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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Determinator Badass Bookworm Ambiguously Gay Break the Haughty Ungrateful Bastard I'm a Humanitarian Deadpan Snarker Made of Iron The Reveal Shipper on Deck Naïve Newcomer All Just a Dream Fantastic Racism Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Anti-Villain Kick the Son of a Bitch Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Affectionate Parody Maybe Ever After Black Dude Dies First Malevolent Masked Men Does Not Like Shoes Bar Brawl Becoming the Mask Friend to All Children Improbable Weapon User Knight Templar Driven to Suicide Big Applesauce Protagonist Title Yandere He Who Fights Monsters Broken Bird Pay Evil unto Evil The Hero Dies Stuff Blowing Up Dying Moment of Awesome Canadian Movies Major Injury Underreaction Pretty in Mink Last-Name Basis Adorkable Big Bad Ghost Fiction The Lancer A.I. Is a Crapshoot Skewed Priorities Defiant to the End The Dreaded Sir Swears-a-Lot Plucky Comic Relief Dwindling Party Facial Horror The Brute Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Setting Update Really Gets Around Stalker with a Crush Military and Warfare Films Vampire Fiction Alpha Bitch Adapted Out Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Real Life Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Riddle for the Ages Cruel and Unusual Death What You Are in the Dark Stealth Pun Armor-Piercing Question Advertised Extra Aww, Look! 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Berserk Button Dies Wide Open Sadistic Choice Zombie Stories The Ghost Arch-Enemy Peek-a-Boo Corpse Extreme Doormat The '50s You Have Failed Me Accidental Murder Genre Throwback Face Death with Dignity Trailers Always Spoil Red Eyes, Take Warning MacGuffin Bolivian Army Ending Foil Psychological Thriller Arranged Marriage Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Deliberately Monochrome Comically Missing the Point Papa Wolf Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Oh, Crap! Whole Plot Reference "The Reason You Suck" Speech Visual Pun Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Dramedy Bavarian Fire Drill Decoy Protagonist Bound and Gagged Death of a Child Meaningful Background Event Crapsack World Noodle Incident Belligerent Sexual Tension Good Is Not Nice Daddy's Girl '80s Hair Bloodless Carnage Reasonable Authority Figure Fourth Date Marriage Chiaroscuro You Killed My Father Big Brother Instinct Plot Hole Action Prologue Room Full of Crazy After the End Jump Scare Dropped a Bridge on Him Crazy Jealous Guy My Beloved Smother Adaptational Heroism Despair Event Horizon Fun with Acronyms Covers Always Lie Reality Has No Subtitles Video Credits And the Adventure Continues Russian Films The Voiceless Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Roaring Rampage of Revenge Film Noir Index Shout-Out Adaptational Attractiveness Bring My Brown Pants Dirty Old Man Punny Name Country Matters An Axe to Grind Aluminum Christmas Trees Fake Shemp Closed Circle Drowning My Sorrows Actor Allusion Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Half the Man He Used to Be Final Girl Flashback A Father to His Men Evil Counterpart Loads and Loads of Characters Freeze-Frame Bonus Only in It for the Money The Stoic Gorn Needs Wiki Magic Love Combat Pragmatist Hypocritical Humor Sanity Slippage Kids Are Cruel Anachronism Stew Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Exactly What It Says on the Tin Nothing Is Scarier Rewatch Bonus Ominous Latin Chanting Hair-Trigger Temper Scenery Gorn Foreshadowing Domestic Abuse Historical-Domain Character Biopic Bittersweet Ending Australian Movies Sexy Discretion Shot Amoral Attorney No Celebrities Were Harmed Fatal Flaw Based on a True Story Real Life Writes the Plot Action Survivor Dull Surprise Unusual Euphemism Shirtless Scene Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Science Fiction Films