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** And he doesn't grant that wish, but you already spent one; two to go.
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*I'm getting the vibe a lot of people that posted here didn't see the movie and just "want to be that guy" to utterly defeat the Djinn. Here's what you don't get if you don't watch the movie: At the start the Djinn is imprisoned before he can grant his third wish to a seemingly babilonian or egipcian-like king who had already had two wishes granted, among them "to see things never seen before" thus enabling the Djinn to graphically gore the court before his eyes in pretty twisted ways. That's how the Djinn is imprisoned in the Opal and grafted into a statue OUTSIDE OF VIEW. The statue is eventually unearthed (implying the kingdom was wiped off the earth) and shipped to a museum. During unloading of the box containing the statue, it is broken and the opal released. I don't remember the exact circumstances, but the opal comes to be nearby a dying person, who wishes not to die, enabling the Djinn to use his body as a host but preventing more wishes from being granted. The plot of the movie resolves, but just as a general idea of how twisted the words can get, at one point in th emovie a guard prevents the Djinn from entering a room by just saying he should leave; but then commits the "mistake" of uttering something along the lines of "you could enter, but only by going through me, and I'd like to see that" and thus the Djinn turns around, turns the guard into a panel of glass and literally walks THROUGH him, killing him in the process. In order to defeat the Djinn the protagonist luckily remembers the name of the crane operator that unloaded the statue (she was related to the museum in some way) and wishes that operator to not have been drunk that day, allowing him to do his job properly so the statue was never broken. This wish was a last resort desperate move on the part of the protagonist; it ultimately resovles favorably because the script says so; but there really was no way of knowing if it would have worked like it did; so any and all statements on the sense of defeating the Djinn at its own game are pretty much deluded, or rather, wishful thinking ;) The Djinn proves during the first movie that he's one hell of a legalese exploiter to his own convenience and I seriously doubt any human could outwit an eternal demon at lawyering.
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* Yet another try. [[LogicBomb I wish for you not to grant this wish.]]
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** Since one of the Djinn's powers involves their ability to steal dead people's faces and imitate them, the Djinn would probably fulfill the second wish by either killing you and then continue to wear your face or release a second Djinn from their imprisonment to demonically possess you. There, you're a Djinn, but you're either dead or not in control. Alternatively, he might turn you into a weak, imp of a Djinn and then transport you to the hellish home dimension where all the other Djinn are imprisoned where you can be tormented and bullied forever by all the other more powerful ones.
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** Since one of the Djinn's powers involves their ability to steal dead people's faces and imitate them, the Djinn would probably fulfill the second wish by either killing you and then continue to wear your face or release a second Djinn from their imprisonment to demonically possess you. There, you're a Djinn, but you're either dead or not in control. Alternatively, he might turn you into a weak, imp of a Djinn and then transport you to the hellish home dimension where all the other Djinn are imprisoned where you can be tormented and bullied forever by all the other more powerful ones. \n For the first wish, I don't know, maybe he would interpret omnipotence as sexual prowess rather than god-like ability?
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** Unless the wisher specifies forever, then the Djinn will just visit his home in the gem and then return. After his imprisonment is broken, the gem became his home anyway, complete with a torture/throne room.
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** Unless the wisher specifies forever, then the Djinn will just visit his home in the gem and then return. After his imprisonment is broken, the gem became his home anyway, complete with a torture/throne torture chamber/throne room.
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** Unless the wisher specifies forever, then the Djinn will just visit his home in the gem and then return. After his imprisonment is broken, the gem became his home anyway, complete with a torture/throne room.
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** Since one of the Djinn's powers involves their ability to steal dead people's faces and imitate them, the Djinn would probably fulfill the second wish by either killing you and then continue to wear your face or release a second Djinn from their imprisonment to demonically possess you. There, you're a Djinn, but you're either dead or not in control. Alternatively, he might turn you into a weak, imp of a Djinn and then transport you to the hellish home dimension where all the other Djinn are imprisoned where you can be tormented and bullied forever by all the other more powerful Djinn.
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** Since one of the Djinn's powers involves their ability to steal dead people's faces and imitate them, the Djinn would probably fulfill the second wish by either killing you and then continue to wear your face or release a second Djinn from their imprisonment to demonically possess you. There, you're a Djinn, but you're either dead or not in control. Alternatively, he might turn you into a weak, imp of a Djinn and then transport you to the hellish home dimension where all the other Djinn are imprisoned where you can be tormented and bullied forever by all the other more powerful Djinn.ones.
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** Since one of the Djinn's powers involves their ability to steal dead people's faces and imitate them, the Djinn would probably fulfill the second wish by either killing you and then continue to wear your face or release a second Djinn from their imprisonment to demonically possess you. There, you're a Djinn, but you're either dead or not in control.
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** Since one of the Djinn's powers involves their ability to steal dead people's faces and imitate them, the Djinn would probably fulfill the second wish by either killing you and then continue to wear your face or release a second Djinn from their imprisonment to demonically possess you. There, you're a Djinn, but you're either dead or not in control.
control. Alternatively, he might turn you into a weak, imp of a Djinn and then transport you to the hellish home dimension where all the other Djinn are imprisoned where you can be tormented and bullied forever by all the other more powerful Djinn.
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** Since one of the Djinn's powers involves their ability to steal dead people's faces and imitate them, the Djinn would probably fulfill the second wish by either killing you and then continue to wear your face or release a second Djinn from their imprisonment to demonically possess you. There, you're a Djinn, but you're either dead or not in control.
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* Here's one I've been wondering about -- How would the Djinn screw you out of a wish like "I wish for complete omnipotence" or "I wish to be a Djinn like you"?
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* Here's one I've been wondering about -- How would the Djinn screw you out of a wish like "I wish for [[TheOmnipotent complete omnipotence" omnipotence]]" or "I "[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie I wish to be a Djinn like you"?
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* Here's one I've been wondering about -- How would the Djinn screw you out of a wish like "I wish for complete omnipotence" or "I wish to be a Djinn like you"?
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** That's pretty much what Alexandra ''did'' wish for at the end of the first film (and it works!), only with time alteration included.
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*I wish that you were back in the gem, bringing no one else along with you."
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****Indeed, this is exactly what it did to the heroine of the first movie. She wished to understand him so it took her to it's prison and scared her with a dog and then left, telling her it was going to kill her sister which forced her to use her second wish to escape.
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** "Get lost" doesn't imply "be where no one else is", as there are plenty of folks in the world who don't know where they are or how to get where they're going. Or he could produce a box set of a [[Series/{{Lost}} certain TV show]] and [[JustForPun get Lost]].
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*** That seems to be his pattern: seduce the wisher with the first wish going well so they will make a second wish, then make the second wish go disasteriously wrong and then they'll waste their third wish to undo the damage from the second wish.
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*** That seems to be his pattern: seduce the wisher with the first wish going well so they will make a second wish, then make the second wish go disasteriously disastrously wrong and then they'll waste their third wish to undo the damage from the second wish.
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** Suddenly discarding his JerkassGenie manner Djinn actually grants her wish as desired and completely rewrites the cop's fate, returning him home as if nothing happend. Uhm, why not make him alive...in his grave?!
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** Suddenly discarding his JerkassGenie manner Djinn actually grants her wish as desired and completely rewrites the cop's fate, returning him home as if nothing happend.happened. Uhm, why not make him alive...in his grave?! grave?!
*** Or bring him back as a brain-eating zombie who now wants to eat his family instead of greeting them?
*** Or bring him back as a brain-eating zombie who now wants to eat his family instead of greeting them?
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It unleashes his pots of gold?
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** Three wishes being granted still unleashes the Djinn's hoards hordes as well.
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* Another try. The Djinn can go anywhere, do anything, as long as a human told him to. What if a human told him "Get Lost." Or for that matter "Stay lost."
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** Or he fulfills it by making humanity something other than humanity. What if it was fulfilled by making every human a host for an imprisoned Djinn, technically they wouldn't be human any more and the legions of the Djinn would walk the earth in place of mankind. The Djinn then wouldn't be speaking to any one that was human. Then he wouldn't have to grant wishes, there would be no need.
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** Eeeeh... Not really. The Djinn can fulfill those two wishes simply ''by exterminating humanity altogether''. In this way, the Djinn won't be able to grant another wish to any human any more --and, definitely, he won't speak with, contact in any way or approach any human being any more. I don't think this would be the intention of the person making the wish, no?
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* Another try at disarming the Djin through wishes. "I wish that you never ever grant another wish to anybody else, including me" or "I wish that you never speak with or contact in any way or even approach any human being closer than, say, 10 km, ever again, after you grant this wish". Would that work?
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*** "Very well. The Earth will now serve as their new, absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity. And of course, 'unbreakable' doesn't preclude it being 'unlocked', so the universe is still ours too. Oh, I'm sorry, did you say 'as the wisher would interpret them'? Well, now that I've explained this wish to you, that's how you're interpreting it. Next wish?" {{Jackass Genie}}s can be ''very'' hard to manipulate, especially when, like the Djinn, they're willing to twist words around into outcomes that only InsaneTrollLogic would've predicted. Of course, if the Djinn's ''really'' DangerouslyGenreSavvy he'll just nod and say "done" until the last wish is granted, and ''then'' start springing the legalistic snares.
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*** "Very well. The Earth will now serve as their new, absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity. And of course, 'unbreakable' doesn't preclude it being 'unlocked', so the universe is still ours too. Oh, I'm sorry, did you say 'as the wisher would interpret them'? Well, now that I've explained this wish to you, that's how you're interpreting it. Next wish?" {{Jackass Genie}}s can be ''very'' hard to manipulate, especially when, like the Djinn, they're willing to twist words around into outcomes that only InsaneTrollLogic would've predicted. Of course, if the Djinn's ''really'' really DangerouslyGenreSavvy he'll just nod and say "done" until the last wish is granted, and ''then'' start springing the legalistic snares.
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*** "Very well. The Earth will now serve as their new, absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity. And of course, 'unbreakable' doesn't preclude it being 'unlocked', so the universe is still ours too. Oh, I'm sorry, did you say 'as the wisher would interpret them'? Well, now that I've explained this wish to you, that's how you're interpreting it. Next wish?" {{Jackass Genie}}s can be ''very'' hard to manipulate, especially when, like the Djinn, they're willing to twist words around into outcomes that only InsaneTrollLogic would've predicted. Of course, if the Djinn's ''really'' DangerouslyGenreSavvy he'd just nod and say "done" until the last wish is granted, and ''then'' start springing the legalistic snares.
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*** "Very well. The Earth will now serve as their new, absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity. And of course, 'unbreakable' doesn't preclude it being 'unlocked', so the universe is still ours too. Oh, I'm sorry, did you say 'as the wisher would interpret them'? Well, now that I've explained this wish to you, that's how you're interpreting it. Next wish?" {{Jackass Genie}}s can be ''very'' hard to manipulate, especially when, like the Djinn, they're willing to twist words around into outcomes that only InsaneTrollLogic would've predicted. Of course, if the Djinn's ''really'' DangerouslyGenreSavvy he'd he'll just nod and say "done" until the last wish is granted, and ''then'' start springing the legalistic snares.
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*** "Very well. The Earth will now serve as their new, absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity. And of course, 'unbreakable' doesn't preclude it being 'unlocked', so the universe is still ours too. Oh, I'm sorry, did you say 'as the wisher would interpret them'? Well, now that I've explained this wish to you, that's how you're interpreting it. Next wish?" {{Jackass Genie}}s can be ''very'' hard to manipulate, especially when, like the Djinn, they're willing to twist words around into outcomes that only InsaneTrollLogic would've predicted.
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*** "Very well. The Earth will now serve as their new, absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity. And of course, 'unbreakable' doesn't preclude it being 'unlocked', so the universe is still ours too. Oh, I'm sorry, did you say 'as the wisher would interpret them'? Well, now that I've explained this wish to you, that's how you're interpreting it. Next wish?" {{Jackass Genie}}s can be ''very'' hard to manipulate, especially when, like the Djinn, they're willing to twist words around into outcomes that only InsaneTrollLogic would've predicted. Of course, if the Djinn's ''really'' DangerouslyGenreSavvy he'd just nod and say "done" until the last wish is granted, and ''then'' start springing the legalistic snares.
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*** "Very well. The Earth will now serve as their new, absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity. Oh, I'm sorry, did you say 'as the wisher would interpret them'? Well, now that I've explained the wish to you, that's how you're interpreting it. Next wish?" {{Jerkass Genie}}s can be ''very'' hard to manipulate, especially when, like the Djinn, they're willing to twist words around into outcomes that only InsaneTrollLogic would've predicted.
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*** "Very well. The Earth will now serve as their new, absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity. And of course, 'unbreakable' doesn't preclude it being 'unlocked', so the universe is still ours too. Oh, I'm sorry, did you say 'as the wisher would interpret them'? Well, now that I've explained the this wish to you, that's how you're interpreting it. Next wish?" {{Jerkass {{Jackass Genie}}s can be ''very'' hard to manipulate, especially when, like the Djinn, they're willing to twist words around into outcomes that only InsaneTrollLogic would've predicted.
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*** "As you wish."Very well. The Earth will now serve as their new, absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity." Oh, I'm sorry, did you say 'as the wisher would interpret them'? Well, now that I've explained the wish to you, that's how you're interpreting it. Next wish?" {{Jerkass Genie}}s can be ''very'' hard to manipulate, especially when, like the Djinn, they're willing to twist words around into outcomes that only InsaneTrollLogic would've predicted.
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*** "As you wish. The Earth will now serve as their new, absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity." {{Jerkass Genie}}s can be ''very'' hard to manipulate, especially when, like the Djinn, they're willing to twist words around into outcomes that only InsaneTrollLogic would've predicted.
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** Second wish: "I wish that every single djinn in existence is resealed into an absolutely unbreakable prison for all eternity."
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*** That seems to be his pattern: seduce the wisher with the first wish going well so they will make a second wish, then make the second wish go disasteriously wrong and then they'll waste their third wish to undo the damage from the second wish.
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** She's a thief. Apparently she never killed before but is repairing one crime really nullifies all the other?
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