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* ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'':
** Selina Kyle wishes for the rich to "wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us." Her opinion changes after seeing just how destructive Bane's "liberation" of Gotham is.
** Also, twice, this happens with Daggett. First time is when he's going to his office:
--->'''John Daggett:''' And can we get some girls in here?\\
'''Selina Kyle:''' Careful what you wish for. ''[immediately pounces on Daggett, throws him across the room, and pins him against the wall with her left boot and right hand]'' Cat got your tongue?\\
'''John Daggett:''' You dumb bitch!\\
'''Selina Kyle:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Nobody ever accused me of being dumb!]]
** There's also Daggett's confrontation with Bane:
--->'''John Daggett:''' How the hell did Miranda Tate get the inside track on the Wayne board?! I mean, has she been meeting with him?! Has she been sleeping with him?!\\
'''Philip Stryver:''' Not that we know of.\\
'''John Daggett:''' Ah, clearly you don't know much of anything, do you?! Where is Bane?!\\
'''Philip Stryver:''' Well, we told him it was urgent.\\
'''John Daggett:''' Oh, where is the masked-\\
'''Bane:''' {{Speak of the devil}}....[[RightBehindMe and he shall appear]]. ''[Daggett whirls around to see Bane has instantly appeared]''
** This second time does not go so well for Daggett's neck.
** Selina Kyle wishes for the rich to "wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us." Her opinion changes after seeing just how destructive Bane's "liberation" of Gotham is.
** Also, twice, this happens with Daggett. First time is when he's going to his office:
--->'''John Daggett:''' And can we get some girls in here?\\
'''Selina Kyle:''' Careful what you wish for. ''[immediately pounces on Daggett, throws him across the room, and pins him against the wall with her left boot and right hand]'' Cat got your tongue?\\
'''John Daggett:''' You dumb bitch!\\
'''Selina Kyle:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Nobody ever accused me of being dumb!]]
** There's also Daggett's confrontation with Bane:
--->'''John Daggett:''' How the hell did Miranda Tate get the inside track on the Wayne board?! I mean, has she been meeting with him?! Has she been sleeping with him?!\\
'''Philip Stryver:''' Not that we know of.\\
'''John Daggett:''' Ah, clearly you don't know much of anything, do you?! Where is Bane?!\\
'''Philip Stryver:''' Well, we told him it was urgent.\\
'''John Daggett:''' Oh, where is the masked-\\
'''Bane:''' {{Speak of the devil}}....[[RightBehindMe and he shall appear]]. ''[Daggett whirls around to see Bane has instantly appeared]''
** This second time does not go so well for Daggett's neck.
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* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating, "Well, it's everything you've ever wanted - eternal life as part of the One. You're not gonna like it."
** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': Peter tries to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erase the world's knowledge of his secret identity through Strange's magic]]...[[DidntThinkThisThrough only for him to suddenly realize his friends will be under the spell too.]] He attempts to modify the spell multiple times to avoid this, his last modification (when the spell's obviously going catastrophically haywire) is "Basically everyone who that [Peter was Spider-Man] before should still know!" The resulting botched spell ends up ''pulling in people from TheMultiverse'' who "[[ExactWords knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man]]" into the [=MCU=]. Doctor Strange even says this verbatism to him when he first begins to see the effects of the spell going sideways.
** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': Scarlet Witch desires to be a mother by taking her children from another universe. [[spoiler:She gets exactly what she wants thanks to America Chavez sending her there... but the kids are left understandably horrified at the monstrosity she's become.]]
** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating, "Well, it's everything you've ever wanted - eternal life as part of the One. You're not gonna like it."
** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': Peter tries to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erase the world's knowledge of his secret identity through Strange's magic]]...[[DidntThinkThisThrough only for him to suddenly realize his friends will be under the spell too.]] He attempts to modify the spell multiple times to avoid this, his last modification (when the spell's obviously going catastrophically haywire) is "Basically everyone who that [Peter was Spider-Man] before should still know!" The resulting botched spell ends up ''pulling in people from TheMultiverse'' who "[[ExactWords knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man]]" into the [=MCU=]. Doctor Strange even says this verbatism to him when he first begins to see the effects of the spell going sideways.
** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': Scarlet Witch desires to be a mother by taking her children from another universe. [[spoiler:She gets exactly what she wants thanks to America Chavez sending her there... but the kids are left understandably horrified at the monstrosity she's become.]]
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* ''Film/WonderWoman1984'': A godly artifact called "the Dreamstone" works exactly like this, and is explicitly compared to the Monkey's Paw. It's the central MacGuffin of the movie and drives much of the plot:
** Diana wishes for the return of her dead lover, Steve Trevor. [[spoiler:Steve does return, by way of his "soul" inhabiting the body of an unwitting man, but his presence causes Diana's powers to falter and fail.]]
** [[ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} Barbara Ann Minerva]], who is bookish and lacking in self-esteem, wishes to be like her new friend Diana -- unaware that Diana is a superpowered demigod. [[spoiler:As Barbara grows into her new powers, she becomes angry, selfish and vengeful, and loses the kind, personable qualities that led Diana to befriend her in the first place.]]
** Maxwell Lord, who desires to save his failing business, prove himself to his son, and never be called a "loser" again, wishes [[spoiler:''[[BecomingTheGenie to become the Dreamstone]]''. It allows him to grant the wishes of others and take something from them in return, from oil rights to personal fortunes to all the power and prestige of the United States Presidency. It causes a [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1 Apocalypse]], teetering on the brink of a [[ApocalypseHow/Class2 Class 2]], as society buckles under the weight of so many selfish wishes being granted.]]
** Diana wishes for the return of her dead lover, Steve Trevor. [[spoiler:Steve does return, by way of his "soul" inhabiting the body of an unwitting man, but his presence causes Diana's powers to falter and fail.]]
** [[ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} Barbara Ann Minerva]], who is bookish and lacking in self-esteem, wishes to be like her new friend Diana -- unaware that Diana is a superpowered demigod. [[spoiler:As Barbara grows into her new powers, she becomes angry, selfish and vengeful, and loses the kind, personable qualities that led Diana to befriend her in the first place.]]
** Maxwell Lord, who desires to save his failing business, prove himself to his son, and never be called a "loser" again, wishes [[spoiler:''[[BecomingTheGenie to become the Dreamstone]]''. It allows him to grant the wishes of others and take something from them in return, from oil rights to personal fortunes to all the power and prestige of the United States Presidency. It causes a [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1 Apocalypse]], teetering on the brink of a [[ApocalypseHow/Class2 Class 2]], as society buckles under the weight of so many selfish wishes being granted.]]
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* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Selina Kyle wishes for the rich to "wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us." Her opinion changes after seeing just how destructive Bane's "liberation" of Gotham is.
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* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'':
** Selina Kyle wishes for the rich to "wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us." Her opinion changes after seeing just how destructive Bane's "liberation" of Gotham is.
** Selina Kyle wishes for the rich to "wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us." Her opinion changes after seeing just how destructive Bane's "liberation" of Gotham is.
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-->'''John Daggett:''' And can we get some girls in here?
-->'''Selina Kyle:''' Careful what you wish for. ''[immediately pounces on Daggett, throws him across the room, and pins him against the wall with her left boot and right hand]'' Cat got your tongue?
-->'''John Daggett:''' You dumb bitch!
-->'''Selina Kyle:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Nobody ever accused me of being dumb!]]
-->'''Selina Kyle:''' Careful what you wish for. ''[immediately pounces on Daggett, throws him across the room, and pins him against the wall with her left boot and right hand]'' Cat got your tongue?
-->'''John Daggett:''' You dumb bitch!
-->'''Selina Kyle:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Nobody ever accused me of being dumb!]]
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'''Selina Kyle:''' Careful what you wish for. ''[immediately pounces on Daggett, throws him across the room, and pins him against the wall with her left boot and right hand]'' Cat got your
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'''Selina Kyle:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Nobody ever accused me of being dumb!]]
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-->'''Philip Stryver:''' Not that we know of.
-->'''John Daggett:''' Ah, clearly you don't know much of anything, do you?! Where is Bane?!
-->'''Philip Stryver:''' Well, we told him it was urgent.
-->'''John Daggett:''' Oh, where is the masked-
-->'''Bane:''' [[SpeakOfTheDevil Speak of the devil]]....[[RightBehindMe and he shall appear]]. ''[Daggett whirls around to see Bane has instantly appeared]''
-->'''Philip Stryver:''' Not that we know of.
-->'''John Daggett:''' Ah, clearly you don't know much of anything, do you?! Where is Bane?!
-->'''Philip Stryver:''' Well, we told him it was urgent.
-->'''John Daggett:''' Oh, where is the masked-
-->'''Bane:''' [[SpeakOfTheDevil Speak of the devil]]....[[RightBehindMe and he shall appear]]. ''[Daggett whirls around to see Bane has instantly appeared]''
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'''Philip Stryver:''' Not that we know
-->'''John
'''John Daggett:''' Ah, clearly you don't know much of anything, do you?! Where is
-->'''Philip
'''Philip Stryver:''' Well, we told him it was
-->'''John
'''John Daggett:''' Oh, where is the
-->'''Bane:''' [[SpeakOfTheDevil Speak
'''Bane:''' {{Speak of the
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* ''Film/DreamScenario'': Paul, the protagonist, clearly feels [[TheResenter resentful]] about his low-profile life, and finds the idea of fame appealing. Then he finds that he has a walk-on part in millions of people's dreams... And his unearned fame does him very little good.
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* In ''Film/{{Seconds}}'', a middle-aged banker whose life has become boring for him wishes that he could find a way to start over and become young again. Then he hears of a company that will help him do so. Unfortunately, he didn't think of what would happen next...
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* In ''Film/{{Seconds}}'', ''Film/Seconds1966'', a middle-aged banker whose life has become boring for him wishes that he could find a way to start over and become young again. Then he hears of a company that will help him do so. Unfortunately, he didn't think of what would happen next...
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->''"When the gods want to punish you, they answer your prayers."''
-->-- '''Karen Blixen''', ''Film/OutOfAfrica''
-->-- '''Karen Blixen''', ''Film/OutOfAfrica''
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* ''Film/Stalker1979'' takes this a step further. It's about three men -- [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Writer, Professor and Stalker]], traveling through a partially industrialized Zone with eldritch properties to reach the center of the Zone to a place known as the Room, which is said to grant the deepest desires of those strong enough to make it there. As it turns out, you do not ''ask'' for your wish loudly or even consciously; the Room probes your mind and fulfills your greatest desire, a desire so deep and buried within your mind that ''you don't even truly know'' you want it. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Do you even want to know what you really want? Do you dare find out?]] One previous man who found the Room, the Stalker's mentor, Porcupine, [[spoiler:went in hoping to resurrect his brother only for the room to present him with a vast sum of money instead, his ''true'' inner desire; Porcupine left the Zone a rich man but not long after he killed himself because he couldn't live with the shame and guilt. The Writer and the Professor eventually reach the Room and chicken out because of this fear.]]
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* ''Film/Stalker1979'' takes this a step further. It's about three men -- [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Writer, Professor and Stalker]], traveling through a partially industrialized Zone with eldritch properties to reach the center of the Zone to a place known as the Room, which is said to grant the deepest desires of those strong enough to make it there. As it turns out, you do not ''ask'' for your wish loudly or even consciously; the Room probes your mind and fulfills your greatest desire, a desire so deep and buried within your mind that ''you don't even truly know'' you want it. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Do you even want to know what you really want? Do you dare find out?]] One previous man who found the Room, the Stalker's mentor, Porcupine, [[spoiler:went in hoping to resurrect his brother only for the room to present him with a vast sum of money instead, his ''true'' inner desire; Porcupine left the Zone a rich man but not long after he killed himself because he ultimately couldn't live with the shame and guilt.realization that he wanted to be wealthy more than he wanted his brother back. The Writer and the Professor eventually reach the Room and chicken out because of this fear.]]
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** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating, "Well, it's everything you've ever wanted - eternal life as part of the One. You're not going to like it."
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** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating, "Well, it's everything you've ever wanted - eternal life as part of the One. You're not going to gonna like it."
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* In the 1994 adaptation of ''Literature/BlackBeauty'', the coachman York tells the titular stallion, circling in his stable at the Wexmire Estate, to stand still. Beauty does and by doing so, brings his hoof down on York's foot.
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* In ''Film/SeventeenAgain'', Mike O'Donnell wishes that he could go back in time to change his life. Courtesy of a [[SwirlyEnergyThingy whirlpool]], he does. It's not quite what he thought it would be.
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* In ''Film/SeventeenAgain'', ''Film/SeventeenAgain2009'', Mike O'Donnell wishes that he could go back in time to change his life. Courtesy of a [[SwirlyEnergyThingy whirlpool]], he does. It's not quite what he thought it would be.
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%%* ''Film/{{Bedazzled 1967}}'' has this as its main premise.
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%%* In ''Breaking the Waves'' every time any character prays, this happens, along with lots of FromBadToWorse.
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%%** Played for laughs in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', where Indy, after having stopped a mining cart with his foot and resulting in his boot smoking, cries out "Water! Water!". Mere seconds later...
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%%* ''Film/TheWomanInRed'': Basically the point of the story. This was even acknowledged in the tag line on the original poster.
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* In ''Bernard and the Genie'', the Genie warns Bernard "Use the words 'I wish' with the caution you used to reserve for the words 'Please castrate me.'"
%%* This is the main plot of the Creator/TomHanks film ''Film/{{Big}}''.
%%* This is the main plot of the Creator/TomHanks film ''Film/{{Big}}''.
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* In ''Bernard and the Genie'', ''Film/BernardAndTheGenie'', the Genie warns Bernard "Use the words 'I wish' with the caution you used to reserve for the words 'Please castrate me.'"
%%* * This is the main plot of the Creator/TomHanks film ''Film/{{Big}}''. ''Film/{{Big}}'' as Josh wishes he was big. However he ends up becoming an adult and is seen as one not the 13 year old he really is.
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* In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating, "Well, it's everything you've ever wanted - eternal life as part of the One. You're not going to like it."
* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': Scarlet Witch desires to be a mother by taking her children from another universe. [[spoiler:She gets exactly what she wants thanks to America Chavez sending her there... but the kids are left understandably horrified at the monstrosity she's become.]]
* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': Scarlet Witch desires to be a mother by taking her children from another universe. [[spoiler:She gets exactly what she wants thanks to America Chavez sending her there... but the kids are left understandably horrified at the monstrosity she's become.]]
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* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating, "Well, it's everything you've ever wanted - eternal life as part of the One. You're not going to like it."
** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': Peter tries to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erase the world's knowledge of his secret identity through Strange's magic]]...[[DidntThinkThisThrough only for him to suddenly realize his friends will be under the spell too.]] He attempts to modify the spell multiple times to avoid this, his last modification (when the spell's obviously going catastrophically haywire) is "Basically everyone who that [Peter was Spider-Man] before should still know!" The resulting botched spell ends up ''pulling in people from TheMultiverse'' who "[[ExactWords knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man]]" into the [=MCU=]. Doctor Strange even says this verbatism to him when he first begins to see the effects of the spell going sideways.
** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': Scarlet Witch desires to be a mother by taking her children from another universe. [[spoiler:She gets exactly what she wants thanks to America Chavez sending her there... but the kids are left understandably horrified at the monstrosity she's become.]]
** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating, "Well, it's everything you've ever wanted - eternal life as part of the One. You're not going to like it."
** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': Peter tries to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erase the world's knowledge of his secret identity through Strange's magic]]...[[DidntThinkThisThrough only for him to suddenly realize his friends will be under the spell too.]] He attempts to modify the spell multiple times to avoid this, his last modification (when the spell's obviously going catastrophically haywire) is "Basically everyone who that [Peter was Spider-Man] before should still know!" The resulting botched spell ends up ''pulling in people from TheMultiverse'' who "[[ExactWords knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man]]" into the [=MCU=]. Doctor Strange even says this verbatism to him when he first begins to see the effects of the spell going sideways.
** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': Scarlet Witch desires to be a mother by taking her children from another universe. [[spoiler:She gets exactly what she wants thanks to America Chavez sending her there... but the kids are left understandably horrified at the monstrosity she's become.]]
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* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating, "Well, it's everything you've ever wanted - eternal life as part of the One. You're not going to like it."
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* In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating, "Well, it's everything you've ever wanted - eternal life as part of the One. You're not going to like it."
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* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating "you're getting just what you want... I don't think you're gonna like it."
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* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating "you're getting just what you want... I don't think you're gonna stating, "Well, it's everything you've ever wanted - eternal life as part of the One. You're not going to like it."
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* The Andrei Tarkovsky film ''Film/{{Stalker}}'' takes this a step further. It's about three men -- [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Writer, Professor and Stalker]], traveling through a partially-industrialised Zone with eldritch properties to reach the center of the Zone to a place known as the Room, which is said to grant the deepest desires of those strong enough to make it there. As it turns out, you do not ''ask'' for your wish loudly or even consciously; the Room probes your mind and fulfills your greatest desire, a desire so deep and buried within your mind that ''you don't even truly know'' you want it. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Do you even want to know what you really want? Do you dare find out?]] One previous man who found the Room, the Stalker's mentor, Porcupine, [[spoiler:went in hoping to resurrect his brother only for the room to present him with a vast sum of money instead, his ''true'' inner desire; Porcupine left the Zone a rich man but not long after he killed himself because he couldn't live with the shame and guilt. The Writer and the Professor eventually reach the Room and chicken out because of this fear.]]
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* The Andrei Tarkovsky film ''Film/{{Stalker}}'' ''Film/Stalker1979'' takes this a step further. It's about three men -- [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Writer, Professor and Stalker]], traveling through a partially-industrialised partially industrialized Zone with eldritch properties to reach the center of the Zone to a place known as the Room, which is said to grant the deepest desires of those strong enough to make it there. As it turns out, you do not ''ask'' for your wish loudly or even consciously; the Room probes your mind and fulfills your greatest desire, a desire so deep and buried within your mind that ''you don't even truly know'' you want it. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Do you even want to know what you really want? Do you dare find out?]] One previous man who found the Room, the Stalker's mentor, Porcupine, [[spoiler:went in hoping to resurrect his brother only for the room to present him with a vast sum of money instead, his ''true'' inner desire; Porcupine left the Zone a rich man but not long after he killed himself because he couldn't live with the shame and guilt. The Writer and the Professor eventually reach the Room and chicken out because of this fear.]]
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* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': Scarlet Witch desires to be a mother by taking her children from another universe. [[spoiler:She gets exactly what she wants thanks to America Chavez sending her there... but the kids are left understandably horrified at the monstrosity she's become.]]
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* In ''Film/GlassOnion'', Miles Bron wants to obtain immortality by becoming so well-known that his name will be mentioned "in the same breath as the ''Mona Lisa''". At the end of the film he gets this, [[spoiler:as his dangerously untested fuel source starts a massive house fire which destroys said painting - "Miles Bron, the man who destroyed the ''Mona Lisa''"]].
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* In ''Film/GlassOnion'', Miles Bron wants to obtain immortality by becoming so well-known that his name will be mentioned "in the same breath as the ''Mona Lisa''". At the end of the film he gets this, [[spoiler:as his dangerously untested fuel source starts a massive house fire which destroys said painting - "Miles Bron, the man dumbass who destroyed the ''Mona Lisa''"]].
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* In ''Film/GlassOnion'', Miles Bron wants to obtain immortality by becoming so well-known that his name will be mentioned "in the same breath as the ''Mona Lisa''". At the end of the film he gets this, [[spoiler:as his dangerously untested fuel source starts a massive house fire which destroys said painting - "Miles Bron, the man who destroyed the ''Mona Lisa''"]].
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* ''Film/{{Bedazzled 1967}}'' has this as its main premise.
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* This is the main plot of the Creator/TomHanks film ''Film/{{Big}}''.
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* In ''Breaking the Waves'' every time any character prays, this happens, along with lots of FromBadToWorse.
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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'': [[spoiler: Hadley always wanted to see a Merman being summoned through the ritual, but never happened. When the monsters are set loose, he's killed by the merman. He only gets to groan "Aw come on!" before he gets eaten]].
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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'': [[spoiler: Hadley [[spoiler:Hadley always wanted to see a Merman being summoned through the ritual, but never happened. When the monsters are set loose, he's killed by the merman. He only gets to groan "Aw come on!" before he gets eaten]].
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* In ''Film/DeadFriend'' (aka ''The Ghost'') [[spoiler: Su-in, completely by accident, got what she wished for -- she ''becomes'' Ji-won.]] Unfortunately for her, there were some [[GhostlyGoals nasty consequences.]]
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* In ''Film/DeadFriend'' (aka ''The Ghost'') [[spoiler: Su-in, completely by accident, got what she wished for -- she [[spoiler:she ''becomes'' Ji-won.]] Unfortunately for her, there were some [[GhostlyGoals nasty consequences.]]
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* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating "you're getting just what you want...I don't think you're gonna like it."
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* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Kaecilius is working to bring Dormammu to Earth as he believes that humans will achieve eternal life in Dormammu's Dark Dimension. In the conclusion, Strange [[spoiler: forces Dormammu to leave Earth and bring his followers with him. Too late, Kaecilius realizes that Dormammu's offer of "eternal life" meant [[AndIMustScream being transformed into a horrific mindless creature in everlasting agony inside Dormammu's home]].]] Strange even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by stating "you're getting just what you want... I don't think you're gonna like it."
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* In the Robert Zemeckis film ''Film/ForrestGump'', Jenny tells Forrest that her dream is to "be up on a stage with just my guitar and my voice…" She gets that dream, all right, but she neglected to mention whether she'd be wearing anything, and when the time comes, she isn't.
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* In the Robert Zemeckis film ''Film/ForrestGump'', Jenny tells Forrest that her dream is to "be up on a stage with just my guitar and my voice…" voice..." She gets that dream, all right, but she neglected to mention whether she'd be wearing anything, and when the time comes, she isn't.
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** Played for laughs in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', where Indy, after having stopped a mining cart with his foot and resulting in his boot smoking, cries out "Water! Water!". Mere seconds later...
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** In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', the BigBad [[spoiler:asks the movie's extradimensional aliens for all of their knowledge]]. She gets it all, so much in fact that [[spoiler:she explodes from the information overload.]]
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** In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', the BigBad [[spoiler:asks the movie's extradimensional aliens aliens]] for all of their knowledge]]. knowledge. She gets it all, so much in fact that [[spoiler:she she explodes from the information overload.]]
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* The whole Aesop of ''Film/IntoTheWoods''.
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* This is the main plot point to the ''Creator/JimCarrey'' movie, ''Film/LiarLiar.'' A young boy, who's upset that his father didn't show up to his birthday party, even though he promised he would, makes a wish before blowing out his candles that his father couldn't lie for just one day, and it comes true. HilarityEnsues as the father is [[TruthSerum totally incapable of lying and can only blurt out the truth.]]
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* This is the main plot point to the ''Creator/JimCarrey'' movie, ''Film/LiarLiar.'' A young boy, who's upset that his father didn't show up to his birthday party, even though he promised he would, makes a wish before blowing out his candles that his father couldn't lie for just one day, and it comes true. HilarityEnsues as the father is [[TruthSerum totally incapable of lying and can only blurt out the truth.]]truth]], which is particularly bad because he's a lawyer.
* ''Film/{{Shorts}}'': No one ever catches on that the magic wishing rock is a bit of a LiteralGenie. One kid wishes that one of them was super-smart, and it makes his baby sister who was in the room TheOmniscient. A mom wishes to be much closer with her husband, and they end up [[SharingABody fused together]]. A girl wishes her ex-boyfriend would just grow up, and he grows to 50 feet tall. That's just a small handful of examples.
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* TheMovie of ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' had it, too. Alex yells at her mother when the latter grounds the former, ultimately wishing that her parents never met. At all. And because she is holding the wand, the wish that Alex unintentionally makes comes true. Ironic that she'd wish that on vacation in the one place where her parents first met.
* ''Film/TheWomanInRed'': Basically the point of the story. This was even acknowledged in the tag line on the original poster.
* ''Film/TheWomanInRed'': Basically the point of the story. This was even acknowledged in the tag line on the original poster.
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* In TheMovie of ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' had it, too. ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Alex yells at her mother when the latter grounds the former, ultimately wishing that her parents never met. At all.met. And because she is holding the wand, the wish that Alex unintentionally makes comes true. This results in the three kids slowly disappearing in a DelayedRippleEffect. Ironic that she'd wish that on vacation in the one place where her parents first met.
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* In ''Breaking the Waves'' every time any character prays, this happens, along with lots of FromBadtoWorse.
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* In ''Breaking the Waves'' every time any character prays, this happens, along with lots of FromBadtoWorse.FromBadToWorse.
