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* BrokenAesop: Although the moral of the film might at first seem to be that absolute power will never bring you happiness. What the film actually shows is that if you have absolute power, making wishes without thinking them through carefully and poor phrasing will cause serious problems.
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* TomTheDarkLord: The Supreme Council of Intergalactic Beings travels the universe, destroying any species that fails to pass their convulted and morally ambiguous SecretTestOfCharacter. The four aliens sitting on the council are named Kylie, Sharon, Maureen, and Janet. This is subverted later in the movie, though, when it turns out that a mischevious underling tampered with their translation device, and the leader of the council says that his actual title is the Death-Dealing Darkness-Bringer
* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial - in our case, that's English (althoguh some of them breifly try speaking in French). An error in the translator also gives them all human female names, like Carol and Sharon.
* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial - in our case, that's English (althoguh some of them breifly try speaking in French). An error in the translator also gives them all human female names, like Carol and Sharon.
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* TomTheDarkLord: The Supreme Council of Intergalactic Council of Superior Beings travels the universe, destroying any species that fails to pass their convulted convoluted and morally ambiguous SecretTestOfCharacter. The four aliens sitting on the council are named Kylie, Sharon, Maureen, and Janet. This is subverted later in the movie, though, when it turns out that a mischevious mischievous underling tampered with their translation device, and the leader of the council says that his actual title is the Death-Dealing Darkness-Bringer
Darkness-Bringer.
* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial- — in our case, that's English (althoguh some of them breifly briefly try speaking in French). An error in the translator also gives them all human female names, like Carol and Sharon.
* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial
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* TeachersPet: Neil turns the whole of class 10C into stuidous, earnest kids.
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* TeachersPet: Neil turns the whole of class 10C into stuidous, studious, earnest kids.
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* IntellectualAnimal: Neil wishes for Dennis his dog to be able speak and become a rational thinking creature, after which he gains human-level intelligence and the ability to speak english.
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* IntellectualAnimal: Neil wishes for Dennis his dog to be able speak and become a rational thinking creature, after which he gains human-level intelligence and the ability to speak english.English.
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* BrokenAesop: Although the moral of the film might at first seem to be that absolute power will never bring you happiness. What the films actually shows is that if you have absolute power, making wishes without thinking them through carefully and poor phrasing will cause serious problems.
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* BrokenAesop: Although the moral of the film might at first seem to be that absolute power will never bring you happiness. What the films film actually shows is that if you have absolute power, making wishes without thinking them through carefully and poor phrasing will cause serious problems.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Dennis the Dog is voiced by Creator/RobinWilliams, and thus has an American accent, despite having a British owner and living in the UK. Whether Neil’s wish just randomly gave Dennis an American accent or Dennis was a rescue adopted from the United States is never brought up.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Dennis the Dog is voiced by Creator/RobinWilliams, and thus has an American accent, despite having a British owner and living in the UK. Whether Neil’s wish just randomly gave Dennis an American accent or Dennis was a rescue adopted from the United States is never brought up.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Grant is a Type II.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Dennis (if his accent was an indication of his birthplace rather than an arbitrary accent when Neil gave him the ability to speak) is a Type I, Grant is a Type II.
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* TomTheDarkLord: The Supreme Council of Intergalactic Beings travels the universe, destroying any species that fails to pass their convulted and morally ambiguous SecretTestOfCharacter. The four aliens sitting on the council are named Kylie, Sharon, Maureen, and Janet. This is subverted later in the movie, though, when it turns out that a mischevious underling tampered with their translation device, and the leader of the council says that his actual title is the Death-Dealing Darkness-Bringer* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial - in our case, that's English. An error in the translator also gives them all human female names, like Carol and Sharon.
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* TomTheDarkLord: The Supreme Council of Intergalactic Beings travels the universe, destroying any species that fails to pass their convulted and morally ambiguous SecretTestOfCharacter. The four aliens sitting on the council are named Kylie, Sharon, Maureen, and Janet. This is subverted later in the movie, though, when it turns out that a mischevious underling tampered with their translation device, and the leader of the council says that his actual title is the Death-Dealing Darkness-Bringer* Darkness-Bringer
* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial - in our case, that'sEnglish.English (althoguh some of them breifly try speaking in French). An error in the translator also gives them all human female names, like Carol and Sharon.
* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial - in our case, that's
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* {{Hypocrite}}: For all that the aliens preach about [[spoiler:how destruction is "good" and mercy is "evil" after TheReveal, once Dennis uses his new wish-granting powers to destroy ''them'', the last words one of the aliens utters are "The dog is evil."]]
* KarmaHoudini: Catherine's rude, exploitative, anti-intellectual bosses never get any comeuppance for their nastiness.
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* TeachersPet: Neil turns the whole of class 10C into these.
* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial - in our case, that's English. An error in the translator also gives them all human female names, like Carol and Sharon.
* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial - in our case, that's English. An error in the translator also gives them all human female names, like Carol and Sharon.
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* TeachersPet: Neil turns the whole of class 10C into these.
stuidous, earnest kids.
* TomTheDarkLord: The Supreme Council of Intergalactic Beings travels the universe, destroying any species that fails to pass their convulted and morally ambiguous SecretTestOfCharacter. The four aliens sitting on the council are named Kylie, Sharon, Maureen, and Janet. This is subverted later in the movie, though, when it turns out that a mischevious underling tampered with their translation device, and the leader of the council says that his actual title is the Death-Dealing Darkness-Bringer* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial - in our case, that's English. An error in the translator also gives them all human female names, like Carol and Sharon.
* TomTheDarkLord: The Supreme Council of Intergalactic Beings travels the universe, destroying any species that fails to pass their convulted and morally ambiguous SecretTestOfCharacter. The four aliens sitting on the council are named Kylie, Sharon, Maureen, and Janet. This is subverted later in the movie, though, when it turns out that a mischevious underling tampered with their translation device, and the leader of the council says that his actual title is the Death-Dealing Darkness-Bringer* TranslationConvention: The aliens speak the dominant language of the planet on trial throughout its trial - in our case, that's English. An error in the translator also gives them all human female names, like Carol and Sharon.
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Baleful Polymorph was renamed per TRS
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* BalefulPolymorph: Neil turns his friend Ray into a sausage and a duck at one point, and [[spoiler:Grant gets turned into a corgi, even after the ResetButton.]]
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* ForcedTransformation: Neil turns his friend Ray into a sausage and a duck at one point, and [[spoiler:Grant gets turned into a corgi, even after the ResetButton.]]
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I removed the “Didn’t Think This Through” examples. This trope is, “A situational trope. One character will develop a plan designed to solve a certain problem they're encountering. However, due to their failure to plan ahead, there is a massive gaping flaw in their plan that they—and perhaps the audience—missed.” So it’s a trope about someone making a plan and, while the plan does work to a point, it ends up with them in an undesirable situation because they didn’t think it through. The examples relate literally to someone not thinking things through, but with no mention of a plan or the other requirements for the trope. The first of these is about Neil’s failure to recognise the literal nature of how his wishes are granted and adjust accordingly. This doesn’t relate to him making a plan, but rather to him being too dumb to take a minute to stop and understand his powers and how to make them work better. The second one deals with Neil failing to think of the (obvious) ways out of being trapped by Grant. This, again, does not relate to him planning and having it backfire (instead, he really didn’t seem to plan at all). The third relates to Grant not thinking of getting Neil to give him his powers. This is just a failure to come up with an (obvious) good idea, which is not this trope. The fourth relates to Neil’s stupidity in having told Grant how his powers work. This was, again, Neil being an idiot but it wasn’t like he told Grant how his powers work, believing there would be some benefit in doing so, and it backfired. Instead, he just did a stupid thing and it had a consequence. So I don’t believe these examples fit.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Neil doesn’t think through the wording and phrasing of his wishes carefully before he says what he wants. This is the primary cause of his problems rather than the wishes themselves. After a while, you'd imagine he'd work out that his powers are a LiteralGenie.
** When Neil is taken prisoner by Grant, he never figures that, in the small windows where his hand is free, he could just say something like "Grant Sleep!", wave his hand, and then free himself. Likewise, it never seems to occur to Grant to try and force Neil to give him his powers.
** Grant never thinks that he could make Neil give him his powers.
*** Grant would also have never been able to threaten Neil had the latter not blatantly explained to the former his powers and how they work.
** Neil doesn’t think through the wording and phrasing of his wishes carefully before he says what he wants. This is the primary cause of his problems rather than the wishes themselves. After a while, you'd imagine he'd work out that his powers are a LiteralGenie.
** When Neil is taken prisoner by Grant, he never figures that, in the small windows where his hand is free, he could just say something like "Grant Sleep!", wave his hand, and then free himself. Likewise, it never seems to occur to Grant to try and force Neil to give him his powers.
** Grant never thinks that he could make Neil give him his powers.
*** Grant would also have never been able to threaten Neil had the latter not blatantly explained to the former his powers and how they work.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Neil doesn’t think through the wording and phrasing of his wishes carefully before he says what he wants. This is the primary cause of his problems rather than the wishes themselves. After a while, you'd imagine he'd work out that his powers are a LiteralGenie.
** When Neil is taken prisoner by Grant, he never figures that, in the small windows where his hand is free, he could just say something like "Grant Sleep!", wave his hand, and then free himself. Likewise, it never seems to occur to Grant to try and force Neil to give him his powers.
** Grant never thinks that he could make Neil give him his powers.
*** Grant would also have never been able to threaten Neil had the latter not blatantly explained to the former his powers and how they work.
** Neil doesn’t think through the wording and phrasing of his wishes carefully before he says what he wants. This is the primary cause of his problems rather than the wishes themselves. After a while, you'd imagine he'd work out that his powers are a LiteralGenie.
** When Neil is taken prisoner by Grant, he never figures that, in the small windows where his hand is free, he could just say something like "Grant Sleep!", wave his hand, and then free himself. Likewise, it never seems to occur to Grant to try and force Neil to give him his powers.
** Grant never thinks that he could make Neil give him his powers.
*** Grant would also have never been able to threaten Neil had the latter not blatantly explained to the former his powers and how they work.
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* FantasticAesop: Neil concludes that his powers cause more harm than good after trying to solve world problems and only making things worse. However, this was only due to [[ExactWords poor phrasing]] on his part, which he'd solved previously with other wishes by simply making the same wish again with better word choice.
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* FantasticAesop: Neil concludes that his powers cause more harm than good after trying to solve world problems and only making things worse. However, this was only due to [[ExactWords poor phrasing]] on his part, which he'd solved previously with other wishes by simply making the same wish again with better word choice.
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[{{Tagline}}'' Great Power. Total Irresponsibility]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[{{Tagline}}'' [[{{Tagline}} Great Power. Total Irresponsibility]]
Irresponsibility.]]]]
