Trolley Problem

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16 works open to everyone here carry this tag; 81% are complete. The average one runs about 12,900 words. Read any of them in your browser, save it as an EPUB, or listen to it.

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Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer+3

i'd tell him (put me back in it!)

by lasiczka

I held him, gently. One arm under his arm, the other over his shoulder. Face turned to the sun. A pietà. "Don't you think right now is good?" I asked. "We're warm. We're safe. You smell delicious." "My throat's on fire," he reminded me, peevishly. "Which means you're certainly not safe." - Edward has overdramatic sad old man disease and Not-Bella is pretentious enough to think that's kinda hot.

Teen 134k words 39 / ? ch In progress 1.5k kudos

Absurdism · Attempted Rape/Non-Con · Bella Swan with a Backbone · Blood and Violence· +52 more

Project Hail Mary (2026)+1

Stop your crying (it's a sign of the times)

by Rex_dex

„You know who you are,“ Carl says softly.The world fades to black.He bolts upright in his cot, gasping for air, the low hum of the Vat vibrating through the metal floorboards.Oh, fudge. or, the one where Ryland wakes up over and over on the day of the goodbye party on Stratt's Vat, after the launch of the Hail Mary. His friends die, or he dies, and his boss-friend repeatedly sentences him to death. He just wants it to stop.

General 12k words 3 ch Complete 698 kudos

(Honorary mention that that doesn’t imply graphic violence) · Alternate Universe - Time Travel · Bittersweet · But like would you strap yourself to the tracks· +14 more

Batman - All Media Types

Whumptober 2024 Dick

by Content_Scrapbooker

Welcome to the month of October where I put my fav, Dick Grayson, through as much physical, emotional, and mental trauma as possible in a series of one-shots! He will not have a good time, but I hope you will! Enjoy!Day 1 | Race Against the Clock: Search Party | Panic Attack | "If only we could hold on.” (Icysami x Renegaderr, Strangers.)Day 2 | Trust Issues: Amusement Park | Role Reversal | “You got away with the crime while the knife's in my back.”Day 3 | Set Up For Failure: Fingerprints | Wrongfully Arrested | "I warned you."Day 4 | Hallucinations: Hypnosis | Sensory Deprivation | “You're still alive in my head.” (Billy Lockett, More)Day 5| Sunburn: Healing Salve | Heatstroke | "If my pain will stretch that far." (Lottery Winners, Burning House)Day 6 | Not Realizing They're Injured: Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms | Healed Wrong | "It's not my blood."

Teen 14k words 6 / ? ch In progress 385 kudos

Whumptober 2024 · Whumptober · Hurt Dick Grayson · Emotionally Hurt Dick Grayson· +38 more

My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

the last percent

by achievingelysium

There is a 75% chance that, once passed on a ninth time, One for All will kill its holder upon activation.All Might chooses not to take the risk.But One for All is killing him, the danger of All for One looms over them, and Izuku? Izuku is willing to try.

Teen 1.8k words 1 ch Complete 133 kudos

One For All Quirk (My Hero Academia) · Protective Yagi Toshinori | All Might · Moral Dilemmas · Trolley Problem· +1 more

The Good Place (TV)

The Sleazy Place

by wrathkitty

Choking on a buffalo wing while drowning his sorrows over a combo platter at TGIFridays wasn’t on Michael’s list of ‘Preferred Ways to Die.’ And a broken heart sure as shirt wasn’t on his list of ‘Reasons He Would Keep Failing His Test in the Afterlife.’ But the possibility of him never making it into the Good Place is why Janet (literally) reassembles the Soul Squad – and what they owe Michael is why Eleanor doesn’t hesitate to team up with her friends one last time to try and save their favorite former fire-squid. ...She just needs to finish that margarita first.

Teen 4.4k words 2 / ? ch In progress 67 kudos

Arizona trashbag · Burritos · Fluff and Angst · Holy mother forking shirtballs· +12 more

Dimension 20 (Web Series)+1

a simple game

by honeyfluent

He hovers his hand over the black button, frozen only by the thought of his mother. How will she feel when she gets the news that her son died, killed by an egomaniac villain who decided to play with the Bad Kids like pieces on a game board? Freshman year ended just two weeks ago. This was supposed to be a relaxing summer, one that Riz could spend with his mom without the stressors of classes and homework on his plate. He should’ve cooked her dinner after long days at work and made her coffee in the mornings. But he knows he has to make this sacrifice. He knows it because it just makes sense. One life for five. A trolley problem and a prisoner’s dilemma, wrapped up with a bow and dropped at his feet like an unwanted Moonar Yulenear present. He’s a logical person and this is the logical choice. Riz presses the black button. - or: The Bad Kids are separated and confronted with a philosophical dilemma. Will they make it out alive?

Teen 2.3k words 1 ch Complete 42 kudos

Angst · Friendship · Martyrdom · Prisoner's Dilemma· +6 more

John Wick (Movies)

Compos Mentis

by asuralucier

Charon visits the Continental Doctor on Winston’s orders.

Teen 3.3k words 1 ch Complete 28 kudos

Dialogue Heavy · Have you attended your criminal psych eval today? · Les Clefs d'Or · Loyalty· +7 more

Digimon - All Media Types+2

Problems with Trollies

by DigitalMaeMae

"Do you ever think about the trolley problem?""The what?"

General 761 words 1 ch Complete 18 kudos

Established Relationship · Fluff · Attempt at Humor · Banter· +5 more

Sonic Prime (Cartoon 2022)+1

Nine gives Sonic the trolley problem

by trueindiv

Nine has realized the need to stop fighting and restore things. With Sonic giving up his energy at great personal risk, Nine restores Green Hill for him. But Nine wants to make just a few more changes to the shatterverse while he has the power. And he wants Sonic to understand why it needs to be done. Sonic reawakens and finds just the two of them in Nine’s base in the grim. It feels like they’re friends again, but where is everyone else? And why does Nine keep talking about the need for order, and consequences? He just wants to do it for the benefit of the shatterverse at large…so he says. Sonic will need to turn the fox’s logic and emotional manipulations back on him to prevent a devastating act of vengeance. Trying to further differentiate Nine as his own person, and retain a few of his villainous characteristics because he can’t go back on some of them, not after season 3. Slightly darker, but trying to give Nine a fate other than him being sad and powerless as he is left to be at the end of the show. I just love writing his villainous side. Also, for as easygoing and not-locked-in as Prime Sonic is, maybe he can push back on Nine a little.

General 10k words 1 ch Complete 17 kudos

Inspired by Sonic Prime (Cartoon 2022) · Long One Shot · Mentioned Tails Nine (Sonic Prime) · New Yoke City (Sonic the Hedgehog)· +10 more

Person of Interest (TV)

Harolds Nightmare

by Zaniida

Harold's thought process as he desperately tries to talk his friends out of killing a (relatively) innocent man.Based on one of the final scenes from Death Benefit (s03e20).

Teen 1.7k words 1 ch Complete 16 kudos

Ethical Dilemmas · Trolley Problem · Utilitarianism · Contemplating Murder· +5 more

MILGRAM (Music Videos)

Trolley Problem

by kyanako5972

Let us start with a simple trolley problem. A man is tied to the train tracks far up ahead.

Teen 321 words 1 ch Complete 15 kudos

Ambiguous/Open Ending · Sadistic Choice · Trolley Problem · child endangerment· +1 more

Jet Lag: The Game (Web Series)

Jet Lag The Death Match

by idleflower

Adam loved to travel. It was one of the reasons he'd helped design the Jet Lag concept. It brought him to places he would otherwise never go, showed him sights both famous and entirely unknown. It was the thrill of competition mixed with the joy of discovery. From that perspective, the rippling metallic tunnel in the cliff face ahead of them ought to fill him with delight, for it was certainly like nothing he'd ever seen before.The problem was, there were no trains. There were no cell phones. There were no cameras, at least not ones under his control. And he and Ben were playing for their lives.

Teen 5k words 3 ch Complete 14 kudos

Alien Planet · aliens made them do it but not the it you're thinking of · Angst · Buckle up kids· +6 more