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** Sometimes, Immortality = "Immunity from death by aging only," not "unable to die no matter what" (that's how it worked for [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] and a guy on ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', for example). The Genie might have translated "I wish to live forever" to "will never age" instead of to "be invincible against any and all harm."
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** Sometimes, Immortality = "Immunity from death by aging only," not "unable to die no matter what" (that's how it worked for [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] and a guy on ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', for example). The Genie might have translated "I wish to live forever" to "will never age" instead of to "be invincible against any and all harm."
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** That and to keep Genie from being a slave to a single master for all eternity; as Merlock proves [[{{Understatement}} it is a very bad idea.]]
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** That and to keep Genie from being a slave to a single master for all eternity; as Merlock proves [[{{Understatement}} proves, it is a very bad idea.]]
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*** Gene McDuck does have a nice ring to it, though would complicate an already [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scrooge-mcduck/images/b/bf/La_Grande_Famille_de_Donald_Duck.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191230125151 extensive family tree]].
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*** Gene McDuck [=McDuck=] does have a nice ring to it, though would complicate an already [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scrooge-mcduck/images/b/bf/La_Grande_Famille_de_Donald_Duck.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191230125151 extensive family tree]].
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*** Gene McDuck does have a nice ring to it, though would complicate an already [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scrooge-mcduck/images/b/bf/La_Grande_Famille_de_Donald_Duck.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191230125151 extensive family tree]].
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*** Its implied Genie was a LiteralGenie, bending ''not breaking'', the laws of physics. Giving a toy that already exists, sentience. That baby elephant with the ribbon seemed to belong ''to someone else'' and immediately panics when brought into the unfamiliar [[=/=]]McDuck[[=/=]] residence. Likewise, Dijon wanting to be rich simply gave him all of Scrooge's wealth. Materializing new gold into existence from nothing is impossible, and would actually ''devalue the existing gold'', thus a self-defeating wish.
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*** Its implied Genie was a LiteralGenie, bending ''not breaking'', the laws of physics. Giving a toy that already exists, sentience. That baby elephant with the ribbon seemed to belong ''to someone else'' and immediately panics when brought into the unfamiliar [[=/=]]McDuck[[=/=]] [=McDuck=] residence. Likewise, Dijon wanting to be rich simply gave him all of Scrooge's wealth. Materializing new gold into existence from nothing is impossible, and would actually ''devalue the existing gold'', thus a self-defeating wish.
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*** Its implied Genie was a LiteralGenie, bending ''not breaking'', the laws of physics. Giving a toy that already exists, sentience. That baby elephant with the ribbon seemed to belong ''to someone else'' and immediately panics when brought into the unfamiliar [[=]]McDuck[[/=]] residence. Likewise, Dijon wanting to be rich simply gave him all of Scrooge's wealth. Materializing new gold into existence from nothing is impossible, and would actually ''devalue the existing gold'', thus a self-defeating wish.
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*** Its implied Genie was a LiteralGenie, bending ''not breaking'', the laws of physics. Giving a toy that already exists, sentience. That baby elephant with the ribbon seemed to belong ''to someone else'' and immediately panics when brought into the unfamiliar [[=]]McDuck[[/=]] [[=/=]]McDuck[[=/=]] residence. Likewise, Dijon wanting to be rich simply gave him all of Scrooge's wealth. Materializing new gold into existence from nothing is impossible, and would actually ''devalue the existing gold'', thus a self-defeating wish.
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*** Its implied Genie was a LiteralGenie, bending ''not breaking'', the laws of physics. Giving a toy that already exists, sentience. That baby elephant with the ribbon seemed to belong ''to someone else'' and immediately panics when brought into the unfamiliar McDuck residence. Likewise, Dijon wanting to be rich simply gave him all of Scrooge's wealth. Materializing new gold into existence from nothing is impossible, and would actually ''devalue the existing gold'', thus a self-defeating wish.
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*** Its implied Genie was a LiteralGenie, bending ''not breaking'', the laws of physics. Giving a toy that already exists, sentience. That baby elephant with the ribbon seemed to belong ''to someone else'' and immediately panics when brought into the unfamiliar McDuck [[=]]McDuck[[/=]] residence. Likewise, Dijon wanting to be rich simply gave him all of Scrooge's wealth. Materializing new gold into existence from nothing is impossible, and would actually ''devalue the existing gold'', thus a self-defeating wish.
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*** Its implied Genie was a LiteralGenie, bending ''not breaking'', the laws of physics. Giving a toy that already exists, sentience. That baby elephant with the ribbon seemed to belong ''to someone else'' and immediately panics when brought into the unfamiliar McDuck residence. Likewise, Dijon wanting to be rich simply gave him all of Scrooge's wealth. Materializing new gold into existence from nothing is impossible, and would actually ''devalue the existing gold'', thus a self-defeating wish.
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** Don't forget that Scrooge has seen hundreds of creatures and events that fall into the realms of mythical, supernatural, even extraterrestrial. Magic and mystical creatures are not unknown to him. A strange boy with a name that has not been used in hundreds of years if ever, but used for a mythical creature would tip him off. Especially when strange things started to occur.
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*** '''This.''' When Gene said "wishes, not miracles", that was the response to Huey's wish for "peace and happiness all over the world". That would mean removing every single unpleasant thing from the world, potentially altering the minds of billions of people. Compared to that, turning one genie to a boy, bringing one set of toys alive, creating one baby elephant on the spot, and even making Dijon the legal owner of all of Scrooge's possessions, is fairly low-scale and more specific.
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*** "Peace and happiness all over the world" would have been pretty selfless, though.
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** Well, define "wish". Gene precisely describes "world peace" as "a miracle, not a wish"; and wishing for a thousand wishes is asking for the genie to do something in a self-referential way, rather than asking for ''something''; I think it isn't a wish either by Gene's definition. (Gene's rules seem to limit "wish" to concrete, objective things, as opposed to abstract demands.) So it's perfectly accurate to say "Merlock's Talisman" is the only ''actual'' wish he won't grant as an exception; the rest aren't wishes. To say otherwise is like saying, "Ostriches are the only really giant birds!" "But elephants are pretty big too! That mean ostriches aren't the only really large birds!".
