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* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Aladdin set the genie free at the end, and [[TrickingTheShapeshifter tricked Jafar into becoming a genie and being trapped in a lamp of his own]].

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* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Aladdin set the genie free at the end, and [[TrickingTheShapeshifter tricked Jafar into becoming a genie and being trapped in a lamp of his own]]. The sequels and series reveal Genie kept some of his magical power after being freed, though he's not the nigh-omnipotent RealityWarper he used to be anymore.
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Don't put Exactly What It Says On The Tin in trope descriptions. It's a lazy cop-out.


ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Usually done with a wish something along the lines of: "I wish you were free" but it doesn't have be those exact words, or involve wishing. There are two basic forms; if it's a BenevolentGenie, the master may make this his final wish as a reward. If it's a JackassGenie, such [[TurnTheOtherCheek an act of selfless generosity]] may be the only way to get it on your side - see {{Wishplosion}}... [[UngratefulBastard or not]], in which case [[TheFarmerAndTheViper you'd better hope he loses his powers]].

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ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.A genie or similar being who is bound to a master is released from that bond by the master. Usually done with a wish something along the lines of: "I wish you were free" but it doesn't have be those exact words, or involve wishing. There are two basic forms; if it's a BenevolentGenie, the master may make this his final wish as a reward. If it's a JackassGenie, such [[TurnTheOtherCheek an act of selfless generosity]] may be the only way to get it on your side - see {{Wishplosion}}... [[UngratefulBastard or not]], in which case [[TheFarmerAndTheViper you'd better hope he loses his powers]].
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* The end of the Agrabah world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' has Aladdin releasing Genie with his third and final wish, just like in the movie. This also serves as fairly handy justification for Sora being able to call Genie with SummonMagic.

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* The end of the Agrabah world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' has Aladdin releasing Genie with his third and final wish, just like in the movie. This also serves as fairly handy justification for Sora being able to call Genie with SummonMagic.SummonMagic in the game as well as in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
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* The end of the Agrabah world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' has Aladdin releasing Genie with his third and final wish, just like in the movie.

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* The end of the Agrabah world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' has Aladdin releasing Genie with his third and final wish, just like in the movie. This also serves as fairly handy justification for Sora being able to call Genie with SummonMagic.
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* The end of the Agrabah world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' has Aladdin releasing Genie with his third and final wish, just like in the movie.
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* Done accidentally in [[https://tapas.io/episode/125275 this]] ''[=DiscoBleach=]'' strip via a poorly thought out attempt to game the system.[[labelnote:If you don't get it]]"Genies have to grant wishes" is also a rule.[[/labelnote]]
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* There's this short story where a girl has a wish egg. Its by Creator/CharlesDeLint in the ''WaifsAndStrays'' collection of short stories. [[spoiler: At the end, she sets it free with her wish]].

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* There's this short story where a girl has a wish egg. Its It's by Creator/CharlesDeLint in the ''WaifsAndStrays'' collection of short stories. [[spoiler: At the end, she sets it free with her wish]].



** Likewise, in the drow city, some drow are using a summoned genie for target practice, beating him up and then healing him before he gets killed . He begs for you to just kill him already (by the rules of the game, a summoned creature is returned to its home plane unharmed when killed), but doing so will anger the drow.

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** Likewise, in the drow city, some drow are using a summoned genie for target practice, beating him up and then healing him before he gets killed .killed. He begs for you to just kill him already (by the rules of the game, a summoned creature is returned to its home plane unharmed when killed), but doing so will anger the drow.



* Averted in ''Webcomic/TheWotch'': [[https://www.thewotch.com/?comic=angelique-5]] Wishes affecting the Djinn aren't allowed, including those that set them free. Angelique does note however, that Jason planned to do it.

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* Averted in ''Webcomic/TheWotch'': [[https://www.thewotch.com/?comic=angelique-5]] com/?comic=angelique-5 Wishes affecting the Djinn aren't allowed, allowed]], including those that set them free. Angelique does note however, that Jason planned to do it.
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* [[Djinn https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/djinn-young-justice-si.444349/reader/]]: Superboy almost immediately tries to free Djinn from his servitude after watching Disney's Aladdin for the first time, comparing Djinn being forced to grant the wishes of others to his own existance as a clone created to serve his creators goals. Subverted when Djinn is grateful but points out that he isn't bound to his bottle the same way the mythological djinn were, and could simply hide the bottle somewhere completely inaccessible if he wanted to be free.

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* [[Djinn https://forums.[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/djinn-young-justice-si.444349/reader/]]: 444349/reader/ Djinn]]: Superboy almost immediately tries to free Djinn from his servitude after watching Disney's Aladdin for the first time, comparing Djinn being forced to grant the wishes of others to his own existance as a clone created to serve his creators goals. Subverted when Djinn is grateful but points out that he isn't bound to his bottle the same way the mythological djinn were, and could simply hide the bottle somewhere completely inaccessible if he wanted to be free.
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* [[Djinn https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/djinn-young-justice-si.444349/reader/]]: Superboy almost immediately tries to free Djinn from his servitude after watching Disney's Aladdin for the first time, comparing Djinn being forced to grant the wishes of others to his own existance as a clone created to serve his creators goals. Subverted when Djinn is grateful but points out that he isn't bound to his bottle the same way the mythological djinn were, and could simply hide the bottle somewhere completely inaccessible if he wanted to be free.



* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''. He attempted to rescue a captured fairy who can grant one wish, with which he could get home, but kills the only person who knew how to get her free. In trying to get her out, he gets himself trapped, and after a thinking for a few moments, decides what to wish for-- [[spoiler:"I wish we were free."]]

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* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''. He attempted to rescue a captured fairy who can grant one wish, wish (in her entire lifetime), with which he could get home, but kills the only person who knew how to get her free. In trying to get her out, he gets himself trapped, and after a thinking for a few moments, decides what to wish for-- [[spoiler:"I wish we were free."]]
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* The ''Series/{{Legacies}}'' episode "There's A World Where Your Dreams Came True" sees Lizzie get manipulated by a jinni into making several wishes that result in significantly worse realities than the one she started with. When the final reality ends up being a dystopian hellhole, the jinni agrees to give Lizzie a chance to undo her wish, as long as she hands over the urn that makes the jinni serve others. Lizzie doesn't want to hand over the urn due to the havoc it would cause, so she TakesAThirdOption: She wishes to rewrite history so that the circumstances under which the Jinni became a servant never happened. The Jinni accepts this, but it comes with consequences: Since this means that Lizzie never met the Jinni, she forgets the CharacterDevelopment that she gained in the episode.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' episode "Soda Genie" had Rad, Enid and KO encounter a Soda Genie named Citrus Twisty, who causes trouble by [[JackassGenie tricking KO into wishing she'd make Rad a burger using those exact words so that she'd turn Rad into a burger]]. After Enid takes this incident to court, Citrus Twisty ends up in jail. KO feels bad for Twisty's plight, so he uses his second wish to grant Twisty freedom. Citrus Twisty thanks KO for freeing her, but refuses to undo Rad's burger transformation because she claims that wishing for her freedom has freed her of the obligation of granting a third wish. [[UngratefulBastard Even when KO offers that Twisty could still return Rad to normal of her own volition in return for being granted freedom, Citrus Twisty rudely refuses and flies off]].
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-->'''Abis Mal''': I wish for Jafar to be--(''stops suddenly'') Wait...How will I know that these treasures won't disappear once I set you free?\\
'''Jafar''' [''losing it'']: The ''more pressing'' question is: HOW WILL YOU ''STAY ALIVE'' IF YOU '''DON'T?!'''\\
'''Abis Mal''': B-B-But you said that Genies can't kill! Y-Y-You said that!\\

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-->'''Abis Mal''': I wish for Jafar to be--(''stops be-- (''stops suddenly'') Wait...How will I know that these treasures won't disappear once I set you free?\\
'''Jafar''' '''Jafar''': [''losing it'']: it''] The ''more pressing'' question is: HOW WILL YOU ''STAY ALIVE'' IF YOU '''DON'T?!'''\\
'''Abis Mal''': B-B-But you said that Genies genies can't kill! Y-Y-You said that!\\
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* [[Film/Aladdin2019 The live-action remake of]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' also has Aladdin free Genie from his lamp using his third wish, [[spoiler:but unlike the animated film where Genie is left with "semi-phenomenal cosmic power", Genie here just becomes a [[BroughtDownToNormal human]] [[HumanityEnsues being]].]]
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* Averted in ''Webcomic/TheWotch'': [[http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2003-04-07]] Such a wish is explicitly forbidden. Angelique does note however, that Jason planned to do it.

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* Averted in ''Webcomic/TheWotch'': [[http://www.[[https://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2003-04-07]] Such a wish is explicitly forbidden.com/?comic=angelique-5]] Wishes affecting the Djinn aren't allowed, including those that set them free. Angelique does note however, that Jason planned to do it.
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It was Genie who asked the question, not Iago.


** This concept is addressed in another episode, where Chaos creates an EvilTwin of Aladdin, complete with an evil genie under his command. When the evil genie [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever grows to giant size and starts wrecking the city]], Aladdin solves the problem by grabbing his lamp and wishing for him to go away. And he ''does''. When Iago questioned why the guy listened to Aladdin, he replies that he just didn't think his Evil Twin would be the type who'd use a wish to free a genie.

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** This concept is addressed in another episode, where Chaos creates an EvilTwin of Aladdin, complete with an evil genie under his command. When the evil genie [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever grows to giant size and starts wrecking the city]], Aladdin solves the problem by grabbing his lamp and wishing for him to go away. And he ''does''. When Iago Genie questioned why the guy listened to Aladdin, he replies that he just didn't think his Evil Twin would be the type who'd use a wish to free a genie.
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* An episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' had a genie who had only been used by greedy, vain people, including Mussolini and Nixon, and she had become misanthropic and jaded as a result. She eventually becomes under Mulder's employ and offers him his three wishes. He wishes for peace on Earth, which she warns him against, but his [[LiteralGenie extreme lack of specificity leads to her vanishing every single person except him and her.]] He uses his second wish to bring everyone back, and is about to use his third wish to request peace on Earth again, this time writing out an extremely detailed statement with no possible loopholes, until Scully posits that influencing the state of the entire world shouldn't be up to one man. He decides to let her grant her own wish of being free and doing what she said before she would wish for if she could: sitting in a cafe, sipping a nice cup of coffee, and contentedly watching the world go by.

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* An episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' had a genie who had only been used by greedy, vain people, including Mussolini and Nixon, and she had become misanthropic and jaded as a result. She She's eventually becomes under Mulder's employ and offers him his three wishes. He almost immediately wishes for peace on Earth, which she warns him against, but his [[LiteralGenie extreme lack of specificity leads to her vanishing every single person except him and her.]] He uses his second wish to bring everyone back, and is about to use his third wish to request peace on Earth again, this time writing out an extremely detailed statement with no possible loopholes, until Scully posits that influencing the state of the entire world shouldn't be up to one man. He decides to let her grant her own wish of being free and doing what she said before she would wish for if she could: sitting in a cafe, sipping a nice cup of coffee, and contentedly watching the world go by.
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* An episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' had Mulder finding a genie in a carpet who was such a pain in the ass about being a LiteralGenie this was the only wish that would work.

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* An episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' had Mulder finding a genie in a carpet who was such had only been used by greedy, vain people, including Mussolini and Nixon, and she had become misanthropic and jaded as a pain in the ass result. She eventually becomes under Mulder's employ and offers him his three wishes. He wishes for peace on Earth, which she warns him against, but his [[LiteralGenie extreme lack of specificity leads to her vanishing every single person except him and her.]] He uses his second wish to bring everyone back, and is about to use his third wish to request peace on Earth again, this time writing out an extremely detailed statement with no possible loopholes, until Scully posits that influencing the state of the entire world shouldn't be up to one man. He decides to let her grant her own wish of being a LiteralGenie this was the only wish that free and doing what she said before she would work.wish for if she could: sitting in a cafe, sipping a nice cup of coffee, and contentedly watching the world go by.
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-->-- '''Genie''', ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''

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-->-- '''Genie''', ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''
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* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', Aladdin set the genie free at the end, and [[TrickingTheShapeshifter tricked Jafar into becoming a genie and being trapped in a lamp of his own]].
* In ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', Jafar makes Abis Mal vow to do this. However, when it's most appropriate to do, Mal (very reasonably) gets cold feet.

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* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Aladdin set the genie free at the end, and [[TrickingTheShapeshifter tricked Jafar into becoming a genie and being trapped in a lamp of his own]].
* In ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', Jafar makes Abis Mal vow to do this. However, when it's most appropriate to do, Mal (very reasonably) gets cold feet.



* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' the series:

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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': In the episode "Treasure of the Found Lamp!", the characters spend most of their time trying to recover the Lamp of the First Genie on behalf of the warrior Faris D'jinn. [[spoiler:Once it's recovered, it turns out that Djinn's ancestor had freed the genie that was inside it because they fell in love - D'jinn is the eight-times great-grandson of the couple, and he wants the lamp back for purely sentimental reasons.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In the episode "Treasure of the Found Lamp!", the characters spend most of their time trying to recover the Lamp of the First Genie on behalf of the warrior Faris D'jinn. [[spoiler:Once it's recovered, it turns out that Djinn's ancestor had freed the genie that was inside it because they fell in love - D'jinn is the eight-times great-grandson of the couple, and he wants the lamp back for purely sentimental reasons.]]
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* Werewolf: the Apocalypse including a type of Genie Bane (the Dream Makers) who can do anything but materialize on Earth. If anyone wishes for them to do so they'll become virtually omnipotent. Fortunately none of them have been freed...yet.

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* Werewolf: the Apocalypse ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' including a type of Genie Bane (the Dream Makers) who can do anything but materialize on Earth. If anyone wishes for them to do so they'll become virtually omnipotent. Fortunately none of them have been freed...yet.
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* Werewolf: the Apocalypse including a type of Genie Bane (the Dream Makers) who can do anything but materialize on Earth. If anyone wishes for them to do so they'll become virtually omnipotent. Fortunately none of them have been freed...yet.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' story "The Beef of Bagdad" has the Rottens tricking Babu (of the Scooby Doobies) into releasing a malevolent genie that lays a curse on him--turning Babu into a giant snail.



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* Brutus Thornapple, the protagonist of Art Sansom's ''The Born Loser'', finds a magic lamp and releases a genie who grants him one wish. Brutus turns to us and quips "Boy, I wish Gladys (''his wife'') could see this!" The genie disappears and is replaced with Gladys who deadpans "Somebody call me?"
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* Dick Dastardly releases a genie in the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' episode "The Dipsy Doodle Desert Derby." He could simply wish to win the race, but he uses his wishes to have the genie help him cheat. It naturally backfires, either through Dastardly's poor syntax or the genie's clumsiness.
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** "Ali Baba Bunny" has Bugs Bunny impersonating a genie to fool Hassan, the guard of the cave where Ali bab's treasure is encased (and which Daffy Duck covets).
** "A Lad in a Lamp" featured Smokey, the Jim Backus-voiced lamp-dwelling genie that pairs up with Bugs to defeat a pompous sultan at the cartoon's conclusion.
* WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther is talked into becoming a genie in a lamp as a novelty ("Genie With the Light Pink Fur").
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* Brutus Thornapple, the protagonist of Art Sansom's ''The Born Loser'', finds a magic lamp and releases a genie who grants him one wish. Brutus turns to us and quips "Boy, I wish Gladys (''his wife'') could see this!" The genie disappears and is replaced with Gladys who deadpans "Somebody call me?"
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* Dick Dastardly releases a genie in the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' episode "The Dipsy Doodle Desert Derby." He could simply wish to win the race, but he uses his wishes to have the genie help him cheat. It naturally backfires, either through Dastardly's poor syntax or the genie's clumsiness.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** "Ali Baba Bunny" has Bugs Bunny impersonating a genie to fool Hassan, the guard of the cave where Ali bab's treasure is encased (and which Daffy Duck covets).
** "A Lad in a Lamp" featured Smokey, the Jim Backus-voiced lamp-dwelling genie that pairs up with Bugs to defeat a pompous sultan at the cartoon's conclusion.
* WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther is talked into becoming a genie in a lamp as a novelty ("Genie With the Light Pink Fur").
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': In the episode "Treasure of the Found Lamp!", the characters spend most of their time trying to recover the Lamp of the First Genie on behalf of the warrior Faris D'jinn. [[spoiler:Once it's recovered, it turns out that Djinn's ancestor had freed the genie that was inside it because they fell in love - D'jinn is the eight-times great-grandson of the couple, and he wants the lamp back for purely sentimental reasons.]]
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'''Jafar''' [''losing it'']: The ''more pressing'' question is: HOW WILL YOU ''STAY ALIVE'' IF YOU '''DON'T?!''''\\

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'''Jafar''' [''losing it'']: The ''more pressing'' question is: HOW WILL YOU ''STAY ALIVE'' IF YOU '''DON'T?!''''\\'''DON'T?!'''\\

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* In ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' this usually happens automatically with the banshee of the world of Arkhanta: they have to grant three wishes to anyone who captures them, as long as they have the power to do so (it's actually a plot point that Yua, the most powerful of them all bordering on being a RealityWarper, was unable to cure Maqi's autism), but once this is done they're free to go... Unless [[InvertedTrope the last wish is that they'll grant all their captor's wishes]], as happens to Yua when captured by Ari.
** This is weaponized by the Guardians when they have to face Ari: knowing his power depended completely on Yua, and not wishing to kill him partly because [[PapaWolf all he wants in the end is to cure his son's autism]] and doesn't understand the Oracle is forbidden from doing so for a reason and partly because they're under orders to find a peaceful solution, they resolve to reach Yua and break the enchantment keeping her bound to Ari. [[spoiler:They succeed... At which point Yua, who has very justifiably grown to hate Ari, takes back everything she gave him and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero kidnaps Maqi to make him suffer]]]].
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* Two episodes of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' dealt with genies, the first genie needing to grant three wishes in exchange for freedom. The second episode had Phoebe acquire a genie accidentally and when she wished her free, became the genie [[FanService herself]]. And the genie turned out to be a demon who was imprisoned in the bottle as punishment.

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* Two episodes of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' dealt with genies, the first genie needing to grant three wishes in exchange for freedom. The second episode had Phoebe acquire a genie accidentally and when she wished her free, became the genie [[FanService herself]]. And the genie turned out to be a demon who was imprisoned in the bottle as punishment.
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* Rowdy from ''WebVideo/TVTrash'' has a genie that he freed years ago, but who still sticks around cause she's a friend. This gets used against a villain that tries to steal her bottle, prompting a "DidYouActuallyBelieve" from Rowdy for thinking he would ever keep a slave.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'' has Puss letting the orphans use a Golem as their own personal genie, but when ExactWords causes problems, he briefly considers it better off to leave it dead before he comes up with a better idea and commands the Golem to "Write down what you want the Golem to do".

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'' has Puss letting the orphans use a Golem as their own personal genie, but when ExactWords causes cause problems, he briefly considers it better off to leave it dead before he comes up with a better idea and commands the Golem to "Write down what you want the Golem to do".



* The cat genie at the end of ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'''s episode "Wishful Thinking" gets free after he acomplished Mungo's ThreeWishes, mostly wasted as when Mungo just says "I wish to know [were the genie is]".

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* The cat genie at the end of ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'''s episode "Wishful Thinking" gets free is freed after he acomplished accomplishes Mungo's ThreeWishes, mostly wasted as when Mungo just says says, "I wish to know [were [where the genie is]".
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* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2973937/1/Discovery Discovery]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' fanfic, [[spoiler:Timmy wishes Norm the Genie free in chapter 12: One Jump Ahead.

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* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2973937/1/Discovery Discovery]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' fanfic, [[spoiler:Timmy wishes Norm the Genie free in chapter 12: One Jump Ahead.]]

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