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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Have a Gay Old Time Epic Movie 20 Minutes into the Future Be Careful What You Wish For Truth in Television Christmas Movies Index The Film of the Book Blonde, Brunette, Redhead No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Lancer Evil Brit Auto Erotica Crapsack World Spared by the Adaptation It's Personal Death Glare Romantic Comedy The End... Or Is It? Novelization Your Head A-Splode Our Zombies Are Different True Companions Dirty Cop Not So Stoic Artistic License – Geography Italian Films Smug Snake Arranged Marriage Slashed Throat Parental Substitute Aside Glance Historical In-Joke Kill It with Fire Man on Fire Everyone Has Standards Love at First Sight No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Shower Scene Fat Bastard Abusive Parents Karmic Death Call-Forward A Date with Rosie Palms Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Double-Meaning Title Instant Death Bullet Disguised in Drag Dark Reprise Would Hit a Girl Flashback Adaptation Distillation Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Break the Haughty Pet the Dog Dark Is Not Evil Evil vs. Evil Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Pretty Little Headshots Off-into-the-Distance Ending Rape as Drama Covers Always Lie Does Not Like Shoes Disney Death Zombie Stories Toplessness from the Back From Bad to Worse Thriller She Cleans Up Nicely Four-Temperament Ensemble Berserk Button Adults Are Useless Decoy Protagonist Easily Forgiven Off with His Head! The Dog Bites Back Death of a Child Extremely Short Timespan Informed Ability Romantic False Lead Funny Foreigner Bait-and-Switch Agony of the Feet And I Must Scream Shell-Shocked Veteran Mexican Standoff World of Ham Creative Closing Credits Actor Allusion Curb-Stomp Battle Ungrateful Bastard Anachronism Stew Car Fu Martial Arts Movie "The Reason You Suck" Speech Race Lift Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Brick Joke A Minor Kidroduction Fake Shemp The Remake Woman in White Too Dumb to Live Exactly What It Says on the Tin Fan Disservice Military and Warfare Films He Who Fights Monsters Kick the Dog Noodle Incident Dirty Old Man Defrosting Ice Queen Even Evil Has Loved Ones Deconstruction Mercy Kill Mood Whiplash I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Death by Sex Retirony Blood Knight Gainax Ending Hair-Trigger Temper Genre Savvy Adapted Out Bottomless Magazines Darkest Hour Sassy Black Woman Eye Scream Playing Gertrude Drugs Are Bad Kids Are Cruel Early Installment Weirdness Cool Old Lady Butt-Monkey Meaningful Background Event Unspoken Plan Guarantee Grievous Bottley Harm Jump Scare Daddy's Girl Unusually Uninteresting Sight Slasher Smile Word of God The Chick Naïve Newcomer The Stoner Jerk with a Heart of Gold Red Right Hand Dirty Coward Spanner in the Works Chiaroscuro Broken Aesop The Voiceless Hollywood Darkness Blood from the Mouth Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Armor-Piercing Question Dramatic Gun Cock What the Hell, Hero? "Well Done, Son!" Guy Gratuitous English The Sociopath Heroic Sacrifice Cowboy Cop Peek-a-Boo Corpse Black Dude Dies First A.I. Is a Crapshoot In Medias Res Book-Ends Guile Hero Face–Heel Turn Sequel Escalation Homage Despair Event Horizon You Killed My Father BFG Facial Horror The Cameo Very Loosely Based on a True Story Mad Scientist Your Cheating Heart Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Token Minority Costume Porn Implacable Man Sports Stories Determinator Alliterative Name You Have Failed Me O.O.C. Is Serious Business Chase Scene Whole Plot Reference Bittersweet Ending Immune to Bullets Evil Plan folderlabel Camera Abuse Stuff Blowing Up Rich Bitch I Need a Freaking Drink I Did What I Had to Do The Hero Victoria's Secret Compartment Sir Swears-a-Lot Demonic Possession Mooks Animal Title Index Drowning My Sorrows Boom, Headshot! Canadian Movies Yandere Due to the Dead The Alleged Car You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Asshole Victim Anti-Villain Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Television Movie Index Insistent Terminology Small Name, Big Ego Index of Film Westerns Hong Kong Films British Films Meaningful Name Badass Boast The Ghost Improbable Aiming Skills The Mole Batman Gambit My Greatest Failure Action Girl Alas, Poor Villain Framing Device Evil Laugh Flipping the Bird Femme Fatale Corpsing Attempted Rape Frame-Up Death Seeker Body Horror Composite Character Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! All There in the Manual Cool Old Guy For the Evulz Vampire Fiction Punch-Clock Villain Action Prologue Leave the Camera Running Author Avatar German Films Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Show Within a Show Every Car Is a Pinto Music Stories Chekhov's Skill Exact Words Not What It Looks Like Coming-of-Age Story Idiot Ball Jitter Cam Unwitting Instigator of Doom Market-Based Title French Films Lighter and Softer Riddle for the Ages Handicapped Badass Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Brute Diabolus ex Machina Bilingual Bonus Parental Abandonment Beta Couple I Have Your Wife Sealed Evil in a Can Narrator As the Good Book Says... Celebrity Paradox Parental Neglect Horror Films Gold Digger Artistic License – Military Eagleland Intergenerational Friendship Stylistic Suck All Girls Want Bad Boys Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Pragmatic Adaptation Alpha Bitch Creator Cameo Fanservice Extra Kubrick Stare Ambiguously Gay The '80s Our Vampires Are Different Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Match Cut Pragmatic Villainy No Antagonist Adult Fear Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Cool Guns Belligerent Sexual Tension Scary Black Man Punny Name Shout-Out Chekhov's Gunman Drives Like Crazy Mr. Exposition Even Evil Has Standards Evil Is Hammy Sadistic Choice The Casanova Evil Is Petty Put on a Bus Badass Normal Logo Joke Mistaken for Gay Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dies Wide Open Villain Song Good Is Not Nice Affably Evil Unusual Euphemism Famous Last Words Ripped from the Headlines Dwindling Party Random Events Plot Dissonant Serenity Hate Sink Offscreen Moment of Awesome Pay Evil unto Evil Slap-Slap-Kiss Vomit Discretion Shot Hidden Depths Maybe Ever After Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Actually Pretty Funny The Ditz Fatal Family Photo The Chessmaster Daylight Horror Defiant to the End What You Are in the Dark Big Bad Duumvirate Bad Boss Malevolent Masked Men Bowdlerise Kill 'em All Mythology Gag For Want of a Nail Reasonable Authority Figure Only a Flesh Wound Earn Your Happy Ending Fainting Red Oni, Blue Oni "Awesome McCool" Name '80s Hair