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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Bar Brawl Costume Porn Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bond One-Liner Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Meaningful Name Adorkable Imagine Spot Obviously Evil Vampire Fiction Anachronism Stew And the Adventure Continues Overprotective Dad The Dog Bites Back Last-Name Basis Stalker with a Crush Conspicuous CG Mythology Gag Based on a True Story Does This Remind You of Anything? Kill 'em All Kids Are Cruel In Medias Res Ascended Extra Framing Device Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Reasonable Authority Figure Historical In-Joke Training Montage Obstructive Bureaucrat Hypocrite Character Development Car Fu Dark Action Girl As Himself Cloudcuckoolander Silent Movie Room Full of Crazy Dual Wielding Domestic Abuse Bullying a Dragon True Companions Large Ham Broken Aesop Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Stealth Pun Word of God Spell My Name with an "S" Book-Ends Loophole Abuse Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Redemption Equals Death Funny Background Event He Knows Too Much Leitmotif Spiteful Spit Double Entendre Wounded Gazelle Gambit Break the Cutie The Atoner Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Animal Title Index And Starring Demoted to Extra Heroes Want Redheads Roger Ebert: Great Movies List A Date with Rosie Palms It Will Never Catch On Back from the Dead Artistic License – Physics Deadpan Snarker The Mafia Ax-Crazy Bury Your Gays Hooker with a Heart of Gold Unusual Euphemism Tempting Fate Playing Gertrude Despair Event Horizon Babies Ever After Villain Protagonist Butt-Monkey Big Bad Duumvirate Police Brutality Bond Villain Stupidity Eiffel Tower Effect Ungrateful Bastard Intrepid Reporter Every Car Is a Pinto Breaking the Fourth Wall This Is Gonna Suck What You Are in the Dark Evil-Detecting Dog Happily Married Whole Plot Reference Creepy Child Bolivian Army Ending Foil Italian Films Aww, Look! 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I Have Your Wife Parental Incest Award-Bait Song Animal Motifs Call-Forward Fatal Family Photo '80s Hair World of Ham Victoria's Secret Compartment It's All About Me Creative Closing Credits Femme Fatale Ominous Latin Chanting Self-Deprecation Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Recycled IN SPACE! Shut Up, Hannibal! Facial Horror Nothing Is Scarier Friend to All Children Aluminum Christmas Trees There Is No Kill Like Overkill Works Set in World War II Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Karma Houdini Honor Before Reason Storming the Castle Cruel and Unusual Death Your Cheating Heart The Mole Attempted Rape Spared by the Adaptation May–December Romance Reality Is Unrealistic Good Is Not Nice Retcon Reality Ensues Beard of Evil An Aesop Bilingual Bonus Stock Footage Manic Pixie Dream Girl Foreshadowing Fan Disservice What the Hell, Hero? 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