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* Ratchet in the 80s ''[[Transformers]]'' comic makes a direct reference:
{{quote| "Trusting Megatron doesn't seem a particularly wise course of action. And using this opportunity to escape is no alternative either - he still holds my comrades! I must think like a warrior, as Optimus Prime instructed me. I must think of a '''third''' option!"}}
* In ''[[Lucifer (
** Also at the end, God presents Elaine Belloc and Lilith two possible outcomes - that he would either destroy the Creation, which is crumbling in his absence, or restore it to as it was. Lucifer interferes and offers a third option: {{spoiler|to do nothing - the most difficult thing for an omnipotent being. God accepts, and leaves Elaine to replace him as the power that binds the universe together.}}
* ''[[Green Lantern]]'' Hal Jordan, in a story arc concerning the [[Dating Catwoman|Star Sapphire]], which had, throughout the arc, [[Body Snatcher|taken over]] both Carol Ferris, his perennial love interest, and Jill "Cowgirl" Pearlman, his current love interest. The Zamarons, who sent the Star in the first place, held them captive and had Hal choose which one to be his mate. In response, Hal kissed one of the Zamaron captors, causing the Star to bond with her, go berserk, and forcing the other Zamarons to take her home to remove the stone.
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** Parker also pulls off this in the Long Way Down Job. When she and Eliot are trying to recover the body of the victim who was left to die on a mountain, {{spoiler|they fail also losing the evidence for their case. However they do manage to recover his cell phone that sends a message once it is brought down, both incriminating the suspect and giving a message to the victim's wife.}}
* Minor example from ''[[Las Vegas]]'': Sam is told that a whale with extremely sweaty palms must leave the casino because he's grossing people out, but doesn't want to hurt his feelings by expelling him from the last place he hasn't already been kicked out of. She solves the quandary by {{spoiler|setting up a high-stakes game in the hotel swimming pool, with a floating table and waterproof cards.}}
* ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', the titular doctor announces he's choosing a team leader from his four minions. Three of them promptly begin competing and are soon stuck in what amounts to a game show for House's amusement. Taub stays out of it an offers to split the pay raise with House; he is promptly made team leader.
* [[Defied Trope|Defied]] in an episode of [[The Daily Show]] where, while debating Fox News's intent on a recent story, Wyatt Cenac argued that Fox was evil and John Oliver argued that they were stupid. When Jon suggested the existence of a third option...
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* In the final puzzle of ''[[Star Trek]]: [[A Final Unity]],'' Picard is forced to choose between using a superweapon to annihilate a Borg Fleet, or simply using it to nonviolently halt their invasion. Naturally, the correct choice is None of the Above.
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]'', after {{spoiler|[[Another Side Another Story|playing through the game as Riku]], Riku meets up with King Mickey, who suggests that he keep his dark powers, saying something to the effect of, "You chose a road I never even thought of; I want to see where that road leads." Later, when asked whether he'll take the road to light or the one to darkness, he takes the one in the middle... "the road to dawn."}}
* In ''[[Mario
* The Wii, and to a smaller extent the DS, is Nintendo's third option. Following the relative failure of the [[Game Cube]], Nintendo was faced with either continuing the graphics arms race with Sony and Microsoft and continuing to struggle against its "kiddy" image, or reorganizing as a third-party developer and continuing to struggle against its "kiddy" image. Nintendo decided to ignore all that, embrace its family friendly nature, and try to redefine the video game market. And it's working BECAUSE it's become the [[Take a Third Option|Third Option To Take]] for non-gamers and former gamers.
** And of course, gamers.
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* Anders in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' removes this option near the end of the game by {{spoiler|blowing up the Chantry}}, which forces the player's Hawke to [[With Us or Against Us|choose whether to side with the mages or side with the templars]].
** ''Dragon Age II'' also subverts the idea that the third option has to be an optimal outcome in the quest {{spoiler|Night Terrors}}. {{spoiler|A boy with a rare magical talent is being threatened by demons. The choices first given to you are to either save him and let him run away to train his talents or to make him Tranquil (essentially a magical lobotomy). The third option is to let ''another'' demon posess his body, wreaking havoc with the boy's magical talent in exchange for a reward from the demon.}}
* A minor [[Game Breaker]] for ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'', there is a quest for a [[Eldritch Abomination|daedra]] named [[Deal with the Devil|Clavicus Vile]] to retrieve for him a sword called [[Evil Weapon|Umbra]]. If you do get the sword, you can either give it to him, for the reward of a [[Dude, Where's My Reward?|crummy]] [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|mask]], or you can keep it. The only problem is, while it's almost certainly the [[Infinity+1 Sword|best sword in the game]], it's also quite heavy. There is a third option, of course... {{spoiler|Since quest items are weightless, Umbra has no weight value until you complete the quest. Therefore, by simply not ever finishing the quest, you make it into what is VERY DEFINITELY the best sword in the game: superpowerful and light as a feather- and [[Evil Weapon|capable of eating the souls of those it kills]].}}
* If you start looking into the [[Murder, Inc.|Dark Brotherhood]] in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'', you'll find yourself waking up in a locked shack, where the Brotherhood's chief assassin explains that you owe her group one murder. She has three bound and hooded victims waiting for you - a harridan of a housewife, a blubbering Nord bandit, and a Kajiit who unrepentantly mentions that he's a rapist and murderer - and explains that there's a contract on one of them. ''[[Sadistic Choice|Someone]]'' [[Sadistic Choice|has to die before you leave the shack]]. Kill one and the assassin will welcome you as an initiate in the Dark Brotherhood. [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|Kill more than one and she'll praise you for your thoroughness]]. ''Or''... {{spoiler|you can kill the ''assassin'' (no easy feat), free the captives, and report to a city guard, starting the "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Destroy the Dark Brotherhood]]" quest in which you assault the assassins' lair and wipe them out for good. This is an improvement from ''[[Oblivion]]'', where you could only opt in or out of the Brotherhood without doing anything else}}.
* In the end of the first ''[[Dino Crisis]]'', Regina must choose between {{spoiler|helping a mortally wounded Gail (Regina's commanding officer) apprehend the renegade scientist Dr. Kirk, causing Gail to die in the process; or knock Gail out, forcing him to escape the island without capturing Dr. Kirk. The third option comes when the player chooses to knock out Gail, only to go after Dr. Kirk alone.}}
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'' does this for the graphics. Instead of using cel shading like Wind Waker, or realism like Twilight Princess, Nintendo decided to combine the two to make a cel shaded but somewhat realistic looking adult Link. Many were pleased, [[Fan Dumb|but others hated how the style was not either cel shaded or realistic]].
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