History Main / IWishedYouWereDead

* Inversion: At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' film "Hare Ribbin'", the dog goes into a massive guilt trip after thinking his bite of "rabbit sandwich" killed Bugs Bunny and wishes he were dead. Bugs hands the dog a gun ("Do you mean it?") And he blows his brains out. (In the director's cut, Bugs shoves the gun in the dog's mouth and shoots.)

* In a series where bad ends are the norm, one arc of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' takes this trope to a [[KillEmAll near-superpower level]]. To clarify, the hero, Keiichi, had decided to murder the abusive uncle of one of his friends, and soon after wishes death upon a nurse who suspects his involvement in the crime, a police officer who is a jerk to him, and the doctor whom he confided in when he realizes that [[spoiler:the doctor thinks he's crazy (he is) and is planning to sedate him]]. All three are soon reported dead. At the end, after things get even more out of hand, as he falls from a bridge into the river, he wonders how things went so wrong and wishes [[spoiler:for the destruction of the entire town]]. Cut to a TV screen detailing the [[spoiler:Hinamizawa Gas Disaster; the entire village died in one night, leaving Keiichi as the sole survivor. TIPS reveal that after that, Keiichi has basically lost his mind and believes himself to have God-like powers. When he feels that a reporter is being rude, he tells him that he'll die in water. It's noted that, years later, the reporter died in a fishing accident]]. The twist? [[spoiler:It's all coincidence. Keiichi doesn't have God-like powers, and one of the first three people is FakingTheDead.]]

* ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' has Kousei that telling his IllGirl mother Saki to die after being fed up with [[spoiler:her abuse and harsh critique of his piano playing]]. Apparently she died sometime after it and they never made up.

* In ''Film/PoisonIvy'', after [[IllGirl Sylvie's mother]] [[spoiler:by all appearances]] jumps to her death, Sylvie admits that at times she wanted to kill her because she was embarrassed at what she perceived was her mother [[{{Hypochondria}} playing up her illness for attention,]] and now deeply regrets not realizing she ''was'' really in pain.

* In one episode of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', Lizzie wishes someone would "knock [[AlphaBitch Kate]] off her pedestal" moments before [[TheCheerleader Kate]] actually falls off the pyramid and breaks her arm, prompting Lizzie's cartoon avatar to ask "Since when do I control the wind?" While she doesn't feel guilty, exactly, she does wind up teaching Kate some [[ContinuityNod rhythmic gymnastics]] she can do one handed because Kate's temporarily replacement is actually worse than she is.

* A variant in that [[Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX Chen]] wished for Yume Ni to suffer and she did, through long term illness, the which she succumbed to. She's felt terrible about it ever since with that being the last thing she's said to her.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': When the elderly Hisano Kuroda (your Death S-Link) saw her husband become ill and beginning to forget who he was, she wished he would die so [[TearJerker neither of them would have to suffer anymore.]] She considered his death a MercyKill since the husband she'd known was already 'dead'.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat'' had the Professor and Rock Bottom setting out to capture the leprechaun king, as in doing so grants them each three wishes. They each wish for riches, planes, boats. When Felix intervenes, the Professor and Rock both wish Felix would disappear. Instead, their fortunes do as making a fourth wish automatically negates their three legitimate wishes.

* [[http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-airplane-thief-20100712?page=4 As shown in a]] ''RollingStone'' magazine, about a young criminal named "The Airplane Thief", he often got into fights with his mother (as she described, "He was like the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Tazmanian Devil]]"). Once time, when he was 12, she screamed at him "I wish you would die!" [[ForegoneConclusion He lived to be captured and to go to prison, but still...]]

* In the episode of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' exploring Ken's past, it's shown that he had a complicated relationship with his older and more popular brother Osamu, whom he both resented and admired. One day, after the two got into a heated argument, Ken spitefully wishes for Osamu to [[NeverSayDie "disappear"]]. The next scene shows Osamu being fatally hit by a car, which was the first in a [[StartOfDarkness chain of events]] that led Ken to become the Digimon Kaiser.

* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', after being irritated once again, Keiko shouts at Yusuke, "Why don't you just ''die''?" Shortly thereafter, Yusuke gets hit by a truck while saving a child; Keiko's resultant breakdown is part of what convinces him to work his way back to life.
* In ''Manga/{{Subaru}}'', the titular character got into an argument with her mother over her sick twin-brother. In the heat of the moment, Subaru lets out her feelings of having been neglected compared to her sick brother by yelling 'I wish he wasn't here anymore!' [[spoiler: Kazuma's condition worsens shortly after this happens, causing Subaru to blame herself for it.]]
* Variation in the ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'' manga: Yumei shares the story of how her parents died with a boy from a fishing village. When her tears turn into a cerulean lapis, a gem that grants wishes, the boy wishes that Yumei could be with her parents again. Naturally, this means sending her to the next life, but Lenneth [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove cannot wrap her head around it.]]

* ''Manga/TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer'' has protagonist Yuuhi plan for fellow Knight Hangetsu Shinonome to die if he ever gets in the way of / harms Samidare. [[spoiler:Then Hangetsu dies a brutal death to a golem trying to protect him.]] While he doesn't cry about it initially, he's guilty as hell.
* Near the beginning of ''Anime/{{Monster}}'', Dr. Tenma vents to an apparently unconscious patient after the hospital directors [[TheLastDJ screw his career over for disobeying questionable orders that would likely have killed his patient]]. Among other things, he angrily claims, "''They're'' the ones that should die." The patient turns out to be awake [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor and thoroughly agrees with this sentiment]]. Murder ensues.
** In this case Tenma knows he isn't responsible, and the reason he goes after the patient later was because he saved him; it's the police that think he's involved in the deaths.
* In ''Manga/{{Change 123}}'', [[spoiler:Motoko]] said this to [[spoiler:her mother]] as a child. ''Immediately'' after she said it, a load of steel I-beams just happened to fall off a truck and onto her. This is the incident that [[spoiler: created Zero to protect her from this memory]].
* In ''Manga/SakuraGari'', Masataka wishes for his boss Souma's death (by then he has ''a lot'' of reasons to want it, since [[spoiler: Souma was forcing him to work off his brother's debt with sex... but said brother was dead, [[KickTheDog and Souma hid that from him]].]]). Souma, who is madly in love with Masataka (but very bad at expressing it), takes it literally and [[DrivenToSuicide slashes his wrists]], much to Masataka's dismay.
* ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' has Kousei that telling his IllGirl mother Saki to die after being fed up with [[spoiler:her abuse and harsh critique of his piano playing]]. Apparently she died sometime after it and they never made up.
* ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'' has the PsychologicalHorror variant: [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Shinji]] gets so [[FreakOut depressed]] that when [[ApocalypseMaiden Rei]] asks him what does he want, he goes on an almost whispering rant about how [[NietzscheWannabe it doesn't make any difference whether he lives or dies]] [[spoiler:and summons this trope ''against the entire world'', [[DeathSeeker himself included]]. Unfortunately for everyone else, Rei takes this statement literally and promptly [[ApocalypseWow annihilates mankind]]. Afterwards, Shinji mulls about and realizes that this isn't what he wanted because in a world without pain, there's no happiness and [[MindScrew if there's nothing in there, he doesn't exist and therefore no one does]]. He decides (without the slightest sign of regret) that he wants everyone back and Rei obliges, killing herself in the process and dumping Shinji with a catatonic [[EmptyShell Asuka]] into a CrapsackWorld. GainaxEnding at its finest...]]

* An unintentional and unknowing version occurs in ''Manga/OnePiece'''s tenth movie ''[[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Strong World]]'' where Xiao and her mother are relieved that Shiki was finally going to leave their village alone and go to East Blue, not knowing that Shiki intended to destroy the entire area with his army of beasts. Nami, who hailed from East Blue, happened to hear them excitedly wish that Shiki would leave for East Blue sooner. When they found out, they immediately expressed regret over their words and apologized.
* ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'': Jeremy repeatedly wishes for Greg's death, and often tells him during the abuse, however, he does not feel bad about it when Greg actually does die. He does feel bad when Sandra dies though.

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Zathura}}''. One of the brothers, Walter, shortly after having an angry argument with his brother, Danny, gets a free wish from the game. Their older companion warns him not to wish that Danny would disappear [[spoiler: because that's how he got stuck in the game]]. Walter wishes for a football signed by Brett Farve.
* In ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', in a fit of frustration, Sarah wishes that the Goblin King would come and take her little brother Toby away. Naturally, he hears and obliges.

* In the film ''Film/HomeAlone'', Kevin wishes that his family would disappear. They do - they mistakenly left him behind when they went away to France on vacation, but he thinks they no longer exist. He's happy about this, but starts missing them after a while.
* The voice-over for ''Film/EvesBayou'' starts with the main character, Eve, as an adult, saying, "The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old. My brother Poe was nine, and my sister Cisely had just turned fourteen." The story of that summer then unfolds, revealing that the main character [[spoiler: believed her father had molested her sister]] and asked a voodoo practitioner to kill him. She eventually changed her mind and tried to have the voodoo stopped, but her father was still shot to death. Interestingly, in this case it is Eve's own actions (telling her father's lover's husband about the affair) that lead to her father's death, making her more "responsible" than most instances of this trope. [[spoiler: Near the end, Eve finds a letter where he denies the accusation. The ending of the theatrical version makes it pretty clear that his version of the story was true, though the director's cut is much more ambiguous.]]
* In ''Film/DeadFriend'' (aka The Ghost) Eun-jung wishes a ghost would take her sister away. Guess what happens not five minutes later?

* The "wish" part is [[LiteralGenie taken literally]] in ''Film/TheOuting'', as the main character releases a genie from a lamp after telling her father that she wishes he's dead during a fight.
* Happens twice in the 1943 film ''Film/DayOfWrath'', made more serious by the fact that it's set in the middle of a 17th century witch hunt, and wishing people dead isn't considered an idle threat.
* ''Film/{{Copycat}}''. Nicoletti is jealous of the handsome detective Reuben Goetz that his ex is working with. But Reuben is killed by a prisoner who got hold of Nicoletti's pistol, so he pours out his guilt to her over this trope.
-->'''Nicoletti:''' I can't tell you how many times I saw the two of you together...I'd see you with your heads together. He'd be making some kind of dumb joke. I wished...I wished him dead. Every time.

* Amaranta Buendía goes through this ''twice'' in ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude''. The first time, she was a teenager [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry caught in a vicious rivalry with her stepsister Rebeca]]. She prays for something horrible to happen and keep her from killing the other girl; soon after, their sister-in-law Remedios has a [[DeathByChildbirth fatal miscarriage]]. The second time, Amaranta was an adult, and her DoggedNiceGuy Gerineldo Márquez was in jail. She made a flippant remark about his possibly being in line for execution when Amaranta's mother tells her to marry the guy. Some days later, Colonel Márquez ''is'' marked for death ''via'' firing squad, and only Amaranta's older brother (Colonel Aureliano)'s threats save him from execution.

* In the novel version of Film/{{Contact}}, [[spoiler: David Drumlin]] dies during an explosion while diving to save his old student Ellie. They'd both been candidates to [[FirstContact go on the Machine]], and her first thought as she realized that he was dead was ''I can go, they'll have to send me, there's nobody else, I get to go''. She immediately is aghast with herself, and while soul-searching she realizes this.
--> Gradually she discovered that there was a part of her that had wished [[spoiler: Drumlin]] dead--even before they became competitors for the American seat on the Machine. She hated him for having diminished her before the other students in class, for opposing Argus, for what he had said to her the moment after the Hitler film had been reconstructed. She had wanted him dead. And now he ''was'' dead. By a certain reasoning--she recognized it immediately as convoluted and spurious--she believed herself responsible.
* In ''[[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Darth Bane: The Path of Destruction]]'' by Drew Karpyshyn, it just so happened young Dessel had been wishing his abusive father to die and imagining it happening all through the night on the night when his father's heart really stopped. It's not until much later when he's adopted the name Bane and being trained to become a Sith Lord because of his exceptionally strong connection with the Force that he realises it probably wasn't a coincidence. The realization that he may have been directly responsible for his father's death prompts Dessel to feel guilt and remorse for the last time in his life -- it gets so bad that his connection to the Force is badly weakened. Sadly, he gets over it.
* In the third book of ''Literature/ThePowerOfFive'' series, Jamie recounts the events of the night his foster father Ed died: [[spoiler: His twin, Scott, told Ed to go hang himself. Both twins are telepathic. Needless to say, Ed immediately did just that.]] This is why Scott and Jamie don't usually use their powers with anyone but each other.
* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Denethor wishes that his [[TheUnfavorite second son Faramir]] had died instead of his first son Boromir, and sends him on a suicidal charge to "redeem" himself. When he's brought back, apparently dead, Denethor succumbs to despair and burns himself alive.
* Brutha from the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book ''Literature/SmallGods'' was beaten by his grandmother every morning, because, even if he hadn't done anything wrong at that point, he surely would during the day. One day, he yelled after her, "I wish you were dead!" She died the next day.
* Paul Auster once asked the audience of NPR to send in short stories under the one condition that the story had actually happened (which makes this an example for the Real Life section as well). He published the best ones in his book "I thought my father was God". The titular story is told through the eyes of a young child watching her father confront a neighbour like this: "Why don't you just drop dead?". The guy actually does, leaving the author with the impression of her father having god-like powers.
* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'': Standing outside of the theater where her older sisters and abusive husband were watching a play, Princess Halley discussed said husband and she said "I wish Keifer was dead." A moment later a bomb went off in the theater. Halley misses and feels guilty about her ''sisters''' deaths--but she always meant what she said about ''Keifer''.
* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'': When Brenwyr was 6, she wished her mother dead in a fit of anger. But Brenwyr is a Shanir maledight, which means that her curses come true--wishing her mother dead really ''did'' cause it. The guilt haunts her the rest of her life.
-->'''Brenwyr''': When I was six. I borrowed my brother's clothes and dressed up in them. Mother caught me. She was furious, called me perverted, tore them off… I-I was so angry. "I hope you break your neck." I said that. And she did, going down the stairs with her arms full of shirts, and pants, and boots… Oh, Mother, don't! I take it back, I take it back…
* ''Searching for David's Heart: A Christmas Story'': This is the PlotTriggeringDeath; during a serious fight, Darcy wishes out loud that her brother David was dead, right to his face--and he is killed in a car accident when he is chasing her down to apologize.
* In ''Literature/LittleWomen'', Amy follows Jo and Laurie when they go ice skating at the river, hoping to make up with Jo after having burned the latter's manuscript of hand-written fairy-tales. Laurie calls out a warning that part of the ice is thin, but Amy is too far behind to hear him, and Jo, despite suspecting that she didn't hear, is still so angry about her manuscript that she refuses to repeat the warning. A moment later, Amy falls through the thin ice, with Jo and Laurie narrowly managing to save her from drowning. Jo is racked with guilt afterwards, blaming herself for the accident, and learns just how destructive uncontrolled anger can be.

* ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'': [[spoiler: After a particularly bad argument with her abusive husband, Gavilar, Navani burns a prayer petitioning the Almighty to kill him. When he is assassinated shortly thereafter, Navani is horrified, especially since she is genuinely devout and religious.]]

* In ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', Laura Ingalls' jealousy of her newborn baby brother turns to guilt after said brother dies. Thinking she was responsible, Laura runs away from home and climbs a mountain -- and we are not talking here about a childish exaggeration of 'hill' -- to get "closer to God." She hopes that she'll bring about a miracle by doing so. (The ''true'' miracle may be that she was able to ''find'' [[TheMountainsOfIllinois a mountain]] in [[TelevisionGeography Minnesota]].)

* In one episode of ''Series/ColdCase'', a young victim's mother had, shortly before the boy's death, prayed to God to ease her burden, as she was overwhelmed by caring for three children; she's felt horribly guilty ever since. The ending montage suggests that, now that she knows what actually happened to lead to her son's death, she may finally be able to start forgiving herself.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E21WeightOfTheWorld Weight of the World]]", when Dawn is captured by Glory, Buffy goes into HeroicBSOD mode. In her mind, she repeats the same images over and over again; one of them was her placing a book back on the shelf in the Magic Shop. Buffy explains to Willow (who has gone on a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind journey to the center of Buffy's mind]]) that it was a memory of when she had momentarily given up on saving her sister Dawn and briefly wished Dawn would die just so the fear would be over.
** Inverted when Buffy tells Angel, who is contemplating suicide, that she's tried wishing him dead, but it doesn't work as Angel survived her attempt to kill him and she's still in love with him regardless.
* This happens in the first part of an episode of ''Series/SledgeHammer'' but it isn't the main plot. When the show's CowboyCop protagonist watches a used car dealer's TV commercial, he expresses disgust, and wishes he was dead... And then the guy dies of a heart attack. He quickly regrets saying it, thinking he made it happen, and eventually, to convince him otherwise, his partner shows him some recent obituaries to prove that this happens to people in that profession all the time. (It convinces him, but then they realize that all of them died suspiciously, and via a similar means, making them suspicious that a serial killer is targeting used car salesmen, leading to the main plot.)

* There was an episode of ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' that Kay Panabaker guest-starred in, where she and her sister that apparently cannot stop fighting for more than a few seconds are brought into the hospital. Something is apparently more wrong with the older sister than meets the eye, and she is wheeled off to ICU. The last words her sister says to her? "I hope you die!" A short time later, blood starts coming out of the girl's nose and her eyes are shut. So...

* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' did this in an early episode. Fortunately for Cory's conscience, Mr. Feeny recovered.
* Slight inversion of the 'My parents got divorced because of me' version, Zoey of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' is visiting a retirement home (as community service), and two former scientists are trying to explain nuclear fission (I think). She asks them to dumb it down (just for the trope apparently, since she does belong in the town) and they use the analogy of her parents' divorce. She processes this for a moment before asking if they intended to imply that she was the cause. They glance at each other and fervently try to convince her that wasn't their intent. It's never brought up again.
* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Lily gives her estranged father her "You're Dead To Me" look, then regrets it when she discovers a complete stranger she gave the look to had died.
* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'': During a faculty party for a universally-hated teacher in "Body & Soul & Dick", Mary tells Dick that she wishes that the guest of honor was dead, only for said guest of honor to die of a HollywoodHeartAttack a minute later. Dick, [[InnocentlyInsensitive being Dick]], congratulates her on getting her wish, but Mary is horrified, and the next time we see her, [[INeedAFreakingDrink she's knocking back martinis like it's going out of style]].
* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' had an episode where Will told off his uncle's JerkAss political mentor-turned-rival, including a "drop dead." Seconds later, he has a fatal heart attack. Will attends the funeral out of guilt, only to learn that [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing he was pretty well universally hated]] - most of the "mourners" are there just to make sure he's really gone. Will admonishes them for their callousness, causing one to ask who he is; when he responds "I'm the dude who killed him," he gets a standing ovation. "Tough room."
* In one of his stand-up comedy specials, comedian Creator/LouisCK has a bit about his friend telling him he should never say things like "I hope your plane crashes" because "wouldn't [he] feel terrible if it came true". His pithy response is that he actually thinks it would be pretty cool: "Are you kidding? I would gladly sacrifice your life for knowledge of my super-power!"
* In the ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episode "Not in Portland", Juliette says she wishes her boss would get hit by a bus or something...and you know how the trope goes. She didn't have the kind of power alluded to in the Louis C.K. example above - it was simply PlayedForLaughs at the expense of her boss, who probably wasn't really a bad guy.
* In the ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' episode "Sticks and Rope", Oliver the Victorian ghost wished that his sickly brother Albert would die because Oliver resented the attention their parents gave Albert. When Albert actually died, Oliver was DrivenToSuicide by the guilt. [[spoiler: When Oliver finally accepts that he did not cause Albert's death, his door appears, and Albert heart-warmingly welcomes him to the afterlife.]]
* In an episode of ''Series/That70sShow'', Eric is telling off his grandmother (Red's mother) and asks "Would it kill you to be nice?" She immediately drops dead. At the end of the episode, he's explaining what happened to Red, who just laughs and says, "[[TheChewToy That could only happen to you]]."
* In the [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E07HookMan "Hook Man" (S01, Ep07)]] episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Lori does this to her father when she finds out he is having an affair and accidentally summons the titular Hook Man.
* In one episode of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', Lizzie wishes someone would "knock [[AlphaBitch Kate]] off her pedestal" moments before [[TheCheerleader Kate]] actually falls off the pyramid and breaks her arm, prompting Lizzie's cartoon avatar to ask "Since when do I control the wind?" While she doesn't feel guilty, exactly, she does wind up teaching Kate some [[ContinuityNod rhythmic gymnastics]] she can do one handed because Kate's temporarily replacement is actually worse than she is.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Supernanny}}'' has a 3-year-old threatening this towards his own mother and Jo.
* The ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Health Scare" where after Malcolm and Reese got home from a party of ladies they snuck to, He yells this to their parents who sadly walk to their room if a disapparent grounding doesn't work.

* In ''Theatre/JacobMarleysChristmasCarol'' [[spoiler:Scrooge inadvertently does this to ''himself'' when he begs to be killed, which makes Death appear to grant his wish]].

* In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', [[CuteGhostGirl Yuyuko Saigyouji]], is literally described as being capable of "Invoking death as she wishes." This trope [[EpilepticTrees may have]] factored in her [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]. Fortunately, she's too polite to use this power nowadays...well, usually.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'': [[spoiler:Sort of: At the end of Chapter 4, as Elaine is sharing her LastKiss with the fatally wounded Guybrush, [=LeChuck=] taunts him by saying, "Aren't you dead yet? I've got wedding plans to make!" As if on cue, Guybrush [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in her arms]] and leaves her heartbroken and angry. Cue the InformalEulogy.]]
** [[spoiler: Played with in Chapter 5, when Guybrush (as a zombie) confronts [=LeChuck=], who tells him, "I do wish you hadn't made such a pest of yourself. [[IWantThemAlive I wanted you alive]] to see me marry Elaine!"]]
* Averted in ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness''. Aside from surprise, Lahral's reactions to his father's death are wishing he had been the one to killing him, and in the anime, berating him for dying by choking on food. He also once states "I'll kill you!" only for Etna to remind him the king is already dead.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': When the elderly Hisano Kuroda (your Death S-Link) saw her husband become ill and beginning to forget who he was, she wished he would die so [[TearJerker neither of them would have to suffer anymore.]] She considered his death a MercyKill since the husband she'd known was already 'dead'.

* Parodied in [[http://www.wondermark.com/d/126.html this]] ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' comic.

* WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}: "The Misery Chick" introduces former Lawndale quarterback Tommy Sherman, who is being honored with a new goalpost named after him, and who is also a world-class Jerk Jock. After Daria comments on how, even though he's an asshole, he'll still be treated like a hero for the rest of his life, Jane makes a crack about how he might not live that long -- just in time for him to be killed by his own commemorative goalpost. Afterwards, Jane spends the next few days avoiding Daria, because she's freaked out by the coincidence and doesn't want to think about it.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE63ThePrinceAndThePonies The Prince and the Ponies]]", the First Tooth Babies are jealous of the Newborn Twins and hope for bad things to happen to them. They eventually find out that [[spoiler:the Newborn Twins were only invited to the palace so the Duchess's daughter could take them as her pets]].
-->"That what we hoping would happen to them."\\
"Only now, me not feel good 'bout hoping for it."
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' to a minor variant, although inverted for two reasons. Rarity, annoyed that Fluttershy ended up becoming popular instead of her, gets so stressed over it that she outright wishes that her popularity suddenly stopped. Inverted the first time, because she realizes just how terrible it is to wish bad things on a friend at the moment of saying it (As Twilight immediately points out), and Inverted again because [[spoiler:Fluttershy doesn't want all the attention required from her new work, but is staying in it [[PoorCommunicationKills for Raritys sake]]]].

* There was an episode of WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} where Tommy wished the worst thing ever would happen to Angelica. Angelica goes home, but Tommy finds a statue of her and is racked with guilt, thinking his wish had turned her to stone.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' featured a three wishes genie. Mandy gets annoyed and wishes that "everyone in the whole wide world would just go away." They do. She is approximately as pleased as she always is.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Pinkeye," Stan gets so upset with Wendy because she wore a Chewbacca mask for Halloween instead of dressing up like Raggedy Ann (he dressed up as Raggedy Andy), that he says he wishes she was dead right to her face. Later he feels guilty when he and the other boys discover Wendy is a zombie (albeit until Kyle kills head zombie Kenny).
* Inverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' when Luanne, arguing with the ghost of her boyfriend Buckley, tells him "I wish you weren't dead!"
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' focuses on the other Cul-de-sac kids as they discover that the Ed's are mysteriously absent from the neighborhood. At first they enjoy their freedom from being constantly hassled by the Ed's scams, but as the hours creep by, they begin to worry as they find that the Ed's are ''nowhere'' to be found. Jimmy confesses that he's wished for this to happen almost every birthday, and feels guilty that it seems like it came true. The other kids all feel the same way, with the exception of Kevin, who grows [[SanitySlippage increasingly paranoid]] that their absence is all part of a [[ConspiracyTheorist massive, complicated scam.]] In reality, the Ed's have been wandering around all day looking for the mascot costume mask that Ed lost.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Sentinel and Blackarachnia finally meet for the first time since the latter as Elita-One was left for dead before the events of the show. Elita was turned into a techno-organic due to her [[PowerCopying powers]] screwing her up when she tried to use them on the giant spiders native to the planet they went to, and Sentinel had developed a [[FantasticRacism hatred towards organics]] [[FreudianExcuse ever since]], as well as blaming Optimus for Elita's demise rather than taking up responsibility. In their reunion, Sentinel tells her that her state is a FateWorseThanDeath and that it would've been better if she was dead.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat'' had the Professor and Rock Bottom setting out to capture the leprechaun king, as in doing so grants them each three wishes. They each wish for riches, planes, boats. When Felix intervenes, the Professor and Rock both wish Felix would disappear. Instead, their fortunes do as making a fourth wish automatically negates their three legitimate wishes.

* A villainous variation occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales1987'' episode "Master of the Djinni", where Glomgold, after finally getting his hands on a magic lamp he and Scrooge had been warring over, wishes to get rid of Scrooge by marooning him a desert island. Though he obviously doesn't regret that part, he makes the mistake of rhetorically wishing he could see the look of Scrooge's face. His genie, eager to get rid of his master, pretends to take this literally and sends Glomgold on the same island, leaving him stuck there unless he uses his final wish. Glomgold, furious at getting gipped, carelessly wishes he never found the stupid lamp. He has roughly two seconds to [[OhCrap realise what he just said]] before a magic time reset causes the lamp to get shuffled out of sight so Scrooge and Glomgold never found it in the first place.

* WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}: "The Misery Chick" introduces former Lawndale quarterback Tommy Sherman, who is being honored with a new goalpost named after him, and who is also a world-class Jerk Jock. After Daria comments on how, even though he's an asshole, he'll still be treated like a hero for the rest of his life, Jane makes a crack about how he might not live that long - just in time for him to be killed by his own commemorative goalpost. Afterwards, Jane spends the next few days avoiding Daria, because she's freaked out by the coincidence and doesn't want to think about it.
* [[NeverSayDie Nobody dies]], but in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' episode "The Prince and the Ponies", the First Tooth Babies are jealous of the Newborn Twins and hope for bad things to happen to them. They eventually find out that [[spoiler:the Newborn Twins were only invited to the palace so the Duchess's daughter could take them as her pets]].

* Covered in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' in which Daria and Jane joke about a JerkJock dying. He's immediately crushed by a goalpost, and Jane frets that they may have caused his death.

* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'': During a faculty party for a universally-hated teacher in "Body & Soul & Dick", Mary tells Dick that she wishes that the guest of honor was dead, only for said guest of honor to die of a HollywoodHeartAttack a minute later. Dick, [[InnocentlyInsensitive being Dick]], congratulates her on getting her wish, but Mary is horrified, and the next time we see her, [[INeedAFreakingDrink she's knocking martinis like it's going out of style]].

* In an episode of ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Mary tells Dick that she wishes insufferable professor [[Series/{{Frasier}} Martin Crane]] were dead. Later, he died of a heart attack, causing Dick to cheerfully declare "Dr. Albright, you got your wish!"

* Helena and her mother in ''Film/MirrorMask''. Her mother falls ill and has to be hospitalized and Helena's guilt over it is, according to one interpretation, the driving force of the dream sequence that makes up most of the film.

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* At the beginning of the ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' {{doujin|shi}} ''Silencer'', America says angrily to England that he should just disappear if he argues with him. After that, England is nowhere to be seen and no countries other than America remember him. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as it's revealed that the reasons for England's disappearance are far more complex than that...[[TearJerker although you'll probably wish that they]] ''[[TearJerker weren't]]''.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', [[CuteGhostGirl Yuyuko Saigyouji]], is literally described as being capable of "Invoking death as she wishes." This trope [[EpilepticTrees may have]] factored in her [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]. Fortunately, she's too polite to use this power nowadays...well, usually.

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E21WeightOfTheWorld Weight of the World]]", when Dawn is captured by Glory, Buffy goes into HeroicBSOD mode. In her mind, she repeats the same images over and over again; one of them was her placing a book back on the shelf in the Magic Shop. Buffy explains to Willow (who has gone on a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind journey to the center of Buffy's mind]]) that she had momentarily given up on saving her sister Dawn and briefly wished Dawn would die just so the fear would be over.

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Alice [[MakeAWish wishes]] Bob, usually a parent, was dead. Often times Bob is a total {{Jerkass}} and Alice tells him to "Drop dead" in a heated exchange. Bob then dies, or contracts a deadly disease, or has a horrible accident. Cue the angst as Alice then broods believing that she somehow is responsible for the tragedy [[AssholeVictim even if Bob had seemingly no redeeming qualities whatsoever]].

* There's an ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' story where a variant occurs. Reggie gets so frustrated with Moose that he wishes he'd break his leg. Sure enough, Moose does break his leg, and Reggie feels so guilty about it, he helps get him to the hospital.

* In the third volume of {{Manga/Dramacon}}, we see Beth talking to Christie and Matt, and at the same time, we see Beth's mother who is driving down the road...

** [[spoiler:Thankfully, it's subverted-- Beth's mother survives and they make up.]]

* Aishiteru has a character wishing her little brother would die. If he didn't, there wouldn't be a show.

* When Dawn is captured by Glory near the end of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' season 5, Buffy goes into HeroicBSOD mode. In her mind, she repeats the same images over and over again; one of them was her placing a book back on the shelf in the Magic Shop. Buffy explains to Willow (who has gone on a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind journey to the center of Buffy's mind]]) that she had momentarily given up on saving her sister Dawn and briefly wished Dawn would die just so the fear would be over.

* Reversed around in ''WesternAnimation/BambiII''. In an argument with his father over his upbringing (namely being taken in by a surrogate mother, leading Bambi to think his father no longer wanted him) he angrily snaps that he wishes "Mother was here instead of you". Despite his regret afterwards however, it is ''Bambi'' that suffers the DisneyDeath instead of the Great Prince.