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  • Darths & Droids episodes 1555 and 1556, with the latter having a link to this page in the commentary. Slightly condensed, the dialogue goes like this:
    Stormtrooper: Hey! No jaywalking! ... Now move along, we're busy here.
    Chirrut: Ah, you almost got me! If I move, I'll be jaywalking again...
    Stormtrooper: Well you're either loitering or jaywalking. Either way, you're under arrest.
    • Early in The Phantom Menace, the decoy Queen Amidala orders the real queen to wash R2-D2, even though she could have chosen one of the actual handmaidens. This strip turned it into a fork; R2-D2 asked for the queen's most beautiful handmaiden to clean him, so the decoy queen could either offend the queen by making her do menial labor, or offend her by saying that she's not the most beautiful.
  • In Dumbing of Age, after Billie finally sorts out a roommate agreement with Sal, she doesn't start any trouble or cause any problems. Ruth figures that means she must be secretly up to no good.
  • In Digger, Boneclaw Mother threatens to fight Grim Eyes if the latter doesn't go help Digger and Murai on their journey. Grim Eyes explains that fighting Boneclaw Mother would have been this sort of situation: if she loses, she gets beat up by her ailing blind grandmother, loses honor with the tribe, and has to go on the quest anyway; if she wins, she's beating up her ailing blind grandmother, and loses honor with the tribe for that.
  • Existential Comics: Nietzsche as a philosophy teacher: If you agree with him, he'll be angry at you for being sheep. If you disagree with him, he'll be angry at you for being so stupid and wrong. Technically, there is a third option: you have to figure it out on your own that he's right about everything. Of course, he also won't tell you what he thinks is right, because a real Übermensch wouldn't have to ask, and if you do ask, he'll be angry about that.
  • In Freefall, this trope is the reason why Three Laws-Compliant robots didn't work well; since humans have self-destructive tendencies, being programmed both to protect humanity and to serve humanity leaves the robots no tenable option.
  • Moloch von Zinzer in Girl Genius has "a remarkably astute grasp of the situation" here. Either he follows Agatha on a suicide mission to save her Love Interest, or he parts ways with her, exposing himself to the castle's destructive sense of humour. His attempt to make her consider finding another boyfriend fails.
  • In Hiimdaisy's Persona 4 comics, there's no way to get a positive response from Dojima when he asks how you take your coffee:
    "Black?" Don't try to sound tough, you sissy.
    "Cream?" Oh, coming right up, madam.
    "Cream & sugar?" What are you, Nanako? (Nanako: daddy I want it black)
    "Surprise me?" Dojima splashes the whole scalding mug in your face.
  • Satirized in Nerf NOW!!'s "Choice": Beck has to decide between two doors, one saying SOON WITH FLAWS and the other saying LATER WITH POLISH. Both doors lead to a Torches and Pitchforks-wielding mob.
  • Oglaf pulls a version of this which starts out as a Sadistic Choice (Ivan is presented with either succumbing to poison or licking the antidote off of Sandoval's genitalia), but morphs into a proper Morton's Fork when the antidote turns out to be poison as well. The poor guy can't catch a break.
  • The Order of the Stick
    • The comic pokes at this trope when the paladin O-Chul is being interrogated by the goblin Redcloak. Redcloak is convinced that O-Chul knows something about the magical Gates the bad guys are after, and that he simply doesn't buck under torture. He presents him with the choice of either talking (thus violating his sworn oath to protect the Gates) or watch as the goblin forces execute a bunch of prisoners (violating both O-Chul's morals and the other part of his oath, which is to protect his people). When O-Chul still doesn't tell him anything, Redcloak angrily tells him that as a paladin, he is simply not allowed to let innocents die. Hearing O-Chul insist that he would spill the beans if he knew anything, and seeing that the gods do not strike O-Chul down for disobeying the Paladin's Oath, Redcloak is finally convinced that the paladin knows nothing, and even lets the prisoners go.
    • Elan is presented with a Morton's fork in strip #720; he's been mistaken for his Evil Twin Nale, who is wanted for treason against The Empire of Blood, and the Empress of Blood (a rather ditzy dragon) has expressed an interest in eating him. Elan then protests his innocence by claiming that Nale is his twin and was killed by an explosion in Azure City (which he believes to be true, although Nale actually survived). Malack points out that if he's lying, he is Nale and will be executed for treason, whereas if he's telling the truth, he's of no further use in their hunt for Nale and the Empress might as well devour him.
    • Inverted so that both options are good: To go to Valhalla dwarves must die honorably, otherwise they forfeit their souls to Hel... unless they're followers of Loki. Loki, god of trickery, is dishonorable by nature, so acting dishonorably honors their god, which is honorable enough to go to Valhalla. If they die honorably anyways, they go to Valhalla because acting honorably is still honorable to dwarves in general.
  • Robot Hugs: This strip discusses some of the many difficulties of being a "Perfect Rape Victim", including multiple Morton's Forks, both explicit and implied, and sadly Truth in Television.
    • A rape victim who fights back is accused of provoking the rapist and blamed for their injuries, but not fighting back is treated as a sign that it wasn't really rape.
    • A rape victim who acts emotional gets accused of overacting and thus lying, but not acting emotional is treated as proof that they're making it up.
    • If you were raped by a stranger in a dark alley (which is actually pretty rare), people are more likely to believe your story, but then they question why you were in a dark alley.
    • Any confusion in the victim's story is treated as proof they're lying, but perfect recall is difficult enough under normal circumstances, and even harder if an emotionally traumatized person is trying to remember events that happened in the dark and involved them being beaten in the head.
    • Anyone taking any psychiatric medications is considered unreliable. But so is anyone with an untreated mental illness, as is anyone who's seeing a therapist for any reason. Also, if you speak to a counselor or a friend before reporting the rape to the police, or delay at all to calm down you're obviously lying because you didn't report it immediately. But if you don't take time to calm down, you're dismissed as too emotional.
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:
    • Strip for 2011-01-19: A woman and a man are ostensibly about to have sex, but she tells him that she doesn't want to risk pregnancy and that men usually find women most attractive when they're the most fertile, so she asks whether he finds her attractive. So if he tells her she's attractive, in which case they don't have sex, or he tells her she's not, and, well, like that's going to work either.
    • "Breakup 2": A woman tells a man that she's breaking up with him because he's so predictable that, for example, he'll next say they shouldn't break up. Then she gloats over how his next answer is either going to prove her right (if he says they shouldn't) or be agreeing to break up. He tells her he was going to break up with her anyway.
  • In Schlock Mercenary, during a therapy session, Reverend Theo suggests Elf might be putting herself in a Morton's Fork. Elf calls him on this not being helpful.
    Theo: Well, if none of what you're going through is your fault, you're powerless. But if everything is your fault, you'll never be powerful enough, and it's hopeless.
  • Bun-bun faces this at the top of this Sluggy Freelance strip.
    "You're threatening me with singing of annoying songs if I don't let you sing annoying songs?"
  • In Tales of the Questor, the duchy of Grymalkin puts the neighboring duchy of Fenwyck in this position, by claiming that the dragon attacking them came from/was provoked by Fenwyck.
    Duke Fenwyck: If I do not remove the dragon from my neighbor's back yard — something I surely do not have the soldiers to do — said hostile neighbor will invade in retaliation. Yet if I take the time to hire enough soldiers for such an endeavor, he will claim it as proof of my 'belligerence' and invade anyway.
  • Tower of God: A minor subtle one on the Floor of Test when Shibisu and Hatz come asking Khun for a favour. He first criticises them for asking for a favour when they're in the same team with Anaak, who stole something important from his own teammate Bam. When they tell him they've cut ties with Anaak, he accuses them of abandoning a teammate. You can kind of tell he's just not interested in doing them that favour, period.
  • Unsounded: A major factor in Duane's Supernatural Angst is that he's an undead member of a religion that abhors allowing the dead to rot and forbids suicide — he violates one commandment by existing and would violate the other by allowing his body to be destroyed.
  • In xkcd:
    • The classic Knights and Knaves puzzle (one always tells the truth, the other always lies) is parodied in this strip. What makes this a Morton's Fork is that there's a third guy who "stabs anyone who asks tricky questions", making a three-tined Fork. Answer incorrectly, you are lost forever. Stay silent, you are trapped. The only way to answer correctly is to ask a tricky question, at which point, the third guy would kill you. According to the alt-text, the maze goes nowhere. It's just a trap to kill cunning logicians.
    • This strip points out that people either pirate free versions of DRM-protected media or buy the DRM version with the knowledge that forces beyond their control will cause them to lose access to the product they bought.note 
    • "Terminator: Dark Fate": The main character (an Author Avatar?) has a time machine and is about to watch the movie mentioned. If he does, he'll come back in time to tell himself not to watch it. If he takes the advice, he'll decide he wants to see it after all, but if he does, he decides he didn't. This leads to a lot of time travelling.
  • The Best Gamepiece Photocomic: In Strip 21, it's shown that the convenience store's vegan Oreos cost $80, but it also costs $80 to not buy them.
  • A webmanga had a Yaoi Fangirl wife ask her husband to help her sort through a stack of tags with handsome boys on them into "Top" and "Bottom" piles. Much to her frustration, the "Bottom" pile she sorted consists of the entire stack; under her logic, a relationship between a fresh-faced salaryman and a musclebound sportsman means the latter will bottom for the subversive value, but putting that same salaryman with a skinny freeter means the salaryman's a bottom for the same reason. If anyone can bottom depending on context, then that means everyone is a bottom. The only way she sees a path out of the fork is to Take a Third Option and draw Top-only characters herself, but the best she can come up with is a faceless idol producer, a middle-aged businessman, and an octopus.note 

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