History Main / MakeAWish

* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', there are a few ways to get a wish (most of them are based on the common tropes, like rubbing a magic lamp). If you find yourself fortunate enough to make a wish you can cause any item in the game to appear in your inventory, with certain limitations (e.g. wishing for enchanted equipment has a failure chance, you can't get artifacts that already exist elsewhere, you can't wish for the three plot required items, and you can't wish for things that would give you more wishes). The best type of wish is that from a Wand of Wishes, all of the other methods have some chance of going wrong (a wish itself is reliable, but a {{Jackass Genie}} will simply attack you and not give you a wish at all).

* The plot of the early ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' game ''Phantasmagoria of Dimension Dream'' involves the cast competing for a wish granted by a pair of extraplanar scientists. If you win with them, Reimu wishes for a way to keep the shrine clean and gets a (useless) RobotMaid, Marisa switches out her FlyingBroomstick for [[MyLittlePanzer an ICBM with a cute face on it]], Mima gets the moon put in geosynchronous orbit [[{{Lunacy}} so she'll always be at full power]], Ellen opens up a magic shop (on the Hakurei Shrine grounds), Kana gets a new home (at the Hakurei Shrine), Rikako gains the scientific knowledge she always craved, and Kotohime... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} didn't have a wish in mind, but settles for locking up Reimu in a jail cell]].

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* In ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'', it's said that those reaching the top of the Tower can have whatever they wish for, and people set out climbing with various wishes. Of course, climbing the Tower involves an average of five hundred years of competition against others trying to do the same thing. [[spoiler: Eventually, it's revealed weirdly off-handedly that ''nobody'' has actually reached the top of the Tower; contrary to what is implied earlier in the comic, those who finish climbing and are promoted to Rankers merely reach the floor that [[GodEmperor Jahad]] reached, and the way up from there is blocked pretty decisively.]]

* In the first of TheEighties' ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' specials, ''The World of...'', TheFaceOfTheSun reveals that his birthday present for Strawberry is a "magic wish", and she winds up wishing for an army of trees (which, in Strawberryland, are sentient) to defeat the Purple Pieman who had been causing trouble for the kids the whole story. The wish is granted with trees that can also ''march'', and the result is the destruction of his Pie Tin Palace.

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** In the special ''Film/WhenYouWishUponaPickle'', a mysterious (and [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient) Wish Pickle]], which grants one wish per customer, is delivered to Sesame Street. Cookie Monster's wish for more cookies gets him multiplied, Abby Cadabby's wish brings her favorite storybook detective to life, and Ernie's wish for Bert (who wants to be a weather man) to be on TV causes Bert to become [[TrappedInTVLand physically trapped inside the television and get shuffled from show to show]].

* The entire ''Literature/StarSarlings'' franchise centers around Starlanders granting wishes for humans to both inspire them and bring positive energy back to Starland.

** In the special ''Film/WhenYouWishUponaPickle'', a mysterious (and [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient) Wish Pickle]], which grants one wish per customer, is delivered to Sesame Street. Cookie Monster's wish gets him multiplied, Abby Cadabby's wish brings her favorite storybook detective to life, and Ernie's wish for Bert to be on TV causes Bert to become [[TrappedInTVLand physically trapped inside the television set and get shuffled from show to show]].

** In the special ''Film/WhenYouWishUponAPickle'', a mysterious (and [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient) Wish Pickle]], which grants one wish per customer, is delivered to Sesame Street. Cookie Monster's wish gets him multiplied, Abby Cadabby's wish brings her favorite storybook detective to life, and Ernie's wish for Bert to be on TV causes Bert to become [[TrappedInTVLand physically trapped inside the television set and get shuffled from show to show]].

** In the special ''Film/WhenYouWishUponAPickle'', a mysterious (and [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient) Wish Pickle]], which grants one wish per customer, is delivered to Sesame Street. Cookie Monster's wish gets him multiplied, Abby Cadabby's wish brings her favorite storybook detective to life, and Ernie's wish for Bert to be on TV causes Bert to become TrappedInTVLand and be shuffled from show to show.

** In the special ''Film/WhenYouWishUponAPickle'', a mysterious (and [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient) Wish Pickle]] is delivered to Sesame Street, able to grant any wish. Cookie Monster's wish gets him multiplied, Abby Cadabby's wish brings her favorite storybook detective to life, and Ernie's wish for Bert to be on TV causes Bert to become temporarily TrappedInTVLand and be shuffled from show to show.