Tropescilloscope: Be Careful What You Wish For

A character's wish is granted, and character regrets making it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Fantasy Films Knight Templar Dirty Coward Department of Redundancy Department Pyrrhic Victory No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Power of Love The '50s Spiritual Successor Our Zombies Are Different Shower Scene Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Darker and Edgier Jerk Jock Intergenerational Friendship Retcon She's Got Legs Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Grey and Gray Morality Here We Go Again! The Oner Big Fancy House Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Domestic Abuse Blood from the Mouth No OSHA Compliance Dropped a Bridge on Him The Ace Ambiguously Gay Off-into-the-Distance Ending Immune to Bullets Needs Wiki Magic Love Film Series Market-Based Title Danny Peary Cult Movies List Freudian Excuse Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Calling the Old Man Out Shown Their Work Friend to All Children The X of Y Call-Back Femme Fatale Beware the Nice Ones And Starring Broken Pedestal Air-Vent Passageway Hero Antagonist Those Two Guys The Load Demoted to Extra Break the Haughty Villain Protagonist Jerkass And I Must Scream Babies Ever After Even Evil Has Standards Loophole Abuse Neck Snap Dramatic Gun Cock Unusually Uninteresting Sight Black Best Friend Ambiguous Disorder Mama Bear Artistic License – History Villain with Good Publicity Mercy Kill Genre Savvy Affably Evil Suspiciously Specific Denial Informed Ability Book-Ends Plucky Comic Relief Properly Paranoid Car Fu Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Laughing Mad Evil Counterpart Homage The Un-Reveal Big "NO!" Morality Pet Tap on the Head Stealth Pun Totally Radical Token Minority Evil vs. Evil Dies Wide Open Only One Name Bullying a Dragon Adaptation Dye-Job Lock and Load Montage Meaningful Echo The Stoner Self-Deprecation Monumental Damage He Knows Too Much Last-Name Basis Ms. Fanservice Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Deus ex Machina Jump Scare Mistaken for Gay timeperiod Animal Motifs Guns Akimbo Playing Gertrude Butt-Monkey Alliterative Name Rule of Cool Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Works Set in World War II Eye Scream Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Alleged Car Leitmotif Not Even Bothering with the Accent All Men Are Perverts In the Back Creepy Child The Cameo Blood Knight Deal with the Devil Our Vampires Are Different Non-Indicative Name Red Oni, Blue Oni The Chessmaster Hope Spot Outrun the Fireball Accidental Misnaming Show Within a Show Room Full of Crazy Artistic License – Law Motor Mouth Word of God Fatal Flaw Laser-Guided Karma Sole Survivor '80s Hair Crapsack World As Himself Mooks Spared by the Adaptation Mood Whiplash The Brute Took a Level in Jerkass Does This Remind You of Anything? What You Are in the Dark Five-Man Band Villain Ball Adaptational Badass The Big Guy Man on Fire Ghost Fiction Sacrificial Lion The Stinger Translation Convention Gratuitous English Gorn Black Comedy Rape Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mr. Exposition Final Girl Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality It's Personal After the End Psychopathic Manchild Big Damn Heroes Cold-Blooded Torture Major Injury Underreaction Did Not Get the Girl Reckless Gun Usage Destination Defenestration The Smart Guy Unspoken Plan Guarantee Woman in White Eureka Moment Berserk Button Sequel Hook Distracted by the Sexy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Drugs Are Bad Downer Ending Chewing the Scenery Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Mighty Whitey Worthy Opponent Age Lift Drowning My Sorrows Only a Flesh Wound Stylistic Suck Big Brother Instinct I Did What I Had to Do Manic Pixie Dream Girl Ship Tease Shout-Out Heel–Face Turn Evil Plan Disney Villain Death Scenery Porn Author Avatar Does Not Like Shoes Bloodless Carnage Covers Always Lie Vomit Discretion Shot Shipper on Deck Trailers Always Spoil Insane Troll Logic Guile Hero Early Installment Weirdness Retired Badass Villain Song Stepford Smiler Daylight Horror Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Soundtrack Dissonance Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Race Lift Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Sassy Black Woman The End... Or Is It? Product Placement Small Name, Big Ego Parental Incest Refuge in Audacity Offscreen Moment of Awesome Ascended Extra Captain Ersatz Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Death by Sex Adult Fear Brother–Sister Incest Real Life Happily Married Due to the Dead Up to Eleven Deconstruction Bilingual Bonus Too Dumb to Live Irony Dark and Troubled Past Love at First Sight Kill 'em All Action Survivor No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fainting The Lost Lenore I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Instant Death Bullet Light Is Not Good Badass Bookworm Hong Kong Films Slap-Slap-Kiss Wicked Cultured The '80s Silence Is Golden Race Against the Clock Suddenly SHOUTING! Determinator Kids Are Cruel Jerkass Has a Point Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Star-Crossed Lovers Punny Name Face Death with Dignity Index of Film Westerns Historical Hero Upgrade Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Jerk with a Heart of Gold folderlabel Adapted Out Bowdlerise Obfuscating Stupidity Corrupt Corporate Executive The Alcoholic Eiffel Tower Effect Funny Background Event Redshirt Army Sealed Evil in a Can Overprotective Dad Serial Killer Broken Aesop Naïve Newcomer Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bar Brawl N-Word Privileges Missing Mom Not So Different Police Brutality Film Noir Silent Movie A Date with Rosie Palms Madness Mantra Exact Words Adaptational Villainy Riddle for the Ages Men Are the Expendable Gender Damsel in Distress Biopic The Reveal Empathic Environment "The Reason You Suck" Speech Interrupted Suicide Rich Bitch Pet the Dog Your Head A-Splode Dramedy Drives Like Crazy Ripped from the Headlines Unreliable Narrator From Nobody to Nightmare Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dirty Old Man Fun with Acronyms Running Gag Eyepatch of Power Anachronic Order Sexy Discretion Shot Auto Erotica B-Movie Exactly What It Says on the Tin I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Deadpan Snarker Dark Reprise Married to the Job No Ending Anti-Hero Dutch Angle Attempted Rape Thriller Aluminum Christmas Trees Villainous Breakdown Mundane Made Awesome As You Know La Résistance Ironic Echo BFG Double Entendre Put on a Bus No Name Given Ass Shove Only in It for the Money Deliberate Values Dissonance Diabolus ex Machina Bald of Evil The '60s Really Gets Around Action Prologue Have a Gay Old Time Evil Brit Famous Last Words Overly Long Gag The Casanova Villain Opening Scene Badass Grandpa All Just a Dream Bunny-Ears Lawyer Spell My Name with an "S" Stalker with a Crush Sports Stories Big-Bad Ensemble Epic Movie Hollywood Law Authority Equals Asskicking Ambiguous Ending Italian Films Logo Joke Sadistic Choice Let's Get Dangerous! Casting Gag The Remake Military and Warfare Films Cassandra Truth The Dragon Retirony Big Applesauce Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Science Fiction Films Japanese Films Smug Snake Bavarian Fire Drill Never Trust a Trailer Fanservice Oh, Crap! Expy Chiaroscuro Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Composite Character Politically Incorrect Villain Faux Affably Evil Dissonant Serenity Once More, with Clarity! Dying Moment of Awesome Kill It with Fire Bad Boss Abusive Parents Cool Guns MacGuffin A Father to His Men Punch-Clock Villain Chase Scene Slasher Smile Parental Abandonment Early-Bird Cameo Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Back from the Dead Comically Missing the Point Posthumous Character Camp Gay Hate Sink Never Found the Body Martial Arts Movie Body Horror Recycled IN SPACE! French Films Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Sinister Minister Developing Doomed Characters Brainless Beauty Twist Ending Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dark Is Not Evil Dark Action Girl You Killed My Father Brutal Honesty Betty and Veronica Dual Wielding Bond One-Liner Dogged Nice Guy Ax-Crazy Badass Longcoat Important Haircut Anyone Can Die Annoying Younger Sibling Super Strength The Musical Wounded Gazelle Gambit Mexican Standoff Adaptation Expansion Take That! Continuity Nod Title Drop Blatant Lies Malevolent Masked Men Defiant to the End Death by Irony Handicapped Badass Love Triangle Meaningful Name Foil Scary Black Man Bond Villain Stupidity No-Sell Parental Substitute True Companions For Want of a Nail Cloudcuckoolander An Axe to Grind Same Language Dub O.O.C. Is Serious Business One-Man Army Nice Guy Gilligan Cut Death Seeker It Can Think Scenery Gorn Dramatic Irony A Minor Kidroduction Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique British Films "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Spiteful Spit Alas, Poor Villain Truth in Television Earn Your Happy Ending Gone Horribly Right Mythology Gag Asshole Victim Historical-Domain Character Epic Fail Rule of Symbolism Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Fingore Brick Joke There Is No Kill Like Overkill One Steve Limit For the Evulz Author Appeal The Bully Took a Level in Badass You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Yandere Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Facial Horror Bloody Hilarious Cool Shades The Faceless Papa Wolf Horror Films Establishing Character Moment I Have Your Wife The Cavalry Rasputinian Death Lighter and Softer It's All About Me All There in the Script Sequel Escalation Redemption Equals Death Plot Hole Red Herring The Place Failed a Spot Check Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Vampire Fiction Large Ham Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Cat Fight Zombie Stories Cool Old Guy Match Cut Setting Update Ominous Latin Chanting Break the Cutie Imagine Spot Combat Pragmatist He Who Fights Monsters Chekhov's Gun Fish out of Water Artistic License – Physics Humans Are Bastards Insult Backfire Faking the Dead Fan Disservice The Mafia Determinator aka: The Determinator My God, What Have I Done? Romantic Comedy Historical In-Joke Despair Event Horizon Offscreen Teleportation You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Badass in a Nice Suit Action Genre Disappeared Dad Take a Third Option Arc Words Rewatch Bonus Conspicuous CG Big Eater Aside Glance Eagleland Undying Loyalty Vomit Indiscretion Shot Big Bad Duumvirate Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Obstructive Bureaucrat Hypocrite Not Using the "Z" Word Freeze-Frame Bonus Didn't Think This Through Central Theme Would Hurt a Child Genre Shift An Aesop Pimped-Out Dress Blackmail Poor Communication Kills Hell Is That Noise Anguished Declaration of Love Mad Scientist Pre-Asskicking One-Liner She Cleans Up Nicely Four-Temperament Ensemble Curb-Stomp Battle Foregone Conclusion Visual Pun The Film of the Book Becoming the Mask Bait-and-Switch Australian Movies Disproportionate Retribution Maybe Ever After Random Events Plot Crazy Jealous Guy Death by Adaptation Genre Throwback Defrosting Ice Queen Not So Above It All Demonic Possession Black Comedy Humiliation Conga Awesome, but Impractical Rule of Three Hero of Another Story Video Credits Apocalypse How Kick the Dog Fiery Redhead Unusual Euphemism Tagline Animal Title Index Made of Iron The Sociopath Dwindling Party Bi the Way Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Artistic License – Geography Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Everyone Has Standards Cluster F-Bomb I'm a Humanitarian All for Nothing Vacation Films Noodle Incident Whole Plot Reference Animated Credits Opening Bland-Name Product Daddy's Girl The '70s Those Two Bad Guys Good Is Not Nice This Is Gonna Suck Male Frontal Nudity Together in Death 20 Minutes into the Future Better to Die than Be Killed Improbable Aiming Skills The Lancer Improbable Weapon User Dirty Cop Hollywood Darkness Arranged Marriage Costume Porn Sir Swears-a-Lot Straight Gay Not What It Looks Like Narrator Action Girl Groin Attack Mr. Fanservice Driven to Suicide Manipulative Bastard Fanservice Extra Parental Neglect Heroic BSoD No Celebrities Were Harmed Batman Gambit Rousing Speech Flipping the Bird Honor Before Reason An Arm and a Leg Reality Has No Subtitles Based on a True Story Evil-Detecting Dog Psychological Thriller Meet Cute Extreme Doormat Canadian Movies Getting Crap Past the Radar Russian Films Time Skip The Bad Guy Wins Decoy Protagonist The Ghost Gory Discretion Shot Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Would Hit a Girl Extremely Short Timespan Get Out! Amusing Injuries Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Adults Are Useless Police are Useless Only Known by Their Nickname Artistic License – Gun Safety Pragmatic Adaptation Manchild My Greatest Failure Spanner in the Works Wham Shot Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie In Name Only "Shaggy Dog" Story Chekhov's Skill Knife Nut Beta Couple Country Matters Heroes Want Redheads All Girls Want Bad Boys The Quiet One Bloodier and Gorier Pragmatic Villainy Artistic License – Biology The Atoner Insistent Terminology Bare Your Midriff Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Gold Digger Meaningful Background Event Double-Meaning Title Hooker with a Heart of Gold Award-Bait Song May–December Romance Reality Ensues Made of Explodium Hair-Trigger Temper Woman Scorned Superhero Green-Eyed Monster Left the Background Music On Beauty Is Never Tarnished Contrived Coincidence Training Montage Advertised Extra War Is Hell Funny Foreigner Real Life Writes the Plot Peek-a-Boo Corpse Red Right Hand Chekhov's Gunman Deliberately Monochrome NO INDOOR VOICE Music Stories Say My Name Grievous Bottley Harm Heel Realization The Vamp A.I. Is a Crapshoot How We Got Here Not So Stoic All There in the Manual What the Hell, Hero? Obviously Evil Not Quite Dead Revenge Soft Glass Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun German Films Actually Pretty Funny Historical Villain Upgrade The Hero Dies Lampshade Hanging Implacable Man Hypocritical Humor Killed Mid-Sentence Storming the Castle Dull Surprise Bad "Bad Acting" Adaptational Attractiveness Psycho for Hire Eldritch Abomination Boom, Headshot! Fantastic Racism Cain and Abel Intrepid Reporter Slasher Movie The Ditz Rated M for Manly Anachronism Stew Slashed Throat Re-Cut In Medias Res Breaking the Fourth Wall Flashback Nice Hat Never My Fault Pay Evil unto Evil The Smurfette Principle The Voiceless Badass Boast Romantic False Lead Leave the Camera Running Television Movie Index Broken Bird Reasonable Authority Figure Karmic Death Creator Cameo Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Film Noir Index The Chick Stealth Hi/Bye Creative Closing Credits Cowboy Cop Manly Tears Names to Run Away from Really Fast Tempting Fate Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Mole Shell-Shocked Veteran Mugging the Monster Cat Scare Taking the Bullet Nothing Is Scarier Fatal Family Photo Serious Business Smoking Is Cool Accidental Murder Frame-Up World of Ham One-Word Title Death Glare Shut Up, Hannibal! Arch-Enemy Heroic Sacrifice Adorkable Gainax Ending Pre-Mortem One-Liner Reality Is Unrealistic Kick the Son of a Bitch Character Development Foreshadowing Children Are Innocent Only Sane Man Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Adaptational Heroism Wrong Genre Savvy Affectionate Parody Dressing as the Enemy Black and Gray Morality My Beloved Smother Greater-Scope Villain Mind Screw The Stoic Red Shirt Well-Intentioned Extremist Taking You with Me Paper-Thin Disguise Kubrick Stare Red Eyes, Take Warning Pretty in Mink Alpha Bitch Corpsing Almost Kiss Evil Is Hammy Antagonist Title Gender Flip Idiot Ball Agony of the Feet You Have Failed Me As the Good Book Says... Death of a Child Easily Forgiven From Bad to Worse Tranquil Fury Beard of Evil Actor Allusion Face–Heel Turn Cruel and Unusual Death Neck Lift Badass Normal Loads and Loads of Characters Call-Forward Bittersweet Ending Captain Obvious Canon Foreigner Very Loosely Based on a True Story Fat Bastard Catch-Phrase "Awesome McCool" Name Abhorrent Admirer Novelization Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Jitter Cam Adaptation Name Change Fake Shemp Victoria's Secret Compartment Evil Sounds Deep The Hero Those Wacky Nazis Cool Car The Starscream Your Cheating Heart "Well Done, Son!" Guy Every Car Is a Pinto Stock Footage Henpecked Husband Rape as Drama Be Careful What You Wish For Protagonist Title Bring My Brown Pants Christmas Movies Index It Will Never Catch On Heterosexual Life-Partners Off with His Head! Moment Killer More Dakka Vitriolic Best Buds Big Bad Wretched Hive Camera Abuse Crazy-Prepared Mystery and Detective Films Improvised Weapon Throwing Your Sword Always Works Amoral Attorney Belligerent Sexual Tension Curse Cut Short Horror Comedy I Need a Freaking Drink Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Card-Carrying Villain No Antagonist Bolivian Army Ending Cool Old Lady Fate Worse than Death Disney Death