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