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Note that as far as genie tropes go, this is one of the furthest from the original Middle Eastern stories. Original djinn were just ultra-powerful mystical entities, even when imprisoned, and the idea that someone could turn into a djinn made about as much sense as someone turning into a leprechaun. The trope only works because the genie is treated as inherently captive and incapable of acting on its own initiative.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' has an interesting variation: Geass itself does this. C.C. was once a normal human and had a Geass power like the other characters we see throughout the series. It turns out that in the final stage of Geass, the user can steal the "code" of the one who granted their power and become immortal. {{spoiler|The reason people are granted Geass in the first place is to create this outcome. After all, [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]? This is the only way to kill someone with Code}}.
** In the [[Alternate Continuity]] manga ''Suzaku of the Counterattack'', {{spoiler|Suzaku manifests his own Code as he botches Schneizel's attempt to claim C.C.'s.}}. In ''Nightmare of Nunnally'', {{spoiler|Lelouch gains C.C.'s as a result of their [[Sharing a Body]], and after her death he takes up the name C.C. and begins [[Walking the Earth]].}}
== [[Film]] ==
* In [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]], Aladdin [[Batman Gambit|tricks Jafar into wishing to become a genie]]. Jafar only realizes the downside when it's too late.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* One of the vignettes of ''[[
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* Another "happy ending" example, albeit a variation: ''[[Winni Allfours]]'' wants a pony more than anything. When her parents won't give her one, she eats all her vegetables to turn herself into a horse.
* This is the curse of the Lamp of Lakash in [[Jack Chalker]]'s "Dancing Gods" series. People assume they can get three wishes, but in fact the lamp only grants two, and only the first is free; the second will replace the current genie with the wisher automatically (although the wish must still be fulfilled).
* Shel Silverstein's poem "Jimmy Jet" entails a boy watching TV and becoming a TV set.
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* One episode of ''[[The X
* One hour long episode of ''[[
** {{spoiler|The dog also gets a turban.}}
* In the ''[[
* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'': In the episode, "The Tale of the Time Trap", Sardo, the store keeper who sold the box to the protagonist, accidentally frees the current genies of the lamp and becomes a genie himself when he wishes for a million more wishes (the same wish the other genie used when she became trapped in the box as well, and so must grant them to others).
* In ''[[I
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle]]'' uses this trope as the basic premise - two friends find an empty genie bottle, and when one of
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Akinator]], a genie who loves to play "twenty questions" games, threatens that anyone who plays the game dishonestly will take his place in his lamp.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
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* There's one episode of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
* A non-genie example occurs in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' with Freakshow, one of the few human villains. Freakshow finds a magic gauntlet and gains the power to [[Reality Warper|warp reality]]. Danny exploits Freakshow's envy of ghosts and tricks him into using the gauntlet to become one. Predictably, Freakshow is promptly captured with the Fenton thermos.
* In one episode of ''[[The Fairly
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