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 I Did What I Had to Do Apocalypse How War Is Hell Rule of Symbolism The Smart Guy No OSHA Compliance Jump Scare Actor Allusion Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Have a Gay Old Time Last-Name Basis Covers Always Lie Frame-Up Big Brother Instinct Pragmatic Villainy Bilingual Bonus Kick the Son of a Bitch Armor-Piercing Question Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Big Bad Duumvirate Naïve Newcomer Danny Peary Cult Movies List Every Car Is a Pinto Smug Snake Men Are the Expendable Gender Distracted by the Sexy Celebrity Paradox Tranquil Fury Wham Shot No Name Given Blood Knight Big Damn Heroes Gender Flip Love at First Sight Bavarian Fire Drill Dark Is Not Evil Aside Glance Major Injury Underreaction Evil vs. Evil Would Hit a Girl In the Back Woman Scorned Visual Pun The Faceless Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Film of the Book Protagonist Title Fanservice Mundane Made Awesome Continuity Nod Mercy Kill Spanner in the Works Film Noir Blood from the Mouth Red Oni, Blue Oni Villain with Good Publicity Only Known by Their Nickname As Long as It Sounds Foreign Belligerent Sexual Tension Villainous Breakdown Improvised Weapon Adapted Out Not What It Looks Like Karmic Death The Stinger Hypocritical Humor Television Movie Index Serious Business Ungrateful Bastard For the Evulz You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Gilligan Cut Eldritch Abomination Epic Fail Disappeared Dad Conspicuous CG Amusing Injuries Too Dumb to Live Not Using the "Z" Word Redshirt Army Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Kill It with Fire BFG Book-Ends Freudian Excuse Adaptation Dye-Job Scenery Gorn She Cleans Up Nicely Adaptation Name Change Beware the Nice Ones I'm a Humanitarian Silent Movie Evil Brit Made of Iron Author Avatar Big Eater Chekhov's Gun Eyepatch of Power Mexican Standoff Femme Fatale Hollywood Darkness Destination Defenestration Groin Attack Oh, Crap! Toplessness from the Back Spared by the Adaptation The Dog Bites Back Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Suspiciously Specific Denial Creative Closing Credits It's Personal Fun with Acronyms Peek-a-Boo Corpse Comically Missing the Point Mad Scientist Novelization Slashed Throat Hypocrite MacGuffin Sexy Discretion Shot Very Loosely Based on a True Story Award-Bait Song Japanese Films Unwitting Instigator of Doom Video Credits Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Race Lift Chiaroscuro Even Evil Has Standards Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Outrun the Fireball timeperiod Ambiguously Gay Retcon Adaptational Badass Cain and Abel Cat Fight Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Batman Gambit Posthumous Character No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Eye Scream Cool Guns Sequel Escalation Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Dropped a Bridge on Him Ironic Echo Horror Films Earn Your Happy Ending Casting Gag Country Matters Even Evil Has Loved Ones Happily Married Kill 'em All Determinator All There in the Manual Race Against the Clock Running Gag Screw This, I'm Outta Here! A Father to His Men Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The '80s All Just a Dream From Nobody to Nightmare Foreshadowing Credits Gag One-Word Title Taking You with Me Adaptation Distillation Intrepid Reporter Made of Explodium Scenery Porn Skewed Priorities Fourth Date Marriage Science Fiction Films It's All About Me Martial Arts Movie Never Trust a Trailer As the Good Book Says... Camera Abuse Say My Name Intergenerational Friendship Coming-of-Age Story Cool Car Reality Is Unrealistic Mythology Gag Shout-Out Dying Moment of Awesome My God, What Have I Done? Parental Substitute Make It Look Like an Accident Cool Shades Vomit Discretion Shot Arch-Enemy Bunny-Ears Lawyer Adult Fear Creepy Child Hong Kong Films What You Are in the Dark Interrupted Suicide Asshole Victim It Can Think Pretty in Mink Greater-Scope Villain Up to Eleven British Films Super Strength Wham Line Word of God Tempting Fate Wounded Gazelle Gambit Accidental Misnaming Sports Stories Badass Bookworm Hidden Depths Curb-Stomp Battle Bi the Way Psychological Thriller You Have Failed Me Getting Crap Past the Radar Gold Digger Anguished Declaration of Love Only One Name Training Montage Tagline Soft Glass Off with His Head! Slasher Movie Not So Above It All Butt-Monkey Accidental Murder Car Fu Instant Death Bullet Killed Mid-Sentence Black Comedy Rape Non-Indicative Name Jerk Jock The Stoic Properly Paranoid Artistic License – Gun Safety Wicked Cultured There Is No Kill Like Overkill Self-Deprecation Line-of-Sight Name Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Epic Movie Re-Cut And Starring La Résistance Big Fancy House Translation Convention Real Life Writes the Plot Canon Foreigner Deus ex Machina Bloodless Carnage Anti-Villain Manly Tears You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Affably Evil "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Morality Pet Not So Different Spiteful Spit The Bad Guy Wins Defiant to the End Anachronic Order Dwindling Party Slasher Smile Would Hurt a Child Decoy Protagonist Cowboy Cop Improbable Aiming Skills Depraved Bisexual Does Not Like Shoes The Musical Hope Spot Ambiguous Ending Those Two Guys Chase Scene Black Best Friend Jerkass Has a Point Pet the Dog Five-Man Band Match Cut Faking the Dead Obstructive Bureaucrat Narrator Corpsing Almost Kiss Mr. Exposition Overly Long Gag Amoral Attorney Combat Pragmatist Dies Wide Open Manic Pixie Dream Girl Public Domain Feature Films Evil Is Hammy Homage The '90s Spiritual Successor Shut Up, Hannibal! I Need a Freaking Drink Heroic Sacrifice Setting Update Daylight Horror Flipping the Bird Lampshade Hanging Military and Warfare Films Boom, Headshot! You Killed My Father Villain Protagonist The Place Vampire Fiction The Alcoholic The Cavalry Attempted Rape Action Prologue Alliterative Name Plot Hole Rule of Funny Domestic Abuse Death of a Child Evil Laugh Big Applesauce The Dragon Shirtless Scene Bullying a Dragon Kids Are Cruel Works Set in World War II Anachronism Stew Mind Screw Riddle for the Ages The End... Or Is It? Serial Killer Actually Pretty Funny Loads and Loads of Characters Light Is Not Good Reckless Gun Usage Offscreen Moment of Awesome Bar Brawl An Arm and a Leg Star-Crossed Lovers Nice Hat Male Gaze The Load Film Noir Index Left the Background Music On Neck Lift The Ghost No Ending Shoot the Shaggy Dog Overprotective Dad Auto Erotica Imagine Spot The Hero Heroes Want Redheads The Cameo Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Fate Worse than Death Pretty Little Headshots Deliberate Values Dissonance Nice Guy Adults Are Useless Mighty Whitey Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Is Serious Business Badass Grandpa The Alleged Car Drives Like Crazy Artistic License – Law Darker and Edgier Downer Ending This Is Gonna Suck Only a Flesh Wound Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold True Companions Early-Bird Cameo Superhero Captain Obvious Brick Joke Rewatch Bonus Stalker with a Crush Those Wacky Nazis Reality Has No Subtitles Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Gone Horribly Right Handicapped Badass Call-Back Action Survivor Becoming the Mask Artistic License – Geography Important Haircut Artistic License – History In Name Only Biopic Deadpan Snarker Worthy Opponent Exactly What It Says on the Tin Jerkass Camp Gay The Lost Lenore Insistent Terminology Call-Forward Captain Ersatz Framing Device Fan Disservice The Sociopath Arc Words Stealth Hi/Bye Badass in a Nice Suit Humans Are Bastards '80s Hair The Chick Pyrrhic Victory Leave the Camera Running After the End The X of Y Rousing Speech Really Gets Around Bowdlerise Refuge in Audacity Let's Get Dangerous! Dirty Coward Ghost Fiction Eagleland Mooks Knight Templar Dogged Nice Guy Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Determinator aka: The Determinator Creator Cameo Dissonant Serenity Manchild Funny Foreigner Not Even Bothering with the Accent Death by Irony The Lancer Dull Surprise Adaptational Villainy Your Head A-Splode Recycled IN SPACE! Scare Chord Villain Song Children Are Innocent Bring My Brown Pants Heel Realization In Medias Res Breaking the Fourth Wall Smoking Is Cool Calling the Old Man Out The '70s Heroic BSoD Brainless Beauty Vomit Indiscretion Shot Redemption Equals Death Freeze-Frame Bonus All for Nothing The Bully Idiot Ball Drugs Are Bad Jitter Cam Drill Sergeant Nasty Better to Die than Be Killed Unresolved Sexual Tension Pimped-Out Dress Irony Random Events Plot Taking the Bullet Sassy Black Woman Extreme Doormat Enemy Mine Heel–Face Turn Did Not Get the Girl Twist Ending Maybe Ever After Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Cloudcuckoolander Yandere Names to Run Away from Really Fast Bait-and-Switch Silence Is Golden Expy Guns Akimbo Broken Bird Break the Cutie Central Theme Ms. Fanservice Sole Survivor Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Large Ham The Remake Brother–Sister Incest Neck Snap NO INDOOR VOICE Animated Credits Opening Meaningful Echo Adaptational Heroism Whole Plot Reference Faux Affably Evil Parental Abandonment Shower Scene Dramatic Irony Suspiciously Similar Substitute Vacation Films Poor Communication Kills Guile Hero Ominous Latin Chanting Stuff Blowing Up The Oner The Smurfette Principle Crazy-Prepared Unusually Uninteresting Sight Exact Words Evil Is Petty Expository Hairstyle Change Australian Movies Abusive Parents Evil Counterpart Bottomless Magazines Throwing Your Sword Always Works Beard of Evil Empathic Environment Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The '50s Extremely Short Timespan Only Sane Man Despair Event Horizon The Ace Psycho for Hire Face–Heel Turn What Happened to the Mouse? All Men Are Perverts Dutch Angle Due to the Dead Contrived Coincidence Evil-Detecting Dog Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Unreliable Narrator I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Kubrick Stare Bond Villain Stupidity The Big Guy Cold-Blooded Torture Gory Discretion Shot Soundtrack Dissonance Author Appeal One Steve Limit Demoted to Extra Rasputinian Death Laser-Guided Karma Catch-Phrase German Films Dark and Troubled Past Abhorrent Admirer She's Got Legs Ambiguous Disorder Department of Redundancy Department Genre Savvy Back from the Dead Artistic License – Physics Fainting No Celebrities Were Harmed Fatal Flaw Eureka Moment Police are Useless Authority Equals Asskicking Needs Wiki Magic Love Lighter and Softer Sealed Evil in a Can Dramatic Gun Cock Berserk Button Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Informed Ability Damsel in Distress The Hero Dies Victoria's Secret Compartment Cruel and Unusual Death Red Right Hand Naked People Are Funny The Great Depression Man on Fire An Aesop Took a Level in Badass Historical Villain Upgrade Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Hero of Another Story Those Two Bad Guys Small Name, Big Ego The Atoner Bury Your Gays Took a Level in Jerkass Revenge Sanity Slippage Beauty Is Never Tarnished Roaring Rampage of Revenge Betty and Veronica And the Adventure Continues Ripped from the Headlines Reality Ensues Psychopathic Manchild Card-Carrying Villain An Axe to Grind Dressing as the Enemy Ascended Extra Fatal Family Photo Antagonist Title Darkest Hour He Who Fights Monsters Real Life Based on a True Story Deconstruction Adorkable Genre Throwback A God Am I Beta Couple Arranged Marriage Crucified Hero Shot Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Chekhov's Skill The Brute Big "NO!" Facial Horror B-Movie Catapult Nightmare Here We Go Again! Documentary Unusual Euphemism Ass Shove Paper-Thin Disguise Immune to Bullets The Reveal Wretched Hive Cat Scare Thriller Pre-Mortem One-Liner Punny Name No Antagonist Defrosting Ice Queen Scary Black Man Death by Adaptation Genre Shift Body Horror Crazy Jealous Guy The Mole Bittersweet Ending "Well Done, Son!" Guy Adaptational Attractiveness Flashback For Want of a Nail Rated M for Manly Mugging the Monster Stealth Pun Police Brutality Death by Sex Rich Bitch The Vamp May–December Romance Monumental Damage Shown Their Work As You Know Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hollywood Law Same Language Dub Diabolus ex Machina Costume Porn Screw the Rules, I Have Money! My Beloved Smother Deal with the Devil Leitmotif Agony of the Feet Be Careful What You Wish For A Minor Kidroduction Badass Boast Age Lift It Will Never Catch On Film Series Meaningful Background Event Missing Mom Corrupt Corporate Executive Rape as Drama Malevolent Masked Men Humiliation Conga Storming the Castle Bond One-Liner My Greatest Failure Alpha Bitch Disguised in Drag Hell Is That Noise Trailers Always Spoil One-Man Army Green-Eyed Monster Stepford Smiler Fat Bastard Hoist by His Own Petard Playing Gertrude Pragmatic Adaptation Broken Aesop Vitriolic Best Buds Retirony Romantic Comedy Cool Old Lady Time Skip I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Index of Film Westerns Music Stories Dirty Old Man Break the Haughty Historical In-Joke Eiffel Tower Effect Rule of Three Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Establishing Character Moment Our Vampires Are Different Together in Death Badass Normal Slap-Slap-Kiss Deliberately Monochrome Not So Stoic Offscreen Teleportation Pay Evil unto Evil Final Girl Well-Intentioned Extremist Retired Badass Developing Doomed Characters Chekhov's Gunman The Stoner Our Zombies Are Different Undying Loyalty Disney Death The '60s Double Entendre Everyone Has Standards Bad "Bad Acting" Manipulative Bastard Older Than They Look Disney Villain Death Mood Whiplash Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sequel Hook Dual Wielding Moment Killer N-Word Privileges Totally Radical Mistaken for Gay Advertised Extra Put on a Bus Obviously Evil Love Triangle Failed a Spot Check Fanservice Extra Four-Temperament Ensemble Face Death with Dignity Hair-Trigger Temper Papa Wolf The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Power of Love Driven to Suicide Your Cheating Heart Cool Old Guy Anyone Can Die Mystery and Detective Films He Knows Too Much Madness Mantra Christmas Movies Index The Un-Reveal The Dreaded Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Wrong Genre Savvy The Quiet One Half the Man He Used to Be Ax-Crazy Get Out! Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Casanova Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Voiceless Early Installment Weirdness Italian Films Stylistic Suck Babies Ever After Stock Footage I Have Your Wife Famous Last Words Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome A Date with Rosie Palms The Mafia Sci-Fi Horror Mama Bear "The Reason You Suck" Speech Blatant Lies Hate Sink Big-Bad Ensemble Anti-Hero Red Shirt Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Woman in White Gratuitous English Affectionate Parody Karma Houdini No-Sell Mr. Fanservice Spell My Name with an "S" Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Awesome, but Impractical Lock and Load Montage Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking How We Got Here Never Found the Body Meaningful Name Artistic License – Military Daddy's Girl Once More, with Clarity! Death Seeker Bound and Gagged Kick the Dog Funny Background Event Evil Sounds Deep Foil Sinister Minister "Shaggy Dog" Story Drowning My Sorrows Shipper on Deck Bolivian Army Ending Married to the Job Take a Third Option Crapsack World No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Big Bad Horror Comedy 20 Minutes into the Future Does This Remind You of Anything? Fish out of Water Logo Joke Brutal Honesty French Films The Starscream Fiery Redhead Dark Reprise Punch-Clock Villain Cluster F-Bomb Politically Incorrect Villain The Chessmaster Dirty Cop And I Must Scream Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Token Minority Sir Swears-a-Lot Never My Fault Curse Cut Short Market-Based Title Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Fantastic Racism Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Title Drop Obfuscating Stupidity Sacrificial Lion Bad Boss The Ditz Henpecked Husband Leaning on the Fourth Wall Villain Opening Scene Nothing Is Scarier Fake Shemp Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Friend to All Children Sadistic Choice Dark Action Girl Noodle Incident From Bad to Worse Heterosexual Life-Partners Foregone Conclusion Gorn Bare Your Midriff Russian Films As Himself All There in the Script Fire-Forged Friends Ship Tease Alas, Poor Villain Rule of Cool Disproportionate Retribution Action Girl Didn't Think This Through Honor Before Reason Insane Troll Logic Grey and Gray Morality Air-Vent Passageway Plucky Comic Relief Aluminum Christmas Trees Precision F-Strike Villain Ball Zombie Stories Animal Title Index Gainax Ending Parental Incest Broken Pedestal Truth in Television Death Glare Cassandra Truth Fantasy Films Adaptation Expansion Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun "Awesome McCool" Name Chewing the Scenery Romantic False Lead Shell-Shocked Veteran Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Not Quite Dead Black Dude Dies First folderlabel Composite Character Bald of Evil Badass Longcoat Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Red Eyes, Take Warning Historical Hero Upgrade Motor Mouth Historical-Domain Character Take That! Off-into-the-Distance Ending Parental Neglect Action Genre Laughing Mad All Girls Want Bad Boys Grievous Bottley Harm Reasonable Authority Figure World of Ham Blackmail