doomed if you do, doomed if you don't
A situation where either choice results in a negative outcome; dilemma.
adj
Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed.
Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.
Bonny Mary Burnet was lost. She left her father's house at nine o'clock on a Wednesday morning, 17th of September, neatly dressed in a white jerkin and green bonnet, with her hay-raik over her shoulder; and that was the last sight she was doomed ever to see of her native cottage.