It is supposed to be me.\\
'''Clark Kent''': We don't get to choose. But we do get to choose how we live the life that we've been given.\\
'''Zatanna''': I'm sorry. ([[spoiler:She is saying sorry to her father, not Chloe.]])
-->-- ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Hex"

->'''Armada Waller''': Maybe this will help your indecisiveness. (''screen shows [[PlatonicLifePartners Chloe Sullivan]] BoundAndGagged and held at gunpoint'')\\
'''Clark Kent''': Let her go.\\
'''Armada Waller''': I'm not being unreasonable. If you step forward, out of the shadows, I will let Watchtower go.\\
'''Clark Kent''': (''steps forward'') [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo Release her now.]]\\
'''Armada Waller''': You sure are nice to look at. [[ILied But I like to have my cake and eat it too.]] I want your loyalty to [[GovernmentConspiracy Checkmate]]. [[BullyingADragon Anything happens to me, and bye-bye blondie.]] I know you're [[SuperSpeed fast]], but [[TemptingFate you can't stop a bullet when you don't know where she is]].\\
'''Clark Kent''': [[BerserkButton That would be murder.]]\\
'''Armada Waller''': It's not murder, [[NothingPersonal it's strategy.]] [...] The Blur...[[BreakThemByTalking he lets his most valuable ally fend for herself.]] [...] All you have to do to save her is to give me one simple address. (''Clark [[TakeAThirdOption uses superhearing to find Chloe, uses superspeed to get to her]] and [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] the [[{{Mooks}} government agents]]'')
-->-- ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Checkmate"

->'''[[ComicBook/MartianManhunter John Jones]]''': You don't have to join [[GovernmentConspiracy her]].\\
'''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]]''': No. But, like, she said, eventually I'll have to choose sides.
-->-- ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Checkmate"

->"There's an explosion rocking the roof of the Daily Planet. [[{{Superman}} You]] can stop the beacon from plummeting into the rush hour traffic, or you can save the woman you love. [...] Even you aren't fast enough to save both. Today, the world will finally lose faith in its heretic hero! And it will destroy you."
-->-- '''[[CloningBlues LX-13]]''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Lazarus"

->'''Marlene:''' Once they remove it, they'll be able to reverse engineer a vaccine. ''A vaccine.''\\
'''Joel:''' But it grows all over the brain.\\
'''Marlene:''' ...it does.\\
'''Joel:''' Find someone else.\\
'''Marlene:''' There ''is'' no one else. [...] I ''get it''. But whatever it is you think you're going through right now is nothing to what I have been through. I knew [[LikeADaughterToMe her]] since she was born. I promised her mother I would look after her.\\
'''Joel:''' ''Then why are you letting this happen?''\\
'''Marlene:''' Because this isn't about me! Or even her. There is no other choice here!\\
'''Joel:''' Yeah, you keep telling yourself that bullshit.
-->-- ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''

-> "Sometimes, the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose."
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Mummy on the Orient Express"

->'''[[KnightTemplar Justice Lord Superman]]''': Everything [[ComicBook/LexLuthor he]] does from now on is your fault!\\
'''Franchise/{{Superman}}''': It's a high price, but it's better than the alternative.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', "A Better World"

-> Here is your final test. Take this gun... And '''shoot''' one of these two people! Your beloved girfriend '''Sheila''' or your beloved dog, '''Salty'''!
-->-- '''Some evil person''', [[http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/53474.html this]] ''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}'' strip

-> "''So...? Which of you instigated it? Hatsuharu? You? Which of you will incur my displeasure? You see, when I get mad, I can't really see what's around me. Hatori's left eye - that was unfortunate.''"
-->-- '''Akito''', ''Manga/FruitsBasket''

-> '''Optimus:''' "''Give up the [[TheLifestream Allspark]], or give up the [[InnocentBystander Earth]]. How am I supposed to decide?''"\\
'''Ratchet:''' ''"[[InvokedTrope Heroes are the ones who make the hard choices.]]"''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''

-> "''A weighty choice is yours to make: / The right selection or a big mistake. / If the wrong choice you choose to pursue, / [[DoomedHometown the foundations of home will crumble without you]].''"
-->-- '''Discord''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''

->'''Sgt. Will Strausser:''' "Mrs. Matheson, I'm sorry, but you need to choose which one of your children I'm going to kill."
-->--''Series/{{Revolution}}'', "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E10NobodysFaultButMine Nobody's Fault But Mine]]"

-> "Look, three options. One, I let the star whale continue in unendurable agony for hundreds more years. Two, I kill everyone on this ship. Three, I murder a beautiful and innocent creature as painlessly as I can. And then I find a new name, [[MoralEventHorizon 'cos I won't be the Doctor any more]]."

->'''SS officer''': You may keep one of your children.
->'''Sophie''': I beg your pardon?
->'''SS officer''': You may keep one of your children. [[DeadlyEuphemism The other must go away.]]
->'''Sophie''': You mean, I have to choose?
->'''SS officer''': You are a Polack, not a Yid. That gives you a privilege, a choice.
->'''Sophie:''' I can't choose. I can't ''choose!''
-->--''Film/SophiesChoice''

->''"Captain Blazkowicz, help me make a choice. In your opinion, which one of these two varieties would best support my research? I have inadequate room for samples. Should you decline my appeal, I shall have to put the scalpel to both of them, and we'd be here all day. I'll make matters simple. All you need to do is look to the one you would have me dissect."''
-->-- '''Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse''', ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder''

->'''Misato:''' I don't want to heal them. I know I can't do that. I just want to protect them. Just talking about it isn't going to make that happen. I had a plan, but now that plan means abandoning other people who depend on me. No matter what I do, someone is going to get hurt.\\
'''Rei:''' That is always going to happen. The only thing you can do is choose. We all have.
-->-- ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide''

->''"In 3 minutes, this building will be demolished. I can get out easily. Now you have a choice: Die trying to save her or save yourself and live with the pain."''
-->-- '''Franz Oberhauser/[[spoiler:Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]''', ''Film/{{Spectre}}''

->''"Even you cannot save everyone. Outlander. By choosing who shall live, you also choose who shall die. Are you ready for that burden?"''
-->-- '''Valkorian''', ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''

->''"When individuals put themselves above the squad, this can lead to failure and death. For example..."'' [puts a kunai to Sasuke's throat] ''"Sakura! Kill Naruto now or Sasuke dies! ...That's what happens on a mission. The enemy takes a hostage, and you've got an impossible choice... and someone ends up dead."''
-->-- '''Kakashi Hatake''', ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''

->''"Before you, I place a choice. Walk through the blue door, and continue to face even more failures at saving those closest to you. Your race will live on borrowed time and will, through your violent arrogance, wind up extinct. Walk through the red door, however, and I will release the humans whom I have collected. I will give them amnesty, and even a ship from my fleet to do with as they see fit. However, in choosing this door, you will willingly [[HeroicSacrifice submit yourself to execution]]. This is the moment where you can choose to be the savior of humanity, or its absolute destroyer."''
-->-- '''Zinyak''', ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV''

->When we were back on Earth, you picked up certain germs on your person, common bacteria from the air. These germs would normally perish during your voyages from one planet to the next, but this time I teleported you directly to Salaria. Microscopic life, harmless to you and all Earth creatures... but quite deadly to the inhabitants of Salaria. The plague should be well established within the Salarian community by now. During our teleportation sessions, I took the liberty of manipulating our position in the time flow. [[ThePurge I calculate that nearly 50% of Salaria's population has perished by now]]. But if you hurry, you can still save the other half. Or you can waste time pitting your powers against mine.
-->--'''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}''', ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer: Rebirth Of Thanos''

->My daughter, or that [[TortureTechnician abomination]]. ''' ''[[ShotgunWedding Choose]].''' ''
-->--'''Empress Novia,''' ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', [[Recap/FarscapeS02E11LookAtThePrincessAKissIsButAKiss Look At The Princess Part I: A Kiss Is But A Kiss]]"

->'''Crayak:''' Their orbit is badly destabilized. You can see that they will slip slowly, then faster, wobbling, tom by shattering earthquakes, slide down and down the gravity well, atmosphere boiling away, suffocating, a few surviving in trapped pockets of air - until of course they are roasted alive by their own sun.
->'''The Ellimist:''' Some of them can still be saved!
->'''Crayak:''' Yes. And you can stay here and save them, Ellimist. Or you can follow me to the next game. Save a few of these creatures, or perhaps save entire worlds. Your choice. [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame It's all a part of the game]].
-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} - The Ellimist Chronicles''

'''Joel:''' ''Then why are you letting this happen?\\

'''Armada Waller''': It's not murder, [[NothingPersonal it's strategy.]] [...] The Blur...[[BreakThemByTalking he lets his most valuable ally fend for herself.]] [...] All you have to do to save her is to give me one simple address. (''Clark [[TakeAThirdOption uses superhearing to find Chloe]] and [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] the [[{{Mooks}} government agents]]'')