Tropescilloscope: Be Careful What You Wish For

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

More Tropes No Ending Sadistic Choice Big Damn Heroes Cold-Blooded Torture Book-Ends You Have Failed Me Advertised Extra 20 Minutes into the Future As Himself Corrupt Corporate Executive Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The End... Or Is It? Faking the Dead Motor Mouth Chekhov's Skill Made of Explodium Insult Backfire Corpsing Evil Brit Alliterative Name Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Gender Flip Undying Loyalty Tranquil Fury The Dog Bites Back The Faceless For Want of a Nail In Name Only A Father to His Men Woman Scorned Half the Man He Used to Be Central Theme Slashed Throat All There in the Manual Small Name, Big Ego Manchild After the End Stuff Blowing Up The X of Y Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Worthy Opponent In Medias Res Big Bad Duumvirate Broken Aesop I Need a Freaking Drink Artistic License – Gun Safety Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Straight Gay Love at First Sight Fat Bastard The Stinger Word of God Car Fu Title Drop Fanservice Eagleland Morality Pet Parental Substitute Everyone Has Standards Index of Film Westerns Sexy Discretion Shot Random Events Plot Not What It Looks Like Madness Mantra Flipping the Bird Heterosexual Life-Partners Camp Gay Action Survivor Kubrick Stare Pretty Little Headshots Psychopathic Manchild Evil vs. Evil Laser-Guided Karma Historical-Domain Character Television Movie Index Annoying Younger Sibling Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Apocalypse How Martial Arts Movie Does Not Like Shoes Black Dude Dies First Redemption Equals Death Gratuitous English Artistic License – History Well-Intentioned Extremist The Chessmaster Take That! Animal Title Index Slasher Movie Ambiguous Disorder Mundane Made Awesome Trailers Always Spoil Real Life Betty and Veronica Deus ex Machina Science Fiction Films Greater-Scope Villain Foil Psycho for Hire Men Are the Expendable Gender Bar Brawl Big Brother Instinct Adult Fear Abusive Parents Fiery Redhead Exactly What It Says on the Tin Off with His Head! Here We Go Again! MacGuffin Pretty in Mink Cain and Abel Vitriolic Best Buds Bring My Brown Pants Children Are Innocent Only Known by Their Nickname Almost Kiss The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Big "NO!" Aluminum Christmas Trees Truth in Television Chekhov's Gun Adaptational Heroism Precision F-Strike Thriller Body Horror Action Girl Framing Device No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Reality Ensues Heroic Sacrifice Victoria's Secret Compartment Made of Iron And I Must Scream Taking You with Me Ghost Fiction Lighter and Softer Disproportionate Retribution Antagonist Title He Who Fights Monsters Henpecked Husband Does This Remind You of Anything? Breaking the Fourth Wall Screw the Money, I Have Rules! "Well Done, Son!" Guy Imagine Spot Adaptational Villainy Bullying a Dragon Eye Scream Break the Haughty Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Adaptational Attractiveness Canadian Movies Awesome, but Impractical The Starscream Ambiguously Gay Love Triangle Insane Troll Logic The Film of the Book Rated M for Manly Improbable Weapon User I Have Your Wife Ass Shove Spanner in the Works Fan Disservice Deliberate Values Dissonance War Is Hell Not So Stoic Hypocritical Humor Roaring Rampage of Revenge Nice Guy Disney Death Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Wham Shot Our Zombies Are Different Dwindling Party Affectionate Parody Asshole Victim Punch-Clock Villain Loophole Abuse Beta Couple Villain Opening Scene Leave the Camera Running Show Within a Show Early-Bird Cameo Crapsack World Unusually Uninteresting Sight La Résistance Evil Plan Continuity Nod Catch-Phrase Artistic License – Physics Silent Movie Offscreen Moment of Awesome Serious Business Green-Eyed Monster Expy Manipulative Bastard Papa Wolf The Place Intergenerational Friendship Loads and Loads of Characters Adaptation Name Change The Alleged Car Police Brutality Those Wacky Nazis Adults Are Useless Last-Name Basis N-Word Privileges Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The '90s And the Adventure Continues Spell My Name with an "S" Took a Level in Jerkass Not Quite Dead Manic Pixie Dream Girl Blatant Lies timeperiod Shut Up, Hannibal! Would Hurt a Child The Atoner Composite Character Only One Name Jitter Cam Artistic License – Law Downer Ending Bi the Way Never Found the Body Arc Words Extreme Doormat Camera Abuse Shell-Shocked Veteran My Greatest Failure Major Injury Underreaction The Mafia Becoming the Mask Your Cheating Heart Bad "Bad Acting" Cool Car My God, What Have I Done? Dying Moment of Awesome Hero of Another Story Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Russian Films A Date with Rosie Palms Broken Bird Anguished Declaration of Love The Mole Arranged Marriage Bound and Gagged Disney Villain Death Knife Nut Very Loosely Based on a True Story Fourth Date Marriage Authority Equals Asskicking Protagonist Title Instant Death Bullet Knight Templar Defrosting Ice Queen Playing Gertrude Storming the Castle Mad Scientist Properly Paranoid Hypocrite Reality Has No Subtitles Double-Meaning Title True Companions Karma Houdini Pyrrhic Victory Guns Akimbo Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Five-Man Band And Starring Naïve Newcomer Cool Shades Ascended Extra A.I. Is a Crapshoot Make It Look Like an Accident Bavarian Fire Drill Posthumous Character Closed Circle The Oner Pimped-Out Dress Jerkass Bolivian Army Ending Never My Fault Pay Evil unto Evil Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Genre Savvy Missing Mom Final Girl Sir Swears-a-Lot The Un-Reveal What Happened to the Mouse? Tempting Fate Darker and Edgier Kick the Son of a Bitch One-Word Title The Bully Air-Vent Passageway Retcon It Can Think Slap-Slap-Kiss Four-Temperament Ensemble Stock Footage Foregone Conclusion Historical Villain Upgrade Blood Knight British Films Accidental Murder '80s Hair Funny Foreigner Kill 'em All Dressing as the Enemy Kick the Dog The Voiceless Death by Adaptation Shirtless Scene Amoral Attorney Psychological Thriller Arch-Enemy Plucky Comic Relief Australian Movies Butt-Monkey Not Even Bothering with the Accent An Axe to Grind Light Is Not Good Chase Scene Up to Eleven Anti-Villain Hate Sink Recycled IN SPACE! Our Vampires Are Different The Reveal Adaptation Expansion Drugs Are Bad Chewing the Scenery Flashback Heel Realization Cruel and Unusual Death Riddle for the Ages All Girls Want Bad Boys Setting Update Aside Glance Card-Carrying Villain Celebrity Paradox Heroic BSoD It's Personal The '70s Bare Your Midriff Disappeared Dad Yandere You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Epic Movie Slasher Smile Establishing Character Moment Ironic Echo Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Fate Worse than Death Black Comedy Rape Dirty Old Man Sports Stories German Films Fake Shemp Abhorrent Admirer Let's Get Dangerous! Stalker with a Crush Too Dumb to Live Vomit Indiscretion Shot Dissonant Serenity Hope Spot Jump Scare Smug Snake Expository Hairstyle Change Leaning on the Fourth Wall "Awesome McCool" Name Death Seeker Hero Antagonist Cowboy Cop Hong Kong Films Bunny-Ears Lawyer Bowdlerise Department of Redundancy Department Good Is Not Nice Ship Tease Dull Surprise Country Matters Sinister Minister Male Gaze As Long as It Sounds Foreign Meet Cute Adapted Out Historical In-Joke Spiteful Spit Unspoken Plan Guarantee Sanity Slippage For the Evulz Mistaken for Gay Crazy Jealous Guy Brother–Sister Incest Self-Deprecation Bittersweet Ending Death Glare Accidental Misnaming Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Canon Foreigner Did Not Get the Girl Getting Crap Past the Radar Historical Hero Upgrade Badass Bookworm Faux Affably Evil Shout-Out Wretched Hive Bland-Name Product Mexican Standoff Ominous Latin Chanting Anachronism Stew Actually Pretty Funny Big Fancy House Get Out! 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Ms. Fanservice Token Minority Nothing Is Scarier Heel–Face Turn Manly Tears Action Genre Suddenly SHOUTING! Casting Gag All Men Are Perverts How We Got Here Really Gets Around Based on a True Story The Ace Villain with Good Publicity Hair-Trigger Temper Documentary Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Casanova The Remake Neck Snap It Will Never Catch On The '60s I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Earn Your Happy Ending Woman in White Auto Erotica Anachronic Order Moment Killer Training Montage Parental Neglect Works Set in World War II Meaningful Echo Lampshade Hanging Gory Discretion Shot Spiritual Successor Evil Counterpart My Beloved Smother Meaningful Name Sealed Evil in a Can Mercy Kill Anti-Hero Italian Films Biopic Despair Event Horizon Suspiciously Similar Substitute Adorkable French Films Ungrateful Bastard Genre Throwback Soundtrack Dissonance One Steve Limit Killed Mid-Sentence Bloody Hilarious Evil Is Petty The Lancer Driven to Suicide All for Nothing Malevolent Masked Men Conspicuous CG Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Anyone Can Die Never Trust a Trailer Line-of-Sight Name Soft Glass Wham Line Cat Scare Intrepid Reporter Badass Grandpa Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Refuge in Audacity Gorn Mr. Exposition Horror Comedy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Artistic License – Military The Alcoholic Drowning My Sorrows Important Haircut Double Entendre Fingore Dumb Blonde Even Evil Has Standards Retirony Back from the Dead Non-Indicative Name Be Careful What You Wish For Zombie Stories Badass in a Nice Suit Femme Fatale Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Cool Guns Destination Defenestration Red Shirt Pragmatic Villainy Rule of Cool Empathic Environment Determinator aka: The Determinator Rule of Three Shower Scene Idiot Ball Fire-Forged Friends The '80s Film Noir Heroes Want Redheads Only Sane Man Due to the Dead Honor Before Reason Daddy's Girl Break the Cutie Drives Like Crazy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Brick Joke Every Car Is a Pinto Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Married to the Job Danny Peary Cult Movies List Eiffel Tower Effect Combat Pragmatist Fantastic Racism Meaningful Background Event Revenge Parental Incest Unwitting Instigator of Doom "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Great Depression Easily Forgiven Stepford Smiler O.O.C. Is Serious Business Those Two Bad Guys Running Gag Grievous Bottley Harm Dark and Troubled Past Gainax Ending As the Good Book Says... The Cameo Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Villainous Breakdown Shoot the Shaggy Dog Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Foreshadowing Curse Cut Short Stealth Pun Totally Radical Cat Fight Outrun the Fireball From Bad to Worse Rule of Symbolism Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Jerk with a Heart of Gold Contrived Coincidence Fun with Acronyms Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Fanservice Extra Eyepatch of Power Broken Pedestal Older Than They Look Homage Belligerent Sexual Tension Japanese Films Same Language Dub Film Series As You Know Dual Wielding Dies Wide Open Black and Gray Morality Spared by the Adaptation I Did What I Had to Do Punny Name Insistent Terminology The Lost Lenore Deconstruction Jerkass Has a Point Narrator Villain Ball NO INDOOR VOICE Badass Normal The Musical Dark Is Not Evil The Hero Dies Face–Heel Turn Death by Irony Captain Obvious Coming-of-Age Story Dropped a Bridge on Him Re-Cut Didn't Think This Through The Stoic Eureka Moment Blonde, Brunette, Redhead "The Reason You Suck" Speech Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Disguised in Drag Match Cut Captain Ersatz Villain Protagonist Sacrificial Lion Dramatic Gun Cock Happily Married Rasputinian Death Throwing Your Sword Always Works Room Full of Crazy A God Am I Catapult Nightmare Would Hit a Girl Fantasy Films Obstructive Bureaucrat Demonic Possession Those Two Guys Artistic License – Geography Big Eater Interrupted Suicide Drill Sergeant Nasty Character Development Sole Survivor Suspiciously Specific Denial Only in It for the Money Put on a Bus Villain Song Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Improvised Weapon Maybe Ever After Vampire Fiction Adaptational Badass Beauty Is Never Tarnished Mighty Whitey Stylistic Suck No Name Given Big-Bad Ensemble Brainless Beauty Cool Old Guy Cassandra Truth Race Against the Clock Smoking Is Cool Face Death with Dignity Scary Black Man Big Bad Rule of Funny The Hero Hooker with a Heart of Gold Stealth Hi/Bye Eldritch Abomination Big Applesauce Offscreen Teleportation Irony Reasonable Authority Figure Evil Laugh Pet the Dog What the Hell, Hero? Freeze-Frame Bonus Dogged Nice Guy Laughing Mad More Dakka Karmic Death Dutch Angle Left the Background Music On Dark Reprise You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Bond One-Liner Crucified Hero Shot The Ditz Obviously Evil Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Stoner Bloodier and Gorier Humans Are Bastards Covers Always Lie Extremely Short Timespan Kids Are Cruel Determinator An Aesop Action Prologue Chiaroscuro Romantic Comedy Genre Shift Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bad Boss The Smurfette Principle Mythology Gag Translation Convention Politically Incorrect Villain Epic Fail Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Creative Closing Credits Mooks Death by Sex Creepy Child Skewed Priorities Mystery and Detective Films She's Got Legs Bilingual Bonus Alpha Bitch Once More, with Clarity! Neck Lift Funny Background Event Obfuscating Stupidity Product Placement "Shaggy Dog" Story Mr. Fanservice Rewatch Bonus No Antagonist Rape as Drama Ambiguous Ending Improbable Aiming Skills Boom, Headshot! World of Ham In the Back Hoist by His Own Petard Real Life Writes the Plot There Is No Kill Like Overkill Star-Crossed Lovers Credits Gag Implacable Man No OSHA Compliance All There in the Script The Smart Guy Cloudcuckoolander Peek-a-Boo Corpse Domestic Abuse Superhero Scare Chord Agony of the Feet Reckless Gun Usage Only a Flesh Wound Hidden Depths Scenery Porn The Load Wounded Gazelle Gambit Creator Cameo Black Comedy Monumental Damage BFG Friend to All Children Adaptation Dye-Job Frame-Up Early Installment Weirdness Red Oni, Blue Oni Freudian Excuse Beard of Evil Parental Abandonment Handicapped Badass Cluster F-Bomb The Chick Red Eyes, Take Warning Alas, Poor Villain Plot Hole Bloodless Carnage Visual Pun Evil-Detecting Dog Dramedy Bond Villain Stupidity Time Skip May–December Romance Animated Credits Opening Music Stories Attempted Rape She Cleans Up Nicely Rousing Speech Horror Films You Killed My Father Public Domain Feature Films Not So Above It All Retired Badass Redshirt Army Costume Porn Decoy Protagonist Logo Joke Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Deadpan Snarker Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Brute Immune to Bullets Mood Whiplash Fatal Flaw Romantic False Lead Gilligan Cut Overprotective Dad Guile Hero Dirty Coward The Big Guy Beware the Nice Ones Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor