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In our modern society, people are supposed to have "freedom of choice" and be happy about it. Ironically, however, this sometimes make people feel anxious, uncertain and trapped in being forced to make choices. This makes them resent the constant choice-making, sometimes even giving it up if given an excuse: Real Life can feel like a Quicksand Box. May or may not lead the character to become Property of Love, or even enjoy Happiness in Slavery, finding someone else to run their life for them. Similarly, some persons too much used to have restriction might be Not Used to Freedom. This desire can be stirred by an overly Long List. Note that this is about resenting having to make choices at all: Resenting a Sadistic Choice is not this trope. However, exposure to such choices might lead a character to this trope as he develops a longing for a simpler and less painful life. While freedom from choice is morally neutral, a character who takes the desire for freedom from choice too far might become destructive as he goes off the deep end pondering (and justifying) The Evils of Free Will. The Assimilation Plot is related, as the characters touting it sometimes presents it as the ultimate escape from having to choose. When one character makes a choice for another in one particular incident only, it's Making the Choice for You. Compare and Contrast with The Ditherer where the character not wanting to make decisions is not out of preference but rather cause they're straight up unable to. If this is more isolated to a certain situation(s) rather than being a general aspect them, you have Desperately Needs Orders. |
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In the Heralds of Valdemar book Arrows of the Queen, 13-year-old Talia is offered her 'choice' in an Arranged Marriage — a younger man's first wife or an older man's underwife. One of her own father's underwives tells her that the second option is nice because she'll never have to make a decision. | |
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Dragon Age: This is the central principle of the Qun. It's remarkably popular with other races, mostly because the various human, dwarven, and elven societies tend to be corrupt, prejudiced, and unequal enough that meaningful choice is an illusion for most citizens anyway, and at least the Qunari will offer you genuine respect regardless of your allotted role. As stated by "Ketojan" and canto 4 of the Qun, the Qunari believe that the only choice that matters is that of one's existence. The Qun believe people are who they were born to be, that if the self is suffering it will only bring suffering to the world. If so, they have the choice to reject their existence if they so wish. Hawke is understandably perplexed how anyone who desires to continue living, could not question a philosophy that would cause them to kill themselves simply for falling outside of its bounds by accident. Several mages enjoy being under Templar rule. Finn, for example, says that he hated being outside and is only convinced to leave the tower because of his interest in the eluvian. |
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X-Men: Once cited by Spiral as an excuse for her own Happiness in Slavery to the sadistic and abusive Mojo. | |
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A two-part storyline from issues #42-43 of the Invader Zim (Oni) comics features the Plim, a species that have spent so long having everything in their society handled by automated systems that they lack any sort of initiative. As such, they hate the thought of deciding anything on their own to the point of it making them scared and uncomfortable, so they just do whatever they're told. | |
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Nemesis the Warlock: After Torquemada has come Back from the Dead as a result of time travel, he finds that Termight has become a peaceful, freedom-loving society in his absence instead of the tyrannical, dystopian nightmare that it was under his rule. This trope comes into play when Torquemada tries to convince his former followers to reinstate him as Grand Master. His friendlier successor Mazarin tries to rebuff him but finds that his minions have all sided with Torquemada. | |
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Discussed in The Handmaid's Tale. Under the rule of the theocratic Republic of Gilead, women have had all their power completely stripped in every meaningful way. Some women adjust well to their new lives and seem to truly believe that they're better off. Those who were not convinced that this trope was a good thing had it put to them another way; before they had "freedom to" do a lot of things, but now they have "freedom from" a lot of the problems that came with it, and the woman saying this said, quite sincerely, not to undervalue "freedom from". However, it didn't particularly matter if they accepted this or not, since they had no rights and no power anymore. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's dad goes on a rant about this as he's out shopping and grows increasingly frustrated with the fact that for every item he wants to buy there are countless meaningless options. The particular focus of his rant is potato chips. "What if I want less fat and less salt? What distinguishes 'Lite' from these others?" And don't even ask about the peanut butter. | |
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Supernatural: The angels tend to default to subservience and are confused by the concept of free will, since they were designed to be obedient soldiers in The Armies of Heaven. God abandoned them, but Michael picked up the slack for millennia. Then after the archangels are locked up or killed, Heaven falls into chaos. In season 13, Lucifer suggests that the few remaining angels make him Viceroy of Heaven since they need a leader. They quickly oblige. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion illustrates this with a pencil-drawing of Shinji floating aimlessly in white space. Then someone "draws" him a floor and shows how, with that restriction, he is actually freer. | |
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The Licanius Trilogy features Augurs, powerful wizards who can see the future. Their visions always come to pass and are made public, both to warn others and to free them from choice. | |
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In the The Mandalorian episode "The Believer", an Imperial officer named Valin Hess voices approval of a belief similar to this. Hess says that while everyone says that they want freedom, what they really want is order, with the clear implication that people will ultimately gladly sacrifice freedom for order, stability, and predictability. Furthermore, he believes that the terrorist campaign which the Imperial Remnant is waging will destabilize the New Republic to an extent that people will welcome the Empire and the order it promises back. | |
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Persona 5: At the end, the characters discover that the collective unconscious of Tokyo is a giant prison which represents the restrictive nature of society. The inmates are those who, in the real world, have given up on free will and just follow what society tells them to do. The inmates think the alternative of making your own decisions is worse; indeed, they entered the prison willingly. The Royal Updated Re-release has Dr. Maruki gaining the power of the false god Yaldabaoth, deciding that Utopia Justifies the Means, and deciding that he'd make everyone happy by removing all struggle and making people's life decisions for them. In the Non-Standard Game Over for failing to complete his Palace in time, he comes to the conclusion that Joker never confronted him because the stress of having to make a decision was too much for him, and "fixes" it by essentially removing his will to live and causing him to spend all of his time sleeping. |
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According to Tabitha in Fallout: New Vegas, the Super Mutants long for this situation, given that her main selling point for "Utobitha" is to not have to think for yourself. Granted, these are Fallout 3-style Super Mutants she's talking about, who aren't too good at that sort of thing. The more intelligent 1 and 2-style Super Mutants live in places with a bit more freedom. | |
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In Warframe's climactic story quest, "The New War", the Sentients overrun the Origin System and install Ballas as the ruler of the empire-slash-cult of Narmer, enforced through mind-controlling Narmer Veils. At the beginning of his Villainous Breakdown, as he rages over the existence of the few people still able to oppose him despite now ruling a system-spanning empire, Ballas furiously claims that the people of the system "wanted to kneel" as they sought the comfort of being told what to think. | |
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In one Cathy strip, Cathy tries to order a quick cup of coffee, only to have the barista rattle off a remarkably Long List of all the coffee drinks they offer and all the optional seasonings and so on. Cathy has a meltdown and the barista tells the manager it was caused by "coffee overload." The manager suggests that Cathy might like a soothing cup of tea instead and begins to list all of the different teas they offer. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: As with the book, "freedom from" is extolled by Aunt Lydia to the Handmaids over "freedom to" in the "days of anarchy" before Gilead. | |
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In The Brothers Karamazov, the Grand Inquisitor advocates this when speaking with Jesus, saying that he should have stripped people of free will, making them all righteous, thus everyone would get to heaven. See the Religion example below. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Loki talks a lot about this in The Avengers (2012). He's going to make humanity free from freedom. He is called a power-hungry crazy man for it every time, including by unarmed civilians, one of whom is a German old enough to remember someone touting the same philosophy. This is also the motivation behind HYDRA in Captain America: The Winter Soldier — namely, that people "cannot be trusted with their own freedom". Perhaps appropriately, HYDRA is an offshoot of the old Nazi party. |
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The Kindar in the Green-Sky Trilogy have their professions decided for them at the age of thirteen. | |
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In Dæmorphing, much of the appeal of infestation to Mr. Tidwell is that he just lost his wife and alone struggles trying to manage his emotions and his life. As soon as Illim shows remorse, Mr. Tidwell forgives him completely and their relationship becomes codependent. | |
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Batman: Some interpretations of Two-Face play with this: is surrendering to the judgments of the toss of a coin simply a way for Harvey Dent to escape the moral consequences of balancing his two sides? | |
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In Chainsaw Man, Denji crosses the Despair Event Horizon after being forced to Mercy Kill his Best Friend Aki, and when Makima promises him anything he wants, he requests this. This backfires immediately and horribly, as the person he just entrusted to run his life for him turns out to be the Control Devil/Horseman of Conquest. Later on while on a date with the Horseman of War, she tells Denji to shut up and let her do the thinking for them, to which he angrily retorts that he's resolved to think for himself. | |
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In Moscow on the Hudson, Vladimir — a Russian emigrant to the United States — freaks out when he looks for coffee in a grocery store and is confronted with innumerable different brands. In the Soviet Union, there was precisely one medium-quality brand of everything. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie: In one sketch, a government minister responsible for a broadcasting deregulation bill arrives at a restaurant. The waiter pretends to be mortified that someone who put so much emphasis on variety has only been given one ordinary set of cutlery, takes it away, and comes back with a huge number of plastic coffee stirrers which he pours on the table, screaming that they might all be rubbish, but at least he's got plenty of choices. | |
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In Final Crisis, this is one of the reasons the Anti-Life Equation is so effective. When several characters such as Green Arrow and Red Robin are freed of it, they admit that Anti-Life was "easy" and that some of it did ring true for them. | |
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9½ Weeks presents an erotic variation on Freedom from Choice: a career-woman who is successful and forceful in her professional life forfeits her sexual freedom to a man, and their relationship pushes the boundaries between what is "Safe, Sane, and Consensual" and what is abusive. | |
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Rome has Pompey, after losing his power and his fortune, philosophizing on how easy life is for slaves, to be free of the burden of choice and responsibility. | |
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Referenced by Mr. O'Neill in Daria in the episode "Write Where It Hurts", in which he tries to help Daria with a story assignment that she's having trouble with by restricting her to a particular topic. It doesn't work any better than all the other tricks she tries throughout the episode, though. | |
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During the first Autobot mission in Transformers: War for Cybertron, Megatron announces via hologram that the Decepticons will release the citizens of Iacon from the burdens of freedom and choice, citing that his will is the only guidance they shall need. | |
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In Mixed Nuts, Philip tries calling a newspaper: | |
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Shameless (UK) has this in series 4 when Frank is in the pub, trying to decide between his current lover Sheila and his technically-still-wife Monica, because they both want him to decide which of them he wants to be with. He can't decide between them, so he elects to choose ''not to choose'. In the end, he chooses Sheila, but when she finds out that he's still legally married to Monica, which she didn't know before, she leaves him anyway, so Frank goes to Monica instead, implying that he had dumped Sheila and that Monica was the first choice. | |
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In the Futurama episode "The Problem with Popplers", Lrr is about to eat Leela as a public spectacle. His exchange with the waiter goes as such: | |
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Keeping Up Appearances: This is a suggested reason why Richard stays with Hyacinth; he's fundamentally lazy person who wants someone else to run his life for him. | |
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This trope figures heavily in The Giver. In particular, both jobs and spouses are assigned by the government. | |
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During one of the Truth-sessions of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, you can hear how one of the modern descendants of the Knights Templar describes how they will provide mankind freedom from democracy and choice, and all base and material desires for good measure. | |
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In Simoun, choice (specifically represented by the gender choice but encapsulating other things as well) is the source of most of the main characters' internal conflict throughout the story — that not related to the Hopeless War, at least. The availability of choice is a good thing, but actually engaging in either/or decision-making erases other possibilities and hence, paradoxically, stunts potential, particularly spiritual potential. Characters sometimes attempt to go the traditional Freedom from Choice route and submit to military, political, or social marching orders, but the only actual freedom lies in a particular kind of simultaneously static and "wavering" mindset. | |
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Judge Dredd: One storyline has a pro-democracy group want to end the reign of the judges. Dredd is just about the only member of Justice Department to want it to go ahead, citing the massive riots that would occur if repressed. The movement goes ahead, instructions on how to vote from home are broadcast, the vote is carried out... and the Apathetic Citizens of Mega-City One don't disappoint, voting to keep the judges by a landslide, Judge Dredd citing the trope as the reason. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Age of Steel", the Doctor — upon noticing that the human race has been enslaved yet again — muses, "I think you like it. Easy life." | |
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In The Dark Knight Strikes Again, there is a passing reference to a "Freedom from Information Act", presumably intended as a satirical slap on the recent activities of the George W. Bush administration. | |
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Boardwalk Empire is set during a time when, among other things, women's right to vote was being discussed. This trope is invoked by many of the men campaigning against it, claiming that they're trying to "protect" women from the burden of making a choice. One such man believes that he's proven his point by asking his completely uneducated housemaid and a Brainless Beauty concubine their opinion of the League of Nations. Nucky clearly disapproves of the jeering Kick the Dog humiliation of the former, calls the latter a "bad example" of women's potential, and seems to support the change, possibly due to his close relationship with the Women's Temperance League providing him with many examples of strong, politically savvy women. One of several reasons why Margaret attracts Nucky's attention is that she is able to politely yet eloquently shoot down two men who gently (and extremely patronizingly) try to explain this trope to her, pointing out that some supposedly inferior countries (like her native Ireland) already have votes for women, and showing that she's absolutely capable of making an informed choice. | |
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Not Just Bikes: Jason mentions, with deep annoyance, how certain parts of North America seem to be full of people who are furious at the idea of being given a choice to walk, bike or take public transit rather than have to drive in traffic arguing that their freedom is being taken away by being offered infrastructure that gives them more choices (without removing cars from the equation). | |
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In Nukume Dori, this is one of the more interesting parts of Subaru and Seishirou's budding relationship dynamic. Seishirou is regularly shown as being the one who chooses many of their activities, including where they go on their 'dates' down to deciding what Subaru eats and drinks by ordering for him when they go out. Interestingly enough, the only time when this chafes on Subaru is when he and Seishirou are fighting over whether or not he should save Matsumoto's life. Subaru seems to draw a firm distinction in his mind between Seishirou taking care of him as part of their relationship, and the Sakurazukamori using this as a tool to be condescending and belittle his choices. | |
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Loki talks a lot about this in The Avengers (2012). He's going to make humanity free from freedom. He is called a power-hungry crazy man for it every time, including by unarmed civilians, one of whom is a German old enough to remember someone touting the same philosophy. | |
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This is also the motivation behind HYDRA in Captain America: The Winter Soldier — namely, that people "cannot be trusted with their own freedom". Perhaps appropriately, HYDRA is an offshoot of the old Nazi party. | |
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The Golden Girls: This is Stan's Russian cousin's problem with America: freedom of thought only leads to confusion, but if there's only one road, nobody gets lost. She comes around after reading Vanna White's autobiography. It's a hell of a book. | |
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Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is an interesting case. Between the events of 2nd Gig and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society, she leaves Section 9 to pursue her own goals and find a sense of purpose. She had the entire infinity of the internet to explore and do whatever she desired but felt restricted by it. By the end of Solid State Society, she decides that it would be best for her to be purposefully confined to the limitations of society because it gives her more freedom to pursue her own goals. | |
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In Eight Billion Genies, some people suffer from "wishlock", where they are unable to make a wish because thinking about making a wish causes paralysis from the other wishes they don't make. | |
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In DearS, the titular characters are slaves who are genetically engineered to have an aversion to making decisions for themselves. However, because of Ren's character development and her unrealized connection to all other DearS, this slowly ends by the end of the series. | |
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The Books of Ember have a bit of this, although it's shown that the lot-drawing doesn't actually matter (it's touted as a sort of sacred infallible system, but people can swap their drawings). | |
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In Webwork, it's speculated in-universe that this is at least part of why Jumper is such a Sycophantic Servant; by being an obedient minion, she's spared the difficulty of having to make decisions for herself. | |
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Being Able to Edit Skills in Another World, I Gained OP Waifus has a slave harem that's perfectly happy to have their "husband" make all the decisions. When they were free agents, their lives were crap. With him in charge, they're happy and basically live in luxury. | |
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