Be Careful What You Wish For: Difference between revisions

** Another episode, "Wishbones," also played with this trope. A [[Literal Genie]] trapped in the form of [[Rhymes on a Dime|a talking, rhyming skull]] named Thromnambular spends most of the episode granting various characters wishes, which inevitably backfire. (It's explicitly said that it ''doesn't matter'' what they're wishing for, it'll screw them over regardless.) Thronambular is condemned to grant nine wishes before it can be freed from its skull form, more on that later. One example of a wish (and its reworking) is General Skarr wishing to be ruler of the world. A giant statue of himself rises from the ground beneath him and grows so large, he ends up in the upper atmosphere and suffocates. When it's Mandy's turn to make a wish, she [[Genre Savvy|realizes that any wish she makes will only turn out badly]], so instead she decides to sell her wish to the highest bidder. A frustrated Grim pushes the [[Reset Button]] when he declares "I wish you two had never found that skull!" This wish does not backfire, instead returning everything to the way it was before Billy and Mandy found the skull. Grim then wishes that he was free of his promise to be Billy and Mandy's best friend, and that Thronambular was free of his imprisonment, hoping that Thronambular would be grateful enough not to stab him in the back. To Grim's horror, Thronambular grants the wish by trading their dilemmas: Thronambular had to keep Grim's promise, but gained a body. Grim found himself trapped as a skull, and bound to carry out the eight remaining wishes.

** It's unclear if Thronambular really had to keep Grim's promise.

* "Wish World" from the ''[[Mighty Orbots]]'' series. Oh-No wishes to be human—and thanks to one of the [[Big Bad]] goons, she becomes human—but discover that Oh-No can't power up the Mighty Orbots in this form.

* The episode "The Magic Coins" from ''[[My Little Pony]]''.