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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "If It Smells Like An Ed" has the Eds being accused of ruining Friendship Day and [[ClearMyName searching for the real culprit]] ([[spoiler:sans the wedgie he gave Jimmy,]] Eddy is accused of throwing a hockey stick through the Heart of Friendship, Ed of stealing Sarah's paintbrush, and Edd of wiping off Plank's mouth). When they find Jonny BoundAndGagged during this time, the other kids assume they did it and refuse to believe them, leading up to the Eds taking refuge in a shed after following a trail of jujubes that they hoped would lead them to the culprit, where they find the Kanker Sisters waiting for them. The Eds are then left with the choice of being pounded by the kids or making out with the Kankers. They surrender to the kids and get bound to a fence and [[ProducePelting pelted with fruits and vegetables]]. [[spoiler:Afterwards, it is revealed that the real perpetrator behind everything was Jimmy, wanting revenge for [[ChekhovsGun the wedgie]] Eddy gave him at the start of the episode, which was all the more simple, [[{{Foreshadowing}} since the hockey stick that punctured the Heart of Friendship belonged to him]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "If It Smells Like An Ed" has the Eds being accused of ruining Friendship Day and [[ClearMyName searching for the real culprit]] ([[spoiler:sans the wedgie he gave Jimmy,]] Eddy is accused of throwing a hockey stick through the Heart of Friendship, Ed of stealing Sarah's paintbrush, and Edd of wiping off Plank's mouth). When they find Jonny BoundAndGagged during this time, the other kids assume they did it and refuse to believe them, leading up to the Eds taking refuge in a shed after following a trail of jujubes that they hoped would lead them to the culprit, where they find the Kanker Sisters waiting for them. The Eds are then left with the choice of being pounded by the kids or making out with the Kankers. [[spoiler:They surrender to the kids and get bound to a fence and [[ProducePelting pelted with fruits and vegetables]], and the real perpetrator behind everything that happened turns out to be Jimmy, wanting revenge for [[ChekhovsGun the wedgie]] Eddy gave him at the start of the episode, which was all the more simple, [[{{Foreshadowing}} since the hockey stick that punctured the Heart of Friendship belonged to him]].]]

-->'''Beavis:''' Well... he does have boobs.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "If It Smells Like An Ed" has the Eds being accused of ruining Friendship Day ([[spoiler:sans the wedgie he gave Jimmy,]] Eddy is accused of throwing a hockey stick through the Heart of Friendship, Ed of stealing Sarah's paintbrush, and Edd of wiping off Plank's mouth) and [[ClearMyName searching for the real culprit]]. When they find Jonny BoundAndGagged during this time, the other kids assume they did it and refuse to believe them, leading up to the Eds taking refuge in a shed after following a trail of jujubes that they hoped would lead them to the culprit, where they find the Kanker Sisters waiting for them. The Eds are then left with the choice of being pounded by the kids or making out with the Kankers. [[spoiler:They surrender to the kids and get bound to a fence and [[ProducePelting pelted with fruits and vegetables]], and the real perpetrator behind everything that happened turns out to be Jimmy, wanting revenge for [[ChekhovsGun the wedgie]] Eddy gave him at the start of the episode, which was all the more simple, [[{{Foreshadowing}} since the hockey stick that punctured the Heart of Friendship belonged to him]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "If It Smells Like An Ed" has the Eds being accused of ruining Friendship Day ([[spoiler:sans the wedgie he gave Jimmy,]] Eddy is accused of throwing a hockey stick through the Heart of Friendship, Ed of stealing Sarah's paintbrush, and Edd of wiping off Plank's mouth) and [[ClearMyName searching for the real culprit]]. When they find Jonny BoundAndGagged during this time, the other kids assume they did it and refuse to believe them, leading up to the Eds taking refuge in a shed after following a trail of jujubes that they hoped would lead them to the culprit, where they find the Kanker Sisters waiting for them. The Eds are then left with the choice of being pounded by the kids or making out with the Kankers. [[spoiler:They surrender to the kids and get bound to a fence and pelted with [[ProducePelting fruits and vegetables]], and the real perpetrator behind everything that happened turns out to be Jimmy, wanting revenge for [[ChekhovsGun the wedgie]] Eddy gave him at the start of the episode, which was all the more simple, [[{{Foreshadowing}} since the hockey stick that punctured the Heart of Friendship belonged to him]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "If It Smells Like An Ed" has the Eds being accused of ruining Friendship Day ([[spoiler:sans the wedgie Eddy gave Jimmy,]] Ed is accused of stealing Sarah's paintbrush, Edd of wiping off Plank's mouth and Eddy of throwing a hockey stick through the Heart of Friendship) and [[ClearMyName searching for the real culprit]]. When they find Jonny BoundAndGagged during this time, the other kids assume they did it and refuse to believe them, leading up to the Eds taking refuge in a shed after following a trail of jujubes that they hoped would lead them to the culprit, where they find the Kanker Sisters waiting for them. The Eds are then left with the choice of being pounded by the kids or making out with the Kankers. [[spoiler:They surrender to the kids and get bound to a fence and pelted with [[ProducePelting fruits and vegetables]], and the real perpetrator behind everything that happened turns out to be Jimmy, wanting revenge for [[ChekhovsGun the wedgie]] Eddy gave him at the start of the episode, which was all the more simple, [[{{Foreshadowing}} since the hockey stick that punctured the Heart of Friendship belonged to him]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "If It Smells Like An Ed" has the Eds being accused of ruining Friendship Day ([[spoiler:sans the wedgie Eddy gave Jimmy,]] Ed is accused of stealing Sarah's paintbrush, Edd of wiping off Plank's mouth and Eddy of throwing a hockey stick through the Heart of Friendship) and [[ClearMyName searching for the real culprit]]. When they find Jonny BoundAndGagged during this time, the other kids assume they did it and refuse to believe them, leading up to the Eds taking refuge in a shed, where they find the Kanker Sisters waiting for them. The Eds are then left with the choice of being pounded by the kids or making out with the Kankers. [[spoiler:They surrender to the kids and get bound to a fence and pelted with [[ProducePelting fruits and vegetables]], and the real perpetrator behind everything that happened turns out to be Jimmy, wanting revenge for [[ChekhovsGun the wedgie]] Eddy gave him at the start of the episode, which was all the more simple, [[{{Foreshadowing}} since the hockey stick that punctured the Heart of Friendship belonged to him]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "If It Smells Like An Ed" has the Eds being accused of ruining Friendship Day ([[spoiler:sans the wedgie Eddy gave Jimmy,]] Ed is accused of stealing Sarah's paintbrush, Edd of wiping off Plank's mouth and Eddy of piercing the Heart of Friendship with a hockey stick) and [[ClearMyName searching for the real culprit]]. When they find Jonny BoundAndGagged during this time, the other kids assume they did it and refuse to believe them, leading up to the Eds taking refuge in a shed, where they find the Kanker Sisters waiting for them. The Eds are then left with the choice of being pounded by the kids or making out with the Kankers. [[spoiler:They surrender to the kids and get bound to a fence and pelted with [[ProducePelting fruits and vegetables]], and the real perpetrator behind everything that happened turns out to be Jimmy, wanting revenge for [[ChekhovsGun the wedgie]] Eddy gave him at the start of the episode, [[{{Foreshadowing}} which was all the more simple, since the hockey stick belonged to him]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "If It Smells Like An Ed" has the Eds being accused of ruining Friendship Day (sans the wedgie Eddy gave Jimmy, Ed is accused of stealing Sarah's paintbrush, Edd of wiping off Plank's mouth and Eddy of piercing the Heart of Friendship with a hockey stick) and [[ClearMyName searching for the real culprit]]. When they find Jonny BoundAndGagged during this time, the other kids assume they did it and refuse to believe them, leading up to the Eds taking refuge in a shed, where they find the Kanker Sisters waiting for them. The Eds are then left with the choice of being pounded by the kids or making out with the Kankers. [[spoiler:They surrender to the kids and get bound to a fence and pelted with [[ProducePelting fruits and vegetables]], and the real perpetrator behind everything that happened turns out to be Jimmy, wanting revenge for [[ChekhovsGun the wedgie]] Eddy gave him at the start of the episode, [[{{Foreshadowing}} which was all the more simple, since the hockey stick belonged to him]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "If It Smells Like An Ed" has the Eds being accused of ruining Friendship Day (sans the wedgie Eddy gave Jimmy, Ed is accused of stealing Sarah's paintbrush, Edd of wiping off Plank's mouth and Eddy for piercing the Heart of Friendship with a hockey stick) and [[ClearMyName searching for the real culprit]]. When they find Jonny BoundAndGagged during this time, the other kids assume they did it and refuse to believe them, leading up to the Eds taking refuge in a shed, where they find the Kanker Sisters waiting for them. The Eds are then left with the choice of being pounded by the kids or making out with the Kankers. [[spoiler:They surrender to the kids and get bound to a fence and pelted with [[ProducePelting fruits and vegetables]], and the real perpetrator behind everything that happened turns out to be Jimmy, wanting revenge for [[ChekhovsGun the wedgie]] Eddy gave him at the start of the episode, [[{{Foreshadowing}} which was all the more simple, since the hockey stick belonged to him]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "If It Smells Like An Ed" has the Eds being accused of ruining Friendship Day and [[ClearMyName searching for the real culprit]]. When they find Jonny BoundAndGagged during this time, the other kids assume they did it and refuse to believe them, leading up to the Eds taking refuge in a shed, where they find the Kanker Sisters waiting for them. The Eds are then left with the choice of being pounded by the kids or making out with the Kankers. [[spoiler:They surrender to the kids and get bound to a fence and pelted with [[ProducePelting fruits and vegetables]], and the real perpetrator behind everything that happened turns out to be Jimmy, wanting revenge for [[ChekhovsGun the wedgie]] Eddy gave him at the start of the episode.]]

* The Season 1 finale of ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' sees [[spoiler:the turtles captured by [[BigBadDuumvirate Baron Draxum and the Foot Clan]].]] the scroll of Splinter's ancestors inform him he has two choices: either [[spoiler:surrender the final piece of the [[DismantledMacGuffin Dark]] [[SealedEvilInACan Armor]] to the Foot in exchange for their lives]], or [[spoiler:go into hiding with said piece, [[ShootTheDog saving the world but leaving his sons to die]].]] [[PapaWolf Splinter]] proceeds to shred the scroll and declare his intent to [[TakeAThirdOption save both]].

* Hilariously done in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE46AlmostGotIm Almost Got 'Im]]", where Harley Quinn attempts to engineer one of these for Batman, smugly telling him that he can either rescue Catwoman from the ConveyorBeltODoom she is strapped to and let Harley escape, or can let her die whilst subduing and arresting Harley. Unfortunately for her, she's neglected to consider the fact that she's telling Batman this [[TakeAThirdOption whilst they're standing next to]] [[CutTheJuice the conveyor belt's circuit breaker]].

** In ''Deadly Ransom'', when Captain Planet is taken prisoner, the Planeteers' one option is delivering the ransom (which is nuclear waste) and the other -- letting Dr. Blight and Duke Nukem kill the Captain. [[spoiler:They find a third solution.]]
** In ''Summit to Save Earth, Part I'' Zarm makes Gaia choose to either stop him from wrecking the Earth Summit or save the Planeteers, whom he has just trapped in a polluted tornado. Being in MamaBear mode, Gaia starts with rescuing "her" kids. Unfortunately, when she checks on Ma-Ti, she stops paying attention to Zarm who uses this very moment to attack her.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/AvezVousDejaVu'': a villain kidnaps the hero's two girlfriends of the hero, ties each to a bomb in a different part of town, and goes to taunt the hero: [[WonderTwinPowers Super-Twins]], with the power of actually being two people, who save the girls with ridiculous ease. Bonus points for the villain wondering [[TheyJustDontGetIt how can Super-Twins win all the time]]. [[UpToEleven Double bonus points]] for the villain ''being a pair of twins as well''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "Storm the Castle", Star is forced to choose between giving up [[MacGuffin her wand]] and letting Marco be slowly crushed to death.

** Later in Part 2 Robin pulls the same trick on Slade, infecting himself with the same nanites, giving Slade the choice of letting him and his team live or losing a promising disciple. [[Spoiler:Slade ends up choosing the former.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': "If you join me, if you swear to serve me, if you never speak to your friends again, I will allow them to live. But... if you disobey even the smallest request... I will '''annihilate''' them Robin, and '''[[ForcedToWatch i'll make you watch.]]''' So... do we have a deal?"
** A SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome not only for Slade, but for the Titans when [[spoiler:they figure out what's going on themselves.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'':
** After He-Man and his allies make it to Castle Grayskull, Evelyn and Kronis capture the others while Keldor distracts He-Man in a fight. Keldor then demands that He-Man unlock the power of Grayskull and give it to him or he would use the power of Havoc to turn his captured friends into monsters. He-Man is able to stall Keldor long enough for Teela to pick the lock on her cuffs and free the others.
** In the penultimate episode of season one, Keldor, now Skeletor, gives the Masters of the Universe a new sadistic choice. [[spoiler:Having destroyed the Sword of Power and [[DePower Depowered]] the Masters, Skeletor has them chained to a platform and lowered into a massive pool of Havoc. Either they embrace the power of Havoc and serve him as his Dark Masters, or drown. Eldress, Krass, and Ork-0 are able to save the others in time.]]

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E8Towelie Towelie]]" when Towelie has the choice of keeping the boys from falling into an acid tank or getting high. He chooses [[TakeAThirdOption both]] by stretching over to get the joint.

** Another scene has Peter asked whether he would save Chris or Meg from a homicidal maniac. He says to ask Lois since he isn't good with tough decisions. The cutaway shows him at a video store, unable to choose between renting ''Ernest Goes to the Beach'' and ''Ernest Doesn't Go to the Beach''.

* Discord of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' gives one to Rainbow Dash when she encounters him in the labyrinth where the Elements of Harmony are hidden. Discord shows Rainbow Dash that her home Cloudsdale is on the verge of collapse due to her prolonged absence in the labyrinth and thus presents her with the wings that he took from her to prevent her from finding the Elements of Harmony the easy way. Discord gives her the choice of either continuing to wander the labyrinth aimlessly and allowing Cloudsdale to collapse due to her negligence or throwing the search for the Elements and recovering her stolen wings to prevent Cloudsdale's destruction. [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash chooses to abandon the Elements and her friends in favor of saving Cloudsdale, thus allowing Discord to [[WorldGoneMad wreak chaos on Equestria]].]]
** This is also played in an interesting twist; it doesn't matter what she chooses, as any of the options will make her go against her Element of Loyalty, which is exactly what Discord wants. [[XanatosGambit He wins either way.]]
** And he brainwashes her just to make sure she does what he wants, so there was never really any choice in the matter. He just presented the situation to her for his own amusement.
** If you watch closely, Dash never even gets the chance to choose; he does the Finger of Death like he does with Fluttershy. Whereas the other three ponies fell by their own, the two ex-pegasi were directly touched and thus directly brainwashed -- in Dash's case, before she could even make the choice and was still torn.
*** Then again, Rainbow Dash didn't successfully overcome Discord's machinations the way Fluttershy did. Just like his earlier torments of the other ponies, the point of the sadistic choice was to [[DeConstruction demonstrate the flaw in her Element]] -- namely, that it's sometimes impossible to properly disentangle oneself from a web of conflicting loyalties. Thus, all that Discord sought was for Rainbow Dash to be torn over the decision in the first place, at which point he brainwashed her into betraying her friends.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S1E17FromTheConfidentialCasefilesOfAgent22 From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22]], Black Heron tells Mrs. Beakley to surrender the [[AppliedPhlebotinum bounce formula]] or else she'll kill Webby. Beakley quickly complies in order to save her granddaughter.

** Also subverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', aptly titled "Sonia's Choice". Who does she rescue from the [[UnwillingRoboticisation Roboticizer]] - Sonic or Manic? [[spoiler:[[TakeAThirdOption She chooses to rescue both.]] [[DeusExMachina Queen Aleena is on hand to rescue Manic in time anyway,]] so even if she did choose, it would have still ended well.]]

** In ''Deadly Ransom'', when Captain Planet is taken prisoner, the Planeteers' one option is delivering the ransom (which is nuclear waste) and the other - letting Dr. Blight and Duke Nukem kill the Captain. [[spoiler:They find a third solution.]]

** If you watch closely, Dash never even gets the chance to choose; he does the Finger of Death like he does with Fluttershy. Whereas the other three ponies fell by their own, the two ex-pegasi were directly touched and thus directly brainwashed - in Dash's case, before she could even make the choice and was still torn.
*** Then again, Rainbow Dash didn't successfully overcome Discord's machinations the way Fluttershy did. Just like his earlier torments of the other ponies, the point of the sadistic choice was to [[DeConstruction demonstrate the flaw in her Element]] - namely, that it's sometimes impossible to properly disentangle oneself from a web of conflicting loyalties. Thus, all that Discord sought was for Rainbow Dash to be torn over the decision in the first place, at which point he brainwashed her into betraying her friends.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E15ThroughImperialEyes "Through Imperial Eyes"]], [[spoiler:Agent Kallus]] gets [[spoiler:Lieutenant Lyste]] off his back during a stressful situation by getting him to follow Governor Pryce under the implication she might be [[ReverseMole Fulcrum]]. In the end, the situation gets bad enough that [[spoiler:Kallus]], the ''actual'' Fulcrum, chooses to stay in case he can get more useful intel, but in order to do so he [[FrameUp frames]] [[spoiler:Lyste]] as being Fulcrum. The look on his face as [[spoiler:Lyste]] is dragged away implies it wasn't a decision he particularly enjoyed making.