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Star Wars
- Star Wars: Doctor Aphra: Triple-Zero spends the entirety of the Remastered, Catastrophe Con, and Worst Among Equals arcs (nearly two dozen issues) trying to recover his original memory files, in order to resolve the mystery of why he was created to be the perfect Killer Robot. When he finally succeeds in Issue #30, he learns that his murderous personality was a mistake that his creator was horrified by, which breaks him and drives him to suicide.
- Star Wars: Kanan:
- As a youngling, Caleb was worried that the Clone Wars would end before he could participate in it, and expressed joy at being at thick of the action. Then came Order 66...
- His friends in the Temple warned him against wishing to be Billaba's student because they heard rumors of her being "damaged" and even cursed.
Other
- Animaniacs: In Issue #26, Slappy and Skippy get a monkey's paw. Slappy accidentally wishes to get rid of her bunions and a guy with an ax visits her. She redirects him to the Olsen twins. Realizing the paw is dangerous, Slappy throws it away and Walter Wolf finds it. He wishes for a wheelbarrow of dynamite and all fuses are already lit. He then wishes for a mack truck to run Slappy down and it falls on him. Deciding to "cut the middleman" instead of wishing for more stuff to get rid of Slappy, he wishes "to be rid of Slappy Squirrel once and for all". A chasm opens under him and he falls while Slappy and Skippy save themselves from that fate by grabbing on a tree branch. He eventually reappears in the Galapagos Islands, where he runs afoul of a gorilla who has a hook to replace a missing paw.
- Asterix: In "Asterix and the Goths", Kuningaz Metric wanted to see Getafix' druid magic? By Tīwaz, he got to! He also got ousted by his interpreter, and then at least eight more rivals sprang up.
- Atomic Robo: Thomas Edison is obsessed with harnessing the Odic Force and becoming immortal. He succeeds… by being transformed by an experiment gone wrong into an undead sorcerer living a cursed and endless unlife. Made even worse because part of why he wanted to be immortal in the first place was to be with his beloved wife forever but his new form traps him in the living world, incapable of passing on to be with her in the afterlife. He is not happy with the outcome to say the least.
- In Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes since there is no Reset Button at the end. Protagonist Hana, having used up all five wishes and finding herself no better off, maybe even worse, than at the beginning of the story, decides to jump off a bridge so as to get rid of the demon Romeo and prevent his magic from harming anyone ever again. Romeo somehow escapes from the box before they reach the riverbed, claiming that he "can't die." The last page shows a news report saying that Hana's body has still not been found.
- Be Prepared:
- After hearing about a Russian-culture summer camp and wanting to attend camp like the other kids she goes to school with, Vera begs her mother to let her go, citing that their church will pay half of what it costs. She starts to regret it very soon and wants to go home.
- Vera, after her four weeks at camp, says she doesn't want to go back next year and her brother agrees. Her mother says they don't have to. Because they're moving to London, England.
- Brat Pack: At the beginning of the series, Cody wants more than anything to be a Kid Sidekick. By the end of the story, he's an emotional wreck.
- Happens very often in Dylan Dog. A particularly sadistic example is Dust, a Fallen Angel who was sentenced to suffer by committing evil while being unable to understand it due his nature as an angel, searching for Ash, a devil kicked out of hell and sentenced to bring happiness by helping people have what they wish the most, so Ash will be forced by his own punishment to make him understand evil. It happens, and Dust goes instantly mad.
- The genies of Eight Billion Genies are benevolent enough to give advice and repeatedly warn people to be mindful of what they wish for as their intent will affect the outcome. Perhaps more importantly, the things people don't intend are utterly ignored; one man wished to be a giant who was large enough to be seen from space, only to start suffocating from the lack of oxygen in the upper atmosphere.
- In Empowered three high-school students are given an art assignment to imagine themselves as superpowered people. They imagine themselves as a pair of angel and devil Conjoined Twins, a warrior with cinderblocks for hands and head, and a Tyrannosaurus rex-human hybrid... and when they woke up the next morning, they had become just that. Only the tyrannosaurus was happy with it.
- Paul Patton, a.k.a The Fox, originally became a costumed crimefighter to better attract stories and scoops, being a photojournalist and everything, but by the time of The Fox Hunt, he can't seem to stay away from front page news (read:crazy dangerous villains) and has begun to see his Freak Magnet-ness as a curse.
- This tends to happen quite often in the Grimm Fairy Tales comic series.
- From Knights of the Dinner Table:
- When given the opportunity for a Wish, resident Rules Lawyer Brian pulls out a 20-page legal document he's been carrying around for just such an opportunity. It's so complex that the Dungeon Master has to call several other DMs to help him interpret it.
- Ultimately, B.A. is able to invoke this trope. While the wish was airtight the immortality granted to Brian leaves a vengeful deity he previously pissed off free to attack him with full force. Fortunately for Brian, a clause of the wish stated that if he died as a direct consequence of the wish, all effects of the wish would be undone and Brian would get a 25,000 gp consolation prize.
- In "When Susie Sneezes" from Mandy, Susie discovers that any wish she makes while sneezing will come true - but in the heat of the moment, she often wishes for things that she later regrets.
- A common Running Gag in Mortadelo y Filemón, where a character wishes something... and gets it but not only never in the expected way but also for the worse.
- In one Sabrina the Teenage Witch story, Sabrina and her Aunt Hilda are relaxing on a beach. Feeling bored, Hilda calls upon her personal genie and wishes for some excitement. The genie responds by conjuring up an active volcano, leading Hilda to desperately wish for some boredom.
- In Issue #41, after she forgot that the Spellmans had an appointment with the Witch Council in order to turn Salem back into a wizard, Sabrina gets into a heated argument with her family, making her wish out loud that she wasn't a part of the Spellman Family at all. Unbeknownst to them, Enchantra, the Head Witch, had been watching the fight after wondering why the Spellmans were late. With Enchantra granting her wish, Sabrina suddenly finds herself outside the house. As she was about to confront her family, they tell her that they don't know who she is. After her family leaves to go to the Witch Council, a devastated Sabrina expresses her regret, drawing the attention of Sandy, a witch turned squirrel, who comforts her. With the help of Sandy, Sabrina convinces Enchantra to undo the wish and reconciles with her family.
- In The Sanctuary Tree, Donald Duck planned to recover Daisy (after she breaks with him) with a love potion. The love potion works, but to Donald's misfortune, it's the wrong woman who falls in love with him.
- Scooby-Doo! Team-Up: After Mystery, Inc. returned to their normal sizes, a monster shows up and Shaggy regrets no longer being small since it'd be easier to hide that way.
- In a sense, in Seconds, as Katie starts using the mushrooms to make long term changes in her life. As you can imagine, she quickly finds out there's no such thing as a "perfect" life.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- In the Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) comic Mina Mongoose, after being traumatized by the Iron Dominion's occupation of New Mobotropolis and of NICOLE's brief Magitek-induced Face–Heel Turn, uses her status as a music icon to send a message across the city to inspire them and raise awareness concerning possible problems should NICOLE become compromised again. In comes Ixis Naugus, who uses his magic to augment all existing feelings of anger and fear in the public to turn NICOLE into a Hero with Bad Publicity and eventually get her exiled from the city altogether, which, combined with the revelation that NICOLE was acting as The Mole proceeding Sonic and Sally's departure from the city, leaves Mina guilt-ridden. When Mina goes to Freedom HQ, the place of NICOLE's exile, to speak with her and apologize, NICOLE explicitly informs her that with her exile, she got what she wanted.
- In Sonic the Comic, after having beaten back Metallix, Sonic and Amy find themselves on the Miracle Planet (which had recently been covered in Dr. Robotnik's machinery in an inexplicably short timeframe). Amy revels at the prospect of getting to be alone with Sonic, while Sonic himself dismissively states that he'd rather fight Metallix again. No prizes for guessing who appears behind Sonic and starts shooting at him.Metallix: As you wish.
- In indie limited series Specs, a pair of teenage male friends (one white, the other African-American) commission a pair of X-ray/3-D glasses with red lenses they saw in a comic book ad, supposedly with the ability to grant wishes. One of the friends wishes the other wins in a baseball game, then things get a turn for the worse when they are assaulted by their bully and they wish for him to be gone. The bully's vanishing shakes the smalltown community, and the Black friend is wrongly blamed, although later acquitted. The white friend, meanwhile, tries to locate the X-ray glasses' makers, and makes his way to an abandoned factory. The glasses are indeed wish-granting, its previous user was a teenager high school loner girl who wished to be seen by her peers and become popular, and, during prom, wished people would not forget her. Being a Jerkass Genie, the glasses granted her that wish, but not in the way she wanted: her boyfriend drowned her in a pond, her body being found only a week later. Her hometown sure didn't forget her...
- In the Star Trek: The Next Generation comic "Artificiality", Captain Picard, at a crewmember's funeral, wishes that all of his crew were as durable as Data. Q obliges him by turning the whole crew into Soong-type androids.
- Tales of Telguuth: It's very common for characters hoping to gain access to secret powers or explore hidden wonders to have it backfire on them (often to deadly effect), usually because they fail to take into account that Evil Is Not a Toy.
- In a Transformers: More than Meets the Eye sidestory, Trailcutter briefly wishes that he no longer had his signature forcefield before going to sleep as he feels that is the only thing people remember about him. When he awakens, an malfunctioning pulse weapon has frozen everyone else on the ship and taken away his ability to project forcefields. He later learns that his forcefields are what protected him from the inventions effects.
- "Wish You Were Here", a 1953 story from the EC Comics horror title The Haunt of Fear, uses a variation of "The Monkey's Paw" story: A businessman's wife discovers an enchanted Chinese figurine and wishes for a fortune. Learning that her husband was killed while driving to his lawyer's office (after naming her the beneficiary of a generous life insurance policy), and remembering what happened in "The Monkey's Paw", she wishes for him to be brought back to the way he was "just before the accident"; unfortunately, he's still a corpse since his actual death was due to a heart attack. She uses the third and final wish to make him "alive now, alive forever!"...which condemns him to eternal pain and agony, since his dead body had been embalmed. Even her hacking him to tiny bits can't put him out of his misery. (The comic was later adapted for the 1972 movie anthology: Tales from the Crypt.)
