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...and don't say old age! ...although if you do say old age, you may find yourself aging rapidly... The hero has been captured by a villain, who intends to kill them. But before the hero dies, the sadistic villain offers the hero one final choice: to select the means of their own execution. A true hero will take the option the villain didn't offer. Alternatively, some heroes will realize there are several resources they can use to escape and will ask the villain to bring the crucial ingredient closer. See also Glorious Death, where a character has an ideal way to die, and Honorable Warrior's Death, where a warrior or soldier wishes to die in battle. |
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This is invoked in the James Bond film GoldenEye. When he is captured by Ouromov, Bond is immediately met by the Russian Defense Minister, who jumps right to mentioning execution, after which Bond asks why he doesn't want to interrogate him first. | |
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The heroine uses this line in Kill Bill during her confrontation with Vernita Green. | |
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In the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, when presented with this choice, Princess Cimorene immediately chooses "old age". The genie admits that this is a clever response, but refuses to accept it until Cimorene figures out that he hasn't been trapped long enough to qualify, under the standard fairytale rules that operate in the Enchanted Forest, for the "death instead of wishes" option. Rather than get in trouble for trying to break the rules, the genie agrees to go back into his bottle until he has accumulated enough time — by which time, in all likelihood, Cimorene will be dead of old age. | |
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In Arc of a Scythe, Scythe Anastasia is unique among her fellow scythes for giving those chosen for gleaning a month to live and their choice of death, as she believes they should have some agency in their fates. Some choose to quietly pass away from poison, but others ask for a Glorious Death. One of the key scenes of Thunderhead happens around a man who played the titular role in Julius Caesar deciding he wants to be killed onstage in Caesar's death scene, ensuring that his final performance would go down in history. | |
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In the James Bond novel You Only Live Twice, Blofeld runs a garden full of various ways in which visitors can commit suicide. Any visitor who attempts to leave without killing themselves (or staying past closing time) is tied to a geyser right before it goes off. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In the episode "The Obsolete Man", the titular character is given this option of execution by any method for the crime of being "Obsolete" (read: having a profession or belief that is no longer required or held by the fascist government). He chooses death by televised detonation of a bomb in his apartment. Why? Turns out it was a plan to get his executioner to accidentally lock himself in the room and ask, on national state-run television, "For the love of God, let me out." The convicted does so, for the love of God, with just enough time for only the executioner to get out. It's okay, because the executioner is sentenced to die by a method of his choice... for the crime of being obsolete. | |
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In Lost Horizon, a triad boss tries to dispose of Fenton in a way that gives Fenton a choice between two alternatives. He is thrown in the harbour sealed in a box that has a small, coverable hole in it, and he can choose between waiting to suffocate or letting the water in to drown him. Tong gloats for quite a while about it, expecting Fenton to be anguished as he decides whether to die slowly or die quickly. Of course, Fenton doesn't end up dying at all. | |
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Westworld: Armistice, lying in the dirt coughing Blood from the Mouth after being gunned down by a posse, is given a choice of dying on her back or up on her feet. She chooses to die shooting. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, a Death Knight offers Vaarsuvius a choice of how they wish to die, between "Original Recipe" (being hacked apart with a sword) or "Extra Crispy" (incinerated by a fireball spell). | |
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At the end of Dragon Ball Z Abridged episode 24, Vegeta is furious that he doesn't have immortality. | |
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Inverted in The Long Kiss Goodnight. A man being tortured by Timothy (the Big Bad) repeatedly begs to be killed with the gun, not the knife. Timothy does not oblige. | |
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In Fallout 4, you can visit the General Atomics Galleria, filled with Mr. Handy units that have been trying to follow their dodgy programming for the two centuries since a nuclear apocalypse. Go to the place's diner, and the Mr. Handy waiter will assure you that "It'd be my pleasure to serve you." | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Body Parts", Quark learns he has a terminal illness and decides to auction his remains off following his death. However, after learning he was misdiagnosed and already locked into an agreement to Brunt, Quark turns to Garak to have himself killed. | |
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In FTL: Faster Than Light one of the Random Encounters is a pirate who hacks your ship, disabling either your weapons, shields, or life support. You get to choose which. Alternatively, if you have a hacking system, you can Take a Third Option and have your device cancel out theirs, disabling it instead. | |
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Romancing the Stone uses the trope twice, first in an excerpt from one of Joan Wilder's novels and played for comedy: Near the end of the movie proper, the villain Zolo echoes the previous scene, much less humorously: "How will you die, Joan Wilder? Slow, like... a snail? Or fast, like a shooting star?" |
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Star Trek: In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "I, Mudd", Harry Mudd begins his explanation of how he ended up on the android planet: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Body Parts", Quark learns he has a terminal illness and decides to auction his remains off following his death. However, after learning he was misdiagnosed and already locked into an agreement to Brunt, Quark turns to Garak to have himself killed. |
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Lolita (1962). Humbert asks Quilty if he wants to get shot standing up or sitting down. Quilty (who is drunk and mocking the entire business) puts on boxing gloves and says he wants to die like a champion. | |
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Rome: A teenage Octavian asks this of a man suspected of adultery, then makes it clear he's offering a choice of confessing and dying quickly, or dying after hours of agonizing torture. | |
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In Heroes of Might and Magic V, the Demon Lord Agrael captures a rival demon, Erasial, then offers him a choice: Co-operate with an interrogation and Agrael will make sure Erasial's death is quick and relatively painless, resist and he'll be handed over to Agrael's succubus comrade, Biara. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "I, Mudd", Harry Mudd begins his explanation of how he ended up on the android planet: | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire Tyrion replies; "Dead drunk, in bed, with a virgin's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty". | |
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Played with in One Piece. Although he doesn't kill people with this technique (usually), Kuma always asks, "If you were to go on a trip, where would you want to go?" And then, in three days, you coming crashing to where you wanted. Or, depending on how he feels about you, where he wanted you to be - as was actually in most cases it did happen. Good thing that he wanted the Straw Hats to become stronger and so sent them to just the places for that. | |
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Used in Toy Story 2 when Andy is playing. "How shall she die? Shark, or death by monkeys?" | |
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Futurama features a walk-in suicide booth, which offers world-weary beings a choice of ways to terminate their unendurable existence. "I'd like to make a collect call" is heard by the booth as "slow and horrible". | |
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Possibly the original suicide booths come from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895. | |
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life has a condemned criminal "allowed to choose his own method of execution". He chooses to be chased off a cliff by a horde of naked women. For the crime of implanting chauvinistic material into a motion picture. Considering how desperate he seemed, one can only wonder what would have happened had they caught him. |
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The protagonist of Barbarella encounters a walk-in suicide booth. | |
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In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Smaug asks Bilbo how he chooses to die before attacking him. | |
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A variation occurs in Deltora Quest. Lief answers a bridge guard's question incorrectly, so the guard gives him a choice: tell a true statement and die of strangulation, or tell a false statement and be decapitated. Lief's response? Declare that he will die by decapitation. The resulting Logic Bomb destroys the curse forcing him to guard the bridge, because he was cursed to guard it until truth and lies are one. | |
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A Master of Djinn: A Jackass Genie offers the teens who release it one "wish" — to choose how they will die. On their behalf, Agent Fatma chooses old age, in bed, at the end of their natural lives, which even the djinn grudgingly respects. Fatma only hopes that it won't become a Cruel Mercy, since it will prevent them from dying of illness or injury, however debilitating. | |
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Game of Thrones: Tyrion Lannister and his sellsword Bronn are surrounded by the Stone Crows whose leader Shagga asks Tyrion how he wants to die. His reply is, "At the age of 80, in bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my cock." Shagga find this Actually Pretty Funny...then tells the clansman to kill Bronn and take Tyrion prisoner. Several years later, Bronn gives a similar response. |
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Papyrus: the titular character has just been captured by a tribe of pygmy, whose law demands they kill him. Since he saved the chief's son, however, he is given this a variant of this trope as a reward, in that the next thing he'll say will define how he'll die: if he tells the truth, he will be drowned, while if he lies, he will be thrown to the crocodiles. Papyrus gets around the sentence by stating he will be eaten by crocodiles: seeing how this means him drowning will make it a lie and him being eaten by crocodiles will make it the truth, the Pygmies are forced to spare him. | |
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Doctor Who: At the start of "The Doctor Falls", the Doctor wakes up strapped to a wheelchair with his enemies musing how they should kill him this time. | |
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In The Thief of Bagdad (1940), the genie asks Abu how he wishes to die, but Abu outsmarts him and gets the conventional three wishes instead. | |
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Ghostbusters (1984): Whenever Gozer is released to destroy the world, she asks whoever happens to be nearby to "Choose the form of the Destructor!" Whatever that person is thinking about is the form that the Destructor takes. While the other Ghostbusters try to clear their thoughts, Ray tries to think of something harmless, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Gozer obliges by manifesting the Marshmallow Man... and making him 50-feet tall. Which raises the question of whether the two other forms Gozer was reported to have assumed for previous rampages were originally just as goofy and inoffensive-seeming as a Marshmallow Man... |
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Battle Angel Alita had suicide booths. | |
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The Three Stooges used this as a gag in several shorts. Earlier, Larry tried to pick old age. |
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In Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, an evil hypnotist attempts to make Freddie commit suicide but fails repeatedly. Reasoning that Freddie is resisting him, he asks Freddie the trope question. Freddie's reply: "Old age." | |
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Doug: "How would you like to die, stoolpigeon? Quick or slow?" | |
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Frasier: Roz once claimed her ideal way to go is on her hundredth birthday, at her place in Hawaii, and her husband is so distraught he drops out of college. | |
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Although unaware of it at the time, the five vacationers from The Cabin in the Woods are confronted by this choice when they enter the cabin's cellar: every single piece of junk down here is intended to summon a different monster. Blowing a conch would have released the mermen into the lake; letting the ballerina music box play to the end would have unleashed the Sugarplum Fairy; solving the puzzle sphere would have summoned Cenobite expies, and so on. The item they settle on is Patience Buckner's diary, which they end up reading aloud- resurrecting the Buckner family as zombies. | |
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I Dream of Jeannie: Tony accidentally releases the Blue Djinn, who had decided to kill whomever finally freed him from his bottle. When the Djinn asks him how he wishes to die, Tony nervously says "Of old age." The Djinn isn't falling for it. | |
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