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