History SadisticChoice / FanWorks

* ''Fanfic/EnteringTheLoveHinaWorld'': Tsuruko gives Motoko a choice of three ways that she can atone for her years of abusing Keitaro. Option 1: Become Keitaro's personal bodyguard and servant. Option 2: Financially reimburse Keitaro for every attack he's made on him, along with the cost of repairs from damages done to the Hinata Inn. Option 3: Abandon the God Cry style, never picking up a sword or entering the dojo again. Motoko's pride won't permit her to take the first or third options, so she goes for the second, knowing it will likely take her years to complete.

* ''Fanfic/LulusBizarreRebellion'': The Stand "Wake the Snake" becomes the Stand of the most recent person it has injected venom into. The only way to stop the venom is to kill Wake the Snake, but damage to stands is reflected on their user, so killing the Stand also kills the most recent victim..

* ''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.]]
* ''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.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fancomic ''Webcomic/APieceOfPie'', 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.]]
* ''FanFic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': [[spoiler:The Nightmare’s plans for Sunset involved this, forcing Princess Celestia to choose between banishing her student away or risk her future student and everyone in Canterlot with a demonic powered Sunset.]]

* ''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]].
* ''FanFic/RainbowFactory'': When workers find out the truth about the rainbow factory, [[spoiler:namely that it uses [[HumanResources pony resources]] to make rainbows, they're given a choice: keep their mouths shut and be party to the slaughter of countless foals whose only fault was failing a flight exam, or spare a foal only to take their place. Only twice was a foal's life spared-those of Fluttershy and Derpy Hooves]].
* ''FanFic/SplitSecondMyLittlePony'' has Discord give one to Sparkle: [[spoiler:Kill Fluttershy, and get a book with a spell that ''might'' save her life, kill her sister, and get her leg back so that Sparkle doesn't bleed to death, kill all 12 of mares present to get both, or do nothing and die.]] She [[TakeAThirdOption takes a fifth option]].

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* ''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.]]

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* ''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.]]

** When the crew is about to land on Little Garden, Cross tries to make bug repellent for crew, since he doesn't want Nami to suffer the near-lethal fever she contracts and barely survives. However, he's grimly aware that ''without'' the fever, they have no real incentive to stop at Drum Island and recruit Chopper. This crosses his mind again when he sees the bug about Nami, and ultimately chooses to smash it before Nami gets bitten.[[spoiler:"Fortunately" he unwittingly ends up TakingAThirdOption by contracting a local and deadly form of diarrhea himself, requiring a trip to Drum Island. Talk about NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished.]]

** When [[spoiler:Kuma]] knocks Cross and Luffy out and declares his intent to bring them to the World Government for execution, [[TakeMeInstead Zoro offers to sacrifice himself for them]]. But as [[spoiler:Kuma]] points out, Zoro is only ''one'' man and there are ''two'' captives, so which one the swordsman is going to pick? [[spoiler:Thankfully, Nami was there to allow TakeAThirdOption.]]
** When the crew is about to land on Little Garden, Cross tries to use bug repellent, since he doesn't want Nami to suffer the near-lethal fever she contracts and barely survives. However, he's grimly aware that ''without'' the fever, they have no real incentive to stop at Drum Island and recruit Chopper. [[spoiler:"Fortunately" he ends up TakingAThirdOption by contracting the fever himself. NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished.]]

* ''Fanfic/LulusBizarreRebellion'': The Stand "Wake the Snake" becomes the Stand of the most recent person it has injected venom into. The only way to stop the venom is to kill Wake the Snake, but damage to stands is reflected on their user, so killing the Stand also kills the most recent victim.
* ''Fanfic/NewStars'': Near the end, Maxx is faced with this: he can either go back to the ''Orville'' with the others and never return to the Republic, or he can return to the Republic and leave his new friends to die. [[spoiler: By that point he'd learned about the inhibitor chips and [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal has lost pretty much all loyalty he had to the Republic]], so he decides to go back to the ''Orville'']].
* ''Fanfic/TheNewRecruit'': Matt Garetty had to make this choice during Andrew's rampage through Seattle: he could either let him destroy the city, or he could end it all by killing his cousin. The fact that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo he chose the latter]] causes him a lot of [[ItsAllMyFault pain]].

* In ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13257950/1/Someone-You-Trust Someone You Trust]]'', Hizashi Yamada/Present Mic is faced with either torturing his best friend Aizawa Shota or letting Class 1-A members be kidnapped and tortured. He was acting as a FakeDefector inside the organization behind it and didn’t expect Aizawa to get captured. Calling for a raid early would have got him out of it but wouldn’t have netted the clients buying the kids. The thing is, Aizawa and the reader aren’t filled in til after the rescue. Aizawa understands Hizashi was being constantly watched and cares about his kids deeply, so he ultimately forgives Hizashi but Hizashi is traumatized by it.