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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Mercy Kill Corrupt Corporate Executive Fantasy Films Fantastic Racism Author Appeal The Dreaded Epic Fail Ship Tease Action Genre Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Femme Fatale A Father to His Men Composite Character Beta Couple True Companions An Arm and a Leg Wretched Hive Dumb Blonde Death by Irony I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Broken Bird The Cavalry Good Is Not Nice Up to Eleven Ironic Echo Improbable Weapon User Mr. Exposition Accidental Murder Revenge Suspiciously Similar Substitute Shirtless Scene Slasher Smile Television Movie Index Gilligan Cut Dying Moment of Awesome An Axe to Grind Show Within a Show Wham Shot Gory Discretion Shot Soundtrack Dissonance The Film of the Book Intrepid Reporter Rousing Speech World of Ham Public Domain Feature Films Cool Old Guy Throwing Your Sword Always Works Chiaroscuro Your Cheating Heart The Place It's Personal Moment Killer A.I. 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Manly Tears Rule of Cool How We Got Here Bottomless Magazines Age Lift Make It Look Like an Accident She's Got Legs Daylight Horror Ascended Extra Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Word of God Developing Doomed Characters Instant Death Bullet Award-Bait Song The Stoic Not Quite Dead Cool Car Translation Convention "The Reason You Suck" Speech Imagine Spot Married to the Job Playing Gertrude Hypocritical Humor He Knows Too Much Nothing Is Scarier Real Life Writes the Plot Kick the Son of a Bitch Death Seeker Pet the Dog Daddy's Girl Funny Foreigner Retcon Advertised Extra The Lost Lenore Rated M for Manly Rewatch Bonus Laughing Mad Back from the Dead Psychological Thriller Off with His Head! Offscreen Moment of Awesome You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Undying Loyalty The Bad Guy Wins Would Hurt a Child Smoking Is Cool The '50s Rape as Drama Deliberately Monochrome Dark Reprise Wicked Cultured The '70s Celebrity Paradox "Well Done, Son!" Guy Japanese Films Bond One-Liner The Atoner The Oner Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Neck Lift Fanservice Extra Stepford Smiler N-Word Privileges What Happened to the Mouse? Those Wacky Nazis Lighter and Softer Running Gag French Films Truth in Television Video Credits One Steve Limit Armor-Piercing Question Every Car Is a Pinto Laser-Guided Karma Even Evil Has Standards The Vamp Dark Action Girl Sacrificial Lion Despair Event Horizon My God, What Have I Done? 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Evil Plan Skewed Priorities I Have Your Wife Malevolent Masked Men Vacation Films Martial Arts Movie Evil Counterpart Eiffel Tower Effect A God Am I Mama Bear Brother–Sister Incest Suspiciously Specific Denial Fish out of Water Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Arranged Marriage Genre Shift Blood from the Mouth Early-Bird Cameo Breaking the Fourth Wall The Alcoholic Shipper on Deck Ghost Fiction Serial Killer Christmas Movies Index More Dakka Military and Warfare Films One-Man Army Fiery Redhead Greater-Scope Villain He Who Fights Monsters Rich Bitch Large Ham Early Installment Weirdness Wham Line Badass Longcoat Not Even Bothering with the Accent Refuge in Audacity Hero of Another Story Trailers Always Spoil Badass Boast Take a Third Option Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Parental Neglect Line-of-Sight Name Maybe Ever After Kill It with Fire The End... Or Is It? Epic Movie Becoming the Mask Accidental Misnaming Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bullying a Dragon Eureka Moment The Stoner Jitter Cam Camera Abuse Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Gold Digger Distracted by the Sexy Stalker with a Crush Adaptation Distillation After the End Cool Shades Authority Equals Asskicking Damsel in Distress Star-Crossed Lovers Heroic BSoD Sassy Black Woman Final Girl Badass Bookworm Belligerent Sexual Tension One-Word Title Red Herring Black Comedy Rape Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Fire-Forged Friends Retired Badass Yandere Fatal Flaw Neck Snap Determinator Fainting Face Death with Dignity Jump Scare Death by Sex Mugging the Monster Butt-Monkey Faux Affably Evil Bare Your Midriff Evil-Detecting Dog Kill 'em All Grievous Bottley Harm Beard of Evil Villain Opening Scene Red Right Hand Chekhov's Gun Big Bad Evil Is Hammy Guns Akimbo Coming-of-Age Story Fan Disservice The Power of Love Super Strength Disney Villain Death The Cameo Cain and Abel Bury Your Gays Interrupted Suicide Crazy Jealous Guy Woman in White Attempted Rape Adaptation Expansion The Ghost Reckless Gun Usage Humans Are Bastards Humiliation Conga Brainless Beauty Brutal Honesty Straight Gay Gainax Ending Big Brother Instinct Last-Name Basis Henpecked Husband My Beloved Smother Funny Background Event Posthumous Character Plucky Comic Relief Romantic False Lead Casting Gag Captain Obvious Face–Heel Turn Tempting Fate timeperiod Ambiguous Disorder "Shaggy Dog" Story Establishing Character Moment Dwindling Party Exact Words Artistic License – Biology Insane Troll Logic Science Fiction Films The Un-Reveal All There in the Script Unwitting Instigator of Doom Kids Are Cruel Visual Pun Slashed Throat In Medias Res Alliterative Name Aww, Look! 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And I Must Scream Eye Scream Biopic Drowning My Sorrows Karmic Death Insult Backfire Taking You with Me Russian Films The Starscream Ax-Crazy Only in It for the Money Creator Cameo Adaptation Dye-Job Closed Circle Implacable Man B-Movie The Big Guy Creative Closing Credits Man on Fire Red Oni, Blue Oni Pretty in Mink La Résistance Pragmatic Adaptation Gender Flip Dirty Cop The Lancer Superhero Ambiguous Ending You Have Failed Me There Is No Kill Like Overkill No-Sell Room Full of Crazy Brick Joke No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Adaptational Attractiveness Eldritch Abomination Not Using the "Z" Word Race Lift Dramatic Irony Earn Your Happy Ending Mad Scientist Shown Their Work I Did What I Had to Do Police Brutality Have a Gay Old Time Fanservice Roaring Rampage of Revenge The Load Self-Deprecation Disproportionate Retribution Alas, Poor Villain Leaning on the Fourth Wall Genre Savvy Almost Kiss The Mole Names to Run Away from Really Fast Easily Forgiven Vitriolic Best Buds Bound and Gagged Extremely Short Timespan Black Dude Dies First Destination Defenestration Spiteful Spit Needs Wiki Magic Love Shell-Shocked Veteran Well-Intentioned Extremist Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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