History BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/IronMan3TheOfficialGame'': The Living Laser was just a nobody who wanted power, and was turned into a cybernetic being by A.I.M. to help accomplish their goals. While initially pleased with his new powers, he eventually regretted how he was no longer human and continued to work for A.I.M. in the hopes they would turn him back to normal.

** The Masters get their own asses handed to them in the Ambitions, purely as a result of their own machinations. Mr. Cups wanted to fulfill his oath to the Bazaar by creating a tragic and meaningful revenge story - It's made meaningful by Cups' FateWorseThanDeath and tragic by the willingness of his executioner to go on and become a monster that could destroy the Bazaar. Mr. Fires deeply desired a pedigree child who could teach him (or rather, teach all his employees) the meaning of love - said child grows a murder-boner for him and can potentially lead an army of undyingly loyal warriors to end him. Mr. Veils was practically asking for it, as he is undone by one of his ''many'' challengers after decades of goading hunters with a 4 million echo bounty ''he put on himself''. Mr. Pages wants to renew the excitement of his ancient, wish-granting game - he gets beaten by ''a short-lived monkey'', and said monkey can then wish that the game will be gone forever, making it the most exciting season, and the last.

* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'': The Duchess and the Manager of the Royal Bethlehem both sold their cities to the Masters of the Bazaar in exchange for saving the lives of their lovers. Their lovers did indeed live forever...at the price of a FateWorseThanDeath for both. The Duchess' husband became the barely-human, [[PoisonousPerson lethally poisonous Cantigaster]] and the Manager's lover became a [[GeniusLoci sentient city]] with a heart splintered into a hundred fragments among the city's buildings and inhabitants. It bears mentioning this is less that the Masters are evil, and more that they were rather incompetent at it back then; the Traitor Empress made the same deal much later on and seemed to have gotten better off.
** The Masters get their own asses handed to them in the Ambitions, purely as a result of their own machinations. Mr. Cups wanted to fulfill his oath to the Bazaar by creating a tragic and meaningful love story - It's made meaningful by Cups' FateWorseThanDeath and tragic by the willingness of his executioner to go on and destroy all that was connected to Cups. Mr. Fires deeply desires a pedigree child - said child grows a murder-boner for him and has the power of a white dwarf. Mr. Veils was practically asking for it, as he is undone by one of his ''many'' challengers after decades of goading hunters with a 4 million echo bounty ''he put on himself''. Mr. Pages wants to renew the excitement of his ancient, wish-granting game - he gets beaten by ''a short-lived monkey'', and said monkey can then wish that the game will be gone forever.
** Except dear old Albert becomes [[spoiler:an undead paraplegic hidden away]] in his own mausoleum. Her Renewed Majesty apparently wished for them both to live forever - but they aren't exactly close anymore, either. It can get even worse in one ending: [[spoiler:if you become the All-Conqueror, she (presumably) lives long enough to see the upstart she dissed centuries ago slowly rip apart her empire with the undead force of every recently dead soul she wronged]].
* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' ('''spoilers for Arc 1 ahead'''), [[spoiler:King Solomon's wishes backfired on him twice. First, per source material, he prayed that God would make him a wise ruler for Israel. God gave him clairvoyance, which made Solomon hyper-aware of the troubles of his people and that he could not solve them all, driving him into despair. Millennia later, Solomon was summoned to win a Holy Grail War, and because of that despair, wished on the Grail that he could become [[IJustWantToBeNormal a normal human unburdened by power or knowledge]] but his clairvoyance activates one last time, showing him the end of the world and burdening him with the knowledge that it would end and having no abilities whatsoever to act against it. Only by returning both the gifts of God AND [[HeroicSacrifice his human life]] to [[{{Unperson}} completely erase himself from the Throne of Heroes]] is Solomon able to weaken Goetia for the protagonist to defeat.]]

** Cloud Strife of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' fame [[IJustWantToBeSpecial did not like the fact]] that he was a {{muggle}} and a {{mook}}, and envied his SuperSoldier friend and his SuperPrototype perfect warrior commander, wanting to be like them. His wish was fulfilled, but not in a good way: the MadScientist Dr. Hojo, the creator of Shinra's superhuman project, press-ganged him into his experiments and turned him into another human-Jenova hybrid at the cost of his memories and sanity. Cloud got the cool powers he wanted, but it damaged his personality, [[CloneByConversion partially fusing it]] with that of his aforementioned friend, and made him vulnerable to mind control, which had a huge impact on his later life. Hojo thought Cloud to be a failed experiment, however Cloud ended up as the only successful human-Jenova hybrid on the side of good.

* ''VisualNovel/Case03TrueCannibalBoy'': Jade convinces Lily to pray to Nya [[spoiler:to help Sally and get her a proper body. Unfortunately, Jade and Nya orchestrate events so that Marty kills Lily in order to give Sally a complete body]].

** In Chapter 2, Sammy Lawrence wants Bendy to free him from the ink. Bendy frees him from the ink, [[spoiler: as Sammy begs him not to kill him. This leads into a GoryDiscretionShot.]]
** In Chapter 4, Henry solves puzzles in a half-built theme park called Bendy Land. Its designer, Bertrum Piedmont, wanted to build the biggest theme park ever and receive all the glory for it. [[spoiler: When Henry meets him, he's ''become'' one of his theme park rides, driven insane by the Ink. Instead of a celebrity, he goes down a monster instead.]]
* ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls'': Jodie Holmes always wanted to be free of Aiden, the {{poltergeist}} that has been tethered to her since birth, and [[IJustWantToBeNormal be a normal girl]]. Should the player choose the "Life" ending at the end of the game, she gets her wish, only to realize that without Aiden, she's completely miserable and feels like a part of her has been cut away. [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted in three of the MultipleEndings, where Aiden eventually returns.]]

* ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'': During [[LoveFreak Flonne's]] introductory scene in a garden, she tells Seraph Lamington "I want to be like these flowers." [[spoiler: Right before the final boss battle, Lamington turns her into a flower as part of her punishment for helping Laharl invade Celestia.]]

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': The villain of the main game, Corypheus, seeks to [[spoiler: [[GodhoodSeeker make himself a god]] ]] by [[spoiler:entering the Fade in order to reach the Black City]]. At the climax of the final battle, the Inquisitor grants him his wish...[[spoiler: by opening a rift into the Fade ''inside his skull'', ripping apart his physical form and permenantly banishing his spirit into the depths of the Fade]].

* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' has this happen once. Bored Cambodian temple dancer Ellia finds herself all alone with nothing but [[GreatBigBookOfEverything what she thinks is an innocuous book of legends]] to entertain herself, wishes that something exciting would happen to her, and ends up immediately getting locked inside the temple, finding herself entangled and directly involved in the book's "legends," and [[spoiler: killed as a result of all this]]. Now, was that exciting enough for you, Ellia?

* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' ('''spoilers for Arc 1 ahead'''), [[spoiler: King Solomon's wishes backfired on him twice. First, per source material, he prayed that God would make him a wise ruler for Israel. God gave him clairvoyance, which made Solomon hyper-aware of the troubles of his people and that he could not solve them all, driving him into despair. Millennia later, Solomon was summoned to win a Holy Grail War, and because of that despair, wished on the Grail that he could become [[IJustWantToBeNormal a normal human unburdened by power or knowledge]] but his clairvoyance activates one last time, showing him the end of the world and burdening him with the knowledge that it would end and having no abilities whatsoever to act against it. Only by returning both the gifts of God AND [[HeroicSacrifice his human life]] to [[{{Unperson}} completely erase himself from the Throne of Heroes]] is Solomon able to weaken Goetia for the protagonist to defeat.]]

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'', Noel mentions that he wanted the Power of Chaos that Caius had so that he could be a "true guardian." In one of the Paradox Endings, you find out what happens if he actually gets it: [[spoiler: he's driven nearly catatonic by it, and mentions that having it is the beginning of a nightmare.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', one mission puts the party against Miklan, Sylvain's brother, who had stolen the Lance of Ruin in hopes of becoming special and important like Sylvain is with the Crest of Gautier. Miklan does become special and important in that [[spoiler: he becomes a ''warning'' to others, as using the Lance of Ruin without possessing the necessary Crest transformed him into a Demonic Beast, the first one the player encounters.]]

** The creation of the Les Enfantes Terribles. The Patriots wanted the legacy of Big Boss as their soldiers. So, [[spoiler: Solid Snake went from their stooge to their most dangerous enemy, and Liquid Snake's ideas and influences eventually led to the end of the Patriots themselves.]]

* ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'': [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Valerie]] is [[IJustWantToBeNormal scornful of her own divine-granted beauty]], thinking it causes people to not take her seriously as a warrior and wishing she was more plain-looking. [[spoiler:She ends up being slashed across the face during a duel, leaving her with a horrific scar that causes many people to [[IgnoreTheDisability avert their gaze out of discomfort]]. Unsurprisingly, he becomes more insecure over her looks than ever, and is relieved to get her old beauty back when her patron god, Shelyn, heals the scar as a reward.]]

* This is the entire plot of ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsTheCosmicShake''. [=SpongeBob=] gained access to some magical wish-granting bubble soap and tried to do good deeds for everyone he knows. Every single one backfired. He wished for Patrick to have a balloon (some unusual wording was involved) and Patrick turned into a balloon instead. He wished for Squidward's art to be appreciated, and [[spoiler:Squidward got teleported to [[OneMillionBC caveman times]] where he's the best artist]]. He wished for Mr. Krabs to have money, and [[spoiler:Mr. Krabs became a Western outlaw]]. He wished for Sandy's awesomeness to be recognized by everyone, and [[spoiler:she became an egotistical martial-arts movie star]]. Even his wish for some food for Gary [[spoiler:turned him into a gigantic monster that could eat ''anything'']].