History Main / QuestForAWish

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "Blendin's Game", Dipper and Mabel compete in a [[GladiatorGames futuristic gladiator tournament]] known as Globnar, which gives the winner a Time Wish that can fix any impossible problem, even the ability to change history paradox-free. They initially compete (after being drafted into it by their enemy) in order to wish that [[DisappearedDad their friend's dad]] had come to his 12th birthday, [[BirthdayHater fixing the trauma from all future birthdays]]. But in the end, they give Soos the wish so he can make the choice himself. [[spoiler: Soos, after seeing how much Mabel and Dipper did for him, decides his dad wasn't worth it, and instead uses the wish for his friends... and [[MundaneMadeAwesome an infinite slice]] [[MundaneWish of pizza]].]]

* The story mode of ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary]]'' has your selected character play through a [[TournamentArc puyo tournament]] with the winning prize of being granted one wish by a magic medal. Each character, naturally, makes a different wish once they win... but the medal takes their words at face value and [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor usually mangles the wishes as a result]]. For example, Amitie wishes to be the greatest magician she can be, but the medal does nothing since it thinks she's already a good magician, Klug's wish to be in a magazine falls flat since he has to become famous first, and Sig's wish for new bugs in the forest is outright rejected because the medal dislikes insects.

[[folder: Video Games]]

* One episode of ''[[VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}} GO-GO Tamagotchi!]]'' is about Mametchi and his friends racing to reach the top of Moshimo Mountain, their motivation being a rumor that whoever reaches the top of the mountain will be granted one wish.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "To the Limit", Finn and Jake explore a dangerous labyrinth alongside a bunch of [[ItMakesSenseInContext talking hot dogs]] to get their wish of having an Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant. When they reach the wish granter, the hot dogs are so stupid they waste their wishes and Jake is so exhausted he wishes for a sandwich, leaving Finn to choose between [[SadisticChoice saving his friends, but making their journey pointless or getting the elephant but losing Jake.]] [[spoiler: He chooses the elephant, but since the elephant is a living creature it also gets a wish, which is to save the others.]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''Magical Burst'' is about {{Magical Girl}}s that kill Youma and collect their Oblivion Seeds. A Magical Girl that collects 13 Oblivion Seeds can have a single wish granted.

* The first half of ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz'' consists of Dorothy going to Emerald City to see the Wizard so he can send her home. Along the way she meets three other characters who join her to have their own wishes granted.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[ChristmasEpisode It's Christmas in Canada]]" is basically [[OffToSeeTheWizard the same premise as]] ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz'', only instead of getting wishes granted, the protagonists merely wanted to repeal some unfavorable laws. Cartman, Stan, and Kenny were just along for the ride.

* One episode of CounterMonkey tells the story of a group of adventurers seeking a genie's aid in removing a curse that was going to turn them into animals. Unfortunately, when they reach the center of the genie's temple, [[spoiler: Vegan Steve, the party thief, wishes for a Deck of Many Things instead, and has to run like hell when his friends realize what he just did. Not only does the Deck grant him a cure for the curse, he gets [[BornLucky EVERY SINGLE GOOD CARD IN THE DECK OF MANY THINGS, save one.]] When the rest of the party finally catches up to him, they find his body surrounded by treasure, the deed to a castle clutched in one hand, the [[FateWorseThanDeath Void card]] in the other.]]
** [[spoiler: [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony,]] realizing how downhill his campaign had become, decides there was enough cure for the rest of the group to undo their curses.]]

** [[spoiler: [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony,]] realizing how downhill his campaign had become, decides there was enough cure for the rest of the group to undo their curses.]]

* The [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts individual wishes changing as they get closer to the goal]].

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', a semi-sequel to [=LttP=], has [[spoiler: Hilda and]] Yuga of Lorule scheme to steal Hyrule's Triforce to replace Lorule's, which had been destroyed centuries before by {{Well-Intentioned Extremist}}s who were unaware that it was a CosmicKeystone without which their world would slowly crumble. Once again, Link is more concerned with keeping it out of [[spoiler: their]] hands than using it for himself. [[spoiler: Once he recovers it, he realizes that he can use it to wish for the Lorulian Triforce to be restored. Win-win!]]

* In ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' and ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', this is the ''modus operandi'' of Yuuko Ichihara, the Witch of Dimensions, who grants wishes in exchange for going on quests, type depending on wish.

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', the person who [[GottaCatchThemAll collects all the eponymous artifacts]] gets a single wish granted, then all the Balls split off randomly to wait again.

* The group being a RagtagBunchOfMisfits having their own selfish goals but banding together by better chances of success.