History BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor / AnimeAndManga

* ''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, 4 extra episodes, and ONLY 11 canon episodes. Definitely one of the biggest meta examples of this trope.

** 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...

* When Chloe from ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' was still a student at Flora Girls' Academy, she was a LargeHam {{Chuunibyou}} who wanted people to call her by her SelfAppliedNickname, "The Azure Reaper from Hell". 3 years later, now that she's become Director of said school and wants to put those cringe-inducing days behind her, ''everyone'' now refers to her as that.

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Aijou wishes for a girlfriend at a shrine; he's granted '''one-hundred''' of them. And if they ever reject him, at any point, for any reason, then they will '''die'''.

** During the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, Bakugou declared he would be number one. While he did become just that, he found the process of getting there and said victory unsatisfying. He was shown up by Midoriya in the very first event. He sees [[TheAce Todoroki]] as his main rival but Todoroki continues to ignore him and views ''Midoriya'' as the one to be defeated. And when Bakugou actually beats Todoroki in the final round, he was furious to realize Todoroki didn't use his fire powers, unlike in his earlier fight with Midoriya, meaning Todoroki was holding back on him.

* In the ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust 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 being OnlyMostlyDead, with that being the reason the group was on that island to begin with]].
** In the ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', Kars wanted to become the ultimate life form, a perfect immortal being. [[spoiler: He gets what he wants, but after being flung into outer space by a volcano, he ends up regretting it as his body freezes over and he turns into a creature that is both mineral and organic, dooming him to float in the void for all eternity, unable to die even though he desperately wants to. Eventually, he [[GoMadFromTheIsolation stops thinking]].]]
* 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.]]
** Later on, we get a subversion: [[spoiler: Eren possesses the Coordinate ability, a strange power that gives its wielder the power to control Titans by giving them direct orders, but he didn't know about it until he accidentally used it in a dire situation. It wasn't that he wanted something, got it, and regretted it because it wasn't what he thought; he wanted something, got it, and regrets ''not getting it sooner'', as it could have saved any number of lives, particularly Levi's squadmates.]]

* ''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. [[AndIMustScream 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]].
** Surprisingly subverted with Ling, who wanted to gain a Philosopher's stone in order to become the next emperor of Xing. [[spoiler:He's injected with Greed's stone by Father, however instead of fighting it, Ling freely gives himself to the homunculus. He spends the rest of series slowly forming a bond with Greed until they become genuine friends. Even after Greed is removed and killed, Ling gets another stone and returns with it to Xing]].
** In the 2003 series, Envy wishes to kill Hohenheim for [[spoiler:abandoning him after his creation]]. After finding out Hohenheim was sent beyond the Gate, he manages to follow him, and several years later [[spoiler:succeeds in killing his creator at the cost of his own life]].
** 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.
--->'''Truth:''' Isn't this what you wanted?

** 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. ]]
* The series ''Manga/LivingForTheDayAfterTomorrow'' 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.

* 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.]]]]

* Quite a few ''Manga/FrankenFran'' stories end this way. One, for example, has a modern Elizabeth Bathory asking for eternal youth and eternal life. To that end, she stole one of Fran's experimental medicines, despite Fran giving her as much safe treatment as she wanted. The woman has all of her cells turn into the one type of cell that isn't programmed to die: [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream Cancer Cells]].]]
* ''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.
* ''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, 4 extra episodes, and ONLY 11 canon episodes. Definitely one of the biggest meta examples of this trope.

* General Wolf of ''Manga/{{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.
** 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.
** 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]].

* 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 [[{{Hermaphrodite}} they]] would bring him back to life. However, they had other ideas, which consist 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 trope forms the central core of ''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 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]], 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.
*** Kyubey later notes that making a wish that goes "beyond reason" is inherently a bad idea. Such a wish will distort reality and have disastrous consequences as a result. In such cases it is the wish itself which causes the disaster, not Kyubey.
** 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's bittersweet, in that the result is that erasing herself from mortal existence mean that only one person will ever be aware that she ever existed as a person, but what she gets out of it personally isn't just the 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.]]
** 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]].
* ''Manga/PuellaMagiKazumiMagica'', a spinoff of ''Madoka Magica'', surprisingly averts this for the most part. Most of the central characters used their wishes to either wish for small things that weren't as likely to go awry (Saki wishing for a flower she was keeping to bloom forever in memory of her dead sister) or to support their dreams and desires rather than having them granted outright (aspiring novelist Umika wishes to meet an editor who would recognize her talents rather than just wishing to be a successful novelist). It turns out that their attitude is taken from their leader, Michiru; rather than wish to cure her grandmother's terminal illness, she wishes to spend whatever time her grandmother has left together, because she knows simply curing the illness wouldn't be respecting her grandmother's lifestyle.
** However, one particular example does play it straight and goes awry very, very badly. [[spoiler: As a child, Niko accidentally shot some of her friends when they were playing around with a gun. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom She wished to create a copy of herself who had no memory of the incident.]] Said copy [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes insane with anger when she uncovers the truth about her origins]] and ends up becoming the BigBad of the series.]]
* 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/DigimonFusion'', 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.
** 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!!"]] Shortly after, Osamu was hit by a car and died, [[StartOfDarkness and everything just went downhill from there for Ken.]]
* In ''Manga/ArataTheLegend'', 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]].
** 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.
** In the sequel series ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks'', Rin coments on how she should have been Saber's master instead of Shirou because she doesn't believe he's fit to be her master. Later in the series [[spoiler:she eventually does become Saber's master, but only thanks to Archer's betrayal]].
* In ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie'', T. Hawk insists that Ken fight him, even though the latter says he's no intention to do so. Eventually, Ken gets pushed one time too many, and he says this virtually verbatim:
-->'''Ken:''' ''[pissed]'' Watch out... when you ask for something... you [[LampshadeHanging MIGHT GET IT!]] [[spoiler:[[{{Shoryuken}} SHORYUKEN!"]]]]
* In ''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.
* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' 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 realizes just how important his alien friends are to him, despite their quirks and how much they annoy him.
* A funny example in ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'' 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.

* 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.]]
* ''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]]:
** 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 does Ai start 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 use her wish to reset Yamaguchi's feelings, and Mai trying to prevent a fight, Ai 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 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.]]
* In ''Webcomic/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, though even they ultimately fail to challenge him, considering he doesn't need to go full-power against either of them to best them.]]
** Boros had a similar predicament: he was so powerful than nobody could last even a second in battle against him, and entire planets were vanquished with no effort. His dearest wish was 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.]]

* In episode 17 of ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'', this is how Ashen Eyes (one of TheFairFolk) teaches siblings Stella and Ethan [[AnAesop a harsh lesson.]] After Stella angrily declares that she doesn't care if [[IllBoy Ethan gets sick]] from staying in the snow, Ashen Eyes casts a spell that gradually makes him RetGone. By the time Stella asks protagonists Chise and Elias for help, only Stella remembers Ethan's name. Once they catch up to Ashen Eyes, he basically tells her that [[WordsCanBreakMyBones hurtful and foolish words can't be taken back]] because anybody else could be around to hear them too (which he specifically was). He also mentions how fortunate Stella is that [[ExactWords she did not wish for Ethan's death.]]
* In ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'', Mingyi intentionally antagonizes his wife and concubines by talking about how great his new servant Xiaxi is. He's aiming to make them lash out at her so she'll be forced to depend on him. His apparently meekest wife Liu Ru actually ends up ''whipping her'', including a lash across the face, when Mingyi is away. He gets back, is horrified and has her banished, but before then Xiaxi rather coldly asks him if he's satisfied since he got what he wanted. He's upset with himself because he doesn't know how to appeal to her (since she's being intentionally difficult) and his attempts to make her rely on him just seem to make her hate him more. [[spoiler:Funny thing is, it's a double setup. First, she's baiting him to care more about her. Second, Liu Ru was in on it the whole time because she ''wanted'' to be banished. She was basically legally kidnapped away from her actual fiancée to serve Mingyi.]]
* When one adventurer in ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'' jealously accuses Kazuma of not deserving the BattleHarem that he has, Kazuma offers to let them switch places. The adventurer eagerly accepts...and comes running back ''begging'' Kazuma to take his dysfunctional team members back.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', after the turncoat [[AGodAmI God Serena]] trashes his former comrades in the Four Emperors of Ishgal plus Jura Neekis with his [[TheArchmage incredible power,]] the badly-wounded [[OldMaster Warrod]] desperately pleads for ''anyone'' to stop him from reaching Fairy Tail and harming the guild. [[VillainousRescue Cue the arrival of]] [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Acnologia,]] who's on the prowl for Dragon Slayers and was attracted by all the magic God Serena was pumping out. He then proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle murder Serena right then and there]] and walks off mentioning [[GottaKillEmAll he still has seven more Dragon Slayers to kill,]] all of which are members, or are at least allies, of Fairy Tail anyway.]]
* The Most Dangerous Death Row Convicts arc of ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'' has 5 insanely strong death row inmates escape from maximum security prisons all around the world and all simultaneously converge on Tokyo in order to seek out strong fighters and "know defeat". While they all eventually get their wish, the majority of them aren't mentally equipped to handle losing for the first time, with one physically wasting away and entering a coma upon his defeat, while another regresses into a child-like state, and another refuses to accept his clear defeat until he's killed by [[WorldsStrongestMan Yujiro]] for it. Only [[spoiler: Doyle]] accepts his defeat with grace, [[spoiler: only for another convict to blind him for it, seeing his accepting his defeat as cowardly.]]
* Throughout ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', Hayasaka was bothered by Kaguya's insistence on engaging in a DuelOfSeduction with Shirogane rather than just confessing to him, and commented at multiple points that the two of them would be much better off if they would just start dating already. [[spoiler:Once the two of them actually do have a RelationshipUpgrade, Hayasaka quickly discovers that "lovey dovey Kaguya" is ''far'' more infuriating than "CannotSpitItOut Kaguya".]]
** In one chapter, Kaguya, Shirogane and Fujiwara all play the Banned Word Game (each player is given a secret word and loses when they say it) in order to decide which two among them will go out on a long shopping trip. Shirogane wants to lose with Kaguya so that the two of them have a justified excuse to hang out together, but he also wants to beat Kaguya, so he resolves to make Kaguya lose and then intentionally lose himself. In the end, the two of them do lose, with the rankings that Shirogane wants, but not because of any plan on his part, but because Fujiwara actually managed to legitimately beat them. This being [[DitzyGenius Fujiwara]], Shirogane is not as pleased with the results as he thought he would be.
* ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'': OncePerEpisode Kuromi will make someone's dream come true with the Melody Key, but always in her own twisted way. Most come to regret it, and My Melody always undoes the wishes, but [[SubvertedTrope a few people actually enjoy]] the experiences Kuromi gives them, which furthers her own dark agenda.
* ''Manga/DoctorSlump'':
** In an early chapter, Arale and Gatchan encounter a bank robber fleeing from police pursuit, who takes them to his hideout with the intention of keeping them as hostages. Too bad for the bank robber that Arale is a NighInvulnerable RobotGirl with more than enough SuperStrength to uproot a house and Gatchan is an ExtremeOmnivore who treats guns as little more than pistol-shaped candy bars. The chapter ends with him running away from Arale and Gatchan, followed by him crying his eyes out, lamenting that the cops aren't around to arrest him now that he wants to turn himself in and fearing for the prospect of encountering Arale and Gatchan again.
** When the Norimaki family dines at a fancy restaurant, at the waiter's recommendation, they order the full course for ''everyone'' in the family of six, with the condition being that the whole order is free if -- and only if -- everyone consumes their own dish, which the waiter privately notes that no one has ever managed. To the shock and horror of the owner and the staff, everyone in the Norimaki family manages to finish every bit of the full course (having [[ExtremeOmnivore the Gatchans]] around certainly helps) -- not once, not twice, but ''thrice''. The chapter ends with the next night, in which the restaurant owner puts up a "Closed Tonight" sign at the door just as the Norimaki family arrives at the restaurant.
** Near the end of [[AuthorAvatar Tori-Bot's]] visit a decade in the future in Penguin Village, he wonders what's become of him and has a brief ImagineSpot in which he lives a rich life with some pretty girls catering to him, so he looks around for any signs of his future self, only to find out that [[FutureLoser his future self is a homeless bum begging for money at the street-side,]] much to his horror.
** At the end of the story arc involving [[IdenticalStranger the]] princess, Akane requests that the princess swap with her temporarily, as Akane wishes to know what being a princess feels like. The princess agrees, having taken a liking to the peaceful scenes of Penguin Village. What Akane doesn't realize until she's already in the princess' homeland is that she can't stomach the food being served there.[[note]]Steamed lizard, anyone?[[/note]]

* In the [[{{Hentai}} H-manga]] ''Bullied- Revenge Hypnosis'', [[AlphaBitch a trio of girls]] have been ruling the school through putdowns and {{Blackmail}}, with their leader, a SpoiledBrat, even manipulating their teachers. The latest victim, they force him to become their punching bag when they catch him in the girls' locker room, though he manages to hypnotize them into becoming [[SexSlave his personal harem]], and making them believe that [[HypnoFool they want to bear his children]], [[PayEvilUntoEvil as way to keep having sex with them]]. The epilogue shows they have bore one child each, and he's begging them to let him rest as he's close to collapsing from exhaustion, though they insist on continuing to have sex, since he planted the command that they want to have his ''[[ExactWords children]]''.
* When Chloe from ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' was still a student at Flora Girls' Academy, she was a LargeHam {{Chuunibyou}} who wanted people to call her by her SelfAppliedNickname, "The Azure Reaper from Hell". 3 years later, now that she's become Director of said school and wants to put those cringe-inducing days behind her, ''everyone'' now refers to her as that.
* In ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', Minako ends up wishing she wasn't alone fighting. By the time she debuts in the manga version of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' she finds the other Sailor Soldiers... But as [[MarriedToTheJob she holds duty over her own welfare]] and she's the leader and most experienced of the group, she decides to [[StepfordSmiler hide her enormous emotional pain and act as the invincible warrior they see her as so she can be a role model]] and take the validation she sorely needs from that, not only worsening the stress that made her start wish she wasn't fighting alone but [[GoneHorriblyRight appearing such a perfect warrior that the others can't take her as a role model]].

** In the ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', Kars wanted to become the ultimate life form, a perfect immortal being. [[spoiler: He gets what he wants, but after being flung into outer space by a volcano, he ends up regretting it as his body freezes over and turns to rock, dooming him to float in the void for all eternity, unable to die even though he desperately wants to. Eventually, he [[GoMadFromTheIsolation stops thinking]].]]

-->'''Gohan''': What are so afraid of, Cell? Isn't this what you wanted? I ''[[IWarnedYou warned]]'' you. I told you what would happen if you pushed me too far. But you didn't listen. You forced me to awaken my hidden power, and now that you've seen it, you're afraid... because you know that I'm going to destroy you.

* 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.]]

* 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.

* 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.

* In the [[{{Hentai}} H-manga]] ''Bullied- Revenge Hypnosis'', [[AlphaBitch a trio of girls]] have been ruling the school through putdowns and {{Blackmail}}, with their leader, a SpoiledBrat, even manipulating their teachers. The latest victim, they force him to become their punching bag when they catch him in the girls' locker room, though he manages to hypnotize them into becoming [[SexSlave his personal harem]], and making them believe that [[HypnoFool they want to bear his children]], [[PayEvilUntoEvil as way to keep having sex with them]]. The epilogue shows they have bore one child each, and he's begging them to let him rest as he's close to collapsing from exhaustion, though they insist on continuing to have sex, since he planted the command that they want to have his children.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''

--->'''Ken''' ''(pissed)'': Watch out... when you ask for something... you [[LampshadeHanging MIGHT GET IT!]] [[spoiler:[[{{Shoryuken}} SHORYUKEN!"]]]]

* ''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 realizes just how important his alien friends are to him, despite their quirks and how much they annoy him.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''

* 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.

** Definitely the instance that most people think of in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' is Gohan's battle with [[BigBad Perfect Cell]]. Gohan explains the reason why Goku stepped aside and asked Gohan to fight: Gohan possesses a massive amount of latent power, far surpassing Goku. However, this power has only ever shown itslef when Gohan is either in mortal peril, or when his is furious with a villain who hurt his loved ones. Goku figured that after all the training he did with Gohan, a fight with Cell would give Gohan that one final push he needed to awaken all that power. Cell, [[BloodKnight being Cell]], decides he wants to see this power for himself, pulling some heavy KickTheDog moments by nearly killing the rest of the cast and [[TearJerker killing Android 16]], all of which pushes Gohan to go Super Saiyan 2 and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown beat Cell half to death]], driving him to a VillainousBreakdown. Gohan even lampshades this trope, as he slowly apporaches the trembling Cell.

** Definitely the instance that most people think of in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' is Gohan's battle with [[BigBad Perfect Cell]]. Gohan explains the reason why Goku stepped aside and asked Gohan to fight: Gohan possesses a massive amount of latent power, far surpassing Goku. However, this power has only ever shown itslef when Gohan is either in mortal peril, or when his is furious with a villain who hurt his loved ones. Cell, [[BloodKnight being Cell]], decides he wants to see this power for himself, pulling some heavy KickTheDog moments by nearly killing the rest of the cast and [[TearJerker killing Android 16]], all of which pushes Gohan to go Super Saiyan 2 and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown beat Cell half to death]], driving him to a VillainousBreakdown. Gohan even lampshades this trope, as he slowly apporaches the trembling Cell.

** 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]], all of which pushes Gohan to go Super Saiyan 2 and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown beat Cell half to death]], driving him to a VillainousBreakdown. Gohan even lampshades this trope, reminding Cell that him cutting loose is ''exactly'' what he wanted.
-->'''Gohan''': [[IWarnedYou I]] ''[[IWarnedYou warned]]'' [[IWarnedYou you]]. I told you what would happen if you pushed me too far. But you didn't listen. You forced me to awaken my hidden power, and now that you've seen it, you're afraid... because you know that I'm going to destroy you.

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Aijou wishes for a girlfriend at a shrine; he's granted '''one-hundred''' of them. And if they ever reject him, at any point, for any reason, then they will die.

* The erotic doujin series ''My Little Sister is a Genius'' begins with thr protagonist feeling disgruntled that his smug, prodigy sister beats him to the punch at everything he tries, to the point where he lost all motivation for his current interests and moved onto the next one only for the cycle to repeat. He hopes for there to be something, anything that he could best her at, and that she be a cuter and more dependent sister--and he gets his wish when she gets irreversible brain damage [[spoiler:that he later learns was from a guilt based suicide attempt]], regressing her mental age in the process.

* The first thing Masataka "Waseda" Sawatari warns to his students on the first day of school is to not fall in love with him, as he likes older women. Albeit this disgusts the girls in his class, [[spoiler:Akane starts getting infatuated with him when she finds out that he's "Teishotoku-P", a musician that she adores.]]