History SadisticChoice / FanFic

* ''FanFic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria'': During the second arc of ''Mare of Steel'', {{Brainiac}} -- with some aid from [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Silversmith]] -- sets one up for Rainbow Dash. He captures her and brings her to his ship, placing her on a pressure plate that, depending on how she chooses to act when she gets off it, will either electrocute the captive [[spoiler: Scootaloo]] or detonate a bomb that will destroy Cloudsdale (and the bomb's also on a timer, so she doesn't have the option of sitting still). However, because Brainiac [[EvilCannotComprehendGood underestimated]] her sheer determination to prevent either from happening, she finds [[TakeAThirdOption a third option]]: [[spoiler: she uses her heat vision to destroy the circuitry that would remotely activate the bomb, then breaks Scootaloo free and rushes off to stop the bomb]].

* ''FanFic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria'': During the second arc of ''Mare of Steel'', {{Brainiac}} -- with some aid from [[LexLuthor Silversmith]] -- sets one up for Rainbow Dash. He captures her and brings her to his ship, placing her on a pressure plate that, depending on how she chooses to act when she gets off it, will either electrocute the captive [[spoiler: Scootaloo]] or detonate a bomb that will destroy Cloudsdale (and the bomb's also on a timer, so she doesn't have the option of sitting still). However, because Brainiac [[EvilCannotComprehendGood underestimated]] her sheer determination to prevent either from happening, she finds [[TakeAThirdOption a third option]]: [[spoiler: she uses her heat vision to destroy the circuitry that would remotely activate the bomb, then breaks Scootaloo free and rushes off to stop the bomb]].

* Episode 75 of ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' has a truly crowning example. Satan gives Sonic and his friends a choice between giving him the Chaos Emeralds or the ''metaphysical annihilation of of the entire Milky Way Galaxy''. [[spoiler: Sonic and his friends choose the latter, but D'Arnazhee betrays Maledict and shoots the Galaxy Crusher's firing mechanism right out of his hand]].

* Episode 75 of ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' has a truly crowning example. Satan gives Sonic and his friends a choice between giving him the Chaos Emeralds or the ''[[spoiler: metaphysical annihilation of of the entire Milky Way Galaxy]]''. [[spoiler: Sonic and his friends choose the latter, but D'Arnazhee betrays Maledict and shoots the Galaxy Crusher's firing mechanism right out of his hand]].

* ''FanFic/MyLittleCastlevania'': Marble [[WouldHurtAChild poisons most of the remaining foals in Ponyville]] and tells Twilight she'll only give her the cure if she hands over [[PlotCoupon Dracula's rib]]. And ''then'', once she has the rib, she adds the stipulation that Twilight escort her out of the hospital unharmed before she'll hand it over, [[ForTheEvulz just to humiliate her]].

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* This trope was analyzed and discussed during the events of story three of Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX, ''Chapter 18: Mokou's Question, Morton's Fork, and Sadistic Choice''of Gensokyo 20XXII, when Mokou brings up a circumstance not too unlike Film/SophiesChoice and wonders if Yukari was placed in the same circumstance with Ran's pup and Reimu and what it would be like. From Yuuka's perspective, it would be sheer hell and for good reason. Nevertheless, going hand to hand with MortonsFork, it is called a "damned of done and damned if don't" circumstance because neither choice would be good.

* This trope was analyzed and discussed during the events of story three of Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX, ''Chapter 18: Mokou's Question, Morton's Fork, and Sadistic Choice''of Gensokyo 20XXII, when Mokou brings up a circumstance not too unlike Film/Sophie'sChoice and wonders if Yukari was placed in the same circumstance with Ran's pup and Reimu and what it would be like. From Yuuka's perspective, it would be sheer hell and for good reason.

* This trope was analyzed and discussed during the events of story three of Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX, ''Chapter 18: Mokou's Question, Morton's Fork, and Sadistic Choice'', when Mokou brings up a circumstance not too unlike Film/Sophie'sChoice and wonders if Yukari was placed in the same circumstance with Ran's pup and Reimu and what it would be like. From Yuuka's perspective, it would be sheer hell and for good reason.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fancomic "A Piece Of Pie", one of Pinkie Pie's other personalities, Golden Pie, tells Rarity to get Pinkie's balloon, and if Rarity tries to take Golden Pie by force, the seat she's sitting on will set off creamy explosives that will ruin all of Rarity's dresses, so it's either ruin the shop and dresses or take Pinkie's balloon. [[spoiler: No third option is taken, because Rarity takes Golden Pie off the seat and says that she'll just make more fabulous dressses.]]

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* In [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2962153/18/Maiden_Of_Stone chapter 18]] of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' fanfic "Maiden Of Stone," the villain Sedaris captures Raven and Terra, then forces Beast Boy to choose which one of them he will spare, an act which, according to one reviewer, brought Sedaris "up to Slade level on the evil scale". He even mentions Sophie's Choice.
* A ''Manga/SailorMoon'' fanfic in which magic from the Silver Crystal allows Michiru to become pregnant with Haruka's child has this at the climax -- the story eventually reveals that Sailor Senshi are supposed to be sterile to prevent them from being forced to choose between duty and child and having the baby will kill Michiru. In the end, Haruka has to choose between saving her lover or her child. [[spoiler:She chooses Michiru, but in a twist, because the baby's life force was linked to Michiru's own, neither dies.]]
* A fanfic for BBC's Sherlock [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6608483/1/Your_Words_Are_Gelignite here]] the horrific cliffhanger ending of the series was continued upon in such a way that Moriarty offered this sort of choice to Sherlock, only instead of having him choose between two people, he was forced to choose between himself and John (with the threat of the full extent of Moriarty's madness hanging over John's head if he [[TakeAThirdOption takes the third option]]). [[spoiler:Being Sherlock, he takes the third option.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fancomic "A Piece Of Pie", one of Pinkie Pie's other personalities, Golden Pie, tells Rarity to get Pinkie's balloon, and if Rarity tries to take Golden Pie by force, the seat she's sitting on will set off creamy explosives that will ruin all of Rarity's dresses, so it's either ruin the shop and dresses or take Pinkie's balloon. [[spoiler: No third option is taken, because Rarity takes Golden Pie off the seat and says that she'll just make more fabulous dressses.]]

* In the short ''Homestuck'' fanfiction [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/166912 Prize]] an evil John casually asks Karkat whether he should kill Jade of Kanaya. Karkat refuses to choose, but evil!John keeps insisting that his friend has to.
* ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'': In episode 7 of the first version, [[spoiler:it gets revealed Ariel is half-angel.]] It looks like if they will be forced to [[spoiler:kill her -something Asuka understandably is NOT in favor of-,]] when Gendo orders [[spoiler:to subdue her and retrieve her without harm.]]
* ''FanFic/InnerDemons'': The recently {{Face Heel Turn}}ed Twilight Sparkle crosses the MoralEventHorizon with one of these. She captures Pinkie Pie, and when Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy show up to save her, Twilight incapacitates Fluttershy as well. She then tells Rainbow Dash to either rape Pinkie, or else she'll kill Fluttershy. [[spoiler: Applejack shows up to save them... but only ''after'' Rainbow decides she has no choice and forces herself on Pinkie.]]
* The ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'': it's shown that in the [[BadFuture Epilogue timeline]], that this is [[BigBad Discord's]] preferred method of "playing" with Traitor Dash. Whenever he needs something dirty done (that doesn't require sending all of the [[CoDragons Chaos]] [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Six]]), he'll send her, and get her to do it by threatening to either harm one of her friends or destroying the [[GildedCage Sky Ocean]].
* The story ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2041785/1/Captain_America_Sentinal_of_Liberty Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty]]'' has a horrible, ''horrible'' variation of this. The Crimson Cowl has kidnapped two women CaptainAmerica loves - Bernie Rosenthal and Diamondback. They are trapped in glass tubes, with deadly gas ready to be released when a tube is broken, and only enough time to save one of them. However, this is also a SadisticChoice for the two women, as both of them has been provided with a hammer to free themselves, at the cost of the other's life. Cap tries to TakeAThirdOption and smash Bernie's tube, give her an air filter, and then race to free Rachel. [[spoiler: But the Cowl was too GenreSavvy to allow this - Rachel's tube was not made of glass, but an unbreakable force field. Cap can only watch helplessly as she dies horribly.]] Talk about sadistic.
* ''FanFic/GettingBackOnYourHooves'': Following a VillainousBreakdown brought about by her continued failures to ruin Trixie's life, [[BigBad Checker Monarch]] kidnaps her and tells her to either leave town and give up all her happiness, or Checker will ruin all of her friends. [[spoiler:Tellingly, even after Trixie reluctantly agrees to get thrown out of town (and dumped in a desert, to boot), Checker decides to ruin the others anyway.]]
* [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/119688/1/you-obey/the-interrogation You Obey]] shows what happens when a changeling, all of which are telepaths, is ordered to interrogate a prisoner. When nicer methods of interrogation fail to make the prisoner talk, the protagonist has to choose between giving up, which means AFateWorseThanDeath, and going forwards, which entails torturing the prisoner, despite the horribly unpleasant emotional feedback.
* ''FanFic/PointOfSuccession'': In which [[KidHero Mello]] [[StockholmSyndrome has been kidnapped by]] [[BigBad Beyond Birthday]], Beyond puts a sniper rifle in Mello's hands and suggests he put his [[{{Tykebomb}} Wammy's training]] to good use and and kill someone. At first Mello objects vehemently until B reveals the target he has picked out for him is a pedophile and points out the child that the man is molesting. B leaves it up to him-he can take the shot and become a murderer or do nothing and leave the kid to be victimized. [[spoiler: Mello takes the shot.]]

* ''FanFic/RainboomsAndRoyalty'': After Rainbow Dash rejects Nightmare Moon's [[TheFinalTemptation offer]], she tries to force Rainbow through one of these by putting the rest of the Mane Cast in a life-threatening situation, and telling her to choose whom to save. Rainbow [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]].
* [[ManipulativeBastard Professor Moriarty's]] offer to Literature/SherlockHolmes in ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' is very simple: Holmes's soul or Watson's broken body. Before Holmes's eyes. ...yes, that ends the way you think it does.
* ''FanFic/MyLittleCastlevania'': Marble [[WouldHurtAChild poisons most of the remaining foals in Ponyville]] and tells Twilight she'll only give her the cure if she hands over [[PlotCoupon Dracula's rib]]. And ''then'', once she has the rib, she adds the stipulation that Twilight escort her out of the hospital unharmed before she'll hand it over, [[ForTheEvulz just to humiliate her]].
* ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}''; the Grand Highblood collects the ghosts of captive trolls. The binding has to be signed by the victim, so standard practice is to offer them the choice between binding themselves to him or watching their friends and quadrants be tortured as well.

* ''FanFic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria'': During the second arc of ''Mare of Steel'', {{Brainiac}} -- with some aid from [[LexLuthor Silversmith]] -- sets one up for Rainbow Dash. He captures her and brings her to his ship, placing her on a pressure plate that, depending on how she chooses to act when she gets off it, will either electrocute the captive [[spoiler: Scootaloo]] or detonate a bomb that will destroy Cloudsdale (and the bomb's also on a timer, so she doesn't have the option of sitting still). However, because Brainiac [[EvilCannotComprehendGood underestimated]] her sheer determination to prevent either from happening, she finds [[TakeAThirdOption a third option]]: [[spoiler: she uses her heat vision to destroy the circuitry that would remotely activate the bomb, then breaks Scootaloo free and rushes off to stop the bomb]].