History Main / ThreeWishes

* In ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'', one episode revolves around the Nerd finding a Genie before reviewing the Aladdin Deck Enhancer. The Nerd uses the third wish to ensure that every Deck Enhancer on Earth "fucking explodes".

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E38TheManInTheBottle The Man in the Bottle]]", the genie actually grants ''four'' wishes, with the first wish being used solely to test the genie, the second being "one million dollars" (which they give away to friends, before federal and state income tax claim the rest), the third being a clear Type 2, and the fourth to return everything to normal. A closing KarmicTwistEnding ultimately undoes their first wish as well, leaving them with nothing but some wisdom learned from the experience.

** In "Wish Bank", Janice Hamill finds a magic lamp at a rummage sale. When she rubs it, she is transported to the Department of Magical Venues and is told by the broker Mr. Brent that she has three wishes. She wishes for $10,000,000, to look ten years younger and for her ex-husband Craig to suffer from moderate sexual dysfunction for a year and a half. Mr. Brent warns Janice that the first wish will turn out fine but that the second will not turn out as expected and she will almost certainly have to use the third wish to undo the first two. Eventually, Janice is so frustrated at the Department of Magical Venues being a VastBureaucracy that [[ResetButton she wishes that she never found the lamp in the first place]].
** In "The Leprechaun-Artist", the {{Leprechaun}} Shawn [=McGool=] grants Buddy, J.P. and Richie three wishes -- one a piece -- after they capture him. However, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor none of them turn out according to plan]]. Buddy wishes for XRayVision so that he can see girls' underwear but he can't control his new power and sees internal organs and skulls. [=McGool=] reverses the wish after he determines that Buddy has learned his lesson. J.P. wishes for all of their parents to do exactly what they tell them. The boys soon learn that [=McGool=] has once again tricked them by granting their wish too literally. When J.P. orders his mother to make pizza for the three of them, he has to tell her to perform every step in the preparation from taking the pizza out of the box. [=McGool=] likewise reverses this wish. Richie wishes for a "really hot" car with a driver with a mind of his own. While they are enjoying their new stretch limo, they are chased by the police. The driver, given that he has a mind of his own, refuses their instructions to stop and gets into a car chase. When the police catch up with them, the three boys are arrested as the limo was hot as in stolen. [=McGool=] again reverses the wish and the police have no memory of the car theft.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E114IDreamOfGenie I Dream of Genie]]", the Genie only gives ''one'' wish, saying that there've been cutbacks, so the man delays making his wish and dreams three possible scenarios (the classics: love, money, and power). Finding them all to be unsatisfying, he wishes to be a genie himself, who grants three wishes. However, the condition is that every recipient of his must return his lamp to the alley, so that he'll only be found by (and thus help) people who are down-on-their-luck.

* The ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49689625/ Jackpot]]" presents Peter and Mary Jane finding a genie while stopping a museum robbery in an alternate post-''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' world where they didn't take Mephisto's deal and Aunt May died, leaving them both on the run from the pro-Registration forces. After Peter determines that asking the genie certain questions would count as a wish, he is able to use one wish to confirm that May is safe in Heaven and that the deal would have caused various additional problems in his life, uses the second wish to erase all public knowledge of his identity as Spider-Man (only those who truly care for him will still remember it), and the third wish is used to bring Gwen Stacy back to life (with the stipulation that she'll only be brought back to life if she ''wants'' to come back). The genie also grants Peter a favor by leaving a duplicate of its container in the museum while Peter takes the original one home with him, observing that this doesn't count as a wish but a way of thanking Peter for saving the genie's vessel.

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* The ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49689625/ Jackpot]]" presents Peter and Mary Jane finding a genie in an alternate post-''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' world where they didn't take Mephisto's deal and Aunt May died, leaving them both on the run from the pro-Registration forces. After Peter determines that asking the genie certain questions would count as a wish, he is able to use one wish to confirm that May is safe in Heaven and that the deal would have caused various additional problems in his life, uses the second wish to erase all public knowledge of his identity as Spider-Man (only those who truly care for him will still remember it), and the third wish is used to bring Gwen Stacy back to life (with the stipulation that she'll only be brought back to life if she ''wants'' to come back).