History Main / MakeAWish

** In the movie version ending, Eureka gets to have her long time wish came true: [[spoiler: become human]]
* The holy grail in ''[[FateStayNight Fate/Stay Night]]'' grants any wishes to the victorious master/servant pair of the holy grail fight. [[spoiler:Though it is later explained that it's a JackassGenie due to a bad case of DemonicPossession and will interpret any wish in a way that will cause maximum pain and suffering.]]

* The holy grail in ''[[FateStayNight Fate/Stay Night]]'' grants any wishes to the victorious master/servant pair of the holy grail fight. [[spoiler:Though it is later explained that it's a JackassGenie due to a bad case of DemonicPosession and will interpret any wish in a way that will cause maximum pain and suffering.]]

* The holy grail in ''[[FateStayNight Fate/Stay Night]]'' is believed to be able to grant any wishes to the victor of the holy grail fight. Though it is later explained to make the wish happen, something else will be sacrificed in order to make it come true.

* ''Magic: The Gathering'' has a few wish spells that allow you to take a card from anywhere in your collection, and bring it into the current game.

Wishing has power in fiction; it's one of the main sources of AppliedPhlebotinum. No matter what you want, from a new car to [[Big a sudden age-up]], you can get it by wishing. Of course, you have to BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor and make sure that if you want to be [[IJustWantToBeSpecial special]], [[IJustWantToBeNormal normal]], or [[IWishedYouWereDead want someone out of your life]], that you actually mean [[BeCarefulWhatYouSay exactly what you say]]. Good or evil, the wish-granter is almost always a LiteralGenie.

Wishing has power in fiction; it's one of the main sources of AppliedPhlebotinum. No matter what you want, from a new car to [[ThirteenGoingOnThirty a sudden age-up]], you can get it by wishing. Of course, you have to BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor and make sure that if you want to be [[IJustWantToBeSpecial special]], [[IJustWantToBeNormal normal]], or [[IWishedYouWereDead want someone out of your life]], that you actually mean [[BeCarefulWhatYouSay exactly what you say]]. Good or evil, the wish-granter is almost always a LiteralGenie.

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* Make a Wish Foundation is a foundation which raises money to give kids with terminal illnesses a chance to do something incredible, like have a photo shoot in Seventeen magazine, or take their family to Disneyworld. Maybe humans aren't such bastards after all...

* The premise of ''IDreamOfJeannie''

* Towards the end of ''TheMagicians'' the protagonist captures a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questing_Beast Questing Beast]] which then grants him three wishes. His first wishes is impossible, as is the next one and the one after that. The Beast still counts them as his first wish.

* This was the central plot of EdwardEager's ''The Well-Wishers'' (children's lit)

* ''TheSimpsons'' episode where Flanders starts the left-handed store; he and Homer share a wishbone, and Homer wishes for the store to fail.

* Joan Aiken's short story ''The Third Wish'' has our hero Mr. Peters freeing a swan from some thorn bushes, who turns out to be the King of the Forest, who grants him three wishes. Mr. Peters wishes for a pretty wife, which is exactly what he gets (her name is Leita), only it turns out [[spoiler:Leita's actually a swan that [[{{Jerkass}} the King]] turned into a human girl. She loves Mr. Peters, but misses her swan sister very badly. Mr. Peters [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy uses his second wish to turn her back into a swan,]] and Leita and her sister stay with him as swans for the rest of his life. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming D'awwww...]]]]

* ''18 Again'' has a grandfather and grandson who share the same birthday [[FreakyFridayFlip switch bodies]] after they wish on the same birthday cake

* In one of the dialogues in Douglas Hofstadter's ''Gödel, Escher, Bach — an Eternal Golden Braid'', the main protagonist Achilles finds[[hottip:*: technically, this only happens within (ItMakesSenseInContext) an Escher etching inside a dialogue within the dialogue]] a magical lamp whose BenevolentGenie grants him three wishes. Achilles tries to wish for more wishes, only to find out the genie can't do that for him; a wish about wishes is technically classified as a metawish, and in order to grant such wishes one would need a metagenie in a metalamp, whereas Achilles's genie merely of the base variety… [[spoiler: Luckily the genie happens to have a metalamp with a metagenie in, and even petitions GOD to grant Achilles a typeless wish (that could be about wishes, or metawishes, or metametawishes…), but Achilles still manages to mess it up.]]

* ''SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperForceGo'' has an episode with the Wigglenog, which is a JackassGenie. The green monkey whose name escapes me, outwits him with [[spoiler: "I wish we'd never even found you in the first place!"]]
** Otto! That is all.

* MermaidsScar ... [[{{Squick}} eating the flesh]] of a mermaid is said to grant one wish: immortality.

* The sisters in ''{{Charmed}}'' went up against a genie who delighted in giving you exactly what you wished for. ''Exactly'' what you wished for. Complete with every loophole you didn't close.

* ''Magic:The Gathering'' has a few wish spells that allow you to take a card from anywhere in your collection, and bring it into the current game.

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