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Candi Sorcerer in training Since: Aug, 2012

Sorcerer in training

Apr 3rd 2021 at 8:21:00 PM •••

This random strip aggressively and gleefully defies the Literal Genie with a Crazy-Prepared protagonist whose wishes parody legal disclaimers. It doesn't end well for the genie. In normal language, the first wish is "I wish my wishes to be granted as I intend them," so the other ones probably didn't need to be so elaborate.

The link in this thing doesn't go to a strip anymore, and without a title or date I can't find it. (Without cutting severely into my college homework time, anyway.)

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)

Mar 20th 2021 at 9:39:34 AM •••

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by BreadBull on Sep 20th 2016 at 8:27:17 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Robidu Since: Oct, 2013

Mar 8th 2018 at 10:57:16 AM •••

For Dungeons & Dragons there are more examples of this, the most notorious of which being an efreeti freed from its flask: It is to grant three wishes, but woe to the unwitting hero who doesn't take care! The efreeti will usually grant said wishes by taking them literally instead of following their spirit.

ArcadesSabboth Since: Oct, 2011

Oct 26th 2011 at 12:21:55 PM •••

Don't some of the Greek Myth examples really belong in Be Careful What You Wish For or some oath-making trope? They depict Zeus unable to break his oaths, and Eos making a mistake and fulfilling the wish wrong. That seems different from a genie deliberately misinterpreting a wish to make the result horrible.

Edited by ArcadesSabboth Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.

anon0794 Since: Dec, 1969

Sep 6th 2010 at 3:16:27 PM •••

Don't all of the "Real Life" examples belong on the "Literal Minded" page?

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