Take a Third Option: Difference between revisions

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Naruto]]'', The [[Trio]] of Nagato, Yahiko and Konan is cornered by [[Complete Monster]] Hanzo, who has young Konan as his hostage. Either Nagato had to kill his best friend Yahiko, or refuse and let Konan die. What happens in the end? {{spoiler|Yahiko takes the third option: commiting suicide by grabbing Nagato's hand, which held a sharp ''kunai'', and stab himself with it.}}

** The Chuunin exams in one of the first arcs plays this slightly differently: the point of the insanely-hard test is to force the student ninja to cheat, so either they get caught cheating and are kicked out, or they prove their ninja skills by cheating without getting caught. Naruto [[Too Dumb to Fool|turns in his test completely blank]], and [[The Smart Guy|Sakura]] [[Mundane Solution|works out the answers herself]]. Both of them pass because they were never caught cheating.

* In [[Mawaru Penguindrum]], {{spoiler|Masako}} is given a very odd [[Sadistic Choice]]: {{spoiler|she and Mario have to eat potentially poisoned food as a test from her grandfather Sanbei, who is possessing Mario's body. If she chooses the harmless dish, Mario will eat the harmful one and die; if she eats the poisoned food, Mario will win but end up as his grandfather's [[Soul Jar]] and puppet.}} How does this end? {{spoiler|With Masako ''eating both dishes''. She ends up in a coma, but saves Mario from Sanbei's soul's control.}}

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', during the Arlong arc, Nami asks Luffy and crew to leave the island and not interfere with her business. Luffy does not want to argue with Nami, but he does not want to leave the island either, so ''he goes to sleep in the middle of the road''.