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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}}.
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== [[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 ''[[American Gods]]'' (After a fashion): A beleaguered businessman sleeps with a cab driver who turns out to be a djinni, and awakens to find that the djinn has left and taken with him all the businessman's clothes, identification and money. The djinn left behind his own drivers license, clothing and keys to the cab and his apartment. After a brief consideration, the businessman sees this as an improvement over the miserable life he had been living. {{spoiler|He gets killed when [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|bridges start getting dropped]] on all the supernatural creatures.}}
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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-Files]]'' features a genie. Mulder asks her how she got involved in all this, and she explains that her third wish was "great power and long life". She's more snarky than outright malicious because she knows it's her own fault she got stuck as a genie.
* One hour long episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' has a nebbish man hypothesize over what he would get if he wanted money, fame, or power, being careful since his genie says that he only gets [[Our Genies Are Different|one wish]]. Realizing he would be a catastrophic failure with any of these wishes, he eventually decides that he would rather be a genie himself: he doesn't like his old life, and he enjoys being nice to people. {{spoiler|He also gets to wear some sweet Middle Eastern clothes, speak in a cool authoritarian voice, and hang out with his dog. Since it's his wish, he decides he wants to be an old-school genie.}}
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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
** [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Who has to live with Billy and Mandy.]]
* There's one episode of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' where Fat Cat tries to get his hands on a lamp with a genie in it, but Monterey Jack gets the lamp instead. The genie tricks him into wishing him free, which in this case results in them swapping places: the genie is freed (and gets Monterey Jack's outfit in the deal), while Monterey Jack ends up a genie. It's not long before Fat Cat gets the lamp back, and mayhem ensues: only a [[Reset Button]] [[Wishplosion]] (''"We wish none of this ever happened!"'') puts everything back to normal.
* 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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