* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Peter Atkins sees the Djinn as looking out for his race instead of a being of pure evil.
* CompleteMonster: [[JackassGenie The Djinn]], pseudonym Nathaniel Demerest, is one of the cruelest of his race. Granting wishes and stretching them to [[LiteralGenie their worst outcome]] based on [[ExactWords the word choice]] of the wisher, intending to grant three wishes from his "waker" to bringing [[HellOnEarth eternal damnation and suffering to the human race]]. Millennia ago, the Djinn granted a sultan's wish to be shown wonders by transforming his people into hideous monsters. In present-day Los Angeles, the Djinn afflicts a pharmacist with cancer; turns a woman into a mannequin; blows up an entire plane to kill one woman; and keeps the souls of the wishers in his hellish realm. The Djinn causes an art gallery to come to life and slaughter a party, attempting to coerce the lead heroine into making her final wish by threatening her sister's life. In [[Film/Wishmaster2EvilNeverDies the second movie]], the Djinn [[YourSoulIsMine collects souls]] in prison, telekinetically pushes a man through the bars of a holding cell, and forces prisoners to beat each other to death. When he escapes, the Djinn kills his partner, crucifies a priest, and unleashes hell upon a casino.
* CreepyAwesome: The Djinn, particularly when he's played by Andrew Divoff.
* HarsherInHindsight: Buck Flower's character wishes for the pharmacist to "get cancer and die". The result is gruesome, [[CrossesTheLineTwice but so over the top and unrealistic that it crosses into hilarious]]. Seeing how Flower died of cancer six years later, it's more tragic than funny now.
* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/RobertEnglund, Creator/AndrewDivoff and Creator/TonyTodd who all appeared in the first film, would later appear in the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' video game franchise with Englund being a playable character in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies'', Divoff playing Lev Kravchenko in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'', ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' and ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsColdWar'' and Todd playing Admiral Briggs in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' which re-credits him with Divoff despite not sharing a scene together unlike the first film.
* IAmNotShazam: The villain is sometimes referred to as being "Wishmaster" by people describing the film. The villain is not called Wishmaster; that's just a role he fulfills. He's the Djinn. In the second film he ''does'' refer to himself as the Wishmaster as a title, not a proper name.
* JustHereForGodzilla: You might not have known what to expect while watching the first movie, but as befits a VillainBasedFranchise, few people can probably claim to have watched the sequels for anything other than the Djinn working his magic.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The second movie was acceptable, while 3 and 4 were DirectToVideo sequels made simultaneously, discarded canon "rules", and didn't have the original actor.
* SoBadItsGood: The acting in these movies is... dubious, at best.

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