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* ''ComicBook/AngryBirdsComicsGamePlay'': Matilda makes a wish upon a falling star in ''A New Bird in the Flock'', it doesn't come true.
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* ''ComicBook/AngryBirdsComicsGamePlay'': Matilda makes a wish upon a falling star in ''A New Bird in the Flock'', it doesn't come true.
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* ''Webcomic/DICETheCubeThatChangesEverything'': [[spoiler:The Final Die is a giant die]] from outer space that crashlands in the suburbs [[spoiler:and asks a kid beaten by his father his one wish. The kid becomes X and start granting wishes of other people in JerkassGenie way. The Final Die out of its MultipleChoicePast]] decides that being a fallen wishing star is the best analogy.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', a shooting star appears just as Mei says that she and her friends are going to walk into the 4*Town concert girls and come out women.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', the MacGuffin of the film is a shooting star that fell to Earth long ago with the power to grant a single wish to whoever reaches it first.
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* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Sarge has been wishing on shooting stars every night for the past decade. The wish is, of course, for Grif's violent and untimely death.
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* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', Sarge has been wishing on shooting stars every night for the past decade. The wish is, of course, for Grif's violent and untimely death.
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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaInTheWanNyanSpacetimeOdyssey'' have Doraemon and gang finally becoming friends with Hachi and his gang (a bunch of andromorphic can and dog-people) and spending the night at their place, while Nobita is still pinning for his missing dog, Ichi. Then, Shizuka sees what she thought was a shooting star, and wished Nobita can reunite with Hachi soon. [[spoiler:Ironically her wish is closer than she thinks - Hachi, their new friend, [[TomatoSurprise is actually the evolved Ichi]] who accidentally got thrown around in a time-warp and de-aged]].
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* Amitie has an alt in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoQuest'' known as Wishing Star Amitie who is based around this as a motif, wearing night sky-themed clothing and carrying a bag of stars with her. Additionally, the alt's Leader Skill is called "I Wish Upon a Shooting Star".
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* ''Literature/TheMissingPieceOfCharlieOReilly'': The night before Charlie's eleventh birthday, he wished that his AnnoyingYoungerSibling Liam would go away and disappear. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He got his wish]] - the next morning, Liam was RetGone, and no one except Charlie remembered that he had ever existed. In the year since then, Charlie has wished on wishbones, pennies, and fountains, trying to bring him back, to no avail.
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* ''Literature/TheMissingPieceOfCharlieOReilly'': The night before Charlie's eleventh birthday, he wished that his AnnoyingYoungerSibling Liam would go away and disappear. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He got his wish]] - the next morning, Liam was RetGone, and no one except Charlie remembered that he had ever existed. In the year since then, Charlie has wished on wishbones, pennies, and fountains, trying to bring him back, to no avail.
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* ''Literature/TheMissingPieceOfCharlieOReilly'': The night before Charlie's eleventh birthday, he wished that his AnnoyingYoungerSibling Liam would go away and disappear. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He got his wish]] - the next morning, Liam was RetGone, and no one except Charlie remembered that he had ever existed. In the year since then, Charlie has wished on wishbones, pennies, and fountains, trying to bring him back, to no avail.
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* ''Animation/BoonieBears'': In Season 2 episode 22, Olivia explains the concept to her students as she also teaches them about how the shooting stars in the meteor shower aren't gonna hurt them.
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* ''Animation/BoonieBears'': ''Animation/BoonieCubs'': In Season 2 episode 22, Olivia explains the concept to her students as she also teaches them about how the shooting stars in the meteor shower aren't gonna hurt them.
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* ''Animation/BoonieBears'': In Season 2 episode 22, Olivia explains the concept to her students as she also teaches them about how the shooting stars in the meteor shower aren't gonna hurt them.
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* The point of ''Film/WishUponAStar'' has a tomboy named Hayley Wheaton wish on a shooting star to be like her popular girly girl sister Alexia, causing the two to swap bodies. It was revealed near the end that Alexia also wished to be like Hayley at the same time Hayley made her wish.
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* ''Film/HitchhikerMassacre'': When Woody spots a shooting star, he wishes for [[BiggerIsBettweInBed a big cock]], his record company back, and a new wife.
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* ''Film/HitchhikerMassacre'': When Woody spots a shooting star, he wishes for [[BiggerIsBettweInBed [[BiggerIsBetterInBed a big cock]], his record company back, and a new wife.
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* ''Film/HitchhikerMassacre'': When Woody spots a shooting star, he wishes for [[BiggerIsBettweInBed a big cock]], his record company back, and a new wife.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', when Miis camp out for the night, there's a chance a shooting star will appear and the Miis begin to make wishes on it; this initiates a mini game where you have to help one of the Miis' wishes come true by tapping the same wish bubble three times in a row before the star reaches the other side of the top screen. Once decided, a chest drops from the sky, as if the star granted their wishes, and you receive whatever you wished for; either gold, HP bananas, MP candy, or monsters.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', when Miis camp out for the night, there's a chance a shooting star will appear and the Miis begin to make wishes on it; this initiates a mini game where you have to help one of the Miis' wishes come true by tapping the same wish bubble three times in a row before the star reaches the other side of the top screen. Once decided, a chest drops from the sky, as if the star granted their wishes, and you receive whatever you wished for; either gold, HP bananas, MP candy, or monsters. For the Nintendo Switch port, due to the lack of a duel screen, the player can simply choose what wish they want to come true, but they still have to do it before the star disappears.
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* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Mittens sees a shooting star in "The Insomniac," and despite her cynical nature makes a wish on it. She wishes that she and Bolt can be together forever.
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* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Mittens sees a shooting star in "The Insomniac," and despite her cynical nature makes a wish on it. She wishes that she and Bolt can be together forever.
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* The concept is brought up in ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass: The Earth Carnival'' episode 12, whose educational focus is on shooting stars. Wolffy doesn't think shooting stars will work because he wished on one for more carnival tickets, and up to that point, he quickly lost the tickets he did find.
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As such, this trope is rather common in fiction, and one of the most recurring ways for characters to MakeAWish along with the {{Wishing Well}}s, the GenieInABottle, and WatchTheFireworks.
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As such, this trope is rather common in fiction, and one of the most recurring ways for characters to MakeAWish along with the {{Wishing Well}}s, Well}}s and the GenieInABottle, and WatchTheFireworks.
GenieInABottle.
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As such, this trope is rather common in fiction, and one of the most recurring ways for characters to MakeAWish along with the {{Wishing Well}}s and the GenieInABottle.
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As such, this trope is rather common in fiction, and one of the most recurring ways for characters to MakeAWish along with the {{Wishing Well}}s Well}}s, the GenieInABottle, and the GenieInABottle.
WatchTheFireworks.
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* Charlie from ''Literature/{{Wish}}'' has been making daily wishes since fourth grade. She wishes on stars, four-leafed clovers, ladybugs, and dandelions, among other things. [[spoiler:Her wish is for her family not to be broken. Although her original family never reunites, she realizes she got her wish by having Gus and Bertha as her family.]]
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* PlayedForDrama and PlayedForHorror in ''Anime/AldnoahZero'': Two children are ecstatic to see dozens of shooting stars flashing across the sky, and the younger brother happily tells his sister [[{{Irony}} he wished for world peace]] — [[DramaticIrony blissfully unaware]] that those "shooting stars" are actually huge alien spaceships descending to Earth at blinding speed, causing atomic bomb levels of devastation in the surrounding areas.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', when Miis camp out for the night, there's a chance a shooting star will appear, initiating a mini game where you have to help one of the Miis' wishes come true.
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* At the very end of the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Bot", Sylvia spots a shooting star -- really Beep Boop falling from the sky -- and Wander wishes Beep Boop good luck.
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* 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 Bamm-Bamm on their porch]] the very next day.
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* In the WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones, ''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 Bamm-Bamm on their porch]] the very next day.
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* The fifth chapter of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' (adapted as part of Episode 2) happens on a night at the peak of a meteor shower. Endou eventually kept the entire gang at the picnic site so that she can do this, but there wasn't a single shooting star visible to her that night.
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* "A New England" by Music/BillyBragg:
-->I saw two shooting stars last night\\
I wished on them, but they were only satellites\\
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?\\
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care\\
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-->I saw two shooting stars last night\\
I wished on them, but they were only satellites\\
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?\\
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care\\
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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': The [[EpisodeTitleCard title card]] of Season 2 episode 20 has Doctor H. wishing on a shooting star for Miss Peach, his CelebCrush, to be there with him. He gets a stone statue of her dropped on him instead.
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** In episode 6, Smart S. makes a wish during a meteor shower with Careless S. and gets a surprise.
-->'''Smart S.:''' I wish to always stay as handsome as I am right now until the end of time.\\
'''Careless S.:''' Huh. Those stars must be really generous to do that. Hey, take a look. They're making your wishes come true already.\\
'''Smart S.:''' Of course they are. ''[looks into his mirror]'' Because I'm as handsome as ever!\\
'''Careless S.:''' Oh, that's not it. I was referring to the part about the end of time.\\
'''Smart S.:''' Huh? Ahh?! There's a meteor!\\
''[A FlamingMeteor falls on them.]''
** The [[EpisodeTitleCard title card]] of Season 2 episode 20 has Doctor H. wishing on a shooting star for Miss Peach, his CelebCrush, to be there with him. He gets a stone statue of her dropped on him instead.
** In episode 6, Smart S. makes a wish during a meteor shower with Careless S. and gets a surprise.
-->'''Smart S.:''' I wish to always stay as handsome as I am right now until the end of time.\\
'''Careless S.:''' Huh. Those stars must be really generous to do that. Hey, take a look. They're making your wishes come true already.\\
'''Smart S.:''' Of course they are. ''[looks into his mirror]'' Because I'm as handsome as ever!\\
'''Careless S.:''' Oh, that's not it. I was referring to the part about the end of time.\\
'''Smart S.:''' Huh? Ahh?! There's a meteor!\\
''[A FlamingMeteor falls on them.]''
** The [[EpisodeTitleCard title card]] of Season 2 episode 20 has Doctor H. wishing on a shooting star for Miss Peach, his CelebCrush, to be there with him. He gets a stone statue of her dropped on him instead.
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* In one ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip, two hackers deliberately crash a satellite. As they watch it burn up, one of them tells the other to make a wish.
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** In one''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip, two hackers deliberately crash a satellite. As they watch it burn up, one of them tells the other to make a wish.wish.
** Parodied in [[https://xkcd.com/2345/ "Wish on a Shooting Star"]], with a Venn diagram showing those things that get wished on a shooting star and those things that can actually be produced by a shooting star (ie. falling meteorite). The only thing appearing in both categories is "revenge".
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** Parodied in [[https://xkcd.com/2345/ "Wish on a Shooting Star"]], with a Venn diagram showing those things that get wished on a shooting star and those things that can actually be produced by a shooting star (ie. falling meteorite). The only thing appearing in both categories is "revenge".
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* In ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', Lilo sees a shooting star and wishes for a friend. The star turns out to be a crashing spaceship carrying an escaped alien convict...
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* In ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', Lilo sees a shooting star and wishes for a friend. The star turns out to be a crashing spaceship carrying an escaped alien convict...
