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