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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''

* An accident more than a malicious act, but the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Cutie Pox" involves Apple Bloom misusing a plant that's outright called Heart's Desire in order to get her cutie mark. She got it, all right... [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor dozens of them]].

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Miraculous Ladybug}}'' has a rare heroic example. The Pig Miraculous, which grants the power of Jubilation, reveals what a person truly desires to help the target overcome their negativity and encourage them to pursue what makes them happy. [[spoiler: Ladybug entrusts this Miraculous to Rose Lavillant, now the new superheroine Pigella, to save her best friend Juleka/Reflekta from her despair.]]

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Miraculous Ladybug}}'' has a rare heroic example. The Pig Miraculous, which grants the power of Jubilation, reveals what a person truly desires to help the target overcome their negativity and encourage them pursue what makes them truly happy. [[spoiler: Ladybug entrusts this Miraculous to Rose Lavillant, now the new superheroine Pigella, to save her best friend Juleka/Reflekta from her despair.]]

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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Miraculous Ladybug}}'' has a rare heroic example. The Pig Miraculous, which grants the power of Jubilation, reveals what a person truly desires to help the target overcome their negativity and encourage them pursue what makes them truly happy. [[spoiler: Ladybug entrusts this Miraculous to Rose Lavillant, now the new superheroine Pigella, to save her best friend Juleka/[[SuperpoweredEvilSide Reflekta]] from her [[DeapairEventHorizon despair]].]]

* ''Series/Lucifer2016''. This is a shtick of the title character, who can look into someone's eyes and compel them to reveal this trope.

* ''Series/Lucifer2016''. This is a shtick of the title character, who can look into someone's eyes and compel them to reveal what they truly desire.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' ChristmasEpisode revolved the group SavingChristmas from an enchanted box that grants the user whatever they want most, with the cost of the BlackMagic used to create it turning them BrainwashedAndCrazy.

* In ''The Whispering Skull'' from ''Literature/LockwoodAndCo'', those who are ensnared by a glimpse of the bone-glass hear a ghostly, whispering, wheedling voice urging them "''Look. Look. I give you your heart's desire.''" Those who actually do look into directly, either by their own choice or because they are forced to, die no more than a minute after.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog,'' when [[BewitchedAmphibians Tiana]] steals the magical talisman that [[WitchDoctor Facilier]] needs for his evil plan, he conjures up a vision where she's a human again, in the dream restaurant that she's been working for years to open, and [[TheFinalTemptation offers to give it all to her]] if she hands it back and lets him keep [[LoveInterest Naveen]]. At this point, however, she realizes that she needs her restaurant ''and'' Naveen to be happy, and tries to smash the talisman instead. Sadly for Tiana, Facilier’s LivingShadow snags it before it hits the ground, but it isn’t long before Tiana turns the tables and actually smashes it, causing Facilier and his shadow to be dragged to the Other Side.

** The total-immersion video game [=BetterThanLife=] was pretty much this. Unfortunately Rimmer's subconscious can't cope with a world where nice things are happening to him, so his worst nightmares start coming true instead.

* ''Series/RedDwarf: Back to Earth'' has a joy squid (opposite of the despair squid in earlier episodes.) Both had the same effect of trapping you in a hallucination until you die.
** The "total-immersion video game [=BetterThanLife=] was pretty much this.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Averted in "Headhunter", when MasterComputer Orac is taken over by the MonsterOfTheWeek.

* In ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog,'' when [[BewitchedAmphibians Tiana]] steals the magical talisman that [[WitchDoctor Facilier]] needs for his evil plan, he conjures up a vision where she's a human again, in the dream restaurant that she's been working for years to open, and [[TheFinalTemptation offers to give it all to her]] if she hands it back and lets him keep [[LoveInterest Naveen]]. At this point, however, she realizes that she needs her restaurant ''and'' Naveen to be happy, and tries to smash the talisman instead. Sadly for Tiana, Facilier’s LivingShadow snags it before it hits the ground, but it isn’t long before Tiana turns the tables and actually smashes it, causing Facilier and his shadow to be dragged to the Other Side.

* In ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog,'' when [[BewitchedAmphibians Tiana]] steals the magical talisman that [[WitchDoctor Facilier]] needs for his evil plan, he conjures up a vision where she's a human again, in the dream restaurant that she's been working for years to open, and [[TheFinalTemptation offers to give it all to her]] if she hands it back and lets him keep [[LoveInterest Naveen]]. At this point, however, she realizes that she needs her restaurant ''and'' Naveen to be happy, and tries to smash the talisman instead. Sadly for Tiana, Facilier’s LivingShadow snags it before it hits the ground, but it isn’t long before Tiana turns the tables and actually smashes it, causing Faclier and his shadow to be dragged to the Other Side.

* In ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog,'' when [[BewitchedAmphibians Tiana]] steals the magical talisman that [[WitchDoctor Facilier]] needs for his evil plan, he conjures up a vision where she's a human again, in the dream restaurant that she's been working for years to open, and [[TheFinalTemptation offers to give it all to her]] if she hands it back and lets him keep [[LoveInterest Naveen]]. At this point, however, she realizes that she needs her restaurant ''and'' Naveen to be happy, and tries to smash the talisman instead.

* ''Film/Legend1985''. Jack's heart's desire is his girlfriend Lily. When the fairy Oona and Jack are trapped in the dungeon of the villain Darkness, Oona offers Jack his heart's desire by assuming Lily's appearance and trying to get him to kiss her.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' has an Awakened creature ability called "Desire Reflection" that allows the creature to know the greatest desire of another being and trick that being into believing that the creature is that thing.

* TheSeries of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' had a variant in one episode: a small, timid animal that can do this whenever scared, hoping to distract a perceived threat. Naturally, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Iago]] and [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Abu]] continually frighten it just to get stuff. In the end, Iago [[PetTheDog used a mirror to make the critter scare itself so it would grant its own heart's desire: to go home.]]

* Black Mamba of the B.A.D girls (seen in ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'', among others) can temporarily incapacitate people with an illusino of their ultimate fantasy. This failed to work on Shen Kuei / the Cat, a GentlemanThief and martial artist who already ''is'' living his ultimate fantasy.

* Creator/SteveJacksonGames' ''TabletopGame/InNomine''. When a lilim (a type of demon) looks into someone's eyes, they can see that person's greatest need. They can then use their demonic abilities and resources to meet that need and gain a geas (control) over that person.