YTA, that's literally a crime
AITA for selling my friend out to an evil empire?
I (46M, Human) am an administrator for a planet in my galaxy. While most of it is run by a brutal and totalitarian empire, my city and planet are sovereign. Recently though, my friend H (32M, human), and his friends C and L (36M, wookie, and 20F, Human) were travelling to my planet to ask for help on behalf of the rebellion. Unfortunately however, the empire caught wind of the fact they were coming to me, so a high ranking imperial representative (??M) came to meet with me, and offered me a deal that if I turned H and his friends over to the empire, my city would remain sovereign from the empire. So I ended up having to turn them over to the empire, but the empire repeatedly reneged on their end of the bargain, initially turning H over to a bounty hunter (??M), with the imperial representative threatening to leave a squadron in my city if I was unwilling to comply with him, and then ordered that they be taken to his ship. L and C were angry with me for my betrayal, and I know they have a right to be, but I feel like I had a duty to the people of my city and to ensure they were not put in harms way by me not complying with the empire. AITA?
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Jun 30th 2025 at 2:04:10 AM
Justified YTA - In your defense you didn't know the representative would fuck with you like that, but still. You ought to make amends with C, L, and if possible H as soon as possile.
AITA for nearly defenestrating my stepsister?
Alright, so me (~16F) and my stepsisters, let's call them M1 and M2 (both also ~16F), all needed to do a presentation for our history class. Unfortunately, we all did horribly with it (the less said about THAT, the better), so the teacher (probably 40sF) had the three of us go speak with her after class.
Luckily the teacher gave us the chance to make up our presentations, with a deadline of around 17:00 that day. Me and M2 got our projects done quickly enough, but M1 not so much. I suggested that we could help her on it, which went okay for the most part, besides a few racist remarks from M2.
That is, until I asked M1 about why she is always so distant from us. For reference, M1 usually spends most of her time locked in her bedroom using her computer and always says she is "with friends" when I try to talk to her. I tried to talk with her about the latter point because I suspected she didn't really have no friendsOOC note. And you want to know what M1's response was?
"Better to have no friends than no parents."
I, being an orphan, was pissed off and wouldn't have none of that. So I grabbed onto her, stuck her out the window (diagram for reference
◊), and kept her dangling until she apologised. I'd like to clarify that we were somewhere around the 2nd or 3rd floor of the building and M1 isn't particularly athletic at all, so if I dropped her she probably would have died or at least broken a few bones. Luckily I didn't need to drop her because she did in fact apologise, then ran away to a nearby bathroom, leaving me and M2 to finish M1's project.
A while later, after we finished M1's project I found her as she was exiting the bathroom. I apologised for putting her life on the line (which was honestly the least I could do). She accepted the apology, but I still feel a bit bad about it. AITA?
I think Zetabrand is a pretty cool guy. Eh has a license to combo and doesn't afraid of anything.NTA. You could have handled things better, but at your feelings were understandable and you apologised.
AITA for pressuring my friend to send his adopted kids back to their foster home?
I (85M) am the assistant to my friend G (40M), who aspires to be the greatest villain of all time. I have helped him with previous things by creating various inventions for him. We have had a problem however, as recently another villain stole the great pyramid, which overshadows our achievements (such as stealing the time square jumbotron and the statue of liberty, the small one in Las Vegas). Recently, we had created a plan to steal the moon in order to overshadow the competition. The problem with this of course is the size of the moon as we would need to shrink it, and would need to steal a device to do this. Recently, there were these 3 girls (12F, 9F, and 6F) who came knocking on G's door to get him to buy cookies for their foster home, but he sent them away by pretending to not be home. They will come back up later. Anyways, G tried to steal the shrinking device, but another villain who we will call V (22M) stole it. Now G and I had to come up with a plan on how to get it back, after trying to just break in and steal it back from V was unsuccessful. Then, G saw the same girls who tried to sell him cookies trying to sell cookies to V and got an idea. He decided to adopt them so they could try again to sell cookies to V (after he turned them away), but really, we would create these robots disguised as cookies, which we would use to steal the shrinking device back. So G and the girls went off to do that, but ended up coming back much later than I anticipated after having gone to an amusement park. It was clear that they had bonded over the day and continued to for the next several days, which was not part of the plan. Two day before the moon would be in the right place, I told G that we had 48 hours to get ready to steal the moon. G told me he had been thinking of rescheduling the moon heist for another day. The day we had planned to do it happened to fall on the same day as an event that the girls had, so I asked him if it was as a result of that that he wanted to reschedule. G denied this but I was not convinced. I told him that this was something we'd been working on for years and was our chance to make history, but the girls were becoming a distraction and needed to go. I told G that if he wouldn't do anything about it, I would. G still seemed reluctant so I contacted the head of the foster home (47F) where the girls were at, and informed her that G wanted to return them. G still seemed reluctant even when she showed up at the door so I cleared my throat and he reluctantly did send them back. I told G that I did what I did for his own good, and that it was time to go get the moon. Over the last few days though he's been pretty depressed since sending them back. AITA for pressuring him to do that?
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Jul 12th 2025 at 10:40:30 AM
YTA — Stealing the moon was already an A-hole move, but now you're not only trying to prevent him from coming around morally, you've put him into a depression.
AITA for trying to escape my flu-ridden family?
Last year, I (11M at the time) woke up to find that four of my sisters (17F, 13F, 6F, and 6F) had all gotten the flu, so my other sisters (16F, 15F, 14F, 8F, 4F, and 1F) were hiding in the four-year-old and the one-year-old's room.
I decided to bring those six girls over to my friend's (11M) house where we could stay until the four sick girls got better, and he could make a bunch of food (he's a good chef for his age) and bring it over to the sick girls. My four-year-old sister filled up some squirt guns with chicken soup (warm, but not hot enough to burn) so that we could ward off the sick sisters (I know that might sound bad, but they were making no effort to stay away from us and avoid spreading their disease and were hounding us like zombies).
However, my sixteen-year-old sister kept protesting and insisting that we stay at home and care for the sick family members ourselves, saying that I was being mean for wanting to escape them, and even calling me a monster.
In the chaos, the fifteen, fourteen, eight, four, and one-year-old sisters all got sick, and it turns out that my parents (43M and 43F) and our pets (7M dog, 6M cat, 1M hamster, and 6M canary) were also sick with the same flu.
At one point, I wondered if maybe the 16-year-old sister was right, and I stood in front of 15's snot so that she wouldn't get sick, but it backfired when I got sick and passed it onto her, meaning that we all ended up catching it, and my friend had to take care of us all anyway.
AITA?
Edited by Unicorndance on Jul 12th 2025 at 10:43:05 PM
For every low there is a high.Just barely NAH. You both had your reasons to stay away/care for your family. While shooting them with chicken soup is mean, I get that you didn't want to catch the flu.
AITA for burning the bathroom over a bee?
This is gonna sound crazy, but trust me when I say this really happened. So I (28M) was dating this florist girl, who I'll call V (27F). We shared an apartment, played tennis sometimes, and had a great life together! But then HE showed up.
So recently, V met this bee (0M) who started TALKING to her. Yes, a bee actually started talking! At first he just talked about bee stuff, I guess, and then she'd talk about florist stuff, I guess, but then she started ignoring me left and right! She kept forgetting about our dates, letting him sit in my spot at the dinner table, among other things - all because a BEE! Apparently he wanted to sue the human race over honey, too? I don't really care about that, since it's impossible, but V treated it like it was completely serious.
Eventually, I had enough. When the bee went to the bathroom, I attempted to get rid of him once and for all. At first I was just going to hit him a mazagine, but when they didn't work, I used a lighter, which burned... a lot, but somehow not the bee. After a while, V caught us fighting, and immediately broke up with me.
I really dont think this is my fault; I just wanted my girlfriend's attention so we'd be happy again. AITA?
Edited by Pbskidsfan on Jul 13th 2025 at 2:02:06 PM
My plan is to trick you into thinking this is my signature when it’s not, then confuse you silly. Doubting my plan? Then it's working!ESH, on the one hand, she's blowing you off for a bee, but your crashout was an overreaction
AITA for making an entire town believe that I was a tough outlaw?
I (??M, chameleon) was once a pet before I fell out of the back of my owner's van and wound up in the middle of the desert. Soon after I did, I started getting chased by this hawk, but through sheer dumb luck, I made it to a desert town and managed to kill the hawk by accident. Soon after, the townsfolk started asking me about my identity. Not really knowing who I was and wanting to impress them, I made up several embellished stories about myself, including that I killed 10 bandits with just one bullet. I was soon after appointed to be sheriff, and realized at this point I was in over my head and had to keep up the charade. One thing I haven't mentioned up to this point is that the town was suffering from a drought. After some investigation, I found out that the mayor (??M, tortoise) was super shady and was hoarding the water to drive the townsfolk out so he could modernize the city. Soon after I found this out though, I was publicly confronted by this notorious outlaw (??M, rattlesnake). He publicly challenged me to shoot him and said it would just take one bullet. I couldn't go through with it and he called me out for lying to the town, and told me that if I ever came back he would kill me, forcing me to leave in shame. The townsfolk were all shocked about this, with some even asking me who I was. AITA?
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Jul 23rd 2025 at 1:21:32 AM
NTA: Every contractor has to look the part.
AITA for destroying the company I worked for after my protegees stole my work?
A bit of background: Back in the 80's I (M70) was shot down by my protogees (M26 and M28), who then bragged that they were going to steal my work. It was felt my work was putting the company's reputation at risk, and rather than side with me, they gave the order to fire!
After carrying on with my work outside of the company, I picked myself up and sabotaged their operations. This has lead to an unfortunate incident in a large, but isolated, company town after some residents were exposed to a bio-hazardous project. I was then seriously injured in an incident with a member of local law enforcement (ultimately on the payroll of my former employers, who invested heavily in the city infrastructure) working with a convicted criminal.
The company in question was ultimately liquidated by the government for its crimes, which I feel vindicates my position. That said, some consider my actions immoral, despite the need to defend both my legacy and my children (NB2-4). AITA?
Edited by Bisected8 on Jul 29th 2025 at 11:13:02 AM
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Am I The Asshole For: Trying To Make A Dark Fountain
So I (20 Computer) Rule Over This Internet Kingdom Where I Have This Epic Robot
I Wanted To Make A Dark Fountain Because If I Did Then I Would Make People Happy (Good)
But This Goat Boy Told Me That If I Do Then The World Would End (Bad)
So Am I An Asshole For Wanting To Form Dark Fountains?
Edited by ColdOnes on Jul 29th 2025 at 11:08:52 AM
"If actions speak louder than words then this silent deer never stops talking. His annoying actions will leave you speechless."YTA — You really don’t know the consequences of making too many Dark Fountains.
AITA for refusing to have my injury cured?
I (45-50M) had a terrible accident in my farm a few years ago that paralyzed me from the waist-down. My eldest son (19-21M) built me a wheelchair and fixes it regularly, while my wife (~45F) and youngest daughter (~6F) are struggling to accept this. I, too, had a hard time adjusting to my new life, but eventually I accepted the fact that I'll never walk again. At least I'm still alive, my family is trying to support me, and my wheelchair has tools to help me tend to my farm.
However, my wife still hopes she can cure me so I can return to my "normal" life, so she took me to the doctor (20-25Xnote ) for my checkup. The doctor diagnosed my incurable injury, but my wife still asked them to make a potion for that, so they played along with her, while I begrudgingly followed them and pretended to my family that I was fine. But after I took the potion and it didn't work, my wife still tried getting the doctor's help to find the cure. Then a few days later, I finally lashed out at her that I didn't want to be cured because my disability's become a part of me. But then she cried and left the room, telling me I lied to her how I felt about it.
I understand that she still loves me despite everything and she meant well, but I only played along to her wishes so as not to hurt her feelings. AITA?
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Jul 30th 2025 at 3:27:19 AM
"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."YTA. You should have been honest about how you felt about it
AITA for refusing to send aid to my neighboring nation?
I (59M) am the king of my nation. Recently, my kingdom has been ravaged by evil forces, and I had been controlled as a puppet king by them for some time (through literal mind control). The invading forces had not only devestated my kingdom and people, but had killed my own son as well during battle. During this time, our neighboring nation, which we will call Nation G did nothing to help us despite my efforts to contact them to ask for help after I was broken out of my mind control by my ally, who we will call G (1000+M, wizard). Recently, the forces of the dark lord who was behind the forces of evil moved on from trying to attack my nation to trying to attack Nation G instead. G begged me to send troops to help but not only was my own kingdom already in a terrible state due to the war and didnt want to throw away more of my peoples lives needlessly, but I felt betrayed by Nation G and didn't see why I should send them aid when they hadn't helped me or my people in our time of need. So I told him I would not be sending Nation G aid. AITA?
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Jul 29th 2025 at 3:08:43 AM
ESH — You for holding a grudge, and him for not helping.
AITA for telling my friend's girlfriend that he was lying about being refined?
So, my (10M) friend (10M) and I pulled this prank where we unscrewed all the screws at our school, but unfortunately, the principal (39M) only caught me. I didn't want to be a tattletale, so I ended up being suspended, but not him.
He felt guilty about getting me suspended and getting away with the prank, especially since it was his idea, so he promised to visit me for every day of his suspension. However, he broke his promise, so I came over to his house one night, and I found out why: he was dating this girl (10F)!
These two kids didn't know each other, and it showed — she was a total Goody Two-Shoes, disliking any sort of misbehaviour (she berated me for trying to teach her boyfriend new swear words for instance) whereas my friend is a rambunctious prankster, but he was trying to pretend he was a goody two-shoes like her because he had a crush on her.
And so I eventually made him spill the beans and admit that he'd been lying, and they broke up.
AITA?
For every low there is a high.ESH — It seems like this kid is taking your friendship for granted, despite all that you do for him. Still, your friend, no matter their dickishness, should be able to have and grow a relationship, and you exposing him in front of this girl has made things worse for the both of you. My idea is that you two should try to at least patch things up in spite of both your betrayals.
Am I The Asshole for choosing my best friend over my long-term girlfriend?
I (29M) have just broken up with my long-time girlfriend (30-32F), and I'm starting to think that it's because I hang out and take the advice of my best friend. His suggestion that I have my girlfriend's anniversary at the pub we always hang out at ended up causing our break-up.
Now my best friend/roommate (30-32M) is a good guy, but he has no social skills, always bums around the house playing video games, and doesn't take responsibility for anything. I love to hang out and joke around with him, but I also wonder if he's holding me back from being a better person. Especially in light of this break-up. But I don't want to leave my friend, because I’ve been looking out for him my whole life.
AITA?
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Jul 30th 2025 at 8:45:27 AM
Do not mess with creatures which you do not understand.ESH. You weren't really prioritizing your relationship with your GF as much as you should have, but she should have communicated that. Your friend also sounds like he's a bad influence.
AITA for killing a bunch of people to save who I thought to be an imprisoned maiden?
I (35M) am a knight of a powerful and influential kingdom, and recently, my fellow knights, our king (45M) and I were called by God on a quest for a holy artifact. I was riding north with my squire when he was shot with an arrow, which he said had a message for me. I read it, and it said that someone was being held prisoner by their father who was going to force them to get married to someone they didn't want to. I believed this was a maiden who wrote this and so I rode towards the castle the letter had been sent from. As soon as I arrived I started to kill everyone that I saw, castle guards and some random people, thinking they were all holding this maiden prisoner. When I made it upstairs though, I realized my mistake; what I thought to be a maiden was actually a prince (20M). He was about to start singing about how someone would do something, when his father the king (50M) stormed in and cut him off. He asked me if I had killed all the guards, I admitted to him that I had, and he was angry because they cost him a fortune, and I had killed 8 wedding guests, including the brides father, and I'd kicked the bride in the chest. I apologized to him and explained that I had thought his son was a lady, which he said he understood, and I had been riding north from my kingdom. As soon as I said what my kingdom was, he changed his tune and invited me to be his guest of honor. During this time, the prince tried to climb out the window with his bedsheet, but the king dropped him to the swamp below. I thanked him for being so understanding to my getting carried away, but when I stepped downstairs, the people rushed me, so I started to kill them again before the king stopped me and introduced me. I apologized to the people but they were still angry it seemed even when the king tried to introduce me as a brave and influential knight. He announced that his son had tragically fallen to his death, and that the brides father died so he wanted her to look on him as her own father, in a legally binding sense. Someone said the father was recovering, so the king had him killed. The prince then showed up and said he was saved. While everyone was distracted, I escaped. But AITA?
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Aug 30th 2025 at 9:10:25 AM
YTA, did you really have to kill them?
AITA For Throwing A Letter My Daughter Got From A 44 Year Old Man?
I (41F) have a daughter, Mary (8F). Yesterday, she got a letter in the mail from America. When I had a read of this letter, I was horrified. A 44-year-old man had written to my daughter, he mentioned that his mother had shot herself when he was 6, that he was a communist, and had been thrown into a mental hospital, as well as other inappropriate details. I screamed in realisation of what I was reading. I then threw his letter in the trash an hour before Mary came home from school, and hoped she would just assume that he never wrote back as I have no intention of letting a man who is old enough to possibly be her grandfather, let alone over 30 years older than her be her penpal. So, AITA?
Edited by NSW006 on Aug 30th 2025 at 2:46:29 AM
Since it's been a few days since the last post, I figured I'd just go ahead with this one even though I made the post this one responded to
NTA, you were being a responsible parent. The fact that that guy was even interested in talking to your kid is pretty sketchy
AITA for prioritizing the rescue of one teenager over another?
So there's a lot of background that needs to be explained. My (41M) society is split up into several districts, and every year, two teens from each district have to come to an arena in the capitol to fight to the death until one remains on national television. 25 years ago, I was one of them, except that year there were four teens from each district. The year I went, I won, but my nation's president (now 83M) wasn't happy about the way I won and had my whole family and girlfriend executed in retaliation. Since then, I've had to train teenagers to go into the games, and every year they all died. That was until last year, when I had to mentor another 2, K (now 17F) and P (Now 17M). When they went in, K was openly defiant towards the capitol throughout the games, which ended up leading to unrest throughout numerous districts, and towards the end, when only her and P were left, they decided to both poison themselves rather than one kill the other, so they were both declared victors. Unfortunately, the president and the other capitol higher ups were not happy about this.
That brings us to this year. The president announced that since this was the 75th year since the games began, he was going to have previous victors from each district go back, obviously just so he could get K killed primarily, since she was the only female victor from my district. I was also supposed to go back but P volunteered instead of me. I hatched a plan with several other previous victors along with the head of the games (44M), who was a double agent for the resistance while pretending to help the capitol, to get K out of the arena alive, since she was the face of the growing resistance movement. Eventually, we shut down the arena, but in the process K ended up getting knocked out, and we rescued her and the other victors who were in on the plan and were still alive, but the capitol captured P before we could get to him. I explained everything to K, but she was angry that we had kept her in the dark about the plan and that we had not rescued P, when she felt we should have prioritized him over her. I explained that she was a higher priority due to her having become the face of the resistance, but she was still angry with us for this.
AITA?
ETA: some of you reading this may ask why we kept her in the dark about the plan, it was because we knew she wouldn't support us prioritizing getting her out over the others if she knew, and would likely act against the plan.
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Sep 2nd 2025 at 8:04:38 AM
YTA, you should have rescued both of them from the arena, God knows what might happen to that kid.
AITA For Sacaficing My Best Freind Who I Didn't Talk To For 5 Years To Save A Town From A Tornado?
I (18F) had to sacrifice my best friend (19F) in order to save our town from a storm. For context, I first saw my best friend for the first time in 5 years after I had to move to Seattle around the same time her dad died. She was shot by a fellow student at my school (18M). I ended up getting the power to rewind time, and I had to save her several times that week. Well anyway, I found out that her other friend (19F) had gone missing, we soon found out about a dark room, and then found the body of the other friend in the junkyard, we assumed that the guy who shot her did it, however, my friend was then shot in head by my photography teacher who was the real culprit. A storm then came into the town and a tornado was about to destroy the town, so in the end, I had to rewind time to 5 days earlier and let my friend die in order to save the town, meaning that the last time I saw her would have been at her dad's funeral 5 years ago. So AITA?
NTA. It's a Morton's Fork, but sometimes you gotta make the sacrifice. It's gonna hurt, but it can always be worse.
AITA for killing my coworkers and bosses because I lost everything?
I (DOTWM) lost my hometown when a psychotic cyborg posing as a dead friend of mine destroyed it with the help of an alien overlord. Using my Power Ring to recreate the city and its inhabitants, I was able to briefly recreate my home and its inhabitants. I was able to reunite with my family and get some quality time with my dad, who'd died when I was just a kid. However, creating an entire city made my ring run out of power before I could hear him say how proud he was of me, and everything dissipated. I received a message from my bosses, who said personal use of a ring like what I did was forbidden and I was to be punished. Enraged at their apathy, I drained the energy from their message to give my ring enough power for me to return to HQ and confront them. On my way there, many of my coworkers attempted to restrain me, forcing me to kill them and take their rings for myself. When I finally reached HQ, I confronted my bosses, only to be pitted against one of my closest friends and my Arch-Enemy. After killing both, I drained the central power source into myself, becoming a nigh god-like being and killing the rest of my coworkers as well as my bosses. It would only be later that I learned it was the Anthropomorphic Personification of Fear itself that made me go insane and kill my friends and colleagues, who would later return to life. AITA? Good thing I'm a man of the world.

YTA. That sounds like a massive red flag.
AITA for holding a child hostage?
I was falsely accused of leaking government secrets, so I grabbed a gun and ran out of the detention centre. I ended up in a park where a little girl got in my way. A detective was about to shoot me, so I threatened to kill the girl.