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*** Only because you got the wording of that wish wrong. It was "prepared against undead". And you do need undead to be prepared against. In the wishes where you ask for protection, you get it. Of course, if you ask to be immune to magic, you probably forgot that healing and buffs are magic also... Another example is if you for a horde to overrun your enemies, you never specified what horde and you get a horde of rabbits. It is a combination of stupidly open-ended wishes and a [[Literal Genie|Literal]]/JerkassGenie
*** Only because you got the wording of that wish wrong. It was "prepared against undead". And you do need undead to be prepared against. In the wishes where you ask for protection, you get it. Of course, if you ask to be immune to magic, you probably forgot that healing and buffs are magic also... Another example is if you for a horde to overrun your enemies, you never specified what horde and you get a horde of rabbits. It is a combination of stupidly open-ended wishes and a [[Literal Genie|Literal]]/JerkassGenie
* A major concept behind the Game of ''[[Afterlife]]'' by [[LucasArts]]. This is even billed as rule #1 of the afterlife. Specifically, it's stated that souls are treated differently after death based on what they believed in while living.
* A major concept behind the Game of ''[[Afterlife]]'' by [[LucasArts]]. This is even billed as rule #1 of the afterlife. Specifically, it's stated that souls are treated differently after death based on what they believed in while living.
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' utilizes a classic and particularly chilling [[Pun|incarnation]] of the trope. An NPC named Yves Tale-Chaser will trade stories with the Nameless One and his companions. One of them begins with a man who comes to in an alley, remembering nothing. An old woman is in front of him, and she asks, "And your third wish?" He says he doesn't understand, and she explains she had offered him three wishes, and he'd already used two - and the second wish was to undo and forget his first wish. So, for the third, he asks to know who he is. She cackles softly as she prepares to grant his wish, and he asks what's so funny. "That was your first wish." It's heavily implied in another part of the game that this actually occurred between the Nameless One and the Night Hag Ravel Puzzlewell.
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' utilizes a classic and particularly chilling [[A Worldwide Punomenon|incarnation]] of the trope. An NPC named Yves Tale-Chaser will trade stories with the Nameless One and his companions. One of them begins with a man who comes to in an alley, remembering nothing. An old woman is in front of him, and she asks, "And your third wish?" He says he doesn't understand, and she explains she had offered him three wishes, and he'd already used two - and the second wish was to undo and forget his first wish. So, for the third, he asks to know who he is. She cackles softly as she prepares to grant his wish, and he asks what's so funny. "That was your first wish." It's heavily implied in another part of the game that this actually occurred between the Nameless One and the Night Hag Ravel Puzzlewell.
* Anyone who's gotten ''[[La-Mulana]]'''s [[Brutal Bonus Level]] [[Bragging Rights Reward]] (''without'' spoiling it for themselves) can tell you this.
* Anyone who's gotten ''[[La-Mulana]]'''s [[Brutal Bonus Level]] [[Bragging Rights Reward]] (''without'' spoiling it for themselves) can tell you this.
* The same goes for people who have [[Save the Princess|Saved The Princess]] in ''[[Eversion]]''.
* The same goes for people who have [[Save the Princess|Saved The Princess]] in ''[[Eversion]]''.
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