Editing Prisoner's dilemma (section)

==In fiction==
[[Hannu Rajaniemi]] set the opening scene of his ''[[The Quantum Thief]]'' trilogy in a "dilemma prison". The main theme of the series has been described as the "inadequacy of a binary universe" and the ultimate antagonist is a character called the All-Defector. The first book in the series was published in 2010, with the two sequels, ''[[The Fractal Prince]]'' and ''[[The Causal Angel]]'', published in 2012 and 2014, respectively.

A game modeled after the iterated prisoner's dilemma is a central focus of the 2012 video game ''[[Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward]]'' and a minor part in its 2016 sequel ''[[Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma]]''.

In ''[[The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma]]'' by [[Trenton Lee Stewart]], the main characters start by playing a version of the game and escaping from the "prison" altogether. Later, they become actual prisoners and escape once again.

In ''[[The Adventure Zone]]: Balance'' during ''The Suffering Game'' subarc, the player characters are twice presented with the prisoner's dilemma during their time in two liches' domain, once cooperating and once defecting.

In the eighth novel from the author James S. A. Corey, ''[[Tiamat's Wrath]]'', Winston Duarte explains the prisoner's dilemma to his 14-year-old daughter, Teresa, to train her in strategic thinking.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

The 2008 film ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' includes a scene loosely based on the problem in which the [[Joker (The Dark Knight)|Joker]] rigs two ferries, one containing prisoners and the other containing civilians, arming both groups with the means to detonate the bomb on each other's ferries, threatening to detonate them both if they hesitate.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Romain |first=Lindsey |date=2018-07-18 |title=The Dark Knight's only redeemable character is the criminal who saves the ferries |url=https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/18/17578526/the-dark-knight-ferry-boat-dilemma-game-theory |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=Polygon |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Dark Knight: Game Theory : Networks Course blog for INFO 2040/CS 2850/Econ 2040/SOC 2090 |url=https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2020/10/02/the-dark-knight-game-theory-2/ |access-date=2024-01-06}}</ref>