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** Boros had a similar predicament: he's so powerful than nobody can last even a second in battle against him, and entire planets are vanquished with no effort. His dearest wish is to find someone powerful enough to match him in battle and let him unleash his full strength. Then, he met Saitama...
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** Boros had a similar predicament: he's so powerful than nobody can last even a second in battle against him, and entire planets are vanquished with no effort. His dearest wish is to find someone powerful enough to match him in battle and let him unleash his full strength. Then, he met Saitama... [[spoiler:and lost. Hard. Without doing any damage to Saitama at all.]]
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* In ''Manga/OnePunchMan'', Saitama's goal in training to be a hero was to become so strong that he could beat any villain with one punch. After three years of training that's exactly what he got... and he can't really enjoy it because [[ComicallyInvincibleHero no one can challenge him anymore]]. He started working as a hero for fun, and now he's completely bored with it. [[spoiler:Enter Boros and Garou to rectify that.]]
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** Saitama's goal in training to be a hero was to become so strong that he could beat any villain with one punch. After three years of training that's exactly what he got... and he can't really enjoy it because [[ComicallyInvincibleHero no one can challenge him anymore]]. He started working as a hero for fun, and now he's completely bored with it. [[spoiler:Enter Boros and Garou to rectify that.]] ]]
** Boros had a similar predicament: he's so powerful than nobody can last even a second in battle against him, and entire planets are vanquished with no effort. His dearest wish is to find someone powerful enough to match him in battle and let him unleash his full strength. Then, he met Saitama...
** Saitama's goal in training to be a hero was to become so strong that he could beat any villain with one punch. After three years of training that's exactly what he got... and he can't really enjoy it because [[ComicallyInvincibleHero no one can challenge him anymore]]. He started working as a hero for fun, and now he's completely bored with it. [[spoiler:Enter Boros and Garou to rectify that.
** Boros had a similar predicament: he's so powerful than nobody can last even a second in battle against him, and entire planets are vanquished with no effort. His dearest wish is to find someone powerful enough to match him in battle and let him unleash his full strength. Then, he met Saitama...
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** Aizen has been manipulating Ichigo [[spoiler:for Ichigo's entire life]] to get stronger because he wants a WorthyOpponent. He gets what he asked for, [[{{Understatement}} and then some]].
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** Aizen has been manipulating Ichigo [[spoiler:for Ichigo's entire life]] to get stronger because he wants a WorthyOpponent. He gets what he asked for, [[{{Understatement}} and then some]].some...
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** In general though, the ''Dragon Ball'' series is actually a massive subversion. Since fairly specific wishes are made and the dragons aren't assholes, every wish they make ends up doing exactly what they want. Example: King Piccolo wishes for youth. He doesn't turn into a fetus or baby, but instead turns to his prime. And to take it even farther, the dragons will even double check with you. When they try to wish Goku back to life, the dragon mentions that he'd be brought back at the same location he died at and since the planet he was on exploded, he'd be revived in space and then die again, giving them a chance to wish for something else instead. Although, this courtesy didn't seem to extend to Pilaf and his gang in ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'', who like King Piccolo ask for youth and get reduced back to children. Guess the Eternal Dragon knows of Pilaf's ButtMonkey status.
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** In general though, the ''Dragon Ball'' series is actually a massive subversion. Since fairly specific wishes are made and the dragons aren't assholes, every wish they make ends up doing exactly what they want. Example: King Piccolo wishes for youth. He doesn't turn into a fetus or baby, but instead turns to his prime. And to take it even farther, the dragons will even double check with you.you if your wish is logically flawed. When they try to wish Goku back to life, the dragon mentions that he'd be brought back at the same location he died at and since the planet he was on exploded, he'd be revived in space and then die again, giving them a chance to wish for something else instead. Nor does wishing for something beyond the dragon's power result in a wasted wish. Although, this courtesy didn't seem to extend to Pilaf and his gang in ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'', who like King Piccolo ask for youth and get reduced back to children. Guess the Eternal Dragon knows of Pilaf's ButtMonkey status.
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* In ''Manga/OnePunchMan'', Saitama's goal in training to be a hero was to become so strong that he could beat any villain with one punch. After three years of training that's exactly what he got... and he can't really enjoy it because [[ComicallyInvincibleHero no one can challenge him anymore]]. He started working as a hero for fun, and now he's completely bored with it. [[spoiler:Enter Boros and Garou to rectify that.]]
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* In ''Manga/OnePunchMan'', Saitama's goal in training to be a hero was to become so strong that he could beat any villain with one punch. After three years of training that's exactly what he got... and he can't really enjoy it because [[ComicallyInvincibleHero no one can challenge him anymore]]. He started working as a hero for fun, and now he's completely bored with it.[[spoiler:Enter Boros and Garou to rectify that.]]
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**Gremmy wished for himself to be stronger than Kenpachi. [[spoiler:He manages to get stronger, but as his body was untrained to the sudden power flux (for which Kenpachi wears an Eye Patch), he promptly explodes. ]]
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* Analyzed in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.
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* Analyzed in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. This trope forms the central core of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
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** [[DealWithTheDevil Kyubey]] grants wishes in exchange for the wisher becoming a MagicalGirl and fighting monsters for him. The problems that arise from the granting of the wish aren't exactly because of the wish itself, or from Kyubey - while he's not exactly trustworthy, he has no incentive to screw with peoples' wishes: when he says he can grant ''any'' wish, he ''means'' it, and he has no reason to influence what a Magical Girl wishes for, or to decide for her what she thinks fighting Witches for the rest of her life is worth. The problem is ''the person making the wish is almost never honest about what they really wanted''. Those whose wishes are fully selfish end up regretting foregoing an unique opportunity to help others, while those who chose to help others forget that every selfless wish has a selfish motive behind it, which is by no means guaranteed to be fulfilled. In either case, the resultant regret sends a Magical Girl deeper into despair... which is what Kyubey wants. The fact that the Incubators only contract with willing girls and offer no-strings-attached wishes is their idea of equal payment for what the Magical Girls inevitably have to suffer in the end. If there is an aesop in all of this, it is perhaps simply being honest with your desires and aware of sacrifices you're willing to make to see them fulfilled.
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** [[DealWithTheDevil Kyubey]] grants wishes in exchange for the wisher becoming a MagicalGirl and fighting monsters for him. The problems that arise from the granting of the wish aren't exactly because of the wish itself, or from Kyubey - while he's not exactly trustworthy, he has no incentive to screw with peoples' wishes: when he says he can grant ''any'' wish, he ''means'' it, and he has no reason to influence what a Magical Girl wishes for, or to decide for her what she thinks fighting Witches for the rest of her life is worth. The problem is ''the person making the wish is almost never honest about what they really wanted''. want''. Those whose wishes are fully selfish end up regretting foregoing an unique opportunity to help others, while those who chose to help others forget that [[SecretlySelfish every selfless wish has a selfish motive behind it, it]], which is by no means guaranteed to be fulfilled. In either case, the resultant regret sends a Magical Girl deeper into despair... which is what Kyubey wants. The fact that the Incubators only contract with willing girls and offer no-strings-attached wishes is their idea of equal payment for what the Magical Girls inevitably have to suffer in the end. If there is an aesop in all of this, it is perhaps simply being honest with your desires and aware of the sacrifices you're willing to make to see them fulfilled.
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** PlayedForLaughs when Belldandy got [[DrunkOnMilk Drunk on Soda]] and started fulfilling any wish she heard, with such gems as someone wishing for his computer to just tell him why it was so slow and the computer shouting back it was filled with useless programs.
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* In the ''Stardast Crusaders'' arc of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Polnareff comes across Cameo, the Judgment Stand, who offers him three wishes. His first wish (for wealth) is granted straight. He uses his second and third wish to resurrect Sherry and [[spoiler:Avdol]], and Cameo brings them back as flesh-eating ghouls who start devouring him alive. [[spoiler: He's only saved in time by Avdol not only being OnlyMostlyDead, but arriving on the exact same island all the way from Calcutta at the exact same time]].
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* In the ''Stardast Crusaders'' arc of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Polnareff comes across Cameo, the Judgment Stand, who offers him three wishes. His first wish (for wealth) is granted straight. He uses his second and third wish to resurrect Sherry and [[spoiler:Avdol]], and Cameo brings them back as flesh-eating ghouls who start devouring him alive. [[spoiler: He's only saved in time by Avdol not only being OnlyMostlyDead, but arriving on with that being the exact same reason the group was on that island all the way from Calcutta at the exact same time]].to begin with]].
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* In the ''Stardast Crusaders'' arc of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Polnareff comes across Cameo, the Judgment Stand, who offers him three wishes. His first wish (for wealth) is granted straight. He uses his second and third wish to resurrect Sherry and [[spoiler:Avdol]], and Cameo brings them back as flesh-eating ghouls who start devouring him alive. [[spoiler: He's only saved in time by Avdol not only being OnlyMostlyDead, but arriving on the exact same island all the way from Calcutta at the exact same time]].
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** Earlier, in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', Ken's backstory begins with this. He was jealous of the attention his older brother Osamu gained [[ParentalFavoritism from his parents]] and neighbours for being a ChildProdigy. It all came down to a head when Osamu lashed on Ken for taking a Digivice (which actually belonged to Ken after all), and he finally snapped and said "I wish he would disappear! I wish Osamu would disappear!!" Shortly after, Osamu was run over by a car and died, [[StartOfDarkness and everything just went downhill from there for Ken.]]
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** Earlier, in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', Ken's backstory begins with this. He was jealous of the attention his older brother Osamu gained [[ParentalFavoritism from his parents]] and neighbours for being a ChildProdigy. It all came down to a head when Osamu lashed on Ken for taking a Digivice (which actually belonged to Ken after all), and he finally snapped and said [[IWishedYouWereDead "I wish he would disappear! I wish Osamu would disappear!!" disappear!!"]] Shortly after, Osamu was run over hit by a car and died, [[StartOfDarkness and everything just went downhill from there for Ken.]]
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* ''Manga/Naruto'' took it on a meta level. After the manga series ended in November 2014, many fans were distraught on its ending, and appealed to the author and anime network not to end this soon. The year 2015 consisted of 2 long filler arcs (second is still ongoing), 4 extra episodes, and ONLY 11 canon episodes (at the time of this writing). Definitely one of the biggest meta examples of this trope.
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* ''Manga/Naruto'' ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' took it on a meta level. After the manga series ended in November 2014, many fans were distraught on its ending, and appealed to the author and anime network not to end this soon. The year 2015 consisted of 2 long filler arcs (second is still ongoing), 4 extra episodes, and ONLY 11 canon episodes (at the time of this writing). Definitely one of the biggest meta examples of this trope.
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** Earlier, in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', Ken's backstory begins with this. He was jealous of the attention his older brother Osamu gained [[ParentalFavoritism from his parents]] and neighbours for being a ChildProdigy. It all came down to a head when Osamu lashed on Ken for taking a Digivice (which actually belonged to Ken after all), and he finally snapped and said "I wish he would disappear! I wish Osamu would disappear!!" Shortly after, Osamu was run over by a car and died, [[StartOfDarkness and everything just went downhill from there for Ken.]]
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* In MantisWoman, a group of children find "Hell's Gumball Machine", each making a wish that was seemingly innocuous. One boy wished for his teacher to stop giving ultra hard tests. The imp from inside the machine kills the teacher. Cue horror from the girl who realizes what that means for her parents, as her wish was that they stop fighting all the time.
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** [[spoiler:Father]] heartily lauds how Truth gives humans despair when they get conceited, to keep them in line. Then, following a long, action-packed sequence of events, he winds up in front of Truth himself, who reminds [[spoiler:Father]] of his exact words, and points out how conceited [[spoiler:Father]] was to think he could absorb a god. [[FateWorseThanDeath He gets plenty of despair]].
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** [[spoiler:Father]] heartily lauds how Truth gives humans despair when they get conceited, to keep them in line. Then, following a long, action-packed sequence of events, he winds up in front of Truth himself, who reminds [[spoiler:Father]] of his exact words, and points out how conceited [[spoiler:Father]] was to think he could absorb a god. [[FateWorseThanDeath [[AndIMustScream He gets plenty of despair]].
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* In ''Manga/OnePunchMan'', Saitama's goal in training to be a hero was to become so strong that he could beat any villain with one punch. After three years of training that's exactly what he got... and he can't really enjoy it because [[ComicallyInvincibleHero no one can challenge him anymore]]. He started working as a hero for fun, and now he's completely bored with it.
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* ''Anime/Naruto'' took it on a meta level. After the manga series ended in November 2014, many fans were distraught on its ending, and appealed to the author and anime network not to end this soon. The year 2015 consisted of 2 long filler arcs (second is still ongoing), 4 extra episodes, and ONLY 11 canon episodes (at the time of this writing). Definitely one of the biggest meta examples of this trope.
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* ''Anime/Naruto'' ''Manga/Naruto'' took it on a meta level. After the manga series ended in November 2014, many fans were distraught on its ending, and appealed to the author and anime network not to end this soon. The year 2015 consisted of 2 long filler arcs (second is still ongoing), 4 extra episodes, and ONLY 11 canon episodes (at the time of this writing). Definitely one of the biggest meta examples of this trope.
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* ''Wish'' by Mia Ikumi of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' fame is centered around a mysterious being (called the "Angel of the Wishes" but implied to be a good-looking version of TheGrimReaper) that [[JackassGenie goes around granting wishes and enjoying the]] ''[[JackassGenie horrible]]'' [[JackassGenie aftermath]]:
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* ''Wish'' ''Only One Wish'' by Mia Ikumi of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' fame is centered around a mysterious being (called the "Angel of the Wishes" but implied to be a good-looking version of TheGrimReaper) that [[JackassGenie goes around granting wishes and enjoying the]] ''[[JackassGenie horrible]]'' [[JackassGenie aftermath]]:
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** Definitely the instance that most people think of in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' is when [[BigBad Perfect Cell]], wanting to get a good fight before he destroys the Earth, hears from Gohan who, not wanting to fight, will let loose and kill him if Cell pushes him too hard. Cell, [[BloodKnight being Cell]], goes ahead with that anyways, pulling some heavy KickTheDog moments by nearly killing the rest of the cast and [[TearJerker killing Android 16]], and which pushes Gohan to go Super Saiyan 2 and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown beat Cell half to death]] and drive him to VillainousBreakdown. Gohan even invokes the whole trope by pointing to Cell that him letting loose is what Cell wanted in the first place.
-->'''Gohan''': I ''warned'' you! I warned you what would happen if you made me unleash my power! But you had to see it! And now that you have seen it, ''you're afraid!''
** Garlic Jr. is the perfect example of this trope. [[spoiler: Enjoy being trapped in a void forever unable to die.]]
-->'''Gohan''': I ''warned'' you! I warned you what would happen if you made me unleash my power! But you had to see it! And now that you have seen it, ''you're afraid!''
** Garlic Jr. is the perfect example of this trope. [[spoiler: Enjoy being trapped in a void forever unable to die.]]
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** Definitely the instance that most people think of in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' is when [[BigBad Perfect Cell]], wanting to get a good fight before he destroys the Earth, hears from Gohan who, not wanting to fight, will let loose and kill him if Cell pushes him too hard. Cell, [[BloodKnight being Cell]], goes ahead with that anyways, pulling some heavy KickTheDog moments by nearly killing the rest of the cast and [[TearJerker killing Android 16]], and all of which pushes Gohan to go Super Saiyan 2 and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown beat Cell half to death]] and drive death]], driving him to a VillainousBreakdown. Gohan even invokes the whole trope by pointing to lampshades this trope, reminding Cell that him letting cutting loose is ''exactly'' what Cell wanted in the first place.
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-->'''Gohan''': [[IWarnedYou I]] ''[[IWarnedYou warned]]'' [[IWarnedYou you]]. I''warned'' you! I warned told you what would happen if you made pushed me unleash my power! too far. But you had didn't listen. You forced me to see it! And awaken my hidden power, and now that you have you've seen it, ''you're afraid!''
** Garlic Jr. is the perfect example of this trope. [[spoiler: Enjoy being trapped in a void forever unableyou're afraid... because you know that I'm going to die.]]destroy you.
-->'''Gohan''': [[IWarnedYou I]] ''[[IWarnedYou warned]]'' [[IWarnedYou you]]. I
** Garlic Jr. is the perfect example of this trope. [[spoiler: Enjoy being trapped in a void forever unable
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** The Grail has been corrupted already during just about any appearance of it and it interprets ANY wish as a wish for destruction. The comparison is "If you wished to be the richest person in the world, it would interpret it as a wish to kill everyone with more money than you." Really, the only way to get the wish you actually want is if destruction is what you actually want.
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* This is a very important theme in ''Anime/TenshiNiNarumon'' [[spoiler: where the strength of one of the main characters' wish almost erases him and two other individuals from existence]].
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* This is a very important theme in ''Anime/TenshiNiNarumon'' ''Anime/ImGonnaBeAnAngel'' [[spoiler: where the strength of one of the main characters' wish almost erases him and two other individuals from existence]].
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* In ''LightNovel/KamisamaNoInaiNichiyoubi'', when God left the world, He granted people the ability to make wishes come true, but said wishes often backfire. Hampnie wished for ResurrectiveImmortality, which he later realized meant he could be left as the last living human in the world. Alice wished for ImprobableAimingSkills [[spoiler:so he could be better at basketball, but then he realized such an ability would be cheating and thus quit his favorite sport]]. All of Class 3-4 wished [[spoiler:to reset time to prevent Alice's death, trapping themselves in a GroundhogDayLoop]]. Other characters raise the possibility that the reason death doesn't exist anymore is because people wished for immortality, and that gravekeepers came into being for the few that did still wish for death.
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* In ''LightNovel/KamisamaNoInaiNichiyoubi'', ''LightNovel/SundayWithoutGod'', when God left the world, He granted people the ability to make wishes come true, but said wishes often backfire. Hampnie wished for ResurrectiveImmortality, which he later realized meant he could be left as the last living human in the world. Alice wished for ImprobableAimingSkills [[spoiler:so he could be better at basketball, but then he realized such an ability would be cheating and thus quit his favorite sport]]. All of Class 3-4 wished [[spoiler:to reset time to prevent Alice's death, trapping themselves in a GroundhogDayLoop]]. Other characters raise the possibility that the reason death doesn't exist anymore is because people wished for immortality, and that gravekeepers came into being for the few that did still wish for death.
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** The first chapter has three friends, Ai, Mai and Rikako, getting the cell phone to contact the Angel and a wish each. Rikako wishes that Ai would get together with her beloved Yamaguchi... And not only Ai starts neglecting her friends, but Yamaguchi flat-out tells Rikako ''he actually liked her and has no idea why he's with Ai''. Knowing this, and pissed at Rikako demanding she used her wish to reset Yamaguchi's feelings and Mai trying to prevent a fight, she cries out she wants them to disappear. Cue EldritchAbomination, that is only stopped because Yamaguchi manages to wish it. Mai gets what she wanted, her friends back... Except she was deeply wounded by their betrayal ''and'' she likes Yamaguchi too, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy to whom she had originally renounced because she knew Ai liked him]]. It's implied her wish to the Angel is to kill them;
** The third chapter has Kumi, a high-school student with a crush on the school's idol Kisarazu, wish that Kisarazu would become finger-sized so she could take care of him and they would fall in love. The Angel grants her wish... And RealityEnsues, as Kisarazu is ''terrified'' by the situation, already has a girlfriend, and doesn't take the discovery that Kumi was responsible for this well. At least Kumi learned her lesson...
** The fourth and final chapter opens with a girl crying she only wanted her high school teacher to disappear and the Angel replying she grants ''any'' wish, and it's the wisher's own fault if they aren't happy with the result. The teacher is present in the background, lying in a pool of his own blood;
** The second chapter, in the meantime, [[{{Inverted}} inverts]] this. Misa, the protagonist, had died trying to save a cat, and when she wishes to return back to life the Angel does it but tells her she'll die again if she can't kiss the boy she has a crush on before midnight, while her friend Akio, who died with her (she doesn't remember due the shock of dying), wishes to spend the next year with her, and has to kiss ''her'' to not die. Akio decides to sacrifice himself for Misa's good, but Misa finds out and throws away her chance to save her friend... At which point the Angel keeps them ''both'' alive, [[LiteralGenie as he couldn't spend the next year with her if one of them was dead]];
** At the end of the series the Angel explains she does it ''on purpose'', as she can't stand humans crying for help at the first problem when they could have what they want by working for it. [[FridgeBrilliance Explaining why she went out of her way to help Misa and Akio, as for once it was a selfless wish that they couldn't possibly achieve by themselves]].
** The first chapter has three friends, Ai, Mai and Rikako, getting the cell phone to contact the Angel and a wish each. Rikako wishes that Ai would get together with her beloved Yamaguchi... And not only Ai starts neglecting her friends, but Yamaguchi flat-out tells Rikako ''he actually liked her and has no idea why he's with Ai''. Knowing this, and pissed at Rikako demanding she used her wish to reset Yamaguchi's feelings and Mai trying to prevent a fight, she cries out she wants them to disappear. Cue EldritchAbomination, that is only stopped because Yamaguchi manages to wish it. Mai gets what she wanted, her friends back... Except she was deeply wounded by their betrayal ''and'' she likes Yamaguchi too, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy to whom she had originally renounced because she knew Ai liked him]]. It's implied her wish to the Angel is to kill them;
** The third chapter has Kumi, a high-school student with a crush on the school's idol Kisarazu, wish that Kisarazu would become finger-sized so she could take care of him and they would fall in love. The Angel grants her wish... And RealityEnsues, as Kisarazu is ''terrified'' by the situation, already has a girlfriend, and doesn't take the discovery that Kumi was responsible for this well. At least Kumi learned her lesson...
** The fourth and final chapter opens with a girl crying she only wanted her high school teacher to disappear and the Angel replying she grants ''any'' wish, and it's the wisher's own fault if they aren't happy with the result. The teacher is present in the background, lying in a pool of his own blood;
** The second chapter, in the meantime, [[{{Inverted}} inverts]] this. Misa, the protagonist, had died trying to save a cat, and when she wishes to return back to life the Angel does it but tells her she'll die again if she can't kiss the boy she has a crush on before midnight, while her friend Akio, who died with her (she doesn't remember due the shock of dying), wishes to spend the next year with her, and has to kiss ''her'' to not die. Akio decides to sacrifice himself for Misa's good, but Misa finds out and throws away her chance to save her friend... At which point the Angel keeps them ''both'' alive, [[LiteralGenie as he couldn't spend the next year with her if one of them was dead]];
** At the end of the series the Angel explains she does it ''on purpose'', as she can't stand humans crying for help at the first problem when they could have what they want by working for it. [[FridgeBrilliance Explaining why she went out of her way to help Misa and Akio, as for once it was a selfless wish that they couldn't possibly achieve by themselves]].
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** The ending turns the situation on its head. [[spoiler:Madoka makes a wish that balances both selfishness and selflessness and thus manages to lessen the tragedies of everyone else's wishes but avoids the despair that would have resulted if her wish did not specify a clause for herself that would guarantee her survival and happiness. It still manages to backfire a fair bit as while she becomes a godlike figure spread across time and space, everyone save for one person forgets that she ever existed, but it certainly beats the alternatives.]]
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** The ending turns the situation on its head. [[spoiler:Madoka makes a wish that balances both selfishness and selflessness and thus manages to lessen the tragedies of everyone else's wishes but avoids the despair that would have resulted if her wish did not specify a clause for herself that would guarantee her survival and happiness. It still manages to backfire a fair bit as while she becomes a godlike figure spread across time and space, everyone save for It's bittersweet, in that the result is that erasing herself from mortal existence mean that only one person forgets will ever be aware that she ever existed, existed as a person, but what she gets out of it certainly beats personally isn't just the alternatives.salvation of all magical girls, it's also the knowledge that she is important and doing something very, very useful after spending the entire series being down on herself for not being able to do anything.]]
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** In general though, the Dragon Ball series is actually a massive subversion. Since fairly specific wishes are made and the dragons aren't assholes, every wish they make ends up doing exactly what they want. Example: King Piccolo wishes for youth. He doesn't turn into a fetus or baby, but instead turns to his prime. And to take it even farther, the dragons will even double check with you. When they try to wish Goku back to life, the dragon mentions that he'd be brought back at the same location he died at and since the planet he was on exploded, he'd be revived in space and then die again, giving them a chance to wish for something else instead. Although, this courtesy didn't seem to extend to Pilaf and his gang in ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods who like King Piccolo asked for youth and got reduced back to the children. Guess the Eternal Dragon knows of Pilaf's ButtMonkey status.
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** In general though, the Dragon Ball series is actually a massive subversion. Since fairly specific wishes are made and the dragons aren't assholes, every wish they make ends up doing exactly what they want. Example: King Piccolo wishes for youth. He doesn't turn into a fetus or baby, but instead turns to his prime. And to take it even farther, the dragons will even double check with you. When they try to wish Goku back to life, the dragon mentions that he'd be brought back at the same location he died at and since the planet he was on exploded, he'd be revived in space and then die again, giving them a chance to wish for something else instead. Although, this courtesy didn't seem to extend to Pilaf and his gang in DragonBallZBattleOfGods ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods who like King Piccolo asked for youth and got reduced back to the children. Guess the Eternal Dragon knows of Pilaf's ButtMonkey status.
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* Inverted in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', [[spoiler:Eren's titan form seems to respond to what he wants when he transforms. However, he gets the best results when he isn't careful. For example, when he wished for the power to kill a lot of titans and save his squadmates he gets it. When he wants specifically the strength to lift a boulder, he loses control.]]
* ''Manga/{{Arisa}}'' takes this trope and tweaks it. Rather than the wishes themselves that are messed up, it's the ''desire'' to have one's wishes granted. Most of the people are overlooking the obvious with rationalizations of "it could never happen to me" until it actually does, making selfish and arbitrary wishes without considering the side-effects. That is, rather than being about wish corruption, it's about the corruption by wishes (having your desires constantly fulfilled). Understandably, the entire class as a result is just a few shades short of psychopathy.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''
** Van Hohenheim spends his entire long life (over 400 years) wishing his life would end. When the end finally comes, however, he wishes he would not die yet.
** [[spoiler:Father]] heartily lauds how Truth gives humans despair when they get conceited, to keep them in line. Then, following a long, action-packed sequence of events, he winds up in front of Truth himself, who reminds [[spoiler:Father]] of his exact words, and points out how conceited [[spoiler:Father]] was to think he could absorb a god. [[FateWorseThanDeath He gets plenty of despair]].
** Al and Ed wanted to see Shou Tucker's talking Chimera. They find out just what goes into [[PoweredByAForsakenChild making a talking chimera]]. [[MoralEventHorizon They want to kill the bastard after seeing what goes into a talking chimera]].
** The King of Xerxes wanted to live forever. He got his wish [[AndIMustScream as one of the tortured souls in Father's body]].
** Human transmutation is wrought with this. By the laws of alchemy, it is forbidden, since the value of human life is immeasurable, so attempting it will cause those involved to lose that which was most precious to them. When Izumi attempted it to revive her stillborn child, she lost her reproductive organs. When Ed and Al tried it to revive their mother, Ed lost AnArmAndALeg, and Al was lucky for Ed's quick thinking that he only lost his entire body.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''
** Aizen has been manipulating Ichigo [[spoiler:for Ichigo's entire life]] to get stronger because he wants a WorthyOpponent. He gets what he asked for, [[{{Understatement}} and then some]].
** Ichigo tells Keigo after he loses his powers that he always wanted a normal life...then sees the folly of that when Ginjo and Xcution start messing up his life.
* The series ''Manga/AsatteNoHoukou'' begins with a single (well, double) instance of this, with a dash of SwappedRoles. The rest of the series consists of the characters dealing with the results.
* Making wishes under the old sakura tree in ''VisualNovel/DaCapo'' can have major consequences. For some it's even worse though when those wishes get reverted.
* The 'Suruga Monkey' arc of ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' initially appears to be a minor twist on the traditional story of the Monkey's Paw (the twist being that the paw has grafted itself to its owner's arm) but turns out to be rather more of a twist than usual. The owner's first wish was to run faster than her classmates to stop them from laughing at her; everyone in the class faster than her was mysteriously beaten up the day before the athletics carnival. The real twist is that [[spoiler:the paw isn't a Monkey's Paw, it belongs to a malevolent spirit called a Rainy Devil that grants your true subconscious wish- even though Kanbaru wished to run faster than her classmates she really wanted revenge on them, so the Rainy Devil possessed her and beat them up]]. Things get ''worse'' when [[spoiler:[[MurderTheHypotenuse the sempai she had a long-term crush on gets a boyfriend]]]]. The final twist is that [[spoiler:[[DealWithTheDevil after granting her third wish, the Rainy Devil will take her soul]]]].
* The ''Anime/RayearthOVA'' starts this way - the heroines fear their graduation, as they will be separated. So they wish something prevents this... then all the mayhem starts.
* The scientists in ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'' wanted to live forever. Unfortunately [[spoiler:Iceman was a god and they just REALLY pissed him off, so he gave them all bodies that would be immortal [[AndIMustScream by turning them all into red jelly.]]]]
* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', the unlucky Miranda Lotto loses her one hundredth job. She says: "Day after day, things always go wrong for me. I wish tomorrow would never come." What's the problem? Her Innocence-superpowered clock hears it, and it grants her wish. The whole town where she lives gets stuck in October 9th for more than a month.
* Quite a few ''Manga/FrankenFran'' stories end this way. One, for example, has a modern Elizabeth Bathory asking for eternal youth and eternal life. Fran gave her what she wants by turning all of her cells into the one type of cell that isn't programmed to die: [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream Cancer Cells]].]]
** [[spoiler: Actually Fran just gave her what she wanted. The woman went way overboard with the treatment and Fran was trying to warn her when it was too late. Still an example but not Fran's fault.]]
* ''Manga/XxxHolic'' features a chapter and episode involving a monkey's paw, which, as in the original W. W. Jacobs short story, grants wishes for its holder - five wishes in this case, one for each finger of the mummified paw, which break one at a time as wishes are granted. Also as in the original story, the young woman who gets hold of the paw finds her wishes backfiring on her, particularly when she thoughtlessly wishes that there would be a railway accident so that her lateness would be excused, causing a bystander to be suddenly pushed in front of the train. The paw and her own careless wishes end up killing her.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall''
** Definitely the instance that most people think of in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' is when [[BigBad Perfect Cell]], wanting to get a good fight before he destroys the Earth, hears from Gohan who, not wanting to fight, will let loose and kill him if Cell pushes him too hard. Cell, [[BloodKnight being Cell]], goes ahead with that anyways, pulling some heavy KickTheDog moments by nearly killing the rest of the cast and [[TearJerker killing Android 16]], and which pushes Gohan to go Super Saiyan 2 and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown beat Cell half to death]] and drive him to VillainousBreakdown. Gohan even invokes the whole trope by pointing to Cell that him letting loose is what Cell wanted in the first place.
-->'''Gohan''': I ''warned'' you! I warned you what would happen if you made me unleash my power! But you had to see it! And now that you have seen it, ''you're afraid!''
** Garlic Jr. is the perfect example of this trope. [[spoiler: Enjoy being trapped in a void forever unable to die.]]
** Another key example is in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', when Pilaf, having summoned the Black Star Dragon, gets distracted by Goku. Pilaf, frustrated at Goku's supposed thwarting of his plan, absentmindedly wishes that Goku was a child again. The Dragon grants his wish.
** In general though, the Dragon Ball series is actually a massive subversion. Since fairly specific wishes are made and the dragons aren't assholes, every wish they make ends up doing exactly what they want. Example: King Piccolo wishes for youth. He doesn't turn into a fetus or baby, but instead turns to his prime. And to take it even farther, the dragons will even double check with you. When they try to wish Goku back to life, the dragon mentions that he'd be brought back at the same location he died at and since the planet he was on exploded, he'd be revived in space and then die again, giving them a chance to wish for something else instead. Although, this courtesy didn't seem to extend to Pilaf and his gang in DragonBallZBattleOfGods who like King Piccolo asked for youth and got reduced back to the children. Guess the Eternal Dragon knows of Pilaf's ButtMonkey status.
* General Wolf of ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' comes to regret asking Johan how he's feeling. Johan can't put it into words, so he demonstrates it by [[spoiler: killing everyone close to the general. This lets the General feel Johan's own isolation.]]
** This trope happens to be the one that catalyzes the ''real'' story for Tenma, and thus the entire series. Tenma, after being demoted by the corrupt hospital director for saving a patient and dumped by the director's daughter, states that his superiors "would be better off dead" to that same supposedly comatose patient. [[spoiler:Should've thought that one out better; turns out his patient, Johan, is a sociopathic mass murderer who would gladly oblige such a request.]]
** There were experiments done on children to create an emotionless and perfect killing machine. [[GoneHorriblyRight Then, Johan became one of the experiment subjects.]]
* Mostly subverted in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''. Goddesses grant wishes to humans, and they don't try and cheat them out of anything. It does, however, apply when [[DealWithTheDevil a demon is granting a wish]], since A; they might [[JackassGenie cheat you on it]], and B; they will ask for something in return proportionate to the wish, though according to [[{{Satan}} Hild]] at least, that means a demon won't ever grant a wish to destroy the world, since no mortal could possibly have anything to offer of equal value to that wish.
** Well, you CAN wish for the end of the world if you really want, but the demons will then [[AFateWorseThanDeath get their price from you by any means possible.]] [[YouDontWantToKnow Pay back all the suffering you caused by ending the world?]] That tends to turn most people off.
** Gets played straight with revelations in the manga Chapter 285. While a lighter example in things, it begins to [[HandWave explain]] some things.
** One other danger in wishes with demons is that even if they don't cheat you on the wish, you still can't back out of it if it being granted is something they want.
** The entire story of the manga is this: Keiichi thought Belldandy was a prank pulled by his flatmates and jokingly wished that she would stay by his side. To Belldandy's utter shock, ''it went through.''
* Zelgadis of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' wishes to be strong and he gets his wish when he [[CursedWithAwesome turns into a golem/mazoku chimera ]]. It's a funny case because he mentions that he ''could've'' lived with the effects if [[spoiler: he wasn't being used as a guinea pig by his grandfather Rezo]].
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': Especially in the manga, Miaka wishes to be rid of her problems with school and her [[EducationMama mother]], and that there was a god she could pray to. Well, in a way, she gets her wish: she is in an alternate dimension where there ''is'' no school, and she gets to be the [[ChosenOne priestess]] to a god in this dimension. But, it's not all roses. She's in a CastFullOfPrettyBoys, but she has VirginPower. She is constantly getting the DistressBall, too. Oh, and then there's that whole thing about the Beast God [[VirginSacrifice consuming his priestess' body and soul]] as she makes her wishes.
* In ''Manga/NightmareInspector'', Hiruko often lets the dreamer's wishes be fulfilled. Whether they were actually beneficial to the dreamer is a different question ...
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Professor Cobra wanted to be reunited with his dead son. Yubel promised to do so. He thought that meant she would bring him back to life. She/He had other ideas, consisting of erasing the memory that his son died in the first place and dropping Cobra to his death. But, hey, if you believe in the afterlife... Yubel was like that about a lot of things.
* This is a very important theme in ''Anime/TenshiNiNarumon'' [[spoiler: where the strength of one of the main characters' wish almost erases him and two other individuals from existence]].
* Analyzed in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.
** [[DealWithTheDevil Kyubey]] grants wishes in exchange for the wisher becoming a MagicalGirl and fighting monsters for him. The problems that arise from the granting of the wish aren't exactly because of the wish itself, or from Kyubey - while he's not exactly trustworthy, he has no incentive to screw with peoples' wishes: when he says he can grant ''any'' wish, he ''means'' it, and he has no reason to influence what a Magical Girl wishes for, or to decide for her what she thinks fighting Witches for the rest of her life is worth. The problem is ''the person making the wish is almost never honest about what they really wanted''. Those whose wishes are fully selfish end up regretting foregoing an unique opportunity to help others, while those who chose to help others forget that every selfless wish has a selfish motive behind it, which is by no means guaranteed to be fulfilled. In either case, the resultant regret sends a Magical Girl deeper into despair... which is what Kyubey wants. The fact that the Incubators only contract with willing girls and offer no-strings-attached wishes is their idea of equal payment for what the Magical Girls inevitably have to suffer in the end. If there is an aesop in all of this, it is perhaps simply being honest with your desires and aware of sacrifices you're willing to make to see them fulfilled.
** The ending turns the situation on its head. [[spoiler:Madoka makes a wish that balances both selfishness and selflessness and thus manages to lessen the tragedies of everyone else's wishes but avoids the despair that would have resulted if her wish did not specify a clause for herself that would guarantee her survival and happiness. It still manages to backfire a fair bit as while she becomes a godlike figure spread across time and space, everyone save for one person forgets that she ever existed, but it certainly beats the alternatives.]]
** A straight version of the trope applies for ''Kyubey'', who tried to prod Madoka towards making a contract by telling her she has the power to become a god who could save magical girls from their tragic fates. [[spoiler:By stating a wish that could save everyone ''and'' herself, this is precisely what she does. Thus Kyubey's race gets the short end of the Miracle Contract stick for a change.]]
** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' is less explicit about it, but the story is still based around this trope. Because of one character's desire for everyone to be together, they all get trapped in [[spoiler:her giant witch labyrinth]]. The other characters inadvertently imply that they wanted this, too, so she decides to give them what they want... [[spoiler:by becoming a demon and brainwashing everyone, especially Madoka. The instigator herself isn't happy with this, because she can't even be Madoka's friend anymore; but she feels it's necessary for everyone else to be happy, even though they probably wouldn't be if they remembered everything]].
* In ''Manga/HimitsuNoAkkoChan'', (the original version from 1969), the titular heroine, Akko-chan, upon meeting a deaf-mute kid, asks her magic mirror to turn her into a deaf-mute version of herself, reasoning that, after her brush with disability, she'll be able to restore herself with a second wish. However, since the mirror works only by clearly enunciated utterances, and since it was [[LiteralGenie literal enough to strip Akko-chan of the ability to speak at all]], the unfortunate wishee finds herself deaf, voiceless and cut off of her power source. She gets better later, though, as the ResetButton simply presses itself after imparting a much needed {{Aesop}}.
* ''Anime/TokyoMagnitude8'' begins with the narrator saying she hates Tokyo and wishes it would just break, the whole city. Cue the titular earthquake.
* In ''[[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars Pretty Cure All Stars DX3]]'', [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Hibiki]] wishes Hummy would disappear after she crashes a fashion show featuring [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi, Erika, Itsuki and Yuri]]. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, [[DownerEnding she does - along with the rest of the Precure's mascots.]] They come back, though.]]
* Goku from ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' thinks it would be okay if he died. WAIT HE DIDN'T MEAN THIS SECOND!
* Up against Olegmon, one of the Death Generals in ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'', when Sutyr, one of his shoulder devils, taunts the team by suggesting he'll grant a wish, Kiriha defiantly shouts that the only wish he has is to defeat Olegmon, who interprets that as a world without Olegmon. Sutyr grants this wish by ejecting Kiriha and his Digimon clear across the world.
* In ''Manga/ArataKangatari'', Arata wishes that he would go to a faraway world in the manga's opening chapter. Likewise, Hinohara wishes that he would disappear in his introductory chapter. The moment that latter makes his wish, both of them are fulfilled by their switch.
* In ''LightNovel/FateZero'' Kiritsugu wants the Holy Grail to grant world peace, but when he finally has the chance to make his wish the corrupted Grail explains how it intends to grant it: by ''killing off all of mankind but Kiritsugu and his daughter'', because Humans would always fight. Then it's subverted when Kiritsugu [[ScrewDestiny destroys the Grail]].
* In ''LightNovel/KamisamaNoInaiNichiyoubi'', when God left the world, He granted people the ability to make wishes come true, but said wishes often backfire. Hampnie wished for ResurrectiveImmortality, which he later realized meant he could be left as the last living human in the world. Alice wished for ImprobableAimingSkills [[spoiler:so he could be better at basketball, but then he realized such an ability would be cheating and thus quit his favorite sport]]. All of Class 3-4 wished [[spoiler:to reset time to prevent Alice's death, trapping themselves in a GroundhogDayLoop]]. Other characters raise the possibility that the reason death doesn't exist anymore is because people wished for immortality, and that gravekeepers came into being for the few that did still wish for death.
* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' has Mahiro saying he just wants a quiet normal life in the first season finale. What he gets is that everyone around him disappeared and he was left alone just like he wanted. He then realises just how important his alien friends are to him, despite their quirks and how much they annoy him.
* A funny example in ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai'' when Kokoro tries seducing Yamato by wearing skimpy bikini to turn him on. At first Yamato brushes off her charm and so she demands that he "show her that he's a man" for not being enticed by her seduction. How does Yamato respond? By unzipping his fly and showing Kokoro what ''TRULY'' makes him a man.
* ''Manhwa/IWish'' is basically built on this. The clients come to K to ask for a wish of theirs to be fulfilled. The problems come in when either someone realizes what it would mean when their payment would be whatever is closest to their heart at the moment, what exactly the fulfillment did and the consequences it could bring.
* In ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'', Episode 11, Adou declares he wants to fight someone even stronger than everyone he's curbstomped. He gets his wish, in the form of [[spoiler: Meijin Kawaguchi III, '''''three time consecutive World Champion''''']]. Adou's expression [[OhCrap immediately changes]].
* [[AlwaysSecondBest Takizawa]] [[CowardlyLion Seidou]] of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' gets hit with this twice. He constantly wishes to get out in the field, only for his first assignment to be as part of a massive assault against the One-Eyed Owl, a ghoul that has defeated dozens of higher-ranked CCG members. [[spoiler: He breaks down while writing his will because he doesn't want to die...and then the sequel reveals that he was captured by the Aogiri Tree rather than being killed so that they could turn him into one of their hybrids, a process which certainly involved years of horrific torture.]]
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* ''Manga/{{Arisa}}'' takes this trope and tweaks it. Rather than the wishes themselves that are messed up, it's the ''desire'' to have one's wishes granted. Most of the people are overlooking the obvious with rationalizations of "it could never happen to me" until it actually does, making selfish and arbitrary wishes without considering the side-effects. That is, rather than being about wish corruption, it's about the corruption by wishes (having your desires constantly fulfilled). Understandably, the entire class as a result is just a few shades short of psychopathy.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''
** Van Hohenheim spends his entire long life (over 400 years) wishing his life would end. When the end finally comes, however, he wishes he would not die yet.
** [[spoiler:Father]] heartily lauds how Truth gives humans despair when they get conceited, to keep them in line. Then, following a long, action-packed sequence of events, he winds up in front of Truth himself, who reminds [[spoiler:Father]] of his exact words, and points out how conceited [[spoiler:Father]] was to think he could absorb a god. [[FateWorseThanDeath He gets plenty of despair]].
** Al and Ed wanted to see Shou Tucker's talking Chimera. They find out just what goes into [[PoweredByAForsakenChild making a talking chimera]]. [[MoralEventHorizon They want to kill the bastard after seeing what goes into a talking chimera]].
** The King of Xerxes wanted to live forever. He got his wish [[AndIMustScream as one of the tortured souls in Father's body]].
** Human transmutation is wrought with this. By the laws of alchemy, it is forbidden, since the value of human life is immeasurable, so attempting it will cause those involved to lose that which was most precious to them. When Izumi attempted it to revive her stillborn child, she lost her reproductive organs. When Ed and Al tried it to revive their mother, Ed lost AnArmAndALeg, and Al was lucky for Ed's quick thinking that he only lost his entire body.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''
** Aizen has been manipulating Ichigo [[spoiler:for Ichigo's entire life]] to get stronger because he wants a WorthyOpponent. He gets what he asked for, [[{{Understatement}} and then some]].
** Ichigo tells Keigo after he loses his powers that he always wanted a normal life...then sees the folly of that when Ginjo and Xcution start messing up his life.
* The series ''Manga/AsatteNoHoukou'' begins with a single (well, double) instance of this, with a dash of SwappedRoles. The rest of the series consists of the characters dealing with the results.
* Making wishes under the old sakura tree in ''VisualNovel/DaCapo'' can have major consequences. For some it's even worse though when those wishes get reverted.
* The 'Suruga Monkey' arc of ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' initially appears to be a minor twist on the traditional story of the Monkey's Paw (the twist being that the paw has grafted itself to its owner's arm) but turns out to be rather more of a twist than usual. The owner's first wish was to run faster than her classmates to stop them from laughing at her; everyone in the class faster than her was mysteriously beaten up the day before the athletics carnival. The real twist is that [[spoiler:the paw isn't a Monkey's Paw, it belongs to a malevolent spirit called a Rainy Devil that grants your true subconscious wish- even though Kanbaru wished to run faster than her classmates she really wanted revenge on them, so the Rainy Devil possessed her and beat them up]]. Things get ''worse'' when [[spoiler:[[MurderTheHypotenuse the sempai she had a long-term crush on gets a boyfriend]]]]. The final twist is that [[spoiler:[[DealWithTheDevil after granting her third wish, the Rainy Devil will take her soul]]]].
* The ''Anime/RayearthOVA'' starts this way - the heroines fear their graduation, as they will be separated. So they wish something prevents this... then all the mayhem starts.
* The scientists in ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'' wanted to live forever. Unfortunately [[spoiler:Iceman was a god and they just REALLY pissed him off, so he gave them all bodies that would be immortal [[AndIMustScream by turning them all into red jelly.]]]]
* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', the unlucky Miranda Lotto loses her one hundredth job. She says: "Day after day, things always go wrong for me. I wish tomorrow would never come." What's the problem? Her Innocence-superpowered clock hears it, and it grants her wish. The whole town where she lives gets stuck in October 9th for more than a month.
* Quite a few ''Manga/FrankenFran'' stories end this way. One, for example, has a modern Elizabeth Bathory asking for eternal youth and eternal life. Fran gave her what she wants by turning all of her cells into the one type of cell that isn't programmed to die: [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream Cancer Cells]].]]
** [[spoiler: Actually Fran just gave her what she wanted. The woman went way overboard with the treatment and Fran was trying to warn her when it was too late. Still an example but not Fran's fault.]]
* ''Manga/XxxHolic'' features a chapter and episode involving a monkey's paw, which, as in the original W. W. Jacobs short story, grants wishes for its holder - five wishes in this case, one for each finger of the mummified paw, which break one at a time as wishes are granted. Also as in the original story, the young woman who gets hold of the paw finds her wishes backfiring on her, particularly when she thoughtlessly wishes that there would be a railway accident so that her lateness would be excused, causing a bystander to be suddenly pushed in front of the train. The paw and her own careless wishes end up killing her.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall''
** Definitely the instance that most people think of in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' is when [[BigBad Perfect Cell]], wanting to get a good fight before he destroys the Earth, hears from Gohan who, not wanting to fight, will let loose and kill him if Cell pushes him too hard. Cell, [[BloodKnight being Cell]], goes ahead with that anyways, pulling some heavy KickTheDog moments by nearly killing the rest of the cast and [[TearJerker killing Android 16]], and which pushes Gohan to go Super Saiyan 2 and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown beat Cell half to death]] and drive him to VillainousBreakdown. Gohan even invokes the whole trope by pointing to Cell that him letting loose is what Cell wanted in the first place.
-->'''Gohan''': I ''warned'' you! I warned you what would happen if you made me unleash my power! But you had to see it! And now that you have seen it, ''you're afraid!''
** Garlic Jr. is the perfect example of this trope. [[spoiler: Enjoy being trapped in a void forever unable to die.]]
** Another key example is in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', when Pilaf, having summoned the Black Star Dragon, gets distracted by Goku. Pilaf, frustrated at Goku's supposed thwarting of his plan, absentmindedly wishes that Goku was a child again. The Dragon grants his wish.
** In general though, the Dragon Ball series is actually a massive subversion. Since fairly specific wishes are made and the dragons aren't assholes, every wish they make ends up doing exactly what they want. Example: King Piccolo wishes for youth. He doesn't turn into a fetus or baby, but instead turns to his prime. And to take it even farther, the dragons will even double check with you. When they try to wish Goku back to life, the dragon mentions that he'd be brought back at the same location he died at and since the planet he was on exploded, he'd be revived in space and then die again, giving them a chance to wish for something else instead. Although, this courtesy didn't seem to extend to Pilaf and his gang in DragonBallZBattleOfGods who like King Piccolo asked for youth and got reduced back to the children. Guess the Eternal Dragon knows of Pilaf's ButtMonkey status.
* General Wolf of ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' comes to regret asking Johan how he's feeling. Johan can't put it into words, so he demonstrates it by [[spoiler: killing everyone close to the general. This lets the General feel Johan's own isolation.]]
** This trope happens to be the one that catalyzes the ''real'' story for Tenma, and thus the entire series. Tenma, after being demoted by the corrupt hospital director for saving a patient and dumped by the director's daughter, states that his superiors "would be better off dead" to that same supposedly comatose patient. [[spoiler:Should've thought that one out better; turns out his patient, Johan, is a sociopathic mass murderer who would gladly oblige such a request.]]
** There were experiments done on children to create an emotionless and perfect killing machine. [[GoneHorriblyRight Then, Johan became one of the experiment subjects.]]
* Mostly subverted in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''. Goddesses grant wishes to humans, and they don't try and cheat them out of anything. It does, however, apply when [[DealWithTheDevil a demon is granting a wish]], since A; they might [[JackassGenie cheat you on it]], and B; they will ask for something in return proportionate to the wish, though according to [[{{Satan}} Hild]] at least, that means a demon won't ever grant a wish to destroy the world, since no mortal could possibly have anything to offer of equal value to that wish.
** Well, you CAN wish for the end of the world if you really want, but the demons will then [[AFateWorseThanDeath get their price from you by any means possible.]] [[YouDontWantToKnow Pay back all the suffering you caused by ending the world?]] That tends to turn most people off.
** Gets played straight with revelations in the manga Chapter 285. While a lighter example in things, it begins to [[HandWave explain]] some things.
** One other danger in wishes with demons is that even if they don't cheat you on the wish, you still can't back out of it if it being granted is something they want.
** The entire story of the manga is this: Keiichi thought Belldandy was a prank pulled by his flatmates and jokingly wished that she would stay by his side. To Belldandy's utter shock, ''it went through.''
* Zelgadis of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' wishes to be strong and he gets his wish when he [[CursedWithAwesome turns into a golem/mazoku chimera ]]. It's a funny case because he mentions that he ''could've'' lived with the effects if [[spoiler: he wasn't being used as a guinea pig by his grandfather Rezo]].
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': Especially in the manga, Miaka wishes to be rid of her problems with school and her [[EducationMama mother]], and that there was a god she could pray to. Well, in a way, she gets her wish: she is in an alternate dimension where there ''is'' no school, and she gets to be the [[ChosenOne priestess]] to a god in this dimension. But, it's not all roses. She's in a CastFullOfPrettyBoys, but she has VirginPower. She is constantly getting the DistressBall, too. Oh, and then there's that whole thing about the Beast God [[VirginSacrifice consuming his priestess' body and soul]] as she makes her wishes.
* In ''Manga/NightmareInspector'', Hiruko often lets the dreamer's wishes be fulfilled. Whether they were actually beneficial to the dreamer is a different question ...
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Professor Cobra wanted to be reunited with his dead son. Yubel promised to do so. He thought that meant she would bring him back to life. She/He had other ideas, consisting of erasing the memory that his son died in the first place and dropping Cobra to his death. But, hey, if you believe in the afterlife... Yubel was like that about a lot of things.
* This is a very important theme in ''Anime/TenshiNiNarumon'' [[spoiler: where the strength of one of the main characters' wish almost erases him and two other individuals from existence]].
* Analyzed in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.
** [[DealWithTheDevil Kyubey]] grants wishes in exchange for the wisher becoming a MagicalGirl and fighting monsters for him. The problems that arise from the granting of the wish aren't exactly because of the wish itself, or from Kyubey - while he's not exactly trustworthy, he has no incentive to screw with peoples' wishes: when he says he can grant ''any'' wish, he ''means'' it, and he has no reason to influence what a Magical Girl wishes for, or to decide for her what she thinks fighting Witches for the rest of her life is worth. The problem is ''the person making the wish is almost never honest about what they really wanted''. Those whose wishes are fully selfish end up regretting foregoing an unique opportunity to help others, while those who chose to help others forget that every selfless wish has a selfish motive behind it, which is by no means guaranteed to be fulfilled. In either case, the resultant regret sends a Magical Girl deeper into despair... which is what Kyubey wants. The fact that the Incubators only contract with willing girls and offer no-strings-attached wishes is their idea of equal payment for what the Magical Girls inevitably have to suffer in the end. If there is an aesop in all of this, it is perhaps simply being honest with your desires and aware of sacrifices you're willing to make to see them fulfilled.
** The ending turns the situation on its head. [[spoiler:Madoka makes a wish that balances both selfishness and selflessness and thus manages to lessen the tragedies of everyone else's wishes but avoids the despair that would have resulted if her wish did not specify a clause for herself that would guarantee her survival and happiness. It still manages to backfire a fair bit as while she becomes a godlike figure spread across time and space, everyone save for one person forgets that she ever existed, but it certainly beats the alternatives.]]
** A straight version of the trope applies for ''Kyubey'', who tried to prod Madoka towards making a contract by telling her she has the power to become a god who could save magical girls from their tragic fates. [[spoiler:By stating a wish that could save everyone ''and'' herself, this is precisely what she does. Thus Kyubey's race gets the short end of the Miracle Contract stick for a change.]]
** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' is less explicit about it, but the story is still based around this trope. Because of one character's desire for everyone to be together, they all get trapped in [[spoiler:her giant witch labyrinth]]. The other characters inadvertently imply that they wanted this, too, so she decides to give them what they want... [[spoiler:by becoming a demon and brainwashing everyone, especially Madoka. The instigator herself isn't happy with this, because she can't even be Madoka's friend anymore; but she feels it's necessary for everyone else to be happy, even though they probably wouldn't be if they remembered everything]].
* In ''Manga/HimitsuNoAkkoChan'', (the original version from 1969), the titular heroine, Akko-chan, upon meeting a deaf-mute kid, asks her magic mirror to turn her into a deaf-mute version of herself, reasoning that, after her brush with disability, she'll be able to restore herself with a second wish. However, since the mirror works only by clearly enunciated utterances, and since it was [[LiteralGenie literal enough to strip Akko-chan of the ability to speak at all]], the unfortunate wishee finds herself deaf, voiceless and cut off of her power source. She gets better later, though, as the ResetButton simply presses itself after imparting a much needed {{Aesop}}.
* ''Anime/TokyoMagnitude8'' begins with the narrator saying she hates Tokyo and wishes it would just break, the whole city. Cue the titular earthquake.
* In ''[[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars Pretty Cure All Stars DX3]]'', [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Hibiki]] wishes Hummy would disappear after she crashes a fashion show featuring [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi, Erika, Itsuki and Yuri]]. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, [[DownerEnding she does - along with the rest of the Precure's mascots.]] They come back, though.]]
* Goku from ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' thinks it would be okay if he died. WAIT HE DIDN'T MEAN THIS SECOND!
* Up against Olegmon, one of the Death Generals in ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'', when Sutyr, one of his shoulder devils, taunts the team by suggesting he'll grant a wish, Kiriha defiantly shouts that the only wish he has is to defeat Olegmon, who interprets that as a world without Olegmon. Sutyr grants this wish by ejecting Kiriha and his Digimon clear across the world.
* In ''Manga/ArataKangatari'', Arata wishes that he would go to a faraway world in the manga's opening chapter. Likewise, Hinohara wishes that he would disappear in his introductory chapter. The moment that latter makes his wish, both of them are fulfilled by their switch.
* In ''LightNovel/FateZero'' Kiritsugu wants the Holy Grail to grant world peace, but when he finally has the chance to make his wish the corrupted Grail explains how it intends to grant it: by ''killing off all of mankind but Kiritsugu and his daughter'', because Humans would always fight. Then it's subverted when Kiritsugu [[ScrewDestiny destroys the Grail]].
* In ''LightNovel/KamisamaNoInaiNichiyoubi'', when God left the world, He granted people the ability to make wishes come true, but said wishes often backfire. Hampnie wished for ResurrectiveImmortality, which he later realized meant he could be left as the last living human in the world. Alice wished for ImprobableAimingSkills [[spoiler:so he could be better at basketball, but then he realized such an ability would be cheating and thus quit his favorite sport]]. All of Class 3-4 wished [[spoiler:to reset time to prevent Alice's death, trapping themselves in a GroundhogDayLoop]]. Other characters raise the possibility that the reason death doesn't exist anymore is because people wished for immortality, and that gravekeepers came into being for the few that did still wish for death.
* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' has Mahiro saying he just wants a quiet normal life in the first season finale. What he gets is that everyone around him disappeared and he was left alone just like he wanted. He then realises just how important his alien friends are to him, despite their quirks and how much they annoy him.
* A funny example in ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai'' when Kokoro tries seducing Yamato by wearing skimpy bikini to turn him on. At first Yamato brushes off her charm and so she demands that he "show her that he's a man" for not being enticed by her seduction. How does Yamato respond? By unzipping his fly and showing Kokoro what ''TRULY'' makes him a man.
* ''Manhwa/IWish'' is basically built on this. The clients come to K to ask for a wish of theirs to be fulfilled. The problems come in when either someone realizes what it would mean when their payment would be whatever is closest to their heart at the moment, what exactly the fulfillment did and the consequences it could bring.
* In ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'', Episode 11, Adou declares he wants to fight someone even stronger than everyone he's curbstomped. He gets his wish, in the form of [[spoiler: Meijin Kawaguchi III, '''''three time consecutive World Champion''''']]. Adou's expression [[OhCrap immediately changes]].
* [[AlwaysSecondBest Takizawa]] [[CowardlyLion Seidou]] of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' gets hit with this twice. He constantly wishes to get out in the field, only for his first assignment to be as part of a massive assault against the One-Eyed Owl, a ghoul that has defeated dozens of higher-ranked CCG members. [[spoiler: He breaks down while writing his will because he doesn't want to die...and then the sequel reveals that he was captured by the Aogiri Tree rather than being killed so that they could turn him into one of their hybrids, a process which certainly involved years of horrific torture.]]
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