History Recap / FarscapeS03E20IntoTheLionsDenLambsToTheSlaughter

I removed the “Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu” example. This was about Crichton threatening Grayza. However, this trope definition deals with “Insulting a being who is much more powerful than you” and notes, “This rarely ever causes the target any real harm.” Grayza is a mortal woman, quite capable of being killed by the gun Crichton aimed at her. While Grayza may have access to Peacekeeper resources (as did all the show’s major antagonists), she is not herself significantly more powerful than Crichton (indeed she’s physically much weaker than Scorpius, whom Crichton has repeatedly insulted). So I don’t believe this example demonstrates the trope.

I removed the “Sadistic Choice” examples. The trope definition explains, “This is a situation in which a character is presented with a choice, any outcome of which causes something bad to happen.” The first example is about how Crichton doesn’t know whether he should sabotage the wormhole project. This is a difficult choice but it’s presented as a choice between “let the Peacekeepers have wormholes and they may end up doing something awful with it” and “don’t let the Peacekeepers have wormholes and the Scarrans may be able to do something awful”. It’s a difficult decision but it’s difficult because he doesn’t know the outcome of either case for sure, not because he knows both will lead to something bad happening and can’t decide between those bad things. The second example details Scorpius’ threat to Earth. However, in this case the choice is between “give Scorpius wormhole technology, with possible awful outcomes, and he won’t attack Earth” and “don’t give Scorpius the technology and, not only may the Scarrans do awful things, but Scorpius may attack Earth”. This again is more a difficult decision. Once again, John doesn’t know the outcome of either decision. It’s basically the same as the first example except that now Scorpius has made one choice a bit worse (assuming John believed he would attack Earth). However, the villain saying “do as I say or something bad will happen” is more an example of a threat than a sadistic choice. For these reasons, I don’t believe the examples demonstrate the trope.

I removed the “Nice Job Fixing It Villain” since the trope definition requires that the villain fix a problem the heroes’ had. As the trope definitions says, “this is not villains hurting their own plans”. The example argues that Scorpius threatening earth helped John decide to sabotage the project after previously being undecided. While Scorpius may have helped John to decide, it wasn’t that the heroes were incapable of carrying out their plan due to indecision and Scorpius fixed that. The heroes would have been just as capable of carrying out their plan whether Scorpius threatened earth or not, even if they may have chosen not to (though that seems unlikely). If this trope definition applies to this case then any act which leads the heroes to decide to stop the villain would be included (e.g. Nice Job Fixing it Villain by killing the hero’s father) but I believe that would be far wider than this trope. So I do not believe this example demonstrates the trope.

Absolutely not. It's made clear that anything she says is just part of her cover. She's working for Scorpius from start to finish.