History Main / NoPointsForNeutrality

* Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}''. Neutrality is a perfectly viable option for the player from beginning to end, and the neutral path offers some very satisfying endings. This isn't surprising, given how neutrality is [[GoldenPath usually handled]] in the game's [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei parent series]].

* Music/NatashaBedingfield: "If You're Gonna Jump" is about a woman wanting to become Hot-Blooded and suffuse passion in everything she does. In short, never aim for the so-called golden middle ground because it's useless to go halfway.

** Justified in ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'': factions are struggling to survive in a hostile alien environment, and they are all extreme on their ideologies, pulling a WithUsOrAgainstUs. If for example you have a pact of brotherhood with the Believers and the University of Planet at the same time, which are programmed to quickly enter in conflict due to ideological differences and wage war on each other, it is likely that one of them will first or later break the pact because "I cannot tolerate anymore your cooperation with my mortal enemy" (unless you are so strong that you can keep in check both). Even if you just have a simple treaty of friendship with someone, this can easily hurt your diplomatic relations with his/her enemies, and if they are already tense, lead to a war.

** Justified in ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'': factions are struggling to survive in a hostile alien environment, and they are all extreme on their ideologies, pulling a WithUsOrAgainstUs. If for example you have a pact of brotherhood with the Believers and the University of Planet at the same time, which are programmed to quickly enter in conflict due to ideological differences and wage war on each other, it is likely that one of them will first or later break the pact because "I cannot tolerate anymore your cooperation with my mortal enemy" (unless you are so strong that you can keep in check both). Even if you just have a simple treaty of friendship with someone, this can easily hurt your diplomatic relations with his/her enemies, and if they are already tense, lead to a war.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' somewhat zig-zags this: both your PrestigeClass and access to the tomb on Korriban require you to be at least 75% aligned one way or the other. On the other hand, your Pet Crystal will still be super-powerful if you are neutral, though this doesn't really make up for the loss of prestige classes.

* ApathyKilledTheCat is a major theme of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''. If the PlayerCharacter doesn't [[KarmaMeter commit to one side of the Force]] then the PrestigeClass upgrades become unobtainable.

** Played with in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne''. It eschews the tradition of basic "Law, Neutral, Chaos" alignments, and instead asks you to sponsor one of the three opposing "[[EndOfTheWorldSpecial Reasons]]" that will serve as the basis for the new world God will create[[note]]and you fight his avatar to prove your worth[[/note]], plus a True Demon ending where you blow everyone off and side with Lucifer instead[[note]]where you don't fight God's avatar as a test, but to destroy it[[/note]]. But its equivalent "Neutral" paths are also divided: if you devote yourself to your neutrality and fight to restore the world to what it was, you earn the "Freedom" ending where the world is saved despite earning God's enmity[[note]]you fight him to force hem to undo the end of the world[[/note]]... but if your choices are noncommittal and dubious, and you lack the conviction to stand up for yourself, then God becomes disgusted with you and ignores you outright[[note]]you're not even worthy of a final boss battle[[/note]], earning you the "Demon" ending where the remaking of the world stalls out and leaves it stuck as the demon-filled Vortex World.