History Main / WishUponAShootingStar

* In the WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones, Barney and Betty, after a nasty spat with Fred over spending to much time with his daughter Pebbles, see a shooting star. They both make a wish, clearly for a baby of their own. Lo and behold, they [[DoorstopBaby find Bam-Bam on their porch]] the very next day.

-->-- '''Jiminy Cricket''', ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''

* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', the animation for the healing move "Wish" is represented by a shooting star. After making the wish, the user will be healed a turn later with their wish coming true.

Subtrope to MakeAWish.

[/folder]]

Wishing upon seeing a shooting star shooting through the night sky is an old and common custom: ancient civilizations thought those were [[StarsAreSouls the spirits of the departed]] and that these could bring your wishes to the heavens, so they could be granted. The nowadays knowledge of the true nature of these falling "stars" as meteorites that, instead of going into the heavens, are falling straight towards the Earth, did absolutely nothing to deter this tradition's popularity, and it remains quite common to hear about wishing for something when a shooting star is seen.

As such, this trope is rather common in fiction, and one of the most reocurring ways for characters to MakeAWish along with the {{Wishing Well}}s and the GenieInABottle.

* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'', the guys mistake a meteor shower for shooting stars, one of which hit Sid and send him flying into a tree.

** In ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', the twins wished to have super-powers. Cody woke up in the morning with telekinesis, and Zack with super speed; however, the wish also gave Mr. Moseby his own powers and advanced technology, and he took the role of a super villain. When the twins foil his plans but end up with a mess anyway, Zack uses his speed to reverse the Earth's rotation, meant to return them to the previous night, but actually taking them to the stone age. Zack later wakes up, but the episode is ambiguous as to whether or not the whole experience was AllJustADream.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode ''Memory Blank'', [[JackassGenie Desiree]] plans to grant the hundreds of wishes ellicited by a meteor shower [[LiteralGenie in the most gruesome way possible]] to become phenomenally powerful and cause chaos in Amity Park.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the episode "[[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS3E2ClubSpongebobMyPrettySeahorse Club SpongeBob]]", as the clubhouse is flung through the kelp forest, a couple mistook it as a shooting star and the man tells his wife to make a wish.

[[caption-width-right:350:You wish is its command.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the episode "Club [=SpongeBob=]", as the clubhouse is flung through the kelp forest, a couple mistook it as a shooting star and the man tells his wife to make a wish.

Wishing upon seeing a shooting star shooting through the night sky is an old and common custom: ancient civilizations thought those where [[StarsAreSouls the spirits of the departed]] and that these could bring your wishes to the heavens, so they could be granted. The nowadays knowledge of the true nature of these falling "stars" as meteorites that, instead of going into the heavens, are falling straight towards the Earth, did absolutely nothing to deter this tradition's popularity, and it remains quite common to hear about wishing for something when a shooting star is seen.

[[AC:AnimeAndManga]]

[[AC:{{Film}} - Animated]]

-->'''Manny:''' Hey, look! Shooting stars!
-->'''Sid:''' Quick, make a wish! You gotta make a--''(gets hit)'' ''WIIIIIIIISH!''
-->'''Manny:''' Wow, my wish came true.
-->'''Sid:''' I'm okay! ''(spontaneously combusts)''
-->'''Diego:''' Mine, too.

[[AC:{{Film}} - Live-Action]]

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]

[[AC:Video Games]]

[[AC:WebOriginal]]

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** In the episode "Club Spongebob", as the clubhouse is flung through the kelp forest, a couple mistook it as a shooting star and the man tells his wife to make a wish.

* In several ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games, a shooting star named Wishy sometimes shoots through the night sky, and one can make a wish by pressing the A button fast enough. If successful, the player receives a letter from Wishy the nextr morning with a rare item inside.

* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingWildWorld'', a shooting star named Wishy sometimes shoots through the night sky, and one can make a wish by pressing the A button fast enough. If successful, the player receives a letter from Wishy the nextr morning with a rare item inside.

* A possible TropeCodifier is Disney's ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'', which features the famous song "When You Wish Upon A Star" expressing this very sentiment. The titular character wishes upon a shooting star, which summons the Blue Fairy. She offers to grant his wish to become a real boy if he can prove himself brave, truthful, and unselfish.

* PlayedWith in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction''. When Yosemite Sam sends himself flying by accidentally lighting some TNT, Bugs cracks a joke by calling him a "shooting Sam" while telling everybody in the [[ItMakesSenseInContext flying car]] to make a wish.

[[AC:{{Films}} - Live-Action]]

* PlayedWith in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction''. When Yosemite Sam sends himself flying by accidentally lighting some TNT, Bugs cracks a joke by calling him a "shooting Sam" while telling everybody in the [[ItMakesSenseInContext flying car]] to make a wish.