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''Or else he must not only die the death,''
''But thy unkindness shall his death draw out''
''To ling'ring sufferance.''
|'''Angelo''', ''[[Measure for Measure]]''}}
A villain has the hero in his clutches. The only person pleading for the hero is his wife/girlfriend. So the villain says, "I'll only release him if you have sex with me." And now the heroine has to choose whether her love for her husband's [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|well-being]] overrides her sexual loyalty. Typically, she (or sometimes even he) will agree to the ultimatum, but before the two of them do the deed, a [[Take a Third Option|Third Option]] will present itself, and the sacrifice won't be needed after all. Except if it is used as a premise for an erotic story.
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* Daisuke Torakura, the [[Asshole Victim]] from a ''[[Detective Conan]]'' case, got to marry the prettiest girl from a village near his [[Big Fancy House]] via this, threatening to ruin her father's business and throw the family into destitution.
* Happens in the manwha ''Masca'' in which the demon lord refuses to lift the spell that [[Dude in Distress|will kill the protagonist's beloved mentor/potential love interest]] unless she sleeps with him.
* It's left out of the dub, of course, but in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'', Barbara makes this offer to Yusei as an alternative to slavery in the dyne mines. Yusei refuses. What makes this even more evil is the fact that Lotten - who is later revealed to be her lover - ''is standing right there'' and doesn't even mind! But given the type of scum he is, that's hardly surprising.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''[[New Mutants]]'' has a surprisingly G-rated version given the participants - [[Magma Man|Amara]] (Magma) and ''Mephisto''. The specific terms are that he'll let them out of Hell in exchange for "one date, no strings".
== [[Fan
* Inverted in ''[[My Immortal]]'', when [[Harry Potter|Snape]] threatens to rape Draco if Ebony doesn't kill Vampire (a.k.a. Harry Potter). Of course, considering [[So Bad It's Good|how]] [[Narm|it's]] [[Nightmare Retardant|written...]]
* In ''[[All He Ever Wanted]]'', [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Prussia]] doesn't even wait to threaten his rival Austria's beautiful ex-wife Hungary with raping her if she doesn't help him. As the "good" [[Complete Monster]] he is in the fic, he just brings her into Austria's cell and forces him to watch as he brutally beats, rapes and tortures her "for Austria's sake".
* ''[[All You Need Is Love]]'' has a male on male example. When [[Death Note|Light/Kira]] goes to [[Enemy Mine|L and Naomi Misora for help on a pressing issue]] L wastes no time in giving this ultimatum:
{{quote|'''L''': If you're finally going to admit that you're Kira I'll have you know that so far your various futures entail your being my [[Sex Slave]], [[They Would Cut You Up|the government's sex slave]], [[Bedlam House|or locked up in some mental institution.]] Of the three I prefer your being my sex slave but the decision is yours. [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|Or Naomi-chan could shoot you]] [[V for Vendetta|behind the chemical shed, if that's preferable.]]}}
* In ''[[Lessons Learned on
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* In the backstory of the ''Tide Lords'' novels, Arkady was given a choice of this type by the Duke of Lebec to save her father from prison. Unfortunately, while the Duke kept his word, Arkady's father died of natural causes before the release order reached the prison. Unusually, there was explicitly no sex involved in this example. The Duke was gay in a violently homophobic culture, so he needed a wife to act as [[The Beard]].
* In the short story ''[http://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/disaster-apocalypse/will-mcintosh/free-lunch Free Lunch]'' Phoebe and her mother are trying to survive in a postapocalyptic society. A restaurant employee coerces Phoebe into having sex with him in exchange for food, and she starts to offer sex as payment for food every time they meet someone. When her mother finds out, she berates Phoebe and is ashamed of her, even though the food Phoebe got this way was all that was keeping them alive.
* In ''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Female example: In ''The Way We Live Now'', the evil American woman pulls one of these on Paul. She will reveal the fact that he has previously slept with her to his fiancee if he doesn't give her one last night. And there is no Third Option. Then again, it's hard to feel sorry for him when all he needs is to decide to ''not'' trick a woman into marriage on false premises.
* On an episode of ''[[24]]'', Teri Bauer offers herself to a thug in order to prevent him from raping [[Damsel Scrappy|Kim]]. She then uses the opportunity to steal his cell phone and call for help.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** Yes it can: {{spoiler|Ellen is later [[Oedipus Complex|revealed to be Cavil's mother figure]], and she created him in the image of her father. [[Squick|Cavil knew all of this at the time]].}}
** And {{spoiler|we find out that Ellen and Tigh are both Cylons.}}
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** Kitty promised to stay with Caliban forever in exchange for helping her teammates, but he later released her from that vow after realizing she didn't love him.
** Also happened to Angel when Callisto from the Morlocks group decided that she needed a future mate. The TV series used the same set-up but with Cyclops instead.
** [[Doctor Doom]] once offered to heal Kitty (who had been injured by the Marauders and was unable to turn her powers off, trapped in intangible form) his only condition being that Storm "date" him once. While nobody (including Storm) trusted him, he did live up to his side of the bargain. Possibly, his true motive was to prove himself superior to Reed Richards, who had already tried and failed to cure Kitty.
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