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* IWishItWereReal: A character's favorite fiction becomes real.
* IWishedYouWereDead: Someone wishes a person they dislike was dead, then feels guilty when the person actually dies.

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* IWishItWereReal: A character's favorite fiction becomes real.
* IWishedYouWereDead: Someone wishes a person they dislike was dead, then feels guilty when the person actually dies.dies.
* IWishItWereReal: A character's favorite fiction becomes real.



* WishUponAShootingStar: Making a wish upon seeing a shooting star in the sky.
* WishingWell: Making a wish by throwing a coin in a spring or well.


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* WishingWell: Making a wish by throwing a coin in a spring or well.


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* WishUponAShootingStar: Making a wish upon seeing a shooting star in the sky.

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-> When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.\\
''I wish for a cool million dollars, right now!''\\
(BeatPanel, nothing happens)\\
If [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] were here, I'd skoosh him.
-->-- ComicStrip/{{Calvin|And Hobbes}}

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-> When ->''"When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.\\
''I wish for a cool million dollars, right now!''\\
(BeatPanel,
I WISH FOR A COOL MILLION DOLLARS, RIGHT NOW!\\
''[BeatPanel,
nothing happens)\\
happens]''\\
If [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] were here, I'd skoosh him.
him."''
-->-- ComicStrip/{{Calvin|And Hobbes}}
'''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''


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* AllWishesGranted: The wishes of everyone in the group have been granted, one way or another.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Getting what you desire by making a deal with a demon or other malevolent entities.

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* DealWithTheDevil: Getting what you desire by making a deal with a demon or other malevolent entities.entities, usually at a very deep personal cost.
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** DealWithTheDevil: Getting what you desire by making a deal with a demon or other malevolent entities.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Someone makes a wish and, once it is granted, learns the hard way that their desire has its downsides.

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** DealWithTheDevil: Getting what you desire by making a deal with a demon or other malevolent entities.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Someone makes a wish and, once it is granted, learns the hard way that their desire has its downsides. downsides.
* DealWithTheDevil: Getting what you desire by making a deal with a demon or other malevolent entities.

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* BargainWithHeaven: Making deals with angels, deities, or other benevolent/neutral cosmic entities.

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* BargainWithHeaven: Making Getting what you desire by making deals with angels, deities, or other benevolent/neutral cosmic entities. entities.
** DealWithTheDevil: Getting what you desire by making a deal with a demon or other malevolent entities.



* DealWithTheDevil: Getting what you desire by making a deal with a malevolent being.

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* FreeingTheGenie: Using a wish to free the wish-granting entity so they don't have to grant people's wishes anymore.


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** FreeingTheGenie: Using a wish to free the wish-granting entity so they don't have to grant people's wishes anymore.

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Wish granting is a popular concept in fiction with numerous tropes, and several magical creatures and artifacts acquiescing to these desires, typically genies and fairies, but witches and wishing wells are not unheard of.

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Wish granting is a popular concept in fiction with numerous tropes, and several magical creatures and artifacts acquiescing acquiesce to these desires, desires. It's typically genies and or fairies, but witches and wishing wells are not unheard of.



* BargainWithHeaven
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Someone makes a wish and, once it is granted, learns the hard way that their desire has its downsides.
* BecomingTheGenie: Someone ends up turning into a wish-granting entity themselves.
* BenevolentGenie: A genie who does their best to ensure that their master is safe and gets what they want.

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* BargainWithHeaven
BargainWithHeaven: Making deals with angels, deities, or other benevolent/neutral cosmic entities.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Someone makes a wish and, once it is granted, learns the hard way that their desire has its downsides.
* BecomingTheGenie: Someone ends up turning into a wish-granting entity themselves.
* BenevolentGenie: A genie who does their best to ensure that their master is safe and gets what they want.
downsides.



* FairyGodmother
* FairyInABottle

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* FairyGodmother
* FairyInABottle
FairyTropes: Tropes about elves, fairies, leprechauns, and other fey.
** FairyDevilmother: An evil fairy godmother.
** FairyGodmother: A character, often female, who magically helps the protagonist.
** FairyInABottle: A fairy captured in a bottle or jar.
** OurFairiesAreDifferent: The different ways fairies show up in fiction.



* GenieInABottle
* TheGenieInTheMachine
* IWishItWereReal
* IWishedYouWereDead: Someone wishes a person they dislike was dead, then feels guilty when the person actually dies.
* JackassGenie: The genie deliberately misinterprets their master's wish or makes it so that the wish is granted at a terrible price.
* LiteralGenie: The genie grants a wish based on the literal wording due to not knowing any better.

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* GenieInABottle
* TheGenieInTheMachine
* IWishItWereReal
* IWishedYouWereDead:
GenieTropes: Tropes about genies, also called djinn or jinn.
** BecomingTheGenie:
Someone wishes ends up turning into a person wish-granting entity themselves.
** BenevolentGenie: A genie who does their best to ensure that their master is safe and gets what
they dislike was dead, then feels guilty when the person actually dies.
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want.
** GenieInABottle: A genie trapped in a bottle or lamp.
** TheGenieInTheMachine: A genie who's a well-meaning but hopelessly logical computer program.
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JackassGenie: The genie deliberately misinterprets their master's wish or makes it so that the wish is granted at a terrible price.
* ** LiteralGenie: The genie grants a wish based on the literal wording due to not knowing any better.better.
** OurGeniesAreDifferent: The various portrayals of genies in fiction.
** ThreeWishes: The tendency for genies and other wish-granting entities to only allow their master three wishes.
* IWishItWereReal: A character's favorite fiction becomes real.
* IWishedYouWereDead: Someone wishes a person they dislike was dead, then feels guilty when the person actually dies.



* OurFairiesAreDifferent
* OurGeniesAreDifferent
* QuestForAWish
* RetroactiveWish

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* OurFairiesAreDifferent
QuestForAWish: A character, or characters, go on an arduous journey to have one wish granted.
* OurGeniesAreDifferent
* QuestForAWish
* RetroactiveWish
RetroactiveWish: A character, or characters, wishes for one thing, unexpectedly gets it, and wishes for something else in the vain hope it happens again.



* SoldHisSoulForADonut
* ThreeWishes: The tendency for genies and other wish-granting entities to only allow their master three wishes.

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* SoldHisSoulForADonut
* ThreeWishes: The tendency for genies and other wish-granting entities to only allow
SoldHisSoulForADonut: A character, or characters, sells their master three wishes.soul for something comically insignificant.



* WishUponAShootingStar
* WishingWell

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* WishUponAShootingStar
WishUponAShootingStar: Making a wish upon seeing a shooting star in the sky.
* WishingWellWishingWell: Making a wish by throwing a coin in a spring or well.



* {{Wishplosion}}

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* {{Wishplosion}}{{Wishplosion}}: Defeating a wish granter by making certain wishes.
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If [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] were here, I'd skoosh him.

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If [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] were here, I'd skoosh him.
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* BecomingTheGenie

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* BecomingTheGenieBecomingTheGenie: Someone ends up turning into a wish-granting entity themselves.



* FreeingTheGenie

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* FreeingTheGenieFreeingTheGenie: Using a wish to free the wish-granting entity so they don't have to grant people's wishes anymore.



* MakeAWish

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* MakeAWishMakeAWish: A character makes a wish.



* SelflessWish

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* SelflessWishSelflessWish: Someone forfeits their wish on behalf of someone else.



* WishingForMoreWishes

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* WishingForMoreWishesWishingForMoreWishes: Getting around the three wishes limit by wishing for more wishes.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishForBeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Someone makes a wish and, once it is granted, learns the hard way that their desire has its downsides.



* BenevolentGenie
* DealWithTheDevil

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* BenevolentGenie
BenevolentGenie: A genie who does their best to ensure that their master is safe and gets what they want.
* DealWithTheDevilDealWithTheDevil: Getting what you desire by making a deal with a malevolent being.



* IWishedYouWereDead
* JackassGenie
* LiteralGenie

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* IWishedYouWereDead
IWishedYouWereDead: Someone wishes a person they dislike was dead, then feels guilty when the person actually dies.
* JackassGenie
JackassGenie: The genie deliberately misinterprets their master's wish or makes it so that the wish is granted at a terrible price.
* LiteralGenieLiteralGenie: The genie grants a wish based on the literal wording due to not knowing any better.



* MundaneWish

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* MundaneWishMundaneWish: Someone uses a wish to grant an ordinary desire.



* ThreeWishes
* WastefulWishing

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* ThreeWishes
ThreeWishes: The tendency for genies and other wish-granting entities to only allow their master three wishes.
* WastefulWishingWastefulWishing: A person wastes their wish on something frivolous.
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* SoldHisSoulForADonut

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-> When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. ''I wish for a cool million dollars, right now!''\\

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-> When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. \\
''I wish for a cool million dollars, right now!''\\
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* WishUponAShootingStar
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* WishingWell
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-> [[WaxingLyrical When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.]] ''I wish for a cool million dollars, right now!''\\
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-> [[WaxingLyrical When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.]] true. ''I wish for a cool million dollars, right now!''\\
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* DealWithTheDevil
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-> [[WaxingLyrical When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.]] ''I wish for a cool million dollars, right now!''\\
(BeatPanel, [[RealityEnsues nothing happens]])\\
If [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] were here, I'd skoosh him.
-->-- ComicStrip/{{Calvin|And Hobbes}}
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* WishingForMoreWishes
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Not to be confused with WishFulfillment, which is about the ''audience'''s wishes being fulfilled in the story.
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Wish granting is a popular concept in fiction with numerous tropes, and several magical creatures and artifacts acquiescing to these desires, typically genies and fairies, but witches and wishing wells are not unheard of.

The wishes are commonly defined by the way they're granted. Hopefully they'll be [[BenevolentGenie carried out as you intended]], but watch out if [[LiteralGenie your words are taken literally]], and woe betide you if [[JackassGenie they're deliberately misinterpreted]]...

See also DealWithTheDevil for outright infernal entities who will grant your wish, although they usually have [[YourSoulIsMine a rather demanding price]].

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[[index]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
* BecomingTheGenie
* BenevolentGenie
* FairyGodmother
* FairyInABottle
* FreeingTheGenie
* GenieInABottle
* TheGenieInTheMachine
* IWishItWereReal
* IWishedYouWereDead
* JackassGenie
* LiteralGenie
* MakeAWish
* MundaneWish
* OurFairiesAreDifferent
* OurGeniesAreDifferent
* QuestForAWish
* RetroactiveWish
* SelflessWish
* ThreeWishes
* WastefulWishing
* {{Wishplosion}}
[[/index]]

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