History Main / JackassGenie

** He also wishes for the most beautiful woman and to rule the world. He gets a case of ValuesDissonance and a country that kills their rulers.

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[[caption-width:358:He's thinking of ten ways to [[strike:land that poor schmuck in jail]] kill him right now.]]

->'''3.14:''' Anyways here's how you play. One person wishes, the next person grants and corrupts to their own liking, then makes a wish of their own. For example: "I wish I had a car." "Granted. It's the car from Stephen King's Christine. I wish for world peace." "Granted. World peace is achieved by uniting the world against you. I wish for the secret of happiness." "Granted. You are hit by a bus."\\
--[[http://www.vgmusic.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12324 The Corrupt-a-Wish Game]], which exists on every forum ever.

A variation on the theme is for the JackassGenie to interpret ''anything'' you say as a wish, [[RidMeOfThisPriest even if you didn't intend to make one.]] Suffice to say, never say "I wish I were dead" when this particular genie is within earshot. Your "wish" ''will'' [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor be granted]]. Even the LiteralGenie tends to have a tenuous grasp of the concept of hyperbole.

[[caption-width:412:He's thinking of ten ways to [[strike:land that poor schmuck in jail]] kill him right now.]]

** Earlier in the game [[spoiler:the Precursors (while talking through their floating hologram thing) offer to turn Jak into a Precursor. However, Count Veger shows up with a gun and asks that he be turned into one instead. You can guess what happens. While this may be an example of LiteralGenie at first glance, keep in mind that during this scene, NO ONE knew what the Precursors looked like...]]

* ''{{Subnormality}}'' has a man wish to have, "Everything [he] could ever!". The genie [[{{Anvilicious}} immediately gets rid of all the non-essentials in the man's home]], his hair, and... some other things...

* ''{{Subnormality}}'' has a man wish to have, "Everything [he] needs to survive!". The genie [[{{Anvilicious}} immediately gets rid of all the non-essentials in the man's home]], his hair, and... some other things...
--> "Oh, you're one of ''those'' genies..."
--> "By the way, you only have one kidney now."

* The Eelfinn in the ''WheelOfTime'' are like this. Mat mistakes them for their answer-granting cousins, and when they won't answer his questions, he starts venting his frustrations on them instead, which they take as his wishes. They grant his wishes in the laziest way possible, and the wishes also come with a price that can be negotiated. Since he doesn't, they hang him.

* The Nightwatcher from ''[[TheStormlightArchive The Way of Kings]]''. She is a magical entity of unknown origin who will grant ''anyone'' any wish- but at the same time exact an ironic curse she feels is appropriate. [[spoiler: POV character Dalinar made an unknown wish some time ago- the curse was that he would lose all memories of his wife, and can't even hear her name spoken]].

* In AhMyGoddess demons are like this in contrast of {{Benevolent Genie}}s of Heaven.

* In one of DevilMayCry TV series there was a genie who offers to grand your wish, but he will not grant your wish to be rich or beautiful, because "it's imposible" or "I don't like the idea." Instead he will stalk you and wait when you say to someone: "I wish you die."
* In a chapter of a {{Doraemon}} manga, Doraemon introduces a robot genie that is literally this trope. Incapable of magic, the robot goes out and ''rob'' and even ''abduct'' people to fulfill Nobita's wishes. Tho in this case, the jackass part is that it's a jackass to the people it's robbing/abducting and ''not'' to Nobita.

* The Eelfinn in the ''WheelOfTime'' are like this. Mat mistakes them for their answer-granting cousins, and when they won't answer his questions, he starts venting his frustrations on them instead. One of his offhand demands happens to be leaving that place. "Wise of him to ask leavetaking when no terms were set, yet unwise not to set the terms. We will set the terms." [[spoiler:They take him outside and hang him.]] His other two wishes are slightly better though. He wishes for the holes in his memory to be filled [they give him memories of the greatest generals in history, causing him to become a military genius], and to be free of Aes Sedai [they give him a Ter'angreal that grants immunity to the One Power]. So more of a literal Genie really.

* The titular genie ''Wishmaster'' deliberately interprets any wish he's given in the most negative manner possible. For example, when a guy wishes for "a chance to escape," the genie sticks him into a water-filled glass tank in a straitjacket and lets him drown, reasoning that "Houdini did it [escaped] in two and a half minutes." The Djinn of the series actually takes BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor beyond its logical extreme, at one point rendering some poor guy blind simply for answering a question in the negative ("You don't want to see this, do you?")

* Garfield and Friends: In Cinderella Cat, a genie who looks like an anthropomorphic cat version of Marlon Brando, uses all of Garfield's wishes against him for his own amusement. For example, when he wished he had a million dollars, he gives him the money that belonged to a nearby bank, forcing him to run for his life from the authorities.

* The witch from the ''Teen Titans'' episode "Cyborg the Barbarian". Though she seemed to be on the level with Cyborg, so perhaps it was just her master she hated.

* A variant of this trope appears in a recent [[VGCats]] strip, where Leo buys a magical wish-granting monkey's paw from a whimsical stranger. He first wishes for Duke Nukem Forever but finds that the nostalgia of his childhood has been tampered with in the form of modern game design. Accepting it anyway, he then wishes for a giant wiener and is granted a massive hot dog, complete with bun and ketchup. [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown It also turns out the Duke Nukem Forever game case is empty.]]